249. Pacific rim… kinda
<span style="font-weight:400">Three jaegers stood side by side facing against seven bijus. Nozomi’s a behemoth of sleek red metal with four arms and almost no armor. Made for one thing and one thing alone, Nozomi’s Jaeger could easily leave Tomoka’s and Hinata’s in the dust with its speed. Repursol tech on each of its joints and more made for easy eleration and deceleration earning it its name crimson riot.
<span style="font-weight:400">Hinata’s Jaeger stood at the opposite side of the spectrum. Armored up the wazoo it could withstand a nuclear warhead of up to ten kilotons. A massive b of metal and tech working as its shield held on its left hand while a just as big and heavy sword held on its left. An eighteen inch cannon on its right shoulder worked as its long range option. With its gleaming silver and gold highlights it had its name well earned as the Silver Pdin.
<span style="font-weight:400">Finally Tomoka’s Manic Havoc went for apletely different yet just as effective approach. Guns, guns, and even more guns. Four inch rotary cannon mounted on its right shoulder, a just as devastating quickunch missile array on its left. Hip mounted railguns as well as a pair of high precision mortars on the back. Finally a pair of supersized mini uzis held in hand capable of delivering two inch ammunition at five hundred rounds per minute.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright girls, let''s get going. You know the rules and so do I-” Before Tomoka could finish talking Hinata’s exasperated sigh stopped her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Did you just rick roll us?” Nozomi’s incredulous tone made Tomoka bark withughter as a momentter she began talking again.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ma bad, ma bad. Anyway, no need to worry about hurting them. Even if we do manage to kill them, the Gedo statue will just reabsorb them.” As Tomoka Finished speaking the girls focused as all seven bijus roared at the same time.
<span style="font-weight:400">A momentter the Gobi, Kokuo dashed towards them with the clear intention to ram into one of them. Meanwhile the Ichibi, Shukaku, the Nibi, Matatabi, and the Sanbi, Isobu, preparing bijudamas. The Rokubi, Saiken for his part began shootingrge globs of ident towards the girls. Behind Kokuo, the Hachibi, Gyuki, too was dashing their way although at a much slower pace. Finally The Yonbi, Son Goku was moving sideways in what looked like a nking maneuver.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Nozomi, intercept Son Goku. Hinata, on Kokuo. I will provide suppressing fire for the rest.” With the n in ce each of them moved. Tomoka opened fire with all her weapons. The rotary cannon instantly swiveled to the side aiming towards Gyuki. The mortars began firing towards the trio in the back with the bijudamas. The rocketuncher began firing intercepting shots towards the flying acid. Finally the pair of supersized Uzis began preparing anyone Tomoka had a line of sight on.
<span style="font-weight:400">Roars could be heard left right and center as the bijus had to contend with the sheer amount of fire Tomoka was outputting. None of her weapons were strong enough to cause lethal damage, that didn’t mean being constantly bombed and smacked byrge chunks of metal at high speeds didn’t hurt.
<span style="font-weight:400">Hinata for her part began slowly but surely elerating towards Kokuo in a collision path. A few secondster Hinata ced the massive shield in front of her before activating both its energy shielding as well as the ram thrusters on each of its four corners. The result was a devastating shield bash that sent Kokuo crashing heavily to the side.
<span style="font-weight:400">Nozomi for her part engaged with Son Goku in hand to handbat. Her extremely fast for its size Jaeger weaving and dodging the bijus barrage of blows looking for an opening. As Son Goku went for a right hook, Nozomi found her opening. Blocking the blow with her upper right arm Nozomi used the lower one to deliver a devastating liver shot. As the Biju got staggered for a moment Nozomi continued with herbo delivering a left hook right to the bijus head with her upper arm while the lower left went for an upper cut a moment after. As son Goku’s head was forced upwards he saw a pair of red metalic arms crashing downwards onto his face. Nozomi had delivered a haymaker with the upper limbs nting Son Goku’s face on the ground.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Girl’s my weapons are starting to overheat.” Tomoka shouted over thems. Her rotary cannon was now glowing an angry orange-red as it continued to deliver a hail of metal onto Gyuki who had hunkered down behind his tentacles. The missileuncher was about to run out of missiles meaning it would need a minute or two for the reloading sequence. The morters too were suffering from strain as the ignition chamber for the propent was softening up from the heat.
<span style="font-weight:400">Even the pair of supersized Uzis were about to run out of rounds. Thankfully the hip mounted railguns had stayed in standby mode meaning they coulde in clutch to provide support while all the other systems were down. Not like that wouldpare though. The fire rate for the railguns was rather low.
<span style="font-weight:400">Hearing Tomoka’s warning Hinata went for a finishing blow by cutting the downed Kokuo’s head with her oversized sword. Unfortunately one of the bijus in the back managed to shoot its bijudama as the other two worked to shield it from the constant mortar fire.
<span style="font-weight:400">Hinata only had a moment to react. Her Jaeger is too heavy to dodge out of the way so she would have to tank it. Moving her shield as quickly as her Jaeger would allow Hinata barely managed to put it between her and the mass of destructive force as it detonated on impact.
<span style="font-weight:400">Inside the cabin Hinata’s eyes focused on reading all the warnings and alerts popping up with her byakugan. Although her Jaeger was rated for tanking nukes, that didn’t mean it woulde out unscathed from doing so. Her shield had managed to defend her from the explosion at the cost of itself. The thing had be nothing more than g at this point.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Shield’s down!” Although the Jaeger’s visual sensors were slowlying back online Hinata already knew what was going on outside. Kokuo had managed to survive the st by quickly positioning behind herself. Worse, the Biju was about to ram onto her back. Thankfully the creature only had a scant few kilometers to gain speed. Metal screeched as it got torn and deformed from the impact.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hinata, damage report.” Tomoka spoke over thems. By now most of her weapons had gone into reloading or cooldown cycles meaning the other five bijus were free to engage.
<span style="font-weight:400">“The back armor held but the hull integrity is down to eighty percent.” If Tomoka had taken that hit, Jager’s hull integrity would have dropped to fifty or lower. Nozomi’s would have been torn in half out right.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Firing railguns!” With the sound of thunder and lightning a pair of tungsten rods were shot at over mach five mming onto Kokuo dislodging the biju from Hinata’s back and sending it almost a whole kilometer away.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Acid iing Hinata, get cover!” Turning on the spot Hinata spotted multiple blobs of sizzling aciding her way. Her shield may be g now but it was still a big hunk of metal. Putting said hunk in the way worked perfectly as the acidnded on it instead of her.
<span style="font-weight:400">Meanwhile Nozomi found herself having to dodge more often than not as the monkey biju fought using all eight of its limbs. Her sharingan was working hard to predict the movements searching for a new opening for a path to victory. It was then when she heard Tomoka warning about her weapons.
<span style="font-weight:400">It was then that Nozomi took things up a notch. From each of her arms came hidden des which she quickly used to cut onto Son Goku. The slug fest came to an end as now cold weapons were involved. This ced Son Goku on the backfoot once more as he had to carefully maneuver and dodge to not get cut. Although his flesh is tough, a death by a thousand cuts was still on the table.
<span style="font-weight:400">With each move with each cut Nozomi got closer and closer to dealing lethal damage. Her des ever swiftly deliver cuts as Son Goku desperately dodges. She was in the zone just a bit more and she would im her win. It was then however that another biju got involved.
<span style="font-weight:400">Gyuki looking worse for wear with multiple of its tentacles in tatters attacked from Nozomi’s blind spot. Before she knew it a pair of tentacles had coiled around her upper left arm while another were about to do the same with her left leg. Making a quick decision, Nozomi cut her own arm. She had four of those and she could still fight effectively without one. Legs on the other hand… if she loses one it would be game over for her.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Upper left severed!” Nozomi reported as she refocused on her surroundings. Tomoka’s suppressive fire had stopped and now she had to deal with two bijus. Looking towards Hinata, Nozomi could tell she too had suffered a hit. Things weren’t looking all that good.
<span style="font-weight:400">To make matters even worse, the three biju who had stayed back to form bijudamas were now rushing towards Tomoka as Saiken continued to lob acid left right and center. The only thing Keeping Nozomi rtively safe currently was her rather close proximity to the other bijus as Saiken was being careful to prevent any friendly fire.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Weapons back online! I have requested repairs from veronica!” From who? Nozomi wondered as she had never met this Veronica Tomoka was talking about. Sure, she knew a few people named Veronica but none of them would be able to help much less repair her jaeger in this situation.
<span style="font-weight:400">It was a few momentster that Nozomi understood who Veronica is or rather what. A weird looking ship thing came from orbit floating a good kilometer up as parts began raining down from it. Said parts were moving towards her and she spected this would be her repairs. Not wanting her foes to interfere, Nozomi quickly jumped backwards, opening the distance.
<span style="font-weight:400">It was a momentter that her systems automatically released the damaged segments as the next instant something mmed into the now open socket. Her systems quickly linked up with what she now realized is a new arm as she was once again given the all green.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Awesome!” Nozomi shouted over thems as she got back into the thick of it. Unlike the original arm this one had a close impact energy cannon integrated instead of a de. With this she could in theory keep one of the biju at distance to prevent a repeat of what had just happened. Simrly Hinata too received a care package with a new shield as the damaged armor on her back fell off being reced with a new segment.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Let''s go for round TWO!” Tomoka’s shout heralded the loud bark of her weapons once again firing towards the bijus in an incessant downpour of lead. This time however she was focusing all of her fire on the three that had been rushing her a moment prior. Not only that but she too began moving in their direction. Afterall, with Veronica deployed she had ess to quick weapon swaps.
<span style="font-weight:400">In another location inside a room filled to the brim with screens nine people watched while eating popcorn and other such snacks.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Damn, I wish they would let me deploy the G.O.O.S.E so I could go and y too, that looks so fun.” Shacoined a little as he shoved a handful of popcorn inside his mouth.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You had your fun in Kumo, let them have theirs” Pride said with an exasperated smile. Shaco had beenining ever since the fights started. He had wanted to deploy the G.O.O.S.E right away and wreck some havoc on the battlefield.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Come on Pride, I am not the only one that wants to be there, am I right Wrath?” Said woman couldn’t answer as she wiggled against her restraints. The others had to chain her up both physically as well as digitally to prevent her from getting involved.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Really shaco, Really? Do you really need to rile her up after she finally calmed down? It took us so much effort to contain her.” Freedomined before sighing. Sometimes she felt like she was dealing with children… to be fair the kinda were but that is not here nor there.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Bah, whatever, next time there is a war or some such none of you will be able to stop me from participating.” Shacoined onest time while shoving more popcorn in his mouth before focusing back again on the screen.
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