Chapter 30: Road to Nowhere.
Their first night in the forest was kinda miserable as with no cover they were forced to camp in the open, well as open as a large overgrown forest gets anyway.
Though to be fair the scent of two deathclaws and the presence of Wisp rolling around on patrol did wonders for keeping any potential predators at bay, not even the Yao guai wanted to tangle with two deathclaws, a NightStalker and a sentrybot.
But after a somewhat restless night the gang was on the move again, though the thing that was weighing on them the most was the intrusion of Number two again, this time Seven with the help of Wisp had been able to fight her off as soon as he'd began to feel the tickle of her presence in his mind, it was like an odd tickle at the back of his skull and it had alerted him.
Now Wisp had told them of the warning she'd given her but somehow Seven was convinced it would do little good, she was not the one in charge, that was Dr Chalmers and Seven knew exactly how ruthless and relentless that woman could be to get what she wanted.
The whole thing had set the groups nerves on edge and they were forever glancing at the sky through the gaps in the trees or stopping to listen hard to an unknown sound to listen for the tel tale roar of Vertibird motors but they never came and Seven had an idea as to why.
"I think they are going to try and set up an ambush for us on the far side of the forest," he said suddenly as they walked and Visa glanced at him along with her brother.
"What makes you say that my love?" she asked curiously.
"Simple, it's good planning, attacking us in the forest doesn't make sense, too much cover and way too many places to hide, we could either hit them from any side or just melt into the undergrowth I mean look at some of these bushes, I could hide four claw girls in one of these" Seven said gesturing to a clump of giant ferns which had leaves three times the size of himself.
"But enough about your fantasies what about the Enclave?' Ven said playfully trying to ease the tension with humour but all he managed to do was make Visa snarl angrily.
"I am ALL the claw girl my beautiful human will ever need, if he ever sees another sentient claw girl he will look at her as a poor tiny tail beta by comparison to his strong sexy alpha claw!" she proclaimed and Ven grinned.
"You forgot crazy tail in that sentence," he said and Visa aimed a swat at her brother's head as Gregory giggled at the pair, to be honest, it was exactly what they all needed to break the growing tension in the air.
"Seven is right, Dr Chalmers is many things, a fool is not one of them, undoutabley Number Two managed to get a look at where we are, now they might not know where we are headed and to be fair this forest is utterly massive so there is a likelihood that we could pop out absolutely anywhere, but they are likely to check for any nearby population Hubs or roads and they will set up surveillance on them in order to reacquire us once we leave and unfortunately there's not a lot we can actually do about that as those are the places we need to go," Wisp said thoughtfully.
"When we leave I could sssscout ahead and ssssee if I can sssspot any ambussshess, they will not ssssee me coming," Riss said thoughtfully.
"That's good I like that, that will help us with ground troops but our major problem will be ariel surveillance, once we're out on the plains we're basically a walking bullseye, anyone of their high-tech toys could pick us up, like thermal scanners etc," Seven said.
"So what do you propose we do?" Gregory asked and Seven scratched his metal chin thoughtfully, the gesture was more symbolic at this point given that his head was encased in a metal helmet.
"Not a lot we can do, unfortunately, the only thing we got going for us is the fact that we know they are coming and we can be ready for them, that's it until we really see they lay of the land we'll be fighting on we can't even really plan ahead too much as any potential plans we make could be utterly scuppered by unlimited unforeseen circumstances," Seven said.
It took them the better part of a week to make it to the edge of the giant forest and other than the odd skirmish with an overly brave pack of wolves they encountered very little in the way of resistance, though thanks to Runs's hunting skills combined with those of his new wife and two eager claws they weren't running short on supplies, the Radstags of the forest had never known what hit them.
The group stood in the tree-line staring out at the Great Plains and watching the herds of wild Brahmein wandering about as they grazed, "I know this sounds odd but we should probably try to hug the herds as much as possible" Wisp said and Seven glanced at her curiously.
"They might help us to disperse our thermal signature in amongst all those others because let's are honest there's no fucking cover here for miles," she said waving her large gun covered arm around in a sweeping motion to emphasise her point.
Gregory nodded, "Yeah, it's not like I have a lot of problems with that in this suit but you guys and especially our big beautiful claws here are going to stick out like sore thumbs," he said.
"Agreed though at least we now have a clue where we're going, it was awful nice of that caravan guard to give us a copy of that map they were using to help us get across," Wisp said referring to a random trade caravan the group had stumbled across two days ago that was heading to New Vegas via way of Zion, the two groups had exchanged information to help one another, well the humans had, the non-humans of the group had taken cover in the giant ferns as to not trigger a misunderstanding and start a firefight.
In exchange for information on a quick way through Zion and two New Vegas which had been happily given by Runs and the rest of them, the caravanners had given the group an updated map for Seven's pipboy that would lead them across the great plains and down into either the Capital wasteland or to Boston.
The map also detailed a great many ranches and ghost towns on the plains that the team could use for rest stops if they wanted, though the old grizzled trader leading the caravan had warned Seven about a particular town about forty or so miles from here that he swore was haunted, spun them a tale about hearing odd noises there all night that didn't sound like Ghouls or any other creature he'd encountered on his many travels.
Though Seven was curious he wasn't all that worried, whatever mystery creature it was that was hiding in the abandoned ranch town it wasn't likely to be stupid enough to tangle with two angry claws, a NightStalker, a heavily armed sentrybot and a collection of armed humans but given that the town was on the route that they plotted through the plains they had decided to stop in and take a look, he figured that if the stories were enough to give seasoned caravanners pause for thought it might just do the same to others meaning there might be useful kit still there as the stories might put off would-be treasure hunters or scavengers.
So with much anxiety building about the trek across the open, the group set off, taking their first steps onto the vast open wilderness that was the Great Plains.
The large twin-headed Brahmein herds that roamed the plains were more than a little wary of the three apex predators what were wandering in their midst so Visa, Ven and Riss did their best to appear non-threatening as to not spook the huge bovines so that they didn't start a stampede which would have been incredibly bad for everyone, plus it would have lit up their position like a massive shining beacon to anyone watching the plains.
So it was a lot of careful steps and single file movement as they moved between the massive herds that seemed to be hundreds deep for some of them, the large bovine thanks to a radiation mutation were all born with two heads just like the Radstags, this means that while one head grazed the other could keep a lookout for predators, they were also pretty much five to six hundred pounds of solid muscle that could really do some damage if it got moving with any speed, so careful steps were way of things now.
They'd made it a grand total of thirty miles into the plains when they heard them, it started off as a low buzzing noise that very quickly became a deep growling roar in the distance, "They are fucking coming, we need to get out of sight now!" Seven yelled and the group nodded looking around as the brahmein began to lift their heads to try and locate the source of the strange noise.
"But where?" Visa yelled.
"The ghost town is less than ten miles from here, I say we make a run for it, it's our best chance, fuck, it's our only chance, we stay out here and we're as good as dead" Seven said.
"We can cover the ground a lot faster than you, you'll have to ride us" Ven yelled and Seven looked at Visa but before he could say a word she simply nodded at him.
"Yes I can carry you and that tin suit of yours that distance I did it once already and you were out cold then" she snarled and Seven nodded.
"Alright, humans mount up, non-humans giddy up I guess?' he said.
As it turned out the Enclave was not fucking about this time, it took them a couple of miles to catch up with the fleeing group but as soon as the four vertibirds drew into range they opened up on the group with heavy weapons fire from the mounted guns, though by the way, they were aiming they were going for the non-human targets.
The group split up and separated, zig-zagging about to present smaller and harder to pin down targets as bullet trails ripped up the dirt in their wake, tearing huge clods of earth out of the ground and sending grass and dirt in every direction as the mounted miniguns sent trails of hot death down on them.
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It also happened that Wisp learned a new trick during this time, she'd discovered that she could roll in one direction and fire in a totally different one if she used her ground mapping radar sensors to map her path, she'd been trying to figure out how to use the thing since she'd inhabited this body, but now on the open grounds she'd actually figured it out, this allowed her to keep following the group but also to turn and lay down a barrage of gunfire on the circling vertibirds.
This resulted in two of the vertibirds taking a barrage of hits from the high energy laser weapons, one peeled off with its engines smoking, the other didn't manage to bail out of the way in time before turning into a ball of flames and plummeting into the ground like a fucking meteor.
Unfortunately, this also drew the of the other two vertibirds who decided to focus their fire on the rather manoeuvrable sentrybot and it didn't take them long to zero her in, the result was they unleashed an absolute torrent of fire down on her head and riddled her metal body with a plethora of smoking holes.
The result was Wisp's fusion cores began to meltdown, "Fuck time to bail out, ahh fuck" Wisp yelled and with that she left the sentrybot and flew after the group before thirty seconds had gone by the sentrybot erupted into a huge ball of flames that sent a mushroom cloud rocketing into the sky and bathing the area all around it in a nuclear fire which set a large section of the grass alight with good old regular fire.
The odd benefit of this was that it distracted the two remaining vertibirds as they tried to get out of the blast zone but also it fried their thermal sensors temporarily blinding them.
Wisp sailed into Seven's head as he rode Visa towards the town that had appeared ahead of them, "Sorry for the tag-along but the bot is toast" she exclaimed into Seven's mind.
"Don't worry about it I'm just glad you're ok, that scared the living fuck out of me" Seven exclaimed aloud.
"Sorry bout that, hang on I got an idea of how I might be able to even the odds here, I'll be right back," Wisp said and before Seven could say a word Wisp shout out of his head and into the air.
The two vertibirds were circling around to make another pass at the team, one was going right and the other left, Wisp didn't have time to take them both on before they reached them so she just picked one and headed left as it was slightly closer.
Wisp shot up into the side door of the aircraft and immediately startled the eight power armoured Enclave soldiers riding in the back, but while they swatted at her aimlessly she shot forwards and right up the pilot's nose.
"Ahhhhhhh! It's in my head! Get it out! Get it out!" the pilot screamed as Wisp played merry hell with his senses sending them haywire and blinding him, the result was that the freaked out pilot put the Vertibird into a steep dive towards the ground and when she was certain he couldn't recover it Wisp bailed out.
As Wisp re-entered Seven's head the Vertibird smashed nose-first into the ground and exploded in a ball of flames sending yet another mushroom cloud skywards, "Whooo! Don't know what the fuck you just did girl but fucking well done!" Seven yelled as the team breached the edge of the town.
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The town itself looked like it was part ranch and part town, large wooden buildings spread out around the little ranch town, "Over there! Get inside!" Seven yelled pointing towards what appeared to be an old courthouse which indecently seemed to be the only stone building in the entire place which would be able to shield them from gunfire when compared to the old rotted wooden ones all around them.
Infact the only part of the building that was made of wood was the large front doors that Ven promptly kicked in with a tremendous crash that echoed through the whole place, they piled inside and all the humans promptly dismounted their non-humans and began checking them for injuries.
Once he was satisfied that Visa had sustained no injuries and was merely just tired Seven began organizing the defence, "Gregory get upstairs and start giving us an eye on the bastards, force them into cover if you can but don't draw too much fire" he yelled and the stealth suited human nodded and vanished taking his rifle with him.
"Visa, Ven I know you guys are tired and you've done a fucking amazing job but we need one last push from you guys, think you got it in you?" he asked looking at them both.
Both claws glanced at one another and nodded, "We will follow you anywhere my love, till the bitter end" Visa said lovingly stroking the side of Seven's helmeted head and he gripped her long clawed hand against his head and nodded.
"Alright then, we're going to have to get creative here, we need to avoid open ground as much as possible, we get caught in the open here and we're toast, so we need to split em up and hit them while their vulnerable, so ok here's the plan" Seven and he rapidly outlined what he wanted each of them to do.
As he predicted the Vertibird touched down just outside the town and started dropping off its personnel, once it was done Wisp flew back inside to Seven's head and reported what she'd seen, she also reported something worrying about the troops she'd seen on the ground, there were eight Enclave heavy assault troops, each armed with heavy weapons, but there was one that simply didn't fit.
"Ok he must be a commander or something, doesn't change the plan, the first thing we need to do is to take out their air support, we either need that Vertibird gone or on the ground, think you can do it?" Seven asked.
"Yeah I can do it can't kill me I'm a cloud," she said and with that, she shot off in the direction of the circling Vertibird.
From above them the sound of sniper fire could be heard suddenly as Gregory opened up on the troopers making them get into cover, "Alright time to work people lets do this" Seven said and with that he, the two claws and Riss went out of the doors each heading a different direction between the houses and other buildings.
It seemed that the pilot of this Vertibird was a lot better than the one that Wisp previously attacked because when she shot inside and attacked the pilot rather than spin out of control he somehow managed to put it on the ground, a lot rougher of a landing than the craft would have liked but it was whole and down.
While Wisp kept him distracted Riss crept aboard and after dispatching the door gunner with a single swift bite to the throat she turned and grabbed the pilot's head in both her hands snapping his neck like a twig in her large hands.
With the Vertibird grounded the Enclave troops on the ground had no eyes in the sky so they now had no idea where Seven and the others were going to be so they headed to the last place they'd seen them, the courthouse.
Gregory's sniper fire had forced them into cover but to heavy power armour the bullets were not too much of a threat, most of them simply pinged off the outer skin of the suit, once they realised that his shots were ineffective they regrouped and began to advance again, firing on the building as they did, Gregory used this time to do as Seven had instructed, he cloaked himself and slipped out of the building via the front door as thanks to the Chinese stealth suit they couldn't see him so he pretty much walked right past them.
The team of nine advanced through the large town square which the courthouse overlooked and this is where Seven got his first look at the mysterious member that Wisp had reported seeing, he was a large guy, about 6'5 ft tall, well built with solid muscles, he was as black as the night and his head was shaved completely bald, he was dressed in what appeared to be a mixture of an Enclave officer's uniform and battle armour, though he didn't carry a weapon of any kind which Seven thought was odd.
But it was his eyes that really stood out to Seven, they were blood fucking red.
The figure advanced out of the group and stood staring at the courthouse, suddenly he lifted his hands up and out of nowhere the whole place suddenly just burst into flames like someone had thrown a lit match into a gasoline-filled building.
The whole place just went up as Seen stood watching in horror, he was suddenly very very glad he'd instructed Gregory to get the fuck out once they were focused on him, if he hadn't the young man wouldn't have stood a chance.
"He's pyrokinetic! Holy shit I know who that is! It's number fucking four!" Wisp exclaimed into Seven's head.
"He's one of us!?" Seven exclaimed.
"Yes but I don't know much about him, he had some kind of experimental procedure done because they couldn't control him and he couldn't control his powers, don't know what or how but it's got to be him, this is bad Seven, really fucking bad, you're going to have to kill him," she said.
"What!? Why, if he's one of us then surely we could save him, show him there's a different way to...?" he began but Wisp cut him off.
"No! We don't know what that procedure did to him Seven and think about it if he can create fire just by thinking about it all he has to do is focus on any one of us and we're done, hell I don't think even I can survive that let alone any of the others," she said.
Suddenly a shot rang out and in front of number four a ball of sparks erupted, that's when Seven noticed the air shimmering around him and he suddenly realised what he was seeing, number four was superheating the air all around him, it was creating a kind of thermal heat shield around him which simply melted any incoming projectile to fuck all before it got near him.
The large man turned and seemed to regard the buildings around him looking for the shooter which Seven realised must have been Gregory, he must have fallen back to another vantage point and had decided to either try and distract them again or to try and take out who he perceived to be the leader of the group.
Four seemed to snarl in anger and his blood-red eyes just utterly glowed, his hands came out and he swept them around himself in a motion and before Seven could blink every single building was aflame.
"Holy shit!" Seven exclaimed as he and Wisp who was riding with him fell back away from their hiding spot.
"See what I mean!? He's too dangerous to let live Seven and its got to be you, I can't get near him with that bubble of heat he's got around him and neither can the others, they'd be either burned alive or cut down by his bodyguards before they got close, your the only one who can reach through that shield of his and get to him Seven, I know you don't want to and hell I don't blame you, but your the only one strong enough to kill that bastard, if you don't he'd going to kill us Seven, or at the very least everyone we care about" she said and Seven's heart froze as images of Visa engulfed in a pillar of flames filled his mind, he wasn't sure if Wisp was doing it or his mind's eye, but the sight of Visa screaming in agony as her beautiful scales charred and blackened while still attached to her burning body spurred him to motion.
Seven spun out of his new hiding spot behind a large well and ran towards number four who simply turned to face him, "Number Seven, at last, we..." he began before Seven with the loudest roar any of them could have imaged reached out and tore both of his arms from his body.
Number Four's mouth fell open as his mind tried to catch up with what had happened to him, his bodyguards reacted instantly, they all opened fire on Seven, bullets began to bounce off his power armour like crazy, it was like being inside a bell with a million hammers hitting it all at once but Seven simply kept running, he had no idea what he'd had in mind when he'd started this, why had he gone out here at all? Why hadn't he just killed him from a distance?
But that image in his mind of Visa screaming in agony, begging him to save her had caused something inside him to simply snap, a rage the likes of which he'd never imagined possible had overwhelmed him and before he'd known it he was moving, the shield was still partially active as Seven ran right up to Number four and his armour began to burn and melt causing alarms to go off inside it adding to the cascading symphony of noise but Seven didn't care, he had one sole purpose, kill the man who could kill his love with a single thought, kill him so completely that the image he had seen could never ever become reality.
Seven let out another mighty roar and without realizing it he used his abilities in an utterly new way, as he swung a huge kick aimed right at Number Four's head which given the man had sunk to his knees when Seven had torn his arms from his shoulders was actually pretty low now and he accelerated it using his Telekinesis.
The moment before Seven's metal foot collided with Four's jaw Seven swore he heard him speak, he could have sworn he heard the words 'Thank you' leave his lips but he couldn't be sure as the resounding metallic dong noise Seven's boot made when it took Four's head clean from his shoulders and sent it flying into the burning courthouse drowned just about everything else out.
For a moment all was still in Seven's mind, his eyes focused on the fountain of crimson red blood that erupted from Four's lifeless neck captivated him, it fired high into the air and rained down all around him, drenching Seven's armour in the fallen man's lifeforce.
The next thing that he became aware of was Wisp screaming in his head, "SEVEN! Wake the fuck up! We have to go! Your armour is failing!" she screamed with all of her might.
The fear in her voice made him snap out of his stupor and turn to see the eight heavy assault troopers still firing at him, the alarms were screaming breach warnings at him as he began to run throwing up a telekinetic barrier behind him to cover his escape between the burning buildings.
"Integrity compromised, core processing unit damaged, initiating emergency pilot ejection system," his armour's computer said and before Seven could even gather his thoughts the back of his armour split open and he was fired out of it backwards slamming down hard on his back.
But it was not a moment too soon because only seconds later the suit literally exploded sending pieces of it showering down in every direction, "The core! We have to go before the core goes up!" Wisp yelled and that got Seven moving, he scrambled to his feet for the first time feeling the heat of the burning buildings washing over him.
Just as he reached a safe distance there was a tremendous explosion behind him as the power armour's fusion core exploded sending yet another mushroom cloud rocketing skywards, suddenly Vis appeared out of no-where as if by magic, she ran towards him and hoisted him off his feet and into her arms hugging him tightly against her.
"Oh thank the gods your alright my human! I saw what you did and I heard the explosion, I thought for sure you were dead" she yelled clinging to him like her life or maybe he depended on it.
"Y-Yeah I'm good Visa, I'm ok" he stammered still a little shaken as he returned the tight hug.
"We have to deal with those heavies, any ideas?" Ven asked appearing behind his sister and looking at Seven expectantly.
Seven thought for a moment as Visa put him down, his brain was still a bit addled from what had just happened but he did have one idea, "Think you two can take them out if you can get close enough?" he asked looking at Visa and Ven.
"Yeah, of course, that armour might be tough but it's no match for our claws, question is how the hell do we get close enough when they can simply shred us before we do?" Visa asked, Seven smiled slyly.
"Simple, break their fucking toys," he said and with that, he turned and headed for the group.
The heavies were still in the town centre, they seemed unwilling to proceed into the burning town to search for their quarry, they probably assumed that the fire would force them out of cover at some point allowing them to simply put fire down on them.
A shimmering figure dashed past them and they all turned trying to follow it as it vanished between the burning buildings, as they did one of their miniguns flew out of its user's hands and like a heavy metal missile flew right at another turning them both into scrap as it collided with enough force to break them both into pieces.
The others instantly responded by spraying fire in all directions around them, this simply allowed Seven to yank another one and to pull the same trick, four down and four to go.
The four remaining armed heavies grouped up protecting their unarmed brothers or sisters still spraying fire in every direction till Seven walked out into the open then they all switched targets and were about to fire until one of them recognised him.
"Priority target one identified," they said in a highly synthetic voice due to their armour's voice modulator, Seven stretched out his hands and with a wave of pure energy jammed the motors of their energy and ballistic weapons causing them to seize up and literally smash themselves to pieces.
"Let's see how good you fuckers are without your toys now shall we?" he said grinning at them evilly.
A bellowing roar came from their right and they all turned just in time to see Ven bearing down on them, each bounding stride of his powerful legs tearing up the distance between them, they barely had time to react before another came from behind them and Visa entered the fray smashing into them from behind, while out of no-where and goodness knows where the hell she'd jumped from Riss came rocketing down out of the sky like a fur and scale-covered missile slamming into them from above.
The sight of the three angry non-humans in their midst sent a wave of panic through the now unarmed Enclave soldier and some tried to flee only to be snatched off their feet and thrown back into the scrum by Seven, "There will be no running away now, you fuckers wanted to fucking dance with us so lets fucking dance, I'll have you know my Visa shakes a seriously mean tail and you will not disrespect her by not staying to enjoy it" Seven said laughing menacingly at his own joke, which actually put Wisp a little on edge in his mind, she'd never felt him this angry.
The two angry deathclaws and one angry NightStalker made short work of the eight power armoured humans, literally tearing through their armour like it was made of paper, Riss didn't have the piercing claws that both Visa and Ven had so she improvised using her speed to her advantage she targeted the armour's weak points, like their power core's for example.
Tearing the core out of its protective housing at the rear of the suit caused it to lock up leaving the person stuck inside the now coffin-like static target as easy prey for one of the angry claws to simply strike through their chest plates and end them.
It was all over in less than a minute and now nine bodies lay strewn about on the floor and Riss had quite a collection of new fusion cores that she'd been throwing into a pile at Seven's feet.
"Everyone alright?" Seven asked and he looked around at all the battle-weary faces, there were nods and Ven began to look around franticly for Gregory as he realised the young human was not with them.
"Gregory! WHERE'S my Gregory!?' he exclaimed looking panic-stricken.
Suddenly out of nowhere Run's appeared in the middle of them, "He fine Ven, you's not worry, he's looking at big metal bird machine, he's thinks it can fly us away so he says he's will figure it out, you's has very smart husband there" Run's said smiling up at the now incredibly relived looking claw boy who instantly stampeded off to probably both shout at and hug Gregory to death for scaring him.
Seven was about to turn to head after Ven with the rest of the group when suddenly he heard yelling and he stopped, "Hey listen, does anyone else hear that?" he asked and they all froze to listen hard.
"Help me! Please somebody help me! I don't want to die! Please! Somebody! Anybody! Help me!" was what they all heard clear as day above the roaring of the fires all around them.
"Holy shit! Someone is stuck in one of the buildings!" Seven yelled spinning on the spot and frantically searching, but all he could see was a scene that looked like it had been ripped right out of the depths of hell itself, flames were consuming everything around them.
"Split up! Look every fucking where I'm not going to let an innocent person burn to death because of us!" Seven yelled and they scattered and began searching and looking everywhere they could.
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Even Wisp left Seven's head to search, being able to fly had its advantages as did being a near-indestructible cloud of living vapour, she zipped from building to building looking for the source of the shouting, she couldn't call back to them but she could hear them so it allowed her to narrow it down to the courthouse, it appeared to be coming from the side of it and she zipped around to the side to find that there was what appeared to be a set of storm shelter doors set into the floor that had been covered over by heavy-looking debris that had fallen onto it, as soon as she heard the banging of fists on the doors she knew where their mystery person was and she shot back to find Seven.
As soon as she told him what she found he didn't even hesitate for a single second, despite being near burned out himself Seven ran full tilt to the scene with Visa, Riss and Runs in hot pursuit as soon as they saw him running, they all heard it and Riss and Visa instantly attempted to lift the heavy debris but not even with their great strength could they move it.
"Get away from the doors!" Seven bellowed.
"Help me, please! There's fire down here and I can't get out! Please help me!" the young-sounding voice yelled.
Seven reached out his hands and using the last of his remaining strength and then some he roared with effort and tore both the doors and the debris away from the building and sent it sailing into the next one over pretty much collapsing the burning building on contact.
The effort put Seven down, Wisp felt his strength leave him as the pain hit his brain like a fucking hammer, he didn't reach the floor as Visa caught him and scooped him up into her arms, "I've got you my love!" she exclaimed as she cradled him protectively.
As Wisp saw the panicked look on Visa's face Wisp had an idea and having left Seven's head she morphed herself into a floating image of a thumbs up in front of her, reassuring the big claw girl that her beloved one was ok and just knocked out.
That's when Wisp caught sight of the person that had sprung from the now cleared storm doors and if she'd have had a mouth it would have dropped open in shock because they're on the grass laid sprawled before Riss and Runs was a young man, but this one was no ordinary young man, this one appeared to be human on the top and a spider on the bottom, like a centaur spider or something.