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Outside of the fallen Illustra

<< cloaked by her spell, Morgan and the others remained still as the Sentinels looked around, scanning. though they may have had information on Spellbinder and her abilities, THANKFULLY, the sentinels hadnt advanced in technology enough to be able to get past a cloaking spell.>>

<< the sentinels had hit her where it hurt and she wanted to hit them back! and after a few moments when everyone signaled they were ready, Morgan prepared to attack. once they mad a move, the spell would wear off and they would be facing the sentinels head on.>>

<< a chime sounds off as Spellbinder climbs into the air and races for a Sentinel.>>

Sentinel: warning! unit facing target identified as Spellbinder. Metahuman. Teleports via dimensional portals. Manipulates the energy identified as "magick"

Oracle: << three other Sentinels closed in on Black Widow, Persephone and MorningStar promptly firing upon them with their palm hand blasters. the range the sentinels have is alarming and the concussive power these blastsers have is enough to smash through buildings, let alone a body. each sentinel identifies a target and knows the ability of the target they are attacking but each member of the six facing a sentine (with the exception of Alison) will not know how adapted that sentinel is to defending against their responses.>>
 
in the forest

[several commandos were now approaching the dwelling, it seemed almost too easy. it was.]

[ as they covered the sides and the back door, intending to stun all the targets inside with a flash grenade the Silver Swan, not one for subtlety BURSTS through the back door, followed by Karen. the two women take down the men with a blitz of physical fury and magick, leaving the soldiers on the ground, definatively knocked out. Sharon takes to the air, and zooms around the house, seeing all the commotion in the front...Nicolas is no where in sight but more men are.]

You won't have ME!

[ she shrieks as they begin to fire upon her and she demonstrates her agility in the air, dodging and flying with such speed and tight accuracy. Karen strikes from a distance, using her mystical projections to disarm and knock down most of the men. there's no need to kill...not YET and Sharon herself holds back....instead of flaying them with her spinning stars, she stuns them all into unconsciousness with her sonic scream leaving more of them knocked out cold. the SENTINELS are the real threat.]

[ Rampage is turning one of their own against them...but how many more ARE there? the birds in the forest alert her that MORE are coming....]

More of them, Karen...more ...sentinels.

[ she began to falter...as images of MASTER MOLD began to haunt her. that night....the feelings...they came back and she began to feel...FEAR!]

[and as two Sentinels began to concentrate their blasts on her, she weaved and dodged before being SLAMMED out of the air by the fist of a sentinel, slamming through some trees before hitting the ground, she laid there...not moving]

Sentinel: Target: Kelly, Sharon alias Silver Swan, human mutate. threat level HIGH, course of action, IMMEDIATE TERMINATION. Prepare to destroy her!

[ two sentinels close in on Sharon, taking aim with palms out, preparing to open fire.]
 
As Delilah and the others escape Illustra to the outside, Delilah mutters her sarcastic response to Alison under her breath.

"So let's kill all humans - see how much they like us THEN."

She rolled her eyes. Seriously? NOW she's taking the time to give a sermon?

She didn't have time to worry about it, though, as Morgan returned and the battle intensified. And despite any of the controversy and tension between Delilah and the rest of the Six, one of those Sentinels was coming for her. Delilah threw up a laser shield to repel the initial blasts from the Sentinels that were headed for her, Ava, and Haleigh. Acting quickly, MorningStar sent out a wide beam light blast, hoping to take out the optic sensors of the Sentinels before they had the chance to split the three women up.
 
Nicolas relished using their own weapon against them, making it MUCH more agile than they EVER could. He was enjoying kicking collective ass when he felt Sharon's fear kick in. He located her and Karen and worked his toward them, forcing his Sentinel-slave to leap at another pair of Sentinels as he inside his re-transformed Nic-bot teleported to assist.

He arrived as Sharon was slammed to the ground.

Dammit Sharon be careful...

As the pair of mega-robots aimed for Sharon, focused on their analysis of her, Nicolas pulled her to Karen by pulling the ground upon which she lay at incredible speed. He turned to face the pair of Sentinels as the ground below them liquefied then hardened, capturing their massive feet. He caused their trapped feet to come together as damaging speeds as he teleported to one side of them and delivered a thunderclap to tip them over...
 
:: The sentinals continued to rip away at Illustra; the building beginning to sway from lack of support. Ava couldn't peal her eyes away from the disasterous sight, until finally, the inevitible happened. The building began to collapse. Alison erreted a protection dome around the six, and the newly arrived Morgan and Alycia. Illustra came raining down upon them, shaking the ground from it's impact. Smoke, debris, and dust filled the air, and car alarms could be heard beeping afar. Coughing, Ava squinted her eyes, trying to protect them from the dust cloud. Calling upon her wind power, the goddess swept the cloud away from the woman. ::

:: Looking up, even through the haze of smoke, the sentinals red eyes could be seen high above. It wouldn't be long before they came after them now. Safe within Morgan's protection circle, she wanted to take the sentinals down before leaving; and rightly so. They destoryed her home, her career, her buisness hub. Ava was all for destorying the hell out of these bastards. As Morgan let down the protection circle, she sprang into action, attacking one of the sentinals. The other three soon turned their attention onto Morningstar, Black Widow, and herself. Delilah quickly errected a force field as one sentinal shot at them. Narrowing her eyes, suddenly, the temperature around one of the sentinals began to drop rapidly. Winds of frost and snow circled around it, instantly freezing it's joints and wiring to ice. [think Day After Tomorrow]::
 
two fronts, same dismal outcome

New York, Ground Zero

<< the immediate trio of Sentinels does not recognize Spellbinder's move against the fourth, they instead focus on the three women on the ground. MorningStar's light show fails to blind the Sentinels as they have already become aware of her power. They now focus in on the women using bio signature locks.>>

Sentinel: This unit facing target: Cassadine, Ava; Codname: Persephone.

<< its body seems to be hampered by her moves...but it is merely adapting. >>

appropriate response now at hand.

<< its open palm extends and unleashes a PLASMA BLAST that slams through Persephone's cold front and into HER , slamming square into her chest.>>

Second Sentinel: This unit facing target: Trelevan, Delilah; Codename: MorningStar.

<< much in the same way that she extended her hand, the Sentinel extends its hand and from its massive fingertips comes LIGHTNING BOLTS...which all charge out and come together to crash down on MorningStar.>>

Third Sentinel: This unit facing target: Davidoff, Haleigh; Codename: Black Widow....immediate termination of this target required.

<< due to Haleigh's cyberpathy and other technologcially based abilities, she would be MOST LIKELY to withstand the Sentinels at this point...and with persephone having been struck down and Delilah well on her way to being burnt to a crisp, Haleigh would be heard pressed to be in "two places at once">>

<< the third Sentinel extends both hands, palms out and fires upon Black Widow with FULL POWERED repulsor blasts...the blasts would leave CRATERS in the ground where they hit, destroying cars and severely damaging any small buildings caught in the cross fire...imagine what they would do to a human body?>>

back in the forest

<< as Rampage attempted to beat the Sentinels at their own game, he did not count on this batch being so "prepared"...they had ALL been programed with the knowledge from Master Mold during it's last confrontation with the previous roster of the Six...and though it may have been seemingly destroyed, there was no telling if there was a replacement or not. These Sentinels had to come from SOMEWHERE.>>

<< As Karen ran to Sharon's aid, two Sentinels closed in on the sorceress and the high powered mutate. the stakes were rising...and Rampage knew that much but even he could not expect the following sequence of events.>>

<< from WITHIN the body of the Sentinel his own "head" was now connected to, strategem began to activate as the body of that sentinel began to LOCK UP...resisting all further movement>>

lead sentinel: targets Victoria, Karen & Kelly, Sharon are surrounded. Target: King, Nicolas; codename: Rampage now primary focus. Target is to be captured and prepared for transport to reconditioning facility [ they meant turning him into a "hound"]


<< the sentinels begin to "communicate" with the program in the body of the sentinel he has taken over and it vibrates...as WHITE NOISE begins to FLOOD the caverns inside, shorting out his concentration and even his equilibrium...before the sentinel's body EXPLODES with him in it.>>
 
New York

<< Spellbinder avoids the grasp of a Sentinel, keeping her flight pattern tight and focused.>>

i've been HIT by one before....MASTER MOLD....it HURT! i can't let them TOUCH ME!

<< the fear, the lingering trauma of Master Mold haunted her much as it did Sharon and as she attempted to engage the sentinel she faltered....long enough to see Persephone cut down by another sentinel , while the next one attempted to destroy Delilah.>>

Ava!!!

<< she called out...and suddenly it was like being back in that alley, where Master Mold had come blasting to life. She was streaking forward intending to stop him when SLAM....her world whent upside down and then faded to BLACK as he slammed her out of the air like she was a gnat. she snapped out of her shock as she saw a FIST coming for HER!>>>

NO!

<< she TELEPORTS via disc and avoids being flattened...but her anger has now taken OVER her fear. she will NOT lose anyone else...not like this!>>

<< now hovering along side the sentinel, she screams.>>

TAKE THIS!

<< RIPPING its arm away...using ALL her super strength. Spellbinder hefts the MASSIVE arm of the sentinel.>>

Sentinel: DANGER...severe structual damage caused by flying target Victoria, Morgan. Codename: Spellbinder....initiate.....

<< Spellbinder spins with the arm , swinging it like a massive bat as she SLAMS it into the head of the sentinel, exhaling loudly with effort and determination as she comes around with the arm slamming it UP into the chest of the sentinel sending the body stumbling, and FALLING DOWN away from the team with a thunderous thud....>>

<< she drops the arm...swooping down toward her team mates...unaware that she's just left herself open to be BLASTED in the back by one of the other sentinels.>>

Hang on....i'll get us out of here!!


Sentinel: prepare for termination!

<< the blast comes...and envelops Morgan...in a flash of dark red light. seconds later...her body begins to fall from the sky....no movement.>>
 
New York

:: it was all happening SO FAST. Persephone was down, MorningStar...she and Black Widow where the only ones on the ground while Spellbinder took down one of the other Sentinels and was now coming for them.>>

MORGAN!! LOOK OUT!

:: Alison screamed as Spellbinder was lost in the blast from one of the three remaining sentinels.::

Sentinel: Target, Victoria, Morgan; Codename: Spellbinder, eliminated. Target, Cassadine, Ava; Codename: Persephone. eliminated.

:: the sentinels showed now feeling and would keep coming until they were all dead.::

SENTINEL...ELIMINATED!

:: Harbinger said coldly as she extended her hand...a bell tolls as a black aura of mystic telekinetic power forms around her upper body and smaller halo around her out stretched hand.::

Sentinel: ALARM...THIS UNIT facing Target Marble, Alison; Codename: Harbinger. This unit under telekinetic attack.......SQWWWQRRRKKKKKK!!

:: a broad beam of black hued energy envelops the head of the sentinel as it's eyes explode and another explosion erupts from its mouth as Harbinger destroys the head of that sentinel with her telekinetic attack and sends it staggering back, falling as the head and a large portion of its upper body EXPLODES before hitting the ground.::

NEXT!?

:: she shrieks, as she rushes forward to catch Morgan's body.::

Haleigh...we have teo RETREAT...we can't do anything else here!
 
back in the forest

<< taking down the MEN in this strike force was no problem. the "strongest [normal human] man" on earth couldnt overcome even a simple spell if cast by a strong enough witch. but this was no mere battle between "us and them"...this was the dawn of WAR.>>

<< being the MOTHER of a demon sorceress guaranteed a life that would never be dull. Karen stood by her daughter in her successes, through her failures, times of need and in times of WAR as well. This was a fight to survive and Karen would abandon her own life before seeing her daughter be taken from her like THIS but even now, she was too far away to SEE her daughter get struck down by a sentinel, yet the moment the blast hit Morgan, Karen CRIED OUT!>>

MORGAN!!

<< the PAIN...the BURNING PAIN!>>

<< Sharon was knocked out of the air by a sentinel and slammed to the ground. Karen was dizzied with pain and dismay but she had to pull herself together...Sharon and Nicolas depended on it. they had to fight at least until the OTHERS arrived and they could escape TOGETHER.>>

<< Nicolas helped get sharon close to Karen and the sorceress struggled to pull herself together, KNOWING that her daughter was now in a bad way.>>

...sharon....

<< she saw the shadows of two sentinels looming over them....immediately dwarfing them. she could no longer see Nicolas.>>

Nicolas!?

<< she looked down at Sharon...>>

she's too stunned to move....

<< she looked up , the fear was there and understandibly so. these THINGS were designed to KILL with brutal efficiency and could overwhelm even the strongest opponent with their strategems and sheer numbers.>>

Sentinel: Prepare to destroy them!

<< Karen stood up...and lifted her hands.>>

NOT YET!!

<< as glowing halos of GOLD energy formed around her up lifted hands.>>

I know such spells that would reduce you to MELTED SLAG!

<< and with that.>>

Witch of Wood and Witch of Water
HELLFIRE COME, heed your Daughter!
My foes now strike, blast and burn
For their DESTRUCTION, I do yearn!


<< she ignites the spell just as the sentinels take aim upon her and Sharon...and the energy sings out and swirls fast and furious....as the demonic, mystic HELLFIRE erupts and BLASTS forward, sweeping over the sentinel's body like a flowing TSUNAMI. the hellfire MELTS the sentinels body down as it CONSUMES IT...and from in the midst of the spell...the sentinel can almost be heard SCREAMING?>>

<< the spell carries out with DEADLY effect...just as the body that Nicolas was controlling EXPLODES. Karen STRUGGLES to get Sharon back closer to the house. the odds are beginning to overwhelm them...>>

NICOLAS!

<< she calls out as her spell begins to finish it's course>>

WHERE IS HE!? oh goddess...WHERE ARE THE OTHERS!

<< from BEHIND the house...another sentinel approaches...preparing to push the HOUSE itself over and ONTO Karen and Sharon...CRUSHING them.>>
 
Haleigh feigned abashed shock and playfully punched Nicolas on the shoulder as he blabbed that she was 'going commando'.

"Hey! You weren't supposed to tell the others!"

She chided... but that was about as far as the good spirits were going to take them... because Alison started in on Delilah and things were getting ugly.... worse than that, the apocalypse was right around the corner. Haleigh, as always, was quick to spring into action, ordering an emergency evacuation and setting the necessary protocols into action to 'shut down' Illustra. They narrowly escape the destruction of the building.... and can do little except watch the desecration of their home. Haleigh can feel a rising anger in her core... this was their sanctuary... and the Sentinels just plowed it down like an old abandoned factory.... Haleigh turned her sights on an approaching sentinel.... it was identifying her and marking her for termination. Haleigh scowled and threw an SUV at it.

"Fucking Putz."

She grumbled, as the SUV took the brunt of the repulsor blasts and was completely obliterated. Melted slag and car parts showered everywhere. Haleigh took the chance to scowl again. Haleigh held up an open palm and narrowed her eyes, and the Sentinel came to a halt.... then its head turned 360 degrees as if it were some kind of owl and sparks flew out of its torso unit. Meanwhile, Ava got blasted by a sentinel and appeared to be downed and Delilah was facing a robot that looked like it was auditioning for being the fireworks operator in the New Year's celebration. Haleigh mentally picked up the sentinel she'd trashed and hurled it into the Sentinel attacking Delilah, who was the nearest. She didn't expect to destroy it, and instead settled for knocking it off balance and causing it to miss Morningstar by a good several feet. Haleigh manifested a 10 pound block of C4 and planted it on the Sentinel's chest. She dove for Delilah as the bomb exploded, shielding her from shrapnel. Alison called for a retreat, as Haleigh left Delilah where she was and rushed to find her sister among the rubble. She pulled Ava from a pile of crushed concrete and nodded.

"Sounds like the greatest idea I've ever HEARD!" Haleigh gives a last glance at what used to be the place she'd felt safe for over a year. Haleigh shook her head and frowned. "Delilah, how about a wormhole?"
 
New York

:: using her TK, as she had once before, Alison was able to carry Morgan in her arms easily without the aid of "super strength". she reaches Haleigh and Delilah....refusing to look at Delilah, even now.::

She's still alive...but BARELY. I dont have time to try to restore her HERE and Karen needs help...The sentinels are doing all they can to kill Nicolas and Karen is trying her best to protect Sharon but she's becoming overwhelmed.

:: Alison looked stone faced as Haleigh called on Delilah for a wormhole.::

knowing HER, she'll take us right to a maximum security prison for mutants and metahumans and offer us up as a PEACE OFFERING to halt the sentinels and other initiatives now being launched against us and mutants/metahumans the world over.

:: 3 of the five sentinels were down. even TWO seemed menacing at this point. With Spellbinder and Persephone down, time was NOT on their side.::

We're finished here...these sentinels are far more resilient...more ADAPTABLE. each one that falls, transfer's its data from the experience to the "hive" where they are produced and that data is relayed to ALL THE OTHERS. we can't stay here any longer.
 
Nicolas has made his next move, but it was not to be. Even as he picture din his mind what to do to the Sentinels, he realized that he was in a white-noise induced stupor, his mind trying to protect itself as he was pulled under by that infernal SOUND.

He came back, fighting the disorientation even as the Sentinel exploded out from under him and his robot, which thankfully was no longer held to the mega-bot by his TK. That saved him SOMEWHAT as it was propelled away from the explosion, falling and creating a massive crater that slid about 100 yards to the right of the house. Nicolas was jarred, some bones actually BROKEN (ribs, mostly), but he was still ticking. He smelled the gas right before the secondary explosion, and teleported near the house as the force of that fireball engulfed him. Karen would see the mutant appear next to her , on fire as he shed his duster to separate himself from most of the flame, just in time to see that house tipping toward them.

Got to get away!!

The trio dropped like stones into the ground as the house fell forward. Nicolas had created an underground pocket of air for them at the last second, which bought them a little time at least. He stepped forward, the burning jacket providing enough light for Karen to see his face. His lower face and neck was covered in blood from his internal injuries and the strain of fighting the white noise. He placed a hand on her shoulder as he looked upward.

I won't let them take you...either of you. No matter...what it takes.

Nicolas squatted low, then sprang upward, the pocket giving way and re-forming behind him as he propelled upward and directly into the foot of a Sentinel scanning the house wreckage. With a roar, he grabbed its leg and threw it into its partner who was helping with the scanning, damaging them both as they fell. He turned to see others coming. STILL COMING?! How many had he engaged? He sent a telepathic message to Haleigh as he teleported about 500 yards away from the advancing group, to draw them from the pair of mothers to the young mutant and give him a front to defend. Haleigh would notice the halting tone of his message.

Hales, in case...die here, Karen...Sharon are under...house in a small cavern. Air for a day or so. Sorry...I told...about bare ass. For..the record...nice ass, Sta...Starscream.

Nicolas still trying to put in a joke to reassure the mutant/mutate, even now. He looked at the mega-monsters and outstretched his hands. His nose and mouth still bled, but he would not give these THINGS or their master the satisfaction of knowing how badly hurt he was.

Come get me, you sons-of-bitches!!

In front of him, trees and bits of stone, metal, brick, whatever lay in the surrounding area began to fly in to a point. It did not take a shape, simply swirled like a massive tornado of sharp debris going faster and faster. As Nicolas pointed to a Sentinel, the debris disappeared...and re-appeared surrounding the robot, battering it and tearing the robot apart as the debris fell with the robot in a heap.

OK Motherfuckers!!!!!!! Who's NEXT!! I got tricks all day long...
 
The forest

<< Karen was more than afraid not just for herself but for Sharon, Nicolas, MORGAN and the others...if THEY were beginning to be overwhelmed HERE than the others were probably in the same boat.>>

<< as she turned behind her she GASPED as the house began to come forward and down toward her and Sharon...>>

goddess...NO!

<< she lifts her hand preparing to ignite a protection spell but would it even WORK?? she didnt have to worry as she screamed , she and Sharon suddenly found themselves under ground. Nicolas was there too and badly hurt.>>

Oh Nicolas!!

<< she wanted to help him but he was already in MACHO mode :p >>

<< he told them he would not let the sentinels take them...>>

but what about your LIFE!? are you going to let them take THAT? we have a chance to ESCAPE ...to salvage our LIVES...if nothing else. Dont be FOOLISH!

<< he was gone...back on the surface.>>

Even HE can't survive this....I'm going to retrieve him. I'll bind him with mystic chains if i have to.

<< she looks at Sharon....>>

Sharon..If I ...if neither of us doesnt come back...RUN...fly as far and as FAST as you can...call for Ororo...but take Mike with you.

<< Karen stood up, still in her black flying suit which was tattered and now had some of Nicolas' blood on it. the sound of battle raged above...and it was not good.>>
 
Silver Swan

[ as Karen prepared to go, a silver armour covered hand reached up and grabbed her arm...]

no...

[ Sharon said quietly.]

i've ..always been the one to have to run...to hide. even as the silver swan...nicolas fawned over me.

[ she stood to her feet.]

i know i havent been myself...for a A WHILE now...but i guess that's what coming back from the dead and being turned into a mutate does to you.

[ She seemed VERY aware now.]

but being at the mansion...seeing my SON...knowing that mystech and even the GOVERNMENT that was complicit to this for so long could let this happen to a child...it makes me realize that my legacy as a senator after my DEATH...it was lost on deaf ears.

You're a witch...you have spells that can get anyone who survives out of here...I'll go to Nicolas. I'm THROUGH running and hiding...the sentinels...i have a PERSONAL vendetta against them...Master Mold KILLED ME...the LEAST I can do is KILL THEM and if i die...then perhaps i'll my son again.

[ Sharon seemed more CONNECTED NOW, more like her OLD self...and it came at just the right time.]

Stay here Karen...the others...if they can make it here...they'll need you're help.

[ and with that, the Silver Swan claws her way to the surface and makes SURE to cover her entry behind her as she is now above ground. her silver armoured bodice gleams as the dust and the smell of death floods her senses first. many soldiers have died in the cross fire between the sentinels and the mutant, witch and mutate and Nicolas' life was at stake.]
 
the forest...the battle

<< Sharon would notice that the battle was NOT quite as close at hand as she had thought. Nicolas had drawn remaining 3 sentinels away 3 out of 5...all that work and only 2 down! it seemed disheartening...HOW did they survive MASTER MOLD? Sharon had already been dead at the point when Harbinger released the Seige Perilous against it...and Spellbinder sacrificed her life to see it pushed through the relentless vortex.>>

<< the forest was clearly traumatized by the onslaught of violence, technology and upheival and it took Sharon a moment to sense any LIVING birds. her own two gryfalcons were okay, having taken refuge. and were now heeding their "mother's" call to find MORE of them...so they could go to battle, TOGETHER.>>

meanwhile

<< as Rampage did his VERY best to hold off the Sentinels. ONE of the three was now staggered and damaged by the vortex of debris the mutant had directed at it, but the Robot merely transferred its data and strategems as it prepared to go for broke, BUSTING Through the vortex with its massive hand.>>

Sentinel: WARNING, this UNIT suffered massive external damage, systems failure across the board. prepare for final assault with intent to destroy target King, Nicolas; codename: Rampage.

<< the palm reaches out and prepares to fire a FULL POWERED repulsor blast...while the other two fully functional sentinels attemp to wrap Nicolas and HOLD him in place with carbonium coils coming from their palms.>>

<< a violent end to a violent struggle....>>

<< or IS it?>>
 
Delilah could do little more than watch as the Sentinel - not affected in the least by her powers - shot lightning bolts directly at her. Then she was hit hard and on the ground. Haleigh had tackled her, saving her. She didn't have time (as well as being too shocked) to say anything but "Thank you." But it was sincere.

Time was of the essence, and she threw her arms out in front and to the side of her forcefully, as green light shot from her fingers and formed a tunnel. The ruckus of the battle gave her plenty of power, and the wormhole would get them to Nicolas. Delilah waited for the others to go through first so she could close it behind them.
 
Silver Swan makes the scene

[at that moment...Silver Swan bursts through the leafy canopy above, flying at high speeds , accompanied by her silver gryfalcons and a small army of an assortment of birds. she cries out with vengeance like a bird of prey as her shadow casts over Nicolas.]

[silver spinning stars SLICE through the air. a volley of them...slamming into and SLICING through the carbonium coils...for her metalloid projectiles were laced with ADAMANTIUM, which partially explained her high level of invulnerability.]

Nicolas!!

[she calls out as she swoops down, with her arms stretched, reaching for him as she frees him from certain doom.]

[meanwhile, her gryfalcons lead the other birds to CHARGE against the damaged sentinel, the birds attack ALL the open areas of the sentinel's body...some getting inside using their beaks, claws and talons to FURTHER damage and tear it apart while the gryfalcons attack one of the EYES of the sentinel, succeeding in destroying it. the sentinel's arm flails and flings upward.]

Sentinel:ALARM! this unit attack by a variety of avian species...suffering FURTHER internal and external stress and damage...

[its eye explodes as it can no longer communicate and begins to stumble. its arm flings upward and the repulsor blast fires, slamming into the chest of ANOTHER sentinel, causing IT to explode VIOLENTLY.]

[ Silver Swan leanes over Nicolas, covering him with her armored form and her now manifested wings to shield them from as much force and impact as she can...]

you protected me....now i'm protecing YOU.


[ the sentinel being besieged by the birds finall loses it's footing and falls back, crashing into the lack, sealing its own demise in a violent explosion as exposed wire and circuitry were submerged in water. MOST of the birds scattered and escaped, but some did not...they had understood Silver Swan's call to battle and it was as much about them helping to drive these things out of THEIR home in the forest as it was about the six surviving.]

two down....ONE to go. You...GET OUT of here...

[ she ordered Nicolas as she rose up, preparing to face down the last Sentinel herself. this was the moment that Haleigh had spoken of...where she FINALLY came into her own. ]
 
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:: The sentinal Ava had been fighting seemed to slow down and freeze in mid strid...but it was far from a victory. The sentinal began to adapt to the sub zero temperatures encasing it's body and regained it's barings. Extending her hand out, Ava sent a mass amount of debris [cars, building debris, light poles] up at the sentinals with a blast of wind, trying to distract it as she went to retreat and regroup, but the sentinal had other plans. A massive plasma blast went barreling through Ava's attack and straight into HER! Everything instantly went black as the goddesses body went flying through the air and into an overturn semi truck, where it soon slumped into a pile of debris. With Ava offically out of comission for the rest of the battle, it was up to the following members of the six to either destory or retreat from the sentinals. ::
 
Nicolas was quickly losing his steam. The coordinated attacks of the Sentinels were taking their toll and, even the one he felled reached THROUGH the debris to prepare to fire upon him. His remaining comrades reached out to bind him (How are they so damned FAST?!) as they decided that it would be better to simply be rid of him. Nicolas threw up his hands to an attempt to shield himself when...

A figure burst from the ground, destroying TWO Sentinels with a well-placed attack. The appearance of her avian avatars told Nicolas exaclty who had come.

Sharon?!

Nicolas fell backwards as the form of Sharon Kelly came over to shield him from the blast of the fallen Sentinels. She told him that now SHE would protect HIM as he had protected her. He smiled in spite of himself, a trail of blood escaping his lips as he watched her turn to face down the final Sentinel.

As he turned his head to the side, a wormhole opened and the rest of the team emerged, with Delilah taking the rear. He heard the feelings that she was enduring, and he spoke to her mentally.

De..lilah. I KNOW that you are fed up with this, torn about how we operate. I UNDERSTAND. I am begging you. In..spite of..all of this. THIS..is your family. Do not give up on us. Because IF you are...right and we are in error, if you cannot save us...who will? Who will try? And if we go, who...will save THEM?

Nicolas looked at Delilah earnestly, then slumped backwards to the ground.
 
As Delilah turned to shut the portal, she suddenly heard Nicolas' words in her head. It was actually less hearing and more feeling. It was like having your brain hijacked. Delilah stood very still as she received Nicolas' message, then turned to see him fall.

Everything seemed to be moving in slow motion, Nicolas' words ringing in her ears, in her mind. Nicolas, who she'd always treated as a gnat biting at Morgan's heels. As a bother. Who she had always assumed hated her. Things suddenly went to full speed as she rushed to Nicolas' side. She touched a hand to his bloody face, tilting her head slightly as she saw his wounds.

She scooped Nicolas up, encasing the two of them in a forcefield as she took him from the battlefield, trying to find a sheltered place where he would be safe.
 
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