Of course Hibiki's shots were intercepted. She couldn't be too surprised, things were far too chaotic in this battlefield to rely even on precise calculations. All the more reason Hibiki had to stay on the move and seek her options. Conventional fire might be good against foot soldiers, but against the usual powerhouses the angels brought, Hibiki was going to need a bigger gun. Fortunately, KC-00032 had all the guns she'd ever need. However as Hibiki was moving the alarms at the Gamma Suit went off. She didn't have to guess too hard what had happened, and she'd beat herself up over it later; the demons probably teleported inside the building and stole it right out from under their nose. You'd think that after the first time, the machina would have adapted to these tactics. Hibiki activated the detonator, and wherever the suit was, whether it was somewhere in the middle of the battlefield or even in Heaven itself, the suit would self-destruct. Hibiki would rather have it destroyed than fall into enemy hands.

It wasn't long before Hibiki reached a hangar area. Already soldiers were being mustered out to defend the factory. Hibiki came across a group of heavily armored bikers and quickly took command. "This is Commander Hibiki Meido, Nova 1. I'll need you four to follow me." These men didn't argue and got a bike for Hibiki. Each one was heavily armored, and could supplement their armor with force fields. Their bikes also had powerful autocannons, however they have a hard time shooting and driving at the same time. Not a problem for Hibiki of course; she'd be doing all the shooting. She just needs them to cover her. Mounting onto the bike Hibiki constructed her Cerberus Rifle, needing it's firepower. These winds and debris might stop bullets, but it'd do nothing against a fully charged plasma bolt. She just needed the right opportunity.

Not helping matters were two bullets that came in her direction. The first shot caught her by surprise, but fortunately her combat armor prevented the shot from being lethal. It did cause her to stumble however. "Contact! Let's get moving!" Hopping into the bike Hibiki sped off on warbikes, surrounded by other riders. It wasn't hard for the sniper to glance at the direction where that bullet came from, seeing another demon sniper. Hibiki didn't know how she got this close, but she wasn't going to let her escape.

"Are you equipped with mortars?"

One of the riders took the rocket launcher off his back. "We have a MIRV, commander!"

"Good enough. Target that location and fire on my command!"

The rider took aim and waited as Hibiki attached a rifle grenade onto her rifle. It wasn't just any grenade however; this grenade would actually emit a field that cut off teleportation or warp gates. It only lasted for about a minute, but that was more than enough time. While the squad drove at speeds approximating a hundred miles per hour, Hibiki quickly aim and shot the grenade into a high arc. "Fire!" The wind from Ceil's magic carried it to Henrietta's position, exploding in harmless electrical energy. The rain of explosive munitions that followed after was the opposite of harmless. They exploded upon the general area Henrietta was shortly after the teleportation bomb went off. Hibiki had no time to confirm the kill as she ordered the riders to activate their force field and surround her. They had to drive closer to the battlefront.

At the rear of the factory Shizuka was holding off Mephilus. His armor seemed to not be affected by the rain of bullets, but that didn't discourage Shizuka. When he fired three projectiles at her, in one swift motion she dropped the Azreal and raised her shield Gwynn. It grew and expanded to cover the entire hallway, but angled so that even if he hit her directly he'd be directed to the wall next to her. But that wasn't the only thing she did. "Kastiya ola arlita iya," Shizuka created another barrier using the reinforced metal wall next to her. But she had a feeling that simply creating a wall of force would only delay the inevitable; she needed a way to kill Mephilus immediately. So using her powers to create barriers, instead of a wall she created a wire. A wire that had the width of an atom, invisible to the naked eye. Even magical eyes couldn't pick it up considering how small it was. A blade with a monomolecular edge. But using her magic, Shizuka focused all it's energy into just this tiny thread to make it indestructible. This wire went from one wall to the other, and was chest high to Mephlius. As she waited for him to charge, her right hand began to crackle with energy, empowered by Queen Eos's song.

@floodtalon@Lmpkio

"Yoo ho harrr! Cap'n Miyu has arrived to steaal shit and cause excessive collaaateral damaaage!" Miyu cheerily said, with a bit of a slur that actually worked alright with the fake pirate accent, raising a saber towards the KC-numbers foundry. One had to wonder where she managed to scrounge up her pirate outfit. Possibly homemade? Regardless, she had not one but two robots(? Beast was still in the air) available to her today. But she didn't intend on fighting with them. Instead, she stomped her foot grandiosely on the Angelic Fortress, sending a surge of angelic energy through it, and then linking it to the meteors Ciel was throwing down upon the enemy. The defenses that the Cloud had alerted would now find the meteors much tankier targets, being reinforced with whole of the Angelic Fortress's strength, their material strength made one combined whole. This excessive Mantle of Unconquerable Sun casting took pretty much all of Miyu's magical energy, and would only last a short while, but, what with the meteors only needing to be shielded for a few seconds before they landed, it'd do the trick.

Now the meteors could not be destroyed without so too also destroying the Angelic Fortress. If even one of the meteors managed to collide with the Machina installation, it would be as if the very Angelic Fortress had been dropped on them. Also, conversely, the Angelic Fortress would be damaged as if the Machina installation had fell on it. Kind of a big down side there, but Miyu wasn't one for thinking about the consequences of her actions. The lessons of the Battle of Alt Signia were very lost on drunken Miyu, and eh, given the fight was on the enemy's territory this time, maybe it'd be alright.

Regardless, Miyu didn't want to be standing on either structure when one or the other exploded into monoatomic vapor as a consequence of her magic. "Fooourrward me hearties!" She kicked her Daimyo off the top of the fortress, whose had configured giant sails out of its shields, catching the hurricane and becoming a very unlikely flying vessel, at least for a quick glide to enemy fortress. Miyu herself was splatted unceremoniously against its back, unable to fly correctly while drunk in a hurricane, even a friendly one. Regardless, the idea was be on their way when the meteors hit, so that if the meteors and the Angelic Fortress won, well, they'd fly right through the now destroyed fortress, and if the Machina Foundry won, they wouldn't be on the Angelic Fortress when it exploded and might make a dynamic entry to be able to steal some stuff.

@Flamelord@Inner Demon@KoL

The best part about being in the air was being able to plot out what you wanted to do. Eve did this as she circled the hurricane, observing the battlefield for any foes that were willing to take a blast from a flying ball of fire and feathers. Anything that actually caught her eye seemed to be a bit too... tough... for her to even put a dent in it, and she felt like if she tried to save anyone she'd take the attack for them, and she didn't want to die in this battle. She wasn't crazy!

That being said, there did seem to be a lone demoness in the corner of the battlefield, trying to take a good shot at the mechsuits wandering the battlefield. While the mechs posed a tough problem to demons and angels alike, it'd seem to be easier for the angels if any demons left the fight entirely, so this demon would have to prove itself as prey to the mighty phoenix.

Eve ignited herself as she shot out of the hurricane, flying at speeds that would rival even the fastest of the Machina, and her body headed straight for Henrietta. She only had a few moments before the two would collide in a ball of flaming glory.

Henrietta(?) Pearl Avaritia The 2nd

Henrietta sighed as the shot did little other than make the maid stumble. She waa gonna need heavier firepower to knock this bitch on her ass. Hibiki then took a MIRV from one of her soldiers and aimed it directly at her. Really? Henrietta shrugged and opened a Gate above her, she would just catch the damn thing and shoot it back at her. Teach her to use such an obvious tactic like that. Then the grenade exploded, shutting her Gate without her say so. And it was still coming at her.

"I fucking hate Machina." She muttered as the grenade split into several smaller grenades. Henrietta's eyes glowed as a strong silver dome formed around her quickly in an attempt to defend herself. The explosions shook the dome of Silver, but the most that happened was a crack in the shield. No the real problem was whatever had just rammed into the shield and shattered it, barreling into her albeit with significantly less force. Henrietta was sent rolling backwards into a wall, shaking her head to try and regain her bearings. She saw that what crashed into her appeared to be some sort of Heaven soldier, a Harpy to be specific. How boring. Though she was quite lucky to have constructed that barrier beforehand, if she hadn't then she would've broken a few ribs at the least. As is they were just bruised now.

Henrietta got up and shook off any dust that had gotten on her, sneakily activating her invisible armor pin while she did so. She cracked her neck and tried to reach into a Gate for her sword. No Gate. God did she hate Machina. A pair of Silver SMGs formed in her hands instead, she had a feeling swords wouldn't work too well on someone who could fly at high enough speeds to shatter her defense. "Any last words before I rip your wings off your body and mount them on my wall?" She asked with a cocky grin.

As Shizuka prepares the barriers, Mephilius smirks from behind his daunting helmet. She may have enhanced powers coming from that song, but to him it was simply a wailing tune of despair, that embraces the inevitable, in one final hype of a hurrah. As long as she doesn't deal any nasty tricks, which can be a likely possibility, he'll be able to overpower her and kill her if she didn't begin running to the hills right away. And so, using his shield to block his torso, and his lance by his side, the jet boosters fire from his suit as he begins racing towards the poor girl. He was able to break the first two barriers with significant ease, smiling wildly as he closed the distance between him and the girl, goring her as blood would spew on the walls, the floor, and on his armor...

Yet this wasn't the case.

Just as he closed in on the helpless Shizuka, he suddenly was stopped by something in mid air.

"What the~?"

At first, it felt like Mephilius hit an invisible wall. However, instead of simply splatting into it, he felt himself flip down to the ground, as if he hit an invisible pole. He groans as he raises his shield to intercept any following attack that would clammer down on him. Little did he know, his shield was just barely able to avoid getting sliced in half by the molecular wire. Given just a bit more power, and it would've most likely break the shield. Quickly, the Hellknight aggressively thrusts his lance at Shizuka, this time unleashing a gushing flame of fire at her general direction.

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As the battle rages across the entire factory, both inside and out, Unit-T was standing right in the middle of it all. Already various harpies began to descend upon the mecha unit, screeching as they ready their weapons for the kill. The mech would once again fire her mega maser beam, amplified significantly by the music, as it would reduce the poor soldiers to almost nothing but ashes. Yet simply killing lackeys won't protect the facility from its seemingly inevitable doom.

From within Room 219-TEP, the Commander observes the entire battlefield that's around them. The battle was indeed fierce, but he notices something. While most of Heaven's forces are on the offensive, not too many of them were guarding the Angelic Fortress that was just beyond the mountains. The only few that could be possibly inside were simple harpies and almost certainly the commanders. They would be certainly strong, but Unit-T was already pretty strong in of itself, despite the lack of recent testing. Karizawa knew roughly what she can take and not take. If it succeeds in at least taking down one of the commanders, it can send a rippling demoralizing shockwave that can be felt through the entire battlefield. If it failed... then Unit T would be nothing but scrap pile. This will be its ultimate test.

After arguing with the staff, he fortifies his decision and goes for it, contacting Tina.

"Tina." he begins telling her, "We have a new objection for you. The battle will be lost unless we go on the offensive streak. Most of Heaven's forces are fighting here in the foundry, but not many are guarding their fortress, except the commanders and a skeleton crew. Your mission is to cause as much destruction to the place as possible. Don't get seen on your way there. If you see any of the commanders, codenamed: "Ciel" and "Aquila", try to riddle them down as much as you can. If you begin to sustain heavy damage, report back to us immediately. Same when reinforcements come running back home. Understood?"

"Yes sir." replies the young girl once again, as the link shuts off.

While most of the forces were dealing with the foundry here, Unit-T's boosters blast towards the Fortress beyond the mountains. The fate of the base was on their shoulders.

"Two. Catch me!"

As quickly as Eve arrived in the area, she blasted off into the skies again, returning to the hurricane. She took a hit from that shattering of the silver dome and another from crashing into Henrietta, but she'd been through worse. It wasn't the first time she'd collided like that with something, and she was more than happy to do it again. Eve began to streamline through the hurricane as she kept a careful eye on Henrietta, watching her like a hawk.

The floor around Henrietta was covered in ashes, likely from the collision of Eve and the dome that Henrietta had put up. That was besides the point, however, as a soft sound of a bird's call could be heard near Henrietta. What it came from, however, was unknown.

“Ugh, this is so stupid. There’s nothing to report here except a bunch of dumbasses fighting,” muttered the blue Beastkin. It was a simple job and she was already growing bored of it, taking in all that she could with not much effect put forward. She was sure the Imperator could see through her eyes so why bother in skipping back and teleporting? She was half-tempted to just let herself be killed in the crossfire if it weren’t for the fact she’d just spawn in Heaven again.

It was a very enticing thought but ultimately something else caught her curiosity above potential but momentary freedom. “What the hell is that stench? It smells like shit,” she growled, nose wrinkling back to avoid any more of the wafts. It smelled like a multitude of creatures shoved into one super monster; one that didn’t bathe all too often either.

“Like a fucking wet dog,” she said, stepping into the crevice of one dark corner of the factory and emerging much higher than her previous location. Well she had found the source of the stench, the Beastkin taking in the form of the patched together wolf girl that seemed all too eager to blow the place up. “Oi! The hell do you think you’re doing? Blowing the fucking place sky high,” she said, perched at the top but a good feet away from Artoria.

Grafdakka wasn't entirely sure if he had killed Torag or not; there wasn't any screams and he didn't really feel a bump, though consideirng how loud his drill was he couldn't hear anything that wasn't directly spoken into his microphone. The warmachine was about to turn around and continue his attack on the rest of the angel's forces when his sensors picked up something slithering on his arm. Endian looked at it through the cameras and saw that it was that snake-creature that she had spotted before. How did she get here? Didn't matter, Endian had to get rid of her. Her first thought was to use her hard light emitters to create some swords or guns to knock the serpent down, but then Endian had another idea. She was still outside of Grafdakka's body, and Endian still wanted to use the power of Eo's song powering it's drill.

So instead of summoning more guns, Grafdakka suddenly shifted direction into the ground. The mech as well as the serpent was then buried underneath tons of rock and earth, though for Grafdakka this wasn't an issue. As far as Endian knew, the same could not be said of the serpent. While digging into the ground Endian also activated all the thrusters, causing the air underground to immediately heat up. Again, Grafdakka's hull ought to be able to take the heat and beating from the flames and the stone, but hopefully Ananta wasn't. Endian kept her eyes on the snake however, certain that it wasn't going to be that easy. That being said Endian did also set coordinates to eventually rise back to the surface. However before she'd get there she needed to coordinate where would be the beast place to pop out. To that end, Endian contacted all Machina personnel for advice.

"This is Unit Endian-01, currently piloting the Grafdakka. I am tunneling underneath the front lines and need to surface soon. I have a bogie clinging to my chassis. Where would be the best place to arrive?"

@Lmpkio@Ryonara@KoL@Flamelord@Lonewolf685

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"Hey cutie, missing your little birdie?"

As the little birdy took to the skies, a yellow light would flash just as the Chains of Matrimony came blitzing right at Eve. Fran didn't originally intend for her to go after the harpy, but it was funny how chaos worked. Originally Fran was going to focus on infiltrating the Machina and causing havoc, but those damn angels had to bring up that violent hurricane. Fran figured that she'd be safe as long as she stayed between the buildings and didn't get careless. Of course she got careless. She was running towards what she thought was an open entrance into the building when a freak gust of wind actually managed to knock her into the air, crashing into an airborne armored truck. Fran barely had enough time to figure out what the hell happened went the truck started to violently spin through the air. Only though quick applications of her chain did Fran manage not to become an embarrassing stain against the floor. Which brought her to here.

Fran thoroughly had no control over her direction whilst airborne, not in these conditions. She just needed to get her chain to hook onto something solid and get inside. But while she was being thrown about like a ragdoll she'd also take advantage of whatever opportunity she came across, including nabbing this harpy. Fran was fairly sure that this harpy wasn't with the demons, but Fran wasn't sure if she was with the angels or Machina. Fran figured angels. Surely no one would mind if Fran came back from this battle with a bit of spoils. Besides that, it looked like this angel was bothering that cute new demon girl that Fran had spied in the throne room a while back (Henrietta). Fran didn't know how she sun, but Fran was sure that she could impress that girl if she bagged this bird for her.

@floodtalon@Banana

It was a mild surprise to find the Machina are performing better then usual, no doubt a boon bestowed by their leaders presence amongst them though that was far from enough to dissuade the attackers from their ambitions. And on the smaller scale, Ananta would not be easily jettisoned from the arm of her present adversary.

"Really, you seek to dig your way to freedom?" Undoubtedly her voice was lost to the whirring of the cosmic drill and it would be further so as she coiled tight around the arm to minimize her profile in the tight confines of their subterranean descent. It was a precarious position to say the least, with Grafdakka's afterburners only further exacerbating matters for her, and the naga was certain she'd not survive leaping off the chassis into an inferno of thrusters and jagged earth.

"If you want to play in the dirt, we may as well go all out."

She put aside her plans for infiltration and formed her trio of ethereal arms, though amidst the five total limbs were not weapons but a bevy of more Ofuda. She'd only used five to seal the Swarm's attack but with her full efforts being put to the task she would have no issue in entombing the colassal limb she clung upon in paper seals. Such a barrier was formed the infinitesimal sides blurred as though a perfect cylinder from shoulder joint to just before the cosmic drill, forcing Grafdakka's arm to remain steadfastly straight on it's downward path while the serpent shielded herself from heat and debris in the barrier.

"Are you prepared to bury yourself beneath your own unstoppable strength or are you going to cease your foolishness?"

CIEL, The Stargazer
^{KC-00032: The Angel's Fortress}

At first, Ciel wondered how the Machina acquired weapons capable of shooting down her shooting stars. A glance to the grinning Alchemist beside her would make it obvious that either Hohenheim had something to do with it, or she was just getting her kicks from it, probably both. Regardless of it, Miyu would find out that her spell had little to no effect on the massless bolts of magical starlight, neither protecting them from being shot down, or making them end the battle in mutual destruction for both the Angels and the Machina.

Rather than that, the magical starlight meteors did destroy a good portion of KC-00032's anti-air armaments, clearing the threat to both sides.

"Well, then," the Star Magus said, dismissing such thoughts as she noticed something interesting happening withing the Machina ranks. "Oh, is that one still powering up? We certainly cannot let such a thing happen, can we?" Ciel asked herself, since Aquila was still holding the previous attack against Grafdakka and Unit-T. A quick look allowed her to spot what she searched for, the swarm-like Machina was drawing material from KC-00032 to empower itself.

If that's the case, Ciel thought of an interesting plan. However, before she could execute it, Unit-T made mad charge in her direction, regardless of barrage of huge debris it was being petered with. "If they have such powerful weapons," Ciel said to more to herself than anyone else, "why can't they also behave more strategically? Like, I don't know... robots?"

"Master of the Celestial Ocean, Guardian of the River of the Stars, I call upon your power!" Ciel said, clapping her hands together as a huge rumble shook KC-00032 once. A moment later the source of the rumble would become visible as a tsunami coming out of nowhere hit the factory's grounds. A primal roar known to some of the combatants on all of the battle's sides was heard as a certain Sea Monster, raised from the flood, coiling its massive body around the charging mecha in an attempt to crush it.

Taking the advantage of her summons' surprise attack, Ciel also ordered the Leviathan to shoot its freezing breath attack toward the Cloud, seeking to encase it in an icy coffin to stop its growth.

EOS, The High Queen
^{KC-00032: The Control Room}

"You think that the Machina wouldn't be prepared for the Demon's tactics this time? Do not underestimate us," Eos said. A moment later, Artoria would notice that the lava she spilled was being drained as fast as she could pour it from her gates, without damaging anything she really wanted to damage. The reason was simple, the High Queen had countered her tactics by creating a draining system with her Silver Eyes, redirecting part of the lava flow to burn the buds Henrietta spread through KC-00032. The rest of the lava was used to assist Shizuka's attack against Methilus, trying to drown the Demon in a pit of their own burning death that suddenly opened under his feet.

Around the same time, Eos finished her first song and changed to another piece. "Hear my voice, and give the best of yourselves. As long as you don't give up, I'll be here for you," the High Queen said. Her new song had a new effect, as expected. All the Machina troops would find their defenses greatly reinforced as the light coming from Eos' own core, her heart, formed a tangible aura around them.


Lastly, Greg would have a surprise in the form of a powerful laser blast coming from his side and knocking him across several walls. Said laser came from none but Eos herself, or better, from a copy body that she was controlling. "Go support the others, we will not win this by staying on the defensive," Eos said as she walked past Lilian, unleashing another barrage of attacks at Greg which caused an chorus of explosions to rumble the depths of KC-00032.

Miyu shrugged as her spell did nothing. Eh, she tried. Not dying was an achievement for one of her talents. As she landed in the factory, she started grabbing whatever looked neat and tossing it to her mech and her other less reliable mech. "Fetch" was probably within BEAST's talents though. She wasn't interested in fighting the Machina, so she stayed away from the vital defense areas or valuable resources that would be prioritized for defense. She just wanted to go to space, she didn't need a giant laser cannon capable of fighting gods and demons. If no one particularly sought her out, she'd grab as much as she could carry and leave shortly.




Artoria countered Eos' counter of her tactics, by, when she saw the silver eyes activate and create a draining system, simply re-opening her gates in different position, outside the system catching her lava. And then, when the lava Eos did catch reached the demon flowers or Mephila, rather than destroy, they would simply turn the demon flowers into Alraunes and Mephilius into Mephilia, upon contact. The demon flowers would be able to continue their work and continue spreading, only more sexily (in Artoria's opinion) with the aid of faction leader+knight demonic power to draw upon. Much like how Artoria could prevent cold from dealing damage with her attacks, she could prevent fire from dealing damage as well. Mephilius, if hit, would simply find himself A. Transformed into Mephila again and B. Able to draw on a vast amount of fire with his tails (as Artoria was using his own power, and Mephila as the original owner could obviously draw upon it), amplified with Ira's inexorable black flame. Artoria had both the power to redirect her attack and try again, with Henrietta's gates, and simply turn her attack into "buffs" for her allies with her Manifest Destiny ability. Even kinetic impedence was negated by Manifest Destiny, so Mephila if hit would be able to move through the lava as if it wasn't there.

Her gates were now in different places not channeling into the giant silver eyes construct Eos must have made to channel the lava from the top of the fortress all the way down to where Mephilius was at the bottom. If Artoria could force Eos to keep making extravagant silver eyes constructs, well, that was kind of a win? All in all, Artoria was feeling kind of sorta maybe confident, a smile creeping a bit on to her lips.

“Oi! The hell do you think you’re doing? Blowing the fucking place sky high,”

"EEEP!" Artoria sprung up, all nine of her current tails fluffing up, and then she banged into the ceiling. Falling back down to her perch, "Oww.." She rubbed her head gingerly as she looked up at the Beastkin. "Umm... I think so? I mean, that seems to be what the Angels are doing, and it seems like they know what they're doing." She points with her free hand towards the building shards, boulders, and.. stars? that the angels seemed to be tossing at the building.

"Lucille didn't really tell us whether we were supposed to capture or destroy. So, destroy sounds easier."

@KoL@TheWindel@Lmpkio@floodtalon

Hibiki and her soldiers rode to the battlefield. Along the way she made a check on their inventory. They still had one MIRV left, as well as the plasma cannons each soldiers had equipped on their bikes. Their force field as well. Each soldier carried fairly standard issue mass-accelerated assault rifles with a pistol sidearm, as well as heated plasma knives. Their combat armor would be effective against solid weaponry, but more importantly magical attacks. Assuming the enemy didn't simply drop rocks on them or stab them with a huge sword, they ought to be able to survive a fireball or two. That would be important because Hibiki intended to maintain mobility.

Her first objective was to stop this hurricane tearing apart the fortress. It was fairly easy for her to pinpoint Ceil's location, but getting to her would be a challenge. Hibiki and her bikers could avoid stray debris easy enough, but if Ceil focus's her attention on Hibiki, she wasn't so certain if the bikers could keep up with Hibiki. And if she lost the bikers, than Hibiki could be bombarded by ranged attacks too large for her to simple out maneuver. She needed to strike hard and strike fast. "Our objective to to eliminate Ceil the Stargazer, one of the Heaven's top soldiers. She is the cause of this massive hurricane. Despite her powers however, she is still human and will die as easily as one. Her magic however will ensure that won't be easy. Our plan will be to limit her visibility and mobility. Lock her down and make sure she doesn't know what hits her. Thus we need to coordinate out attacks."

Hibiki started handing each of the soldier a specialize rifle grenade she produced from her satchel. She gave each a total of two, so their shots had to count. "You two, Nova 2 and Nova 3, Hibiki motioned towards her forward riders. "Will cut off her escape route. Each of you have one rifle grenade to cut off teleportation, as well as another that creates a gravity field. This will ensure that Ceil cannot rely on teleportation to escape or be saved. The gravity bomb will ensure she can't fly away either. Be aware of these winds; calculate your shots and remember that even the tiniest grain of sand could throw off your aim." Hibiki then handed her rear two riders some bombs as well. "Nova 4 and Nova 5, you both have a flashbang and a Anti-Magic grenade. Make sure the flash is right in front of her face, which will not only blind her, but the sonic explosion will deafen her as well. Make sure that you aren't too close when it goes off, because it's not pretty. The Anti-Magic ought to be able to pause her ability to control her spells. I doubt my bomb is enough to immediately cut off or dispel whatever magic she has going on right now, but even for just a moment, neither she nor her allies will be able to cast magic within area of the explosion. Once all these things happen at once, I'll move in for the kill."

That would be the difficult part. Ultimately even if all these attacks hit, Hibiki had to be able to land the killing blow. Right now simply shooting her wasn't going to be enough. And there were many varitables that could go wrong as well; no doubt whoever shot her would be chasing Hibiki down, and the rest of the Angel's forces will be on her tail too. Fortunately, a familiar voice rang into Hibiki's headset. "Endian? That's... Unexpected." Hibiki quickly looked up on her battle map for the current position of her allies and enemies. Thanks to Queen Eos's song, she was easily able to track each foe, be they Machina or Demons. There were too many demons inside the facility for her liking, but Shizuka would have to take care of that. "Unit Endian I'm sending you coordinates where you should arrive. I need you to do what you do best: be a distraction. I don't care what you have to do, but whatever is you do, make yourself the biggest threat you can." Hibiki sent Endian to arrive between the no-man's land of the Machina forces and the oncoming Heaven army. There wasn't a lot of space left before the forces of Heaven reach their walls, so Endian needed to act fast.

Afterwards Hibiki looked towards the others. "High Queen Eos herself has taken part of this battle. Do not fail her. Begin operation!" With that, the other four riders broke off from Hibiki to get into position. Hibiki activated the bike's plasma barrier as she rode towards battle herself. She would have to keep an eye on each of her squad members as well as her enemies, on top of everything else she's juggling. But Hibiki had no doubts. She was the perfect maid after all.



"Idia dita alita lia!"

Shizuka swept her massive shield above her, to ensure that the force her her strike is channeled downwards. At the same time, the invisible thread became a fortified wall behind Mephilus so that he could not run away. He would be boxed in from above, below, and to his sides, with the only other path would be the one Shizuka was standing. And if he wanted to get to Shizuka, he'd have to go through her fist first. Shizuka's powerfist was quickly formed into a massive gauntlet at least the size of Shizuka's own torso, thundering with energy. Shizuka had no idea what sort of magic imbued Mephilus's armor, but even the mightiest angelic steel or the most powerful demonic armor would not stand against the Machina's might. The energy surrounding Shizuka's gauntlet will disrupt any solid matter on a molecular level, rearranging their physical make up until the field passes, leaving nothing but a ruptured and broken form behind. And empowered my Queen Eos's song, the power of Shizuka's punch was increased beyond even Shizuka's expectation. An explosion ensue.

@Lmpkio@Lucius Cypher@The 42nd Gecko

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"... ok." Lillian didn't exactly agree with Eos' idea of how they couldn't win by staying on the defensive, but she could at least see where she was coming from. The factory was getting smashed from the opposition, and the best way to keep them off of this factory was to simply kill them. That was easier said than done, however, and Lillian wasn't really fond of getting on the front lines and doing shit. Too risky. Despite her disagreement with Eos' choice, Lillian hauled her equipment through the factory and headed towards where she was once situated.

Well... she was, but then the loud sound of something from the ocean caused her to flinch as she lugged her tools to the entrance. Once she was there and safely situated at the entrance, Lillian looked out among the battlefield and saw the Leviathan. Her jaw dropped as she gazed upon it, and she naturally lifted up her journal and opened it to a fresh page, where it began to chronicle the anatomy of the giant-ass beast.

"What 'n Sam Hill 's that?! 'oly fuck!

Henrietta(?) Pearl Avaritia The 2nd

Henrietta smiled at the final words from the Harpy. She was gonna enjoy breaking her into a shell of her former self. A switch clicked on in her mind as the Gates rebooted so to speak, but it wasn't time to show off her hand so soon. She began firing at Eve wildly in an attempt to hit her, not that she expected hit her. No way she was gonna hit something that fast, she would have to wait for a counterattack of sorts.

"Hey cutie, missing your little birdie?"

Or that, that would definitely work. Henrietta tossed aside her SMGs and focused her eyes on the blur that was Eve, Silver Chains emerging from her back and rushing towards her from a different direction than Francisca's chains. One of them was bound to hit her considering both the crazy storm and just how many fucking chains there were. And if one of Henrietta's struck home it would stick, as the end of the chains were spiked and made to stick into an opponent and not let go.

As the fire clashes against Shizuka's shield, it was time for Mephilus to gather some ground between him and her. Yet as he began trotting backwards, he collides with an invisible wall. With a grunt of annoyance, he tests his lance both above, to his sides, and below, the only opening is in front where his opponent stood. It was clear that he is boxed in and in front is his opponent, the song having change to issue a new form of supercharge to her. Whatever it gave her, the hell knight knew it might just hurt a bit. As the character was charging up a fist to blast him into molecular obscurity, suddenly something hot gushed from the ceiling. Lava began to baptize the knight as if it descended from the heavens. But how did it get past through Shizuka's shield?

Yet it didn't matter, as Mephilus would eventually find himself collide with the massive mechanical fist, causing a large explosion that vaporized a several meter crater from within the foundry, enough that it can be seen from outside. As the fire continued to bellow up from the blast, it suddenly found itself being sucked back into ground zero. Something, or someone, was absorbing all that fire. And indeed, from the pillar of lava that stood in the middle, the target was sucking it all up, along with the nearby fire.

And through the fire and the thick hot flames, reveals a baptized Mephilius... or rather, Mephilia, once again.



His armor had morphed into a more compliant and lighter-weight version, having it take up less space and issued more mobility for the user, yet looking much more as if it was made of a red-and-black pangolian scales. That being said, she regained the nine tails like that from the kumiho, with a dangerous orange with yellow tips on the edges. Black streaks of flame can also be seen occasionally seeping from the fire as well, like those Ira wields. Mephilia would've instantly recognized that she has changed, but even if she did, there was no time to loose. A surge of immense power flooded her body, flames smearing from her skin as she looked devilishly at her opponent. Her inner-gentleman was gone. Now she is unhinged, her brutality and insanity blaring its own colors, as the knight gleams her bone-white teeth.

"You're MINE." she growls in a deep sultry-like voice.

And without remorse or any hesitation, her claws bathed in black fire, Mephilia charges full speed as she uppercuts through Shizuka's gut, sending her flying diagonally through the sky. Then the knight takes out a crimson katana, the Blade Of Kōjin, as she leaps into the air, with her blade sizzling in black flames, as she prepares to slice her opponent into bits. It doesn't matter if he's now a girl. All what matters is getting rid of this pesky bug with his new-found powers.

And it was all before a primal war bellowed through the air and a wave of ocean flooded into the foundry.

---

As Unit-T streaks through the air towards the Angellic Fortress, a gigantic wave began to form as it hits the foundry. It would begin to poor into the building, yet thankfully it wouldn't reach the deepest levels of the base. Regardless, that was the least of their worries as a gigantic sea leviathan roared from the depths as it unleashes a deafening bellow that is heard throughout the battlefield. Tina was especially caught off guard by this, yet kept her composure as she attempted to strafe out of the way. Yet she was just a little too slow as she found herself to be coiled up by the massive beast. Alarms blared through the suit as it struggled to keep the pilot from getting crushed from within.

Even Karizawa and the rest of the crew were extremely tense and worried as soon as she got hit.

Yet before it would look as if Unit-T was finished, Eos' song changed to another tune. This time the song boosted the defense qualities of the troops, which allowed for Unit-T to withstand the tons of pressure being exerted on the suit. Tina takes advantage of this and begins to get herself free. The mech blasts another beam of energy that would slowly pierce through the creature's skin and out the other side. The grip would loosen just a bit to allow the arms to get free, allowing the mech to release a vibro-blade from its wrists. It slashes at the creature furiously until the entire mech was finally free.

The staff inside breathed a simple sight of relief as Unit-T continued to storm towards the fortress, not looking back at the giant monster.

Those were chains. And they were flying FAST. Eve felt the fear rush through her body. If she was hit by these chains, there'd be no way she'd survive the onslaught of what these demons would do to her, especially considering what they'd done to her in the past. She just hoped she could do something to get these chains away from her.

Thankfully, the Leviathan rose up from seemingly nowhere, and Eve got a split-second idea because of it. The general of the harpies dove behind the monstrous beast, and while she was against such a dangerous decision, it made some kind of sense for her to do this. The chains shot by Henrietta and Fran lodged themselves within the flesh of the Leviathan, and Eve was able to continue her flight. A breath of relief escaped her mouth as she quickly rose back into the hurricane and prepared for a strike against another member of the opposing forces.

Tartys

It was a close run thing, but with the meteor storm distracting and battering down the AA defenses Tartys was able to slip inside the factory with little trouble. There she found that things were already happening, mostly courtesy of the demons who had infiltrated and were now trying to make a mess of the place while the Machina fought back. Big shock there, though so far it seemed like the defenders were surprisingly occupied. Compared to the resistance that they had put up at Alt Signia, the Machina must not have thought as highly of this place, even if Eos had shown up.

"Well then, time to do my part," she muttered as she flew along, weaving through the dangerous machinery with her weapon at the ready. If they weren't going to defend this place with everything they had, then she had no reason to hold back. "Blessed light, burn!" Her yell met with the charging of her magic, before scintillating beams of light lashed out. Concentrated head would melt through metal and destroy machinery, as she channeled her mana into the attack.

So she flew on, dodging defenses and natural hazards as she made new ones. Her blows were focused on production lines and other important bits of machinery, things that would create even worse hazards when they were destroyed. That way it would hinder anything coming after her. Let the Machina try and stop her now.

@KoL

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The Cloud

Though the anti-air defenses had taken a battering, the Cloud deemed the damage that had been suffered within acceptable tolerances. It would have been much more grievous without its warning, by all predictive analyses. Further surveying of the situation indicated Machina units moving on the Angelic fortress, while battle continued to sputter on in the factory behind them. The fighting seemed to be contained though, so it viewed moving on as acceptable.

Initially it was prepared to assist Grafdakka, but developments on the battlefield rapidly changed that. The arrival of the Lviathan was unexpected and unwelcome as a tide of water swept across the battlefield, washing away those unfortunate enough to not be locked down. It harmed the demons too, but on the whole it was a powerful boon for the Angels as the Leviathan arrived. Quickly the Cloud accessed the Machina network, and within moments had all the information on the beast that the Machina had, including the records of the previous battle. Had the Angels been able to force its cooperation because of that previous fight? Something to think about, but ultimately irrelevant.

It was able to overcome the water by flying over it, but finding itself the target of the ice attack was more problematic even if surprise did not factor in because of its reaction times. Its imminent freezing was countered by the further boost from Eos, allowing it to output the power necessary to keep itself from freezing until it had moved out of the attack.

"Calculating strategy variables. Conclusion reached. Executing."

With that the Cloud broke apart from its roughly humanoid form into, well, several smaller clouds. Those would fly towards the Leviathan to assault it from multiple angles, using its size to get beneath any armor plates that might try to stop it, and applying burst after burst of energy weapons fire from different angles in increasing intensity to wear it down. Even if it smashed some or some were lost to acid o frozen, the continual flow of nanites from the factory did not stop, meaning that it only grew stronger even as it wore the Leviathan down.

@Lmpkio@KoL

CIEL, The Stargazer
^{KC-00032: The Angel's Fortress}

The massive onslaught unleashed against the Leviathan wasn't what Ciel was expecting. If there's one thing that can make the Stargazer to lose her cool is to see her Celestial Spirits being abused and suffer in such a way. Furthermore, the Cloud continued to grow in power, despite her attempts at destroying it, along with charging mech.

"If that's how you all want to play, perhaps I should raise the stakes as well," Ciel said as she saw that even other Angels, and now the Demons too, were set on killing the Leviathan in a slow and painful way. Even Aquila recoiled in the face of her Master's tranquil fury, halting her winds before taking refuge behind Ciel. The last thing she wanted is to suffer the Leviathan's fate, after all.

"I guess you all just managed to screw things more than you think. If you knew how much of a sore loser Ciel really is, you would know better than do that," Hohenheim who still sat quietly besides Ciel said, which a voice that magically reached any in the outside of KC-00032.

"Guardian of the Second Golden Palace, Great Bull of the Heavens. I call upon your Divine Wrath, Taurus!" The skies rumbled once more as Ciel summoned another Celestial Spirit. Differently from the ones before, this one was a Zodiac, which caused the very stars to flare in an explosion of golden light as massive rain of golden meteors that looked all too familiar for anyone that fought on Arcadia bombarded KC-00032.

"Going straight for the Big Beef, aren't ya? You must not be so mad as you seen, since you didn't summon that other person," Hohenheim said to Ciel, who didn't care to reply, as her newest summon made manifested itself by blasting a crater on the outside of the factory, throwing huge chunks of earth and thousands of tons of water in the sky, before the began to fall again as a heavy, muddy rain.



"Hehehe, I didn't thought that I would have a change to join a battle here before Helena did her thing, but it seems that 'someone' is just so pissed off to summon one of 'Us'," the Bull Girl said, waving her cape, before throwing a huge grin toward, Ciel. "Well, good to me... I guess?"

"Let's see what you'll do against Taura," Ciel said, before snapping her finger and dismissing the Leviathan so that it could go back to his home and hell the wound it suffered. "Especially, without this!" the Star Magus added, creating a barrier of aurora like light around the Factory, sealing any non-Angel in the vicinity, from moving between the in and out of it, cutting the flow of nanomachines.

Right after that, Taura jumped, swinging her massive axe down at the middle of Unit-T's back. "Titan's Nova!" she shouted, releasing a huge explosion of Holy Energy, that engulfed almost all of the outside of KC-00032, with the force of a collapsing star behind it.

EOS, The High Queen
^{KC-00032: The Control Room}

Eos couldn't say that she was unimpressed by the result of her attempts to divert Artoria's attack against her very own faction. However, this wasn't nearly half of what the High Queen could pull from her arsenal. the sudden intrusion of a rogue Angel thinking that she could just break KC-00032 and run away was another factor to take into consideration. Along with the crowing threat of the Bloody Countess' roses and the literal Armageddon that Ciel was summoning outside of KC-00032 this battle looked all but lost.

Except that, no.

Eos still had means of fighting back the threat, but if the other Machina didn't start to take action fast, their chances of winning would be small, indeed.

"Let's begin by clearing those pests," Eos said as she unleashed a literal deluge of plasma straight from her core to wipe everything not protected by her aura inside of KC-00032, flooding the innards of the complex and definitely getting rid of any and all Demon Roses with a lethal dose of thermonuclear radiation.

Following this, Artoria would notice that her Lava was now being drained by portals created by Eos. No matter the direction she attempted to drop it, they would just be there to dump her lava at some nondescript corner of the Nexus (very much likely back on Hell).

Finally, both Tartys and Mephilus(a) would find themselves under the fire of the High Queen's laser barrage, considering that they probably survived her previous plasma attack, as Eos produced two more clones of herself to engage in battle directly, given that defensive tactics failed them moment the troops outside focused on attacking Ciel regardless of KC-00032's well being. Lastly, the Hell Knight would find his/her movements restricted as Eos created a net of silvery shackles, to hold him/her down.

"Avoid the shield and focus on attacking the armor's weak spots," the High Queen said to Shizuka, giving her a plan to counter Mephilus(a)'s might.

Henrietta(?) Pearl Avaritia The 2nd

Eve ran away. Typical angel, perfectly willing to hang around when they're confident in themselves but the moment things start to look a little bad for them they cut their losses and run. Oh well, at least Henrietta got to see her best friend again. "Leviathan! I missed you so much." She said with glee as the chains began to cracked with black demonic energy in an attempt to corrupt the Leviathan. Unfortunately it was not to be as the Leviathan disappeared. Disappointing.

Henrietta looked to the sky and saw a explosion in the sky, followed immediately afterwards by a rain of golden meteors. Nope. "Well, good luck with that Francisca. I'm out." Henrietta cut open a hole in the roof and jumped into the factory, not a moment too soon as the entire factory was sealed off by some angelic magic. She turned around and saw a massive wave of plasma heading straight for her, she retaliated by opening a gate of Tartarus quickly and sucking in any plasma that threatened to incinerate her. Crisis averted.

She wandered down the halls to see Shizuka and Mephila(?) fighting, or they were until 2 Eos shackled Mephilia with some silver chains. Doesn't look like they noticed her yet. Henrietta quietly opened a Gate and shot a massive beam of star energy directly at the one of the Eos. After she was done firing she drew the Cheater's Blade and prepared to cut down Shizuka and the clones who had more than likely survived. "Sup."

As Unit-T began racing towards the Fortress, it would seem as if her path to it would be rather clear. If anything, there could be a few angels trying to take it down, but she didn't expect anyone significant other than a Commander. Thing is the Commander strikes back, but not in the way Tina expected. Did she think that Ciel would summon a powerful entity to emerge from a portal, jump high up, and bring down a celestial-powered hammer that had the power of a supernova? No she didn't. And neither did Karizwa and his staff as their hearts dropped suddenly upon witnessing the event.

"WATCH OUT!" cries the Commander in total panic as he stands up from his seat.

But it was too late. The hammer collided with the mech's back, prompting it to zoom down at near the speed of sound, right smack into the ground. The holy energy that was emitted from the explosion sent a catastrophic shockwave that would hit the foundry's upper levels hard. Even the deepest levels and of Room TEP could feel the shockwaves from below. Everyone's eyes in the room were bug-eyed and in total fear. Unit-T should've been completely annihilated in the blast, let along the initial whack towards the ground. As the smoke cleared however, the mech is confirmed to still be active, along with the pilot, although she has taken an incredibly heavy hit.

"Impossible..." breathed the Scientist Tobayashi as she looks out with awe, "Even without the proper armor and she's able to still be active."

Karizawa begins to quickly contact Tina immediately.

"Tina! Tina come in! Come in Tina!"

The little girl opens her eyes slowly, groaning softly as she presses the communication button, "Y-Yes sir. I-I'm here."

"We need a status report, ASAP!"

"Um... U-Unit has taken significant damage. A-Armor still holds b-but the thrusters are unable to function. T-The mech will require significant t-time to repair i-itself."

There was a slight pause in the room as the staff assessed the situation.

"Do we need to pull Unit-T out?" Tobayashi asks curiously towards Karizawa.

Another quick pause filled the room.

"Not yet." replies the commander with a sigh, "I didn't quite expect her to appear, but it provides us with an opportunity we can't miss."

He glances at his assistant.

"Send her the Heavy Armor. It's time we put Unit-T's usage into practice."

Tobayashi was rather hesitant about the idea.

"Are you sure~?"

"NOW." orders the commander sternly, blocking out any time for her any add-on thoughts.

Tobayashi simply nodded as she complies with his order.

From the foundry's storage room, four silos launched four missiles that streaked through the air and low to the ground. Parts of Unit-T's "heavy duty armor" were in these cylinders, ready to deploy and attach onto the mech. Surprisingly, all four would reach its target in a matter of seconds, detaching into phase two as they reveal the clamps to attach onto the machine. Unit-T was already standing up by the time they quickly attached to Unit-T, providing an additional level of armor and bulk that still provided her with the much needed mobility she possesses. Yet this wasn't simply just some additional armor. No, this is something else. This armor is far more durable than one thinks.

This is armor that rivals characters like Taura.

Unit-T looks up at the opponent, its yellow streaks gleaming with new-found power. Meanwhile, Karizawa quickly explains the situation to Tina.

"It's time to finally complete your training." he explains to her, "This character is by far your greatest adversary yet. She won't be an easy opponent to beat, but with this armor you'll be able to stand up to her on equal grounds. Your powers still have strength and defense from Eos' songs, but they won't last forever, so make them count. Defeating her should result in a rapid demoralization of Heaven and possibly Hell's forces, forcing them to leave the battlefield and leave the Machina victorious by default. So do your best Tina. The fate of the battle is on you. Karizawa out."

"Understood." Tina replies as she looks up at Taura above.

It was time for the highlight battle to begin.