>>6020833Despite everything going on around you you decide that the best course of action is to simply sit back in your seat as Marie leads you towards the giant building. It’s a lot harder to do than it seems. You feel yourself wanting to do something, like attack the car behind you with lightning or have Marie try to shake off the said vehicle. But with the Stranger’s residence, it has to be the Stranger’s residence look at how big it is, so close you feel you’d just be prolonging what you could put a stop to now. Once the Stranger is dealt with then that means everyone is going to be safe, then you can find each other and leave this awful place.
“Hey, Ina?”
“Mh?”
“I don’t want to alarm you but-”
“What is it?”
“Look out the back window.”
You do so only to see a rather alarming sight. As a skeleton, at least it looks like it’s a skeleton from this far away, climbs out of the opened car while another drives. The next thing you see is a beam of light heading straight towards your car. You hear the explosion before it happens as your back thruster is hit and your car is sent spinning towards the ground.
“Marie- Marie!” You shout to the girl as she grits her teeth and speaks in a language you don’t understand.
“I know,” She says back as another beam of light misses your vehicle.
“Marie, we're going to crash!”
“I know!” She shouts as a third beam fires straight through the air separating the two of you, straight through the glass of the window behind the vehicle and the window in front.
You’re not conscious of the fourth beam as the car slams into the glass windows of the megastructure and your head impacts against the dashboard. Thankfully however your brief spell of unconsciousness during the fiery crash is only for a moment as when you wake in the broken vehicle you have enough time to climb out with Marie before it explodes. Like every single other one of the damnable Stranger’s creations. As you duck for cover behind a desk to shield yourself from shrapnel the car of your pursuer makes a stop by the hole Marie’s driving created.
The car hovers over the hole for a second before it opens up and the metal skeleton who fired upon you is revealed. She looks much the same as the others except for a feminine face and an arm that’s been turned into some sort of magical rifle? You don’t get too much time to examine the construct however as Marie audibly gasps from your shared hiding space as the things head turns towards your direction. You look over to scold the woman but are taken aback when you see literal stars in her eyes at the sight of the automaton.
“I think I need to thank Watanabe-”
“What?!”
