Love Lost vs Angels

This was hover technology creating pressure, flight technology creating distortion, and antigrav technology that let three mechanical angels the size of small planes remain in place in the air.

*

I gripped the concrete fence, glancing over, my hair getting in my way as it momentarily floated like I was underwater.  I could see the robed suit orienting, a sword as long as two eighteen wheelers stuck end to end pointing our way.  Before, it had glowed like it was metal fresh out of the forge.  Now it was white.

*

And in the background, the wing mech had been quiet, but was now doing something else.  Something protruded from its back, as if it were laying an egg.  A cartridge.  Electricity crackled around the cylindrical protrusion, and the entire craft seemed to go a bit dim.

I flew, diving, being aware of the halo’s apparent range, which was very visible with the way it zapped everything that was close enough.  Close to the ground, until I was skimming the water that layered over the floor, breastplate scraping tile.

Come on, my horrible partner.  Work with me.  Don’t kill us.

The cartridge dropped.  It was the size of a fridge and likely the same weight.  It toppled end over end.

Don’t move too violently or hit it.  Stay still, embrace it.

I intercepted it.  I felt the Wretch latch on.  No violent blows.

Arcs of energy crackled along the Wretch, dancing over droplets that had found cracks and crevices on the Wretch’s form.

I twisted around, using rotational force to add to the strength of the swing.  I’d have to take a chance at being zapped as I dropped the Wretch, but-

The warrior angel was there, twisting around, sword poised.  With the heavy object and my momentum wrapped up in swinging it, I didn’t have the option of getting out of the way.  Not unless I wanted to drop it.

And I wasn’t about to drop an electrified power cell into shallow water that some of my fellow capes were sloshing around in.

The sword plunged, striking the Wretch.  I released the cell, in hopes it would reach the halo’s range.  Not enough, with the sword’s impact driving me and the Wretch down in the moment before the Wretch gave up.

It was Love Lost and Colt who jumped in.  They’d been more or less out of sight.  I’d been at the left filtration system, they’d been at the far right of the one to the right.  Love Lost leaped out, running along the glowing sword blade, leaped off to where Colt was flying, and leaped out again.  Colt followed her, and Colt had tinker stuff along her own arms.  They weren’t artificial limbs, but studs.  When the electricity crackled out, it went to those nodes.

Love Lost planted both feet on the cartridge, residual electricity arcing along her tinker gear, and then kicked off, full-force.

It only pushed the cartridge a few feet closer to the angels, but a few more feet was enough.  The halo zapped it, and it detonated.

I flew toward Love Lost as she hurtled toward the ground.  I reached out a hand-

She batted it aside, glaring, and carried on falling until she was close enough to the filtration structure to catch it with her claws.  She ran alongside it until she reached the pooling water below us, landing on two feet.

Okay, fine.  You had it handled.

*

Love Lost leaped up from one of the structures the thralls had been using, to latch onto the damaged foot of the halo angel.  I hit the warrior angel, knocking it off course.  It collided with one of the water filtration structures.

*

Colt was helping Love Lost tear up the Haloed angel.

Sveta emerged from the water.  Her arms unfolded into tendrils and sought a grip, but her ascent was blocked by the slope of the projected wing.  Love Lost and Colt were making more progress, so Sveta switched over.

I did what I could to pin down the warrior angel, to slam down on the wing and drive the mech beneath that wing deeper into the water.  It was keeping two of the suits pinned down.  It put the warrior angel in the water, leaning against one filtration system closer to the exit, the haloed angel closer to the other filtration system, while Colt and Love Lost attacked it.

*

The winged mech threw out another projected wing, aimed for Colt and Love Lost.  As it had done with me, it essentially scraped them off.  Colt hit the water and canceled her breaker form.  Love Lost leaped up and onto the side of the other filtration engine.

- Dying 15.6