A collection of Proteus' men wander through the woods: two big beefy minotaurs, and three somewhat less beefy but still kinda yoked menfish

—Manfish—
Man. I hate patrol duty.

—Minotaur—
Shut up.

—Manfish—
YOU shut up.

—Minotaur—
You shut up DOUBLE.

—Manfish—
FINE.




—Manfish—
Hey, do you guys hear something?

—Polyta—
NOW!!

Polyta and Helen jump out from the underbrush and start shooting. Helen goes for the fish, while Polyta handles the minotaurs. Their targets are quite irritated from having gunfire thrup against their hide.

Attack!!!

—Polyta—
I'll pin down the minotaurs!!

—Minotaur—
It's an ambush!!

—Polyta—
Helen! Cover the rear flank! We need to keep them corralled!

—Helen—
I hear you!

—Manfish—
Ow! Owowow!

Get them, get them! Over there! That one!

—Helen—
I know!

Helen narrowly dodges a manfish spear!

—Helen—
Sheesh! These guys are tough!

Kill them!!!

Polyta duels a minotaur with her hardlight blade, firing potshots at the other one with her blaster.

—Polyta—
They're almost in position!
Coral, now's our chance! Empower Helen and I both!

Coral, from behind a tree, raises up two orbs in both her hands. Streams of glowing green power shoot out of them to empower Helen and Polyta with crackling spirit energy!

Coral
* Here!!

—Polyta—
It's not real love power... but it'll do!

—Helen—
It'd better!

Drag them together!! With your wind attacks!

—Polyta—
LOVE HURRICANE!!

Polyta corralls the enemies together with a whirlwind!

—Polyta—
Helen! Now!

Blow them up!!!!




—Helen—
You got it!
LOVE CONFLAGRATION!

Helen fires a shot into the crowd, causing a massive pillar of fire to burst forth and envelop them whole!





Smoke billows around the site of Helen's devastating attack...





...and it clears, revealing some very much alive Minotaurs and Menfish. They're scuffed and smouldering, but still very much on their feet, and very very mad.

—Minotaur—
Is THAT... all you GOT!?





Lum says:
Hey out there, cutie collective! Unfortunately I got MAD SICK this week and so depleted my buffer. As such, we'll be skipping next week's update again. Sorry about the delay, and thanks for understanding!