Meanwhile...

[Khan]

Khan simply smiled as the white lightning streaked across his body. "SHINY MAN'S MACHINE WILL NOT SAVE HIM!" He screeched as several chunks of debris crashed against his hulking frame. Khan didn't so much as flinch as a large chunk of rock cracked into the side of his head. His black eyes were focused intently on the cloaked stranger, and every fiber of his being desired nothing more than to rip out this man's spine.

They continued in their power struggle for some time. The halfling's muscle relaxant salve was beginning to reduce Khan's strength, and he couldn't get the upper hand. At a certain point, the orc's feral mind realized that this fight couldn't be won. In a rare display of intelligence, the beast looked down at the man and smiled. "SURPRISE!" He bellowed as he slammed his forehead into what he assumed was the assailant's nose, then flung him effortlessly across the room. Khan paused a moment to laugh hysterically at his own tactical brilliance before making his way back towards the stranger.

[~The Bystander~]

[Tumen ex Machina]

It was at this point that an older man that looked to be in his mid fifties, and wearing long purple wizards robes stepped into the room from the hole that the halfling had been slammed through at the beginning of the fight. He was mildly out of breath as he had just ran here from his check point after feeling the first of the tremors. He quickly caught his breath as he began to walk farther into the room towards the combatants. "What in the sweet name of Maguffin are you buffoons doing!" he yelled as the larger of the two warriors flung the smaller one into the wall. The larger warrior laughed for a moment and then turned his attention towards Tumen. They both stood there for a moment in a strange silence as Tumen scanned the rest of his surroundings and noticed a third fighter lying in a pile of debris, however before too long the half-orc began to charge Tumen from across the room. Instead of acting immediately to the charging hulk Tumen instead raised his hand and pointed a finger at the hafling in the debris and said "You, stop being unconscious!" and as he said this the hafling stirred from the rubble. He then quickly shifted his gaze as well as his finger towards the warrior that was just slammed into the wall the large warrior no barreling toward him "You, stop being ridicules!" Tumen could only assume that the man against the wall had a look of confusion and disbelief on his face as he had a mask on covering his face. It was only after these two things did Tumen turn his attention toward the berserker now a mere ten feet away "And you!" he pointed dramatically at the half orc "Cut it out!" No sooner had the words left his mouth the orc slipped and face-planted on the floor sliding to a complete stop at Tumen's feet.

"There, now that that is settled," Tumen said to the battered, beaten, and broken group. "It's high time we moved out of here now that you morons have caused enough ruckus to alert New Day to our location. Come on now don't just lay about you lazy bums let's move, chop chop." he said agitatedly to the bewildered group.

[Jagues]

Godfried forced himself out of the wall casusing another small tremor to the already strcual unsound room. He looked at the newcomer who had just stopped(an epic fight ) him and the orc from fighting just by speaking. Godfried walked up to the man and asked "Who are you?"

[Khan]

Whether the muscle relaxant had finally kicked in, or something more mystical had occurred, Khan had felt a strange urge to "Cut it out" when he de-raged and face planted into the cement. He remained on the floor, motionless, for several second before he began to stir.

"You know," he muttered, his face still pressed to the ground, "I think I'd be pretty happy if I never had to do that again." He stood up groggily, and limped over to the newcomer as his muscles began to shrink back to their normal size. He reached the old man, and stared down at him with an untrusting glare. "I agree with Silver. Who are you? And, perhaps more importantly..." He pivoted on his heel, unsheathed Sonja, and put her point at the throat of the recently revived halfling who stood behind him. "I'd like someone in this room to give me a good reason not to gut Pint here like a fish."

[Merrick]

Merrick looked up at the massive blade that was being pointed at him. He crouched down and went down to one knee as if he were being knighted. Merrick silently spoke under haggard breaths "My apologies for attacking you orc. The reasons behind it all are something I'd rather not discuss now, but know that I pledge my life to you should you spare me. I will help you to the best of my abilities no matter your cause or reasons." The air became silent as he felt the orc contemplate his offer.

[Khan]

Khan stood in quiet contemplation for a moment, then smirked. "So, you're going to be my servant, huh?" He said as he sheathed his blade. "Good enough for me."

Khan turned to the strange, masked man next to him and gave him a dirty look. "That was a good fight, Silver. But from now on I'd seriously suggest you mind your own damn business, unless you fancy the idea of having your skull crushed like a soggy grape."

Finally, he turned to the newcomer. "Now, I need to know who you people are before I get pissed again."

[~The Bystander~]

[Tumen ex Machina]
"If you really must know my name is Tumen, Tumen ex Machina." he said as he began stroking his long white beard, "And I am a member of the resistance as well as a scholar in all things Maguffin related. There now that my introductions are taken care of I suggest we get moving before we are discovered." he said as he turned and stepped back through the large hole in the wall that he had entered through. If you all want to get proper introductions with each other do it while we walk, I'll also try and answer any questions that I am sure you all have along the way. Now lets hurry." As he walked further into the darkness of the tunnel he raised his right hand and set it ablaze with a snap of his fingers and used it as a torch to light the groups way as the traveled through the darkness toward their meeting point.

((let's try and get at least one round in before we show up I guess))

[Jagues]

Godfried walked behind the orge mostly because he didn't trust it and he also wasn't to fond of sneak attacks from the back. As he was walking tiny shots of pain kept going through his entire body from the fight he just had he also noticed he was a bit fatigued "Hey do you have any water old man?" asked Godfried

[~The Bystander~]

[Tumen]
"Oh for the love of McGuffin we've no time for this silliness." Tumen blurted aloud completely ignoring the questions from the one adventurer "Ah, wait a minute I've just the thing." he said as he stopped the group and reached into a pocket on his robe. He began mumbling to himself as his hand scrambled around his pocket "...no...no...no that's not it...no...oh, that's definitely not it...n- Ahah!" he cut himself off as he got his hand on whatever he was looking for. "Right, here we are then." he said as he pulled a small bunch of bananas out of his pocket and then proceeded to give one banana the group. "Alright everyone eat up!" he exclaimed as he unpeeled his banana and began eating it. The others all seemed somewhat confused at why they were now told to eat bananas and were reluctant to start eating them. "Well come on then ya Hamsters eat'em!" shouted Tumen having already eaten his banana. He watched carefully as the others slowly ate theirs prodding on any of them that still seemed reluctant. "Alright!" he said clapping his hands together once the last of them had finished, "Now comes the weird part so hold onto your bu..." before he could even finish his sentence he and the others had magically disappeared from the cave.

((Will write the conclusion in Ashador after my next class.))