...and reappear in a dark room, pitch black. Tamiel isn't there. They can hear loud conversation outside. Oleander puts their hood up to try and hide their face.

"I still don't know what we're up for, and now I'm nervous." Chris sighs. In a poof of vanilla smoke, Knight is twinkifed as he pats down his various pockets for a weapon. He is very scared right now.

"Well ain't that just brilliant" Spider mutters. THey start looking for a door, using their hearing to locate it. No doors! :] "Right...that's interesting" They lean against a wall for now, their senses on high alert.

“God I hate the dark,” Knight says. Chris is just trying to calm himself down. Four in, four hold, four out. THE CROWD STARTS SCREAMING. “Oh no..”

Spider's ears flatten against her skull as she grumbles to herself. Oleander just stands and waits. Chris winces slightly. Violet looks around as she looks confused on the situation.

Tamiel's voice rings out over distant speakers, "How we all doin' tonight!?"

The crowd CHEERS in response!!!

"That's what I like to hear! Absolutely stoked to get started, but before we do..."

The group's vision is assaulted by brightly colored lights as the blackout sheet is ripped from the top of the cage, showing them that. they're in a massive cage in the middle of a concert venue the size of two football fields, right in front of a massive stage. Thousands... hell, maybe even millions of people are gathered and cheering.

"Tonight's entertainment; THE KISS!"

The crowd goes fucking BATSHIT INSANE.

“Oh god I want to go home,” Knight is a tad overstimulated. Chris shields his eyes from the bright light.

"What in the worlds?!" Violet asks, in wonder. Oleander groans and covers their eyes, pulling their hood over their face.

Spider closes her eyes, "For crying out loud.."

Tamiel, who's on the stage, smirks as long wires come out from their back in the style of tentacles. They reach out to the edges of the stage and latch onto things out of the group's sight. Various machines surrounding the stage come to life as Tamiel begins strumming at their guitar.

"Who's ready for one hell of a show?"

The crowd cheers as drones light up the night sky above the venue, spelling out Tamiel's name in mint green light.

Violet looks around at the crowd and sees if she can pick out anyone that stands out, also looking around for an exit.

Oleander looks to Spider. "Can you try teleporting my sword to you? And my gauntlet?"

Knight pulls out a…trumpet. from his pocket. “god damn it bunbun.”

There's no exit. Spider would probably be able to see that Daria and Hendrix are close to the cage, along with the girl she saw through the window those months ago.

The machines light up. The various machines buzz lightly as the music starts up. A lazer is fired from one of them! The crowd screams. The lazer burns the side of Spider's pant leg. Violet's turn to attack!

"Spider, did you hear me???" Oleander asks, looking at her Violet tries to summon a vine whip covered in giant thorns as she attacks with it, trying to hit Tamiel. She somehow manages to get the whip through one of the bars of the cage, but it doesn't make it very far. She accidentallly pricked one of the audience members :( Violet looks the audience member she hurt "Sorry!"

Oleander's turn!

"Christ, I can't not hear you," Spider grumbles and opens her eyes as she teleports Oleander's weapons to him and heals any injuries done by the lazer. Oleander equips his gauntlet and sword, firing a shot or two at Tamiel.

The shot hits Tamiel, but it bounces off of them and turns into a weevil. Spider's turn! Oleander huffs in annoyance.

Spider looks at Tamiel for a second before sending a wave of green distortion at them. Tamiel is knocked back slightly as the machines wobble. Knight, with nothing else, plays the starting notes of a rickroll before throwing the trumpet at Tamiel. It bounces off the bars of the cage!

Chris takes a pencil from his pocket, put his hands between the bars of the cage, and throws it, pointy-tip first, at Tamiel. It lands in the crowd and a random girl picks it up and sniffs it. She will treasure this pencil for the rest of her life. She fades into nothingness. She is satisfied with her afterlife. May she rest in peace.

Tamiel starts picking up the beat they're playing as lightning fires from the machines! The beams head straight towards Violet and Chris and they're both hit with electricity, although Chris less so than Violet. They're temporarily stunned, and their turns will be skipped this round!

Oleander fuckin shoots Tamiel again. The machines wobble slightly more as Tamiel's knocked back a bit more. Spider just repeats the attack from before. Tamiel is knocked back significantly less this time. Like, literally not at all. Batter up, bunnyboy! Knight picks the trumpet up and throws it again! Making sure to throw it through the bars. It lands on the stage but is snatched by an audience member. They LOVE souvenirs!!! The song picks up speed and intensity as more machines start up. Blasts of lightning and energy head straight for Violet and Spider! Violet doesn't get hit at all! Spider gets hit slightly, doesn't hurt too bad but still stings. She's stunned for a second, but is back on her feet shortly.

Violet tries to find a way to open the cages as she summons vines to burst the cage down. The cage is held down extremely well. Oleander shoots again, it hits Tamiel, knocking them down for a bit as the crowd goes fuckin g WILD. Spider pulls a knife out, sticking her hand through the bars. She then launches it at Tamiel. It lodges in Tamiel's shoulder as he gets up. Knight pats down his pockets again before finding a dollar store Swiss Army Knife. “GOD DAMN IT BUNBUN.” He opens the knife and throws it at Tamiel. It lands very closely to Spiders knife, Tamiel coughs up some blood as the crowd screams. Chris

Chris tries the same thing again. It lands in the crowd again. The knives are launched out of Tamiel and become weevils. The machines start up as the song gets MORE intense. The drone show above turns into the shape of a snow angel. It becomes chilly as a bitter taste grows in the groups mouth. The machines fire, hitting Knight, Violet, and Oleander, affecting Oleander the most. Spider goes relatively unscathed as Chris goes completely fine from it. Violet gets close the bars and aims though the holes at Tamiel and try's to lunch a giant thorn at them, trying to impale any part of them. It lodges in their chest as they cough up some blood, the machines and their body wobbling slightly unstably. Oleander's turn!

Oleander shoots again. It hits, creating a hole in their side. Knight takes off one of his leather boots and throws it at Tamiel, since he doesn’t have anything else he can really throw. It lands in the crowd. Chris throws another pencil through the bars of the cage.

It breaks Tamiel's glasses lens and fucking stabs them in the eye. The drone show begins to change form as the lights become more intense, the music becoming louder as the crowd cheers more. The drones take shape into a pair of wings.

Tamiel weakly strums the guitar, although intensely. The machines, though wobbly, begin to hum. They fire.

Everyone gets shocked, followed by cackling, before...

The cage releases, as the machines retract.

"Thank you all for coming tonight!"

The Kiss is teleported back into the dressing room.

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