trans_9 | Reign of Destruction

Unlike Kate, Hikari wasn't actively helping out with the evacuation of the Elder's Home.

"Nefertimon! Now!" she shouted to her partner digimon (http://wikimon.net/images/thumb/c/c8/Nefertimon.jpg/320px-Nefertimon.jpg), who she was currently riding on, keeping watch for the approaching Ohm.

Which she manage to see. And they spit acid.

Well, it was a good thing that none of Nefertimon's attacks were close range, wasn't it?

"Curse of Queen!" Nefertimon shouted, a few pink beams of energy shooting down from her headgear towards the approaching swarm of acid-spewing Ohm in quick succession.

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"Draw their fire. Try and lure them away from the building!" Wanda moved closer to the creatures while also distancing herself from the retirement facility. She fired a hex at them, this one designed to flash brilliantly and catch its attention rather than harm it. The hex that followed, on the other hand, wasn't so benign. One designed to oh so improbably affect the acid glands of the bug, causing it to burst open.

Both Nefertimon and Wanda's attacks managed to take out a number of the beasts, but there were still plenty more where they came from.

Though some still focused on the nearby buildings, the majority of the swarm turned their attention to the fighters. One by one, they began to bombard their area with massive globules of caustic acid.

Try not to get caught by one.

What a great day to leave his hover jets at home.

But even if he didn't have his armor, he still had his reflexes, and Axl was able to dodge the acid blobs flying his way, even if his jumps, rolls, and dashes were considerably less elegant than his usual.

And the machine gun might not be as high-tech as the weapons he'd left on the ship, but it could still put a hell of a lot of bullets out in not much time at all...at least until that ominous "click" informed him that he'd just expended the whole clip, and he swore under his breath, dug another one out of his pocket, and jumped backwards to avoid another acid glob.

Kate fired a few arrows at the ones still focused on the building, though she was wishing she had some base chemicals to combat that acid. Especially after one of the acid attacks ate away at a few of her arrows. And she can't afford to get too close either. Plus, there were still people inside, so she ran into the building.

"Come on, everybody! This way, we're getting you away from here." She tried to help some of the more feeble occupants, giving them support to get outside.

Hikari and Nefertimon flew out of the way of the acid globs. Hikari frowned. Those things could spit pretty far, much farther than she thought they should be able to. "Move farther away," she said, biting her lip as Nefertimon flew forward, more away from the building as she started firing again.

Wanda narrowly dodged one of the acid attacks. She could hear it sizzle the ground beside her. Although that gave her an idea.

This time she aimed another hex at the ground below the creatures feet, causing it to break apart.

The Grenadiers tripped and stumbled into each other as Wanda's hex did its work. A few of them even were tagged by their allies' acidic spit. The bullets from Axl's machine gun did some good too, and Nefertimon's attack was just as effective the second time around as the first.

More of them kept coming, though. It didn't even seem to matter to them how many of their own they had to step on or over to get to their target.

The closest of the Grenadiers started spraying a mist instead of spitting globules. It wasn't quite close enough to reach the fighters, but it was clearly just as acidic as the spit.

Splitting his attention was dangerous, and Axl knew it, but it wasn't like there was any other choice. He was good with guns, but this one wasn't his, and that half a second longer that it took him to finish snapping the magazine back in place was a half a second delay in dodging the next incoming acid glob.

He flung himself to the side, but he could feel it just graze his right arm, just below the shoulder. Dammit! He managed to land in a roll and spring back to his feet, backing up a few meters and opening fire again.

There wasn't any time to look at his arm, but he could feel coolant dripping down his elbow. And the fact that he didn't feel it any higher meant he'd probably just lost a nice big chunk of syntheflesh. At least I can still move it. At this point, I'll take what I can get!

Kate's face paled at that, and she yelled, "Everybody MOVE! Quick as you can!" These people needed to get the hell away, and right now!

She yelled to the others, "Guys, we need transport to get them out of here before the Ohm get closer!" One of the residents was getting too close to the mist, and she ran after them. She pulled them away, but she felt her upper back starting to burn. She gave a cry, and ducked to the ground. She grabbed some water she had on her side, and poured a little over it, trying to dilute the acid. It was going to make firing arrows difficult, but she had little choice.

Hikari let out a gasp at that. Sure, she was mostly safe due to being in the air a lot, but everyone else? That acid was going to be horrible to them. She grabbed her comm ring, having heard Kate but not knowing if her voice could be projected that far.

((How are we supposed to do that though? Nefertimon won't be able to carry more than me and maybe one other person.))

Nefertimon just kept up firing those lasers from her headgear. No use switching attacks right now. Not when this one could hit just as many of the Ohm as her others.

"Is there some sort of vehicle nearby?" Wanda shouted, still trying to fend off the Ohm- at least until one spat too close to her, the edges of it sprayed onto her hand and she cried in pain. But she couldn't stop, not now.

With her good hand she fired another hex at the Ohm.

((Scarlet Witch requesting backup outside the Sunnyside Elders' Home.)) She gave more detailed instructions for the location and the situation.

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<< This is Indigo. I am on my way to deliver assistance. >> She peels off from her attack run, leaving a streak of Ohm unscathed. The situation over with the Scarlet Witch sounded more desperate.

In seconds, she's there. "Provide cover, please." She spreads her hands out, pink energy flowing forth, and creates a large disc in the air, lowering it a bit. Acid spit barely misses her, a few droplets burning into their shoulder. "If someone will assist them on, I can have all of you out of here in a short time."

You had better hurry. Despite the constant attacks, the Grenadiers advance hasn't let up a bit, and they continued to fire indiscriminately towards them.

There was a sound, however, which heralded the advance of something new. It sounded almost like the wings of a fly, but much, much larger. Should they look up, they would see an incoming swarm of Bombardiers on their way to aid their land-bound brethren.

Things are just getting better and better, aren't they?

If there was one thing Axl hated, it was pulling a tactical retreat, but he wasn't too proud to admit to himself that sometimes, standing and fighting wasn't the done thing. And the sight of the Bombardiers overhead was a pretty compelling argument in favor of getting the hell out of here, stat.

He slung the gun over his shoulder and ran back towards the evacuees, jumping to dodge another globule of acid on the way. His internal diagnostics were telling him that he'd lost a power distribution node with the damage to his arm -- he might short it out entirely if he tried to lift anything too heavy with it. Half a ton of leverage's gotta be plenty to help a few geezers onto a transport, right?

((I'll help load. If you guys can just -- buy us another couple minutes!))

He waded straight into the crowd and started helping people onto Indigo's energy disc.

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Kate continued trying to ferry more people away from the building. At least the orderlies were able to assist to some extent. But they weren't fighters either. She was likewise ushering people to the energy disc. She couldn't duck in time from the acid that splashed onto her leg. She screamed in pain, and try pouring more water on it. They couldn't take much more of this.

"Come on, that's it, let's go." She tried reassuring people, even as she limped. It made dodging any more attacks difficult, and she bit her lip to the point of bleeding as some landed on her shoulder. She was running out of water, and they were running out of options.

"We need to leave now."

Hikari's eyes widened as she saw the incoming flying Ohm. Nefertimon definitely wasn't going to be enough to deal with this now, that was obvious.

"Nefertimon, bring us to the roof," she ordered.

"Hikari, what are you..." Nefertimon started to protest.

"We can't hold them back like this," she said.

Nefertimon didn't say anything, she just flew over to the roof to let Hikari off of her. And then the digimon started glowing, reverting back into Tailmon as the digimental shot off as a beam of light into Hikari's D-Terminal, which was in her pocket.

Hikari bit her lip, and concentrated. She needed to have this work, she couldn't let it not. They needed to protect everyone, they were the only ones here who could actually fight in the air. But Nefertimon's power wasn't going to be enough.

Light started glowing around Hikari, her digivice glowing with a brilliant pink light as Tailmon leaped into the air. "Tailmon Evolve!" Tailmon shouted, her entire body glowing as it grew, expanding into a rather tall woman with a helmet covering her face, eight wings coming out of her back, and a white leotard and gloves on her body. "Angewomon!" she shouted, hovering down a bit.

"Hikari, get on my back," Angewomon suggested. "I'm not leaving you here."

Hikari blinked. "But won't that make it harder for you to move?"

"I'm not leaving you here."

Hikari nodded, climbing on her now humanoid partner's back, wrapping her arms and legs around Angewomon's body and trying to make sure that she wouldn't get in the way of the digimon's wings.

Angewomon flew into the air easily enough, so somehow, she was doing it right.

But those Ohm needed to be dealt with, and now.

Angewomon extended her arm forward, two wing like extensions of her glove growing out, until it resembled a bow. The angel digimon pulled her other arm back, and an arrow of light formed in it. "Holy Arrow!" the digimon shouted before firing the arrow into the center of the Bombardier swarm, the arrow being a much bigger size than it usually would've been.

Hikari just hoped that Angewomon wouldn't use up all of her energy too quickly.

The Ohm were pressing in on them and unless something happened soon, they were going to have a lot more to worry about than a few mild acid burns.

((Keep going.)) The Scarlet Witch spread out her arms and she almost seemed to rise into the air.

She felt the ground cracking and shaking under the assault of the Ohm, and if she stretched her powers. Now it was time to fight back.

Without warning, the ground underneath some of the Ohm caved in, and then swarmed up like a tsunami to come crashing down on the rest. It was exhausting, and Wanda didn't know if she'd be able to do anything like that again, but it should at least buy them some time.

Acid spatters across her in stray shots, eating through her 'skin' and revealing the robotics underneath. She looks curiously, then raises a shield around herself to prevent any more splatters.

When the group of old people is loaded, Indigo closes the disc into a large sphere, totally encasing the old folks. "I will return for all of you shortly." She could undoubtedly carry all of them, but that would require enlargening the protective sphere, making it a larger target. And she didn't have enough data to predict whether or not they Ohm could break her fields.

As she floats up and begins to leave, she looks down at the little crew. "Please be careful."

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