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Evelyn looked at Watts who continued to swear, which she did have to agree with Sapphire it was kind of entertaining to see him swear, and it would also be pretty funny to see him try and come up with some creative ways to curse someone out without swearing. "I do agree you should find some other ways to swear without actually swearing." Evelyn said jokingly, even though they were all trapped here they needed to at least joke around just a little bit. Just after she said that though, time started back up again and the Sentinel opened fire feeling the wind getting knocked out of her and Evelyn landed on the ground rather hard.

"Trying to kill kids really? You really need to pick on people who are your own age." Evelyn said as she slowly got back up to her feet groaning ever so slightly as she reached for her throwing knives. Looking straight up at Longshot on the Sentinel's shoulder and quickly threw the knife directly at him, though she was mostly trying to find a way to knock him off of his little perch seeing her knife embedding itself in Longshot's arm.

Casey luckily was out of the way of everyone else as she watched a few members on the team getting hit by the Sentinel, she quickly moved behind the Sentinel hoping that she wouldn't be seen at all. She started to look around and figured that she could try knee capping the Sentinel to knock Longshot off. Evelyn seemed to attack the man directly which wasn't really what they were suppose to do, and killing him would probably not do them any good at all.

Casey ran forward, but she ended up tripping on her own two feet and landed face first onto the ground, which was more than a little bit humiliating really. Casey groaned slightly as she got back up to her feet again and started to dust herself off, hoping that no one actually did see that happen. She watched as Andrew came out of the house again with yet another weapon of some kind as she looked at it from a distance. She did have cybernetics of her own as well, though she was a child now and she didn't really know if she still had them or not and wondered if the EMP would hurt her as well.

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"Oh BEEP off, Sapphire!" Watts snapped back at her. He didn't care if she found it hilarious that he kept on being censored each time he tried to swear. He wanted to curse, so that was exactly what he was going to do. The only people he avoided swearing in front of were his kids at the end of the day. If they were going to laugh at him, that was going to be their funeral. He was behind the sentinel, but that didn't stop it from firing off a laser blast at him, narrowly missing him. Everyone seemed to get knocked down by the blasts, even Arthur falling to the ground. Watts had to wonder if Mojo would really care if they died or not here.

Watts rushed backwards at top speed, before he turned around and ran as fast as he could at the sentinel, building up momentum. At the last moment he swung his fist back and punched the robot, able to deal a significant amount of damage to it. His fist stung from the impact, but he was largely protected by his suit - since otherwise, that amount of force would have shattered his hand. He figured that the others were having hilariously bad flukes when it came to hitting this sentinel due to their own poor fighting skills - it certainly wasn't a luck issue or anything! "See, now that is how you punch," he announced smugly.

"Is he always this insufferable?" Arthur muttered to no one in particular. He didn't want to become chummy with these people, yet he couldn't help but be irritated by the miniature speedster. He was vain, egotistical, selfish, and haughty. He wanted to shove arrows in his ears if he had to listen to Watts for another second. He fired off an EMP arrow at the sentinel, convinced that his aim was perfect. Somehow, the arrow abruptly turned down and went straight for the robot's foot, barely activating in time. The sentinel only sparked slightly, rather than being entirely shut down as he had hoped for.

He didn't let that phase him - he had seen weirder things before. He let another EMP arrow fly, this time it once again suddenly took a sharp turn downwards, hitting the torso of the sentinel. The robot was continuing to spark and seemingly short circuit, but not enough to deactivate it or destroy it yet. Third time was a charm - or so he thought. The third arrow connected perfectly with the sentinel's arm, but the EMP didn't activate properly. It was a string of rotten, odd luck.

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Elara couldn't help but grin as she watched Andrew practically skip back into the house. She turned back towards the frozen robot and rested her finger on the trigger. Deep breath in, release, aaand...

She didn't have time to fire. Their precious moments of peace was over in a second as the robot came back to life. It immediately fired upon them. Elara could only gasp for air before the laser hit her square in the chest. She fell flat onto her back and felt her head connect with solid ground as her fingers lost connection with the blaster. The air that she'd just inhaled escaped her chest with a puff, and Elara reached for her chest as she wheezed. In her dazed state, she was just happy that she didn't feel a gaping hole in her chest. It definitely felt like she did.

She shut her eyes tightly, groaning as she felt the pain fade from her body. When her eyes opened, she saw Sapphire dodging her icicles and furrowed her brows. What the BEEP? She blinked. Even her thoughts were censored? Great. Get up, Elara. Get up! Andrew was back, and Elara watched him fire the EMP and miss as she struggled to get back up. She gratefully accepted his help and nodded a thanks before she took the new blaster. "Thanks. Lets hope so."

She gripped the weapon tightly as she positioned it against her shoulder. She couldn't afford to lose another weapon, and she certainly didn't want to miss the robot before it sent another blast her way. It was uncertain how many hits she could take in this younger body. As she aimed, she gave Watts a few moments to make their move. She even noticed the knife lodged into Longshot's arm, and the EMP arrow that the green hood fired that directed itself towards the ground. For a second, it reminded her of the misdirected shots taken at the Mastermind sisters and she worried that Pryor was lurking nearby. Or did Longshot have something to do with it?

"You can't redirect an electromagnetic pulse, BEEP-er. Especially if you can't see it coming," she muttered. She quickly honed her ability in on Longshot with the full intent of removing his sight, but it was unsuccessful. Out of frustration, Elara just pulled the trigger. This time, her efforts were successful.

With a satisfied smirk on her face, she watched the robot fall. She even sent another blast towards it, just for good measure. It certainly didn't do anything since the robot was already down, but it felt good to fire it again. She turned to Andrew, ignoring the remaining "villain" for a moment, and smiled. "Nice work, Andrew. I can see why the team was so bent on finding you."

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"You want to know the honest truth?" Sapphire asked Arthur as she turned to look at him when he questioned Watts somewhat. "The answer is a definite yes, he's always like this, and you get used to it after a while and learn to more or less tune him out until he actually says something intelligent that isn't insulting everyone else around him. You'd think with his brains he'd be able to come up with better insults or better ways to essentially try and prove that he's better then everyone else," Sapphire said with a shrug, before turning back to look at the robot that fell to the ground. "Okay, going to be blunt, does this guy have 9 lives or something? Since he should not have landed that nicely on the ground without getting crushed by that robot!"

Andrew shrugged slightly at Elara's words, before he seemed to think about something, a confused expression appearing on his face. "...I don't think Watts cared much for me messing around with things in the lab..." he said, before he stumbled backwards slightly from a sudden headache that came out of nowhere. It wasn't something he had been expecting, and what he said to Elara he wasn't even sure whether it was true, or why he had said it. Things were just getting way too confusing in his mind, that much was obvious.

"I think we should have less talking and more dealing with the guy who wasn't crushed by the robot like he should have been!" Sapphire said, Longshot seemed to more or less be unharmed aside from the knife that Evelyn had managed to hit him with. She instantly threw another group of ice daggers at him, but then something seemed to happen as the daggers suddenly seemed to almost swerve around Longshot and headed straight for someone else, Watts. Unfortunately for him, the ice came too quickly for him to be able to dodge it as one of the daggers went straight into his left leg, and it was now stuck there. "Sorry Watts!" Sapphire called out to him, not all too sure what else to say regarding the whole thing.

Longshot didn't really say anything to the group, smirking slightly at the group before he pulled out a few shurikens out of a belt pouch that he had, and instantly started throwing them. One of the weapons curved around and just barely missed Arthur's head, literally just passing by his ear. Another one would slice into Evelyn's left shoulder, and one more would hit Elara in the leg, cutting into her. The last one seemed to be going rather fast and it slammed into Andrew's arm, managing to cut into his suit, which was now starting to spark as it seemed like Longshot might have hit something important.

"...This is probably not the best situation of sorts to be in," Andrew muttered under his breath, before he started messing with the sleeve of his suit to try and get it to stop sparking. After a few moments, he managed to get it to stop sparking so much, after essentially blowing out a small fire that had seemingly started on the suit and he shook his arm to try to get it to stop even more. "Sparks are never a good thing."

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Bella had to agree with Sapphire. It was amusing at first, but Watts' consistent attempt to swear was now bordering on annoying. She could imagine his frustration though, given their current predicament, it wasn't helping matters, especially if they still had to figure out a way past the robots. Luckily, everyone managed to get it together enough to take them down, but Longshot was still there, despite the fact the robot should definitely have landed on him.

Bella took out her morningstar and imbued it with air. It took a bit, but sparks began to fly off of it. She charged at him, but misstepped, falling forward. She caught herself and flipped, chalking it up to her kid body still messing with her. She ran at him again, swinging her weapon at him, but he dodged it. She moved back, gripping the handle of the morningstar. "You're done here. Accept it." The threat was weak, sure. Especially with Andrew's suit and Watts' injury.

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"No, since you're too young and don't remember most of your subpar engineering education," Watts scolded Andrew. "University students die when they are unsupervised in engineering labs every year. I'm not about to see what happens when you allow a child to do the same - prodigy or not." His eyes were narrowed not with anger, but with concern. He had heard horror stories from his years working in industry of the sort of accidents that befell those who weren't careful enough. Andrew was his... friend... at the end of the day. And with his mind having regressed to that of a child, he felt responsible for his wellbeing. Andrew's parents were hardly here to supervise him after all.

He gasped in pain as an ice dagger was embedded in his leg, courtesy of Sapphire. He shut his eyes for a moment, trying to contain all of his rage and anger. It was a BEEPing insult in his opinion that Sapphire had called him an idiot, only to then carelessly hurt him with her powers. But his parental instincts kicked in, not because Longshot was alive while the robot had been destroyed, but since he saw Andrew's suit sparking. Watts rushed off at superspeed, fixing Andrew's suit - yet not without zapping him with electricity a few times. However, Andrew's suit hadn't blown up or turned Andrew into something the size of an ant, so it was overall a success. "Are you alright?"

Arthur's luck hadn't been completely horrible - Longshot had failed to injure him, while the others hadn't been so fortunate. Elara had taken care of the robot, leaving just the terrible person that Spiral wanted them to save behind. His powers were frustrating. They were going to make everything they did harder. But they couldn't be too strong, since otherwise Mojo never would have been able to catch Longshot in the first place. His luck had to be finite.

He decided to go with explosive arrows. He didn't want to kill Longshot, just hopefully knock him unconscious (or worse, he supposed). He let an arrow fly, hitting Longshot and slamming him backwards. He let another one go, this time the arrow ended up going wide inexplicably. And for the last arrow he sent off, the arrow hit the ground incredibly close to Arthur and the explosion knocked the archer back. "BEEP..." he muttered under his breath.

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Evelyn watched as the Sentinel started to fall, at least they wouldn't have to deal with the massive robot anymore which was a good thing, though Longshot managed to land on the ground gracefully like a cat somehow. "He should have been crushed, that really isn't fair.." Evelyn said, as she looked at the others, before wincing in pain when Longshot threw some shurikens at all of them. One of them managed to hit her shoulder, which she instantly went to yank out and held her shoulder. "Now i'm really mad." Evelyn said as she ran forward and then jump kicked Longshot in the stomach, managing to actually hit the man.

It seemed that they all were having some kind of bad luck as well, as Evelyn could see some ice sticking out of Watts' leg wincing slightly at the sight of it looking like it really did hurt a lot. "Are you alright Watts?" Evelyn asked him as he went to go and tend to Andrew. Who looked like he was starting to remember something, which she was glad, before speaking up. "Watts doesn't really like anyone in his lap actually."

Casey saw that almost everyone was getting hurt in someway, or even tripping and falling like Belladonna did Evelyn managed to land a good kick on Longshot. She decided to run forward and try to knock the mutant out, only to let out a little bit of a surprised scream as she fell onto the ground. She took a moment and shook her head slightly, which felt more embarrassing than anything really, and stood up quickly dusting herself off, as some arrows went flying, and hearing some explosions.

"That was embarrassing.." Casey said mostly to herself, which was now the second time she tripped on her own two feet. One of the exploding arrows that Arthur launched had landed on the ground and detonated by Arthur's feet, though she didn't know him well at all. Casey quickly went over towards Arthur she held out a hand towards him while looking him over for any kind of injuries, she didn't know him well, but she wanted to offer any kind of help if she could.

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Elara mimicked Andrew's confusion by furrowing her brows. Her concern grew as he stumbled backwards. As if his head was hurting him. She almost moved to keep him standing upwards, but it seemed like he was okay enough to stand on his own.

Sapphire made a comment and Elara, agreeing, turned to face the man. She looked him over and tried to get a read on this guy. What were his motives? Or better yet, what were the motives that Mojo had given him? Was Mojo's influence strong enough to make him kill strangers? She watched as Sapphire threw more icicles his way, but they deflected once more. Elara narrowed her eyes. What kind of ability was this? The man could land perfectly off of a collapsing robot, and seemingly redirect any attacks. Only one person had landed a solid hit on him, Evelyn, but that only knicked his shoulder. There had to be a way to get this guy.

Her eyes glanced towards the blaster on the ground to her right. Maybe it just took a bit of luck, and a few rapid fire shots to slip past his notice. Just as she was about to make her way over, she heard the whistling of blades in the air. She hissed as she felt something sharp dig into her lower thigh. Just above her knee.

BEEP.

Slowly, she pulled the shuriken- Seriously, of all things, a shuriken??- from her leg and let it drop to the grass. The cut wasn't super deep, but it stung and was bleeding. She looked up to see that Andrew had been hit too, and that his suit was now sparking. "Yeah, sparks aren't great at all. She agreed. Thankfully, she didn't have to step in. Watts was over in an instant, and began to work on fixing the problem.

The fight wasn't going great, either. Longshot dodged any attack, or sent it flying in a different direction. The girls on the team were tripping despite their usual grace, and even though Arthur managed to hit Longshot once, he managed to misfire into the ground right next to him. Casey was quick to give him aid, which meant that Elara could focus on the threat.

What other option was there, besides non-physical attacks? Let's see if we can trick the trickster. She pressed her lips together and focused. She attempted to project a vertigo inducement illusion, but luck wasn't on her side. With a sigh of frustration, she tucked and rolled towards the blaster. In one swift movement, she was in position and fired the blaster twice. The first one hit, knocking the man to the ground, but something happened during the last trigger pull and the blast headed in the opposite direction. Right into Watts and Andrew.

Shocked by what she'd done, Elara quickly ran over to the two men/boys despite her stinging cut. "Are you guys okay? BEEP, I'm so sorry." She knelt between them, offering her hands to help them back up. "Please be okay."

With a frown, she turned her head back towards Longshot. "Stay down." She muttered. She attempted to induce vertigo one more time. Just in case the blaster hadn't affected him much, this would definitely mess with him.

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"I'm fine! And would you stop it with zapping me and whatnot? I know what I'm doing whether you think that or not! Seriously, stop freaking out or whatever!" Andrew said, sounding more then a little bit annoyed with Watts at this point. The fact that the guy seemed to not trust any sort of thing that he did, and it was starting to get somewhat annoying at this point. How the hell could anyone stand to be around this guy at all? Seriously why was he even with the others since it sounded like he didn't get along with people.

Then of course, came the explosion of sorts that slammed into him, knocking him down to the ground. Watts lucked out somewhat, as the ice that Sapphire had hit him with didn't seem to be slowing him down at all, and he got a few burns from the explosion that healed fairly quickly, and the injury from the ice was a little slower, but was almost healed. Sometimes it paid to be a speedster clearly. Unfortunately, Andrew wasn't that lucky as he slammed into the ground, having been hit by the full force of the explosion. His suit instantly started sparking like crazy from the impact, and there seemed to be a small fire of sorts that was sparking on his arm again, which he instantly set to work trying to put out, blowing on the small flame before it eventually puttered out. "...Fires and sparks, never a good thing like when the splicer blew up," he muttered somewhat, not even paying attention to what he was saying before he turned to look at Elara who had raced over to them. "Oh, I'm fine, don't worry... Just a few burns and what not, pretty sure my suit isn't going to blow up yet so that's something..." he said as he stood up off the ground, accepting Elara's help.

"Okay, definitely getting a bit annoyed by the fact that this guy," Sapphire said with an eye roll, glaring more or less towards Longshot who was getting up off of the ground, though it was obvious that he was a little unsteady on his feet, but he was up fairly quickly. He had a watch or something on his wrist that he instantly started messing with for a moment, but who knows what it was that he called or something, as he instantly sent more shurikens flying at the group. One sliced through Sapphire causing her to stumble back as it embedded itself into her shoulder. "Beep..." she muttered under her breath as her words were censored.

Another shuriken hit Elara's shoulder, but any further to her right and it would have hit her neck and probably would have decapitated her. Casey got one embedded in her leg, and Arthur took one to the right shoulder. The shurikens were really starting to get on Sapphire's nerves, but that wasn't the only trick up his sleeve it seemed, as he pulled out a gun of sorts and fired a shot straight at Belladonna, it seemed to be an energy blaster of sorts as the blast slammed into her stomach, causing burns on her stomach, which would be somewhat painful for her.

"Okay, no more playing nice," she muttered as she sent ice flying at him. Her first ice daggers just missed him entirely, and hit the ground behind him. Sapphire's next shot however was a dead on bulls-eye of sorts, and slammed straight into his shoulder, knocking him backwards again. "You really should learn how to stand down!"

"Nah, that wouldn't be any fun now would it?" he responded with a bit of a laugh, standing up and yanking the dagger out, it bled for a moment before it clearly started healing.

"...You have got to be kidding me, he has regenerative healing too????"

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"I don't like anyone in my lab either," Watts agreed with Evelyn. He assumed it had been a Freudian slip for her to say lap instead. In his experience, letting someone into his lab was a lot like taking a small child into a glassblowing museum. It just set the child up for failure. How could they be expected to understand the fragility of everything around them? Would they know that the heat of the blow torch would burn them? It was much the same for those at Serval Industries. They didn't know what could be touched, what had to be avoided at all costs. He didn't even allow his own children into his lab on visits, even his son who wanted to pursue a career in the sciences.

Arthur hesitated for a brief second, before accepting Casey's hand and he rose to his feet. "Thank you," he told her curtly. The tide of the battle had yet to switch to their side. Longshot was problematic, but so was the inexperience of the group. He saw Elara's weapon knock both Andrew and Watts down, rather than hitting their foe. He sighed, looking down for a brief moment. The odd child's suit was sparking more and more. Arthur's inherent distrust and dislike for technology advised him to stay clear. That suit was going to blow. One of Longshot's shurikens hit him in the shoulder and Arthur grunted with pain, but it wasn't the worst he had experienced in his life.

"Andrew! Get out, now!" Watts snapped, fearing for his friend's life. This was another situation where he felt the little boy was set up for failure. Just as children shouldn't be allowed to pilot a fighter jet, they also shouldn't be given advanced weaponry to wear. It took him two tries, but he managed to vibrate the molecules fast enough that he phased Andrew out of the suit, freeing him. The suit fell to the ground and Watts looked at the sparking contraption, getting an idea. He wanted to keep Andrew away from the thing. He wanted to hit Longshot.

He yeeted the suit, only to fall short of hitting Longshot.

Arthur realized what the yellow speedster was thinking. It wasn't a bad idea. The suit looked like a ticking time bomb. He darted forward and picked up the sparking mess (Watts hadn't managed to throw it far at all). With practiced ease from years of surviving alone on a monstrous island, Arthur threw the suit at Longshot. The suit exploded on impact with Longshot, blasting him backwards. Their foe was still conscious, but he was in poor condition.

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Elara's widened as she watched Andrew's entire suit begin to spark. Despite the danger of touching an electrified suit, Elara's guilt for hitting him overcame her and she firmly took his hand to lift him back onto his feet. Watts didn't take her hand, but she was too worried about the suit to think anything of it. Watts also seemed worried too, and Elara took a step back and watched in awe as he completely phased Andrew out of the suit.

The suit wasn't her only worry at the moment, as she looked to see that Longshot had gotten back to his feet. She pressed her lips together in anger. This guy doesn't give up, does he? Why can't I do anything to him? He threw another bout of shurikens and even though Elara tried to dodge them, one embedded itself into the muscle above her clavicle. She cried out and gripped her shoulder, knowing that it wouldn't be easy to get this one out. How far had it sliced into her? How much would she bleed, if she removed it? She grit her teeth and sunk to one knee. She could only watch as Belladonna was hit with the blast of a gun. This guy was seriously dangerous. He'd almost killed her. He could if he wanted to. She watched him laugh at Sapphire's words through the tears that brimmed in her eyes because of the pain.

While she tried to think of something to do about the shuriken in her shoulder, she was glad to see that Watts and Arthur weren't phased by his attacks. Even though it took a second throw, Elara watched Arthur yeet the sparking suit right at him. Finally! She thought as she saw what was left of Longshot after the suit exploded upon impact. "Is he down? Did we get him? She asked, watching the still conscious but battered man. Even if the others answered her, she didn't trust that Longshot was down for the count. She needed to do something, and fast. Would the odds be in her favor now, when he was recovering?

She had to try. She focused all of her energy into creating one more illusion. When Longshot opened his eyes, he would see who could be an old friend. At first, her face would be blurred; a side effect of Elara's poor luck in using her ability at the current time. A few seconds later, it would appear that Spiral was standing beside him in the flesh. Face and all. If Longshot really was the friend that Spiral was looking for, he would say or do something to let them all know. Maybe it would even get him to stop attacking. Maybe, just maybe, it would help him regain his memory of who he once was.

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Casey looked at Arthur and gave him a slight nod towards him, as she noticed Andrew's suit starting to spark more from the damage that was done, which was a little bit worrying now. But Watts managed to get him out of his suit without any issue, seeing what he was trying to do and use the suit's explosion to take Longshot out. But Watts failed to and Arthur managed to throw the suit at Longshot before it ended up exploding knocking him down again. Casey yelped in pain as she felt a shuriken embedding itself into her leg, as she knelt down to look at it.

Luckily it wasn't to deep, and she managed to yank it out of her leg and threw it down onto the ground, she was a little bit annoyed after getting hit. Longshot looked pretty banged up now, as Elara used her powers to make an illusion of Spiral. Which looked pretty good actually and hoped that it would distract him long enough for someone else o knock him out. She was about to go and try to attack him when Evelyn stepped up.

Evelyn looked at Watts and shook her head slightly when she corrected her on her vocabulary, she was in her preteen body sometimes she did mess up with her wording a bit. "Oh just shut up." Evelyn said as she ran forward, they needed to either knock him out, or distract him long enough to make him surrender so that they could drag him out of here. She managed to give him a rather hard and swift kick to his chest, sending Longshot back down onto the ground and turned to face the others and gave them a slight smile.

Hearing Andrew mentioning about the splicer explosion was good now that he was actually starting to remember things more now. "Lets get him tied up, and hopefully try and find someway out of here." Evelyn said as she approached Longshot looking down at him, as she looked over seeing the illusion of Spiral. Evelyn really didn't know what was actually up with that woman still, and she just hoped that he would remain out cold long enough for them to get out.

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Longshot had blasted her in her stomach, sending her back a bit. She felt the burns along her skin. The bastard had a sword in his throat coming, but the others all banded together to bring him down (though Bella noted Watts' attempt with mild amusement). Once Longshot was down and confirmed, it was up to them to see how to handle him. Bella ran off, searching around the house. She came across a rope on the side. Grabbing it, she ran back.

She had never excelled in knot tying, but as she slipped the rope around the man and began to tie, her hands moved with grace. It had to be her smaller hands being able to expertly weave the rope around and tie it with a bow, as it were. Soon, Longshot was tied up expertly. She gave him a swift kick, not enough to do damage but enough to try to wake him up. "He's not going anywhere unless we let him." She was satisfied, for now. It still remained that they needed to get out of here and away from their child's bodies. As helpful as it had been, she missed her adult body more.

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"Hey what are you doing?" Andrew instantly asked Watts before the speedster more or less used his abilities to yank him out of his suit. To say that it was a shock or something was an understatement, considering the fact that he had not even really been warned ahead of time that it was going to happen. "You didn't think to warn a person about that? You can't just do something like that!" he protested even more, before crossing his arms and looking a little bit annoyed with Watts now.

Of course, it wasn't just because Watts had yanked him out of the suit, but also partially because his suit had just blown up. "Oh great, now I also have to rebuild the thing again... Great, thanks for that... Probably will take a while to do that..." To say the least that everything was going insane was an understatement. Now he wasn't entirely too sure what to do, or what he really could do considering the fact that he now didn't exactly have a weapon or anything.

Sapphire walked over as well. "Anyone have any sort of idea what it was he called here or whatever? He was messing with something, so what exactly was it?" she asked, glancing at the watch that Longshot had been messing with before. "Also, who wants to be somewhat in charge of dragging him around if he doesn't wake up or something? I for one claim not it!"

Andrew walked over and got the watch that Longshot had, before stepping away a little bit as he started to look at the thing. Probably a good thing that he somewhat had, as soon, Longshot started to stir, and opened up his eyes looking at the group around him. "Well aren't you kids a bit of a surprise. Cause I can definitely say that damn that hurt a lot. Even for me."

"How about you shut up since I feel like we should definitely be the one's asking the questions given your current predicament. So mind telling us why exactly you seemed to be trying to kill us?"

"Eh, I was bored, nothing really to do." he said with a shrug.

"Okay, since we seem to be stuck in a TV show, can I just say that is literally the worst reason for a villain to exist ever," Sapphire said as she turned to look at the others. "This is insanely boring at this point. So now what? Anyone have any bright ideas?"

"Well I'd suggest that we move from where we are right now..." Andrew interrupted after messing with the watch for a few moments.

"Why is that?"

"Since this watch? It's a device that's currently blasting out a signal to someone else, meaning that seems like he has friends or whoever is on the other end has a location as to where we are, and is likely heading this way if I had to guess..."

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"I'll hold onto him." Casey said giving a slight shrug as she hauled him up, she had the strength to keep him held down if he ever did try to squirm free, though she just hoped that she didn't end up falling on her face like she had been doing. She looked towards the others when Andrew picked up the wrist watch that Longshot had on him. She was curious what it was and then what Andrew said didn't sit well with her, and looked at him. "Then crush it or something." She suggested, as she started to move dragging Longshot with her and started to look around for an exit of some kind that they could get out of here.

She started to search around the house for a moment and she couldn't really find anything different or out of the ordinary from where they were right now. Casey looked around the inside of the house as well, and around the backyard, though she couldn't find anything at all that would show them an exit before whoever Longshot did call would come here in the first place. "Who did you call here?" Casey asked Longshot, hoping that he would be able to give her some kind of information.

Evelyn didn't like the idea that Longshot had called someone, though for the most part they were pretty successful taking down Longshot she liked Casey's suggestion on just smashing the thing. "Lets just find the exit Spiral had made and get out of here, I really don't want to be in my kid body for much longer." She said, as she started to follow shortly behind Casey as well, and started to search her surroundings, but couldn't find anything really either.

She stopped for a moment though something had caught her eye as Evelyn turned her head and looked at the treeline that was nearby something was off about them. But she didn't know what it was exactly either. "I think that is our exit." Evelyn pointed out, and looked over at the others, and Casey nodded slightly. A part of her did thought that it was kind of funny that they were dragging a full-grown man around tied up to which was really funny and reminded her of some kind of movie she saw a long time ago.

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Watts huffed slightly, having been expecting a little bit more gratitude from Andrew for saving his life. The suit had exploded less than a minute after Watts had phased him out of it. Would Andrew have preferred to still be trapped inside of it, doomed to die? And how was Watts supposed to have stopped it from exploding? It would have exploded whether or not the archer had thrown it at Longshot. At least now Longshot was down and tied up properly by Belladonna. "I saved your life. You're welcome," he told Andrew simply. He held off yelling at him - unlike the others, Andrew had the mind of a child.

But when it came to Longshot's motivations, he wasn't all that surprised. Watts had seen a lot of horrible kids television shows in his time, especially since his daughter had loved watching them together when she was little. In one of them, he was fairly certain the villain's motivation was that he didn't like exercise. Tormenting kids because they had nothing better to do? It was about par for the course. Lazy writing, sure, but the target audience for this was likely still in diapers. "So he has other playground bullies to summon," Watts observed.

"Let's get out of here then," Arthur said, his voice filled with determination as he grabbed Longshot by the scruff of his neck. Evelyn had mentioned seeing something in the trees and he dragged Longshot with him in that direction, pausing for a moment as he scanned the trees for anything that resembled a door. For a moment, he didn't see anything at all. Yet he was used to searching for things amongst the trees and he allowed his eyes to relax, letting things blur slightly, and then he saw it - an archway. It was easy to miss, blending in almost entirely.

He dragged Longshot with him through the archway, assuming that the others would follow almost instantaneously. There was a sudden change in pressure and he glanced around at his surroundings, his eyes narrowed. They were in a large and dark city - technologically advanced from what he could tell compared to what was possible on Earth. His eyes narrowed even more. He hated technology. Watts followed on through a moment later, looking around at the alien world in utter astonishment.

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While Longshot was now unconscious and tied up thanks to Elara's team members, he said nothing about the illusion of Spiral when he regained himself. Elara frowned, but decided to keep it up just in case he noticed her. How did they know that he was the one that Spiral was talking of? What if they were bringing back the wrong person? Spiral definitely wasn't going to be happy.

There was also the problem of Longshot's communicator-watch-thing. Who had he called for? How long would it be until they arrived, and how dangerous would they be compared to Longshot? Elara winced, the shuriken still lodged in her shoulder stinging with every step she took towards the team. She had to get this thing out. Bracing herself, Elara attempted to make her own mind believe that the pain that would ensue when she removed it would not be as strong. She clenched her teeth, gingerly took hold of the blade, and pulled it from her flesh.

The illusion hadn't worked. The pain was strong. Enough to make Elara hiss through her teeth. She had half a mind to throw it right back at Longshot, but instead let it drop to the ground. Her hand then returned to press into the cut. It would stop bleeding soon so it wasn't much concern, but it still stung like a bitch.

Her mind returned to the present problem when the wound stopped throbbing, and she came in just in time to hear Evelyn discover an exit. "Oh, thank god." She muttered before glancing around. "I don't want to know what kind of person this guy hangs around." Andrew took hold of the BEEPhole and began to drag him towards where Evelyn pointed out. Elara didn't waste much time. She immediately followed him and stood back as Andrew took the lead through the hidden door and then Watts too. Taking a deep breath to summon her courage, Elara slowly stepped through the arch.

Her feet felt solid ground beneath her instead of grass. The smell of a city hit her nostrils, but the sight of it was much different than any city she'd seen before. It felt like New York City, but it looked much more technologically advanced. Enough to convince her that they were on an alien planet. Were they out of the show? Was this the world they were taken to before they'd been turned into children? She looked down at herself, and frowned when she realized she was still a young girl. When she looked back up, she realized that she was still creating the illusion of Spiral. At least if Lancelot reacted, they'd know if they'd really gotten the job done.

"Do you recognize that woman, asshat?" She asked, happy to hear herself curse again as she pointed towards the illusion of Spiral. At least cursing proved that they were out of the reality TV dimension. Now she just needed Longshot to explain himself, or regain his memory of his past life before Spiral actually returned.

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Ensuring that Longshot would remain tied up, Bella checked her knots before stepping back. The others began to talk and devise next steps. Really, this was getting tedious. She wanted back to normal, back to her own body. Whatever games were being played here, while cute at first, were now aggravating. She almost wanted to punch the man until he revealed how and why. But that would take things too far. Plus, wouldn't that only make the game more fun for the ones doing this?

"He isn't going to tell us much. We could end him. It would be quicker." Bella said it with a straight face, which was weird since it was coming out of an 11-year-old's body. "But since I have a feeling that's not the case, then I suggest we stop questioning and start moving. The sooner we leave, the sooner we get answers and get back to normal." Either way, she was done playing around with him. Take him or leave him, kill him or don't, she wanted to move.

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"Hey you never know, he might not actually be all that bad," Andrew commented as he more or less followed along after the others, eventually through the portal or whatever it was. He hadn't really been able to see it for the most part, but he did smash the watch or whatever before he went through the portal of sorts in the trees, finding himself in the city of sorts. "Whoa... This is really weird... Where the hell are we?"

"I have no idea, but this is definitely a very different place from where we just were..." Sapphire muttered, glancing around at the area that they were in, before she turned to look over at Longshot.

Arthur would no longer have a grip on Longshot, who shook his head slightly once they passed through the portal, and stood up, a shuriken in his hand as he cut the ropes that surrounded him, however the instant he was up, he put the weapon away and looked at the kids nearby. "I'm for not killing me... Sorry about that, I have no control of what I do in one of those situations, and for that I apologize, allow me to introduce myself, my name is Longshot." With those words he glanced over at the illusion that Elara had created. "You mean Rita?"

"...Who the hell is Rita?"

"...Sorry, that's just what her name was originally, she doesn't remember that though, not after Mojo was through with her. I don't even remember too much of who she was before or whatever because Mojo wiped much of my memories... But she was originally Ricochet Rita Wayword, and she originally was from Earth, like I'm guessing you were or something..."

"...Okay, that is kind of funny, that Spiral is actually named Rita... Like woooooooow that is just a little bit unexpected given who she is," Sapphire said, not really being able to keep a hold of her laughter as she giggled slightly.

"Oh, Mojo drove her insane and essentially tortured her, and created Spiral that way... If you all aren't careful you could end up like her. No memories of who you are and essentially turned into one of Mojo's bodyguards. Though... Guessing you all aren't actually kids are you? Mojo's pulled that sort of trick before a long time ago, turning people into kids again..."

"Yeah, we aren't supposed to," she commented, before some sort of vehicle flew over head, it had almost a spotlight of sorts as it started moving around nearby.

"Look, we need to get off the streets, now, before Mojo catches up. Look you all don't have to trust me, but right now that thing up above? It is meant to catch us, yeah, we just got out of Mojo's little game, but trust me when I tell you that the world we were all stuck in is absolutely nothing compared to the real Mojo World."

"...So we need to get out of this area in order to hopefully not end up dead... And I'm guessing that Spiral isn't going to show up and help out if we are just out here in the open considering the fact that she still works for Mojo I'm guessing?" Andrew asked, looking over at him.

"Exactly. So if you want Spiral's help in anyway, then I'd suggest we get off the streets, now."

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Evelyn and Casey both followed the others through the archway, Evelyn looked around covering her eyes slightly as they adjusted somewhat and looked around at the city that they were all now in. At least they were all out of their weird reality show which was a good thing as well, but they were all still kids. "I'm still an awkward little redheaded kid.." Evelyn said mostly to herself, looking over at Watts for a moment, and then Longshot. Who managed to cut himself free, she was half expecting Spiral to come out now at this point and help them again but she hadn't made her appearance again when Belladonna spoke up.

"Yeah, not killing him Spiral wants him back to normal which he is now unless you want to remain a kid and be here forever." Evelyn said, as much as she didn't like Spiral right now, she then looked over at Longshot who was probably there longer and maybe knew of a place where they could get off of the streets. "Any ideas on where to go then?" Evelyn asked Longshot.

Casey looked around at the new scenery that they all found themselves in, hearing Elara swearing meant that they weren't in the little show that they were in now just moments ago. Still finding herself in her child body she wanted to get back to normal as soon as possible, crossing her arms over her chest and looked over at Longshot. Evelyn did have a point, and maybe he did even know a place where they could hide from Mojo. She didn't want to end up like.

Casey looked up at the sky, seeing a spotlight going overhead attached to some kind of craft, eventually it passed and spotted an alleyway close by looking over at the others. "Theres an alleyway close by." Casey said, and looked around the area she didn't have any intention on staying by the streets much longer, and she didn't really trust Longshot just yet either as she made her way across.