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[b]"Ciri’s gunna be so proud!"[/b]

[color=888888]— Amanda[/color][/center]

[i]It[/i] did not need to be told twice.

The shadow vaulted off, but not before Amanda had gotten a head start on [i]it[/i] . Getting shot was no joke, and even with [i]it[/i] there to protect her, Ciri needed a moment to catch her breath and fire. Fortunately, there was still time to do that. But it wasn’t a spray of blood that filled the air, but fragments of Viper’s pillaged armor. Bits of kevlar and polymer filled the air like confetti. But Amanda didn’t slow down. 

It dawned on Ciri that she might have been out of her fucking element here. As she rushed ahead, she sent a message to Luna. 

[color=75c159]"Kiiiinda busy dealing with nuns and weretigers right now."[/color] Luna stated what should have been obvious. [color=75c159]"If you see a kid monster, you know what to do."[/color] It was pretty standard in crisis situations like this to evacuate monsters as soon as possible. Maverick Alternative hadn’t fully entered the building yet, but the forces that met them at the door would be enough to hold their advance for a time. It seemed like Ciri was on her own. Behind enemy lines with the most important monster recovery of her career and an old foe she desperately wanted to settle the score with. 

Upon coming up the stairs, Ciri could see Amanda ahead of her. She had ducked into a corner to avoid Viper. A yellow ball of mist soared out of her hands  and landed on the ground. It just stayed there, but Amanda ran further away from it. 

[b][color=ffffff]"Ah! It’s burning!"[/color][/b] 


Ciri could perceive very tiny yellow dots leaping off of the yellow projectile. Maybe those seemingly harmless dots were what had burned Amanda. But that didn’t matter now. Ciri’s melody had been composed, and she was ready to sing. 

Two weretigers came out of the darkness, and Viper attempted to hide behind them. But there was no dodging the projectile. It surfed right over them and struck true. And just like before, it only managed to obliterate her helmet. It was an attack that would have caved a normal esper’s head in, but she appeared to be totally unharmed aside from her destroyed helmet. She wore a bandana underneath, a scarf too, and of course her gas mask. 

Something weird was going on here. A bullet was enough to blow up her armored suit, but a powerful melody could only blow up her helmet? Did it not matter how strong Ciri’s attacks were?

[b][color=ffffff]"Ciri?"[/color][/b] Amanda called out. [b][color=ffffff]"Did you get her?"[/color][/b]

Viper shrugged her shoulders. [b][color=ffffff]"I heard Maverick Alternative was going all out on this one. You even brought a dragon along."[/color][/b] She rolled her shoulders. [b][color=ffffff]"It might surprise you to know that we have a dragon of our own."[/color][/b]

There was movement in the corner of Ciri’s eye. To her right, a window overlooked the side street from the second story. She could see the scaly belly of something large and metallic. The pointed shapes that covered its body were more akin to spikes than scales, but it looked like it could be part of a dragon. 

[b][color=ffffff]"Regina also wanted a rematch. She’s been training for this."[/color][/b] Viper and the two weretigers at her side started to walk backwards.  [b][color=ffffff]"Maybe if you win your qualifying match, you can face me in the finals."[/color][/b]

A talon broke through the wall just behind Ciri’s position. It wiped out the stairs, and would soon be arriving at Ciri’s position. 

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[color=goldenrod][b]"I’m surrounded by clowns, and I’m not even fighting Maverick."[/b][/color]

[color=888888]— Finnegan Vanhorn[/color][/center]

[color=goldenrod]"...[i]REALLY???[/i] My expectations were low but holy shit, I thought you were smarter than that."[/color]

Despite being aware that Elroy probably won’t risk hitting Timekeeper’s mech again, Ashley decided to bait the behemoth into doing so anyway, narrowly avoiding the volley of blades and fire to slide beneath it and double tap him.

None of Elroy’s vitals were exposed, save his arms. The techno bolts caused the behemoth a great deal more pain than the mech, with seams opening up along the length of the arm. But this was a behemoth, and any damage it suffered was a flesh wound unless it was targeted at its weak point. After a howl of pain, one of the hands slid towards the mech, or more specifically, to the person hiding under it. As the giant demon leaned in, his head and horns obstructed the light coming in from the room above. 

[color=daa520]"Well, have fun with that."[/color]

Finn aimed away from the giant arm and fired a lightning bolt to get out of the way of [i]that[/i]. The mech reappeared a small distance away, moving to go support Klava. Ashley’s going to need to deal with the more immediate threat quite literally looming over her before going after him.

With the mech out of the way, The hand sped up, its massive fingers spreading wider. 

It was true that Raven was an effective anti-esper esper. And while Mika lacked an instrument that did physical damage, she had proven to be a good team player for the other espers. But their opponent was Klava, who might as well have been anti-everything. She rarely got as much as a scratch during most operations, and whatever deal she had struck with Bookman had made her far stronger than she had ever been. 

Her sash wrapped around the pillars like monstrous tendrils. Her trajectory was erratic and fast. Raven fired many times, but she never hit anything but air. Mika used her claws to sever one of the sashes, but then three more joined in to make up for it. Even espers gifted with flight likely wouldn’t have been able to keep up with the frigid esper’s tricks. It was at least fortunate that the demon was leaning into the hole now, and was purely focused on fighting Ashley now. 

[color=4682b4]"She’s fast!"[/color]

Klava sped up, shooting straight for Raven. The high tech esper flinched and brought her arm up in front of her face. 

Mika prepared a melody, and her eyes flashed as she did so.

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…

…

Raven sighed. She had just finished preparing for the operation when Mika approached her. 

[color=ff6347]"Hey."[/color]

[color=4682b4]"Oh."[/color] Raven was a little surprised to see the distant teenager talking to her. [color=4682b4]"What’s up? Need help packing."[/color]

[color=ff6347]"I’m fine. I need you to do something for me though."[/color]

[color=4682b4]"I’m listening."[/color] 

[color=ff6347]"You brought a flashbang with you, right?"[/color] 

[color=4682b4]"I usually do."[/color] 

[color=ff6347]"It’s really important that you have one this time. You’ll want to have quick access to it."[/color] 

[color=4682b4]"...Okay."[/color] Raven could tell Mika was being serious, even if she was acting a little weird. [color=4682b4]"I have a pocket in my cape. Is that good enough."[/color] 


Mika nodded. [color=ff6347]"Someone’s going to try and cut your arm off. If you hold your cape in front of yourself, and they hit your flash bang, you’ll be spared."[/color]

[color=4682b4]"Won’t that burn me?"[/color]

[color=ff6347]"Not if you protect yourself with a melody."[/color] 

Raven chuckled. [color=4682b4]"Well, I can protect myself from the explosion, but that flash will disorientate me."[/color]

[color=ff6347]"I’ll cure your eyes if that happens."[/color] Mika said as a matter of factly. [color=ff6347]"Just make sure you do it, we can’t lose you early in the fight."[/color] 

[color=4682b4]"Don’t worry! I’ll do it!."[/color] Mika departed without saying another word. It was such a strange and specific request. She almost didn’t follow through with it. But the certainty in her voice made her hard to ignore.

…

…

…

And now, she was glad she listened. 

An energy bubble spread over Raven’s body, perfectly sealing her off from physical attacks. This happened just moments before Klava’s blade bit into her cape. The blow was hard enough to split the grenade, and mix the contents inside. A blinding flash filled the room. Klava stumbled backwards, as did Raven. 

[color=4682b4]"Gah!"[/color] But Raven’s disorientation was short-lived. A spiritual stote soared through the air and rubbed its torso against Raven’s face, and her disorientation and blindness vanished in an instant. She raised her gun to shoot Klava, but her bullet struck the foot of Finn’s mech instead. 

Mika hissed. [color=ff6347]"If only he tried this hard as an agent..."[/color] 

Klava rose to her feet. [b][color=6ecff6]"I’ve got it under control, but thanks."[/color][/b]

Meanwhile, even if Cerise did fall back to shield Binky from enemy gunfire, she continued to keep an eye out in case Ashley ended up in trouble. So seeing the demon behemoth reaching down to grab the Knight of Tomorrow, she held a free hand out, ready to fire a pull melody to get her out of arms reach. [color=e4255e][i]"Orion! Over here!"[/i][/color]

Marrie was putting a lot of her mana into this one.  But Sofron wasn’t giving her a lot of choices. He already had a head start on her with his own melody, and she fully intended to beat him to the punch. His hand got hotter, Marrie’s melody surged through her arm, and then she reached out just as the palm of his hand started to glow white. 

Then they swapped. 

Marrie and Sofron were standing back to back. Sofron fell about a foot and a small explosion shot out of his palm. It wasn’t hard to picture that decapitating someone. But Marrie was too busy following up to care about what could have happened. She dispelled any negative energies that may have been inside her body and carried on. Between the disorientation and surprise, it wasn’t difficult to ram her weapon into the side of his neck. Crimson oozed over her blade, and she ran backwards as he reached to pull it from his neck. 

The blade was only eight inches long, so it was not long enough to go all the way through his neck. But when Marrie gave it a tug, it  definitely seemed like that bothered Sofron more than anything else that had happened to him ever. He had been drowned, stabbed, and shot, but this was the first time he looked genuinely weak. That look of reserved dignity was replaced with the wide eyed look of a man who’s life was spiraling out of control and was trying to figure out where it went wrong. He used one hand to stem the flow of blood rushing out of his neck, and the other he pointed down the hall at Marrie. 

By now Marrie had put enough distance between herself and Sofron that his men felt like they could safely intervene. They started to pile in around Sofron and behind Marrie, but brandished Ka-bars and billy clubs as they closed in. 

With Marrie starting to get swarmed in, she’d suddenly feel something else strike her in the head. But she’d feel…pretty much nothing from it. No pain, no bleeding, instead her face rapidly healed itself from the magical burns. Cereza had her bow aimed at her. [color=d40938]"Should’ve shouted for me, kid!"[/color] She called out to her, turning her sights towards Sofron’s minions. She aimed at the ones covering him in the front, and fired another melody aimed at one of their heads, following it up with firing more normal arrows to keep their attention towards her. The miko was trying to get Marrie another opening.

Binky was also assisting, muttering something under her breath [sub][sub][color=baddab]"S-So cool..."[/color][/sub][/sub]

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[color=77BB99]"You can’t dismiss the devil after making a deal."[/color] 

[color=888888]— Bookman[/color][/center]

Dismissed or not, Bookman was already on the phone making a call. While Himiko couldn’t be rid of him so easily, it was pretty easy to tune him out as she addressed her new hires and one old one.

[color=ec008c]"Oros? Really?"[/color] Ayana raised an eyebrow. [color=ec008c]"I think it’s smart to ditch the Sovereign moniker, but why take on the persona of a mad esper that everyone wants dead?"[/color] Though after some thinking, her eyes shot open. She came to a realization. Ayana pulled a ball of tinfoil out of her pocket and fabricated it into a hat. She placed it on top of Himiko’s head and then held two rare earth magnets on either side of her head. [color=ec008c]"I knew they chipped you! Oros must be part of a psyop where they turn their own into depraved espers. It’s their intent to scare us freelancers’ straight and abandon our posts! Tell me Himiko, is your desire to buy a new washing machine subsiding?"[/color] She gently massaged the magnets against her temples. The cool metal wicked the heat out of her skin. 

Magical Dream Princess stared at Himiko, unblinking. But Pink Pounder was more responsive. 

[color=ff00ff]"[/color][color=ff00f0]G[/color][color=ff00e1]o[/color][color=ff00d2]t[/color] [color=ff00b4]i[/color][color=ff00a5]t[/color][color=ff0096].[/color][color=ff0087]"[/color]

He stepped back into the hallway and ran down to the other end. MDP followed after him, but was slow about it. She stepped over a few of the sleeping bodies and wandered through the labyrinthine complex until she encountered Pink Pounder again. He had broken into a locker room that had some unusually secure lockers. They looked more like safes, and each one had a slot for a key card reader.  He was trying various keycards on them that he had pulled from the unconscious guards.

[color=b0c8ff]"[/color][color=b4c7ff]P[/color][color=b8c5ff]w[/color][color=bdc4ff]i[/color][color=c1c2ff]n[/color][color=c5c1ff]k[/color] [color=cebeff]P[/color][color=d2bdff]w[/color][color=d6bbff]o[/color][color=dabaff]u[/color][color=dfb8ff]n[/color][color=e3b7ff]d[/color][color=e7b6ff]a[/color][color=ebb4ff]h[/color][color=f0b3ff].[/color][color=f4b1ff]"[/color] She rubbed her arm. [color=b0c8ff]"[/color][color=b1c8ff]i[/color][color=b1c8ff]s[/color] [color=b2c7ff]i[/color][color=b3c7ff]w[/color][color=b3c7ff]t[/color] [color=b5c7ff]g[/color][color=b5c6ff]a[/color][color=b6c6ff]w[/color][color=b6c6ff]n[/color][color=b7c6ff]a[/color] [color=b8c5ff]b[/color][color=b8c5ff]e[/color] [color=bac5ff]u[/color][color=bac5ff]w[/color][color=bbc4ff]u[/color][color=bbc4ff]k[/color][color=bcc4ff]a[/color][color=bcc4ff]y[/color][color=bdc4ff]?[/color] [color=bec3ff]I[/color] [color=bfc3ff]w[/color][color=c0c3ff]a[/color][color=c0c3ff]s[/color] [color=c1c2ff]h[/color][color=c2c2ff]u[/color][color=c3c2ff]w[/color][color=c3c2ff]p[/color][color=c4c1ff]i[/color][color=c4c1ff]n[/color][color=c5c1ff]g[/color] [color=c6c1ff]t[/color][color=c7c1ff]h[/color][color=c7c0ff]a[/color][color=c8c0ff]w[/color][color=c8c0ff]t[/color] [color=c9c0ff]w[/color][color=cabfff]e[/color] [color=cbbfff]w[/color][color=ccbfff]e[/color][color=ccbfff]w[/color][color=cdbeff]e[/color] [color=cebeff]d[/color][color=cebeff]o[/color][color=cfbeff]n[/color][color=d0beff]e[/color] [color=d1bdff]w[/color][color=d1bdff]i[/color][color=d2bdff]t[/color][color=d2bdff]h[/color] [color=d3bcff]g[/color][color=d4bcff]e[/color][color=d5bcff]m[/color][color=d5bcff]i[/color][color=d6bbff]n[/color][color=d6bbff]i[/color][color=d7bbff].[/color] [color=d8bbff]T[/color][color=d9bbff]h[/color][color=d9baff]e[/color][color=dabaff]y[/color] [color=dbbaff]m[/color][color=dbbaff]i[/color][color=dcb9ff]g[/color][color=dcb9ff]h[/color][color=ddb9ff]t[/color] [color=deb9ff]b[/color][color=dfb8ff]e[/color] [color=e0b8ff]m[/color][color=e0b8ff]w[/color][color=e1b8ff]e[/color][color=e2b8ff]a[/color][color=e2b7ff]n[/color][color=e3b7ff],[/color] [color=e4b7ff]b[/color][color=e4b7ff]u[/color][color=e5b6ff]t[/color] [color=e6b6ff]i[/color] [color=e7b6ff]d[/color][color=e8b5ff]o[/color][color=e8b5ff]n[/color][color=e9b5ff]’[/color][color=e9b5ff]t[/color] [color=ebb5ff]w[/color][color=ebb4ff]a[/color][color=ecb4ff]w[/color][color=ecb4ff]n[/color][color=edb4ff]t[/color] [color=eeb3ff]t[/color][color=eeb3ff]u[/color][color=efb3ff]w[/color][color=f0b3ff]u[/color] [color=f1b2ff]h[/color][color=f1b2ff]u[/color][color=f2b2ff]w[/color][color=f2b2ff]u[/color][color=f3b2ff]t[/color] [color=f4b1ff]t[/color][color=f5b1ff]h[/color][color=f5b1ff]e[/color][color=f6b1ff]w[/color][color=f6b1ff]m[/color][color=f7b0ff].[/color][color=f7b0ff]"[/color]

Pink Pounder looked up from the lockers. He stepped towards her and hugged her shoulders with one arm. 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He rummaged through the contents until he came across an abacus. Pink Pounder grabbed it with both hands and attempted to twist it apart, but it wouldn’t break. [color=ff00ff]"[/color][color=ff00f8]T[/color][color=ff00f2]h[/color][color=ff00eb]i[/color][color=ff00e4]s[/color] [color=ff00d7]s[/color][color=ff00d0]h[/color][color=ff00c9]o[/color][color=ff00c2]u[/color][color=ff00bc]l[/color][color=ff00b5]d[/color] [color=ff00a7]b[/color][color=ff00a1]e[/color] [color=ff0093]i[/color][color=ff008c]t[/color][color=ff0086].[/color][color=ff007f]"[/color] 

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