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[color=9e0b0f][b]"If you must have a name you may call me Nihil,"[/b][/color] said the lady, the glower back on her face. Riley responded with a grin. It was just so easy to get a rise out of the woman, how could Riley resist ribbing her?

The Warden fallen, the escapees regrouped. The foam around the elevator shaft had almost melted away, but before they could win their freedom, the robot clambered back up onto its feet, and launched a second attack. Before Riley could make sense of it, smoke erupted around them, and she felt the breath blown out of her as polysterene sprouted around her. [color=8882be]"Oh, come [i]on[/i]. Now this is just childish and unnecessary,"[/color] she muttered, now distracted, with a scowl of her own. She wriggled her extremities, finding them free.

Suddenly, Riley was knocked off her feet, a weight suddenly upon her. Blinking up, momentarily dazed, she saw Nihil, and felt a smirk spring to her face. But it disappeared when she heard gunfire and the metallic noises of bullets that hadn't found their marks ricocheting madly off the metal walls. 

Rolling out from beneath Nihil, Riley sat up. At once, she caught sight of bloodstains along the back of Nihil's clothes, suspiciously shallow. Riley clicked her fingers, heat surging in her blood as she made the fire blaze faster to melt the foam she was shelled in, waiting for Nihil's blood to start spurting in a grotesque crimson fountain. [color=8882be]"What were you - "[/color] But the question was lost when Riley noticed bullets lying around on the floor, and no entry wounds on Nihil.

Riley looked at Nihil, scanning her face for a clue, before she broke out a lopsided smile of her own. [color=8882be]"Once we're done with this,"[/color] she said, getting to her feet and stretching out a hand to pull Nihil up with her, smoking foam falling like wax off of her body, [color=8882be]"remind me to ask you what landed you here in the first place."[/color] [i]And why you haven't bled out from multiple bullet wounds yet[/i], she thought.

She turned her attention back to the Warden. A giant man, pasty pale and hairless, was absorbing an assault of electricity, grenades and the entire arsenal the Warden had to offer. The shirtless man had struck off the chest plate. Riley couldn't set fire to the arms again, in case that just short-circuited the wires and upped the voltage even more as the porcelain man held on.

Another man had done something to the shaft, and now there was a torrent of water. Before Riley could dodge its sweeping path, she felt its current roll over her. Sputtering for air, Riley cursed to herself. [color=8882be]"Goddamnit."[/color] She shook her head and flicked the worst of the water off her hand, a resistant flame bursting to life in her palms though less brightly. She turned to Nihil, and offered her hand on fire with a jest in her voice again. [color=8882be]"Want me to dry you off?"[/color]