Causing Chaos!(mission, cyph, pino, Dana, Ichi)

mission details:

ALRIGHT! It was finally time to get some work done. Pinochio was excited. Finally, after months of training with random people he'd met himself, he was able to infiltrate Tria's inner circle. For the holidays, while his student was out and about like.... making friends or something dumb, Pinochio was ready to do missions. Saya out. Pino in.

He was prepared for the mission ahead, glancing out from a totally inconspicuous alleyway parked a few blocks down from the devilish cookie shop. Surveilance is an important part of any ninja's mission, and so he held the vigil while waiting for his friends.

This village was amazing. There were some downsides of course, like the fact that his really cool mistwalker armor was changed upon entering the gate to be red and white stripped, making him look like a very small candy cane, but the moment he stepped in, it felt like a second home. Everyone in the village was tiny. This fact wouldn't be much for most, who tower over the elf shaped non elf people, but for the four and a half foot Weaponry master, Glancing about large throngs of people who stood at his height or shorter was just the ticket. He'd taken a solid hour and a half to simply walk up to people, putting his hand on the top of his head and then hovering it over to where the top of theirs stood to test his own height against theirs, but after a fair sized mob gathered with pitchforks under the assumption that he was making fun of them, he decided maybe that wasn't the best plan.

The mission was simple. Go into a cookie shop, Bust some skulls, and destroy the cookies. Maybe he could even get one and offer it to Saya..... It really depended on how poisonous these things were. If eating one meant death, then the ammount needed to just make her a bit sick and hopefully convince her to lay off sweets for a while would be dificult, but if it took more than one to be seriously dangerous, this was a plan worth testing.

(TWC 355/500 for first mission)

Akikuro was having a wonderful time. Sure, despite her complexion finally matching those around her she still stood out as extremely tall, but it was a very small price to pay for the joys of snow. Almost fearful that it'd disappear, she snatched handfuls off the street and hid it in her pockets who had gently acquiesced into their new role as snowcups. It'd definitely be rude to throw the contents at someone, but Aki didn't want to leave without hitting someone with a snowball at least once. It was tradition, tradition she'd made up on the spot.

In any case, spotting the cookie shop was easy enough. Cookie shops typically didn't try to hide themselves, so the large sign was a dead giveaway. Finding Pino and the other name on her list was a bit harder though, she spent some time looking for others her height before remembering that Pino was incredibly short and probably fit the profile of everyone else here. The unfamiliar name was also entirely unfamiliar, and so impossible to recognize on sight.

For the time being, she limited herself to scouting out the shop. She didn't trust her acrobatics enough to bring her to the rooftops, so peeking out from an alleyway was the best position she could really take. It wasn't much at this range, but there were little details one could keep track of. How many went in, how many went out, where the windows were, all sorts of things that might come in handy later.

It was also incredibly boring once the first fifteen minutes passed, and so her eye began to wander a bit. It wandered enough that soon she was looking in the opposite direction of the shop and - was that a candy cane in that alley?

Aki squinted, and noted movement from the candy cane. Wait no that was Pino. Clearly they'd done their research and come up with the perfect way to blend in, inwardly she cursed herself for not coming up with the idea first. From her makeshift hideout she waved at the familiar face; both hands of course, for added efficiency.

WC: 355

Angry, angrier, angriest. Those three words and you would have found the best way to describe Sebastian. "This fucking cold" the young Berserker cursed as he made his way through the streets of a village unbeknownst to him. It wasn't that long ago that the Tau enjoyed a little bit of free time back in Sunagakure when he suddenly received a letter, personally delivered to him and written by some individual going by the name of Itazura. "Sounds foreign" was his initial response as the misfit finished eating an apple, throwing away the remaining parts of the fruit in order to let mother nature do her work. 

What he didn't expect was to be transported after breaking the scroll. Truth be told, one might have asked why the hell he decided to break it in the first place. Well, cause it's Sebastian. That's why. "Pfft, I guess this is Moon Country" the berserker mumbled while scanning the area. For now there wasn't much he could do besides going over the information that was written down in the letter, trying his best to remember what would be expected from him. The Sunagakure Chuunin suddenly recalled his task, confused why and who exactly caused all of this.

It appeared Itazura required three things from Sebastian. One, stop the poison. Two, stop the presents. Three, take the star. The second and third made sense to the former rogue but for some reason he didn't understand why he needed to stop poison. Didn't they know how useful of a tool that was? Anywho, no time to complain as the Tau assumed he had arrived at his location. "A bloody cookie shop, of course it is". Tempted to just burn the place down Seb calmed his nerves, looking around to see if others would be involded in the whole situation as well. 

(WC: 307)

When Dana had opened up that summon letter she really hadn't expected to end up in a snowy wonderland but she should have expected it based off of the contents of the letter and its decorations. She was remarkably underdressed for the weather - simply wearing some cargo shorts, a black t-shirt with a big smily face, and some sandals - but the young Senju looked to be dealing with the weather just fine. She skipped through the town, kicking up clouds of snow as she did so. This place was amazing! Snow, village gates made out of candy canes and peppermints, and some really fun missions to go along with it all.

She'd scan read earlier to figure out what was going on but truth be told she was still a bit confused. Who poisoned the cookies? There were few things in this world that got Dana riled up as much as people who messed with the sanctity of cooking. This, of course, ignoring all of Dana's previous attempts at making cookies that were probably worse to consume than just straight poison. Really, Dana still couldn't imagine why putting beans, gravy, tomatoes, and rice into a cookie had ended up so terrible but, you know, live and learn. The fact that it was edible at all was all thanks to Dana's special ability to cook weird food.

She approached the location of the first mission; a cookie shop. As she approached she spotted a man who looked incredibly out of place amongst the festive aesthetics of the rest of the Moon Country. She skipped up to him and smiled widely when she heard him speak about the cookie shop; finally, someone who spoke her language.

"Heya! How's the form!" She said cheerily, blissfully unaware that two of her teammates were trying to be sneaky. She'd approached Sebastien from behind, but he'd likely heard her loud skipping well before she spoke.

WC: 310

......Dana. Pino finally gets the opportunity to do a mission with the legendary team Saya had built for herself, and instead of a crazy Tau with the ability to remove and attach his own limbs he end sup with Dana and the small girl Saya gave HIS sword to. He liked that sword. Never would have used it probably, but yanno, he would have liked to have options, but no. She found it in his forge when she pressed the wrong elevator button, and just scooped it up, ending up giving it out to some fresh genin. This is fine. It's mission time, so he needed to focus. There was another person there... Someone he didn't recognize. That meant a potential new ally that Saya didn't have. This was good. Very good.

He approached the group, motioning for Aki to come over. "Alright gang. So my thoughts are simple. We raze the building to the ground. Dana, you do that thing yall do where like. Trees? " Yes. That's the whole description. All he could think of to emphasize the terrifying power both she and Saya had was 'trees'.

"New guy... YOu got anything big and boom? I can, of course, use the paragon of the anything goes style of martial arts to destroy a large section. Kachu tenshin will do nicely against basically anything and...." He would squint at the new girl for a moment, searching for a name. He had heard Saya talking about her when they had puppet catchup time--the hour every night devoted to the puppet version of Ai and Pinochio explaining everything that happened in their day and visa versa. What was it... AKI!

"Aki... Uh. Do you know any strong wind stye ninjutsu? I think your clan uses wind style? yanno like. You activate your Solar chakra and you focus on fast moving chakra.... Imagine sharp blades of air... You can do that now right? " Inadvertantly He'd given the girl what she might need to learn the wind element if she didnt already. Sometimes things just work out well. "maybe you can use glass shard swing or something? Slash so hard and fast that you seem to break the air and shards of air pressure shoot towards a target. PProbably add some Temple style discovery of an incomplete truth for power...." In emphasis, he'd perform the seals for the amplifier slowly. He needed it to empower his technique anyway. Once again, without realizing she wouldn't have the technique he offered her exactly what she would need to learn it and be able to utelize the technique later. If only that helped them now....

(TWC 793 first mission done 293/750 for second)

Aki nods slowly, then nods again slightly faster. She desperately hoped this made it look like she understood most of those terms beyond generalities. "Mhm, mhm, yep! I have no idea if I can do any of those things actually, but I can certainly try!"

It seemed she had made a mistake and there were actually two unfamiliar people instead of one, this'd make things confusing especially since now didn't seem like the right time to ask for names. Seeing the girl of the pair was a motivating sight though, as it made Aki feel a lot better about their lack of experience in stealth given that they were almost literally kicking up a storm. She was very curious about how they avoided the chill - maybe they were like her? Something to bother them about later, Saya would probably tell her where they lived if she asked enough.

Slash really hard and really fast? That seemed like the easiest thing to work off when the other two options were at least 50% Ninja Magic. She unsheathed her free new sword and pointed its tip in the general direction of the cookie shop, her initial whirl only narrowly avoiding Pino's head - mostly due to the height difference. Aki didn't seem to notice though, her eyes were almost completely glazed over and a vacant smile locked into place as she stared at her sword more than she did at the target. She would probably have been arrested if she were standing somewhere else.

Suddenly a thought occurred to her, she hadn't been paying attention towards the shop shortly before spotting Pino and had no idea how many people were still inside. "Oh wait are we going in right now? Shouldn't we check if there's any customers still inside?"

WC: 296

As he stood there in front of the cookie shop Sebastian could hear someone approaching from behind, a sign the young berserker wasn't alone in his ordeal after all. Turning around, calm as ever, the Tau noticed it to be a young woman, possessing a peculiar way of speaking but he supposed it had its charms. "It goes" the Sunagakure Chuunin replied, his voice stoic and deep. Even though he was no longer alone, they still had to figure out how to deal with the mess caused by this Itazura individual. Well, it was pretty clear what they needed to do, it just didn't make any sense.

By then two others decided to show themselves and from what could be made out of the situation it appeared they knew each other, at least some of them did. "Interesting" were his thoughts while raised would be his guard. Regardless of having end up in Moon Country together, Sebastian found it strange to be the only odd person out of the four of them. Not that he wasn't used to that, most of his life was spent that way. One of the strangers suddenly took the word, sharing his thoughts on the situation while suggesting actions they all should be taking.

The young berserker didn't escape the inquiry, however, he decided not to show his cards just yet and so he replied. "I never heard of this martial arts of yours, count me intrigued". It would be too soon for him to allow others to witness the things he'd be capable of, after all, his earlier suspicions had not left just yet. Aki, assuming that to be her real name, would apparently attempt a certain amount of actions but it wouldn't surprise Sebastian if the girl got confused by the other person's explanation. However, before the kunoichi decided to act it seemed a sudden thought came to her, one she decided to bring up to the rest of them.

Assuming no one else responded Sebastian took the word, replying to Aki in the process. "That's a good question, but none of our concern. We are here to stop the poison and presents as well as taking whatever this star is supposed to be. Whoever might still be inside of the shop will not be on our side". The former mercenary then allowed the others to share their thoughts, if they truly believed innocents were inside the building perhaps they would have an other idea on how to proceed.

(WC: 416, TWC: 723)

Dana listened to Pinochio blabber on with a small smile on her face, falling back on her tried and true plan of letting others around her do all the mental heavy lifting. It wasn't to say that Dana wasn't capable of planning out intricate plans and stuff, she just chose not to do them most of the time cause they were well dull. Dana was more of a 'live in the moment' kind of person. Run in, guns blazing, and figure out where to go from there. Dana did, however, listen intently to Pinochio's explanation of some of the different kinds of wind techniques as he explained them to the new girl amongst them. It was an element she was thinking of picking up at a later date, after all. Shooting vines from the ground, while cool, wasn't as cool as shooting blades made out of wind, in her opinion.

"Getting rid of the building will be no problem!" Dana said happily, stepping forward as she cracked her knuckles. A lot of her arsenal had secondary uses of absolute destruction, which made sense given that most of her arsenal had been taught to her by Saya. "If ye all will allow me..." Dana said as a warning, hands slowly coming together to deftly weave a set of handseals. Then a thought came to her mind and she quickly shouted out towards the building.

"Oi, if any of ye lot are still in I'd advise ye all get out now! It's coming down in five... four... three..." As she slowly counted down with an oddly cheerful tone considering the circumstances, Dana watched as dozens of tiny little elves came running out of the building. That was good. Actually warning the members of the building that she was about to bring it down was a big show of improvement from the Senju's usual lackadaisical view of human life. A year, no, a month or so ago Dana would've happily brought down the entire building without sparing more than a single thought about any casualties; her friends really had been a positive influence on her.

"...Two... One!" And with that, with all of the elves out of the building, Dana completed the final handseal and activated the swamp of the underworld technique in the middle of the building. Very quickly, sincec it no longer had any solid foundation underneath it, the building began to collapse into the now soggy ground. The small people surrounding them watched in disbelief as all their hard work got swallowed up into the murky depths of the Underworld. Just for good measure, Dana then proceeded to activate Nativity of a Sea of Trees to completely transform the now-empty building lot into a big forest.

"Done!" Dana said with a pleased smile.

WC: 465
TWC: 775

Pino knew a great many things in life. Among them, was one universal truth. While he wouldn't trust Dana with a time sensitive or espionage mission without a handful of people to watch over and keep her on task, She, like Tria, was the person to talk to if you wanted something destroyed without the possibility of rebuilding. What she did, however actually surprised the small weaponry user. He was expecting a huge latticework of wood style, a forrest of trees that tore into the building, something that involved her clan's element. Instead she made the water a little bit muddy?! 

His lips parted to comment about needing something stronger, what trust he'd put in Dana draining, but after a moment the building began to sink. Sure enough she had taken the task with intention, and found a solid means of getting the job done. Now they just needed to get onto task number two. 

"Right. So as team leader because yanno. I'm clearly the most experienced and toughest in the group, I believe it is important that we move on to the next task. Theres apparently a devilish toyshop shipping bombs out to the good little kids. We cannot allow that to stand." Damn right they couldn't. Saya was basically a small child, and while he liked the idea of her being knocked down a peg(it would be great for her humility if she were reminded that there are levels far above what she has reached) he very much didn't like the idea of her opening a package that blew up in her face. Not to mention, she wasn't trusted with scissors so chances are, he would be the one unwrapping it for the sake of safety. No bueno. 

As they moved on to the next destination he got a chance to finally interact with the one newcomer he hadn't gotta a chance to speak to much. 

"Ah. Yes. It's a Kirikagure style specifically. Only one who knows it is Myself and a big ole scroll locked deep in a vault.... .And technically Tria. Damn her eidetic memory. She's not a problem though. She will never use taijutsu or weaponry as far as I'm aware so no need to worry about her spilling those secrets."  As he made casual convorsation with the strange man, he would consider the next technique he could teach his new student. What else was important for her to know anyway?! From the bag at his side he'd pull out two scross, holding them towards Aki so she could see. 

"There is also the twin rising dragons technique. It utelizes a large volume of weaponry to either attack unendingly or strike a large area all at one time. This justo also has hand seals." He would slowly form the tiger, dragon, monkey, hare, and dragon seal for her, allowing her to see exactly what he was doing. As he finished, the scrolls would begin to rotate around his body. 

"Next is, of course, the Samurai Saber technique. Another enhancer. He would form three seals slowly, showing them to Aki before taking out his weapon, which now glowed with a blue light. 

(TWC 1319 first mission done, 750/750 towards second mission done 69 towards 3rd mission)

"Yeah but, its a cookie shop, where people buy cookies. The whole point of destroying the poison is to stop them getting hurt, so it kinda defeats the point if we hurt them to achieve that." Truth be told, the Berserker kind of spooked her. They seemed pretty solidly built and very... calm in their speech. It was vaguely uncanny, but what the other stranger did frightened her a lot more as the target was pulped into splinters in a matter of seconds.  

With such a flagrant display of power not only did Aki begin to question the morality of the venture and her chances of being killed by friendly fire, she also started to wonder why everyone else was here given that the tree girl could probably complete this entirely on their own. The forest was a nice touch too, so they could handle the style portion of the mission solo as well. Was this what it felt like to become obsolete.

Aki really had no idea how all these techniques could have been possibly named. What really was a Samurai Saber anyways, any saber could be a samurai one if they were holding it. The twin rising dragons stumped her though, it was a ton of weapons, none of which were dragons and there were much more than just two, so twins felt like a weird way of putting it. The mystery had the added effect of incentivizing the Genin to look even more closely at the techniques in the hopes of discerning some secret meaning.

TWC: 958

"So! Do we do the same at the factory, or is there greater opposition." By we Aki mostly meant the one girl who brought the cookie shop down all by herself, but she would do her best to provide moral support and hot cocoa if she could find any.