"Mwa-Ha-Ha-Ha!" A malevolent voice echoed through the plains as a tractor beam launched down grabbing an unsuspecting cow which gave the poor critter the worst wake-up jumpscare ever. Only Lulu could perceive that the disc was green and of the size of a small house.
The cow moo'd for help but all the other cows just stared. Lulu took action by running closer to the tractor beam while shouting "We have to do something!" Prompting both dwarf and elf to get up, the elf began immediately making a circular movement with her staff and a purple ring flew towards the cow.
"Gravity stomp!" At her voice, the cow began to slowly fall to the ground.
The tractor beam suddenly changed colors from white to red, "You won't ztop me, earthling!" The cow once again began to move up, albeit slowly. At this point Lulu was at the side of the tractor beam and immediately hit both of her paws onto the ground, vines spurted out growing sturdier and wrapping themselves around the cow making it completely still. "Gah! Finez. I'll deal with earthlingz firzt!" The tractor beam suddenly vanished and the cow plummeted downwards.
"Eeep!" Bushy tried to stop her spell but couldn't do it in time. Thankfully Lulu wasn't as trusting of her companion's ability and managed to create a fluffy flowerbed where the cow fell, it didn't sound pleasant but thankfully it was enough to save the cow from an unsavory demise.
Dwelm had already prepared his crossbow and in an instant, a volley of steel arrows began to fly towards the flying disc. "Such primitive weaponz won't affect me!" The voice said, even stopping the movement to let the arrows hit - only a few out of a dozen arrows actually hit it. "Mwaa-ha-ha-ha! Befall in utter dezpair at my vehicle!" Then ten smaller flying discs began to fly out of the bigger disc and moved towards them, they were the size of a table, Lulu squinted her eyes and then, for the first time in a while, grabbed the hilt of her worn and torn great sword.
"Dwelm, don't stick too close!" Lulu barked and ducked as a red laser flew toward where her head once was. "Bushy, stay with Pampkin!"
Dwelm quickly realized Lulu's thought process and followed it, his crossbow began glowing with a blue ethereal fire. Bushy on the other paw stood still like a deer in headlights prompting Lulu to run toward her instead.
Bushy hands were trembling causing the staff to shake, her eyes stuck to where the laser had hit, there was a tree there but now all that remained was a pile of ashes. Three lasers were fired at Lulu and Bushy tensed up expecting the worst but as the gnoll deflected two lasers back at the perpetrator and one at the flying disc Bushy felt struck. Without hesitation she slapped herself and made another circular motion with her staff, the energy took the form of a green cone this time. "Ztop canine earthling! Don't you know how hard it iz to repair thiz zhip?!"
"Kineetic Impact!" Bushy shouted, releasing the cone at high speeds and perfectly hitting another small flying saucer that had shot at Lulu, it crashed to the ground and stopped moving.
Dwelm took a moment to perceive through the darkness then fired two shots, the arrows pierced through two flying discs before they could even fire, prompting them to explode in the air. The sudden light gave both of them a trace of the bigger discs and the other five.
Lulu got to the side of Bushy and Dwelm took a few steps away, the chain connected to his crossbow and the metal box also began to burn with magic. "Target Guidance." Dwelm fired another two slower arrows and as the discs moved out of the way both arrows followed and accurately pierced the glass bubble at the top of the smaller discs, prompting two more explosions.
"Zuper Lazer Formation!" The three remaining flying discs flipped 90 degrees and made a triangle, before any could react a big laser shot down at Dwelm as fast as lightning. Bushy eyes widened and she clutched her staff but what left her surprised was that Dwelm was completely fine, even dusting off his metal shoulder pads, "Bah! Zo what if you have magic junk!" Immediately the three remaining discs rushed toward Dwelm, to which the dwarf immediately turned around and began to run towards Lulu.
Lulu gripped her sword and ran toward Dwelm, in an instant they switched positions and Lulu hacked downwards destroying a disc while Dwelm turned around with a jump and fired two arrows exploding another flying disc. Bushy began to wave another spell but it stopped once she realized how close the disc was.
It was a direct hit to her stomach, Bushy rolled around the ground and some cow droppings. Once her momentum stopped Bushy got up but felt difficulty moving her arms above her neck and walking. Lulu and Dwelm immediately ran towards her, "Mwa-ha-ha-ha! I knew earthlingz were nothingz!" In the next moment, ten, twenty, thirty more flying discs the size of a table flew out of the main disc, "You never ztood a chance!"
As the disc began to circle around Bushy and her companions, she couldn't help but grit her teeth. From beginning to end, she couldn't make any major help besides keeping a cow from being kidnapped.
Bushy could do nothing but help a cow. A cow. Is this all that eighty years of arcane effort and study could amount to? Her eighty years of tears and blood just for two meager spells?! All of that and the best she could do was save a fucking cow?! Bushy gripped her staff, each disc began to glow red. "Annihilation formation! Make them azhez!" And from deep within her, her truest form of self grew.
A purple dome expanded for forty whole meters as new arcane might was bestowed upon her by her truest self, "Crushing Zone!" a new spell was born.
Everything besides herself fell to the ground, each disc exploded deafening explosion but for Bushy, it was the cacophony of pure joy. "Can you stop now? Pampkin is feeling her ribs crushing her!" Lulu spoke.
Bushy immediately released her spell and looked at Dwelm, unconscious. "That's not good." Bushy said while offering a smile to Lulu, the gnoll smiled back then redirected her attention back to the disc.
"You... You earthlingz! I zwear I will do horrible thingz to you!" The disc began glowing and opened a small compartment at the bottom, a huge metal thing with a golden cylinder came out, with multiple colorful lenses in front of the barrel. "Prepare!"
At the distance, Tenpao saw the large thing and didn't need to think twice. Even as an old man his magic never let him down. His body left an afterimage behind and in an instant, the weapon the disc had fell to the ground, "What- How- What are you!?" The voice that came from the disc seemed terrified. Tenpao slowly walked towards his companions and his shoulders relaxed once he caught an eye of them. Catching the glimpse of opportunity the disc began to fly away, "This izn't over earthlingz!" In an instant, the disc became just another star in the skies.
Perhaps, after this involvement, the weird creature controlling the disc will take some time before becoming a nuisance again.