Kimiko was more than a match for him, and her bladed leaves sliced into the weapon's controls more than well enough to prevent its use.
There were, however, other platforms.
The remaining barrels spat brimstone as the dirigible's guns launched twelve-pound shells towards the Wayfarers below.
Had she any time to think rather than worry about the safety of her friends below, Kimiko might have been impressed at just how easily she'd downed that machoke by herself. Alas, there were more pressing concerns. Like, perhaps, just
maybe, the fact that her infiltration hadn't been enough to sabotage
all the cannons...!
She felt the reverberations before she heard them fire, and they shook her to her core. She dashed to the nearest window, not even the dizzying height enough to distract her from the dread, staring in horrible anticipation, as all she could see was the smoke from the shot...
She'd hesitated. If only she'd gotten there a little quicker... those seconds she wasted blasting Matthias just to selfishly vent her frustration...
Until the smoke begin to clear and somehow, she realized, no damage had been done. The missiles had been halted in midair, by - was that Steven? Regardless, she breathed a sigh of relief.
A flash of light startled her and suddenly there was Gladion,
gleefully angrily tearing apart any machinery he could get his claws on. How did...? Oh, right... Kimiko had one of those orbs, too. Well, on the bright side, she could use hers now rather than try to figure out how she was going to get back
down the chain...
She left Gladion to the carnage and popped back into existence down below just in time to see Matthias crumple to Valere's finishing blow. Good, that was two problems now dealt with.
Moments later, the rest of the squad also popped into existence, along with... oh. Crap. That must be the light that the robot moth was meant to contain. The professor was suddenly in contact with Betel of all things, and there was a lot of hasty discussion of how to handle this.
“You can’t be serious!?” Archie yelled. “You can’t actually believe they’re going to just let Amida go free, after all this!? Destroy that thing, before it’s too late!”
“So let me get this straight,” she seethed. “We come up here to stop the fucking Covenant from usurping this Radiance power, and now that things have gone so far off the fucking rails for them, the convenient answer to the current woe is ARTICUNO?”
"I don't... do either of you have a better idea?" Kimiko snapped back in desperation, instantly regretting how harsh it came out, but they had no time to debate this! "We can't just let her die."
Her tail lit up in anticipation of another round of battle. She was tired from dashing around, but otherwise healthy; she could handle a couple more goons if necessary. "We've beat down saints before, we can do it again. If they pull anything, we're right here. Let them try."
That this was their only acceptable option (in her eyes) left a sour taste in her mouth; she'd never met this Articuno, but it didn't sound like anyone she had any reason to trust. But that didn't change their situation. So, she dashed back towards the robot moth, planting herself directly in front of it. If anything even remotely suspicious arose, she'd be ready to start cutting.
Gods, I hope this is the right thing to do...
