Someone sensible would have stopped and considered the words Ranma said after this little demonstration. Seeing that your opponent took your attacks as if they had the effect of a mere draught would give anyone pause. Lastly, having your partner frozen into powerlessness should make you reconsider your tactical options.
However, this was Sailor Neptune here. Granted, she was less stubborn and violence-inclined than Sailor Uranus but she was still an Outer Senshi. Someone who thought that the ends justified the means, that any unknown being had to be destroyed on sight in case it was an enemy. Someone who was ready to die for the Cause.
But most of all, Sailor Neptune was enraged because that monster hurt her lover !
"I will never surrender, monster ! DEEP SUBMERGE !" Her water blast suffered the same fate as the previous ones as it was neatly absorbed by the Mercury armor and its energy added to its mana reserves.
Ranma looked at Neptune's face. Ranma knew that expression, Ryoga had the same when he was in one of his berserker rages. He knew that he had to take her down before she hurt herself.
A sphere of blue energy appeared in his palm before exploding into a shower of frost headed for the green-haired senshi "DIAMOND... DUST !!!"
Sailor Neptune yelped and made an attempt to dodge worthy of a panicking Sailor Moon. She was only partially successfull. She couldn't feel her left arm anymore, she had frostbite all over her body and she also sported numerous minor cuts courtesy of the ice shards of the Diamond Dust. She gulped when she saw the ground covered in ice all along a straight line going from Ranma's hand to the Temple's outer wall "Had enough ?"
Neptune felt the situation was desperate. It was time for the big guns. Do or die... She pulled out the Deep Aqua Mirror and prepared her ultimate attack.
The Mercury Armor's mystical senses picked up the magic buildup. Warning, Sailor Neptune is about to make a desperation attack. Power level is raising to levels beyond absorption capabilities. Ranma shrugged and got into a new stance, gathering his own energy for a counterstrike. Timing and energy balancing would be critical...
Sailor Mars watched the two warriors facing each other off, unsure her intervention would do any good.
Neptune put all her remaining energy and a little more in her attack "SUBMARINE REFLECTION !!!" The Deep Aqua Mirror launched a water blast dwarfing the Deep Submerge by several orders of magnitude.
Taking another cue from his memories of watching Saint Seiya, Ranma let loose with his own attack "AURORA THUNDER... ATTAAAAACK !!!" He used his clenched fists as an automatic shotgun, sending bursts after bursts of near-absolute zero cold blasts surrounded by a freezing tornado.
The two attacks met in an explosion of raw magic halfway between Neptune and Ranma. Predictably, after a short struggle, the Aurora Thunder Attack overpowered the Submarine Reflection. Sailor Neptune screamed.
There was a tremendous explosion. Sailor Mars had to shield her eyes from the flash and the debris. When she opened them again, she gasped. Sailor Neptune was caught in a tall pillar of ice, her expression still frozen in terror and disbelief.
The armored monster powered down his aura and turned to face her. She silently prayed it was a case of misguided good guys having a fight over their first meeting (He was wearing the Mercury symbol after all). If not, the others had better hurry. She wasn't interested in becoming a popsicle, thank you very much !
Ranma put his foot down and crossed his arms in a show of annoyance "Now are you ready to listen to me or not !?!"
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