05-28-2017, 04:57 AM
Celestia had been so focused on her allies and on analyzing their enemy, particularly given the sudden changes that had came upon both, that she was not entirely prepared to defend herself from attack. As soon she figured out what was happening she conjured a shield around herself, which was also just large enough to cover Revan from where they'd set up to attack, but she was not fast enough block the entire attack and a few rogue pages got through to scratch up the two of them.
The large, firey bubble which now encircled them wouldn't hold forever, but it should at least blunt the attack, and hopefully buy Celestia and Revan some space to think. In the face of her companions' boosts in strength the judge redoubled his own efforts, entering a sort of battle fervour as he replied to the primes' efforts in kind. While Celestia strained to maintain the shield, she considered the current situation.
She was still, essentially recovering from her entrance into the Omniverse. She could probably deliver an attack which could stagger the judge, and she might even have enough in her afterwards to do one more, but then that would be it and she would be left spent. “The judge won't last much longer,” she said aloud after a moment, though she was speaking to no one in particular, “and this won't be the end of it.” She was certain that this threat would not end at the courthouse, there was a fundamental piece missing. If nothing else, what Dr. Regal had said implied the whole Omniverse was being affected. Something must link them all together. Was the courthouse enough to do that? She didn't see how, at least not as it was currently.
That didn't mean she would be sitting out the fight. The shield she'd formed was beginning to crack, and so she let it fall, leaping upwards as it dissipated. She was hardly the most impressive prime in the room, which was something she could make use of. The judge would be more focused on the other primes, but Celestia would change that. As she neared the ceiling she charged her horn, and a couple seconds later sent a molten ball of rock down toward the judge, aimed so that her allies would be shielded by the Nebula leader's own form when it detonated.
The judge wasted no words on her, instead simply raising his whip, wreathed in shadow, and swinging. Celestia anticipated the response and brought her shield bubble up again, but the force of the impact was still enough to knock her into the ceiling. Her shield cracked under the force, only able to blunt the impact, not absorb it completely. That stung, and she'd she'd need a moment to get her bearings after the blow, but she was smiling. For a short, but critical moment, the judge's attention was focused upward, rather than at his adversaries arranged around him.
The large, firey bubble which now encircled them wouldn't hold forever, but it should at least blunt the attack, and hopefully buy Celestia and Revan some space to think. In the face of her companions' boosts in strength the judge redoubled his own efforts, entering a sort of battle fervour as he replied to the primes' efforts in kind. While Celestia strained to maintain the shield, she considered the current situation.
She was still, essentially recovering from her entrance into the Omniverse. She could probably deliver an attack which could stagger the judge, and she might even have enough in her afterwards to do one more, but then that would be it and she would be left spent. “The judge won't last much longer,” she said aloud after a moment, though she was speaking to no one in particular, “and this won't be the end of it.” She was certain that this threat would not end at the courthouse, there was a fundamental piece missing. If nothing else, what Dr. Regal had said implied the whole Omniverse was being affected. Something must link them all together. Was the courthouse enough to do that? She didn't see how, at least not as it was currently.
That didn't mean she would be sitting out the fight. The shield she'd formed was beginning to crack, and so she let it fall, leaping upwards as it dissipated. She was hardly the most impressive prime in the room, which was something she could make use of. The judge would be more focused on the other primes, but Celestia would change that. As she neared the ceiling she charged her horn, and a couple seconds later sent a molten ball of rock down toward the judge, aimed so that her allies would be shielded by the Nebula leader's own form when it detonated.
The judge wasted no words on her, instead simply raising his whip, wreathed in shadow, and swinging. Celestia anticipated the response and brought her shield bubble up again, but the force of the impact was still enough to knock her into the ceiling. Her shield cracked under the force, only able to blunt the impact, not absorb it completely. That stung, and she'd she'd need a moment to get her bearings after the blow, but she was smiling. For a short, but critical moment, the judge's attention was focused upward, rather than at his adversaries arranged around him.