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And from where they crash, wherever that may be, they prepare to fight.

Daphne - "We're coming with you."

Cassandra - "We all are."

The Mechanic loads a shotgun (his name is Hideo, since you asked) while the Operator (try asking) slams his grenade launcher shut.  Infinite ammo on the house.





From behind the pillars and whatever structure remains, these Cherubim Gabrielle spoke of begin moving out side to side. 

Their motion is specifically coded so that they think that anything even the space in front of them is stairs up or down, a level floor.  Whatever they need to side to side their way slowly closer, there bubbles filled with faint faces, striking between each darting move.

I've created these before.  They're the worst.  They all cut their way through as a team, the rest following whichever the player plays.

Until the throne room where Gabrielle waits looking both pissed and devastated.  "You don't understand.  You've ruined everything.  By being right." 

A tired smile and into the portal, in the distance below the torch lights again, and power lights back on in the here and there of town.

The gate explodes, followed by more in the distance approaching as fake heaven begins eating itself.  They look over the edge to the world below, the destruction approaching behind.

Death - from a bridge between platforms, looking down on the world.  "But from this high ?"

Explorer - "Good luck with that."

Killer - "Hmmm ... "

Learner - "I mean ... theoretically it shouldn't matter ... right ?"

Daphne - "Fuck that."

The Mechanic jumps over the edge.

Cassandra - "Pussy."

Daphne - With a shocked look she calls after, "You are such a whore !"  She jumps. 

The Explorer looks down as a crow.  A sigh.  Jumps.  You'll jump off the bridge eventually too because all your friends just did.





As they fly falling into fireballs headed directly for the central tower, seven living missiles with zero splash damage.  It takes some time, and some here and there correction to aim.

Before shattering the tower whole and collapsing the city's center into it's under works, shattering all the connecting spires.  The final battle has begun.