Fourth Theft

[icanhastail]

[When Cambot catches up to him, Zidane is still a pony, but ...different. He's plodding along the hall where he would have trotted or flown, his neck and head nearly parallel to the floor instead of being held up proudly. Worst of all, though, is the fact that he's lost all color from his body, from the tip of his tail to the end of his nose. Anyone who knows what Discord does can take that as a bad omen... and anyone who can guess what the opposite of Zidane's personality is can take that as a really bad omen.]

Get away. [He's snapping at the Cambot instead of performing for it, but as it starts to move off he gets second thoughts.] Hey, wait a second, come back here. You guys downstairs - you're trying to take over the world, right?

[His eyes are hard as flint as he speaks to the Cambot, not caring who hears.] Get me out of here and I'll help you. Bring me down to where there's more souls and we can disrupt the cycle completely. It will be chaos such as you've never seen in all your lives and the world never shall see again. The souls of Terra need a home to go to, and this world will do just as well as Gaia.

I'll start up here... When I'm done, I expect you'll be ready for me.

[And with that, he turns and walks off again, purposefully. Cambot hovers, not at all sure if it should follow him, letting out a series of chittering beeps that sounds rather apprehensive.]

((ooc: encounter him anywhere starting from deck 8 down and try to stop him, but be warned he can still fly and has all of his acrobatic tricks up his sleeves.))

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[cleverkit]

[Oh, Link. Your sacrifice is not in vain! Now, instead of all the Servos bearing down on Wilykit and Squall, there are just many Servos bearing down on them.]

Uh oh...

[Wow. Wilykit had no idea that little robots that looked like gumball machines could be so menacing. On the plus side, she's even smaller than usual right now, so she might be able to evade the worst of it if she's lucky... but then she'd be leaving Squall completely on his own against them.]

What do we do?

[verygassy]

GUYS! I'm here! I--

[Aaaand Minakopony abruptly stops when she sees the Servos...and the Servos abruptly stop and see her.

...

Ever have a giant army of gumball machines maintaining an awkward silence? Welp, that's what's happening. Because most of them have turned their attention towards the orange pony.]

Uh...hi?

[fatedcircle]

[Well, that definitely wasn't quite what he'd expected his comment to provoke Zidane into doing, but there's no sense in dwelling on that. Instead, Squall takes into account that between Link and Minako's efforts there's significantly fewer Servo's actively paying attention at the moment.]

We need to get to Zidane. He's going to be the biggest problem, right now.

[icanhastail]

[Indeed, Zidane's still zipping along there, although he can't go as fast as he'd like because of twists and turns and generally being indoors. But he does hear the rush of Servos stop, and pulls around just long enough with a look of shock on his face to see why.]

[And the why is... downright weird as music gradually begins to filter through the air. WHO CARES WHERE IT'S COMING FROM, IT JUST IS. And then, as one, ALL of the Servos start rushing for Minakopony, yelling in concert as they go.]

HUBBA HUBBA! Someone give me a water hose because you are on fire!

[DISTRACTION FAILED. Zidane curses and tries to flee!]