Re: Mission 5: Amaya's Gate
@Nyton:
The Black Knights suffered another casualty as Nyton went to draconian measures to destroy his newly acquired parasitic guest via the means of torching his lower abdomen with an anti-armor plasma weapon. The hellish heat shunted through the rent in the Phalanx's armor deeply calcinated Nyton's guts, causing so much peripheral damage that the Nepleslian went into shock.
Then he flatlined and no amount of medical assistance from the badly mauled Telemachus could save him from slipping away.
@Miyoko:
Miyoko's revealed of the cyberwarfare going on inbetween
Hoshi's CIES and Eve herself that their Compact Integrated Eletronic Suite - even with all the processing power its central quantum computer could muster - was far outclassed by Eve's invasive attacks.
The way
Hoshi seemed to be able to hold off her superior opponent was to blunt each powerful 'attacks' by casting aside the portion of herself that was getting invaded. The sequestering action - almost like a form of ablation - was what stopped Eve's hacking attempts to deeply penetrate the system and take it over at its more vital administrative portions.
Miyoko noticed
Hoshi stopped her attempts to trap Eve in forcefields and instead accessed the now unmanned
Vermillion to break its security lockouts.
@Kai:
With his Daisy leadened, there wasn't much mobility Kai could get out of it - not enough to climb out of tear in the hull he had been using for cover. Backing away further would bring him deeper into the imploded port crew compartment and outside the coverage of the atmospheric retention fields.
Grudgingly the Yamataian blindly removed his helmet and, after casting it aside, manually worked his power armor's torso section open before then wriggling out of it.
Question now was, what was he to do?
@ vs Eve:
Eve's deadly momentum slowed down. She had rampaged through their ranks, but the Black Knights were starting to pour down suppressive fire on her and - in spite of her potent precognition defense - Eve could only dodge.
Asher's and Kyou's attacks came from overhead while Masako rattled a scattered cone of firepower around Eve's general vicinity. The occasional errant attack fizzled against
Surtur's energy barrier as Eve evaded, tumbled, tucked and rolled around the attacks stitching holes and smoking miniature craters in her vicinity.
Sometimes, Eve was offered tempting targets. The vulnerable and barely standing Tom she could take with a rush and a cleaving slice. The same went with opportunities to dash up and cut Kyou's helmet open; or to charge Asher and crush his crotch with an upward bludgeon from a swinged chain before opening him vertically with her kama; or to cartwheel next to Masako and use two battle tentacles to tear both her arms off before finishing her off with a crosscut from her war sickles.
But the problem with these opportunities were that they carried too many potential futures that ended with Eve struck by an errant bolt of plasma. Each opportunity to attack ended in its infancy. Kyou, Asher and Masako were too spread out, demanded too much commitment to easily attack one of them. The pair of zesuaium kamas were extremely lethal in her hands, but they were still only short-to-medium range weapons.
Eve's dodging gradually moved her away from inbetween the two Akumas and closer to Masako. The enemy NH-23 grew two new battle tentacles - one out from each flank - and used the sharpened tip of each to shred her dark velvet outfit off to leave her near-to-bare in small clothes. Just as Eve seemed about to pounce toward Masako, Mara's Fox shuttle pivoted around to have its nose point toward Eve before two lines of aether cut across the floor and over her position, forcing Eve to preemptively leap back the isntant before.
Flames and smoke rose from the carpet, and once the glare of the attack had subsided, Eve was nowhere to be seen.
