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GUNROD

Gunrod falls down the hole, and upon turning to stone immediately begins falling ever faster.

THUD.

He hits some sort of surface, impacting it with such force that he breaks through the ground, and falls onto another floor.

Returning to normal and muttering, Gunrod rises to his feet grumpily and stares around. LIGHT! There is light here! And what was here...

...was a small room, with a single panel on the side, a diamond-textured panel at that where the light is coming from, and an electronically-operated door with black-and-yellow diagonal stripes lining it. There is literally nothing else, save for... strangely enough, a cookie jar with two cookies in it. A large caramel pecan snickerdoodle, and a sacher torte bite. Gunrod stares in disbelief.

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UNAROSHI

"There's no need to exact any revenge on them... hold on," says the voice.

With a cry of Mosaic Buster!, something is fired at the door... which slowly begins to disintegrate. Unaroshi can tell it's disintegrating because he can suddenly feel cool air, not anything like the dank warm air in the cell, which is slowly becoming cooler now.

Something suddenly flies by Unaroshi and he jumps back with a cry, ready to strike at whatever tried to attack, but it was needless. There is buzzing about above Unaroshi's head, and he looks up. Suddenly, there's blinding light and he shields his eyes. He returns to his normal state, his dark form unable to handle the blazing shafts of light coming down on him, and when he's recovered and looks up again, there's a woman standing outside the cell. She has silvery-white hair with just a tinge of blue, with a more blue-ish snowflake ornament on top, and she wears a black bustier with more snowflake motifs covering her chest and hip areas. She also wears sky blue pantyhose with white boots. Most importantly, she wears an cuff on her left wrist made almost out of ice, it seems. As Unaroshi takes in this bizarre appearance, the woman scowls at him.

"If you're done gawking at me, perhaps we can get a move on," she growls. "I don't think it would be wise to get caught in a place like this, especially since these two fools are out of commission."

Unaroshi takes a gander at the two disabled robots below. One of them almost looks exactly like a human, except metallic. It seems to have a silver wig showcasing fan-shaped hair with a fringe. The other figure looks a bit like a Tyrannosaurus Rex with longer arms and made out of metal K'Nex parts, with a pulsating red core on its chest.

With a snap, the light flies over from above Unaroshi's head to the woman's left hand, spinning about her wristcuff. Unaroshi then takes note of several very very small buzzing objects coming and going from the cuff; the light seems to come from these small objects...

"Well?" the woman demands. "I came here to rescue people like you, it wouldn't be good if we were both caught."

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SAKER

Eventually Saker breaks through the wall, though making unbearably loud noises whilst doing so, and tears into the next room. Light! It's dull, but it is there. The floor seems to be where it's coming from... the rest of the room also looks very futuristic [OOC: compared to right now, 2014 :P]; there are several doorways in front of Saker leading on into total darkness, and there...

There...

There is a beam of light going vertical from between two truncated adamantium cones, lined with black-and-yellow stripes. Floating in-between the two cores, inside of the light, is a curious-looking sphere. It looks like a Poke Ball almost, but the button on front is shaped like a hexagon and recedes into the sphere somewhat, while the top and bottom of the sphere look more pointed than the rest of it. It is glowing a deep red.

As she collects her thoughts, suddenly there is a loud THUD from somewhere behind her. Saker jumps and turns to stare back into the darkness from whence she came, but nothing is there to attack. After several tense seconds, she turns back to the sphere.

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REST OF PARTY

The mechanical beings startle, not expecting Gunrod to make such an action... and nor, apparently, was the rest of party.

"Uh, dwarf man?" says Shepard.

"Why did he do that?" moans Mira weakly.

Maxine makes no indication she even registered the dwarf jumping down the hole. After a minute, there is a low, rolling THUD and they all startle. When they look down the hole again, there is a twinkle of light that can be seen, though from that distance hardly enough to combat the glow the mechanical mantis/shark hybrid is giving off. Both machine beings start making clicking noises, as though fascinated by this turn of events. Eventually the bigger mechanical monster, Avarice, rears its head up.

"That shall prove to be a mistake he will regret," hisses the behemoth, "for it was not your other comrade we were hunting previously. At any rate, he has sentenced himself to certain doom. You see," Avarice explains to the stricken party, "we ensure our prisons are designed rather intricately, and patrolled with optimal capacity and efficiency... innocent or not, he will appear as a hostile and however capable he may be in battle, he will most certainly be... terminated.

"You may grieve for his blunder later." Avarice drones in, the red eyes scanning the three remaining members. "Will you aid us in our search for the actual intruder? Our scanners indicate that she is not far from here. She is somewhere on level Vector N, three levels up."

The party decides...