Your heart beat fast, even as your engine pulsed steadily, as you peer over the edge of your remade throne. It was a tad uncomfortable, and thus, you had your repair systems remodel it into a a cushiony little fortress that was armoured on the outside and soft and squishy on in the inside. And had walls just tall enough for you to peer over
You could watch the screens with your smaller body, while your larger body observed everything around you. Even more, with the aid of So, you could see so much more.
Despite the temptation to simply drink in the vista, you focused on Big Sister ChiChi, making sure to stay hidden in her wake. Thankfully, Big Sister ChiChi left a rather wide and deep wake when she was charging at full bore. It meant, you didn't need to stay right by her and thus potentially running the risk of being spotted accidentally.
And so, you waited and watched as first the parasite crafts of Shoryuu lanced in, to start probing at your Big Sister's defenses. From light particle beams to fire and forget missiles that made your sensors scream radiological alarm at you with each explosion.
You could only watch as your Big Sister simply ignored each and every attack essayed at her, even as she desperately attempted to return fire with laser cannons and small railgun turrets, what on you were point defenses.
And yet, you could almost feel your Big Sister's concern as the light cruiser twins joined the fighters in a parody of an escort around her. You could see what, they planned, to simply rotate and fire unending broadside barrages at her until she surrendered or was brought to a stop.
It proved easy to achieve full thrust, and lance in under your Big Sister.
There was a moment of surprise on the twin cruisers as well as the scouts... and then it was too late.
It feels... good to unleash HELLFIRE with your broadsides, to ripple down your array of heavy cannons one after the other. To see them strike a target, to see the target be pushed away from heavy damage down their bodies.
It feels invigorating... you could feel your heart beat faster as you deployed your missile turrets. To know that everyone's radiological alarm were screaming as your fired your missiles. To see their desperate evasion... and it just wasn't enough. Not with big sister So's sensors and telementary guiding your missiles.
The blossoms of light and radiation, the very foundation of life and existence, were beautiful as they flared into existence.
True, you were not able to bring them to a dead stop, rather... you had crippled them. Their very mobility was now compromised and that had been all that had kept them alive.
Still, that was no matter, you just needed a little bit of time to reload your missile turret, and they would have a choice of surrendering or dying like the little bitches who had dared to hurt your Big Sister.
More, with their main drives compromised, the parasite crafts would not be able to return to their mothership, the Shoryuu.
Which was when you received a transmission... granted, it was a broad-beam transmission and there was no attempt to encrypt it or such.
[Shoryuu - Pl... please... I surrender... ceas... ceasefire. I yield! Thetis, Medusa... please stop.] There was a hint of damage from the chamber where the smaller body of Shoryuu had secreted herself in her larger body. The tone of desperation and shock in her voice was also quite clear.
Now came the narrow-beam communication from Big Sister ChiChi to you and your other big sisters. [ChiChi - Should we accept their surrender and take our weregild or should we... the other option would be to sink them.]
[Izuna - You can't be serious about that second option. You know that there are things that are never done, and murder is one of them.] There was a frown from Izuna now.
[Jack - Nothing wrong with that if no one knows... you get my meaning.]
[Izuna - Jack. We would know.]
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Dark Heavens | Space Ship Girls
008 : Overwhelming Victory
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