Though the hard expression had set into his face the moment they'd confronted She Who Stalks in the open, Ochazuke felt some measure of relief as Held sounded off as his prized Galloping shot forward. Moreover, as much as their communicative frequencies connected them ship to ship, his sense-awareness found the flare of purifying energy.
Someone's found them. His innermost thoughts fought to train the impulse that would have carried it over the signal the Zero System would codify into speech.
Even from this distance, as Held pushed beneath the storm, it struck out like a flare in a dead, starless night.
But this is only a glimpse...
Face to face with the hand that heralding Reshlan's doom, the Martial Chef kept his left arm raised, and as the energy pooled from everything, fromthe Golden Knights holding the line to the fledgeling ki-whispers gathered from the terra-firma itself, Zaofan, from his perch on the outer hull before the nose of the Gotengo grinned.
Made you look!
Explosions wreathed the horizon as weaponized First Metal cast into the storm and scattered on impact, spreading like torrents of burning, refractive glass. One unholy scream seemed to shake the world, then twenty-two others ripped apart the shroud of demonic energy forcefully. As they'd promised, they'd broken the storm apart, and yet from his perch he trembled to behold it.
"...well it went just as we'd planned when Koorimaru'd planted the rounds, but I think we might have made it worse."
Ochazuke's meditation field struck out over the planet.
"
She was a god before she was deposed. This, too, is part of the plan."
Positioning itself between the Capital and the remainder of the storm, the Gotengo began to close in on the convergent cloud. Despite the light that now fell from the parting in the sky, the living shadow seemed only to swallow the waking dawn from the distant Threshling star, as if its span were some broken portal to the abyssal unknown surrounding the world.
"
We've found the vector of attack. Now we collapse it further."
Bristling with energy, the lone Gotengo began to climb altitude. Pursing his lips and loosing a long exhale, Zaofan nodded silently to assure himself. His white cape turned in the wind and he felt a stiff chill overtake him. Set to the course, he then raised his other hand.