Masks 2

Candy put in her ear plugs, but the song still seemed to be rattling her very soul! It was clear that the Song of the Deep wasn't just an audio experience.

Siren zoomed off through the water before zooming back! Barreling through the water, Theraea tried moving Ken and Polybius out of the way.

Unfortunately, Siren was quite nimble in the water, and managed to divert course to perform her attack anyway. She delivered a slash at Ken's torso (where the blow was helpfully diminished by his armor and Theraea's movement). Rather than cutting through into his organs, it hacked through his armor and left a gash diagonally across his chest. It'd probably leave a cool scar.

Polybius let out a laser blast as well, causing Siren to dodge before launching her fist through the drone. The hull, strong as it was, crumpled in half before the powerful blow. The drone was now useless, though Ken knew from his technical experience that the black box would still be intact. Better yet, he could probably salvage some of Polybius's weapons if he had a second.

Then Siren sped through the water towards Sam and delivered her strike. In that moment, time slowed down for Sam. However, time didn't slow down nearly enough to make him comfortable.

Dodging sideways and clumsily failing to slash, the spear actually brushed against his side as Siren went by him. It left a small cut, but he was still alive and relatively intact.

At that point, Maria was finally sufficiently healed by the actions of Zil. The alien had helpfully and dutifully knitted Maria's debilitating injury back together, though it had left her quite tired.

With great effort, then, Maria restored the bubble at a greater size than it had been before. Lying on the ground, helplessly focusing on her task, she managed to create an area two-hundred feet in diameter in which to fight. The Demon, as before, used a wind spell to fill it with air.

Siren swam fast to stay out of the bubble, where her powers would be far less useful. Fortunately, her reinforcements had arrived in the form of countless Fishmen, a dozen crab cars, six artillery shrimp, and a whole lot of lamprey hands, barnacles, and razorfish. More would be on their way, too, before long.

The Demon, Nocturne, and La Chat all rushed into position to protect Maria as best they could. Helpfully, the Demon conjured a magical shield while Nocturne threw out a lot of stun mines.

In the background, the entire group could also see that the tentacles were getting longer as time passed. The Song of the Deep was still bringing whatever creature that was into the world...