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It took a surge of effort to wash away the dizziness as she lay on the floor.  The ninja's strikes were powerful.  Eyes squeezed shut, she shook her head to regain herself, then opened her eyes to find herself in a steamcloud.  [Colour=Pink][i]He is in here,[/i][/colour] she suspected, grasping her dagger and one-handed crossbow from the floor and getting up.  Her Ranger perception was good enough to hear him and she braced for defensive action, but she heard him running off.  [Colour=Pink][i]Strange.[/i][/colour]

After a moment, she walked out of the steamcloud to see Adam was now fighting the ninja.  The Druid had used his Shapeshift ability and was doing very well against the weakened ninja.  He was marvelous - by some margin, the most powerful member of Second Chance.  [Colour=Pink][i]Just as I guessed,[/i][/colour] she thought, remembering when she'd first seen his magic back on their first day in Hommas. She walked forward to stand next to Zell and watch Adam, effortlessly and without a scratch, deal with their powerful nemesis.  [Colour=Pink][i]Nature is the world, and she is his ally.[/i][/colour]

"How you doing there, doll?" Zell asked MacKensie as the steam cloud dissipated behind them.

[Colour=Pink]"I am fine.  Thank you,"[/colour] she answered, unable to take her eyes off the fight.

"You still good to go?"

[Colour=Pink]"As long as I live."[/colour]

Zell and Clive exchanged a little banter, prompting a smirk from the frenchwoman.  Adam threw Zigmund away like a piece of trash and MacKensie gripped her weapons tighter.  Zell said loudly what she was thinking herself: It was time to swarm their injured predator-turned-prey.  Everyone heard the call to attack and promptly rushed to engage Zigmund.

Their syncronicity was beautiful - like their minds were connected.   Fenna, with the long reach of her spear, waited patiently for opportunities to attack.  Zell and MacKensie had become that whirlwind of blue and green again, capes fluttering all over as they danced around Zigmund, in and out, with attacks of dagger and sword.  Clive took brief openings to throw huge powerful punches.  Whatever James was doing to contibrute, he would no-doubt be making himself useful in some shape or fashion.  In spite of their Zigmund being more powerful than The Listener and The Greater Wrath combined, Second Chance were even better than before they'd walked into the Temple of Hades.  Ascension was really something special.

As Zell stepped out of from one of his turns in the team blitz, she ran and grabbed his free hand, him spinning 180 to give her massive momentum as came flying around and into enemy range with a strong kick aimed at Zigmund's head.

MacKensie mainly focused her own role in the team blitz as the initial phase of [i]'Ruse de guerre'[/i] of sorts - meaning that she would loosely act as 'The Decoy' in the fight.  She knew that her magical gauntlet was connected to her soul, Ascending as she did, but her weapons were not.  They were simple, mundane and not as powerful as the others'.  So she lunged in with her dagger mostly head-on, targeting Zigmund's weakpoints in an effort to force Zigmund to block, so that the others had openings to land.  She whirled around, dropping bolts into her crossbow - a one handed (dagger-fisted) cartwheel, the action an effort to forcibly draw Zigmund's attention, so he would that see she was aiming - upside down - and firing at his weakpoints, forcing him to react.  Again, this was all to create free attacks for the more powerful weapons of her friends.

When Clive threw a punch combo and Zell leapfrogged him into an attack, MacKensie was quick behind in the queue to join in.  She jumped high to land a light foot on the shoulder of the American, then pushed off into a sideways-flip, taking a keenly-aimed shot, as she sailed over the target, at the five-slash rip in Zigmund's helmet.  She landed behind the ninja, then lunged into a stab, aiming to sink her dagger into Zigmund's hip where fenna had first cracked his armour.