章 6: Whack-a-mole, or is it a mole...? (3 - Maidens in Battle)
I DO NOT OWN MURDER DRONES.
Chapters 6 - 12 will be released tomorrow as I have to transfer my other fics as well.
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Chapter 6 : Whack-a-mole, or is it a mole...? (3 - Maidens in Battle)
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It all happened too fast for Doll's taste.
Today was literally a day off and she needed to relax from the constant headaches that were teenagers.
She'd been enjoying it with Lizzy, turns out both of them needed the well deserved relaxation, adulthood can be a piece shit, jobs were worse.
It all went falling down the drain when that shit bastard appeared out of nowhere and started munching on people in one bite.
She jumped back to where the borders of Security tapes had been and crouched down.
The JSD Members and WDF were shocked from her sudden appearance, Doll ignored them and gently held the small child in her arms.
She turned to the mother who was still trying to get past the second border of security tapes.
The child in her arms finally stopped shaking when she saw her mother.
Doll softly put down the droneling and nodded for her to go run at her mother.
"Mommy!" The droneling called out
"My baby girl!"
The WDF members holding her back finally let go when they saw her child, they looked to Doll who had a hand on her waist.
"Thank you! Thank you so much!" The thankful mother said.
"Thank you miss!" The young droneling waved.
Doll didn't say anything but nodded anyway, she turned back and walked towards the first border where a JSD Member walked up to her, presumably a Captain from his outfit.
"You! I'll admit that was really nice of you, but drones don't exactly just have the ability to jump multiple meters back into the skies and land like it's nothing. Who are you? What was that red light on your hand?" The Captain questioned, now that Doll looked at them, a few JSD members had their guns trained on her.
"Я бы посоветовал вашим людям успокоиться. Капитан, я учитель в средней школе в восточном крыле города.
Если этого недостаточно, спроси обо мне своего начальника. (I'd suggest telling your men to calm down Captain, I'm a teacher at the highschool on the East wing of the city.
If that's not enough, ask your boss about me. )"
Was all Doll said before she sat down on a nearby stair, she was panting lightly to a degree.
The Captain wanted to question her more but he did see their CEO acknowledge this woman before she jumped here.
He'll just ask Ms. J later, for now, it might be better to call for some medic to help her.
Because good god, now that he had a better look at her, she was undeniably messed up,
He could make out a faint imprint of a fist in her stomach, sheesh.
He walked off and waited for the Medic Squad, they were in a hurry so they didn't have first-aid with them.
Doll tried to stabilize her breathing, which was barely working, she overexerted herself in that fight, her body wasn't handling the drawbacks of using her powers recklessly.
Not to mention her injuries...
She held a hand on her stomach, the phantom pain of a fist punching her was still there.
She could vaguely feel some of her oil spilling out from her injuries.
Her mind went back to the fight, something had been off she couldn't tell what, but it seemed wrong.
She didn't even get to test out that little theory of hers.. Maybe she should have told J about it before hand.
...
Doll was sitting in a restaurant with Lizzy, the both of them enjoying their rare free time together.
The mall was reasonably loud because of the amount of people in here, the restaurant they were currently eating at was on the third floor.
The Mall had about five floors, pretty huge too, thanks to J's doing. Currency among them was a thing now, mostly just to buy accessories, furniture, household needs or food. Of course normal refined oil was still free for several reasons, otherwise there would have been a coup d'etat against J if it was.
Doll had been quietly eating her bag of oversized batteries when Lizzy suddenly said something.. Very in character for her.
"So Doll, found anyone you're interested in yet?" Lizzy asked her while she was drinking her smoothie(again, it's oil.)
" Лиззи, пожалуйста, перестань спрашивать меня об этом каждый раз, когда мы тусуемся..?(Lizzy, will you please stop trying to ask me that everytime we hang out..?) "
Doll begged her friend to stop asking questions like these, she wasn't really in the mood for them, like, ever.
Lizzy stared at her for a few seconds and went back to drinking her smoothie, but not before saying "You're right."
Doll was actually shocked her best friend gave up that easily, usually she would be persistent and keep asking her about findin-
"You already have me and Thad, why find someone? Sheesh, that'd be lame." Lizzy said, completely ignoring Doll's incredulous reaction.
Doll couldn't help but groan in annoyance, she slammed her head lightly on the table, she would have said something about this turning into a routine for them everytime they hanged out.
If not for the fact there had suddenly been pained screams of people dying floors below where they were.
Lizzy and Doll immediately perked up and looked at each other, they nodded to one another and ran to where they could see the view from below.
What they saw below sent shivers to their cores, there was a literal bloodbath below, people running in all directions just to get away from something
Doll's first guess was an Eldritch, second was a rogue Disassembler that had somehow gotten in.
She wasn't exactly sure what was worse, both were something she can barely handle nowadays,
Doll saw a group of children running away and frowned. "Tch, if this goes on..." Doll's voice was laced with anger.
Everything was already peaceful, she didn't need another massacre happening in HER Outpost.
"Lizzy, grab and evacuate everyone you can find and get out of here" Doll said in English with a Russian accent, she removed her small bag from her shoulders and dropped it on top of the table.
"What? What about you, what are you going to do?" Lizzy questioned Doll.
" Разве это не очевидно? Мне холодно, но недостаточно холодно, чтобы позволить людям умереть.(Isn't it Obvious? I'm cold, but not cold enough to let people die.) " Doll answered her as if stating the obvious.
Sure, Doll killed a bunch of people back then but that was for necessity, if possible, she didn't even want to kill anyone.
" Внизу будет беспорядок, постарайтесь не подходить близко.(It's going to get messy downstairs, make sure not to get close.) " Doll then vaulted off the railings and jumped from the 3rd floor.
"Make sure you do it while being hot!" Lizzy just had to say a line before she ran off to evacuate people.
Doll used her powers to slow her fall, she'd never really questioned much of what was this power she currently possess, however she did know that it was not connected to the [ABSOLUTESOLVER] , she didn't feel any connection to it after all.
Or she could be wrong, but that's yet to be seen.
She landed gracefully on top of a table, one leg in front.
She finally got a good look at what was making a mess.
This thing is.. Uncanny, what was it?
It was a little taller than N, it was obviously an Eldritch but it was too small to be one, not to mention those animal traits it has seems to be way too clean.
Not marred by the disfigurition of metal and flesh fusing together, in fact. Doll could bet those arms packed actual muscle tissues instead of machinery.
If this was indeed an Eldritch, she wasn't sure what class it would be.
Doll didn't really have time to analyze her enemy and ponder what to do when saw this thing walking towards a small girl.
'No time to think.' Doll bursted into action, pulling out multiple knives from her pouch.
She used her powers to levitate the knives and make them rotate repeatedly, building up energy and speed until it became a drill-like object spinning at high-speed.
'Go.' She let loose of her knives, one of the knives completely punches through a hole in its shoulder, causing the Eldritch to turn its attention to her and away from the young drone it was about to devour.
Since the first knife pierces through the Eldritch like a pellet going through bubbles, it should be the same for all the other knives that were aimed at it right?
Apparently not, Doll didn't see all of it, but for a short glimpse she could almost see light from the Eldritch's dark visor, only for an instant though. What surprised Doll was that in the same instant, the Eldritch became fully impenetrable to her knives.
Her knives all rained down on it like a bullet storm, but instead of killing the Eldritch they simply bounced off.
"Nn.. " Doll grunted. What was that?
Unfortunately before she could process what she saw, Clawdreroff jumped at her with agility that could give V a run for her money.
Doll weaved to the right just in time to dodge the attack that would have erased her like a bug, it's enlarged arm and claws were probably more than enough to stab a DD, she didn't want that.
Doll performed a backflip to gain some distance away from the Eldritch, which didn't do much as it immediately followed up another attack.
'Close-Quarters?!' Doll couldn't handle close combat that well, she was more built for ranged attacks. If this thing's aim is to force her to close quarters then she'll just have to keep distance.
Doll dodged another strike that would have killed her, she hopped half a meter into the air and dropped kick the Eldritch, using it as a foothold and pushing herself away.
She took another knife from her pouch and began to rotate it once more.
The Eldritch reappeared in front of her with a blitz of speed, catching her off guard for a few seconds before she used her powers to slow down it's strike, the red light enveloped the Eldritch for a mere instant allowing Doll to move her shoulder to the left.
The Attack missed again and Doll countered back with another projectile, the spinning knife punching through air like a bullet.
THUM!
The knife that should have killed it simply bounced off again, leaving sparks and pushing its head slightly to the right.
Again, just like before, Doll saw a flicker of light from its visor just for an instant.
This Eldritch was REALLY off.
Doll continued to dance through the Eldritch's attack as if she was waltzing around, combat experience from years ago were really helping her.
But it wouldn't be enough if she didn't finish this thing, she's starting to get tired from using her powers.
Her foot tapped continuously as she dodged another strike, this time it was a huge haymaker.
The Eldritch lost its balance for a mere moment from the amount of power it put into its punch, a moment of weakness that Doll used to grab another knife from her pouch and slammed it into its face.
Just like before, there was another flicker of light.
Doll's only eye squinted.
Ah, so that's how it is.
She now had an idea of what was happening and only needed to put it into test.
When her knife slammed into its face, her knife simply bent like a straw, she'd have to figure out a way soon.
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However her plan didn't last long when it let out a gigantic screech, nearly breaking her audio receptors.
Pain coursed through Doll's entire body, she withered in pain from the sheer volume of its scream.
T-That scream wasn't normal! Just because something was too loud doesn't mean it should affect drones in any way!
"Ugh.!" She fell onto her knees grasping at where her ears would be if they had one.
While she was in a pain induced state, she saw a shadow looming above her.
Her eye widened, she pushed herself to the side before a giant claw slashed through the tile floor of the mall, leaving a small crater.
She rolled around and faced the Eldritch, she was expecting another follow up from the Eldritch, but what she didn't expect was for it to walk towards the little girl who was paralyzed from its scream.
'Shit! I forgot about the kid!' She willed herself to stand up and started running towards the eldritch, she started pulling the last knives she currently had and started spinning them.
Clawdreroff continued towards the young girl and opened its mouth. Sounds of metal clashing on one another when it's entire lower jaw unhinged itself as it opened its maw full of teeth.
'Not on my watch!' Doll used her powers to break the floor above the Eldritch while pulling the girl away.
The Eldritch looked up to see and meet its new friend, a part of the malls second floor directly above it
It gave out a shriek before the huge debris fell on it.
CRASH!
Doll used both of her hands to pull another wave of debris and launched it at where the Eldritch used to be.
Doll panted heavily from the exhaustion, the young girl was behind her still sprawled on the floor,
Lifting that much weight was something she'd never done before, and BOY, is it tiring.
" Huff...Huff..Ну и как насчет тренировки?(So, how's that for a workout?)" She mused to herself, still tired from the exhaustion.
She didn't even get to test out her little theory on how that Eldritch was so strong, but it was better this way than having to deal with it, damn..
Doll thought it was over and was about to sit down on the floor when the ground suddenly shook,
Her only eye widened from the shaking, she grit her teeth in annoyance.
'Cyka-Fucking-Blyat, this thing is too persistent!' Doll screamed inwardly
Fine! This thing wants to be stubborn? She'll play its game.
Doll turned her head over her shoulder and saw that the child was starting to wake up, she grabbed the small one and kept a tight hold.
"W-Whaa?" The young girl stuttered over her words, she looked up and faced Doll's annoyed expression, she was about to cry when Doll gently patted her head.
Doll didn't waste any time and warned the little girl, " Малыш, все время, пока я держу тебя, я не хочу, чтобы ты сжимал меня как можно крепче.(Little one, for the entirety of the time I hold you, I want you to grab as TIGHT as you can to me.) "
The young girl looked confused and looked to see that the fallen debris of the second floor was starting to rise up, something was lifting it .
"Can you promise me that..? I promise I'll help you get out of here." Doll gently comforted her before she could panic, she didn't speak in Russian this time so the little girl wouldn't waste her already fatigued processors just to translate her Russian.
The droneling could only nod weakly before she held onto Doll's neck as tight as he could.
" Хорошая девочка(Good girl.) "
Doll was already preparing herself, both physically and mentally for the second round, expecting for attacks to come at her.
What she didn't expect was the entire debris that she used to crush the Eldritch to be lifted up and be THROWN at her
She quickly spun to the side, using her powers to increase the distance between her and the large debris.
CRASH!
The thrown projectile that used to be a part of the 2nd floor crashed somewhere inside the mall. Doll didn't bother looking at where it landed because she had to dodge an upwards swipe, she leaned back her head as far as she could and backflipped away. Feeling something REALLY wrong she grabbed one of the remaining knives she had from her pouch and positioned it slightly just below to the right side of her stomach.
She was REALLY glad that drones could also experience growth and other things, such as combat experience and combat intuition.
Because the moment she did, a leg slammed onto the knife, completely snapping it, the leg swipe persisted and rammed into the right side of her stomach.
C-CRACK!
She was launched towards a household appliances shop, she quickly covered the young girl with her body and crashed through the window glass of the shop.
"A-Ack." She couldn't help but gawk in pain.. That sound she heard, was that the sound of her torso cracking from the force of the kick?
She coughed out some oil and shakily stood up, she inspected the girl in her arms and was glad that she didn't receive any sort of damage, the young girl had her eyes closed, so that was good.
Seeing that the girl was fine, she inspected her own injury and saw the imprint of a literal leg in the side of her stomach, the right side of her dress also completely ruined, showing bare to the incredibly damaged and cracked side of her stomach, she could even see slightly see her literally INNARDS from here.
So that's why she felt incredibly dizzy, she would have liked to rest then and there if not for the silhouette of a fist coming towards her.
Doll ducked as fast as her damaged body could, she could feel wires inside her body snapping from the sudden movements.
'G-Ghh..!?' Okay, she wasn't going to lie, that was PAINFUL.
Ever since the disappearance of the solver, her pain tolerance was lowered, the solver provided its users with some slight pain tolerance from any foreign attacks that came at them.
Now that it was gone, she felt pain any average drone would with the average pain tolerance..
Why were they programmed to have nociceptors?! They couldn't at least have given them some installed pain inhibitors?
She rolled away from the punch that would have killed her, the Eldritch missed and obviously slammed deeper into the Appliance store from the speed it was going.
Doll took this opportunity to run outside the store while it was busy being an idiot.
Seriously, what was this thing? It matched V's speed and N's strength, it was also seemingly impervious to damage.
She would love nothing more to try and see if her theory about it's invincibility, here and now but, her injuries would love to say something else.
The Appliance store exploded into a burst of dust and small debris as Clawdreroff pounced on her, Doll attempted to dance between its attacks like what she did beforehand, however the painful sensation that was in her side was TOO DISTRACTING!
She used her powers to levitate a small steel beam that could pass off for a stop sign's body and used it to deflect the Eldritch's attacks, which obviously didn't work since she was a ranged fighter. Not a close combatant.
Doll wondered how Uzi was able to fight toe-to-toe with Disassembly drones years ago when the war with the rogue disassemblers happened, Uzi had been nothing more than a normal worker drone now that the solver was gone. She didn't particularly do close quarter combats with them, she preferred to use an array of guns that she'd somehow gotten from somewhere, but whenever a disassembler got close to her, she would usually user her gun as a melee and get away from her enemies while she waits for N or V to help her.
That purple idiot would have been helpful in this fight, but she's probably dead somewhere.
The improv weapon Doll was using was instantly slapped away from her hands before another fist went flying at her. She thought fast and used another steel beam to block the punch.
It didn't do her any favors, the punch created a huge dent in the steel beam and the punch still landed on her stomach.
The front of her stomach this time around.
CCCRAAAACKKK!
"G-GAH!?!" She was in a world of pain for an instant. I-If she hadn't used that steel beam that attack wiould have punched through her!
Instead of just hearing something break, she felt it.
The punch blew her away again, she was ragdolled across the mall from one sector to another, when she finally stopped she was sprawled on all three.
She couldn't feel anything, Blyat! W-When is the help going to come? She's being slaughtered here damn it.
Fortunately, the little girl in her arms wasn't hit, but she was sure a small bit of the force of that punch traveled to the girl..
She slowly stood up, her legs already shaking.
Doll knew that one more hit would kill her, nevermind trying to get rid of this thing, she needed to get out of here now.
She would REALLY love to use her teleportation, but even that was gone now alongside the Solver.
Luckily for her, her back was turned to only a hundred meters away from one of the exits of the mall.
All she needed to do now was somehow get out of here, which was easier said than done.
Clawdreroff roared at her, it immediately started running towards her with haste.
From what Doll had observed, this thing clearly favored punching its prey to oblivion, yes, she could tell what it was going to do now.
She'll use that as her ticket out of here.
True to her thoughts, the Eldritch started running faster and wound up another punch.
When she saw it was close enough, she stomped on the ground and used every last bit of her strength to lift the ground in front of her to make a barrier, consequences be damned!
She covered the little girl with her body and turned, hoping for her little plan to work.
BAM!
The Eldritch punched the impromptu barrier and caused Doll to go flying, debris was also sent flying everywhere, completely destroying the entrance of the mall.
Doll was spinning in the air, her mind barely able to comprehend what was happening from the exhaustion, she felt herself slipping away from consciousness, but she endured anyways.
While she was spinning in the air like a ragdoll, she saw a glimpse of a certain ponytailed Workaholic/Alcoholic, heh.
Normally she'd scoff at her but, her arrival was really appreciated.
Doll performed her cheerleader acrobatics and landed on her feets, her boots leaving trails of sparks from the friction.
She stopped next to J and told her " Я оставляю все тебе(I leave things to you) "
Before she willed the last remaining bits of her strength to jump away with the child.
...
She stopped replaying that memory and laid a hand on her bleeding stomach.
Doll was really struggling not to lose consciousness right here, that stunt she pulled to get out of the mall took nearly everything out of her, and those hits she took-
What the..?
Ah? Oh, she was falling.
She was about to face plant to the ground if not for someone catching her. Who..?
She saw the glimpse of a blonde haired girl who was smiling at her gently, Ah. So Lizzy was safe, then.. That's good... ' She won't mind if I fall asleep for a few minutes right..? '
"Idiot, I can tell what you're thinking... Rest now my little Russian witch.
Just let those morons handle things from here." Lizzy softly said to Doll and laid her head in her lap.
There was something wrong here.
There was something REALLY wrong here, she couldn't tell why, but it felt like a 'gut feeling'.
12 minutes had already passed since her fight with this thing started, at first it was going smoothly. The idiotic fool of a monster struggled to fight with a superior opponent like her, its movements were sloppy and it had no technique.
J ducked under a swipe and brought her sword towards its face, the Eldritch simply took it as a few sparks appeared from being scratched, She scoffed and Implanted her fist in its face after she switched out her swords.
Causing it to stumble away from the force of her punch, J followed up by kicking on the ground and landing multiple jabs at once, each of her punches putting dents on its face.
It tried to pry her off by hammering both its arms on the ground, the motion caused the ground below them to form web-like cracks, J simply gave it a spin kick to the face, the kick had so much momentum it blew its head back.
J landed as fast as she could and switched to her claws, she sent a flurry of slashes towards its chest while it was stunned.
The Eldritch, starting to get pissed off by J's assault of attacks, threw a blind swipe of its claws to which she simply spun around and sent another kick to its face.
J Implanted her foot on its chest and grabbed it by the horns, she then KNEE'd Clawdreroff as hard as she could.
All of this happened in a quick succession.
There was still this feeling of dread she couldn't shake off, she was completely dominating It, so she didn't understand why .
J used her tail to stab it multiple times, ensuring that the Nanite acid should spread soon, but from experience she knew Eldritches took a long time to die from Nanite acid.
So she switched out her hands for guns and fired relentlessly point blank at its chest.
And for the final touch-up! She changed her right arm to a cannon and fired a rocket towards it.
The explosion created a black smoke that covered the Eldritch entirely, J grinned knowing she's won the fight.
However her smug look disappeared almost immediately, her assault didn't last long as it quickly recovered.
J's eyes narrowed in suspicion, she tilted her head just to barely avoid a claw that would have likely beheaded her.
Right now she was fighting this thing in close quarters since ranged weaponry doesn't seem to work on it a few minutes ago.
She thought she softened it enough for ranged weaponry to work, apparently it wasn't enough, she brought back her sword.
She posed her sword high and brought it down, or what she would have done if she didn't twist her body to dodge another elongated claw.
She spun vertically in the air like a torpedo and lashed out with her leg, attempting to land a flip kick at the damnable eldritch she was fighting.
Clawdreroff raised its arm covered by thick layers of flesh and thick hide to block the kick.
SLAM!
The kick landed on its arm, the floor beneath Clawdreroff crumbled into web-like cracks.
J's kick accelerated by the momentum of her spinning had landed, despite the power behind it, the eldritch did not flinch even a single bit.
'What's going on here..? All those attacks and.. There's not even a single dent or any form of damage being shown, did it heal?' '
Had she been the average Disassembly Drone, she would have bought it off as the enemy being formidable.
But that was the thing, she wasn't the usual Disassembly Drone.
She was a Mark III Disassembly Drone, a model higher than N and V who were both Mark II's, the three of them were the only ones to have been gifted with these upgrades. Courtesy of Tessa after the war with the rogue Disassembly Drones ended, even if N was still stronger than her despite being a level inferior to her, she was still capable enough to be a powerful fighter.
Her little squad was stronger than any Disassembly Drone individually, and that made her happy, so why.
Why was this thing keeping up with her, why did it not take damage?
She could understand if it was a High-class Eldritch since even those gave V a run of her money, that included J.
But this wasn't a High-class category, they were huge and had troublesome abilities such as holograms.
This thing.. Was too small to be a High-class, the meeting she had a few days ago with her research team concluded that the humanoid Eldritch might be the first Special-class Eldritch.
They'd simply written that conclusion off later on, since the stronger the Eldritch the bigger they were.
Could have they been wrong about this? J knew that this was probably the Humanoid Eldritch her expedition team had found out days prior.
J snapped out of her thoughts and focused on the fight, she landed perfectly and went for a low kick to sweep it off right where it stood, dodging a claw that went for her head again.
Her leg sweeped landed and she gave out a friend, expecting the thing to fall off its legs and fall on its back..
What she didn't expect was for it to stand completely still, unaffected.
Before she could properly stand back up and jump away for distance, its long clawed arm stabbed onto her thigh bringing a shriek from her, Clawdreroff then dug deeper into her leg and swung her around like a towel and threw her to a nearby accessory store.
J impacted through the shop, she was dizzy from just the force she was thrown at, this thing.. It's not normal .
She forcibly pushed herself off the ground and stood up, her injured leg barely usable from the damage it had taken.
Okay! She might have been a little cocky and condescending about this fight.
"I take back what I said, I need Meili for this." She groaned, being unable to regenerate anymore was a damn hassle it wasn't even funny.
She heard the slight noise of something whistling towards her, she barely had the time to raise her swords and block the attack that would have killed her.
THUNG!
J's servos screamed in pain as Clawdreroff pushed towards her with its claws, her swords managing to bring a stalemate to them, but it wouldn't last long. The Eldritch was using its height and weight advantage over J.
J brought out her wings and lunged at the Eldritch, the sharp edges blades of the wings stabbing it in its chest.
Just like before, the attack failed to damage the Eldritch.
She figured it out now, it wasn't that it was healing.
It was just Invincible to damage.
But.. HOW?!
"W-What the hell is going on here..?!" J complained in frustration out of her enemies seemingly inability to be damaged.
Her mind processed all of these and thought of every possible way she could get out of this stalemate they were at, she heard the vague sounds of something.. Fleshy?
It sounded like something trying to burst through out of a prison made out of prison, the closest thing she could think off was those chest-bursting aliens from that one Movie she watched with the Doorman family(Including V and Tessa)
Wait..
Before she could process her thoughts further, the sound of flesh being ripped apart exploded and something bursted out of the Eldritches lower arms and took hold of her wings.
T-This thing!
It grew another set of arms!
J couldn't escape from the deadly grip it had over her wings and was promptly pushed over to the Eldritch when it pulled her wings in.
It wound back one of its arms and let loose, perfectly landing a lunch to the side of J's face, punching her out of the accessory store.
BANG!
Her face and visor made the sound of something cracking and breaking .
Her inner system was immediately racked from the force, nearly knocking her out, she was blown away from the force of the punch causing her to stumble across the Mall.
"A-Ack.." She stammered in pain, she took in a few hard labored breaths and pushed herself up to sit, the right side of her face was completely shattered, leaving her visor one remaining eye, she tried to switch out her vision with her five glowings eyes on her headband, but that barely did her any favors as all of them were also glitching out from the damage she took.
'T-This... Is not how I expected things to go, my foolish egotistical idiocy, how many times have I made this same mistake over the years?' From the purple little shit's railgun blasting her to bits, harming Uzi and pissing off N, her actual second death in the hands of multiple rogue Disassemblers.
And now her fight with this thing, she completely underestimated it thinking it was an easy picking, she saw Doll fight this thing and thought it was an easy fight, because, well.
Doll wasn't really much of a threat anymore, despite the woman's strange rip-off of the [ABSOLUTESOLVER]'s main power, it wasn't really that strong, all Doll could do nowadays is just to levitate things.
No teleportation, duplication or intangibility.
That's why she thought it was a weak opponent, she completely underestimated it and is now paying the consequences.
Yeah, no.
She didn't change for the better only for her to go back and be a condescending bitch in battles.
Righting herself despite her intense dizzyness and stumbling movements, she stood up on her legs and brought out her swords again.
'If you can't beat your opponent head on, find a weakness, analyze them, take advantage of that weakness and win!'
She put her processing unit to work, every single last bit of her energy went into analyzing her enemy.
'Let's pick off the enemies cards the same way you analyze rival companies on a business run.' J put a hand on her chin and observed the Eldritch who was slowly power walking towards her, it was obviously playing with her judging by the fact it was walking nonchalantly.
'First off, this thing is obviously a power type enemy who relied on sheer tenacity and strength only, the same as N. It was able to show a form of adaptation when it saw it couldn't match me in speed, so it decided to switch from punching me to grabbing me instead.' It also shows that it has a sentience and ability to think to a degree.
'Then there's the troublesome ability of it to seemingly grow limbs, lastly was its strange appearance.
The hide of its skin was slightly marred, Thick layers of its hide made it difficult to fight. The arms were obviously those of a mole from how long its claws were, legs of digitigrade, head of a worker drone..? No, its shape looked too similar to one, if not for the fact its jaws were covering half its face, the backward horn and its scales..'
There was also something that J had noticed during her short clash with this thing , everytime she would land a decisive blow there would be a flicker of light in it's broken visors, it was instantaneous so it was difficult to notice if you weren't paying attention.
What was that light? Was it simply the light bouncing off on its visor or..? Maybe it's something else.
J's analysis was quickly cut off when she saw the Eldritch dig its digitigrade foot on the floor, it crouched for a second before rocketing towards her.
' Fast! ' J jumped to the side to avoid being hit, unfortunately for her, It grabbed onto her leg and swung her back to the ground, creating a huge crater from the force.
"GAH!" She screamed in pain, this was worse than being punched.
Clawdreroff lifted its leg and attempted to crush J's face, J dodged and rolled away from the stomp.
The Eldritch saw this and continued stomping down on where J's head would be while she rolled away from danger, eventually she managed to plant her hand on the floor and perform a flip to gain distance, but before she could even land on her legs, the Eldritch was already rushing towards her.
J didn't have the time to think of anything else other than block, which didn't do much as it tackled her like a football player.
"AAAAAAH!" J was screaming in pain, this.. Was like when she pissed off N, this thing was quite literally toying with her.
The tackle would have sent J flying away if not for the Monstrous Berserker grabbing her tail before she could be blown away, apparently it enjoyed swinging her like ball attached to a thread because right now she was currently being toyed with.
The Eldritch briefly let go of her tail and switched to her leg instead, its titanic grip tightened breaking J's leg beyond help. She shrieked in pain as she could still feel it, before she could even try to take a breath, it slammed her down onto the ground over and over like a child throwing a tantrum with a pillow.
"G-GAH!" J was repeatedly being swung like mallet, she could feel herself dying from this, had she been a model inferior to Mark III, she would have been destroyed, it was only thanks to the fact that she was more durable than any Murder drone(with the exception of N) that she's still alive, but didn't mean she couldn't feel pain!
She could feel her arms breaking from shielding her face, J could tell that her left leg had already gone FUBAR(Fucked up Beyond All Recognition)
The torture only ended when her leg finally snapped, completely sending her flying towards a random direction.
She was sent flying upwards by the momentum of her being slammed up and down, she landed somewhere at the third floor of the mall completely and utterly damaged, you could barely recognize a few parts of her if you were far enough, the damage she'd received would take weeks if not months to fix, worse of all she didn't have her regeneration anymore.
Her hair was untangled from its ponytail, her upper body was torn apart to an extent while her arms were completely busted, her right leg was miraculously undamaged, the same cannot be said for her left leg which was somewhere at the first floor.
J's biggest mistake in this fight was letting it last long, Clawdreroff, the Eldritch. Had grown accustomed to faster and smaller opponents, it saw how its enemies would simply dance away or dodge from its attacks. It grew annoyed from their constant quick movements.
Until it learned how to properly be on the offensive, It was how it managed to get the upperhand on Doll, now it's doing the same thing with J who didn't expect it to grab her the moment she dodged to the side.
"H-Ha.. S-Screw this.." J lifted her right arm, it took every ounce of her remaining strength just to lift it, she knew what happens if someone dies to an Eldritch, they completely disappear.
N was proof of that, if not Tessa would have cloned him ages ago and everyone would have been fine for the most part, Uzi wouldn't have left and they would have more of their fighters and friends alive.
When N was killed by an Eldritch, what made 'N', his personality, his kindness, every memory, what made him himself, was erased from existence, if Tessa made a clone for N, It wouldn't have been him, that clone would be a different person with N's appearance regardless of the programming.
N, as a whole and as person, was completely erased when he was killed by one of these things,
Tessa was the one to have said it, at first they didn't believe her, that was until they saw it for themselves, she did have a clone ready for N, but when the transfer happened, the body did not turn on.
When it did... It wasn't him anymore, he didn't know them, his connections, his relationships,
The clone's personality was the same, but... It WASN'T HIM .
The same N they've been with since their time at the mansion was effectively gone from the world.
These Eldritches could somehow erase someone completely from existence.
And now the same fate might await her in here if she didn't do anything, J tried to change her hands for something, something that could call for help.
She'd been cocky as always, now it came to bite her in the ass, but she'll be damned if she didn't do anything about it!
"I-I... RE-REFUSE TO DIE HERE!" J screamed out as loud as she could, it was stupid stunt as it would simply make the Eldritch come to her.
Finally, after a few struggles, her arm changed to that of a cannon.
She aimed it towards the window-charted ceiling of the Mall and fired it, the rocket wiggled abit due to the lack of momentum and power behind it, but it still flew. It crashed through the window catching the attention of the Eldritch floors below.
BOOM!
The rocket exploded once it reached its limit after breaking through the glass-pinted ceiling, J could only close her eyes as she hoped for help..
They'll come for her right? She did tell Ruther to call for Meili.. Surely she'll come to her aid, right..?
...
Right...?
BAM!
J's core froze, her expression slowly creeping out into fear and despair.
Something heavy slammed on the third floor, J recognized that sound, a heavy growl came from the Monster as it walked towards her, she didn't need to turn her head to see who it was.
Please..! She's changed! She still has a promise to him damn it, Not like this..
Not like this..
The heavy footsteps came closer by the second, J could already see the towering shadow of a figure from her peripheral vision, she could hear the sounds of something tearing through flesh again, several spiked limbs sprouted from it's back, it's mouth widened by the second as it prepared for a worthy meal.
No..
No...
NO..!
SOMEONE HELP HER! PLEASE!
J couldn't scream even if she wanted to, she already used up the last of her strength on that one last rocket she fired.
It lifted her by her arms and forced it to stretch. The sharp spiked appendages digging into her arms, she came face-to-face with the Eldritch, her face filled with fear.
One would have thought this was something out of a perverted show but, it was nothing like that, Its jaw opened wide, unhinging beyond what it should normally be.
She was tearing up by this point, she normally wouldn't have been pathetic, but she made a promise to N and she can't even keep it?!
Please! PLEASE!
...
But no one came.
J could only watch as her doom came.
Death's jaw came closer to her face, Its towering form spreading its shadow over her.
Someone.. Help?
"Please..?"
..
"H-Help me..?" She pleaded again, but no one came.
Its Jaw closed like a hydraulic press-
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..
...
The sounds of something breaking through glass echoed through the Mall.
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