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At Alicia's move, Christine instinctively took a step back, reacting in time to the pivot in thanks to her Awareness. The Duplicate on her right, the one that had joined Christine in encircling Alicia from behind, move in the same instant, but faster - faster than a Duplicate of that calibre should have been able to. Faster than Christine, and Alicia herself. In her Third Eye she could see why: a trail of ice magic between the two, drawing the Duplicate to block the attack, with an added magical boost. By the time Alicia's blades made contact, the real Christine was out of the fire, though the blades easily severed the Duplicate at the legs. In the same moment that it was destroyed, the body reverted to ice. A large ice pillar, nearly seven feet tall, which collapsed under its own weight from the slash, toppling towards the Beacon girl.

The other three Duplicates stepped in to attack, but Leena's own deft strikes eviscerated two of them, immediately transforming them back into their icy forms, which fell to their sides, and shattered against the floor of the hallway. The one Duplicate that survived drew a blade from within its bandages - a long, serrated combat knife, and lunged at Leena, aiming for her hips of back, as she cut apart its allies. The chances of it connecting were unlikely, but it followed its commands to the letter.

Leaving only the real Christine. As she stepped back, she raised her hands, and channelled her Hammerspace Handbag. In the next instant, [url=https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/escape-from-tarkov/images/1/12/AKS-74_5.45x39_assault_rifle_left.png/]a gun[/url] formed within them. She quickly unfolded the stock, and rested it within her shoulder, as a magazine appeared in her left hand, and slid into the weapon. The barrel pointed at Alicia, and even to the perspective of someone who had never touched a gun in their life, it was clear that Christine was experienced.

[colour=PaleTurquoise]"Neither of you move, or you die,"[/colour] she shouted, pulling back the action, and sliding her finger onto the trigger. From behind the two Beacon agents, they could hear the sound of additional footsteps encroaching upon them. More Duplicates. Only three had been destroyed, with one still in the battle, but over a dozen had been spread throughout the Rave. A couple had been killed in the chaos, but more than enough had survived to rebuild the numbers advantage. [colour=PaleTurquoise]"If I don't have to kill you, I won't, so here's what you're gonna do. Dismiss your weapons, and untransform. Anything else, and I'm putting an armour piercing seven six two in your head. Got it?"[/colour]

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The discordant note emitted from Penny's magic ripped through the room, forcing Eden to stop. The piano continued to play, but the violin ceased, and Eden once again opened her eyes, her bow hand falling to her side. The Nullification Field had yet to go up. For the entirety of the Rave, she had maintained a faint watch on the minds within the warehouse, waiting for the moment that she could no longer detect a large number of them in a single moment. The field was a foil, an annoying variable that she was loathed to contend with. Not being deployed was more annoying than the alternative.

[colour=BlueViolet]"Cynthia, that's enough."[/colour]

[colour=Crimson]"Oh, you're sure?"[/colour] the voice from the piano began, replacing the music. [colour=Crimson]"If you say so. Let me know when you wanna go again~!"[/colour]

The thought crossed her mind that she should remain patient. Progressing too quickly could trigger the girl with the Null Field to act reactively, and prevent it. If she knew which of the two girls had it, she could send Sasha to deal with them first. But she didn't. Most of the time spent digging into Beacon was spent attempting to ascertain the machine half of Penny's true nature. It hadn't provided any definitive evidence on which member of The Ascendancy could use the field. But waiting too long would see the Rave exterminated before anything could be done. There needed to be survivors, even if making it look like a massacre was preferable.

Then she felt something. Through the bracelet, Eden and Hyun's minds had been temporarily connected, and the Monster Queen was receiving an email. A psychic message. A powerful one at that, from somewhere further away than Eden could accurately sense. Before the message could reach Hyun's conscious mind, Eden used her own magic to redirect the message into her own, diverting the flow as subtly as possible, though the person on the other end could likely tell. Because they were trying to trigger Hyun into acting upon her mutations. Off the top of her head, Eden couldn't name a single Psychic with the calibre to target a mind from outside her own range. A magic booster could have been possible, she imagined. After all, that was essentially what the receptacle she had had commissioned did.

With a step, Eden crossed the room to the desk, and grasped the cube and rod in either hand. As the psychic message forced its way into her mind, she used her own magic, hijacking the boosted signal of the message to transmit feedback down the line to its source - not enough to cause any damage, but enough for the sender to know that somebody had intercepted the message, and could trace it back to its origin. She slid the luminescent purple rod into the device, locking the hexagonal end into place, while she pulled a single crystal from out within the violin case. A wisp thin string of blue-white, translucent energy connected between it and the cube, providing it with the vast reservoir of magical energy that had been gathered over the two months of summer vacation.

[colour=BlueViolet]"I'll play along this once. Popipa pipopa popipapapipopa,"[/colour] she exclaimed, raising the receptacle above her head as she spoke. Then she jumped, and channelled the spell. Seconds passed. Ten in total, and at first it seemed as though nothing had happened, as Psychic spell ripped its way through the warehouse, isolating anyone that it recognised as wielding a Spark or ShineSpark. Immediately after, it dealt its payload - a dozen, multilayered mental bombs of varying, but massive, magical intensity, which would shred the inner workings of their mind, until the victims fell dead. Those with the ShineSpark would feel their protection flare violently against the spell, shielding them from the mind rending power of the psychic nuke, but those without wouldn't be so lucky.

For a number of seconds after, Eden waited, watching the minds of those in the Rave, and awaiting for those of Beacon to fade from view. Only after she had confirmed the deaths of the attackers did she move do to anything else. Upon their minds vanishing from her encompassing gaze, Eden opened a Psychic connection spanning the warehouse, transmitting a message to as many people present as she physically could reach. A message, and the locations of the surviving Ascendancy members within and around the warehouse.

[center][b][i][colour=BlueViolet]"Cindy Ford has gone on to begin the fight, leaving The Penrose Independent to give a message: This is the beginning of the fight Penrose's freedom. The first wave of our oppressors is dead by my hand, but there are more, outside the warehouse, watching and preparing their next way to torture and kill us. Show The Mint and Beacon what a war is really like."[/colour][/i][/b]

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While Penny ran towards the secret exit, Thalia followed on behind, sword summoned and in hand. It was obvious that the machine half was mentally ingrained into her task. That stoic expression, the single-minded drive to complete the mission she had set out on. Thalia could never have attempted to act with such tenacity and diligence, to ignore almost everything outside of a solitary goal. But she didn't have to - that was for Penny. It was Thalia's responsibility to protect her.

Though in her her run, Penny was defending herself, Thalia kept close. The metal of her blade lit up in, wreathed in crimson lightning, illuminating their passage towards the exit for anyone nearby to follow. At the same time, she diverted as much of her magic into her Lure as she could manage, attempting to bolster to attractive effect it had, attracting anyone and everyone towards her, all whilst deflecting any attack that encroached on Penny's blindspots. Upon arriving, she raised the blade into the air, and pumped what magic remained circulating through her into the glow of the sword, creating a luminescent red beacon for all to see.

[colour=RoyalBlue]"That voice..."[/colour] abruptly, she froze up. A psychic message had been relayed across the warehouse, transmitted into the minds of everyone that it could reach. Thalia's eyes widened, and a chill ran down her body, wracked in a primal fear, left behind by The Vixen. It had been terrified of that voice, and the things it associated with it. But The Vixen and Thalia had become one, and so had the fears. [colour=RoyalBlue]"Th-that's her, that's... that's Eden..."[/colour]

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