With less than five minutes left Kelly was using her
manual controls to move the right arm as safely as possible over to the left to
try and expose the secondary power unit in the left arm. The leviathans
tentacles had let go of Blinding Light’s limbs but the chest tentacle was still
tightly wrapped around the mecha.
Any time Kelly tried to move the arm faster than what
felt like a snail’s pace the pressure of the water would cause parts of the arm
to buckle and crush. The timer counting down on their breathable air did
nothing to relax the rest of the Shades. Finally she was able to maneuver the
arm into position and tore as much of the outer shell away from the secondary
engine as she could without causing too much damage to the engine itself. She tried
one last time to expose more than just the front third but the fingers on the
right hand finally went dead. “Ok Dante.” She said. “It’s all you now.
Dante rush through the command interface for the left
arm. He reaching the manual start up for the Blade of Blinding Light. The
screen denied him manual access several times in a row. “COME ON!” he slammed
his fist into the screen, cracking it.
The tentacle around Blinding Light’s chest tightened
causing all of Blinding light to shudder violently. The view screen cracked
deeply and the air timer reached its last minute. Dante scrambled at an angle
to the door and awkwardly left the command station to make his way to the left
arm. His angry voice coming over their helmet. “We’re not going out like this!”
He yelled. The other shades tried to stay calm while they waited for their last
hope. Kelly managed her breathing like she was swimming long underwater
distances. Sonya made her way over to Dante’s cracked console attempting
several more times to summon the Blade of Blinding Light. Each time the error
window popped up denying the action. “Try it now!” Dante yelled over the
intercom. The other shades could hear fire and sparking wires behind his voice.
Sonya desperately pressed the button multiple times as the timer was flashing
zero. She started slamming her fist into the screen and suddenly the backup
engine roared to life unleashing a huge electric charge that exploded out into
the water and crawled all over the body of Blinding Light.
The electricity agitated the Leviathan enough that it
loosened its grip on Blinding light. Gordon had already passed out and had
fallen from his chair to the floor. Warren was slumped over his console. Sonya
moved to reach her console but fell over onto her knees and lost consciousness.
Kelly scrambled as quickly as possible to Sonya’s console and pressed the
emergency jets as her vision started to blur.
Blinding Light began to slowly jet away from the
Leviathan and moved towards the surface. Kelly was having serious
trouble staying conscious as she elevated Blinding Lights speed to maximum. The
Mecha was moving toward the surface as Kelly saw the deep dark ocean blue
outside the view screen get lighter and lighter. She tried to push the speed bar
higher but the console replied with a broken error tone. Blinding lights right
arm was ripped off as the legs and waist jets propelled the Mecha back to the
surface.
Water began to leak in through the view screen like
they had cracked the wall of an aquarium. Kelly felt like she was dreaming as
she saw beautiful blue sky blue light just before she hit the floor.
