Bridgett opened her eyes slowly, maintaining focus on her surroundings, sensing for danger. She stood up slowly, partly because she was a little stiff from holding still so long after all that panicked movement, partly because her ribs were still hurting. "You're right of course, my apologies. I'll be fine enough to move and fight, but should probably see the nurse when we get back." Looking around she saw the cave that she had attracted her senses earlier, but now that she was closer she saw it was a train tunnel. Something about that tunnel kept drawing her attention to it more and more. Turning to Abel who was obliquely trying not to stare at her, she pointed at the tunnel and said, "There is something important in there, I don't know what it is, or how I know, but there is, we should check it out."

Bridgett and Abel started out towards the tunnel, walking slowly at first but as she worked out her stiff muscles she picked the pace up into a light jog. It wasn't long before they were at the tunnel entrance. At the extreme edges of her semblance she thought she could detect something, but couldn't quite make out what it was. Peering into the darkness as best she could she whispered "There is definitely something in there but I'm not sure what, perhaps we should invest in a light source" No sooner had the words escaped her lips than a giant roar bellowed out from further inside the tunnel causing her to jump and scramble for what little cover the tunnel edge provided. "Scratch that, we DEFINITELY need to find a light source"

Abel had been searching his mind for the appropriate words to respond to his partner's suggestion when the thundering roar chased his thoughts away. While Bridget flinched and took cover, he froze in his tracks. As the sound swept over him, he didn't move. His first instinct was that this clamor belonged to some monstrous Grimm, but even though his knowledge of the monsters wasn't perfect, he knew nothing of one that sounded like a tiger. Even so, he went over to Bridgett and crouched down beside her lest some rampaging beast charge out of the yawning darkness.

A few uneventful moments passed. Abel was aware of every breath taken, by himself and Bridgett both. By the time he counted twenty, he decided that if there was any real threat, it would have become apparent by now. He returned to his full height, and sauntered onto the train tracks leading into the stygian darkness. As he moved, he swapped the Ampere into staff mode. "Never tried this before," he muttered in a low tone, not clearly enough for the girl to hear. Holding the Ampere above his head, he carefully allowed his aura to flow through it. The electric current reached the crystal focus in its head, but with such a low voltage it merely congregated there instead of arcing out into the air. A fitful azure glow projected from the dust crystal, emitting a steady sparking noise in the process, and the shadows shrank away. Abel took a few steps across the wooden ties of the track and entered the cave. The light he cast was weak, but it was probably preferable to blindness. "Hah!" He exclaimed, his voice creating a slight echo. "Didn't think that would work. Time to go and get killed by whatever roared at us, I guess."

"Get..."

As Kuhaku was fighting off the robots, Gren used the time to charge up his attack, revving the chain of The God Eater until it's savage ripping noise soon became an eerily quiet hum. He was patient, not risking engaging the enemy until Kuhaku was ready and when he was, Gren quickly followed through. The bots were knocked off the ground and towards Gren, many who were virtually destroyed from Kuhaku's attack. And those that weren't would soon be.

"WRECKED!"

Gren unleashed the fury of The God Eater. Stomping on foot forward to brace himself he swung in a wide arc. The sheer force of the blow would have been enough to crush the robots, but The God Eater's chainblade tore through the robots as though they were made of thin air. The wind sheer from Gren's attack stopped the robot's mid flight like they crashed into a solid metal wall, while the chain blade cut them all in twain. Soon the rusted remains of their enemies fell apart around Gren, a few bouncing off his armor. There was no survivors.

After the battle was won, Gren put away the God Eater. He was about to call out to Kuhaku when he heard something. He swore it was voices but it was so quiet that he could not say for certain. "Kuhaku, I hear something this way. It may be others, or perhaps the location of our artifact. Let us tread carefully nonetheless." Gren said as he walked over towards the location of the noise.

Robert looked down the hole and saw the bright red eyes staring back at him. He struggled to see if there was anything else in the hole as well. "I can't see the card in there, and it's not that large either. If we go down there we'll be cornered with no way out and no way to maneuver out of the way of... Edgar," Robert said. He paused before saying the Grimm's name, unable to see why anyone would give a singular Grimm a name. "You know what? Forget what I said earlier, there's no card down there. Let's keep looking." He walked away and was already about ten yards away when he heard a loud noise, almost resembling a roar. He turned to see Edgar in mid-air as it jumped out of its hole. Robert stood in disbelief, unable to take his eyes off the impossible Sitting Bull standing only a few yards away from him. "HOWWWWW!? HOWWWWW!?" was the only thing Robert could say. Edgar snorted, then scraped his hoof across the ground, refusing to look away from Robert. Robert looked down at his red t-shirt, then looked up to see his red hair blowing in the wind. He looked back at Edgar. "Why does this always happen to me?" Robert asked whatever cosmic being up in the heavens decided that tormenting him was a form of fun. Edgar made a loud roar as it charged at Robert, moving fast enough to outrun the average car. Robert tried to doge, but Edgar's right horn snagged onto Robert's hoodie. Edgar continued charging, with Robert trailing behind. "HEEELLLP MEEEEE!" Robert called to his team mates, his scream loud enough to attract all of the Sitting Bulls in the surrounding area. Within minutes all of the Sitting Bulls came together and stampeded toward Robert's teammates, with Edgar leading the charge. "SORRY!" Robert apologized to his teammates.

Brucey observed the luminescent display, noting the topography of the nearby mountains. He considered asking if the geometry was correct, but remembered his previous question of accuracy being met with hostility, he decided against it.

"I thought I saw something to similar to a cave when I hit the ground, but it may be covered in rubble, my landing may have caused a landslide."
Brucey then pointed too where he thinks he remembers seeing the caves and notices several little masrkers surrounding the area where his finger was occupying.
"What are these things on the map?"

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Robert looked down the hole and saw the bright red eyes staring back at him. He struggled to see if there was anything else in the hole as well. "I can't see the card in there, and it's not that large either. If we go down there we'll be cornered with no way out and no way to maneuver out of the way of... Edgar," Robert said. He paused before saying the Grimm's name, unable to see why anyone would give a singular Grimm a name. "You know what? Forget what I said earlier, there's no card down there. Let's keep looking." He walked away and was already about ten yards away when he heard a loud noise, almost resembling a roar. He turned to see Edgar in mid-air as it jumped out of its hole. Robert stood in disbelief, unable to take his eyes off the impossible Sitting Bull standing only a few yards away from him. "HOWWWWW!? HOWWWWW!?" was the only thing Robert could say. Edgar snorted, then scraped his hoof across the ground, refusing to look away from Robert. Robert looked down at his red t-shirt, then looked up to see his red hair blowing in the wind. He looked back at Edgar. "Why does this always happen to me?" Robert asked whatever cosmic being up in the heavens decided that tormenting him was a form of fun. Edgar made a loud roar as it charged at Robert, moving fast enough to outrun the average car. Robert tried to doge, but Edgar's right horn snagged onto Robert's hoodie. Edgar continued charging, with Robert trailing behind. "HEEELLLP MEEEEE!" Robert called to his team mates, his scream loud enough to attract all of the Sitting Bulls in the surrounding area. Within minutes all of the Sitting Bulls came together and stampeded toward Robert's teammates, with Edgar leading the charge. "SORRY!" Robert apologized to his teammates.

Greyson shrugged as he started to walk away as well until he heard the roar and he saw the giant sitting bull apparently named Edgar come out and see it was looking at Robert and Greyson saw it was looking at red, oh crap. Seeing Robert run away from Edgar and finally get put on his hood like a hat rack Greyson just couldn't help but laugh at that it wasn't that he was a bad guy but it was so damn funny! something you wouldn't expect to see often but Greyson immediately stopped laughing when he noticed the other sitting bulls around them start circling and he realized that Roberts high pitched scream alerted them to their presence, OH WELL!

"hey guys I don't know about you guys but this is a part in my book, so time to run with the bulls!" Greyson called out grinning widely as he took his sword and jumped on its blunt end before using a shotgun round to propel himself forward like riding a skateboard in the air. When Greyson got close to one of the sitting bulls he jumped off his sword and slashed the bull down the middle where the horns wouldn't get him slicing the sitting bull in half then as a few started to circle him Greyson then used some rounds on them to keep their distance taking down 3 in the process while another charged in from behind Greyson jumped into the air just long enough to jump onto the back of the sitting bull and then cut off its head before it could buck Greyson off. Greyson was having a blast fighting like this, he really went alive when Greyson started to fight under pressure like this...

Priscilla kept marching until they found a hole or whatever it was. She noticed the boys going in because she was not and I repeat -not- going inside of that thing. And thats what she was going to stick up too. It was weird being like the only girl in the group, because it wasn't much fun or anything but she accepted it. As they walked inside she stood outside trying to figure out what to do while they find the card or whatever and boom she heard screaming. The pink haired girl raised an eyebrow trying to see what it was and it was her teammates running towards her, WITH BULLS! Some Edgar bull! "Ah!" She yelled as she would stomp on the ground and phased under it using her semblance to dodge the bulls from coming towards her. As she would phase back up from the ground and noticed Greyson killing the bulls. "What the.." He was really good at fighting, which made Priscilla happy because she was not going to have none good fighters in her team, especially when she is the only girl. Priscilla sighed and ran behind them and the bulls, still seeing Robert running, Greyson killing and Tai running too, or so she thought she saw. "Come on team. Its just some bulls!" She yelled laughing at them, this was going to be fun, to be a team!

"WRECKED!" Gren finished off the rest of the robots using his unique chainsaw blade. Kuhaku would have to remember that attack and he filed that bit of information away in his mind. Though, he was curious as to what Gren named his weapon. Smiling, Kuhaku stood straight and leaned the shaft of his Great Axe against his shoulder. Looking carefully at the wreckage at his feet, he made his way over to Gren. Occasionally kicking at the metal scrap to double-check if all the robots were indeed 'terminated'. Once sure that all of the rust-buckets were taken care of, he stood grinning in front of Gren and raised a hand.

"Whoo! That was a one-two knockout punch! We actually did it! Perfect teamwork, high-five partner!" he cheered, eyes bright and still glowing blue. Then, he froze.

With his Semblance still active, he quickly lowered his hand and whirled around, detecting something with his heightened senses. His ears were picking up voices. Ears furiously twitching, he raised his head and sniffed at the air. He smelled something...living, not like the robots they had just finished off. More enemies or were they allies? Frowning, the scent in the air lingered of metal and oil, tampering with his nose. Kuhaku cast Gren an anxious sideways glance as he put away his God Eater.

"Kuhaku, I hear something this way. It may be others, or perhaps the location of our artifact. Let us trend carefully nonetheless." Gren said as he walked towards the noise.

Ears perking, he nodded and jogged up to Gren's side. "I'll keep my Semblance active for now just in case we may run into more enemies." As he continued to walk alongside Gren, his Axe broke down and disassembled itself back into his sword and shield. Sheathing his sword into his shield and slinging his shield onto his back, he reached up with his gloved hands and pulled the hood of his cowl over his head. With his face darkened by his hood, his eyes gleaming underneath them still, he turned to face Gren. "I'm going to scout ahead since I'm lighter, faster, and quieter than you. I'll try and report back if I can, if I find something. I'll be within the shadows. Oh, and Gren?"

He stopped walking, but his glowing blue eyes continued to follow Gren, "Do you mind if we talk about something after this test is over? There's something that's bugging me..." leaving Gren those words, he swiftly sped past him and vanished into the darkness, disappearing from sight as he sought out the source of the voices...

Robert confirmed what Tai thought, the lack of any cards or relics down in the hole, though that may have been prompted by fear of the giant Grimm down in the hole there looking somewhat angrily at them. And to be honest, Tai couldn't really blame him for that. With a nod of agreement he followed Robert away from the hole and towards a different area of the prairie, hoping their luck would be somewhat better.

It seemed luck wasn't on their side though. Or more specifically, Robert's side. Somehow, by what method Tai could not tell, 'Edgar' managed to jump clear out of the hole he had been in and stand behind them, or before them as Tai turned to face the thing, reaching instinctively for his meteor hammer. Then the thing charged, catching Robert by his hoodie and carrying him like a rag doll, earning a loud plea from his partner that happened to attract the attention of every Sitting Bull in the area. Wonderful.

"Right," Tai called as Greyson and Priscilla got to it. "I'll get Robert, you two keep the rest from jumping me." The short order given, Tai got to it, running after Edgar and Robert. Twirling his meteor hammer, the two heads spun out,flying through the air by sheer physical strength and momentum, large sweeping blows propelled by Tai with a skilled hand. He ran after Edgar before leaping into the air, lifting the dual heads of the hammer above his head to come slamming down on Edgar's back, ideally, before sweeping back and aiming at the things legs, using his reach to his advantage so Edgar couldn't get him with his horns.

As long as you got me you wont need to worry!" Greyson called back to tai about his request to keep them off him. Greyson was the hard hitter at least that's what he could tell considering that tai carried a meteor hammer Greyson had a giant sword with a shotgun on its dull end. None of them though had Greyson's will to fight! Greyson went on as he popped a few more rounds on the sitting bulls nearby before opening a pouch in his belt and throwing it into the air and Greyson quickly followed suit reloading his sword in the air before coming back down his sword pointing down and slicing through the 4 bulls that attempted to crush him when he tried to reload then Greyson grinned as he started to slice through different bulls making sure that any that got near Edgar would be killed by the shotgun rounds Greyson kept shooting off and before a bull would get close to Greyson he would use his semblance and freeze them in their tracks before quickly slicing them to bits. Greyson was having a serious adrenaline rush and loving this pressure of life or death combat mixed with the disadvantage in numbers and as much as he wanted to take down Edgar Greyson was going to listen and deal with the small fries for the time being...

While Tai started to attack Edgar, Robert was trying to free his hoodie from Edgar's horn. When he realized that tugging on it wasn't going to work, he had his bracers transform into blade mode so he could cut his hoodie free from the horn. That's when Robert saw it, the relic. The playing card was somehow inside Edgar's left horn, as if the horn had somehow grown around it. Robert began to reach across Edgar's face to grab the card, which was the worst idea he had come up with all day. Ever since charging at Robert, Edgar had been unable to find where Robert had disappeared to. Now he knew. Edgar roared and began to jump and kick around to get Robert off of him. When that didn't work he charged at a nearby boulder and smashed it with his head. Robert was still attached though. He scraped his horns against the boulder, filing them into stubs in seconds. The card and Robert dropped to the earth. Robert grabbed the card and slowly got up, completely disoriented and dizzy. When he finally stopped seeing double, he looked at Edgar. The Grimm's dull horns regrew in seconds and were now sharper than ever. Robert reaction was, "WHAT IS THIS BULL?! No pun intended." Edgar charged again, but even though Robert was no longer seeing double, he was still dizzy and unable to dodge. If only someone could save him, maybe someone with a meteor hammer. Anyone would do though.

Priscilla nodded towards her teammates as she ran right behind them, slashing and dashing the bulls. "Okay! Now we need to take care of-" and thats when the boys in her team began to fight Edgar, she shooked her head. "Boys..." She sighed to herself and began to dash towards Robert seeing that Edgar was now rushing towards her partner. As she ran, her eyes closed and re-opened and thats when she made a front flip appearing behind Robert, she took a step back as she got closer to him, both their bodies touching, butwas all part of her plan. As they phased right trough Edgar, she turned around looking at how close they were, Robert and herself. "Sorry." She said quietly, blushing and now began to run behind Edgar as she jumped up, kicking her right feet against a tree log, making her jump even higher, as her weapon was in rifle mode and she began to shoot alot of bullets towards Edgar's body. As she then looked at the ground and boom, her body flew down hitting herself hard on the ground, but thankfully no bones were broken, but she was hurt. But she could still fight. Priscilla started to slowy stand up.

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Priscilla nodded towards her teammates as she ran right behind them, slashing and dashing the bulls. "Okay! Now we need to take care of-" and thats when the boys in her team began to fight Edgar, she shooked her head. "Boys..." She sighed to herself and began to dash towards Robert seeing that Edgar was now rushing towards her partner. As she ran, her eyes closed and re-opened and thats when she made a front flip appearing behind Robert, she took a step back as she got closer to him, both their bodies touching, butwas all part of her plan. As they phased right trough Edgar, she turned around looking at how close they were, Robert and herself. "Sorry." She said quietly, blushing and now began to run behind Edgar as she jumped up, kicking her right feet against a tree log, making her jump even higher, as her weapon was in rifle mode and she began to shoot alot of bullets towards Edgar's body. As she then looked at the ground and boom, her body flew down hitting herself hard on the ground, but thankfully no bones were broken, but she was hurt. But she could still fight. Priscilla started to slowy stand up.

Robert closed his eyes, waiting for the darkness to take him. Then he felt something or someone grab him from behind. Robert turned around, a bright light shining into his eyes. He thought he was in Heaven, because before him stood a beautiful angel. He raised his hand to block the light and realized it wasn't an angel, but his teammate Priscilla and the light was the sun, not the Pearly Gates. "Sorry," she said then ran back into the battle. Robert stood there, his mouth hanging open. He quickly shook his head and regained his senses. "Remember to thank her once this is over. Remember to thank her once this is over. Remember to thank her once this is over," Robert said to himself. He looked in his hand and there was the crumpled card. Shoving it into his pocket, Robert looked at the chaos around him. Sitting Bulls were everywhere and the team was scattered. "Tai! Greyson! You two are the powerhouses! Take care of the Sitting Bulls! Priscilla! You and me will keep 'Edgar' busy until they've mopped up the cannon-fodder. Then we'll all take him down!" Robert shouted at his teammates. He hated making decisions, but they needed a plan and this was good enough unless someone had something better. He activated gun mode on his bracers and started shooting at Edgar. "Come get me you overgrown cow!" he cried. "I feel so cool right now," he thought to himself gleefully.

Greyson turned to see Robert back up and about "bout time you got off the bulls horn dude! Does anyone want steak!" Greyson said laughing widely as he went on to the sitting bulls and Greyson started to ride his blade again to start chopping up the sitting bulls and Greyson knew that despite how much he was loving this he was hating having to reload his gun as he kept fighting and considering how much fun this was his ammo wont last forever. Greyson had to go old school now and just start slicing and dicing, while his blade could propel him to great speed when he rode it that didn't mean Greyson was a slouch either. Greyson charged towards the bulls himself and he dodged the horns and hooves of the bulls dodging them and then slicing them as he passed making sure he didn't stop the process until he saw no more bulls trying to kill him. Greyson was holding his own and by now he lost count of how many he killed at around 15 but that just means that Greyson was AWESOME like that! Although now Greyson was interested to see what Tai could do with that giant hammer of his when worse comes to worse in a fight like this...

Train Tunnel
As the pairs started nearing each other, loud, mechanical crunching could be heard coming down one of the tunnels none had gone through, the way that the train usually took to get from Forever Fall to Vale. The metallic crunching grew louder, as if something massive and heavy was crushing the rails underneath its wake...needless to say, they'd have to repair the rails before anymore trains could pass through here. Eventually, even from where the pairs were, they could both hear a loud, metallic voicec say: "PERIMETER HAS BEEN BREACHED! INITIATING PROTOCOL TR-7803K, LIMITERS DISABLED" they would hear what sounded like steam hissing out of a pipe as something heavy and metallic fell to the floor of the tunnel...two distinct drops could be heard. The metallic footsteps sounded like they were getting louder and louder and faster approaching, until eventually they could see what was making all the noise.

It didn't take the machine more than half a second to glance at Gren, then to switch on the something akin to headlights on its chest, both pointed directly at him before its twin tails whipped upwards, and inserted into the massive shoulder pad-guns on its back, which whirred as two barrels stuck out of the grills and extending over its collar bone. "TARGET ACQUIRED" was all it said before opening fire on Gren. On its back there was a sort of black-metal box tied against it...inside were the cards desired by the two pairs in the train tunnels.

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Edgar, the Pasture
Red. Red. RED. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED.
Kill. Red. KILL. RED. MAKE THE BLOODY PAIN STOOOOOOP!
Huh? Edgar was confused by the sudden lack of something warm and wet sploshing across his horns...the red water humans were filled with. Where was he? Where was red? Turning his head back quickly, Edgar saw what was impossible...he...missed? But...that was impossible. Regardless, if Red was still alive, that meant he had reason to be mad, reason still to be out of the hole. A reason still to kill the red. Lowering its re-sharpened horns, it scrapped its fore-hoof against the grass, ripping a massive chunk of dirt and grass out and flinging it behind him, and then charging, steam almost billowing from its nose. This time, however, instead of trying to hit red directly, he would dig his horns into the dirt at the last minute, he couldn't dodge if he lost his footing.

Gren said nothing as Kuhaku went to scout ahead. He wondered what he wanted to talk to him about, but Gren figured that it must not be that important, at least not right now. He didn't really like the idea of Kuhaku going ahead of him, least of all alone. While the tiger faunas was no doubt much better suited for stealth operations than Gren was, he worried about what would happen if Kuhaku ran into the enemy and couldn't escape. The irony did not elude him when it turned out to be the other way around.

Gren was lightly jogging after Kuhaku, trying but ultimately failing to be as quiet as he can. While his armor was actually padded to ensure that it did not clatter, his footsteps echoed throughout the hall. But they were practically silent when suddenly there was a screech, like from a steam pipe, followed by heavy metallic footsteps. "Dammit..." Gren took out The God Eater and prepared himself for the ensuing battle. Soon he faced the new opponent; a giant mech who was much too large to have any business in these tunnels, or so Gren thought. Perhaps the school put this one here purposely to test the student's skill against non-grimm.

Regardless, Gren did his best to fight back. When the mech activated it's machine guns, Gren countered with his own. He could not sustain the fire for long however; while he had the luck to fire first, his firepower matched the mech's, but the mech had much better armor. While Gren did some visible but minor damage onto the machine, Gren had to flee when the robot was able to return fire. The orc only suffered a few grazing bullets which bounced off his armor, but he knew that if he tried to stand toe-to-toe with the mech, the much larger machine would win in a battle of attrition. Gren could survive it's attacks but not for long. He'd need Kuhaku's help distracting it so that Gren could ready himself to attempt to take out the robot in one or two attacks. But he had a feeling that it would not be so simple as that.

Using the recoil from The God Eater, Gren rode his weapon like an uncontrollable and lethal jet bike through the caverns. When he saw Kuhaku he dismounted and stopped firing so his partner could hear him. "We got trouble! A big mech, it's got heavy machine guns and who knows what else. I took some shots at it but I don't think I did much more than scratch it's paintjob. I believe it's protecting the artifacts given how tough it is." Hearing the machine approach Gren took to whatever cover could conceal him and readied for the next bout.

Kuhaku stopped his sprint and skidded to a halt, kicking up dust around his boots. Whipping around, his eyes and ears locked onto a new source of noise coming down the length of an unexplored tunnel. Freezing up, his ears slowly flattened and pinned against his head in terror. Kuhaku's eyes glanced to the ground, small rocks and pebbles leaping up into the air as whatever-it-was continued its advance towards them. Looking back up as a massive, hulking Mech came into sight, Kuhaku swallowed dryly. A nervous bead of sweat rolling down the side of his face. Whatever concerns he had before regarding the unknown voices had vanished and were forgotten. Now, there was a much bigger threat to be worried about.

"PERIMETER HAS BEEN BREACHED! INITIATING PROTOCOL TR-7803K, LIMITERS DISABLED" the Mech mechanically bellowed out.
Kuhaku winced and jumped, startled at the sound of its voice.
"Machines...What's with all the machines!" Kuhaku cursed to himself.

His Semblance wouldn't be much use here either. The faculty of Beacon were surely testing his nerve. Slowly training his eyes on the Mech from bottom-to-top, he began to realize exactly how gargantuan this Mech was and how small he was compared to it. He could feel a sense of fear crawling up his spine causing him to shake and tremble, shrinking even more ever so slightly. The Mech saw Gren first. Lights from its chest snapped on and Kuhaku winced again, bringing his gloved arms up to his face to shield himself. The sudden light burned his sensitive eyes, causing them to water and tear up. Kuhaku then gasped and his eyes widened and trembled from behind his arms for what was coming next.

"TARGET ACQUIRED" the air then erupted from the hail of automatic machine-gun fire aimed at Gren.

For a brief moment, Kuhaku thought he was going to have to say goodbye to his new friend and partner already. For a brief moment, his heart ached painfully from a familiar loneliness, his breath halting in his throat and lungs. He had cried out to Gren, reaching an arm towards him, but his voice was drowned out by the gunfire. Realizing that Gren still stood and was still alive, his breath returned to him and he nearly smiled again. Gren had been prepared and saw what was coming and he was still okay, returning fire on the Mech. For now, at least. However, Kuhaku had to act and soon if the two of them were going to make it out of this alive.

Gritting his teeth and shutting his eyes tight, he shook his head furiously. "Courage...Have courage!" he told himself. Reaching behind his head, he grabbed the hilt to Kladenets. In one fluid motion, he unsheathed his sword and slung Perun, brandishing them. [I]I have to think. I have to think fast![I] He steeled himself as Gren suddenly jetted up to him.

"We got trouble! A big mech, it's got heavy machine guns and who knows what else. I took some shots at it but I don't think I did much more than scratch it's paintjob. I believe it's protecting the artifacts given how tough it is." said Gren. Seeing the Mech approaching, he then ducked behind some cover.

Also seeing the Mech's approach, Kuhaku turned to face it, squaring off. Growling, he raised Perun and slammed its edge into the ground, digging it in. Angling Perun slightly, he then put all of his body weight against it to prepare for what was coming. Angrily, he looked back to where Gren had hidden himself and yelled after him.

"OBVIOUSLY WE 'GOT TROUBLE' AND OBVIOUSLY I CAN SEE HOW BIG IT IS, OKAY?!" Kuhaku vented briefly.

"I have an idea! I'll try and attract its attention and get it to turn around! See if you can target those two cables that seem to be powering its guns and take them out! Once we've effectively disarmed it, I'll hide and you get its attention next! That thing's center of gravity is going to be delicate and sensitive. I'm going to come out of hiding while you distract it and I'll use one of my Aces to attack its joints at the hips and take out its legs! With that, it should come tumbling down due to its balance being thrown off. When it hits the ground, you and I literally disarm it and attack its shoulder joints. When it's completely hacked apart, we'll end this by crushing its head! Sound good to you?!"

Kuhaku was panting and sweating as he spoke, he was obviously nervous about fighting such a large opponent, especially a machine. Nonetheless, he had summoned up the courage to come up with a plan and coordinate with Gren. He was definitely going to fight. He won't freeze up again. He wouldn't allow them to lose and fall here. Catching his breath and calming down, he managed a smile at Gren.

"Sound good, partner? he said softly, still behind his shield.

Fortunately for Tai, Robert seemed to do a good job of freeing himself from Edgar's grasp, even if the bull Grimm was still intent on murdering him. This was apparent by the way Edgar ran into a boulder, smashing his horns and at the same time sending Robert to the ground, though Tai couldn't help but notice that he happened to have a card now. And then the Grimm's horns managed to regrow in a matter of seconds, impressive at that.

Fortunately, Priscilla intervened to make sure Robert didn't die a gory death as Tai rushed forward, apparently phasing through the Grimm somehow, which was a useful Semblance at that. Suddenly there were shouted directions, and Tai shifted wordlessly to accommodate the instructions, his meteor hammers whipping about in rapid motion, chains wrapping around and crushing limbs, when a hammer strike didn't land on the smaller Grimm that surrounded them.

His actions were careful, controlled. To do otherwise was to risk his weapon flying out of control and doing things he didn't want them to do. Overhead leaps and smashes with raised ball and chains, powerful thrusts where he tossed one head forward and then yanked it back, the meteor hammer was a classic weapon that was a testament to the skill of the user in controlling it. And he used it now as he took down Grimm after Grimm, saving the fire dust laid upon it for when it was truly needed.

Priscilla tried to take her mind off how close she was to Robert, but all she was doing was protecting her teammate! She wasn't in the best condition, but ofcourse being crazy like herself, she was not going to sit this fight out. Priscilla stood up slowly from the ground as she stopped, looking around seeing the mess with the bulls and Edgar. "This is so not cool. Why do bulls have to have horns and all that stuff?! Its not cool. Its really not." Priscilla said thinking to herself taking a deep breath and seeing her upper shoulder, a cut but nothing big, she was bleeding though, but it wasn't nothing bad... Or so thats what she thought. Priscilla ran behind Edgar listening towards Robert's commands, it looked like he was the leader, which she would be fine with it, any of the boys can be leader, just not her she was not going to lead. Priscilla's weapon was still in riffle mode as she fired bullets to Edgar's behind. "Hey! You big icky horn really ugly creature thing! Turn around!" And this was her way of distracting him. But she didn't want to be mean! She loves animals!

Greyson blazed a trail past the sitting bulls seeing that he was able to cut their numbers down considerably more then enough for Tai to handle. Greyson almost laughed at Pricilla's attempt at distracting a giant sitting bull calling it icky but what worried Greyson was seeing her arm bleeding and she was his partner so he wouldn't let her get hurt, once Greyson had some room he jumped over a few bulls landing on another one and slicing its head off before jumping again calling to tai "take the sitting bulls on here" Greyson called to him letting him know it was his turn to do the killing since Greyson needed to conserve his shotgun rounds for Edgar as Greyson landed next to Pricilla sword ready " no way im going to let my partner get hurt" Greyson said softly to her but with a serious tone in his voice ready to stop Edgar in his tracks with Greyson's semblance so they could get more distance between them and it to keep it in one spot...