Scene #7353: District 2: Candy Mall

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Janine Liberi	Candy Mall is a mall among malls. A mall that makes other malls look like local markets. It dominates an entire strut that sits among the clouds that surround New Donk City, packing multiple floors onto itself and even below it. If it exists, you can buy it at Candy Mall. If it doesn't, you can put down a reasonably priced lay-by there until it does. Right now, the place is bustling due to the impending Christmas season. People rush in, aiming to get the hottest gifts for their loved ones. The latest toys and consoles for the kids, the latest winter fashions, and not to mention everything you need for the family meal. All told, it should be a cheerful, if stressed vibe in the air. So why does it feel like everyone is putting their lives on the line? An emergency triage of volunteering medics has been set up to help people who manage to leave the mall. Shoppers are organising into groups and putting on protective gear obtained from sport gear outlets. As one group goes in, another comes out, battered, injured, and exhausted, but bearing their completed shopping lists triumphantly. Sitting there amongst the chaos in Donkey Kong, having at some point plundered a pile of bananas to munch on as he awaits support. As everyone arrives, he clambers down and flashes a thumbs-up and a big grin before rushing at the mall and jumping through the automatic door glass, leaving a perfect imprint of his silhouette behind. Up above, the beats of helicopter rotors foretell the arrival of the free press. "Yo yo yo, it's your jamming jungle friend Funky Kong, up above the Candy Mall. Lemme tell ya folks, some deeply uncool things been going down over here. Those precocious Planning Directors Kat and Ana have converted the whole place to their personal ninja playhouse. You can't take two steps without falling through a pit or slipping on a tripwire. Thankfully, looks like DK and his chums are here to put those two in time-out! Steer clear folks, I know you wanna do your Christmas shopping, but the best gift you can give your loved ones is being alive. This has been Funky Kong, stay safe in our new New Donk City."
Tina Natsumi	As a tourist, New Donk City is just the stereotypically loud place that Tina would thrive in. Stuff to buy, things to see, people to pose with and direct to her channel... Even the danger evident from seeing the triage and injured shoppers does little to dissuade her from venturing further inwards, all while turning her torso dramatically to get good footage of the goings on at multiple angles. "... And there's our man of the hour. It's Donkey Ko-..." She pauses to stare at the banana-devouring ape, raising her hand in a slow thumbs up while trying to process what she's just seen. "... Must've been a typo. Monkey Kong!" She 'corrects' herself and resumes her forward movement behind DK. Upon hearing Funky Kong, she holds her phone up to let it catch that audio, chuckling after he finishes. "And there's our exposition! Shopping's messed up thanks to ninjas, so your gal FWF's gonna bust some heads!" A beat, and then she adds "Maybe scope out some good deals while I'm at it. Parents've been itchin' for one o' them robo-vac." She doesn't keep moving all willy-nilly, of course, after hearing about and seeing the results of those traps. Tina starts actually paying attention to where she's going, watching the floors and walls in particular while jogging along the path Donkey Kong's already taken as best she can.
Forte	"A mall... that injures its patrons." "I'm not sure what the rationale is," Forte says as he observes people going into and out of it. "But it doesn't seem to be deterring too many." "... Or, the contact," he adds as he watches Donkey Kong barrel straight through the glass doors. He barely moves as he does so - his half-poncho-hidden face turning to track the great ape's progress - the rest of his body not moving as he hovers in place in midair, nor his expression visibly changing. "... Well, he'll make a passable distraction until he dies, at least," he says, and then focuses on the task at hand. He heads in, going in through the automatic doors the normal way, and starts looking for any sort of control or access panel, intercom panel, or even just an ATM. Anything he can use to simply get further into the mall and bypass what's likely entire floors worth of deadly traps. As is usual, he just assumes that everyone else will die or fail or mess things up, and it'll fall to him to deal with everything.
Liza Grier	Liza is back. That isn't remotely surprising. This is the second key. The second of Senator Wario's many obnoxiously delegated setbacks. A pin on the chart, connected by red string. Red like the iconic syndicate hardsuit she has on, waiting to seal the helmet that can just barely contain her 'gently-let-herself-go' hair until everyone has seen her face. A silent, suited thumbs up is flashed back in Donkey Kong's direction, halfway between a SWAT hand signal and quiet encouragement. She cranes her neck slightly to look at the media helicopter, quickly zooming in and out to get a look at Funky Kong. "Precocious? Time out? The hell does that mean?" She looks back down, through the hole created by Donkey Kong's dynamic entry, then carefully steps in through the broken glass, though not before dropping several banana peels into her inventory. This time she doesn't charge straight into the building. Liza knows more than enough about sprinting through halls full of bullshit prepared by any kind of savvy menace. The quad optics of her helmet glow menacing green as she routinely cycles through thermal, enhanced, and electrical emission modes, checking the power flow in the building, scouting for untoward heat blobs, and carefully checking corners, floor surfaces, and ceiling tiles. For some reason, she treats this much more warily than the tower. Her suit's shields are already powered up and her magnetic soles are active even. "That ape is still hopped up on enough justice that he won't die just yet." Is her bizarre opinion.
Janine Liberi	DK seems to take offence at the mangling of his name, but also recognises when he's on-camera, flashing a quick double-peace for Tina's viewers before barrelling towards the mall. The New Donkers had already been giving the great ape a wide berth, but the moment he rushes in, they all back up as far as they can get. His legacy is known only for 'building destruction' here, and Candy Mall is a lot of building to destroy. Once inside, the place is scanned by the more cautious of the lot, whereas Tina sees fit to just follow DK's track. This proves to be a pretty good plan, because the gorilla moves with absolutely zero regard, and sets off everything in his way. And yet, with instincts that only the jungle can hone, he avoids any harm. Leaping off a collapsing floor to avoid a pitfall, deflecting a hail of punji spears with a swipe of his arm, he continues his angry advance. Meanwhile, Liza checks on multiple visual spectrum, and doesn't find much. There are some hot-spots indicative of oil traps or concealed fires under the floor, but the only electromagnetism comes from devices already in the mall. Every trap here seems primarily physical. False floors that collapse when weight is put on them, tripwires that launch spring-powered projectiles. It's all very lo-fi and traditional, but that does mean that there is no catch-all for making the place safe beyond 'don't set them off.' Forte meanwhile seeks to invade the wireless of the mall, and faces no trouble there. While the devices themselves might be trapped, like a bomb hooked up to a pressure plate in front of an ATM, the electronic devices themselves are not trapped. Considering the nature of how the place is trapped, it's likely these Planning Directors had no idea how to do that. Ergo, he could probably take complete control of the mall if given time. Up ahead, the perpetrators make themselves known, standing atop two sakura trees that have only recently been added to the mall. Two girls, clad in business suits complete with fluttering scarfs. One has pink hair tied up in a ponytail, the other has orange hair tied into twintails. The pink haired one has a blue scarf with a purple suit, while the orange haired one has a purple scarf with a blue suit. Each one has a sword strapped to their back that is almost as long as their whole body. Which isn't very long, since the two of them can't be any older than four years old. "New challengers have arrived!" shouts the pink-haired one. "Welcome to our dojo!" shouts the orange. "We are Kat!" "And Ana!" "Inheritors of the Iga Clan style of ninjutsu!" "And Planning Directors of New Donk Cit-HEY!" The duo's intro is interrupted by Donkey Kong walking up to the tree that Ana (the redhead) is standing on and shaking it violently to try and get her down. The two leap from their positions to hang from balconies overhead as Kat (the pinkette) produces a key from her suit. "Looking for this huh? You can have it... if you can catch the one with the real one!" Ana produces a duplicate of the key, and the two of them begin rapidly passing the two between one another as they wall run deeper into the mall.
Forte	Forte doesn't use the ground much these days, so any bomb-bearing pressure plates do not bother him so much. Regardless, he takes his time, carefully approaching one of the ATM's from a high angle, floating near the ceiling and then gradually lowering himself until he's within reach. If nothing happens, he lays both hands on the ATM, and focuses. Any financial data on the ATM itself gets absorbed - not used for any nefarious purpose like stealing credit card numbers, just to sate his viral hunger enough to let him do the next part. Meanwhile, there's four year olds. That's absurd. Forte wouldn't dream of fighting anyone below elementary school age. Instead, he reaches his focus out, using the ATM as a jumping-on point for the mall's wireless network - seeing what he can get control of or shut down, probably starting with disabling any traps that he can.
Tina Natsumi	Tina's fans appreciate the gesture from Donkey Kong, and the streamer even laughs and pumps her fist into theair to cheer him onwards in his charge. Although Tina's not being super careful in following DK's path, she's being careful enough that actually keeping up with him proves to be impossible with how rapidly he's going and how not rapidly she's going. Just as well, though, since it gives her time to spy some of the sales in passing and take some mental notes on which stores to check out later. "I reckon he ain't gonna die just from... Any of this, honestly. I'm sure as hell gonna make sure he doesn't!" By the time she actually reaches him, she's looking just a little more iritated, largely from having to get around so many pitfalls and even calling up her garishly red, white, and blue robot Persona to keep her shielded in the event of more spears. Noticing the movement weirdly out of place sakura trees, Tina looks up predictably, and both she and the viewers at home get a clearer look at the cause of the mall's danger. It's children. Children calling themselves Planning Directors, even, and Tina stares at them completely dumbfounded even as they issue their challenge on how to get the key. Rubbing her forehead, she watches their defiance of physics while the Persona lingers nearby. "Definitely ain't gonna catch 'em just with a chase. And with all those traps around..." She trails off, hunching over for several moments before snapping her fingers. "Got it. Alright, Uncle Sam. You're up!" Tina takes a deep breath, then smacks the Persona on the back, sending it forwards at a speedy pace to start setting off everything in its path that it can. Stepping on obvious pressure plates, yanking at tripwires, and generally just triggering things intentionally so as to not risk Tina falling for one of those traps directly. She's taking a thorough approach to clearing a path, too, trying to minimize the number of traps that she or her companionsmay have to deal with later.
Liza Grier	For a few minutes, Liza believes she is dealing with a veteran. Technically two. A pair of experts. Minimal points of detection, no points of remote security vulnerability, generally varied and reliable, difficult to disable. Her progress is fairly slow, avoiding tempting side routes, following in the tracks of the latest party to enter where the traps are mostly going to have been triggered, testing floors, throwing small objects, stalking corners and expecting to have to shoot on a moment's notice. Eventually catching up to Donkey Kong at the indoor sakura attraction, her estimate changes wildly upon seeing the pair of absolutely pint-sized masterminds. Swords and suits or not, weird ninja balance or otherwise, a pair of children that size present an extreme complication that throws all of her tactical plans into disarray. It's the worst case scenario. <J-IC-Scene> Liza Grier says, "I'm not shooting four year olds. They're too young to know better." <J-IC-Scene> Liza Grier says, "Look at how small they are. I don't know how much voltage or dosage is going to cause complications to a goddamn first grader." "You have to be kidding. Fuck this. Fuck you Wario. Where do you get off putting children up to this? Where the hell are their parents? Wards of the state? This is-- Oh god dammit get back here." Even slightly garbled and lowered in quality by the suit speaker, Liza's voice manages to sound intensely exasperated. She has no choice but to give chase. Fortunately, that part is something she's reasonably skilled at. With a couple of key presses on her wrist computer, Liza's built-in EVA pack lets out a pair of experimental puffs, then flares with four bright blue points of gas flame. Tapping her toes against the floor, a flywheel sound spins up from her boots. A glassy crunch ejects a single spent telecrystal and a tether gun flashes into existence on her wrist. She's had her fair share of obnoxious danger platforming. She can do this. Somehow. Setting off at a dead sprint, accelerating past the point that is humanly feasible and up to an 'indoor motorcycle' clip, Liza gains momentum in Uncle Sam's wake sheerly for the convenience of a clear straightaway to do so, then vaults over the Persona, taking to the air and firing her tether for a ceiling fixture down the hall, mini thrusters in her back mount hissing and sputtering for small orientation adjustments when approaching the far wall at high speed. Swinging wide under it, she hits the wall with her feet, and withdraws the tether while running along the side of it, chasing after the twins for as long as her momentum takes her, then jumping off again, firing twin pulses of energy from her boots to double, then triple jump over a set of mall commons fixtures, and then flares her boosters to dash sideways through the air as a short-lived blue-white blur, taking the next corner at a ninety degree angle, while still playing Floor Is Lava. At least there aren't timed laser walls so far.
Janine Liberi	The chase begins. Forte pursues digitally rather than physically. The first thing of interest he finds is the security cameras, giving him a view of the entire mall. The second thing is the controls for the elevators and escalators, currently deactivated. No doubt Kat and Ana wished people tackle the mall with their own legwork. There's also the power of course, but he finds once last thing rather clumsily implemented into the network. "EnfarcerBot Controls." Currently, they are all disabled, and with its poor implementation, it saps the mall's power far more than it should. Tina takes to the ground, using Uncle Sam to try and bully her way through the traps (the American Way.) "Cool robot!" Kat shouts over her shoulder from behind, before launching a foam shuriken down at it. At first, it seems like it has gone wide, but it hits a tripwire and sends a wall of bamboo stakes flying up in Tina's path. Liza meanwhile takes to the air, causing Ana to gasp. "Grappling hooks?! Why didn't we think of that?" Joining her is Donkey Kong, who navigates this urban sprawl just as well as the jungle, leaping from railings to light fixtures to swing after the twins. Now another worry presents itself; the three here have kind of unspokenly agreed they're not going to hurt the ninja twins. Donkey Kong is a massive gorilla of suspect intelligence and great strength. Is there really any situation wherein he catches the two and doesn't hurt them somehow? Is he even aware of this agreement? Does he agree with it? "Ana, split up!" "Okay Kat!" The two come to a fork and part ways, each one carrying one of the keys. Kat heads for the food court, while Ana heads for the movie theatre.
Liza Grier	Where Donkey Kong understands or not, Liza doesn't have the luxury of stopping. Falling in with the giant kong hot in pursuit of the twins, making for a sort of running and jumping conversational montage, she says to Kat and Ana "There are a lot of things you aren't thinking about right now. We're going to have a long talk once this stops. The longer it goes on, the more severe it's going to be." When they split up, she looks to DK and says "We just need the key. DO whatever you need to the mall, but there's no point to anyone getting killed over this." then turns with a flare of boosters and another air dash to sharply split off after Ana with a high-G turn. Narrowed down to just the one twin, Liza begins putting on speed, venting her energy bar with the slow whine of rising thrusters with each successive jump, leaping from wall to wall in zigzagging leaps that advance her closer and closer to Ana with each airborne stint. She seems intent to get physically right on top of her.
Forte	Forte goes over the possibilities. Getting the elevators going would be worthwhile, or just simply cutting the power and securing the mall in the dark, or- He pauses. An idea occurs to him as he looks at one of the last items in the network's purview. EnfarcerBot Controls. Could he take control of one of these and use it to ambush those two preschoolers? He abandons that idea immediately after he has it. He's not about to fight preschoolers, even if they do claim to be ninjas. But taking control of one would be useful - as an infiltration method for dealing with this senator that's pulling the strings. This absurd mall should be dealt with, ideally shut down entirely or turned into a normal mall, but it's one battle in the larger war for freeing this city. As he's gearing up to investigate the control opportunities, though, he has a third idea - and this one is both much more direct, yields potentially greater results, and is particularly well suited for himself. With plan in mind, Forte delves into the network, seeking out the file location of the controls, and focuses on them. <COSSACK LABS - get_ability.bat verß READY - DESIGNATE TARGET AND EXECUTE> The navi's hand glows, pulsing energy in a visibly hungry fashion, and he grabs for the controls. Not to manipulate them, but to absorb them. After all, why settle for seizing control of one or a few EnfarcerBots, when he can integrate the control program into himself!
Tina Natsumi	Looking up as Liza sails right over her head, Tina can't help but let out an excited cheer, especially when the grappling hook comes out. Naturally, she makes sure to get a good angle on the shot for that as well. Her excitement is a little more subdued, though, as the implications of literally everything about this situation weigh on her mind. Donkey Kong's brutish advance certainly doesn't put her mind any more at ease, either, but... She'll have to see how it goes. For now, her focus is on clearing a path to the twins. "Ain't it? If you come down, I'll show ya how it works and all the cool stuff he's got in here!" She attempts to bribe them, even having Uncle Sam pose and let off a few fireworks indoors (thankfully, with no actual fire). The sudden appearance of spikes has her scrambling to not get stabbed, though, having to decide on the spot where she'd hate getting stabbed the least with Uncle Sam already being a bit too far away to just tank the hits for her. Twisting sideways, Tina turns so that her right side faces the wall of stakes, and she hunches downwards to minimize her profile as she takes the brunt of the stabbing against her shoulder and side. Her head and phone are mostly safe, at least, although the blood on the stakes isn't the best of signs as she pushes that wall off of her with her good hand. "Kids your age really shouldn't be playing with stuff like this... Is the Senator making you do this?" Her faux-MERICAN act falters briefly, but she clears her throat and lets out a hearty laugh before climbing onto Uncle Sam's back to continue chasing Kat from atop something that can take hits far better than she can. "What's he got that I don't got, anyway? Does he have... LASERS?" As she says that, Uncle Sam's shoulders open up, releasing a dazzling away of colorful lasers and spotlights in Kat's path. They're completely harmless physically, but they distort walls and food court signange into looking like they're closer than they are, more open than they are, and eye-squintingly bright to try and slow the child down.
Janine Liberi	Forte has an idea; if the controlling software behind EnfarcerBots is here, can he eat it, absorb it, and employ it elsewhere? He gets to work, siphoning the data out of the network. He immediately hits upon a problem. The data is massively bloated, and also poorly coded. To use a food analogy, he is drying to down a massive pot of vaguely nutritious slop in one go, and he can't afford to skimp anything least that render the rest of the code worthless. So while he might feel a bit a bloated and awful after finishing, he does indeed absorb the control system. Liza gives chase to Ana, and something begins to become apparent as the pursuit continues. It is ever-true with twins that one tends to be more 'take charge' than the other as they get older, and these two are no different. Ana is not the 'take charge' one, and her insecurities start to arise once separated from her sisters. But to be fair, anyone would be scared if they were being pursued by someone in full tactical armour with a face-covering helmet that has glowing green eyes. She's continually looking over her shoulder, looking more and more worried as Liza homes in on her, picking up speed, getting closer, closer, closer. "S-Stay away!" she squeaks, missing a vital ledge-grab in her panic, causing her to plummet towards a decorative flowerbed on the ground below. Kat however, is handling things much better as Tina and DK give chase to her. "Thanks but no thanks! Most robots I've seen lately have been kinda lame anyway!" she shouts back at Tina. DK gets close and almost grabs her, only for his palm to get slapped by her (wooden) katana. "Wario? Pshhh, he couldn't make us do anything. He just offered us a good-paying job where we could do anything we liked! Would have to be stupid to say no!" The bright lights from uncle Sam blind her, causing her to miss a grab. But unlike Ana, Kat tumbles with expert ukemi, and lands safely on the ground. "Fine! It's not my ninja way to run from a fight anyway." Out comes the wooden katana and shuriken between the fingers of her free hand. "Come get me!" DK seems way too on-board to punch a child by the stanced-up way he approached her.
Forte	"That's... terrible," Forte gasps to himself once he finishes absorbing it. Usually these are smartly-written security programs or viral data that's natural-selected to at least some degree of low filesize and high efficiency, not this... spaghetti mess of code. His intenal systems start trimming it down to the important parts, just like everything else he's 'eaten' - but it still takes him a moment to come to grips with the effort he'd been required to put out for that. Once he's recovered, though, he refocuses, going for the rest of the mall's controls - mainly, turning the escalators and elevators back on, and doing whatever else he can to restore the mall to some degree of 'normalcy'.
Tina Natsumi	"L.. Lame?! Uncle Sam's not..." Somehow, that seems to deal a bigger blow to Tina('s ego) than the spear wall ever could, the lights on the robot Persona dimming considerably as it carries Tina along. The revelation of Kat's motives has the Persona-user's suspicions raised even further, though, and she even slows down a bit, to catch a breather after suffering that mental damage and also the bleeding. By the time she catches up to Kat and DK, Uncle Sam's lightshow has ended, and Tina stops besides the great ape to rest a hand on his back. "Easy, MK. She's still a kid, so..." She trails off, the difficulty of the situation growing considerably more once she starts trying to figure out how to actually /get/ the key off the kid. "Sounds like you might have a future in show business. Or... Nah, even better. You ever look into going into streaming, kid? Kat, right?" Grinning despite bleeding from the right side of her everything, she takes her phone out briefly to turn off the recording, then slips it back into her breast pocket. "Think about it. You still get to do just about whatever you want whenever you want, but now people think you're cool for doing it instead of listening to some old fart. Hangin' onto your every word, paying extra so you do dumb challenges you probably already practiced way ahead o' time, getting early copies of video games and movies so maybe you'll like it and help 'em sell more copies..." Tina speaks as though it's all fond memories, conveniently ignoring the work involved and fact that she has't quite received all those perks herself. "What do you say? Fork over that key, and I'll teach you and your sis everything I know. Better than bustin' your butts here just to make some money, right? Besides..." She glances around, furrowing her brow after a moment. "... Where's your parents, anyway?"
Liza Grier	Liza is, intentionally or not, being every part the menacing powersuited determinator she looks. Especially approaching the movie theatre and its naturally dimmed lighting, the faceless green optics paint ghostly trails back and forth across the high density obstacle course, at the fore of menacingly thumping boots, ghastly rasps of thruster exhaust, the steadily rising sound of dangerous electronic charging, and the loud rumbling impacts following each time she jumps closer. It is understandable that the more passive twin would feel uncomfortable about this. Liza really needs that key though. When Ana slips, Liza changes her mid-air angle by dumping a considerable amount of waste heat through the emergency release vents, riding a visible heat shimmer and column of fiery blue after-images down at an angle to intercept Ana halfway to the ground. The speed she's moving at, and the naturally hard and robust body armour, make this not particularly comfortable, but she's at least able to actively catch a falling child better than the apathetic floor. She angles to hit the floor at a shallow dive, curl in, and roll to a stop, boots and backpack still faintly glowing with heat. The several action rolls involved are intentionally disorienting in nature, since she doesn't want to physically wrestle all that much with a preschooler in the process of removing the key from her grasp, and then scanning it for authenticity.
Janine Liberi	As Forte sets about getting the mall running again (the moving escalators immediately set of traps placed on the still steps), he spots something upsetting through the security cameras. The EnfarcerBots, even with their control system ripped out, are... active? Moving? Surely no one out there was dumb enough to program drone units to have their own coding that executes if the master software breaks? That is just too ridiculous right? RIGHT??? DK pauses right in the middle of cocking his fist back in anticipation of punching a child. He looks a little too disappointed, but Kat seems relieved that she doesn't have to deal with it. "Streaming huh?... free games? Do I look like 9-Volt to you? Games are for nerds!" she huffs, but it's apparent that the idea has her intrigued. "Welllllll... that does sound kinda cool. And it would mean I wouldn't have to put up with Wario's garlic smell. And these suits suck for doing ninja stuff.. sounds like a good idea! Here's the key." She tosses it to Tina, and then quickly adds, "But it's the fake one, sorry!" Blowing a raspberry, she throws a smoke bomb at her feet. But when it clears, she's still there, surrounded by EnfarcerBots. "Uh, little help?" Enfarcers are now tumbling about, setting off trap after trap that sends many sharp, hot, and dangerous things flying about. Liza successfully grabs Ana out of the air and tumbles to a stop. A combination of the dizziness and Liza's terrifying presences means she doesn't put up a fight at all as the Syndicate enforcer produces the real key. "Sorry... this whole thing was Kat's idea. I just kinda wanted to plant a lot of flowers and trees and she started adding traps and things got out of hand." She stands up and dusts herself off, before looking around and gasping. "Oh no! Who turned the Enfarcer's on?!" The cruddy robots are indeed stumbling about, wandering into traps and activating them, causing a rippling cascade that threatens anyone in the mall. "We gotta run, now!"
Forte	In another life, Bass.Exe (Forte) was a white-hat penetration tester. He's learned to not be surprised by terribad coding and design choices. (Idly, he wonders if this isn't some sign of something more going on beneath the surface, but puts that thought aside for later.) Back in the real world, he disengages from the hacked ATM, and takes in the situation via radio and observation. "Right then..." "... Perfect opportunity to do my own testing, since that seems to be in short supply." < <AUTONAVI SLOT IN> > CTRLNFARCR W - EXECUTE With the control program loaded, he points at the nearest EnfarcerBot he can see, and snaps his fingers. "You." "Fight the other bots - clear a path to get the civilians to safety." Better to test this now when there's some opportunity for recovery, than later when it's do-or-die.
Tina Natsumi	"Pshh. Being a nerd's fine with me if I'm getting paid either way." Laughing freely again, Tina's shoulders relax visibly as Kat actually agrees to her proposal. She pulls the phone out of her pocket to get the stream going again once her simmering anger subsides, even! "Glad to hear it. We'll figure out a comfortable look for ya once all this settles down." Catching the key far more cleanly than she would have expected herself to be able to, Tina stares at it for a moment before shrugging lightly at the revelation that it's a fake, and she even chuckles at the smoke bomb bursting in front of her. "Eh, that's fine. Figured it'd be a fifty fifty shot, anyway. Gonna be tricky getting in touch if you disa-" Kat does not disappear. Kat is very much surrounded by the Enfarcerbots, and the request is more than enough to get Tina and the mechanical Persona springing into action. As it takes the brunt of the shrapnel in lieu of Tina herself getting cut and burnt up by them, it shows considerably less restraint in firing on them with pinpoint revolver shots to their joints, aiming for whatever looks responsible for keeping them mobile. Should a clear enough path be opened to Kat, Tina gets thrown whole-body towards her by Uncle Sam, stumbling a bit before moving herself into position as a human shield from the exploding traps.
Janine Liberi	Forte extends his optimised control code to the Enfarcer, and the slave programming is immediately suppressed. Rather than wandering without purpose, it snaps to attention and moves with far more purpose, attacking its fellow Enfarcer and moving to clear out the mall. At least this part works. Uncle Sam rushes in, protecting Kat and soaking up a mix of bamboo spikes, shuriken, hot oil, and falling pans to defend the ninja. She is thankfully quite light as she is yote over to Tina, and just in time too. "Whew! That was a close o-LOOK OUT!" Up above, a massive chandelier that lights the whole food court loses its supports and plummets, aimed right at Uncle Sam. Only for DK to leap into the air and drive his fist against it. Metal bends and glass shatters from the strike, launching the whole thing against the far wall whereupon it creates a deafening noise. Looking to Tina and Kat, the big lug gives another thumbs-up and grin before walking over and picking both Tina and Kat up and putting them over his shoulders. With the two carried, he begins rushing out of the mall, dodging traps set off by the Enfarcers and shouting "YEAH!" at Forte in passing as they fly out the front doors. With the key retrieved and the Planning Directors turning over a map of the mall with all traps labelled, the New Donkers stand aside and wait for the Enfarcers to finish setting them all off before heading in. The two ninja make themselves scarce pretty quickly, but not before lifting some cameras, phones and a computer from the mall for a streaming setup later. Thankfully they leave some money on the counter to cover the costs. DK however is happy enough with the key. And some bananas for the road.