Über Ethereal
Impact Crater - Bern, Switzerland
The effects of both the Mindfray and Psi-Panic were bringing their fruits as the rabid beast seemed to have lost any sense of control and wildly struck anything in its way. The advantage of it being this beast in particular was that no matter how much it destroyed, it didn't make the hypnosis last any lesser. It would wear out, yes, but it would take more than a few seconds. In such a fast paced struggle, this seemed to be rather long. Either way, the Ethereal wasn't going to waste time letting Apocalypse destroy anything until it'd be free of any malus. The Mindfray's effects had indeed started to dampen, but maintained the creature under its normal speed, making it still a lot easier for the alien to follow in detail the abomination's movements.
Its previous Psi-Lance demonstrated that the conventional amount of power wasn't enough to decommission him despite the direct hit. Added to that would be the stunning discovery of a complete lack of organic systems in the creature. It was a large, sentient mass that would likely not feel any pain. As such there seemed to be only one way to put that beast down from the Ethereal's perspective, and it would be to strike it at the head, an area it confirmed to have motoric functions that made it susceptible to Psi influences. The Ethereal's accuracy was great, vastly superior to any race in its universe with or without enhancements, but even with speed slightly under the speed of sound, a precise shot was too difficult and unwise.
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Basterbine. We have another one, we may require your ability to immobilize this beast. The current witnesses are of no grand importance.'
It relayed the telepathic message in an instant to its colleague in arms, now ready to make its counter. It was living these moments in the same perspective as Apocalypse, in the millisecond. By now, the Ethereal was more than used to the way Apocalypse moved and his displayed potentials. All it had to do now was to catch it in one final trap. The fact that Apocalypse created distance to strike anything around it, going as far as wasting most of the city, made the plan a whole lot easier. As the beast charged in to attack a nearby building, the Ethereal applied the Psi-Field, known as the Telekinetic field among the Xcom soldiers, creating a light purple barrier with a radius of 150 meters, a distance easily crossed by Apocalypse during its rampage.
The monster's trajectory to assault what it appeared to guess would be a potential place for the Ethereal to be would have it cross the barrier. The Mindfray was mostly weakened but the Psi-Panic was still somewhat fresh with a slow regression. It essentially only saw a shade of purple mix with whatever the hallucinations were making him see. Inevitably penetrating the field out of disorientation, the Ethereal pointed its palm in a specific direction. Having crossed the field, Apocalypse's speed was halved within the barrier. Although still fast, he was strongly nerfed in his ability to avoid something coming at him in bullet speed while Psi-Panic still plagued his senses. His bloodlust and tireless capabilities would also be his weakness in this battle.
The Psi-Lance was fired accurately at the strongly withered down Apocalypse, right at his rather massive head (relative to other beings of course). The Lance was a tier stronger than the last, the type that demanded the full potential of the Über Ethereal's capabilities. It was confident that the biological structure of the creature would likely allow it to survive the hit, the gamble here was if it could actually neutralize it for the time being.
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