As a high-class healer, Piniki not only had a wealth of medical knowledge and training but also tailored most of her talent skills to diagnose injuries and sicknesses. One of the said skills was the a…well, MRI Vision; it would essentially allow her to see inside my body, and what she saw was enough to shake her to the core because not only was I bleeding internally in several places, but she realized that, unless I was brought into an Emergency room for expedited surgery, there was a strong possibility I would die within the next several hours.
The Damage I had sustained was far beyond her capabilities, and unless she was back to her full strength in the Origin Timeline, the odds of her being able to help me recover to perfect health were non-existent.
"Just worry about getting me back on my feet, Piniki. I have other means of patching myself up, so you only need to worry about immediate care." Fighting hard so that my left eye didn’t twitch or that I didn’t accidentally let slip through my body language how uncomfortable I was being around the girl, I put on my best "weak smile" and got her moving.
"Ri…*sniffle* right, I will do what I can, so hang in there, Nexus." Nodding her head as she wiped her tears on her suit sleeve, the Pink healer set to work, treating the worst of my injuries, the internal ones I had caused to emulate the Damage I would have taken from being gut punched by the NightWalker.
Meanwhile, I filled the others in on what happened after the explosion, leaving only Piniki and Sonas out of the loop, and of course, none of my family were pleased with the outcome.
’Damn it, I thought for sure we were close that time; you even bashed his head in…but those particle grenades…was that really necessary? I almost shat my pants when I saw you arm them.’ Brenden, whose train of thought immediately flowed back to the item he feared the most in the world, complained.
’Call it insurance; the thought process was simple: if he could somehow survive losing his head, the particle grenades would atomize the body so that regeneration would be impossible. I doubt even the NightWalker would have survived the explosion point blank.’ Resisting the eye roll, I became accustomed to executing whenever my brother complained; I steered the conversation in a different direction.
’The other gates have been cleared; before I fled down the mountain to meet up with Xilia, I checked the drone feed and saw the joint teams were heading here; they should be close…’
(Joint Hero/Player Team is nearing the platform. What does the situation look like, Nexus?)
’Speak of the devil, and he shall appear,’ I said with a slight smirk before clearing my throat.
(Be advised there was an altercation interrupting our battle with the NightWalker. Both Draven and Xipher had a showdown, and we jumped in but had to flee because that insane bastard Xipher dropped particle Grenades on the platform; we are about 3/10ths of a mile below the platform.)
Upon mentioning Xipher’s name, several gasps of surprise filled the comms, but Krak took control and called to clear them, allowing me to continue explaining.
(At last sighting, our NightWalker was severely injured but still alive. Xipher inflicted heavy wounds on the thing, but be advised, it is far stronger than expected, around Gamma Rank power. I don’t know what kind of shape it’s in, but be on guard if you decide to make contact with it.)
(Copy that, Major. I will send the healers your directions so they can patch up your team to the best of their ability while the mainliners scope out the situation on the platform.)
’This fucking guy, always trying to earn brownie points, whatever, they should be able to maul what remains of the NightWalker, especially since I nailed it with a 50% kick to the upper body. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if that killed it.’
’You did what now?’ Emilia, suddenly whipping her head around to glare at me, inquired.
’i…uh…kicked it at 50%...’
’And this was after or before you punched the Index’s head off?’
’uh….after…it tried to ambush me, so i..
’Taylor Lawrence Jörgensen, are you telling me that after everything you did to your body, you STILL pushed yourself to a 50% Actuate when you could have easily batted the monster away, given its state at the time, with a mere ten, maybe 15%.’
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’Eep…but you see, what had happened was…’
’CAN IT! You and your brother will be the death of me; neither of you thinks about the consequences of your actions and constantly injure yourselves during battle; just look at Brenden; his arms are so numb he has to walk like a freaking Gorilla!’
’Ohh ohh ohhh, banana!’ Finding the fact I was being scolded by his wife funny, Brenden bounced a little, causing his arms to flail slightly.
’That’s chimps, you degenerate, and don’t think you are safe EITHER!’
Luckily, we were saved by the appearance of three people wearing robes. The healers from the joint team, all of which wielded Water Talents, came over and joined in with Piniki on rapidly healing my body.
But just as she had panicked upon seeing my state, the three newcomers freaked out as well, especially since they had seen multiple injuries caused by the NightWalkers, and apart from ones caused by the Annihilation Aura, mine took the cake.
Around 15 minutes into the 4-way healing party, explosions and rumblings from the platform shook the ground, drawing everyone’s attention as flashes of just about any element you could think of darted through the sky; the Joint Team had made contact with the NightWalker, and upon realizing that I finally opened up the live drone footage in my left Lense.
And what I saw caused me to shake my head.
’Over 80 people are bum-rushing a single NightWalker…and losing, for fuck sake, how god damn weak are these guys, we beat that thing to shit, and it’s at best 30% strength, yet they can barely keep up with it.’
’In their defense, they’ve been jumping from one fight to the next with little to no rest…and it outranks them by nearly two ranks.’ Speaking up for the first time, it was my Father who countered me.
’I don’t see your point; it’s relying on pure physical strength now, so sure, the damn thing has Gamma Stats, but that’s it, no skills, techniques, or hidden abilities, hell it can’t even float anymore; it’s just zipping around on foot bodying everyone up there.’