Belmont was equally conscientious of staying close to Connie and Perdita. With only one target, smaller now, it felt like it would be easy to get lost in the throng of people trying to assault it. Despite the bustle of the moving crowd, and all of their vigor to take down the Chaos while they had the advantage, he managed to stay close to them.
At this range, there was no way he was going to start swinging his weapon around; he would definitely hit someone.
Perdita had the best idea; he was less likely to hit someone else if he was only attacking with a well-aimed kick.
Despite the form it took, his thing didn't look human. He hoped it had the same weaknesses, but those wires were worrisome.
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The closeness of Yvoire and Reims was once more reassuring, and in all the Chaos Dering still found himself feeling grounded. Yvoire didn’t have to speak; Dering understood. As soon as he realized Yvoire’s intentions, he nodded firmly and waited.
It wasn’t until Yvoire saw an opening that Dering did, too. Cynthus had cleared something of an opening, and Dering mimicked Yvoire’s actions. He ducked low, on the other side of Cynthus, and jabbed the fat end of his lute at the woman’s legs as if he hoped doing so might knock her off balance and let someone else do some real damage.
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“I have never left this Observatory and I will not allow myself to be destroyed.”
Aether answered the one who spoke, but there was no emotion in the voice. It was flat. Mechanical.
Grieve was in front of Urania and Emain Ablach was close to shield her.
Then Encke’s power flowed into her, heat and light — healing.
And then a fortress appeared as Wallia joined them, shielding the four from view, if just for a moment.
Urania had detransformed when she fell unconscious.
“What…” Urania opened her eyes which were extra starry and blinked, trying to see who was around her. “What happened?”
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In Phase 3, Aether can be attacked, but her wires can now target characters!
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An Earth knight with a decent ********' shield and likely some protective magic to go with it was a nice sight. Fort Wallia was even better. Especially once it fully blocked the attacking wires as the robocat started getting amped up.
Cosmos, Encke's so glowy. Too bad he's all sand colored these days.
Crouching down, Grieve loomed over Urania with an ugly grin before giving her a pat on the head. "Your killer robomau is getting its a** kicked. Shouldn't take too long."
Tjilaki knelt by Urania's side, relief flooding her at the sight of their mentor awake and seemingly unharmed. "You were knocked unconscious by the Chaos entity that was trapped behind the barrier," she explained quickly, helping Urania sit up. "But we managed to break through and shielded you from further harm."
Tjilaki quickly turned her attention to the writhing wires, realizing the danger they posed to everyone in the room.
She kicked out at a wire and managed to get a hit in.
With the fort of boxes around them holding off the wires for now, Emain Ablach turned for Urania to check on her. He had first aid experience, but no supplies. Hopefully someone could-- Good, Encke seemed to have that part under control.
Grieve's reassurance to Urania made it to Emain Ablach where he stood.
"Don't jinx us," Emain Ablach replied jovially to Grieve, turning again to look up a the wires that could be seen above the boxes the teenage senshi had summoned. He didn't know if they could get over the wall of boxes or not, but he wasn't willing to risk it. The wall came up to almost as tall as Emain Ablach was, though. How was he supposed to get around it?
He'd figure it out.
Moving closer to the edge of the fortification, Emain Ablach held his shield in both hands and brought it down as hard as he could with a resounding thwack against the wires just beyond the barrier.
He saw Urania go down and the boxes go up, with Urania and some of the others inside. But the boxes seemed to be stymieing the wires, so Imhotep turned back to the wires themselves. He was going to have to just hope that his weapon didn't break when used.
Taking a firm grip of the stick, Imhotep went for it like he was a star batter and the wires were a particularly ornery baseball.
The new senshi who ran near him, worried about Urania, asked to be certain his magic helped. It was cute, honestly, his concern, and no part of him had seemed to take offense when he apologized. "I know, healing with plasma is a bit odd. Apparently it's a whole medicinal thing these days." He sat back on his legs, watching to make sure Urania came conscious before he continued talking. "Think she'll be fine."
Admittedly, the fortress the senshi put up and the giant shield Emain Ablach came with helped too. He shot a grin at Grieve before turning his attention to answer Urania, snorting under his breath at the robomau descriptor.
He supposed that was accurate, wasn't it--
"I'm with Emain," Encke glanced behind him warily. "Don't jinx it." He cleared his throat and turned back to Urania. "Your robomau here -- think you called her Aether? -- is attacking everyone in this room and trying to dispel us. Started with blasting you. Feels like chaos. They may be your source."
He snapped around then and concentrated, before sending a blast of magic out toward the wiring.
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Magic Description!
Sailor Scout Attack: "Ionization!" Encke points his left pointer finger forward at his adversary. Suddenly, the air around the adversary sounds like it is crackling, and before long, small purple-blue sparks begin to hit their body, causing the sensation of small shocks all over them. Effectively, the air around them has become conductive and ionized, like plasmas. Players can also choose to keep lasting damage after the duration ends, such as soreness or residual shocks. (Uses: Thrice per battle. Duration: 30 seconds Range: 10ft radius around the target. This attack will hit other adversaries in the radius, but not allies.)
Emain Ablach, Encke, Grieve, and their new senshi friend seemed to have Urania covered, which meant he and Imhotep were free to concentrate on Aether. He wasn't sure how much he could do with his beaker without chucking it and having to recollect it every five seconds, but what the hell else was he going to do?
Whatever.
As Imhotep endlessly whacked at some wires, Promethei aimed to perhaps loosen it or maybe even snap a wire with the way he swung his kick out.
... Did that even do anything? Better than nothing, he guessed.
While there was a part of Elliott that wanted to go check on Urania, concerned over her after he had helped her reach her eternal strength, he held back when he saw several others rush to her side. They probably had it. Hopefully, he could use his considerably smaller and more agile size to get at some of these wires that were electrocuting and sticking some of those who were fighting Aether.
How had her planet turned against itself so severely?
Perhaps it explained how she had ended up marooned on the planet Earth and not on her asteroid Urania, in any case.
Why was he having so much trouble grasping these wires?
Viatrix had nothing against sentience in machines. In fact, she heavily encouraged it! That ship on Astraya was incredible, and she still worried for what happened to it after they had all been dispelled from Astraya.
But that planet had also come with sentiences that had decided they wanted a soul for themselves, a starseed for themselves, and that taking it from senshi and knights were the only way to get there. Encke had someone reach into his chest and that robot had died because of it! Died! Was that what was happening here?
... No, but the robot seemed to be filled with chaos, and perhaps that was worse.
What could she do? Maybe she could try figuring out the source of some of these wires and unplugging them before they caused any more damage. Her brows knit as she located a few and lunged at them, claws out.
Oh, that wasn’t good. She wasn’t sure what that Chaos cat thing was but it looked scary and she didn’t like it one bit. She wasn’t about to brandish her cute little tree at it, though! Her tree didn’t deserve that. None of them deserved to have to fight this scary Chaos lady, but they had to in order to save Urania, right?
“It’ll all get better once we get rid of the Chaos, right?” she squeaked in alarm. It looked like people were busy trying to take care of Urania, which was good. But there was still the Chaos to take care of, which was definitely what they should be doing.
“Okay, just… be careful!” she requested of her friends as they attacked the Chaos. She followed suit and did her best to kick at whatever was coming at her and her friends. In this case, the person with Chaos and cat ears. She wasn’t sure how effective she would be but she would try!
