Gothic City. Street level
Fear and anger slammed into Alex like a wave. She would have been overwhelmed by all the negative feelings under ordinary circumstances. So many people were hurt and scared, it was like the city itself was in pain. Add to the fact that Alex was very much out of her element here. Dealing with evil witches, or demons, or even the occasional fallen god was one thing. Playing superhero and fighting a literal robot army was quite another thing.
Alex was working crowd control. Kind of. Rather then fighting on the front line she defending the fleeing, terrified people. It was hard, what with the demon hand grinding its teeth into her hand and wrist. But she had a mission to focus herself on. And that helped her maintain control as much as anything else.
Somewhere an explosion sounded off like the last trumpet, heralding the end of all. Alex shook the thought out of her head. Its was a frightening situation, yes. But not unstoppable. "Find your center. Your place in the universe." She told herself. "I am the sword of the weak. Defender of the defenseless. The servant of light and the adversary of darkness."
Even as she said the words, she saw down one broken street a school bus full of people hit some debris. Moving without thinking about it, Alex summoned a strong wind to catch the bus and right up. Hand sign magic was faster then spoken or written, but it also cost the most from a witch. Alex waved as the bus drove past. Her smile quickly faded as she saw the doombots coming up the street from the direction the bus had came from. 6 of the emotionless robotic soldiers marched towards her, their feet indenting the pavement in places.
Alex quickly pondered her options for dispatching the merciless machines. Muttering the words of a spell, the pavement became like quicksand, and two doombots were quickly bogged down to their waists. The other four simply began to hover over the street.[Meta-human resistor discovered. Scans show Beta level abilities. Threat assessment. Moderate] one of the doombots said in what Alex assumed was a recording of Doom's voice.
"Beta? You must not know me." Alex replied, throwing up an invisible shield as the doombots began shooting at her. The shield held well, reflecting the shots. Her ability to create and hold shields was much better then it had once been. Suddenly she had an idea, and made the shield to curve back, causing the plasma fire to hit two of the doombots, melting through their chest plates, and burning up strange circuitry. But she didn't see the doombot come from her left side. The powerful machine knocked her to the ground, making her concentration slip, and the shield dissipated.
Before the doombot could finish her, Alex pulled her modified gun from its leg holster, and pulled the trigger. A stream of hell fire hit the robot in the face, destroying its head and upper body in the blast. "What's my threat assessment now?" She asked as she fired at the remaining doombot.
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