>>5268964You feel the energy within you rise up to the surface, crackling upon your skin as arcs of light bubble upwards. You raise your free hand, feeling the energy grow more and more intense as the larger arms of the Orphan reach towards you and the ones around your torso painfully tighten.
<span class="mu-i">Flash</span>.
A wave of cyan light comes out, burning and causing the Orphan to painfully recoil and pull many of its limbs back.
>Mama! It burns, it hurts!It squeals in the voices of dozens of children, some male, some female, some older and younger, and everything inbetween. It babbles in pain and delirium, clearly wounded as some of its protean flesh bubles and falls onto the floor in burnt clumps, but the lesser arms do not break their grip on your torso. And unfortunately for you, the loud commotion has drawn those other monsters straight to you, their pale and red insectoid-looking bodies almsot seeming to quiver in the orange corpse-light, jaws widening into black pits and their dark beady eyes focused on both you and the Orphan as they rapidly approach.
>Brace yourself for impact.>Try to sever the arms again.>Shoot the Orphan with your gun.>Raise your Bubble against the coming assault.>Write-in. 