Seeing what Soniku is about to do, Sofor leaps backwards as Hei's left hand morphs into a blade, ready to strike. A bright flash of light fills your monitors...
(That's awesome, I'm checking your boot if we meet) Osiris leaps forward, not missing a beat, and Ace slices it's hidden dagger across the last of the thing's neck, letting it's head plop off to the side, leaving a bloody red stalk of flesh. However, little tentacles pop out and are already at work repairing the tendons.
Zast slips off Gion's knee, falling into the hungry arms of the crawlers below.
Suddenly a hand grabs him by the scruff of his plugsuit, and with all his might Spax hauls Zast back up and over his shoulder. Pointing his palm upwards to Gion's chest, the cable fires and the two men whistle upwards and land in a jumble in the cockpit.
The Runners: Darani tries to drag Rozlt away from the slug and Soniku. ***Why-are-you-so-heavy, Rozlt? Help me out, and did everyone hear that? We need to get the hell out of here just by the way, I can believe we're damn weak.*** You can feel her frustration. One of the defensers crawls away from Soniku frantically, but the other two nod and together grab Rozlt's unit under the armpits and help Darani haul him away from the doomed slug.
The Explosion/Blast Pylon Firing
Above you, Soniku sinks her talons into the beast, and with a rising crescendo the pylons fire straight into the fleshy matter of the slug. Gut-wrenchingly the Defenser bucks backwards but manages to stay stuck into the thing as a pillar of flame lances into the slug's core. It's almost beautiful.
The slug melts from the inside out, boiling and bursting, the crawlers exploding in spurts of red matter as they try to crawl back into the shell. Clamped onto it tightly, Soniku's armor melts, falls off, bursts, and grafts itself to the red hot frame underneath. Still, Soniku stays stuck as both machine and monster are engulfed in fire.
Ara: A spike of sound as the pylons fire in a crescendo changes into a deafening roar, and one moment you were braced, and now as if magic are suddenly slammed against the bulkhead (4 Might damage), Your vision goes blurry, and you slide to, the, floor? Through it, you feel it. The massive stress on Soniku as she slowly disintegrates through your fingers, the smell of melting flesh and metal, the high pitched roar and the angry red walls, the unbearable heat of the cockpit.
God, it burns. What a miserable way to go, I-
Spax: as you and Zast tumble in a jumble into the cockpit, something bright flares outside the open hatch door, and you feel a rush of heat coming from the outside. Fire shoots into the cockpit when suddenly something outside slams the hatch shut just in time to avoid the flames. Gion is pushed backward, and you feel the crawlers fly off his legs.
Sofor: Pulling a lever purely on instinct, Hei dives to the ground and you feel wall of heat passes over you. Your monitors fizz and pop, but you know you're unharmed.
Osiris: As the thing's head plops off, you see a bright flash of light to your left. Trusting your feelings, Ace ducks behind the gigantic decapitated slug. A wall of flame passes overhead, and you smell roasted slug meat cooking.
Everyone outside Soniku
The slug and Soniku melt together until the pylons cut off. The slug is charred and hollowed out in the middle, a fixture upon itself. However, at the bottom some of the tiny crawlers are alive, and have started crawling over the hills and valleys of the gigantic carcass to reach a pristine yellow orb that rests on the ground in the very center of the thing's carcass.
Ara's defenser slumps to the ground in pieces, nearly collapsing like bits of coal as it lies upon the amorphous fields. It isn't recognizable as Soniku anymore, as all that remains is a slim, seared black construct that must have been the Defenser's frame.
***Alright-quite the day today.*** Darani says shakily. ***I say we p-pack up and go while there's still light, d-don't want to be s-s-stuck out here at night.*** You can feel her trying to collect herself and push her feelings aside. ***Let's haul Rozlt back and get Ara out of that metal coffin. If she's still even alive, that is.***
A red defenser crosses to the seared black frame, and tries unsuccessfully to open the cockpit with it's hands. It waves Darani over.
***Damn, that's hot, I can feel the heat from inside here. She can't be alive anymore. Let's head back.*** Darani rises sadly, but the red defenser pulls her back down by the wrist, and taps on the frame's chest.
***Damn, damn, It's hand is stuck to it. Melted on.*** Darani grabs a knife from a striped defenser and pries the hand and it's arm off little by little, until the chest is bare.
Inside the cockpit, Ara is bleeding but definitely alive as she rises shakily to check on her sister. Miu, still strapped into the chair, breathes softly, sleeping like a baby.
Alright folks, that's curtains for this encounter, unless anyone has something they want to add. The remainder of the defenser corp returned to Gurrai with Rozlt, and Soniku's scorched frame in tow, relieved that the sisters are miraculously alive and the demon slugs taken care of.
Two days from now, however, scouts will report that both of them seem to be slowly rebuilding themselves around the pristine yellow orbs.
I'd like to apologize for the slightly confusing setup I've got above. I'm just trying to describe dramatically what you do before and after the pylons fire, and also for putting so much attention here on Ara and Soniku, I promise everyone will get their moment.
Just describe stuff vicariously, do hero types of things, and be awesome forever, guys. I'm sleepy now so I'll hand out XPs tomorrow, hope you're happy with the game so far.