YSS Kaiyō
Bridge
The explosions that emanated from the matter of the NMX ship Saki had targeted spewed around on the view screen. They were ovular and bright and debris flew out around the Kaiyō, pelting it but doing little damage, if any at all. The real damage was going on elsewhere on the ship.
Power Armor Bay
Yoshida threw the power armor but the Advanced Type darted out of the way. An NMX Neko in Reaper then pulsed out a few volleys of shots at Yoshida. A second NMX Neko honed in on her position and, before Yoshida could strike, had shot through her shields. Abart then shot down the NMX Neko attacking and the first tried to finish what second had continued, but was knocked down by Abart.
The NMX that chose to go after Orion was pushed to the side and he was able to take a dozen clear shots at it, making it drop to the ground.
William was able to stop the NMX from shooting their gun and then, even moreso as he continued to slash down armored and unarmored NMX Neko.
Hanna's gauss cannon spewed death on the NMX Neko attacking her, then another one was felled by the hurt Neko. Then another. She was on a roll.
Meissa was grabbed by the Advanced Type just before Aiko was able to get to it and it lifted her body up and off the ground, then slammed it into the floor of the power armor bay before lifting her again and slamming her down. While the Advanced Type did that with one tentacle, it grabbed Mat with the other and flung him against a wall. He shot out fervently and without cessation after he had landed, killing two approaching NMX Neko dead in their tracks before a Reaper-clad armor stuck a round of its plasma cannon between his eyes.
Thankfully, Aiko's abilities had been passed down from the Taisho and she was adept and powerful, albeit had no real world combat experience. The Type 33A Neko plunged her aether blade directly into the head of the Advanced Type.
One way or another, all of the NMX Neko in the power armor bay were killed off and Aiko made easy work of the Advanced Type despite her lack of experience. It was time for the power armor bay's personnel to realize just how close some of them had come to death, and to pick up the bodies of those that had not made it that far.
Cargo Bay
The personnel in the cargo bay had several minutes to regroup and come up with a plan. The thing was, all of their plans depended on the NMX coming through that breach again, but it seemed as if there were no more to come. Airi promised the others to be safe and to be careful and she stepped forward trepidatiously, then looked forward.
"That was all of them. Oh-wait!" She shot out a half dozen times, then smiled. "They're done for!"
Med Bay
Throughout Teien Eden's mind came the call to action,
"Yamatai banzai!"
Aiko's battlecry could be heard by every Nekovalkyrja on the ship, including the freshest one there.
Hemosynth liquid drained and the index finger of the Taii twitched slightly before both of her hands balled into fists. Her bare body flickered to be covered by a Type 35 duty uniform with her distinctive white panels and full chest of medals and decoration. A
Tomoyo's Kikyo would soon be added to the rows, but for now there were more important things to be thinking about. Much, much more important things. Her thickly lashed eyes had so far remained closed, face set in a distraught expression before opening and setting her jaw in place.
"Samurai!" Eden yelled out telepathically. She gave the samurai the coordinates of the ship where she needed her.
"Iie!" Rei replied. "My place is with the princess."
"This is a superior officer's direct orders!" Eden replied, having already removed herself from the med bay. "MEGAMI!?" Eden snapped.
"...Zero-G passageway," Boss replied tersely. "I am running... Improperly, Taii."
As she strode towards where Akiko was getting man-handled, Eden said, "What the fuck is wrong with you?"
"...I've been tampered with, Taii..."
"Not the time, Boss!" After a moment of looking across the passageway, at the hallway where her previous body lay prone and the further, where she believed Saki was, she snarled and then looked down.
She saw Akiko's prone and power armored body as the Ghost Mishhu floated upwards, towards her. It leaked blood from its spiked crown and she could just make out the tentacles reacting to her presence. They extended then curled, as if excited about the prospect of taking her again.
The lights in the passagway dimmed momentarily and Eden shook her head, black hair splaying out in zero-G while she moved to the side of the passageway. The Ghost Mishhu phased, but missed phasing in and out of her as she had moved too quickly for it.
She moved back to the center of the passageway and used all the force her Neko body could utilize and slammed into the Mishhu, pressing it against the top of the passageway. She then groped around the Mishhu and then yanked on a grip of its tentacles and threw it against the wall next to them, brought it to the other wall, and watched as the lights, again, grew darker and it was out of the passageway, having phased away.
Rei was there at that moment, looking up at the Taii and asked tersely, "Nani!? Ghost
Mishhuvurthyar?!"
"Hai!" Eden replied in Yamataigo. "Teleport into the wardroom!"
Rei's teleporter unit on her back charged, then she was in the wardroom. The Mishhu turned to her, tentacles swinging in the air as it did before turning back around pulling a table from its mooring on the floor of the wardrooom. It threw it at Rei and the samurai walked forward, letting her
energy manipulation force the table to the side when it was just inches from her body.
She fired her Type W2901 particle cannons at the Ghost immediately after it had gone invisible. A hole was blow through both walls of the galley, into the cargo lift and then the cargo lift beyond. She paused a moment to reassess her plan of attack. It was then that she felt a sickly feeling as her SARAH was soon grabbed and pulled around the shoulders by a dozen tentacles, but through AIES she activated a 1 meter radius Type W2901 scalar pulse. The Mishhu formed into existence and, limply, hit the ground in front of her SARAH.
At that moment, Eden was running into the wardroom and paused, looking over the wreckage of the beast. Her grim face turned into a slight smile. She looked to the SARAH-clad samurai and nodded, then ran back to the bridge. She pulled her own, dead body into one of the escape pods, kissed the fingers of her right hand and pressed them against the forehead of her former self. Then, she opened the doors to the bridge.