A/N: Before anything else: special thanks to NorseFTX for the awesome cover. And apologies for the long wait.

The front entrance to Kokonoe's lab slid open and Lambda hovered forward. As Kokonoe had said, Wadatsumi lay under an expansive mass of creeping ice, blindingly beautiful in the twilight. She paused; in a single day, she had already taken out two Robot Masters and was after her third. Yay progress. And as she hovered forward again, she slipped on the ice and fell flat on her face. "Gah! The hell?"

"Ice is slippery." Kokonoe, in all her snide glory. Or as much of it as could be transmitted by radio, anyways. "If you walk on it, you usually slip and fall. But hey, since relative motion escaped you on the trains…"

"I am hovering! How am I slipping on ice I'm floating over?"

"Because your hover ability still needs traction."

"…HOW? Oh, you know what, sod it. I'm just going to assume everything runs on bullshitium from now on." Lambda dragged herself back up and blinked. "…Relative motion?"

"Never mind. You can't grasp basic physics, why should I expect you to understand this?"

"Oh, go to hell." Lambda continued onward, a snail pace to avoid slipping again. "Alright, Chill Man. Get out here so we can do this."

"Chill Man?" Kokonoe snorted. "Dumb name for a Robot Master. How about something actually creative?"

"Tch. They've all followed that pattern so far. Sorry, but you're not getting something awesome like Boreas, Archfiend of Cocytus or anything like that."

"Tch. You even know who Boreas was?"

"Just throwing out examples of awesome names."

"If by 'awesome', you mean 'goddamn stupid', then sure. Anyways. Go kick Blizzard Man's ass then."

"…You're right, that's like something Shade Ragna would come up with. And no, that's still too creative for Dr. Clover. Think, like, Cold Man. Or Ice Man. Or maybe…"

"The name is Freeze Man, you mongrel." A cold voice sounded, as usual, from completely nowhere. "And thank you. You just made my task of tracking Kokonoe's lab down easier. Such a fool. Tch."

"Yeah, you're not a condescending bastard or anything." Lambda rolled her eye as she moved across the snowy wastes at an irritatingly slow speed to avoid slipping again. And within moments, a green robot raced at her from behind a snowdrift. With a roll of her eye, Lambda fired a couple shots at it. The lower body exploded, but the upper half sprouted a propeller and flew at her, raining punches from above. "Hey! Bugger off, will you?"

A shot later, the robot fell to the ground, cleaved in half. With a growl, Lambda started off again, heading toward a tall tower in the distance, the moon seeming to hover right over it. Wonderful, down to 90% energy already. And without warning, she slipped again and fell on her face. Make that 89% remaining. Snarling, she pushed herself back up to her feet. "Yeah, this is gonna suck, isn't it?"

"Feh. One such as you cannot hope to reach me." Freeze Man's frosty blade of a voice cut through the air again. "Hurry and die so I can stop monitoring your pathetic attempts to reach me."

"…You know, if I'm so damn pathetic and you're in such a rush to be rid of me, why don't you drag your ass down here so you can deal with me yourself?" Lambda held a choice digit straight up as she made her way across the snowy city.

"A waste of time. You aren't worth the effort." A light laugh followed, chilling Lambda with the sheer depravity of it. "And besides, I think it would be much more entertaining to watch the woman who defeated my brother freeze to death."

As Lambda started climbing a set of iced-over stairs in her path, silent due to having decided not to even dignify Freeze Man's madness, a gruff voice cut from her radio. "Hey, Jin! Wake the hell up, you dumbass!"

What may as well have been a squeal came from Freeze Man. "Brother!"

"…Still crazy. Wonderful."

"I've been waiting for—"

"Yeah, okay, I get it, you're insane and Ragna just makes it worse." Lambda paused to take out another robot, this time destroying its head first so the blasted thing couldn't separate. "He like this all the time, Shady?"

"Hell no. Just with me. …Although he's acting a hell of a lot like himself overall." Ragna growled and Lambda was pretty sure he slammed a fist down. "And don't call me that, dammit."

"Got it, Spiky. And I guess he didn't need much modification to become a crazed Robot Master of icy death." She stopped, rubbing her chin. "…Note to self: ask Clover why he calls them 'Robot Masters' before killing his arse."

Shaking her head, Lambda glowered. Her rooftop came to an end, and the only logical path was to leap to another one. "Building hopping. Fun. Oh well. At least if I fall…"

She looked down the gap between rooftops and sighed. "I get impaled on ice spikes. Wonderful. This your idea of funny, Frosty?"

Freeze Man hissed over the radio. "Shut up, wench. Put my brother back on."

"No can do, I'd rather not hear him dumbass everything up." After taking a deep breath, Lambda raced forward and leapt. She cleared the gap easily, but the absolute lack of traction upon landing sent her sliding forward. Arms windmilling, she tried to skid to a stop. No luck, of course; she just ended up flat on her ass. And still sliding. With the edge of the building coming up. Snarling, Lambda shifted her weapon to the first thing she could. Her armor turned rust red and black, with a small magnet forming on her forehead, and she fired. Her hand swiped the air above her of its own accord and she leapt straight up entirely against her own will. In midair, she flipped around and descended with a heavy punch. The entire building shook as she came down. "…Whoa. Okay, that's…that took off like a seventh of the things energy. Gah, this would be pretty awesome if it wasn't so limited. Oh well, I stopped sliding like a foot from falling to my death. That's always good."

Kokonoe groaned. "You done narrating shit we can all see yet?"

"Yeah, yeah, whatever." With that eloquent retort, Lambda checked her energy once more. 88% remaining. "So, anytime I fall on my face or my arse, I take damage. 'Kay. Got it."

Freeze Man chuckled from wherever he was. "As I said, it's pointless. You'll never reach me with your clumsiness."

"You know what else is pointless? Telling me this it's pointless." Lambda forged forward again at a snail's pace, absolutely looking forward to the joys of jumping across the next gap. "Because if it is…"

Leaving the threat to hang in the air, Lambda knelt down at the roof's edge to check for spikes. And of course, there they were, along with a bizarre metal canister nestled amongst them. "Hey, jerkface. The frozen one, I mean. What's that canister?"

"You're asking your enemy?" Freeze Man sniffed. "Tch. Pointless."

"I was asking about the can, not your attempts to get a date."

"…I assure you, I have legions of fangirls at my command should I ever require such a thing."

"Sorry, hon, but your right hand does not count as a legion of anything."

Freeze Man went silent. With a smirk to herself, Lambda scuttled a few inches closer to the edge, trying to get a better look at the canister. As though she had tripped some invisible switch, a cylindrical robot with an eye on either side launched out. Either end was topped by an icy barb. The robot floated back down into the canister and launched up again. Lambda sighed. "Of course, it's not hard enough trying to make these jumps. You had to add stuff that would pull me into the spikes, didn't you? I could totally give you a hug for this."

"Shut up and die, bitch."

"Wow. Cranky." Lambda watched the robot descend again before stepping back. It didn't come back up. "Proximity-triggered, eh? Well, screw you for taking away my running start."

"Don't talk about…that right now, damn you."

"Aww. Truth hurt, diddums?" Lambda took a step closer, and as expected, the robot launched again. As it fell, Lambda took a step back before darting forward and leaping at the last possible moment. Her jump carried her past the pit well before the robot could ascend again. As soon as she landed, she activated the Magnet Driver again. Following her powerful punch to the ground, she straightened up and crossed her arms with a grin. "Okay. Not so bad. Whatcha got for me next, Frosty?"

A high-pitched scream of pure abhorrence rose from Freeze Man's speaker, and Lambda's grin widened. "Thought so. Bitch."

"Oookay. Is this thing gonna collapse from not being icy enough as soon as I step in?" Lambda stared up at a tower, the moon straight overhead. "Or…no, let me guess. Everything inside is made of ice. Right, you frozen bastard?"

No response came for several moments, and Ragna said, "I think he's still sulking."

"Certainly an improvement from telling me everything's pointless. I'll take it." Lambda stepped through the low ceiling and blinked. A large, robotic polar bear sat at the top of a ledge just before the entry platform. Lambda took a step back at the sight, face paling. "…Well. About time you put out a mook that actually looked threatening. Better than Raggy's sheet ghosts, that's for sure."

"My what?!"

Lambda chuckled, letting her nervousness dissipate. Energy whirred in her arm cannon. "Please tell me there's a recording of that whole thing with the trains. I wanna see how horrified Spiky can get."

An equally nasty laugh, Kokonoe's, answered her. "Can do, Lambchops."

Freeze Man sighed aloud, voice coming from the bear's mouth. "Can you please get this part over with? I…really don't like it."

"What, ursaphobic?" Lambda's eye snapped up to the bear as it roared, a spiked block of ice forming before it. Its paw swept forward and batted the ice, sending it sliding at Lambda. She jumped over it with minimal effort, unleashing a charged shot point-blank in its face. "Yeah, can't really blame you, hon."

"Hmph. Hardly."

"Though if you actually want them to be effective…" Lambda leapt another chunk of ice, peppering the bear's face all through her jump. However, upon coming down, she slipped on the frozen sheet covering the floor and came down flat on her face. Before she could get back to her feet, a third block of ice crashed into her and dragged her along, until it deposited her in a heap back outside. With a groan and a shake of her head, Lambda pulled herself back up. Energy: 60. "Ow. Okay, it's effective enough. Shutting up about it now."

She floated back inside the tower and jumped straight up as another block of ice raced her way, unloading another sword in the bear's face. Without any momentum behind her, she managed to not slip upon landing. She smirked. "Gotcha."

About thirty seconds of blasting later, the bear's face exploded and the rest of the creature collapsed in a mechanical heap. Lambda jumped up to the ledge it had occupied, and a yellow capsule caught her eye. Hadn't she seen something like that back on the trains? She bent down and grabbed it, and the globe of pure energy poured into her. She grunted, but upon looking at her energy meter, 85% remained. "Okay. So that restores me a bit. Cool."

"Lambda!" Kokonoe's screech made Lambda jump. "Why the hell are you just picking up shit that's falling from those things?"

"Because I was just raised that well." Lambda looked up. A wooden staircase wound up to the very top of the tower. She sighed. "Okay. Let's see what crap Frosty's got for this place."

As she started up the spiraling stairs, coated in ice to that absolute shock of no one, the answer became apparent. A hole broke in the floor and a tiny penguin, propelled through the air by unseen means, darted up through it. The creature weaved up and down along the stairwell. Lambda downed it with a single shot, but another shot up from the hole to pursue her as well. After taking that one down as well, Lambda growled. "An infinite number of these things? Wonderful."

The trip to the top of the tower took longer than expected, as Lambda insisted on shooting down every penguin that came her way. However, she did make it without sustaining damage. Amazing. As she poked her head out of the tower and into the frigid air once more, her eyes fell upon the moon, high in the evening sky. Lambda cocked her head. There was no way the moon was supposed to be so big; it filled half the sky from where she was. "Okay, either that's no moon, or we've got some cinematic idiocy going on right now."

Freeze Man sighed. "Just get outside already so we can get this part over with."

On her radio line, Ragna just sighed. "Oh, don't tell me…"

"Brother!"

"Shut it, Jin."

"Scared of what exactly?" Lambda finally stepped out into the night air, shivering. "The moon? I don't…"

Up overhead, the moon wobbled. Once. Twice. And then it turned, as though rolling toward the tower Lambda was on. Her eye widened and without a word, she turned and raced back inside the tower. A moment later, the entire structure quaked; she didn't even need to guess what had just landed atop the spire. The ceiling weighed down, raining structural debris down on her, and she snarled. Only one choice. With a curse directed at everything that had ever existed, Lambda jumped down the center of the stairwell. The impact of landing rattled her, but a crash from above kept her in motion. She dropped into a pair of slides, taking her through the tower's entrance. A moment later, the moon crashed down, shattering the floor behind her. Lambda rose to her feet, took a deep breath… "WHAT THE BLOODY FUCK WAS THAT?!"

Freeze Man growled. "Why do you insist on talking about it? Just…stop, damn you."

"No, I won't stop talking about that! How? Bloody HOW?!" After a few moments of no response, Lambda snarled and turned back to survey the damage. While the tower's exterior defied logic and still stood, its insides were thoroughly destroyed. Not even the floor remained, shattered in its entirety to reveal a deep blue pool of water below. "Well, at least you shut the peanut gallery up for once."

"Oh, sorry, just trying to make sure we still have a goddamn moon in orbit here," Kokonoe said. "Do you have any idea how bad it would suck if we didn't?"

"Kinda, yeah." Lambda sighed. "So, I have to swim in water at sub-arctic temperature now?"

"Yeah. You should be fine; that bodysuit's well insulated."

"Sure as hell doesn't feel like it." With a cock of her head, Lambda rubbed her chin. "…Why's there a pool of icy water just below the city, anyways? And why did my path take me to the exact tower the moon would fall on? And how did that happen anyways goddammit?"

"Eh. Let's just take your 'bullshitium' theory and go with it."

With a deep sigh, Lambda shook her head and dove into the water; her radio gave a crackle of static as she entered. Frigid shock struck her and numbed her mind, but she fought on in an attempt to swim. Except her strokes did not pull her forward, and she instead just dropped through the water like a stone. In a panic, she flailed, trying to drag herself back to the water's surface, but only sunk further. "Son of a bitch, what's…what."

She stopped struggling entirely and allowed herself to sink all the way to the submerged moon. "…Why can I not only breathe down here, but talk? This whole thing is making less sense by the bloody hour."

Her eye snapped up just another of the mechanical penguins descended upon her. On instinct, she slid underneath and turned around to take it out. Grumbling to herself, she surveyed the pool. And blanched. "Spikes everywhere. Of course. These places are just gonna be full of these things, no matter how out of place they are, aren't they? Sigh."

She hovered across the lunar surface, far more sluggish than normal in the water, and took out every last penguin that came her way. And as she expected, the nearest platform required a jump over spikes. With a sigh, she shook her head and prepared to make the leap. And stopped just before springing. How the heck was she supposed to jump that far? It had to be a good ten meters to the platform. With a scowl, she looked up, trying to see if there was any other way across. Her face paled at waited just above her.

Spikes—apparently of ice—coated the entire uneven surface of the ceiling. "That's…that's lovely. Gah, what the hell am I supposed to do? Oh, sod it, I can make that jump."

After a moment to brace herself, Lambda at long last took the leap. And instantly flailed as her jump, while slowed by the water, took her a fair bit higher than usual. Bone pale, she looked up. Her face passed inches below a spike before she mercifully began her descent. She came down on the far edge of the platform a couple seconds later, and promptly shivered. "…I hate this. So damn much."

With a sigh, she shot down another penguin and looked over the rest of the lake. A few more platforms to jump to, a few more brushes with spiky death to shrug off. Nothing she couldn't deal with.

Shivering and feeling frostbitten, Lambda dragged herself out of the water, emerging from a public pool that somehow had not been frozen over yet. "…Okay then."

"Hmph. So you emerge, mongrel." Freeze Man's cold voice sounded once more, closer than ever. "And here I was certain you had frozen to death. Unfortunate. I suppose I can grace you with a battle." A high chuckle followed. "You're not my brother, but I suppose I can have some fun killing you."

"Tch. You couldn't even touch me, Frosty." Lambda dragged herself out of the pool and started toward a blue dome not far away. "You in that dome? I've gotta be almost done already."

"Yes."

"Finally. This whole thing's just bollocks, you know." Lambda came to a stop a few feet later. The entrance was at a lower level from her, a sheer drop of about ten feet. And waiting right in front of the door was yet another mechanized polar bear. "…Again? One wasn't enough? The last one wasn't exactly tough, you know."

"Ha! So you think. I've improved this one. You can't hit it from there, can you?"

"Um…" Lambda aimed her arm cannon down at the creature, which entertained itself by endlessly batting blocks of ice into the wall. As she expected, her shot fired straight forward rather than where she actually aimed. "…This is so stupid."

""As I thought. Now, let me show you the full extent of Relius's genius!"

On command, the bear crouched down. With enormous effort, it leapt. A full foot off the ground before slamming down on its belly with enough force to shake the ground, leaving it stunned where it lay. Freeze Man said nothing for several seconds. "…Um. Well."

"Bravo." Lambda slow clapped before jumping down the ledge. "Your lot's tech's sure improving. Maybe at this rate, you guys could program a toaster properly in a few weeks."

"Shut it, wench."

"Oh, wouldn't you love one of those? Maybe then you wouldn't only have your ha—"

Freeze Man hissed, and Lambda silenced herself, although she wore a very satisfied smile as she shifted her armor to a purple hue. "Alright. Let's see if this thing can actually do anything."

With that, she unloaded a Shade Spike into the stunned robot. The savage, phantasmal head ripped through the bear, scalding away the fur-like paint coating it. However, a slight blip from her arm caught Lambda's attention. Her energy meter read 89%. "…Wait, this drains? Awesome."

A few Shade Spikes later, the incapacitated bear exploded and Lambda's energy was fully restored. With a grin, she headed inside the dome. A hallway met her, with one more door at the far end. "Heh. Alright, Frosty. Let's do this."

She threw the door open…and immediately ducked into a slide as a sword of ice flew at her, fired by Freeze Man the moment the door opened. "Geez, guess you're not into the whole honorable duel thing?" She took a moment to look over the room. Or perhaps corridor would be more accurate; the room was approximately three Lambdas wide. So much for maneuverability.

"You've insulted me for the last time, you bitch." Freeze Man skewered her with an icy glare. Transparent, ice-like armor coated his shoulders, chest and head, although his hair flowed free in the back and sides. A red V cut between his eyes, marking the extent of his frozen helmet. A blue plate of metal covered his lower face, and similar armor guarded his forearms and lower legs. He gripped a katana, extended toward Lambda, in one hand and its turquoise sheath in the other. With a tch, he sheathed the blade and flipped his golden locks. "This is your end. Let's have some fun."

"Sorry, not my type." Lambda raised her cannon and spewed off a trio of slim blades. Before they could reach, however, Freeze Man drew his sword and slashed rapidly, a whirl of steel that deflected her shots. Lambda just stared, mouth agape. "…Are all of you trying to be pains in the arse just to hit?"

"Why would we not?" With a laugh, Freeze Man fired another blade of ice at Lambda, before jumping to fire a second one at a higher level. One mid-air jump later, a third launched. He grinned and fired off yet one more at the same level, before repeating for the first two heights and landing. "Let's see if you do any better."

Not that Lambda heard him. She fired off a charged shot at the first blade, only to see it splinter on the ice in a mockery of logic. The blade struck her in the gut and exploded into a frozen crystal, a prison for her. The other three lower height blades struck, and Freeze Man rode forward on a board of ice. The attack broke through Lambda's prison, and he spun around and slashed, sending her back to the other of the room. She slammed into the wall and dropped to her knees. "OW. Geez, you asshole… Oh, lovely. 66% left…wait, what the?"

Before Lambda could even brace herself, Freeze Man slashed and sent a wave of snow at her. The frigid powder froze the floor over and coated her legs, trapping her. Another dance of steel sent a sextet of icy blades her way again. With a snarl, Lambda shifted to the Magnet Driver and fired. The upward surge broke frozen mold on her legs, and she landed just before the fourth blade could strike. It passed safely over her head, and she slid underneath the next one before jumping the last. This time, Freeze Man didn't pursue on his board, and Lambda grinned, armor shifting back to its natural color. "What's the matter? Too scared to ride your ice car now? You're not that bad."

She fired off another set of shots, only for Freeze Man to cut them down once more and scoff. "And your attempts to shoot me are as pathetic as ever. Surrender and grovel like the lesser being you are, and I might be merciful and let you live as one of my fangirls."

"…Priorities. Figure them out, you arrogant ass."

"Feh. If that's your answer, then die." Freeze Man launched forward on his ice board once more; Lambda just managed to dodge it, and before she had even recovered, he sent another wave of snow her way. Once more entrapping his opponent, a manic grin broke out under his face plate. "It's over." With that, he launched forward on his board again.

"Like hell it is." Lambda again switched to rust red armor and activated the Magnet Driver. Her quick punch caught Freeze Man just before he struck her, and her hand grabbed him of its own accord. She launched skyward and started to spin to slam him against the ground. A wave of frozen air exuded from him and froze her solid. With a barked laugh, Freeze Man spun and delivered a quick slash, sending her crashing back to the ground. Color reverting back to normalcy, Lambda hopped back to her feet and stored up energy in her weapon. "You bastard."

"It's pointless; you're nowhere near my level." Freeze Man launched another ice blade forward and jumped to continue the salvo. However, the moment he began his slash to fire off the sword, Lambda jumped and fired off her own shot. It passed over Freeze Man's and crashed into him before he could fire off the second. He dropped to a knee, clutching his shoulder. "What?!"

"Heh." Lambda jumped the single blade that did come after her and smirked. "Think I'm figuring you out now. Can't shoot you unless you're attacking, and can't shoot through your damned blades. So, just gotta shoot you down before the second one comes out. Why are all of you Robot Masters so predictable?"

"Grk…shut up. You're still out of your league." After rising back to his feet, Freeze Man shot another blade forward. Rather than follow with a jump however, he spun and fired another one. "Let's see you get out of this!"

"Sure." Lambda jumped the both in a single bound, but the blades kept coming. Her armor turned violet. "If you wanna just stand in place for me, I'm not about to complain."

She hopped over the third blade, but found herself slipping on the ice below her feet with the fourth bearing down on her. She fired off a Shade Spike, which enveloped the ice blade and destroyed it. The fifth was easily jumped, but rather than go on the attack, Lambda just landed and stared. "You…what are you…?"

Light, chilling laughter reverberated behind Freeze Man's face plate, building into high cackles. He leaned forward, green eyes wide with madness. "Brother…that's brother's weapon! You're trying to defeat me with that?" He threw his head back, laughing ever harder.

Lambda just hovered over to him and unloaded a Shade Spike at point-blank range. "Please shut up, you daffy asshat."

Rather than recoil from the attack, Freeze Man just glared at her and retaliated with an icy blade, freezing her solid. "Fool." He rode forward again and launched her into the far wall with a slash. "Just die already; you're too weak to stand before me."

"Well…shit." Huffing, Lambda wobbled to her feet. 17% energy remaining. A red flare burned across her vision, forming the words 'energy low'. "Nice to know I'm apparently brainless." Goddammit, she needed something to recover with. One more hit, and it was all over. Her hand dug inside her armor, a vain hope that there was something left…

Her fingers hit something, and she pulled out the blue canister she had found on the trains. A tab stuck out from the top. Without thinking—now was not the time for anything but desperation—she popped the can open. At once, light surged from the can and enveloped her. Her energy meter instantly rose back to max, and the canister simply vanished. She blinked once and looked back up at Freeze Man. "Well. Thanks for just standing there like a dolt while I healed myself."

"Feh. Your struggle's pointless. I am allowing you to see the futility of this fight for yourself before killing you." Although Freeze Man's mask hid his mouth, his grin was apparent in his insane eyes. "Give me my brother's power! Let me crush it so I can kill all who use it!"

"Yeah, no, it doesn't even hurt you, why should I?" Lambda shifted back to her normal weapon, annoyed that once more she lacked this particular nuisance's weakness. She fired off a trio of shots before storing up power in her buster. "Let's go. I've got you down now."

"Oh? We'll see about that." Freeze Man jumped and came down on a board of ice. The pronged ram hurtled forward, and on instinct Lambda jumped. The midair board crushed against her chest, and Freeze Man sent her away with his katana before bouncing back. "'Got me down', you say?"

"Urk. So you can do that at different heights. Punk." Lambda pulled herself back up and fired the shot she had been charging. As expected, it was cut down before it could land. "Still got you."

"…Feh. Continue deluding yourself, though. You're against divinity; you should have begged for your life when you had a chance." Freeze Man formed a board on the ground once more and bolted at Lambda…who had no trouble jumping the attack. "What?!" A moment later, he crashed into the wall.

"Idiot." A giant sword fired from Lambda's cannon and bored Freeze Man's back. "Just gotta watch what you're doing, and you're easy." Well, maybe not exactly easy, but…

With a growl, Freeze Man leapt to his feet and fired off two blades in rapid succession. After a brief delay, he jumped high and fired off a third, before launching another slightly lower. The salvo continued, a barrage of icy swords at varying, almost random heights, with no mind from Freeze Man whether or not his attacks even hit. So lost was he in attacking, he was caught completely off guard when a large black sword cut between his attacks and stabbed him in the gut. "Wh-what?"

"Already told you. You too daft to get it or something?" Lambda fired off another trio of blades, and this time, Freeze Man was too stunned to cut them down. "Yeah, you're a little more complicated than the last couple idiots. Still…you're not that good. Sure as hell not 'divinity'. Pompous arse."

"Silence!" Freeze Man summoned another wave of snow after her. Even with the speed of the attack, Lambda vaulted it with ease and fired off another charged shot before Freeze Man could recover. As he sagged against the wall, he snarled. "Arrows of Ice!"

Ice formed in his hands and crafted itself into a longbow, three large arrows notched on its string. As Lambda took a step back, Freeze Man snickered. "Congratulations on forcing me to use my ultimate attack on one as lowly as you. You have put up a valiant fight, but in the end—"

"You're an idiot." With a roll of her eye, Lambda fired another charged shot, which shattered the bow and struck Freeze Man. "If you're gonna use an ultimate attack, you could at least save the monologue for after you actually use it."

"Gah." Once more, Freeze Man created a bow, and this time fired it straight up. The frosty bolts coated the entire ceiling in sharpened icicles. After taking another trio of shots, he fired off another sextet of ice swords. As they flew, the ice on the ceiling cracked and fell in chunks to brain anyone beneath them. As soon as the first salvo ended, Freeze Man froze the ceiling again and started anew.

"…Geez, why didn't you just do this from the beginning?" Lambda ducked, weaved and slid between the galaxy of ice, just avoiding being frozen or crushed by a hair numerous times. And while she held in a charge, she couldn't for the life of her see any holes to shoot it through. "Perfect offense and defense. You might have won." Well…maybe there was one point where she could sneak in the blast…

"Might have? You're finished." Freeze Man cackled as he formed the bow and aimed overhead again. And to his utter surprise, took a massive Lambda blade straight to the face. The bow dissolved in his hands and his faceplate shattered to reveal a look of total shock. "Wh…what?"

He dropped to his knees, armor glowing. "I…how could I lose? You're just a…a…"

"A person more than capable of kicking your sorry ass." Lambda glanced up to make sure no ice was about to crash down from above, only to find the ceiling completely defrosted. She strode up to Freeze Man, buster leveled. "Guess you…um…goddammit, you must've numbed my brain, I can't come up with any decent ice puns."

"Shut…" As Freeze Man gave a final cry, his armor shattered, and he collapsed.

"…Alright then." After locating the weapons chip, almost invisible by virtue of being transparent, Lambda fiddled with her radio, but only received a crackle of static. Wonderful. She sighed, not knowing if the radio was fried, or if she just had no connection with Kokonoe at the moment. "Hey, uh, Kokopuffs. If you can hear this, I just took Frosty out. So, uh…"

She bent down and slung Jin's unconscious body over her shoulder. This was gonna suck so hard. "I guess I'll just walk back?"