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xxxExhalt was fixing dinner for herself and her cat in her apartment in Durem. Fried rice and chicken was the nights meal and baked mini red velvet cakes for dessert.Filling her plate to yummy goodness and filling a bowl for her cat, she put her cakes in the oven and brought the dishes onto the couch and turned on the television. It blared the same anime that she was watching when she turned it off the past night. She sighed the flipped through the channels. She munched on her dinner as she flipped though more channels. Sports.. Blah. Religious... Blah. Pretty blond goes to school... Ugh. There was nothing on television. She shoveled rice into her mouth and kept flipping through over a new channel saying something about BREAKING NEWS!! She knew that from the large red letters that spelled breaking new flash in front of her eyes. She stopped and went back to the channel, might as well she thought. There is nothing else on.

xxxThe nicely dressed new anchor talked quickly, saying something about doomsday, and the end of Christmas as we know it. Exhalt yawned. She had to be kidding, it not like every year something happened.... oh wait every year something does happen. Having lived through aliens, cows, elves, other catastrophes and not done a darn thing about it. Exhalt felt compelled to do something this year. She turned the television up louder so she could hear what was going on.

xxx"Madness and mayhem on the street fellow Gaians. I repeat madness and mayhem. A reporter outside on the streets yelled into the microphone. "Do not, I repeat do not try to attack these robots, they are armed and dangerous! Stay indoors and keep quiet, they are looking for your sweet ingredients. If they come into your home, run in the opposite direction, do not try to wave them off. It may end badly." The camera pans to a small army of robots marching in the street. They walk in perfect lines crushing and squashing everything in their path. As they walk they crushed cars, mailboxes, lamp posts, and had some close encounters with civilians. Exhalt watched as some robots busted down doors and headed inside.

xxxSuddenly there was a loud shuffling outside her door and then a sudden bang. pieces of her door flew everywhere, and two robots barged into her apartment. Once inside they headed strait into the kitchen. She heard them rummaging through her cabinets, taking items and moving others. She shuffled around the corner to see what they were taking. Exhalt watched the robots pour her sugar into their bellies and put her canisters back. "Well that was nice, at least they put my containers back." She thought to herself. She watched the robots go through all of her cabinets and drawers, finally stopping at her oven. "Oh no they are not!" she screamed in her head. The robots opened the oven door and took her mini red velvet cake. They sniffed the air to see if there were any other sweet ingredients to be taken. And just like that, they were gone.

xxxAlmost to tears Exhalt grabbed a broom to sweep up her door. She heard the robots coming back her way so she hid around the corner. It sounded like the pit crew from a racetrack was outside in her doorway. After the noise stopped she looked to see if anything was there, and much to her surprise there was a brand new door where her old one stood. This one was a nice wood finish with brass knob and hinges. Much nicer then the plywood door she had. She swept up her old door and threw it down the trash shoot. Exhalt went over and opened the door, she reached her head out the door to see if anymore robots were there. The coast was clear. On the outside of the door was a note reading:



xxx"Any apology letter? Really? They left me an apology letter for my door?" Exhalt was in shock. They left an apology letter for the door but not for stealing all of her baked goods and ingredients. She grabbed the note and shut the door and locked it.

xxxRunnign to her bedroom she changed into hes a** kicking gear. Pair is black knee high leggings with fur around her ankles, booty short with her favorite belt, black mid tank shirt with a long black and yellow jacket, that could catch event he smallest bit if wind and look cool, she wore black bandana, and to top of the outfit she put on her panda slippers. She pulled part of her hair back and left the rest of it down, she groomed her cat ears and feathered headband and placed it on her head, and her other pet Gimpi decided he wanted to fight was well. He perched on her head as she struck a pose in front of her full length mirror. "Damn," She said, "I look good." She smiled at her look then remembered she was not playing dress-up this was for real this time.



xxxExhalt ran into her living room and snatched from one of her show-cases her long bow, from when she was in archery in college and a quiver of arrows. "Okay, are you ready Gimpi?" She talked to her pet, and felt a nod from him. She walked to the door and opened it like a superhero. Right before she closed the door, she remembered that she forgot her keys so like a frantic high-schooled girl she ran back inside and got her keys. And walked back out into the hallway of her apartment complex. She yelled to her cat to be good as she shut the door. She laugh as she tried to lock the door only to find the new key to her new door was already in the lock. She grabbed the key, put it on her key ring and walked outside.

She walked outside and there they were. The wall of Zero Bots. Exhalt knew that this was a long shot, and that she probably had not change with arrows against metal bodies. She felt Gimpi quiver a bit on her head, but reminded him to be strong, she needed to do this to save Christmas, and to avenge her red velvet mini cakes.

xxx"Stop!" She cried as she raised her bow, "This is madness. Why make children suffer because of a pie in the face. It was just not fair!"

xxxThe Bots advanced toward Exhalt, their weapons drawn ready to attack. Exhalt would have much rather talk this though, but she liked a nice duel every now and then. She released the arrow and hear a THUNK. The arrow hit the side of one of the robots. Causing that robot to scratch his side, but not lose step.

xxx"Well, it has been some time since college, so I might have lost my groove a bit. She reassured herself. This time she aimed and let another arrow fly...


Attack Successful
HP: 39

xxxThe arrow flew through the air and hit with a louder thunk. This time Exhalt's arrow hit the eye of one of the robots in the front, causing him to fall over and crumple into a ball. which tripped the robot behind him, and that robot tripped the one behind him, who tripped the one behind him, and he fell to the side and there ended up being eight robots down, meaning there were thirteen left.

xxx She quickly notched another arrow and lifted it into the air ready to strike, but she felt a tug on her head, And she saw Gimpi pointing at something. She realized there was a child who was crying and stumbling through the streets. And he was about to stumble in front of the marching robots. She lowered her bow, put her arrow back into her quiver, and went after the child. He was wiping his snotty little nose as Exhalt ran up to him, and on one full swipe caught him around the middle and booked it away from the robots.

xxx Exhalt made it to the sidewalk out of the way of the moving pieces of tin. She looked the boy in the face and recognized him, he was the son of the woman across the hall from her. He was a sweet kid, but where was his mother? Suddenly his mother comes barreling out with a rolling pin in one hand and what looked like the kids sweater in the other. The mother saw Exhalt with the child and came running over and hugged her little boy. She smiled as Exhalt and explained that Oliver (The little boy) was covered in icing since she was making cinnamon rolls and homemade icing. And he had managed to topple over a bowl onto his head and it ran everywhere. The robots came and took him away. She said he was missing he shirt what was covered in icing but she was happy he was safe. She took him and ran back to the apartment complex.

xxxTurning her attention to the robots once more Exhalt raced to the front of them. Grabbing one of her arrows, she notched it and held it ay the ready, aiming for another of the robots...

xxxAttack successful
xxxHP: 26

xxxThe arrow flew through the air, but wind caught the arrow and brought it down onto the foot of a front line marching robot. With a what sounded like a yelp of pain of Robot was down, and 2 others with him. Exhalt smiled, "With more practice at this I might be able to win this battle." She went to grab another arrow to find that there was none to grab. Frantically, she wondered where her arrows went. She glanced something shiny where the child had been standing. "Shoot!" she exclaimed. When she picked up the child some of her arrows fell out. The robots had already smashed them to bits. She looked around to see if there was any place she could pick up supplies, but there was none to be found. She thought for a moment, maybe The Jock Strap would have some arrows.

xxxLooking to see what street she was on, Exhalt saw that the shop was only three streets over. The intersection was a half a mile away. Turning from the robots Exhalt ran to the intersection and down the road to The Jock Strap. Not to her surprise the store was broken into.

Attack successful
HP: 20

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Attack successful.
HP: 15

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Attack successful.
HP: 8

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Attack successful
HP: 7

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Attack Failed
HP: 7