.:⋮Echo⋮:.Despite all of those that strove to assist in calming things down Penny knew that things continued to dissolve into chaos. If not here then all across Penrose, as dozens of girls had left via other means before the Ascendancy sent their Barrier up, but there wasn’t much she could do in regards to that half of things right now. The people here were in danger, both from the extremist forces of Ascendancy and the vile influence of Vi’s music.
Because of that, the monstrous girl didn’t even give Vi a second look as the cowardly idol fled from the stage. She just continued her swinging arc up onto the stage, not stopping she continued her rush towards the sound system tucked away in the back. Her magical skill was never going to be able to unweave the Sound effects of someone else, but with through this she might be able to override what was coming out of the speakers.
Thus she merged with it, just in time for Lei Zi surge of Lightning to come ripping through the systems frying everything that they could.
At first Penny nearly rebelled against the attack, nearly fought to keep the speakers functioning, but she didn’t. Instead she drank freely form the storm sent racing through them, drawing into herself the storm once it had fulfilled its primary purpose, and then she called to metal, seeking the fried and damaged components, but also willing to take anything that would answer. She didn’t need them to be in one piece for her to do what needed to be done, for within her they could be remade to fulfill her desired function.
As the metal flowed to her she unfurled her lower set of hidden limbs and plunged then into the floor.
“Systems re-calibrated” The next moment a deafening note echoed out from Penny’s location, her Gauss system disgorging naught but a wave of low frequency sound. It would roll though the building undeterred by walls of any kind as it originated underneath the ground and at the same time it would do little other than possibly distract. It wasn’t focused enough to harm.
For Penny was looking for a way out. She was still patched into the other drones within the area, she knew that even if the walls were punched through, or the roof broken out of that the majority of girls were still trapped in here. But she had seen Cindy and her entourage leave before everything went to hell. That secret could hopefully lead out of here, and hopefully there was more than one.
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.:Falling back:.With the return of sanity Ashlyn and Monica were able to much more easily start rounding up girls who simply trying to leave. Monica kept her larger friend abreast of what was going via psychic updates even as they fell back into one of the furthers rooms away from where it was the Ascendency.
Once they reached it Ashlyn would take a defensive position, fending off anyone who tried to force their way in, at the door as Monica opened a large gateway into her Interdimensional home and started shepherding girls into it. Both of them would stay here in the Rave until things got too dangerous for them to stay any longer before they would both also flee into the home.
They could return once the place was safe.
-=ƎMisplayE=- Despite the wide grin on his face Aurelio knew he was in trouble. Out of the corner of his eye he saw his Compassion clone simply stand there and get taken out, which now that he had traded places with said clone he could understand why.
Defending against this crazed lamia was hard. He was rather good at defense as well, in his own humble opinion, but this was very much straining his skill at it and with each barrier that got destroyed his capability of staying ahead of his laser focused opponent got that much harder.
He heard reinforcements arrive, but couldn’t bother devoting any attention to them and he ducked under another swipe that would likely have left quite the impression. Then the Metal wielding foe also joined in the fray and Aurelio position turned even worse as he was forced to dodge both of them and split his attention.
His mind raced to try and find a way out of this predicament, for he was much closer to exhaustion then one would originally expect. The reason for that was his own fault, he underestimated just how badly that they wanted this Coin, and his earlier stunt with the Wonder, swapping place with his clone, was more costly than normal due to chaining it with the Determination and illusion set up.
Which as he narrowly dodged another blow, one that shattered his last barrier, wasn’t even something he could make use of anymore. The idea had been to mirror his and Kimble’s images over each other, but the second it would take to trigger that would likely end up costing him more than he was willing to give at the moment.
But then he remembered the wise words of Master Fung
“The goal is simply not to lose, and that is victory enough” and with that a plan formulated in his mind
‘This is going to hurt’As once more his opponents attacked him in a pincer, a metal claw swinging from one direction and a Barrage of slashes from the front Aurelio put his plan into action. Moments before they struck him there was several flashes of magic from him, before his cane was tossed at the metal hand before he spun to try and block in the incoming assault with his arms crossed over his torso, the White Coin peeking out from between his fingers.
A moment later Aurelio did his best to hold back the scream of pain as his right arm is removed from him in a vicious display of strength. The white coin seemingly still tightly held in its hand.
On the ground Aurelio would curl up his left hand pressed tightly to the now empty shoulder. The wound would seal up near instantly however were one to be paying attention to him still as the second spell he cast went into effect.
‘Called it’The first was the illusion he had been holding on too, but what it was he swapped the images of wasn’t him and Kimble, but of one coin with another. The last spell? Well that would be a nasty surprise here in a moment, but now wasn’t the time for that, he only had a few moments he could stall before his ruse was likely to be discovered.
Off in the tunnel bored out but the wooden torpedo’s another clone of Aurelio popped into existence. It had an urgent message it had to get out, and knew that its original self had placed themselves into danger to try and buy more time for this message.
Quickly it would take off its hat and hold it upside down before speaking quietly but urgently.
“Floppy, need you get here quickly” Moment’s later a large black rabbit would pop up out of the hat looking distinctly annoyed.
“No time!” the Clone would say cutting of his Beckoner before it could start saying anything
“There is a group hunting after the White Coins. I’m not sure if I’m the only target but you need to recall all of the patrols that have them now!”
>>>Unaware<<<Viva would be too busy enjoying her meal to really notice any of the insanity that had sparked off around her, later she would look back and lament the fact that she had missed all the fun. At some point, Viva would never be able to pinpoint when, she would be swept away from the Rave entirely.
Deposited in an abandoned house in some further away neighborhood of Penrose to finish her meal in peace, all due to her ‘Get out of Jail’ perk.
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