>>6023449Your silent opponent takes this as an opportunity to press her advance and engage you in a brawl. She is however not prepared for your third weapon of the fight, your nameless Stiletto, to make an appearance. It isn’t sharp enough to slice or dice the metal woman but it is enough to puncture multiple holes in her frame. You’re not exactly sure what color of liquid you were expecting to seep out of the woman, but it wasn’t red. It wasn’t blood.
Marie arrives soon enough to flank the woman as she stumbles backward after your blows. You take the necessary seconds to rush to your favorite sword while Marie picks up the slack. She tries that new blinding move again and thankfully you aren’t looking this time. When you turn back the frame of the automaton is looking worse for wear, bleeding out of serval wounds, yet her face doesn’t betray a hint of emotion. However, that is not the same for her fighting style, she’s nervous, you can tell.
The construct takes to retreating and trying to wear the two of you out for about the next minute. Her favorite tactic seems to be using the smoldering carcass of your flying car to her advantage seeing as she isn’t perturbed by the flames or smoke near it. Using this she unleashes many cheap shots that you’re forced to dodge and restart your chase against her You send blasts of many elements at her but it’s only electricity that seems to have any large effect, not even ice spikes did as much even if you hoped to the contrary. During this time you saw, through the rain outside, multiple flying vehicles with extremely bright lights start hovering over two areas outside, near the crater and near the buildings you saw explode earlier. You also hear the dampened sounds of gunfire coming from said vehicles.
For a second every screen on the floor you’re fighting on has the Stranger’s face appear on it like it did in your confiscated boat. He looks ready to taunt you before something is said to him you can’t hear over the sound of you catching up to the metallic woman and trading blows, “What do you mean they’re at the power batteries-” Is all he gets before another above ground explosion and all the lights go off. All the lights, in the entire city. His broadcast cut short your fight continues in the dark.
