Hierophant scrambled out of the back wall of the control room, looking around for someplace to hide and search for Emperor when Oracle Man suddenly appeared from all sides, his eyes still glowing as he still had his Oracle Sights activated and now doubled seven times more than he originally appeared.
At this magnitude, not only was he and Death surrounded, their Oracle Sights made their white outlines as bright as neon lights.
"You can never escape me," one of them said, trying to confuse and disorient Hierophant and Death.
"I know where you are and how to ensure you never escape Dr. Wily II's punishment," another said.
Hierophant looks around his surrounding predicament before groaning in frustration.
"I'm sorry, I seriously don't have time for this!"
He then points his staff towards one of the Oracle Man clones, "CONFUSE!"
A light gray glow surrounds the blue orb on his staff before firing off towards the targeted clone, causing a his Oracle Sight to turn off and render any chance of predicting his movements ineffective, though it didn't stop the other seven's Oracle Sights from keeping him out in the open.
"It will take more than one corrupted clone to stop the rest of us," the next clone said as the group continues to close in, their head gems glowing in preparation of firing off their Oracle Beams.
Unfortunately, their focus on Hierophant had left them ignorant to the affected clone slowly losing more of his conscience as static and other visual anomalies began flashing in front of him, making it impossible for him to try and figure out who's where or what he should be shooting at. Struggling to stick with what he knows, he fires off his Oracle Beam at where he last remembered Hierophant standing at.
Unsure of how magical the beam coming at him was, Hierophant drops flat onto his stomach with his wings spread as straight as their magical structure could muster, only leaving his miter in the line of fire as the beam passes straight through it and hits one of the other clones standing in the same trajectory who predicted the outcome and redirected his charging beam to premature projectile, increasing the partially magical effect and dispelling the miter's invisibility, causing it to faze through Hierophant's head and almost blind him as he continues to lay flat on the floor.
Because the rest of him was still invisible, he couldn't push the exposed miter out of the way to figure out what was going on, forcing him to lift his head just enough to bypass its obscuring tangibility to see the rest of the clones aiming their the jewel on their turbans towards him and preparing to fire off their combined Oracle Beams. Hierophant grit his teeth before clutching Death and his staff closer towards him.
"Teleport!" he shouts.
The staff glows white before a large beam of light shoots up towards the ceiling, engulfing them just as the rest of the clones fired their Oracle Beams towards him, hitting the beam instead as it shrinks away, leaving nothing but the surprisingly unscathed miter in its departure.
The light eventually fades, allowing Hierophant to open his eyes and figure out where he teleported himself and Death to, finding themselves in another part of the fifth level hallway.
"Of all the places you could have teleported us to, you chose to take us to another area of the hallway?" Death sighs in disappointment.
"You know how hard it is to think straight when you have six magical beams coming at you at once!?" Hierophant nearly snaps, though struggles hard to keep it to a low hiss. He then clambers back onto his feet, "In any case, we're at least far enough from that robot to not get caught in his Oracle Sight, so we can at least focus on finding out where Emperor teleported himself this time."
They didn't have to look long when they noticed a card-shaped glow coming from the scrapyard a few feet in front of them. Not wanting to waste anymore time and lure other beings able to see through their invisibility, they ran towards the scrapyard in the hopes of finally digging Emperor out and hauling him away from the WDS.