And Flashbang can’t shoot because Marquis will just armor himself before the sphere detonates. Lightstar is injured, Fleur needs her hands free to strike, and Lady Photon’s incapacitated.
It’s not looking great for you guys.
This certainly doesn’t sound like the sort of easy victory what we knew of Marquis’ arrest made it sound like, along with the whole “all-female” thing.
So is this not when he was arrested? Except all signs point to this being when they find Amy. So was finding out about Amy and arresting Marquis two separate events, meant to build a moral dilemma about whether they should’ve done what they did to get Amy away from him? Or did someone get misinformed about how he was arrested?
“Brandish!” Manpower shouted. “Same plan, just the two of us!”
Right. Their battle plan wasn’t useless, now. Just harder to pull off.
Well, at least they’ve got something.
This would take some courage.
She charged forward, manifesting energy in the shape of a lance, driving it toward Marquis.
Is this a distraction for Manpower to attack when Marquis changes his target to ward off the lance?
He cast a glance her way and stuck one foot out in her direction. His toes mutated into a jagged, uneven ripple of bone that stretched out beneath her.
Stop stepping on his toes like that.
Unable to maintain her footing, she had to cancel out the lance, using her hands to brace her fall.
Spikes of bone poked out of the ground in a circle around her, rising to form a cage.
Whoops.
She created twin knives out of energy, slashing out to cut through the bars.
The hardest part would be what came next. Brandish threw herself in the way of the scythe’s swing.
Hm. Freeing Manpower from the pin by sticking herself into it? Except I’m pretty sure Brandish is more vulnerable than Manpower when she’s not in the morph ball form, so that really does sound a lot harder.
Marquis’ weapon virtually exploded into its component pieces, blade, join and shaft flying past her.
Oh! It’s not a pin switch, it’s basically parrying the weapon with her body.
But the scythe was made of bone, right? We’ve already discovered how much of an issue shattered bone can be in this fight.
“Careful now,” Marquis chided her. “Don’t want to get decapitated now, do we?”
Sometimes, when the situation has gone completely fucking pear-shaped, there’s no other way out of it.
No longer on the defensive, Manpower charged the villain.
It wasn’t a pin switch, but it had the same end result – well, actually, a better one considering Brandish isn’t pinned in Manpower’s place.
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