As Roman continued his fierce assault on the Great Axion Class, there was a sudden... noise that began to fill the air, overpowering even the roar of gunfire. A horrid, turgid, mechanical whine that tore at the senses, sending vibrations clattering through the deck of the battleship. It sounded like...
A drill. Only... about a hundred thousand times louder.
With terrible slowness, the colossal torso of the Lemures crested the field of Roman's view, twin glowing green eyes alight with power as it slowed minutely, rocketing up on plumes of multi-hued dimensional energy exhaust that were almost a match for the battleship's own. As it did so, the slugs from Sigrid's weapon smashed into its left knee, shattering the armor plating and sending electricity crackling threateningly up its limb - but the pilot neither knew, nor cared. The power of the Sphere, and the Chimera Card, were coursing through her veins, setting her senses on fire.
This is it! Thought Eliza Kruger, deleriously. This is what I've been searching for all along!
I knew I was different!
I'm not a failure, like the rest of them!
I knew it...!
"GET AWAY FROM THEM!"
With an uncharacteristic roar of fury, one of the Lemures' whirling, augur-grafted limbs came swinging down across the deck of the ship at chest level, looking to viciously swipe the Super Robot clear of its perch on the vessel's deck, and back to the earth below...
Hyperion watched, with seemingly no small amount of amusement, as Okuni departed wordlessly to clash with the Gespenst, its red cloak blowing about it in the wind. There was a commotion below it in the crew compartment of the Heca, but he ignored it - they would be dealt with in due time. Leaks needed to be plugged, after all. The light of the Orgon cloud expansion briefly lit up its features in emerald as its eyes followed the motions of the smaller unit with practiced ease as it twisted through the air.
Anastasiya was proving to be an effective operative, he mused. Yet, there was always the possibility of betrayal... Especially whenever personal feelings began to get in the way of duty, but for the moment, she was useful where she was. The Institute had proven maddeningly effective at uprooting their operatives so far, and having an inside ear on Bertram's schemes was almost as valuable as having System XN itself. With the completion of this operation... it would be time to finally shed light on the Directory's betrayal of its own people.
With the others seemingly preoccupied engaging the DEI forces, the Jinrai bounded from its perch, somersaulting to the ground below with a roar of its thrusters, as it began to sprint at breakneck speed towards the communications tower... unopposed.
A drill. Only... about a hundred thousand times louder.
With terrible slowness, the colossal torso of the Lemures crested the field of Roman's view, twin glowing green eyes alight with power as it slowed minutely, rocketing up on plumes of multi-hued dimensional energy exhaust that were almost a match for the battleship's own. As it did so, the slugs from Sigrid's weapon smashed into its left knee, shattering the armor plating and sending electricity crackling threateningly up its limb - but the pilot neither knew, nor cared. The power of the Sphere, and the Chimera Card, were coursing through her veins, setting her senses on fire.
This is it! Thought Eliza Kruger, deleriously. This is what I've been searching for all along!
I knew I was different!
I'm not a failure, like the rest of them!
I knew it...!
"GET AWAY FROM THEM!"
With an uncharacteristic roar of fury, one of the Lemures' whirling, augur-grafted limbs came swinging down across the deck of the ship at chest level, looking to viciously swipe the Super Robot clear of its perch on the vessel's deck, and back to the earth below...
Hyperion watched, with seemingly no small amount of amusement, as Okuni departed wordlessly to clash with the Gespenst, its red cloak blowing about it in the wind. There was a commotion below it in the crew compartment of the Heca, but he ignored it - they would be dealt with in due time. Leaks needed to be plugged, after all. The light of the Orgon cloud expansion briefly lit up its features in emerald as its eyes followed the motions of the smaller unit with practiced ease as it twisted through the air.
Anastasiya was proving to be an effective operative, he mused. Yet, there was always the possibility of betrayal... Especially whenever personal feelings began to get in the way of duty, but for the moment, she was useful where she was. The Institute had proven maddeningly effective at uprooting their operatives so far, and having an inside ear on Bertram's schemes was almost as valuable as having System XN itself. With the completion of this operation... it would be time to finally shed light on the Directory's betrayal of its own people.
With the others seemingly preoccupied engaging the DEI forces, the Jinrai bounded from its perch, somersaulting to the ground below with a roar of its thrusters, as it began to sprint at breakneck speed towards the communications tower... unopposed.