Smash City: Charge It!

[Native One]

"B-bombs?!"

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As soon as he yelled, the bomb exploded right in his face. Soot covered his entire head. As he wiped it off, he saw the third bomb roll over to another part of the store. "No! Not the Kong clothes!" Nook quickly jumped over to the bomb to knock it back to Croco...

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And he did just that. The bomb sailed over the other clothes and went straight for Croco.

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[Vize Viper]

The bomb Croco had tossed at Shell seemed to have nothing stopping it from hitting her, considering the nearest person, Roll, was almost 20 feet away, to far to cover the distance for any human girl in time.

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It's a good thing Roll wasn't a HUMAN girl, as a blur of gold, white, and red suddenly was in the bomb's path. Just as quickly, the girl SWATTED the bomb upwards towards the ceiling, where it exploded in midair.

After a moment of standing there, after her rather dramatic action, Roll looked over her shoulder, smiling a little at the koopa.

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[SHM 128 III]

It took Shelly a moment before she realized that Roll was addressing her; she was still trying to comprehend what had just happened. True, this was a world where there were all sorts of characters could do nearly anything, but even so, the sight of the girl running that fast made her pause.

"Huh?... Oh yeah, I'm fine Roll, thanks," the koopa finally managed to spurt out, "but... Uh... How did you manage to do that?"

[TurkwithStyle]

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Croco was laughing so hard he didn't see the bomb heading for him until the last second. "HAHAHAHA----" Croco switched to monotone abruptly as the bomb headed for him, "oh shroom, screwed again." Then blew up directly in his face. The explosive impact sent him flying up in the sky, and on top of a large mall decoration. He lied there exhausted "..." and then said aloud, "Why da' things like this always happen to me...?" He shook it off and reached into his bag to pull out another bomb, he then promptly threw it AT the Kong Clothes section and a few other hard to find merchandise racks...just to be spiteful apparently.

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The reptile laughed, "HA! hit me with my own stuff will ya? EAT EXPLOSIVES!"[rand=69475344831149960232626570410586258736051411440034616636587103321]

[Native One]

"!!" Without saying a word, Tom Nook attempted to swat away the bombs again. First he tried the one heading for him.
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But unsuccessfully missed it.

"NO!" The bomb went BOOM and the Kong Clothes were ruined.

...Needless to say, the other bombs blew up other sections as well.

And all Tommy could do was stare in terror.

"You... you monster!" He yelled. Running over to a nearby closet, he grabbed a mop from it and tried to hit Croco with it.

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[Vize Viper]

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The girl smiled a little self-consciously at the question, glancing back in the direction of the bomb-tossing crocodile in time to, AGAIN deflect the bomb up, and away, where it blew up (mostly) harmlessly.

"I guess I just have good reflexes." Taking a look around to find what she was looking for, she smiled, and then whistled. LOUDLY.

To a non-robot, the sound was just a keen whistle, but to Beat, it was a very quickly spokeen command in "Bio-Binary", the verbal equivalent of the computer language of binary. And the order was clear.

The lizard. Hit him. A lot.

So with a loud "KWEEE!", the robo bird lifted off from the clothing rack he'd been perched on, and flew STRAIGHT at Croco, spinning like a drill... sharp pointy beak first.

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[SHM 128 III]

"Yeah, I've noticed..."

Shelly continued to simply stand there awkwardly (in a green kimono, no less). She felt a little guilty that she wasn't doing anything to help, but what could she do? Throw a pair of sissors at him? Beat him with a curling iron? And it wasn't like she even had those to begin with. After all, she didn't just lug everything around in her back pocket like Link.

At any rate, she made an uncomfortable shrug as she looked at Roll.

"So... Is there, like, anything I can do to help? I can't throw a punch, but... Uh... Accupuncture taught me how to stab things with deadly accuracy."

[TurkwithStyle]

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Croco laughed as his bombs terrorized the mall, "GAHAH--" this was soon cut off by what seemed to be a bird-ish creature starting to attack him. "WHAT THE!?" He was hit twice, but managed to jump down off the mall decoration he was on to avoid the last two strikes. "You'll never catch ME guys, I'm too fast hehe."

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...and was stricken by the broom. After holding his head in pain he yelled out, "GET OFF MY CASE!" Croco then zoomed around the corner.

Screams were then heard from a nearby jewlery department, "HE STOLE A NECKALCE!"

Croco started to run out again, "HAHA Just TRY and keep up with me!" Croco started to get slightly more confident with his skills...a little too confident is seems. [rand=52412064614010338519342900986035911928217450120344705289435276996]

[Native One]

Nook did nothing as he watched the crocodile run off from the store. He was tempted to chase after him, but he had a store to look after.

He turned to Roll and Shelly, "If you two would be so kind to chase after that creep, I'll be happy to give you both a 50% discount for the next year." He wasn't expecting them to run off after the guy, but he had a store to fix up, and he needed someone else to go after him. "I would go myself, but I must clean up my store." He bowed quickly to the two, and rushed over to pick up clothes.8

[Vize Viper]

The girl laughed a little awkwardly, and shook her head.

"Considering he's throwing bombs around, you'd be safer keeping your distance. I'll get him." So, unfortunately for Croco (and possibly for Nook) Roll dashed for the exit of the store. Taking a moment to be sure there were no bystanders that would be in range, the girl held one arm up, as if calling down something...

What happened INSTEAD was that her entire forearm was engulfed in red light, and seemed to be replaced by a sleek red cannon of some kind, which she leveled at the fleeing crocodile's back. If her target had been a human, she's probably not acted to fight him at all but... since he wasn't...

"Roll Buster! FIRE!" With the screech of unleashed plasma, a red-pink ball of energy almost as big as the girl went crackling after the unfortunate crocodile.

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[SHM 128 III]

Shelly tried to keep up with Roll as she ran towards the exit into the mall, but it was rather hard considering the fact that she was in a dress and, you know, a turtle.

"Roll! W-Wait up!" the koopa panted, "I don't want you to... get... ... ..."

She quickly trailed off when she saw the young girl with a red cannon where her arm used to be, using it to fire a shot of energy at Croco's back.

"... ... ..."

And Shelly just stood there, mouth agape.

"... I think those dye fumes are finally starting to get to me..."

[TurkwithStyle]

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Croco most certaintly didn't wait around for the blast. He jumped up to avoid it, and fell back down happy and safe. "Holy shroom...what the heck ARE you!?" The reptile was happy he avoided the shot but was still confused by the girl who seemed to be a TRANSFORMER D: robot in disguise! Needless to say he tactically ran, then threw a bomb at Roll once again.

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[Sortie]

Around the corner from the chaos, a streak of blue light shot down through the ceiling and impacted the floor, drawing the eyes of mallgoers and causing several to jump in alarm. The light beam soon coalesced into a man in armor, who looked around in confusion.


"This...doesn't look like the South African base." X stated, scratching his nose with a gloved finger. It was rare for the worldwide teleportation system to fail like that; it was accurate because it had to be. But it seemed he'd at least been lucky enough not to land in the middle of the ocean, like the last person this happened to... Either way, he would have to call HQ to ask if this was a fluke and the system was safe to use, or if he'd be stuck here in this...mall, it looked like, until the problem was fixed.

He reached up and tapped a hidden button on the side of his helmet. "HQ, This is X. There's been a misfire. Requesting permission to jump."

Static. No response.

"HQ, please respond. I repeat, there has been a misfire. Requesting permission to jump."

Nothing. Had whatever caused the failure also messed with communications? Maybe the shielding on the nearest satellite had failed... He tried searching for another one, but came up empty. A quick diagnostic of his personal communications systems revealed them to be working properly.

This was starting to get worrisome.

[Vize Viper]

Of course, to make the situation worse, a matching crimson beam shot down and impacted next to the armored man, forming into another armored figure, with a VERY long blonde ponytail.

After glancing around for a moment, Zero turned to X, crossing his arms.

"So, who screwed up this time? This isn't Brazil." His expression, while it seemed annoyed, also held a faint hint of... amusement. He'd been one of those unfortunate sorts who on a misfired teleport ended up going for an impromptu swim, so was actually glad that wasn't the case this time.

Of course, looking at his partner's expression told him something was wrong beyond them being in the wrong place.

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"What? How did I mi-oh crud." Roll was blown backwards by the bomb into a rack of clothes, CRUSHING it on impact.

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[SHM 128 III]

Shelly quickly snapped out of her stupor when she saw Roll get blown into a clothes rack, courtesy of Croco's bomb. Long forgetting the unusual sight she just saw, the koopa rushed to the girl's side and knelt beside her to make sure she was alright.

"Roll!" Shelly gasped, "Are you okay!?"