Sorom nodded and left for his small home taking out a disguise kit and expertly using it to disguise his features. He could've just used his chakara of course but makeup was more relaible. He now had a large hook nose, a scar running across his cheek and a much older looking face. That should be far more than enough to do the trick, he now looked like an old battle-worn ninja. To finish the effect he acquired a beaten up staff and made his way to the village gate flashing his stamp to acquire the gear that was waiting for them. He realized somewhat belatedly that the gaurd might have something in the way of disguises but it was to late for that. Gallade was acting strangly quite, it was certainly nice but unusual. Hopefully he would stay that way until the mission was over.

"Jyugo! I'd thought you'd be a little late so we waited for you." A familiar voice said from a small distance away. "Or maybe we just came early. Ha well, I guess it's time I introduce you to my squad."

The individual was a chunin with silver hair beside three genin. This was obviously Kanobu and his demons.

"You three remember Jyugo right?" Kanobu said, keeping himself in character as a lot more excited. The genin nodded, not actually saying anything.

"Well that keeps it easy. Let's get going. We'll have to move quick if we want to reach the Itosuin Forest in time." The chunin pointed in the direction they were going, then waved for Sorom to follow.

After about a mile and a long drawn out conversation (a one way conversation between Kanobu and his demon genin) they stopped, getting out of disguise quickly.

"Ha finally, that wig was itchy, I could barely stand it." He said, losing the energy from his character. His demons on the other hand were exhausted from the utilization of ninjutsu to maintain their appearance. "We'll go as we are now since those ahead of us are waiting for me. I didn't tell them about the disguises so they'd be thrown off by three genin as backup."

(Roll dem dice for a cool event)

"Did you see anything on our way out here?"

Sorom almost corrected Kanobu before he remembered the name he was given. He nodded in acklowedgement of Kanobu's disguise and that of his "genin". It would certainly be effective from a distance, of course his demons were merely dressed in long figure obscuring robes. Sorom quickly followed after Kanobu eager to be on thier way, he kept an eye out for trouble while Kanobu chatted away to keep up the cover. If they didn't find anything then he would wash off his makeup returning to his normal visage and nod in response to Kanobu and head to the tree tops with his demons to observe from above.

(Assuming we just rolling 6d6 6 - 4 - 3 - 3 - 5 - 5) @SiliconColt

(26!!!

On your way you discovered the corpse of a farmer!)

"The branch over there is broken. Do you think someone else is with us? Perhaps one of yours can hone in on him."

(Referring to Gallade's psychic abilities: a high roll is considered working while a low roll is rayquaza interference. You'll need at least 5.)

Sorom nodded and signaled to Gallade, thankfully still obedient it sent out a sort of physic echolocation wave that detected life forms rippling through the woods. A dead body certainly meant something, most likely the rouge ninja they were looking for had been seen by some unforeseen blunder and had been forced to take care of it. Of course a real ninja would have disposed of the body as well but one should always be grateful for an enemy's stupidity.

(5-5-6-1-6)

(hah! Look at that overkill.)

Gallade pinpoints exactly who is around, it's not a shinobi.

The demon also manages to alert his master about the impending sneak attack ahead. A giant beetle is waiting for them!

"Who does it see?" Kanobu asks, hoping that he'd get in on the details of psychic shinobi. "Not like I'm in the loop, mental loop or whatever that's called."

"Some sort of massive beetle, I'll take care of it." Sorom replied confidently sure that his demons could deal with it on their own, Gallade, Psycho Cut! communicated telepathically and Ralts naturally lent her aid. Gallade leapt from the trees silently, his arms glowing purple with psionic power as he stuck down at the bug.

Gallade(6-6-3-2-5)
Ralts assist(10)

@SiliconColt

(those high rolls, dear lord!)

The psycho cut sliced right through the tree ahead, revealing the head of a large beetle. It's giant pincers had blood covering the spikes across its inner curve. This surely had to be the cause of the corpse! The attack hadn't hamred the creature but revealing it seemed to be just as good in this case.

Noticing the violent change of environment, the beetle wiggled about, then opened its wings. The loud buzzing would surely alert anyone else in the area, taking it down was a priority!

"Woah! Looks like it's a fight. Ok Vulpix, flame seal!"

Kanobu pulled a scroll out of his pocket. He opened it with the ink facing the beetle. Vulpix popped out, looking at the insect in front of her. It was clear what had to be done but the little demon wondered if the area around them was going to survive. Then it saw the severed tree.

"Ok let's start!" The scroll vibrated for a second then chains exploded out of the scroll, four lines covered in oil. Vulpix shot a flicker of fire toward the chains, igniting them. The goal was to wrap it in flaming metal.

(My roll is 3, 3, and 2. Ok so that wasn't so good. It's 8... any help from any ally?)

Sorom growled, the stupid bug clearly didn't understand what a stealth mission was. Kanoubu was luckily quick thinking and attempted to capture it, Sorom tried to help by using genjutsu to confuse the creature and Gallade once again slashed at the ugly beetle, the purple energy humming malevolently as it flew towards the bug.

Genjutsu user assisting Kanobu(4 - 3 - 4 - 1 - 4 - 4)
Gallade(2 - 3 - 4 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 5)
Ralts assisting Gallade(2)

(Yesh my rolls are getting reliably worse.)

Confused and swaying in the air, the bug was caught by the burning chains and then it too caught on fire. The beetle wasnt gunna give up though! It flew toward the shinbo but then the psychic cut reached it, slicing the beetle right in half! Uts guts spilled to the groubd below, burning in a gross oilly puddle.

"Now that the beetle is dead well need to catch back up. Lets continue until we reach the rendezvous point. Keep an eye out for more beetles. I suspect that they were planted here for traps. It may be the enemy."

The shinobi and his demons continued forward until theyreached a hill are where trees were stripped of bark, some peeled like fruit and others just scratched.

"What do you make of those marks?"

Sorom shook his head, disgusting creatures bugs, then he quickly moved on keeping an eye out for more traps or creautres. "Hmm looks like the work of some bear creature, perhaps another one of those beetles, certainly some large creature has been marking its territory." He gestured to Gallade and it sent out another psycic pulse.

1 - 1 - 4 - 4 - 4 - 2 - 10

(5 was wway to easy, im upping the difficulty.)

Gallade's psychic mind reached only so far then trying to find anything became like reaching into the mud for anything but the lukewarm mess.

"If not then we can carry on. We've wasted a bit of time standing still." Kanobu leaped to the next branch but instead he was intercepted like a ball, caught by the horn of a beetle similar to the last one.

"HA! Trying to sneak past us?" A man said. He stood on a branch further away, apparently able to see so easily at a distance in the night. "Shinobi of the leaf are weak."

(Mind your wording for this encounter. Descriptions of actions are the most useful!)

Sorom silently used the body flicker technique to a tree that blocked off the unknowns mans line of sight and mentally commanded his demons to do the same finding ideal spots to block line of sight. From the man’s statement there were clearly plural of whoever "they" were. At his mental prompting Gallade once again sent out a wave to attempt to find anyone else sneaking around, hopefully no one else here could hone in on the psychic wavelength. Find out what you can, if needed we will fight. Sorom said to Kanobu using Ralts as a mind bridge. This could be exactly what they were looking for, though only if Kanobu was taken prisoner, if the ninja thought killing him was the better plan then this could get messy.

Stealth roll- 5 - 5 - 5 - 4
Gallade detection roll- 2 - 2 - 5 - 2 - 6

"Don't think we forgot about you!" the voice said. "Why dont you come on out before we have to make you!" it seemed like Soroms quick action to hide only worked to get out of his foes sight.

Kanobu on the otherhand was pinned to a tree trunk with the horns of a beetle holding him against the back. Both arms were held down even pierced by the ribs of the horns. It was clear that the shinobi was also unconscious.

Gallade's detection only told him that there were enemies. It seemed like his ability to sense others like sonar was disabled by rayquaza for the time being.

Kanobu's demons were at his side. Vulpix was using fire to burn the beetle while Haunter was attempting to confuse the giant bug.

"Foolish leaf shinobi."

Sorom growled softly, well this was going to be a massive pain. He softly stepped out from the behind the tree making the movement as passive and obvious as possible, staring directly at the source of the voice as he came into view. He may not be able to see in the dark but he was still a ninja after all, and he activated his genjustsu attempting to paralyze the enemy ninja. Gallade circled around behind searching visually for anyone else and seeking to flank the only known enemy besides the beetle. Sorom also commanded Ralts to help get the beetle of off Kanobu hoping the other ninja wouldn't be expecting his attack and fall victim to it.

Genjutsu Roll- 3 - 5 - 4 - 6
Gallade Roll for... idk stealth/dectection/Flanking ability- 5 - 5 - 6 - 4 - 2
Ralts attack roll on beetle- 6

There the figure was, locked into control by Sorom's genjutsu. He could stun his enemy but that was about all for the moment. Distance and lighting were preventing a better result. Yet the shinobi's grip would soon result in a slip for his foe was already working to free himself of the stunning illusion.

Meanwhile Gallade's flank was going well until he too found himself caught in a trap. A Beetle was standing behind the enemy. Locking eyes the two of them were primed for combat. The beetle would begin though, having surprised the Gallade.

Its horns were spiked, reading to pierce the demon in the chest and ram him into a tree as the other did with Kanobu. (Roll to fight that). Unfortunately Gallade could not connect with Sorom at this distance to communicate. It would be up to his natural reactions to avoid harm.

With the combined efforts of the lesser demons, Kanobu was freed from the beetle that pinned him. His arms and chest were harmed the most, with small bruises lined around him. The wind had been knocked out but the lesser demons were prepared to protect their master, even if it meant cooperating with another shinobi to do it. (You've got Haunter and Vuplix to help you).

"Tricky situation we have here." The foe said as the battle between the beetle and demon began behind his back. "But you'll soon realize how you'll not bee getting out of this alive."

Sorom growled angrily, this was getting to be far to much trouble far to much. Sorom didn't know what Gallade was doing but he had obviously run into trouble given that he wasn't chopping the enemy ninja to bits right now. Kanobu was at least temporaily incapcitated so and the enemy ninja would no doubt break free of his genjutsu quickly. Hoping that getting out of his genjutsu would take a little more time Sorom hurled 3 kunai with explosive tags at the enemy ninja while Ralts attacked the beetle with a blast of mind-numbing pyscic energy, "Demons defend your master." he called out hoping the Kanobu's two demons would obey. Gallade glared at the beetle and slashed furiously at it with a single blade of purple energy aiming to cleave the bug in two.

Gallade roll of 3 - 3 - 4 - 6 - 9
Sorom Ninja roll attack- 6 - 3 - 6 - 1
Ralts attack roll- 9

Gallade counter attacked in the exact moment he needed (won by 1 point). It sliced part of the beet;e's horn while also deflecting the ramming attack. It seemed that he also regained his detection, able to sense the presence of many more beetles on their way. Time was becoming valuable as well as scarce.

Sorom's attack with the Kunai landed at the feat of the enemy shinobi, releasing a large flash and explosion that caught Gallade off guard, pushing him away from the enemy. But overall the psychic was unharmed. Sorom's genjutsu ended in that flash as his chakra was unable to relay any information to the enemy's body as it did before.

Vulpix and Haunter were tending to their master, attempting to wake him but failing to do so.

Ralts's attack was seemingly useless as the beetle was already down and out. But that freed him up to catch gallade's psychic detection. It then told Sorom about the approaching enemies.

Sorom cursed angrily, now it was getting out of hand. "Ralts tell Gallade to grab Kanobu and follow me." he didn't know where Gallade was right now but Ralts always seemed to have link to Gallade. He started jumping trees getting distance from the incoming beetles, he couldn't lead them back to the Hidden Leaf but he couldn't fight all of them either, he needed to set up a trap. Sorom found a clearing not too far away and immediately set to work, he set proximity explosive tags all across the clearing and had Ralts used one of its most powerful attacks. A explosion of psionic energy, but it had a delayed effect making striking an opponent with it hard, however it was perfect for traps like this one. He told Gallade to set Kanobu away a safe distance, "Demons protect your master." he said to the Vulpix and Haunter. Gallade set down Kanobu and quickly set to helping Ralts.

Sorom Trap roll: 3 - 3 - 5 - 3
Ralts Future Sight preparing roll: 2
Gallade grab Kanobu and run away: 3 - 2 - 3 - 1 - 7
Gallade help with future sight attack: 6 - 6 - 3 - 1 - 6

Hearing the noises of approaching enemy units, sorom was successful in getting traps in the right places. Using the cover of the warm night he was able to easily hide the traps from the enemey (+5 bonus).

It seemed the perfect place to hide wbehind some rocks and trees. From there they could see a little bit of the clearings edge while listebung to the parade of footsteps of both bugs and humans.

Gallade and Ralts found themselves in perfect synchronization as their future attack was focused like the two fine tuned instruments played in harmoney.

The first enemy approached, then folowing was a stampeed of beetles making clicking noises and sscattering across the clearing quickly. They seemed to have caught onto Kanobu's scent since they were approaching with speed.

But then a loud click followed by crackling caught their attention. Some turned to look but itvwas their master who was sudden panicking. A pop screached over the area followed by an explosion of fire. Beetles were burning as well as ripped apart. Nut the remaining went after the rock. That's when the future attack released, sending a tsunami of psychic energy toward the beetles.

It flooded the area, whiping the grass clean off the dirt and the trees from the ground at the edge of the clearing.

Successful with their trap, the noises had quickly changed since there was only the sounds of ralts and gallade breathing heavily. They were exhausted from their powerful unison.

But it seemed that the improvisation of their leader saved them. But who knew when reinforcements would arrive?

Kanobu popped his eyes open. With a short sigh he looked around, seeing his two demons while remembering the ambush.

"Sorom?" he asked trying to adjust to the dark. "Go and look for him, haunter."