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When Curie turned her blade on herself, it was the only moment in the fight that the Engine stalled as it had no information about what a tactic could mean. The lull lasted only until it was full body tackled in to the lake at which point it threw everything it had at the atomic powered girl. It quickly noticed that something was wrong however, as Curie had been run through several times by all manner of blades and spikes but was refusing to change her tactics.

As fast as it was capable the Engine started to reshape its body, it was placing as much metal as it could between this last desperate attack and its core as it could, having to way to tell just how powerful this suicidal attack was going to be, it could only be as cautious as possible. When the nuke finally did erupt it could tell that it lived by luck, luck that the metal it had used was blessed for durability.

Slamming on to one of the remaining ice flows that were scattered across the lake, the Engine was still attempting to complete its primary goal. Even though it knew it was at critical levels of damage, as it only barely had thirty percent of its core mass remaining, and the wounds were all bathed in radiation causing regeneration to be stymied. 

Relentless in the truest sense of the word. 

Somehow it managed to orient its self so that it caught sight of Alicia and Doris, another gauss round visible through the cracked line that was its mouth a moment away from being launched at the ice user. Then the ice golem shattered into soft snow and Alicia lowered Doris to the ground. From this distance the only thing it could tell was that the ice witch was dead. It gave one last scan of the area, to confirm there were no more visible threats.

 [color=00aeef]“Rebooting Humanity.exe”[/color]

The first thing Penny felt as she resurfaced was relief and satisfaction, Alicia was okay and the enemies were dead. Then the pain came, as every wound she suffered let her know of their presence all at once. She tried to grit her teeth and endure it but could help the yelp of pain that slipped out. She could also feel a phantom sensation from the Earth Bastion, but as it was currently scattered across the lake bed, along with the rest of her body, all that really did was disorient her making it hard to shut out the pain.

She sat on her little block of ice floating for some time as she fought to get her pain under control, thankful for the refreshing coldness of the ice. She wasn’t too worried, as she wasn’t completely helpless despite being little more than half a torso and head covered in irradiated burns. She still had a gauss round chambered, and allies weren’t too far away. 

Eventually, once she could clearly think through the pain she would call out tiredly [color=9e0039][b][u]”I could use some help over here” [/u][/b][/color] hoping that her allies could hear her, If not she would just fire off her gauss round at the castle to get their attention. After all she could still see the top of the tower from her postion.