Koko jumped off of Stratus' head, unsheathing her frying pan and pointing it at Pulio in what was a surprisingly epic pose, "Ready, sir! ... Wait! I shall not respond to something as ridiculous as 'kitty num nums' in a battle. Or ever. Barring three seconds ago; I was distracted by the opponent. ANYWAY. Koko or nothing, biker boy." She turned her attention back to Pulio and her eyes widened slightly, "Yikes... He smells bad. Like really bad. And that's not because of the lack of soap this one has or hasn't used in his lifetime. Though that's not helping." She turned to Stratus, "He smells like bad darkness. Not like the demon lady; she smells like an amnesiac viper. This one smells like corruption and evil has seeped into his skin and hijacked his brain." She readied her weapon and charged forward for a whirling attack against the barbarian.<br/><br/>-------------------------<br/><br/>Scarlet merely glared at Cale, "Lungs aren't regenerative," she added to the small squid's negative. She felt an eyebrow shoot up her forehead of its own accord as he unzipped the squidpack. Sighing, she shook her head and decided it would be better to just never ask about anything that happened with this group ever again. It was... less painful and mentally straining that way.<br/><br/>"I'm gonna pretend you didn't just pun twice within the same block of text, and also agree with your squid. You stop that."<br/><br/>She took an involuntary step back as he approached her, accustomed to keeping other beings at at least an arm's length away, "A one-track mind, you say? I hadn't noticed," She deadpanned.<br/><br/>The next pun went over her head, as the demon was stuck on the "your kindness" bit, wondering what the hell had happened to make her so soft.<br/><br/>Her brain caught up and froze again in the same second as the word "friend" was tossed around. She was unable to react properly as her hand was grabbed and her feet left the ground.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">That is the first time, that I can recall, that anyone has ever called me their friend.</span><br/><br/>As they flew, the demon stared at her companion, confusion turning her crimson eyes to garnet. She was so preoccupied with her thoughts, trying to find a definition for the word friend that she could understand, that she almost missed the kid letting go of her hand. Almost.<br/><br/>"Oh, dammit. You and your one-track mind!" She yelped as he sped into a dive and she began to fall more slowly. As she fell, she looked around her, trying to find her other companions. A flash of purple light caught her eye and she glanced toward the direction it had come from. A curse escaped her as she saw the situation with the now incapacitated Dayman, Stratus, and Koko. She did a flip in midair, going into a graceful dive and plummeting towards the earth. Her eyes narrowed as she zeroed in on her own shadow, slipping into it and popping out of Cale's to negate the force of the fall.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">"He was standing right here, wasn't he? Am I missing something vital?"</span><br/><br/>"Yes. You are," Scarlet replied, frowning, "He was a diversion. Disappearing like that, I'd say the villains have completed their goals here." A slight chill crept up her spine as her attunement to the plane of darkness alerted her to another problem. Her frown deepened, "We have another problem though. There's a corrupting darkness here; I think it's coming from the barbarian from before. We should head that way. If we can break the corruption on him, he may know something about the whereabouts and identities of our enemies."<br/><br/>She jumped back away from Cale as she suggested it, putting her hands up, "I'll get there myself though. I just discovered I'm not a huge fan of free-falling."