Chad
Suddenly, the light from Ayaka's strange technique had snuffed out, plunging the Officer into darkness. That was fine. Shinpi was more than capable enough to fight without his eyes for a bit, especially since his opponents would also be deprived of their eyes. Junichiro would be alright, at least. He worried about what exactly the light going out meant for Ayaka, it was difficult to see exactly what happened when he was fighting at the time. "The Captain can handle herself," Shinpi responded simply, "You will find no such luck."

Shinpi attempted to dance around his opponent's techniques, ducking under the ribbons as he stepped to the side to get out of the way of whatever was coming from behind. Just to be sure that he was going to be alright, Shinpi activated his armor technique just in case. Assuming he was able to dip to the side, Shinpi took this opportunity to make sure his opponent couldn't easily do the same. Ebbs and flows of water chakra filled his soul as he weaved together hand signs in a blur.

With a flex, Shinpi spat out numerous jets of water towards the man with the ribbon, in a slight arc to make it rather difficult to get out of the way of both the attacks coming towards him. If all went according to his plan, he'd have to choose between getting hit by Shinpi's water, or whatever was coming towards him now.
Mary
There was a sudden drop after Ayaka had taken her defensive precautions. It seemed that fuinjutsu was just a simple storage seal or some variation of it. Annoying to say the least. Especially coupled with the sudden thuds she felt overhead. She couldn't be sure of what they were but a quick assumption lead her to believe more fuinjutsu was used to release some for of weapons down on her. Without her shadow barrier she would have surely been skewered. Thank's for the jutsu Nemui! 

But rain from above was now a past concern as Ayaka still found herself in the pit of the pit. And given that earth release was used earlier she knew that the moment she got down here that she needed to escape. With her ball of light now useless for the moment, she undid the jutsu. She would have done so the moment she had fully wrapped herself in shadows as the light from the ball wouldn't permeate through her defense. This meant she could do something more useful with another jutsu. Commanding one of the tendrils toward her feet to move, Ayaka's hand began to cast seals. Her foot tenketsu was now connected to the ground below allowing for her jutsu to shoot her back up. The jutsu sacrificed some of it's size for speed so Ayaka could stay rooted but also get out of the pit before she was crushed by the stones she could hear behind her. If she didn't get out in time then with any luck the strength of her wrapping would help her bust out of it.

Ayaka's eyes were sorely lacking any relevant information but from what she could hear and sense the others were dealing with the rest of the enemy shinobi. All Ayaka could do was reinforce her shadow wrapping. The whole situation was a new kind of annoying but so long as some of their attention was focused on her she could at the very least keep it off the others so they could act.
Scott
*Ayaka sped towards the opening in the ground above her, the pillars of stone closing from the sides, seeking to close the young Nara inside of the prison of stone and earth. The top layer of the pit that she was in closed first, causing the rising slap of stone she was riding upwards to crush her shadow wrapping against a slab of solid stone, the 'lid' of the pit straining and cracking just as her shadow wrapping did. At that time, more pillars slammed into the shadow wrapping from the sides, cracking it open as the top layer of interlocking stone split. Breaking the protective layer, pushing Ayaka through, just as she collided with large slabs of stone, crushing ribs inside of her chest and feeling her left arm crack and twist painfully as she was launched a few feet past the ground before falling to the ground. Ayaka couldn't see the damage, and her adrenaline and shock was preventing her from feeling the full scope beyond the unhelpful waves of pain, but she could not move her arm, and breathing was excruciating. It suddenly came to her then. The noise from before, the one that was always coming in close behind her? It was a genjutsu. A very subtle one, but annoying.*

*Hearing a burst of motion, there was the sound of someone landing nearby the Nara, before she heard a female voice speak nearby.* "Intervention: Midnight Casket." *As she spoke, Ayaka couldn't see anything, but she felt a potent curtain of chakra begin to form around her, a good ten feet from where she was standing. With chakra flowing into the ground beneath her as well.*

*Junichiro raced forwards, through the sprinkling dome of dust, as some got on his head and shoulders. As he flipped his shield around and aimed it properly, Junichiro found something interesting. It didn't smell like most things he could detect, but it did smell vaguely of adhesive. Although, it clearly was not sticking to him super well, since parts of the dust fell off even as he ran. Spinning the shield around, the puppet man briefly saw the outline of the Jihibiki in the flash and started to lean back, although he didn't get far enough.*

*A wicked uppercut, the shield made contact with the man's jaw, as it crunched under the impact and paper and wood and various fluids sprayed everywhere. Both moving to the man himself, towards Junichiro, and the surrounding crates and boxes. As he kept leaning up, the wooden jaw slipped off, torn as if punched off, before the man looked back down in the JIhibiki's vague direction in the dark. Blood coming out of his upper jaw and nose, but seemingly having taken the hit better than most. The crushed puppet jaw having absorbed some impact and bought him time to slip the rest of the strike. Although not without taking some damage of his own. The man's mouth was more of a small tube connected to his top jaw, and the closest thing to a smile he had was the clenching of his cheeks near his eyes and he hopped back. About at the speed Junichiro was capable of. Moving over to his female comrade, his long centipede arm following him as he moved.*

*Pulling the arm back in towards his body, he inverted the arm before making some parchments more visible. Forming a large second barrier around him and his ally. The parasite energy still on the arm, although it seemed it was next to the both of them inside the barrier. As this happened, the woman spoke up again.* "Nara's spent! Let her rip!"

*Shinpi slipped through and around the bindings, forming a water release technique to launch at the man in front of them. The man moved, but he was still hit with a few rays of water, making a pained grunt as Shinpi heard ribs creak. Although he managed to avoid the majority of it, by dodging forwards. In the direction of the large high speed object... That didn't move how Shinpi expected it to. It remained exactly behind him, hurtling towards him, even as he moved. It was then Shinpi realized it as well, it was a genjutsu.*

"Understood." *Moving past at a less than graceful speed, The man with the ribbon leaped at a corner of the room as his ribbon whipped around him. Shinpi could hear the ribbon cover the man in some kind of dome. Then... Nothing. Junichiro, more in the center of the room, could feel the large underground space start to fill with fire release chakra, although he couldn't really any evidence of it at all, even with his advanced dark-attuned senses.*

*Somewhere behind him, Junichiro heard the Aburame speak again quietly.* "*Oh Kami above...*"
Anita
No matter how he analyzed this scenario, there was nothing that could be considered positive about this. Captain Nara was indisposed, and he could hear her labored breaths, sure, he'd struck a glancing and most likely lethal blow, but the fact of the matter was the puppet was still standing, which could only mean it still had fight left in it. That wasn't at all mentioning or acknowledging the fact that at this very moment a wave of fire that seemed to be almost all encompassing was approaching them quite rapidly at this very moment. Of course this wasn't an ideal situation, if it were ideal then he wouldn't feel his very heart pump oh so violently and cruelly against his chest. He only had one course of action to take, and this was in of itself creating a gambit, a gambit he could not ensure he would survive, if only due to the strain it would put on his body.

"Officer Shinpi, ten meters south of your position, Captain Ayaka is enshrouded in some manner of barrier, do not let them take her, I will be joining you shortly." He sighed deeply, and closed his eyes as he felt the drain upon his body and spirit, and allowed the roar to consume. The weapon in his hand lost all shape and reason, turning so far from anything that could be considered a spear, as a *Massive* Maw of parasite energy was formed, and the eye that was dormant in Junichiro's parasite afflicted arm glowed bright, so bright it potentially pierced through the shadow, an icy blue. He felt the calm and the urge to slaughter encompass his entire being, as he spoke softly in response to the Aburame.

"There are no Kami, this is the err of man, you haven't ended yourself yet? Pitiful." As he spoke, he reached his arm forward, dispersing the entirety of the fire release chakra as he allowed the maw to consume everything it could. There would be no fire here. And, once the fire was dealt with, he would turn his attention to the lambs for slaughter.

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