We Sons Of Daley [Manhattan Blues]

Alice: Try rapidly heating a really cold one. The temperature flux should cause cracks if it doesn't render the whole thing to pieces.

Good idea! Alice casually snaps her fingers, throwing a FIREBALL at the thing. (Soul used: Under Innate Threshold of 50) WHOOMPH. The immobilized one explodes into STEAM for a moment. You can hear the SNAP of RIVETS SPANGING into the WALLS before EVERLASTING MOMENT strikes it again. Unfortunately, this time (perhaps because of the it's quite able to keep itself moving. Luckily, you can see the armor FLAKING AND CRUMBLING as the cold affects the ARMOR much more PROFOUNDLY than before because of the THERMAL STRESS.

[CROSS COUNTER active] You step forward, not wanting to see what its counter-attacks look like if you were to shoot it at point-blank while it has a chance to MOVE. Your arm is POETRY IN MOTION when it THUNDERS into the CENTER of its GREAT PLATE and the field plate it was wearing CRUNCHES INTO A HUNDRED PIECES. Augh, that was such a PAIN! You punch it AGAIN for good measure.

Amazingly it's STILL STANDING, and decides to take a SWING at you. This is where your OTHER tech comes into play. You hope. It goes off and you SOCK IT IN THE STOMACH ONCE MORE FOR GOOD MEASURE, then before it can bring that hammer back into play, you THUMP IT AGAIN.

You thought you were doing SOME damage to it with those punches, but even you're kind of SHOCKED to see the FORCE OF YOUR BLOW go OUT THE OTHER SIDE OF ITS CHEST. It falls over, inactive.

The other two, seeing that (and the rather impressive display of ki use you're putting on) decide that focusing on the squishier target, namely YOU, is better than trying to take on the Ginnie in a fight when she still has handguns.

This turns out to be a MAJOR MISTAKE, especially when a second one SPROUTS A NEW HOLE.

At this point, even with your shiny new technique, you're a little hard pressed to dodge. But there are two problems with what the GOLEM decided to do.

The first was to go after someone who was using KI when they hadn't run out yet.

The second was turning its back on the GINNIE. Four bullets go in, but it starts to drop after the third. Ginnie drops her empty CLIPS and RELOADS, casually, and looks at you and Alice. She says, n a gravelly voice that you could SWEAR wasn't the voice you heard- is she THAT GOOD at acting?- "You have people to take care of. And be MORE SUBTLE with that SLEDGEHAMMER you call a WILL." Sound advice; they're likely to DEDUCE your SECRET if you go BALLS TO THE WALL like that, even with a CONCEALMENT MATRIX better than any INVISIBILITY CLOAK. (Hint- there are powers that work that may not be obviously SUPERNATURAL to a casual observer! Even better, there are some you can disguise as KI USE!)

With that, she leaves. You're... Not sure how she managed to leave without you noticing. "WHAT ABOUT THE EVIDENCE!?" You shout. Well, that can wait. You turn off the JUICE and the EVERLASTING MOMENT.

These guys seem in better shape in that they're actually starting to STAND, and a quick sense confirms your squad is still FIGHTING.

You couldn't pull out another SLIPSTREAM, but you have another round of CROSS COUNTER remaining. Use it wisely.

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