Kirina flailed and kicked while being yanked around by the giant tentacle like arm. Although it was obvious that she had some bones broken in her hand and despite the fact that she was crying out in pain, her lips were turned up in a permanent smile. Even Kirina herself didn’t really understand how she could keep the bright appearance as her life was at risk, but from the back of her throat bubble the occasional hiccup of laughter.
Then she was falling again. Her eyes squeezed shut and her teeth clenched she was prepared for an impact that would probably break her back if not kill her. What a lame way to die, she thought to herself, everyone would remember me as the Moderator that never accomplished anything. But the impact never came. In fact, now it felt like she was flying!
Prying an eye open she glanced around her and noticed that it was Oliver, who was actually gripping her rather tightly, that was flying through the air with one arm outreached. Kira noticed that his hookshot must have grabbed onto something nearby. Just as she was about to call out to the team leader everything was jarred with a sudden crash as they flew through the old wood of the warehouse and landed with a rather soft stop on the ground.
She stood up, dizzy and scratched. With a meek smile on her face she glanced over at Oliver, not really focused on the pain she felt searing through her hand. Only when her vision cleared and her head stopped spinning did she look down at her wrist. Her bone was jutting at a weird angle and her hand was the oddest tint of light blue. It almost matched her whole outfit! The bone had been yanked and dislocated when the virus grabbed her from midair, and the blue was caused by the lack of circulation she experienced in her arm while being held. As Kira stared at her injury she began to cry. Much like a child, getting put into time out for the first time, her tears were huge and steadily streaming down her face. In between her small, ragged, breaths she let out shocked giggles.
A deep red light hovered from Oliver’s hookshot chain. It surrounded Kirina while changing from red to purple to sapphire blue. Soon the data waves had collected themselves around each injury that Kira had, be it small or large. Once the light from the data waves disappeared, Kirina noticed that her hand looked perfectly normal again. All her scrapes and bruises were gone, and even a button was replaced on her uniform.
As Oliver handed Kirina her Halberd, she only cried harder, this time, the smile on her face huge. “You looked like superman!” She stuttered between small sobs of relief.
She didn’t watch Oliver leave back for the battle, instead turning to face the other direction. Twisting her wrist a few times, Kirina rotated it and made sure everything was working properly as all her tears started to dry. With both hands on the weapon she practiced a few basic moves in the warehouse before turning to face the battle once more. “Я могу сделать это! Я могу сделать это!” (I can do it. I can do it.) Placing a strong grip on her trusted weapon, Kirina ran back out of the warehouse and towards the huge monster that was appearing from the waves.
One set of roughly five arms was slowly making its way towards a group of civilians that were trapped between piles of rubble and a few buildings. Kirina made her way over towards the crowd, approaching the arms from the side and trying to get a closer look at how the virus moved. Raising the axe of her Halberd high over her head she easily sliced one of the arms in two when she brought her blade back down. The rest of the arms started to wriggle and darted out towards Kirina. Jumping to one side, she quickly evaded the charge and cut two more arms in half.
The last two arms started to move rather quickly in all directions, avoiding Kira’s attacks while keeping her bouncing around out of their way. Kira was rapidly growing tired, but knew if the things touched her the same thing would happen all over again. However just as she had stopped to catch a breath, both arms came charging at her and Kirina couldn’t jump out of the way fast enough.
Suddenly her visor released a soft blue light. The two arms passed right through her body where she stood and retracted back slowly. Kirina looked down in shock. Her body had become slightly blue, and she could see small pixels running through her arms and legs. Kirina had become.. data?
Without wasting time to think about how it worked, Kira raced through the two arms again and appeared behind them. Just as she turned to face the monster once more, her new found ability evaporated and she was become tangible once more. Before the arms noticed where she had appeared she let out her signature laugh and sent the spear of her Halberd through the flesh of the virus, “иди нахуй!” (Fuck off!) she shouted as the arms slithered back into the ocean.