trans_9 | In Which Zetta Trains

Beastboy laughed, "Katara's got more punch in her then you'd think at first look. And as for me well..." He winked "I've saved the world a few times after all, so this is par for the coarse."

Apparently, Maydril was feeling brave. She'd said she'd make it to the last training exercise, and then had failed to appear.

This time, however, she was armed and armored and as ready as she'd ever be, her two-handed sword held in one hand, down at her side. Sort of in a guard position. Since it wasn't sheathed, she didn't want to actually hurt anyone with it.

"I am ready, then, I think. I hope." Truthfully she was a bit nervous, but May gave them both something of a smile.

"Okay. Three people, I can work with this. Anyone else who wants in can just join up in the middle of it, so we'll start... NOW!"

The room erupted into massive cacophony of noise and motion. The platform Zetta stood on abruptly lifted up and away, the walls defined themselves into a magnificently tall tower, and from those walls burst countless platforms, ladders, ropes, levers, traps, moving objects...

An obstacle course, manned by numerous weapon-wielding minions of the Overlord.

"I, the Overlord, am conducting some nefarious scheme!" Zetta called down to them. "You must reach me to stop it! Hyaaaa ha ha ha ha!"

"Sweet!" Now this was something that Hit Girl could get into. Of course, with a team activity, this was going to require all of them, but that wasn't so bad. They all looked like they were pretty skilled.

She looked at the two. "Okay, Beastboy's pretty good with the running and ducking, but I don't know as much about you." she pointed to Maydril. "So...wanna help clear a path for Beastboy?"

She was open to another idea though. Team leader tyrant she was not.

"I'm gonna guess that flying would be cheating." Beastboy remarked with a grin giving the tower a once over. "It looks alot like a video game...complete with bosses. We just gotta stick together and make sure none of us fall."

He gave a wink to the new girl, "So, I turn into animals and the kick butt kid here is like a one girl army. What tricks do you have up your sleeve?"

Zetta never said no flying, but he's not gonna correct their misperceptions. He watched them from above with a grin, waiting to see what they'd come up with, watching them fall into his eeeeevil trap.

"I am best at healing magic, but this sword is not for show," she said, drawing the two-handed blade from its sheath. It was nearly as long as she was tall, but Maydril wielded it as if it were an old, familiar friend.

Which it had been, really, for the past three years.

"It may not be the best for this sort of combat, but I will do what I can." In addition, she wasn't as sloppy at hand-to-hand as it might seem. And save for the lack of a helmet, the rest of her was fully armored.

"All right then: let's go together, with Beastboy at the head. When we get to an enemy, Beastboy and I can launch into 'em, you can follow suit if needed. If any of us get injured, heal us and we'll keep going. Beastboy is first since he's probably the fastest though."

And they were off, Beastboy forward with Hit Girl in hot pursuit.

Beastboy jogged ahead shifting into monkey form. Swift and agile he shot like a little green bullet to the first level challenge, up a ladder and onto the first platform.

No sooner did the gorilla's feet touch the platform then a sandbagged-covered wall shot forward, spring-powered, at the intrepid Outsider like a massive boxing glove. At the same time, minions on a higher tower above and some distance backwards from the first tower rose from behind a protective wall to launch a fusillade of arrows towards the heroes.

Crap. Snipers. Well that was bound to be annoying. She ducked down, figuring Maydril was bound to have a shield with her sword. She just knew enough about keeping her ears open to duck down when she heard the stringing of bows and the hiss of an arrow in the air.

But she didn't however, go into the field unarmed, and a minute later had the glocks in her hand, the enemies in her sighht, and fired off a few rounds.

"Go!" She said to Maydril, pausing to sweat as an arrow nicked her elbow. "I'll take the snipes out!"

Maydril's healing magic is a bit itchy at this stage of training. Still, it only takes her a few moments of thought and a gesture to set the arrow graze to closing.

She has no physical shield, as her sword is a two-hander, but she has enough skill with it to turn it flat out and deflect arrows that way. Beast Boy earns himself a shield of magic, though, as May pauses to spit out the invocation.

It may not save Beast Boy from being launched off the platform, but it might give him some resistance at least.

WHAM!

Stars swam in the monkey's vision as Beastboy shifted forms into a bird darting around the arrows till he realized he had a magical shield.

Landing behind the sandbags that had slammed him he shifted into gorilla form once more wrenching the device free with a roar.

Muscles rippled under fur as he flung the sandbags at the archers one after the other still thundering forward making the most of Maydril's shielding while he had it.

A couple of the snipers dropped under gun and sniper fire, but a third took careful aim and snapped off a withering bolt of energy that crackled down towards Hit Girl. Another missile hurtled towards the people on the ground from a much higher platform -- a panicked-looking penguin feebly and futilely fluttering tiny bat wings. "Look out below, doods!" it yelled.

It was unfortunate that she'd not been under Maydril's shielding, so she took a full hit of that energy bolt. It knocked her hard in the air a moment and she fell with a hard crash to the ground. She spit out blood, gritting her teeth.

Ok, now she was pissed. Hurt, but pissed.

And the Chinese stars came out to find the third sniper: she hoped it ripped his damn head off, she was still feeling bad tingling all over her body. She lurched to her feet and struggled to keep up with them.

Walk it off, she said to herself. They're waiting for you to quit. Fuck that. You're better than that.

First things first meant that it was the penguin projectile that was--not precisely going down first, but at least going down. Somehow.

Unfortunately, she wasn't aware of how volatile Prinnies really were.

The half-drow set up another shield--curved outward this time, as if she were trying to catch the prinny. That, alas, failed, when it impacted, and promptly exploded. Oh, they were all on the correct side this time, but it still rocked the armored girl as if she'd been clocked upside the head.

That was what it had felt like.

Maydril shook her head to clear it, and directed her healing energy towards Hit Girl. "My apologies," she said. "I thought they would pay attention to the larger target!"

"Dudes!" Beastboy called shifting back to his normal form on the platform, "You two alright? If you can get up here I think we should stick closer together. Have Hitgirl focus on the ranged targets, I'll handle the hand to hand and um...I'm sorry I don't remember your name...cover with the magic. We're supposed to be working together right?" He called trying...feebly, to act as a leader.

Good basic strategy - too bad they hadn't discussed it first! There's another Prinny plummeting directly towards Beastboy, and this time that third archer, bleeding where several Chinese stars had sunk into her skin but still up and moving, fired a pair of arrows at Maydril to keep her occupied so it could explode unhindered.

Oh hell no, not on Hit Girl's watch. Bleeding and cut doesn't mean she's out of the picture, and she knew enough that anyone not keeping an eye on her was someone going to regret it. A reload later and that third sniper was getting one right between the eyes.

"Maydril, the that penguin guy!"

"I see him!" Him? It? Probably an it, but she was only going to mentally split hairs.

Maydril wasn't entirely certain that the arrows would do no harm, but it was a chance she was going to have to take. This particular shield invocation was a bit more complex, blending as it did resistance to both fire and force.

She cast it around the Prinny itself.

Beastboy yelped as the Prinny plummeted at him diving out of the way even as Maydril cast up her shield.

The Prinny blew up inside the shield, harmlessly, while the sniper dropped with a heavy thud.

They'd earned the first platform. Even the longest journey begins with a single step, right?

She was all too happy to move n, really-the stings were beginning to lessen now, and she could move a lot quicker. She ran alongside the other two, staring at the next platform ahead of them.

"Can you cast a shield for us here, just until we know what we're dealing with?" Hit Girl asked Maydril.

"I can," she said, and suited actions to words. "Are you still badly injured?" The healing should have started to work, but if Hit Girl had been hurt again, it was time for another dose, so to speak.

A pair of axe-wielding warriors peered down the ladder to the next platform at the group, then ducked back before they could come under fire. From up on high, the Overlord continued to direct his forces with a grin.

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