LCS Mok'Ro, Main Engineering Room & Engine
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Super Metroid - Big Boss Confrontation 1 ♫
The tongue whipped and lashed, and slithered back into its maw. Gough meanwhile had the thing still wrapped around his leg and against the wound, but it soon fell limp after flailing in reflex like a headless snake. He scuttled backwards towards Mars and wrapped his hands around his rifle as his WIND armour (with GUST) assessed the damage to Gough's leg. The brain's eye swivelled and followed the blade, and as its tongue lashed out again, this time at Mars - the brain and its eye soon found itself the victim of a two pronged attack from Mars and Gough.
Projectiles impacted the thing and either burnt it holes in it with powerful tungesten from the High Kinetic Rifle or impaled and spalled it apart with the microwave bursts of the Silva rifle's projectiles. Either approach seemed to be working against the fleshier parts of this strange brain. There was absolutely no clue as to whether or not that was the ARIA core proper, of if it had survived the onslaught intact.
Gough, in catharsis and pain decided to yell something sardonic to ride off the pain that was shooting up his leg, "Not so smart with your brains outside 'a ya ... brains, are ya!" after a sigh, he looked over to Merril. "Medic!" he asked politely as he could, motioning to the gash in his suit and his leg, one of the composite plates protecting his shin shredded apart like cardboard while his wound was tourniquetted down to prevent further bleeding - but he was obviously hurt - he wouldn't be walking on that even after medical attention.
Yar'mak put his rifle up and covered Merril and Gough, keeping his eye on the Brain eye and the opposite corridor. He could see a shadow around the corner. His fingers drummed against the foregrip of his Deshe'vo and he grit his teeth. Korro had ducked and was covering her helmetted head once the bullets started flying around and coilguns got heated up. She was heavy breathing into the comms and muttering a liturgy of some sort into the communications, and with the sound of a beep, Yar'mak revoked her communication privileges.
"Thank you so much," Gough sighed as he knelt near Merril and relieved of whatever prattle Korro, awaiting medical attention. Yar'mak just nodded without taking his eyes off of the brain or the shadow around the corner.
Meanwhile, Kam'kebek found that some of the pipes and wires were sweating, and the fleshy corruption was now creeping closer to the Antimatter containers. They held up their hands and watched the corruption spread into their workspace. He barely pulled the release valve off and started the jettison process when the warping metal suddenly clung to the disconnected antimatter container, stopping it before it left for space.
His heart skipped a beat and his stomach lurched - the Mok'ro could crush that container antimatter container and destroy
everything in a light years' radius, Akahar included. "Guys? I'm gonna need a push here!" he yelled as he stood up and looked behind him, raising a carbine. He'd done all he could with finesse, but it seemed that some strength - or discouragement was required to make the final push.
That two bodied snakelike thing used one of its torsos to cling to the ceiling facing the reverse while the other dangled a few feet away from Al'ris, arms flailing towards her as her aim with the Anti-Neutron gun began to steady. It was putting holes in the thing - and the floor, and the wall behind that floor, then the hull. With every shot she took, it kept on gaining holes - but the ship seemed to feed into its sentinel, patching the wound up as the ceiling around them seemed to liquefy and bubble into the two-bodied form.
