I glanced at Sundancer and she gave me a grim nod.
Crawler had reached Grue and was scaling the side of the building with surprising speed. I’d taken him for a quadruped, but apparently his joints were modular. His proportions were more simian, now, and he was climbing up the side of the building twice as fast as I could have run it if it were laid out horizontally.
Wouldn’t he be at least a hexaped anyway, depending how you count?
Part three of the plan had been to hit them as hard as we could. Trickster was using his rifle to take shots at Mannequin, but I couldn’t see if it was having any effect.
I highly doubt it.
Ballistic finally decided to contribute, and fired a warhead at Mannequin. Then he reached into the box he and Grue had unloaded from Sirius’s harness and grabbed two more.
That might be a bit more effective.
I suppose it makes sense that he’d have an easier time attacking someone as obviously inhuman as Mannequin.
He fired them into the smoke cloud that had expanded around Mannequin.
Smoke? Is that from the first warhead’s impact, or does he have a new trick that’s less explosive?
I could see Crawler reaching the edge of the roof, not twenty feet from Grue and Ballistic.
Just before reading this, it occurred to me that we haven’t gotten much contribution from Grue either after the initial commander role.
At least the darkness may be good for dealing with Crawler. Crawler is immune to most attacks and grows stronger from the ones he isn’t immune to, so attacking him isn’t the solution. With the darkness, Grue can instead make escape easier, as long as Crawler doesn’t have special senses.
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