The Catacombs

[Glen da West]

Large, stone hammers swing down from the ceiling and swing back and forth. Glen ducks and swerves around each hammer and came upon the giant spider that was shooting webs at his team as well as Nero's.

The spider shot a web right at Deuce who slipped his shades off and his stone cold gaze turned the web to stone. Glen skated right up one long stone strand of the web and down the other side, taking the lead with a friendly;

"Thank you!"  

[Nero de Sphinx]

"Oh no you don't!" called Nero, following Glen.

This was his last chance to build up another rush of speed, down the stand of stone silk. He stretched his arms out for balance and shot after Glen as fast as he could. Slowly, he pulled up alongside minibro, matching him for speed and taking one long leg stroke for each three of Glen's.

"You're not going to win this THAT easily," Nero said, grinning.

He jumped high over a spike of ice that shot at them from the walls, rolling on the other side before coming back up on his skates.  

[Meme Pennywise]

Meme bent over with her hands on her knees and tried to steady her breathing. She was gross and sweaty, splattered in green ooze, her skates were a little singed but she couldn't help but feel like a star when Rochelle lifted her arm and the crowd roared.

"You guys were amazing!" She beamed to her team mates, "Great job!"

She skated over to the stands as the last players lined up for the next heat and she flopped into a seat. "That was crazy.." She said to herself, grabbing her sports bag from under her chair and pulling out her phone. There were several texts from Ascreama, and lots of notifications from FacelessBook and Twiturgh she'd been tagged in pictures. "Oh man.. This is going to be embarrassing.."  

[Tori Underbridge]

Tori had beat the crowd by using the tunnels that connect with the catacombs. Not to many monsters knew about them so it was easy to get to the seats in the front.

At the announcement Tori jumps up cheering happily with the rest of the crowd.

"Alright! Way to go! Good sportsmanship!"

She sniffed once wondering where that awful stench was coming form, at first she thought it was the contestants, but not it was coming form above, in the audience.

She didn't want to miss the other matches, but felt like she should help.

She cups her hands over her mouth and shouts up to them, as she didn't want to get closer to the small, shouting.

"Tomato juice! Lots and lots of tomato juice! Bathe in it." She then turned back to watch the rest of the matches.
Glen was up next. She hoped he win!  

[Rorrim Rory Bludworth]

Flying collisions between competitors. Blasts of feedback. Potential for being mauled by vicious skunks....SKRM was everything Rory had thought it would be and more! Now that his distant cousin Glen was racing, Rory was splitting his attention between the match and the current situation with Ronan's head providing ample nesting space for Lin's pet skunk. The skunk had already blasted Dashner and a selkie ghoul...Rory wondered if it had any ammo left or if the tiny creature was running on empty.

"Careful now..." The extreme dangerousness of the situation demanded extreme carefulness by everyone nearby the tiny extremely menacing ball of fur. Rory was certain that one wrong move would result in being decimated in the worst, smelliest way possible. If only someone could fly in from above and pluck the skunk off Ronan's head without disturbing it...  

[Glen da West]

Ryder's flaming tires on his wheelchair were creating an all-new form of obstacle against the competition as he swerved and weaved around and between both Deuce as well as Lagoona, leaving a flaming path that the two would have to circumvent in order to catch up!  

[Nero de Sphinx]

Nero jumped as another spike of ice shot up his right. They were coming at him too fast to keep track of now, left right left left. His skates shot sparks off as he twisted his way around them. He couldn't keep track of where his team members were now, he just hoped they were someone nearby.

Left. Right. Right. Duck. Left. Jump! A fresh spike of ice shot up directly in front of him.

"Screw this, I'm getting dizzy," he muttered to himself and, throwing as much extra power into his legs as he could, barreled through the spike, shattering it and sending ice flying in all directions.

SMASH! SHATTER! SMASH!

Ice flew away from him in needle-sharp blizzard. This was WAY easier.  

[Ronan Aalto]

Ronan couldn't pay any attention to the chaos below, he was far too distracted by the skunk and those tiny little claws digging into his scalp. It was starting to get rather painful and the little thing showed no sign of wanting to get down on it's own accord.
"I think.. " Every time he moved the skunk dug those claws in a little deeper, he grimaced, nothing for it, he'd have to risk getting sprayed himself if he wanted the thing off his head. He raised both hands, one to hold the skunk and stop it moving too much, the other to carefully attempt to pry those claws out of his head. "Please little one, let go..." He pleaded, as if the small ball of fur could somehow understand him.  

[Lin McGearloch]

Lin grumbled as he climbed up onto the seat, shuffling himself between Ronan and Rory. Lin tapped a claw to his chin and then his face lit up brightly.

"Ah!"

Lin stuffed his claws into his pocket and pulled out a small bunch of berries on a stem and waved them up toward Sweety who twitched his tiny nose in their direction. The baby skunk then clawed it's way down Ronan's head, digging in for a grip to lean in closely and get a better whiff of the berries.

Lin held up his other arm and that's when Sweety leapt from his perch atop Ronan and onto Lin's arm. The skunk skidaddled down his arm, over his shoulders and up the other arm that held the berries.

"Sorry about that! He just wanted to watch the races too and you had a better seat for him to watch from!"  

[Atomica Servo]

"Ugh. I need SO MUCH shower." Atomica dripped her way past the rest of her team to the locker doom. She would need to have Lin defrag all of her sensors and probably repair the servos in her flinging arm. And HAL only knew how much slime had leaked into her hexpresso dispenser!

As she turned one last time to look at the track, Atomica bit her lower lip. There were only so many spots open on the team. What if she hadn't even made it? Gryff was right (of course he was, he always was, that's what her internal programming told her) about her talents being wasted on all these monsters. If they didn't want her on their SKRM team, well FINE! They could all just...just....go sit on a giant magnet!  

[Ronan Aalto]

Poor Ronan winced with each jabby claw, letting out a sigh of relief as the creature finally got off him. "Perhaps he would have been happier NOT being catapulted into the stands." he grumbled, rubbing his head.
Satisfied no permanent damage had been done he watched the skunk happily eating. "Better now little one?"  

[Lin McGearloch]

Lin frowned.

"Catapulted...?"

Perched now on Lin's shoulder as if he were some monster mink stole, or in Sweety's case, stink stole... (Get it? Hm? Well I would have laughed had you said it!) Sweety stared at Ronan and seemingly 'answered' the selkie boo by shoveling another berry into his mouth, making his cheeks bulge almost to a comedic extent.

Lin nuzzled the side of his head against his pet's soft fur and then something caught his attention. He turned his head to spot Atomica, covered in slime and making jerky movements, meandering almost dejectedly toward the locker room.

Lin sighed.

"Oh I am going to be up late fixin' that one. Talkin' her down a bit too."

He turned to Ronan and said, "Gotta go! thanks for pet sittin'! Sweety likes you!" He looked at Rory in turn. "I think he liked you too."

Lin hopped down off of the bench and scrambled after Atomica, calling back over his shoulder, "Nice to know I have skunk sitters if the need arises!"  

[Ronan Aalto]

Ronan stared at the Gremlin incredulously but couldn't help but smile at the skunk's comical face. "Next time, don't throw him alright? I do not believe he appreciated that much."  

[Glen da West]

Nero de Sphinx

There were truly proper times to be opposing someone who was as big as Nero was, and one of those times was occurring at this very moment!

Glen slowed down just enough so that he skated right behind Nero and used him as a 'monster shield' as he plowed right through the ice obstacles. Glen matched Nero move for move, bobbing to the left when he did, and weaving to the right. This had an added bonus besides not having to circumvent the ice shards that jetted out along their path.

It was also handy that he could use Nero to shield himself from the flying bits of ice and slush as well, because of that darned allergy of his! Ice might be a frozen form of water, but it was still water and if any got on him and melted -- well so would he!

A Glen Puddle in the middle of the SKRM obstacle course would be too humiliating to endure!

Of course as Glen used Nero as a shield, he didn't notice that a number of columns rose up from the floor with spiked maces attached to them and they started to spin quickly and move in turn from side to side, all along the path. As Nero swerved away, Glen's eyes widened considerably as he came racing right towards one of the last unseen columns.

"Eep!"

Glen squeeked in surprise and he held his hands out and accidentally grabbed one of the spinning spikes and then, Glen started spinning as well!

"Whoa!"

"WHOA!"

"WHOOOOA!!!!"

Faster and faster until he lost his grip and let go -- and rocketed literally right in Nero's direction! Glen regained his balance and ducked down low ... and ZOOMED right under Nero (literally!) and Nero saw a little green blur ROCKET from beneath him and right into the narrow tunnel that led to the Tentacle Bridge!