The two of them walked through the tunnel and then took a right turn.
Suddenly, Lucy noticed something on the ground. "What's this?" she picked up a rectangular of piece of metal.
"That's an audio log, your suit should be able to play it." Worm instructed her friend on how to use the piece of technology while she tried to get the door open.
"This is Benson, tram engineer!" a voice came from the machine. "We think we've figured it out! Smith killed one. Listen, forget about shooting them in the body, aim for their limbs. Grab a cutter! Anything! Rip them apart!"
"Okay, good thing we've figured that out." Lucy nodded. She jumped in fright as Worm punched the door.
"Damn it! THIS THING WON'T OPEN!" she yelled.
"Any ideas then?" Lucy asked timidly.
"Yeah, there should be a part I can use back the way we came." Worm nodded.
The two of them retraced their steps.
Suddenly, their communicators came online and Zach's voice came through. "Natsu, Lucy, shooting them in the body doesn't seem to work. Go for the limbs, dismember them! That should do the trick!"
"We already knew that!" Lucy shouted through the communicator.
But Zach had already hung up.
The two of them entered a room that was large with steam coming from two rows of parallel vents on either side of the floor.
Natsu and Lucy walked through the room, looking every which way until they reached the other end. Where a door was opening and closing rapidly, slamming against the frame each time it opened and closed.
A corpse was on the floor, or rather half a corpse, having been smashed in half by the door. The legs could be seen on the other side of the door as a testament to its power.
Their communicators came to life. "Looks like that door is malfunctioning." Kendra observed.
"What was your first clue?" Worm snarked back as the hornet drone detached from the left side of her back before shooting forwards, wedging itself between door and the frame, holding it open.
"Nice." Lucy nodded.
The two of them ran through the door and up a sloping corridor before following the corridor around to the right as it leveled off.
Now they were at a T junction.
"Which way?" Lucy asked.
"Follow me." Natsu took the right turn and through a door in the left wall.
Which turned out to be the men's room.
"Okay, so I'm not as good at navigating this place as I thought." Natsu admitted.
Lucy rolled her eyes.
The two of them left the men's room and ran back to the T junction, this time they took the left turn. Before going through a door at the end.
Now they were in another tram station with the broken tram in the center of it.
Lucy found another audio log and played it:
"Car eight is damaged. We managed to get it back to the repair station but now the auto loader won't work! I need a repair guy brought down here now. We don't get this piece of *bleep* off the track its going to jam up the whole system!"
Suddenly, a Berotha Magia burst from the floor while a second dropped from the ceiling!
Let the battle begin!
The first Berotha Magia lunged forwards swinging its right blade from right to left. Worm ducked under it and removed the skittering hornet progrise keycard from the zero one driver's slot, snapping it shut before she scanned it over her driver's scanner. [BIT RISE!] She elbowed the second Magia in the face when it tried to attack her from behind.
Then she opened the keycard and rammed it back into her driver's slot. [SKITTERING BIT IMPACT!] The hornet drones rose off of her upper arms and blocked a downwards slash from the first Magia's right arm, Worm ran forwards and punched it in the stomach before firing off an uppercut that ripped off its right arm.
Worm howled in pain as the second monster slashed across her right upper arm, hitting the exposed circuitry. She threw a back kick, hitting it in the stomach and knocking it backwards as the bee drone from the right side of her back detached from her. It took aim and fired a bolt of dark brown light that hit the monster in the right leg, blowing it off at the knee.
Worm tensed her legs and jumped, backflipping over a horizontal slash from the other magia's remaining arm and landed on its shoulders. It look up, just in time to get a downwards punch to the face that stunned it. Worm jumped off and landed behind the monster, ramming her knee into its left leg, breaking it.
The monster spun around and slammed the back of its hand into her helmet, knocking her over. Then it brought both of its arms down on towards her helmet. Worm slammed the progrise keycard into the zero one driver's slot. [SKITTERING IMPACT!] The wasp drone on her lower left leg detached and shot up, knocking the left arm upwards. Worm rolled to the left, causing the other arm to miss and she swept the monster's legs out from under it with a leg sweep.
Worm pulled the case staff of her backplate and pushed the trigger into the right corner. [STAFF RISE!] The weapon shifted into its staff form and she used it to block a downwards swing from the second Berotha Magia. She pushed the trigger. [BAG SPEAR!] Worm kicked the monster in the stomach, forcing it back as she swung her weapon and jabbed it into the monster's right arm, breaking it. Suddenly, the first magia wrapped its arms around her neck from behind and started choking her. "A little help! Lucy!?"
Lucy was still curled into a ball by a wall.
"SERIOUSLY!?" Worm growled as she detached the wasp drone from her right lower arm. It shot around and down, cutting through the monster's back, forcing it to release Worm. She spun around and slammed her right lower leg into the side of its head, knocking it over as its right eye shattered into pieces.
The second Berotha Magia lunged forwards and brought both of its blades down towards Worm's head. She raised her staff over her head, hitting the monster's wrists and stopping the blades from going any further. She let the wasp drone off her other lower arm and it shot around with the other one, smashing through the monster's shoulders. Both of its arms were hacked off!
Worm took the skittering hornet progrise keycard out of the zero one driver's slot and flipped it closed before scanning it over her driver. Three times. [BIT RISE!] [BYTE RISE!] [KILO RISE!] The first Berotha Magia got up and slashed down from left to right with its right blade but Worm leaned to the side, avoiding the blade. She kicked it in the side with her right leg and the bee drones on her right hip and lower leg fired, blowing the monster through the air. Worm flipped the keycard open and slammed it into her driver's slot. [SKITTERING KILO IMPACT!] She ran forwards as the wasp drones returned to her arms, dark brown energy gathered around her right boot. The second Berotha Magia's arms started to grow back as the energy turned into eight spider leg constructs. "SPIDER CRUSH!" Worm turned to the side and slammed her boot into the monster's head, the legs shot inwards piercing the creature's head in eight places. Worm backed off and turned to the first Berotha Magia, the second one exploded! [SKITTERING KILO IMPACT!]
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The monster swung upwards in an x with both of its arms, slashing through Worm's stomach, sending her flying into the sky! It slashed around, firing five crecents of bright green light at the Kamen Rider. Worm pulled out her case staff and spun it around in a vertical circle, deflecting the crescents away. She landed on the ground and the bee drones detached from her hips. Each fired a dark brown beam that slammed into the monster, damaging it.
Worm ran at the Berotha Magia and punched it across the face before hitting the skittering hornet progrise keycard's button. [SWARM!] Then she backed off, leaning back to avoid a slash at her neck, Worm hit the keycard into the driver with her right palm. [SKITTERING HIGH IMPACT!] She leapt into the air and came down with a diving kick, tucking her left boot in. The monster saw this and crossed his blades, Worm's kick slammed into them and ground against them before the bee drone on her lower right leg fired, sending her flying back as well as damaging the monster. She landed on the ground and lunged forwards, jumping and trying to knee the magia in the face, but it swung its right blade, slashing across her breastplate, forcing her backwards.
Worm pulled back her staff and threw it like a javelin only for the monster to swing its arms deflecting it. The staff went spinning into the air but Worm had run forwards the second she had thrown it, she jumped up, slamming her knee into the monster's face, making it stumble backwards. It swung blindly, firing a crescent of bright green light at her. Only for the hornet drones on her chest to detach and deflect the attack into the air.
"There is only one person that can stop you." Womr pointed to herself with her right thumb. "And that's me!" she tapped the skittering hornet progrise keycard's button twice. [SWARM!] [HORNET'S ABILITY!] Then she removed the keycard from the zero one driver's slot and snapped it shut before scanning it a single time. [BIT RISE!] Worm used her left hand to pull the keycard open and rammed it back into the driver's slot. [SKITTERING TRUE BIT IMPACT!] Dark brown light collected around Worm's legs as she crouched down before leaping into the sky. The monster recovered and slammed its right hand into its belt's button. [EXTINCTION NOVA!] Bright green light collected in its blades.
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"INSECT BITING!" the energy formed into a pair of stag beetle pincers, Worm performed a scissors kick. The monster thrust its arms to the sides, holding her legs open for about three seconds before she overpowered it. Worm's legs slammed shut, slicing the monster in half. She landed behind the first Berotha Magia and both halves of it exploded!
Battle ended!
To be continued!