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Devvri lunged into a roll that ended up being a crawl as she flipped herself face-up into the ditch. Saws whirred past, from the unseen robots just beyond the edges of the clearing.

Robots could not be sensed by Kira, because they held no life energy (I think that's plausible). Rosa, when she arrived, would be able to determine the location of both of the robots. Just two of them. Each was a mobile station for deploying the self-navigating saw blades, on either side of the clearing. They held every kind of sensor imaginable, and a wide range at that. These particular models did not hold any anti-robotic equipment, however. They were meant to deal with Eseptians, who did not use robotic technology. They were meant to battle magic. (So to speak.)

They were not easily destructible, but somehow, the writer of this post thinks that Rosa would in some way manage. Keth was still nowhere to be found. The screams did not cease, either.

((Well, SPI, you obviously didn't.... surprised ))

Kira followed after Devvri, unaware of the robot-things nearby (Even though saws just shot themselves at Devvri). "Wha-" Kira started speak up, but instantly shut up once she felt a sharp pain in her back. She fell forward onto the grassy ground, eyes wide and alert. A large, bloody gash in her back revealed where one of the saws had reached her. Okay, this time Kira wasn't exactly so expressionless, this time she was cursing rather audibly in frustration (Which Hiddochi finds rather funny for such a so-called 'divine' being). "FUKRU!!!"

Kira tried to pull herself forward with her hands, to get out the way of any more saws that might fly...


((Yeah...short post....but Kira cusses! FINALLY! rofl ))

"Yeah, well, what did I ever do to 'Cosmic Irony' to deserve THIS!?!" Vexis continued to whine, assuming that Jad could still hear her. Since obviously Marth was too 'mature' to be bothered with her useless complaining.

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Another loud crash! could be heard in the distance, a second crater formed into the planet's surface next to the one that RD left behind earlier. Rosa emerged from the crater, still perfectly unharmed by the impact. If nothing else, Kira sure as hell knew how to build a robot that could withstand powerful crashes. Especially when the android was flying down from space at almost 550 miles per hour.

Rosa caught RD's signal again, and sped off in that direction. Kira would be nearby RD, and so Rosa used her duplicate as the tracking unit.

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Kira stubbornly stood up on her own, determined not to let Devvri get hurt because of her. "I'm sorry..." She murmured, and forced herself to stand beside her ally.

But Kira's determination was a fatal mistake.

One final saw blade had managed to reach her, cutting deep into her chest.

Everything ached terribly, then became numb. All the noise around her, and then the silence.

Kira was...lying down on the ground now? Up in the air? On her side? She couldn't tell...everything was blurry and dark.

She caught only one last glance of the clearing around her, and in the distance, she could see the brilliant gold and crimson of Rosa.

"You came...Rosa..." Her own words were faint and hard to hear, even amongst the silence. Time had stopped just that moment, but continued on once Kira's heart slowed down to almost nothing, her breathing stopped.



Rosa's pure green eyes were fixated on Kira for quite some time, she held that very same calm expression that her creator did, in life and death. Eternal.


A saw came flying towards Rosa, but she caught it with little effort in the palm of her hand, and then threw it back into the trees. Rosa just watched as many trees fell in halves, waiting to 'see' her opponent behind them. The android glanced back at Kira and Devvri briefly, but immediately focused on her opponents again, the saw-chucking machines.

((She can be saved, but not if you don't want her to. There's an easy solution to saving her, on this planet.))

The trees concealed the two killer saw-launching droids. If trees were cut down (the saw wasn't even a third of the width of these dead trees), then the droids would be visible. And, with their bluntly idiotic attack protocols, and no defensive algorithms against other robotics, they would simply continue to attack the humans, ignoring Rosa. For now.

Devvri immediately tossed the saw away from Kira, whom she was lying across the ground adjacent to, and applied pressure to the wound with one hand, while groping in a pouch on her belt with the other. Soon, a rag drenched in an unidentifiable liquid was used to smother the wound, and among the chemicals was a pain killer. Among other things.

((It's just endless, blackened, charred ground, with dead, charred patches of forest. And some trees. And a big, walled city in the very distant... distance. What else is there?

The sky is normal-colored. There is no moon, but another planet in the distance reflects enough light to serve as one. Stars are usual.

There is no plant or animal life.

So I failed to describe a saw-blade adequately. They could still rip apart dead trees, with enough force. Which I'm sure Rose has plenty of.

DANG. Now I want to continue Xenosaga again, and I have to finish FFX! xd ))

Devvri applied the medicine without question or hesitation. "Wait," she called out, too late as Rosa left. "Is this going to keep her alive...?" If not, then they would have to hope that Keth was still alive. He may then have been Kira's only hope....

The robots remained stationery, unmoving as they launched saw after saw. Originally, they had just been reflecting the saws off of each other, like one large game of Pong, but now that the saws were being intercepted, more were launched; many more. These robots were very durable and strong, against the saws and against low-tech weaponry. They had no means to attack Rosa, and as such would probably ignore her altogether, even if she punched a hole through one.

The robot disintegrated, or exploded, or... whatever a robot would do in a mega-flare. The saws stopped flying altogether. The second robot was still intact, but, for whatever reason, it had stopped... as well. Something else had happened....

~

Blue again, and with a bright, white glow no longer, Maggie existed under the Novias shield. Whether she had gone through it or under it, was not clear. Maggie possessed a pure heart... but a bent, twisted, warped soul. Thanks to her captor.

Maggie's eyes were a very dark indigo, and, much like Kira, her veins, or something very similar to them, pulsed with light every now and then, causing a curious vertical column of light to run vertically through her body every few seconds. The light was white, but not illuminating. The world was still its dark, burnt crust, illuminated by nothing.

And the obsidian blade was between Kira and Devvri, equally distant to both of them and yet close to both. When she spoke, Maggie's voice was cold and uncaring. Impartial, even.

"Disassemble or deactivate yourself, or they die."