[Center] [img]https://i.imgur.com/Rl7cktP.png[/img] [Sub].:⋮[Escalation]⋮:.[/Sub] [hider=Summary] [color=007236](28)[/color] | [color=007236](28)[/color] | (21) | [color=FFF10A](19)[/color] | (4) (Metal & Lightning & Gravity) | (Regen & Prime) (Bile) | (Tooth and Claw) | (Elemental) | (Enhanced Uniform) | (Immortality) (Monstrous Metamorph) | (Legacy) | (Enhanced Weapon) | (Dual Weapon) | (Gifted) (Awareness) | (Intuition) (ManaFont)|Solo (Redirected Magic) | (Second spec) | (Transport) (Broken reincarnation) | (Nonstandard limbs) [/hider][/Center] [sub]Nowhere At All[/sub] Penny was in a better state of equilibrium then her Mechanized opponent, but not a significant one. It’s trick with redirecting the propulsion from her hammer was an interesting one, and not one she would let work a second time if it came down to it. Still part of her was disappointed in herself. She really should know better than trying to overpowering someone in a serious fight, it never worked out for her. She needed to shift tactics. She turned to face Osiris as they came screaming towards her. No shock or surprise, as Snoopy was, as always, watching her back and blind spots. She threw up her arms to brace for the upcoming impact, a dense half dome of gravitic hard light rippling into existence in front of her as she did so. Her whole body seemed to light up with it. The hammer she let go of swiftly dissolved into lightning, that snaked back into Penny. Her spider limbs being restored in tandem with the reclamation. But it wasn’t in time enough to stop the two differing shields from impacting. There was a harsh crack as they impacted, but rather than standing firm in face of the impact Penny was launched away at speed. For she had no desire to get caught up in another battle for dominance. And instead had removed her personal gravity before impact, from there she had just needed to realign her boosters for hovering once more. Thus her barrier would divert the brunt of impact, and what was left would send her sliding away. One of her formed spider legs lashed out and snipped the tether that connected her to Osiris so as not to render the distance gained as useless. Osiris M.A.N.T.I.S. would snap out at air, if she deployed them at all in the face of this. Penny would slide back until she nearly careened into a wall of a building. Her upper Limbs would reach back to catch her before she collided with it, and her lower two plunged into the side walk soon as she was stablized. Shortly after electricity would start arcing up her lower arms, and elsewhere in this fake and empty copy, a quarter of the ppwer grid would fail. [center][color=00aeef][b][Ashes To Ashes Directive, unshackled][/b][/color][/center] [color=9e0039][u][b]“Don’t look away now Nykannis,”[/b][/u][/color] Penny would state softly. As her body began glowing from the sheer volume of energy she was consuming. [color=9e0039][u][b]“This is where the Fun begins.”[/b][/u][/color] [center][color=00aeef][b][Phase Four Response Configuration: Hybrid-theory Protocols; Confirmed.][/b][/color][/center] The glow surrounding Penny sank into her. And then all at once it seemed like she started dissolving from the inside. The inner portion of her metallic casing burned away by a frantic surge of Lightning. Her throat, inner arms, inner forearms, ribs, inner thighs and inner calves, all faded away by a similar measure. Webbing cracks of even over took her Spider limbs but the lightning never dissipated, it only intensified. And then the shell of Gravity around Penny grew ever so more opaque, filling in the gaps now with a swirling sapphire haze that did nothing to actually hide the bright crackling core of lightning it contained. Her hair danced about her on unseen waves and her eyes burned a brilliant orange. There was a harsh crackle as every speaker in every car and building for blocks came alive with harsh laughter. It was Penny, letting out a laugh of the deranged. In the next instant she blitzed Osiris. Literally, she turned into a bolt of lightning and flew at the other Machine girl. Only returning to her nominally physical form just before impact of a right hook to center mass and two Spider limbs lashing out. One at Osiris’ Head the other at her legs. The other two legs had snagged onto more of the cars on the sides of the roads and were bringing them down onto the Scorpion of Destruction. But instant after Impact Penny would flow away as living lightning once more, just to come back at them from a different angle or direction. Swinging cars at Osiris while she lashed out with blow rivaling runaway trains at the Scorpion of Destruction. And yet even this was not the end of it, for there was a familiar electric whine piercing the air. Threatening an empowered gauss round the moment either of them slipped up. [hr] [sub]Atop Covington Tower[/sub] Penny would need a moment to kick out the door frame of her car. The impact had been viscerally satisfying, but the lack of any real damage to the Queen was disappointing. Still it was fine with her to take a moment to watch as the collective members of Penrose unleashed devastation onto Iracebeth. Penny herself would ready herself to be a second volley, and perhaps even a third now that she knew what she did. [color=9e0039][i]‘I’ll have to make sure I’ve got a good angle though, don’t want to take out my allies on accident.’[/i][/color] She would muse, as the sounds of breaking glass would suddenly ring out across the tower. [hr] [sub]Outside Covington Tower[/sub] Lily and Mariette would be the first to see the cause of the sounds. As from the depths of Covington Tower came forth an army of Penny’s. Dozens up on dozens of them breaking the glass to start crawling or running up the side of the tower. Several of the Penny bots marked Lily and Mariette as they fell, just as many of them clocked the Monstrous landing pad that had moved to catch them below. It wasn’t a difficult choice for some of them to anchor themselves to the side of the building and aim their left arms out. A chorus of dull thooms rung out as a number of Penny bots aimed to catch the falling girls with their chain fists. Most of the Penny Bot’s kept climbing though. Knowing that there was every chance that Mariette could portal both herself and Lily to safety before any of the Penny bots could actually assist. [hr] [sub]Atop Covington Tower[/sub] The roof access door would be torn from it’s hinges as yet more Penny bots surged forth from it. Most of them moved to support the other girls on the roof top, mainly in a guarding position. But a few broke off to move and assist Alex against Lea. She had given the Sprite like girl a warning already, she wouldn’t get another one.