"Let you go?? Let you go???" The Mad Hatter giggled crazily and shook his head while continuing to rub his hands together. "Oh, no no no no no!" He definitely felt like he still had the upper hand - that much was obvious. The Nekomata's words behind him would have been enough to make any other man's skin crawl in terror. In truth, he too felt that familiar chill as she grew closer. Her cold breath brushing against his neck and sending shivers down his spine. Those threats were so vivid... so detailed...

And yet, as he turned, his grin couldn't be wider.

"Alice!" The Hatter exclaimed as he held out his hands in an almost loving fashion. He giggled and actually took a step toward her, "I've been waiting for you to show such malice!"

However, before he could finish his manically induced giggle fit, Date knocked him over with one single right hook to the face. He stumbled as the fist connected, the hat falling off as he did so. The clock seemed to slow down a bit as he fell to the ground, as the distorted world around the group began to break up more and more. The short man simply flinched up at the group and attempted to scurry back like the coward he truly was.

Only one thing left to do now.

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"Wha- yeah, Superman was missin' for weeks before he turned back up and started killin' everyone!" The light-headed thug exclaimed as he held up his hands. If anything, he at least sounded pretty confused about everything. And compared to those last guys, he certainly seemed more than willing to cooperate at the threat of violence to his person.

He pointed a finger in Otto's direction when he pointed out told Bardock not to kill him, "I think you should listen to the Webhead!" he exclaimed, "A-after all... what good am I to ya dead, right?"

To his relief, Bardock soon did indeed drop him to the ground. He breathed a sigh in said relief once that was done, and proceeded to brush his fancy suit off with both hands. "Thank you." he said with another sigh, his voice a bit sarcastic but generally pretty thankful. He made his way over to the partially destroyed wall and began to lean against it, "So... you guys wanna know about Firefly, right?" he held up both hands, " 'Cuz, I can tell ya about Firefly. Not so much Superman. That's above my paygrade, ya know?"

Even though he was trying to play things cool, his stiff body language and shaky voice made it clear that he was more than likely pissing his pants right about now.

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The fox glares at the Hatter as he scurries away in fear. As the illusion around the group begins to crumble, Grey can feel his head getting lighter and lighter, the influence becoming easier to resist, evidenced by the ease with which he stands up. And seeing as how Date's insane right hook seems to be the cause of this creepy fantasy's destruction...

Grey runs at the Hatter like a speeding bullet, throwing a mean punch directly at the villain that would undoubtedly send him right into dreamland if it hits.

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As Grey's fist struck the Hatter's face, a loud, thunderous clap rang out the clock-shaped arena. A bright flash filled the room, sending a sharp pain through all your heads. But as soon as that pain appeared, it was gone, as was the heaviness that had plagued your heads mere moments prior.



When the vision around you all cleared up, you found that you were in some old, dusty dining room. The table you'd been seated at was quite messy, with all the tea and treats either spilled over or smashed to bits. And all the while, the Mad Hatter's body was laid out on the ground, arms and legs sprawled at his sides. A stream of drool spilled from the corner of his lips - but he was still breathing, so there was that.

"C'mon..." Joel grunted through heavy breaths as he holstered his gun. "Let's get goin'..." And then, the man turned to the door, which was now visible to the group as a whole.

Oh, and Sougo was fine now too, in case you were wondering.

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So good news, Grey threw a punch square at The Hatter's ugly mug and knocked him out, though he was still alive after that since he was still breathing, Sougo was back to his un-mind controlled self, and everyone was back at the dining room, which looked all old and decerped. Bad news? Well Lilith started to ponder on a certain thought, believing that this whole battle would've even happened if she hadn't intervened earlier. Sure she was able to help everyone out by removing some of the masks from the henchman but she still believed that this whole situation was he fault, it's a scary thought to be sure.

Lilith scanned everyone and took a deep breath and prepared to tell everyone what's on her mind. "H-Hey guys, I'm...sorry for earlier." She said sounding a little more somber then usual. "I knew I shouldn't have intervened and just let things take care of themselves, and...and...I-" Suddenly Shantae would stop Lilith form continuing any further and try to cheer her up a bit. "Lilith calm down! This wasn't your fault, you did what you had to do and you helped us all get out of it. Just try to calm down and think about what I told you."

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He calmed his breathing enough as he looked to the group in time to notice the man with a...what the hell was that? Either way, he seemed to charge at the one who shot lightning from himself back in the room. He watched as another stopped the swing by grabbing his arm, as the man then started to shout at him! Trevor watched in confusion as the 'man' asked for his arm to be let go. The tall metal person spoke about someone named Garfield (must be something foreign) of which he also mentioned how Superman was actually missing for a while, which he had to agree sounded a bit odd considering their arrival was explained as for dealing with the man. Otto then started questioning the lightbulb man, to which he responded and had said he could talk about Firefly. Trevor moved over with Ciri and Otto, placing his weapons back on his belt and crossing his arms as he looked to the lightbulb, guess his kind of 'questioning' wasn't going to be needed here.

Interacting: None really, just moving closer to lightbulb head

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"OFCOOOOUUUURRRSE! Ofourse more of you motherffffffff- I haven't been here long but I am already TIRED of you losers! So you're looking to throwdown then COME ON!" Captain Falcon gets into a fighting stance as the rabbit people charge at him. As the bunny people come at him, Captain Falcon jumps up into the air and quickly spins in mid air. This makes him straighten out his body, while facing backwards, and down with his foot is engulfed with a powerful surge of electricity and launches himself towards the rabbit people. "LIGHTNING FALCON!"
The rabbits try to dodge out of the way, but as as he lands into the clock, the tremor breaks the glass, making them all jump back. After this, the pilot leaps up high into the air and does a double alternate kick, knocking to knock the rabbits down into the ground.

One of them doesn't fall, so he does a quick punch to the rabbit's head before it can even attempt to get up, then he does a downward smash into the rabbits chest, causing a loud, nasty crack followed by a sport of blood. The rabbit falls face first, and he continues to jump up in the air, then flies at the next one, smashing him into the ground with a fiery fist before grabbing said rabbit and throwing him down to the next rabbit. The rabbit people all scream and run away from him, and start running away from the pilot, even going so far as jumping off of the falling clock if it means putting distance between them and the pilot. A wide smile spreads across the Captain Falcon's face as he continues his rampage. "Wow, this feels SO good! But I'll need to beat a few more of you fools if I want to get to the real boss!" Before Captain Falcon could give chase, the cracks in clock grow bigger and bigger until it breaks all together, having the pilot free-fall into the unknown "Hm....Kinda wish I had my Falcon Flyer right now....That'd be neat..." He then lands hard on his back and as he looks up he sees a gruff looking man, a girl with purple hair, a ghost girl, a furry of unspecified gender, a man with...Good fashion sense all things considered, another man with pretty bushy hair, some lady with a scarf tied around her head, a Power Ranger, some guys with yellow hair and a weasel, and others. "Ah. There you guys are." The pilot takes a look at his surroundings "Are we in antique shop? Haven't been in these for awhile...Pretty dingy. Sooo, did we win?"

He watched as then, the fox guy ran up and decked him in the face too, Date giving out a bit of a chuckle as the hit landed, then he held his head as the world seemed to flash in front of him. Upon being able to see again, he looked around to a broken dining room, everything was a mess and the hatter was unconscious on the ground. He looked over to Joel as he spoke up about leaving. Date slowly nodded "Yeah...glad to be out of that crazy place" he followed behind Joel, letting out a breath of relief. He turned to Lilith and nodded with Shantae "Yeah, this wasn't anybodies fault. Well, aside from the guy who actually drank the tea, but even then he didn't really know the mistake he was making. Just be happy we're all out of it safely."

Interacting with Joel sorta and lilith
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Well, at the very least, it was good to have a form of confirmation that what Ultron had just told them was true. Though it reamined to be seen if the new, Lightbulb headed man could even be trusted. It wasn't that he doubted the Information both he and the Ai had relayed at this point, oh no, but you'll forgive him if he thinks this guy is just trying to save his own skin by agreeing with the machine. Whatever. As he walked away from the man in question, Bardock scoffed, perhaps just a bit unimpressed at how spineless he was. He was so quick to cooperate after all, but at least they were getting somewhere. The saiyan crossed his arms, watching with a slight frown as the rather classy man found himself a spot, allowing him a moment to make them all aware of what it was he was actually able to tell them. The fact that he couldn't tell them anything about superman due to it being 'above his paygrade' made him roll his eyes for a bit, but at least he could tell them more about the other person of interest, Firefly. "Tell us what you know about 'Firefly' then. And i wouldn't lie about anything, for your sake. Got it?" Alright--Maybe the threat was a little bit unnecessary, but so long as it got the right information out of him, it didn't really matter to him. It got the message across, like Otto had prior.

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It seemed as though the purple cat monster in the area would be the one treating him. His nose already hurt so the cat monster's implication of more made him slightly more nervous. Especially with the scarf now wrapped around his nose. "NO PAIN NO [gains] AM I RIGHT?!" He deflected the question and started thinking about crypto, dogecoin, sales, nice glasses. "I'M SPAMTON G. SPAMTON YOUR [Number one rated salesman1997] OF CO-" Before he could continue his intro the cat monster gave a sharp yank on his nose setting it back, but not before the puppet let out a pained cry. Which to some might sound familiar.

But after a moment he stopped and gingerly touched his nose. "WOW THAT [sparked] BUT TH4NKS PAL! WHAT'S [[Your name here]] DOC?"
The puppet quickly moved on to the next thing as he looked at the cat monster as if he'd not just been screaming in agony just moments ago.

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The illusion's gone thanks to the Hatter being knocked unconscious, leaving the group alone with the sleeping Hatter in some dirty old dining room. He'd stop to admire how untouched this place looks compared to the rest of the building, but they still have civilians to save. First, though-

Grey looks over at Sougo, joining Ben by his side. "I was going to ask the same thing. Oh, and, here-" The fox hands Sougo his buckle. "I think this belongs to you. That creep's influence should be gone from it... I think. Are you going to be okay?"

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The Espeon isn't bothered by the loud nostalgia-triggering sound at all. Thankfully, hearing damage and tinnitus don't exactly seem to afflict Pokemon. He smiles at Spamton's gratitude, obliging him with an approving nod. "Oh, my name? It's nothing special. A rather humble name, in fact." Eric puts a paw to his chest and grins proudly. "I'm Eric Thani, Lore Hunter, Battle Medic, and Professional Explorer, Unofficial Heir to the Purple Throne, Slayer of Eternatus and Dark Matter and Destroyer of Corruption. But you can just call me Eric for short. Nice to meet a sharply dressed fellow as yourself, Spamton G. Spamton. Tell me, does the G stand for Glamorous?"

The cat's ears perk up as he hears a familiar voice behind him.

"...no. Way. I did not just hear what I think I heard. Okay. I'm gonna turn around, and there better not be a Lycanroc behind me."

Eric turns around and his eyes light up.

"Fenrir?" The Espeon puts his paws on Fenrir's cheeks. "Dude, it's been AGES!" He hugs the Lycanroc without any regards to the wolf's personal space. "Last I saw you was on Vast! How've you been?"

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Condition : Fine
Location : ???
Status : This brings back memories, that's for sure

Fenrir paid attention to the weird individual named Spamton G. Spamton... That's funny, their almost-synthethic and bizzare way of speech reminds him of a certain Porygon-Z he met back in Vast... One who sold him a sword that's basically unmeltable (which he discovered later on that not even a Magcargo could melt it). The nostalgia of his adventures in Vast came pouring back in, like a river of memories flowing in his mind. Fenrir's got Eric to thank for that. And to think he's been so happy in his new life as a Guildmaster he nearly forgot the friends he met along the way... He'll have to reunite with everyone else sometime in the future. Poppet, Language, Super, Larry... Everyone...

And it seems his initial suspicions are correct. That right there is Eric the Espeon. And the Lycanroc behind him?... Is none other than Fenrir himself, in the flesh. As Eric turns his back around after fixing up the Spamton fella, Fenrir can only reply weakly "Surpriiise- GHRK!" And before Fenrir could even continue, Eric charged at him and placed his paws on his cheek. Fenrir could do nothing but embrace the hug which followed afterwards. His fur is fluffy but rough at the same time, like a mix between cotton and gravel, in fact... Yep... It's been ages since they've met in person. He vividly remembers sending a messenger his way a couple days ago, but... This is different. And it's a lot better. It's been too long since they've met... "So good to see you here Eric..."

"Couldn't be better, actually!... I've finally got a guild of my own, along with Hel!... Speaking of... You seen her around? We went through some sort of wormhole and... We both got split up earlier somehow..." Fenrir proudly presents the lapel pin on his orange vest. It's a small circle, with an emblem inside of it and a gold outline... But anyways, as much as he wants to catch up with Eric, he wants to find Hel first. He's confident that she could handle herself. After all, she could take on Zero Isle... But in a place like this? Where neither of the two would have any idea what's going on?... It's simply best if the two just stick close with one another. "And uuuh... What's going on?... Where are we?... I am so lost right now..." There's so much more he'd love to ask, and those are just the tip of the iceberg. At the moment, a time out and some exposition on the current situation he's dealing with would be pleasant...

"You're fine, kid," Joel responded to Lilith as he made his way to the door, stepping over the Hatter as he did so. Shantae seemed to have things covered from there, anyways. So while she made her way over to Lilith, Joel made his way made his move to open the door. His hand wrapped around the knob and he pulled....

And the door didn't budge.

"Sh-shit!" Joel grunted angrily as he tried his best to get the damn door open. But no matter how hard he tried, it wouldn't budge. Within time, the man had given up, and turned to the rest with a dejected sigh. "You guys wouldn't happen to have any weird... door-related powers you could use right about now, would you?"

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A large, cheeky smile etched across Captain Falcon's face "Door-related powers you say, hmmmmmmm? I have just what you're looking for!" Captain Falcon rolls off the table and walks towards the door while breaking his knuckles "Stand back, folks! Especislly you,, Glass Cannon.. Don't want you to break yourself." The pilot warns as he stands in front of the door. He spaces his legs out and puls his fist back as far as he can before it catches ablaze "FALCON!...PUNCH!!!" The pilot punches the door as the form of a giant Falcon made of fire engulfs his entire arm

"I mean... what's there to know?" The lightbulb head asked as he leaned against the nearby wall and crossed his arms. He turned to Ciri, then, and made a noise that could only make it sound like he was smirking. "Name's Mister Combustible, sweetheart." He waited for a moment, then, before shrugging and continuing his explanation, "Firefly's a B-List villain from Gotham. Obsessed with burnin' shit to the ground.... dude's got burns on ninety percent of his body, so I guess it's some form of coping mechanism."

The "man" shrugged again and pushed himself off the wall, "He hired me to look after those asshole thugs..." he turned in the group's direction and fell silent for a short moment, "Of course I didn't listen. Harmin' innocent lives for no reason ain't really my thing," Combustible thinbed toward the nearby closet he'd been trapped in. "That's why he locked me in that there closet."

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