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Gatz pasued for a long moment before answering the woman's question.

"... Quint, you do realize that by 'remote location', I mean I sent the data to somewhere very, very far away from here, right?" he asked. "That would tend to indicate the opposite of what you just assumed."

"Yeah Rio, Rake's set up shop at the volcano for the moment. I'm getting a big daemonic signiture from there. Don't ask me why hellspawn invest so much of themsselves into something that might explode at any moment--as fun as it sounds, it really isn't all that practical." He pointed to the blip on the screen. "As for the daemon's physical body, it's currently moving down the main strip. Nothing's blown up just yet, so for all I know it's shopping... or searching."

The head of security looked back at Quint and winked.

"Take it for herself? Nah... Daemons tend to be old school. Also, technology is based on an ordered system of cause and effect, and demons are beings closely tied to pure chaos. Most the time it's like trying to mix oil and water..." He rolled his eyes and let out a deep sigh.

"... Which is one reason Bleu's computer hates me so much," he finished. "But yeah, Rake might attempt a pre-emptive strike against the base, so could be wise to prepare a counter-attack here, just in case. Considering how powerful she is and that she has a certain goal in mind, though, there's also a good she doesn't really see this place as a threat and/or a point of interest..." He shrugged helplessly.

"--It's a tough call."

"Well since this is a Daemon we're talking about, may I make a suggestion..?" Gatz began.

"... Don't bother blowing the volcano," he said, waving his hand through the air to dimiss the idea. "Not unless you plan on tickling Rake, anyways. You'd be causing more damage to the island than it'd really be worth. Aonice gets upset when that sort of thing happens."

Rioushu shook his head to disagree with Gatz, looking a bit deep in thought. "Fortunately for us, that's not quite true in Rake's case. While the one currently in control of the body is a Daemon, the body itself is that of a vampire, which melts like most everything else. Besides, I'm only erupting the volcano as a last resort, before that, I'm simply going to absorb all the mana Rake is gathering from the island. While this body certianly can't hold all of the mana being absorbed, I can reform it into attacks. Not even a Daemon can withstand it's own attacks." Rioushu said, then put his hand to his head. "But I gotta get rid of this dark energy soon, it's already having adverse effects on this body..."

Rioushu backed away from Gatz while putting his hands up in defensive stance. "No touching mort...Gatz. Listen, as long as I can use this energy in a destructive manner soon, I'll be fine, and since I plan on going to the volcano and beating the ever loving crap out of Rake's body to where it has no practical use, things will be fine. And as for severing the lines, you really should've just reversed the flow, it would drain Rake of her energy while feeding the island. And don't worry, once Rake leaves, everything should repair itself, not neccasarily quickly, but it will happen." Rioushu assured then, then scratched his head. "Well, that's odd, I could've sworn I was in the caverghk! Ahem, so sorry about that, had a bit too much amenesia dust this morning." Rioushu said, his eyes shifting side to side.

Rioushu once again found himself disagreeing with Gatz. "No see, first you would reverse the flow, and THEN cut the lines, for after Rake stops drawing energy, it would have to fix the lines and then return the flow to normal just to draw energy, an abhorent amount of energy would be required to do both." Rioushu explained.

When Gatz mention the Rasengan slowly foming, Rioushu raised an eyebrow, not quite sure how that was possible. He then thought about it and raised three fingers. "I'd escape from the island as soon as possible, for you see there's going to be three problems with that. One, if it's forming around the entire island, it's destructive force will be more than anyone and everyone on the island combined could handle, and I mean everyone who's ever existed in any form on this island. Two, the chakra control required for that kind of attack is unmatched, even if I trained my entire life to learn that one move, I still wouldn't have enough control to make one that big, and if you screw up, either it will be a massive waste of energy, or everyone on the island, including Rake, dies instantly, not before being sent through the island though. And finally, I cannot stop it if it becomes complete, for reasons I'd rather not discuss, chakra usage isn't an option for me at the moment." Rioushu said, looking a bit wary of why Gatz had asked him of such a thing.

Quint's eyes widened, alarmed by the possible explosion of the island.

"Woah." She repeated a few times, "Hold on. This isn't my Starman cup."

Quint snickered, trying to lighten the mood. "Ah...I'm sorry" She spoke, wiping an imaginary tear from her eye, "Stress, for some reason, makes me a bit more comical."

Clearing her throat, "Seriously, I'm all for killing this thing, there's nothing I'd like better." Quint quickly retracted that statement, adding, "Well, I could think of a few things that would be better, but Rake is certainly high on the list."

Frantically now, as if every second was as important as they actually were, Quint racked her mind, trying to find some resolution for the island.

"Do we actually know anything about Rake, other than it wants that sword?" She paused, now finding a lead, "Or for that case, do we know anything about the sword it wants to find? Maybe that will lead to a way to help our 'friend' move out."

Rioushu was barely listening to Gatz, thinking of his own ways to take Rake down, when he heard the suggestion Gatz made. His eye twitched and a nervous look came upon his face, thinking of an excuse. He regained his composure as he thought of something to say. "Well, while I would love to, there's an initial problem. The ability to control the largest, most powerful Rasengan is beyond me. No one ninja in existance could do that, not to mention even if I could, there'd be no way for me to handle that much power, I would probably need to be face to face with Rake to utilize it against her."

"I suppose.." Quint said in response to Gatz' analysis on demons and their kind, "I guess there wouldn't be any repossesors in some dimensions, as a lot demons are a lot more prone to action when their things are threatened.."

Fixing her hair, Quint now commented on the newest plan, "Well...that's both good and bad. Good in the fact that the island isn't going to be blowing up, but bad since Rioushu is going to be the one that's at the helm of a possibly sudden catastrophe." She laughed, then giving Rioushu a playful stick of her tongue.

"Still, even with Rioushu's chance of royally screwing up," Even though Quint was just teasing with Rioushu, she just loved laying on the pressure, "This approach has another upside since this Rasengan isn't using anyone's energy, which means this is a free, massivly powerful, attack."