Dmitri Tolenka
Sic Semper Tyrannis
Hannah smiled at Itel.
“Hunt well!” she wished him. She blinked as the man literally flew off. That was a spectacular semblance, to have freedom from gravity's grasp. A true pity the tournament forbade use of such, and even more so the pity she could only appreciate it under these circumstances.
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While she stuck to Ser Irons, she blasted away most of her pitiful ammunition in short order. Not that 3 measly stacks of .45 ACP made that much of a difference in the grand scheme of things. With only a grand total of 5 bullets left she had yet to shoot.
Hannah surveyed the arena and the skies outside with a trained eye. To her, the swirling chaos could be dissected into individual, comprehensible streams. Civilians flowed out as water. Fighters stood their ground as rocks, occasionally as funnels, sometimes as a steady pushing magma flow. The grimm flittered this way and that like black wisps of flame. The beasts clawed at the smallest cracks in the defenses and eagerly tore into whatever they could reach. She read the battlefield, and nodded. Even with the surprise terror sludge attack, even with the ominous shape of a Monstra Grimm on the horizon, even with enough chaff to blot out the sun, this attack didn’t have the momentum to truly carry the day. The forces of light would stand victorious. Atlas air cruisers and their attendant craft gave them an overwhelming firepower advantage, they had enough warriors on the ground to shatter the grimm hordes to pieces and the droid formations made for serviceable anchor points and civilian shelters. They would win. At a cost, but they would win.
The Atlas air forces rushed in with a classic pike formation, and with enviable smoothness switched over to form a barrier formation in front of the Monstra. It made sense, they had to eliminate the largest threat first, right here and now, before it could batter down more of the fixed defences. Hannah spared the battlefield just another glance, and froze.
The classic thrust and hammerblow left military formations exposed to lower class grimm milling about at the edges, but the beasts lacked coordination to make use of the opening. Grimm did not act strategically. They never acted strategically.
“Was zur Hölle…” Hannah croaked out with a strangely dry throat.
Except for these ones. The chaff had made an instant about face, and pounced upon the opening.
The beasts tore into the formation, an almost elegant stream of black with red and white stars all over, a brush stroke of malice, teeth and intent painted across the sky. With guns and eyes pointed mostly forward, the fleet never stood a chance.
Ser Irons saved her life, there and then.
His blade cut down the beowulf about to leap onto her. Right, she still had herself to worry about. Even with her fear screeching in her ear, she gripped her cutlass. Loosely, she chided herself, she held it far too tight, even as she hacked at yet another of the beasts. It dodged high, slavering maw open, and it died as she took the opening to shoot up directly into the back of it’s throat.
4 bullets left.
Situation terrible. Getting worse. At the very least, they’d acted as a bulwark for most of the civilians in their area. They moved to safety between a line of androids and that Hawthorne girl. A tiny part of Hannah triumphantly shouted that she’d known the box held a secret. The secret was chainsaws and fire.
A good thing too, as the unearthly screech reverberated around the arena.
“Mein Gottin. Henkersbaum.” Hannah breathed. She leaped back from the exploding fruit in synch with Ser Irons, right, no more distractions, what was the actual situation.
Hawthorne’s group had an android escort. Itel herded his own group out of the arena too, and she thought she’d spotted a transport on the platforms ready to take off.
Choices…
“Understood Ser Irons. Towards Itel, the man with the staff and the wings. Should be larger transports outside.” she said, and blasted another Beowulf in the face. She had to stop relying on the pistol to finish her opponents off, especially such weak ones, she reflected.
3 bullets left.
“Also they need our help.” she added. Bluntly put, while the androids were dimwitted, they were reliable as shields. Itel’s group lacked such a protection for now. The way she saw it, they’d do the most good there.
Another roar, less monstrous this time, and also once more cut short by the short bark of her pistol.
Down to her last pair of bullets. Only 1 more left for the grimm.
Mentions: Vagabond Spectre
Interactions: Lord_Boreas Soviet Panda
“Hunt well!” she wished him. She blinked as the man literally flew off. That was a spectacular semblance, to have freedom from gravity's grasp. A true pity the tournament forbade use of such, and even more so the pity she could only appreciate it under these circumstances.
----
While she stuck to Ser Irons, she blasted away most of her pitiful ammunition in short order. Not that 3 measly stacks of .45 ACP made that much of a difference in the grand scheme of things. With only a grand total of 5 bullets left she had yet to shoot.
Hannah surveyed the arena and the skies outside with a trained eye. To her, the swirling chaos could be dissected into individual, comprehensible streams. Civilians flowed out as water. Fighters stood their ground as rocks, occasionally as funnels, sometimes as a steady pushing magma flow. The grimm flittered this way and that like black wisps of flame. The beasts clawed at the smallest cracks in the defenses and eagerly tore into whatever they could reach. She read the battlefield, and nodded. Even with the surprise terror sludge attack, even with the ominous shape of a Monstra Grimm on the horizon, even with enough chaff to blot out the sun, this attack didn’t have the momentum to truly carry the day. The forces of light would stand victorious. Atlas air cruisers and their attendant craft gave them an overwhelming firepower advantage, they had enough warriors on the ground to shatter the grimm hordes to pieces and the droid formations made for serviceable anchor points and civilian shelters. They would win. At a cost, but they would win.
The Atlas air forces rushed in with a classic pike formation, and with enviable smoothness switched over to form a barrier formation in front of the Monstra. It made sense, they had to eliminate the largest threat first, right here and now, before it could batter down more of the fixed defences. Hannah spared the battlefield just another glance, and froze.
The classic thrust and hammerblow left military formations exposed to lower class grimm milling about at the edges, but the beasts lacked coordination to make use of the opening. Grimm did not act strategically. They never acted strategically.
“Was zur Hölle…” Hannah croaked out with a strangely dry throat.
Except for these ones. The chaff had made an instant about face, and pounced upon the opening.
The beasts tore into the formation, an almost elegant stream of black with red and white stars all over, a brush stroke of malice, teeth and intent painted across the sky. With guns and eyes pointed mostly forward, the fleet never stood a chance.
Ser Irons saved her life, there and then.
His blade cut down the beowulf about to leap onto her. Right, she still had herself to worry about. Even with her fear screeching in her ear, she gripped her cutlass. Loosely, she chided herself, she held it far too tight, even as she hacked at yet another of the beasts. It dodged high, slavering maw open, and it died as she took the opening to shoot up directly into the back of it’s throat.
4 bullets left.
Situation terrible. Getting worse. At the very least, they’d acted as a bulwark for most of the civilians in their area. They moved to safety between a line of androids and that Hawthorne girl. A tiny part of Hannah triumphantly shouted that she’d known the box held a secret. The secret was chainsaws and fire.
A good thing too, as the unearthly screech reverberated around the arena.
“Mein Gottin. Henkersbaum.” Hannah breathed. She leaped back from the exploding fruit in synch with Ser Irons, right, no more distractions, what was the actual situation.
Hawthorne’s group had an android escort. Itel herded his own group out of the arena too, and she thought she’d spotted a transport on the platforms ready to take off.
Choices…
“Understood Ser Irons. Towards Itel, the man with the staff and the wings. Should be larger transports outside.” she said, and blasted another Beowulf in the face. She had to stop relying on the pistol to finish her opponents off, especially such weak ones, she reflected.
3 bullets left.
“Also they need our help.” she added. Bluntly put, while the androids were dimwitted, they were reliable as shields. Itel’s group lacked such a protection for now. The way she saw it, they’d do the most good there.
Another roar, less monstrous this time, and also once more cut short by the short bark of her pistol.
Down to her last pair of bullets. Only 1 more left for the grimm.
Mentions: Vagabond Spectre
Interactions: Lord_Boreas Soviet Panda
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