Pete
"Good, we all made it."

*Ikazuchi smiled lightly as his friends spoke among themselves. The path to get to this point was treacherous, but he felt confident that this would finally be the end to this battle against Maleficent.*

*He nodded to himself and took a step forward.*

"Time to get a move on. We don't want to keep them waiting too long."
Patrick
*Snap to a mere few moments in the future, where the skies have grown entirely dark and hundreds of heartless descended upon the group that was dubbed "Team Bait". Their numbers seemed nigh infinite as the sea of heartless only grew around the four who intended to assault the castle directly. It was only small fry for now, so their ability to output damage was negligible at best, however, the four could not shake the feeling of a looming danger.*

*The heartless that swarmed the group all attacked at once, rising and swirling into a tornado of heartless, a Demon Tower.*

`Demon Tower, Basic Attack (
Vernell
*Dado points Kingdom Key at the charging Demon Tower, then shoots a spinning crystalline projectile at it. When it gets close, it explodes into a sphere of reflective hexagons, stopping the group of Shadows in its tracks and scattering a few on impact.*

"Hey, who would win? Every Keyblade person or one billion Shadows?" *He smiles a genuine smile, reminded of goofy discourse from back home.*

*He jumps up onto his Barrier Shot, then slashes at the clump of darkness at the "Head" Of the Demon Tower. As the barrier cracks, he slashes downwards once more, then jumps off, spinning through the air as he falls to the ground.*

```
HP: 4890
AP: 210
MP: 175 -155

Barrier Shot (Group Mitigation, Mag): 239, complete mitigation
Raw Str: 190
Raw Str: 190
```
Steven
*Xion just summons her Keyblade silently and lazily slices through the Heartless without even replying to Dado's quip... Odd...* 
Basic Attack: 83
Larry
"Ta 'ell wit a bloo'eh Keyblade! Imma fookin *Punch* Em tae death!" *Eve rears back and then slams a fist into the Demon Tower at full force, creating a small shockwave of wind from the impact. With her hood up, the Heartless probably didn't even see her coming... Literally*
Basic Attack: 216
Pete
"My oh my, thats such a tough decision to wager Dado! Shadows are *So* Tough. I don't think the keybladers stand a chance against such a force."

*He said sarcastically with a cheeky smirk as he dashed in to confront the staggered demon tower. He slid beside Dado and jumped up to strike the tower with a triple slash at the same time Eve moved in to strike it.*

```Basic Attack: 138
Basic Attack: 138
Basic Attack: 138```
Patrick
*The heartless in the demon tower let out a cry that sounded like a wobbly roar as it began to fall apart with the four's strikes. Countless normal shades still swarmed the area, but suddenly rushed away from the group, keeping their distance. A clear circle of shadows formed around the group of four, almost as if they were standing in a clearing among the darkness.*
Pete
*Ikazuchi looked the the heartless that seemed to be keeping their distance, puzzled.*

"What is... What are they doing?"
Patrick
*None of the heartless moved in to attack. They all kept their distance from the party and appeared to just be... Watching.*
Elizabeth
*The group could hear thunder boom in the distance as a flash of purple lightning streaked across the sky. After the dark lightning vanished in an instant, a very familiar figure dropped down from the sky and stood to face the four.*
Pete
*This wasn't good... The scenario Dado and Furo thought of was here in front of them. They must've sent Ina out to stall Ika— or to even try and take him out. His grip tightened on his keyblade as he thought about it, beginning to panic a little. He shook his head; lingering on the thoughts would mean that Ina would only get more time to power up.*

"Dado! Eve! You two need to leave! Get to the castle as quickly as you can! Xion and I will cover you!"

*Ikazuchi ran in to face Ina. His keyblade sparked with lightning as he struck at him with a Thunder Surge.*

`Thunder Surge: Magic = 503. AP = 190 -180`
Vernell
"Good luck, Ika! We'll rescue Fiora! I promise!"

*Dado dashes and jumps up the floating platforms as quickly as he can manage, then rides the platform up to
Larry
*Eve nods and with a simple flicker of her form, she vanishes from sight, following after Dado from a distance. If she was too close, their plan wouldn't work very well*
Steven
*Xion looks at Ina with a bored expression and raises a Keyblade in his direction, pointing at him* "I always thought I would have some funny quip when this moment came... However I no longer have the will to pretend to care about anything... Everything is just so grey and bland and keeping a facade is tiresome... Now please fall quickly. I do not wish to see what happens if this is to drag out." *A small barrage of rainbow colored stars fly at Ina, spawning from the rows of stars that made up the length of the Keyblade rather than the tip*
Starfall: 305 Light/Fire
MP: 155% - 15% = 140%