NP Mission: Reconaissance Needs Greed

In one way, it was brilliant. Plastic roulette balls just flat out don't come in wrecking-ball sizes. As a result, the one bouncing around here had a 40% metal filler, and thus was very reactive to magnetic forces. As the ball splattered across the mud-soaked squares of the roulette wheel, Myun managed to get a single swipe on it as it bounced just over the 00 square she was standing on, propelling it just a bit farther. The mud was doing more than its part to slow the ball down, but that fist managed to get it going just enough to roll into Red's magnetic field.

... Though, in another way, this was flipping crazy, because the giant roulette ball, spurred back to life by the pull of Red's MagBolt, was now tumbling towards her with no clear braking method. Uh oh...

*click*
*BANG*

A huge laser beam raced some 6 inches past Red's ear, a steaming magazine popped out of Chicago's gun and made the muddy pool below boil, and the roulette ball... Split in two?! A searing divide from Chicago's shot appeared straight through the middle of the giant sphere, causing it to break into two halves just shy of a collision with Red. One half fell flat immediately on the square in front of her, Black 6. The other have managed to roll along just past Red before ultimately collapsing on the square behind her, Black 33.

... Uh...

The betting layout suddenly erupted in energy, first as half of Seven's Coins were destroyed from the bet on the 1st column. Myun's and Chicago's bets on Black stayed safe, with the 1-to-1 payout not providing any gain nor harm. Then... well, things got a little odd. Seven's successful 1st dozen bet paid out 2-to-1 for Black 6, so his 20 Coins doubled into 40. Red's successful 3rd column bet also paid 2-to-1 for Black 6, so her 10 Coins doubled to 20. Then her successful 3rd column bet paid 2-to-1 for Black 33, so her 10 Coins doubled to 20. But wait, the land was on Black 6, not 33. So the layout counted the Black 6 bet, doubling Seven's 40 Coins and Red's 20 Coins to 80 and 40, respectively. Hold on, the land was actually on Black 33. Double Red's other 20 Coins to 40. No, it was Black 33. 160 and 80 coins. No, Black 6. 80 Coins. No, Black 33. 320 and 160 Coins............................................

..................*#$%^&*(*&^%$#$%^&*&^%$#$%^&*

And then the whole roulette setup got stuck in an infinite loop. The Coins kept multiplying towards infinity, causing the glass barrier around the layout to explode by inability to contain all the winnings. A tidal wave of Coins ripped through the building, sweeping up Red, Myun, Chicago, the two halves of the roulette ball, and easily shattering Seven's glass barrier and taking him along for the ride too.

... Well, now what? The building was probably going to burst soon just like the glass container, unleashing a flood of these silly Coins upon NetVegas. Capturing Seven was hardly a priority at this point. It sounded like he was just weeping somewhere in the swath of Coins, anyway.

"... Well rookie, I could call for backup, but at this point the only option would be to wipe this building off the Net, along with us in it." grunted Chicago, only a few feet from Red. "You're small enough to swim your way through these things, so if anyone's gonna get to that betting layout and destroy it, it'll be you. Good luck." And thus, everyone's fate was in Red's hands. "... Oh, and take this. It'll take care of the layout if you can just plant it on there." added Chicago as an afterthought as he plucked his cigarette out of his mouth and handed it to Red.

... This thread does not condone underage smoking in any way, shape, or form.

Roulette Halves: 4954.5/4954.5 HP (Lost in the mass)
Roulette Wheel: Muddy and Irrelevant

Terrain: ∞% Coin
Layout: (5 actions away in regular terrain, ??? actions away in Coins)

Red.exe: 250 HP (20 HP Casing, wielding Chicago's Cigarette)
Myun.exe: 115 HP (Flailing around next to Red)
Chicago.exe: 700 HP (Giving the rookie a chance)

==SAVE NETVEGAS WITH A CIGARETTE==
It seemed all was going well.... until Chicago shot the ball in half, causing it to land on the black squares Red had designated...

...what happened next was beyond normal comprehension that apparently the programmers of the betting layout didn't factor in. While one would be normally be elated in how much money they were producing from this gambit, the thing is.... it really wasn't real money, and the Coins were multiplying at a near constant rate.

"Whoops," Shin, Red, and Myun remarked in unison as everything was washed away by the Coins. But at any rate, they really needed to get rid of this infinite generation of Coins!

And apparently it was up to Red, to deliver a cigarette finish to the betting layout. Chicago grumbled a small good luck and Red sighed, saluting her superior.

((The most appropriate background music))

"You can leave it to me! Mr. Chicago! Shin! Firetower and AquaDragon! Let's roll!" Red shouted, gusts of wind clustering around her area while cherry blossom petals streamed out of her sports bag.

"Gotcha! Just find it quickly, eh?" Shin grinned, still confident in their plan.

"Mmhm! ALRIGHT MAKE WAY!" Red shouted to the coins, thrusting one open palm forward at the direction of where she thought the Betting layout was. On her command, a hurricane of cutting wind and cherry blossoms blasted through the Coins, attempting to throw them out of the way of Red's line of sight and reveal the path to the betting layout.

"One more!" the fairy tale fighter bellowed, tapping a bit of ash from Chicago's cigarette, causing towers of flame to march through the coins and reveal the path to the betting layout.

"THERE!" Red shouted, spotting what she thought was the target area while she unzipped her sports bag, a serpentine dragon made entirely out of water gushing out of it before charging straight toward the betting layout, Red on top of the dragon and holding the cigarette as far away from the water as much as possible.

"CHAAAAAARGE!" Red and Shin called in unison, as the dragon Red was surfing on made a mighty roar before slowly losing its water contents.

"Here we gooooooo!" Red shouted, leaping toward the betting layout at the moment the AquaDragon had only it's head left. She landed, but swam and swam with all her might before throwing Chicago's cigarette at the possibly revealed betting layout.

"THIS IS.... THE KEY TO VICTOOOORY!" Red yelled dramatically.

...And then...

Turn Summary:
1. Cherry Blossom Spiral through Coins to reveal Betting Layout [100 Wood DMG + Slashing + Phasing + Microburst](4)
2. FireTower1 through Coins to reveal Betting Layout [100 Fire DMG + Piercing + Ground Attack + Line-Chain]
3. Surf on AquaDragon toward Betting Layout [150 Aqua DMG + Ground Attack + Medium Area Sea Terrain Change + Terrain Changer]
4. LEAP TOWARD BETTING LAYOUT [Movement]
5. SWIM TOWARD BETTING LAYOUT [Movement]
6. MAKE CIGARETTE CONTACT ON BETTING LAYOUT [?????]
With her orders accepted, along with the cigarette, Red immediately began an assault in hopes to blast a path through the sea of Coins. Her Cherry Blossom Spiral whirled past the Coin immediately in front of her and struck the next one, slamming it into yet another one behind it, and creating a domino effect of Coins crashing into each other. Unfortunately, the sheer quantity of Coins present also created a spring-like effect from the impact, so when there was just nowhere else for the stack of Coins to go, they rocketed back forward to their previous positions. For what it's worth, the attack itself did destroy one of the infinite number of Coins.

The cigarette-ignited FireTower proved more useful, as the ash fell on one Coin, then burst into pillars of flame that ripped through the Coin-packed terrain. The burning tunnel created quickly started to shut close as the Coins continued to multiply, but Red jumped on the chance immediately. Her summoned AquaDragon burst out of her bag, and after Red quickly latched on, raced into the tunnel, washing out the smoldering Coins as it traveled and turning its path into water. It kept churning and churning through the mix of water and Coins until the chip's power ran out, leaving a full quarter of the Coin mass as a sea of water.

... Granted, you could keep quartering infinity all day and still be where you started. Red had made a little progress as she waged war on that particular instance of Coins, but at this point the layout was doubling Coins by the tens and hundreds of thousands. Never mind that the layout was too far away to plant the cigarette, but was there even a way to tell which way the layout was? Shin and Red needed a plan; brute force wasn't going to break through this infinite loop. The layout kept on issuing Red and Seven their respective winnings, spewing out Coins aimlessly. So, aside from wherever those 20 Coins of Myun's and Chicago's were, Red and Seven each had half an infinity of Coins.

... Too bad Coins weren't actually worth anything, or this would be great. Oh well, at least they follow their owner's orders well enough.

Roulette Halves: 4954.5/4954.5 HP (Lost in the mass)
Roulette Wheel: Muddy and Irrelevant

Terrain: 25% Sea, ∞/2% Red's Coins, ∞/2% Seven's Coins
Layout: (5 actions away in regular terrain, ??? actions away in Coins)

Red.exe: 250 HP (20 HP Casing, wielding Chicago's Cigarette)
Myun.exe: 115 HP (Location unknown)
Chicago.exe: 700 HP (Giving the rookie a chance)
Well that plan landed flat on it's face. Red grimaced as the Coins just kept multiplying. Whatever could they do?

"UGH! EVERYONE JUST.... MOVE AWAY FROM THE BETTING PLATFORM!" Red yelled, jumping on top of one of the coins, probably landing on several, before stomping her foot on the Coin terrain repeatedly.

"Move! Move I say! Get out of my range of vision! You guuuuuys!!!" Red growled at her Coins.

"Is that really going to work?" Shin groaned, unamused by his navis antics.

"They listened to me befoooore! They're good little guys! Now move it everyone! Or someone guide back to where you're all coming from! That works too!"

"...Are you serious?" Shin mumbled, scratching his head in dismay.

"This is serious business, Shin! That, I'll have you know!" Red roared back in reply, flailing her arms at the Coins.

Turn Summary:
1. TELL COINS TO GTFO
2. ASK FOR GUIDANCE
3. FOLLOW?
4-6. I don't even... Plant Cigarette on Betting Layout if Red actually gets there
Move... away? What is "away"? Coins are extremely dumb by design. Don't need minions having free thoughts, after all. While they are obedient to their owner, the information and commands they can process are extremely limited. Generalizations like "away" didn't have meaning to Coins. Away wasn't a designated place. However, the did understand the concept of "move". So they started moving.

... Uh oh. Without any clear destination established, the half of the Coins belonging to Red began moving about in random directions, creating powerful riptides in the mass as they pushed and pulled against each other while crashing into the stationary Coins belonging to Seven. Red, Myun, Chicago, and Seven were all getting thrown around in this madness, and any progress Red had made up to this point was lost. Additionally, this hurt... a lot. NEW ORDERS PLEASE.

Roulette Halves: 4954.5/4954.5 HP (Lost in the mass)
Roulette Wheel: Muddy and Irrelevant

Terrain: 25% Sea, ∞/2% Red's Coins (Frenzy, -50 HP per action to all), ∞/2% Seven's Coins
Layout: (??? actions away in regular terrain, ??? actions away in Coins)

Red.exe: 250 HP (20 HP Casing, wielding Chicago's Cigarette)
Myun.exe: 115 HP (Location unknown)
Chicago.exe: 700 HP (Giving the rookie a chance)
Well that didn't work. TIME FOR PLAN B. Which was...what? Oh well, Red would think of it on the spot most likely again.

"AAAAARGH! STUPID STUPID STUPID!" Red raged stomping on the ground in emphasis on her words.

"All Coins to the 3rd 12th," Myun called out drolly.

"Huh?" Shin and Red said, utterly confused looks on their faces.

"What? Aren't we still playing?" Myun replied, blinking unamusedly.

"Uh, yeah... right, hey let's place some bets," Shin chuckled nervously.

"Ooooooh~ I get it~" Red giggled as she patted Myun on the head. Her support unit shrugged, casually flowing with the tide of Coins.

"All Coins to the Second Column~! Make it snappy!" Red giggled, folding her arms and waiting.

Shin sent in the Areagrab chip just in case.

Turn Summary:
Myun: Order Coins to go to 3rd 12th on Betting Layout
Red: Order Coins to go to 2nd Column on Betting Layout
-Look for the direction Coins are going in
As the Coin riptide began to shred up its victims, Myun offered the suggestion of placing a new bet. Since only 10 of these infinite Coins were hers, though, all the SP could do wait for her master to follow.

... Well hey. Turns out the rabbit was both faster than the tortoise and could win the race at the end. Myun's brilliance showed as the Coins came to a full understanding of the new orders, and immediately began shoving themselves towards towards the 2nd column of the betting layout. Even the new Coins still being produced immediately start piling themselves onto the small square. As such, the sea of Coins began thinning out, but there was still one issue unresolved...

Another half of an infinity of Coins still belonged to Seven. And he still seemed a little off, curled up in a ball and whimpering at his world exploding around him. But thankfully, there was a no-nonsense, hardboiled detective on scene. Maybe Chicago could get Seven to... "cooperate".

*off-screen*
*one girly scream later*

"A-a-all Coins to First Column..." weeped Seven as Chicago put away his gun. Let's... not look much further into that.

With the order given, though, Seven's Coins began piling themselves next to Red, effectively draining the Coin sea in the building. This stacking was only going to work for a short time as even more Coins continued to produce. But, for now, a path was open to the betting layout, Red!

==DO IT==
"Yessss! It worked!" Red cheered, hi-fiving Myun as the Coins started piling up.

"....I won't question what happened just now, but anyway, let's blow this joint! ....Literally, even," Shin mumbled.

"Hehe~ Roger that! Aaaand, away I go!" Red replied, gripping onto Chicago's cigarette tightly as she warped to the side of the betting layout and gently tossed the cigarette onto the area before running back toward Chicago for her life.

"Yaaaaaay~" Red giggled, increasing her speed.

Turn Summary:
1. Areagrab to Edge of Betting Layout. [Teleport, Dodge, Movement, +1 Accuracy]
2. Plant Cigarette on Betting Layout [DESTRUCTION]
3-6. GTFO [Movement toward Chicago]
To cut out any other nonsense from this situation, Red took the safe route and just teleported to the now-visible betting layout. With the Coin stacks set to burst at any moment, she wasted no time in planting the smoldering butt of the cigarette on the green fabric. After that, Red ran, assuming that a grandiose explosion was about to occur.

Nah, the layout just started melting. The fabric immediately under the cigarette started bubbling as the roll of burning tobacco sank underneath, and within a matter of moments the layout was succumbing to a rising pool of lava. As the lava extended to the layout squares that were producing the infinite payouts, the spawning immediately ceased to the burning hot wave, and the myriad of Coins stacked up on it were quickly vaporized. The rest of the layout quickly fell in similar fashion, and with that, the infinite Coins were gone.

... Well, if every single Coin was gone, that technically meant that Red, Myun, Chicago, and Seven all lost the roulette game. But, uh... With Seven cowering at Chicago's feet, that didn't really seem to matter. "I'll wrap this up, rookie. Go file your report and call it a day." grunted Chicago, who had magically already produced a new cigarette to puff on.

So that was that. Go team?
"Oh~ That's so cool~ Maybe I should invest in a signature like that too~" Red giggled as the betting layout melted at the touch of the cigarette.

"...I've come to believe cigarettes are more harmful to you in more ways than usual now," Shin sighed as Red and Myun danced around in a circle celebrating their mission success.

"What are you talking about, silly goose~?" Red replied innocently before facing Chicago once again. "MmHm~ I'll leave it to you Mr. Chicago! Agent Red out~!" And then, with a firm-salute, the fairy-tale fighter and boxing bunny left the network of gambling.

[MISSION COMPLETE]
[JACK-OUT]