"Do, you detect anything sus, Keem?" asked Zemeki. "Not particularly" he responded. The tall mans face gets all up in Joey and the group sees it all on screen. After a few seconds it leaves, grabbing the lantern again and stretching his legs to clear the building once more. "Maybe it worked?, try moving us closer to the observatory" declared Ramui. Joey Wheeler nervously advances forward, when suddenly the tall man darts out from behind a wall in front of him. It begins to look around for awhile before making its way back to Joey Wheeler. The tall man stands vertically with his arms and legs merging into his body to form a stalk and releases mycelia that go into Joey's crevices.
"Maybe we should intervene?" proposed Zemeki. "Yes, please do" thought Joey. "Based on what I saw from the stands I extracted machine's like Joey shouldn't be effected by that ability" "If he leads into the grab with another ability it could spell trouble" replies Zemeki "Affirmative" replied Keem. "I may have to use synchronicity to get us out of this" thought Ramui "Finally coming around aye" "You all go on ahead" stated Zemeki "I'll deal with him, I'm the one who got us into this in the first place" "It's safer if we're all here, it will give us a better chance of countering whatever he has" replied Keem "I'll counter whatever he has using synchronicity" stated Zemeki. "You can use synchronicity?" asked Keem "Of course, I'm a professional" Zemeki responded.
If a tool jives with someone like an extension of themselves, the user is practiced and they feel particularly strongly about something they can use synchronicity to make any of the abilities of their tool more powerful by adding a downside. The power added to the ability is equal to how hard it is to want to use that downside for the user.
"Want me to use sonnet on you to increase your chances?" asked Ramui "No" Zemeki responded "Definitely not" he mumbled. The creature now in it's original state is holding up Joey examining him. The group emerges from the pocket space. The creature notices and makes a noise halfway between a wheeze and a scream as Zemeki slices the creature's arms. "The controls are right past the planetarium" Zemeki said. Keem and Ramui get on Joey Wheeler and drive away. The creature stretches it's arms out and keeps pace attempting to descend on the bike. Zemeki states "Configuration 3 Ram" and Zemeki kicks the tall man who begins flying backwards Zemeki begins slicing at the long arms that got carried along the momentum.
"You think we're safe?" asked Joey "I think Zemeki is handling the creature" responded Ramui. "There could be more of them" added Keem. They enter the observatory, mycelia is heavily coating the place. "Wow this place is really dark" comments Ramui. Keem barfs up some drones "these will be our eye's" he states. The drones scout the place with night vision. As they walk through the pitch black planetarium they hear a dripping sound. And one of the drones gets caught on something just outside the planetarium. "I know where we need to go" said Keem "but be careful however, the feed cut for the drone in that area"
The tall man went through several buildings. Right before Zemeki is about to cloak himself he hears movement coming from behind him. He jumps onto the side of the building and see's two people crying blood searching for him. Zemeki see's strands of mycelia connecting the people to where the tall man is, in fact the stuffs everywhere. "How did I not see this before?" thought Zemeki. Zemeki jumps down and cuts the strands. The people continue to cry blood. "It's so sad" one of them spoke. "We lost everything" said the other. "Let us grieve in peace" said the first. Zemeki turns to the holes to see the tall man is gone and begins to hear his creaking lantern. Zemeki climbs atop of a building, and begins to meditate.
Keem sends another drone to scout the planetarium as they approach. The drone notices there are holes in the floor and walls. On closer inspection it turns out the walls of the building were actually people trapped inside the mycelia. Keem gets jumped by a crying teen, followed by a man, followed by someone else. Soon the whole group gets dogpiled by bodies except for Joey who they are avoiding because he is still. Ramui says "Act 3 Epic" and Keem disappears. Then "Act 1 Haiku" and he teleports out of the pile of people. Suddenly Ramui senses a presence approaching. "He he Ha ha ha" he laughs. An intense aura oozes from Ramui and all the affected people back away. "He's on his way" Ramui states.
Zemeki finished meditating activating his synchronicity. He summons juiced up copies of his monkey configuration and they spread out detaining everyone they come across. Some of the copies find the tall man's lantern approaching the observatory. They jump him kicking the lantern away. The tall man begins crying blood and all the people stop in place to cry even more. The tall man changed targets to the broken lantern but he gets uppercut by a copy. The copies pull out knifes and begin tearing into the tall man. The tall man has been exorcised and the people collapse unconscious. Zemeki approaches the tall man to extract some noad.
They all group up at the drawbridge ready to leave. "Didn't I die?" exclaimed Keem. "Don't worry about it" said Ramui "It's a different timeline it doesn't count" "So what did you give up for your synchronicity?" asked Keem. "I will return to my clan, including Enway" replied Zemeki "and I will not fight back"