Blinding Light was losing the fight against the tentacles.
They had completely wrapped around each of its limbs and its chest and were
slowly dragging it back into the sea. The beach sand was scarred by the drag
marks of Blinding Lights feet as it was pulled further into the water. As the
ocean waves were crashing against its waist compartments all over the body
opened to reveal lift off jets which fired, beginning to lift Blinding light
out of the water as the tentacles pulled back. The output got brighter and
larger. Again Blinding light make a little upward motion out of the water,
until the jets ran out of fuel, the fires died and the compartments closed. The
tentacles reaffirmed their grip and finished dragging blinding light beneath
the waves.
In the command center shades were looking a long lists
of internal and external damage from the tentacles. Now that they were beneath
the surface of the ocean though they could see the entirety of the monstrosity
that had defeated them.
It was an ancient squid so impossibly large that it
did not seem proper for the earth itself to contain it. With its prize secured
the leviathan made its way deeper into the depths of the ocean.
As Blinding light was dragged along the pressure of
the water began to cause its own damage to the mecha. Warning lights flashed and
alarms went off. The left arm elbow joint bucked and tore until all information
coming from the systems it contained ceased and the status lights went dead.
Everything in the giant mecha was on the verge of failure. The view screen
flickered in and out and was beginning to crack.
The lights on the outside of Blinding light were the
only sources of real light this deep in the ocean. As they began to fail,
flicker and die the abyss filled with ancient nightmares once again returned to
its mysteriously inky darkness.
Inside the command room a new alarm joined the cacophony.
Blinding Lights onboard oxygen storage was damaged and they could see their air
bubble out and upward toward the now impossibly distant surface.
The Leviathan settled on the ocean floor, pulled
blinding light in close and closed it eyes.
Gordon pulled the Oxygen warning up on his console. “Sonya
we’ve got about seven minutes of air left, what the hell do we do now?” He
asked.
Sonya was looking through the depressingly small list
of powers still available to use on Blinding Light. “I’m looking, give me a
minute.” She answered.
Dante looked in her direction away from his screens “We
don’t exactly have a lot of those left you know?” He was starting to panic.
“Electricity” Kelly blurted out.” The others looked
her direction.
“What?” Sonya asked.
“Our left arm is damaged, that’s our primary sword
arm, so we can’t summon the Blade of Blinding light, but it’s also the
secondary power station, so maybe we could figure out a way to electrify the
entire mecha and irritate the leviathan enough to let us go.” She explained.
Dante pulled up the status of the left arm. It showed
the power station was still generating power but there was nothing in the left
arm to use it for. “We’ve got the power but we need to access it. Somehow.” He enlarged
the status window.
“And we’re going to have to figure it out on our own,
because communications are down.” Warren added.
Everyone looked to
Sonya. “All right kids, stay calm and start thinking of a plan, we’ve got less
than seven minutes to make this happen.”
