Spiral was with three other people in the control room. These look like security drones, augmented men or aliens outfitted with mechanical technology. They were looking for Junior since his body hadn't been found. Their work was suddenly interrupted when Waya spat the first wave out into the control room and staggered to one knee from taking so many people in one teleport.

Phinagin stumbled a but upon reversion into this dimension, but he didnt stay disoriented for long. He charged towards the nearest security drone with a war hammer in one hand and a shield in the other. He brought the hammer around high, hoping to incapacitate the drone in one quick swing.

Strawberry didn't fair as well and found her legs a bit too weak to hold her up, and she fell over onto one of the consoles. "Damn that sucked."

Waya found herself falling into Rhydian as the disorientation of transporting so many people effected her balance.

The hammer was seen only seconds before Phinagin bashed in the face of the yellow skinned man to his right. He made a balking "BRAAK!" Sound as his teeth shattered, half his face broke and he rebounded hard off the console. Hearing their mate go down, Spiral and the other two began to turn to the newcomers.

Penelope was a bit dazed from the teleport. It felt...weird and she didn't like it. A smile came to her lips when she saw Phinagin attack, "Oi... that one better be single."

"Knowing your luck, I bet not." Veronica told her with a grin and charged. She flung herself forward and went straight for Spiral. The woman could escape if she was able to dance. Six arms usually gave her the upper hand, but Veronica didn't care. With her strength and reflexes, she should be capable of defending herself and causing Spiral a bit of a headache in the process.

Rhydian caught Waya and held her, lowering them both gently until she was sitting on the ground. "I've got you..." He said quietly. He felt around with his powers and sent an idle chair whirling into the legs of one of the guards.

Yalala, the only nonhuman of the group found Waya's telepotation less earth shattering as the others. Knowing her job was not to be here to tangle with these reaming three, she ricocheted off the back wall of the control room and shattered through the glass and onto the arena floor below. An episode of Deadliest Damsel was under way. It pit six normal women stolen from their lives of luxury to fight to the death in a cage below. Only one would leave and it was this that Yalala chose to make her distraction while the others attempted to flee.

"You!" Jeremy said, pointing a thin, slightly blood soaked finger at Spiral before yelling "Fuck you!" and falling over backwards, dead. He landed with a rather bad 'crump' noise as his spirit darted towards Spiral. This was going to be hard, so he would have to... well... be vicious.

Spiral turned, pulled her sword and a second later was slammed back against the console as Veronica struck her. Her bell sufficiently run, there was no fight in her for a second as Jeremy took over.

Veronica grasped Spiral by one of the wrists and knocked her sword loose. Then she took her the only human arm on the woman's left hand side and pinned it behind her back. She also brought the sword arm back and pinned it as well, holding the woman in place. She didn't know how much time Jeremy needed, but if Spiral began to fight back, at least she'd be out two arms...

"Shit..." Waya groaned, leaning on Rhydian. "That was... harder than I thought..." She was glad that the others had wasted no time in engaging the enemy, but with Rhydian protecting her, it made him a liability. she forced herself to stand and pushed her hair out of her eyes. "I'm ok... I gotta go get the others."

Rhydian shook his head and held onto her arm for a moment. "No, you're not...You can rest a minute, Waya." He tried to assure her, keeping his hand on her. "Please." He said quietly

Jeremy was struggling with Spiral, but she didn't seem to be putting up much resistance really. He tried to take control, shaking the head and twisting the arms to gain control over her body. The mind could come afterwards. He just hoped she didn't somehow spring an assault on him internally.

Jeremy found it a bit more difficult to control six arms rather than just two. Spiral had been dazed by Veronica's sucker punch and Veronica was a strong as eight people when she wasn't split. Jeremy had her, but one of the other men in the room opened fire, spraying the room with green arcs of light that threatened to incapacitate all of them.

Phinagin was ready to move onto the next target, when the person began firing on them. He dropped to the floor to avoid getting blasted.

Strawberry had recovered from the teleportation and decided to act. She pointed her hands and sand came out of a small bag on her waist. It flew straight at the man with the gun and stuck to his eyes and his nostrils.

Screams erupted from the man with the gun and the firing stopped, leaving only one final attacker other than Spiral who Jeremy was learnign how to control.

Penelope cleared her throat before she tore off into a sprint at the last man standing. As always, she began singing to strengthen her attack. She chose to sing the chorus of one of her favorite musicals. With a wicked smile, she sang out, "I'm a wild and untamed thing, I'm a bee with a deadly sting." Picking up speed, the clear 'energy arms' whisked out from her person. "You get a hit and your mind goes PING!" Gesturing, the whisps swiped upward and sliced the guard at a diagonal cut from his left thigh and leaving out the top right part of his skull. The energy had traveled through his bones and left a perfect seam where the blade had gone through.
"Your heart will pump and your blood will sing-" That's when the two halves fell and crumpled to the ground in a shower of blood. Penelope kept the momentum and turned around, still singing. "So let the party and the sound rock on
We're gonna shake it til the life has gone- Rose tints my world keeps me safe from my trouble and pain." The energy appendages began slicing up the console, leaving it as scrap metal and cut wiring. When that was done, she stopped singing and turned around to the group.

Waya rolled her eyes as she knelt beside Rhydian, hoping Penelope didn't have to sing every time she fought.

All the security men were dead or desperately incapacitated and while Yalala made her distraction on the arena floor, others were responding to her rather than the control room. All they needed now was to bring in the second wave once Jeremy had full control of Spiral.

It looked as if he was having a struggle. Spiral's body wasn't just organic any more really, there was quite a bit of metal in there, and it was very hard to get the right parts in order. Jeremy gripped on tight, struggling, twitching and rolling the head occasionally, before Spiral seemed to relax with a sigh. "I... I think that's it..." he said gently.

"Rocky Horror Picture Show..." Rhydian said quietly, shaking his head a little bit. "That's one old musical to be referencing..." He was of course talking about Penelope's solo, there wasn't exactly anything that would provoke such a response.

Veronica looked up at Spiral's face curiously, "You sure, Jer?" She still had two of the woman's arms pinned behind her back, but if he was in control, there wasn't exactly any need for that anymore.

"I'm more of the Sweeny Todd type..." Waya said, standing carefully. "I'm going to go get the others... We'll hang back in the shadow realm till Jeremy's ready to take us back."

Penelope smirked and said, "I'll keep that in mind."

"No. But we haven't got a choice. This is the best I'll get it." Jeremy said as he flexed the other arms of Spiral. He looked around "Could someone pick up my dead body? I think I hurt myself when I just... dropped."

"Be careful." Rhydian told her softly. He was reluctant to let her go, she was already exhausted and now she was going to be repeating the same strenuous act. "Please." He whispered, looking at her, hoping those three little words could really be enough.

Waya smirked. "You just get these bums into position so we don't have any unwelcome company when I get back." she pulled his shadow to her and left, knowing he'd take care of things.

Rhydian watched her go, hoping that she would be fine. When she was gone, he looked at the others. "We need to get in position guys." He told them all, as he stooped down to pick up Jeremy's body.

Jeremy was right, he had hurt himself. His nose was broken on his body. There was only a little bit of blood, since his heart wasn't beating, but it would sting like a bitch when he got back in.

Like hell Penelope was going to help carry Jeremy's body...and what an ugly one it was at that. She stayed nearby to merely watch and wait.

"Looks like a broken nose, Jer..." Rhydian told him with a grimace as he looked over the damage. He bit his lip and looked at 'Jeremy'. "I could try something...seeing as your body is dead, it does make it inanimate.." That was the only prerequisite for Rhydian's powers to actually work, he could only manipulate inanimate objects. Though he'd never tried anything like this before, reanimating the dead very well could be something that he could do...

"So....I can let go now?" Veronica asked Jeremy from behind Spiral's back. If there was no longer a need to hold the woman, why should she?

"Yeah... you can let go..." Jeremy said to Veronica before looking back to Rhydian "Please don't... try that. What if I can't get back inside? If you could straighten out my nose while I'm out of it though, that would be appreciated."

"I'll try, but I'm no medic." Rhydian told him with a grimace, he hoped it wouldn't make his nose worse..

Veronica slid her hands up along Spiral's arms and rubbed the woman's shoulders before taking her hands off her. She leaned in and whispered, "Sorry, always wanted to do that..."

Phinagin had gotten off the ground and retracted the armor over his head. He didn't remove the whole set just in case some more goons showed up.

Quite proud of her quick dispatching of the guard, Strawberry was wearing a smirk. " Wow, for all the things we fought in the arena, you'd think Mojo'd have better guards."

"I don't think he was really expecting something like this." Rhydian told her with a grin. He was a little surprised it had worked so quickly as well, but he was certainly not going to jinx it by mentioning anything.

"It's okay." Jeremy said softly to Veronica, giving a little shrug with multiple shoulders, so it cascaded like a waterfall over rocks. He kept his hands on the panels, trying to work, but saying to Rhydian "Just try to make it nose shape alright? It's better to do it now than have to rebreak it later."

Meanwhile security was swarming arena below where Yalala had already inadvertently killed one spectator and people were fleeing from the stands, afraid of being next.

"Oh bloody christ..." Penelope rolled her eyes and walked over to Rhydian and Jeremy's body. "Hold the wank still." she ordered and knelt down to the corpse. She placed her hands on his face and made sure each side of his nose was straight against the back of her thumbs. When Rhydian had Jeremy's head secure, she flinched her wrists with an audible 'POP POP' of Jeremy's nose. "Done."

With the soft sound of crunching from his nose, Jeremy winced in Spiral's body. He wasn't the only one, as the Jeremy in Rhydian's arms suddenly let out a loud yell of pain, arching its back and raising its hands to cover its face.

"What the hell?!" Rhydian shouted as the body animated itself. He switched his hold on it, slipping his arms under Jeremy's and placing his hands on the back of his head. It was the easiest move he knew to immobilize a person's arms.

Veronica let out a soft and quiet moan of appreciation as she watched Spiral's body shrug. It was a think of beauty.

"Jeez!" Penelope took a stagger backward, "I thought he wasn't in his body...." She looked from Jeremy on the ground, to Spiral, not really sure what to make of that. "I thought he could only posses one person at a time."

"Ignore it." Jeremy said through Spiral's lips over the moans of pain coming from his body, which was rocking slightly back and forth in pain "It's not important." Of course, the most basic reason for Jeremy moving around would be that he wasn't actually in Spiral right now, but had just been knocked out and was still in his own body. But why would Spiral be acting like this if Jeremy wasn't in charge? "What are you looking at?" Jeremy asked, noticing that Veronica was staring at Spiral's body as he inhabited it.

"Better face it, Jer. You've got one hot body right now..." Veronica told him with a shrug.

"Grope it for all I care, I'm busy." Jeremy muttered as he closed his eyes and seemed to rub his head. Taking access of powers took a little while.

"I'd rather just watch, thank you very much." Veronica replied and hide a smile behind her hand. Spiral was after all, the figment of beauty that they were all supposed to be measured up to when it came down to the more risque channels.. Veronica had just never really gotten such a chance to really look at the woman.

"It's taking the others a while..." Penelope said to the group. "I hope something did not happen."

Something had happened and Rhydian could likely guess what. Waya hadn't given herself enough time before trying to transport the group again. While they waited for them to arrive, there was a sudden loud bang on the main exterior door.

Phinagin's helmet went up immediately as he bang subsided. He looked to the others as he moved closer to the side of the door, hammer ready.

Rhydian glanced at the door and used his powers to make the broken computers and furniture in the room move over to barricade it. He turned back to Jeremy. "Have you figured out how to open a portal yet?"

"She usually dances, if that helps." Veronica informed them.

"Not yet... it's like... parts of her aren't... really her." Jeremy said with a sharp intake of breath "And it's not easyo to get information. Anyway... the others aren't here yet."

Behind Rhydian he heard the muffled cadence of his name followed by distorted words. It sounded a bit like Junior, but as if the boy were trying to shout through several layers of ballistic grade glass. A moment later it was followed by a thumping sound as Eliza struck the other side of the shadow, trying to reach Rhydian.

Rhydian turned around quickly, swearing he had heard his name. He looked about skeptically and tried to find the source. "Is someone there?"

"Well you better figure it out fast." Penelope said to Spiral/Jeremy. "No doubt the goon squad is going to be here with a vengeance soon enough. "

There was another loud bang on the door, revealing that the goon squad was already there.

"Well the others aren't even here yet!" Jeremy said, frowning hard and trying to concentrate. She looked over towards the door, and in Spiral's voice, yelled the words "GO AWAY!" at them.

"Rhydian?" Eliza's voice asked, followed by another thud sound. "It's us. We're... in Waya's dimension! But she's passed out!"

"Liz?" Rhydian asked, looking about. When she mentioned Waya's dimension, he veered towards a nearby shadow. He put his face up to it, "Sorry to be blunt, but wake her up."

"She's passed out PROPERLY. Exhausted herself." Eliza pointed out with a little frown, looking around "The twins are trying, but... it just doesn't look good."

"Shit." Rhydian said and looked over his shoulder at the others. "Waya's passed out in the shadow realm, with the others...We're gonna have to hold down the fort for a little while." He scratched his head a moment, then turned back to the shadow to talk to Eliza. "You guys'll be safe there at least...Maybe..maybe an energy transfer though? If Junior's not too busy?"

"Trying it now!" Eliza called through.

"Be careful..." Rhydian said through the shadow. He hoped it worked, they couldn't leave the shadow realm without her...

Outside there was more banging on the door followed by the unmistakable hiss and smell of a cutting torch.

Phinagin looked back at the group again, "We're not gonna have much longer." He said as he put his hand near the door and started sprouting a large bone wall in front of the door. It probably wouldn't slow them down by much, but every second counts.

Penelope was not happy with this situation, "That idiot." she said, regarding Waya. "If she couldn't handle it, we should have all just came to the control booth the old fashioned way. Instead we have to wait for her to wake up. Bloody brilliant."

"Shut it!" Rhydian said, turning about sharply and glaring at Penelope. "I don't recall you coming up with any sort of plan on getting out of there. So you've got no right at all to gripe."

"Oh!" Penelope exclaimed in mock surprise. She then whispered, "So scary.." In her opinion, they should have formed a more solid plan before just running into the first one Waya suggested.

Strawberry moved over to Penelope as she waited for something to happen. "This is exactly what I thought would happen when we tried to escape. Maybe they will just kill us and not put us on...that channel."

"We'll be there soon guys." Eliza called through the shadow wall, sounding a little worried about this.

"Any place you guys can hide?" Jeremy asked, looking around at the control room. If they hid, he could just open the doors and buy them time.

"We'll be there soon guys." Eliza called through the shadow wall, sounding a little worried about this.

"I'll kill myself before that happens." Penelope told Strawberry. She looked to Jeremy/Spiral, "I don't think that will work...I busted up the control panel. They know something is up."

"And why did you DO that? I mean... we might have used it for some kind of defense." Jeremy hissed at Penelope, annoyed at her rather stupid actions lately.

"I'm not leaving this thing in working order... are you crazy?! No good can come from this place!" Penelope argued sincerely. "And what about you? Did you figure out how to get us out of here yet?! That's really what we're waiting on."

"I was waiting for the others! But since you're a massive FUCKING coward, fine." Jeremy said before starting to... basically dance. Might as well get the useless ones out of there. Quickly.

Finally... apparently with this group, one had to bitch to get anything done. Maybe that's why Waya did it all the time? It actually worked? Pen thought.

"Oh my god...Just shut the fuck up already!" Veronica shouted and grabbed her hair. "There's no point in arguing. For crying out loud, there's nothing that we could've used that console for anyway, Jer. This is an editing booth, essentially. There's no defensive weapons or anything of the sort in here."

"I highly doubt that Mojo or Spiral ever actually expected anyone to come here." Rhydian said, turning about to look at them. He couldn't believe that they were making such a big fuss over the freaking console when there were armed guards on the other side of the door and the rest of their team were trapped in the shadow realm. "We need to focus on that fact. We've still got the element of surprise, there's no need for security cameras in the security booth after all."

Chances were that since Yalala had caused havoc on the floor below and Spiral had done nothing to stop it, this was just a security precaution. They likely expected to find Spiral and her men held at gunpoint during another escape attempt.

"You know... you could just let them in and be done with it." Penelope said calmly, pointing to the door. She could slice them in half in a fraction of a second. Even faster if they open fired. "Actually... I like that idea." she said upon reflection. Phinagin still had bones blockading the door, but it wouldn't matter. Penelope walked over, intending to weave her powers through the cracks.

The dance stopped, Jeremy panting as he braced himself and felt the wrench of power. A split in the dimensions happened, which was a very strange experience to be having indeed, specially when you caused it. "Right!" he yelled, panting and pointing towards teh portal "Get your asses through there!"

Penelope stopped when she reached the door. Turning, she looked at the portal and winced. She sure as hell wasn't getting in there first. Who knew what was on the other side?!

Strawberry knew that it was either through the portal or get captured. She looked at her two teammates, "See you on the other side." And with that she ran through the portal.

"Everyone get through the portal, I can hold down the fort till everyone is through." Phinagin said as he waited for the guards on the other see to break through.

"I can't leave until you've gone through." Jeremy reminded Phinagin "Just... look after my body alright?"

"You're sure you got it right?" Penelope asked Jeremy, not quite trusting his abilities. "Where are we gonna end up?"

"The grounds of the mansion." Jeremy said, breathing heavily and pointing to the portal to the school garden "Just... go alright? Before I leave you here."

"Come on Pen." Veronica told her as she stepped towards the portal. "I'll hold your hand if it'll make you feel safer." She said with a sneer.

"I'm not going anywhere without Waya." Rhydian said boldly. He looked over at Phinagin. "I can hold the line, just as well as you can. Everything in here's inanimate at the moment."

"I just don't want to end up as meat paste on the other side." Penelope said, still weary about the portal.

The cutting torch had nearly breached the heavy barred doors. Whoever was on the other side was making a crude square and three corners of it were already complete. If they didn't decide they would be crawling in security in no time.

"Wonderful, so wind up meat paste this side instead." Jeremy snapped at Penelope before moving over towards the door that was being cut through "I guess I can try to hold them back. I've got to, anyway."

"You're going through if I have to drag you by the hair, Pen." Veronica told her with a smirk.

Rhydian placed his hand on the door. He closed his eyes and focused his ability. The wall panels on the hallway side of the door responded. There was a loud WOMP! sound, followed by the door shaking in it's frame. "That oughta buy us a few minutes more..."

the cutting torch disengaged and the sounds of people scrambling came from the other side. Whatever Rhydian had done it had bought them a minute, perhaps two at the most.

The room darkened suddenly and Waya appeared with the others. She fell into Jayden. Even with the energy Junior had given her, teleporting seven or eight people was hard. She managed to stay awake this time, but just barely.

"Woah woah... easy Waya." Jayden said, catching her and righting her onto her feet.

Junior managed not to drop Maribel, but he could see the door had nearly been breached. Spiral, who was presumably possessed by Jeremy, was holding a portal open to what looked to him like the grounds. "Why are we all standing here!?" He asked. "Go, let's get the fuck out of here!"

Eliza was panting, then said "We need to get everyone on their feet, we're all still attached." She motioned towards the portal out of here "Is everyone up? Lets go."

Jeremy was sweating when the others arrived, he wasn't used to keeping portals open. "Guys... go... now." he said, having just noticed the others standing in the room "And someone take my body."

With the goons on the other side of the door currently occupied, Phinagin left the bone block in place and detached. "I got it Jeremy." He said as he picked up Jeremy's body. "Jayden, can you carry Waya through so we can leave now?" He didn't figure that Waya would allow herself to be carried out, but they needed to hurry out.

"Got it." Jayden said and wrapped an arm under Waya's shoulders. "Come on then." he said to her and began making his way to the portal.

"Waya.." Rhydian said softly, boiling inside that she was in Jayden's arms. He focused his mind and brought life to the barricade. "Keep them out until we're well and gone." He ordered it. The thing grumbled and trembled, a mass of broken consoles, chairs, screens, and bits of Phinagin's bone block as well. He fought the wave of nausea that rushed over him from the exertion and turned towards the others. "Everyone move, the barricade won't last for long once they break through the door."

"I'm fine..." Waya said, not at all arguing about being carried. "Let's just go... everyone get out of here."

Jayden wasn't really carrying Waya, but just assisting her steps. He was well aware that she would protest against him touching her at all if she were in a better condition. Both he and his brother closed their eyes and went into the portal.

Phinagin was very sure he didn't like the idea of Rhydian using his powers on his bones. He knew there wasn't anything he could do about it at the moment and hurried through the portal. "Hurry up behind us Jeremy." He said before he vanished.

When something heavy began to bang on the outer doors and they began to buckle inward, everyone left threw the portal. Jeremy was forced to take Spiral, but once she wasn't possessed, she could easily return on her own. Ether way, everyone wound up in the school garden.