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A man in a pink frilly dress appears behind Valkyrie and smacks her over the head with a frying pan. Her HP lowers back down to its' maximum of 120. The man then ceases to exist, his purpose fulfilled.

Valkyrie teleports to, and then liberally punts the Boogie off of the switch panel, immediately going MAD WITH POWER!

By which I mean she flips the switch again, and again, and again, and again. More and more X panels light up on the ground as she continues her staccato flipping of the switch, flames bursting through and lighting the entire room up.

Then, driven to a point by its' abusive user, the switch breaks. *all* of the panels (save the one Valkyrie is on) light up with flames-- and for a brief moment, the entire room is consumed.

Even Valkyrie is burned by the flames rushing out into the panel, left with nowhere else to go. (30)

Eventually the flames die down, and the scene is revealed-- all of the viruses save for the boogie are dead, and even he is left at a pathetic amount of health, his hair all burnt away. It seems like most of the rewards got burnt up as well, but...

Valkyrie can either go try and grab the rewards, or finish off the Boogie.

--Viruses--
Burnin' Boogie: 10 [Passed out]
Kabutank A: BURNT
Kabutank B: FRIED
Kabutank C: DELETED
Dominerd: DELETED
Bag O' Candy: FLAMBE
Fishy A: SASHIMI
Fishy B: FISH STICK
Spidy: WEBS DON"T BU- well I guess they do
Beetank: FLAMING SWEETNESS

--You--
Valkyrie: 105

--Terrain--
100% Normal (Scrap data scattered about)
Valkyrie let go of the end of the broken handle still held in her hands. It hit the ground with a clang before dissipating. The multiple eruptions of flames, ending with the whole room being scorched, along with all her opposition was quite... satisfying.

-Go for the shinies!

Valkyrie hesitated. On one hand, her primary instinct was to finish the fight right now. On the other hand, it's not like finishing off that whelp would be all that fun. Really, without its hair the boogie looked quite pitiful. On the other hand, the valuables were burning up. She'd have hated to return empty handed; she was obligated to succeed not because of loyalty to her funky employer or anything like that but through pride. If these guys had his data, and now it was burning up along with them...

So decide to quickly search the ashes she did.


<<grab the loot>>
GET: 650z!
Get: Slap Twi in the face! (3x)

Valkyrie finds that a good chunk of the data has already burned; luckily, it looks like the dance data she's looking for *isn't* there. The Boogie probably has it. Valkyrie turns to look for him--

And finds him crawling, slowly, away, a trail of ash behind him.
-Found it yet?
-Nope.

After searching the ashes for what looked like an eternity (albeit a short one, morelike an... eternette), and not finding that blasted data, there was one last track to pursue. A track made of ash, and smelling of burnt hair.

Poor guy, got so far. Valkyrie felt disgust, and also a bit of pity looking at it. But a job's a job and a fight is a fight, and there's still a mission to fulfill. And it seems like he's the one holding that last item. It seems like there's only one way this can end.

So Valkyrie ended it with a slash.

<<ACTIONS>>
1.) Slash remaining virus
Valkyrie cuts him open, recovering... another piece of the dance data!

Either this guy made a really goddamn long dance routine, or there is something fishy going on here, as there still appears to be one more piece to collect.

Another portal, shiny and new, opens in front of her as all of the panels turn to X's...
Valkyrie grabbed the data and started running. There's a portal, you grabbed the shiny, and things are going to blow. It was an almost pavlovian response.

-ohfortheloveof....
-Once I'm done, I'm going to show him the dance of my people.

She was picking up the pace while chatting. Sieg could almost hear the nonexistant countdown as she neared the portal.

- Does it involve shoving the dance routine down his throat?
-Not down his throat, and not the data, but that's the idea.

She made the last steps in few huge leaps as she inside the portal head first, arms extended, ready to roll.

-Groovy.
There is a whirling, tumultuous sensation as Valkyrie jumps into the portal, and reality seems to twist around her, launching her through the endless expanse of the network into... somewhere. Everything is black.

The rocket seems to be working fine, all systems are go

It's still just a prototype, we've got more work to do on it before we can launch

Tell the techs to hurry, we're on a budget and a deadline and this thing needs to go

Snippets of human voices cut in and out of Valkyrie's consciousness as she comes to and reflexively pulls up a readout of her current location...

Sharo again?