Pain. I felt pain into my body. Being flung around by those unmanned drones wasn't the most pleasant of activities, needless to say.
Everything seemed desperate. I watched as three of the five drones overpowered Houki, Cecilia and Rin. No matter what they did, they were unable to match the new patterns our attackers seemed to display... these units, they had adapted themselves to our strategies.
The first one that had been sent against me and Rin was just a probe.
The IS that had just punched me walked up to me, its arm cannons charging up, as if to deliver the finishing blow.
Was it already over?
No, it couldn't end like that. Right now, right here, I had to live. But how?!
I tried moving. Byakushiki responded, but the searing pain that I kept feeling stopped me from being too mobile. I had to dodge that shot. Yet my muscles were refusing to move.
"Come on, move, move MOVE!" I cried out to myself, wishing that it would make a difference.
My muscles weren't responsive. I wasn't going to survive the shot.
The unmanned IS fire its laser towards me.
I watched as this pink light that symbolized death was blasted at me, awaiting for a miracle to happen.
Houki's, Rin's, Cecilia's and Charlotte's voices could be heard, calling out to me, imploring me to dodge.
I wished I could, my body just wouldn't respond.
Was it the end?
"GOD DAMN IT ICHIKA!!" someone else shouted.
Alex-san, who I thought had been knocked out earlier, threw himself in front of me to block the shot.
Speechless, not knowing what to do, I watched as his IS was engulfed into an explosion.
He vanished into a cloud of smoke and debris. My radar lost him as well.
We had just lost Alex Hikari.
Enraged at what had just happened, my muscles fueled by the anger and hatred that I felt towards those lifeless machines that had just taken away one of my classmate's life, I charged at the IS responsible for this crime while shouting out as loud as I could, and as violently as possible.
"WHY YOU BASTARD!!!"
I had to dispatch that thing now, before it took more lives away.
Before I could close in though, the IS had already armed another shot though, and was about to fire it directly at me.
I had been foolish, I was weakned, and it was too late to change directions.
In a last ditch effort to survive, I activated my wings' brakes and tried to turn away to dodge the incoming fire, but due to my injuries, the process was too slow.
Shielding myself with Byakushiki's hands as to not take the brunt of the blast (even though if this would've probably killed me), I closed my eyes, preferring not to see what would happen.
The sound of an energy weapon piercing through the air resounded across the arena.
An IS fell down to the ground.
It wasn't mine
It was the drone that was about to kill me.
I had been saved again, but by who? All the other girls were immobilized by the four other unmanned drones. Who had done that?
I had a quick glance around, for some moment, not seeing anything, but then, my radar caught a small blip for a fraction of second.
I turned my eyes towards that direction, and there, I saw it, only for a few seconds, bu I saw it. The nearly invisible silhouette of something that looked like a fully armored IS, colored in white and red, with a creepy teal light emanating from its eyes.
The drones detected it as well, quickly focusing all their firepower on my mysterious savior to destroy him.
However, they touched nothing apart thin air. The IS had already vanished and disappeared completely.
Yet I had the feeling that this 'thing' was still near.
----------To be continued---------