As Julia's plasma daito pierces through the head of a lone Saurian Nova she catches sight of something strange. The S-Type Nova, on the outskirts of East Genetic's campus, seem to be diminishing in size. Using double accel she moves towards Cassie's position piercing her plasma daito through three Saurian Nova in the process. All three of the Saurian Nova begin to disintegrate as Julia arrives at Cassie's side.
"Senpai." Cassie chances a quick side glance at Julia before ducking an accel speed punch from a Saurian Nova. Julia pierces through the head of said Saurian Nova with a swift and precisely accurate thrust of her plasma daito.
"Yes, Julia-san?" Cassie inquires as she performs a horizontal sweep, with both her arms, in an arc at the mid-sections of a few Saurian Nova cutting them in half. Julia flips, horizontally, over Cassie's head.
"Is it just me, Senpai?" Julia begins as she comes out of her flip while slicing down through the middle of three Saurian Nova's heads. "Or are those S-Type Nova shrinking." Cassie snaps her head in the direction of the S-Type Nova, whose cores are once more glowing with bright light, as she slices through five Saurian Nova with yet another horizontal sweeping arc of her plasma flachion.
"Damn it." Cassie breathes out as she turns on her heel slashing through two Saurian Nova in the process. "We have to go, Julia-san." Julia pulls her plasma daito from the chest of a Saurian Nova and turns her head to look at Cassie.
"What's going on, senpai?" Cassie doesn't reply just takes off with a burst of triple accel. Julia's eyes widen and she too takes off in a burst of triple accel. Julia does it at the right moment as a Saurian Nova's attack slams down into the spot she was occupying earlier.
A dimensional rift opens up in the skies, just off the outskirts of West Genetics, and the Maria Lancelot successor steps through followed one by one by five S-Type Nova. Once all five of the S-Type Nova are lined up beneath her dozens of Saurian Nova begin spilling from the rift. All of them touch ground and take off towards the West Genetics campus.
"Coma!" Windy May practically yells into Eliza's ear. Eliza cringes and pulls away from the shorter lady.
"Yes. She's in a coma that seems to have been brought on by a negative reaction to the stigmata in her body." Eliza looks at Ichigo as she lays in the bed as if she were just asleep. Not a single piece of equipment is hooked up to her. "Though, how this happened or how she's breathing on her own I haven't the first clue. Though, I speculate it may have something to do with the fact that she has thirty-three stigmata in her body." Windy May, Kazuya, Rana, Yumi, who happened to be with Eliza when Windy May and Cassandra rushed in with Ichigo earlier, and Satellizer's eyes widen at the stigmata count. "There's even the possibly she had forty of them at one point due to the clustering on her arms, legs and back."
"Forty!" This time it's Yumi who practically yells into Eliza's ear, even though the distance between them is greater than Windy May's earlier. Eliza cringes once again and moves further away from her best friend. Yumi gives Eliza a sheepish grin. "Sorry, Liza." Eliza chuckles and smiles. The others smile softly before settling their gazes upon their new friend laying on the bed in a coma. "How could she have so many stigmata? The most any Pandora has ever had was twenty and there's only been one Pandora who had that many."
Kazuya's eyes well up with tears upon the mention of his late sister, Kazuha. Windy May's eyes widen and she moves quickly to Kazuya's side and wraps her arms around him. Cassandra does the same, from behind, nestling the back of his head between her breasts. Rana and Satellizer pout upon seeing this show of affection and care. Whether it's because they were too slow in doing so or just because they feel it should be them not his aunts comforting him is left untouched as Ichigo springs up into a seated position with a nasty cry of pain, not unlike a wounded animal.
Though, before any of the ladies and lone guy, in the room, can even say one word Ichigo has already smashed through the window, of the recovery room, and disappeared from sight. One by one, aside from Windy May, Cassandra, those two for obvious reasons, Lucie and Teslad, each lady moves to the window to see that Ichigo is no where to be seen. Seconds later the Nova alert siren goes off.
Cassie and Julia lead the other Pandora and limiters away from the East Genetic's campus as the Saurian Nova give chase mere feet behind them. Pandora that have limiters are carrying them nestled in their arms doing the best to shield them, from the effects of double accel level speed, as they move. Not that far off in the distance the S-Type Nova's bodies are almost completely melted away.
"Julia-san." Cassie begins as she maintains a stead max double accel speed. Julia acknowledges her with a small, very unladylike, grunt. "I'm going to double back and give us some breathing room. Not to mention get a bead on how much time we have." Julia lets out another grunt like the one before and slides over to the right a bit as Cassie veers off and doubles back.
Increasing her speed into triple accel she slams through the few Saurian Nova leading the pack before re-activating her plasma flachion. Using triple accel she slams into and through Saurian Nova after Saurian Nova after Saurian Nova. After taking out over a dozen of them she comes to a stop a few feet from the, now stopped, horde of Saurian Nova that range in the few thousand. Cassie eyes the S-Type Nova in the distance before letting a small grin spread across her face. She shoots forward with quadruple accel eviscerating several Saurian Nova upon impact with the horde.
Julia lets out another, very unladylike, grunt before she looks over her shoulder and addresses the other Pandora. "All of you keep going. Get as far away from here as you can get." All of the Pandora look at her with mild confusion. One of the ladies, a girl with short blonde hair, speaks what's on all the others mind's.
"What are you going to do, Julia?" Julia grins and veers off shouting out as she does.
"I'm going to back Cassie-senpai up and allow you lot to get your asses out of here to fight another day." With that Julia kicks into triple accel and is gone.
Julia arrives, eviscerating her way through several Saurian Nova, beside Cassie and the two of them continue through the horde of Saurian Nova with quadruple accel.
"If you can do as I instruct, when I instruct you to, I'll think about training you, Julia-san." Cassie states as the two of them slice their way through the horde towards the S-Type Nova. Julia just gives Cassie a bright smile in return. Cassie nods her head as they both come to a stop several feet away from the nearly gone S-Type Nova. Cassie turns to face Julia as the horde of Saurian Nova converge upon them. Julia turns to face her a second later. "Judging by the light from the S-Type Nova's cores when their bodies disappear the cores will be volatile." Julia nods her head.
"Indeed, senpai. Meaning they will no doubt explode upon contact with a solid surface." Cassie nods her head and grins at Julia. Julia returns the grin as she looks up at the S-Type Nova. "Any second now, senpai." The bodies of the S-Type Nova completely melt away as more Saurian Nova drop down to the ground below. The S-Type Nova's cores begin to drop a second later.
"Julia-san. Quintuple accel." Julia's eyes widen as Cassie takes off with a burst of quintuple accel. Julia remains still for a couple of seconds as the Saurian Nova inch closer to her and the cores are nearly upon the ground, of the devastated East Genetic's campus. Taking in a deep breath she too takes off in a burst of quintuple accel. A second later all five cores crash down and explode in unison. Each of them explodes in a shock-wave of plasma energy. Each shock-wave mingling with the two beside it to create miniature plasma explosions. All of this combined spreads outwards and completely eviscerates East Genetics. Not to mention most of the Saurian Nova horde.
Hundreds of Saurian Nova have already reach slightly within the walls of West Genetics before the Nova alarm goes off. The siren booms out over the entire campus and all its facilities.
"Alert. Alert. All Legendary Pandora, Pandora and Limiters gear up and prepare for deployment." Barely a second has passed before an object slams into the first wave of Saurian Nova with a spine tingling, gut retching, pants wetting feral roar. The impact shakes the entire main courtyard and sends after shocks rippling throughout the campus.
Kazuya's eyes widen, to unbelievable proportions, when the after shocks course through him. Unlike the others, aside from Lucie and Teslad, he doesn't fall on his ass. Though, only because of the fact he's still in Windy May and Cassandra's firm embrace.
"What the shit was that." Yumi calls out as she rubs her ass from her spot, leaning slightly forward, on the the floor of the recovery room. Eliza looks at her best friend and lets out a small sigh as she too rubs her ass.
"You're speech never did match your appearance and, apparently, never will." Yumi pouts at Eliza and crosses her arms over her chest. Eliza chuckles while Rana and Satellizer mumble to themselves as they rub their asses too.
"I don't think shock-waves like that are meant to occur when a Nova strike is inbound." Lucie says with her usual stern devoid of emotion look. "Perhaps, it has something to do with our new friend." Everyone in the room turns or lifts their heads to look towards the smashed window.
At the same time as that little conversation Ichigo, just outside the walls of the campus, is smashing through Saurian Nova after Saurian Nova. Each time she lands a punch or a kick, which usually goes right through the heads or torsos of the Saurian Nova on the receiving end, she lets out a feral snarl. Also each time the thirty-three remaining stigmata flash briefly and brightly. The Nova alarm continues to blare.
"Alert. Alert. All Legendary Pandora, Pandora and Limiters gear up and prepare for deployment." Upon that message sounding out Ichigo unleashes a horrendously loud and powerful feral roar. It contains so much power that it actually tears through dozens of Saurian Nova eviscerating them in a wall of power headed straight towards the S-Type Nova, and subsequently the Maria Lancelot successor, at speeds possibly matching that of mach three. Ichigo throws a punch, that slams through the head of a nearby Saurian Nova, as the roar's power slams into two of the S-Type Nova and the Maria Lancelot successor.
"I really wish someone would shut that damn alarm off." Yumi fumes as she quickly walks down the hallway, leading to the main doors of the recovery center, with everyone else following along behind her. "We don't need it anymore." The entire recovery center shakes so violently that the walls, already lined with cracks, begin dropping bits down onto the floor. "For obvious reasons. Plus it's grating on my nerves, damn it!" Eliza places both her hands on Yumi's shoulders and gives them a slight squeeze. Yumi seems to calm down a bit.
"I'm sure they'll be turning it off soon. They can no doubt see what's going on with the Nova." Those words are barely out of Eliza's mouth before the Nova alert becomes silent. "See." Yumi chuckles and begins walking once more. Eliza sighs and follows after her. All the others, lead by Kazuya with Windy May on his right arm and Cassandra on his left arm, follow along behind Eliza as they all leave the recovery center.
"Fucking finally." Ichigo snarls out as she slams her knee, at speeds nearly matching mach one, into and through the torso of a Saurian Nova. "That fucking alarm was seriously pissing me off." Ichigo's eyes narrow as she sees the bodies of the S-Type Nova looking to be sweating. "What the fuck is going on with these damn things?" She snarls out as she slams her right fist into and through a Saurian Nova's head at the same time she slams her left elbow into and through a Saurian Nova's head at the same time she sends a back kick, with her right leg, into and through the torso of another Saurian Nova.
"Yumi-san." One of the ladies in the monitoring center addresses Yumi as soon as she walks in with Eliza, Kazuya and company. Yumi sighs and walks directly towards the lady.
"Yes?" Is the one word Yumi states, but it's enough for the lady to tap a few keys on her keyboard to bring up a camera feed. Said feed is just outside the walls of West Genetics south end. The feed shows Ichigo standing still and then seemingly disappearing. Each time Ichigo seemingly disappears a dozen or so Saurian Nova get holes smashed through them. Yumi's eyes widen and she leans forward, placing her right hand upon the back of the chair, to look closer at the feed. "Is this a live feed on the south end?" The lady shakes her head and taps a couple more keys.
"That was an earlier recording. This is a live feed." The screen flickers and a new feed comes up. This one is of Ichigo with her right fist, left elbow and right leg, jammed through the heads of two Saurian Nova and the torso of a third. "This is a recorded feed from when that violent shaking hit us." The lady taps a couple more keys before a new feed flickers onto the screen showing Ichigo standing still and then dozens of Saurian Nova being eviscerated by an unseen force. Then seconds later Ichigo, once again, seemingly disappears and then appears, over a dozen feet away, with her fist slammed through the head of a Saurian Nova and two, of the five, S-Type Nova gone from the sight of the feed.
"How is she doing this? There's no way that's from the use of her stigmata." Yumi comments barely above being speechless, like the others behind her. The lady taps a few keys and the feed rewinds and pauses. Tapping another couple of keys the feed zooms into Ichigo's right arm, whose fist is lodged in the head of a Saurian Nova, to show a glow coming from beneath the upper part of her arm.
Ichigo lets out a low feral snarl as she springs up. Less than a second later she slams down among a dozen Saurian Nova, that have just freshly spawned from the three remaining S-Type Nova, slamming them into the ground crushing their skulls in the process. With another low feral snarl Ichigo springs up and spirals into and through the glowing core of one of S-Type Nova coming out the other side as it explodes. Upon its explosion the spawning Saurian Nova hit the ground deformed and then die a second later alongside their fully formed brethren. Ichigo whips around, in mid air, and dashes towards the nearest remaining S-Type Nova, but before she can slam through it's core the body melts away and the core begins to drop. Ichigo pasts over the core as it drops beneath her line of movement.
Letting out another low feral snarl Ichigo touches down and whips around to see both remaining cores on a collision course with the ground. Both cores are glowing brightly. Not knowing what will happen if those cores hit Ichigo springs forward, with another low feral snarl, and within seconds has snatched up both of the cores. With one pressed firmly against her chest, by her right arm, and the other firmly secured upon her back, by her left arm, she snaps the fingers on her right hand. A garganta opens up directly in front of her and she dashes into it. A second later the garganta snaps shut.
