[9+1][13+1][10+1] You form the energy barriers required to direct such a blast, relying on half-remember formulas that Alphira provides. It's difficult to focus on all of this at once, your multi-tasking assisted by the Ballistic you took. You breath out, then, with hopeful heart, you reach into the reactor with your will, feeling the moderated thrum of energy that pulses through the entire ship. You draw it out, cycling it faster and faster until the heat builds within, until the emergency vents fail to fire -- melted shut as they are. It roils with superheated, compressed hydrogen, building, and building--
[17] It explodes with a sudden burst of energy -- and it follows the channels of energy outward, towards the other reactor. The room blackens with heat, and you begin to sweat within your armor as the temperature spikes to incredible temperatures. You shut your eyes against the beam, which burns at them even through the lenses of the mask.
You stagger, breathing hard, smelling iron, but stay standing. Something screams, but the sound is distant and weak after the noise of the reactor ripping itself apart.Where the first reactor was is nothing but a glassy colored crater in the flesh of the Levithan. Veins and tubes dripping liquid water and coolant to collect at the bottom.
A massive gouge, taller than you and wider than you are tall, is scored through many hallways and corridors, down into another chamber where the faint glow of another fusion reactor is visible. Scorched and burned insects twitch feebly, trying to drag themselves to you, but succumbing to their wounds.
You move towards the next --
[12+1 vs 5] [d:3/2] You pivot towards a sound, peeling your SMG off your chest and laying into the collection of writhing tentacle blades that tries to rend you to shreds. It screeches as chunks of its tainted flesh explode into superheated steam. The automatic fire tears it apart, and you continue on your path--
[2+1 vs 7] [hl:13]You wince as something knocks you back, cracking your armor too close for comfort near a sensitive area. You glare through your mask.
[15+1 vs 11][d:1/1] You spray the creature with automatic las-gun fire -- and it collapses when a few of the many misplaced shots hit it.
You're at the second reactor now, and you prepare yourself once more.
[4+1][6+1][8+1] You math is sloppier, rougher, as you try to use a shortcut-- and it's too late you realize what you've done. The next reactor explodes before you finish putting up the energy to direct it. The explosion knocks you back, burning hot energy washing over you--
[1] You black out.
[-] Pain registers for a moment when you hit something. [Oxygen...cycl--]
You open your eyes, trying to struggle-- only to feel a great weight pushing down on you. You can see nothing-- and you try to lift your hand-- nothing happens. Your lungs still fill, greedily sucking in the oxygen from your mask-- you're wet, you realize.
Then it strikes you, as your consciousness comes back into focus.
You're on the bottom of the ocean--
Lucille. Diagnostic.
[Emergency Power Saving Mode-- priority hazardous condition life support. Estimated time remaining: Twenty-three hours. This message will not repeat.]
A small dim display flashes on your hud, the only light in the dark--
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