Both Aki and Ciel wrenched their heads to look at the child and her pets, one of the pair obviously better equipped to deal with the threat. [color=FF7276]I—I—[/color] [color=00FFFF]Don't worry. Both of you stay behind me and I'm going to get you out of here.[/color] Ciel's arm appeared to morph into a kind of cannon, but with the outermost flesh of the limb tapering into a laserlike tine. [color=00FFFF]Battle routine, set![/color] The Mettaur raised its head, presumably to take another shot at Lily. Instead, Ciel vaulted to the left and fired her basic buster at the virus, capturing its attention and leading it away from the two humans. Immediately after distracting the malware, the same engine sound revved up around Ciel, prompting the virus to raise its pickaxe and unleash a shockwave toward the navi. Ciel waited until the tremor was halfway to her position before lurching to the left, kicking off the ground, and leaping toward the program, gleaming with the same purple light that struck down Aki's aggressor. [color=00FFFF]Execute!![/color] Still airborne, the navi released the purple light, manifesting as the wide triangular sword that slayed the program's cousin. The sword materialized as a progressive plane of light that beelined directly into the mouth of the virus as it contorted into its lethal shape. Before her feet made contact with the earth below her, the virus released a familiar corrupted screech, which was now sufficiently burned into Aki's memory. Once her sword had retracted, the Mettaur was nothing more than the memory of vaporous bits dispersed into the sky.