[Flooberoid]

Mint caught her chakram just as it stopped spewing smoke, at the same time cancelling her wind and starting to move. She burst from the cloud only to hear Mao's voice asking where she was. "Right here! How ya doing, buddy?" She gave a hollow smile as she peered over her shoulder, unconvinced that they were out of the woods at this moment. "Think you can walk?"

[Marticus]

Finn adjusted his hold on Mao to make things a little more comfortable for the pair. "Typical. We do all the work, and all he can do is ask about the girl" he jokingly said as he kept moving down the beach, away from the Grimm. Whatever was left of them anyway. Duncan had done a pretty solid job with those bombs of his.

"Anyone see a good spot to hold up? Get our bearings and so on?"

[Dead_Proxy21]

Duncan took a minute to look at his work and saw the flaming shrapnel and nails that was where his explosives went off. He managed to see a couple of voids where a couple Grimm were caught in the blast radius.

"How about we head further down the shoreline. You know away from the 'Crater of Nope'."

[Kaliot]

Mao sighed with relief, glad that the rest of his team was still in good shape. So far, anyway. "Doing okay. And quiet you." He looked down the shoreline and noticed that it bent. If they could get around quickly enough, then they might be in the clear with the smoke cover they currently had.

He wasn't particularly worried about his teammates. As for himself, his legs were still in perfectly working order, but making a break for it down the beach would be one hell of an ordeal. Still, better that than getting gobbled up by Grimm.

"We'll need to book it while we still have the cover of the smoke."

[Flooberoid]

"You got that right! I'll try to keep them confused as best I can. Worst comes to worst, I'm sure I can outmaneuver them well enough to act as a diversion, so how about you three go on ahead of me?" Mint gave a big smile and a thumbs-up to the boys. That wasn't quite like the movies, but... not bad!

[Marticus]

Finn nodded at Mao and let him stand back on his own two feet, keeping close just in case his legs gave way and he needed to be caught like a damsel in distress. What a day this turned out to be. Murder mystery in the ship followed by beach warfare. And now they were running for their lives. Finn couldn't help but find the situation to be a bit crappy if truth be told.

Still, he had a job to do, and whining wouldn't get him anywhere. They had quite the distance to cover if they wanted to escape, and Mint was offering to play decoy for them. Well, that just wasn't very fair on her, now was it.

"Mint, perhaps you shouldn't play bait. I don't mean to doubt your obvious skill, but the sand is too risky to make that sorta idea work. Too easy to lose your footing and the like", Finn nervously smiled back at her. If manoeuvrability wasn't the solution, maybe straight defence would work.

"I have a few mines I can use to maybe slow down their pursuit. The sand'll keep them hidden. Anyone have an issue with me using them?"

[Dead_Proxy21]

Duncan saw Mao pull himself together and heard both Mint's and Finn's plans.

He knew the Grimm were gonna come back to their location. The one thing that is important right now is to make sure that the teachers get all the evidence of what happened on that ship.

"Our main objective is to get all the evidence of the ship back to the school. That way they can get someone else to do some digging into what the hell actually happened on that ship. We are still just students. We aren't full Huntsmen just yet. Finn, plant those mines so we can buy more time to get further up the coast. Mao, take it easy for a bit. You got knocked around pretty badly, and I don't want you to make whatever damage you took worse. Mint, stay with Mao and keep an eye on him. I'm gonna be on standby in case we need more time to make it. "

He looked at his teammates and sighed as he looked at the forest area and looked back at his team.

"One more thing Mint. As we all start moving, I'm gonna need you to pop another smoke bomb behind us."

[Kaliot]

Mao simply nodded. He was sure he could make it, or at least that's what he told himself. The handicaps would really help, though. He did a few squats to make sure his legs were still in proper working order; they mostly felt fine if not a little weak but it should've been fine. Under normal circumstances. He stretched a bit more before giving a "Ready whenever you guys are".

((Just so I don't have to start his action with my next post, he'll start running on the signal.))

[Flooberoid]

"Wha- Hey, wait!" Mint yelled to Duncan. "I don't have any more smoke pellets! That's why I was gonna distract them myself!" She popped open the slot on Gale and waved it around to prove it. "I'll cover Mao as best I can, and even without the smoke I've still got the sand... But we gotta stop blowing through resources so fast, man!"