[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/qFC355N.png?2[/img][/center][hr][hr][right][sub][color=1a7b30][b]Location:[/b] Near the Dying Mistle @ The Ruined City[/color]     [color=A9A9A9]//[/color]     [color=007236][b]Date:[/b] February 23, 2057[/color]     [color=A9A9A9]//[/color]     [color=00746b][b]Time:[/b] 16:02[/color]     [color=A9A9A9]//[/color]     [color=0076a3][b]Interactions:[/b] @everyone [/color][/sub][/right][hr][hr]
There'd been banter - uneasy smalltalk to distract them all from their slowly deteriorating margins for error - as they continued on through the ruined city. Shadows pooled, deep and cold in alleys and alcoves and the sun shimmered, fat and orange, as it dipped below the tops of even midsized buildings. They were going to be caught out at night.

Lys had just finished replacing Princess' batteries and sending her back into the field, when she noticed Ajax's body language shift ever so slightly, like the human - or revenant - equivalent of a dog stiffening its stride and pricking its ears up. She shot a pair of quizzical eyes in his direction, but then it was her turn to prickle in warning. Princess' sensors were beeping. [color=7FFFD4][b]"Someone spot for me,"[/b][/color] she called out, [color=7FFFD4][b]"Princess has something. Horsie,"[/b][/color] she added, [color=7FFFD4][b]"push: terrain-following."[/b][/color] Iron Horse was low on batteries, but should have enough left for [i]that[/i]. Lysandra pushed the visor down and she was Sky Princess, peering at the world from fifty feet above ground through a fisheye lens. Licorice was swooping toward a house where Akaia must've been, and he let out an urgent screech presently, but he wasn't what had set off the sensors.

The drone had flagged movement - [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7xBEsLmklc&list=PLPJny5xpzQqS0uk4bb_Q5wPjnsQRaFKgW&index=6]massive[/url] movement - and turned its camera that way. The solid brick wall of a townhouse rippled and collapsed in a shower of bricks and a billowing cloud of reddish dust that buffeted the surrounding area. Sky Princess was sent reeling, rotors straining to recover and, when she did, Lys pointed her back in that direction. From the dust and debris rose a towering hulk of translucent silvery-white flesh, fifty feet tall and weeping milky grey pus out of a dozen faintly glowing red orifices that had to be... eyes of some sort. Dozens of tendrils, many thicker than a grown man's body, whipped and lashed, battering walls and smashing windows. The beast stood there for a moment, swaying gently. Then, it reared up to its full height and threw its head back. A cavernous black maw opened and opened wider still, revealing thousands of small, black, razor-sharp teeth. The behemoth [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O4YQQgX-bQ&t=48s]bellowed[/url]. Nearly half a kilometer away, Lys could [i]feel [/i]the bloodcurdling sound as it reverberated through the air and her insides alike. The creature lurched forward with unsettling speed and hurtled toward the group of Erik, Dallas, Poppy, and Desmond, laying waste to everything in its path. [color=7FFFD4][i]A Tsar Bomba![/i][/color] Her blood went cold and spiky within her arteries and, for a moment, she could feel every bit of it.

[b]"What the fuck [i]was [/i]that!?"[/b] one of her group members shouted. Lysandra pressed the 'evasive' button on Princess' controller and tore her headset off. [color=7FFFD4][b]"It's a fucking Tsar Bomba!"[/b][/color] she screamed. She hadn't seen one in years. The last time, she'd had legs, and she'd used them to [i]run[/i], but it wasn't for [i]herself[/i] that Lys' blood froze. Akaia had entered a house [i]right[/i] in that [i]thing's[/i] path and hadn't emerged yet. [color=7FFFD4][b]"We need to stop it or they're all gonna die! Akaia's right in its path, in that house!"[/b][/color] She flipped her visor down and sent Princess higher up, outside of the monster's reach. Her rockets would barely make a dent against a threat of that size and magnitude, but she could target the sensitive spots, like the 'eyes' and mouth, as well as any tentacles that tried to pick off her allies while they closed the range. That would have to be enough.  
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