TruthHurts22

World of Light

RANK 3
15/30 EXP

Sandswept Sky - Inner Mountain > Graveyard of the Peaks

With the makeshift elevator ride up the vertical tunnel being uneventful, the adrenaline that fueled Raz's inner fire petered out, leaving him as cold as physically possible without dying. He shuddered at a near constant rate, folding his arms tight to try and conserve his body heat. In spite of all this, he still gave a chipper response to the group's discussions.

"T-t-to be honest, this is probably the muh-most fun I've had since I got here," he said through his clattering teeth. "Al Mamoon is certainly warmer, but s-s-s-super boring."

The mood turned south fast afterwards as the reality of the situation settled in and the group fell silent. Along with the cold, the self-doubt from before started to creep up Raz's spine again. He'd been trying to make himself useful on this mission only to end up feeling like he was just 'there'. Had he been helping? Sorta. It barely felt like it though, and with how tricky the climb had been so far and would probably get still, being sorta helpful might be more of a hinderance.

When they reached the chain's end that doubt only grew. The air was so frigid that Raz already felt like he was a walking popsicle, and the howling on the other side of those huge doors was not making him hopeful. Still, having made it this far it would be pretty dumb to turn back around. All that could be done was try to keep warm, as hard as it was. He tried to stay in the center of the group, hoping to conserve warmth like a group of penguins, but he didn't voice this thought out loud. Some of the people here were made out of metal, so getting too close ran the risk of freezing to them. Probably.

At the end of the bridge, Raz tried to stand his ground as the sudden rush of freezing wind bowled right into the group, only to tumble backwards in a full flip and land on his face in the snow. He picked himself up, brushed the snow off of him as fast as possible, and pulled his goggles down over his eyes.

It was time to get serious.

The graveyard leading up to the summit chilled Raz to the bone, more than the wind ever could. Hiking up a mountain sounded easy! The truth of it was staring right at him now. And the giant, ominous hand - this 'Master Hand' that Tora and Poppi must've been talking about before - was right. There wasn't any option except going forward for them.

"See, we really could've used a cannon right now." Trying to take his mind off of the growing anxiety, Raz trudged into the group members furthest ahead. "We need to come up with... with something," Raz shouted over the shrill whistling of the wind. "There's no way we can just walk up there like this! Can we tear off one of those doors, maybe? Use it as a big shield and push our way up? What about him?" Raz pointed to Mona. "You can turn into a car, right? Maybe you could drive ahead and shield us from the wind!"

They weren't great ideas. They might not even be good ones. The group needed to figure out a plan regardless of how it came about. Raz scanned the surroundings, seeing nothing but snow, rods, and the occasional unlucky climber, which he didn't linger of for long. At least his goggles were keeping his eyes clear. "Wait! These things are, uh, they're gravestones, right? Something like that? Someone had to have put them here... you think there's people in this part of the mountain?"

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Word Count: 615
EXP Gain: +1

World of Light

RANK 3
7/30 EXP

Sandswept Sky - Inner-Mountain - Back On the Ground

"Hey, it wasn't going to fail," Raz began, trying to save face from the frankly rude reception to being saved Therion had, if only burning wreckage from above and monsters below hadn't gotten in the way first. There was time to vindicate himself later when nobody was in danger of being eaten or crushed. The bright side, pun not intended, was that the double-wrecked ship illuminated the cave enough to fight whatever ghouls lurked in the dark. And it made the air a lot warmer! Oh, not to mention that it provided the perfect ammunition for someone lacking their usual fire-starting capabilities.

Seeing as how his two climbing companions focused their attention on the icy golem and saving Fox, Raz took a more supportive role, hanging behind the upfront fighters and pelting Kelvin with chunks of burning debris using his TK. He wasn't hurling recklessly, of course, aiming for the moments when he had clear shots and no one was too close to it. It was just like the knife-throwing act back home. It even had the same potentially disastrous results if he missed!

Any further help he could've given was cut short when Kelvin pulled off its last ditch effort, freezing most of the fighters as it went to split them all up. In his mad dash to pelt it with more makeshift fireballs Raz had ended up on the side of the ice wall opposite Kelvin, Therion, and Big Band. "Aw man," Raz sighed. There was some sort of irony there - the Wendigo engulfed in fire and Kelvin blocked off by his ice - but it was mostly lost on the boy who would've preferred to get a few licks in himself. But everyone else was holding up fine, at least. Maybe he didn't need to be the one giving the helping hand all the time.

He turned to the others with him and pointed to the burning wreckage. "We, uh, got the chain free, by the way."

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WORD COUNT: 329
EXP GAIN: +1

World of Light

RANK 3
5/30 EXP

Sandswept Sky - Inner-Mountain - Like Really High Off The Ground
ft. @Yankee

At nearly every turn, Raz was proven right for his insistence in wearing all his protective gear wherever he went. It wasn't weird, see! Though while his gloves helped protect his hands from scratches, rope burns, and the occasional weird slimy meat, and were stopping his skin from peeling off on the cold metal, they weren't very warm. The higher he got the more he shivered until he was practically shaking the whole chain. It still wasn't any trouble for him to leap off, bounce in mid-air, and land on the ship's mast, though that probably left Therion wobbling down below.

"Juh-juh-jeez, I really wish I could make some fire up here," Raz said, rubbing his arms for warmth. "Or even Lili. Sh-she was always good at that."

As if granting his wish (in spirit) the whole ship jolted downwards. Raz yelled, losing his balance and slipping right off the mast! His reflexes saved him from the fall, though, as he tucked his arms between his legs and grabbed hold of the mast. He swung for a moment as he caught his breath. "Oookay, I'll take having my blood rush through me. That works." The scare gave Raz the time to notice his followers, too. "Oh, here, lemme help you with that!" Once he pulled himself back onto the mast, Raz put two fingers to his temple and brought forth his telekinetic hand, big and glowing a faint orange, placing it roughly halfway between the chain and the mast. "Just use that as a springboard," he shouted to Therion.

After making sure his climbing partner was safe and steady, Raz turned his attention to the frozen chain. "I'll get started on knocking this loose. You can go see if there's anything inside the ship." He crouched low, grabbing the mast with one hand and holding the other near the side of his head. He focused on the ice that had frozen over the chain, and let loose a psychic blast right at it, tearing a chunk of the ice clean off. A pause of a few seconds long to let the psychic energy build back up then another shot, repeated like that a few times over to chip away at the block. Raz hesitated, though, when he noticed skeletons inside the ship beginning to throw themselves overboard, whether disturbed by one of the others or by the ship's sudden shift.

"Ok that's... weird," he said, watching a particularly glowy one plummet down. He turned to whoever was out there with him and said, "I'm going to go check on them, I think. You got the ice, right?"

Why Raz would think it was a good idea to go into the ship full of haunted skeletons was anyone's guess. Whatever justification, Raz sidled down the mast towards the bridge, and clambered inside the ship's hull. Inside the skeletons seemed less agitated, or maybe less alive, so Raz took the opportunity to poke around the ruins, looking for anything useful. Some furs? Ships carried furs in them, right? One of those old-fashioned tinderboxes to light. Anything of interest, really.

In his poking and prodding, Raz found a handful of mysterious skulls scattered about the "bottom" of the hull. He picked one up, turning it over in his hands... only for its headless owner to jerk out of the crevice beside him! "Yaaugh!" Raz shouted, stumbling backwards, tripping over more skulls and riling up more undead pirates.

"H-hang on, wait, I wasn't trying to disturb your rest or anything," Raz said, holding up his hands - one still holding onto a skull - as a sign of peace. "I was barely plundering, honest! I wouldn't dream of taking your hard-earned... uh... whatever it is you guys have in here."

Judging by the ghostly rattling and the fact they kept coming at him, it seemed like the pirates weren't in the mood to talk. Duck under their grasping arms and rushing between their legs, Raz booked it back out of the hull and onto the ship's mast. Once a good distance down (up? away?), he looked back to see the skeletons all trying to get after him, only to fall straight down. "Uhh, sorry! Hope there's an after-afterlife!" As he turned to head back to the others, Raz realized that he was still holding one of their skulls. "Oh. Huh." He glanced downwards. "Naaah, probably a bit too mean to toss you overboard too." He stashed it into his satchel as he made his way along the mast once more. "I'm not sure if it'll mean much but I'll see if I can find a nice, warm beach to put you in."

When he reached Therion and Midna, he said, "Those skeletons weren't very fun. Did you guys get the--"

Raz's question was both left unfinished and answered when the unstuck chain rushed upwards and pulled its pincers with it, cracking the mast they were standing on in two. Raz screamed - who wouldn't? - as he plummeted down to the same floor all those skeletons dusted themselves on.

"Hang on, I got this!" Tumbling in the air, Raz grabbed the back of Therion's scarf. He wasn't sure if he had a way of stopping his fall, but it was better safe than sorry when you're free-falling to a hard icy grave. It didn't seem like he 'got this' though as the two were still falling, closer and closer to their demise. Only for at the last moment, roughly ten feet to the bottom, a bubble formed above Raz with the sound of a popping cork, stopping their fall and turning it into a gentle descent. The whiplash might not've been great for Therion but it was better than splatting.

Luckily too, the bubble gave off enough light to surround them, protecting them from the monsters that preferred their darkness. Once Therion's feet touched the floor Raz yanked his bubble downwards and balanced on it, keeping it manifested and glowing.

"Wait, what's going on down here?" Raz asked out loud, looking around at all the fire and light and action-ready combatants. "Some sorta monster attack?"

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Word Count: 1,020
EXP Gain: +2

World of Light

RANK 3
4/30 EXP

Sandswept Sky - Inner-Mountain

If the gentle correcting from his teammates wasn't enough to convince Raz, the huge ice giant starting to move definitely shut him up. Even though he wasn't in the danger zone of the titan's exhale, Raz crouched down, putting his hands to the ice bridge to steady himself. Seeing the others in front of him threatening to be blown off, he thrust out his big orange TK hand, hovering it at the edge as a way to right anyone that got off balance. When the wind cleared Raz stood up again and continued on behind everyone else, much less talkative until they were out of the woods.

On the other side, in the next cavern, he let out a breath he'd been holding since then. "That was, that was close, huh?" Brushing past his possibly involvement in the titan's near awakening, Raz hurried ahead, doing a little fast-walk deeper into the catacombs.

Pros: solid ground, no huge heads that could blow then down in a single sigh, and a touch less cold. Cons: everything else. They were attacked by monsters, some seeming to come right out of the walls, and the corridors were cramped enough to make it difficult to fight back. Luckily Raz's smallness helped him to weave between the legs of his taller, well-proportioned allies in the heat of a scuffle. The icy javelin throwers would've been an issue, but Raz could pluck the spears out from the walls they embedded into (or, with a bit of luck, right out of the air) and fling them right back with his Telekinesis, smashing the ice golems to pieces.

When the group split up, Raz decided to tag behind Tora and Poppi, and got a front row seat to the Nopon's greedy tendencies. "I'm not sure about this," Raz thought aloud, looking into a pot that had a few handfuls of coins sparkling at the bottom. "This looks like some kind've tomb, so all this treasure probably belongs to the people in here, right? It doesn't feel right to steal from them. Even if a few come back to life and try to kill us."

On the other side of the maze of corpses and cobblestone, they all filed into another big ice cavern. Raz shivered. "I'm gonna be honest, I hate being surrounded by ice all the time," he said, folding his hands under his armpits for warmth. Despite the chill, the chamber was another stunning sight. If Raz didn't know better he'd assume he walked right into the ice giant's head, with the way the various ships were frozen to the walls far, far above them. He still wished he had his Pyro back. It was really, really cold.

"I can get up there!" Jumping at the chance to get his blood pumping, Raz was the first to make way for the chain. He scrambled up a section of scaffolding broken in a way that resembled a ladder, balanced along one of the wooden beams to the center of the chamber, and hopped onto the giant pincers. "I'll get this thing unstuck, don't worry about me." He started climbing the chain, up and up and up at a pretty decent pace. Probably not faster than anyone who could just fly up there, but you had to admire his gusto.

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WORD COUNT: 552
EXP GAIN: +1

World of Light

RANK 3
3/30 EXP

Sandswept Sky - Split Mountain, High Hrothgar (et al)

Climbing this mountain was nothing to sneeze at, unless you caught a cold during it, which was very likely with how chillier and damper things got further up. But compared to the literal mind-bending feats of jumping, swinging, and scaling he's done in the past, it was no issue for Raz. He was uncharacteristically quiet during this stretch of the climb, outside of helping others whenever they needed a boost up. Was he mentally preparing himself for the upcoming fight? Contemplating the nature of the world they were in? Having a song stuck in his head on loop? Who could say, really.

The break at the big iron door helped to reorient him to the task at hand. Being too distracted was a bad idea when things were about to get dangerous. "You can count on me, Mr. Band," Raz said with a small salute. "No way I'd abandon mid-mission!"

The giant ice-wall man made him second guess that statement just a teensy bit. "Woooow. That's... really big." With that helpful observation given, Raz took up the rear of the group down the narrow bridge, taking to it like a horse took to water. Or, no, wait, like a fish took to... horses? Ok, maybe the cold was getting to him.

"Psst." Raz shot a whisper up the group, trying not to be too loud, but also wanting to actually be heard. A pretty harrowing balancing act, much like the actual one they were doing. "Are we sure this isn't that champion guy we're supposed to deal with? Because he looks kinda dealt with already. Is he even still alive?"

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WORD COUNT: 272
EXP GAIN: +1

World of Light

RANK 3
1/30 EXP

Sandswept Sky - Split Mountain, Redstone City

@Thatguyinastore

The team edged forward up the craggy mountain slopes as if they were in a sandstorm, only one where the particles of sand were as big as cars and flying at them just as fast. Not the best metaphor, but an apt one!

While some of the less agile climbers tried to hunker down against the oncoming racers or find a way to brute through, Raz was pretty used to having big things flying at him. He sidestepped a biking father who had his child irresponsibly strapped to the back of his bicycle, ducked under a small round creature riding a giant floating star, and even managed to clear a couple of smaller Gorons with well timed jumps. He was making decent progress on his own, until another attempt at Goron-hurdling took a turn. Raz landed on one of the rolling creatures, running atop it just long enough to lose all the ground he covered and then some, before stumbling over the Goron's rocky skin and tumbling to the ground. A pretty ungraceful landing after the stunt he just pulled, one that left him with a bruised knee, a bruised ego, and a mouthful of pebbles and dust.

"Pleh, caff!" Raz coughed and spluttered, only just rolling out of the way of a screeching ATV from ramping off his head. "Okay, going against the tide, not the best move," he admitted as he picked himself up. At least others found a better way forward to make up for his blunder. Maybe nobody noticed?

Raz was square in the middle of the lane, the walls to either side still pretty far apart, and he knew all about running across the road, which probably also applied to running across an active race. His stumble on top of that Goron did shake something loose, though. Not, like, physically, but mentally.

"Oh yeah, I've missed this one!" Raz hopped in place, and under his feet a bright orange orb with a green ring popped into existence. Already on a slope, the Levitation ball started to roll downwards, but Raz was (pretty much) an expert on this thing. With big backpedaling steps, he skewed the ball sideways, turning his downward descent into a curved arc towards the wall, almost like he was surfing. He flung past several of his fellows on the way, but he made extra sure to aim himself towards one of their newest additions; Ellie. Compared to the others who all had their own ways of dealing with the onslaught, she seemed to be ill equipped for it, and Raz was nothing if not helpful.

"Incoming!" He shouted right before he passed Ellie by. Once he was close enough, Raz also tapped into another power he was sorely missing, and a big hand the same color as his ball formed, plucking Ellie up by the underarms, and pulled her along with him. It was probably a sudden shift for her, buuuut hopefully she'd be more grateful for the safety than any possible whiplash she got.

Once they got to the wall, Raz poofed his Levitation away and set Ellie down, now that they were away from most of the riders. "You know how to climb?" Raz asked, though continued with, "just follow my lead," regardless of her answer.

At the race's starting line, once everyone was back together, Raz accepted any water offered, hoping to wash out the taste of rock, sand, and machine oil from his mouth. Don't ask how that last one got there. "Hey, thanks," Raz said to Tora, giving the Pon a friendly pat on the, uh, shoulder-ish area. "Next time we run into speeding bikers, I'll be sure to stick with you." He meant it, too, and it wasn't a completely unlikely prospect in this world, so who knew?

The next part of the trek was, thankfully, less exciting. As the hot stone canyons bled away into dense woods, Raz started to shuffle his warmer clothing on, trading one jacket for another and slipping on one shoe after the other while continuing forward. Quick-changing could come out pretty useful outside of performing.

When the group slowed down to another involuntary stop, Raz hurried to the front. "I hope this bear isn't telekinetic," Raz worried, putting out an idea that nobody else would've thought, and probably won't stop thinking about now. It was much, much bigger than anything he'd seen before, and luckily, it was asleep, even if that was impeding theme. "Too bad it's still... uh, ya know." Raz left the vague point in the air, gesturing at the bear, not wanting to spring the crew's secret mission when there were some newbies around. "Otherwise I could probably wake it up mentally. Maybe we can just... pet it? Awake?" Raz manifested his TK again, idly pushing it closer and closer to the bear's head, as if testing the waters of the idea.

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WORD COUNT: 817
EXP GAIN: +2

World of Light

<Snipped quote by TruthHurts22>

The sheet is good. Given our discussion, level ups are going to be both interesting and impactful for Billy here. Since Phoenix Wright has already appeared in the RP, however, you can replace him in the sheet's Guest List.

@Lugubrious

Fair, I just put him cuz I wanted to encounter him at some point again :b I'll swap him out for... it feels cheating since I already have The Guyzoch as an 'umbrella', but would the Shadow of Colossus's... colossi, be fine? Or should I single one out?

World of Light

RANK 3
0/30 EXP

Sandswept Sky - Tostarena Town

Well, he thought his ideas had some merit to them. "That's why I said a reverse zip-line!" He snapped back to Scout. "I've seen a reverse waterfall before, and it's not like this is a super normal place! It might... exist!" He thought about throwing down the last half of his burrito in anger, but that felt too rude to the restaurant staff, so he opted to scarf it down with pointed aggression.

Still steaming, Sectonia floated over to him to properly introduce herself. Raz swallowed his anger, since if they were going to risk their lives on the mountain, there shouldn't be any lingering animosity. "Oh, yeah, I know you," Raz said, shaking Sectonia's hand. Surprisingly dainty. "I mean I've seen you with the group before. I'm Razputin, but you can call me Raz. Probably better to get introductions out of the way before the dangerous climb and big bad fight at the top, huh?"

A lot happened pretty quickly, from the appearance of another couple of people who seemed interested in the group, for different reasons, and finally it seemed there was a solution settled on to deal with the big group problem. "You know," Raz said aloud as they all split off and gathered the teleportation markers, "I'm going to take a biiit of credit on this one, since I mentioned teleporting before. So, thanks, Me! And you're welcome." Really, Raz didn't mind whether or not he got respect now. He'd show his worth on this climb. It was like he was born for it.

Sandswept Sky - Split Mountain Stage One, Redstone City

...though it would be a while to go before his expertise would be needed. The start of the ascent was bound to be the easiest, so Raz took the opportunity to plan with his fellow climbers.

"I might not look it, but I'm great at dangerous stunts and climbing up things not made to be climbed," he said to everyone, hurrying just ahead of the group. "So once we start hitting the steeper cliffs, everyone who can't fly, float, or hover, just follow my lead! I'll find us a way up like a pack of mountain goats migrating for the winter. Or is it the summer? Wait, do goats migrate?"

Any goat-related questions would have to be put on hold, however. Those 'Riders' that the luchadores warned them about literally ran right into them, with Tora taking the brunt of the hit, probably just by chance. Raz was sure to give Tora an encouraging, "See, you're getting it!" either way, what after the train ride and Tora's doubts on his protection skills. One shield-wielder wasn't going to cover everyone against the rest, though. In lieu of an actual tactic here, Raz just shouted, "Quick, we have to get ahead of them!" There was no telling just how many riders were coming down, or if they'd respawn back to the start of the race just like that biker had, so the best solution was to essentially win this race, but in reverse!

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Word Count: 499
EXP Gain: +1

World of Light

Well, let's see how this new CS lands.

Wonder-Eyes...

RED!

(Civilian Appearance)

_{Special Combat Agent Will Wedgewood, CENTINELS Planetary Secret Service, Blossom City field office, better known as The Crimson Fist...}

Wonder-Red!

Origin - The Wonderful 101
Personality - Will Wedgewood is a meek, panicky sort of guy, one who's most likely to cower and run from danger than stand up to it, though he's selfless enough to make sure those around him are safe before himself. In actuality, Will Wedgewood - aka Wonder-Red - is as valiant as they come. Bravery is a trait shared by every Wonderful One, but Wonder-Red takes his dedication and focus to a whole new level. All that matters to him is the mission and the safety of others. Despite impressive marks in training and testing, Red is still a rookie to proper field work, and can carry himself a bit too formally - he seems almost obsessed with calling people by whatever longwinded title he gleans from their interactions, with a very keen memory and eye (ear?) for detail.
Background - Forty years ago Earth was invaded by the GETHJERK, an alien armada with hopes to destroy humanity with no obvious motive for doing so. Earth's defense forces at the time barely managed to fend off the attack in what was to be called Earth Defense War I. Needing to better prepare themselves for the return of the GETHJERK, the United Nations created the CENTINELS Planetary Secret Service, a military force formed to secretly recruit and train one-hundred members from all across the world, soon to be known as The Wonderful One-Double-Oh, to face off against the GETHJERK should they strike again. Such an invasion occurred some twenty years after Earth Defense War I - now on equal footing, the alien armada attacked with great numbers and force. It was a hard-fought victory, but Earth Defense War II left the world in one piece still.

Enter Will Wedgewood. A child at the time of Earth Defense War II, his father, Arthur Wedgewood, was a CENTINELS officer, sent on a mission to infect the invaders with a special computer virus. Will, having stowed away on the airship his father piloted, couldn't do anything to stop Arthur's death. The GETHJERK attacked the ship, culminating in Arthur sacrificing himself to help save his son.

Now, another twenty years later, Earth Defense War III has just begun. Will Wedgewood had joined the Wonderful One-Double-Oh, taking over the title of Wonder-Red from the current Commander Nelson, and stationed within Blossom City. At the time of GETHJERK's attack on the city, Wonder-Red, as elementary teacher Mr. Wedgewood, ushered his class to safety before donning his CENTINELS suit, prepared to counter this new, final, invasion.

And that's when Galeem attacked. Neither the Wonderful One-Double-Oh or the GETHJERK would've had a hope of stopping it even if they realized what was happening. But it was the perfect storm. Galeem consumed their world out from under their noses, while they were fighting each other, and that's what ended up being brought into the World of Light: a war. Galeem's influence has dampened both forces for the most part, but the Wonderful Ones are still out there, still in the frame of mind of being under attack, and it's only a matter of time before the GETHJERK come out into the open and spark planetary destruction all over again.

Specialty - Team tactics & coordination, hitting really big things really hard
Level - 1
Experience - 0/10 (The amount of EXP required to level up will increase by 10 each level, but rewards get bigger, too)
Powers -

• Unite Morph - The signature piece of technology CENITNELS has produced is the Unite Morph, which are essentially a series of versatile 'hard-light' projections built into the special CENTINEL-suits each Wonderful One wears. The form, function, and properties of a Unite Morph is coded directly into the suit, allowing whole people to merge together and create the Morph. The more people, the bigger and more powerful the resulting Unite Morph becomes - a good rule of thumb is that the smallest a Morph can be requires 6 people, at 1.5x the size of its wielder. The current available Morphs are:
  
  • Unite Hand - Wonder-Red's main Morph, which is as one would expect, a giant red hand. It can do anything a hand can normally do, punch, grab, pull, tickle, etc. At larger sizes Unite Hand gains a set of thrusters to add some oomph behind it, and one unique property it has is being entirely flame-resistant, and can even catch alight with no adverse consequences.

Strengths -

• The Virgin Victory - Being a team stationed all over the world and needing to group up at a moment's notice, the Wonderful One-Double-Oh don't have a traditional HQ. Instead, their command center is The Virgin Victory, a flying warship helmed by Commander Nelson. He and his second in command Alice McGregor pilot The Virgin Victory and deliver support to the Wonderful One-Double-Oh, from transport to firepower and everything inbetween. It's currently out in the skies somewhere, with Wonder-Red retaining contact with it, though Galeem's influence is hindering any further use for the time being.
• CENTINEL Suit - Wonder-Red, as well as every Wonderful One, has a highly advanced battle-suit at their disposal. Each suit appears different, but at the core they provide the same benefits to their wearer: enhanced super-strength, agility, and reaction time, with the technology itself being able to be used in one three-billionth of a second. It's also what allows them access to their Unite Morphs, so that's pretty important.
• Unite Up! - Obviously, the Wonderful One-Double-Oh work best as a full team, one-hundred members strong. As they've all been scattered to the various corners of the World of Light (and out of necessity as getting one hundred individual people in the same place quickly is kind've a crap shoot to begin with), the technology used to make Unite Morphs affords for a bit of corner cutting. So long as there are several Wonderful Ones present, a Unite Morph can be supplemented using ordinary civilians that aren't geared in the necessary suit, letting Wonderful Ones use larger, stronger Morphs while operating at less-than-full capacity. It's a temporary fix, of course, and is liable to strain a participant if done too often.

Weaknesses -

• Divided We Fall - To be a Wonderful One is to already be expertly trained in combat against powerful foes. Wonder-Red, and by extension anyone else, can hold their own in a fight if solo, it still leaves them at a very severe disadvantage. No access to Unite Morphs, primarily.
• Limits & Faults - While extremely impressive already, Unite Morphs are in no way perfect. The Shirogane Drive used to power them can only hold so much power at a time, restricting the frequency that Unite Morphs can be formed, as well as how large they can get. Too much too often will leave the team unable to form more until they juice back up. On top of that, what the Unite Morphs are made from has some gaps in effectiveness; certain elements, such as fire, electricity, or light-based attacks, can break a Unite Morph right down, and coming into contact with anything too 'spiky' will do much the same. Certain Morphs are able to withstand these conditions, but not all of them.
• Infighting - Pobody's nerfect. Now, get about a hundred Pobodies together and force them to be a single unit in a high-pressure situation? There's going to be disputes, arguments, insubordination... you know, typical human things. At best, it's amusing. At worst, a fight amongst the team at the wrong time could lead to things going south, fast.

Spirits -

Guest List -

• The Guyzoch - a band of space pirates led by one Prince Vorkken with his righthand Chewgi. Vorkken arrived on Earth shortly before the invasion, meaning he and his group got swept up in Galeem's attack as well. They're out to find the best warriors of the galaxy and bring them into their folds, setting their sights on the Wonderful One-Double-Oh. They have their own Unify Morphs as well, which could prove very valuable to the team... if they can best them. There's also the space cop Immorta, a much more affable ally on her own quest to take down Vorkken, with more ties to the errant Prince than she lets on.
• Henry Stickmin - a fellow failer of funny QTEs and a crafty guy who always has just the tool for the job.
• Phoenix Wright - ...I don't have a quip for this one I just like the guy.

Inventory -

• Wonder-Pendants - pendants worn by every Wonderful One, emblazoned with the team's symbol. These devices allow for the donning of the CENTINEL suit, as well as housing the Shirogane Drive that powers it. Don't have it, can't do it. Easy.
• Vulcan Knuckles - Wonder-Red's personal weapon, a pair of custom gauntlets that allow for speedy and precise punches, and act as the basis for his Unite Hand morph.

World of Light

RANK 2
19/20 EXP

Location: Sandswept Sky - Tostarena Town

Luckily for Raz he ended up not being the odd one out of the already odd bunch in front of paranoid Ellie, with a lot of his group seeming to follow him inside the same store. The tragic demise of decorum and good patronage notwithstanding, their antics seem to have gotten them a good deal for anything they might want! Though unless the Champion they're fixing to fight exploded into loose change, Raz seriously doubted their collective IOU being fulfilled. It wasn't like the clerk knew what all this gear would be going up against. Well, neither did Raz for that matter, but pitons and puffy coats were bound to be lost or destroyed along the way.

Not wanting to have the guilt of murdering this town's economy on his shoulders during the climb, Raz stepped up to the counter and placed a little stack of coins in front of the register. "Uhh, do you have any cleats in a size four?"

After having paid for his own equipment - he didn't need much, so just a thicker coat, a scarf, and those shoes - Raz figured that a hearty Mexican lunch could help take his mind off of things. Plus, spicy food before a dangerously cold climb was probably a smart idea, right?

To that end Raz loaded up with some of the establishment's hottest offerings, two burritos made with something called a 'Dash Pepper' and a side of chili that the menu purported was so hot he would be spitting fire! Instead, Raz ended up spitting a mouthful of the chili back onto the table once it touched his tongue, with plenty of hacking and coughing.

"Ugh, okay, too hot!" Guzzling his glass of water down, Raz settled back into his seat and began forlornly munching on his burritos, defeated by that dastardly dish. When the conversation turned to the party's size, Raz tapped the side of his head and gave his two cents to large. "It'd probably help if not all of us made the climb, since we have some big baddie at the top to take on. It'll just tire everyone out. I would teleport everyone up there, but that's Ford's specialty, and I don't think he could get everyone. What if we brought something with us to get the others? Like a, some kind of reverse zip-line? Ooh, I think I saw this huge cannon in one of the stores!"

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