[ This is your superior. Anyway, YIKES. Hung looks alarmed when thermite is mentioned.
Hung
No, but between all six of us, we should be able to figure something out.
Come on. No time to waste.
As for Lillium. Why are you looking at him like that, man.
Iris
...Earth to Lillium!
Are you sure you're okay?
The video didn't get you, did it...?
None of that matters though, because you'll hear a very Jigsaw-sounding voice, the kind that's very obviously artificially changed, but does sound very effectively deep and scary. ]
[ well. she snaps her head immediately in whatever direction the voice is coming from, and if it's just resonating everywhere, then she just looks like a clown looking all around for the source. in any case, whomst. she's got her fists up and her body already tensed to fight, feeling like she's on high alert since dropping down the elevator. ]
[ He just gives Iris a squint because he's FINE. He's fine, but then he looks around and uses thermal sight to see if there's another person coming in anywhere. ]
[ Yeah, you see the orange shape of a person emerging from around the bend, though this person looks... um, awfully weird in thermo-mode. That is to say, his left half is warmer than his right half, in a bizarre and almost unusually straight line down the middle. Whoever it is, they sure are dressed strangely.
The figure raises a hand, in which you can see a little detonator enclosed in his gloved fist. ]
???
Ah, I wouldn't try any funny stuff if I were you.
One movement, and I could blow up this entire place, and all of you, into tiny little pieces.
???
Portgas D. Ace. Jolyne Cujoh. And Lillium White.
It's good to finally meet you.
You've done an excellent job.
which is to say ace is glaring and trying to like. block the guy's view of the people behind them. he did not name luffy and the others so he is trying to hope he is somehow blind and deaf and he didn't notice the other three. ]
A job of what? Showing up at a meeting?
[ Punching people in the nuts for balloons? Sabo stop snarking and figure out if there's a way to disable this shit remotely. Or like. If there's a rock he can throw or something. ]
[ jolyne's eyebrows furrow as she tries to kind of. size up the weirdo in an even weirder get up. problem is, said weirdo has the detonator to all the thermite behind them. this is a great place to be in right now. curling her fingers into fists and uncurling them... ]
[ ... Deep breaths, don't let things cloud your mind. Lillium is glad that only them three are named, even if that's three too many. Granted... It is impossible to hide the other three. Gripping onto his knife, he doesn't unsheathe it.
[ Sabo is like he's got a detonator, dumbass. If you try to pick up and throw a rock at him, he's going to push that button way before your rock ever even reaches him.
You notice that your heads are starting to hurt a little, a prickling pain reverberating through your skull. Primarily, it begins in your left eye.
???
You solved my balloon game easily. It takes sharper minds than most.
And more importantly...
You've made sure everyone was gathered for the main event.
If you want your prize, it's in that box. I won't press the button if you want to claim it.
???
As for what I want... well.
Before we begin, I'd like to inform you that you're standing at the intersection of a number of electromagnetic current generators.
...It's a little like how a microwave works. Do you know what happens to electronics in a microwave?
???
That being said...
I want you to kill... them.
The figure gestures towards Hung, Luffy, and Iris. ]
???
Ko Heising, Monkey D. Luffy, and Iris Black.
They've been a thorn in my side for too long.
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[ okay, well, first of all, ow, and there's a very worried Sabo?! at the description of electronics in the microwave, but second and most important of all-- ]
Fuck you! [ he snarls, immediately looking like a cornered wild animal ] Luffy, leave! We'll deal with this guy!
[ this is both for protection and also just a general thing ace tells luffy whenever there is big danger sorry. he doesn't have a solution that doesn't get them exploded, except hey what is the exact distance between them and the mask guy. is it tackling distance. just asking for a friend. ]
Give me a fucking break, there's no way that's happening -
[ but then she's gripping her head just a bit. ow??? my eyeball???? jolyne grits her teeth and looks back at hung before turning towards them with fists clenched.
f.f.? are you still with me? f.f.!!!
she eyes ace briefly and shifts her footing, prepared to dart forward if need be, but trying to at least get something that makes sense out of this person. because there's no way she's going to... nope. nah.
[ 'Nico, are you all right? It might be better if you get out of my socket soon.'
Unfortunately for the other two, he has to consider numbers. Explode all of them or just kill a few? Ugh. Can he thermal sight this dude again to see if his left side is still warmer?
[ He's wrong, he cannot take it. Hung looks grim and solemn, paws curling into fists, while Iris just looks towards Lillium with troubled eyes, glancing at the girls next to them. Your AIs try to answer seemingly, but it just comes through as a staticky sound sparking inside of your heads. They try to project themselves in your vision, but it comes across as extremely glitched and unclear. So does a number of things in the left half of your vision. This probably doesn't help your headache.
"Tm8sIHlvdSBjYW4ndCAtLSBkb24ndCBkbyBpdCE="
The guy's left half is warmer. It's just how he is, apparently. Jolyne and Ace show up as normal people. ]
???
Kill them, and I let you and the girls walk free.
Don't, and everything goes up in flames.
I'll count down from ten.
Nine... eight...
sorry he is ignoring logic and pain in his cranium and he IS going to try to tackle the guy hopefully off the platform so he is too shocked to press the remote
which is to say he can probably be held back i just need you guys to know this is what he would do ]
[ WELL HAHA THIS IS HAPPENING because jolyne can't do math and simply will not learn now!
she's not going to stop ace, because instead she's going to try and help ace pincer this person so that maybe they simply won't know where to look! or maybe they'll be overwhelmed. it's unfortunately just a situation of 2 mimir but the mimir are fight instead. she's got an eye on the detonator, like she wants to try and snatch it, but damn her head hurts. ]
[ HELP? LORD. Well. They can go try to tackle the dude since there's little Lillium can do here. Trying to stop one person is a handful, two is just impossible.
Lillium is going to see if he can evacuate their three friends who aren't going to explode. Adrenaline is helping him with the growing piercing pain, so he shouts to their superiors since they don't have thermite bombs in them, right?. ]
[ There's a brief moment where Luffy reaches out to stop Ace. Hung immediately turns to shield the girls, back towards the pile of thermite bombs. Iris is frozen in place, eyes wide, everything happening far too fast.
The masked man gives no fanfare, though there's a bit of disappointment in him as he presses the detonator with no hesitation. Bro really wasn't kidding.
And then, everything explodes. The thermite bombs blow up in a massive column of fire and slag, sending shockwaves that send all of you stumbling down from the altar staircase, ears ringing, vision blacking out. Pillars and parts of the ceiling come crashing down. You can decide your own damage as you like here, but you will live.
Your vision comes to, blurring in threes, and then twos, until finally you can see the scene around you. The dark underground is now ablaze with flames, and you see no sign of the strange masked person.
The nice thing is that your eye no longer hurts, and if your head is still aching, it's definitely for a different reason (you know, like a concussion). The bunker hasn't completely collapsed yet, but it will very soon. You don't need AI to tell you that, who are in the process of trying to reboot.
[ well! the risk i took was calculated but man! am i bad at math! also, DID THIS GUY JUST ALSO EXPLODE HE REALLY DID NOT HESITATE HUH
anyway i will decide injuries later. fuck you i am not thinking about it. ace kind of struggles to his feet, looking blearily around the blazes. where did the guy go. where did everyone go. are there corpses here. what has he done. etc. ]
... I'm alive, but...
[ where's the others. who else is here and alive. and also, for how long, wow, they should probably get out of here. ]
[ im crying also not thinking about injuries yet but jolyne's face is probably covered in blood anyways. she's pushing aside rocks and debris already as she's struggling to her feet, looking around. she shakes her head before trying to do a visual sweep around herself. ]
Fuck - fuck fuck fuck -
[ she's a creature on a mission, looking around for ace and lillium first. there's a look in her eyes like glassy panic as she tries to find them both, shoving her way towards the both of them. she doesn't really want to think about what exactly they've done. it seemed kind of rigged from the start, but she can't be angry about that when she doens't even know where to begin here. the rubble, can they see anyone familiar underneath it? fur? hair? a sad straw hat?
[ Ugh... Lillium is here, injured, which I will figure out later, but his blood is pumping despite his thoughts being slow. They pick up quick as he takes a look around and starts looking for any signs of anyone else surviving.
Especially Iris.
He does address his AI, 'hey, are you there?' Can we use our special sights. ]
[ Who knows?? All you know is that you can't find him anywhere.
Scattered around, you can see the shape of bodies. Four at the top with the awful smell of burnt fur and singed skin in the air. Hung remains slumped over the rubble that was once some chairs on the floor, with Nimona and Hana close by.
Nimona is laying on her back with blood staining her head, almost seamlessly from her pink hair, one half of her face completely swathed in red. Her brows furrow slightly in pinched pain. Hana is also barely conscious, clutching onto a shoulder, the arm below that mangled. Sigrun is further off, her clothes covered in dust and sand, bruised and battered and singed.
There's a crispy straw hat somewhere near the side of the stairs, near some pile of giant rubble and collapse. There's some blood on it. Where's Luffy gone off to?
Similarly on another end is the sight of a green coat's hem, just barely visible under a too-heavy pile of broken stones.
Your AIs are sluggish, but given time, they load in -- still a little glitchy and their voice skipping a bit, but they're here.
"Wha-wha-tt happenedLQ==ed? Are yo-yoeW91 okay-y-y?"
Your stupid prize box is unharmed somehow, it's just there. ]
[ everything hurts, but adrenaline is a hell of a drug. he hears sabo's skipped voice and answers, reflexively-- fine, explosion, like that's the end of that, but he's unfortunately a one track minded person, and his brother's straw hat left behind is making his blood freeze. Luffy's not the only one missing, though, so-- he'll go ahead and activate thermal readings to try to find Luffy or Iris. he has a bias, but he's not a total asshole.
someone else can check the blood. ]
Check for-- check how everyone's doing. M'looking for the other two. [ he's staggering over to the rubble. he doesn't scream luffy's name, but it's a near thing. ] We need to find a way to get out of here.
[ he expects to hear an accusation later, and he'd probably deserve it, but priorities. two of the girls are badly injured, sigrun's been blown further, and hung looks like shit. they definitely need to be checked out. fuck! math is really hard, it turns out! ]
[ she nods shakily. they still need to uncover them... maybe they haven't been crushed, maybe it's fine. ]
Shout if you find them.
[ we'll help extract asap. but for now, jolyne is going to help triage what she can. who here is in the most dire condition. as she does so, she just mentally murmurs to f.f.: you okay there, foof? hanging in there? if you can help me... i need to get a better look at how everyone's doing. triage. we gotta get outta here.
she'll pick her way to where hung, hana, and nimona are probably closest together to try and ascertain damages on her own. she looks over at where sigrun was blown back and, knowing her teammate, clenches her fingers into her fists and takes care of what's in front of her first. she'll run to her after, these three are just all like. closer together from what i'm reading. for a moment, she brushes hung's fur with her fingertips. ]
Big guy, can you hear me? Hey... Hung? [ will he respond? ]
[ ... He wants to be the one looking for Iris, but he yields to letting Ace handle that. There are others they have to check, too. ]
How's our two known exits looking?
[ Lillium will go for Sigrun then after checking at least one of the other three's pulse so that Jolyne isn't left to do so much of that work. For Sigrun, he checks if she's alive first... If she's breathing, then he'll do his best to move the rubble and get her out of there.
[ Ace can find the shape of Luffy under some rubble. He's on his back, and if Ace looks in that area, he can see his lil fist poking out. Iris is also nearby, curled up underneath a cage of stones near where the green coat hem is.
F.F.
NimobmE=, Hana, and Sigrun will be okaeSw= but the first two need medical attention ASAP.
But Jolyne, what YWI=out you? You need help.
Hung is looking turbo-bad. He's severely injured and his breath is faint. The only response he can manage is a slight hitch in his breathing, but little else.
Sigrun is breathing, though her consciousness could use a little more work.
Nico
The elevator is still functioning. Somehow.
The other route that Iris came through are stairs, but it's far enough from here that it's unaffeY3RlZC4=
You can't stay here Lillium, the ceiling is Y29taW5nIA==down.
The reward box appears to have some kind of mechanical.. uh, mechanism in it. He has no clue what it is from x-ray. ]
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[ This is your superior. Anyway, YIKES. Hung looks alarmed when thermite is mentioned.
Come on. No time to waste.
As for Lillium. Why are you looking at him like that, man.
Are you sure you're okay?
The video didn't get you, did it...?
None of that matters though, because you'll hear a very Jigsaw-sounding voice, the kind that's very obviously artificially changed, but does sound very effectively deep and scary. ]
Good.
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[ he is not even surprised at having to explain that to him. Don't say it like you knew from the start yourself.
ace ignores sabo because jigsaw is here to welcome them to the fuckhouse, and he turns around fists ready Again ]
Who--?
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It's getting crowded here, huh?
[ whomst ]
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You going to show yourself?
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The figure raises a hand, in which you can see a little detonator enclosed in his gloved fist. ]
One movement, and I could blow up this entire place, and all of you, into tiny little pieces.
It's good to finally meet you.
You've done an excellent job.
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which is to say ace is glaring and trying to like. block the guy's view of the people behind them. he did not name luffy and the others so he is trying to hope he is somehow blind and deaf and he didn't notice the other three. ]
A job of what? Showing up at a meeting?
[ Punching people in the nuts for balloons?
Sabo stop snarking and figure out if there's a way to disable this shit remotely. Or like. If there's a rock he can throw or something. ]
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What do you want, exactly?
[ cut the dramatics. she grits her teeth. ]
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Hand is stayed! ]
Do we get a reward for doing so well?
[ Sarcasm. ]
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You notice that your heads are starting to hurt a little, a prickling pain reverberating through your skull. Primarily, it begins in your left eye.
And more importantly...
You've made sure everyone was gathered for the main event.
If you want your prize, it's in that box. I won't press the button if you want to claim it.
Before we begin, I'd like to inform you that you're standing at the intersection of a number of electromagnetic current generators.
...It's a little like how a microwave works. Do you know what happens to electronics in a microwave?
I want you to kill... them.
The figure gestures towards Hung, Luffy, and Iris. ]
They've been a thorn in my side for too long.
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Fuck you! [ he snarls, immediately looking like a cornered wild animal ] Luffy, leave! We'll deal with this guy!
[ this is both for protection and also just a general thing ace tells luffy whenever there is big danger sorry. he doesn't have a solution that doesn't get them exploded, except hey what is the exact distance between them and the mask guy. is it tackling distance. just asking for a friend. ]
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[ but then she's gripping her head just a bit. ow??? my eyeball???? jolyne grits her teeth and looks back at hung before turning towards them with fists clenched.
f.f.? are you still with me? f.f.!!!
she eyes ace briefly and shifts her footing, prepared to dart forward if need be, but trying to at least get something that makes sense out of this person. because there's no way she's going to... nope. nah.
god her head hurts. ]
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Unfortunately for the other two, he has to consider numbers. Explode all of them or just kill a few? Ugh. Can he thermal sight this dude again to see if his left side is still warmer?
What about if he looks at Jolyne and Ace? ]
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I can take it!
[ He's wrong, he cannot take it. Hung looks grim and solemn, paws curling into fists, while Iris just looks towards Lillium with troubled eyes, glancing at the girls next to them. Your AIs try to answer seemingly, but it just comes through as a staticky sound sparking inside of your heads. They try to project themselves in your vision, but it comes across as extremely glitched and unclear. So does a number of things in the left half of your vision. This probably doesn't help your headache.
"Tm8sIHlvdSBjYW4ndCAtLSBkb24ndCBkbyBpdCE="
The guy's left half is warmer. It's just how he is, apparently. Jolyne and Ace show up as normal people. ]
Don't, and everything goes up in flames.
I'll count down from ten.
Nine... eight...
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[ anyway uh
sorry he is ignoring logic and pain in his cranium and he IS going to try to tackle the guy hopefully off the platform so he is too shocked to press the remote
which is to say he can probably be held back i just need you guys to know this is what he would do ]
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she's not going to stop ace, because instead she's going to try and help ace pincer this person so that maybe they simply won't know where to look! or maybe they'll be overwhelmed. it's unfortunately just a situation of 2 mimir but the mimir are fight instead. she's got an eye on the detonator, like she wants to try and snatch it, but damn her head hurts. ]
Not happening, asshole!
[ i have no idea what's going to happen. ]
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Lillium is going to see if he can evacuate their three friends who aren't going to explode. Adrenaline is helping him with the growing piercing pain, so he shouts to their superiors since they don't have thermite bombs in them, right?. ]
Wherever you guys came out of?! Go back!
[ i am prepared for the worst ]
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The masked man gives no fanfare, though there's a bit of disappointment in him as he presses the detonator with no hesitation. Bro really wasn't kidding.
And then, everything explodes. The thermite bombs blow up in a massive column of fire and slag, sending shockwaves that send all of you stumbling down from the altar staircase, ears ringing, vision blacking out. Pillars and parts of the ceiling come crashing down. You can decide your own damage as you like here, but you will live.
Your vision comes to, blurring in threes, and then twos, until finally you can see the scene around you. The dark underground is now ablaze with flames, and you see no sign of the strange masked person.
The nice thing is that your eye no longer hurts, and if your head is still aching, it's definitely for a different reason (you know, like a concussion). The bunker hasn't completely collapsed yet, but it will very soon. You don't need AI to tell you that, who are in the process of trying to reboot.
What now? ]
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anyway i will decide injuries later. fuck you i am not thinking about it. ace kind of struggles to his feet, looking blearily around the blazes. where did the guy go. where did everyone go. are there corpses here. what has he done. etc. ]
... I'm alive, but...
[ where's the others. who else is here and alive. and also, for how long, wow, they should probably get out of here. ]
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Fuck - fuck fuck fuck -
[ she's a creature on a mission, looking around for ace and lillium first. there's a look in her eyes like glassy panic as she tries to find them both, shoving her way towards the both of them. she doesn't really want to think about what exactly they've done. it seemed kind of rigged from the start, but she can't be angry about that when she doens't even know where to begin here. the rubble, can they see anyone familiar underneath it? fur? hair? a sad straw hat?
blood? ]
S-sound off...
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[ Ugh... Lillium is here, injured, which I will figure out later, but his blood is pumping despite his thoughts being slow. They pick up quick as he takes a look around and starts looking for any signs of anyone else surviving.
Especially Iris.
He does address his AI, 'hey, are you there?' Can we use our special sights. ]
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Scattered around, you can see the shape of bodies. Four at the top with the awful smell of burnt fur and singed skin in the air. Hung remains slumped over the rubble that was once some chairs on the floor, with Nimona and Hana close by.
Nimona is laying on her back with blood staining her head, almost seamlessly from her pink hair, one half of her face completely swathed in red. Her brows furrow slightly in pinched pain. Hana is also barely conscious, clutching onto a shoulder, the arm below that mangled. Sigrun is further off, her clothes covered in dust and sand, bruised and battered and singed.
There's a crispy straw hat somewhere near the side of the stairs, near some pile of giant rubble and collapse. There's some blood on it. Where's Luffy gone off to?
Similarly on another end is the sight of a green coat's hem, just barely visible under a too-heavy pile of broken stones.
Your AIs are sluggish, but given time, they load in -- still a little glitchy and their voice skipping a bit, but they're here.
"Wha-wha-tt happenedLQ==ed? Are yo-yoeW91 okay-y-y?"
Your stupid prize box is unharmed somehow, it's just there. ]
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someone else can check the blood. ]
Check for-- check how everyone's doing. M'looking for the other two. [ he's staggering over to the rubble. he doesn't scream luffy's name, but it's a near thing. ] We need to find a way to get out of here.
[ he expects to hear an accusation later, and he'd probably deserve it, but priorities. two of the girls are badly injured, sigrun's been blown further, and hung looks like shit. they definitely need to be checked out. fuck! math is really hard, it turns out! ]
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Shout if you find them.
[ we'll help extract asap. but for now, jolyne is going to help triage what she can. who here is in the most dire condition. as she does so, she just mentally murmurs to f.f.: you okay there, foof? hanging in there? if you can help me... i need to get a better look at how everyone's doing. triage. we gotta get outta here.
she'll pick her way to where hung, hana, and nimona are probably closest together to try and ascertain damages on her own. she looks over at where sigrun was blown back and, knowing her teammate, clenches her fingers into her fists and takes care of what's in front of her first. she'll run to her after, these three are just all like. closer together from what i'm reading. for a moment, she brushes hung's fur with her fingertips. ]
Big guy, can you hear me? Hey... Hung? [ will he respond? ]
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How's our two known exits looking?
[ Lillium will go for Sigrun then after checking at least one of the other three's pulse so that Jolyne isn't left to do so much of that work. For Sigrun, he checks if she's alive first... If she's breathing, then he'll do his best to move the rubble and get her out of there.
X-RAY THE REWARD BOX? ]
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But Jolyne, what YWI=out you? You need help.
Hung is looking turbo-bad. He's severely injured and his breath is faint. The only response he can manage is a slight hitch in his breathing, but little else.
Sigrun is breathing, though her consciousness could use a little more work.
The other route that Iris came through are stairs, but it's far enough from here that it's unaffeY3RlZC4=
You can't stay here Lillium, the ceiling is Y29taW5nIA==down.
The reward box appears to have some kind of mechanical.. uh, mechanism in it. He has no clue what it is from x-ray. ]
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