As soon as Maka had said this, Soul gave her a disappointed look. "Maka, you were the coolest Meister ever, so don't ever say that. We have to at least distract him, and I'm ready to give anything if it means that we can." While a pep talk from Soul Eater was rare indeed, it was a rare day with unusual circumstances that had called for something that unusual.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, Black*Star swallowed a bit and then grinned. He had gotten up and regrouped as best as he could have while again nodding in response to the mention of Madness Release that Tsubaki had mentioned to him. "Yeah, well, are you ready for it?" It was a cocky way for him to say that he was pretty much always ready, but perhaps Tsubaki would have seen through his bravado and known that his admission of cockiness was a way for him to sort of say that he was alright.<br/><br/>Grimacing, Death the Kid continued to fire shots from his two weapons as best as he could have in the hopes that he might have at least had an opportunity to slow the creature down if nothing else. It looked like he might have, but it was hard to tell.<br/><br/>Regardless, there was one thing that was certain to him, and that was the fact that he wasn't going to give up. There was no chance of that at all. Irrespective of what happened, he was going to do everything that he could in order to ensure that he would have at least kept fighting.<br/><br/>It was a resolve that they all had seemed to share.