Draiss had sent an order that would make an sane person hesitate before ordering it, and the beholder relayed the order to the air elemental, which flew over, picked up the flag, and started up into the sky JUST before the bulettes lunged upwards to snag the flag. The air elemental immediately began flying upwards as fast as it possibly could, which wasn't as high as Draiss would have liked, but it was wrapped around the flag, somewhat dulling the glow, and getting squad leader responsibilities transferred to it.<br/><br/>Draiss sighed in relief as his counter beat the bulettes by a few seconds, and ordered the elementals to break two of the legs of the table by pulling them into the ground, allowing for the flag to fall over, and be grabbed by the leader, who was buried under a second elemental. They would have to burn through the top one in the second it took the elemental to surface, grab the flag, and dive back under, before they split up, moving in the predetermined directions.<br/><br/>The earth elementals responded to the opponents by earth gliding up, slamming two of the bulettes back onto the surface and hopefully stunning them, while the two beholders blasted the intruders with every beam they could, hoping to kill them before they could dive. The remaining elemental went off, no longer useful in the defense, to a point along the leader's path, which was below the ground, no sign of its passage above ground, to meet the slower elemental and then bolt for base with the flag, unless a dragon was nearby, in which case it would try to break one of the wings, before proceeding as planned. The beholders then went off to search and destroy what they could, since the air elemental was the only protector of the flag now as well as squad leader.