Spin Attaxx

"So uhh, this Hidden Palace," Star asked. "Are there gonna be booby traps and danger and really really wild things?" "Probably," Jessica said. With a smirk, she added, "in fact, I hear it goes on for days and days and days." "Oh, no!" Ivorn panicked. "He could be anywhere in there! And we'll have to watch our step!" Only Shade knew that Jessica was fibbing. After all, he did it a lot himself.

"No respect at all," Lumina sighed. It was such a beautiful-looking area, too. "Let's just keep going; we've wasted enough time as it is. But hey, soon we can get him back to normal, right?"

"How does he ever get anywhere with those world domination schemes of his with that code?!" a peeved Shade asked. "Now Shade," Lumina said, admiring the view, "ours is not to reason why; ours is to catch robot animals and beat up old men to stop them from getting jewelery." "...now when you put it like that, it sounds awesome!" Shade sniggered.

"I knew it!" Jessica said. "THAT CHEATING BASTARD USED THE LEVEL SELECT CODE! THAT'S HOW HE ALWAYS GOT EVERYWHERE FIRST!" The others turned to Jessica. They were surprised to hear her say that. "...hey, I like playing video games too," Jessica shrugged. "Y'know, it only just now hit me how weird it is that you and I are from a universe where those are games... and now we're seeing them in real life," Lumina said. "Oh, for goodness sake," Rouge said, "Rock, listen to the gumball before we're all given a migrane!"

Jessica lept off her Item-2 board and into the ring. She grabbed Lumina and Shade along the way and took them with her. As Star and Rouge flew in, Ivorn grabbed the ring's edge and, astonishing even him, swung up into it to join the others.

"OH NO, NOT THAT THING!" Lumina shouted, seeing the Doc Robot enter the ring. The amount of Game Overs this thing gave me... "WOHOHOHOOOO!" Ivorn geeked out. "A multi-AI robot? THAT'S SO COOOOL! ...Oh, er, um, I mean, oh no, he's going to nab the Super Emeralds, what a pity..." Shade was impressed himself. Huh. And all this time I was getting beaten up over trying to get a bunch of reject Chuck E Cheese robots, when I could've gotten one with a skull for a head and whatever programming I'd want!

"HYPER BARBECUE SPIDER BLAST!" Star spontaneously yelled as she fired several burning spiders at the lumps of snow, melting them once again. She wasn't too sure if she'd made things easier or harder for everyone, though. Jessica and the others weren't going to tell her; they were too busy landing hits on Metal Tails. "Come on, the other flying enemies weren't THIS durable!" Ivorn shouted, flinging rotating axes and sawblades at the robot. "What's your secret? I'd like to know!"

Jessica shot several Fire Bolts at the growing Tails snowball, trying to make sure she didn't hit the orange furry centre by accident. Lumina, meanwhile, fired several fast-moving lasers at Metal Tails, as well as creating holograms of herself and the others to confuse the robot. Hopefully this thing doesn't have heat vision, she thought.

Several Item-2 boards flew towards Jessica and the others, who - noticing the oncoming avalanche - happily grabbed ahold of them and used them as snowboards. "Bacon Kitty Hawaiian Nightmare!" Star shouted, firing a blast of magic at Metal Tails, not only damaging it but also making it smell like fresh pineapple. The Elementals, meanwhile, focused on the threats ahead. Ivorn and Jessica created large Metal Crushers and sent them rolling down the mountain, where they picked up snow and crushed spikes and Sniper Joes.

Jessica ran off down the mountain instantly, using her Mystiscope to keep track of the ring's location. With not much better to do, the others ran off after her. "Hmph," Rouge said, "if only I were good at chasing these things down regularly; then I'd be able to get myself those jewels without having to steal them!"

"H-H-H-H-How did you even get them up there t-t-t-to begin with?!" Jessica shivered, slowly using Fire magic to heat herself up and dry her wet clothes. "Planes?" Ivorn replied. It was a simple answer, but one that shut her up. "OK minion, and how are we going to get up there?" Shade asked. "...Item-2?" he said, turning to Rock.

"AAARGH!" Jessica yelled, being sucked into the whirlpool. "If we get to that slimy little red git, I'm gonna do to him what Lumina THOUGHT she did!" The Elementals and Star fired their magic at Mecha Knuckles as they were dragged closer and closer to the whirlpool. If they were going away, that robot was going down first!

"WHEEEEEEEEEEE!" Lumina shouted as she rode through the zone, accompanied by Star's laughter. The two girls were having a lot of fun as ever... a pity the rest of their friends didn't think so.

"Oh goodie," Rouge snarked, "now instead of taking a bath, we're gonna go splat on some ice!" "Ooooh, and I'm gonna fall straight through it, I just know it!" Ivorn winced, bracing himself...