Zim's shoulder burned slightly from the initial Plasma Blast. He focused through it and pushed his way past the pain. "Keep Moving," Zim told himself, "Its nothing, just a scratch, keep moving." He weaved through the city terrain, closing the distance on his target. Just as soon as his Scythe had made its arc through the first target the world became a flash of white. A deafening ringing in his ears, he shook the white lights from his eyes and the ringing started to fade as well. The burning in his shoulder was worse now and spread through both arms, a glance around at the status indicators told Zero that Blackstars wings were gone, that explained the pain in his shoulders. He glanced over at this sync rate next, 50% sync. He had fought on worse, in simulations and in mock battles. He was pleasantly surprised when he looked over and saw the full charge indicator on the Wave Surger. Through the ringing in his ears, Zim heard the next command, go after the CWMs, this time without the over fire from Paladin.
"Come on Buddy," Zim said to his Werk, "We aren't done yet. We got more work to do."
Over the comms Zim responded, "Blackstar is still active, commencing attack on G2."
He pushed the control sticks to upright his partner. He had to fight the controls the whole way up. Without the wings the balance was off different, and with the slightly lower sync rate then he had become accustomed to, he really had to depend on all of the practice he had gone through to get to this point to get off of the ground.
Once back on his feet, Zim flipped the switch to targeting mode for his Wave Surger and targeted the three CWMs in G2. The over-sized fingers of the weapon opened up and fanned out, like a dragon's claw grasping the sun, a ball of energy built up in the palm of the weapon before a long prolonged beam reached out across the distance, moving Black Star's hand slowly, he sweapt from his right to left, hoping to do damage to all three of the CWMs. Having never used the weapon in real life, Zero was shocked by the heat of the weapon and the total lack of kick from the weapon. Once the weapon finished its discharge the claw like fingers pulled back, still open to expose the werk's regular manipulator as it actively worked to reduce the heat build up.
Zim had no idea if the Active Cloak was going to work, due to its integration into the armor wings, and Seeing the bio-mechanical nature of the Cruxi, it was entirely possible that these war machines saw with their eyes and not with sensors. All the same, Zim flipped the switch to turn on decoy mode, so that if the CWMs in G2 were still active and not disabled they would not know which target to hit. Whether it worked or not, Zim would use evasive maneuvers once again to close the distance as he moved into finish the job.
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