trans_9 | Lirath - Ground Battle

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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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Will's eyes widened as she heard that explosion and felt it suddenly get really damn cold. Either way though, Aqua was using it to her advantage, so Will would have to use her freezing the damn thing to hers as well, firing off another blast towards the Ohm.

Sasami came to a stop as she noticed the other three were fighting the Tank, using the weather change to their advantage. As the Tank came charging, it staggered a bit as Aqua froze a bit of the Tank's hide, then bellowed in pain as it broke by Negi and Will's attacks.

She began thinking of what she could do - a Blizzara attack perhaps? Then, as if someone was telling her to do something different, she thrusted her staff forward and shouted something different.

"MAGNERA!"

The Tank, recovering, attempted to clamp its mandibles on Sasami's head. Instead, the pull of the new spell made him miss by mere inches as it dragged it back.

"...did I... do that?"

"That's the next level!" Aqua cried out, using Aeroga to stop her fall. She couldn't risk holding still long enough to use a Shotlock attack, so she shouted, "Stand back!" and fired off another devastating Mega Flare.

Retracting the weapon, he changed forms once again, twirling the cloak around as he wound it around himself, vanishing as he did so.

Seconds later, from thin air, a large winged spear hurled out from a pocket dimension straight at the tank as Negi unfolded himself from said pocket dimension.

... And Will just jumped back and fired off more lightning at the tank. God she was so outclassed here.

As the Tank struggled to fight the Magnera spell before it dispersed, Sasami took notice of the situation. One: they were horribly outclassed. Two: the thing, despite taking a Mega Flare shot, a gigantic spear and another bolt of Quintessence, was still standing.

At that point, she happened to notice something in the corner of her eye - a fallen Moraig Assault Walker. Running over to it, it seemed that it was still in order. The only problem was that it's power supply was a little more than shot.

"Hey, guys! Maybe this'll help!" Sasami shouted, just as the Tank started to break free. If they wanted to use it, they'd better do so now.

"Go ahead!" Aqua warned. "We'll cover you!"

Fire magic surrounded her in Firestorm form, causing steam to rise from the frozen air around her. She got in close enough to make a few fire-powered strikes with her Keyblade before launching off a few mines underneath it, then flying away from it when her Firestorm magic faded.

Creating three light spears, Negi hurled it at the tank to continue pinning it to the ground. He wasn't saying much, having burnt a lot of mana already as sweat poured down his face. This was much more intensive than just slugging it out with Fate.

Will blinked, looking over at Sasami as she noticed just what the younger girl was standing next to. A machine. A big giant machine, with guns.

She had never tried using her powers on something that big before.

Will grinned, before she charged forward, flying up to the machine as fast as she could. This was going to be great!

As soon as she was close enough, she was blasting the mech with quintessence, fueling as much power as she could spare into it. After all, she could bring all the appliances in her apartment to life, how hard could a giant war machine of death be?

Not hard, apparently, as soon enough, the mech's eyes started to glow as it slowly brought itself to it's feet. On it's own. Without a pilot inside.

And then, heard throughout anyone's mind nearby, was one single word.

"KILL!"

And with that shout from the mech, the machine charged forward, pulling it's fist back before thrusting it forward right into the tank's head.

Between Negi's spears, Aqua's Firestorm attack and the mech Will brought to life, the Tank was starting to be fought back. But, it just wasn't enough.

She flexed her hand a bit, remembering the energy "blade" she created earlier, but, despite having a little bit of power left, it wasn't enough. They had to end the battle here or they were all dead.

"Negi-kun!" Sasami called out. "...is there anyway you can do what we had to do to you to me?"

Negi grinned at that as he landed. "You need to ask? Here comes some power!"

In an instant and a silent incantation, Sasami would feel a huge amount of power flowing to her, as with everyone else who had a pactio thus far with him. He was essentially supercharging everyone within the range, and amplfying his magic.

"Freeze!"

Cold air gathered tight around Aqua as she used Glacier. She spun around, releasing a freezing blast all around her to hit the Tank, followed by a second blast.

Will grinned as she saw everything that was going on, her mech moving to use it's large rifle to start blasting the Tank right in the face.

And then she fell forward, only barely managing to use her legs and hands to keep herself from falling right onto her face. "Okay... maybe that took a lot more out of me than it first felt like."

Sasami started to feel more recovered as Negi began "recharging" her. As the Tank before them staggered to Aqua's attack, Sasami turned to face the beast. "Alright, let's see what we can--"

Before she could say anything else, she was cut off by the sounds of rumbling. At that moment, two more tanks were marching up to join its wounded companion. They... weren't happy about what they saw.

"--do?"

"Bugger."

Negi reacted automatically as he unleashed hell, loosing the two Thousand Bolts in their direction.

"YEAH COME GET SOME!" egged on Chamo atop Barry.

"There's no end to these things," Aqua growled.

She pointed her Keyblade toward Will and cried, "Heal!" casting Curaga. "I don't know how much that'll help, but we've got to keep going."

Will smiled, feeling the healing waves of magic wash over her body as she made it to her feet. "Thanks!" she managed to shout out... before she noticed the two other tanks. "Oh come on!"

The mech fired off another shot at the tank it had been attacking this whole time, before turning it's attention to another of the tanks and started shooting at it.

The Tanks took notice of the mech that had fired at them and decided to focus their attention on it, intending on shrugging off its attacks and charging right through it, intending on squashing the four underneath their feet.

They would have, if it wasn't for a cat-like howl signaling a barrage of energy blasts, striking the Tanks and trying not to hit the mech.

"That... that howl..." Sasami uttered, gasping as she looked to the sky. "It's... IT's RYO-OHKI! (http://images.wikia.com/tenchi/images/f/fa/Ryo_ohki_ship.jpg)"

Having broken free of Stacy and making its way to the surface, the cabbit-turned spaceship hovered overhead, ready to do what's needed.

"Oh that is a good sight to see," admitted Negi, charging up another spell and hurling a standard Titan Slayer to skewer the tank through that had taken the most damage, hoping to finish it off.

Aqua flew her glider over the Tanks, blasting down on them. She was only just able to throw up her barrier before one of them hit her, sending her crashing to the snow.

She picked herself up, tasting blood in her mouth. She was hurt, but not as badly as she could have been, and in any case, she didn't have enough power for another Curaga yet. Her own power was almost exhausted--she'd have to borrow from someone.

"Negi," she pleaded. "I'm going to need some help, if it's okay with you."

Will's eyes widened when she saw Aqua fall, but right now she couldn't afford to be too worried, especially since she managed to get herself back up. Besides, it's not like Will knew how to use the healing powers of Quintessence anyway.

So she just sent a blast over at the tank that her Mech was still firing at, hoping to help do some more damage.

"AQUA-NEESAN!" Sasami cried out again, watching her sister fall for the second time. It was heart-wrenching to watch one of her sisters get hurt like that. As the wounded Tank finally fell to Negi and Will's assault, the other two attempted to finish the job on Aqua, only to have Ryo-Ohki come down and intercept them, using her massive size to protect her "owner" and her friends.

At the same time, Sasami herself ran to Aqua's side, hoping to help her once more.

Negi nodded, moving back. "Focus on the tanks you two!" he called out. "What'd you need me to do?" he asked quickly.

Aqua nodded at Sasami to let her know she was all right before turning back to Negi.

"I need to form a D-Link with you. It'll let me use your powers and vice-versa, the same way Sasami's doing. Right now, I've almost exhausted my powers, and I need time to regain my strength."

Negi nodded quickly. "Do what you need to do. I'd offer to form a pact with you, but we've got no time for that right now."

He held out his hand for her to do whatever she needed to do.

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