Poppin' Arms Guild ~ Main Lobby

[unrepentantAuthor]

Luz had watched the exchange attentively, fascinated by who and what Joule—mini Joule? Millijoule?—was, and how people reacted to him. What would his first impression be of her? But then Maple ran out, and the situation became very much not about Luz.

 

[unrepentantAuthor]

She scratched her chin with a massive paw, and eyed the exit where 'Millijoule' had gone.

Time to see if Luz could lend a paw with Maple's crisis at all...

 

[Namohysip]

<><><>
​

"This is short notice, but I am glad that you were all able to gather," Maple said, though at this point the team had grown large enough that some of Team Spectum's extended forces had to stand outside. "We will be leaving for an abandoned laboratory on the Air Continent, where Team drumstick has been spotted guarding a Radiant Machine, similar to the one you had dismantled before. However, I fear that they may be hostile or unreasonable when we approach. Giovanni is also there. We will need to be fast. Are there any questions before we go?"

 

[Fusion]

'Can you punch a hole in a planet?'
Vix thought, but knew better than to actually say. Really... other than that she didn't have much to say. So, she just floated above everyone, silent.

"Who are team Drumstick again?" Puddle asked from the safety of Vix's bag. "I feel like I forgot. Or didn't care enough to remember..."

 

[Namohysip]

"They were the ones who saved Cibus from the first modern Omen. They were able to knock some sense into Rayquaza to halt a great meteor's fall from space."

 

[Fusion]

"So in other words, they're already strong," Puddle bubbled, mildly annoyed. "And then also probably under control of Giovanni. Great. Because why would any of this be easy."

"Are you gonna be fighting with us, Maple?" Vix asked.

"Are you emotionally able to be fighting with us, more importantly. Knowing what we might be fighting for?"

 

[Adamhuarts]

"Do you know if Diyem... or Darkwhite will be there?" Cynthian asked, more meekly than usual.

——

"Are we going going to fight lots of baddies?!" Ivy asked, bright eyed and excited. She stood next to Cynthian, those there was still an air of discomfort between the two. Oddly enough, the cracks on her face appeared missing.

 

[Namohysip]

"We didn't see anybody else there," Maple said with a solemn shake of the head. "But if Giovanni is coming there, perhaps we can use this opportunity to corner him."

"He'll run before we can do something like that," Owen muttered. "But... we can try. If we force him to run, he'll be down Radiance!"

 

[Namohysip]

Just then, someone walked out from the bottom floor, and many of Team Spectrum looked back to see that it was Karat, along with a protesting Zinc requesting that he go back to his cell. "Please, you aren't supposed to be out here!"

"How did you get out?" Maple asked, frowning.

"I've always been able to," Karat replied with a mirrored frown. "I..." He glanced at Maple, then at Starr and Brisa. He looked at Seyka for a split-second before abruptly averting his gaze. "...I want to help. I will try to speak with Bone and her team."

 

[Adamhuarts]

"Whoa! A big hairless cat! He looks so funny!" Ivy said at the sight of Karat.

 

[Fusion]

"Another Giovanni?" Vix asked. "I mean, uh, Mew? No wait..."

"Mewtwo."

"..." Vix snorted.

 

[TheGOAT]

As luck would have it, Astrid had already been waiting in the lobby when the call went out. The masses packed into the room within minutes, by which she had moved over to stand by her closest allies.

“That’s odd,” she commented offhandedly at Maple. “If Team Drumstick is being controlled somehow, it can’t just be coming from their pure source of Radiance, right? Do you think it’s possible they’ve been Shadowed as well?”

 

[Namohysip]

"They might be drunk with Radiance and very certain that they're correct," Maple explained. "It's a side effect that comes with uncontrolled Radiance. Perhaps Karat would be able to convince them to stand down."

She sighed. "That's all the time we have. Does anybody know where Bahamut is?" She scanned the area. "...Ngh, we don't have time. I will speak with him later. Now, come. It's time to go." She formed the portal, which gave off a drier atmosphere--the Air Continent...

 

[Fusion]

"I'm getting kinda excited," Vix snickered. "But I gotta stay focused, got a job to do. Hero work, hero mind."

"Ew, you have a mantra you chant to yourself?"

Vix went silent.

"Hero work, Hero mind, Hero work, Hero mi--"

"I can still hear you."

"Please just let me have this." Vix muttered into her bag.

"No."

 

[Adamhuarts]

She sighed. "That's all the time we have. Does anybody know where Bahamut is?" She scanned the area. "...Ngh, we don't have time. I will speak with him later. Now, come. It's time to go." She formed the portal, which gave off a drier atmosphere--the Air Continent...

Cynthian's heart drummed in his chest and his body stiffened. With his mind being such a mess, he wondered how well he'd do when the team inevitably has to fight again. Ivy nudged him on the shoulder and smiled.

"It's going to be okay, Sister!"

"Yeah... it probably will," Cynthian replied, following others into the portal.

 

[Virgil134]

After returning from the Isle of Light Cabot had taken what little downtime the team had to focus and calm himself as much as possible. With some help from Pleo, he soon returned to his usual, shadow-free self. When Karat offered to help out the team Cabot looked off at the stairs towards the guild's dorms, part of him hoping that Shield would come down and do the same... only for it to never happen. He let out a small disappointed sigh.

"Right... let's get going," the Cranidos said, before making his way towards the portal alongside Pleo.

 

[TheGOAT]

“Well,” Astrid muttered, “impaired or not, I hope they’re friendly.”

Even if they were—Giovanni was possibly there as well! They could collectively knock out Team Drumstick with little issue, Astrid was certain. Giovanni… well, who knew. They likely wouldn’t find out until he struck first.

She shook her head and stepped towards the portal, sending a cursory surge of Radiance down her body to warm herself up. “Let’s go.”

 

[Namohysip]

Karat and Maple shared a glance, then got ready as well. With any luck, this would be a huge setback for Giovanni, and one giant leap forward in stopping him and putting everything back the way it should be.

All they had to do was pull it off and thwart whatever plan Giovanni had already put into place.

Wordlessly, Maple led the way through the portal.

 

[Dragonfree]

<><><><><>​

Dave entered the guild with Mia on his heels, looking around for the big light-lion. He hadn't interacted with Bahamut all that much since that time he'd been thrown at him, but well - if ever it was good to have some sort of big legendary light-dragon on your team, it was when another big legendary light-dragon was preparing to blow up the world.

He hadn't gotten nearly enough sleep, and now this shit. He'd slipped over for a glass at the X-Eye Cauldron, and it helped, a bit, but not enough. He'd been told Bahamut was at the infirmary, but then when he got there they said he was already gone, in good health. Cool. Great.

Luckily he wouldn't have to run around town any further; Bahamut was lounging in the lobby. "Hey," he said, approaching. "Can we talk?"

 

[Ambyssin]

The check-up had gone smoothly. Bahamut was standing in the lobby, contemplating whether to take to the skies and try and absorb more fringe energy from the attack in preparation for a fight. Even though all he did was heal. He wasn't expecting someone to actually seek him out. Let alone that poochyena who never spoke to him.

"Sure. What do you need?"