I fought through the fear coursing through my brain long enough to trigger the Energy Absorption function. The effect spun out, shaking the massive Rikti pod,
and power flooded back into the cells of my suit armor. I took advantage of the interruption to deliver a one-two combo, knocking the Rider known as Famine
back and out of skew. The pod rattled as my taser dart slammed into it, just below the pod, but didn't cease it's inexorable rotation to face me, and
the fear clenched me again.
Even through the fear I felt a spike of terror as another Rider became visible in my peripheral vision. I felt my heartrate spiking, then dropping back to
normal, and my mind cleared. I started flipping armor functions back online, drawing strength from Inspirations I'd acquired earlier, and glanced down
after a resumed one-two combo.
A sigh of relief escaped me as I saw the black pool of mobile shadow around my feet, and the normally-irritating sensation of being tickled by a velvet octopus
through my armor didn't even faze me. Hexane was back and on the job! The renewed clarity of mind provided by Hex's Shadow Fall allowed me to spare
some attention for the additional Rider I had noticed mere moments before, and I grinned like a shark as it cruised in to attack Famine.
We'd been hit hard on the initial opener of this fight, but now with Amberlee back in action as well, we were at 100% - or better, given that she'd
somehow managed to confuse one of the Riders! I triggered Frost and blasted Famine with a cone of intense cold, slowing his attacks and scaling his armor with
a blast of superhard ice crystals. I threw back my head and laughed in Famine's face as two familiar forms came into view behind him, Gen stooping in like
a hawk, blades out and screaming, Terrence abandoning all subtlety to come in fists first at head level, slamming into the confused Rider with a thunderous
crash.
A pair of firey wings exploding from his huddled form announced the return of Frenetic, and he came out of the Rise of the Phoenix with his fists clenched and
fire already collecting around them.
Seconds later, it was over, and the Rikti Riders had fallen. Victorious, we boisterously cleared out of the rough caves, hot on the trail of some captured
psychics.
Just another day on the job.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
and power flooded back into the cells of my suit armor. I took advantage of the interruption to deliver a one-two combo, knocking the Rider known as Famine
back and out of skew. The pod rattled as my taser dart slammed into it, just below the pod, but didn't cease it's inexorable rotation to face me, and
the fear clenched me again.
Even through the fear I felt a spike of terror as another Rider became visible in my peripheral vision. I felt my heartrate spiking, then dropping back to
normal, and my mind cleared. I started flipping armor functions back online, drawing strength from Inspirations I'd acquired earlier, and glanced down
after a resumed one-two combo.
A sigh of relief escaped me as I saw the black pool of mobile shadow around my feet, and the normally-irritating sensation of being tickled by a velvet octopus
through my armor didn't even faze me. Hexane was back and on the job! The renewed clarity of mind provided by Hex's Shadow Fall allowed me to spare
some attention for the additional Rider I had noticed mere moments before, and I grinned like a shark as it cruised in to attack Famine.
We'd been hit hard on the initial opener of this fight, but now with Amberlee back in action as well, we were at 100% - or better, given that she'd
somehow managed to confuse one of the Riders! I triggered Frost and blasted Famine with a cone of intense cold, slowing his attacks and scaling his armor with
a blast of superhard ice crystals. I threw back my head and laughed in Famine's face as two familiar forms came into view behind him, Gen stooping in like
a hawk, blades out and screaming, Terrence abandoning all subtlety to come in fists first at head level, slamming into the confused Rider with a thunderous
crash.
A pair of firey wings exploding from his huddled form announced the return of Frenetic, and he came out of the Rise of the Phoenix with his fists clenched and
fire already collecting around them.
Seconds later, it was over, and the Rikti Riders had fallen. Victorious, we boisterously cleared out of the rough caves, hot on the trail of some captured
psychics.
Just another day on the job.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies