Ch. 16 Rescue in the Ruins

[VirusZero]

OOC:
I don't remember how much damage I'd had Andraia take... Soo I'm presuming not much at all.

Also, if memory serves I had Andraia wearing an alternate costume also... (A black coat with white shoulder guards, black gloves and a plain black open backed bodysuit.)


IN:
Andraia smirked as she watched Flash get slapped across the face by Elpizo. (She almost wanted to ask Elpizo to do it again... But it probably wouldn't have been good to interrupt him right now.) How Flash was still with the resistance after everything he did Andraia didn't know.

Soon however they were whisked away to the area where Elpizo needed them to go.

A forest of all places. She didn't stick out here at all. All black in the middle of the forest. Though not that even if she were wearing her normal coloured clothing she would have been much better off. Since she still had silver hair which stood out a bit. And her old armour was grey, red and blue. Tactical advantages wasn't exactly in her style anyway though.

A resistance soldier ran out and Raven quickly sent him home.

Others had already started into the forest, which was densely packed with trees... leaving plenty of room for ambushes. A fact which Rioku and Vector had already discovered and prevented.

Raven had also put a stop to the incursion of bee bots. Andraia hung back letting him waste his energy with that. She could have acted, but why waste the effort?

About this time Rai had ascended a tree and figured out where the allies may have ran off too.


Andraia considered just activating her jets and flying over there. But without knowing what exactly was lying in wait it probably wasn't a good idea. And she hadn't really had much time to get fixed up after that tournament. So avoiding any unnecessary situations seemed to be the best plan to her.

Instead they continued through the forest. It wasn't long before the sound of more bees could be heard over head. A routine patrol probably making it's way around. Especially since it likely heard buster fire (and then the crashing of metal into ground) and had to go investigate. Provided they remained quiet the patrol would likely pass right over and away from them.

Except the a green coloured claw pantheon that burst through the forest too in search of intruders landed right in front of them. A buster shot ripped through it's eye and the bot crashed into the ground and spasmed a bit before it died. The sound of metal clanging off the trees with metal components was loud.
A faint wisp of steam curled off Andraia's buster and she quickly slid it away.
"No time for standing around now. If those surveyors didn't hear the buster shot the metal clanging had to attract them."
And certainly enough the sound of the bees grew louder as they turned around and started to head back to investigate this new sound.

Andraia pushed to the side and slid around behind one of the trees to get out of view of where she had been while still able to keep heading towards the ultimate goal. Though what she didn't count on was the fact another of the green clawed pantheons was right there. It cocked it's head as it scanned the unknown entity before it. A second later it unleashed a pulse to let the bees know it had found something. Then it attacked. It swiped with it's claws and caught Andraia across the back. The claws dug across her back though did relatively little damage. But did alert her to the issue at hand.

She charged a bit of a reaction blaster in her fist then reached out and stuck her fist into the pantheon's chest. The energy having cut into the pantheon's armor like a hot knife through butter. The pantheon fizzled and then died. It's lifeless body hit ground with a dull thud. Though it wasn't the only issue they had to worry about.

More bees.