Ch. 16 Rescue in the Ruins

[Vile]

Vector was taking command, Raven was clearing out a path, Andraia was doing her own thing as the norm. While the team kept down below Rai had moved back into the trees, swinging or hopping from limb to limb. Being able to magnetize himself was useful in this situation. He could survey from the trees both from physical eyesight and his pulse as the current would fallow whatever roots the bio-plant had.

Thankfully from above he didn't encounter, or perhaps was noticed, by the opposing mechanioids. Great for his condition! He was however trailing on Raven who seemed to have found some trouble. Having made a tactful retreat to the squad these pink brutes of a pantheon fallowed. Each one had a shield that was clearly well reinforced. Rai grinned at the plausible out come. He shot his chain rod at one of the behemoths, catching its shield as well as off guard. A surge of electricy zipped through the chain, and caused a short circuit throughout the pantheons arm. Going limb, it leg go of the shield, which was then retracted to Rai's location. Now if things were to go smoothly, he'd have a shield and the ability to move to another location. Things however are not so smooth when you're up against three other immediately responding beasts who all know how to flail their.... flails.... at the threats location.

Now this goes without saying, but the tree Rai was perched in was decimated. Branches fell as did the lighting user here. Falling was more of a slow motion movement here. Leafs fluttered down, metal clanged to attract more guardians of these ruins, and the shield was still coming Rai's way. Not. Good. The retraction did come to a full circle. While one would thing that catching this would be easy, when your whole body has been cut up, incredibly tackyly repaired, and energy is low, this maneuver is not so simple. NO this shield came closing in, and Rai watched in true horror. He knew he couldn't do anything, he also knew this would hurt. The shield came in Smacking him, and with some nice long hair that then covered his entire face due to impact, reminded him how he had no footing. That hit was far more devastating, causing a reverse somersault, which had a full 5 spins before it was ended by some less-than-graceful tumbling on the floor.
"Well hey, one is shieldless at least...." Rai moaned.