A couple of the Bombardiers didn't pull up in time, hitting the ground hard and delaying their attack. Some of them did, however, and now they and their swiping claws were on both of the able girls, not to keen on their new plan of action.

Just as Sayaka's foot kicked off of the ground, another worm burst through the ground right below her. Teeth trying to clamp around her leg, it missed her by a hair. And in a desperate move to hit her, a jet of its acid sprayed forth and up - at least if the worm couldn't kill her, it might have been able to finish off her blonde companion.