CoLC crossover RP, main thread

Caboose's shots punched holes through the front-most android, slowing it slightly, but it seemed like it was going to keep coming. Thankfully though the slight slow of its charge made it easier to react to in time for Blue, swinging his sword up into its torso and knocking it back with a large cut and lingering cold flames. A similar thing happened for the next couple of androids with Hercules, getting shot first by Caboose- and some helping shots from Rachel now that she put the walkie talkie away- and then wailed on by the demigod; they proved to be made of tougher material than it appeared, holding up to more than just a single punch each, but Hercules' strength was still enough to break two of the androids apart quickly enough, taking only a few blows in return that weren't terribly significant to him.

The remaining two androids had been too close behind the rest though, tackling Blue down before he could make another swing and pinning him down to the ground. His sword clattered to the street behind him as both androids started wailing on the terrarian with their fists.

Meanwhile, Bergree tried to back away from the evil Miss Tairee, but she easily closed in and grabbed his shoulder with one hand, then delivered two strong punches to his head with her other hand. With a desperate thrust of one arm, Bergree made some kind of blade of darkness suddenly thrust up from his own shadow at the evil Miss Tairee, but it just stopped on her stomach. She laughed, hoisted herself up a bit, then stomped both feet down together onto Bergree's arm. The force finally dislodged the drider from the wall, sending him tumbling down to the sidewalk just off to the left of the group. On the bright side, it seemed like his signal in the sky didn't need his concentration, as it was remaining there.

This would be about when Garrett was finding a room with a window, just across the street from and slightly below the evil Miss Tairee's position. There he had a good view of the whole battle taking place.

For Gon, the closest place to take some cover was just around the corner of the same apartment building, right at the entrance of an alley.

As they were flying along, Swishee gave another somewhat muffled honk. "Huh? See something else Swishee?" Louie asked, and took a moment to turn around and scan the skies. "Hey Ben, looks like we aren't the only ones on the way there!" the trainer called out, pointing to somewhere off behind them and to their left. Even at a bit of distance, it wasn't hard to tell that the figure with blue armor and flaring jump pack must've been Brother Marcus, jetting from rooftop to rooftop towards the shadowy symbol as well.

"Looks like we'll beat him there at this rate!" Louie added, turning his attention to Ben.

Edited by FirockFinion on Apr 19th 2020 at 9:25:49 AM

Rick sighed. "You really have a way with people, y'know that?"

"Rick, c'mon, this is-this is a serious situation! You can't just sit back and let everyone..."

Rick threw up his hands. "Fine, fine, I'll go out there and die. You know," he said, shooting a venomous glare at Morty, "for the reward. Jeez, you'd think that this is some kinda game or something..." He grabbed Morty by the shirt and dragged him out the door. "Y'know, Morty, you're a- you're a real little turd sometimes. If you're sending me out to die horribly... then you're coming too."

Rick strode out into the street, followed by Morty, who was currently doing his best to hide behind his grandfather, assessed the current carnage, and procured his gun from the folds of his labcoat. "Okay, so, what's the dealie here? We got... robots? God, I have never wanted a drink so badly in the last thirty days." He sighed and took a few shots at one of the two remaining machines.

Stinkfly nodded, noticing the space marine approaching the combat.

"Perfect," Stinkfly said to the Pokemon trainer. "She'll be distracted with you and Brother Marcus, giving me a perfect opportunity!" he said. "Now let's keep at it, we're almost there!"

After leaving the library and conveniently getting shifted by the city to the battle, Rick's shots downed one of the two androids; the other didn't respond, and continued punching Blue. With a bit less punishment coming down on him though, the terrarian barely managed to retaliate, suddenly spinning a blue yo-yo into the remaining android's chest, which hit with a force like a medieval morning star, and also made the android erupt in more of those blue, cold flames. The initial hit knocked it back slightly, but it tried to lunge forward again only for the yo-yo to seemingly defy physics and shoot forward from its spot in the air into the android again, knocking it down completely this time, and finishing it off.

Blue yanked the string to make the yo-yo go back to him, then took a moment to get up with a slight groan.

Still floating in the air, the evil Miss Tairee glanced over at the two new arrivals. "Hmm? Ah, the drunkard scientist, and his stupid grandson that doesn't know how to listen" the evil Miss Tairee remarked with a fairly passive, almost curious tone. "I'll be with you in a minute" the faux librarian added, reaching one hand out to her side. One of the robotic arms swiped a holographic screen, and with a blur, a silvery, thin long sword appeared for her to grab with her outstretched hand. Pointing it downward, the evil Miss Tairee then flew straight down, right towards Bergree, who hadn't managed to get back up from his fall yet.

"You want me to wait until he gets there before we attack?" Louie asked Ben as they flew. "Since it looks like we'll get there before him, if we attack right away but you wait until he shows up, well... I don't necessarily know if we could hold out that long" the trainer added, referring to his pokemon team as 'we'.

Street Fight

The robots were small fry. While able to tank some of his bullets, there were plenty of heavy hitters around to brutalize them. Hercules and the blue man were both pretty good about that.

It was only once the last ones were destroyed that Caboose got the notion that maybe they should have struggled a bit more. Just like in Blood Gulch, things could stay in a stalemate for a while if neither side did their best. Badee seemed to only go for new weapons and minions when the old bunch was destroyed, probably to give them all the illusion of a chance. While she'd obviously ramp up her methods if they stalled for too long, they had dealt with the simple androids they could actually fight too quickly and now the villain was back to attacking with her own weapons.

And she was starting to go for finishing people off! Without checking to see if Rachel still was using him as cover, Caboose began to run towards Bergree. She could last a few seconds without a meat shield, unlike the man with a godlike being trying to run him through. As he ran, the red armored soldier shot at the Badee to try distracting or slowing her down. If he made it before the drider was finished off, the sim trooper would drag him along with one hand while trying to protect himself from the sword with the other.

Stinkfly narrowed his eyes, looking over the fight as best he could.

He sighed.

"You're right, I can't just put you in danger like that. We should get in there and stick her up now while she's distracted with the others," Ben said. "C'mon!"

Ben crawled across the rooftop, trying to be as quiet as possible while also making as much quiet speed as he could manage. Which wasn't much, unfortunately.

He made short bursts of jumping flight between rooftops, but otherwise kept to the ground.

Once he made it to the rooftop overlooking the fight, he poked his eyestalks down to look at the battle carefully and out of sight.

He would wait for an opportunity that the evil Tairee turned her back to him... and then once she did, he would quickly shoot targeted blasts of sticky goo at each of her robot arms with each of his four eyes.

Edited by AllHailThrall on Apr 23rd 2020 at 3:12:42 PM

Gon, moving out:

"Time to move."

Gon made his move when he saw a nearby apartment building. Now was a good time to duck and cover while conducting an on the spot assessment.

Hoping that the bad Tairee didn't spot him when he started running while keeping a low profile to the alley. Gon made sure that he was in the alley before he approached the building entrance to get inside.

"I listen! Sometimes!" Morty shouted defiantly at Miss Tairee before Rick shoved him up behind the nearest wall, his mouth hard and his face grim.

"Okay, Morty, listen."

"I'm-"

"Fun's fun and all but this is-this is when things stop being a game. We've had thirty days of consequence-free shenanigans but I get the feeling that things just hit the fan and hard."

"Then-then why did you bring me here?"

"To protect you," hissed Rick, waving an arm at the terrible sight just beyond, "... and to illustrate that you and your dumb mouth keeps landing us both in this kinda shit!"

"Screw you, Rick! This was not my fault and-"

"Just stay there, hide in that alleyway and do not move. Or you die. Or worse."

"Worse? What could be worse than-"

"Oh, for god's sake, just do it! While I save your ass again!"

The evil Miss Tairee ignored the rifle shots, not slowing her down or distracting her; in a promising turn though, one stray bullet hit the sword, snapping it in two... Then the malicious duplicate just stabbed what was left down into Bergree anyway, plunging it through about his collarbone into his chest. The evil Miss Tairee then slashed the half sword out the front of the drider's chest right as Caboose was reaching them.

"Well, there's one; ah, are ya' volunteerin' for next?" the evil Miss Tairee asked in a smug tone as she turned her attention to Caboose next to her. Bergree quickly vanished away, while the evil Miss Tairee took a moment to examine the break in her sword, then regarded Caboose in seemingly the same way one would regard a Thanksgiving turkey while contemplating where to start cutting.

"Incoming!" Louie suddenly yelled, a flash of light next to Caboose and the evil Miss Tairee marking the arrival of Lil' Sunny, currently a roserade. "Sorry about this- petal blizzard!" the trainer shouted from above, still in Swishee's bill.

Lil' Sunny gave a sort of chirp and threw her arms up, suddenly scattering a cloud of rose petals with sharpened edges; after just a brief moment, the petals started to swirl around the evil Miss Tairee in a little whirlwind. Caboose would be inadvertently caught in it too, but the petals would do little if anything to his armor. For the evil Miss Tairee though, they were doing literally no harm whatsoever...

However they were obscuring her vision, as she idly waved an arm in front of her face like trying to shoo away a mildly annoying bug. With her four robotic arms floating right behind her with holographic screens in front of them, it was just the right opportunity.

The goo fired from Stinkfly hit the robotic arms right on, enveloping each of them along with some of the sharp petals. They remained floating in the air, but were totally covered; two of the four even ended up having their goo clumps glued together into one larger clump covering them both.

As the petal blizzard stopped, the evil Miss Tairee raised an eyebrow and gave a simple, "hmm?" as she glanced over her shoulder at the goo clumps covering the robotic arms. "My my, now ain't that clever" she remarked; she didn't sound annoyed or like she had just been inconvenienced at all, but rather just sounded a bit impressed.

"Hah! Good thinking Ben!" Rachel yelled up in an encouraging tone, then aimed both her guns at the evil Miss Tairee. "Alright, you can't do your god stuff anymore, so give it up!" the militia member called out.

The evil Miss Tairee was curiously prodding the clumps of goo with the broken tip of the silver sword, then she turned her head towards Rachel. The evil Miss Tairee didn't say anything yet, but rather just tilted her head slightly.

Meanwhile in the alley, there wasn't any outside doors on the ground inside the alley, but there was a fire escape Gon could climb up and get inside that way.

As soon as Ben's goo hit on target, he pumped his fist, then leaped up into the air and flew down to start doing another strafing run.

"Looks like it's the end of the story for you, you crazy clone!" Stinkfly shouted, firing another few volleys of sticky goo in Badee's direction. He aimed specifically for her legs (hopefully sticking her to the ground), her arms (hopefully gumming up her only weapon) and her face/mouth (to hopefully shut her up).

The blobs of goop glued the evil Miss Tairee's legs together, though as she was floating off the ground still, she wasn't glued to the ground. Her hands were each gooped up, sticking the sword in the grip of her right hand. And one of her cheeks was gooped up, along with her mouth.

"Hah, nothing you can do now!" Louie taunted, then had to think for a couple of awkward moments. "Uh... Oh! Sunny, hit her with giga drain; maybe that will work!" the trainer called down after the thought occurred to him.

Lil' Sunny gave an affirmative chirp, as flowery vines sprouted from her 'hands' and quickly wrapped around the evil Miss Tairee's midsection. After a few moments of nothing happening, the roserade glanced up to her trainer with a disappointed expression and shook her head.

The evil Miss Tairee was still totally calm, just letting these things happen for the moment.

After gumming up Miss Tairee something fierce, Stinkfly flew up to the rooftop of another building, ducking behind a chimney. He pressed the button on his forehead with a flash of red light, reverting back to Ben. He then scrolled through the watch until he found the Ultra Ben form.

Transforming back into Ultra Ben, he flew back down, crossing his arms and looking over the situation.

"Now what do we do?" Ben asked Louie. "She could break out at any moment."

Street Fight

It sucked that the spider dude died, but what had sucked even more was the fact that Caboose was so caught up in his charge to save the man that he failed to notice the death until he was right next to Badee. It looked like he was moments away from having a broken sword stabbed his way, but Caboose was saved by the cavalry.

For a few moments, the sim trooper just admired the pretty flower petals. They did nothing to his armor, so he had no idea they were dangerous. It made him think that he should get Church some flowers when he got back, to celebrate how he wasn't dead. Luckily, Ben's assault prevented the evil clone from getting her bearings back and resuming her attack.

Realizing that being this close to the invincible god woman was a bad idea, on par with bringing a fist to a nuke fight, he rapidly backpedaled while slamming fresh ammunition into Freckles. "Sooooo... Uh... what do we do now?" Caboose asked, looking at the bemused and gooped up Tairee. "We still can't hurt her, and she's... Uh, kind of smart? So I think she'll get out." It didn't look like she felt trapped, at the very least.

The question was, what was she planning to do? If she was strong enough to break the goo, why didn't she do it already? "Oh, maybe she has a pencil in her mouth! And she is writing the weird magic ten diesel stuff on the inside of her cheek!" he proposed that possibility as if he actually thought that was the likeliest way for her to get out of this. This was, of course, because he actually believed that.

"We've still gotta find some way to actually hurt her, right?" Louie pointed out from above, while the evil Miss Tairee's eyes were kinda glazing over with boredom and her eyelids drooping a bit. "Direct hits don't seem to do anything, so- wait, maybe poison would work? Sunny try sludge bomb!" the trainer called to the roserade.

Lil' Sunny gave another chirp of sorts in acknowledgement, stepped a little closer, then flung a blob of purple goo right into the evil Miss Tairee's face, now making it completely covered.

It wasn't clear if anything was happening, then, the evil Miss Tairee slowly raised her arm that didn't have the sword remains glued to it. She brought it up so her hand would be close to her face, until the Stinkfly goop on her arm was now glued to the goop on her head. There was a brief moment of the stench from Stinkfly's goop getting even worse from being super heated into plasma; that was all the warning they got before suddenly a fireball of intense heat expanded around the evil Miss Tairee, originating from right around her head.

Lil' Sunny screeched as the radiant heat caused her flower-like 'hands' and 'hair' to ignite. "Lil' Sunny!" Louie yelled in alarm, and quickly grabbed her pokeball and recalled her to it with a little red beam.

The floating bunches of goops containing the robotic arms floated themselves into the fireball, which had stopped expanding shortly after it had entirely enveloped the evil Miss Tairee. After a few seconds, the flames themselves slowly dissipated in a swirl, though there was still plenty of radiant heat wavering in the air; even the sidewalk directly below where she was floating was glowing red now. As for the duplicate herself, she was now totally cleansed of the Stinkfly goop.

"Alright y'all, that was startin' to become a bore" the evil Miss Tairee said, floating forward a bit and idly waving away some ashes. "Come on, is that the best ya' got?" the malicious librarian asked, grinning a bit wickedly again.

Tairee Fight

Oh, so the clone's ace in the hole wasn't a hidden pencil in her mouth. That came as a big surprise to Caboose. Instead she just underwent spontaneous combustion, which was totally stealing Caboose's thing of starting fires everywhere he went. And that probably wouldn't work to hold her off again, since the only reason she took so long to do that this time was because it was an interesting and new tactic.

So what did they do now? Because everything Caboose had given so far was his best, there wasn't much room for variation or escalation on his part. "Well, uh, I can shoot you even more!" the sim trooper exclaimed, though not even he was dumb enough to think that would do much. Still, he raised up Freckles once again and fired more bullets at her while backing up.

Surely there was someone else here who could try something new! Personally, he had no secret tricks.

Ben gasped as the evil Miss Tairee immediately broke free. He winced, bracing himself and grunting in pain as the fire scorched him.

"All right, you loser librarian, playtime's over! Your book's long overdue!" he exclaimed. "Eat this!"

With that, Ben's eyes crackled green again and he shot his heat-beams directly as Badee's face, with the intent to blind her.

Unfortunately most of the attacks that the others were doing to the clone of Miss Tairee were doing nothing to her as expected but it didn't stop Herc from trying to attack her in the slightest as he pulled out his bow and arrows and then launched an arrow at the clone's head. He knew he was trying to keep her busy so he decided to keep on firing multiple arrows at her, rather than go for physical attacks, Hercules decided that shooting from afar was ideal for the moment.

In the midst of Miss Tairee's frantic typing, something on the screen flashed red. "What? No no no, shit, shit" Miss Tairee muttered as she kept typing. Soon there was a blur next to the computer as a walkie talkie appeared, which she quickly grabbed...

The evil Miss Tairee let out a laugh as the heat vision flash struck and did nothing. "Ah that's right; yer best ain't good enough" the evil Miss Tairee said in a sinister tone, raising a hand and starting to conjure a new fireball as arrows and bullets hit her to no effect. Up above, Brother Marcus landed on a nearby rooftop, momentarily observing the battle.

Then, suddenly the evil Miss Tairee blurred for a moment. She stopped, her posture going up straighter as her expression turned to one of surprise and confusion and anger. "WHAT?!" the evil Miss Tairee snapped right away, then suddenly reeled back as one of Caboose's bullets went right through her arm, and an arrow from Hercules embedded into her thigh, both wounds bleeding. "That bitch! I'll-" she yelled, then there was a loud slam onto the sidewalk just behind her, and a loud revving, before abruptly she was hoisted up by a chainsword going through her stomach.

"This... Ain't..." the evil Miss Tairee muttered, her body shaking. Brother Marcus reached his free hand across her back to grab her shoulder, then, loudly revving the chainsword again, threw his arms out to either side, cutting one way with the chainsword and pulling the duplicate librarian into it the other way. The result was thus brutally tearing her in half and discarding both halves to either side of him.

That done, Brother Marcus raised his free hand to the side of his helmet. "This is Brother Marcus; the evil librarian had become vulnerable, and has now been eliminated" Brother Marcus reported over the militia's radio channel.

"What? Is that true?" Samson's voice asked over the channel, audible from at least Rachel's walkie talkie.

"Seems to be" Rachel answered into her own walkie talkie.

"Negative!" Miss Tairee's voice suddenly yelled frantically into the channel. "I tripped some kind of defense and had to execute early! She's weaker but it's not complete!" the real librarian told them urgently.

Brother Marcus turned his head, then one of the robotic arms flew into his back, punching through his armor like a blade and ending up inside his torso. The space marine let out a gargle and dropped his chainsword, reaching both hands to his chest for a moment. Behind him, the evil Miss Tairee rose back up into view, her legs reattaching and all the wounds rapidly regenerating. "This ain't how it ends!" the evil Miss Tairee shouted angrily, finishing her previous point. Then the robotic arm started tumbling around inside Brother Marcus' armor, literally blending the astartes apart. Soon Brother Marcus and his chainsword vanished with a blur, leaving behind the blood-soaked robotic arm.

Day twenty nine part two, hope spot

Breathing heavily, the evil Miss Tairee turned her head to look down the street. "That damned secretary!" the evil Miss Tairee said to herself, then looked back at the group, and waved an arm at them, adding simply and angrily, "fuck off!" The other three robotic arms dutifully flew forward at high speeds, one each aimed at Ben, Caboose, and Hercules. Meanwhile, the evil Miss Tairee started to rise higher into the air and fly down the street.

The Big Fight

Caboose hadn't been expecting much, so when one of his bullets actually made a dent in the evil librarian he was pleasantly surprised. This only solidified his delusional beliefs that as long as people tried reality itself would twist itself apart to make things work out. And then, further confirming his beliefs, Marcus came down like some sort of knight in shining armor and bisected the Badee.

"Oh my god! We did it! Now we can go and use up all of our bullets and weapons and fighting stuff in celebration because we don't need them anymore!" the sim trooper exclaimed, prepared to engage in a traditional Blood Gulch activity for whenever things seemed to be over. The other part of the tradition, which he had completely forgotten, was that the hope spot would always be extinguished right away.

Before he could even think about acting on his celebratory desires, Caboose had to witness his pal Marcus get completely blended by an arm. That wasn't good. He really liked the astartes, since he was blue team and all!

With all the blood that had been spilled before he vanished, though, he might have fit red team's aesthetic more.

His slightly grim musings were interrupted by suddenly noticing the dangerous murder hand on a collision course with his own body. Trying to limbo under it, the soldier instead accidentally slipped and fell on his back. Hopefully, since the hand was presumably not at foot level, that would make the projectile just sail right over him.

Ben clenched his fists, backing up a little as his attempt to incapacitate her had absolutely no effect.

"Oh yeah?! Well... well—" he started to say, trying to come up with some kind of comeback, when he saw the librarian fade, then get pummeled with multiple attacks at once before finally being ripped in two by the Space Marine's gnarly weapon.

Ben fought back a bit of a gag as the gory display fell to the ground, but just as things started to de-escalate, the evil Miss Tairee seemed to literally pull herself together.

With quick reaction time, Ben ducked out of the way of the floating arm, before he reached out to try and grab the arm. If he managed to do so, he would then try and toss it directly back at Badee to hit her with it.

"Oh no you don't!" he shouted. "Now! Louie! Unload everything you've got on the evil Miss Tairee! We can't let her escape!"

Edited by AllHailThrall on May 1st 2020 at 11:08:21 AM

A nearby building

This was the moment when Garrett, figuring he could no longer stay inactive, shot a fire arrow through the window towards the evil Miss Tairee.

As soon as he let the arrow loose, he ducked back from the window, ran across the room and exited through the door. But he did not run away quite yet. Instead, he peeked cautiously into the room he'd just left, to see if anything would be coming through the window for him.

Then Herc saw to his surprise and his delight, saw that the arrow had pierced through the clone of Miss Tairee. "It's working! We're damaging her!" Herc shouted as he then witnessed Brother Marcus then slaugher the clone with his chainsword in a very messy and gruesome death. Was this it? Had they finally gotten rid of her? It looked she was down for the count. Or so Hercules thought, suddenly Brother Marcus got killed by one of the metal arms that the Evil Miss Tairee had with her. She was still alive, the battle was not over still.

Herc didn't have time to do anything else before a rogue metal arm was coming towards and fast. The demi god then quickly ducked out of the way of the incoming limb that was now aimed for Herc's chest.

All three robotic arms were ducked, if somewhat closely, then one was grabbed and thrown back at the evil Miss Tairee at high speed. After tumbling a bit, it righted itself and spread its palm forward, slowing itself as the evil Miss Tairee turned around mid-flight to face it, and then catch it. "Think ya' can just do that to things under my control?" the evil Miss Tairee muttered in an angry tone. Both the other floating arms flipped themselves around and lunged back down at Hercules and Caboose respectively. They suddenly veered off course when Garrett's arrow hit the evil Miss Tairee in the stomach and she let out a pained and frustrated yell. Both off-course arms left cracked indents in the asphalt where they hit. "Oh I've had about enough!" the malignant librarian said, suddenly conjuring a basketball-sized fireball in one hand, and launching it like a cannon shot at the window Garrett had fired from. The whole room exploded in flames as he was peeking back into it.

"Sunny day! Flare blitz!" Louie yelled from above, accompanied by two flashes of light from pokemon deploying in the air, and another glow from the watch-like device on Louie's hand that he was pressing down on. The whole area became brighter and warmer as Nimbus shifted into his little sun form. Ace the blaziken, falling through the air, was briefly engulfed in an orb of purple energy, emerging afterward still on fire, and in mega form, before slamming into the evil Miss Tairee shoulder first, sending them both tumbling to the ground. The evil Miss Tairee did seem to regain some control and slow the descent right before impact, along with knocking the pokemon away before tumbling along the ground.

"ARE YA' TRYIN' TO PISS ME OFF?!" the evil Miss Tairee yelled as she rose back up to just above the ground, the robotic arm with her floating up to above her head. "TIME FOR JUST DYIN'!" she screamed, clenching both her fists.

"Shoot, her other one!" Rachel suddenly called out, pointing to the robotic arm that had killed off Marcus before; it had just finished tapping away and swiping on a holographic screen it had projected while everyone was preoccupied with the rest of the fight. It, the evil Miss Tairee, and the rest of the robotic arms then blurred; the one above the evil Miss Tairee's head put itself in the classic 'finger gun' pose, then started firing a continuous, red laser from its index finger, which it swept across the street at Rachel, Ben, Hercules, and Caboose, cutting a deep groove in the buildings and ground that it was hitting along the way. Rachel made a run the other way to get around a building corner, but she probably wasn't going to make it in time herself.

Edited by FirockFinion on May 2nd 2020 at 9:40:42 AM

Ben smirked, looking rather smugly at Miss Tairee and crossing his arms.

"Yeah... yeah, I think I can!" he replied with a bit of a mocking tone to his voice. His arrogance was short-lived, however, when Rachel pointed out the robotic arm that was still active. As it zapped in his direction, Ben flew up and made a rush towards Rachel, seeing she was probably not going to make it before the laser beam reached her.

Thinking quickly, he scooped her up in his arms and headed towards the nearest corner.

"I've got you!" Ben assured her, before moving to let her go around the corner. He hoped it would be quick enough for her to make her getaway.

Street Fight

Caboose, thanks to tripping over nothing, had managed to avoid the danger hands. However, it looked like his time was about to be up when the arm's trajectory changed. It was only the timely intervention of an arrow to the clone's torso that saved the sim trooper.

"Thanks Garrett!" he called out into the air, not sure where the thief was but confident he'd hear the message of gratitude.

Unfortunately the Badee was just full of surprises and tricks. "Oh well that is just awesome," he remarked, seeing the finger gun laser beam. "I knew that Washington was lying when he told me finger guns couldn't shoot!" On closer observation, though, the destructive beam of light was sweeping towards him.

That was bad!

Without hesitating, Caboose ran towards the closest building and jumped right through the window. Landing into a roll, he took cover behind the walls... It didn't look like the beam was cleaving right through buildings, only leaving grooves, so this should be an alright idea.