Chrysalis

That crafty leather faced lizard! He'd let Garralosh regain control of her body a few seconds before me! Now I'm deep in brown town! My enhanced neural network fires at a speed beyond what would normally be possible and I'm dodging before my brain can fully process what has occurred.

Synapses spark, muscles fire and I fly to the right as mountain crushing might of that tail falls down on me like a meteor. My eyes are filled with burning scales and all sound fades from my ears. Heat is all my antennae can sense and the brief glimpse into the future is giving me confusing signals. The tail is obviously my main concern but something is also coming from my left? I don't know! It does seem clear on one thing though.

I'm not going to make it.

Dammit, dammit, dammit! I can't fail here. Not now! That damned wizard lizard isn't going to get the best of me! Each of my four minds frantically spins to try and come up with something, anything that might get my oversized backside out of this predicament, but I come up empty.

BAM!

As the devastating tail of Garralosh is brushing against my antennae and about to crush my face, something, or somethings, smash into me. I get pushed twice, once on the side, and once from below, almost simultaneously. My carapace cracks a little under the strain and pain radiates out from the injury and I lurch to one side.

BOOM!

Like a mountain collapsing, the tail of my enemy crushes the ground, sending dirt flying into the air. My left side is still caught by the strike and my carapace explodes in pain as part of my body squishes in a very unpleasant way. My organs! My precious organs! And my legs? Forget 'em! Stupid stick-like ant legs!

Before Garralosh can recover, I throw my dignity to the wind, tuck what's left of my legs and roll like a tumbleweed, scrabbling to put some distance between us. My health has been cut in half by that one strike, even the diamond carapace not able to withstand the devastating power of that strike.

Her mind may be weak but her body is OP. Way too OP!

healing organ once more, desperate to fix my legs and injured body, I notice Vibrant is

Talking hurts. Everything

the hyper-active ant is

away, Garralosh appears to be going mad. She raises her tail and repeatedly smashes it into the ground in

moving! Both of you went still and we weren't sure what was going on! We tried to make sure you were okay, and then the fat croc

"We?"

"..."

Where's Grant?

the entire battle. She'd been wanting to help, I could see it in

is she? WHERE

"Look out!"

willing to wait for me. She cast her head around until she saw her strike had failed. A choking roar burst from her throat as she dashes madly toward me.

bring myself to care about the human inside the monster. She's going down. At this point the mind bridge has outlived its usefulness. With Garralosh in a frenzy, she is sending waves of aggression and lunacy across, assaulting my thoughts every second. Even if I try to send distractions to her, I doubt they'll register. Time to drop it and move to more aggressive forms of

mindless rage, any semblance of cunning or thought gone from her actions. Her

Need to dodge! Now!

last moment before I throw myself to one side. Without the use of all of my limbs, I can only get so far and Vibrant lunges forward to bite down on my legs and try to haul me clear. It's almost enough. I catch a battering from one of her legs as the giant beast barrels past me, snapping at the air

the Kaarmodo feels he's interfered enough to satisfy whatever reptilian sense of duty

and mana begins to pour out at an unprecedented speed. The mana is gathered together and then crushed, held in place by