Serah felt the shocks of impact rock her body somewhat, wincing at the enormous amount of G-forces created from it. Soon after she had Atty stab its blade straight through the middle of that white frame, she felt it going limp. Its then that Serah also noticed someone else on the other side, Dynasty. It'd yanked off the blade off of that other melee framewerk from before, jamming it right in alongside Serah to guarantee that kill. [color=00aeef]"Hm~!"[/color] the girl gleefully hummed to herself, knowing that she worked together with one of her allies to take something bigger than her down. Then something caught Serah's eye on one of the holographic screens inside the control panel. Two, actually. The first was Yaeger's signal being lost, and the second was [i]a volley launched straight at her[/i]. [color=00aeef]"Atty!"[/color] she screamed, quickly pulling up both wings to intercept its fire whilst ignoring how the framewerk's blade was still stuck inside the now-dead target. They did their job well enough, drawing in most of the fire...

...But then both barriers shattered like glass. At that very moment, time slowed down to a crawl for Serah. Her brain took their time to process what was going on. A hail of armor-piercing slugs was firing towards a frail, light body. The girl's very own Atty. [color=00aeef][i]"Sorry, Atty-"[/i][/color] she managed to conjure up in thought, right as the volley of slugs punched their way through every single one off Atty's systems. [color=00aeef]"IAAAAA!!"[/color] she screamed as every fiber of her body stung in pain, her sharing every twang of pain AA-XOTRY felt. The moment seemed to last an endless amount of time, and the framewerk got almost completely destroyed in the meanwhile. Once it ended, visible smoke rose from Atty as its right arm hung limp, and head was down. Serah needed a few moments to recover herself, eyes wide open as she still felt the aftershocks of that intense feeling she'd just gotten.

The girl lowered her head back down to the screens, with her eyes having gone completely blurry and her hands numb. She grit her teeth, feeling a throbbing pain rattle around in her skull. She seriously wanted to blank out, just fainting inside of the cockpit. And for a little while, it looked like she would. But then, through the blur her eyes, she felt something. It wasn't right for her to faint just yet. As her vision returned, little by little, she took in the sight of all systems being red... But not down. [color=00aeef]"...You'd... Still hold on for me?"[/color] Serah asked her own machine in surprise, and now an actual smile of relief crossed her face. [color=00aeef]"...Thank you..."[/color] she mused, pulling herself back into her seat.

Everything hurt. It took Serah a miracle of willpower to even get upright, let alone scan the battlefield once more. Paladin was gone. Caretaker was down. And Sköll was about to finish off someone else. Serah grit her teeth again. [color=00aeef]"no..."[/color] they mused. [color=00aeef]"No...!"[/color] she mused again, a little bit louder this time. She focused all of her concentration into Atty's left arm, trying to wrangle the blade out of the white framewerk. [color=00aeef]"I won't allow it..."[/color] Serah stabilized, though anger was starting to overflow her. [color=00aeef][i]"Atty... Please... Hold out, just this little bit longer!"[/i][/color] she begged silently. The framewerk pulled out its blade and took one step back, then clutched their arm tightly around the energy blade. With the last of its might, it swung once to fire off an energy sickle at where Irina jumped, trying to catch her mid-air. Serah had put in all of the current energy of that blade into that swing, so the sickle was supposed to be larger than normal if fate smiled upon the girl. But that was probably everything Atty was capable of, with all other systems failing rapidly and Serah finally blacking out from the pain.