Chapter 3: Feathery Mess
--------------------------------------------------------
Chapter 3 : Feathery Mess
-----------------------------------------------------
It took a while for Luzi to have finally stopped crying, Brad and Quinzlet stood by her side. Brad, being the closest to Luzi, put a hand on her back and drew circles while Quinzlet hugged her with one arm.
Luzi may act tough at times, but she was especially fragile when it came to her emotions and feelings, with her parents being quite literally gone. One brutally murdered, the other disappeared. A young Luzi couldn't exactly cope well with all of that, what's worse was that her younger sister also needed someone to take care of her.
That was until V stepped in as a mother for them that Luzi started being happy again as she grew up.
She was, after all, what Luzi called 'The mom that had stepped up'.
But that did not mean her traumas were gone, anything related to her parents always sets her off into depression or anger.
Any insults to them will inevitably piss her off to the max, while talking about them will either depress her into reminiscing or thinking about them, it usually takes a day to a week for her to recover.
Yeah, she was just that fragile.
"Lu.. You good now?" Brad asked her, he knew it was kinda stupid thing to say when she just stopped crying.
Luzi nodded her head weakly.
Brad looked through Luzi's side and watched Quinzlet look back and forth.
Quinzlet didn't know what to do and she felt guilty as hell, what she thought would be an awesome thing to show off to her friends turned into a drama-esque in the span of a few minutes.
She knew how fragile Luzi can be, and while it may have been unintentional she still hurt her.
"I.. I'm sorry Luzi, I didn't know it was," she looked at the weapon that was currently resting on the table. "Your mom's..." She did the first thing that came to mind instead of mulling around, apologizing to Luzi.
Luzi didn't make any reaction which caused worry in Quinzlet, but eventually Luzi just nodded her head weaker than before.
They continued to comfort Luzi while she was still sobbing a little, it was until an hour passed that she stopped sobbing.
Luzi looked up slowly and stared at the weapon that was currently resting on the table, she frowned and asked Quinzlet.
"Can you tell me how you found it again..? Like.. Every detail."
Quinzlet looked at Luzi and nodded.
"It's supposed to be a secret what the expedition was for, but, just for you." Quinzlet smiled at Luzi, her friend was currently weak emotionally right now, breaking a few orders shouldn't be that bad... Right?
"It wasn't just the communication relays we were trying to fix, we also found some unnatural factors in the area near the station. There were several marks of gunshots and explosives, high-grade, possibly from an unnamed Disassembly drone, someone the company doesn't know yet."
Quinzlet frowned and continued, giving hint that there's more to it.
"But that's what we speculated, Mistress J on the other hand.. She knows something I think, I overheard her requesting for Miss V a few hours ago, urgent orders it was."
Luzi and even Brad perked up when they heard V's name be mentioned, if she was involved then there IS probably something happening without any of them knowing.
Luzi felt more conflicted, her Stepmother being involved meant that there was a high chance her 'Mom' was also involved.
"There's more to it, during our attempts to search for damages at the communication relays, near the area where the bullet and explosive marks were, the main group found something. I didn't get to see what exactly, I was too focused on the gun." Quinzlet scratched her cheek sheepishly.
Luzi's stare gave indication she was in no mood for shenanigans.
"B-But I did hear something!" Quinzlet immediately spoke, "Apparently it had been a severed arm that was fresh and a beanie, normally we wouldn't have cared considering there IS a huge amount of dead corpses from other drones, even with the spire gone.
However what made them take it was the fresh amount Oil covering the mentioned objects, the deal breaker for bringing it however was because of Ron,
apparently he recognized something that was on arm, including the beanie..."
Luzi's core continued to metaphorically beat faster as she slowly pieced things together. Ron was an old friend of her Mom's and Dad's, he was a family friend, a friend of N that is.
"No.. no.."
"Lu! Snap out of it!" Brad shook Luzi before she could continue to break down further. "Just because, hints of her being.." Brad didn't continue what he was going to say, the insinuations that Quinzlet gave when pieced together only meant one thing, Luzi's mother was either dead or gravely injured. That meant that Luzi had really lost her beloved parents.
"But from what Quinz said! She's probably gone.. No worker can survive outside for that LONG, the severed arm says it all!" Luzi yelled out in frustration
"He's right, it's not guaranteed that the information I got is 100% accurate." Quinzlet stood up and walked over to the table and took the gun.
Luzi observed her with a frown that slowly disintegrated into confusion
She then walked up to Luzi and held the gun by its muzzle, pointing the handle at Luzi.
Quinzlet wanted to make it up to Luzi for hurting her emotionally, even if it was just in the span of literal minutes, that still hurt Luzi, and she didn't like her being hurt.
"I can't really say much If any of what I've said was true, but that doesn't mean we can't know for ourselves, Mistress J seems secretive of this topic so asking her is a no brainer, Miss V is probably out by now and Ron is on duty."
Quinzlet and Luzi looked at each other.
"But Mr. Kahn Doorman isn't on duty, and he's your grandfather right? Surely he'll help." Quinzlet gave Luzi a wry smile as she suggested investigating on their own.
To which Luzi immediately picked up on, "Y-You're actually suggesting we-" Quinzlet cut her off before she could finish
"Yeppers! Sneak out and find things out for ourselves? I'm a corporate freak Luzi, not a rule abiding idiot." She smuggingly admitted while snapping her fingers.
Luzi didn't know what to say, everything was happening too fast, she didn't even expect Quinzlet to be the one to suggest going against RULES for her, considering the fact she was quite literally J's favorite intern and sometimes could be seen as a Mini-J.
Brad was also stupified by this, but also glad that Quinzlet cared enough to suggest breaking rules for Luzi, but isn't things going way too fast? They've just literally come here to hang out, then an hour later they're contemplating the idea of going OUTSIDE.
It was idiotic, no, it was down right STUPID. What were they gonna do outside? Get slaughtered as if they were the last pizza on the pizza box?
Brad REALLY wanted to help but even then they still needed to think things through rather than doing something stupid.
"Okay, First. No, are you crazy?!" Brad complained to Quinzlet as he still held onto Luzi, both girls looked at him with both confusion and startled. "I get helping Luzi trying to find Mrs. Uzi, I'd help her on a whim if the opportunity happened, which is probably now. But SNEAKING out to go find her ourselves?! Can't we think of something else?!"
It was a crazy thing to do, sure, Quinzlet had experience of the outside, but that was because she was with experts and experienced workers on the fields, Disassembly drones included...
But them? They were literal fifteen year old teenagers that barely knew what's good for them, even if Luzi was a Hybrid, she would get clowned on by Eldritches with ease.
"I-I mean, it's not my brightest idea" "You don't say-" "-But with Mistress being secretive, we wouldn't be able to find anything and asking them is obviously out of the question. Trying to snoop around the files and paper work wouldn't work because Mistress literally has five sets of eyes for a headband."
Brad and Quinzlet stood in front of each other by the time she finished.
"Leaving it to Miss V IS an option but I doubt she would let us outside, but even then, if she did find out something she wouldn't tell us because she's on Mistress J's side, she's.. " Quinzlet looked at her violet friend for a moment before continuing, "What you would call an overprotective mom, she wouldn't let us go outside."
"Yeah but that's the thing! I'm all for helping Luzi but think, Quinzlet! Think!" Brad pointed his index fingers at her head, "What can three teenagers, two of which are normal worker drones, the other a hybrid with barely any experience, do outside which is like the definition of a hell-on-earth apocalypse!" He threw his hands in the air in frustration.
"Why do WE have to go outside when we could just do the whole investigation with a whole 'nother method?!" Quinzlet's hollowed as Brad brought his face closer to hers, trying to make a point. True, they - Or just Quinzlet - were planning to go outside, without any preparations, or any plans, to find someone who could be dead.
Seriously, Brad was trying to stop the cliche of 'Average Teenager does something avoidable', something most people could relate to because they either gave into intrusive thoughts or were clearly not thinking rationally.
Quinzlet knew for a fact that what she just suggested was stupid, she scratched her arm as looking away from Brad, possibly of shame and embarrassment.
"But then.. We'll just stay here then.." Luzi spoke up from the wall she was still leaning into, she stood up and walked towards the gun. "Brad's right, we were getting heated up by nothing there.. And sorry for crying, I-I just.."
"You shouldn't be sorry, I should be the one saying sorry for suggesting something stupid. Hell I even made you cry.." Quinzlet looked at her with guilt.
"It's fine, I just." She took one look at the gun and closed her eyes, "Miss the old times, there's no need to go outside.. I'm fine with V..."
Even if Luzi acted angsty and rebellious at times, she wasn't brave enough to just GO outside even if she made a weapon for killing Eldritches, She didn't know why, but she can be a coward at times.
"Besides, I promised her I won't go outside to do something 'angsty' and stupid."
Brad and Quinzlet stood quietly, they looked at one another and nodded, they knew what she meant by 'Old times', Luzi opened her eyes and stared at the gun, as if reminiscing.
As if sensing the bullshit coming back once more
They did what any caring friend would do.
"WHA- HEY!" Luzi yelled out in embarrassment as Brad pretty much carried her like a bag of potatoes while Quinzlet grabbed her phone and the handheld railgun.
"What are you guys doing?!" Blushes started to light up in Luzi's face as they got out of the building, ignoring most of the employees walking around.
"We're gonna hangout at your place instead! We're watching damned movies and have a sleepover with your family until all these stupid drama disappears. " Quinzlet said with a serious expression, she looked like someone who was on a mission.
"What?!" Luzi tried to fray herself from Brad's grasp, but he didn't let go, which confused Luzi considering she was physically stronger than both of them.
"Quinz! Let's go! We have a depressed girl in need of cuddles!" Brad yelled out in a misplaced determination.
"Damn right we do!" They continued to walk down the roads of Outpost Alpha, literally power walking through the gazes people gave them as they went to Luzi's house.
"Nooooooooo!" Luzi roared out into the heavens for the embarrassment she's currently being put through, she was sad and gloomy just a few minutes ago damn it!
She brought a hand up, as if clasping for hope.
Someone save her from this embarrassment!
++--------------------++
V spent the first few minutes flying in the direction where the radio station was, if she was going to go find Uzi, she might as well scout out the damage that was done in the communication relay.
She checked the satchel bag she took with her from the house, the search for Uzi could last for days, depending on how far any leads she could find on her.
So she brought bottles and vials of Oil and stashed it into her satchel. Normally she can last for an entire week now without oil intake, but that was not taking her weapons and wings into account. Using those drained Oil to a certain extent, not as severe as 16 years ago, but still draining.
It didn't take long for her to reach the radio station, as always, it was empty and barren, they built the relay on top of a tall cliff so it can receive information much faster, the area itself looked like the side of a small mountain devoid if any skycrapers or any buildings, just trees.
J's forces stopped stationing guards here after confirming that the Eldritches and Fragmenteds showed no interest in it, but that might change soon due to the recent events that had transpired.
She flew closer to the bowl-shaped communication relay and saw no damage at all, J DID say she sent people to see the damage here a few hours ago, so whatever was wrong with it was either internal or-
Wait, what the?
While V was inspecting the Relay, the reflection of the huge metal bowl glinted on her, she saw the flash of something that shouldn't be behind her.
"!?" What the!?
Her form tensing, she willed her entire form to twist mid-air to dodge the gigantic talons of a bird- A jet? - No, it had feathers!
SLAM!
The giant form of an Eldritch slammed onto the Relay completely destroying its front while V was thrown to the snowy ground.
V recovered as fast as she could and observed her feathery.. Meaty? Adversary.
She knew of course that it was an Eldritch, possibly High-class threat. Since the Eldritches came in different forms and sizes, and mostly strength in general, they made categories and classifications to quickly know what they were dealing with.
Low Class means that armed worker drones can take it down with difficulty, Middle-Class is the point where only a Disassembly drone can kill it.
High Class meant it required utmost care and cautiousness to deal with them, Eldritches of this class can kill an Unsuspecting Disassembly drone with terrifying ease, she'd seen comrades die from them. 'Sorry, Lea.'
Special-Category is where things started to get ugly, she was not going there.
From the size and speed it came at her, she was probably dealing with a High-class Eldritch right off the bat. The eldritch looked confusing as always, it had parts of a.. Jet? So she wasn't hallucinating, it really had parts of a jet, its wings were covered in sharp fleshy wings while two jet engines were attached to its upper body by fleshy tendrils.
It unfolded its wings after it unlatched its sharp metal talons from the relay, showing off its entire wing span that could cover a street or two.
Oh fuck, High-classes were meant to be rare, Why was one here?! Why of all times!
It's a miracle the small group J sent had not encountered this thing, but they would probably do considering they were planning on going back here to fix the communication.
it gave out a mighty howl from its sharp beaks, it's face was quite literally that of a Jet's pilot hatch, except it was converted to mimic a bird, its scream alone had picked up the wind, creating a deadly torrent of gale that threatened to blow away V if she did not plant her legs steadily.
V opened the iris of her left hand's opening and switched to her sword, this was definitely not the humanoid-Eldritch J had told her, but it was an Eldritch nonetheless. Something of this size would have been spotted immediately by their cameras and security. Either J had set her up, which was unlikely, or this thing arrived here unspotted.
That's the only plausible explanation here, V didn't hear the giant bird or realize it was there until it had attacked.
'The abilities of these things can range from stupid to downright bullshit, so it's probably something related to stealth, Tch.' She'll have to test that theory out, if it did have the ability to hide itself, then killing it right here is a priority.
The Jet-Bird sprung forward with its wings open wide, the sheer size of it creating gusts of wind as it flew towards V.
V frowned, but relaxed as she prepared for battle.
Relaxing her hold on the ground, she let the intense gale carry her into the air throwing her high, The Jet-Bird came closer at an alarming speed despite its size, it opened its beak preparing to chow down on V in one fell swoop.
But she had other ideas, V performed a partial backflip while whipping out her own wings, dodging the giant beak that had aimed to eat her completely.
She gracefully danced in the air and stabbed her sword into its back she fell down at the side of its form. She squinted her eyes and realized that her sword didn't pierce its back despite the flesh, this thing was too thick to cut, she'll need to be clever to take it down.
she dived further down and the beating of metal wings thummed as she redirected her acceleration just a few meters before she hit the ground. The Jet-Bird spun around and followed after V.
She flew down deeper into the forest and tucked away her wings, flipping and twisting her body repeatedly until she faced the direction the giant metal bird of death was. A smile was on her face, she fired off multiple rockets in quick succession in the span of three seconds before deploying her wings once more and flying upwards, gracefully dancing around the trees.
The rockets that were fired hit its score, causing the bird to be momentarily stunned, that moment was enough for it to come falling down and lose its motor functions.
CRASH!
It crashed through the waves of trees, dealing massive amounts of damage to the monstrosity, V fired more a series of rockets once more before it could recover, covering a part of the forest in explosions and smoke.
She stanced her rocket-arm up and put a hand on her waist, she was floating fairly far from where it had crashed.
"Hey, you birdbrained monster.. Did you know?" V spoke to no one.
The smoke immediately cleared up when it released an ungodly howl towards her.
It gave a beat of its wings, flattening most of the trees near it as it flew upwards with lethal speed, its beak opened once more, but this time it split into four, it reminded V of that one monster from a show Uzi showed her back then, Strange-blah-blah, its speed increasing once more.
But to V, it may as well have been in Slow-motion, Disassembly drones were faster at their peak. And she's fought a lot of her kind before this whole Eldritch business, V flew towards it with her own burst of speed, her blades stroked to strike, for a brief moment she broke the sound barrier and leaned just to the right of its face. She switched her right hand for another sword and stabbed both her swords right into its right side, continuous sparks trailing from her swords as it failed to pierce through the thick metallic-flesh skin of the Monstrosity.
'Go through! Go through! Go through! Go through! PIERCE ITS SKIN DAMN IT!' She roared internally, but before she could press on longer, the blades snapped prompting her to kick away from the abomination and gain distance.
"Birds have hollow bones." V hissed and continued on, despite finding herself in a little pickly situation of 'blade-not-blading'
She examined her broken blades, they were completely snapped off, she probably won't be able to use them for a few minutes, without the regeneration gifted by the [ABSOLUTESOLVER] her ability to reproduce weapons was greatly decreased.
Shit.
For a brief moment, just for a brief instant.. Her processors caught sight of something, she narrowed her eyes before focusing back on the fight, getting distracted will get her killed.
She looked back to where the shit-bird was and-What?!
The giant hulking form of the Jet-Bird disappeared as if it was never there, there wasn't even a violent torrent of wind anymore.
V was extremely shocked by what the hell did she just witness, or rather, WHAT she didn't witness.
She forcibly stopped her flight and searched for the Eldritch will all of her eyes.
The sudden disappearance of the Eldritch immediately put V on high-alert, something can't just disappear like that.
'Something that huge can't just disappear! The way it disappears and reappears is unnatural, something capable of breaking logic like this was only possible through the Solv-'
As if on cue, the giant bird of death reappeared behind her.
One moment there was nothing behind V, now it was there. IT was just there.
No sequence or visual of it appearing, it's as if it was there the whole time, not even a sound or a change on air.
V's core nearly fell down to her stomach as her eyes went completely hollowed, she deployed her claws just in type to catch the giant form of a beak closing, it was trying to eat her!
She straightened her legs as she pushed upwards with her claws, the monstrous beak trying to crush her increased its pressure while they were still airborne.
"G-GHH!?" V groaned alongside her screaming servos, she wasn't a strength type damn it!
V grit her teeth as she willed more strength into her legs. It was obvious she'd be eaten whole if she didn't do something immediately, she momentarily turned her head and saw the deep dark tunnel that was the throat. 'NOPE!'
An idea sprung forward in time, V had never tried this before, J was the one to have invented it and used it on the rogue Disassemblers ten years ago.
She tucked away one of her wings, while straightening the other, she knew from J that this was gonna hurt, not really.
It was worth it if she could pull it off.
Flickering the straightened wing up and down a few times, V started squinting her eyes from the pain of trying to hold the giant mandibles closing in on her, but she persevered.
The wing started spinning behind her like a helicopter rotor blade, it started picking up speed until it left afterimages, V could feel her back trying to rip itself away from her, she ignored the pain.
Seeing that It was spinning like a saw, she grinned and widened her eyes, she straightened her wing to its full-span.
++--------------------++
It felt happy, it found food in the middle of the strange shiny bowl.
.. This food had wings, that's strange.
For a brief moment, flashes of two drones appeared in its memories.
Aren't they food? Why is it seeing this, These were the easy to kill food.
Why food call it 'Dear?'
Why was the smaller food calling it 'Dad?'
then the image changed.
Ah, it ate them whole. The bird felt pure guilt and temptation to kill itself but then..
What was it doing again?
...
Oh, this food is called a 'Murder Drone', but how does it know that.
it ignored the thought, food was food.
The bird tried to catch it with its talons, but it moved.
Food very fast.
It howled at the food and attempted to eat it again, the nimble fold with wings dodged and did something at its back, it felt tickled.
The flying food went into prickly forest, bird was fast. But food was faster.
It felt something impact on its face before it came crashing down the prickly sticks.
The bird shook its head In annoyance before a few more painful small objects hit it.
The bird was extremely pissed off now, it flew upwards to eat the flying insect whole before it dodged and sent down a tickle in its sides.
What was food trying to do?
Seeing that the flying meal was distracted for a moment, the bird-
.
Y̶̧̪͙̞̖͕̘̠͖̞͆͜O̵̧̡̡̢̡̨͍̱̻͇̣̜̙͇̖͖̭̜̱̺̳͔͎̘̯͙͔͉̬̩̞͔̙̤̟̓͗͊̿̂̅̌̾̉̃͆̌̽̀̔̍͆̈́̾̋͆͛͒͘͜͜͠͝ͅ Ų̵̡̱̙̳̮̻̞̮̝̭̟͓̰̓͑̈̄̈̑̈̇͒̓͑̆̍͋̕͘͝ͅ ̶̨̢̨̛̬̪̮͕͖̫̝̖͓̳̥͔̲͉͕̫͎͍̮̥͉͍̩̙̬̼̝̖̦̦̞̱͋̌̌̐̌͑̋̿̂͒̋͗̈́̔̐̊͛̆̒͛͛͐̈́̇͑̓͋͛̏͜͝͝͝ͅC̵̢̢̛̗͓̦̭͙̤̫̭͉͕̥̗̣̯̘͉̼̩͙̜͙̥͓͔̠͍̮̤͉͂͌͗͌́̋̔̓̈̆̆̊̾͌̈̇́͋̓̍̆̍̆̀͠͠͝͝͠ Ą̷̢̢̨̥̫̣̘̘̫̳͔̣̞̤̻̦͇͙̤̰͉̦͇̟̲̥̯̪̬̳͕͚̊͆̍͐̓̔̆͋̽̓̅́̈́͒́̊͋́̄̈́̿̎̔͘͘͠͠͝͠Ń̸̡̛̛̲̲̯͍͉̦̣̦͎̮͔̹̗̜̻̲̪͓͍̬̫͉́͛̉̓̃̄̌̈̈́̐̄̑͗̑̍̈͆́͋͑̏́͐͋̓̐̈́͆̊̈̐̂̉̈́̚͘̚͝͝͝N̵̨̛̠͕̹̦̦͉̲̣̙̠͎̙̝̳͎͙̘̹͕̲͇͓̜̖͔̋̎̔̀̈́̐͋̇̿͊͆͋̀̃͐͗̃̒̈́̏̀̏̿̕͝͝͠ Ơ̸̢̧̱̣̞̖̗͔̠̫̬̺̣̰̰̬͙̣̹̥̦̝̱͑̃̍̄̍̓̋̾͒̿͑̈́̅̅̄̓̀̽̌̃̐̾͂̀͑̉͗͑͐̉̈́̀̇̈́̃̕̚͝T̷̨̨̗̭̬̞̻̬̙̥̱̜̙͚̲̝͙̦͈͖̞̲̣̥̉͘͜͜ ̶̧̢̡̨͙͇̝̤̗̦͍̮̖̟̩̦̩̺̹̝͇̺̭̅̈́͑͒̾̇̽̏̿̏͊͘͜͠͝ͅͅĆ̶̢̬̩͚͚̥̤̗̰̰̖̪͕̤͍̜͙̱̣̒͊̍́͂͜Ờ̶̧̨̤͕͎̼̺͚͔̖͚͕̭̩͆͌̍̄̓͒̈͌̈́́͛̈́̅̉̈́̐̅̇̃̎̐̔́̈́̄͒͒͊̕̚͘͘͘̕͝͝M̵̨̡̘̪̦̰̭̻̼̪̬̼͚̲̬̘̫̠̻̗̲̣̣̺͍̮͓̘̘̰̲͕̬̰͇͕̜͙̬̱̮̳̍̎̅̋͊̇̎͂́͌̇̽̓̑̑̋̕̕͠ P̶̨̛̛̫̩̬̜̝̦̻̪̰͓̞̰͕̫̞̜͓̹̞͓̳̲̆̈́̉̂͌̅̃̕͜͜ͅR̷̢̧̛̦̝̭̠̤͍̹̺̮̣̤͈̪̤̟͇̂̈́̏̋̑͂̎͆̂͂͗̑̃̐͗̒̂̋̇̈́̌̆̄̈̔͒̓̽̐̂͐̋͒͊̚̕̕͜ͅ Ȩ̸̡̨̨̧͙̠̩͍̝̠͓͕͖̜͚̟̠͇͖͔͇͙̙̠̲̖̰͕͖̠̹̤͂̽̋͒͛̄̑́̕̕͜ͅḦ̴̨͙͙̳͇̻̭̹̤̥̪͔͉̣̥̗̻̗̦̼̖͉̮͎͈͙͔̪̩̻̰̣́̎͒̄͗́̀͗͊͑͋̈́̈͒͋̃̅̐͗̌̉̈́̎̓̿̅̓̿̑̑́̈́̽̏̓̊͘̚̕͘̚̕͝ͅȄ̵̢̡̙̺̦̱̻̩̣̘͇̟͓̗̙͍͚̖͙̗͍̪̺̀̋̈́͑̆̔̂̐̎̽̈̂̊͂̀͐̇́̿̓̀͊̎̍̅̒̈̆̐͑̐͗͐́̊̾̈́͆̚͘͘͜ͅͅͅ N̴̢̨̹͔͓̦̩̦̙͖̹̟͇̺̣͖͓̱̠̲̯̋̀̋͂͐͊̒̈́̍̕̕̕͜͜͠ͅͅD̶̨̡̛̛͉̼͙̯͇̬̜̜͍̱̩̬̟͓̘͕͂͒̋̈́̀̾́̈́̍͌́̏̚̕͘͝͠͝͝
.
.
-And then it was there, closing its beak. Its prey finally at its mouth.
Huh? How did it get here again?
The bird was very confused because if remembered looking at its food while it was distracted, looking at something in the forest.
Eh, food was in its mouth.
Food is food, prey should be eaten.
it vaguely remembers hunting down a purple food alongside other Eldritches, that was not food, food should not be able to fight back.
Purple food was small but it hurt the bird a lot.
Purple food was terrifyingly good at fighting, it took out it's other pack members on the verge of death.
The sound of something spinning caught the attention of the bird before-
++--------------------++
SLASH!
The entire front mandible of the Eldritch was cleanly cut off, a crescent death of afterimages following in its path as V continued to saw through its mouth with her wings.
FUCK! This seriously hurts, it's like your arm was being twisted forcibly over and over.
But it worked, and that's what was important.
She stopped the blade of death after she got out, she immediately deployed her other wing and gained distance. The pained screech came from the Eldritch as it tried to feel what was not there anymore.
Heh.
V wouldn't be able to do that again, it was a situational move at best.
"Birds have light weight skeletons for flight, they're the only animals to have feathers." She monologues further.
She saw the Eldritch rocketing towards her, she narrowed her eyes and sighed.
At Least there was the opportunity she was looking for, this better work.
She flew even further towards the skies
"As majestic as they are, the moment those feathers are plucked away.."
She pierced through the clouds, reaching the troposphere.
The bird continued following her, the immense size and speed it was going cleared the clouds near it.
Finally, she reached the upper levels of the clouds.
A sea of clouds appeared before her as she looked at the view, it was beautiful.
She saw the ringed moon of Copper 9 and closed her eyes, basking in its luminous light and beauty, she smiled at the brief peaceful moment, she fully stretched her wings, taking a deep breath. She opened her eyes once more.
It was time to put the bird back in its nest.
Both of her claws retracted into her laser cannons, she began charging up as yellow plasma began to form, using these always took a considerable amount of oil reserves, it was a good thing she packed up on them.
The unholy screech of the Jet-Bird rang out in the skies as it blew forward. V closed her wings and took a leap of faith.. Or well, a fall of faith in her case.
She began free falling while her arms were crossed together, forming an X with her arms. The cannons were emitting violent saps of electricity, a sign it had reached its limit.
'If a blade going at the speed of the sound barrier couldn't pierce its skin, how about pure plasma?'
She began flipping around airborne, the giant bird closing in on her, despite its mandibles being gone from its face.
It aimed its bladed talons at her, probably to crush her into pieces, its wings opened to its full glory.
There!
V saw her change and immediately came diving right now even faster with the help of her instantly deployed wings, she raced down with incredible speed, so much so, one could probably hear the whistle of something speeding through and breaking the sound barrier.
She fired her right cannon and began curling up, spinning with immense speed, she became an afterimage.
ZING!
Her stunt created the appealing visual of a yellow light cutting through the wing with EASE.
A sword of light, Hmm.. She'll probably keep this one as one of her techniques or something.
The Eldritch howled in pain, it started falling towards the earth as one of its wings was cleanly cut in half.
V used the momentum to fly upwards again, jetting upwards until she was directly above the Eldritch by a few hundred meters.
"They become like any other creature, they fall.
And the same applies to you, you pathetic rip-off, apologize to every bird across the planets by dying."
The bird responded with one angry screech.
"Hmph, Good boy." The humming of wings quite literally slamming into the empty air exploded, she dived like an arrow towards the Eldritch and drew her left cannon, as if holding a sword.
The laser cannon began bursting with plasma, it continuously fired like a beam, posed like a sword.
"Die!" She brought the final blow like a sword slashing downwards.
ZZZZINNNGGG!
The light encompassed the Eldritch, before it started tearing apart in half, it wasn't dead nor was it completely cut. But it was damn sure enough to put it out of commission.
Seeing that she had 30 seconds before they fell onto the forest below the clouds.
She landed on the chest of the bird, she stared at the Eldritch before crouching a little.
"This should do.." She whispered.
She tapped away with her foot, her wings spreading to keep her afloat.
The giant flesh bird let out one last screech before it slammed into the forest, the impact created a sizable crater the span of an entire mansion.
She stayed airborne for a few minutes, observing if the Eldritch had survived or not.
Seeing no movement, she fired a rocket towards it.
No reaction, it's finally dead.
V huffed and turned to fly towards the direction of the relay.
She landed back at the snowy grounds of the communication relay that was definitely destroyed now, J wasn't going to like this.
She patted off the dirt that was on her shoulders and continued her search for Uzi, but not taking one last look at the giant smoke that was coming from the dead body of the High-class threat.
She sighed and plucked off a vial with oil inside from her pouch and drank it.
She wiped her mouth and walked towards the area where Uzi's arm and beanie was found..
"I'm a way cooler Mom than Uzi." She smiled to herself, Hah. Take that Uzi, at least she has proof she's definitely the Best and coolest Mom around.
...
Load failed, please RETRY
Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone