Given A.C.'s own reflexes and speed, the good inspector will have a hard time hitting the Rock Doc.
Here we go for a big part...
“…” – Normal Speech
- Radio communications
… […] - Foreign language [Translation]
… – Device Speech
~ … ~ - Thoughts
**19**
The Senshified Belkan cyborg-knight tensed as she popped out of the tunnels into the cavernous spaces of the underground industrial complex. Here and there rusting machinery moved with inscrutable purpose.
~ Wish I could go back to my regular armour. ~ The Belken Senshi-Knight cyborg thought, sticking to the shadows as much as possible. ~ At least I wouldn’t stick out as much. ~
At least the noise downgraded sonar as a sensing technique, and hid the slight click of her armoured heels. She wasn’t as noisy on them as most would have expected, thanks to stealth training she’d got from Kasumi. Give her half an hour at most and she’d be used enough to them to almost negate the click entirely.
Of course she could fly, but that wouldn’t be sporting now would it?
~ Still… ~ The raven-haired senshi knight looked up at the crisscrossing pipes and tall tanks and leapt into a deeper shadow.
From her new vantage point, she could get a better idea of what the sim had got for her. Cautiously she looked around in hyper-spectral vision, noting thermal signatures and the flickering of lasers scattering in the IR and UV spectrums, while monitoring com frequencies. She’d have taken out the tricorder she’d linked to Laevatein, but even that would have been in passive mode to detect active scans using conventional means. Magical scans did not yet seem to be part of the Op-For’s arsenal, but they did not seem to be suitable for the current environment anyway.
With the major heat sources identified, A.C. moved towards them. Most probably they were smelters or forges, given the apparent purpose of this industrial environment, and she expected her IR signature to be easily spotted at the moment.
Phobos and Deimos flew with great care around the edges of A.C.’s sensory perimeter, scouting and adding to the map being built in the cyberneticist’s tactical processor.
As they moved, they noticed the large cargo elevators reaching into the roof at various points.
Again, A.C. wondered what the A.I. was doing when it created the scenario realm layout. It wasn’t for a few seconds that she noticed the machinery starting and stopping as she passed them.
~ Now the A.I. is annoying me. ~ The raven-locked cyber-senshi grumbled. The only upside was the A.I. was supposed use the environment against the challenger.
A landmate appeared around a tank further down the row of machines the psudo-senshi was currently travelling down, causing her to dodge the snap-fired round from its rifle. Then she was upon it, carving it in half as she passed.
More of the Op-For appeared in front of her, forcing A.C. to call a shield into existence as she sped up, taking the fire as Laevatein lit up and she pulled out her mono-ribbon sword and holding them outstretched to her sides.
Schlangenform.
Sparks flew as the fuku-clad cyberneticist swung her arms forward, the extending swords cutting into the machinery ahead, and through those in reach of the blades.
Her two fairy familiars cried out, causing the speeding cyborg to dig in with her heels and leap to one side.
With a ringing smash, a large chunk of metal dropped on her former path, just as bullets, spells, and grenades roared through where she’d just been to hit it.
Dodging the ricochets and shrapnel, A.C. ducked behind more machines.
The magical cyber-knight sent to her companions, changing course to one of the open cages that held a cargo lift.
Deimos started.
A.C. snapped, seeing her way out and putting on a sprint.
A.C. barely flinched as she smashed through the barrier gates of the large cargo lift, absently noting the efficiency of her fuku’s protective fields, to catch herself on the far wall. Then she pushed herself up as hard as she could.
She shot out of the elevator platform’s hole at speed, immediately corkscrewing to disrupt targeting locks then snapping a loop to aim down at the forces waiting to ambush her.
“Burning Mandala!” She cast, sending blazing discs of fire into the rapidly scattering OpFor. She quickly tried to get the lay of the land, spotting a couple of outlying groups near tunnel entry points she knew about, while dodging enemy fire and avoiding the elevator shaft as much as possible.
~ There! ~ She spotted a small group of three landmates a bit East-North East of her. Then she snapped into a hard right flat scissors.
“Fire soul!” The flame attack burned an ‘S’ into the ground, before she pulled a Split S and turned to her true targets. Pouring on the speed the emerald-eyed cyberneticist aimed directly at the landmates before flipping over for a flying kick.
Blitz Ansturm. [Blitz Rush.]
Her spell-assisted flying kick met unexpected resistance with a crash of interacting fields.
Then the Senshified Cyborg Cyberneticist spotted the larger packs and extended heatsink vanes, narrowing her eyes as she pushed off the field and flew up.
Her emerald gaze hardened further.
One of her few red-band grenades found itself both in her hand and armed.
Blitz Ansturm. [Blitz Rush.]
With a roar of exertion, A.C. threw the now-glowing grenade with all her might at the centre of the ground forces. The purple light streaked like a comet into the formation and exploded with a visible shock front.
Technically called a vibrational implosion device, the grenade was more commonly called an Earthshaker. And shake the earth it did. In the seismically unstable ground of the arena it also ripped open the land beneath the ground-pounders feet.
When the shaking stopped a full thirty seconds later, the entire local landscape had been redrawn with crevices, rubble, uplifted sections and sinkholes everywhere.
Several of the Op-For began to suspect they’d just pissed the Scarlet Angel off.
***
“It would seem the Op-For has managed to irritate the Mistress.” Roberta noted.
“Oh my.” Kasumi sighed. “Time to break out the massage oils.”
“Make sure that cheesecake is ready lass.” Adonis told Roberta.
Here we go for a big part...
“…” – Normal Speech
- Radio communications
… […] - Foreign language [Translation]
… – Device Speech
~ … ~ - Thoughts
**19**
The Senshified Belkan cyborg-knight tensed as she popped out of the tunnels into the cavernous spaces of the underground industrial complex. Here and there rusting machinery moved with inscrutable purpose.
~ Wish I could go back to my regular armour. ~ The Belken Senshi-Knight cyborg thought, sticking to the shadows as much as possible. ~ At least I wouldn’t stick out as much. ~
At least the noise downgraded sonar as a sensing technique, and hid the slight click of her armoured heels. She wasn’t as noisy on them as most would have expected, thanks to stealth training she’d got from Kasumi. Give her half an hour at most and she’d be used enough to them to almost negate the click entirely.
Of course she could fly, but that wouldn’t be sporting now would it?
~ Still… ~ The raven-haired senshi knight looked up at the crisscrossing pipes and tall tanks and leapt into a deeper shadow.
From her new vantage point, she could get a better idea of what the sim had got for her. Cautiously she looked around in hyper-spectral vision, noting thermal signatures and the flickering of lasers scattering in the IR and UV spectrums, while monitoring com frequencies. She’d have taken out the tricorder she’d linked to Laevatein, but even that would have been in passive mode to detect active scans using conventional means. Magical scans did not yet seem to be part of the Op-For’s arsenal, but they did not seem to be suitable for the current environment anyway.
With the major heat sources identified, A.C. moved towards them. Most probably they were smelters or forges, given the apparent purpose of this industrial environment, and she expected her IR signature to be easily spotted at the moment.
Phobos and Deimos flew with great care around the edges of A.C.’s sensory perimeter, scouting and adding to the map being built in the cyberneticist’s tactical processor.
As they moved, they noticed the large cargo elevators reaching into the roof at various points.
Again, A.C. wondered what the A.I. was doing when it created the scenario realm layout. It wasn’t for a few seconds that she noticed the machinery starting and stopping as she passed them.
~ Now the A.I. is annoying me. ~ The raven-locked cyber-senshi grumbled. The only upside was the A.I. was supposed use the environment against the challenger.
A landmate appeared around a tank further down the row of machines the psudo-senshi was currently travelling down, causing her to dodge the snap-fired round from its rifle. Then she was upon it, carving it in half as she passed.
More of the Op-For appeared in front of her, forcing A.C. to call a shield into existence as she sped up, taking the fire as Laevatein lit up and she pulled out her mono-ribbon sword and holding them outstretched to her sides.
Schlangenform.
Sparks flew as the fuku-clad cyberneticist swung her arms forward, the extending swords cutting into the machinery ahead, and through those in reach of the blades.
Her two fairy familiars cried out, causing the speeding cyborg to dig in with her heels and leap to one side.
With a ringing smash, a large chunk of metal dropped on her former path, just as bullets, spells, and grenades roared through where she’d just been to hit it.
Dodging the ricochets and shrapnel, A.C. ducked behind more machines.
The magical cyber-knight sent to her companions, changing course to one of the open cages that held a cargo lift.
Deimos started.
A.C. snapped, seeing her way out and putting on a sprint.
A.C. barely flinched as she smashed through the barrier gates of the large cargo lift, absently noting the efficiency of her fuku’s protective fields, to catch herself on the far wall. Then she pushed herself up as hard as she could.
She shot out of the elevator platform’s hole at speed, immediately corkscrewing to disrupt targeting locks then snapping a loop to aim down at the forces waiting to ambush her.
“Burning Mandala!” She cast, sending blazing discs of fire into the rapidly scattering OpFor. She quickly tried to get the lay of the land, spotting a couple of outlying groups near tunnel entry points she knew about, while dodging enemy fire and avoiding the elevator shaft as much as possible.
~ There! ~ She spotted a small group of three landmates a bit East-North East of her. Then she snapped into a hard right flat scissors.
“Fire soul!” The flame attack burned an ‘S’ into the ground, before she pulled a Split S and turned to her true targets. Pouring on the speed the emerald-eyed cyberneticist aimed directly at the landmates before flipping over for a flying kick.
Blitz Ansturm. [Blitz Rush.]
Her spell-assisted flying kick met unexpected resistance with a crash of interacting fields.
Then the Senshified Cyborg Cyberneticist spotted the larger packs and extended heatsink vanes, narrowing her eyes as she pushed off the field and flew up.
Her emerald gaze hardened further.
One of her few red-band grenades found itself both in her hand and armed.
Blitz Ansturm. [Blitz Rush.]
With a roar of exertion, A.C. threw the now-glowing grenade with all her might at the centre of the ground forces. The purple light streaked like a comet into the formation and exploded with a visible shock front.
Technically called a vibrational implosion device, the grenade was more commonly called an Earthshaker. And shake the earth it did. In the seismically unstable ground of the arena it also ripped open the land beneath the ground-pounders feet.
When the shaking stopped a full thirty seconds later, the entire local landscape had been redrawn with crevices, rubble, uplifted sections and sinkholes everywhere.
Several of the Op-For began to suspect they’d just pissed the Scarlet Angel off.
***
“It would seem the Op-For has managed to irritate the Mistress.” Roberta noted.
“Oh my.” Kasumi sighed. “Time to break out the massage oils.”
“Make sure that cheesecake is ready lass.” Adonis told Roberta.