>>5552581https://youtu.be/Wb50enYWFDcYou send your Spirit Bits out to protect your gang and Yamcha, barriers around each, and then try to scoop up the masses in a different one. Bit more complicated, Shadow Magic on the interior, Light on the exterior. Okay, time to see if this thing is intelligent! …How’s it go again? Ah yes. The hand signs, gotta get those right too. Here goes! “Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong.”
Cheelai and the Para Para bros look over to you in slight, curious surprise. “You think that’ll actually work?” the green girl asks.
The creature inside… recognizes your words, but it doesn’t quite have the intended effect. Instead… it responds with sounds in your mind. Imitations of your words, even an attempted parroting of your voice… but it’s all wrong. Mimicking of the sounds yet lacking the intent behind them. ‘BERWIP… CRAWNA-WI… PINIBON…’
Cheelai pulls out her gun and shoots at it. Which doesn’t do much, you’ve got it in a barrier, but it does put attention on her. “Boss, that thing’s bad news, do NOT bring it with us.”
“I’m trying to find out what it is! Calm down and-”
‘BRING… WITH… US…’ the mass continues, this time copying Cheelai’s voice. ‘BRING… WITH… US…’ Okay maybe she has a point.
The animals finally enter, and the Para Para bros back away from them, your barriers managing to keep them safe.
‘BRING… WITH… US…!’
“IZZY, CATCH!” Yamcha calls to you desperately, and you turn around and GAH ANIMALS! You catch the whale-wolves, setting them down as… Yamcha’s forced to dodge several others leaping at him. He keeps moving out of the way, even with your barrier around him. Looks like he’s holding fine-
“YAMCHA WATCH OUT!” you call to him, trying to move the thing containing the bubbling mass. It’s not quick enough. The barrier around him and the barrier containing it connect, and there’s a brief moment where the Light around the outer side of the latter instead reinforces Yamcha’s barrier.
The moment is all that’s needed. And you swear you hear him groan out “Not again…!”
The ooze manages to jump onto him, and there’s a brief surge of power around him. The Spirit Bit barrier shatters, and Yamcha floats there for a moment, his aura flaring up around him… with a dark and demonic tint to it. Yamcha turns to face you, a creepy smile crawling across his face. “Bring us… with you.” the… thing says to you in Yamcha’s voice, soft and calm. The animals that were previously attacking him now gather around him, almost obediently. “Bring us with you.” the thing repeats, keeping the same soft, calm, unsettling tone.
(cont.)
