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Penny withheld a grimace at the lack of real damage that her guass round inflicted. The steel spike landed, but she noticed the lack of effect the stored lightning had and wasn’t blind to the countered gravitic distortions.
Still both of those observation fell to the way side at Snoopy’s chimed in update.
‘Mika?!’ Penny thought incredulously at Snoopy’s happy update, before she forcefully paused that train to thought to focus more at the matters at hand. Those being the acidic hands grasping her ankles, the enchanted sword heading for her back and the strike coming at her front.
[E.O.D status: initialized
First was the sludge. It was corrosive, that much Penny could have guessed without coming into contact with it, and alone it wouldn’t have done much more then scuff her paint. But it was also magical, which came with its own problems, as that property allowed it to start eating away at her. But hardly a moment after the burn began a dull sheen would rapidly spread across Penny’s form starting from the points of contact. As she altered the top layer of her chassis adding in the properties of enchanted platinum, making her effectively immune to corrosion.
[E.O.D. status: 3%
The strike at her rear was more complicated, but she had extra limbs and an extra eye so that wasn’t insurmountable either. Two of the Spider limbs focused on keeping the blade away from actually hitting her, in addition her holographic armor snapped to life along her torso. She didn’t think that her gravimetric barrier would do much considering how it seemed that her foe also had gravity magic, and wanted to hold off on her electromagnet barrier for now. Extremely high heat killed magnetic properties after all.
Her other two Spider limbs lashed out at the blade trying to grab hold of it, or disarm the tentacle limb holding it. As Penny wanted it after all, because good quality enchanted metal wasn’t easy to come across.
Snoopy was floating just above her head but faced backwards so that Penny could ‘see’ though him to more accurately coordinate her limbs.
At least that had been the plan, Melisa’s assistance would change things, but not significantly. One of Penny’s spider-esque limbs would abandon defense to begin tearing away at the slime coated limbs grasping at her ankles.
[E.O.D status: 14%. Right optical display rerouted to secondary input system.
Lastly was the straight forward attack, this Penny chose to meet head on with a punch of her own. Her left-hand fusing shut into a veritable club as she aimed to break Oro’s nail like arm with her counter strike.
[E.O.D Status: 19%. Humanity.exe priority lowered; CPU access throttled.
Penny’s inhuman mind scanned her situation again to verify that all active issues were being addressed. All three avenues of assault were addressed and responses were deployed. Melisa had been dragged to safety and had begun supporting operations and both Nunico and Shion were currently out of the line of fire.
Satisfied she returned to the thought that she had paused.
“I have to say Mika I’m surprised that you threw your lot in with the Mint. Was it personal that you chose to attack, or just trying to drive up profit for the Golden trove?” She would call out, but her voice was notably distorted compared to normal.
“And I’m curious, does Su know about your ties to the Mint?”
Quietly Snoopy pinged Penny with another update, this one going unacknowledged due to its low priority.
[Topographical data downloaded]
[Routing optimal path to destination: ‘Home’]
[Routing optimal path to destination: ‘Home’]
Outwardly Snoopy just beeped happily, he was finally able to perform his primary function and thus was quite content.
-=ƎLast CallE=-
“Leena’s Null field happened” Aurelio would reply the moment he could. “And trust me, it’s not going to last that long. We can see it falling apart on our end.” He would add as he made a few clones. Before rushing back into the field to get to the rest of his teammates.
One of the Clones would stay outside the effected area to hold open a steady com link with HQ, the other two would follow Aurelio back in. One ahead of the other. That way the ahead clone fizzled out the last clone would stop giving a clear indication of where the field ended.
When he got back to the center of the madness, Aurelio would have like to been able to say he was surprised that the chaos had grown, He wasn’t but he would have like to be pleasantly surprised. Instead, he just ran towards the nearest Beacon member who needed immediate aid.
Leena.
He heard Alicia’s call out and hopped Leena would comply, and in that hope he set aside seventy percent of his remaining mana for the moment the field dropped. All of which would be used to summon as many copies as he could which would then proceed to teleport out with anyone they could. It didn’t matter if they were friend or foe save for Justine if he could help it.
Friends were getting ported back to HQ, everyone else would get sent to Penrose Park.
In the meantime, he was going to try and help deal with the people latched onto Leena in a manner that he really wasn’t a fan of using but wasn’t going to let that stop him. He would reach out and try to touch them and begin syphoning off all emotions they had running through them, enforcing an onset of total Apathy. If that didn’t work, he just hopped that Leena dropped the field soon so that he could teleport her out. Perhaps taking her aggressors with them back to HQ.
<<K.O.>>
Viva was a font of curses and vitriol. Even as her vision black from the supposed lack of oxygen rather then the enchanted darkness around her. Her gun vanished in a short flare of light when it landed on her from her arm getting shot. Which only had her increasing the volume of her rant towards the members of the Mint that had betrayed her.
She was still hurling insults when Alma struck her and forcibly knocked her into unconscious. Which was obvious when it happened as Viva turned into a pile of flesh colored glop in the same instant, one which only vaguely retained a humanoid outline.
Due to the curse on her, it was hard to tell when she would wake up. But it was unlikely that it would be in time to escape or hinder the Mint’s plans any further.
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