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Chapter 19 - Zanny Defeat(?)

The saucer began spewing something else, not cows, but some sort of metal thing that looked like humans, gnolls, dragons, elves, and dwarves. "THEZE FOOLZ TRIED TO ZTOP ME, NOW THEY WILL HELP ME!" Dwelm's eyes widened at the sight of an elf, his face half replaced with metal and bionics but he could still recognize it. They used to play cards every weekend over a good drink.

That fool met a cruel fate. Dwelm took a deep breath and aimed, his mana began to flow as he cast three spells at once. Multiple arrows fired with the strength of a cannonball and with the tracking power of a dog. Each arrow struck true but even with holes in their heads they kept walking, and each one of them began preparing their spell.

Tenpao didn't wait for them to finish casting, with the full augment of his magila and spell he struck like thunder, slicing down as many as he could but even as their head fell from their bodies, limbs tore, and cut in half their spells hadn't halted, "MWA-HA-HA!" With a burst of magila, they exploded.

Dwelm's ears rung and his eyes hurt after the flash, he might've gone blind and deaf if his body wasn't enhanced. "NOW, WITH THE PEZKY PRIMATE AND NOUZY DOG GONE, I CAN FINALLY-" Amidst the smoke, the sound of his shield being stricken spread, then again and again until-

CRAAACK!

It broke like a glass cup, and the saucer suddenly flew backward at great speeds and deployed smaller saucers, the cannon that Tenpao had previously cut was good as new as it deployed once more, "DAMN IT!" Without waiting, the mini saucers began firing at the dust cloud, but each laser was deflected back to the respective saucer, "DAMN IT!!" The laser began charging, yet right below the disc there was a tree, one that had begun growing nonstop, reaching piercing the skies like a lance and hitting the disc, putting a dent in the weapon as it began leaking some sort of red juice, "ZOD FUCKIN' DAMN IT!!! I'LL BE BACK-"

Tenpao jumped out of the smoke cloud, his armor darkened black, his face charred black and dehydrated, and one of his arms missing. But undoubtedly still alive. By the huge tree, a gnoll jumped latching herself to the weapon.

Dwelm seeing his companions relatively fine aimed his crossbow and began raining arrows on the saucer, hurriedly the being recalled his weapon to prevent further damage, Lulu carefully watched as the gears inside the firearm were lifted until she found a nice spot to jump to, there she waited until the last bit of the weapon was fully inside to begin looking around, gears continually shifted with pistons moving back and forth, steam casually being let out, a lightbulb lit up on Lulu's head once she saw the steam, promptly looking around she found a hatch and forcefully pulled it out revealing a tight but crawlable interior.

Tenpao looked at the giant spherical capsule in front of him, with a stab of his sword he forced it open, then he stabbed again and again until he could kick it open revealing a smooth white inside illuminated by lights, he jumped in landing safely. Buzzing lights with white walls and brown ground, the walls were decorated with... Bones and yarn balls? Tenpao continued walking as many more yarn balls, bones, squeaky toys, and fake rats littered the ground until he came to a sharp turn, the brown ground slowly turning into metal as he further walked, the white walls taking a smoother and less homely tone until a big metal door with multiple angry bee sticker was in front of him.

"Wait for Pampkin!" Lulu ran through the corridor, sword on paws and ready to kick ass waved frantically to get the party leader's attention. Tenpao sighed, his whole body creaking with burning pain, his lungs struggling to even draw breath, yet, even in this state he was alive. "Oh hot diggity damn, you look terrible!" Tenpao kicked the metal door open, revealing a large room with a being sitting on a chair turned from them.

"Zhit..." The perpetrator of it all got up, sliding the chair away then turned around to meet his enemies. Tall green fur, four completely dark eyes, two antennas on top of his head, a cat snout but no whiskers, Dog ears dropping at the side of his head cat ears alongside his antennas, a bushy tail, and four arms. Plus an attire that resembled military attire with a star sewn at the very center, and brown shorts. His paw slid for something behind him and Tenpao burst ahead, but it was too late. The thing in front of them disappeared the moment he reached there.

The surrounding light slowly began to glow red with an agonizing siren blaring, "..So how do we get out?" Lulu said with both paws folding her ears.

Tenpao stared a few more seconds at the empty spot before leading the way to the entrance he had created, holding Lulu with his only hand he jumped up, then down. While his knees were strong enough to sustain the force of the impact, he wasn't sure Lulu could do the same so the gnoll threw herself to the big tree and slowly climbed down.

A few minutes after they were on the ground the disc began to lose its ability to stay afloat, falling towards the forest and uprooting every tree on its path. The party stared at the direction the ship went before the earth started shaking uncontrollably, a huge cloud of fire and smoke forming in the distance.

"Well, that's that," Dwelm said, holstering his crossbow back and finally relaxing his muscles as the great problem was finally dealt with, now to deal with smaller problems then! The dwarf walked back towards Bushy, the elf was kneeling on the ground, tears streaming down her with sharp gasps of air followed by short sniffles. Bushy kneeling was about Dwelms height so there was no need to crouch, he reached forward and put his palm on her shoulder. "You did what you could."

Dwelm moved around to be in front of her, the elf's eyes were red but filled with hatred. "Come, let's go meet the others." Dwelm helped Bushy up, her legs devoid of strength nearly made her fall but using the dwarf as a mullet prevented that.

A few arduous steps made them meet with Tenpao, who looked no better than a charred corpse missing an arm, "Bah, a bandaid won't fix that." Dwelm smiled.

Tenpao chuckled, stopping midway with a painful cough, "I'll live."

Lulu came back in the distance waving a charred arm, "Need a hand!?" She shouted, excited and smiling. Dwelm smiled, this probably was the strongest starting party he ever joined. The party leader gladly took his arm back.

Once more, like the first time, Jacinto ran through the fields with hagged breath, his small legs aching and his cow-hide attire moist with sweat, finally once he arrived at the fields the party stared at him and waited for the poor goblin to recover his breath, "Wha- What was that?!"