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[color=8E7300]"If I do that, I don't think I'll be getting back up."[/color]

Zhejiang chuckled, unperturbed by the ineffective strikes against the Outlander. She'd done what she'd set out to do, kept the gaze of the Mother open for Teddy just a bit longer. She could feel the thrum of the Thrill in her ears now, it beat louder than she had ever heard it before. The bullets from the downed Mech the blitzed her way never even touched the Stardust as, in the fraction of a moment that they nentered her senses, portals oppened to pass tehm on through behind her and then vanished. Surrounded by ripples of black as rifts opened and closes in rapid succession, she felt as if she could take on anything. IF she pushed just a bit more, perhaps she could eve-

[b]CRASH[/b]

Whether that battle would have ended in a new awakening or a meaningless death, the moment of focus was broken as Lictor was catapulted into the battlefield, crushing the dangerous foe in a single blow that nearly blew the stardust off her feet as the Aberrant's field fell away. The rush of the thrill grew distant and the Mother's gaze fell away as the superior's words came through. For a moment, she felt indigation at this rescue and the order that came with it. Sher'd been the cusp of greatness, she was sure of it. . . but she bit back any such compliants. If nothing else. . . she'd tasted the feeling. The Void Mother, even in this cradle, had been so close.

[color=8E7300]"On it.[/color]

The response to Lictor was still clipped with a hint of irration as she turned her attention to the greenhorn from before as he flew, with some skill she had to admit, to defly avoid the flying warheads that were the Sparrows. A breath was taken. . . and while still dulled the Thrill hummed still. She could handle this much.

The rift opened beneath her and she fell upwards, Eight Ball beneath her as its pilot swerved this way and that through the skies onit's way to the main gathering point by Teddy. Shining Void trilled as she spun it in mid-air, an orbiting motiong as she fell end over end. Her muscles tightened as she drew her arm back and once more send the Spear rocketing through the VOid Mother's domain. The sparrow that was almost in range to explode upon Alto would be halted by the force of a sudden impact as the spear slammed into it, cracking through the flimsy barrier to plant into the flesh. As the energy within began to ignite and expand, the weapon retreated to her waiting hand. The Void opened beneath her, taking her to the ground running amidst the swariming hordes as the sparrow detonated overhead, catching several others in it's field to form a chain reaciton. The red tide would be sliced through for a brief moment, the thrill heightened by so many hungering foes. . . and then she returned ot the air, launching another strike from on high as she took to the role of ranged skrimisher, covering the Pilot's escape as best she could.
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