They'd tossed him into this cage and hung it from a hook in the ceiling. Below him was a roiling pit of something that looked like blood.
Of course, he had escaped twice. The last time they'd welded the bars shut.
Every so often they'd work a wheel to the side and his cage would go over a set of drains and they'd hose him and the cage down. Next time he tried to escape - he would wait until they were getting ready to hose him off. He'd fallen in that boiling blood-like substance once and that had been quite enough.
The owners and most of the workers were something called "Forsaken" - which was some form of undead human. There were also four orcs, two trolls, a tauren, a goblin who was apparently an accountant, and a single blood elf.
One of the Forsaken resembled his mother. Except for the slit throat, glowing yellow eyes, and parts of her flesh which were kind of rotted away.
Sasuke Uchiha was not a happy person.
Much as he hated to admit it, and he truly loathed it, Sasuke had come to the conclusion that he was not going to be able to escape this place entirely on his own. He needed a diversion at the very least.
Another mug of ale bounced off one of the bars of his cage.
Hopefully someone would arrive soon.
[Sasuke Uchiha - Level 92 Destruction Warlock - Dungeon of Mistress Lok'Tait.]
"Okay, we about ready?" asked Naruto.
"Need more healers, said Thoram. "Heavy on tanks right now."
"Like me?" asked Naruto.
"Yeah, kid, like you," agreed Thoram.
"So we're waiting for enough people to join?" asked Naruto, looking at one of the magical display boards.
[Naruto Uzumaki, lvl 100 Guardian Druid - tank]
[Daleera Moonfang, lvl 100 Holy Priest - healer]
[Fen Tao, lvl 100 Mistwalker Monk - healer]
[Defender Illona, lvl 100 Protection Paladin - tank]
"It's unusual not to have any strikers so far," admitted Thoram, referring to the traditional setup with healer + tank + striker as an effective combat group.
"Practically everyone else is busy," pointed out Naruto.
[Xingba, lvl 96 Arms Warrior - striker]
"Well, that's one striker," said Thoram.
[Dekthena, lvl 95 Ice Mage - striker]
[Blook, lvl 98 Fury Warrior - striker]
"Not much of a raid group," admitted Thoram. "But if Fen steps down - you've got a dungeon group."
[Fen Tao has left the queue.]
[Fen Tao is sulking.]
"And that's group," said Thoram. "Good luck!"
"Yosh!" said Naruto, pumping a fist.
Sasuke plucked at his skintight rubber suit and frowned at what those undead were doing beneath him.
BOOM!
"BLOOK! SMASH!"
CRUNCH! WHAMWHAMWHAM!
"Nice diversion," admitted Sasuke as a door was literally ripped off the hinges and used as a blunt trauma instrument.
The doorframe was next as a huge one-eyed ogre squeezed through the relatively small opening into the room.
"You know," said Naruto as he stepped into the room. "He kinda grows on you."
A group of goblins came running in.
Naruto shifted into a large bear and charged into the group, sending one of them flying.
"Frostbolt!"
An armored pandaren wielding some polearm charged in. Sasuke just glanced as the goblins were backed up by some of the undead patrons and the fight escalated.
"Yeah," muttered Sasuke as he used a brass goblet that had been thrown at him earlier to get some leverage. "Not a bad diversion at all."
"Can we get Sasuke to join the group?" asked Naruto as he spotted the Last Uchiha in the cage hanging over what looked to be a pit of boiling blood.
[Sasuke Uchiha has joined as Guest]
"That works," said Naruto before shifting into a large cat in order to pounce on a goblin spellcaster and then shift into bear form in order to stomp it into the ground.
[Brass Watch Of The March Hare - iLvl 600 trinket]
"That Master Looter trait seems awfully damn handy," said Xingba. "Need."
"Need," also said Dekthena.
"Blook BEAT!" CRUNCH!
"I think Blook should get something that has Haste and Multistrike bonuses," said Daleera.
Three of the Forsaken bounced off walls as Blook very happily did what he did best, at least on the ones that weren't dodging fast enough.
Dekthena pointed her staff at the cage. "Frostfire."
"I WAS GETTING IT," yelled Sasuke back.
"I don't think I've heard him yell before," said Naruto, briefly taking human form. "Mark Of The Wild."
"Objective complete. Retreat," said Daleera.
"Yeah, sounds good," said Naruto. "Multiple Shadow Clone! Bear Calvary Charge!"
"No matter how many times he does that, that freaks me out," said Xingba.
"So he made thirty copies of himself so he could turn into bears and then swarm over anything between us and the exit," said Daleera. "It's not a big deal."
"I'm not kidding, if I saw that coming at me, my first impulse would be to get the hell out of the way," said Xingba. The heavily armored pandaren hefted his polearm and charged along in the direction the calvary had gone in.
"SASUKE!"
Sasuke raised up one hand, cupped Sakura's head, and kept the glomp from happening. "No."
"He probably wants a bath first," commented Naruto.
"More than words could properly express," admitted Sasuke.
"What?" asked Sakura as Sasuke walked away from her. Her gaze went over the skintight rubber.
Naruto waited.
Sakura went down, bleeding from the nose.
"All's well that ends well," quipped Xingba.
"How did any of that end well?" asked Daleera.
"Got in, got out, got the brat, and got this," said Xingba, holding up his new weapon.
"I noticed that. What IS that?" asked Daleera, eyeing the weapon with obvious distaste.
"A chainaxe," said Xingba. "Noisy as hell. Radiates Threat like nobody's business. Next time I have to fight Corrupted Ancient tree-monsters, this is going to be SO handy."
"It's going to be difficult for you to do anything other than 'tank' with that," said Daleera. She shook her head. Pandaren.
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