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The Challenge From Beyond-Time for a Fight

Not much time for rest during emergencies, unfortunately. However, now that part of the crew has had time to regroup, the task won't be as horrible, right? Right? Well, either way the Nightmare King isn't slowing down. It's time to break into Escherville-one way or another.

Though there might be a bit of a bit of resistance along the way. Watch out for more monsters! ~~Have fun!~~

((OOC: Are you guys ready for some ACTION? Nightmare critters ahoy!))

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Her voice took on a lower tone, but the passion still cut through her words. "Don't hold back. Let's give them everything we've got!"

Nanoha's hand reached out to slam a fresh magazine of magical cartridges into the weapon, feeling the satisfying click as it locked home, and the low "chunk-hiss" as the cartridges were consumed one by one, the empty shells ejecting out of the top - and the power surged through her, making her entire body tingle.

She briefly gave a quick mental apology to Fate before opening her eyes again. "Blaster System Limit 1, release!"

"Blaster Set."

The surge intensified, and anyone watching her would see the hum of magic around her suddenly flare up as the energy rushed through her, painful but exhilarating in its own way. Nanoha brought the weapon to bear at the masses in front of her, brilliant magical light gathered at its tip.

They couldn't afford to hold back, so she wasn't going to.

"Divine Buster!" Her shout was drowned out by the roar of her weapon firing, a massive magenta beam slicing through the waves and waves of enemies in front of her, opening a path for her team to clear.

Rhiow growled low in her throat, the fur standing up all down her spine. This was not what she had expected - but then again, nothing of this was what she expected.

Hurriedly, she began piecing together the molecular dissolution in her head, characters coming together as fast as she could remember them, slotting into the spell easily. But then - Whisperer, I must know the specifics-

A moment, the Whisperer said, Her voice calm - but Rhiow could detect maybe a hint of frustration, and that frightened her. What if she couldn't find the information she needed? What if this in-between-place, and anything created here, just wasn't governed by the Powers? What if-

Rhiow hissed softly to herself, shaking those thoughts out of her head as new strings of characters poured into her mental workspace. She began speaking the spell as soon as it was finished, crouching with her eyes half-closed, glaring at the twisted abominations advancing toward them - and then it was done.

She snarled the release word and several of the horrors simply dissolved into small piles of dust. Upon closer inspection one would find that they were little heaps of carbon, and other trace elements. Rhiow had broken them down to their components.

Want the truth? Vivio was terrified. This was beyond what she was expecting. She always thought that Nanoha had it worse when she was young. This right here proved that she was dead wrong. Part of her wanted to run, to cower behind Nanoha, but...

Vivio, part of being strong is knowing when you aren't ready to face something.

"I'm not ready to face this... I'm not... but, I have to..." Vivio said. "I'm not doing this just to show Nanoha-mama I'm old enough or strong enough to fight with her... I'm doing this because I have people I have to protect!" As her body trembled, she willed herself to stay calm. "Yuri-chan, Fletcher-kun, Sherry, Vega... I don't know if they know I'm here o-or if they even care... but, I'm going to fight for them! I'm going to protect them ALL! Rein-chan! Let's go!"

Once again, the Belkan sigil formed under Vivio's feet, then focused on her right foot. Lifting up her leg, she pulled back, then kicked forward shouting "Rainbow...KIIIIIIICK!" A wave of Reinforce Zwei-powered rainbow magic cut through a number of the creatures, adding on to the devestation.

"Hai!" exclaimed Rein as she followed Vivio through the motions of the Rainbow Kick. Spinning around, the sigil flared to life again as the book rapidly flipped around to a new section of the book. "CROSSFIRE...!"

Energy formed and she thrust her hands out. "SHOOT!"

Another barrage of magenta light, every sphere detonating within the teeming mass of monsters in a burst of magical energy. And then Nanoha was at her daughter's side, her voice lowering just slightly.

"Stay close to me, Vivio," Nanoha said, and there was no hint of it being a request in her voice. "You too, Rein."

Her voice grew louder. "Everyone! Forward, now!"

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Rhiow bounded forward in the others' wake, whirling around with another snarling activation to dissolve some eight or ten monsters that had been trying to flank them. "Nanoha!" she shouted, cursing the fact that she had not had the time to set up the telepathy spell. That was when she remembered the comm.

<< Nanoha, I can stay in the rear and set up shields at our backs to keep them off us as we progress. I just need to make sure everyone is inside them before I throw them up, do you think that's viable? >>

She sounded remarkably calm - and so she was. She had faced this kind of pressure before, this kind of fight. They may have smelled like death and gasoline, and looked like nothing Queen Iau would have ever made, but they were no worse than the saurians.

Vivio nodded as she moved to join in with Nanoha. She knew that her mama wasn't going to let her out of her sight for this. Even while Unisoned, she was still inexperienced.

That, and there was probably something Nanoha wasn't going to tell her that happened prior to getting here.

Following Reinforce's movements, she unleashed the Crossfire Shoot attack to strike more of the creatures, taking them out.

Another blast in front of them. Nanoha's carefully honed sense of perception and situational awareness made it very hard to get the jump on her, and detonations blasted away as many of the monsters as she could.

And then Rhiow would hear the mage's voice speaking into her mind: Do it - but don't fall behind! Stay with the group!

"Vivio-chan, get some height," said Rein as she flipped open some pages. "We're going to make a big path too!"

Belkan incantations started to flow off her tongue as Rein started to create a large spell. Black energy started to form and she grinned. "DIABOLIC...!"

As Vivio went airborne, she followed Rein's actions before finishing the Device's incantation.

"...EMISSION!" The girl unleashed the burst of magical energy at the beasts wiping them out in the process. As she did, though, Vivio started to tire a bit. The lack of sleep and the high output of magical energy...

Pixie didn't quite have the awesome powers that the others did. Sure, she looked like a magical girl, and sure, she was all pink and glittery and cute, and her powers made people hallucinate things...

But her big power was a little bit darker than that.

She zipped around, her souldagger glowing in her hand as she stabbed at the monsters in a much more physical fashion.

Nanoha could be a bit physical too when she wanted. "Strike Flame."

Two gouts of pink fire burst from either side of her staff, and as she dashed forward she swung it around, the flames scything through anything in their path, burning the creatures to ash.

But there were so many of them...

Rhiow didn't answer Nanoha, she saved her breath for spells. Her fur stood on end as she rattled them off one after the other.

The molecular dissolution was starting to lose its effectiveness - the universe didn't like it when you broke the same rule over and over, it strove toward the status quo, and of course entropy was always running. Now instead of dissolving in a puff of dust, the creatures took a second or two to melt into puddles of slush. Rhiow hissed softly.

In her mind, she was rapidly composing the changes that would need to be made to the already-constructed shield. Its target area of containment was smaller. The previous array needed to be linked into this one, so that shield would fall when this one activated. Despite her bragging to Isaac earlier, running multiple shields of that size plus combat would have weakened Rhiow beyond what she could take. Spellwork on the fly was somethings he was used to but not... precisely under these conditions.

She darted backward and began speaking the second shield spell as fast as she could without stumbling over any of the words, panting with effort as it sprang into being.

I don't know how much longer I'll be able to keep this up.

"Do you need help?"

Will's spells are less descriptive than those of her friends, but swathes of electrocuted monsters attest to the efficacy of her powers in any case. The Heart of Kandrakar floats above her hand, a bottomless well of energy.

"I can lend you power if you need it."

"Right now?" Vivio said, hearing Will's voice. "We need a lot more than just power...!"

Vivio was really starting to tire. She'd never been in an actual battle. She was in over her head. Even with Reinforce aiding her in attacks and in power, she was starting to feel like a liability.

But, still, she kept fighting. She had to.

Nanoha could tell that the people on her team were starting to flag, and to be honest she felt the burning in her muscles already - not to mention the strain placed on her by the Blaster System. But they were close, now, and they couldn't give up. Not when they'd come so far.

So instead, the energy around her flared up as she redoubled her efforts. "Don't give up!" she cried, taking to the skies to launch a volley of orbs down to help clear the area around Rhiow to give her some breathing space. "We're almost there!"

Rhiow glanced sideways at Will, her ears tilted back. "It's the spell, it's starting to burn out," she said. "I'll switch-" she rifled through her mind for the second combat spell she was carrying, rattling off its syllables quickly and baring her teeth in grim satisfaction when it took.

This one - this one was much more impressive. Instead of puffing into small piles of dust, the abominations exploded in a spray of blood, meat and other things probably left unmentioned. Rhiow growled softly to herself, retreating back from the shield line in an attempt to keep up with everyone else. She did not want to be left behind.

"If you're certain you don't mind, then I wouldn't mind tying myself into that power source," Rhiow said. "If only just to bleed a little energy off now and again. Could you cover me while I do it? It'll take a minute."

"Vivio-chan we should hook into the power source," said Rein from within Vivio. "I've felt Will's power before, it's amazing! It'll give us new energy to fight."

Opening a projected link with everyone, she asked, "Will, please, hook us into your power. I'll manage the mana transfer on my end."

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