md2 split

"Covering fire, all ranged magical girls!" Nadya shouted. "Give people a chance to recover. I want enough magic to light up the sky!"

Well Ryouko could do that. Her arbalest hummed as it sent bolts flying out, a spray of green lighting up the enemy before she—

—reappeared above the line, her old position bombarded with gunfire. Ryouko took a deep breath, aimed, and fired into a large group of Turians. Small strings extended out from her arbalest, half the bolts missing and the other half punching through upper torsos and heads. Ryouko teleported away and—

—abruptly teleported into a storage shed, feeling sick as she realized she'd instinctively teleported with half the bodies of the aliens, linked through her arbalest strings and the ground. Some part of her had recognized that she could teleport just half a person and—

—her food met the ground again, with a splattering sound. She'd seen their internal organs. Why? Why did this have to happen? She had done that. What was wrong with—?!

(Mass Divergence, Chapter 2)