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Hmmm, there's probably a lot of philosophical or scientific or historical value in bringing back a lot of different famous figures. But that's boring. You know what you should do with a power like that? Bring back like, a boxer or something. Someone like Muhammad Ali I guess, he's like a super champion boxer and like the only one whose name I know off the top of my head. I suppose he'd also have to be brought back in his prime for this to work but just think of the marketing of him coming back to life and everyone having a year to prove that they're the new undisputed champion of boxing. It'd be like Jaden vs Yugi but like, less card games and not involving GX in the slightest.

"Who are you again?" Grawbacca sarcastically asked Endo. The only thing he could do was stand there and look handsome while he waited for the clone to do the thing. Grawbacca's communicator suddenly lit up. Grawbacca answered it with a cheery "Tell me something good. I don't have much to do here." With the warning, Grawbacca thought fast. He roared back to the clone "What's taking so long? I thought you clones were suppose to be good soldiers or something like that!" Graw growled as he tried to figure out something that he could do. He could of tried to make his way back to the hangar to help out Endo, but there would be no way he could get the doors open, even with his natural strength. He called Endo back on the comm link and roared into it "What's going on down there? Has the welcome wagon shown up?"

"Hey, Neri!" The chasing bounty hunter ripped the mag-locked end of his grappling hook from his belt and started to swing it like a lasso. Hoping that the use of her name would make her hesitate for just a moment, Endo leapt over the side that plunged down to the hanger then yeeted it at the falling target. “That escape pod isn’t going to make it past the frigate outside!” Neri turned as she fell and realized she was about to be toppled. “Who are you!?” she screamed as she fell. Whoever he was, he was right. A small army of droids had entered the hangar and the escape pod option was suddenly not viable. Before she could hatch any more brilliant ideas, Neri’s waist and arms were wrapped up by a grappling hook. She was caught much sooner than she had hoped. She was now flailing toward the ground like a fish out of water. She landed hard on her side and curled up behind the escape pod. “Free your arms!” Endo shouted as he landed on the ground, superhero-pose style. He had to wait for his leg armor to dissipate the force of a 100-foot jump, and then he immediately jumped behind the escape pod as well. “My name is Endaryn, and I am a bounty hunter. I’m not here to kill you, and I certainly don’t want to take someone like you to whatever it is I’ve been told to take you. Slaves..” He trailed off for a minute before blinking and looking back down at her. Blaster fire started whizzing over their heads as the droids slowly started to advance. “I’ve loosened the slack on the hook, you can free your arms. I’m not letting you go because if you get away, I die. At this point our lives are bound - either both of us make it out, or neither. I have a cloaked ship and two partners who are going to do their best to get us out of here. We can figure out what to do once we escape. Deal?” As he waited for her to accept or deny, he removed one of his ion grenades and lobbed it at the droids across the hangar; anything caught in its radius would have its chips fried. Neri freed her arms and stood to her feet. She was sore, but she would live. She heard the satisfying sound of droids clattering to the ground as Endo’s ion grenade exploded, before she made a decision. “I don’t really have a choice now, do I?” Neri said as she dusted herself off. “I don’t normally just throw my life in the hands of the first guy I meet, let alone Bounty Hunters. But seeing as you haven’t pointed a blaster at my head yet, I’ll go along with you for now.” She took a laser glaive boomerang from her belt and peeked over the escape pod. With a flick of her wrist, she let the boomerang loose and handily decapitated eight B1 battle droids. As it returned to her hand, she folded the boomerang and slipped it back onto her belt. It was hard to tell it was there. “Well, Endaryn. We’re not getting out that way. What do you propose?” Neri asked as she began to scan the hangar for their next route. “I need one of those,” Endo said enviously. “Alright, the escape pod can still be useful, but … okay, look, before I go further, I don’t have a plan. Not yet.” Before she could say anything else, Endo held his wrist up to his mouth and activated the communicator. “This is En - did we decide on codenames? Forget it, I’ve got target. We’re trapped in the hangar bay, there’s blastproof doors between us and you, and a frigate that’s very quickly going to try and blow us to shreds. The only way out that I can see is either in this very vulnerable escape pod or somehow you two getting those doors open.”

Melissa followed where Elizabeth was pointing, though she wasn’t entirely sure why Elizabeth thought she knew anyone, especially people who, if Ashley Rendleman was correct, had just arrived at Blue Yonder that day. He was significantly taller than Melissa was; even at a distance she guessed that he was probably even taller than Elizabeth, and Elizabeth was pretty tall. But that -- well, that and the “cool with the skeletons” comment -- was the only information she had on him; there was no recognition at all, and she looked back at Elizabeth and shook her head to indicate as such. The pit in her stomach combined with Ashley calling them over combined to say she was about to meet him soon. And yet, she felt like she was supposed to? Everyone kept pointing to her as “the leader” and just because she thought there were some pretty heavy scare quotes around that particular title, it wasn’t like she hadn’t been acting like it. It had been her plan, after all. But before she could act on either impulse (that was to say, either meet the new kid or dig a hole, hide in it, and never talk to anyone ever again), something else caught her attention. Something bigger. Yushiro had summoned a huge dragon. It didn’t just draw her eye because of the size, though, nor because of how it interacted with her duel field (though that was more a part of it than the size), there was something intangibly alluring to the Crystal Wing Dragon that Melissa didn’t quite have the words for. Awe, maybe? Could it be that? Melissa had sometimes wondered what it was like to be awed, especially when reading descriptions and analyses of shepherds being confronted by a host of angels. What she was experiencing now couldn’t be exactly like that, obviously, but the fact that she was associating the two at all meant that the feeling was at least a minuscule fraction of what they must have felt. “Hey,” Yushiro said. “Your plan’s working great!” And then, of course, it wasn’t.While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. -1 Thessalonians 5:3 (NIV)Oh, of all the problems that Melissa could have foreseen (and she had thought about a lot of problems), a waddling man with a flute was not one of them. The horde that accompanied him, okay, that was to be expected, but also the emotional barrier they had created was supposed to provide some resistance to that, right? And failing that, there was the extra actual barrier of bats and skeletons whose job was literally this. Her confidence was shattered, though, when the Crystal Wing (not to mention Souji’s HEROes, though Melissa hadn’t been paying as much attention there) was suddenly pinned to the ground. Worse still, when the piper summoned a Relinquished to absorb the dragon. Suddenly, Melissa felt a whole lot more vulnerable. What had she done, really, in the face of what was happening? She’d done nothing but promise good vibes as if that was going to do anything in the face of this, and gathering people together felt like leading lambs to the slaughter now. Relinquished loomed large over everything, even as the rest of the monsters began to charge, and the flute playing in the background now sounded like a battle march. The drumbeat was her own heartbeat, pounding in her ears and nearly drowning our everything else. Covering her ears didn’t help -- nothing did. Her duel field, too, faltered, flickering out of existence for just a moment before coming back dimmer than before. Closing her eyes didn’t help ignore that either, and she sure did try. But what more could she do? She so wanted to just wake up in her bed and have nothing that happened today happen at all. you have already done so much good. just a little more. That wasn’t her thought. It came from her head, yes, but it certainly wasn’t hers. She didn’t sound like that, Melissa knew that about herself. And yet, her concern for her own wellbeing was overridden by the comfort and reaffirmation the thought brought to her. It was such a small push, and yet, once she’d gotten it, she just kept moving. “What do I do?” she mumbled to herself. She knew the answer even before she got it. the first step is talking to your friends. everything should come together after that. Right. “Gabby!” Melissa called out. That was step one, making sure the one with still-usable monsters already out was aware and knew where to direct her forces. Next was all the friends already in front of her, and yes, Yushiro and Ashley Rendleman counted for these purposes. “Okay, first, this is going to work. You need to think that or the sanctuary won’t stay up. We’re still okay,” she said. “Probably. We just need to find something that works.” Melissa pulled out a card and slid it into her duel disk. “Desire…” she mumbled to herself. “Does this work?” No, the Darklord stayed kneeling on the ground, unable to pull herself to a standing position. “Ukoback?” Melissa said as she slotted another card in. And that one… did! The little fairy flitted around awaiting orders. “Is it low levels? Three or less?” she said, louder this time. “Would Xyz work? Hey!” Now she was looking up and around. “I guess I don’t- I don’t really know what anyone plays. Does anyone with a duel disk and some Xyz cards, can we try those?”