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You recovered quickly, using your momentum to transition into a side somersault, bounding up and out of the way of the blonde woman’s follow-up shots. It was fairly easy to avoid them, and you were sufficiently motivated to continue doing so. You didn’t even want to imagine what that thing would do to a human body.
As soon as she took a moment to correct her aim, you used the opportunity to scan the area in search of the squirrel. You spotted her peeking out from an overturned table that she’d been using as cover.
<span class="mu-r">“Which one do you want me to help?”</span>
You asked.
The squirrel named Tippy Toe began jumping up and down and jabbing a pair of pointed claws in the squirrel lady’s direction, squeaking frantically as she did so. The strange woman waved at you while leaping over another blocky projectile.
You nodded.
<span class="mu-r">“Just making sure.”</span>
Before she could fire another shot, you fired a fat glob of webbing directly into her gun’s barrel, and another at her faceplate. She staggered back, clutching at her face and waving her gun around. This chick clearly wasn’t an experienced fighter.
You leapt at the chance to take advantage of her weakness, firing a pair of weblines at her legs and yanking them out from under her. She fell back with a resounding thud, sparks flying from her armor as it made contact with the ground. She scrambled to recover, tearing the webbing from her faceplate and swinging her sword blindly in an attempt to wing you. The angry, pixelated face on her helmet glitched out for a moment, but it reformed fast enough to glare hatefully at you as you tried to pounce on her. The squirrel lady must have had similar instincts, because she was fighting right alongside you.
But before either of you could reach her, a fortress of green blocks rose up to block your path. Instead of crashing into the wall or bouncing off of it, you smashed straight through. And to your complete surprise, so did the squirrel lady!
She was a lot stronger than she looked, and that gave you more confidence than you initially had going into this fight.
The walls might not have been enough to completely stop either of you, but it was enough to slow you down. And that was all that your opponent needed to wrestle back a fraction of the leverage that she lost.
In her free hand, she materialized a massive hammer and swept it in a horizontal arc. There shouldn’t have been any way to dodge or maneuver around it, considering how your feet had already left the ground. But you ignored the instincts that told you to brace for impact, and instead opted to sling a webline at a nearby wall. With your other hand, you created a sudden blast of pale, green flame to give yourself a boost. The hammer’s sharp pixels just barely scraped against your back as you vaulted over it, but your partner wasn’t nearly so lucky.
<span class="mu-g">“Aw, nuts…!”</span>
