JosephOfGlass : "But yeah ask them if they have a flamethrower and if you can borrow the gas mask."
nintendocs: "ask them if you can leave with them. AND/OR, ask about the ancient demon."
Amy: "What exactly are you all planning on doing?"
Archery: "I'm... not sure if we can tell you our exact plans yet..."
Amy: "This involves my family, I'd kinda like to know what lengths you're gonna go to."
Sengi: "Well, we're not assassins, so don't worry about that..."
Sengi: "As for our plan, well..."
Sengi: "As we mentioned, we believe that giant mushroom emits some kind of toxin."
Sengi: "We think this toxin is messing with the minds of our friends, making them more susceptible to whatever will is placed on them."
Pichu: "In other words, mind control."
Archery: "These toxins spread through the vents at night... so that's our main target - the ventilation system and the fungi itself."
Archery: "Our two groups were divided between the upper and lower parts of the vent systems."
Archery: "Like this, we could study how the vents operate, shut them down, and travel through them to take down the fungi."
Amy: "Okay, I see, but that seems a little... overt?"
Amy: "She would know it was you guys; the whole Main Shaft housing the fungi is under constant surveillance."
Amy: "And even if you guys manage to give them the slip, the rest of your kind from Hubris would get punished as well."
Amy: "It'd be a manhunt."
Sengi: "She'd do something like that?"
Amy: "Like I said... she's seriously strict. Strict and paranoid."
Archery: "We don't need to worry about that. We've got a way to throw the suspicion off us AND our friends."
Pichu: "Yeah, it's all worked out, you don't have to worry about us."
Amy: "Well, okay..." (Their funeral)
Sengi: "I have a question..."
Sengi: "What's up with the Grand Patriarch?"
Amy: "Oh... him. He's pretty off."
Archery: "Are you related?"
Amy: "No. I hadn't ever seen him before a few years ago."
Amy: "He kind of came out of no where, a lot like you guys."
Sengi: "Huh... so another universe hopper?"
Archery: "You don't know where he's from?"
Amy: "No... he doesn't talk too often. Apparently my mom saw some good leadership qualities in him though, it wasn't long before he was her right hand man."
Amy: "Things started changing pretty heavily when he got promoted."
Amy: "You know, originally there was a tree in the Main Shaft. It was a huge Redwood tree... I always wanted to climb it, or hollow it out and live in it."
Sengi: "And that thing reached from the bottom floor to the top??"
Amy: "Yes, it was enormous. I think it was supposed to be an emergency air supply of some sort. It might have been scientifically altered or something, I don't know."
Pichu: "You could have a whole city of treehouses :o"
Sengi: "No kidding..."
Amy: "But anyway, yeah... they burned it down and replaced it with that purple mushroom. I don't know if it was the Grand Patriarch's idea or not, but I know mom spearheaded it either way."
Amy: "Aside from that, security just about everywhere got much tighter when he joined. He must have been just as paranoid as mom was."
Amy: "If he is, he certainly does not show it. In fact, he's actually pretty nice in person."
Amy: "He still creeps me out a bit, though."
Amy: "As does his giant mushroom."
Amy: "Oh, speaking of..."
Amy: "Is ther any chance I could borrow a gas mask? And uh, a flamethrower?"
Sengi: "..."
Pichu: "How did you know our original plan? :o"
Sengi: "Well we have plenty of spare gas masks you could borrow. They're all a bit old though."
Sengi: "We don't exactly have a flamethrower, though."
Pichu: "Archery is our flamethrower."
Sengi: "Yeah, and we kinda need them."
Sengi: "But here, take this old thing."
Sengi: "It's kinda old and has a bit of an ugly design, but it works all the same."
Amy: "Uhh, alright. Thanks."
Pichu: "Make sure chu wear it at night in the vents."
Pichu: "I have a question."
Amy: "Yes?"
Pichu: "Umm..."
Pichu: "You have that accent because you worked on a farm, don't chu?"
Amy: "Oh... you could tell?"
Amy: "And I usually do such a good job of hiding it..."
Sengi: "Of course boss is the one to hear it before any of us."
Amy: "???"
Pichu: "Hehe >w>"
Amy: "Alright, I got a question that's been nagging me for a bit..."
Amy: "What's with this ancient demon that Hubris was convinced was attacking them?"
Sengi: "Oh, him..."
Pichu: "He's a spooky ghost!"
Amy: "A... ghost?"
Archery: "It's, uh... a long story."
Sengi: "His name is Ben... well, it was. Now that he's a spirit, his name is BEN. Uh, with all caps, I mean."
Amy: "That's just dumb and confusing."
Sengi: "Get used to that feeling."
Archery: "BEN was the arch nemesis of Hubris... basically, we all banded together to try and take him down."
Archery: "We never got the chance, though. BEN never revealed himself and no one ever found him hiding anywhere."
Sengi: "Our only lead was the original Mask he once dwelled in, but that showed no signs of activity either."
Amy: "So he's a ghost-demon-poltergeist thing?"
Sengi: "Call him a ghost, monster, eulogy, whatever you want."
Archery: "Like all ghosts though, he was once alive."
Archery: "We don't know much about when he was human... only that he had connections with a mysterious cult known as the Moon Children."
Amy: "There's a cult now??"
Sengi: "Yeah, and even the cult is pretty shrowded in mystery..."
Amy: "No wonder you people are so strange."
Sengi: "Says the militaristic vegetarian princess..."
Amy: "Touche."
Pichu: "I have one more question."
Amy: "It doesn't involve my dialect does it?"
Pichu: "Nooo."
Pichu: "We need to know if you trust us..."
Well, there it is.
No more tiptoeing around it.
Do you think Team Flan is a group of freedom fighters who need your help?
Or are they just a bunch of communist scum who you should avoid like the plague?