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>>5298832https://youtu.be/n3yIm1jTleU‘Pantea, recover as much as you can. I’ll keep this up. I’ve got an idea.’ you tell your partner, cracking your knuckles. Maple and Acer are both in the ring, which means you’ve got a chance to disorient them. And maybe… “TAKE THIS! SOLAR FLARE!” You call out as you actually use Multi-Form and make it look like it’s another distraction… but in reality you’re going through with it, and then some! You amplify the Solar Flare with Light Magic. Maple’s too quick on the draw for you to trick her again, but dad’s caught by surprise with it! He isn’t blinded thanks to his armored up form, but he is off-guard! Your copy near him grabs him by the scarf and swings him towards Maple line a meteor hammer!
She tries to block it, but still gets knocked off her feet. Maple and Acer actually try one last little trick, with her energizing him with Lightning Magic, which travels down his scarf. It’d be clever… but your copy’s already let go. You can hear people cheering your name, rooting for you. Sachie, Zarid, 19, even Fu to your surprise. In fact… you’ve got a golden opportunity here! Both yous materialize a pair of non-conductive PTO-armor ropes and grab on to the end of dad’s scarf and even around him and Maple, doubling down on this! Literally! The electricity fails to zap through the material as the two of you swing them around, the rubbery rope stretching out a bit. You finally let go of it, and the two are flung away! You… you might have won this!
…Except you’re sadly not that lucky. You start to feel a bit drained as you see dad break the materials, tossing Maple forward. She attempts to save him from ring-out, but she realizes she doesn’t have the time. So instead she focuses on you.
“Izzy, look out!” Pantea warns, jumping in to try and help. But it’s not quickly enough. Maple teleports to your copy and hits her with a palm strike. A palm strike that fires off a point-blank MP Buster. And the sudden imbalance in power causes her to fade, and disorient you slightly. Just enough that she repeats the trick, hitting you with a point-blank MP Buster again, then knocking you to the ground. Both times Pantea tried to prevent it, and both times she failed. You hit the ground hard, drained and letting out a pained groan.
It’s… actually kinda hard to get back up. Crap. You don’t know how long it’ll take to recover your energy enough to access Mahou again, much less get back in the fight. Damn it… are, are you really spent?
>A. Keep trying to get up, Pantea’s counting on you! You’re NOT giving up like this!>B. You need to get out of combat somehow, before time runs out>C. …The Hakkero might be able to bring you to your feet. You just need to use it for a moment, nothing more>D. Pantea, conserve your strength. It’s clear I’m not gonna be able to pull off anything else in this fight, not like this>E. Something else? 