Event || The Empire Strikes Back

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Characters: Everyone participating in the event
Where: Aqures Ixen
When: July 27th to August 02nd
Summary: The battle for Aqures Ixen is about to begin! The Heroes of Light are going to do their best to defend Aqures Ixen, but will this be enough? Feel free to participate and reply to appropriate threads. New top-level threads will be posted regularly as the battle progresses.
Warning: N/A, will be updated.

July 27th || Mingle
July 28th || Bomb Defusing / Imperial Assault
July 29th || Mingle / Attack on the 13th District / Aerial Battles / Imperial Camp
July 30th || 14th District on Fire / The Hospital / Mognet Office Attacked
July 31st || The Fire Spreads / Betrayals
August 01st || The Second Wave / Ultima Weapon
August 02nd || Final

Comments

[victorix]

Thank goodness, a wave of relief - trust Yuna to be on the same wavelength even without having been able to communicate with words what they needed to do.

Rikku freezes immediately, trusting the judgment call.

....Especially when she heard who was being called. This battle was trying to break her. Why was it always lightning?! At this point she was coiled up so tightly internally from the whole ordeal, the adrenaline running so deep, the faint zaps of static from her daggers making the hairs of her arms stand tall.

She did not even react to the mighty summon. Standing unmoved - doll like. It would all come out later, probably find her on the floor unable to breath in a horribly embarrassing and humiliating moment, as coping mechanisms took everything that the deeply engrained phobia really wanted the girl to do - and buried it. "Open later" - survival first.

She had been watching her cousin with apprehension. The flash of the scorpion's counter attack is so bright, it momentarily blinds the girl. Leaving her with nothing but the impression of shadows of what should be when her vision starts to return. It...It had gone straight for her!

No. NO!.

"Yunie!?"

Reaching a hand out blindly -- unsure if the shadows she sees before her are true or false images. Perhaps merely imprints left on her cornea before the blinding light. The scorpion takes advantage of her disorientation - its tail slashing like a whip, the sword-like edge cutting deep across her her back in the chaos.

There's a scream as she lurches forwards at the impact, yet she hardly pays it any heed. Stumbling forwards so it doesn't get another chance.

"Yunie!? Answer me! I can't see you!"

[grandsummon]

There was silence. A uncomfortable one, that lasted too long before the weight of a hand finally pressed down on Rikku's shoulder. "It's all right," the psychic sounded winded, though not hurt. "I'm right here..." the dust was still settling, and standing tall, Yuna had been able to avoid the blow thanks to the Vanish skill in her arsenal. It had perhaps cut things a little close for comfort but... she'd made it.

When the Scorpion took shake again it looked still, and quiet. Had they done it? Was that last attack finally enough to...

A click sounded once, then again, followed by a whrrrr of a motor booting back up, sputtering at first, then blasting on. Yuna sank to her knees, exhaling in frustration. They couldn't keep up with it at this rate. As she looked down at her hands, she knew that her mana was depleted... "Rikku? Can you see?" she had hoped it was a temporary injury at worst...

[victorix]

The thief froze in terror when she did not hear a response. Had...had it. At the reassuring touch and the sound of Yuna's voice, the tension rushes out of her body. Thank goodness. "You scared me! Don't do that again!"

The relief falls quickly back into a frown at that familiar sound, and as her cousin pulls her hand away from the shorter girl's shoulder she will find it wet with blood. Lucky really, considering she had been stumbling around blind - that it had not hit something vital. Her daggers drop to the ground with protesting zaps, useless now with her injuries. It's not as if - they were doing much good anyway.

"Yeah I can, but if it fires again close your eyes and look away it's like a flash grenade, but ten times worse."

She hunches down beside her cousin, gulping down a Hi potion she'd fished from her pouch - then using the same vial to start a Mix. Don't call her one to waste. There's a slight grimace on her features, she'd need a few more potions to heal fully, but one did the most essential job of stopping the bleeding. She's clearly having a harder time than usual getting the mix together, her hands shaking, losing precious moments - clearly more frustrated than in pain, the battle adrenaline numbing most of it. "Stupid bug! Hang in there Yunie, I have an idea." She couldn't use a large mix - but maybe the right one in the right location...

A poof of black smoke replaces the alchemist, and suddenly she appears falling downwards right above the looming tail. Not trusting herself to throw the mix with her injury, she plops in into the opening of the tail - like a coin into a slot machine. Her eyes clenched tight in the final moment.

Please don't burst and kill me and if you work I promise I'll try to hate you less.

In another Poof! she makes it out of there just in time, as the first strike of her Rolling Thunder Mix claps down violently straight into the creatures tail, arcing downwards.