"Stay too close? Ha! Don't worry about that. I will be standing right at the rear protecting the fortress just in case a few of them leak through!" Brock declared to one and all.
"No. Brock, you will be my mount for today." Wu Kong said with a smile.
"What?! NO WAY!" Brock roared.
"Whatever your fear is caused by, it is best to take them head on and be done with them once and for all." Wu Kong said sagely. "Don't worry, with me around, you'll be perfectly fine even if the Bug Matriarch shows up and-"
"BUG MATRIARCH?!?! THERE'S A BUG MATRIARCH?!" Brock roared hysterically.
The rest of Elliot's beasts laughed.
Wu Kong leapt from his position and landed on Brock's break shoulders and stood up straight. He held his massive Ancestral Grade rod in a middle-grip casually and pointed ahead.
"I am the commander of this fight. I will lead us to victory today. Brock, onwards." Wu Kong said in an awe-inspiring voice.