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[Loud Opinion 602]

 After calming down from the excitement of the battle around him, Silver Tongues ears perked up at the mention of interrogation.

 

 "Harken! Thou hast heard of thine request, and we offer our assistance in extracting information,"  Silver said as he rushed to crimsons side of the room, and reminisced on his school days. Silver remembered catching the teachers attention with different accents, and ways of speaking, 'Works every time,' Silver thought to himself; confident it would work once more.

[madpenguin44 38]

They tied the mages up and interrogated them. Drill Horn wasn't really into that kinda thing. He stood behind them. He decided that if they wanted to find out more about the tower, he should snoop around. He saw more stairs, probably more unicorns. "Not going up there alone". He thought to himself. He searched maybe for a secret room, or a just a room in general.

[Concerto Dusk 240]

Still standing in the shadows, he is slightly annoyed that he failed. "That attack should have worked. I don't care how good you are, that illusion is as good as reality. Stupid fast reactions. They avoided it, I failed." Sending out a duplicate of him, he starts a plan if action.

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Drill Horn decided there was nothing to look for. It was only the second floor after all. The tower was probably more than 100 levels high. "You guys ready to go to the next floor?" He shout at the bottom of the stairs. He walking up without waiting for everyone else".

Like before, he slightly opened the door and looked inside.

[Chivalry Knight 161]

Crimson tried to interrogate the enemy. But it completely refused to say anything. "It's no use, whatever I do, nothing will get this thing to speak. I'm not even sure if it knows how to speak..." Crimson was too annoyed to keep trying. 'Whatever, were not getting anywhere by staying here.' He thought to himself. Crimson threw the bound enemy unicorn against the wall, knocking it out. "Were done here, let's continue on with Drill." He said as he trotted towards the stairs.

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Crimson caught up with Drill. "So you think this towers more than 100 floors huh? well it'd kinda be unrealistically designed for more than 100 floors. I looked at it pretty closely from the outside, judging from the height of the tower itself and the distance from each room apart, with the height from the stairs... it seems like it has just about 100 floors. maybe even exactly. But that's all just speculation" Crimson spoke while looking forward upon the stairs.

Crimson looked towards Drill "Anyway... Im gonna hold back in the next floor. If it truly is 100 floors, this floor shouldn't be too bad. I want to see what my comrades can do in terms of strength and ability; Specifically you." Crimson smirked after he spoke.

[Concerto Dusk 240]

"Next time something pops up like my Hydra did, don't throw stuff at it please." He says, standing next to his duplicate. "Allow me to go up first, I can use my magic to show you the next area. I may not be combat oriented, but I can sneak around without being caught."

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"Good luck" Fluorescent murmured as he slowly trotted up the stairs. He couldn't tell which was real, which is a good thing he supposed. He realized out of all of them, he's the one who's probably done the least, just sitting back and chilling out in the background. He didn't have a actual purpose or motivation to fight anyway. He barely knows these ponies, let alone become battle buddies. If there came a time he had to fight, he was sure he could either weasel out or distract it long enough to escape or just watch it burn. He preferred the last option. Sitting back and waiting for their scout to return, he played around with the torches, making the flames dance and nearly burned their little waiting party when he got distracted and lost control.

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"I guess we just wait for Mirror Image to come back". Drill Horn watched Fluorescent Fire play with a flame and lose control of it. He stepped back. "Woah, don't burn us to death". He smiled. "I suppose I can try to make better weapons for people that don't have a badass weapon". He looked at Crimson. Drill started to tinker with stone and wood again. He also 1 tiny scrap of steel. It won't do much, but it will make a weapon at least a little bit better.

 

After making a punch of stupid inventions. He stood up. I don't know what I'm making any more. We need to go into the room and fight already. He peaked his head inside again. "Mirror? Are you there?".

[Concerto Dusk 240]

A shadowy image appears next to Drill. "Chill dude, I am here. Look, there a really a few more of these weird unicorns. They don't look pretty smart honestly. I count four of them total, and be cautious, one of them is eying that door. They look like they might have the same spells as the last few, but by these burn marks on the wall, slightly better aim."

[Chivalry Knight 161]

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Crimson stayed silent as Flour almost set fire to everypony in the room 'I sure hope Mirror gets back soon, or were all gonna die before we even get to the next floor...'  Crimson thought to himself.

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Suddenly as if fate had answered his prayers, Mirror had arrived back with information about the next room. Crimson got up and spoke tot he whole team "Alright! There seems to be a better battle with more enemies ahead, so all we have to do is kick they're plots and we'll be set for the next room! I would also love to see all of your abilities in battle as well, so we can see who we can depend on when it comes to defence, support, and main attackers!" Crimson called out the the rest of the crew. "Alright, lets do this!" Crimson charged upstairs and into the room without a second thought.

There he saw four unicorns who noticed Crimson as soon as he busted through the door. They stood there and stared at Crimson, "So what now creeps! You gonna do something or what!?" Without the rest of the team there yet, he started running around the mages in a circle. They started firing their flames, 'Mirror was right, their accuracy is better, but it'll need to be greater than that to beat us!' He thought to himself while dodging the blasts.

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Drill Horn thought to himself. "Oh great, now I have to fight". He wasn't really the fighting type of pony. He liked to craft and make stuff, but he had to more if he wanted to help the team. "Alright let's go guys!" He went in with Crimson. They were more focused on him than Drill Horn. He decided now was a good chance to attack safely. He didn't have a weapon so he quickly made a stone sword in less than 7 seconds. He sliced at one of the unicorns back. 

 

Although, it was a sword, the stone didn't do much. It made a medium sized cute on his back and staggered him, but didn't kill him. Mirror was right though, they were still pretty stupid. Instead of attacking Drill right on the spot the unicorn charged a fireball spell that took 6-8 seconds to perform. Sure it would probably badly injure someone, but Drill Horn was standing 2 feet away from it. He just walked up to it and punched it. He knocked the unicorn out. Drill Horn felt good inside. He loved the feel of the adrenaline when he was fighting. It was a feeling he never felt before.

 

Then he took cover and hid. He showed what he could do. Crimson said everypony should attack, so we know how to work with each other. He watched and waited for someone else to fight.

 

(I got bored, so I wrote a story for you guys )

[LordSwinton 759]

Not wanting to be outdone or seen as weak, Fluorescent reared up and slammed into the weakened one with full body force clumsily even with the help of the spell from Silver Tongue, giving the other unicorns an opening to attack him while he got back on his hooves. Facing a rather unimpressive fireball, he could do nothing but embraced it head-on and dispel it, not knowing what to do with the massive amount of energy. Every second spent panicking was another for the enemy to charge their spells. Not able to hold it much longer, he released it in the general direction of the other unicorns, hoping his usual spot on aim didn't fail him and it would hit, not do something unexpected, say explode or something. Succumbing to exhaustion, he fell flat on his back, seeing stars in his eyes, oblivious to the damage he'd done, nearly passing out.

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[Concerto Dusk 240]

"Well, this is entertaining, they are quite dumb, let's call in some reinforcement troops." As he finished speaking, a horde of ponies in armor come running up the stairs. "Might not actually do any damage, but anything hit by them will feel like they were injured."

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Drill Horn watched a couple dozens of ponies charge into the room. "Um, I'm guessing another trick right? Or is this real?" He went into the group of ponies to blend in. If the unicorns didn't know who was real then he could attack them while being hidden. He gripped his stone sword and smacked on of the unicorns in the face.

[Chivalry Knight 161]

Crimson sees the random army coming from nowhere. 'Clearly an illusion' He thought to himself. He jumped into the crowd of charging ponies and unsheathed Crimson Shroud. 'An amazing tactic once again formed by mirror. Yes, he is quite the asset to this team' Crimson things to himself as he dashed towards a confused unicorn and slammed him straight into the ground with his blade. "Got one!" he yelled to the others.

He quickly glanced towards the other team members. He noticed Silver resting by the door, completely understandable considering the amount of magic he used earlier on that buffing spell. He then looked towards Fluor... 'Well at least he took one of them out. Though we may have to strengthen him up a tad more' He thought to himself. He almost didn't notice Drill charging and attacking with the Illusion Army. 'Heh, great minds think alike.'

A shot of fire from nowhere breaks his thoughts as he quickly parry's the attack with his blade. "Hmph."

[LordSwinton 759]

Down but not out, not by a long shot, Fluorescent picked himself back up despite fatigue weighing him down. He dragged himself over to a corner and went to work casting a spell, one that would incinerate the bucking unicorns and hopefully not kill anypony. It as usually an easy spell that came to him in seconds but at his current state even a simple levitation spell was the hardest thing in the world. He didn't bother to charge the spell, simply released it, watch the unicorns explode into a vivid sheet of flames. And inevitably blacked out.

 

(Can somebody please drag him to the next room or just help him?)

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"Well, that's over..." Drill Horn grabbed Fluorescent by 2 legs and dragged him up the stairs to the next floor. "I know some of you can't fight, but c'mon! It's only the 3rd floor! You could probably just tackle them". Drill reached the top of the stairs. "Yeah, uh, I'm just gonna charge in this time".

 

Drill Horn went in. Unlike the other floors though. This one seemed more complex. There was a tiny bridge connecting 2 pillars together. There were also a few blocks of stone on the floor. Drill Horn knew he walked into a trap. An ambush to be more exact. One pony his head out of the bridge, and 3 other ponies came from behind the stone blocks. 

[Concerto Dusk 240]

"Well, tactics apparently arent his strength. Brute force doesn't win anything. Does any of you happen to have a dagger or something? I will need to atop up my game here since some of us forget that we are a team and as such need to work together?" He says, oozing distaste.