Level 2: Need Another Hero, Girl and/or Sprite

Thundra smashes one Pottíman with such ease she cleaves right through and smashes another! Casanova’s phaser is apparently set to Shatter! (If she checks, it IS set to Stun. She also detects no life readings among the Pottímen, so she’s certain that she isn’t taking a life. Space Commanders tend to know this sort of thing.)

Pira’s fish leap throws a Pottíman off balance, and while Kurumi is staggering a little (probably from the "root" beer), Princess Diamond’s cheers bolster our heroines!

But most of the soldiers are still attacking!!!

P2🧡🧡🧡
P3🩷🩷🩷
P4❤️❤️❤️❤️
P5💙💙💙💙💥
P6🩵🩵🩵🩵💥

Casanova is struck by a javelin hurled with laser accuracy. Fortunately, the tip is blunt and the spear shatters upon impact. Thundra is hit by a claymore (that is actually made of clay), which breaks over her muscles. Kurumi easily dances away from the danger!

As the princess cheers, Pira and Thundra provide percussion with their combos. The largest of the Terra Potta remains standing and is about to unleash its whirlwind attack—

*ZAP*

—but Casanova’s stun gun renders the statue inanimate. Its eyes dim, and the pottíman remains in a ‘batter up’ stance.

There is broken pottery all over the floor. Behind our heroines, there is still a wall of flame, but the fire is dying at the center, revealing a spiral staircase that will lead our heroines further down.

On the opposite side of the room, below the large mirrors, there’s an open door which leads to a narrow hall. It is oddly triangular, thirty feet high at the peak and only about five feet wide at its base. It’s not so narrow that our heroines would have to move single file. But two women moving side-by-side would definitely block the way of any attacker should there be more ‘claymation hazards’ ahead.Which way do our heroines go?

With the two fighters up-front and two more heroines at the rear, Princess Diamond is—probably for the first time in forever—in the safest position in a perilous situation.

As our heroines cross the narrow corridor, they seem to be well aware that it’s only a matter of time before a foe shows up. They move as swiftly and silently as they can.

Eventually, they see a shadowy figure at the end of the long hall. He is perfectly silhouetted by the flickering red-gold light at his back. There is a sword in his left hand.

In his right, something round.

"Cerberamic!" he shouts as he hurls the sphere, "I choose you!"

There is a crash-tinkle as the ball his the floor. Shards slide and stop short of Pira’s and Thundra’s feet—and before there eyes, purple smoke billows—illuminating the room in a magenta hue.

It fades quickly to a purple haze, and within it is Cerberamic, a three-headed Pottíman (or Pottídog?)! Its heads bark loudly at you! Its bite is probably worse!Cerberamic is too disoriented to attack in the cramped hallway! It barks loudly and angrily, startling our gentler heroines!

Pira leaps through the air in a graceful arc which would surely clear the oversized three-headed mutt. But the middle head rises to catch the fighter—

—only it clamps its mouth shut too soon as Thundra asserts her dominance! Pira bounces off the Pottídog harmlessly.

The left head is about to strike, but the right head is responding to Kurumi’s attempt to tame it. The middle head is in control of the rear legs, which are making a step back (and slightly toward the wall opposite Thundra).

Casanova sees that everyone in the fight is a dog-person, with the possible exception of Princess Diamond, but she’s scolding the shadowy Pottíman Trainer. So the space commander sets her phaser to Vandalize!

Chunks of the wall come crashing down toward Cerberamic, narrowly missing the most aggressive head as the hind legs and one front leg force the entire dog back several feet!

Our heroines cannot easily pass this obstacle, and two of the heads are growling. It’s pretty clear that our heroines will have to fight Cerberamic if they climb over the rubble.


As our heroines presumably contemplate the harsh reality: Cerberamic is a very, very bad dog (or is trained to be), the trainer himself responds to Princess Diamond.

"My mother? What do you know about my family? Not as much as you should. Do you realize that you look exactly like my sisters?"


The shadowy man is backlit by the red-gold firelight emanating from the triangular opening at the end of the corridor. Two black lines extend from his legs. His shadow, of course.

Only now, his shadow is growing darker. Longer. And as it spreads across the room, it seems that every pixel of the shadow is animated—like billions of little bugs!Our heroines could stick around and find out what the shadow wisps are. Or, they could retreat and take the spiral stairs.

If they do stick around, there is one more bizarre occurrence. As the shadow wisps spread toward our heroines, there are also golden sparkles trickling down from the broken (vandalized) ceiling.

It’s difficult to say which will reach our heroines first, if they stay put:
—the ✨luminous✨sparkles✨
—or the 👥shadow👤wisps👥?