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Lirath - Ground Battle

After dropping off some of the crew at Balisair, it was time for the crew to set course for Lirath. The situation greeting them wasn't the most promising.

The cracked surface of the moon called Lirath was one of its most unmistakeable features. One of the three moons of the planet Kehoe, it had been terraformed and served as a settlement for a hundreds of different species, some humanoid, some not. Despite occasional class struggles, environmental issues, and speciesism blocking their way, the darker parts of Lirath's past were largely left behind, and an era of peace and tolerance had reigned for quite some time. The only problems they'd had recently were with a terrorist group whose cause for their actions had been a mystery, but they weren't tied to any particular species or social group and had been likened to a cult and had largely gone quiet in recent years.

Now the peace on the moon of Lirath had been shattered by the invasion of the Ohm.

The capital city had been destroyed. Now, all that was left of the peoples of Lirath was evacuating from one of its smaller cities, one known as Smyteval. A desert city, existing in a valley in between a rocky range of canyons and mountains, even though it was in the low ground, the natural channels of rock served as bottlenecks for any Ohm attacking from the ground.

GIA squadrons patrolled in space, locked in explosive warfare, protecting the Bleed-gate that had been activated to see the evacuated ships to the refugee world, and a shield created by massively-powerful shield generators extended around the city and up into the atmosphere, creating a shielded tunnel so ships could escape.

Word had come that there was a vital weapon to be deployed on Lirath, one that needed to be destroyed, hence why the Transmigration 9 had been called in. Given the diverse crew, and the ships that were in its hangar, there was at least someone or something on board that could blow the weapon up if it did show.

There was no sign of it yet. Right now, there was just chaos, streams of evacuees boarding ships, armies of Ohm engaged with GIA soldiers outside the shields, and forcefields that everyone hoped would hold out just a little bit longer.

The crew would be following Leon's orders but finding themselves fighting side-by-side with GIA platoons, full of various species that were currently all getting their asses kicked severely.

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Aqua had reminded herself before arriving to the battle not to exhaust herself on ultimate attacks, that lower-powered attacks would still be effective. It was her first battle since Terra, and organizing things in her mind was all she could do to fight off the shaking. Everything had gone wrong that day, and now she had even more people counting on her. Sasami was with her, Hoshi was with her friends, Reimi was in space as far as she knew, Rein was with her friends, she wasn't sure about Hay Lin...

But now that she was actually here, it changed. The training she'd had since childhood returned to her, and her mind felt calm.

"I'm ready," she answered.

Will sighed, on the ground transformed into her guardian form as she waited. God, how she hated the wait before a big battle the most. At least during the battles it was next to impossible to actually be worrying about what was going on as opposed to just being busy fighting and trying to stay alive.

"I'm ready too."

"So am I."

She was certain Negi and Aqua hated the fact that she was here. At the same time, though, did they have a choice? She would have found some way to get into the battle. It was probably for the best that she was near the two people that would die to protect her.

"Well then," said Chamo as he took a drag of his cigarette and tossed it aside as the oncoming horde lumbered towards them. "I'd say it's a good day to die!"

He leaped down off Negi's shoulder onto Barry's shoulders. "HI HO BARRY, AWAY!"

"Rrrrrrrrrt."

Negi chuckled and then focused. Using his staff as a skateboard, he blasted forward and there was a snap-crackle as a trail of lightning flashed through the ranks.

In a flurry of explosions, dozens died as Negi reappeared, material as he snapped out a black-hued energy blade from his fist.

Aqua started off at a distance, aiming her Prism Rain. Rainbow-colored spheres of light fired off toward the Ohm. It wasn't enough to destroy even the handful that were hit, but it was enough injury for her to charge forward with a Sliding Dash, finishing off a couple of them.

Okay, big magical bursts of energy and slashing with key, check.

Will flew up into the air, before launching a couple of bolts of quintessence down on the Ohm that Aqua hadn't finished off just yet, putting an end to them with the blast of magic.

Of course, that just left several more of the Ohm that were still heading towards them.

"I got 'em!" Sasami cried out, thrusting out her staff and calling forth a burst of Blizzara. She hated the fact that she wasn't at the same level as the other three, but she had to do what she could.

Watching as a group of Grunts were frozen solid, she quickly swung her staff overhead to strike at one that escaped the strike.

"C'mon platypus do something!" urged Chamo. Barry just gave him a look.

Negi cut one of them clean in half as he was struck from behind, his torso parting to allow the attacker's blade to slide through harmlessly. He closed it up and there was a snap-crack of lightning as it's mandible was cut in half as he decapitated it.

"Watch your backs people," he called out, berating himself mentally for that mistake.

A blast of Thundaga later, and Aqua was in her Thunderbolt form, electricity charged around her, giving some of the weaker Ohm pause before she slashed at them. As stronger ones came her way, she used Magnet Collision to grab one of them and hurl it into the other, upgrading her form to Ghost Drive.

Well... damn. Aqua was really damn good at fighting.

Will was just firing off more blasts of Quintessence at the Ohm. After all, it's not really like she could afford to go punch the stupid things.

Things were getting hectic. And seeing as everyone else was doing the same, she'd follow suit with the lightning blast.

"Uh... W-Will-neesan! Please stay close and watch out! THUNDARA!"

A split second later, both Sasami and Will would be surrounded by bolts of lightning, striking a ring of Ohm around them.

Cutting into a few more, he shoved his fist into the carapace of one and fired, a tornado ripping into it and plowing into several dozen more behind it. He looked over his shoulder at Sasami and the others and nodded to himself. Good, they were doing fine.

Phantom lights floated around Aqua as she darted faster than the Ohm could see, short-range teleporting around them as she attacked, forcing several into a tight circle. Once she'd managed to get them there, she struck from all sides, leaving streaks of light in her wake to surround them. She then teleported into the air as the light streaks converged to destroy the Ohm trapped within them.

The Ghost Drive faded away as she held her Keyblade against the rest of the Ohm.

"Let Sasami or me know if anyone needs healing. Between the two of us, we can handle it."

Will nodded. "Got it!" She shouted, flying up into the air a bit higher, looking for more Ohm to blast when they started getting closer.

The Ohm were starting to swarm closer, forcing Sasami to fight back a bit more defensively. As a group of Grunts got closer, Sasami swung her staff in an arc, knocking them back.

Right now, she wish she had an edge, a blade, something...!

Making sure not to stray too far away from the others, Negi flickered back, leaving a crackling wave of ozone as the Ohm filled in gaps. "We need to make an opening," said Negi, falling back. "Hitting them from all sides isn't going to work, so let's make some breathing room."

Chanting, he slammed his hand to the ground as a tornado erupted around the four, spreading outwards and hurling Ohm everywhere away from them. "This'll hold for a moment. We should hit them hard in one shot to give the GIA members more chance to push them back."

"Got it," Aqua answered, gathering her power and beginning to twirl.

As she spun, light gathered around her. The more graceful and intricate the dance, the more orbs of light were thrown off of her to hit the Ohm. The attacks wore down a few Grunts until they were destroyed, but most of them were forced away.

Will landed on the ground as that tornado appeared, already moving to channel her energy to throw her lightning over in the same direction of Aqua's magic to hit more of the Ohm.

Sasami followed suit, launching another Blizarra attack. However, another Grunt escaped her attack and made a lunge at her.

Before anyone could react to the scream, the three would see a frozen Grunt close to Sasami, a claw snagging the rope belt around her skirting.

Negi's heart skipped a beat when he heard Sasami yell like that, but when he looked, he breathed a sigh of relief. "Okay, bunch up. We'll need to hit this hard and fast."

He raised a hand as magic gathered around it. "Lightning Element." And he casually decapitated the grunt holding onto Sasami with the dark energy sword.

Terror struck Aqua when she heard Sasami's scream, and she only just had the chance to breathe a sigh of relief when she saw that Sasami had frozen it. It had been a good idea to set up the D-Link.

But that was it. Aqua gripped her Keyblade tightly and began a Time Splicer attack--stopping time on several Grunts while teleporting around to attack them wildly. When she was through, most of the Grunts had fallen dead while others were still caught by a Slow spell and were easy enough for her to finish off.

Will moved forward, launching more of her Quintessence over towards those grunts that had survived Aqua and Negi's assaults.

While she had frozen the Ohm, she had realized that her skirting nearly killed her. Negi had stepped on it during their training and now an Ohm nearly used it to kill her.

Pulling away from the Ohm's frozen carcass, she let the rope belt be torn and the skirting drop to the ground, showing what hid underneath - short shorts, shin plates similar to what Reimi had...

And bladed anklets, which an advancing Ohm was greeted with, cutting into it.

"No... you're not getting me! I won't let you!"

Aqua continued attacking the Ohm, finally raising her Keyblade in the air and creating magic circles. Teleporting into the air, she struck each circle with her Keyblade, slamming them into the Ohm beyond her.

Negi smirked at that, continuing his chanting. Power was building and the Ohm could sense it as they attacked, but a shield of energy was building around him, courtesy of Chamo who held his Pactio card below.

Targeting glyphs appeared everywhere and the crackle of ozone grew sharp in the air.

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