"Well," Kyanosa clapped his hands together and looked at everybody in their little posse, "now that we're one happy robot down and nobody's currently in any more immediately dangerous situation, I'm gonna go trek back through that forest and check around for a Fire marble. Have fun, or something."

"Wait," Chera called after him right before he turned around, sending him into a full 360. "Marble?"

"Oh, right. You're new. Sorry. (OOC: I would just like to point out that we're the four newest characters on the block who actually do something ((youngmage, post!)). How the heck did we all end up together? Thank you.) See, these nifty little items I carry around? The umbrella, yo-yo, and the sword you haven't really met yet? I get all of my powers from marbles the well-dressed man at the center of the multiverse made for me. Every time I collect one, I get a new power. And since he chose a set of powers from a popular video game back on my planet, I have all the powers memorized. There's a Fire one I was supposed to watch for, and I think it's somewhere in that ex-inferno behind us. Well, behind me."

"Can we look with you?" Chera's eyes sparkled. Maybe getting the umbrella was unnecessary after all.

"No, sorry. I have this inherent ability to sense the location of such objects of unimaginable power. Where I come from, we call this type of skill by a special name, dumb luck. And, from the fact that you two were just teleported here from some random planet, want each other gone, and got beat up by not only the dead robot and our green friend here, but also by me, I'm assuming you're not big on luck right now." Kyanosa pointed at Zephirus. "And you're not that big on fire. Watch them while I'm gone; they might attack each other with sand or something. You guys wait for me. Or not. You know, whatever!" And with that, he jogged into what was left of the forest.

"Be careful, friend!" Zephirus called after him. Kyanosa made a funny face. He was really not liking that name. You wander for two days without decent food or sleep and your cleverness drive starts running low. He could've at least come up with a fun name like Shania, but no, he had to say "friend." He sooooo needed a nap.

A good dozen yards into the charred remains of the forest, Kyanosa started picking up trees with the yo-yo and winging them aside. The marble was small and he had a lot of area to cover, so there was no use in searching exclusively by hand. After a good ten minutes of nothing, though, Kyanosa would have preferred a nice Radar power. Too bad there wasn't one.

He sat down and slumped against what used to be a tree. Come to think of it, he hadn't gotten any new abilities since he'd met the catwomen. They were starting to cramp his style. Kyanosa began to wonder if there was a second person on the planet with a sense of humor. "Bah. If there was, they'd be evil. I know it." He laughed.

Another five minutes of searching passed. Kyanosa finally managed to find the marble, under a small pile of leaves that was still burning. Go figure. He pressed it to his palm and felt it merge with his skin. Deciding against turning it on just yet for fear that he'd start another fire (or blow up; fire can be unpredictable), he walked back to where he left the others. Slowly.

Maybe he should split from the rest. If he didn't, he knew they'd end up following Zephirus around. He seemed to be the strongest among them, and the sticks-in-the-mud around got tired of Kyanosa really fast. Didn't help his self-esteem at all, lemme tell ya. And God knows where Zephirus would lead them. Probably to another killer robot. Which would actually be where Kyanosa would go. He thought he had a prayer as long as his marbles kept working, but Anubarik took a lot of damage to go down. Heck, Kyanosa's sword simply smacked into Necronimus without so much as a dent, whereas Zephirus cleaved Anubarik in two. Kyanosa wanted to beat up something just to prove to himself that he could.

And if he couldn't find a robot? Then he'd go where marbles seemed obvious. Try to find a large bird for Wing, or go to the top of a mountain for Ice. The problem was finding ones like Suplex, Plasma, and Ninja. How the heck do you find a ninja on a foreign planet? Phone book? No, then you'd need a phone. And even if he did find one, how does one go about getting a marble out of them? Dang, why couldn't things just be easy for once?

Kyanosa trudged back to the rest, kicking a rock in front of him. Whether he chose to stay or not, things were bleak. He thought his last group was supposed to get in touch with him, but he hadn't heard a word. How long until these three decided to dump him like the others? Once he left, voluntarily or otherwise, he probably wouldn't be back.

He sighed. He hated big decisions. Everything until now had been so clear-cut and open for jokes, and now something like this...maybe I should just fry the lot of them. Nah, they probably know some powerful god or something. They would just to spite me. Slowly working his way back to the group, he started writing jokes in his head to relieve them upon his arrival. At least he'd go out with a bang. And a chortle.