[Episode 251929] [Episode 251929]The first thing that the robot did was turn to face them more fully and it then pointed its cannon at them.
"Move!" No one was sure who yelled that, maybe it was all of them, but a moment later there was a giant pot hole in the street.
"What the heck?!" Erio yelped as he flew upwards.
"Photon Lancer, full auto fire."
Swinging Bardiche Zambar down, Fate watched as her projectiles slammed into the bubble that the thing had around itself. Her eyes widened in shock as the projectiles fizzled out shortly after hitting it. "What the?"
"Just hit with everything you got!" Yuuno said while creating a thick lance of ice and launching it at the machine. Most everyone followed suit, launching various projectiles at the machine and kicking up dust in the process.
Arisa was the only one who didn't fire at the thing. Her eyes narrowed as she watched the others finally stop attacking. "...I don't think it's dead!" A moment later, a beam lanced out of the dust, causing the dust to swirl to prove Arisa right and forcing Arisa to create a thick barrier of rock from the ground. When the ground started to crack and give way, Arisa dodged to the side as the beam tore through where she was a moment ago.
"Arisa!" Yuuno turned to see that she was okay before looking back at the Megah, staring as there wasn't even a scratch on it.
"Well, if magic doesn't work..." Ginga trailed off, creating a Wind Road under her and getting above it.
"Ginga! Wait!" Quint called after her daughter, who let out a yell and dove straight down on her Wing Road. Her eyes widened as the Wing Road disappeared the instant that it touched the bubble.
"Take this!" Ginga yelled as she went through the bubble and gasped as her clothing started to dissolve. "AAAAH!" She tried to punch at the thing's head, but found that it, despite its height and bulk, was incredibly agile, as it suddenly took a couple of steps backwards before swatting her out of mid-air, causing her to cry out in pain as she hit the pavement and bounced off of it a couple of times as she slid down the street.
"Gin-nee!" Subaru stared and grit her teeth as the thing turned to her. "You..."
"Aim for the chest! The core to these things are there!" Quint called out as she held her hands to the side. "Subaru, distract it for a few seconds."
"I've got a clear shot at its back." She heard Fate's voice speak up, causing her to nod as she and Subaru shot Revolver Cannon shots into the barrier, to completely no effect.
"Damn." Quint muttered as she saw Fate zip in low. "Get him!"
Just as Fate was about to enter the bubble, the thing turned and with speed that shocked even her, it stepped forward, reached out and grabbed her blade with its non-cannon arm and held her up. Fate stared as the thing quickly crushed her blade and then smacked her out of the field as well, causing her to crash into a building with only the clothes around her chest, arms, waist and feet still intact. "Damn, that field's dangerous." It was almost like anything that was made out of magic fell apart the instant that it was in that field. "Bardiche, are you okay?"
"Yes, sir, no problem."
Fate smiled softly. "Good boy."
She watched as Erio and Caro both took shots at the thing. One thing that interested her was that the Spear of Light's energy beams were able to get to the mechanical creature, even if all they could do was touch the thing's armor, at least they could get to it. "Which means you just need to overwhelm it." If she was by herself, it wouldn't be too hard, just launch her stronger attacks into the field until it exploded, but her strongest attacks were a bit too dangerous to use with a group of people around her.
She narrowed her eyes as the thing outright ignored Teana, Subaru and Quint and focused on Erio and Caro. "...Can it learn?" Fate felt the urge to shiver and blinked. "Wait, is it getting colder?" Looking down, she stared as Yuuno held his hand up and breathed out slowly, her breath heating the air around her. "Well, that answers that."
On the ground, Teana really wished that her skirt wasn't so short. Even with the ability of her field to moderate temperatures around her, the sudden decrease in heat was quickly reminding her that she didn't have any underwear on anymore and that she didn't like it when it got too cold.
Yuuno grinned as he saw frost starting to form on the ground. "That's it, just a little more." He could see the thing was starting to slow down, even if it was just a little bit, plus it was aiming at Caro and Erio, both of whom where small, mid-air targets.
The next thing he knew, the Megah reached down, grabbed a car and threw it right at him.
"SHIT!" Yuuno lost his concentration for making it colder and created several barriers to block the car that was thrown at him.
"Boss, is that thing hovering now?"
Yuuno looked and stared, Thoth was right about that, as the thing's feet were several centimeters off of the ground. "I'm open to suggestions!"
"I got one!" Arisa flew right at the thing and swung her flaming sword right at it. "Let's see you handle a taste of this!" Cutting horizontally in front of her, Arisa grinned as the flames cut into the bubble with no problem and continued on without dissipating, at least until the Megah suddenly turned and batted her flame sword, causing it to flicker out completely. "...This thing can, EEEK!" It pointed its cannon at her and fired a quick shot into a hastily created ice barrier that Arisa threw up as she tried to fly away from the field. When the ice shattered, she was certain that she was going to get blasted into pieces. Had a green barrier suddenly appeared, she may have found that to be the truth.
Yuuno grunted as he held his hand up. "Any other suggestions?!"
"Dug Haut!" Teana called out as she shot the ground several times around the Megah and grinned as spikes shot up from the ground straight at the target. Her grin faded as the spikes slowed down and stopped just as the tips of the spikes touched the Megah, creating a painfully loud grinding sound as the Megah moved forward and shot at Teana, who just barely dodged the initial shot, though she was hit hard by most of the debris, cutting into her back and sides with ease.
"Thunder... Rage!" Fate called out from her position in mid-air, turning her magic into lightning and letting it loose. She wasn't sure if it would work, but she had to try something. Plus, she used more than three times the amount of magic that was needed for this spell in hopes of overloading the bubble and hitting the machine.
A tight smile came to Fate's lips as the lightning struck true, hitting the machine and causing it to jerk before it fell to one knee and hunched over, the bubble disappearing as it did so.
"Did I get it?" Fate asked as she hovered down for a closer look.
Arisa suddenly got a chill up her spine as she looked at it. "Fate, look out!"
Before Fate could ask what she meant, the Megah reached up with its left hand and grabbed her leg, pulling her down in front of its arm cannon.
The next thing any of them knew, a blade had extended from under the arm cannon and imbedded itself into Fate's stomach and out of her back.
The blonde's eyes widened and she let out a rather pained gurgle as blood escaped her lips. The Megah swung its arm down and Fate was forcibly removed from its blade as she landed on the street with a sickening splat.
"Fate..?" Arisa stared as Fate twitched and spasmed, blood pooling out around her. "FATE!"
Even as Arisa screamed, the AMS was reignited around the Megah, which retracted its blade and stood ready to crush its enemies.
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