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Truth be told, the idea of returning to the shattered dome held little appeal for Charles; seeing that destruction just once had been more than enough. But it seemed as though his younger counterpart - a psychodriver no doubt, as the Lunarian nobility so often was, though the Arbiter himself...

A muttered curse escaped Charles as the Geminia rose once more. That the thing could still function after the combined beating they'd given it...incredible. The Diam Sir dropped to the lunar soil and skidded to a halt, weaponless, remaining arm raised defensively - but it seemed as though...

The Arbiter, for his part, received little warning of the impending events beyond a great swell of viridescent light that illuminated their surroundings, the Genion itself being quite hidden from view by the bulk of their opponent's torso. Charles had time to glance up, distracted by the sudden...

Metal screamed as the Diam Sir impacted the Formenia's razor edge. Even though Charles had avoided being skewered - through both Enfield's hesitation and his own efforts at evasion - the blade still bit deep into the machine's left arm. Damaged as it already was, the Grand Arbiter had thrown the...

"Ugh..." Even shielded behind the aggressive auto-darkening filter on the Gespenst's helmet, Ana was forced to shade her eyes with a raised arm as the Resolution's main gun discharged. She could feel the dull rumble of the weapon in the deck below her feet. It was a bizarre sensation, an intense...

Charles felt a rare, brief moment of panic as the golden horn let go under the Sir's weight. The smaller machine rocked wildly as its expected pivot pointed ceased to exist and it spun out of control - for that fraction of a second, the world was little more a smeared blur of purple and gold...

"I know." Anastasiya's expression softened, trademark cheesy grin shifting into something gentler as she looked the soot-stained scientist over. The smile persisted but as a softer thing, formed of compassion rather than joviality; the woman's brow was wrinkled ever so slightly with concern...

"Eliza?" The familiar voice echoed up through the cavernous hangar, accompanied by a low whirr. A glance down would reveal Anastasiya trundling slowly up toward her astride the Lemures' cockpit lift, the woman seemingly having already been on her way up based on her proximity. Already clad in...

Yet, even as the twinned presences of Derrick and Gail suddenly vacated the stone circle...a far greater number of beings - if they could be called that - took their places. The passage of the Asclepius was a thing of sheer brute force; it had smashed a gaping hole in the space between...

"Justice?" The machines met with tremendous force, though the impact was still far below the magnitude of the battering Vynatea had delivered upon the Giganscudo. That Gerart did not move to avoid his strike, despite it being well within his power to do so...was a good sign, such as things...

Bursting at speed from the blinding dust, Charles was immediately greeted by the sight of the Geminia delivering a brutal combination attack to its sister unit. To intervene was impossible; he could only hope that the Genion was robust enough to weather the blows. To lose a unique machine was...

Charles' jaw clenched as the two machines clashed, as though the act of physical exertion on his part could influence the outcome of the struggle. It appeared for a moment that Enfield may have taken the bait - but when their crossed weapons finally separated with a deafening scream of anguished...

Whatever Charles had been anticipating, a colossal detonation to his rear was not it. His view snapped around, drawn by the brilliant initial impact as the energy storage ruptured - before the signal was summarily obscured by interference from the massive power surge. His field of view darted...

Tch. It wasn't as though Charles had truly expected his initial barrage to land, but the ease with which the Geminia pirouetted away from his fire was...troublesome. A machine of such size moving with that degree of agility would immediately prove difficult to keep up with. As loathe as he would...

Though unseen to Enfield, Charles' eyes narrowed at the jab. To go so far as to spit on the sacrifices they had made! And to furthermore insinuate that his appointment as Grand Arbiter had been folly...that Gerart would question the venerable Sir Franklin's judgement rose his ire a great deal...

"Spoken well, young Steelheart." A shape had suddenly appeared in the gap through which Enfield had emerged only moments before. It was even smaller yet than the unfortunate Raftclans, but wide and hulking in profile, and heavy footfalls crushed shards of the tattered dome to dust beneath their...

It was...done. In the fleeting moments after the Giganscudo unleashed its fury against the might of Vynatea, pure and blinding brightness enveloped Charles where he sat. Ever so briefly, the man wondered whether the light that wholly obscured his sight was the harsh flare of plasma reflected...

"Would I still be here if I wasn't serious?" Eliza's delicate grip would disappear as Ana lay her own free hand atop it, giving it a reassuring pat. She'd really stuck her foot in it with this one, hadn't she? The twinned sensations of relief and joy that miss Kruger had accepted her assistance...

There was a twinge of triumph as the Giganscudo's digits closed powerfully around Vynatea, and a hint of satisfaction upon seeing fractures race up the crystal figure's visage. Charles' cockpit reverberated with strange sounds as the two titans struggled against one another. The low groans and...

For a long moment Anastasiya seemed almost frozen in place by the statement, still hunched forward with one hand awkwardly extended. Only her lips moved as she opened her mouth to respond only to think better of it and clam right back up. At length she drew back, posture straightening as she...