(11:28:02 AM) ***Reise is having a ball in the Warstrider; few things have ever given her such a rush of power. The first time she really pushed her own suit to the limits was one, but even that pales next to crushing weapons of War with each swing of the mighty flange-headed mace. She lets out a war cry of sorts as the weapon's foot comes down on the last of the tanks, the explosion barely jostling her as she surveys the ruination.
(11:29:38 AM) Ikiryo: She's just got through a dozen tanks, each one of which would have been an overwhelming fight in her suit like they were not there...
(11:32:31 AM) Reise: "Alright," she says to herself, "time to move along. You ladies gonna be alright?" She checks her transmission line to the Mobile Hospital, whose area she'd just cleared out for the moment.
(11:34:12 AM) Ikiryo: Carol soon replies. "Yeah, we're fine. Auto-repair is running so the damaged leg will be going in just a moment." The massive titan shifts, deploying drones from it's arm hangers to assault nearby demons.
(11:35:10 AM) Reise: "Alright. Yell if you need anything; I'm going where the ruckus is thickest. Good luck."
(11:36:31 AM) Ikiryo: "Alright. We'll get to is as soon as mobility is back online...not that this thing is very mobile at the best of times."
(11:37:58 AM) Reise: "The real value is that it moves at all, right?" she quips, then heads off, looking for where the most activity seems to be.
(11:40:49 AM) Ikiryo: She spots the angelic automatons...marching into a massive apartment complex. Judging by the civilians outside...they are not looking to capture.
(11:43:37 AM) Reise: And on her watch, they're not even going to get close. She gets moving, all but running...and hurls her mace, a low arc meant to smash the legions and bar further entrance to the complex.
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(11:46:45 AM) Ikiryo: The mace carves through rank after rank of automatons, smashing aside figures and tanks equally. No more will be entering...but she can hear sounds inside still.
(11:52:20 AM) Reise: The Warstrider bounds across the warzone, and Reise activates her suit's visor functions, scanning through multiple spectra to see through the outer walls of the apartments to find any surviving civilians...
(11:55:01 AM) Ikiryo: The lower floors are all empty of life signs...though there are plenty of magical signs, the automatons. The upper floors still have life signs...though as time passes, the number of floors with them shrinks. To add to the trouble, she's getting a reading that there is a life sign having clambered up onto her warstrider.
(11:55:51 AM) Reise: She shifts the view to the intruding life sign.
(11:57:53 AM) Ikiryo: A familiar red-armoured, scarred and not particularly pretty girl...though the symbol of war has been removed from her outfit. She looks very cold and wind-chilled as she clings to the warstrider.
(12:01:04 PM) Reise: She reaches up to pluck the red-armored figure from the outer armor and opens the cockpit, practically throwing her inside. "Enjoying the show?" she quips, then assesses the building quickly as the cockpit closes again.
(12:02:58 PM) Ikiryo: "S-S-Sorry..." The figure stammers, seemingly more from cold than from embarassment. Her face is rather blue. "I was sitting on the warstrider to watch the c-c-concert."
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(12:10:10 PM) Reise: "No problem. Hope you liked the new pyrotechnics. War's tanks blow up *real* nice." She rears the 'strider back, and punches clean through the building, about two stories below where the nearest life sign readings show up. She kicks in the amplification system. "FOLKS IN THE BUILDING, GET DOWN TO FLOOR TWENTY-SEVEN AND CLIMB DOWN THE BIG OLD ROBOT."
(12:10:10 PM) Reise: She side-eyes Soldier 93. "Might want to stay put," she says, before opening the cockpit up again and climbing out to use the arm to get into the building.
(12:10:51 PM) Ikiryo: "...you bought me to be your bodyguard." She stands up, still shivering but raising the rifle hanging by her side.
(12:12:58 PM) Reise: "That was a lie. I bought you to get you out of that asshole's control so you could live your own life. Please don't try throwing it away here."
(12:13:57 PM) Ikiryo: "I am designed for combat. I am very good at it."
(12:16:48 PM) Reise: "Then I suppose you won't be shivering for long."
(12:16:58 PM) Reise: She jerks her head in a come-along motion and heads out.
(12:18:17 PM) Ikiryo: The girl heads with her, moving down the arm swiftly as a visor unfolds from her helmet. Inside, a person screams...
(12:20:46 PM) ***Reise picks up speed as she heads inside. She'd aimed the fist to destroy the only ways to get between floors, but continuing murders must mean some angels have already made it upstairs...
(12:22:42 PM) Ikiryo: It doesn't take long for the pair to spot a trio of angels, heavy suits of golden armour filled with glowing light. Together they are lashing out with greatswords as long as they are tall in clockwork precision. A few civilians have already fallen to them...
(12:23:30 PM) Reise: "Hey!" she yells, the glowing blades bursting from the bracers of her armor. "Pick on someone your own size, jackoffs."
(12:25:54 PM) Ikiryo: 93 raises her rifle...and her first few shots punch massive holes in the armour. Reise recognises that sort of assault rifle. It's a Tau Pulse rifle, those things have more resemblence to a light anti-tank weapon than anti-infantry. The angel doesn't seem slowed by it, however.
(12:35:01 PM) ***Reise dives in herself, following 93's shots and swiping at the damaged automaton with her blades. She carves another hunk of armor off the angel but has little further effect.
(12:35:39 PM) Ikiryo: 93 drops to one knee, carefully putting shot after shot into the angel. She is a rather good shot, each blue pulse from her rifle taking a chunk out of it.
(12:37:42 PM) Ikiryo: Two of the angels bring the greatswords down in heavy arcs at Reise as one reaches back and draws a javelin of lightning, throwing it at 93. She rolls to the side, taking cover through a nearby doorway.
(12:38:08 PM) ***Reise twists to a side and dodges the vertical strikes easily.
(12:40:28 PM) Ikiryo: The angels all pause...and raise hands as one. Reise hears a ringing, angelic voice...a mirror of the black figure that had been though a demon lord but very close. "Let all that is impure be cleansed."
(12:40:36 PM) Ikiryo: A wave of pure, holy power rings out around them with the sound of a crystal bell. A couple of civilians who had not fled in time stop moving...and fall into white dust.
(12:43:49 PM) ***Reise flinches at the wave of energy, and sneezes inside her armor as bits of her bangs turn to ash and flutter down in her face.
(12:44:48 PM) Ikiryo: 93 shivers...as brilliant red runes flare on her armour, marks of Khorne protecting her from the worst of it.
(12:46:36 PM) Reise: She glances around for the source of the voice...
(12:46:59 PM) Ikiryo: It came from the angels. Not any particular one...but all of them at once.
(12:47:23 PM) Ikiryo: 93 bites her lip. "...I think each angel is amplfying the magic."
(12:54:26 PM) Reise: "I'm getting the same idea," she grumbles, pulling a tiny, fingernail-sized explosive from the belt of her armor and flicks it with her thumb back toward the ruins of elevator shafts and emergency stairwells to the upper floors. The bead flies through the air and detonates after a few seconds, and an atomized, misty curtain of suspended brass particles darkens the air in that direction.
(12:55:19 PM) Reise: "That ought to slow down that stupid attack," she mutters, turning back to the fight...
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(1:00:35 PM) Reise: She sizes up the damaged angel...and launches into an attack again. One arm goes for a goring strike, while the other scores a line along the armor...and creates a sort of mystic short circuit, impeding mana flows...
(1:02:34 PM) Ikiryo: One angel brings his greatsword down...only for his partner to take advantage of the distraction and strike from the other side at Reise.
(1:02:52 PM) Ikiryo: 93 winces as a lightning bolt strikes her in the chest and knocks her back a step but her armour holds.
(1:04:24 PM) ***Reise grunts as the heavy weapon collides against her armor, but her protection holds.
(1:04:44 PM) Ikiryo: 93 responds by raising her rifle and triggering the underslung weapon. A trio of cluster rockets catch one of the angels directly in the chest...and white light starts to leak out of it as containment fails.
(1:08:57 PM) Ikiryo: 93 ducks behind a nearby wall, shielding herself from the blast with her cover.
(1:10:00 PM) ***Reise has to rely on her own armor's shielding as the explosion pelts her with energies all over the spectrum; readings indicate the suit's systems are starting to suffer from the wear, but she's still on her feet...
(1:15:31 PM) Ikiryo: The remaining two raise arms again. "Let this place be purified." Again the white light and the sound of a crystal bell...if less strong than the last time.
(1:16:39 PM) Reise: Something's wrong...Reise feels something start to seize up, something intangible, and she grits her teeth and tries to maintain her momentum...
(1:17:43 PM) Ikiryo: 93 drops a grenade at her own feet, a red aura springing up about her...one of her arms becoming pure white before the grenade's aura heals the damage...
(1:31:12 PM) Reise: "Ugh...I don't get it. Evilest assholes on the planet but they still call down 'holy' magic? Not how things work around here." She dances around, evading a few probing greatsword swings, then darts in and drives both energy blades wrist-deep into another one of the "angels," nearly tearing it in two as she pulls her weapons free again.
(1:34:30 PM) Ikiryo: Light starts to leak from it...but it's not ready to explode yet. 93 drags her hand along the bayonet of her own rifle, tracing khornate runes along the wall...the brass barrier Reise made forming into interlocking symbols.
(1:34:55 PM) Ikiryo: She raises her rifle, ignoring the bleeding as the red aura heals it...punching more holes in one of the angels.
(1:37:12 PM) Ikiryo: The angels call down the cleansing light...but the brass is clearly impeding it, as is 93's shielding barrier.
(1:37:48 PM) Reise: For a change, Reise feels it wash over her without doing much else, and she grins, spirits buoyed.
(1:44:22 PM) Reise: She dives back in again...and finishes the job, cleaving the damaged one in two.
(1:45:10 PM) Ikiryo: A trio of cluster rockets fly past her ear...sending the angel through a window and out before it would explode.
(1:45:22 PM) Ikiryo: The one remaining angel brings it's blade down in an arc at Reise.
(1:45:47 PM) ***Reise shuts off one blade long enough to thumbs-up at Soldier 93...and then she hastily duck-and-rolls out of the way as the greatsword bites into the ruined flooring.
(1:46:45 PM) Ikiryo: The one remaining angel sends out a pulse...but the power behind it is clearly weaker without the resonance from the others.
(1:47:16 PM) Reise: She doesn't *feel* much worse, though her armor systems are edging into the red zones.
(1:47:55 PM) Ikiryo: 93 shivers, her hair starting to look more pink than red as the pulse leeches colour from the area.
(1:49:43 PM) Ikiryo: The remaining angel warps...plating from the destroyed angels flowing out and reinforcing it as kierkegaard's voice flows directly from it this time. "Pitiful Insect. Do you not understand the wonders I bring?!"
(1:51:00 PM) Reise: "Yeah no," she quips, "for one thing, if we ARE insects, how could you possibly expect us to comprehend? Logic, boyo. And for two, none of the bullshit here is 'wondrous' in any way, so go choke on a Slaneeshi dick."
(1:57:55 PM) Ikiryo: "You will pay for such insolence." The angel looks over her...and 93. "And for treachery."
(1:58:36 PM) Reise: "I bought her fair and square, used your own system against you. That's not treachery, that's just business~" She darts in on the last syllable with an opening slash at waist height.
(2:01:54 PM) Reise: She opens up a rent in the angel's armor, but seems to fail to do anything more than that.
(2:02:47 PM) Ikiryo: He raises a hand...and a torrent of white light engulfs 93. When it clears, she is still standing...but the red aura about her from her protective grenade has shattered.
(2:02:55 PM) Ikiryo: "This form is weak." The angel seems annoyed.
(2:06:25 PM) Ikiryo: Any further words are interupted by another trio of cluster rockets, impacting it right in the armoured faceplate.
(2:07:10 PM) Ikiryo: 93 takes cover behind another wall, her last one worn away by the torrent of holy magic as she reloads her underbarrel launcher.
(2:16:41 PM) ***Reise dives in again, and this time another one of those brass-spraying microbombs is in her hand. She chucks it into the empty faceplate of the armor and grins viciously as it detonates!
(2:18:03 PM) Ikiryo: The angel staggers backwards, the faceplate cracked and leaking...
(2:28:33 PM) Ikiryo: He raises a hand. "If you insist on opposing me, then you will cease to exist. Ragnarok." A pillar of light forms around where Reise was standing, as 93 tackles her out of the way. The girl falls beside her...mostly.
(2:28:35 PM) Ikiryo: One of her arms and one of her legs simply do not exist any more. Nor does the building in a pillar all the way to the roof and the ground floor where Reise was  a moment ago.
(2:36:27 PM) Ikiryo: The angel raises a hand. "Pitiful Insect!" A glow forms around 93, about to strike...
(2:37:22 PM) ***Reise rolls to her feet...and grabs 93's good leg, hurling her through the brass-laden particulate "curtain."
(2:37:52 PM) Reise: "Not on my watch, you insufferable prick," she growls, stalking forward and aiming a gutpunch shot.
(2:42:26 PM) Ikiryo: The armour cracks and breaks...and the angel laughs. "Fool, this is not even my body. You think I care for it?" The angel drops it's blade...and wrenches it's own armour open to reveal the light.
(2:50:38 PM) ***Reise has...only one real recourse of action. She dives out of her armor, pointing at the fallen form of 93 as Reise herself scrambles for cover. "Get to her!" The orange metallic suit bounds through the cloud of particles and drops on top of Soldier 93, sealing up only barely in time as the angel detonates...and without much in the way of cover for Reise...
(2:59:41 PM) Ikiryo: A massive chunk of the building is gone...but both of them manage to just survive and it looks like people were taking the 'Flee the building' order well. Reise found herself for a few moments in a piller of raw purity...emotionless, lawful purity with no compassion at all...
(3:08:02 PM) Reise: Thankfully, it didn't last for long, being in the middle of that...and when the light fades, she just looks physically tired. No emotions play over her face, though a distant, chalky corner of her mind takes idle note that the Lilies' music is still playing. She picks herself up, dispassionately noting the decayed state of her hair and fingernails, and orders the armor to tote Soldier 93 into the Warstrider's cockpit.
(3:08:03 PM) Reise: For now, she's stuck, though, as she HAD ordered a mandatory evacuation of the facility, and until all the last life signs are out she can't exactly go back on her word. Responsibilities and all that. So instead, she trudges back to the cockpit after the ambulatory armor and seals the Warstrider back up, waiting.
(3:09:03 PM) Ikiryo: The music playing...wearing away at the chalky parts of her mind even as the chalk evaporates it...
(3:10:15 PM) Ikiryo: The armour doesn't stir, though according to the systems there are life signs inside.
(3:14:59 PM) Reise: As she gradually feels more like herself...her first reaction, as usual, is to get angry, and she hammers both fists against the Warstrider's controls. "GODS DAMMIT you stupid bitch why the FUCK did you do that?" She glares hotly enough at the armor that she imagines holes drilling through it. "You're not actually my godsbedamned bodyguard, you idiot, you should have just stayed back..."
(3:15:00 PM) Reise: The bitter recriminations continue...joined shortly by hot tears.
(3:17:58 PM) Ikiryo: The armour has retracted to allow access to 93. Her hair is no longer red but a much lighter pink, along with her injuries too clean to have even been severed with a laser. It's like she just never had those limbs.
(3:20:19 PM) Ikiryo: Where there should be ragged flesh there is just...white. Like a hologram that has had data deleted.