Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-36289716-20190425162832/@comment-26892768-20190428221253

Before Shantae can pursue, however...there's the sound of cannonfire, and a moment later, a large metal pod lands right in front of her. Three Tinkerbats then leap out of it - no doubt there will soon be more - and go for her.

Meanwhile, Mad Ben has finished up the boat - and some metal scraps he found nearby - and is finally ready to get back into the fight. He turns around. "Now, where were..."

Aaaaaaaand then he sees that Ben is gone.

''"What?" And then ''Mad Ben times out, turning back into his human form.

And back in the main reality, a green-skinned girl falls from above, yelping as she lands on her backside and...

...oh. Her leg. Just. Came off. Oh.

"Ow..." The girl, however, takes this in stride, simply reattaching her leg as she gets up, wincing as she rubs her sore butt and looks around. "What just happened?"

This is far from the weirdest thing to happen to her - in fact, the one time she was inside her friend's mind while she had her magic reversed and was evil (long story), she did suddenly change locations without warning several times - but the last time she checked, portals opening up beneath your feet and taking you to some random forest aren't exactly common. Or even existent, for that matter.

And besides that, she's a tiny bit miffed that this portal opened up just as she was going to Shantae's house.

This would probably be a good time to clarify who this mysterious green girl is. You see, her name is Rottytops, and she is Shantae's zombie friend...albeit one who isn't the best at times, but still a friend in spite of it all.

Anyway, Rottytops pulls out a spider and puts it on the ground, letting it form a quick spiderweb as she sits down and cracks her knuckles. When all else fails, turn to the Web.

The zombie girl's fingers run over the web as she closes her eyes, waiting...after a moment, she opens them, looking rather confused. "That's weird; no one's on..."

With the Web system in place, any responses from her fellow zombies should be near instantaneous; hard not to miss these vibrations.

...that being said, however, she can tell that there's other people here. In fact, there seems to be several close by.

Glancing behind her, Rottytops turns around and crawls along the ground a bit, taking cover behind a bush as she looks out.

Looks like some guy in a chicken mask, and...a metal box with wheels? She honestly has no idea what it is; it looks like a carriage, but there's no horse, and really, who in their right mind would make a carriage out of meta-

...wait.

The thing is blue.

Metal, blue, probably some kind of vehicle...looks a lot like Ammo Baron's work. All that's missing is some kind of gun and it'd fit right in.

Now, Rottytops hasn't exactly dealt with Ammo Baron herself. She's dealt with a version of him conjured up by Nega-Shantae to try and stop her, Sky, and Bolo from freeing their friend from the influence of dark magic, and she watched Shantae take on the real deal once, but she knows enough about him to dislike the guy. Firstly, there was that plan of his to steal magic carpets from the magic carpet race and turn them into uniforms capable of flight, which she did not appreciate in the slightest - only good thing that came out of that was that Shantae ended up winning because of his machinations - but there's also what she's heard from Shantae of what he did before that. About how he militarized her hometown and turned the law against her...the thought makes her scowl.

Now, in she's being honest with herself, she probably shouldn't fight these guys. She's not exactly a heavy-hitting fighter like her friend, after all (and she just got these legs)...but that doesn't mean she can't mess with them a little.

Grinning, Rottytops picks up a rock, and, behind the cover of the bush, tosses it at the van.