One by one your allies leave you.

Diaofei is the first to go. She is in the thick of the fighting, surrounded by robots on all sides, a whirlwind of punches and kicks and then she's got a ladder whoa shit where did that come from, what kind of cool kung fu can you do with a ladder? And just as she finishes her combo it breaks and instead she's swinging with a fire extinguisher, and then she's using the fire extinguisher to perform incredible low-gravity maneuvers during elevator stall moments, and then she's got a gun and [i]oh my god she's shooting the gun[/i]

Actia falls backwards, flumphing onto her enormous cushiony tails, eyes so wide they're visible outside her cool space sunglassers, sweat running down her face. An invisible robot collapses down behind her. Her eyes are fixed on the pistol - the partner of the one she used before to shoot everybody's phones, half of a heart engraved upon it.

Diaofei smiles once - and is then pulled down out through the door by a swarm of machines, throwing her down the impossible distances of the space elevator shaft.

Opalis is next. It's her decision - she's going to rescue the fragile wingless human. She has chosen her weapon wisely - she is no more a martial artist than any of the foxgirls, but she's played enough Ribbonball to be able to direct an object reliably with wings, tail, and core muscles. She leaps and twists and dribbles and scrambles across the roof and finds every opening in the enemy lines, the swathe of her scarf leaving heaps of machines burnt out by cosmic fire in her path. In the final stretch she breathes out a hurricane of zero point ice, smashes through frozen machines, leaps out through the doorway, double flips off the space station, and then plunges straight down.

Berserker's downfall is inevitable. Once the momentum turned and the interior was momentarily cleared, she was able to fortify the elevator. A castle ascended into the heavens and all the celestial machines could not stop it; there's actually a chance for a foxgirl to sit and catch her breath and watch the awe inspiring sight of the King of Fortifications defending a position. She's beautiful, she's skillful, she's unbreakable, and the second the elevator passes the orbital factory where all of Adam's combat machines are being assembled she is jumping out of the window before you can say 'quick brown foxgirl'.

You get to watch her stupid armoured body tumbling helmet over tail through low earth orbit, sword drawn, as she gradually makes her way towards the enemy stronghold.

But there's no time to worry about her. You five - Actia, Cyanis, Katherine, Avenger and Magical Hacker Hero-Idol Elly - are almost to the top. There, an enormous orbital space laser is firing a column of spectacular blue light into the Vault, burning through layers and layers of neosteel and hexagrammatic wards. Whatever monstrosity within is almost free.