07-05-2015, 04:41 PM
The huge weapon held in her left backpack arm started to whirr up and the turret rotated in place. Her booster would not be the best choice to use with it now, her energy supplies were starting to get low and it wouldn't be long before her core needed to rest from the efforts of ADAPTing to both of them. Still, her beam gun had hardly been used in this combat and her forgotten handy Bazooka also had plenty of ammo left inside, their energy cores separate from her own. Even if she ran out of juice to construct their powers, it would be some time before she couldn't shoot the beam gun as weak as it was.
Now was not the time to dwell upon that idea. Magus watched as Toybox Girl pulled out another weapon, an ace in the hole. This bazooka wielding psychopath had pulled out an even bigger, more menacing looking bazooka than she had before. But he hadn't the time and energy to retreat to the other plane again. While he wouldn't admit it, this fight was more draining on him than it was on them. Fighting two combatants back and forth gave him less time to rest than they had. He had to move now to avoid this attack, so he started to run.
Too little too late, the Gatling Bazooka started launching projectiles. The much smaller bazooka bullets compared to her handy Bazooka ripped apart the ground as they struck one after another making a fast line to the retreating fiendlord until he was engulfed in explosives and a cloud of dust and debris. The smaller scale of the individual bullets didn't throw Magus, but the searing heat tore over his body as one bullet after another hit at random on different parts of his body. Toybox Girl walked forward as the attack continued. Not every shell struck Magus, as the pattern of the gatling weapon was spread out, but as she got closer she narrowed the miss margin.
Before both knew it, the shells stopped flying and Toybox Girl dropped the weapon with a loud thud as it landed, then dematerializing in a blue glow. Caira stumbled out next to Toybox Girl, a clear area in the fog as Magus had focused on bothering the masses knowing Toybox Girl was unaffected by the mists earlier. Quickly, Toybox Girl's humanoid arms reached out to support her. It was clear she was hurting. Between the effects of the miasma cloud and the injuries she sustained, Caira was in much more dire straights than the robot girl was. "Wasn't that a bit much?" Caira knew their goal well, but she couldn't help but feel that TBG had gone overboard on her last attack. Her own awakened bloodlust aside, Toybox Girl's heavy assault could have affected the innocent people nearby had they wandered into the crossfire. "He has threatened civilians, we can't hold back now."
In the cloud of dust Magus shook a little as pain covered his body. The explosions had burned every exposed part of his body and on top of that the projectiles had bruised with every hit as they punched hard before detonating, but he couldn't stop now. He felt the adrenaline rushing, a life or death situation always got the blood pumping. Last time he had to deal with others meddling in his affairs he had all of his power to fight against them. He may have lost to even that damn frog he had polymorphed, but they came to an understanding with a common goal. This insane technological creature was not so reasonable. These two were too strong to handle any further, if he was going to get out of this he had to use his wits.
The fiend lord gritted his teeth and hid in the shadows of the cloud. He doubted it would prevent them from tracking him, they had shown an infuriating ability to follow him even into another plane and back. So far they had managed to follow and anticipate his moves every time he tried to flee. But the camouflage wasn't for them, he had a different plan in mind to deal with these two. He couldn't be so sure that it would affect the pink haired menace, but her partner seemed to have a soft spot and that was a weakness he could exploit.
"Are you still alive in there? If you have had enough we will take you in now." Toybox Girl could still sense his presence with the adapted senses she had so he was probably still there and alive. But he could be unconscious from the concussive force of one or more shells. She frowned but hesitating in going in close before the field cleared. He could still have more tricks up his sleeves and she did not want to walk into a trap now. They had the Beezle pair wandering the perimeter of the area and Magus should be hurting now, so Toybox Girl could afford to wait a moment and let her core start to regenerate her energy supply. If only she had a Cosmic Energy outlet right now she could focus all of this excess that she had made during the battle and launch it at Magus. Cosmos Energy was something from her world that everyone generated as a matter of course during combat and other times of high emotions and that energy was a potent source used to summon Wonder Bits, power Aura systems, and as a direct supply for specific weapon designs. However she had not yet managed to repair those systems.
Suddenly Caira nudged TBG. "He started moving." TBG's senses focused and immediately started track him, going off again. He liked to keep trying to get away from them. Toybox Girl thought that he would have figured it out by now that he couldn't get away from the two of them. She started trying to fire up her booster automatically. The green flared out of her booster but warning signs blared into her head and a few electrical sounds spurted from her booster until the green flame cut out. She had used that lightning fist move that Caira had but the recoil had impacted her booster pretty heavily and now it was too late. "Come on, let's catch up!"
Magus favored one leg and he tried to run through the street and back into the miasma that he had left out earlier. He looked back and forth through the dark mist looking for a potential victim. He needed someone to hold onto and use as a bargaining chip for his life and freedom. In those mists he found a small children's park and in there he found a little girl unconscious from the effects of the Miasma. He grabbed her and held her against his chest, wincing at the pain his wounds felt as he started trying something new. Then he dismissed the miasma, he needed both of them to approach and not just the pink haired one.
The pair approached and Caira felt her heart sink while Toybox Girl steeled with cool anger as he saw what Magus was about to try to do. He held an unconscious little girl and one hand was wrapped around her tiny neck. One twitch from that hand and he would add to his death toll. Magus hissed out his words. "You know what this means. Leave me alone and don't come back, and this little girl gets to see her mommy again. Take a few steps towards me and she won't see anything anymore. You and I might come back from death, but I doubt she is a Prime with the same luxury."
Toybox GIrl lifted her beam gun and pointed it at them. Caira looked at her sharply, was she really going to risk the little girl to take him down? There was a limit to what Caira would allow and in this situation she had control of that, so she put one hand on the beam gun. "You know we can't risk this." Toybox Girl sighed. "In the Union the policy is not to negotiate with hostage situations. Wait for backup and a sniper to take out the enemy. We don't have that option here." Still, she couldn't pull the trigger. Earlier he had threatened and attacked civilians but her guns were not going to hurt them, not on purpose. This was crossing the line, there had to be a way around the hostage. No backup except the Beezle and neither of them were geared for this. She eyed him furiously. "You are only delaying your fate!" Toybox Girl lowered her beam gun, thinking as quickly as she could for a way to secure the hostage and capture him.
Now was not the time to dwell upon that idea. Magus watched as Toybox Girl pulled out another weapon, an ace in the hole. This bazooka wielding psychopath had pulled out an even bigger, more menacing looking bazooka than she had before. But he hadn't the time and energy to retreat to the other plane again. While he wouldn't admit it, this fight was more draining on him than it was on them. Fighting two combatants back and forth gave him less time to rest than they had. He had to move now to avoid this attack, so he started to run.
Too little too late, the Gatling Bazooka started launching projectiles. The much smaller bazooka bullets compared to her handy Bazooka ripped apart the ground as they struck one after another making a fast line to the retreating fiendlord until he was engulfed in explosives and a cloud of dust and debris. The smaller scale of the individual bullets didn't throw Magus, but the searing heat tore over his body as one bullet after another hit at random on different parts of his body. Toybox Girl walked forward as the attack continued. Not every shell struck Magus, as the pattern of the gatling weapon was spread out, but as she got closer she narrowed the miss margin.
Before both knew it, the shells stopped flying and Toybox Girl dropped the weapon with a loud thud as it landed, then dematerializing in a blue glow. Caira stumbled out next to Toybox Girl, a clear area in the fog as Magus had focused on bothering the masses knowing Toybox Girl was unaffected by the mists earlier. Quickly, Toybox Girl's humanoid arms reached out to support her. It was clear she was hurting. Between the effects of the miasma cloud and the injuries she sustained, Caira was in much more dire straights than the robot girl was. "Wasn't that a bit much?" Caira knew their goal well, but she couldn't help but feel that TBG had gone overboard on her last attack. Her own awakened bloodlust aside, Toybox Girl's heavy assault could have affected the innocent people nearby had they wandered into the crossfire. "He has threatened civilians, we can't hold back now."
In the cloud of dust Magus shook a little as pain covered his body. The explosions had burned every exposed part of his body and on top of that the projectiles had bruised with every hit as they punched hard before detonating, but he couldn't stop now. He felt the adrenaline rushing, a life or death situation always got the blood pumping. Last time he had to deal with others meddling in his affairs he had all of his power to fight against them. He may have lost to even that damn frog he had polymorphed, but they came to an understanding with a common goal. This insane technological creature was not so reasonable. These two were too strong to handle any further, if he was going to get out of this he had to use his wits.
The fiend lord gritted his teeth and hid in the shadows of the cloud. He doubted it would prevent them from tracking him, they had shown an infuriating ability to follow him even into another plane and back. So far they had managed to follow and anticipate his moves every time he tried to flee. But the camouflage wasn't for them, he had a different plan in mind to deal with these two. He couldn't be so sure that it would affect the pink haired menace, but her partner seemed to have a soft spot and that was a weakness he could exploit.
"Are you still alive in there? If you have had enough we will take you in now." Toybox Girl could still sense his presence with the adapted senses she had so he was probably still there and alive. But he could be unconscious from the concussive force of one or more shells. She frowned but hesitating in going in close before the field cleared. He could still have more tricks up his sleeves and she did not want to walk into a trap now. They had the Beezle pair wandering the perimeter of the area and Magus should be hurting now, so Toybox Girl could afford to wait a moment and let her core start to regenerate her energy supply. If only she had a Cosmic Energy outlet right now she could focus all of this excess that she had made during the battle and launch it at Magus. Cosmos Energy was something from her world that everyone generated as a matter of course during combat and other times of high emotions and that energy was a potent source used to summon Wonder Bits, power Aura systems, and as a direct supply for specific weapon designs. However she had not yet managed to repair those systems.
Suddenly Caira nudged TBG. "He started moving." TBG's senses focused and immediately started track him, going off again. He liked to keep trying to get away from them. Toybox Girl thought that he would have figured it out by now that he couldn't get away from the two of them. She started trying to fire up her booster automatically. The green flared out of her booster but warning signs blared into her head and a few electrical sounds spurted from her booster until the green flame cut out. She had used that lightning fist move that Caira had but the recoil had impacted her booster pretty heavily and now it was too late. "Come on, let's catch up!"
Magus favored one leg and he tried to run through the street and back into the miasma that he had left out earlier. He looked back and forth through the dark mist looking for a potential victim. He needed someone to hold onto and use as a bargaining chip for his life and freedom. In those mists he found a small children's park and in there he found a little girl unconscious from the effects of the Miasma. He grabbed her and held her against his chest, wincing at the pain his wounds felt as he started trying something new. Then he dismissed the miasma, he needed both of them to approach and not just the pink haired one.
The pair approached and Caira felt her heart sink while Toybox Girl steeled with cool anger as he saw what Magus was about to try to do. He held an unconscious little girl and one hand was wrapped around her tiny neck. One twitch from that hand and he would add to his death toll. Magus hissed out his words. "You know what this means. Leave me alone and don't come back, and this little girl gets to see her mommy again. Take a few steps towards me and she won't see anything anymore. You and I might come back from death, but I doubt she is a Prime with the same luxury."
Toybox GIrl lifted her beam gun and pointed it at them. Caira looked at her sharply, was she really going to risk the little girl to take him down? There was a limit to what Caira would allow and in this situation she had control of that, so she put one hand on the beam gun. "You know we can't risk this." Toybox Girl sighed. "In the Union the policy is not to negotiate with hostage situations. Wait for backup and a sniper to take out the enemy. We don't have that option here." Still, she couldn't pull the trigger. Earlier he had threatened and attacked civilians but her guns were not going to hurt them, not on purpose. This was crossing the line, there had to be a way around the hostage. No backup except the Beezle and neither of them were geared for this. She eyed him furiously. "You are only delaying your fate!" Toybox Girl lowered her beam gun, thinking as quickly as she could for a way to secure the hostage and capture him.