There's a Flame formation that was set up to go through first, and it does, it's in everyone else's way, but Flame's commander barks, "Don't engage the wheel, A - Brighteyes, can Aegis take them?"
"I can," says Aegis, "might get flashed first but I can."
"Go," says the commander, and Aegis leaps in one bound from the hall into her element and grabs the corner of a star and pushes off.
She can't, actually, hit anyone in the wheel while it's spinning, there's too much of a lag between hit and freeze, but she can dive through the center of it and kick someone's helmet and shove someone's shoulder, and when the formation explodes, then she can hit them. She twists in the air, pushes off a wall and flies and shoots. And she recognizes a familiar face and shoots him too and his suit goes still.
But she expected them to engage the other Flame formations, and they're not. Everyone in the wheel is specifically after her. A moment after she freezes Sue, two boys come at her from perpendicular angles behind her; one gets her shooting arm and the other hugs her thighs. And - though she often neglects to tell anyone this - it doesn't make her stronger; she can't force them off. A flick of her wrist gets her gun into her other hand - she's effectively ambidextrous in the exo - and she shoots the one who's got her arm before she sees a third Meerkat incoming and gets frozen herself.
She spends the rest of the game floating around, frozen soldier clinging to frozen arm.
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Date: 2013-02-20 12:40 am (UTC)"I can," says Aegis, "might get flashed first but I can."
"Go," says the commander, and Aegis leaps in one bound from the hall into her element and grabs the corner of a star and pushes off.
She can't, actually, hit anyone in the wheel while it's spinning, there's too much of a lag between hit and freeze, but she can dive through the center of it and kick someone's helmet and shove someone's shoulder, and when the formation explodes, then she can hit them. She twists in the air, pushes off a wall and flies and shoots. And she recognizes a familiar face and shoots him too and his suit goes still.
But she expected them to engage the other Flame formations, and they're not. Everyone in the wheel is specifically after her. A moment after she freezes Sue, two boys come at her from perpendicular angles behind her; one gets her shooting arm and the other hugs her thighs. And - though she often neglects to tell anyone this - it doesn't make her stronger; she can't force them off. A flick of her wrist gets her gun into her other hand - she's effectively ambidextrous in the exo - and she shoots the one who's got her arm before she sees a third Meerkat incoming and gets frozen herself.
She spends the rest of the game floating around, frozen soldier clinging to frozen arm.