BEHOLD, THE EMO CAVE

[chalicejoker]

So it wasn't unheard of for the Cursed Knight to go out looking for trouble questing for new challenges to overcome. Several of the townspeople had figured this out. And why, when one of them mentioned that there was a cave with the strongest enemy Hajime could or would ever face, Hajime went charging off in there...

...and then got stuck because turns out the cave fed off of dark emotions and was some sort of test, and it's not like Hajime was great at dealing with that by himself.

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[fusionjack]

Now that he doesn't have to drag his half-paralyzed ass through a battlefield, Jack can stop and fire another psychic blast at one of the roaches. And another still. But he doesn't manage to pull off a third because Tachibana is doing something absolutely astonishing. Is that... did he... is this suddenly an Old Spice commercial????

He takes in that sudden bit of roach-kicking all slack-jawed, but then Tachibana's attention is on him and he's being aimed at with something glowy. Reflexively trying to flee, he fails and instead falls on his ass with a terrified yelp.

[triggerhappytraitor]

Tachibana doesn't even react to the yelp or the scramble, simply shifting his arm slightly to still aim the strongest of the purifying light to where Jack is bleeding.

Hope you have your sunglasses on, Jack. You're gonna need 'em.

[fusionjack]

He does indeed have his sunglasses on. They help somewhat. As does his good arm, that comes up to try and protect himself, somehow, from the horror that is to come.

He's very surprised when it turns out that it's just warmth. Healing warmth. Warmth that immediately eases the numbness and uselessness of his limbs. "W... what the...?"

But he's not so much of a stunned idiot that he's going to keep sitting there. This is still a fight, and more roaches are coming.

[garrenshotfirst]

Tachibana simply smirked, looking obnoxiously smug before he turned, sending another Roach sky high in the process before shifting back to his normal, armored form.

[chalicejoker]

All of this commotion with the Darkroaches has only drawn more Darkroaches to the area, and it's also attracted the aliens, as well. Some of the Darkroaches are still trying to fight the aliens, some of them are still trying to fight Tachibana and Jack, and still others are kind of looking confused about everything. They'd really like to fight the aliens instead, but Tachibana and Jack are just so aggressive, gosh. A couple of them are just irritably buzzing at the two.

The aliens, on the other hand, just start shooting indiscriminately. Not unlike someone else there in the area.

[fusionjack]

They really have added some extra chaos into the existing chaos, haven't they? Steadying himself on his feet, Jack looks around at all of this, and looks at one of the... irritable darkroaches? Yes, that one's irritable. That's a noise of annoyance.

"Look, we're just here to get Hajime out of this place! And you're the ones that started it!"

He is just... going to... ignore the centaur-Tachibana behind him. That is a little too much weirdness for the moment.

[triggerhappytraitor]

Hey hey hey, his aim is very purposeful here.

Thankfully for Jack's sanity, Tachibana has switched back to the far more familiar armored form, not really wanting to risk finding out how the ichor would respond to whatever poison it was.

...and Jack was arguing with the Roaches. A small snort escapes as Tachibana turns his attention to the aliens. Roaches, he knew, didn't stay down long before new ones took their places, but these things?

Time to see how well they responded to flaming double drop kick....

[chalicejoker]

One of the irritable Darkroaches perks up a bit at Hajime's name, and there's a bit of buzzing and gesturing at a skyscraper a couple of blocks away.

The aliens really don't seem to like the double drop kick much at all, really. They explode rather impressively, leaving nothing behind.

...though the next ones will be considerably more flame-retardant, as though they're adapting...