>>5225366"General Degurechaff, how can I help?" you ask, turning to face her. She looks up at you, confusion all over her face. “I'm here, and you all are in trouble. Tell me what you need.”
“Very well. Stay here for a moment, I'll need your power.” she says, then walks forward and designates five of the twelve soldiers. “You, you, you, you, and you. Head down into the elevator shaft, and execute everything not authorized to be here. Go.”
“SIR.” they all say with a salute, then with zero hesitation form a single file line in front of the hole, and one after another leap down, rifles drawn and aiming down into the chasm. They all leap, then after a few seconds you hear the familiar buzzing of that sort of saw that was cutting up through the floor.
“Dammit. There's more than one of them down there.” you say, as the sawing noise suddenly stops. You then hear a rhythmic pounding, almost like heavy footsteps up the side of the elevator shaft as whatever's down there drawn near. Then, right before the noise is about to enter where you can all see, suddenly more than a dozen orbs the size of your eye suddenly appear out of the chasm.
“Don't sho-!” Tanya shouts, but she's too slow. The machines all fire at the orbs, and as they're shot, each one explodes into a smoke cloud. The temperature in the room immediately drops at least twenty degrees, a layer of frost forming across the floor, walls, and ceiling around the opening. “Dammit. Karn, be ready.”
“Right.” you reply, then you see a shape beginning to form. All seven of the remaining mechanical soldiers all open fire simultaneously, their crimson beams firing into the smoke cloud at the rising shape. For more than twenty seconds they keep firing, then the shape suddenly roars!
“RRROOOOOAAAAAAAR!” it bellows, then that cloud of icy wind begins spreading out towards you all. Recognizing this as something similar to Chilli's attack, you immediately throw up your right hand, and focusing your ki.
“Barrier!” you shout, emerald ki spreading out from you and forming a hardened sphere around you and Tanya both. That icy smoke covers your shield, freezing on contact and trapping both of you in place.
“Creating a construct to fire off an incapacitating magical attack. They aren't playing around this time.” Tanya says casually as you end your Barrier, her eyes and gems all glowing golden. “Let's break this down, and deal with these-”
“Get down!” you shout, knocking Tanya to the ground, and focusing your ki to create your Energy Body as the inner walls of this dome all turn into spikes that immediately expand directly towards you standing in the center. You knock the small woman down between your feet, but before you can activate the technique more than two dozen frozen lances impale you from all directions!
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