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Grendyne groans and starts pulling on her boots when the alarm goes off. Again. She quick-marches to the broom hangar, sits on her machine and is handed a plethora of loaded weapons by attentive corporals.
"Two flyers in one day? They're getting way too common."
"It's worse," the commander informs them, "South Karlsland got hit with three at once. We're taking Lytee's express and sleeping there. You can sit out if you absolutely need to, but Freya's still recovering so we could use you as a comms relay."
"No, I'll come. I just reserve the right to complain about it."
The 42nd United Forces Witch Wing takes off and assembles into a perfect synchronized formation as Lytee charges her teleport power.
...This is not South Karlsland wilderness.
[note: halfway through this thread I created a unique account for Grendyne. Do not be alarmed by the change in account. -Rockeye]
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neuroihive
...This Neuroi is a drone, not the intelligence behind them. It reverts to its default behavior: Shoot at the threat.
It interprets everything nonhuman as a threat. Not that it has much time to do anything with that decision.
Moments later, the Neuroi open hundreds of doors there, and in addition to more Neuroi, exotic attacks of all kinds - many derived from shards, some not - pour through.
And the flotilla of black hole bomb carriers begins charging for FTL insertion.
It interprets everything nonhuman as a threat. Not that it has much time to do anything with that decision.
Moments later, the Neuroi open hundreds of doors there, and in addition to more Neuroi, exotic attacks of all kinds - many derived from shards, some not - pour through.
And the flotilla of black hole bomb carriers begins charging for FTL insertion.
wormcan
Scion ignores most of the barrage, and moves on to the next nearest Neuroi. The blasts don't trouble him; this body can be reconstructed almost trivially even if completely destroyed. One or two attacks do attract his notice: they would break through his avatar into the world beyond where he keeps his real body. Those ones he blocks with the right choice of power; it's no more and no less than this that his precognition is set up to avoid.
This isn't a fight, exactly. That requires two sides. He's just eradicating one after the other, with some focus on importance but mostly just proximity, because he associates Neuroi with what happened to his counterpart.
This isn't a fight, exactly. That requires two sides. He's just eradicating one after the other, with some focus on importance but mostly just proximity, because he associates Neuroi with what happened to his counterpart.
neuroihive
The Neuroi have plenty of cannon fodder to keep him busy. They try to aim the fight into space, the humans aren't useful if they're dead.
About three minutes into the not-fight, more than ten million Neuroi arrive at the end of their one-way trip to where Scion keeps his real body, synchronized to the nanosecond. Inside the planet, on its surface, above it. No part of the planet is more than fifty miles away from a copy of the weapon that turned one side of the moon into a cloud of glowing meteorites.
That planet ceases to exist.
About three minutes into the not-fight, more than ten million Neuroi arrive at the end of their one-way trip to where Scion keeps his real body, synchronized to the nanosecond. Inside the planet, on its surface, above it. No part of the planet is more than fifty miles away from a copy of the weapon that turned one side of the moon into a cloud of glowing meteorites.
That planet ceases to exist.
wormcan
And the human-shaped tendril of Zion that extended into Earth Bet falls to the ground dead as soon as the next bit of cannon fodder lands a shot.
neuroihive
The Neuroi announce to the humans (in general, all over the world) that they have killed Scion, not particularly caring whether they know he was a massive existential threat.
Then they disappear again. There has been far too much activity recently, it's high time to take a good long rest and analyze recent events and get used to all the new weapons liberated from various shards.
Maybe one of these powers will let them reproduce again, somehow.
Then they disappear again. There has been far too much activity recently, it's high time to take a good long rest and analyze recent events and get used to all the new weapons liberated from various shards.
Maybe one of these powers will let them reproduce again, somehow.
whole_new_can
They still have enemies. But the Simurgh is patient. The next time the Neuroi surface, they may just find themselves facing a united humanity and parahumanity as well as the Endbringers.
Unless of course she decides on a better idea.
Unless of course she decides on a better idea.
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