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"What the fuck?" Max stumbles back. She scrambles to draw her gun while preparing a ball of oil in her spare hand.
"Get ready!" Clover already has his hand on his gun but he didn't quite prepare for this.
"ngh! t-this wasn't in the manual." Casey prepares her rapier and gun for battle.
<span class="mu-s">"...Metamorphosis. An interesting development. Metal kneeling to life, to blood and meat."</span>
You don't really care what he's turning into! Kiara agrees with your assessment! "Just fucking shoot him!" "Getting ready!"
The HOLOCLONE BENJAMIN steps in between your group and Shockley.
Shockley scoffs at 'Benjamin', not noticing it's a hologram. <span class="mu-s">"I have no time for child's play."</span>
The sudden metamorphosis throwing everyone off combined with the poor light conditions means landing a shot that wouldn't bounce off his metallic body is going to take a few seconds; Seconds you don't have to spare.
Except-
<<span class="mu-b">"You only have one shot. Aim well. Protect them."</span>>
A massive flash of orange and yellow light is quickly accompanied with an ear-shattering loud rumble that seems to echo through the hallway. In a room as poorly lit as this, the muzzle flash nearly blinds everyone in the highway. A relentless ringing floods your head. It pounds at your skull like a drunk drummer angry at his equipment.
You can still make out what happens to the target through the temporary vision link you have with Kiara.
A hole is ripped cleanly into Shockley's chest with little to no resistance. The normal durability that an android has against light calibers and medium to heavy blunt force doesn't matter here; It's in the name. Anti-material.
An eruption of fluid gushes out of the hole in the android's chest. He stares vacantly at the new wound, desperately processing where it came from. He's trying to scan the 'seven' of you but it's clear none of you (in his eyes) had the firepower to do that.
The real Benjamin's attack provides your group just enough time to unload a volley of rounds at Shockley. You rapidly equip the NAGNAT M2005 revolver as your primary weapon; You need him DEAD.
Four bullets, a heavy spray of pressurized ROCK SALT and a torrent of teeth from Casey's gun are zooming right towards him.
Shockley is already on the move once the shock of an anti-material round ripping through him wears off. With dizzyingly high speed, he places the rifle on his back before reaching into the sack-like thing on the left side of his body. He throws whatever he grabbed into the air with his good arm.
You can't make out what it is but they're big enough to block most of the teeth Casey fired, a good chunk of ROCK SALT from Kiara, and one of the bullets from the rest of the group. Three bullets (including your NAGNAT M2005 round) all managed to smash into Shockley's body before he has time to break down the hallway.
One bounces off, leaving only a small nick, but the two revolver rounds manage to slice through some of the more sensitive wiring of his legs. Nice!
