Jenso nodded at Dacer, and began to speak through the communicator within his visor so everyone could hear him, including Oz and Jeff who were still at ground level. He left the communicator on, so the others heard Dacer's advice as well. "I see...I believe tagging along with Jeff would be my best bet to get past Ada and reach the tower, then. I could try to hang onto you as you Flicker dash, Dacer, but that would end up putting you at risk.." Jenso muttered. "It does look like Oz thoroughly pissed Ada off, though. We may be able to use that to our advantage, too."

"I think Jeff should try to get me across so I could get past Ada to reach the tower, while Oz and Dacer approach from another angle and cause a diversion, along with the castle robot, while keeping the pressure on her. Sound like a plan?" He asked everyone. He began to charge something up within the palm of his right hand, calmly waiting for everyone's response. They had to be very quick about this, but mindlessly rushing into their deaths wouldn't do much good, either.

"I can't carry people when I dash anyways," Dacer hissed, "And we won't be able to divert her attention. Those eyes of her can see everything, and her stupid Ooze is just getting more widespread. But if we lay enough pressure onto her, you might have a chance to slip by." He looked over to the tower. "If I'm remembering this right though, the guy in red wants you in there. So..." He turned to Jenso and shrugged.

"As much as I like the odds of all of us take her on at once, you should probably check in on Bruce and Alvois", The sage spoke as he swipped his hand to bring out a a screen on his arm that seemed to show dots of various colors. While rising into the air to avoid the tenticles, the sage also took the second to form his nanoshield against his hand while placing an orb inside of it. "From the looks of it, they might have already gotten into the tower"

The castle let out a loud draconic roar from the intercom as its arms and legs were grabbed hold of by Ada and had its arms begin to glow for a moment. Then with a sudden burst of power two sharp blades of ki formed on the top of both arms and shot out a good wayd past the hands of the robot, shredding any tendrils that happened to be in the way as they appeared. For what wasn't destroyed by the blades was quickly sent flying miles away towards the ocean or other edge of the forests as the entire upper body of the Order Buster spun around rappidly with its feet still in place planted in the ground in order to maintain balance as it did so. The buster took advantage of the spin as well to also fire off 2 giant arcane slashes aimed at Ada. One which directly went at her in attempt to slice her in two, with the other attempting the cut the tower she rose from the ground and knock it down.
The legs themselves then followed up by releaseing twin arcane pulses around the walls of themselves to blast off the goop and entirely free it once again.

'Nice to see the blades in action, from what it looks like they are having 10 members power the sword from sections in each hand... while on there own they wouldn't hold much a threat... but together, it's quite amazing actually.' The sage thought tom himself as he quickly fired off too sniper rounds as well, seemingly to test the waters and gauge how quickly she would react. One which followed right behind the Order Buster's slash at her and another that speed past to try and loop around to hit her from behind.
"Dacer I do got a question tho, how likely would my tatics from earlier work in her? Given that I can pull them off sucessfully." The sage asked as he refered to the flash bombs and sound blasts he had used to stun the archer earlier.

Alvios sat solemnly next to Vale's corpse, blade resting between the two of them. He didn't know whether or not Vale was sentimental towards anything, let alone his sword, but it was a nice thought to let him be with his weapon for a little while longer. Anything to comfort Alvios right now was helpful, as he sat within the Tower of Chaos's entrance, thinking over what he said to Yzeira. What he agreed to, rather.

He pulled out the small communications device Jeff had given out to them. A half-hearted chuckle came out as he wondered if these things worked inside of this strange space.

"Everyone, this is Alvios. Bruce and I have entered the Tower. I don't know if it matters to any of you, but Damien Valefor is dead, and we have encountered Yzeira. He let us be, with an ultimatum to relay. Jenso, his offer is still on the table. If you agree to join the Order, he will reverse all damage he has caused to our dimension and leave us alone. You can save the world. I don't think that surrender offer lasts if you keep fighting."

Alvios took a long breath, looking up at the endless ceiling above him.

"It's your choice, Jenso. I think we are all willing to fight alongside you. I won't pressure you into this decision. If we fight and win, we save all dimensions after our own. It's an honor above honors. We gamble our whole world on being able to defeat Yzeira and the Order."

Oz grunted in relent to Dacer's direction. It would be good to surround her and then use a piercing skill after she had immobilized herself with protection. He summoned a disc of energy in front of himself and hopped atop it. A double take of getting smothered to death by ooze was not attractive.

Higher in the air was safest as it provided plenty of space to dodge. Oz leaned into the wind as he zoomed up and around to flank Ada from range.

Jenso continued to charge energy in his right hand, glaring at Ada as the castle robot attacked and Oz moved to flank her. That's when he heard Alvios's voice. When he heard that Vale had died, his fighting stance seemed so shatter for a moment. He nearly lost the energy that he'd been building in his hand, and he frowned."Vale's...Vale's dead?" He muttered, the shock in his voice apparent. He never wanted the vampire to die. He didn't exactly trust him too much anymore, but he'd helped Jenso many times on his journey despite his crazy behaviour.

He continued to listen to Alvios until he was finished. He paused for a moment, not replying right away. It wasn't a response that he could make lightly. A lot was at stake, after all. 'If I accept Yzeira's offer, my friends- no, not just my friends, the entire universe may be saved...' He thought, closing his eyes for a moment. '...But the order isn't exactly the most trustworthy of people. Still...we're out of time.' He thought.

"I understand, Alvios...I will speak to Yzeira. We need to reach him either way. I suppose there's no real harm in trying to reason with him first. Not that I really trust him, though." He stated to everyone in the communicator, smirking to himself. "We've been through a hell of a ride together, haven't we guys? I want you to know, that it's been my pleasure and honour to fight alongside you guys. I couldn't have had better friends." Jenso stated. "Regardless of how things turn out between me and Yzeira, I hope you guys stay strong." He added.

He turned to Dacer briefly and smirked. "I'm glad we managed to save you, Dacer. I'm happy that I managed to keep my promise to Lark." Jenso spoke. It was certainly a weight off his shoulders. He turned to Ada, and rose his voice.

"Hey, witch. I'm willing to speak to Yzeira about his offer. If you let me pass, I won't lay a finger on you." Jenso spoke reluctantly to her. He wanted to fight her beside the others, but time was of the essence. He couldn't afford to be held up here.

Ada's mouth pouted as the robot's blades rose into action, and her restraints around the buster's arms were blasted away. But as it was about to fire its attack, the goop that clung to its legs pulled it off balance moments before it was blasted off, forcing one of the blades to fly over Ada, while the other struck the ground beneath her, doing nothing to upset her balance. Ada on the other hand, preemptively rose several walls, meeting the sniper shots before they came anywhere near her. She couldn't stop the one headed right for her, but it slowed enough for the woman to narrowly side-step that attack. The second shot, after curving around, was met by a few pillars of ooze, erasing it completely. The woman's eyes followed Oz, however, as if she wasn't even paying attention to either Jenso or Jeff. It was like the goop acted of its own volition. She didn't even respond to Jenso when he spoke, but, like clockwork, a path opened through the Goop, straight towards the Tower. It was intended for Jenso, and Jenso alone, of course. She turned her back to Jeff and Dacer, as Oz circled her. As he got closer to her mass of sludge, it rose up and began to surround him from all sides, like a giant maw.

The order buster was faced with another onslaught of tendrils while this happened, each latching to its legs, twice as dense this time around, to avoid letting its pulses blast them off so easily. In front of the robot, where Jenso, Dacer, Jeff and Oz were standing a small while ago, something began to bubble, and the ooze around there changed its hue, to a more violet colour. Jenso could hear Ada's voice for only a moment.

"Walk"

Dacer turned to Jeff briefly and froze, before shrugging. "I don't know. Her eyes see, like, everything. So, I don't know if bright lights can overwhelm them."

Jenso glared at Ada, but said nothing in response. He turned to Jeff as he began to descend from the sky, reaching his right hand out to him. "Here, Jeff...it won't cut you." Jenso stated, as the energy he'd been charging up for a while changed into a powered up Omega Saw which hung in place beside Jeff as it spun around rapidly. It's composition had been changed, so dispersing it by striking it's center wasn't possible. Naturally, Jeff would be unable to detonate it whenever he wanted, but if anyone chose to strike it's center besides his allies, it would still explode into smaller saws. He didn't bother to hide it. After all, Ada would see it anyway, and he wouldn't exactly be using it to attack Ada himself.

Jenso landed on the ground, and began to head towards the tower in a quick pace.

For a moment it seemed like the massive maw got Oz as it started clamping down around him. A blast of vibrant energy exploded out the top, leaving a large hole that held itself open with veil long enough for Oz to shoot out. He zoomed back into the open and met gazes with the witch. She was out for a vengeance. It was likely she was focused on killing Oz first and foremost while keeping him from using any nasty tricks. There was no time for him to counter.

The Order Buster, despite its size reacted quickly upon losing its balance and slashed at the goop that was around his legs to free itself before blasting the remaining off with a pulse of arcane energy. The robots back and feet thrusters then burst into action, propelling it into the air while incinerating any of the goop that was still bellow it as the buster's arms began to glow blue as it prepared its next attack.
"I don't like this idea Jenso, I really can't help but imagine that nothing good can come of you going in for a chat with him, but if you think its for the best, I won't stop you" The sage spoke as he grabbed hold of the omega flame saw and infused his own wind arki into it, in a similar fasion to how he did with his combo attavk against Mikey during one of the many practices. He then floated the saw against the edge of his nanosword and connected it to the blade by attaching a small yet constant stream of energy to it like he would with his nanobots. "I'll be sure to make good use of this."

"But first, Buster send me Crate G!" The sage ordered by using his communication device to send a command to the people inside the robot and soon after a crate made out of nanobots flew out of the leg towards Jeff and he cauggt it with hes left gauntlet before throwing out the 10 spheres that were contained inside it towards, 5 which he caught in wond spheres and added to his bag while the crate bagan to break apart into nanobots to replenish his supply, and 5 which fell to the ground, landing next to the ooze that was in there intial landing spot. The orbs then proceeded to explode into blasts of plasma which aimed to obliterate whatever Ada had planned to with thr violet ooze.

Dacer buckled from the take-off of the Order buster and watched as Jenso ran off and kissed his teeth. "Whatever," He muttered, turning back towards Jeff, "Looks like that burly fellow's already got himself caught," He commented, motioning his head towards Oswald in the distance as he narrowly escaped one of Ada's attempts to surround him. "You got another one of those talkie-things?" The archer de-summoned his bow, and whistled loudly. Tiger burst out of some nearby Ooze, grown to his combat-ready size, and landed near Dacer. The man put a hand on his animal's back and the two began to glow lightly. He glared at the saw that Jenso handed to Jeff. "We're gonna have to coordinate with that lummox, and I don't wanna be out of the loop." Tiger disappeared, and Dacer transformed immediately, re-achieving his One With Gaia form. "And if you two have a plan, then by all means, use me."

Ada grit her teeth and bounced up and down as her platform shook. The goop below Oz fell back into the oceans beneath it, and several more tendrils rose up to attack him, one after the other, launching themselves right out of the sea of ooze, fast enough to move far past Oz, into the sky above him. The order buster was still under siege as well. Though her Goop in front of it was stalled momentarily, it quickly gathered itself back up, and spread underneath the now-flying machine. Several hundred tiny sphere of liquid shot upwards, coating the bottoms of the Buster's feet and legs in quick succession. The hue of the little orbs was far lighter than her ooze's usual colour, appearing lilac rather than a deep plum. Ada's platform, in the meantime, began to stabilise and solidify itself into a miniature plateau. From far away, it looks almost like a circular arena, with Ada standing in the center. Her mask tightened with the muscles in her face, and a large intricate symbol began to form beneath her, as dark etching in her otherwise perfectly flat and somewhat glossy arena.

Oz zipped by another tendril, swinging haphazardly out of its way and continuing his ascent. He just kept weaving and bobbing back and forth to avoid the assault. The witch wasn't letting up and she seemed to be exerting most of her focus in his direction. The way he could tell, she was getting ready for something else with the overly sized tendrils. Zipping up and away, Oz splashed into a set of clouds.

Most of the technology Jeff dealt with was strange, Oz wouldn't have known how to use the radio he was given had he not already been taught before the battle. He keyed the button and spoke through. "I have no opening. I hope you gents can see it on your end." Oz learned enough about the last impact he'd used to know it would probably work but the platform Ada was on might as well be counted for lava. It was all her zone.

"Just give me a direction. I don't have much time to think right now."

"Um yeah.. a plan.." The sage said almost hinting at that he he was still making this up as he went, still the sage at least had a backup communicator and visor on him and tossed both to Dacer. "The phone has names and pictures ready so just tap on one and it will put you in communication with them. Given that the tower doesn't outright cut us off from them."

The sage did his best too keep his eye on the Buster and Oz in order to find out where best too focus his attention and took note of the pink goop gathering on the Buster's legs along with Oz being surrounded, he could tell the Buster had plans to help Oz out of this mess, but feared Ada trying to interrupt the Buster's attacks once again. Seeing this, the sage rapidly spun in the air for a moment as he began to fiercely stir up the wind around him and then used the momentum to launch a kick which released the giant burst of wind at the legs of the buster blow away all the goop that was currently clung too it. "Ultimate Gale Kick"

With the goop out of the way, the Buster finished the charge that was being focused in its arms and fired off two dual arcane lasers which fired off as a constant stream at the tentacles that were designed to disintegrate whatever hit it on contact. The beams would then cut them down and keep pressure on the spots with one laser for the next few moments to insure that the goop wouldn't come flying back at Oz just yet. The other started to trail after Ada attempting to tear through Ada and her platform.
"I'm still working on that plan part. Range doesn't seem to be the most effective and without the Buster, I myself lack any real long term options. For now it might be best to either keep giving Oz the cover needed to move in or to try and close in ourselves." Jeff uttered quietly to Dacer as a bit of his unnerve began to slip from his false confidence once again. He soon however snapped himself back out of it and began to charge his wind cannon once more.

Dacer quickly slipped on the visor, but his hair stood up on end and he tore them off, handing them back to Jeff. The phone however, he slipped into his pocket. "Those things hurt my eyes," He muttered. He looked down at the small blobs of pink as they were blown away, but a few clung tightly, and refused to be removed by the fierce wind. What was worse, several more spheres launched themselves upwards, latching onto the sides of the robots legs. The few that remained after Jeff's gale kick, began to eat away at the metal that composed the leg, slowly but surely working their way into the inner workings of the robot. Several of the orbs even launched themselves directly at the jets beneath the robot's feet, in greater number. "About that..." Dacer turned towards Ada as the robot recoiled slightly from the twin-laser attacks. The tentacles that headed for Oz dodged the laser headed for them, and launched themselves right into the air, following Oz as closely as they could before losing speed, and falling back into the sea of goo below them. He'd gone just high enough to get out of their reach. Ada cringed, and a solid wall of dark goop rose halfway between her and the robot, quickly solidifying into a darker colour, and blocking the laser. Upon impact, the wall shook slightly, but didn't falter at all. Dacer shook his head.

"The darker her shit gets, the harder it is to get through it." He looked down at the pink globs below them. "On the other hand, it looks like lighter colours mean that, uh... It's better at killing things?" Dacer retrieved the phone from his pocket and pressed the button that connected to Oz.

"Bud, I think you're the only one that'll be able to get anywhere near her without being in immediate danger with those walls of yours," Dacer said, loudly enough for Jeff to hear him as well. He paused and lowered the phone, racking his brain as best he could. He turned to Jeff and then back to Oz, who looked as if he wasn't being pursued above the cloud line. "If you have anything that can directly touch her, It'll likely force her to focus on you. But, even if we get an opening, no amount of distraction will stop her from putting up one of her stupid bubbles. And unless she doesn't see an attack coming, or we have a way around her goddamn shield, we're not going to make any leeway here." Dacer waited for Oz to respond patiently, glaring that the woman from afar as the beam clashed with her monolith of hardened slime. While that happened however, a sudden pair of tendrils rose from in front of the robot, and clung to both of its arms, while the ooze between them began to brighten in colour again. Dacer looked down and cursed under his breath.

"Well suppose I'm not using flash bombs right now anyways so feel free to ignore the visor for now I guess" The sage shruged as he took the visor back and placed them in his bag.

Meanwhile, now thay the robot was taking actual damage from rhe pink blobs that were constantly striking at the busters legs, small red bleps began to show up on its sensors and it immediately sent out arcane pulses to disintrate the blobs off of it once again, despite the quick reaction the feet thrusters were slightly damaged, leaving only back ones as the only one working at 100% power, thougg still giving it plenty of power to stay airborn. Some of Jeff's smaller robot minons would soon begin to appear from random openings that appeared on the buster which had a one way arcane barrier allowing them to pass onto the outside to access the broken areas of the robot and began to place themsevles into those spaces using there bodies as the needed parts to keep the buster fuctioning at max potential. Attack robots jumped out as well and began to give cover fire so that the pink blobs wouldn't be downright undoing repairs right away by using beam attacks to blast them.

As for the problems with its arms, immediately the buster ceased fire with tje lasers and reformed the blades that went across its entire arm and once again used that to free its arms before the pink blobs could cause and real damage beyond maybe leaving marks on the outer layer of wall. The robot then slashed out both arms using its max speed and thrusters that appeared on the elbows on each to form a spinning burst of razor sharp arcane energy which then formed a small tornado to suck in and slash the tenticles that were in front of it, into tiny bits. This however overclocked the robot and left his arms needing a moment to recover, though having the arcane tornado in front of it would provide cover in the meanwhile.

Jeff then followed up by launching a gale kick at Dacer and using it to form a wind board underneath him to allow Dacer to be airborn and keep up with Jeff when he inevitably went to close the distance in on Ada. "Okay, you ready Dacer? I'll keep you moving out of harms way and you provide us with cover. I wana try and make use of the present Jenso gave me"

With his approval, the sage prepared to burst them both off on a path straight towards Ada, with his sword, shield, and windcannon charged and ready to counter attack anything she would plan to throw at them as thr started to get closer. He wasnt going to do a direct attack just yet, but he prefered to move both him and Dacer into range to be able to do so at the ready.

"My shield can blind her abilities if I can get close enough. It would be up to you two to close the distance if I'm successful." Oz responded. He began spiraling down towards the witch, wary of the tendrils.

Bruce listened thoughtfully to the battle outside, pondering his first encounter with the leader of the Order. He'd come into this final confrontation with all confidence. That hadn't changed, exactly, but his willingness to submit to his baser instincts and desires as they paved their path had been mellowed somewhat.

Preparations of all types needed to be improvised- if ideas were going to be executed, communication was vital, and the time was short. And haphazard attempts at new techniques were not going to cut it here.

Alvios was still kneeling by Vale's body- the vampire had redeemed himself somewhat in Bruce's eyes, but he felt little need to grieve. Vale had done what he needed to do. Bruce respected that.

"Lightbringer," Bruce said slowly, still facing the entrance of the tower. "Might you be able to instruct me the finer points of Ki transference?"

Dacer's body wobbled slightly, but he retained his balance a few moments later once he realised he was standing on... Something. The cat-man looked down, and then around, and then down again, before baring a toothy grin. "Isn't this just somethin' else!," Dacer shouted, his breath laden with a nostalgic informality. He nodded to himself as Oz's voice crackled through the phone. "Reading you loud an clear, big guy. I'll do my best to keep these things off of you, Jeff. That saw of yours, Jenso's saw, might be able to break through her defenses." Dacer looked down at his free hand and flexed it carefully. "When I tried to stop it with my Ki Overhaul, I felt that thing actually pierce through my inherent ability. I didn't even think that was possible. So, if that stupid Frisbee can overwrite my abilities, it just might be able to break through that darker stuff." Dacer rose the walkie to his mouth and smiled. "We're gonna hit her. If that doesn't stop her from keeping you away, nothing will." He turned to Jeff and nodded. "Fortunately for you, I was one of the best surfers in Thoris!" The Arki in Jeff's wind-board suddenly shifted in colour, until it was totally under Dacer's control. "Alright then, let's deadlock this bitch." With that, he took to the sky, prepared to cover Jeff's approach as best he could.

Ada didn't let Oz fall freely while Dacer was talking things over. Several more tendrils launched up the moment Oz passed the cloud line, all aiming to take advantage of his downward momentum. Dodging like that wasn't likely, after all. Beneath the tendrils, the goop at the base of Ada's miniature mountain began to bubble and lighten in hue, spreading out across the entire battlefield, and moving into the tendrils that went for Oz as well. In an instant, every last square inch of her sludge had been made heavily acidic.

The Order buster was next. Two more tentacles lashed upwards from underground, aiming for its feet moments after it unleashed its tornado attack, both sporting a pinkish tone as well. At the rate it was moving, they would catch it mid-air easily, and begin to tear it towards the ground.

Jenso continued onwards after Ada let him through as she continued her battle with Oz and Jeff. He hoped his Omega Saw would be of use, but he felt confident that the two heroes would be able to hold their own regardless. As he entered the tower, he spotted Alvios and Bruce. He smiled at them. "Hey guys!" He shouted with a smirk on his face. That's when his gaze fell upon Vale's dead body, and he frowned. His smile vanished immediately.

"I guess he was unable to get over his hate towards me in the end...I hoped he would have understood that Yzeira was the true enemy and fought beside us. I think he wanted to avenge Lark's death, in his own twisted way, and believed that it was my fault despite that Yzeira got Lark killed..." Jenso spoke in a sad tone.

Bruce nodded in Jenso's direction when the golden warrior entered. He was still waiting for Alvios' advice.

Upon hearing Jenso's inference of how Vale passed, he sighed. Although he held little, if any, love for the vampire in life, Jenso deserved to know the whole truth.

"I cannot speak for the dead, Jenso," Bruce said. "So I do not know who he truly blamed. But regardless of all that he did, every act that seemed hostile towards us, ultimately, he was not our enemy."

Bruce recounted Vale's final moments succinctly to Jenso.