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The Fate who calls herself Mountain tried to convince some of her neighbors to allow the occasional mountain in their lands, for stability purposes.
"I meant no insult!" Dodge ball of lava. "I don't intend to interfere, you said no!" Dodge house-sized spear of ice. "I'm leaving peacefully, okay, so stop tearing up the tile!"
"You'll respawn at home. No permanent damage. You interrupted an important meeting, you need to learn a lesson about territory, mountain bitch." Dodge- no, fail to dodge a thrown tree, and then another ice ball. The next sphere of magma is what destroyed that form.
She wakes up, stripped of all her tools and enchantments and even clothes, and groans in pain.
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sturdycoldsteel
sturdycoldsteel
She adjusts her rocksuit, dropping most of the bulky stone so she doesn't slow down the plane. She adds a stylized '山' on her forehead, and an 'M' on her chest.
Any familiar faces boarding the planes?
Any familiar faces boarding the planes?
sturdycoldsteel
She makes sure to board the same plane as Glam, and if given a chance insists at them, "We are going to win."
mxglam
"Yeah. Yeah, we are," they say, sounding more like they're trying to convince themself than anything.
sturdycoldsteel
"Have you practiced making lightsabers? I'll just go with my trusty diamond hammer if not."
mxglam
"Mmhm! They're cool!" Glam demonstrates, being careful not to move it around too much or cut stuff.
sturdycoldsteel
"Good." Her volume ticks up. "You said these are even stronger than the movie version, right? I wonder how deep it'll cut."
mxglam
Glam... never said any such thing. They also notice her speaking louder, and the consequent increase in attention.
That... that's worrying.
"Yeah," they play along. "It should be able to turn Behemoth into a limbless piece of rock."
That... that's worrying.
"Yeah," they play along. "It should be able to turn Behemoth into a limbless piece of rock."
sturdycoldsteel
"Here's hoping." She doesn't keep talking up the lightsaber. No need to look like she's deliberately attracting attention.
She pulls out a computer and starts going over what little information is available on past Behemoth attacks.
She pulls out a computer and starts going over what little information is available on past Behemoth attacks.
sturdycoldsteel
"Good firing positions are underrated. Even Scion wouldn't be able to do much from the bottom of a hole."
sturdycoldsteel
"Right. Let's do this thing."
She exits the plane and flies at top speed to the already-ongoing battle. Behemoth is not exactly stealthy, so it's easy to find a spot to raise a plateau where he'll be in full view for a long time.
She declares the imminent good-firing-position into the communicator Alexandria gave her and gets to work, careful not to send anyone currently near her chosen spot flying.
She exits the plane and flies at top speed to the already-ongoing battle. Behemoth is not exactly stealthy, so it's easy to find a spot to raise a plateau where he'll be in full view for a long time.
She declares the imminent good-firing-position into the communicator Alexandria gave her and gets to work, careful not to send anyone currently near her chosen spot flying.
sturdycoldsteel
She draws attention to the turret while ostensibly 'making sure nobody's going to be caught by the backwash'.
Then her firing plateau is ready. She levitates up small groups of tinkers and less-mobile blasters, makes lots of sharp rocky ammunition for one after a brief conversation, and then solicits a lightsaber.
The lightsaber is basically Burning Blade. It will cut through just about anything. She's used Burning Blade before, she knows in her gut it will work.
Then her firing plateau is ready. She levitates up small groups of tinkers and less-mobile blasters, makes lots of sharp rocky ammunition for one after a brief conversation, and then solicits a lightsaber.
The lightsaber is basically Burning Blade. It will cut through just about anything. She's used Burning Blade before, she knows in her gut it will work.
mxglam
A lightsaber is given. Glam doesn't question it when it looks a bit different than they expect it to.
And the countdown for the blast starts.
And the countdown for the blast starts.
sturdycoldsteel
She flies off towards where Behemoth is currently being punched by Alexandria, assembling basically a giant statue along the way. It catches Behemoth's arm mid-swing. Not for very long, of course. Behemoth rips it straight off then melts it for good measure. But she just takes a moment or two to make a new one. The repeated cycle of statue-punch-Behemoth has to be slowing it down some.
Then she arrives and takes a flying swing at one leg with her Burning Blade. It... Is a lot less effective than she thought it would be. She tells herself, Repeated strikes will work and has another go, and another. Then she has to back off when Behemoth hits her with a stream of lightning. Most of it skitters across the surface of her armor, but she can only take so much.
Then she arrives and takes a flying swing at one leg with her Burning Blade. It... Is a lot less effective than she thought it would be. She tells herself, Repeated strikes will work and has another go, and another. Then she has to back off when Behemoth hits her with a stream of lightning. Most of it skitters across the surface of her armor, but she can only take so much.
mxglam
And of course, Behemoth can still heat things up, and turn them radioactive, so she might prefer to stay away in general.
Glam's weapon blasts Behemoth full on the face, making him stagger back a little but not damaging him a whole lot more than that.
Glam's weapon blasts Behemoth full on the face, making him stagger back a little but not damaging him a whole lot more than that.
sturdycoldsteel
The lightsaber disappears at some point. She takes a break and prepositions people and evacuates some wounded from its path and shores up the firing platform from where something damaged it and keeps up the statue-hit-Behemoth cycle and trying to pry open Behemoth's wounds with shards of crystal and stone, not that they're slowing it down, and making a wall of insulating asbestos when he lashes out with a heat beam towards a field hospital and and and...
She's very, very busy trying to keep up with the fight. There's almost no time to check up on Glam or anyone else, or even to worry about where he's going besides 'through the city as destructively as possible'.
She's very, very busy trying to keep up with the fight. There's almost no time to check up on Glam or anyone else, or even to worry about where he's going besides 'through the city as destructively as possible'.
mxglam
But since she came with the Protectorate and has a comm, she's informed pretty quickly when they figure out Behemoth is going after a nuclear reactor.
And boom! Another Glam hit.
And boom! Another Glam hit.
sturdycoldsteel
She's heard of nuclear power. She knows it could be devastating, but not much more than that. "Mountain here. Can I move the reactor without it exploding?"
"Definitely not!"
Another voice: "Can you turn the fuel non-radioactive?" Apparently someone who knows who Mountain is.
Another voice: "Can you turn the fuel non-radioactive?" Apparently someone who knows who Mountain is.
sturdycoldsteel
"No. Can't transmute things directly. I can... Spread the fuel out, or make shielding if something sufficiently natural counts as shielding."