[b]Blast Girl[/b] "Gah!" Blast Girl stumbled back. She'd hit the bastard pretty hard, but he'd managed to get a good slash in... it wasn't deep or serious or anything, but it was a pretty painful cut right above her breasts. At least it had been low enough to miss her throat... And now the bug man was trying to get out of here! Doing her best to shake off the pain, Blast Girl squared herself up, gazing upwards at the fleeing criminal. Oh no, no way was she going to let him get away! She steeped back. She didn't have much time but she wanted to make sure she attacked from behind, instead of from the front. Without her chestplate(she'd have to get Kate to make her a new one), she didn't want to get into range of his claws... but from behind... The blonde took a deep breath, and felt herself become lighter as she adjusted her gravity... she wanted to make it, that was for sure. Then she swung both hands down and fired off all but two of her remaining cartridges! Blast Girl rocketed into the air, feeling it rush past her as she shot up towards Locust. The moment she began to rise up behind him, she raised both hands up and clasped with in each other... Before bringing them down like a club, heading right for Locust's head! ---- [b]Charlotte[/b] Oh, how bothersome. Ember had already lit the brambles on fire... that meant that Charlotte didn't have as much time to act as she thought she would. "Sorry, it'll have to wait," she said, flashing a smile at the silly girl who had tried to run away with her. She turned to face her bramble wall... and watched as plumes of smoke rose from the plants. That was the bad thing about trying to burn plants that were very much alive and very moist inside. They made a lot of smoke. And it tended to smell pretty bad(seriously, it stunk like hell). Of course certain rituals involved burning plants but this wasn't exactly that kind of situation. The smoke had made a mass of cover, obscuring both Charlotte and the taller girl entirely from view. Ember, it seemed, was trying to burn them out of hiding by throwing fire at them. In Charlotte's opinion, this made her position very easy to track. Every fireball let her know exactly where the pyrokinetic was. The small black-haired girl raised her knife. This would sting a little, but it's nothing she wasn't used to. The faint, purple outlines of a magic circle grew from where she stood... and expanded, a rotating ring of purple around the spot where she stood. Her voice was quiet, but with all the commotion she was certain she would go unheard. "My blood, willingly given, to destroy my foe..." 'Destroy' was a bit of an exaggeration. Oh, Midnight Ripper could certainly be lethal when given enough power, but she wasn't going for that at the moment. Charlotte raised the knife, and brought it to the palm of her other hand. She felt the tip bite through her skin, and she swiftly dragged the blade through her flesh. Almost immediately her blood began to flow from the wound. She winced, but it would be only a moment before the pain ceased. Her blood dripped from the wound, but instead of falling to the ground, it curled and twisted, blackening and forming a ring before her palm. "And my flesh, a conduit!" There was a flash of what could only be described as black light from the circle before Charlotte's hand! A bolt of blackness lept forward, tearing through the air and ripping right towards Ember, through the smoke. If it hit, it would floor her and quite possibly knock her out depending where it struck. At the very least it would give Charlotte a chance to change her position and keep firing.