Chapter 7 - Going under.
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The Dungeon. A mythical place of untold treasure and danger, a place many had tried to enter before. A place three women had finally broken into, countless centuries after the last hero had ever walked upon its corridors and rooms. But to the heroines of this story, the Dungeon had been a container of skeletons and disappointment.
"Know what I'm thinking?" Bunny said as the group explored Boring Corridor #4609.
Lunette almost dreaded asking, but did anyways. "What?"
"We should just explode the hell out of this place, we've found nothing but skeletons, locked chests, and skeletons guarding locked chests."
"I'm tempted to agree, after all-" Amy started, then stopped and looked around. "Huh, I thought I heard something."
"More bones?"
"No..." Amy walked to one of the doors and opened it. "Damn, too dark." She then threw a torch in and gasped at what we saw.
Bunny poked her head into the room then shrugged. "Bah, no treasures here, just some tied up girl. Let's go."
"Wait, this could actually be good," Lunette noted.
"Didn't know you were into that sort of things," Bunny mused.
"Eh, shut up. Let's free her."
After releasing the girl from her binds, Amy looked at her. Orange hair, yellow jumpsuit and a wrench larger than herself in her back. "You're a Mechanic, right?"
"Yes, I am. Thank you for rescuing me, girls. That dumb old man tied me up here days ago, I thought I would die down here."
"So, what's your name?"
"Dawn."
"Are you interested in joining a band of crazy NPCs trying to save the world?"
"Actually, I was going to ask you about that, how come you're rescuing me?"
"I know you were probably expecting the Chosen One to come rescue you, but he turned out to be worthless, so we're taking care of business ourselves."
"Sounds fun."
"Anyhow, can you fight?"
Dawn saw a skeleton walking into the room, and reached back, taking her wrench out calmly, before pummeling the poor bony sucker to bonemeal in seconds. "That answers your question?"
"Quite. Anyhow, we've seen enough of the Dungeon, and I bet you feel the same way, so let's get out of here."
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Once outside, the girls saw it was already morning. Lunette sighed. "Hmm... The ocean should be close."
"So?"
"How about we take a break?"
"You just want to see Amy in a swimsuit," Bunny mused.
"That's not-"
Amy sighed. "Not that I brought any swimsuit, since I didn't think we would go to the beach."
"Oh, that works too," Lunette teased, causing Amy to blush a deep red.
"Let's just use those potions and go back-" Bunny started, then frowned. "Do you have enough potions for all of us?"
"No but I have this," Lunette said as she took out a small round mirror.
"Wait you had that too? And you didn't use it-" Bunny sighed. "Oh, right, you like to walk."
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"So you girls are going to the beach?"
Amy looked at Calvin. "What to tag along?"
"I hate sand, it's too... Sandy."
Garret shrugged. "I'll go, it will be fun to just relax for once."
"Same here," Tony said.
Fikod shrugged. "Me and my pal Xanos will be building some base defenses."
Dawn smiled. "I'll help you with that later, but after so many days stuck down in that crappy place, I want to go have fun too."
Marco was busy talking to Gary about what kind of paintings and rugs the base should have, so Lunette decided to leave them be.
"All right then, time to have some fun," Lunette said. "Let's go!"
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And so, a few hours later, the group was in the beach. Lunette was wearing a green two-piece swimsuit similar to her normal outfit, Amy had chosen a one-piece white suit, Dawn was wearing an orange bikini set, and Bunny was...
"Seriously, Bunny, you worry me, sometimes."
Bunny looked at Lunette. "Why?"
"You made a swimsuit out of bee skin."
"Yeah. Don't you like it? I call it the Bee-kini."
Lunette decided to answer by grabbing the Party Girl by the waist and unceremoniously tossing her into the water.
Amy laughed at that, then saw Garret was looking around. "Hey, what's wrong?"
"Well, this is fun, but I can't shake the feeling that something bad will happen soon."
"Oh, I don't think that-" Amy started, then noticed the area around them grew darker in a matter of seconds. But there were no clouds in the sky, so... She looked up to see a horrible abomination had risen from the water, its face a display of tentacles, its eyes dark as night itself, its arms as thick as the Eater of Worlds. "... What the hell."
Lunette looked up. "What? Cthulhu? But the developers said there would never be a Cthulhu in Terraria!"
The monster looked down. "Wait, what? This is Terraria?"
"Yes."
"Oh

. Sorry, wrong game, I'll be going now, gotta get to the audition for the next Super Smash Brothers."
Amy sighed in relief, noticing Bunny was, for the first time, actually scared of the creature which had just teleported out of their physical plane. "See, Garret, nothing bad happened."
"Guess you're right, I guess I was worrying over nothing," Garret said, then burst aflame and exploded.
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Razor smiled. From what he had gathered while beating down imps and other uglies down here, the way to release the strongest beings in this planet was to sacrifice something, or rather someone. That Garret jerk? He didn't even have to think twice to do it, though it did take a while to find one of those voodoo dolls. The easy part had been tossing it into the lava, but now, he could only wait and see what happened.
Suddenly, the ash around him turned red, as did all the lava, and from a nearby lava ocean rose what looked like a giant wall made of flesh, with massive eyes and a giant mouth. "Oh, that looks like a worthy opponent." Razor smiled. This would hardly be a challenge, he was wearing a gold armor and had a platinum bow now. Yes, this would be easy.
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Bunny was, for once, not cheery at all. "What... What happened to him?"
Lunette sighed. "No idea, but he was right."
"Let's go back to the base," Amy said, "I'll check his room and see if there's anything in his books about what happened.
Dawn frowned. "Damn it, I was having fun here."
"You-" Amy started walking to her. "Listen, he was our ally, and I need to know why he exploded like that. You can stay here and play with sand castles all you want!"
Lunette saw Amy stomping off and followed her. Bunny, meanwhile, looked at the Mechanic, who was staring at the Nurse's retreating form in shock. "Come on, let's go."
Dawn shook her head. "What for? I'm sure they hate me now."
"I've known them only for a few days, but I'm sure it takes a lot more than this to make them hate someone." She sighed and then frowned. "Uh, was that an earthquake?"
Dawn nodded. "Yeah, I think it may be related to what happened to that guy."
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Minutes later, Amy walked out of the Guide's room and sighed. "Well, let me try to explain what happened. Someone must have reached the Underworld, also known as Hell, and found a voodoo doll. Dropping it into the lava caused Garret's death and... It also unleashed a being known as the Wall of Flesh unto the world. Problem is, that "wall" is the being keeping the true evils of the world in check."
"So what now?"
"We could let that wall roam down there, but Garret won't be able to respawn until we kill it."
Dawn frowned at that. "So we have to destroy the only thing keeping evil in check in order to bring him back?"
"Let's do it."
Amy looked at Lunette. "Lune, do you really know-"
"That jerk Razor must have done that. I will go down there, beat that stupid wall to bits, and then I'll probably look for that idiot and murder him as many times as it takes for me to not be angry at him anymore."
"Can we beat that wall thing? Skeletron was already tough enough..."
"I'll go get Xanos. Dawn, if you don't mind-"
"I'll help you make new gear," Dawn said, "and then we're going down there and beating that wall down."
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And so, a few hours later, the group was heading down into a tunnel. They were all wearing armors made of bone, which was, from what Fikod had tested, tougher than even the toughest metal they had found. Lunette had crafted a spear, as usual, and a boomerang, which she had aptly called the Phalance and the Bonerang. Amy still had the Firestorm, while Bunny had asked for dual swords, which she had named "Bony and Clyde." Dawn had said her weapon was good enough.
"We'll have to dig to get down there. One of us should dig while the others gather loot and kill mobs," Amy explained.
"If I may suggest a different plan," Dawn said and took a small cube out of her backpack. "Minebot, do your thing."
"Minebot?" Bunny asked, just as the cube grew bigger, small metal legs coming out of it as a drill appeared in one of its sides. "Wow, that's awesome!"
Dawn nodded. "I never liked mining much, so I prefer leaving that to my inventions."
Lunette saw the robot was mining a tunnel steep enough to bring them to the Underworld, but not so steep that it would be easy for them to lose footing. "Okay then, let's go break a wall."
"We kinda already did, the fourth wall at least," Bunny noted.
"... Just shut up and follow that robot."
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"Oooh, orange juice!"
"Bunny, no, that's lava," Amy warned.
Bunny giggled "I know that, silly, I was just joking."
Dawn saw her bot had dug into yet another cave, except this one was full of spiderwebs. "Oh boy, we found a nest."
Amy cringed and took a step back. "Damn it, I-"
Lunette shrugged. "Give me the gun."
Amy nodded. "Sorry, Lune."
"I told you before, I don't mind." She looked at the other two girls and smiled. "Stay out here, if any spider makes it past me, deal with it."
Dawn saw Bunny was now wearing sunglasses. "Huh, why the sunglasses?"
"We gotta deal with it."
Lunette looked around. "Time to burn." She was about to pull the trigger when she saw something in the darkness. Taking a few steps towards it, she saw several spiders asleep around a man-sized cocoon. She could see there was someone inside the cocoon. "Gotta do this the fun way," she muttered before charging at the spiders.
A few skewerings later, Lunette was done dealing with the spiders, and broke their hostage free. "You alright, miss?"
The girl looked at Lunette for a few seconds before nodding. "Thanks for rescuing me, those bastards caught me before I could use my scissors."
"Scissors?" Lunette asked. "Oh, you're a Stylist then?"
The girl nodded. "Name's Pearl."
"I'm Lunette."
Pearl smiled. "Nice to meet you, Lunette." She then looked at something past the Dryad and sighed. "Don't move."
"Wha-" Lunette started, but it was over before she could even finish that phrase. She turned around to see the Stylist standing next to two huge spiders which had been cut in half, and saw the girl holding scissors as large as the mechanic's wrench. "Holy flaming

on a stick. I was going to ask you if you could fight, but I guess you just answered that."
Pearl saw two other girls walk into the cave. "You girls looking for something down here?"
"Well..." Lunette started.
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It took a few hours of digging, but they were getting closer to their objective. First sign had been that instead of dirt, the groud was mostly rocky. And after a while of digging through rocks, they were finally digging through ash. And the temperature had risen a lot, too, most likely due to all the lava pockets they were finding.
Dawn saw her robot stop and looked through the hole. "Holy cow. Any of you got a rope? It's a nice long fall down from here, and I don't think that red, shiny rock down there would be nice to land on."
"Red, shiny rocks?" Bunny asked.
"Hellstone," Amy explained, "The hardest known material, only found in the depths of the planet. It's hard enough to resist even the strongest explosives."
"So it's useless?"
"No, it can be mined with a Nightmare Pickaxe."
"But explosives should be stronger than a pickaxe."
"Don't ask me, that's what Garret's books said," Amy noted. "Anyhow, here." She took a very long rope coil out of her backpack. "But before we go... Bunny, you still have any of that water you found?"
"Sure, why?"
Amy pointed at a nearby, small lava pond. "drop it there."
"But what if we're thirsty?"
"Let me explain something to you: Hellstone is hot. Not as much as lava, but it may make your feet burn to ashes if you step into it for more than a couple seconds."
Lunette knew a bit about how things worked around lava, since there was a bit of it in the jungle's lowest reaches. "But when lava cools down it becomes obsidian, which can be used to make lava-proof gear."
"In this case," Amy explained, "we only need boots."
"Wouldn't it be better to make armor out of-"
Amy shook her head, interrupting Dawn. "Obsidian is heavy, it would slow us down."
Lunette smiled and took an anvil out of her backpack. "In any case, get me the obsidian and I'll shoe you my crafting skills."
Amy groaned. "Seriously Lune, the heat is already bad enough, no need to add puns."
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Pearl looked down at the reddish-orange rocks. "This place is weirder than I heard."
"And it's also too damn hot. The sooner we find that wall, the better," Dawn commented. She then leapt to the side as a fireball came from above, and saw a small, winged creature looking at her. "I think those are the so-called imps."
The imp vanished and appeared right behind Dawn, but before the others could warn her, she backflipped over the imp, bringing her wrench down into its skull, and killing it before it even knew what was going on. "You're badass, wrench lady," Bunny said.
"Thanks, I guess," Dawn replied.
Suddenly, there was a loud shriek, and the girls all turned south. "If I had to make a guess, I would say that is the Wall of Flesh," Pearl commented.
"As ugly as the legends said," Amy admitted.
"Too bad Fikod didn't tag along, he would have loved to try demolishing this wall."
Bunny looked at Lunette then took a bundle of dynamite sticks out of her backpack. "He's here in spirit, so to speak."
The wall was leisurely advancing towards them, and they could see there were tentacles coming out of it, each of them ending in a large, teeth-filled mouth. "Tentacles, huh?"
"This isn't one of
those stories, so we're safe," Bunny joked.
Lunette took out a purple bow and shot five arrows at the same time at the incoming threat. "Girls, focus on breaking this huge wall first, then we can break the fourth again."
The others all took their own ranged weaponry. Amy used the Firestorm, Bunny took out a rifle which shot bees - which was, obviously, called the Bee-fle - while Dawn took a small cube out of her backpack, which turned into a missile turret. Pearl took several small scissors out and started tossing them at the wall.
However, the wall was more resilient than it looked, so the girls soon had to resort to melee combat. And being as massive as it was, the creature pushed them back, bringing them dangerously close to the lava ocean surrounding the small island they had landed on. "

, this doesn't look good."
Amy looked at Lunette. "I know this may not be the best of times, but..."
"Whatever it is, leave it for later."
"Lune, there may not be a 'later' if we fail, so... I like you, too."
Lunette smiled at her, then saw Bunny had been knocked back by one of the tentacles, and was falling into the lava. "Bunny!"
Dawn tossed another of her cubes up, it turned into a flying board which caught Bunny. "Nobody else is gonna die here."
Lunette nodded, then noticed something and grabbed the board which had brought Bunny back to the island. "Girls, try not to die, I'll be back in a minute."
Amy sighed and saw Lune flying to the west. Whatever she was planning, she just hoped she would hurry up.
Bunny was now chucking dynamite sticks at the wall. It was reducing the tentacles to bits, but the wall itself wasn't too affected. "What the hell, is this thing invincible?"
Amy looked at the wall. "No, it's not. Aim at the eyes!"
As a barrage of bullets, bees and missiles hit its lower eye, the wall shrieked and stopped advancing. It then started advancing faster than before. "Well, time to take a lava bath," Dawn said. "Nice meeting you all girls."
"Hey Wall-E, eye got a gift for you!"
Amy saw Lunette coming from the side, tossing what looked like a purple trident at the wall. It pierced into its upper eye, causing it to shriek in pain, but Lunette wasn't done yet. She leapt at the wall, grabbing the trident and putting all her weight into it, causing the trident to dig further on. She then looked at the others. "Let's finish this thing."
Another barrage of attacks hit the wall, but it just stood there, unmoving. "I think we broke it," Bunny commented.
Lunette sighed. "Perhaps if we attack it again-" As she said that, the wall exploded, sending her flying away.
Amy frowned. "Dawn, think fast!"
Dawn knew what the Nurse meant, and tossed another cube up, right in front of Amy, who leapt into it just as it turned into a board, then sped forwards, catching the Dryad only inches away from the lava. As they flew back, the Mechanic smiled. "Told you, nobody else was gonna die."
Lunette smiled at that, then looked at Amy. "You can put me down now, unless you're enjoying this."
Amy blushed and put her down before jumping off the board as well. "Sorry."
"So, now what?" Bunny asked.
"Now we go back home and get ready to fight this 'true evil' the legends speak of. Hopefully it will be as useless as Razor."
Amy shook her head at that. "Credit where credit is due, Lune. Either purposefully or accidentally, he's become much more of a danger than we ever expected him to."
Lunette sighed. "You're right. We'll have to defeat him eventually, unless this new evil finds a way to get rid of him for good."
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Razor respawned and looked around. "Well

, that wasn't as easy as I thought." However, he noticed something. The forest he had spawned in had aquamarine grass and its trees were pale and with pink leaves. There were a couple of floating light balls coming his way, along with a unicorn, which most likely meant what he had tried down there had worked. "Wow, I respawned in sissyland. This will be too easy.
And for the second time in a matter of hours, he was wrong. Dead wrong.