Her dream world was wild and without question, didn’t give her the rest she had been hoping, her dreams were filled with hellish nightmares, things she wouldn’t ever speak of, it wasn’t until the grunt that was sitting beside her shook her lightly to inform her that they were pulling up onto the park, she looked at her wrist and gave a small whisper into it, knowing that her crew members could hear as each had one also, “I’ve arrived at my destination, wish me luck.” As she and the grunts piled out, she knew right away when they got in there it would either hold no person, or they would be attacked at the gate… But either way, they would be ready, as she gripped onto Light Brother tightly, she gave a small nod towards the men around her, a slow but steady walk towards the opening of the park led her to a sign, directions of course, there were four paths, each leading to a different area…

To the west of the entrance, it was rollercoasters, could the engine be there? No… Rollercoasters gave way not much space; it needed to be somewhere open enough to allow many men to work, and even more to guard. The next sign pointed to the east, food stalls… Though many men try to convince Daenys that the engine would be there, she ignored them. Something like that would be distracting, it wouldn’t be there. To the south was a trolley system that would allow for easy movement through the park, being able to see all the attractions, however that would take too much time, however she knew that an open area would lead them to the North, the water park, though it would still have a lot around, the pools would make for a nice opening to prop up work and station men. They would march towards the water park; there she knew they would find what they were looking for.

And sure enough, after several minutes of marching, and single hand into the air would cause the entire group to seize movement. They stopped just before pulling completely up onto the water park, with a quick glance towards her surroundings, she knew what she would have ten of the twenty grunts do, the ten with the rifles would split up into groups of two, each taking a different high position, along with them moving up towards the higher flanks to ensure better chances of head shots, she would follow one pair to a high point and take a look at what was before them.

She saw ten great pools, at least 30 feet, if not more, and amongst that, she noticed surrounding a large engine were at least 100 Fishmen, and around them in several different guard positions were 100 more Fishmen, assuming these were the ones she and her grunts would need to take out first. However she noticed ten Fishmen that stood out more than the others, Piranha’s, these must be the leaders… Each of these men towered over the rest… She stood a deep breath, and then nodded. The grunts that she had go high knew their orders were shoot to kill, and not to shoot until the attack had begun.

As she moved back down the lower ground level, she thought about the engine; it was strange, the wording… She hadn’t seen it before had she? It wasn’t something she could read, that was for sure. Though she couldn’t get a real good look at it she wasn’t sure what she had saw… But she had to face around two-hundred men, if not more… She was glad she had taken the grunts; otherwise this might have gotten very messy… She laughed a little, separating the different types of weapons, all together she now had ten men, and one she would leave behind, hidden; as he carried a rather large gun that she would need to blow the hell out of the engine when it came time, and she didn’t feel like losing him.

However she set 5 of her grunts that carried bows on a slightly lower level than the rifles, having them fire freely once they saw the color of her hair out on the field.  With that she had herself four good men, and aside from the ones helping in the heights, she only really needed those four good men by her side, and a few others taking them out from the top however… A smart man would turn at the sight of over two-hundred men if he only carried twenty and himself, however a wise man once said “Give me ten good men and some climbing spikes. I'll impregnate the bitch.” And, she wasn’t a man.

With that, she and her four men by her side began their walk to either victory or death; she wasn’t going to leave this park until her mission was completed or until she breathed her last breath. She smiled and began to ran, her speed (tier 5) being far superior to most running towards the first set of 20 guards, she had left light brother to stay with one of the four walking from behind her, as her speed would zip through this set of guards, she would touch each one, her hands flying out, as she spoke the words “Bagu no mushi no omocha.” Or translated to, Little Bug Bugs, this would determine that each Fishmen that she touched would turn into a small toy bug, once she was sure that each one of the 20 had been changed, she lifted her index finger to her mouth, and spoke once more, “Keiyaku.” This would translate to making a contract, “You will kill yourselves.” As she lifted down her finger, the little bugs would begin to not only attack themselves, but find different ways to commit to their masters words. At this point, all of the other Fishmen would forget about the 20 men they had at the start, their existence no longer there. As she straightened her clothing articles she would slip back approximately 5 feet and wait for the other four of her companies to catch up, though at this point the rifle and bow grunts began to shoot, taking out another 15 men in the process, it would be around this time the Fishmen protecting the workers would notice that they had been infiltrated.

This ain’t no place for no hero

The Fishmen were clearly angry that they had been infiltrated, though Daenys had no doubt they would have been a great deal angrier had they been able to recall the twenty Fishmen that had been turned to 'Little Bugs' and forced to tear each other apart, crashing and biting each other's plastic bodies unable to speak. The Hobi Hobi no Mi saps at the free will of its victims and if the contract is made strictly enough, the toys' will lose free will entirely. Unless Daenys chose to bring them back to their forms, the other way, to defeat her, was just impossible given that she had at least four good men and a bazooka rather than a climbing rope. It was simply overkill to have snipers raining down upon them and arrows peppering into their ranks from either side of the water park.  

The bullets that were firing at a constant pace from both sides of the Water Park and high above an easy view, or shot, from the ground were causing chaos in the Fishmen and their ability to unite or defend themselves. While the Snipers and archers were not the greatest in the world or able to hit every shot, the advantage of being up and at an angle was allowing them to keep firing with low chances of being hit, although low inevitably means casualties. A Sniper of hers fell from the highest level to splatter upon the ground, in a spray of blood upwards and all around, but the cross firing between both sides and raining down upon the Fishman forces was causing them much more trouble and damage. Altogether a total of twelve more Fishman pirates had fallen from the constant fire from snipers and archers.

Daenys was watching the leaders more carefully than the rest, her new pistol friends were firing all the while firing into those Fishmen in nearby groups, defending against or trying to shoot back at the snipers and archers. Particularly aiming toward Fishman with Bazookas from behind Daenys, the two managed to shoot and kill four of the Fishmen wannabe Pirate grunts too stupid to realize he had been fooled into death. These poor and fooled Fishmen would die either way, and Daenys was the woman to do it so that at least their idiocy would cause the only mass death count...Rather than everyone here.

But her contemplation was broken by the sudden emergence of the Fishmen Piranha Team in front of her, leaping from the water all at once. Lunging and throwing their weapons one after another as fast as they could between intervals at Daenys. Trying to take her by surprise and attack more than she would be able to react to at once, but in doing so they sacrificed the area that they were capable of covering at once and Daenys is very, very fast. Daenys knew that her evading the maces may put those behind her at risk, but there was little else she could do. As her heel made a loud click as she stepped and pushed off from the ground to roll away from the first thrown mace. Her choice to roll was to show the less perceptive grunts behind her what was going on before a Titanium Mace plowed one or more into bits. A moment after her rolling evasion she experienced a light gust of wind from behind and the sound of plastic bits blowing across the floor, some blowing up against her heels but most being scattered into the sands beyond. The remains of the first twenty unlucky Fishmen, their names lost to history in the most literal and permanent way. Such was the gust from the impact of the mace behind her now.

After the first mace had landed and they had all felt the force of its impact, the team she had brought readier their weapons and the Bazooka carrier stepped back and away from the fray. A result of Daenys giving him a hand signal while evading the second and third mace by running her fastest while making small jumps to suddenly change direction, forcing the Fishmen throwing their maces her way to choose between trying to create a circle to laying the maces out in a line. Though Daenys's evasion pattern was based solely upon protecting her comrades since she was clearly the target, suddenly as she zagged at an angle to begin running a different path she heard the ‘WOOSH’ of the fourth thrown mace flying through the air, barely avoiding her head.

The grunts had been able to realize what was happening,  and understanding of their position to be able to attack while the Piranha were entirely focused on Daenys. First to act were the pistol wielding grunts taking the initiative to fire at rear Piranha Fishman in the column before he tried his chances to strike or entrap Daenys. Making themselves more of a target than the Bazooka marksman, the only weapon here capable of destroying the engine, as an extra precaution. The two sword wielding Songbird grunts retreated to stand in a defensive stance in front of and protecting the Bazooka, prepared to die to protect his role in accomplishing the mission. As they appeared to be going one at a time in order, it was not difficult to see which ones would be interrupted by their attacks. With Kenbonshoku Haki, the Piranha were able to see the attacks coming and move out of the way, but even so they had separated the Piranha line and broke their formation. The two did not stop there, however, firing all the bullets that had been slotted into their pistols and forcing the Fishmen Squad Leaders to constantly adjust themselves so as not to be hammered with pistol fire. Eventually throwing their maces after a delay between their throws and the maces thrown before them, allowing Daenys a respite, “Not bad for a couple of guys with pistols,” she thought to herself.

While the grunts were making their moves to do what they could to help Daenys and further help the mission succeed no matter the cost, Daenys continued to deal with the Piranha Fishman who had singled her out as the only significant threat that could make it through to the engine. Daenys was having difficulty in evading the Piranha Fishmen without traveling far enough into the park to encounter the Sand and hinder her own chances. Forcing her to turn around back toward where two of the maces had landed when the fifth and sixth were thrown consecutively. Daenys ran to build up as much speed as she could before leaping with her incredible speed giving her extra momentum to move her tiny fram. Carrying farther into the air than would have otherwise been possible, leaping high enough to exceed the height of her chest before, where the Piranha Fishman had aimed his mace. Her speed giving her enough of an arc to the jump that became a flip for ducking above the height of the hammer throw, carrying her over the next hammer a few feet away and landing outside of what would have otherwise been a balancing act against a flanking force of superior numbers.

The sixth Mace came flying at her immediately after she landed from her flip, as it was flying toward her mid-section, and before she even had been able to stand up. With no upward option to take and a wall to her side that even if she jumped and made it to the opening where her team was, she would be putting them at risk of the Fishman's fast and powerful mace, So, instinctually, her mind didn't approach the option of going back to her team while she was in direct danger to a degree they may not survive, but to the only direction she could travel. That being toward the Fishmen themselves, as they had leaped out of the pool and come close enough at her and her team that they had left their huge advantage in the Sand just behind them. So, Daenys turned her head and tensed her muscles as she watched for the moment the mace left his hand. It did almost immediately as Daenys had been thinking as fast as she could and for the most part; this were just realizations of natural instincts coming to her rather than plans. But Daenys was nothing if not self-confident and brave enough to live up to it.

As soon as Daenys was able to process that the Piranha Fishman was pulling his arm back to javelin toss his mace, as the five before him had and the two after him surely would, Daenys made her move. While she was not able to move immediately after the Piranha Fishman began his movement due to the Fishman's own impressive Speed on its own. Daenys was still significantly faster than the Fishmen, all that she had encounter so far actually, that she was able to make up for the tiny fractions of a second she had lost due to her eyes inability to catch up and process quite quickly enough.

Using her tensed muscles like springs to bolt out, her heels grip sole helping give traction for that starting step as she rose while keeping her back at a slouch and bend for the purpose of being able to dodge. The entire reason she was currently charging at eight Fishmen that she knew were physically stronger than her, rather than trying to evade them, was the knowledge that after they had thrown their weapons and she had evaded them all, they would have a chance here. A result of the preparatory position she had taken, her head was angled at a way looking at the ground and extending her view up only about as far as the Fishmen’s heads to make sure of the hammer as much as her eyes could handle. However the tide and future of the entire battle changed upon her second step toward the Fishmen as she was looking at the ground.

An idea instantly came to mind in full bloom as she saw the remains of the Little Bug Bugs that had once been Fishmen. They were stronger than her and they had been fighting longer and had spent more time learning how and then how to be better. They had techniques and skills and instincts for battle that she, as a princess who enjoyed baking and music, simply did not have. She had put those twenty Fishmen that had been fooled by Oceanus in a situation that it was impossible for them to win, even survive. She was a princess, heir to a Kingdom and raised in royal fashion. She DID know how to give commands and cover loopholes, and she had seen all her life examples of the noble’s trotting over the commoners as if they were nothing in the first place. Daenys finally had an idea why this was chosen for her and why so necessary to find this particular Devil Fruit for her.  It was the devil fruit that weaponized the behavior of royalty into what could not be disobeyed or broken. Putting its victims under her command, separated from the entire world save what was commanded and her mercy at a touch. What could sound more royal or noble than that?

As the idea fully realized in her mind, she had taken one more step forward, her heel clicking against the only part of floor in this water park that had not been made into a sandy trap of the sea and fishes and after that click came a small crunch and bits of plastic bursting out from under her shoes. The bits that were more like shards now, flew in the direction behind her as she used that step to spin and move slightly to evade the mace’s path now that she saw it was too late for him to change it.  The broken shards of black plastic seeming almost as if it were to prove the point of her newfound realization, which had already, restored her mind and confidence about victory. The Hobi Hobi would be her victory her, the authority of the noble overcoming the mobs of the common people as they had forced her into the task of. She lived for danger on the inside, yearned to be part of the excitement. Now that Daenys was seeing battle and taking lives herself, it gave her a complete and idea of her actions being meaningful in a greater way than herself. Taking the problem into her own hands was what she always wanted to be able to have as an option in her status.

After she had evaded the sixth mace as it flew by, pushing that air that it was flying through to either side as it went and blowing Daenys' hair completely over to the front of her face as it flew by. For a moment she was scared that she wouldn't be able to see it coming and one of these idiot Fishmen who would martyr themselves for the simple reason of not realizing what was coming despite it being they who were bringing it about. But as her hands flew to her face to brush her hair away, she did not see another mace flying at her direction ripping apart the air like a missile. Instead, the two grunts who came here with naught but a pistol each had managed to keep the final two distracted while as they strategically emptied their bullets at them. The Fishmen clearly were demonstrating their use of Haki, but they were too concerned with Daenys as the actual threat to instead attack the pistol Songbird green pirates. Daenys smiled at them, but their determination and sole focus upon the two Piranha Fishmen that were superior in every way that applied in combat to notice.

Realizing that the pistol warriors were trying to make their distraction drag on, Daenys chose to take advantage of moment of respite to consider how to apply the Hobi Hobi to beings that were willful, powerful, and spiritually strong enough to have developed Haki. She would need to somehow be able to touch them all without their Haki giving them plenty enough warning to evade her and then to establish the contract. Their options on fighting her were pretty limited at his point in that they would have to lose their weapons to carry on and use their physical advantage, or come directly at her and her team to try to retrieve them where they had fallen. But Daenys would not let her comrades who had bought her these precious moments to think and recollect herself. Actually, it was a life saver, as this time to consider brought her to a fairly simple; she also thought it ingenious, solution to their evasion and being affected by the contract. Rather than turning these Fishmen into bugs to destroy, she would turn them into a toy that she had no intention of harming, killing, or ordering to do harm to themselves or each other. No intent of harm would make her actions invisible to the senses of Haki, and thus not even register to the Fishmen as an attack. This moment to think had changed the future of Fishman Island and Atlantis, the entire Fishman race. All thanks to two guys with two guns.

To the sight of two of her archers being blown in opposite directions by a bazooka Fishman who had gotten a shot from a raised point near a pool, her sword wielding comrades would soon inform her that before those two had fallen, another nineteen Fishmen had been taken out in the continuous crossfire between both sides of the park. Simultaneously, Daenys began to react to the seventh mace throw. Leaning to the right as if she was going to dodge, bending her knees in that direction as if to push off at a sprint. However, when the mace came at her, angled to meet her in her dash to the right, she instead pushed forward. A relatively short distance and only giving a single clicking of her heel striking near edge of the sand. She had no hostile intent against these Fish, no desire to hurt them so as she sprinted in front of them, moving her extended arm and hand to graze any part of them that she could touch, their Haki did not move them to evade the small girl who was far faster than they.

When they all turned toward Daenys in surprise that she had come to them but also that she was that fast, able to run in front of them faster than they could reach out or strike at, had confused them. No doubt they would be wondering why she had done what she had, giving her the perfect opportunity to quickly seal their fates as servants of her will eternally.

“Ritoru Burakku Beāzu.” She spoke the moment they had turned to face her. Never having enough time to try to stop it, she was simply too fast and possessed the weaponization of sheer authority and royalty as a part of her very body and soul. “Keiyaku.” establishing that the eight Piranha Fishmen before her had suddenly become small teddy bears. Where they had once towered over her in every physical way, now they were harmless to her, bound to whatever words she spoke to them, and not quite even a fifth of the size of the little girl they had just been seeing her as. “When commanded to and only when commanded to by me, you will run as fast you can with our weapons and bring them across the sand directly  to the engine and not move again until commanded to do so. You will do nothing outside of the directly stated task described in the first rule. You will cease all movement and function and lay on your backs wherever you are the moment that the engine in this park is destroyed.” The contract was made, the once powerful Fishmen who were strong enough to be capable of Haki, and who could have smasher her body to pieces with their strength easily were now under a foot tall wooden bears that were more cute than capable of anything. Trapped to such a finite singular purpose and then shut down. It was the simple proof and all that was needed for Daenys to know she was going to be able to succeed here.

Daenys raised her right hand in a fist to convey to the four who had become her team to stay until she called them. Now deciding to run out into the sand, as she was finally able to make a clear shot to the engine, she had decided she could probably move faster and be able to apply her devil fruit with more freedom without Light Brother, leaving it with the two pistol grunts that had saved her before to safe keeping. Between Daenys and the engine was only a few groups of Fishmen Legions that remained.  They were losing their numbers advantage fast, almost down to a one to one ratio and with it they were quickly becoming unable to fight back or pose a direct threat. Her small ranged teams, however, were rarely suffering loss and increasing their ratio comparatively always. While Daenys was rendering sea warriors into toy bears who existed to perform a single task and never move or interact with anything again, the ranged battle had raged further. Another sniper had been shot but they had taken ten more of the Fishmen Legions before he fell.

Daenys ran quickly across the sands of the water park toward the engine, she could feel her heel-like boots sinking into the sand with every step sinking just the tiniest amount, but her speed between each step making up for the sinking factor easily. Suspicious as it was, Daenys had planned ahead and went ahead herself to prevent any more of her comrades from dying in this water park. It occurred to her that having taken so long to get here; she had a VERY limited time to succeed on her own. That she, who was a cook, a musician that fought as a side element to her life was sent alone to do battle with hundreds of enemies. It prickled her about the whole situations, bothered her, but she was determined to see it through now. She would be stuck here otherwise.

The path to the engine was not a long one and due to the remaining efforts of her snipers and archers the remaining Fishmen units, numbering only about twenty now, and the biggest threat to her and her goal were the two remaining Squad Leader Piranhas. Though, in the minds of the Fishmen here, they had been the only squad leaders from the beginning. They had just recently decided to move to the engine for further defense when they came under attack, being the strongest two Fishmen in the park. Daenys approached without too much worry though, for only in her own mind there was the memory of the other eight squad leaders or as they would be known now, the eight Little Black Bears.

Daenys was able to reach the area around the pool that contained the engine within a few moments, neither group of remaining Fishmen Legions in the way. She was plenty fast enough to make it over the sand herself, though she was not as confident that her grunt comrades could do the same. As she had suspected, the two Piranha Squad Leaders had moved in the time of her run towards the engine. It didn't bother her, she had already figured out a way to get around and through these two, so long as they couldn't get their hands on her or strike her, she would fine. She knew how to defeat them now and they didn't have the advantage of knowing she had done it before.

Coming up on them with a slightly different plan in mind than before, but still one that did not intend direct harm to them through herself directly or indirectly as a result she aimed to finish this quickly, as she did not have much time left to destroy the engine and escape. Daenys saw the two had already raised their maces to swing down at her simultaneously. The Squad Leaders had already raised their maces to swing them down and strike her as she reached the end of the sand and into the area surrounding the pool that the Fishmen Scientists and two Squad Leaders had taken up on. So, similar to the previous Squad Leaders, as luckily these two would have no knowledge of her ability to act and move this way not being able to remember the others, Daenys at the last moment broke off and dove to the right and slid past the leg of the Squad leader, lightly brushing her hand across him before leaping up in the same motion, before the two could draw their weapons back up and swing again, and jump from next to them, to the other side of the Piranha Fishman that had been on her left, reaching her delicate royal hand out to graze the Piranha Fishman's skin before landing and facing the two.

Immediately touching the ground, she saw the Fishman raising their weapons to come at her but they stopped when she spoke. “Bagu no mushi no omocha.” were her first words that transformed the two Fishmen immediately into very same tiny black plastic bugs that had begun this battle and given her the idea that turned it' tide.  Then “Keiyaku. Which to all of the Fishmen around the water park meant nothing, save for the two Squad Leaders. She had no use for them like she had with the others but she had, had to be intent on not harming them directly. However, she was angry and hurt that the Song Birds would have put her in such a situation and it didn't help her mood when regarding the Fishmen trying to kill her. And now came her rules. “You will stay on the ground where you transformed and not move or act ever again.” Her first instruction would leave them exposed to the random fates that would befall unmoving toys on a battlefield. She didn't have time to deal with them anyway and she didn't have the energy to waste by transforming them into something else, not like she considered them deserving of more.

Immediately following this, she left the two snakes behind and called over the Little Black Bears, fast enough to be able to cross the sands and so that they could perform their final act of movement. They grabbed up the Bazooka and began to run all together, each holding a tiny piece of it. With eight of them carrying it, they were able to each have enough of the burden unloaded from them able to move with enough of their speed to not sink into the sand as they carried the Bazooka. In the meantime, the ranged team and Daenys herself had more enemies to deal with.

While Daenys was making her run, the snipers and archers were able to focus their fire on the small groupings of Fishmen, still determined to fire back at them. They had some success and were able to kill another of the archers, focusing more on them due to their lower position and easier target while the downward firing was able to pick off another seven of the Fishmen Legions.

Daenys herself needed to clear the scientists out as much as she could. They offered no real fighting ability so she didn't really want to have to destroy them as they were non-combatants. She didn't really feel right about it and she didn't really have a way to kill or defeat them without using the Hobi Hobi, and such was not a death of honor and one that destroyed the life that they had lived. Still, she knew that they were the only ones capable of being able to repair the engine after she would soon destroy it and given that they were on a death trap and suicide mission to use an engine for their goal, there was no way that they would be reasonable to the idea of not working on repairing it if she left them, or being trustworthy enough if they would agree to.

She didn't really know how much time she had left exactly, but the shaking of Atlantis itself was a good telling that she was basically out of time. Brutal efficiency was the only option really left to her and she would stop at nothing to succeed her. More than it helped the Song Birds, more than it hurt Oceanus, more than it saved the lives of Fishman Island, destroying the engine and preventing its repair was HER only chance to survive this. The scientist Fishmen looked on in fear as they didn't know what to do yet. Daenys, feeling a little guilty at what she was about to do and what she had to do, but that did not meant that she did not have to do it.

Without hesitation, Daenys charged into the scientists that were closer to her. Rather than with the Fishmen Squad Leaders that she had been forced to avoid direct harm in her mind when considering them and making the contracts, she did not need to consider such with scientists. Speeding through them and touching the first eighteen that she came into contact with before any of them had even noticed her. Smacking them rather than lightly touching so she did not have to slow down. Stopping after eighteen only briefly to say the words. “Bagu no mushi no omocha...Keiyaku.” Which transformed them all into the same plastic little bugs that so many of their brethren had been reduced to today. "In the order that you were transformed, you will fly under my shoes one at a time, each step." It was the easiest way to deal with them rather than risk telling them all to commit suicide again and wasting the time. This way she could still move and still destroy them so she could make more and end up wiping out the Fishmen by wiping out an insect colony.

At this time the Little Black Bears were finally making it across the sand to where she had been originally standing, offering her a reason to go back. She had changed her mind about the original two that were once threatening Piranha Fishmen anyway, nothing Kenbonshoku Haki could do about that, she thought maliciously out of the desperation of her situation. As the Little Bug Bugs she made out of the scientists could still move quite fast, she was able to move at a decent speed back without screwing up their contract. It was so annoying that they could only be given one rule without overloading the tiny things, but it was easy and it kept her energetic enough to keep going.

Daenys felt bad for the likely horrified and internally screaming Scientists that were flying under her heels as she was walking on them, breaking them apart beneath her but this was the only way to succeed in time. She didn't really care how the Squad Leaders felt about seeing what was happening to Fishmen that were made just like them though, as she had come to really despise them after they had taken so much of her time and put so many of her people at risk. Through her walk, the eighteen scientists that had just a minute before been standing at the engine making sure it would function were in little black plastic pieces and toy legs scattered about the floor of the water park surrounding the engine.

When she arrived back at her starting point she paid no attention to the original two bugs on this bit of land and grabbed the Bazooka from the Little Black Bears, the eight of them collapsed immediately on their backs and remained unmoving. More toys subject to whatever would happen to them in the battlefield with everyone moving about. As Daenys herself hefted the Bazooka, it was the moment of truth. She walked over to the pool with the Bazooka the bears had brought. Pointing the massive weapon of destruction to the Engine, if she was able to destroy it in a way that repairs could not be made, the scientists would not have to be destroyed like all the others, she had already gotten a head start on it but she didn't want to have to do it all herself. It was a cruel thing to do given their role in all of these and non-combatant status but she would have to if there was even a chance... So moving close to the engine, Daenys hefted the large device, she had trouble holding and aiming it properly but she only needed to bust in through the steel exterior. She pulled the trigger, flying backward onto the black bears as the steel ripped apart in the area hit, scattering shrapnel around.

The Iron Cogs inside were still working however and they needed to be destroyed as well, the final thing she needed to do to avoid having to commit another massacre and still make it out of the park on time! Daenys got up and scrambled to think of something that would be able to stop them that she had on her, her eyes scanning around looking for anything and stopping on her only chance at a solution. Immediately afterward, Daenys turned around and picked up the little bugs and dropped the two of them into the engine between the cogs that were most exposed, they crunched in the cogs and their little plastic bits were soon grinded up as well, but in regard to them, she had already decided that she changed her mind about them. This gave her an idea, a chance at another option.

Daenys turned around again and grabbed for the Little Black Bears. She had intended on just leaving them here, but the deed was done and there was nothing that they could do to turn back if her intent upon the moment of their change was decided to be made different afterward. Plus she didn't really like them anyway. Daenys scooped all of their motionless toy forms up into her arms at once and threw them all in between two of the Iron Cogs specifically and hoped for the best. Thankfully, the machine running entirely on these iron cogs and their turning and grinding the cog and stopping it from being able to turn entirely, while it was crushing down on the bronze-strength toys with wooden properties. It made them splinter somewhat but not breaking them all. And as the cog was unable to turn, the machine was not able to continue turning. Thus the entire thing broke down, backing up the cogs and breaking the machine by spewing the Iron Cogs in every direction. A lucky few landing on a total of six scientists, maiming or killing them entirely as the cogs flew at great speed outward.

The machine was broken, there was no going back. But the Song Birds were broken in her mind too. She couldn't believe that people she thought had been her friends, her allies, had left her to such a fate that it was only lucky that she had barely a chance to escape from now. While she was at it, the ranged team had been more aggressive to finish off the few remaining Fishmen Legions and had finished the remaining thirteen, but at the cost of another sniper and archer due to their ferocity and exposure derived from that.

While Daenys rushed back across the sandy sea-sucking trap, she was giving the rolling wrist with a raised fist signal to the ranged team as well as to the team that had followed her into the area on foot. They would all go to meet up at the trolley, and as soon as she, running at maximum speed through the sand, gave the signal. The entire group of grunts ran their fastest to meet her at the trolley.

By the time they reached the trolley, Daenys had been waiting only for a few moments, not really exhausted per-say, but rather frustrated and annoyed at how long it had taken, and how close she had come to death several times. She grabbed Light brother from the grunt she had handed him to earlier. “We did good boys.” She smiled softly, they had done good… And thankfully it was almost over, as the trolleys pulled up and everyone pilled in, it was finally time to leave the hell hole they had entered. She had a lot to think about for the next two hours, and she wasn’t sure how she felt. She let a small sigh out as she looked at her den den mushi, “The engine has been destroyed.” She spoke, loud and clear. That would be the last thing they heard for quite some time, the next two hours were for her to rest and regain some of what she had used up.

She sat down finally for the first time in what seemed like ages, it was about damn time too, her legs were beginning to hurt, although she had lost many good men on this battle field, she knew each of them fought their hardest, and would be remembered as heroes, as they should be. She closed her eyes, her grip on Light Brother was tight at first, and she needed to remember home, to remember her father and mother. She needed strength, because she knew this war wasn’t over yet. But her mind wondered to the others, what was going on with them, during the battle she hadn’t heard anything, not because there hadn’t been things said over the den den mushi, but more so that she wasn’t paying attention.

This ain’t no place for no hero