Final Stage - Bombshells 3010

Casey snakes out her whip, trying to latch onto Gong-Ju's trident and pull the mermaid princess inside Murasaki's ki barrier!

The ki barrier saves keeps the B☢️MBSHELLS from being blown to bits!

Once the attack has been thwarted, Murasaki drops the barrier and goes on the offensive! She flips into the air and comes down hard towards one of the mechanized men, putting her weight behind her tonfa strike.

Casey flicks her wrist and send the weighted tip of the whip flashing out to thwack into the segue squaddie facing her.

"Ki power!" Gon-ju declares, safely behind the barrier. Once the enemy assault ends, she darts forward, jabbing and sweeping with both ends of her trident!

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When the smoke clears, all of the roboticized men are down!

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DR. ESLIE PRESTON

Dr. Preston checks the men for vital signs. Despite being bashed, whiplashed, skewered and blasted by their own guy’s rocketfire, the cyboplasm is stabilizing and healing the security team. Ron the scientist was protected by a shell over his unconscious body.

"Thank you for saving my life," Elsie starts. She turns to Murasaki and adds, "And no worries about the door. Heh..

"I was hired to help Dr. Wathelet find a cure for the cyboplasm. Ron was assisting me in the medical bay when he started acting strangely.

"We had a patient… a street mime whose flesh was coated with metal on one side of his face. Dr. Wathelet is still with him."

She looks down the hall, but doesn’t dare take a step in that direction.

"I don’t know if we made a mistake. Ron was fine until I injected our patient with the cure. There wasn’t time to observe the patient.

"Dr. Wathelet is still with him, far as I know."

"I see... We'll head in deeper and find them." Noticing Dr. Preston's apparent hesitation to proceed, Murasaki gives her a choice. Her voice holds no judgement.

"It's up to you whether you want to leave or go with us, Preston-hakase. Your expertise could prove invaluable, but there will undoubtedly be more danger ahead," Murasaki warns.

Since they've got a moment to breathe after the fight, Murasaki takes advantage of it and channels her ki... She empowers herself, a purple flame-like aura rising from her body, but it's clear from the slight grimace on her face that it takes a toll on her.

Dr. Preston thinks a moment. "Perhaps I should follow at a safe distance."

Gong-Ju stays back a few steps to help Princess Diamond guard Elsie, while Murasaki and Casey move ahead…

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Once you arrive at the lab, you see a man in the medical bay. It looks somewhat like a hospital room, with a privacy curtain that’s currently wide open. Standing by a toppled bed and IV feed is a man clad only in a johnny. Most of his exposed skin is covered in metal. His clawlike hands paw at an invisible wall. His face is reptilian and bewildered.

Dr. Wathelet is pulling (what’s left of) his hair out in frustration.


"Feel; don’t conceal! Resistance is futile," he assures the mechanized mime. "Be done hiding, now be shining like you’re born to be!"

The doctor neither notices you nor yells in a French accent.

Casey puts a hand over her mouth as she sees the metal figure struggling and in pain.

"Oh lord. His skin looks horrible!" she whispers in horror.

Dr. Wathelet finally notices you.



Pointing to the patient, he says, "The cyboplasm is altering his perception of reality. As a mime, he believes an invisible wall can hold him. I am trying to help him see a better reality. Not one that makes him a raging beast, but one that trades the shackles of his mind for wings of freedom!"



For some reason, the elderly scientist finds his metaphor amusing. But while he’s laughing at his own joke, wings are rapidly forming on the patient’s back.

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A metal shell completely overtakes the street mime! He becomes a giant winged dragon!



Fortunately for you, Dear B☢️MBSHELLS, the dragon’s fire breath only strikes the invisible wall between him and you!

"NO! You’re trading one prison for another!"

The doctor reaches under the control panel, confessing, "I don’t believe I can reach him in this state. I will try, but…"

ROUND ONE…

FIGHT!!

"Looks like we got here right in the nick of mime" Casey quips. Then she uses her whip to swing heels first at the cybodragon and follows that up with a barrage of stabs with one of her daggers!

"We will buy some time. Do what you can, Wathelet-hakase!"

Murasaki rushes up to the mime-turned-dragon once its flame breath expires. When she's up close and personal, she goes for a blindingly quick combination of strikes with her tonfa.

Murasaki twirls her tonfa by the handle fast enough to make it a blur. She swings at the incoming dragon, throwing the much larger opponent back. He even suffers some damage from it.

"It doesn't appear to be working, Wathelet-hakase. You're just giving him new ideas on how to kill us."

Going on the offensive, Murasaki tries to land a powerful thrust with her tonfas, aiming for the cybodragon's torso.

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Casey tucks into a forward roll, trying to avoid the flaming balls of snot!

Then she tosses a barrage of throwing daggers at the mecha-dragon as it rolls about.

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•@Eltesla,@Redcroc

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Dr. WATHELET

"Right," Dr. Wathelet replies to Murasaki’s warning. He turns to the mecha-dragon as Casey’s daggers stick into the metallic torso. "Hey, you big jerk! We need you to calm down, not throw down!"

The mecha-dragon flexes his right arm. It grows bigger as claws grip the doctor’s supercomputer, jerking it out of the wall!

The broken machinery emits smoke, sparks and arc of electricity. The mecha-dragon hurls it toward Murasaki—but his aim is way off! The busted computer sails overhead and crashes against a lab table cluttered with test tubes and beakers!Dr. Wathelet yells, "Stop twisting my words! Do not attack!"

The mecha-dragon twists his body, attacking Casey with his tail!Dr. Wathelet carefully places the megaphone onto the floor and slowly backs away from it.