Zone E -- Highlands

[Sterling Archer]

Cell sprinted down the mountain path, clutching Graw and I tightly like stolen sacks of potatoes from a farmer’s market. His impressive speed was hampered somewhat by our dead weight, but the bug still managed to put my top speed to shame. He must have consumed a few Kenyan gold medal sprinters at some point in his life.

“So,” I began, gazing up from Cell’s cradling arms. “A group of douchebags are tailing you through the mountains in hopes of splattering your adorable blue mug all over the rocks and taking your shit?”

“Yes,” the azure hellspawn muttered, dejectedly. “They must think I have something they want.”

“Bugsy, lemme off here,” I said. Without awaiting his response, I wormed free of his grasp and landed on my feet, wincing as my knee cried out in agony. “Eat a dick, knee,” I muttered.

“You AAAA-sshole,” the bio-android cried, frantically attempting to gather me back into his arms. “We have to keep moving or thosse toolss will catch uss.”

“We’ll have time to spoon later, radroach.” I gripped Zedd’s staff tightly in my grasp, leaning somewhat to ease the pain. “Take Blue with you, you’ll cover more ground that way. She’s a lot lighter than I am.”

“Don’t be macho,” Cell snapped. “I’m fasster than you, even carrying your fat asss.”

“Good,” I muttered, opening my tablet and examining the map. “Get moving, I’ve got a date to make.”

“This isn’t the time to be going on a date!” Graw uttered, pounding her fist nervously on Cell’s shoulder. “We have to keep moving!”

“Stop stalling,” I said, giving Cell a push. “I’ll slow those assholes down, you get moving. We’ll meet up in a bit.”

“But what if they catch you?” the bubblegum girl inquired. “You’ll have to fight all six of them!”

I broke into laughter. “Right? How awesome am I?”

Without another word, I took off down the incline.

Archer splinters off from Colosseum Bros. E7 → E9

[The Future Warrior]

For a good minute, Cell didn't move, and both he and Graowr watched Archer hurriedly head off down the incline. "...he's gonna die, if he fights all of them..." the little blue girl mumbled.

"Death ain't permanent here. He'll be back." Cell shifted, adjusting the posture of the majin on his back. "Let'ss not put his disstraction to wasste." As clueless as she could be, even Graowr could tell this was not at all what the disgruntled bug-man wanted. "We sshould keep going. Thiss way, maybe..." And he turned, loping off down a path to the south. "Check the map. Sse if you can sspot any placces we might be able to ccircle around through and dodge those bassTARDSS! GAH!"

The sparks danced across his carapace again, leaving a tinge of smoke, and even the azure demon riding shotgun felt it. It wasn't pleasant, by any means. Couldn't even begin to imagine how it must have been to actually be directly shocked, and not just get the backlash secondhand. She was saddened, and wanted nothing more than to go back and catch Archer, taking him with them as they went, but...him being a distraction would buy them some time. Maybe not much, but hopefully enough.

So she dug out her tablet, pulling up the map. She scanned it over quickly, trying not to focus on the blip of a contestant that marked Archer headed right for the group of six. "Just...just up ahead, to the south. There's a tunnel that leads through the mountains, it looks like," she finally said. "I think... I think it loops back around, toward the beach."

"We could get out onto open ground there," Cell observed. "I could really pour on the sspeed and lose these jokerss." He gave a brief chuckle. "Hold on. We're going tunnel-diving."

Graowr didn't even question that. She just did as said, and held on, ready for the dive into the tunnel as it loomed ahead.

Graowr and Cell moving from E7 to E9

[Todd Ingram]

The battle has took his toll, Batman was near his limit. Even though he didn't like to admit it, it was true nonetheless. Finally resting in whatever shithole Karl decided to dump his latest collection of toys. Bruce leaned with his back against the wall, trying to decide which part of his body was hurt the most. Alas, rest was not in the cards. He had to keep moving and find the others. There were some allies still left on the island and he had to do everything in his power to get to them.

He checked his tablet for information, other than Enel being up in the arena bruce was unable to find anything. He sighed and with a painfull grunt he got up. His fingers were hurting like never before, barely able to move them. Bruce started preparing his weapons again, he used allot of them during that last match.

This was it, he had enough. There had to be a way off this island. a different way besides exploding his own head off. There was no point in lingering here any longer. For the first time in a long while Batman found himself without allies and all alone. Quickly gathering his things he moved out. Even after using his final trumpcard, it still wasn't enough. The shapeshifter lost her life, even with everything Bruce had thrown in the battle, it still wasn't enough.
 
Guilt started to eat at his conscious, no more deaths. If need be he would knock out every single person on his path, if that would end this needless bloodshed. Bruce's mind was racing as were his legs. There was but one place to go, the city. Every time he was in the city it was packed with enemies. If he had to go look for trouble, that’s where he needed to be.

Batman moves CHE to E6

[Todd Ingram]

Bruce took a break, his body was in worse shape than he initially thought. Not only did his fingers feel like they were on fire, his shoulder was killing him. Those fairies did a number on him back then. He decided to sit down against a rock, catching his breath and returned to tending to his weapons. Many batarangs were lost in that previous battle, so did his containers and smoke balls. Each and every one of these items required attention and dedication to get them right. Especially with Omnilium.


After resupplying his arsenal he grabbed a ration from his bag and started eating. Even though it hurt like hell he needed to retain what little strength he had left. While enjoying one of his last rations he grabbed his tablet. He started watching the fight that was going in the colluseum. His former teammate Enel was there fighting the same chump that he faced when he first got to the island. But now he was able to see Enel in action, he could see what a god was capable of within the omniverse.


And it did not disappoint. The attacks coming from him were very impressive to say the least, he wasn't bluffing after all. Bruce took another bite from his ration as he continued to watch. It seemed his partner went all out against them, not holding back punches, good. He needed to get out of that place alive. It seems the battle of dante's abyss wasn't over yet. After finishing his ration and getting enough liquid in his body, he got back up. He closed the Tablet, he knew Enel would be fine, he just had to have faith in the god. heh, almost as if he started believing in god. Better not let Enel find out or he will never let Bruce hear the end of it.

Batman moves E6 to E5

[Karl Jak]

(It is Day 6 -- Early Morning)