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[Rei carried Saul while groaning; his ghost body is not suited for direct physical task like this]
Distance to Portal: 7

Okay, he had retrieved a 'human'. Now to take him into a portal...

Squish.
Oh man, while he DID want to go back to the 'human world' where he lived before, this is not the 'world' that he wanted. Well, there may be a time lag between his death and resurrection as a Tsukumogami, but surely it wasn't like 100 years or so...

...right?

Concentrating to make himself as solid as possible, the strange feeling of warmth seeped into his solidified plasmic body. It was...quite strange. When he was alive, having a physical body seems normal. The beating of the heart, the muscle mass, the automatic function of breathing, he took it for given. Never that he thought in his dreams that someday, this day to be precise, he...KINDA wanted to have it back, instead this practical body of concentrated plasma that he can use to hijack anything electronic with.

A small groan...no, light snoring escapes the human's mouth. Ew, it stank-haven't you brushed your teeth, pops?, thought Rei while slowly dragging the male to the portal's direction.

Thud.

"Hmm?" He picked up an item dropped by the victim-it's a small two-way radio; the power must've been off because...well, the battery wasn't inserted. Or actually, it haven't even brought out from the plastic it was marketed with. It seems he had owned this for some time, but never used it because lack of batteries.

Rei pulled the [Jack] while channeling his plasma into DC stream, powering the small radio. Stabbing the plug into the device, he listened to all frequency at once-it's kinda hard to describe, but it's like hearing your teacher's saying in the class, just minutes before end-semester break. Yeah, utterly chaotic thing.

He can hear few peoples speaking into the radio, each broadcasting their own messages. Should he did the same?

Nah, thought Rei. Too bothersome. After all, there's just few yards down to the portal.

SHOOOM

"Alright, the brochure said that we'll end on the part of Halloween in which humans are...not...harmed...what THE HECK?"

Rei trailed off and proceeds into swearing. They aren't back in Halloween Town; they're still in the same 'world', somewhere, probably far away from their original spot. At least there's no fog here-and somehow he can use his full strength. Hmm? He caught a FEAR reaction from something...someone else from Halloween near his location?

No, if he squinted his eyes hard enough he can see a small speck of pumpkin-spice-colored light the portals supposed to make. But it was very, very, VERY far distance, MILES even, to be traveled with the extra baggage-

Looking downwards, the old guy STILL fainted, even after landing on his face. Probably because all that lard inside his belly.

*Sting* "-erk! What was tha-"
His 'vision', or actually the other red-colored eye usually hidden beneath his bangs, but for now a special eyepatch to prevent FEAR-leaking---was suddenly blackened, accompanied with a strange stabbing pain. It came from the direction of-

"-rngth...I don't...feel...good." He was instantly nauseous after laying his eye(s) on the strangely black skyscraper. It was bound with some kind of strange vines, one which doesn't look like it even belong to Earth's flora; more like a parasitic life-form from outer space.

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The highway below his feet are now vibrating-no, SHAKING. It felt like something pounded against it with some rhythm-like...a galloping?

His headphones caught something quite...huge coming to his direction. After a bit of cursing, Rei peeked over his shoulder-

A giant horse. A ********' GIANT HORSE IS CHARGING TO THEIR DIRECTION.

"I SHOULD NOT BEEN SWAYED BY THOSE 'SAVE THE HUMAN' SPEECH!" He turned back and hastily dragged the man he was tasked to save, now having his full power back, he [JACK]-ed into the man's body and overtake the brain's control over the bodily movement using his own electrical plasma. Soon, the man was standing (not quite) on his own; the only limit was the length of his headphone's cable, making the two of them looked like a three-legged race participant.

"Move move move move!" He urged the male (which is quite dumb, because he is the one controlling it. Later Rei realized that the panic is confusing him.) Looking back, he can see the equine creature slowly unfurled into countless vines-no, tentacle...s.

"...no. It can't be."

He saw something familiar on one of the tentacles. It was a badge. A personalized badge that every Student should have in their person-sorry, monster-which boosted their FEAR abilities to a degree. Those badges should never find their way into this creature's hands.

Unless.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO THEM!??" Concentrating his 'sensing' ability coupled with the headphones', he found large readings of FEAR coursing through the creature, even if it was not comprised by it; simply put-that horse ATE another Halloweeners.

We will consume you and your Fear will be ours.

"NO YOU WON'T. C'MON, who'syourname-SAUL GOODMAN! COOPERATE! RUN WITH ME IF YOU WANNA LIVE!" Yelled Rei at the body he controlled, abandoning physical form and retreated back into the headphones, which is then wore by the man; this way he can control the movement better than when he must concentrate and solidify himself. Sending electrical impulses directly through his body, this man will probably lose his walking ability temporarily-or got some muscle damage because of overuse. Rei didn't waste any time to look back-the FEAR can be felt constantly closing to them, like a jaw slowly closing to rip off the flesh outta bones, a predator's presence.

[Distance until portal: 10 - (4+2) = 4]

VRMMMMMMM "This is working!" Rei exclaimed happily while shifting the gear into topdrive and floored the gas; the engine, unfortunately, can't do anything more than a measly 20. Well, if he wasn't chained to this fat-

PHBTTTT.

"DANGIT CAR!!!" He sent more jolts of electricity into the engine, but it did nothing-seems the starter wires melted from short-circuiting. He can bridge them temporarily, but the engine must be kick-started---

-that means pushing the car manually.
"I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS!" He glanced at the rear-view mirror and yes, the horse-thing is still chasing them at full speed-

Oh, there's a way to get 'help'. But it involves some...dangerous method.

-that includes relying on the 'thing's' charge to slam the car around.

"Brace yourself, Saul-this's gonna like, sting. Alot."

THWACK!

There's a moment of sudden acceleration worse than the car's, and all of a sudden they're weightless.

Yes, the car is currently flying. How? The horse-like creature kicked it. It sent the car AND whoever inside flying few feet above the road, giving the fossil the needed torque to restart the engine!

Rescuer HP: 45/50
Victim HP: 45/50

Distance until portal: DONE!
*puking sound* "Oh god I don't want to do that again. Ever." Said Rei, pulling out Saul's body from the wrecked car. A lot of G has taken its toll even to the ghost's body, due to his current weakened state PLUS the burden of keeping himself tangible almost all the time. But the good thing is, the portal is a rock's throw distance away, and somehow that creature has retreated.

Why? Is the first question that emerges inside his head, but it was not an immediate concern. The first thing he should do is-

THWACK!

"OWW! Hey, watch the phones...huh?" "...who, no, WHAT are YOU!?"
Saul Goodman was now awake. Probably after been 'shaken, not stirred' inside the car, it gave him enough stimuli to break the unconsciousness.

"Hey, stop with the shovel! It's dangerous!" "NOW LISTEN BOY, I DON'T WANNA HURT-"

Irritated, you can hear something snapping on Rei's head. A jolt of electricity directly assaulted Saul's arm, making him dropped the shovel. "Now YOU LISTEN TO ME." he growled, reverting the tangible body back to plasmic one, an eerie blue glow illuminating the fog. "We don't have enough time for this right now. You wanna be saved or not? Old man." He said again, now reverting to a tangible form. That should spook him enough. "...what are you?" "If I said holy spirit, will you even believe it? Come on, walk through this portal, it'll take you to safety."

"...what portal?" Saul asked confusedly. "This on........e."

As he turned his head to look at the portal beside him, there's one one small speck of orange light left. With a small 'plop' sound it disappeared.

"Nononononononononononono! Don't you 'plop' me, I wanna go home! Hello? Anybody there? The portal closed on our side, can you reopen it?" He yelled to the passport, which did nothing. From the radio he...'borrowed' from Saul, he can hear same thing happened to other surviving Halloweeners.

"Uh, now what?" Asked the old man. "-please don't speak to me right now. I'm holding down the urge to punch you in the face, thank you." Groaned Rei, sitting cross-legged on the ground in thinking pose. Hearing that, Saul backed off a little.

"Are you...human? You don't look like an Undying, but..." "No, I'm not a human. Anymore. I was human, but..." Rei trailed off. "This is no time for this. I'm Rei, and I'm tasked to save you; that should be enough for now. Now, do you recognize this area?" He said again, looking at the fog-covered surroundings. Saul climbed over the guard-rails and surveyed around with his small binoculars.

"I can see the Harbinger's hideout from here. Also the Hospital...and the Casino. There's too many Undyings and infected around there. Hmm-I can't see the Mall though." "Any of those places you can recommend for regrouping?" Asked Rei again. "Uh, there's an used car slash junk dump just below this road. Usually they towed the cars that gets into accident here and stacked them there. The car stack would provide protection from Undyings-plus we can obtain some gasoline from siphoning the road-ready cars." Answered Saul fluently.

"Good choice. But there's only one problem." Rei said, eyeing the male before him. "Us Halloweeners doesn't really WELCOME human. Sure, we feed on your FEAR, but that means you, if you walked there while awake, you'll be seen as a delicious morsel placed on a plate; it doesn't help that we're cut off from the Town and with it, our supply of FEAR."

"-you saying?" "I'm sorry, but I must make you faint. It's for your own good." "-j...Stop!"

Saul backed off in terror "-what are you going to do with me!?" "If I said nothing, would you believe?" Answered Rei truthfully. "Your 'world' is now in dire peril. Since we are sustained by your FEAR, if humanity perish so will we. It's like the saying 'The enemy of your enemy is your friend', we are obliged to save this world. Now, for how to make you faint-I'll send a direct current to your brain, overwriting it by recreating electrical impulses that happens when you're in deep sleep. That's it; I'm not frying your brains."

"But for how long?" "Take my promise. The next time you woke up, I'm not going to be here." Said Rei, taking the dropped shovel and pushed it into Saul's hand. "Oh, and mind if I borrow your things?" "-you may NOT-"

BZZZT.

And Saul was down again. "Whoops. Should've postpone that until we reached the car dump." Said Rei, groaning; now he must 'puppet' the body again.

[Exit to Car Dump!]
Rescuer HP: 40/50
Victim HP: 40/50