Kapitel 8: Whack-a-mole, or is it a mole...? (5)
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Chapter 8 : Whack-a-mole, or is it a mole...? (5) (Little purple is tired of everything)
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J was afraid, afraid of dying, she'd always been so even a while back after the purple idiot killed her. It hurt alot, it always did, which was... Well, to be expected of dying, it was unnerving for her to die twice and be brought back in a new body, the feeling of life slowly seeping away from you, as your vision darkened and everything went quiet.. It was a creepy feeling.
However this time around she wasn't going to get a third wind of her life.
Clawdreroff's mouthful of teeth'd jaw inched forward, everything was painfully slow as she watched it get closer.
A phenomena that happens when someone is about to die, everything slows down from their perception as memories flashes by, memories of how to get out of the current situation.. If not, treasured memories instead.
It was something programmed into drones, somehow , and J knew it.
This was it, she was going to die.
Every single one of her happiest moments swept through her mind in less than a second, the most noticeable one was her talk with N..
'N.. I'm sorry..'
She closed her eyes in regret.
Its jaws slammed like a hydraulic press.
...
....?
Is..
Is it over..?
Is she dead? She didn't feel the usually present wave of agony that washes over her for a few seconds whenever she died.
Where is she?
...Is this the afterlife for drones? Is N in here? She couldn't tell because everything was too goddamned dark for her to see, rather there wasn't anything much to see other than herself, it's literally just a damn void!
...
A dark, empty void.
Is this where all the people she's killed gone to..? Because if it was, it was too damn cruel.
It's all just a... pure vast, empty space occupied by darkness. .
If this was an afterlife for drones then she'll be damned, this is probably not heaven, more like hell for droids.
Either that or it was punishment for everything she'd done in her life, killing countless people.. N..
N.. Wait, if she can assess her current situation of being existentially aware of being the after life, that means she still exists.
The whole dying to an Eldritch shtick erases you from existence itself, preventing the person from being ever brought back to life, it was what happened to N and other people she knew, it was the theory Uzi and V had come up, were they wrong?
'I swear to God if those two were wro- Ow!?'
Her feelings became worse when she felt the same tinge of pain in her body she had experienced against the Eldritch, why can she feel the same pain when she's supposed to be dead?!
Isn't the whole point of death to be free from pain? Why can she still feel it? Death SUCKS if the phantom pain of where her leg used to be was still there.
Her body was completely sore and it still felt like all the punches she ate were still there, dented on her broken down body.
CRASH!
What was that sound? She wasn't definitely imagining it because it was too damn loud, it sounded like something crashing through glass.
Why is she hearing the pained shrieks of the same Bastard that had killed her?
...
Holdap-
J came back from her apparent 'death' when she reactivated her eyes, her eyes immediately widened as soon as she did after looking at the scene in front of her.
The Mole-like Eldritch was screaming in pain as it clutched it's disfigured face, attempting to claw off something on its face.
Or rather, attempting to DIG into its face, it was clawing something in its face, J was still being held up by the unnatural flesh-metal spiked tentacles that sprouted from its back, she couldn't help but flinch from disguss and pain.
Why the hell did it have tentacles wrapped around every single one of her limbs?!
She didn't get to finish to think about what lane that line of thought went to when she suddenly felt herself falling to the floor.
J grunted as she was dropped to the ground as Clawdreroff stumbled backwards in pain, the Eldritch was still roaring in pain as it violently slammed through multiple rails and eventually falling down to the first floor of the mall.
J couldn't help but be stuppored at what just happened, she was currently sprawled on the floor, currently swimming in a small puddle of her own oil that came from her wounds.
She would have held a hand on her stomach because of the pain if not for the fact she was too stupefied by what she just witnessed.
Her sensors were all damaged, even her vision was blurry at best so she couldn't couldn't see much, other than that she could still see albeit the glitches blocking most of his sight.
But self-diagnostics later, questions go first, just like a proper CEO would during a marketing month.
First things first, what the hell just happened?
Second, what did she miss? She was pleading for her life a few moments ago then THIS suddenly happens , don't get her wrong, she's happy to be alive.. For now, it wasn't guaranteed that thing was dead, but WHAT .
And J was pretty sure she heard the sound of something breaking through glass when she thought she was dead.
It was damn embarrassing enough to have a monologue and a dramatic flashback only to live through it.
Since they were currently on the third floor of the mall, there were glass walls made for viewing outside near them.
It was only for a brief moment but J saw something Pierce through the gigantic glass window walls of the mall made for viewing outside
It ripped through the air smoothly as it flew, the bullet ricocheted violently as it hit one of the child safety railings, completely destroying it from the force, the bullet then immediately redirected towards below, presumably at the Eldritch.
"What?!" J couldn't help but shout in disbelief.
' A bullet!? ' J's was flabbergasted, that was no normal bullet, it managed to pierce through the Eldritch's scale-like armor, but this was not what surprised her.
It was the accuracy of the bullet it was fired at, having it ricochet down was no easy feat, however, she wasn't sure if the bullet did hit the Eldritch.
This is just ridiculous! But hey, she can't say no to help.
J heard the enraged roar of the Eldritch floors below her, causing her to slightly shake I fear, her body still numb and damaged from its attacks.
Guess that's a suitable answer if the bullet did hit, who in the world had these unfair accuracy skills?
She wanted to get out of her as fast as she could, but her crippled wings and one remaining leg made it difficult.
Seeing that crawling was the only option, she crawled away slowly while keeping an eye out of the gigantic window wall of the mall made for viewing outside
Unfortunately for her, the enraged roar of the Eldritch came uncomfortably closer as it jumped from floor to floor.
"S-Seriously..?!" She cursed out.
CRASH!
Before she could even prepare herself, the floor below her a few meters away exploded, J covered her head with her only working arm, the Eldritch's figure landing down in crouch before screaming in rage.
There was a noticeable bleeding hole in its head now, J practically hauled ass the moment she saw it, but crawling away with only one arm can get you so far.
Fortunately for her, its attention was currently garnered somewhere, it was staring at where the second ricochet bullet came from.
Out of curiosity, and despite the desperate situation, she couldn't help but look where it was looking.
At first she saw nothing as she continued to snail away with one arm, but upon closer observation, her enhanced eyesights picked up on something unsettlingly familiar to her.
A mane of purple hair.
Disassembly drones had a great eyesight for hunting, they could see the faintest movements in a snowstorm if they wanted to. But that also made them terribly weak to things that are blinding.
J's upgrades of being a Mark III not only boosts that eyesight but also made her able to see small details clearer.
For example...
Her eyes widened as she saw where the help came from, it came from the Intercommunicative Development Tower(IDT), a construct made solely for developing new technology such as defensive mechanisms for the city.
Just ranking behind her company's building for the tallest structure in the Outpost, the IDT Building was the second tallest building in the city, bearing 11 Floors.
J wanted to deny the fact that the shot probably came from that tower, since there should still be guards inside it and they definitely would have not allowed someone to enter with a sniper rifle.
She squinted her eyes while hastily crawling away, she was safe for the time being as the Eldritch was too busy staring off into the distance, likely trying to find where the shot came from too.
She squinted her eyes even further to make out the smallest details, she could make out a small bit of purple that was currently dismantling what she presumes to be the sniper used to save her.
She didn't have to guess who just saved her, because there was no way in hell her oldest niece(Someone she acts cold and strict to) would have the capability to shoot from so far away, or ricochet bullets for that matter.
Neither would she have such a powerful long ranged weapon without V and her knowing.
Luzi was like her mother, but she took more from N, she's obvious and terrible at lying. Luzi is too pure like her father to lie and hide something from them, and she definitely didn't have long hair.
Besides...
There's only one person who has a long purple mop of hair and has the audacity to even look angsty and depressed at the same time...!
'You crazy bitch, you're still alive huh? Guess I owe you one.' Despite her dislike of Uzi, she couldn't help but smile at her well timed clutch.
Her optics finally regained a clearer look at the purple smug shit in the distance
Perched on the rooftop with her long hair flowing smoothly.
One hand holding her stomach with a tired expression, it seems like she wasn't the only one who's dealing with this shit..
J smirked.
'Uzi!'
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Uzi gave out a tired sigh.
She finished dismantling her sniper rifle and putting the parts in a small bag.
Every movement she was making was agonizing, it felt as if she was ready to fall over at any second, she simply grit her teeth as hard as she could and endured, her fight a few days ago took a lot out of her and she hasn't even recovered, she had no choice but to hide back in this Outpost despite her.. Insecurities and sins.
Standing up, she heard the flapping of wings next to her, a familiar thumming of metal as something stopped by.
"You're late by a minute, you should go and help J instead of looking at me as if I'm some sort of circus animal." Uzi groaned through her agonizing injuries.
Uzi turned her head and looked at her with the side view of her right eye.
Floating a few meters away from her was Meili, she was already sporting a few injuries of her own before she even arrived here, her clothes were torn and her hair was ruffled, there was currently a visible opening to her insides resting on her right shoulder, something taking a bite out of it Uzi assumed.
Meili had a livid expression on her face, not because of the situation but because of Uzi herself.
"You.." Meili couldn't help but bite out some venom towards Uzi, who simply took it unshakenned.
"You look worse for wear, Meili." Uzi said as she fully turned to face Meili.
Meili couldn't help but flinch and feel some of her anger towards Uzi disappear, she wanted to scream and lash out at Uzi for leaving them behind, her friends and family. Meili had been a long family friend, she was one of the first disassembly drones to have helped them during the war against rogue DD's.
Her currently fuming anger at Uzi stemmed from the fact she left her daughters to be without a mother, forcing V to take them in. She knows how her friend N had been an important part of Uzi's life, but to just leave them without saying anything is just.. Damn, it..
She really wanted to hurt Uzi here and now, but the situation was too delicate, it wasn't just one Eldritch that had gotten in, there were two more, the same as the one J had been fighting in the mall.
There was no time for drama, and yet..
Meili couldn't help but feel the need to confront Uzi, she wanted answers, she wanted to be angry, she wanted to drag her sorry purple ass and have her apologize to V and her daughters.
But..
When she finally got a good look at Uzi, she couldn't help but feel.. Sympathetic, sad even..
To call Uzi 'tired' didn't do it justice, no, she was beyond that.
Uzi had a dead look to her, there wasn't even any emotion to it, even if they were drones that had visors for eyes, they still emitted some emotion.
Uzi on the other hand, was so depressingly lifeless , it's as if she wants nothing more than to die.
She was more than tired, calling her depressed also didn't do it.
She'll say it again, Uzi looked tired . This was someone who was tired of living
And it frustrated Meili, because she couldn't get mad at Uzi.
Uzi's current state was already that of a depressed person who looks like they've gone through way too much .
'You poor woman.. Where have you gone these past few years to look like.. This..? '
She swallowed heavily, she needed to go help J, but one question wouldn't hurt.
"What.. The hell happened to you?" She said through immense hesitation, this wasn't the same angsty Uzi she remembered from years ago.
Uzi looked at her with her lifeless expression, and simply smiled painfully.
" Everything ." Was all Uzi said.
Meili's core twisted in pain. Good Lord, what has she gone through? That one word carried more meaning to it than just simply being an answer. She took a deep breath and brought a hum to her sword-like wings, preparing to fly off into J's aid.
But not before saying something.
"I don't know what you've been doing or what actually happened to you but, if I see you after this incident I WILL drag your purple ass back to V and your daughters." Meili declared.
Uzi froze at the mention of her daughters. She just stood there, guilt building up within her, before she gave out a pained smile, laced with regret.
She tried to stop the sudden gush of guilt from showing in her face, however, she failed horribly.
It looked like she was trying her best not to tear up.
Her mouth opened and closed repeatedly, as if trying to speak out something.
"A-Are they okay..? My baby girls..?" Her voice shook while asking.
Meili frowned, but answered anyway. "They're.. Fine, I would say 'see them for yourself' but.. I think you've.. Got any baggage with you." She didn't want to answer at all, but it looked like the woman in front of her was about to break down any time soon.
Uzi lowered her head, and nodded thankfully, her figure shook in pain, both physically and emotionally, she.. Could never hate herself enough leaving her daughters behind, even forgetting they existed was bad enough.
Uzi had gone catatonic and empty after N died, her depression was bad enough to forget she had daughters after drinking nonstop.
Hearing that they're fine.. Gave her unmeasurable relief.
While Uzi was having a brief moment of relaxation, Meili felt uncomfortably idle, she needed to go now, but she still needed questions damn it! Why is it always the important times where you have the least time to deal with things?!
"Uzi, since you're here, you're going to go back to them right..?" Meili said hopefully.
Uzi's expression worsened, digital tears now freely falling from her eyes.
" I-I can't.. There's.. Too much to do, I'm tired of all of it.. But I gotta do it anyway." She sobbed, clearly confirming that she had one hell of baggage to deal with.
Meili wanted to disagree, what could be more important than being with your daughters..?
Then she remembered, this was the same Worker Drone who had dealt with the Rogue DD War years ago, she was also dug into conspiracies and problems.
Whatever trouble she's currently in, it was not pretty.
It was evident that Uzi will not be staying for long in the Outpost, and she REALLY needed to go help her boss right now who might be dead because she was too busy talking with Uzi.
Before Meili could blast off, Uzi lifted her head up and looked at Meili with the same lifeless optics.
"Meili.. That thing you're about to fight, it has the ability to make itself completely invincible to damage for five seconds, you'll see it when light flickers inside its visor.. Use that chance to kill it once those seconds pass by." Uzi warned her, remembering her obvious previous encounter with Clawdreroff(The Mole Eldritch).
Meili blinked, she made sure to process what she said word for word and nodded before flying away with lightning speed. She needed to listen to Uzi's advice, if the one J was fighting was the same as the one she and Len fought on Outpost 3's inner gates then..
Her clenched fists tightened in nervousness.
This was going to be a difficult fight.
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J steadily crawled further away, the Eldritch had gone completely still while staring off into the distance. If she could only get to her soldiers who she regrettably ordered to stand-by, she somewhat pissed that her forces hasn't arrived, she didn't mean it as to have them killed by the Eldritch but rather the fact they haven't shown a single sign of showing up, didn't she just fire a cannon towards the sky a few minutes ago?
And where's Meili?!
THUD!
J froze fearfully when she felt the ground besides her shake, a low growl resounded above her head that caused her to stop her core.
Clawdreroff crouched above J, the eldritch had been angry something interrupted it's feast, when it tried to find where the interruption it was not able to find it, it's optical calibration was terrible after all.
But now seeing that there was nothing to stop it, the Eldritch looked down at J who had her back turned to the Eldritch hungerly..
Feast.. Or Mate..?
It reached out a hand and grabbed J by her wounded arm, causing her to try and squirm away in pain.
"L-Let go, you, corporateless toaster!"
Annoying the Eldritch, it grabbed her other arm and forcefully slammed her to the ground, causing her to face him.
J stared at him fearfully, where was Uzi?! There's no way she would save her just to leave her to die!
She froze when she saw the same elongated appendages that sprouted from its back trying down her legs together, or well, trying to as her other leg was gone.
It brought her high up, her waist just barely any above the Eldritch's own waist.
J immediately saw what It was trying to do.
"E-Ew! You bastard let go!"
Since Eldritches had animal traits to them, they didn't just Inherit animal parts or abilities, they also inherited the behavior of the animals they were based off of.
Before it could continue, an orange lightning speed blurred towards the Eldritch, a fist landed straight into the side of its face causing it to go flying multiple floors down in a crash.
The figure forcefully stopped her momentum by twirling her waist, canceling the speed they were going at. The figure who was Meili landed in a pose and flicked her long orange hair back.
"Sup, Mistress." She gave J a toothy grin, who groaned and rolled her eyes, she however returned with her own grin.
"You're too damn late, Employee."
Meili has joined the fight.
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This is fucking bullshit!
Len was currently sailing through the air like a majestic bird, and just like the majestic bird he is, he landed gracefully.
On his face.
"GRAH!" Len was tumbling across the metallic floor of Outpost 3, he immediately regained his footing after rolling on his feet.
Just like Meili, he was sporting multiple injuries across his body, it wasn't just inside Outpost Alpha that had an Eldritch problem, there was one here too, Eight different limbs crackled with lightning as the humanoid Eldritch he was fighting drew closer to him.
It wasn't looking good for him, Meili had to leave as reinforcement for Outpost Alpha, leaving him alone to deal with whatever the fuck he was fighting, he seriously regretted telling Meili ' Nah, I'd win ' in an attempt of looking cool.
They were currently at the inner gates of Outpost 3, between the second and the third door(Place where N Impaled Uzi years ago), The Spider-Eel looking bastard that was his opponent had suddenly appeared out of nowhere inside the park where most drones went to relax, they didn't know where it had come from but it had killed at least a dozen people, including children.
That infuriated him, to not only kill people.. But children as well!? He knew Eldritches were mindless Half-Machine Half-Flesh Abominations but this one looked like it was sentient, it was cackling while standing in a pile of corpses when they'd arrived.
He assumes this thing came together with the same Eldritch that was reported to be spreading chaos down at Outpost Alpha, if there were more of these things while the rest of the other DD Squads were outside... Then!
Len pushed himself forward, bringing out his swords to start the rumble with the creature again when it suddenly started moving its head frantically.
"Huh?!" He couldn't help but yell out in confusion when the Humanoid Eldritch suddenly started lashing around violently, it let out a chilling shriek before plunging itself onto the hole it came from with a burst of electricity flying everywhere, Len had to jump back to avoid the stream of electricity that had shot out from the Eldritch.
It was fortunate most of the WDF had already evacuated somewhere, because if some of the guards were still here they would have no doubt been fried to death, Len did not want to see his buddies get roasted like hell from pure electricity.
"W-What was that..?" He couldn't help but stummer out, seeing that he was safe for the time being, he let himself fall on his ass and let out a deep breath, "Damn it, that was too tough." He sighed.
"I should stop acting like an idiot, I'll get killed one of these days if I continue this." He jokingly laughed.
WIth that said.. Len couldn't help but frown in worry, what had caused the Eldritch to run off like a scared cat? And where was it going?
He needed to report this, but first, he needed a rest-
Oh sweet baby dreamland.
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Meili gently helped J up on her feet by slinging her arm on her shoulder, she couldn't hide her urge to flinch at J's current condition.
What the hell had she been fighting for her to end up like this? J was like, the strongest Disassembly Drone currently alive, not including the likes of N and Serial Designation A, both of which are long dead from one way or another.
If their boss wasn't able to handle it, what would she be able to do? V wasn't here, who was arguably the most skilled when it came to combat.
"Mistress, what do we do?" She asked J, J who was having trouble standing up on her remaining leg held on to her.
"I need a status report of the situation first.. And where the hell is the JSD..?" J said through pained groans, her injuries were starting to hurt more that she'd relaxed, all that adrenaline(Something that is somehow programmed to them), began to seep away now that Meili was here.
"Not good Mistress, the attack wasn't just here, there was also one up in the surface, Outpost 3."
She grimaced before continuing. "About the JSD.. The ones stationed outside the mall had all been injured Ma'am, most of them injured, the rest dead." Meili reported.
"W-What..!? How!? When and Why?!" J asked in multitudes of questions, that was ridiculous, it hadn't even been an hour, how would a quarter of her Security defense force be wiped out so easily?
Meili helped J walk towards a small Optic-Calibration Shop full of glasses made for Drones that had trouble seeing, she rested down J in one of the waiting stalls while keeping an eye out for the Scaley-Tanky Eldritch, her fist still burned with pain when she punched it.
"Because, it wasn't just two that had gotten inside both the Outposts, there were three." She put up a hand and counted up three fingers, "There's the one I was fighting alongside Len, then the one in here, and the other one outside who won't be a problem anymore. From the looks of it, we're dealing with three Humanoid Eldritches here Mistress."
"What? Where's the other one..? What do you mean it won't be a problem anymore? Did the Russian Ruskie deal with it?" J asked, bringing up her good hand to massage her terribly damaged shoulder.
Meili shook her head.
"Dead, bullet wound to the head. A certain purple deadbeat mother we know sniped it half a mile away." Meili clenched her teeth together just mentioning Uzi.
"So she really is alive.." J leaned her head to the wall, "Where is she now?"
"Don't know Mistress, looked like she was getting prepared to leave, I wanted to stop her but... I Had to get here as fast as i could or otherwise.. You'd be traumatized by now.." She put up a disgusted face, who the FUCK programmed drones to have private parts?(No seriously, Just why?)Drones reproduce by creating pill babies and sharing their code to it until it mentally grows before placing it into a new body, they didn't have a need for those 'things' other than for pleasure, it was a damn design-impracticality.
J's face also squinted in pure unadulterated disgust, she looked like she wanted to hurl, "Don't remind me, thanks for that honestly." She genuinely said with gratitude.
"Right, so what's the plan Mistress? It's obvious I can't do anything against what you were fighting." Meili asked, she was getting suspicious as to why the Eldritch hadn't jumped back to the floor they currently were on, that punch accelerated by her flight wouldn't have taken it out would it?
"Right, I can't fight in my current condition and my wings are all busted, what about Len? You said you left him to fight another humanoid Eldritch alone, Meili if Outpost 3 gets wiped because the two of you didn't.." J wondered what the hell happened to the boisterous Disassembler.
Meili's eyes darted back and forth, "Boss.. One of the main reasons I came here aside from your orders was to ask you for help.. I didn't really expect it to be THIS bad."
"Oh, Ohhh ... So you mean, Len could be dead and Outpost 3 could be wiped out by now..?" J asked slowly.
"Yeess..?" Meili wanted to make herself smaller, when you think about it, it was really stupid of her not to have completely killed the Eldritch on the surface, granted, they couldn't really do it on their own. "Well.. It's better that we finish the one in here so we can get back up sooner, right Mistress..?"
J gave her the flattest stare in drone history.
"Easier said than done-"
CRASH!
Before J could finish what she was saying, there was a loud explosion that had emitted outside the mall, followed by multiple gunshots ringing out.
J and Meili looked at one another, both of whom immediately knew what was up.
"Put me on your back!" J ordered.
"Didn't have to say it!" Meili hurriedly grabbed J and slung her on her back, before splitting open out her wings, careful not to hit J as they sprouted out.
Meili flew towards the same entrance she had gone through(Which was the broken glass wall, property damage! J will remember this one), giving her and J a proper look at what was going on.
Bullets were flying everywhere as the remaining combat ready JSD Members fired their guns towards the menace of an Eldritch. The Mole-Eldritch had someone on its mouth completely unaffected by the rain of bullets, chewing on their left stomach side.. Someone who was shrieking in agonizing pain, a very familiar person to J and Meili.
Red Lights appeared everywhere, covering multiple debris and sharp objects, anything that can be weaponized as the person who was being held by the left side of their stomach was slowly being toyed with by the Eldritch.
Doll.
" AAAAAAAAAAH! " Doll bit out, hurling everything at the Eldritch just to get him off of her, it clearly had the ability to bite through her with relative ease, but for some reason it was chewing on her like some kind of candy, the pain was too starting to become too much for her to handle.
She'd been sleeping peacefully when another Eldritch had appeared inside the crowd of JSD currently forming a line outside the Mall, it took out a good amount of them before it was put down by something, sniped by someone Doll guessed.
Then a few minutes later, the entrance of the mall suddenly exploded, again. Doll pushed Lizzy away when she heard something whirling towards her, the next thing she knew she was suddenly a chew toy for an Eldritch, the same a dog would chew on a toy.
" А-ага.. Сделай это.. Стоп ! (A-Agh.. Make it.. Stop!) " Where was J!? Don't tell her the Alcoholic bitch was killed by the very same bastard that was chewing on her!? The JSD was useless as well as their weaponry didn't do anything to it.
"Doll!" Lizzy screamed in worry from the side, she didn't know what to do other than stand like a damn normie, it pained her that she couldn't do anything, her knives(Given to her by V for self-defense) were back at home, and Thad wasn't here either!
Luckily for both the Queen bee and Russian Teacher, Meili struck down with a downward kick followed by J with a powered up laser cannon, both attacks hitting home, causing the Eldritch to bite deeper into Doll before spitting her away.
Meili immediately grabbed onto Doll's dress swiftly after landing and jumped away, with J switching her good arm for cannon, still slung onto Meili's back.
She fired the cannon point-black, creating a small gust of smoke as Meili jumped away with both J and Doll, the latter holding herself in pure agony.
And just as they expected, the Eldritch came out unharmed, it looked like the only damage it had gotten was from the shots Uzi fired, woulda been REAL helpful if she was still here.
"Doll!" Lizzy ran towards them but was swiftly stopped by Doll putting her hand up, motioning for her to stay where she was. The Russian woman desperately stood up with the support of her hands, before placing her left at her left side.. Her dress was currently stained with her Oil, which was already building up a small puddle before her.
"Russian Bitch, can you still fight!?" J yelled from Meili's back, the latter facing towards the Eldritch that had gotten out of the smoke.
Doll simply gave her answer in the form of the world's shakiest attempt at standing up.
"Д-Ты тоже выглядишь дерьмово.. (Y-You look shit as well..)" Doll stammered out, her vision was starting to fill up with Glitches, both from lack of Oil and her Injuries.
"Never thought i'd see you crying like a bitch." J teased despite the situation.
" Я мог бы сказать вам то же самое!(I could say the same to you!) " Doll retorted.
"W-What do you mean?" J did not expect that, surely Doll didn't hear her cries for help, the mall was at least 90 Meter away, not to mention it was on the third floor."
" Я слышал твои крики со всей дороги несколько минут назад, Корпоративная шлюха(I heard your cries from all the way here a few minutes ago, Corporate slut). " Doll smiled painfully, her injuries starting to take a toll on the worker drone, but at least, she wasn't clinging onto someone, Heh.
"Tch."
"This is really cute and all, but we still have something to worry about you two." Meili sounded off, catching her attention.
The Mole Eldritch was steadily approaching towards them, it opened its mouth covered in Oil, it wanted nothing more than to play with its prey right now.
"Ma'am!" A young JSD member called out from the sidelines, bringing J's attention to them. "Orders!" He screamed out, his comrades were currently in a disarray due to what had happened to them, from the looks of it, it wasn't just them having a bad time.
"Grab the civilians and get out of here! If possible, call for more help-" J said with uncertainty, there wasn't much people who could help them right now, V was outside in the surface looking for the Purple Gremlin who was INSIDE the damn Outpost, she wouldn't expect help from her anytime soon, Thad, someone she barely knew but was aware of being combat capable was also on Outpost 3, Likely evacuating the drones in there. Then an idea popped in her head, what if they used firepower instead of having more manpower..? "And find Luzi Doorman! She's my niece, tell her we need that weapon of hers!" She yelled out.
Since Uzi was likely gone somewhere at this point from the lack of gunshots, having her daughters help would be the next best thing.
Both were technical geniuses when it came to inventing things.
The young JSD Member gave her a confused look, Luzi Doorman was somewhat of a popular figure due to her relations and connections to J and V, but what would the rumored "Angsty Emotional Support Witch" do to help them..?
"B-But.."
Luckily, Ruther, who was gravely injured, spoke over him and slapped his back, causing the Young JSD Member to flinch.
"Just go! I'm sure you're aware of who she is, yes? Now go!" The captain drilled out like a sergeant into the JSD Member, who had run off as fast as he could to deliver the message and find Luzi Doorman.
In the frontline, Doll and Meili looked at J with questionable looks.
"What was that about..? Why call for N's daughter?" Meili asked, her eyes trained on the Eldritch.
" Я знал, что ты алкоголик, но еще и сторонник детского труда..?(I knew you were an alcoholic, but a supporter of child labor as well..?) " Doll scoffed in a mocking tone.
"Shut it! I'm not bringing her to fight, we just need that invention of hers!" J remarked, Doll's eyes widened after remembering that Luzi had built herself her own railgun, just like her mother once did.
The question was, was it finished..?
She didn't get the opportunity to ask when Clawdreroff had finally ran out of patience, it gave out a horrifying scream that shook them to their cores before getting down on all fours
It growled fiercely, like a feral animal preparing for a fight.
"Heads up, another round everyone." Meili warned, adjusting her footing together preparing for a fight.
J tightened her hold on Meili while Doll did the same as Meili, albeit sloppy because of her injuries.
The Mole Eldritch dug its limbs deep into the earth, flesh and metal bulging around its legs. The creature sprung forward with speed that would have put Meili to shame.
"Here it comes!" Meili screamed, bringing her claws out.
Doll levitated her remaining knives as well as a few sharp public obscurities and objects.
J sat like a baby with her cannon.
Once again, the Eldritch pounced like a hell hound out of nether.
Round Two had just started.
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