Chaos Within

[Jijeka-Te]

(Anu) "Are... you sure?"

Despite his lack of confidence, he let Gail stand.

---

Ji, meanwhile, let her attention be drawn by the creature that decided to attack her. Thinking quickly, she dove and circled, aiming to confuse it with random movement.

[Espio]

Espio was sprinting up the side of the building to aid the others, but found himself cut off at the pass as he heard the thrusters closing in behind him. Sneaking up on a fully trained ninja was no easy feat. In the midst of the confusion Rampage did get fairly close , before he turns his head around, sticking to the cockpit of the Big Arm. He looked little more than displeased, drawing one of his massive shrikens. "You dare attack me when the fate of the world is at stake? Typical!", he belittles Rampage as he prepares to carve a hole in that cockpit.

[Alpha Omega]

After scavenging a few pieces of rubble and broken machinery for use later, Omega turned to follow Espio, and aid the others in fighting off the remains of the creature. Seeing not one but TWO of Robotnik's attack pods floating about, engaging his allies was the last thing he expected right now.

While he didn't particularly care what happened to Mammoth, he did feel slightly indebted to Espio. Dropping and enlarging one of his rings so he could stand on it, he set it to rocket toward the Big Arm pod, hoping to catch it from below and behind, and knock it into the building above Espio.

[Dr. Robotnik]

[You think all day about what to post...then it just comes to you in a manner of five seconds late in the evening.]

"I do have plenty of pounds of flesh to spare," Robotnik rubbed his tummy mockingly. "But I'm afraid I don't have time for your diet program!"

The doctor slipped his hands back around the control sticks.

"Anyway, things are going to be different this time, now that I know about that power of yours!"

Robotnik promptly flew backwards into the sky, so he could get out of range of Mammoth's force grip. He promptly bombarded the area around Mammoth with circular, flaming balls of napalm. When they hit the street, they would bounce around and spread the flaming napalm jelly all over the street. However, Robotnik didn't look like he was aiming for Mammoth directly, but the area around him.

[Gail Strafer]

As Gail shimmied to a stand, he limped forward by accident, then forced himself to stand erect. Pulling up his bloody arm, he pointed at where Chadin was.

"See that? Chadin's in deep trouble! We need to get him out of there! You need to fly back up there and get him! I want to go help too!"

Gail clutched hard to the wound on his arm, trying his best to keep it covered with his vest as he ran back upwards. He moved a bit slower than normal, but appeared to be keeping a steady pace.

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The bat-like creature paused, beating its wings to hover in midair. Instead of chasing Jii directly, this time it appeared to be calmly observing her movements. The bat rotated in place, as it watched the lizard continued the circular pattern. Suddenly, the creature harshly flapped its wings, causing it to jerk sideways in an interception path. If Jii were still flying in a circle around it, she would collide right into the shadowy form's talons.

[Rampage]

Rampage smirked at Espio in bemusement, not at all put off by what he'd said. "Well duh, horn head. That's always how this stuff boils down to."

While he spoke, Rampage's hands continued to work the controls. Espio would feel a tapping on his shoulder. If he turned to look back, he'd see one of the robotic hands waving at him rather patronizingly right before it lunged forward to snatch the chameleon in it's vice-like grip.

Or rather, that was what Rampage had intended to do, right up until Alpha slammed into the rear-underside of his craft, sending both him, and Espio who was still riding on the front of the craft smashing into the face of the building. If Espio didn't react quick enough or wasn't thrown off the craft in the impact, he'd find himself the gooey filling of a building and robo-pod sandwich.

Rampage himself found himself being thrown around the pod violently from the rapid-fire series of impacts, only prevented from literally being bounced around by virtue of buckling himself into the pod. Thankfully, the pod's spiked, reinforced roof took most of the impact, leaving the glass cockpit largely in tack. In fact, several of the spikes were imbedded into the side of the building, leaving Rampage's vehicle temporarily trapped.

[Mammoth Mogul]

Mogul simply rolled his eyes as Robotnik encircled him within a wall of flames.

"And yet you still have learned nothing." Mogul spat back out, his eyes glowing a hellish green as he raised his right hand, levitating himself up and out of the flaming circle. As he rose up, Mogul scanned the immediate area for something of use, and found one in the form of a destroyed Swat-bot hulk. Reaching out with his powers, the Swat-bot rose a few feet off the ground, then, with Mogul swinging his arm out at Robotnik, hurled the Swat-bot at Robotnik's pod, aiming to either destroy or maybe even plug one of the two flame-throwers on his machine.

Perhaps with a suitable distraction maybe he could retrieve more shards and increase his power even further. The question is, what could he do to achieve that distraction?

[Chadin]

Actually, by now, it seemed like the creature's attention was firmly on Jii. But at the moment, I was too rattled to really take notice. It was like my brain had become stuck on the fact I'd very nearly had my head torn clean off and simply couldn't get off it. Like a broken record, my instincts kept telling me to stay still, don't draw attention, let the danger pass. It was like being a fawn all over again. Like being trapped at the bottom of that cave with a forest fire raging overhead all over again.

All the while, blood poured down the left side of my face, obscuring my left eye and pooling at the corner of my mouth. I could taste my own blood. Just like the operation. I was strapped down to the table on my belly. No anesthetic. The blood poured down my neck, dripping past my mouth as the drills bored into my spine. I was screaming and writhing in utter agony so much I couldn't close my mouth to stop it. It was utter hell. And I was trapped; no escape.

Just like right now. Trapped. Trapped in my own fear and memories.

[Jijeka-Te]

Fortunately for Ji, she was not as regular with her movements as the bat assumed. As soon as it tried to intercept her, she altered her course and avoided it easily, then made a move for its backside, aiming to skewer it from behind with the end of her crook.

Anu had little choice. He opened his wings and hovered back to where Chadin was, landing softly.

[Espio]

Unlike most who have a tendency to get caught up in speeches and rants; one would find it hard to legitimately surprise a reptile with nearly 360 degree vision. He could faintly see the hand behind him; poised to move. He wanted to move out the way at the right moment; but got quite the surprise as his ally cuts in.with a well aimed attack of his own! He gives Rampage a quick salute, leaping down to the ground below as the death machine hits the wall soon after.
Despite slightly cushioning his fall, he does roll a fair ways through the street below, his last large shuriken clattering away. He does manage to roll to his feet, drawing his trusty flash; hurling it at the immobile robot above.

If Rampage didn't move, he would hear a hollow thunk on his cockpit, before seeing the flash going off before him. "Nice one!", he calls out to Alpha. He would have to disable that robot soon; the dragon above was still a threat.