Oh Boooooooooooooooooooss~!

[Blaze]

"Damn..."

Blaze takes out a flamethrower.

"Mendo-chan! If you can hear me, you have five minutes to get out here before I burn the forest down!"

[Mendi-chan]

*Blaze receives no sort of response... The forest was a rather large place and there were dozens of proper entrances and exits, not including the areas not marked by trails.*

[Blaze]

Blaze growls and dumps the flamethrower.

"C'mon Alex..."
"Okaaaaaaaay~!"

The two choose a random direction and enter the forest!

[Mendi-chan]

*No evidence of anything occurs for quite some time... no traps, no bombs... no anything. The forest went on in this direction for a few more miles, but there was no guarantee that they'd find her at the end of it.*

[Blaze]

"Hrm... Alex, I'm gonna scout from the sky. You keep looking on the ground okay?"
"'Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay~"

Blaze takes flight, soaring above the forest while Alex stares at the ground!

[Mendi-chan]

*Blaze would see that there was a small patch of trees that looked a bit different just a few miles ahead and to the east of the path they were on now... But other than that, no stark discoveries are made*

*Alex, however, would find that there... was something shiny behind her, just in the range of her peripheral vision! Amazing!*

[Blaze]

Blaze immediately dives down to investigate the trees!

"Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiny~!"

Alex rushes to 'investigate' the shiny thing.

[Mendi-chan]

*Blaze... finds that the trees look a bit funny! It's hard to place exactly what is wrong with them, but something is definitely amiss here... It seems that there was some indication of a barely used trail that shot off and away from the main branches*

*Alex would find a... nickle, shiny as could be! And... what was this? A few feet further back there was another nickle? Amazing!*

[Blaze]

Blaze places a hand on the trees before noticing the path.

"Strange..."

She walks along it!
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"Oooooooohhh~! Lotsa shiiiinys!"

Alex follows the trail, picking up the nickles as she goes.

[Mendi-chan]

*The trees felt normal, more or less, to her touch... but still. They just seemed out of place... like they just didn't belong here. The trail winds a bit, but continues on for some distance.*

*The trail of shinies seems to continue on... almost back to the origin of the trail! Soon the nickles lead Alex to the clearing where they originally started?*

[Blaze]

"Wait..."

Blaze whips out a botanical guide and compares the trees to trees typically found in a forest!

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Alex blinkblinks.

"Heeeeeeeeeeeeey." @_____@

[Mendi-chan]

*The tree... isn't even found in the book. The trees seem to have minor characteristics similar to dozens of trees, but don't match any particular one.*


*Alex... feels a forceful, if dainty, hand take a firm hold of the back of her neck. It's like a vicegrip*
Hehe... So silly.~

[Blaze]

Blaze smirks.

"Gotcha."

She takes an auto axe to the tree!

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Alex eeps.

"Heeeeeey."

[Mendi-chan]

*The axe... Phases through the tree?!? A ninja illusion?*

*The grip tightens and Alex can feel a dark energy trying to enter her mind*
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiya~

[Blaze]

Blaze blinks... and tries to step into the tree!

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"Stop it~!"

Alex draws her ray gun and fires it backwards!