Victory had taken to the streets, jogging in her full armor ushering civilians past her, shoving through them as they ran away from the conflict and she ran too it. Shrike had taken the bird down, the Rhino and the Elephant were in the next block over as far as she knew, but Victory had lost track of the Lion and the Snake.
"Does anyone have eyes on the snake or the lion?" She shouted into her headset, putting a hand up to her helmet, clicking in the button that projected her voice to her teammates.
"I repeat, does anyone have eyes on the snake or the lion, over?"High above the commotion on the ground a single crow glided along the wind, the only organic avian that hadn't been frightened off from the rampage in the streets and sky. With the mechanical bird that had once dominated the airs put down the little one-eyed crow swooped across the rooftop containing its metal frame, as well as Shrike. It flew in a tight circle overhead before dropping low, and when talons grasped onto the edge of the building they were far bigger than a simple bird's.
"Are you alright?" The words were mouthed to Shrike, not even audible in Shift's soft voice as the hero raised a feathered hand to press the button in her communicator. What was once a normal, if slightly bigger than average bird, now stood what was nearly a harpy from myth with long, downy black feathers along her arms, and legs that ended in vicious talons.
"The snake-" Shift's voice trembled slightly, clear even over the comm waves,
"Has been dispatched by Draig and Witness. The lion I saw crushing cars-" A rather authentic
'caw' ripped from Shift's throat as from her advantage point atop the roof, nervous eye darting between Shrike and the streets below. A mere second later Wraith’s voice was filtering over their comms, making Shift's own words slightly panicked.
"Three – three blocks south of you, Victory! It's jaws are around Wraith!" Victory narrowed her eyes at the news.
"Thank you, Shift. En route." As opposed to the casual, welcoming manner of spekaing Alice Jefferson uses, Victory spoke with a steely determination.
Victory's armored silvery form erupted into a sprint, dodging between a few pedestrians. A crowd of officer workes parted as she ran thourgh them. There, Victory spotted the metallic king of the jungle. It had pounced on Ka'Van, it's missing foreleg giving it no pause as it attempted to crush through his shadowy shield.
"I need some assistance, please," Ka'van pleaded, as if there was a jar he could not open and not a giant metallic lion on top of him.
"On it," Victory radioed into him, sprinting into her engagement distance.
A shimmering glass-like javelin materializing in her right hand as she closed the distance. Converting her momentum into a mighty throw, the hard light javelin sung through the air, penetrating the lion's abdomen. With a roar of bursting static, the beast halted it's assault and glanced upwards, swiveling it's souless black eyes to Victory.
She summoned the javelin back into her right hand and threw it again, this time it glanced off the lion's armor. Still, she had gotten it's attention- the lion had to target it's new aggressor. Despite it's wound, the contraption roared again and did a three-legged leap towards Victory. Having predicted this action, Victory summoned forth a Hard Light wall in front of her, which the lion slammed into at full velocity. Grass spider-webbed across it's surface as the lion's nose smashed into it, halting it's mid-air momentum.
Another roar echoed through the air, rattling the windows of the nearby building. However this didn't come from the mechanical feline, but another predator prowling the streets. In a flurry of charging white fur an incredibly large polar bear leaped into the fray, even bigger than its normal size. The great weight of the creature slammed into the side of the mechanical lion, and with its missing leg the contraption went down with a newly formed dent. Immediately the bear's teeth went for the throat.
Sparks shot out as the powerful jaws began to crush the giant mechanoid's steel and wires, causing the one-eyed bear to flinch. With that one distraction the lion's back paw caught the bear by the leg, kicking it away - though a large chunk of its throat was torn out as well.
Almost as one the bear and lion rose, the former shaking its head before bristling, the latter now sparking wildly at its throat and hobbling to stay up. Shift nervously pawed the ground, four inch long claws leaving anxious grooves in the pavement as she prepared to engage once more. The little device nestled against the bear's inner arm was working overtime to keep the hero calm.
Seizing the moment, Victory dissipated the damaged Hard Light wall. The lion looked at Shift, then back over at Victory. As it reared it's ugly head, Victory saw the damaged section that was connectin the lion's head to it's body- the lion's head wobbled unsteadily.
"Guillotine!" Victory called out, hoping Shift would understand her plan. Victory summoned a rectangular blade sticking out of the ground behind the lion.
"Gwarf?" Was the reply, the polar bear tilting its head. however once the blade materialized the singular grey eye widened and a low rumble let forth. With a tensing of her muscles Shift leapt forward once again, a stuttering and scraping roar echoing forth from the lion's damaged throat in return. The two predators met head on, however rather than clash Shift clamped onto one of the thick cables hanging from the great mechanical beast's neck, sliding passed it. The near two thousand pounds of Shift jerked the lion's damaged body around, struggling to stay on its metal feet until finally, its chest touched the wall of hard light that Shift had slid by.
The polar bear reared up, still holding the cable in its jaws, and like that - Shift fell onto her back, her weight yanking the gaping throat of the lion onto the wall of light and decapitating it.
The head of the lion rolled to Victory's feet, where she stopped it with her boot.
"You okay over there, Wraith?" Victory spoke into her headset. Reassured of his health, the guillotine vanished and she jogged over to the massive polar bear, reached up and scratched it behind the ear.
"Good girl. Think you could take down an elephant?" "Gwarf."
Member
Antlers
Theyra
Lugubrious
DracoLunaris
ImagineTheStars
Candy Cane Elf
Not a Sayan
SkyeOfStars
mickilennial
DClassified