[Dusty]

Carving through a bush was not on Gwylan's extensive list of skills, so he decided to let Tina and Nero have at it while he kept an eye out for anything trying to sneak up on them. Not that he was all that concerned about such a thing, Tina would probably have copped it by then, but anything was better than watching someone chop up a bush. Poor thing couldn't even fight back. Unless there were some kind of plant Grimm out there.

"How about, I go out there and pick a fight, and while it's beating me up, you three can laugh at me and sneak by? Cause it's probably gonna die of old age before we come up with a plan". Gwylan accentuated this by rolling his eyes at Aurora and smirking slightly.

[The Mythic Scribe]

"Bunker number one, right?" asked Aurora. "Yeah, if the map is correct then we should be right outside of it, the path to the front entrance of the little area in the middle does pass by one of the left walls. Yup, this should be the place."

"Wait, I thought it was going to be in the front entrance of the bunker, guarding it...?" Aurora looked quickly at Tina. "Yeah uh, elaborate please, is it like guarding at the entrance of the hexagonal place up top or actually in it? Because those would require different plans. But yeah, if it's up top guarding, Nero, you go and run, lose it in the maze. If inside, Gwylan, you'll have to distract it with strength and force."

While she waited for an answer, Aurora joined the other two girls in hacking at the bush with her machetes.

[MonsterManic]

"It's basically blocking the entrance." Tina replied shortly, still fruitlessly hacking away at her section of the bush, making little progress, despite listening to Nero's advice. Who knew gardening was such hard work?

"Something just occurred to me. If we do end up fighting the Death Stalker, I can shoot the stinger and someone can cut it off after a bit of softening up. That would get rid of one of it's weapons."

[Pyro_Ferno]

"Nearly there, and..." Nero said as she slashed out a hole big enough for all four to fit through. "done. That is your entrance, but I actually want to go through with it chasing me. It may be fast, but I can think of a route that I could lose it on. The thing is, if you hear shotguns, that means something went south and I will need a hand."

"Tina taking out the stinger would be helpful, but not necessary. Leader's choice, so I will go after you say or Tina shoots."

(I am doing this to speed things along, plus two feet of bush is actually not too hard to get through if you know what you are doing.)

[Dusty]

Gwylan stepped back a bit to inspect the newly made hole in the wall, and fired a thumbs up at the girls. "Nice job ladies, you showed that bush who's boss". If they could handle the deathstalker like they did the bush, this'd be the easiest job ever. Pity it was gonna fight back though, unlike the bush.

"Nero, if you do run off and get in trouble, chances are, we won't be able to get there in time. I vote that we just go out there and mess it up. Worst comes to worst, Tina can freeze it's feet and we bolt into the bunker while it's slowed down". They had numbers, and probably speed on their side, so it wasn't like it was a suicide mission or anything. Just risky.

[The Mythic Scribe]

Aurora considered the options quickly in her head. They had to move soon, before the Deathstalker heard them. "Alright, have a game plan." She clapped her hands as she said this, almost immediately wincing at the sound. "Not going to do that again... Anyway, Nero, you go and distract the Deathstalker,  keep it away from the bunker but try not to lead it too far into the maze. Then the rest of us check the bunker and pull whoever out of it, send them on their way, we need to trust that they can make it through themselves. I marked the path, remember? Then we can help you finish it off. We can't leave any Grimm that are too dangerous in this maze, its entrance is the only one that leads out, the others are just against walls of stone."

"Got it? Great, let's move." Aurora slipped through the hold in the hedge, sprinting for the quite obvious metal door in the ground that was probably the bunker. She really hoped that Nero was already on her way, because at that moment, the Deathstalker fixed its sights on them.

[MonsterManic]

Tina quickly followed suit, praying that the Death Stalker actually followed Nero and not them, because it would honestly be such a massive pain. They'd already had enough of it, and in her head she was repeating Please let this go right please let this go right. In the event that the dumb beast didn't follow Nero, she did have Ice Dust rounds loaded, following Gwylan's idea. Hopefully she wouldn't have to use it.

[Pyro_Ferno]

Nero did the absolute first thing in mind as to grab the giant scorpion's attention. Shoot it with a High explosive round. The round flew true at the stinger, exploding in an intricate ball of fire and smoke. Nero began running soon after assuring that the Grimm had it's murder vision only for her. Hope this can buy you time, guys. I won't feel safe forever, Nero thought as she made a mad dash through the maze, a giant angry scorpion on her tail.

[Dusty]

Gwylan took the rear as they moved through the bush, before taking off at a sprint, halfway between where Aurora and Tina were moving and where Nero was going, in case something went wrong and she needed to be rescued. Not that it seemed to, shooting the ugly sucker seemed to piss it off enough that it chased after Nero. Which meant one problem was, temporarily, sorted.

But that left another one in it's place. "Aurora, do you know how to open this door?! Cause I don't think I'll be able to pry it open", he hissed as he got closer to the two girls. Damn thing was a bunker after all, it was meant to keep out things that were a lot bigger than a few teenagers, even if they were badasses.

[The Mythic Scribe]

Aurora frowned at the door. "These things usually have simple flip locks at the most or a passcode maybe, to provide ease of access for people and not Grimm. Or... " She kneeled down and rapped her knuckles, wincing at the contact. Hearing a very faint noise underneath, Aurora pounded on the door harder, shouting "Hey! Come on out, it's safe now!"

A click sounded from the hatch. Aurora wondered why they hadn't opened it yet before she realized that the weight of a certain someone was probably in their way. She squeaked and moved off of the metal square and onto the grass with Gwylan and Tina.

The door rose a teensy bit at first before rising more steadily to reveal a small group of five people, three women and two men. The woman who was at the first sighed in relief to see them. "Oh thank god that Grimm's gone." She stepped out and held the door for the rest to follow, though she seemed to be having some trouble with both the weight of the door and helping people out.

"Gwylan, could you lend her a hand?" asked Aurora. "Time's ticking, faster we can get to dealing with that Deathstalker, the better."

[MonsterManic]

Tina temporarily holstered her revolvers and gave a hand to the survivors, helping them climb out. Remembering their mission, she timidly asked "A-are any of you Apple O'Hara? Or h-have you seen her recently?"

[Dusty]

Gwylan nodded at Aurora and buried Irvine in the ground behind him, as he jogged the last few feet around the door, where he could get a good angle to reach in to the survivors.

"Hi, hello, nice to rescue you all today. We're team ATLA, I'm Gwylan, the handsome one. That's Tina, the cool nerdy one with the awesome guns, and Aurora, the pretty leader one. We'll introduce you to our fourth if she isn't brutally murdered!", Gwylan rambled on as he gently pushed the first survivor aside so she'd just be holding open the door, and reaching down to help the up. Or just straight up lift them, if they weren't inclined to do it themselves. Guess he'd be getting his daily weight lift in after all.

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[The Mythic Scribe]

'Apple O'Hara' didn't seem to ring a bell with any of the people, unfortunately. Mission not over yet. Well, Aurora had long decided that it wouldn't be over until they got as many people as they could out. So... mission not passed yet. Because this was being graded, right.

Aurora smiled at Gwylan as he called her pretty, then clapped her hands to address everyone now that they were out of the bunker. "Alright, from here you're going to need to go by yourself, out of the maze. We will take care of the Deathstalker, so that's no problem. And as for the rest of the Grimm, if you stick to the path then you won't meet any of them."

She walked over to the hole they'd carved. "Just squeeze through here and start walking left. Wherever you see a bunch of slash marks is where we turned, so go that way, alright?" A smile graced her features, the one that she always used to placate her siblings. "I'm sorry we can't personally escort you out," she said evenly. "But there are a lot of people here that need to be saved and we want to get as many out as we can, alright? Stay on the path."

As the group started to go through the hedges, Aurora focused on her team. "Alright, bunker number one over with. Tina, use your semblance to figure out where Nero is. Gwylan, you go first like always, for now just follow the trail that Nero and the Grimm left, go go go!"

[MonsterManic]

"G-good luck!" Tina called after the disappearing group, before sprinting toward the massive hole in the hedge. She could swear she could hear the pounding of the Death Stalker, or maybe it was just her. Pulsing her semblance, she reported: "Death Stalker and Nero right ahead, just follow the path and we'll catch up to them. Now if only we had someone with a speed semblance..."

[Dusty]

"Remember to rate us highly on our performance reviews!!", Gwylan yelled after them as they ran towards safety, then turned back to the others. "They seemed nice, I do hope they don't get eaten....... Say, you guys think that bunker had some bug spray we could use on the deathstalker?"

That last part was said as he started jogging down the path after Nero. Hopefully, she hadn't ran into any problems and been..... nope, not gonna think like that. She was gonna be fine, Nero had proven herself to be a tough cookie.