BAM! The explosion from that ugly thing did catch Packo by surprise... It felt as if something big was trying to push him out of the way. Luckily, he seems to have taken multiple hits just fine... Right?

"Huff... Huff..." The tired Packo watches his surroundings. Somehow, that band-aid from Keiko is doing something? How is it possible? He will need to speak later with her, he thinks. Turning around and WHAT THE HELL IS THAT MONSTROSITY?!

"Uh... G-Guys?"

Looking a bit further... He can see a lot of people fighting the monstrosity and everything else that comes their way. That must be the party Stella was talking about. Surrounded by Chairians, and slightly scared of the big burly one that tried piercing him a new belly button, he decides to make a move.

"W-Wait for me! I'll c-cover you!" Says Packo, as he holds his breath and starts running across a cloud of weird gas. The same Brute Chairian who looked at him with a weird face... Looked like he was lost in thought now. Was it the cloud?

Packo runs until reaching the bridge! He then aims his flail at that same Chairian, hoping that the gas cloud didn't turn him even more aggressive than before.

At the same time... This group seems to have nice people. He can't leave them now... He needs to destroy the Big Ball so this isn't the last he sees of his planet and his bread.

"Uh... Is everyone okay?"

Preemptive kudos to Wilkins of #DTG for helping me get ideas for this one.

Mr. Krabs realizes the Tesla Turrets, while certainly intimidating to Nia, lack substance, to put it one way. He realizes what he must do; he must go on a quest, specifically one to find the as-close-to-perfect-as-possible matching pair for the five Tesla Turrets! If you would, he'd be looking for the Tesla Turret's BROTHERS. Mr. Krabs is going on a BROTHERQUEST.

As price for purchasing BrotherQuest, Mr. Krabs sacrifices a Shadowcaster crafting charge, a Resistor Crafting Charge (hey, remember that thing?), A Chainknight's Plate Crafting Charge, 5 Megabark, 5 Speaker Systems, 2 Rebellion Banners, and a Crushed Pop Can.

First, Mr. Krabs goes to the BROTHERIUM, the sacred location of all brothers! He is told by the receptionist at Floor B1 (reception) that he must go through eight other floors of peril and inexplicable OSHA-noncompliant hazards to retrieve the BROTHERS of the Tesla Turrets, the fabled and mythical Shadowcaster Turrets. Mr. Krabs accepts, actual Shadowcasters in hand. The receptionist wonders why he doesn't make them himself. Mr. Krabs knocks the receptionist out and steals his keys, because the receptionist was actually the kingpin of an immense crime syndicate, and everyone knew it, but he was immune to everything except robots that looked like Mr. Krabs. Which Mr. Krabs was. (The Chairian Police arrest him shortly thereafter.)

With this out of the way, Mr. Krabs begins BROTHERQUEST Proper.

FLOOR ONE: Mr. Krabs must evade the hall of thugs wielding Banana Peels! Mr. Krabs simply wonders why the hell they're wielding banana peels. They were apparently intending to beat Mr. Krabs to death with coconuts, but their fruit was mysteriously stolen and replaced with banana peels. "By who?" "By a man in green," The thugs respond. Mr. Krabs pulls out his Shadowcaster and mows them down without much trouble, but must then dodge the horde of banana peels he has left on the ground! Mr. Krabs pulls out a stopwatch, un-stopwatches it, causing the banana peels to unstop being bananas. Mr. Krabs then devours the bananas, creates a key made of purest Banana, unlocks the door keeping him from floor two, and moves onward.

FLOOR TWO: Mr. Krabs must defeat the dreaded and elusive Infinity Penguin! Fortunately, the elusive part is no longer applicable as it is literally right in front of him, but dreaded is still there-it is empowered by the forces of eternity! Yes, the Penguin is confused why its called the infinity penguin when its not empowered by infinity. Mr. Krabs throws his unstopwatched stopwatch, which explodes instantly on-contact with the Infinity Penguin, creating a fearsome black hole beast! It has a 1000% weakness to Dark. Mr. Krabs laughs in Shadowcaster fire, fells the beast in one round of combat, and from its flesh carves a key in the shape of a penguin.

FLOOR THREE: Mr. Krabs must free the helpful legion of Catteries, which are like batteries but cats, from the evil forces of that crime syndicate that receptionist was 'secretly' leading! But there is a catch! They possess the legendary and sacred art of the most dreaded of all Destroy The Godmodder techniques; LONGPOSTING. All 9,989 of the goons quickly pull out labtops and start typing in a frenzy, managing 100 words a minute! Meanwhile, Mr. Krabs just downs them with Shadowcaster fire while they type, destroying their labtops and downing all but one. The one remaining turns out to be a Saiyan, whose loss of portable typing device causes him to lose his mind and go Super Saiyan! Mr. Krabs then introduces him to Perfect Cell an arc early. Cell kicks the goon's buttox, and then departs for the realm of MLG FighterZ, as Mr. Krabs frees the Catteries from their imprisonment. He quickly takes all of them to a cat recharging station, enabling him to fully empower them to open the third door with a key in the shape of a cattery.

FLOOR FOUR: Mr. Krabs must defeat SOUPULION, Deity-King of Soapy Soups! Wielding the power of both Soap and Soup, he is a force to be reckoned with! He starts his first turn of combat by devouring Mr. Krab's Shadowcaster. Mr. Krabs begins his first turn of combat by undevouring the shadowcaster. SOUPULION realizes this will probably go on forever if they continue this, so he just goes on the offensive with his fearsome SOUP/SOAP DICHOTOMY SPRAY! Mr. Krabs is nearly KO'd from one attack! Mr. Krabs opens up his internal workings as a response, revealing HP bars are an illusion, and also driving SOUPULION to Madness. Madness, Harkansaw. It's actually a pretty nice place this time of year. As thanks for giving SOUPULION a vacation, Mr. Krabs is awarded the Soup Key, to unlock the Lock Soap barring Mr. Krab's progress!

Then, a Man in Green appears and starts shaking like eight sodas at once, the madman! Mr. Krabs gasps: there's a plot twist?! The Man in Green takes initiative and cracks open the soda cans! The soda explodes in geysers at Mr. Krabs! Mr. Krabs abruptly sets up eight portals at once, sending all eight geysers back at the Man in Green, except they're transformed into Gazyers. The Man in Green realizes he has made a terrible mistake, and rushes off to escape the Gazyers. Mr. Krabs proceeds up to the next floor.

FLOOR FIVE: Mr. Krabs meets Zavier, a parody of Xavier made by one of his internet frenemies. Zavier is different from Xavier in many ways, mostly because he's a bit character rather than an actual plot important person, which makes Zavier sad, because he has a one-up on Xavier: he literally paints code into existence! Specifically, the Source Code. You know, that 'basically a game breaker' item back in Chaos? Mr. Krabs counters with the Chairheir's Promise, which was also 'basically a game breaker' back in Chaos. Well, actually, no; he counters with 88 of Chairheir's Promise, dual wielding 44 times over. Zavier just kind of surrenders, but then tells Mr. Krabs he's a red herring! As in, literally a herring that is red. Mr. Krabs ponders why this means anything. It doesn't. Mr. Krabs moves on without a fight or even a door to unlock.

FLOOR SIX: Mr. Krabs stumbles into the convention of room organizers supremememememememe! Mr. Krabs points out to the convention that for a quest about brothers, there haven't been too many of them. The room organizers change that in a heartbeat by pointing out they are all fraternal twins, all 8,714 of them! Mr. Krabs then counters with a biology lesson: No mother could possibly bear 8,714 children all at once unless it was a Horrorterror or the like.

After eighty years of unfathomable screeching compressed into two seconds, the convention of room organizers suprememememememe realize their name has changed by two whole letters, and collectively die of the realization, then undie because Horrorterrors can't die. Out of goodwill, however, and also realizing Mr. Krabs is probably the more dangerous of the two forces gathered here, they surrender a key made of pure organization energies to Mr. Krabs, who uses it on his secret pants compartment to reveal the real room key, a living gorilla. The gorilla pounds the gorilla out of that gorillaing door, allowing Mr. Krabs to proceed.

FLOOR SEVEN: Mr. Krabs enters THE ECONOMY PALACE. Where the most economic of all economists reside-their name is the ultimate economist, and they have no gender for they have purged themselves of anything that is not economy. Their fantabulous riches enable them to wear suits made of pure gold, except not anymore, Venia caught wind of that and somehow broke time to steal their whole wardrobe as of right now. The owner catches wind of Mr. Krabs approaching, because Mr. Krabs brought some fans. A whole club of fans. A fanclub, if you would. The fanclubs blow all over the ultimate economist, blowing him into the door and breaking it. Mr. Krabs proceeds onwards, stepping all over the ultimate economist.

FLOOR EIGHT: Mr. Krabs finally finds the Shadowcaster Turrets at the end of an unfathomably large hall, guarded by exactly one foe-the Man in Green! The Man in Green reveals that it was HE who stole the coconuts seven floors ago! Mr. Krabs doesn't actually care, though. The Man in Green pulls out his secret weapon-his Designer Sword, which due to budget constraints shares the same skin as Chloe's Gladius. Its considerably more fearsome, though-the Man in Green got it blessed by almighty Wilkins, the pseudo-deity of random nonsense generation! Mr. Krabs recoils in horror as the Man in Green charges forwards!

Then the Shadowcaster Turrets go 'oh wait we're turrets' and fire on the Man in Green from behind, downing him instantly! It also kind of helps that he never got rid of those Gazyers, who were also kind of busy TEARING HIM APART, LISA. Oh, wait, now they're just pissed at everything.

Mr. Krabs pulls out his ultimate technique: Summon Anchovies! He calls up a phone, a phone direct to Bikini Bottom! Out of the phone comes a horde of Anchovies, starving for dinner, and as it happens, Gazyer is back on the menu! The Gazyers collectively step off of the menu, but it is too late, they are already fed, fed up with this stupid sidequest like by WARE shouldn't they have already been done with this? Oh, and the Anchovies eat them alive. The Anchovies then explode. It was pretty predictable, really.

With the Man in Green defeated, Mr. Krabs loots the key from his unconscious body and frees the Shadowcaster Turrets, ending BROTHERQUEST in a resounding success! He then teleports back to the house and begins planting them. Mr. Krabs plants four turrets on ground floor; one at C26, one at S26, one at Y39, and one at P41. He then takes the final turret and puts it at H41.

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Resources Expended: 1 Shadowcaster Crafting Charge, 1 Resistor Crafting Charge, 1 Chainknight's Plate crafting charge, 5 Megabark, 5 Speaker Systems, 2 Rebellion Banners, 1 Crushed Pop Can.

Shadowcaster Turrets
39/39 HP, 3 AC, 7/7 SHP
Weaknesses: Slashing (10%), Light (10%), Fire (20%)
Resistances: Crushing (20%), Electric (20%), Psychic (100%)
(4-5)x3 Dark, 2-3/0
0 MOV, 5 CRT, 15 HIT, 0 DGE, 5 CNT, 23 CAV
Trait: Siphon Rounds. Cannot kill targets under any circumstances, and may only down foes if they're at 1 HP. If you target a different foe with every shot, apply Weaken2 to all foes within Range 1-3 for three rounds.
PASSIVE: Inflexible: Does not have a ZoC. Immune to all movement and prevention effects.
AI: Sentry. Targets farther foes before focusing on closer ones. (It will try to trigger its trait whenever it can, save for if sufficient forces in-range are afflicted with Weakened.)
Desc: A short-ranged defensive emplacement that can attack multiple foes at once.
(They go under the same descriptor as the Tesla Turrets)

Turrets and Sandbags are all fine and dandy, but mobile defenses are important too. Even if they're tragically frail. Like that soggy softcover of Romeo and Juliet sitting in the corner of the spoiler. Mr. Krabs demonstrates the point by destroying it. The point, now proven to be as sharp as a 200 IQ player, proceeds to ace a game of Hearthstone as Mill Rogue, Discard Warlock, and a deck somehow consisting entirely of Magma Ragers, ascending it beyond the pale and granting it the status of Eternal Rank 0 Legend. As the point is part of Mr. Krabs, he is now a master Hearthstone player. Truly, we live in a golden age.

Mr. Krabs eats an Amethyst Archweave, a Chainlink Scarf, a Command Banner, 9 Durasteel Ingots, 20 Wire Scraps, and 7 Assorted Gun Parts. At this point, you really ought to stop questioning this stuff. Its just how he rolls. And he does roll-he rolls very far, he rolls right out of here and into There, where things are different. So different that Mr. Krabs actually steals all of There, sending him straight to Nowhere!

After a visit to Muriel and Eustace Bagge, Mr. Krabs ventures into the dangerous LAND OF ELEPHANTS, where ELEPHANTS roam. ELEPHANTS are no match for Mr. Krabs, but a more dangerous beast stalks the LAND OF ELEPHANTS, that being the dreaded Klaxxigore, devourer of ELEPHANT. Mr. Krabs is still more than a match for a dreaded Klaxxigore, though, and after eight days of spearing the spear out of Klaxxigore, Mr. Krabs retrieves the sacred spear of sacred spears from the Klaxxigore's dead body, saving ELEPHANTkind from certain extinction.

Confident in this development, Mr. Krabs heads back to Nowhere, where unfortunate circumstances have left Muriel and Eustace Bagge in the stomach of a sapient trombone case, though Mr. Krabs doesn't care as a certain dog is up to task for that much. Instead, Mr. Krabs proceeds to hunt down its brother, Gramarion the Bleepulios Lord. Mr. Krabs stares at Gramarion for three seconds. Gramarion dies. Mr. Krabs skins Gramarion's body, obtaining much wealth. Mr. Krabs moves on to a treadmill, and after some treadmilling, moves on back to There.

In There, power is very, very inflated. Mr. Krabs naturally takes the opportunity to 'steal' (he's really just picking it up) unguarded and unfathomable quantities of the most powerful substance in the world, among other things, and stashes them somewhere safe. This stuff is completely unrelated to this crafting post, except, because he picked up a lot of it, he has actually cleaned the streets of There, enabling him to get money for customer service. This enables him to buy a Power Source, which naturally is stupidly powerful as it comes from There. Mr. Krabs leaves There, sells this Power Source to the Master of Capitalism, and rakes in incredible qualities of dough. Mr. Krabs molds the dough into the shape of a doughnut, bakes and glazes it, and then sells it to Cosmic Homer Simpson for a minor creation node.

With this minor creation node, Mr. Krabs creates a catmandoo. What is a catmandoo? It's a catmandoo, which doesn't matter as Mr. Krabs has murdered it. From its corpse spouts a pair of pants, which Mr. Krabs also murders. From its corpse spouts a yackaberry, which Mr. Krabs also murders. From its corpse spouts nothing, which Mr. Krabs murders anyway to create a can of worms. Finally satisfied, Mr. Krabs feeds the can of worms to Venia's hat, mid-battle. The hat happily accepts it, chews it for a bit, and spits out a paint can in exchange.

Mr. Krabs then takes the paint can and paints in his masterpiece; a Drone Deployer, which deploys drones. He then shoves the Creation Node directly into his masterpiece's face, causing it to experience a category five disruption gambit. Mr. Krabs activates his trap card, "Screw that nonsense," and skips ahead, ending at the part where the category five disruption gambit has devolved into incohernet screeching and tentacles. Mr. Krabs can deal with that.

He attempts to sell the tentacle masterpiece a fine piece of fine-ness. Mr. Krabs drives a hard baragin, as he does, but the tentacled horror's desire for fine-ness wears out their love of screeching and their frugality. Mr. Krabs applies the fine-ness free of charge, causing it to experience a phenomenal transmutation into something new. Something better. Something that it always desired to be since the dawn of its existence as a painting.

YES.

IT IS NOW...

A Drone Deployer.

As proof of the Drone Deployer's ability to deploy drones, it deploys a drone. Mr. Krabs unceremoniously checks his watch, realizes he's running out of time, and crams in a Prism Star directly into the deployed drone. It is now a prismatic drone, and somewhat more cool for it.

Mr. Krabs stops the timer seconds before calamity, uses Terraform to modify the basement slightly such that Y58 is now dry, and then plants the Drone Deployer on that tile, where it won't be quickly harassed by enemies.

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Resources Expended: 1 Amethyst Archweave Crafting Charge, 1 Chainlink Scarf crafting charge, 1 Command Banner crafting charge, 1 Prism Star crafting charge. 9 Durasteel Ingots, 20 Wire Scraps, 7 Assorted Gun Parts.

Drone Deployer
45/45 HP (0R), 3 AC, 8/8 SHP.
60/60 MP (5R)
Weaknesses: Piercing (10%), Dark (10%), Earth (20%)
Resistances: Slashing (20%), Air (20%), Psychic (100%)
6-7 Light, 2-3/0
0 MOV, 2 CRT, 18 HIT, 0 DGE, 10 CNT, 25 CAV
Trait: Commander Network. All Summons in Range 1-2, including your own, gain 20% DGE, HIT, CNT and CAV. Passively, start every battle with one Prismatic Drone ready to act anywhere on the map save in Range 1-4 of any enemy.
Deploy Drone (15 MP): Summon a Prismatic Drone in Range 1-2. You may have up to four at once. You may spend 7 extra MP to summon it within Range 1-2 of an ally on the map, instead.
Combined Assault (10 MP): Target a Prismatic Drone in Range 2-8 of you, with Wallhack. Whenever that Prismatic Drone attacks or uses a skill on an enemy, you may also use your basic attack on that same enemy; this counts towards damage for the Prismatic Drone's trait.
Sudden Surge (0 MP): Can only be used at 25% MP or less. Restore all MP.
PASSIVE: Emergency Weapon Power. At half HP or less, your basic attack turns into (12-13) Light, 2-4/0 and you gain +5 CRT and +5 CNT. However, all skills other than Sudden Surge now cost +10 MP and you lose all MP regen. Stops taking effect if you are healed above 50% HP.
PASSIVE: Networked Defense. If a Prismatic Drone within Range 1-2 of you has a Divine Shield and you are attacked, the Prismatic Drone will intercept the attack in your steed. Only works once per turn.
PASSIVE: Inflexible: Does not have a ZoC. Immune to all movement and prevention effects.
PASSIVE: Internal Power. Cannot have MP restored by outside forces, or have its Mana Regen increased beyond base.
AI: Summoner. Tries to stay in the back and summon allies. Would rather run away (shame it can't run) then engage in direct combat.
Desc: A durable drone-making machine. Pretty much useless on its own.

Prismatic Drones
14/14 HP, 8/8 SHP, 1/1 Divine Shield.
25/25 MP (1R)
Weaknesses: Crushing (40%), Air (40%)
Resistances: Electric (10%), Fire (10%), Ice (10%), Light (30%), Psychic (100%)
6-7 Light, 2-3/2
4 MOV (Flying, Skirmisher), 2 CRT, 14 HIT, 12 DGE, 4 CNT, 25 CAV
Trait: Restorative Rounds. Cannot kill targets under any circumstances, and may only down foes if they're at 1 HP. Half of all damage you deal through basic attacks or skills is transferred to an ally in the same range as healing.
Blind (8 MP): Deal (5-5) Light damage and inflict Blind3 on the target for 2 rounds. Range 2-3.
Noisemaker (16 MP): Deal (8-8) Air damage and inflict Silence on the target for 2 rounds. Range 2-3.
PASSIVE: Insignificant. Exerts no Zone of Control. Gives no SP for "Enemies Killed" bonuses. Also leaves no body upon death.
PASSIVE: Fast Start. You automatically gain +4 MOV at the start of the round if you were present in the prior round but unable to act. This includes the round you are summoned.
AI: Social. Attempts to run towards their allies, and fights from there.
Desc: An excessively annoying drone that harasses enemies and supports allies.

Bio: The Drone Deployer appears to be a simple machine, right up until one learns that its method of generating new drones is by use of a modest Creation Node rather than any factory-like process, ergo why the machine runs on mana; most of its complicated inner workings are actually its sophisticated command network, designed to use techno-magical signals to help command both its own drones and the summons of any nearby ally; this is because the Creation Node and the Summon spell run off of similar spells, so both work. The Deployer itself is rather ineffective at combat, possessing only a modest laser to fight intruders; however, its not supposed to fight. Instead, it creates Prismatic Drones, small flight-capable robots wielding techno-magic lasers. These lasers are weak, but the drone is built to use them in multiple versatile ways to shut down enemies. The drones are frail, but they are also immensely annoying to hit in the first place, so I believe most enemies would ignore them for our actual defenders, enabling them to operate without interruption. -V

Nia looks like she's in bad shape! While other members of the party are attacking the Chairians just fine, Packo feels like his flail is massively underpowered.

"Uh... Nia, you look hurt. Before I go speak with that Chloe girl, I should, uh..."

Packo tries shaking his flail for a while. Luckily, the MOLD security system on it is not broken. Back in Licheria, it was of common use to knead bread and soften the dough by hitting it with their flails. If an accident happened, the security system would trigger, and the weapons would start healing instead of dealing damage... Although this meant the bread would be much slower to make. Just why did they ever use weapons in a bakery, though? Since he was born, he never questioned it at all. And now...

After shaking the flail a little, Packo can feel like the security system is finally on! Life Essence Augment has been casted!

"O-OK, Nia, don't move, alright? Please don't move. I am gonna hit you with this thing and it will heal you! Trust me, it worked on my friend when I almost smashed his brains out!"

Moving closer to Nia...

"S-So you called this, uh... Pain? Is that how it feels when you get hit in this world? Why would you ever have the need to feel so bad?" He doesn't understand why a concept like pain exists in this world... But he is terrified.

"H-Here it goes! P-Please don't move!" And he swings his flail towards Nia with great force.