Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-27356783-20190902004728/@comment-26892768-20190906023437

Kotaro and Teddy also look over, taking in the new arrivals.

Meanwhile, Koala Princess and Miss Pastel are looking up at the castle, Miss Pastel's eyes wide and Koala Princess' jaw dropped. After a moment, the pink-haired girl lets out a low whistle.

"Wow...that is definitely impressive. Got to admit, I'm surprised that cute little puffball knows someone who lives here..." And then Koala Princess' gaze drifts to the train. "Croikey, would you look at that!"

"Huh?" Miss Pastel blinks, looking as Koala Princess runs over to the Denliner and starts looking it over...oblivious to Kotaro giving her a very annoyed glare.

And then, pushing through the trees, Pearl emerges with her group around the right side of the castle. "Ah, here we are! Finally, some civiliza..."

She trails off as she sees the main group and the Denliner crew in front of the castle.

"...what exactly am I looking at?" Pearl asks herself, seeming rather confused.

"Well, yeah! These footprints match my friend's boots perfectly! ...I think. I don't spend a lot of time looking at her boots." Shantae remarks as she walks, glancing at the ground again. "Seems like there was someone else with her, though. Wonder who?"

And while all that is going on...

Neo, Marcie, and everyone else near the Auditor situation can hear something faintly. It sounds like...wood snapping? And many, many footsteps, one after the other - some kind of synchronized march.

The source of those sounds? A large troop of men clad in blue coats, green goggles, and odd blue hats with a raccoon tail and ears, alongside a menacing expression. All of them are wielding what seems to be some kind of rifle with a bayonet. And right alongside them are several large, blue tanks, which are casually plowing through any tree in their way like nothing: especially the larger one in the front of them all, which seems to have some kind of pod that seems vaguely shaped like a head - with a single large see-through window - in place of a regular hatch.

However, around ten meters away, a loud voice (slightly muffled, but still able to be heard by the small army) yells from the front tank, "HALT!"

The army stops immediately, and after a moment, a large fist punches the roof of the pod, popping it off the top of the tank like a normal hatch. '"KA- BOOM!" '

Then the driver of the tank leaps out, slamming into the ground with a small shockwave and getting up with a menacing grin. He's a large, muscular man, dressed the same way as the rest of the soldiers...only, his hat is different, and there's some differences in his coat. His most notable trait, however, is his face: his jutting, pointed chin, the curved brown goatee nearly touching his chest, and most notably, the fact that he's a cyclops. Only one eye to speak off.

The man's face twists into a grimace after a moment, and after looking through his binoculars, he barks, "Twitch! Vinegar!"

After a second, two girls dressed in similar uniforms as the soldiers run up to the cyclops - however, it's clear that they too are special, as their uniforms are also different, and so are their hats. One of them is a shorter girl with green goggles, a backpack of some kind, and a gun holstered at her hip, while the other is a taller blonde wearing what seems to be a pilot's outfit.

"Ah, just the girls I wanted to see!" He hands them the binoculars, then gestures to the Auditor situation. "Now then...mind explaining to me what exactly is going on here? Because I have no idea, honestly! It's really confusing. Although one thing I did notice was a potential recruit - that girl with the rifle has good taste..."

Ignoring the cyclops' comment, the shorter of the two looks, then hands the binoculars over to the taller girl, who, after a moment, says, "Looks like some kind of fight between the locals, boss."

"Just great..." The muscular man grumbles, rubbing his temples. "First the genie girl just ignores me because she's 'looking for her friends,' then my entire army gets dropped into a forest in the middle of nowhere by some magical portal we still can't figure out the source of, and now I have to deal with inconveniences like this!"

"You know, it's not really a big deal. We can just go around and avoid the trouble. Although I do want to ask that fellow short girl where she got her dress..." The shorter one muses, taking back the binoculars and looking through more intently before the taller one snatches them back and hands them to the cyclops.

"Eh, true...still inconvenient, though." The muscular man nods, looking back at the scene with the binoculars. Then he pauses, squinting. "Wait a minute...girls! Do you see that!?"

He gestures to something, and the girls look.

"...you mean the guy who looks kinda blocky?" The shorter one asks.

"Yes, him! Look closely. Red eyes, holding a sharp weapon, mask...clearly, the man's possessed!" The cyclops declares. "And if that's the case, he has to be possessed by some kind of malevolent magical artifact!"

"...well, he does seem possessed." The taller one nods.

"If I had to guess, artifact's probably the pumpkin." The muscular man shrugs. In any case...while the rest of the soldiers and I head around this nonsense, I want you two to deal with him and get that artifact! Just remember to use tongs; you can't be possessed if you don't make contact! ''Fire in the hole! Ting! Th-thunk...BOOM!"''

And with that, the army of the Ammo Baron starts to turn, leaving the two girls to stare at the madness they'll soon be venturing into.

"...I bet he'll give us a raise if we do that fast enough." The shorter one remarks.

"He can be nice to us, but not that nice, Twitch." The taller one - Vinegar, obviously - replies.

"Not with that attitude, maybe! Come on!" And with that, Twitch heads off to something the army left behind - seems to be some kind of small aircraft, which she quickly gets on and flies over to the scene.

Sighing, Vinegar gets in an aircraft of her own and follows.