Last Flight of the Day - Bonus Round [Mod]

[Pyxis]

Pyxis made her way into the nearest hangar building, taking a peek around. What had probably once been surprisingly intact for an area overrun with shadows was now showing the signs of numerous battles. Especially in and around the door where she had entered, the place was torn up, covered in scorch marks, and occasionally wet from melted ice. For a Persona user, that was a localized war zone. Deeper in, from what Pyxis could see from behind the remains of a badly damaged plane, everything was more intact. Had people just not gone very far in? Or were shadows always just waiting around the entryway and nowhere else?

If it was the latter, she'd soon find out.

[Erithania]

Nobody special here. Go home.

Unassuming Mother

Skills
Black Viper
Bufu
Assault Dive

Null: Ice
Weak: Everything else

[Pyxis]

A few steps in, Pyxis's sensors picked up a shadow nearby. Way too nearby for her to have just noticed it. And yet there it was, a shadow with a humanoid, feminine body laid out on a rather plain couch off in a corner. Pyxis summoned Elpis and called forth a wave of energy that would help her attacks find stress points and weaknesses more easily, just in case, but the shadow simply raised an arm and waved as though trying to shoo her away. As she did, kinetic force slammed into Pyxis...weak kinetic force that was almost negligible. In response, Pyxis directed Elpis to attack and hopefully intimidate the shadow into being unable to attack. Black shadows rose up from the box at the spirit of hope's feet, slamming into the shadow in a series of attacks that also smashed up the walls and what might have at one time been valuable machinery around it. The attack found its mark, dealing critical damage and apparently hitting a natural weakness as well. The shadow's couch collapsed from the force of the attack, spilling its feminine form on the ground and causing it to roll away.

Then it stood up.

Then it used an attack Pyxis had seen just recently, used by Vice against the sun and moon shadows. An ethereal image like a gigantic black snake came crashing down on the battlefield, slamming into Pyxis. Damage sensors and alarms exploded into her consciousness as the attack hit. She nearly collapsed under the force of it as motor functions in her legs started malfunctioning, then froze up altogether. In the aftermath of the alarmingly powerful attack Pyxis still stood, but was now badly damaged and rooted in place.

"......Fuck was that?!" she exclaimed with all the eloquence and tact of an online gamer. That shadow had just...it...it had seriously just gone from utterly weak and lazy to alarmingly powerful because its couch had been destroyed. The best thing that could be said about the sudden reversal was that with the sheer exhaustion that one attack would cause, it hopefully wouldn't be able to fire off another one. Which meant that it was time to finish it in one blow, preferably before her legs un-froze and finally gave out. "Charging up," she said as Elpis's light-up dress and hair began glowing brightly. The shadow attempted to attack again, but sure enough was unable to get off a second Black Viper and instead settled for a very weak ice attack, which barely added anything to Pyxis's current damage readings. "Finish it!" Pyxis called out, as more shadowy figures emerged swirling around Elpis, then executed another combo of attacks that smashed the shadow apart.

[ChromaticTruthsayer]

Success!

You defeated the enemy!
You also found: Fire Boost Accessory (+25%)

[Pyxis]

Okay. Wow. That still hurt. A lot. Pyxis managed to heal herself when everything was over and restore movement to her legs, but everything still hurt. Why was she programmed to feel pain? Oh right, because pain was a natural response to taking damage and helped humans to avoid more damage. That was all well and good, but there had to have been a way to program the same response without pain receptors. Her systems were constantly feeding her damage reports when in combat, after all.

Oh well.

"I think that's enough for this stop," Pyxis said, picking up a few things that might have been valuable and slowly making her way outside to where the cannon parts sat. "I should probably head back and recharge before the next stop though. Especially after that..."