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Post by Resonance on Jan 10, 2023 19:15:07 GMT
As Aidan engaged the Egg Pawn in front of him, Reson snaked through the gap between him and the ice wall and attacked the next closest Pawn. With as much fury as the echidhog, she drover her spear into the Pawn's chest, intending to rip it from gut to head once the point connected.
"I said, shut. Up." Her voice level, with emphasis only on the last two words, Mei reached her hand down as Shadows encased it. She planted her hand between his shoulder blades and began to drain his energy. Mei didn't intend to actually put him in a coma... but him being awake was a liability, and clearly his constitution was too great to simply be knocked out by a good whack from a spear.
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Post by Uberwulf X on Jan 11, 2023 14:48:17 GMT
A rough, haphazard entrance meant she didn't really have a goal other than just drawing attention to her, so well enough that the bot was able to take her out of the air. She hit the ground with a grunt, and was about to gather herself for an actual sensible attack when--
"Metzli, lock me down!"
"What? ---Oh!!"
Damien was yanked from the air and thrown to the door, but winced from the sudden deceleration as he went from 40 to nearly 0 with Metzli tethering to his shadow right behind and above her (and her teammates that managed to squeeze into the room). The longer she 'held' him, the stronger her grip became, thanks to the shifting light around her brother's body. So focused was she on countering Anastasia that she didn't don Iron Maiden just yet, though she knew she really should have been wearing it in here.
"You can't change or control everything yourself, Anastasia!," Damien screamed, inky ichor spilling from the sides of his mouth. "Flip a coin, what's more important?!", the last said with very quick glances between his teammates, and the sharp, toothy grin of peaking mania with a battle high.
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Post by Kyt on Jan 14, 2023 9:47:45 GMT
"Kami, just shut up already!" Yuki growled, backing further against the corner for cover. Laying her pointed hand across her arm, she started firing thin, needle sharp bolts at the white hedgehog. "There's always going to be problems in the world. Magic or not! All of you just need to stop with the god complex already!"
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Post by Kokinyu on Jan 17, 2023 4:35:03 GMT
Kapp furrowed his brows as Demandred struggled against him and Mei, noting the gradual pressure Mei was starting to apply with her magic. He glanced for a moment to look at the catwalks above, ears flicking. One the one hand he wanted to know just what the wolf was going on about. On the other, he was aware just how utterly mad Demandred was. "Just chill old man. The others are handling your fuck-up."
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Grenadine braced herself as the eggpawn nearest reached out and grappled Metzli, only to see the thing speared through by Resonance. A quick spot-check- Elyas was closing in, Aidan was on his feet, and Damien- Caught- clutch, great. They were forming a front and it was time to weave in.
Anastasia had powerful arcane magic at her disposal, nothing she could stand up against. But a push might be all they needed. The reptile slinked past Resonance, ready to weave in between her and Aidan. It was then that Damien called out his warning.
She felt it before she saw it, pupils tightening into slits as prickles of sensation ran up her fingers and forearms. The energy in the room was changing and Damien was about to dump raw chaos into the air. "Damien- Merde-!" She rapidly cycled through the possible choices at her disposal, a rapidly shrinking list. She clapped her hands and dropped low to the ground.
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Post by Aidan on Jan 21, 2023 13:49:59 GMT
Below the ship, as Sanctuary burned, the Twilight Crystal was pulled free of the lava pool, floating slowly up towards the ship. The swirling light and shadow within the gemstone flickered and glowed, the air beginning to distort around it.
Mei pressed her shadow claws into Demandred’s back and began sapping his strength. The wolf’s eyes fluttered as his body relaxed. “Ngh… this is not… what I wanted…”
His head slumped as he finally slipped into unconsciousness.
The egg pawn that had been focused on Grenadine prepared to fire and then jerked as a spear protruded from its chest. It paused and moved a hand toward it, as though surprised, before Resonance tore the blade up and through its head, creating a cascade of small, sparking explosions as it collapsed to the gantryway, much like the one Aidan had dispatched.
Inside the command deck, the last egg pawn left its station, readying its weapon as it charged toward the stairs leading up onto the main platform. The other machine, already halfway up the stairs, lowered its head and rushed Metzli, throwing its weight into bullrushing the girl backwards into her companions in the hope of bulldozing them all backwards and off the gantry.
Anastasia made a circle in the air with her left hand as she positioned herself between Nexus and the Raiders. Black flames bloomed in the air before her, a swirl of hell fire that blocked Yuki’s icicles before they struck her.
“Are we not gods, Yuki?” Anastasia asked mockingly. “Look at us - no one should have this kind of power. This kind of mastery over the world! This bestial fury!”
She whirled her staff in her other hand, aiming it at [b[Damien[/b] as she spoke the last line, her red eyes turned toward him. “An end. An end to generations of war and bloodlust. Not a mere cessation of hostility, but a true end! So go ahead, harbinger. Show your friends the doom our power inevitably brings. Prove me right.”
A pulse of power suddenly washed through the ship, a momentarily dampening of power before the world was right again. It was only a moment, but in that moment the Raiders were able to feel the suffocating pressure that Anastasia sought to unleash on the world.
Behind Anastasia, Nexus twitched, and her furious console manipulation paused as she seemed to freeze in place.
Aidan pulled his sword free of the egg pawn and looked over at Anastasia, eyes narrowed. He shuddered at the ripple of dampening energy rolled over him.
“This isn’t the way!” he shouted in frustration. “All those battles didn’t happen because of magic, they happened because of people who thought they knew better than everyone else, and made decisions without considering anyone other than themselves!”
Metzli was being attacked, but she could hold her own, so Aidan gave Grenadine a quick shove to make sure she was out of the way before leaping backwards himself, just in case Metzli and the pawn came barrelling through.
That left Damien…
“Don’t listen to her!” he called up to him. “You control your power, not the other way around!” He shot a glance over his shoulder at the pylon in the center of the room, then back at Damien. Maybe…
“Don’t focus on her - focus on what she’s doing!”
Good, Resonance had dealt with the egg pawn. Elyas charged forward, drawing in his aura so as not to interfere with his companions, only to jerk back as Metzli was charged. His eyes flashed to Damien and he clenched his jaw, turning his focus inward. Damien was incredibly capable - and incredibly powerful. If the kid couldn’t redirect himself, then Elyas was prepared to intervene.
(Elyas is preparing a dampening surge Reaction if things go south with Damien)
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Post by Resonance on Jan 28, 2023 15:21:03 GMT
Reson caught sight of the rushing Egg Pawn aiming to collide with Metzli as the dampening energy rolled past. She snarled, both from the strange shift in energy, and the audacity of their foes. With her spear successfully ripping the bot from 'navel to nose' as it were, she stepped to Metzli's side as she brought her spear down and backward between them - readying for a punching strike. As soon as she was far enough to Metzli's right side, sure she wouldn't hurt the blue jaguar, the spear tip rocketed forward, straight for the rushing Pawn. She braced herself as she did, intent on taking some of the force out of its attack.
With Demandred finally unconscious, Mei looked over to Kapp, then up towards the others. She frowned hard when she felt the strange dampening sensation wash over her. "This is insane."
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Post by Uberwulf X on Jan 28, 2023 20:08:12 GMT
Thanks to Resonance swiftly coming up beside her, Metzli was able to take the slam from the Egg Pawn; the alternative was possibly losing her brother's shadow more than the dampening pulse forced her to, so he would have been completely vulnerable as the inevitable finally took place. She leaned forward in it, taking a single step forward to meet the metal assailant's large body with her own chest and shoulder. Once she was assured to not go head over tail into her allies, she reared back her left hand and twisted, throwing closed-fist body shots into the bot's chassis.
Most importantly, her right arm always stayed back and up at her brother, maintaining control of his body.
This is where you stop being stubborn and leap forward out of the way so the others can work, urged the devil under Nexus' skin, even while attempting to focus her control of the fox to her legs. Avatar worked to sever the nerve responses in Nexus' legs, no longer trying to stop her from manipulating the console but rather wanting her to just stop being physically able to stand there. If it worked, Nexus would land awkwardly on her back, but down and out of the way of anyone wanting to throw attacks directly at Anastasia.
Ordinarily, Damien would have quipped back at Aidan and Anastasia, yelling to both that he knew what the hell he was doing, and was doing it of his own volition. Neither Darkholme's magical shackles nor Aidan's direction had anything to do with this moment in time, when elemental chaos began to spike in his body, and threatened to flood far beyond his control. His absorbent gauntlets were full to the point of bursting, physically and metaphysically searing hot. Beyond that, the laser's fire revealed the Twilight Crystal, and the chaotic-sensitive Damien was forced to deal with the intense energy, even at this distance, with no buffer.
Metaphysical and spiritual energies coalesced into one, blank elements and the atoms and their quarks split and changed, causing a cascading reaction that would not and could not be stopped save with a relief of energy be it controlled or controlled, but never not violent. In a manner of seconds, forgotten results of past and imperfect futures converged and split and reunited in new configurations. What was never to come to pass was birthed kicking and screaming into a single shard of reality, terminating in a single being who didn't deserve, nor want, the glimpse into absolute forever and nothing granted. His eyes and skin and fur reacted, colors burning away from everything to nothing, accents daring to move beyond the spectrum of ultraviolet, primal features granted for ripping and tearing and consuming sharpening along with focus and aim and intent as his fangs parted, a blinding light seeming primed to consume him from within.
Beyond some broken rubble some thousands of miles away, beyond the gates of Death and whatever version of Hell he prescribed to, a feline dragon smiled as Cephiros dropped his aim beneath Anastasia, down to the laser attached to the ship, and fired a beam of absolute energy-- The Harrowing.
A normal high-yield Chaos Purge-- named "Chaos Howl"-- was a beam of energy, but all previous Purges had evidence of fire and darkness, Damien's aligned elements, twisting around the pale green chaos ray or as differently-colored flames or oil ichor. True to name they were also loud, delivered with a defiant scream. Harrowing was a vacuum of mother-of-pearl-around-white that stole light from its surroundings, and for a few seconds, seemed to steal sound so that that it deafened anything that was above a whisper and offered in return only the sound of a soft breeze.
Sound rushed back in, and all was bedlam again. Cephiros' wings beat furiously as if trying to stay aloft, but the opposite was true-- were it not for Metzli's tether, he would have likely instantly been thrown against the roof and knocked unconscious with the sheer amount of recoil, but not before twisting his head and inadvertently attacking possibly everyone in the room. As good as it might have been to take care of Anastasia, he didn't want the same to happen with his friends. To that point, his aim would have him attack the pillar beneath Anastasia and Nexus, if only a little. However, the lack of support there would soon see Anastasia's footing, and her current seat of power, collapse beneath her into open air. The aim assured that Nexus was safe for now, until the ship decided to lurch.
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Post by Kyt on Jan 30, 2023 18:52:34 GMT
Yuki growled, hackles raised. "I've met gods, bitch, that's the problem! We're better than-!" She cut herself off, realizing a moment before it happened exactly what Damien was doing. <Ah, f->
She had just enough time to make sure she was secure, readying her power as the world went quiet.
As color and sound rushed back in, she couldn't afford to gape at the hole, frantically assessing the area and getting ready to catch anyone who looked like they were too close to the opening.
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Post by Kokinyu on Jan 30, 2023 20:20:50 GMT
Kapp reached out for Mei's hand. "We've handled insane before. So long as we-" Shouting, a tremor, and sudden utter silence drew the snow leopard's focus. Mei had the right of it- it was insane. He looked back to her, speaking before the sound in the room returned- calling over the din. "We'll pull through if we stick together." Hand still held out, he nodded curtly at her.
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Grenadine made to transmute, shots were fired and she was shoved out of harm's way by Aidan. The world was dampened and for a moment and she lurched, feeling an indelible wrongness in her gut. Her left shoulder slumped and the golem prosthetic went limp, its full weight suddenly felt. She grasped it to support it even as sensation and mobility returned, shifted her gaze to Damien, grit her teeth and shouted.
In silence she damned the dhampyr's name, the sudden rush of chaos and raw power muting her voice as she screamed at Cephiros for his recklesness and the lack of a better warning. The reaction was already occurring inside of her, and this time around she had no veil-touched focus to draw the chaos away. Her skin crawled and burned, feeling as though hot bees were coursing through her veins while light began to illuminate the backs of her pupils- tiny golden pinpricks.
When sound returned to the room, she clapped her hands and the metallic hum of transmutation followed. With one swift movement she loaded the crossbow-like launcher affixed to her forearm with something resembling a clip. The blocky shape was warped and still sizzling from being transformed- not pretty, but functional.
Simple, but shaped for speed, the three inch bolts were razor tipped and coated in silver. Grenadine knew of few materials that could hurt a demon- at the very least she knew this tactic had pissed Aidyn off in the past, so it was worth a shot. "We've seen where thiss goesss Anasstasia- you do thiss and you'll doom thiss world! Reality will be forfeit!"
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Post by Aidan on Feb 5, 2023 13:50:19 GMT
The egg pawn that rushed Metzli slammed into the jaguar as Metzli braced for impact, Resonance’s spear jabbing forward into the neck of the robot and rocking it backward at the moment of impact, lessening the force against Metzli. With the rush blunted, Metzli was able to begin slamming her left fist into the machine’s chest, over and over, each impact denting the metal inward.
The egg pawn stumbled and pulled itself backward, trying to free itself from Resonance’s blade as its ‘wound’ sparked, as it swung its heavy fists around wildly to try and knock Metzli or the spear - or both - away.
Nexus, meanwhile, began to twitch and jerk, the cyborg fox stumbling toward the edge of the command dais. She grasped the railing and pitched forward as her legs went slack, for the moment balancing half-over the railing, nonetheless unable to continue at her place as her mind raced with three forces competing for control.
And then Damien - Cephiros? - struck.
Anastasia cursed and staggered backward as the blast of energy slammed into the deck before her, melting through the metal in seconds to continue on into the innards of the command deck. A power surge went through the deck, sparks flying from some of the computer stations, the deck lights flickering, arcs of electricity sparking up from the pit created by Damien’s power.
Anastasia held her free hand before her, the air between her and Damien’s attack a swirl of translucent smoke as she protected herself against the wash of energy released by the attack. Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed Nexus abandoning her post, and Anastasia’s confident expression twisted into one of fury as she turned her gaze back on the Raiders.
“Kill them!” she shouted at Cephiros, aiming her staff of command at him while she swept her other hand through the air in a circle, gathering deep red Hellfire that she then thrusted forward in an arc of fire to try and push the Raiders back, not caring that the attack would hit her eggpawns as well.
The napalm-like cone of fire struck the robots and clung to their bodies, immediately super-heating their hulls. One was already engaged with Resonance and Metzli, but the second joined the fight, slamming through the barrier of ice Yuki had created to try and reach one burning hand toward the fox in an attempt to grab her. The arc of fire, meanwhile, threatened to sweep over Resonance, Metzli, Damien, and Yukli.
Elyas clenched his jaw as everything went quiet and then erupted in a rush of flames, his gazed snapping away from Damien to focus on the attacks at hand.
“Metzli, fall back!” he shouted as her enemy began to swing. The smaller porcupine ducked forward and threw his hand forward, releasing a surge of dampening power into the rush of Anastasia’s Hellfire, trying to angle the release so as to avoid as many of his allies as possible. As a result, the intensity of the incoming wall of fire would be lessened, its fires unable to cling to the Raiders. It would not be enough to completely interrupt the hellfire, but at least he could soften the blow.
Aidan had only seconds to think of a plan. He felt a tug at the back of his mind, saw Cephiros emerge in silence and fury. They were all grouped up, and the command deck entrance was only so big, preventing them from rushing Anastasia. Meanwhile, the Twilight Crystal, and all of Tolaria, was in danger.
His resolved firmed, and Resonance could feel his absolute trust in his friends through their bond. Aidan turned and leapt off of the gantry, taking to the air.
“Damien!” he shouted. “I need your help - I need a hole through the viewport in the main room!”
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Post by Resonance on Feb 10, 2023 18:20:19 GMT
Mei took Kapp's hand, returning the nod. And despite the destruction and explosion of chaos in the other room, her face softened and she smiled. "We've got this."
Thankfully, the bot she and Metzli were fighting took the brunt of the blast before it could reach them - then with Elyas's buffer it lessened still further. However, it was still not a situation Res and Metz should stay in. She reached out with one arm (the other hand still holding her spear) and scooped it around the jaguar, pulling back with all of her body mass to throw themselves to the ground away from the flames. Her spear hand raised up, with the hope that she could still summon some form of Light Shield to take the rest of the hit.
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Post by Uberwulf X on Feb 10, 2023 23:40:45 GMT
"I know it's hard to do so while she and I are trying to control you, but--"
Avatar's voice in Nexus' head stopped then, her pleading tone becoming more level and assured. She knew Nexus was fighting, and there was no point in going against that. Nexus held perhaps the most knowledge of the ship's functions, and likely an idea an idea of what the hell to do with it when a dhampyr was in the middle of tearing through it with a laser beam.
"No, I'm sorry, I shouldn't be trying to fight you for control of your own body in this manner. I'll work with you, so we can get you where you want and need to be. The Raiders need you to move so you don't get hurt as they attack Anastasia. Demandred and Mike are beyond the control room, incapacitated but very alive and relatively safe. My mission was to attack you directly, so you stop assisting her. I'd rather you tell me how best to assist you in releasing yourself. Does she control the body, or the psyche? If I were installed on a partition within you as-- temporarily, I wholeheartedly assure you-- an underroot with administrative permissions, I would be able to assume enough control that Anastasia may have to attempt to reassert her own. If you have other ideas for your own salvation, I'll hear them, but we're running low on time."
With Resonance pulling her, atop the bot and Elyas' efforts, Metzli was pulled free and clear of the wave of hellfire, for now. She knew what that could do to anyone, so she made sure to shout a genuine "Thanks!" to her current partner. It was only after she went to reassess the situation and see if it was her turn to pull the pair out of the way, that she realized that she'd dropped control of her brother's shadow through Anastasia's new command. Horrified, she quickly looked up to him, ready to pull him out of danger-- or, if he became the danger, point him in the right direction so he could be safely knocked out.
It wasn't necessary, as he hadn't moved from his spot, proving that Metzli had done what was needed and could see to herself. Cephiros felt Anastasia's mental tug hit him, then simply wash over him like a breeze, her words only serving to annoy him further while steeling his physical resolve ((Nat20 resistance roll)). With him too occupied to snap at her that she had no control here, a safely aloft Cepiros readjusted his aim of the continuous beam. After a second of bringing the beam closer to distract her, he diverted it per Aidan's request, aiming at the viewport to tear through that the same way he had been through the ship below them.
As much as he would have liked to maintain the attack long enough for others to pull Nexus out of the way, and thus allow him the chance to attack without hitting her, Cephiros felt a quickly approaching metaphysical emptiness about to wash over him, like a sprinter nearing the finish line, as the level of Chaos in his body plummeted. Seconds were left on the Harrowing's clock, but if the ship's interior melted away easily, the glass surely would follow the same pattern.
"Wh-- are you serious! We're high up, y'know!"
Her admonishment was both for Aidan and Damien, And so, Metzli trusted in Resonance to protect them from the rest of the hellfire washing over them as she prepared to shadow-lock all of her non-flying allies against imminent depressurization. Those not dark-aligned might find movement sluggish if they needed their hands, as it was hard for her to sift through connected shadows to hold specific body parts, but the point was they weren't going to get dragged into the sky (and possibly into her brother's attack). She could also immediately release the lock on anyone who needed it, which put pressure on her to be cognizant of everyone's efforts to put Anastasia down.
As for the bots and Anastasia? If rapid wind pressure was gonna take and throw them into the volcano, then ¯\(°_o)/¯
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Post by Kyt on Feb 15, 2023 19:47:58 GMT
So much chaos. In all senses of the word. Yuki was fairly quick-witted, but there was only so much one could process in an environment like this. She knew she wasn't strong enough to block anything full on, not at this point. She swept her hands as much as she could under Metzli's pressure, throwing stamina behind the effort to cover the rest of the energy requirement.
A brief arcing wall of ice shot across the field in front of the others and herself, a frozen flash of defense to divert the hellfire. It would quickly disperse under the attack, but would hopefully have been enough to keep the remainder from hitting them. This applied to the eggpawn as well, an angled wall that wouldn't take much force, but would be just enough to push the hand away from connecting with her.
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Post by Kokinyu on Feb 16, 2023 0:39:38 GMT
Kapp flinched back slightly, turning his attention to the noise on the upper scaffold. "Crap- crap!" His back to Mei, he seemed half ready to take the brunt of an explosive wash of shrapnel- but no such debris came. He glanced back at her. "These two- I can probably keep them put with my ice if we need to get in there. I'll follow your lead!"
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The floor was shaking, the impact of eggpawns and explosions was rocking the party, the gantry was durable, but would it last through this onslaught? Anastasia successfully shielded herself from Cephiros' attack, an attack that could only last a few seconds longer by all accounts. Another attack from Anastasia, a wave of hellfire which Yuki was quick to defend against, "Idiote mégalomane,"
With the chaos starting to burn in her veins, she slapped her palms together once more before drawing back on the lever of her makeshift bolt launcher, "-enfant idiot, fille idiote," The spring mechanism instantly coiled tighter than it had any right to, augmented by continued transmutation- a focus for Grenadine to dump the power into.
Pinpricks of light behind her pupils faded as she shot one silvered bolt at Anastasia's isolated, lit up form."Putain de perte de temps je jure devant-" A clap, a pull, and a trigger pull later, she fired a second bolt. "Dieu merde putain de merde-" All while she fired off a string of pained, frustrated, panicked expletives which could have wilted flowers.
Or make a certain rat captain smile.
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Post by Aidan on Feb 19, 2023 13:53:05 GMT
The entire ship shuddered as it began to lift - awkwardly - back into the air, slowly freeing itself from the caldera, tractor beams pulling the Twilight Crystal closer as it drew power from the jewel to energize its system and power the engine that would rob the world of magic.
The Twilight Crystal glowed, a swirling light of intense white and pitch black, a play of light and shadow that swallowed the light of the energy beams currently holding it, its radiance shining up through the viewport floor of the airship.
Damien pulled his attack across the floor, slagging metal and cutting a trench between the Raiders - who had already moved out of the way - until he could focus fire on the glass immediately to the side of Kapp[/i]. The jaguar would have seconds to react before the beam melted through the far side, triggering an explosive de-pressurization, the air howling as a whirlwind was unleashed within the main chamber, dragging anyone unprepared toward the hole.
Anastasia’s fire slammed into and through Elyas’ barrier, growing weak enough that Resonance’s and Yuki’s quick defenses mitigated the threat of the fire, as Damien gained altitude to avoid being caught in the doorway. The Raiders still felt the intense heat of the barrier against them, but its teeth had been blunted, the Hellfire landing as little more than a normal blast of flame.
In the embers of Anastasia’s attack, as the air began to howl with depressurization, another pulse came from below - a brief surge of power, followed by an abrupt quietude as a more lasting dampener effect swept up through the ship.
The remaining two egg pawns had been caught on the stronger side of the hellfire blast, however, their bodies ablaze as they sought to continue their fight. Resonance had pulled Metzli away from the retaliation of the first egg pawn, but as they took shelter from the wall of fire, it lurched forward, bringing both of its fists up and swinging them down in a heavy hammer blow toward the women.
Yuki’s shield diverted the second bot’s blow, diverting it away from her. It stepped forward, now beneath Damien, and swung its other blazing hand around, hoping to grab the fox in its open hand.
In lowering her resistance to Nexus’ efforts to establish control and expressing her willingness to work together, Avatar allowed the fox’s thought-voice to reach her. <The console!> Nexus shouted. <I need to stop it! Dampening the world isn’t what we wanted, and the inversion of the formula… the ship will overload if we don’t stop it!>
The fox’s body jerked, hands gripping the railing, twisting the metal helplessly, until the dampener surge swept through the control room, momentarily disrupting Anastasia’s control over her body.
Anastasia flinched back from Damien’s momentarily threat, her expression of rage becoming almost petulant.
“Stupid weapon!” she shouted at him. “Why can’t you just do what you were made to do!” She flicked her gaze to Nexus, feeling her control slipping, and swept her staff toward the fox even as her free hand began tracing out the motions of a new spell.
One.
Anastasia shrieked as a bolt of silver slammed into her shoulder. It disrupted her concentration and her head snapped back to the Raiders, eyes widening as the line of tattoos visible on the left side of her face shifted from bright red to a smoldering, darker color.
Two.
Anastasia had managed to turn her body to shield herself, taking the bolt in her opposite upper arm. The impact drove her backward, and she stumbled against one of the consoles, the tiny bolts seeming to strike her with the force of a sledgehammer.
“Little… bitch,” she hissed, as the air howled. She raised her free hand to retaliate, and then the dampener wave struck.
Beneath the tracework of burning, angry tattoos, a new set flickered to life. In that moment, Anastasia’s appearance was less of an adept-turned-witch, and more like the demon she had bound inside of her.
Releasing his power to disrupt the hellfire field, Elyas immediately ducked down and brought his arms up and over his head, shrinking his profile so that the fire-retardant material took the bulk of the backwash of hear. Without missing a beat and knowing that the egg pawn was still in play, Elyas growled and lunged forward, throwing his slight weight against the machine to keep it unbalanced as he pulled his pistol free and began firing, over and over again, into the dented space Metzli had pounded into its torso. The weapon had been largely ineffective before, but if Metzli had weakened the metal, then there was a chance the constant fire from the laspistol would melt through and into its innards.
If his weapon didn’t overheat first, at least.
Damien turned his attack toward the floor of the main chamber, and Aidan turned his gaze to Resonance.
<Finish the fight.> The words came to her mind, clear and strong.
Aidan turned and dived. He had spent the last few moments gathering his spiritual power. He had seen his father use it to grab and move things, even fly, but the knack of spiritkinesis wasn’t one he fully grasped yet. Still, he had to try.
Damien’s attack cut off. Air howled through the hole in the floor. Aidan dove through it, pulling his wings in tight, and in the split second before he left the ship, he unleashed a surge of spiritual energy to shove Kapp and Demandred away from the hole so that they wouldn’t be pulled in after him.
((You all have a brief window of time to exploit between the sweep of Damien’s attack, which is followed by the depressurization, followed by the dampening field. This field is a permanent effect, so act wisely!))
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