Ametheliana
Well-known member
Descending toward Kokoro
The NMX-version of the AIES on Leepa's Reaper synced with Sif's as if they were one unit. With her front unhindered, Leepa shot out her forearm cannons on Rippers whose same sub-system types had just been torn into by Sif's scrupulous aim. Bearing down her familiar rifle on thrusters and torsos meant one and then two Reapers began the long fall into the water far below.
Brainslaves evaded, bulky forms thrusting away from the fire peppering the battlefield. But Molli's forearm cannons had a wide berth and caught them regardless of whatever evasion they took upon themselves. Three more prepared to swim rather than fly after being knocked about by Molli, but not before smattering their own offensives into her and Charbon, nearby. Both of their armors were still in better states than Leepa's, but it was the red warning flashes on their AIES were chilling reminders of the damage their enemy was capable of.
Desperately thinned by the armor team and the patrol ship's aether fire, though, that enemy was beginning to look manageable.
"I'll withdraw with Leepa. We need to ready the secondary torpedoes!" Charbon called to Molli and the rest of the armor team in her buttery accent. "Come if you would like to see your bundles of joy off yourself, Asuka-chan!"
XSS Mordrakka
Cargo Bay
"Prize?" one of the NMX girls asked, coming towards Isuke from behind so quickly that her shoulder brushed the Lorrfolk's. She leaned in to whisper, "I'll share mine if you share yours. " Her hands, once clasped behind her back, moved as if to embrace her. Instead of folding around Isuke, though, she cupped the coat she held in her palms. As if caught off-guard by the muscle and power Isuke' exuded, she withdrew her arms and got out of proximity of the demoness just as quickly as she had jumped onto her.
Bridge
Like an uprooted tree ripping through the heart of the storm, the bridge's quiet chaos was broken. Red lights strobed and klaxons sounded. The weapon's officer next to Erika turned to her, prepared to speak up or push her out of the helm seat. But the alarms filled her throat and drowned out any words so they were just gurgles of unfortunate concern like an infant's whimper.
The scarlet lights flashed across Erika's white hair, painting her as the most vibrant object of interest on the bridge save for one or two console buttons. At her hand, the ship tore and burned through the world tree. In one moment proving the feebleness of the branches and, in the next, their resilience, the dinky little patrol class was also operating outside of its class. As if beckoning her, sunlight seeped in past the thick, strangling branches several hundred feet up. Unlike coming down, she couldn't just burn a hole to make her path, this time.
Panels of the hull were shorn when shields didn't matter and the ship started to tear itself apart from the counter-inertia coming from within its own maneuvering. Outward damage had been inflicted to the main aether cannon by the XSS Braxxrrsil's torpedoes that had made a pass before the Mordrakka's silhouette slimmed and she took a nosedive into tree cover. Integrity was failing steeply and their main weapon was offline.
The NMX-version of the AIES on Leepa's Reaper synced with Sif's as if they were one unit. With her front unhindered, Leepa shot out her forearm cannons on Rippers whose same sub-system types had just been torn into by Sif's scrupulous aim. Bearing down her familiar rifle on thrusters and torsos meant one and then two Reapers began the long fall into the water far below.
Brainslaves evaded, bulky forms thrusting away from the fire peppering the battlefield. But Molli's forearm cannons had a wide berth and caught them regardless of whatever evasion they took upon themselves. Three more prepared to swim rather than fly after being knocked about by Molli, but not before smattering their own offensives into her and Charbon, nearby. Both of their armors were still in better states than Leepa's, but it was the red warning flashes on their AIES were chilling reminders of the damage their enemy was capable of.
Desperately thinned by the armor team and the patrol ship's aether fire, though, that enemy was beginning to look manageable.
"I'll withdraw with Leepa. We need to ready the secondary torpedoes!" Charbon called to Molli and the rest of the armor team in her buttery accent. "Come if you would like to see your bundles of joy off yourself, Asuka-chan!"
XSS Mordrakka
Cargo Bay
"Prize?" one of the NMX girls asked, coming towards Isuke from behind so quickly that her shoulder brushed the Lorrfolk's. She leaned in to whisper, "I'll share mine if you share yours. " Her hands, once clasped behind her back, moved as if to embrace her. Instead of folding around Isuke, though, she cupped the coat she held in her palms. As if caught off-guard by the muscle and power Isuke' exuded, she withdrew her arms and got out of proximity of the demoness just as quickly as she had jumped onto her.
Bridge
Like an uprooted tree ripping through the heart of the storm, the bridge's quiet chaos was broken. Red lights strobed and klaxons sounded. The weapon's officer next to Erika turned to her, prepared to speak up or push her out of the helm seat. But the alarms filled her throat and drowned out any words so they were just gurgles of unfortunate concern like an infant's whimper.
The scarlet lights flashed across Erika's white hair, painting her as the most vibrant object of interest on the bridge save for one or two console buttons. At her hand, the ship tore and burned through the world tree. In one moment proving the feebleness of the branches and, in the next, their resilience, the dinky little patrol class was also operating outside of its class. As if beckoning her, sunlight seeped in past the thick, strangling branches several hundred feet up. Unlike coming down, she couldn't just burn a hole to make her path, this time.
Panels of the hull were shorn when shields didn't matter and the ship started to tear itself apart from the counter-inertia coming from within its own maneuvering. Outward damage had been inflicted to the main aether cannon by the XSS Braxxrrsil's torpedoes that had made a pass before the Mordrakka's silhouette slimmed and she took a nosedive into tree cover. Integrity was failing steeply and their main weapon was offline.
