His kick goes through the shield, shattering it, but it goes wayward. His foot slams into her crotch and she falls to the ground in absolute agony but you didn't hear anything break. Not her hips, not her ribs, nothing.
Sure, it's mentally traumatizing to be hit there and everyone winces at the crotch shot as if they were hit too but she's fine.
>-1 FLESH TO WENDY! RIOT SHIELD now needs repairs! -1 MOONSTONE to block the 1 RESTRAINT damage!Bel just stands there. For a moment no one quite knows how to react until finally, his body collapses onto the floor. His blood begins to pool into a massive puddle on the ground mere seconds after he drops. He's still breathing despite EVERY. FUCKING. THING thrown his way but he's not attacking any more.
Hell, you think he barely has any FLESH left either. With how quickly he's bleeding out, he might die any moment now.
>BEL IS CATATONIC! HE CAN NO LONGER ACT!>-2 EXPLOSIVE SLUGS FROM YOU!Ashley and Lex are finally able to catch up with him. As if to try to make sure he won't get up again, Lex smashes his foot down onto Bel's chest, causing one of his ribs to break. Ashley moves in to slash his neck for a coup de grace...
<span class="mu-b">Before his body is immediately dragged away from your group by an unseen force.</span>
Everyone turns their attention over to where his body is going. What you see tells you that this fight isn't over just quite yet.
https://youtu.be/axOGPBDkNlk - PUPPETEER
Everyone was too distracted by the immediate threat to remember to attack Noelle. And to be fucking fair, you expected her to be mostly a supportive glass cannon like you are!
Bel's corpse is by her side now. Not laying on the ground in a pool of his own blood, no, he's standing up right beside her. There's something very odd about how he's standing, though. His arms have been twisted into unnatural angles and with how mangled and destroyed his legs are, he shouldn't be able to stand.
Yet he is. On closer examination, thousands on thousands of translucent pink strings are wrapped around his arms + legs + neck. Tracing your eyes to where this strings are connected to, all of them are erupting out of the palm of Noelle's right arm.
>IMPROVED PUPPETEER ABILITY REVEALED! (Noelle can puppeteer the corpses of allies to block damage for her.)Her other arm is holding onto her shotgun with an iron grip. Despite all of this you do not detect a single trace of anger on her expression. She's simply smiling as if she expected this to happen.
"Impressive. Even though my contractors told me every single thing they knew about my fake, they didn't know how well armed you truly were. I underestimated you." Used syringes, empty pill bottles, half shattered glass vials and piles of white dust lay by her feet. "You know what I do know about you, fake?"
[ASHLEY ALLY] "Brown vials, cocaine, ZANAL, SINSU ALPHA...fuck, with how much she took, it's enough to cause an overdose on someone five times her size.
