[X] Grab Cent and summon her own Angel. The others would have to fight Phanuel to keep it from interfering, but as soon as it was called up, everyone else could just chase Five down.
Five's song hovered in the air around Phanuel. Not on an audible level, but Two could feel it in the air, that power, the song threatening to block out all other sensation. Two quickly started screeching out her song, as strong as she could.
It didn't push back against Five's much, but it helped. Five's song was currently an enemy action. The Song Two was calling up was hers. It was reliable. Safe. She could let it out an trust her song was helping her out.
It sure made it easier to focus on running past Phanuel. She tried darting under it's legs, but it shuffled quickly, stabbing down in front of Two, before kicking up and sending her flying. Two braced herself, as she was thrown through a building, trying not to grit her teeth a she went through pretty much every wall and floor before being kicked out of the top floor.
Ow. That hurt.
She looked down, saw how high she was, and immediately started scream-singing to create a barrier behind her, to block her upwards momentum, and then so she could kick down and start running towards ground level.
Focus on the barrier focus on the barrier don't forget to make one under her, don't forget to keep making the pathway she was running down on, she'd fall if she doesn't focus on the barrier keep it up maintain it One would be so much better at this focus focu-
Two suddenly leaped to the side as Phanuel's water cannon shot out at her, barely missing her. Phew, that was a close one. Another second and-
She wasn't focusing on the barrier anymore, was she?
The question was answered when Two slammed into the rooftop of another building, smashing through it and leaving a crater in the second floor before she stopped.
"...Owie." She moaned, as she got to her feet. Looking out the windows, she saw Phanuel aiming at the bottom of the building.
Two started running instantly, leaping out the side of the building as Phanuel brought it down, looking back to watch it crumble as she landed on another rooftop. The water cannon slowly shifted to the side, and Two kept running.
Just needed to wait for Cent to find her. She could probably look for Cent, but it was still night and it was dark out and he always wore black so it'd be easier for him to find the glowy song stuff. Some stuff was just easier to see in the dark. Like a giant glowing crab angel thing full of loud song magic.
"Cent!" Two called. "We're doing the thing!"
"We're doing the thing?" Cent replied, a few buildings across, even if his voice was muffled by distance and the loudness of the Angel behind Two.
"We're doing the thing!" Two confirmed.
"Doing the thing!" Cent called. Phanuel turned towards him and fired, levelling multiple buildings while shooting it's aquatic cutter cannon thing at him.
"Cent!" Two screamed, panic in her voice.
"I'm fine!" Cent replied.
Phanuel fired again, as Two got closer and closer. The blue-haired woman burst through the wall just as the water shot in, leaping at the man in black and wrapping her body around him as the water struck them both.
Two sang to throw up a barrier, blocking the rubble for a second while she let the force of the aquatic cannon throw her and Cent out of the building. They slammed into another building, and as the force slowed down, Two shifted her grasp on Cent and pulled him out of the building.
Barging out the right of the building while it got hit by Phanuel's next beam, Two ran.
"Trying to do the thing might be a bit hard." Cent noted. "I mean, even if we lose Phanuel there, doing the thing is hardly subtle."
"I could try hitting it a bit to slow it down?" Two suggested.
"Don't tire yourself." Cent told her. "Port's around here somewhere, and Taiyang hasn't been seen in a while. He should have seen Five's thing. Let's just try and get some distance until they can hold it off for a bit."
"But they could get hurt!" Two objected.
Cent bit his lip as he looked towards Phanuel, which had lost track of its targets but was charging through buildings in an attempt to find them.
"...Let's just do what we can." Cent replied. "They'll get hurt anyway if they have to help you fight it without us calling in our own Angels."
Two let out a small scream, punching the wall next to her in frustration. The wall shattered, and the building groaned as one of it's main supports disappeared. Then, a sudden fear in her mind, she turned to Phanuel.
Fortunately, it was currently collapsing another building, and didn't hear Two being an idiot and almost giving her position away.
"I... I need to calm down a bit." Two breathed heavily. "I could've given myself away a bit, don't wanna ruin this..."
"I mean, technically, you can't ruin this." Cent pointed out. "This place is already in ruins. By definition, you can't ruin it, unless you use the word wrong."
Two smiled at the statement. Cent was so silly, like that. Always saying things that sounded ridiculous because it made her smile and made her feel better. How did he always manage to sound so confident when saying stuff like that?
Cent reached into his pocket to pull out his scroll, and looked somewhat disappointed as he pulled out a pile of crushed metal.
"...Huh." He noted. "Five hit me harder then I thought. Is your alright?"
Two reached into hers, and pulled out one in similar condition.
"I don't think this will work." Two pointed out. "Maybe if we shout really loud we can find someone?"
"I think I remember where the teacher guy was." Cent noted. "He was..."
He pointed behind Phanuel.
"That way, I think?"
Two followed his hand, and frowned.
"That seems like it could be a problem." She said.
"No problem." Cent replied. "We can just sneak around and-"
Phanuel turned, and fired it's cannon in every direction as it spun around.
"Going now." Two declared, picking up Cent and dashing up a building. The ground where they were standing a moment earlier cratered, and as Two carried Cent above the buildings, Phanuel spotted the two of them and trailed after them. The cannon stopped short of them, and Phanuel started running. It's crab-like legs let it run over the rubble easily enough, and the building in it's path were easy to throw aside. Two began singing as she felt Five's song within it starting to distract her from her other senses, and as she started glowing, landed on top of another building.
Phanuel charged through the building as Two landed on it, and she started running, jumping to another building as she shifted her grasp on Cent to put him on her back.
"We might not be able to run for much longer." Cent noted. "Fighting isn't really an option for long, but I could try and hold it off for as long as I can-"
"I'm not leaving you here to face it alone." Two insisted.
"Of course not." Cent replied. "It doesn't look like it has a face, so I can't face it. That's how words work."
Two ignored him. "I'm not letting you get hurt if I can stop it!"
"That's very courageous of you." Cent noted. "I can't help but feel like this is backwards though. Isn't the knight in shining armour usually the man in the relationship?"
"Get stronger then." Two replied. "You can carry me around all you like when it's the easie-"
The building they were standing on collapsed, and Two started jumping away again. "Time to run, no standing still again, stillness is bad."
She ran down the falling rubble, trying to get lower. High up, they had too much time to fall. She had to get low.
Jumping to another piece of falling rooftop, Two quickly moved off that and jumped to another building. She heard the rushing water behind her, and jumped off the building to another across the way.
"Which way was Port again?" Two asked.
"The other way." Cent noted.
...Oh.
Two looked behind her, then quickly jumped away from the water cannon once more.
"That might be a problem." Two fretted. "I don't suppose you could make him be in a different direction."
"I have yet to master that power." Cent replied.
"Oh."
There was a sudden explosion behind Two, and Phanuel recoiled slightly.
"Did I do that?" Two asked.
"I'd be surprised if you did." Said another voice. Two looked down, and say Yang's dad, running on the building below her.
Jumping up to the rooftop, Two waited for a moment for Taiyang to follow her up.
"I was wondering what all that noise was." Taiyang noted. "Did something happen to your scrolls?"
"I can't get mine working." Cent spoke up. "Don't know why, it's only in a million pieces."
"...I see." Taiyang noted. "Well, Peter's taken Coco and Velvet and gone to find my daughters, and you looked like you needed a hand."
"We need to do the thing." Two said. "But- We should run."
The building shook as Phanuel charged through it. For a moment, Taiyang looked at Two, and then he nodded.
"Do the thing!' He shouted. "I'll distract it!"
He ran down at it, moving to attack, and Two continued carrying Cent away.
Quickly running up to the top of a building, Two looked back, as Taiyang ran from Phanuel in the other direction, making it look the other way.
"Ready to do the thing?" Two asked.
"Doing the thing." Cent replied, with a smirk.
In response, Two started singing. The Song within her boiled over, flooding, overflowing, dominating, reaching out and grabbing the world around her. In Two's mind, the outside world faded.
There was no night sky. There was no city. There was no Phanuel, there was no Taiyang or anyone else. There was only the Song. The Song was the world and the world was the Song. She saw nothing, touched nothing, saw nothing, tasted nothing, smelt nothing. There was only the sound of the Song.
And then a sensation in the void of only sound. Just out of reach, Cent was standing, reaching out for her. There for her. Helping her. The Song was her power but she was too strong, even with her body she was too strong, she couldn't guide it she was guided by it and Cent was there to guide her through guiding the song so she could do this.
She wasn't One she wasn't powerful she wasn't smart she wasn't cunning she was-
Strong, she could feel from Cent. Stronger than she thought she was. Strong enough to last through this. The Song was hers, the Angels were hers. All she had to do was let him help.
Cent was with her, and he would never fail her. All she had to do was help him do this.
Feeling her song shatter through the blue, two beings descended on Cent's call, and Two allowed her song to fade from her throat. Her senses returned to her, and she saw a faint blue glow around her and Cent, and Cent panted in exhaustion slightly as he looked down at the sight.
Two blue giants, clad in armour, kneeled before Two and Cent, facing towards Phanuel. The giant crab had turned to look at them at some point, and between the two, Taiyang was on the ground, soaked to the bone and clutching to his side, as he tried to stand.
"Egregori." Two whispered.
One of them looked up, and extended an arm. It stretched out like elastic, stopping next to Taiyang, and grabbed him as it pulled back. It's arm shrank back to its original size, and it dropped Taiyang at it's feet.
Two took a moment to breath, before she jumped down to his side.
"Hey, are you okay?" She asked.
"I'm fine." He panted. "That thing just hits hard."
Two looked up. "Well, so do my Angels so we should give them some room."
Taiyang nodded, and started running up the building where Cent was. As he left, Two watched Egregori as the two of them looking down started standing, each of them firing a beam of energy from it's faces.
The much larger Phanuel responded by firing it's water cannon, matching the force of both of the Egregori's beams for a moment. A shockwave spread from where the attacks met, and the buildings caught near the clash shook and shuddered before collapsing under the power being thrown around. The ground underneath the Egregori's burnt up from the heat of the attack, and water of Phanuel's attack, though much stronger, much more focused, kept evaporating before it could reach either of the two attackers.
As both ranged attacks failed, the Egregori rushed forward, meeting Phanuel's charge with one of their own. When they clashed, a shockwave shook out, forcing Two to shield her eyes from the dust even as Cent and Taiyang were forced back.
Fatigue struck the Intoner, who struggled to stand for a moment.
Focus. She needed to focus. She needed to concentrate.
One of the Egregori slowed down, punching forward as its arm extended over it's twins shoulder, striking the front of Phanuel. It's fist made it stumble, and the second Egregori reached up, clinging to the hand above it and using it to vault upwards, jumping on top of Phanuel and starting to charge up it's beam again.
The giant crab monster shook it's body, slamming into the buildings next to it and crushing the Egregori and causing a building to collapse on top of both. The Egregori's beam fired wildly into the distance. several more large buildings having their lower layers destroyed. There was a great sound of grinding steel as they collapsed, falling.
"Oh boy." Cent winced. "That's where teacher man was, wasn't he?"
Two paled. "Is he-"
"Peter's fine." Taiyang interrupted. "Trust me, that man is practically immortal. The last time I thought he was dead, he popped up two months later just in time for my birthday."
"That's nice of him." Two noted, as she looked over at the collapsing skyscrapers in the distance.
"...He'll be fine." Taiyang replied, mostly to himself. "We still have a job to do, don't we?"
Phanuel burst out of the collapsed building, the Egregori still clinging to him. The second Egregori, on the ground, rushed forward and grabbed at its leg, pulling it off balance. The Egregori on top of Phanuel hit the crab monster down. With its leg off balance and the force being hit down on it, Phanuel collapsed, and quickly fired its water cannon to try and clear away the Angel on it's face.
"Where did Five go?" Two asked. "She was carrying his Disciple, but I didn't see which way she went after she summoned her Angel..."
"She might have gone back to her airship." Taiyang noted. "If she was trying to get away, that would make sense. And I haven't heard from Qrow..."
"I don't know." Cent interrupted. "That shitty Disciple of Five's said something about not winning a fight, and Yang did run off that way after Five implied that Qrow had been beaten. They might not be able to go back to the airship if he was driven out."
"Where else would she be, then?" Taiyang asked.
"...Melanie and Miltia." Two interrupted. "Five said Miltia had been beaten, and if Port has the other two, then Melanie's her only ally who hasn't been beaten yet. She might be seeking back-up, so she can have someone look after her injured Disciple while she comes after us again."
There was another beam of energy from one of the Egregori as it fired against Phanuel, which staggered to it's feet and fired, notat the enemies, but at Two.
Taiyang jumped away, and Two followed a moment later, Cent still on her back.
"So where are we going, then?" Taiyang asked.
[X] Go to the Airship. If Five's there, they fight her. If not, then they can probably hijack it to go look for Five. If the flying ship doesn't become a target for Phanuel
[X] Track down Miltia through her scroll or scanners. Even if Five doesn't go to Melanie, leaving Miltia at the mercy of a crazed for wasn't a smart thing to do...
Perspective change?
[X] No, keep watching through Two's eyes.
[X] Check up on Ruby's point of view.
[X] Go see what Miltia's been up to.