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[Ericus Europaeus (Bug)]

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[GreenDay]

"Hello, my friends." I say from behind a group of the rats. They rush towards me but are all impaled on many spikes.

"Sorry I'm late, but I had some business to take care of, which will help us now." Behind me something stirs in the shadows, then leaps out, attacking everything around it. It lpoke like a tiger, except for the fact it was covered in scales instead of fur, and had about 20 legs and a spiked tail. It begins killing many of the rat people as I float calmly behind it. One of them tries to shoot me with an energy beam, but it is simply absorbed by part of the cloud that solidified.

"I saw what you did to the others," I say," and now, I have to kill you." Even though my beast had run away, back to my lab, I still felt quite calm.

"Ha! Your outnumbered at least 20 to 1, what makes you think you can win?"

"Simple, really." I said, then after a pause, an eerie smile spreads across my face,"......I like to dissect!" Farther down the tunnel, you could see my shadow as many knives appeared around me and flew towards the rat people. You couldn't even hear the screams after a few seconds.

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[Marvelous Miscreant]

"Take over? You're going to take over the humans? Why?"

[Philote]

In a side tunnel where my body was dumped. My puppet body vanishes and a child pops into the tunnel.

"Well that was uncomfortable." I say as I stretch my new body out. "Not as impressive as my last body, but it will work." and I head out to find the others.

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[Marvelous Miscreant]

"For decades the Humans have left us in the dank and dark. We have lived in thier filth for too long. Now it is time for us to rise to our rightful place. Soon, it will be the humans that live below us."

"I originally came down here to get my friend back, but I see that there's a bigger problem here."

[Philote]

I decide to sneak into the lair to destroy the equipment sheds were the power armors are kept. Taking out and hiding the unconscious bodies of guards I come across.

In the first building, I get lucky and come across a bomb that I set to detonate in 10 minutes, hopefully so that I can sabotage another shed before the rats find out.

[GreenDay]

I walk down one of the tunnels, following a small blueprint I have. I come across the speedster I met at some point earlier.

"Hello." He looks at my bloodstained labcoat, looking slightly disturbed.

"If it helps, I found out some natural weakpoints."

[Marvelous Miscreant]

"Your...'friend' is needed for our plan to work. You see, we cannot just steal power from the city. They would notice. We had t devise a way to make our own power. That's where your friend comes in."

"There has to be another way. You can't just attack the humans. They didn't even know you were here. They are innocent."

"You are wrong. Soon the humans will fall and you will fall with them."

"I know how you feel. I am an outcast from the humans also. I am a meta."

"You do not know our pain. You did not endure decades of living in filth. You are in no position to claim understanding of our situation."

"I understand more than you think."

"Really? Then prove it....."

Suddenly the Rat King exited the room and the rats dragged me behind him.

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[Marvelous Miscreant]

I am dragged to a large arena.

"Prove yourself human. Prove you can understand us. Fight me. If you win, we will release you and your friend. If you lose, we will keep you as prisoners and take over the city."

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[Marvelous Miscreant]

"Now that I can do." My body turns to steel and I jab at the Rat King. The Rat King moves quickly to the side and kicks me in the chest. Even though I'm made of steel, I am forced backwards from the power of his kick.

"This may be harder than I anticipated..."

[GreenDay]

"Well, the tunnels form several intersections around here," I say, pointing to the blueprint," so we should check around there. You scout ahead, and I'll stay here. There are only two paths, they branch off to form the intersections. I'll cover this tunnel. Call for help if you need it."

[Marvelous Miscreant]

I turn to dianmond and get serious. Spikes form on my arms and I go in quicky attempting to bash the Rat King aside. The Rat King is quick, dodging and evading my attacks.

[GreenDay]

Arc comes back and tells me he saw a very large group of rat people head down the North tunnel. We head out, and see a giant arena. There were 2 people fighting. I realized one of them was Marv! The other seemed to be a rat of importance, possibly a king. Arc and I hid and waited, watching to see if he needed help.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

The Rat King jab quicks as a flash. It catches me in the chin. Before I can react the Rat King moves again and is attacking my back. As I turn he slides and is out of my reach.

"Time to even the odds", I mutter to myself. I turn to sand for more speed. I jab spike after spike at the Rat King until I graze him in the arm.

[Philote]

I move away from the lair into a side tunnel and wait. The third storage shed had turned out to be a slightly easier target as a large number of Rat men had left the area to something that had gained their attention. Now I only had to wait for the bombs to detonate.

3...2...1...

[Marvelous Miscreant]

I keep trying to spike the Rat King to keep him on defense while I try to think of a better strategy.