[Episode 126236] [Episode 126236]Ryoko was a little rusty after 700 years of enforced rest, but she had more than a few centuries of battle experience from before that. She did not let her physical strain and the mental focus it required lessen her situational awareness. Thus she was wary when the steel globes she was pressed between emitted solid-sounding “thunks” and a wide circle of metal was pushed a fraction of an inch outward on the front surface of each. Her evaluation of this development, and the decision whether to continue her plan or get away from whatever her opponent was about to do, were lost to saucer-eyed sweatdroping as a smaller circle in the center of each existing raised disk was pushed further outward with a popping sound. Ryoko’s astonishment dissolved into snickers as she examined the large, prominent nipples those steel breasts now sported.
Ryoko’s amusement became cries of pain and outrage when energy arched between her body, and the newly visible nubs. Kyusaku the Conjurer and Grandfather Mishima were weird, obsessive, and often not fit for polite social situations. They made up for this by being supremely competent in their fields of expertise. When given the challenge of producing golem armor for subduing supernatural beings, they had combined their knowledge to provide a means of draining the opponent’s power while replenishing the armor’s reserves.
Ryoko recognized the effect as being related to the draining that she had experienced when Tenchi tried to catch her with the shackles she still wore. In fact, some of the runes shining through the red paint on the mecha’s breasts matched those on her ‘jewelry’. This, however, was far more abrupt and painful. The restraints were intended to hold a subject helpless, but unharmed, for extended periods of playtime. This system was a close-quarters weapon for taking a subject out of action as quickly as possible.
The energy interactions of the drain itself were sufficient to disrupt any attempt at teleporting or phasing out of the mecha’s grasp and her flight upward became a slowed fall. Ryoko was still able to implement a variant of her original plan by using her remaining propulsive power to accelerate downward and rotating so her adversary landed first. The hard shell of the armor did not truly soften the impact for Ryoko, but that impact did loosen the armor’s grip enough for the space pirate demoness to escape.
Ryoko wobbled upward, seeking to put some distance between herself and her ground-bound foes while she recovered. Her slow ascent and lack of maneuverability made her a perfect target for a green paralyzing ray from Kyoko as the blue golem-mech rounded the corner of the mansion. The beam was not enough to paralyze someone of Ryoko’s inhuman constitution with one shot, but it did sap much of the strength from her limbs. This had no effect whatsoever on her ability to fly, and she continued to rise, trembling in the air.
When Ryoko heard a yowl from above, her first thought was that Ryo-Oki had somehow come to her aid, despite the lack of a connection through the gems. This hope was dashed when she looked up and saw her furry playmate from before the mechs had arrived, launching herself from the back of a blue-feathered female with wings. Still too drained to teleport or phase or dodge, too weak to block, Ryoko took the furry pink foot right in the face.
The impact drove Ryoko back towards the ground, but she surged upwards again, her drained power already starting to replenish itself. She called her sword, which had faded during the draining, back into existence, but the physical power of her limbs had not returned and her strikes were slow, allowing the pink feline to twist around it. Another blow to the chest propelled the bakeneko upward and the demoness downward.
Ryoko dodged sideways, attempting to avoid a third collision, but Nuku Nuku managed to grab a chain trailing from an ankle as she fell. Ryoko was beginning to regret keeping those chains, but she thought they would add a little something to her next meeting with Tenchi, and she didn’t have time or power to spare getting out of them just now. Instead, she kicked her leg up, with a grunt of exertion, as she was still weak, bringing her opponent into position for a devastating strike.
A secondary and unintended effect of the maneuver was that it gave a nice show to the audience surrounding the compound. A seductive oni, naked except for shackles and trailing chains, doing a high kick in midair and whipping around a curvy, bouncy bakeneko wearing nothing but fur was cause for cheers, applause, whistles, and several shouted suggestions.
A third and also unintended effect was that it gave Arisa a chance to use the electrified whip now extending from her armors right arm. She had a good deal of experience with the whip, from both ends, and the oni had been prevented from gaining much altitude by Nuku Nuku’s antics. She ensnared Ryoko’s free ankle on the first try.
Sparks flew and Ryoko’s leg spasmed as the two tails of the whip wrapped around her lower and upper calf. There was also enough imparted voltage to make Nuku Nuku’s fur stand on end. Ryoko’s hair looked like that normally, but it did gain just a little extra frizz. Arisa pivoted, pulled, and swung the floating oni in a long arc, slamming her to the ground. That the dangerous creature slammed down on top of the voltage-stunned Nuku Nuku was just a bonus sad example of the fortunes of war.
Both Ryoko and Nuku Nuku had the breath driven out of them as Kyoko’s blue armor came slamming down on top of them. This wasn’t as bad for the demoness as it was for the bakeneko, as Ryoko didn’t need air anyway. The draining system now active in Kyoko’s metal mammaries was another matter. Ryoko bucked and heaved between the blue mecha and the squashed kitty as the already diminished reserves provided by her replica gem were ripped away from her.
When Nuku Nuku got some leverage, she expressed her displeasure with being collateral damage by lifting both Ryoko and Kyoko overhead, spinning them a few times, and then slamming them down. Ryoko, now on top of Kyoko’s armor, staggered to her feet, only to be hit by a green paralysis beams from Arisa. Another flying kick from Nuku Nuku sent the battered pirate tumbling into the dirt, and after Kyoko got in her own paralysis shot, Ryoko did not rise again.
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