Things went bad on the second day.
We're still alive, but only barely and our plans are in shambles. All it took to ruin everything was a twitch of a hood.
The guy in The Organization XIII cloak was just standing outside watching us. There was a lull in the fighting and everyone was just sort of waiting for what would happen next. He remained watching us and then reached up to apparently scratch his head. The hood slipped back as his hand slipped into it and there was about mayble a split-second when his face was visible.
A split-second was all it took. I don't know if it was deliberate. It could have been, but just a second after his face was revealed Muffin simply appeared out of the air in front of him, apparently having used The Godsway, grabbed him by the face and slammed him backwards into the ground. There was a second of stunned silence on both sides and then The Muffin Man ended it with a punch. The man caught the punch in a fist and then guns were turned and Muffin was suddenly in the middle of a very hostile army. I couldn't let him die. I ordered Ariadne to attack.
The Wooden Girl had opened a gate to The Screaming Tower in a nearby building. An army of puppets waited within, while Ariadne and a few other Dolls remained in the building. Muffin and Harold were with them. The plan had been to wait for the attack to begin in earnest and then rush them with The Puppet Army. Unfortunately they had the same plan and because of The Muffin Man we ended up showing our hand first.
Harold, Ariadne, The Dolls and The Puppets swarmed out of the building to protect The Muffin Man. It probably wouldn't of worked. Muffin and The Cloaked Guy were locked in combat and seemingly ignorant of the world around them. If even one Timberwolf had gotten off a shot, Muffin would have been killed and it all would have been for nothing. I think it was The Cloaked Guy who made it work. The Timberwolves turned and opened fire on The advancing Puppets and not even one turned to try and help their leader. My guess is The Cloaked Guy wanted to fight Muffin just as much as Muffin obviously wanted to fight him. The Timberwolves and Puppets clashed and at this point I was able to watch freely as none of the Timberwolves were still focused on the windows. It was a pretty bloody fight. The Timberwolves fought with Fanatic glee and no fear of death, The puppets fought with the inability to hold back or flee if they wanted to and continued to fight even when they were obviously dead. Add to that The Willing Dolls in the crowd and Harold and The Brute tearing apart everything in their path on the way to Muffin and the victors of this fight was pretty obvious. Of course that isn't how it went.
Harold was the first to reach Muffin's side as Muffin and The Cloaked guy were engaged in a fist fight. The cloaked guy seemed to have the same super strength as Muffin and they seemed pretty evenly matched. The arrival of The Brute changed that. The Brute grabbed the guy and tore him away from Muffin. He was sent flying and hit the ground immediately being flanked by Timberwolves who now began shooting at Muffin and The Brute. This didn't help. The Brute simply absorbed bullets and tore apart the people shooting at them as Muffin simply charged through trying to get to The Cloaked Guy. It was at this point that the sky became covered with Doves.
Lightning began to lance down from the sky frying large groups of puppets and one of the dolls, before anyone could respond to this new development. Harold decided now would be a good time to retreat and began retreating carrying a protesting Muffin with him. Ariadne fled as well as The Puppets fought to protect her and The other dolls as they retreated. The Timberwolves were cheering and taking shots at the retreating as The Birds began to swarm down. At this point The Ordeal ran out with guns and began shooting at The Birds to assist in the retreat.
Most of the puppets were killed. Some Ordeal members as well, but most of them managed to get back inside. Ariadne and the other Dolls escaped with the remaining puppets into The Screaming Tower and later came over to The Ordeal Headquarters since there wasn't much point in keeping them apart now.
I confronted Muffin later. He told me The Man in The Cloak was his father. He'd killed him in the past for trying to kill his sister and apparently The Archangel somehow brought him back. Apparently during the fight he also learned that he had been made an Apostle and infused with The Power of The Archangel. Whcih is why he was able to go toe to toe with Muffin.
I told him off then, at the time I was extremely angry at him for what he did. Still am actually, but when I told him off then he turned to me and he looked so angry I was pretty sure if I said another word he'd literally tear my head off. I don't know anything about Muffin's childhood, but he definitely has some deep seated Hatred for his father. He's promised that he's under control now though and he won't mess up again in the future.
Hopefully his screw up here hasn't cost us our future.
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