“Skitter,” Tattletale called out, “We should be close enough. Want to pass them a message?”
Oh yeah! Good idea!
I nodded. I had six of the relay bugs, and it took only a minute to set them up so they formed a chain, extending my reach for an additional six city blocks in one direction. Eight and a half in total.
These are really, really good for this kind of thing. Told ya they’d come in handy!
(Not that that’s an amazing prediction. That’s just basic storytelling.)
I swept them outward, and the one at the furthest point lagged behind. Still, it gave me the opportunity to cover a wide area. Bugs mobilized throughout, and I began funneling the less offensive ones back toward Amy. No-see-ums, earthworms, caterpillars and roughly half of the houseflies in the area began filtering back.
Awesome.
I maintained some of the dragonflies and other mobile bugs for the sake of getting a feel for the area.
I could sense Regent’s group, running to cover. Ballistic was bombarding Crawler, relying on the impacts to drive the brute back. Crawler was fast -and he was agile, with preternatural reflexes- but Ballistic was unloading on him with projectiles that moved faster than sound.
Niice. That’s gonna pack a punch even if the punch doesn’t deal damage.
Crawler dodged only two in three, and Ballistic followed up on any successful hits with a series of shots to pound Crawler into the nearest available surface and pin him there. Genesis had formed a body that was winged. It resembled a pterodactyl with arms, a griffon or something in that vein.
…alright. I don’t think a “pterodactyl with arms” and a griffon would look much alike except having a similar arrangement of limbs, but sure.
Doesn’t sound like a form that’s particularly rideable.
She was making an effort to drop large chunks of rubble onto Crawler. He was strong enough that it barely slowed him down, but time he spent hauling a section of wall off of himself was time for Ballistic to get his hands on material for another shot.
Teamwork!
Shatterbird offered support with a constant hail of glass to harry Crawler and keep him from finding traction on the pavement.
It seems like there’s a lot of firepower focused on Crawler right now. What’s the status of the other members of the Nine?
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