Ch. 16 Rescue in the Ruins

[Vile]

As the scrapper slashed her way through some green ugly ripoff reploids, another ally took the sky and completely distracted the group that was oh-so-inconvinetly preventing progress. The fire was more than enough to keep foes at bay, but alas not anymore. Rai had turned just in time to catch one Creeper meet its fateful demise to a rough jab from Jody. She was quite the brute, which was distasteful yet also pleasing to witness. Odd.

Breaking the mental chains that were binding him to only focus on one thing at a time, this last one being her, Rai snapped back into the zone, and hastely took to pointing at the firing squad Andrea was attacking. She was biding time, and overall she could likely make it till the end. But, biding time wasn't today's tactic. Past the squad Jody was slowly making her retreat towards the skiff.... which Stark had just stumbled onto. As expected of him. Rai rolled his eyes and moved into a double action. Keeping both hands pointed at the firing squad he let off several Thunder Javalins, then took hold of his handy-dandy trusty chain-rod. One hand fired another Javalin, while the other shot off the hook. Wizzing over the taller grass, bushing a cool WOOSH sound, it klanged onto an exert from the skiff. A deep breath, and a sudden tense of his body, Rai recoiled it and propelled himself toward his destination. His arm burned with strain pain, as they were still pretty worn from his bout with Zanji.

Close to the skiff the Rod disconnected and Rai's ragdoll like body tumbled onto the skiff. Magnetizing himself to the floor as he did so, preventing a roll off. It may have been combat but he chose to lay there for a moment, realizing the limits he just pushed doing that. Normally, that was nothing. Having been beat to holy hell earlier, not so much ease.