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Machine made a running, tumbling way to catch up to the clock, the others there and ready to time and place. A duffel with goods came with, hastily stuffed and not zipped. “Suit up, amigos, we’ve got to repo our brother from another mother up in here. Comms have been quiet, so there’s no rumors spread. Good, that. “

“Alls quiet on the front, meantime? No spots of slithering surveillance?” The blue eternal senshi took to a crouch and started hauling out goods to pass around. “ Nive call on the lumberjack, there. Doesn’t need reloading. Think we’ll need to pre-pop seeds?” If Bus, or the bus-faced mamushi was popping them whenever they could be strong armed off the lesser youma, or gotten from civilian passersby, then there was a 50/50 he’d be juiced up on entry. It was a consideration of necessity, rather than preferences on any of their own parts for the practice.

"For now." Harmotome replied. "But quick, ya? The snakes slither everyvhere, and he can see vhat they see." The Captain dropped her load of fire extinguishers, and grabbed one of the suits the eternal had snagged. "I have a few, but vill save for vhen low." She wasted no time and stuffed herself into one, and Stillwaterite followed suit. She dropped her axe and leaf blowers and pulled on a suit as well.

"I have some energy orbs." Still replied, and even with the dire situation, would not resort to consuming a starseed. A personal...preference. After pulling on the suit, Still pulled the leaf blower pack back on, and grabbed her axe. "He'll sense us when we get close enough...but at least he won't be able to see us while we have the advantage of being coated by the fire extinguisher." She murmured.

Harmotome grabbed one of the said fire extinguishers, and got ready to pull the pin off of it. "So move fast, ya?" She glanced at the warehouse. "After ve are coated, I teleport us to basement." She thought she had just enough juice to be able to carry the three of them that short distance without being compromised. "Best surprise chance ve have." Surprise attacks usually weren't her favorite, preferring a head on charge but considering how easily they all could be dispatched due to the General's skill set and hordes of youma...yeah.

Once the Machine was suited up and ready, the Captain pulled the pin on the extinguisher and started to spray everyone down. Still's heart started to beat a little faster in anticipation, since she and the Machine were essentially about to go in blind and Pyro's...and their lives were at stake. Once the extinguisher was empty, Still reached to grab onto Harm, juggled her items, and grabbed onto the other eternal as well. She squeezed the Machine for some reassurance.

"On three---" Harmotome said, and then paused for a moment. "Three" The Captain teleported them, and when their surroundings materialized, they were in the basement. Surrounded by the hordes of snake youma, and near one distinct General signature.

There was a disturbance among the children, bodies where there shouldn't have been bodies. There was snakes scrambling when they shouldn't be scrambling.

Mamushii couldn't see who was there, the outlines of the three teleported in were not clear and there was no way for him to actually fight back....except there was. He couldn't see them but whatever fools were in the room would taste the poison gas and be eaten by his children.

The boa around his neck slithered away and his mouth opened, not bothered by the nitrogen.

If his children suffered, it was fine, but Mamushii would not take this insult.

Where chemicals had no effect, as they were all hoping happened with whatever magical mess came out of Bus' face thanks to the leaf blower, steel might find a way. Steel was heavier than feathers afterall. And he couldn't see cold steel much, right?

First canister emptied got tossed for Pyro's open, youma-possessed kisser.

The gas. The Youma. Like dancing around on hot snake coals and getting ready to teleport if the leaf blower doesn't cut it? Never been hit by it. Is it slow or sudden? Does magic gas get through suits??

Still wasn't sure she had ever seen quite so clear an opening as this one before. There was a part of her that was in utter awe, too, that their plan was working out so far. So far. She would not get ahead of themselves of jynx them. It wasn't over, it wasn't successful until Pyro was back.

When the General fell to the ground, the corrupt looked towards the other corrupt, letting go of the trigger on the leaf blower. The engine still revved, but she could hear, and speak, better. "This is our chance---we can teleport him now! Harmotome---"

"Go vithout me!" The Captain snarled. "Go! You take him, I vill stay here and disperse remaining youma!" As a Captain, with the General gone, she could order the weaker ones, those still left and not turned into frozen noodles, back to the Rift. The others, she imagined, would hopefully wander off on their own if she continued to make this area unwelcoming for them. "I vill start cleaning too---" Her lips curled in disgust behind her mask. "Get rid of these heaters. Go, now!"

It was sound reasoning, and Still nodded. She looked back at Machine, and nodded to them. She dashed to Pyrophanite's body, and placed a hand on him. She reached out for the other corrupt, waiting for Machine to take her hand, and once they had done so, teleported them all to the next location.

The meat freezer Harmotome had shown her while they had been gathering materials.

Teleportation was often a disorientating shift of worlds, and it was even more so as Mamushii stumbled around. Hit with gas, and now he was in a room that felt like ice, covered in nitrogen with gas that he could not produce after sucking in some.

Cornered, preyed upon. By damn senshi that considered themselves friends of the useless human boy he was trying to make disappear. He hissed and fought and stumbled until clothes were ripped open and he was skin to cold....so cold to the floor.

"SSSSSSSSTOP." He didn't have the energy to fight the cold though and he curled on the floor. Unlike his snake body, he would've slithered away but being trapped in this meat suit was painful. SO PAINFUL. All because the corrupt senshi couldn't let their friend be taken over. It was ridiculous.

But it wasn't to Griff, who deeper in the body could feel a chance. He could feel himself clawing from the darkness he almost resigned him too. It was a slow crawl, and he could feel his body getting colder and colder. He wouldn't die but he could. He didn't want to die like a youma though and even mamushii didn't want to die.

"Uncleeeeeeeesssssssss." The s sounded deep and gravely before Pyro's eyes wildly flew around and then rolled back. His body convulsed much like the first time he had taken Mamushii's essence in and soon enough....and very much unlike his first time, his body spasm'd, then shook.....then shivered.

"Where....Where am I?" The voice was so small, his arms coming around his waist. He couldn't see anything, and he panicked. "Haüyne??? Still??? Harm??" He reached out a hand, clawing at the tiles. "It's ******** cold, where am I, I hurt." And he did hurt, because for the first time in a while, he didn't have a slithering voice or snake in his body. It was almost like Mamushii was gone. His eyes were still adjusting but he couldn't see heat, even his own friends.

"guys...Guys don't leave me here....I'm not a pyscho snake youma I think anymore."

“ ‘Don’t leave me’—you sure as heck left us with lies to go be a trousersnake and eat people. We should hook your belt to one of these meathooks and label you a rattlehiss. I hear they taste like chicken, and I might have a mind to enjoy some te-haus fried snakebites. Bus, you nugget, you keep your brain in charge and not your snake! You got me? Who you think is holding your sorry butt against the frozen floor right now in HAZMAT but Still an’ I? “ For as much as the other was holding back. It made Machine’s heart hurt, and shoulders ache for want to reach out and hold both of them at once.

“NO MORE HISS. You got that? You got yourself under wraps? Stillz an' I done with the game. We're your friends an' we're here savin' your butt. You ATE peeps and Harm-burger heckin’ watched you do it. STAY OFF THE JUICE. STAY OFF THE SEEDS. DONE. FINITO.”

“YOU SAY IT, Bus.”