"Okeanos of the ocean," said Mercury as she brought up an image. "With powers over magic dealing with water. Hastur of the insects. Hyperion the solar battery. Three of the Titans have been dealt with. We have temporarily lost Uranus and Neptune until their Senshi transformation overcomes the transformation laid upon them by Okeanos."
"Who's the next problem?" Mars asked bluntly.
"Judging from the way solar flares have just started erupting, Hyperion's partner - Theia is likely." Mercury frowned as she used her computer to bring up an image. "I hacked into a NASA geosurveyor satellite and got these pictures."
"What is it, other than a very bright dot?" Jupiter asked.
"Her. Using extreme methods of reconstructing a picture, this is what I came up with," said Mercury as she brought up a blurry dot.
"That's not much better," pointed out Jupiter.
"It's difficult to tell, but apparently Theia is something along the line of a living solar prominence which managed to bind itself into the semblence of the woman she used to be. You'll notice the trail of white hot rock behind her that NASA used to pinpoint her location?" Mercury pointed out. "The good news is that if you don't come into direct contact with her, those temperatures are largely contained. The problem is that her body temperature is considerably above the melting point of rock. She's apparently drawing power directly from the sun, so she may lose some of that power during the night."
"Uhm," Mars raised her hand, wondering if this meant what she thought it meant. "So using a Burning Mandala on this particular Titan?"
Pluto answered. "Comparable to throwing a snowball against a glacier wall."
"Gotcha," said Mars, lowering her hand.
"Akuryo Taisan, on the other hand, might have some effect," appended Pluto. "Oddly enough, it is Neptune who would be most effective against Theia. Unfortunately..."
"The good news is that Jupiter's Gunhed and Saturn's Deathscythe Gundam have sufficient thermal shielding and environmental support that they can survive Theia's presence better than an unprotected Senshi. We also have the Mongoian ships," pointed out Mercury.
"Temperatures like that, we'd have trouble with," pointed out Steiner. "Even with charging the armor, the best my ship - the Vindicator - can withstand a few minutes of that sort of temperature at best. Beatrix' ship the Savior is not even that well armored."
"The Savior is capable of speeds 180% better than the Vindicator," pointed out Beatrix. "We can make strafing runs that have a good chance of outrunning this Titan's attacks."
Jupiter gently nudged Venus. "You know how we've been complaining about how little support equipment we've got. That we don't have Talismans or a Mercury Computer or something?"
"I know. This could be our big chance," whispered back Venus, a gleam in her eye. "No waiting for Luna or Artemis to remember some odd detail at the last minute or cough up a power up so that Usagi has to bring us back from the dead."
Venus and Jupiter nodded, each deciding the easiest way to get there was the acquisition of a hunky boy Emperor.
(Posted Sun, 17 Aug 2003 13:51)
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