Ocarina (2)
Chapter 58 — Ocarina (2)
"The Knight-Type Gauna are speeding up. Let's hurry!" Akai warned the other nine chosen pilots.
"We can't also allow them to breach the shooting formation," Samari reminded them.
"Understood!"
"Roger!"
"We won't let them get past us!"
"We'll destroy them as quickly as possible!"
The pilots confidently replied one after another.
Akai smiled upon hearing their replies.
"Ten Units Clasp Formation!" said the ten pilots all at once.
They gathered to form a circle as they flew towards the Knight-Type Gaunas at high-speed.
"We'll be approaching them soon!"
"Prepare yourselves!"
"Got it!"
"Understood!"
"Roger!"
The distance between the two sides began to rapidly shrink.
And eventually, the ten Pilots came face to face with the ten Gaunas. Unlike them, the Gaunas flew separately on their own.
"Split up!" Seii instructed upon seeing the situation.
They disassembled from their palm formation and flew towards their own respective targets.
Removing some of the barrels, Akai fired his mass driver that was shorter than before.
Boom!
A bullet flew quickly, but the wings of the Gauna flapped, as various thrusters bursted with powerful force. Instead of avoiding, it actually flew straight into the bullet!
As the bullet neared it, the wings shifted to the side, causing the Gauna to abruptly flicker to the side, narrowly avoiding the bullet.
It continued forward without fear.
Akai decided to fly backward while shooting non-stop.
Whenever the bullets neared, the Gauna always flickered around to avoid the bullets narrowly. It moved like that on purpose.
"I'll make you regret it!" Akai muttered deeply while narrowing his eyes.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
The Gauna avoided the bullet again, but as it flickered to the side, another bullet instantly neared it again. It managed to barely dodge, but another bullet instantly appeared in its position.
Whenever it avoided the bullets, Akai seemed to predict where it would appear next. All of its escape spots were soon blocked as Akai got a hang of its escape pattern.
Boom!
Boom!
A bullet went through the Gauna's head, causing it to be temporarily immobile. But before it could move again, Akai was already near it.
"Goodbye!" The sub-arms held the sword cannon, an intense ray of light piercing into its chest.
The Knight-Type Gauna soon got destroyed.
Akai went to help the others.
…
Nagate was fighting against a Knight-Type Gauna that loved to wield swords. It can also shoot some laser beams.
Tsugomori's main arm wielded the sword cannon and the sub-arms helped to defend with shields. Its mass driver was already destroyed by a beam that suddenly exploded from the Gauna's body.
The Gauna slashed its two swords downward, but the sub-arms blocked it with the shields. Then, tentacles with sharp blades sprouted from its back, slicing toward Tsugomori from all directions at high-speed.
Nagate's eyes flashed, his mind reaching the utmost concentration, time slowing down before his eyes. He imagined it. His energy beams won't work, he couldn't fly back on time, but the sword cannon would be able to defeat it.
The sword cannon glowed brightly with bluish lightning, Tsugomori started to slash it rapidly around it. The silver strand tissues were strained, and like a lightsaber, the sword cannon easily cut off the tentacle blades.
Not yet over.
Before the Gauna could react, the sword cannon was already falling down above its head.
Swissh!
Boom!
The sword cannon split its body into half, along with the True Body, causing it to explode into bubbles.
The Bullet Time wore off. Nagate panted tiredly.
But he persisted. He needed to help his mates.
…
Hoshijiro fired the mass driver rapidly, but the Gauna flew too fast for her to follow and shoot. So, she decided to throw the mass driver and let the sub-arms wield energy rifles. The main arms held the Thunder Spear.
If she couldn't defeat it at long-range, then mid-range and close combat would do!
She charged forward as crimson beams flew towards her, but she avoided it by flying to one side and then to another side, while also shooting the energy rifles.
The Gauna charged towards her, its arms transforming to become a giant blade and a large machine gun.
It fired the machine gun continuously while flying forward, but Hoshijiro also countered with the energy rifles, while sometimes dodging.
As both of them neared each other, the Gauna transformed its machine gun to another giant blade.
Hoshijiro stabbed the spear forward, but it was blocked by the blade. She tried to fire the energy rifles, but the other blade slashed against the sub-arms. As a result, it got destroyed.
She wanted to withdraw the spear, but tendrils suddenly wrapped around it before spreading over the main arms. It slowly started to spread further, but couldn't enter inside since the Guardian Knight was tightly sealed. Activating the blue lightning also didn't work as the tendrils disabled the cables.
The Guardian Knights eyes started to glow before releasing laser beams that started to slowly incinerate the tendrils wrapping its arm. The placenta was covered in beam coating, making it much more resistant.
The Gauna tried to slash at her with its other blade, but the High-Speed Vibrating Blade popped up from her Knight's other free arm.
The Vibrating Blade slashed at the slashing blade, surpassing the placenta blade in sharpness, causing it to be cut apart.
The Gauna opened its face, revealing it to be already charging a beam cannon, wanting to end it once and for all.
However, the laser beam finished incinerating the tendrils, allowing her to activate the Thunder Spears. At the same time, it freed a hidden weapon.
A secret compartment opened from the freed main hand. A machine gun popped down and unleashed a barrage of bullets. Those were Anti-Gauna bullets!
Boom!
It interfered with the charging process that was almost completed, causing the Gauna's head to explode strongly.
Hoshijiro then stabbed the activated Thunder Spear into the exposed True Body.
Bang!
The placenta body of the Knight-Type Gauna exploded.
Hoshijiro managed to win, making her sigh in relief.
…
Samari was fighting alone at first, having it easy with her own Knight-Type Gauna, but without realizing, she crossed paths with the other five pilots as they all fought intensely.
As a result, the battle became more intense for them, as the four Knight-Type Gaunas started to cooperate.
They were having a hard fight, but they heard an urgent warning from the command bridge.
"We can't do anything to stop the surprise attack of Ocarina!"
"Please clear away from its attack range!"
The six of them didn't understand, but they quickly retreated. The other pilots also evacuated.
However, they soon realized—
BOOOM!
An ear-deafening explosion resounded from deep within the location of the Gauna.
The place where Ocarina was located.
A colossal crimson ray of beam was launched in a straight line. Its size was as big as a seed ship, destroying everything in its path.
Even the Gaunas they were recently fighting couldn't escape in time.
But the pilots didn't feel relieved. Instead, they were consumed with fear as what lay beyond the path of the colossal beam….
…was Sidonia Itself.
"I WON'T ALLOW IT!"
As they watched in horror, a beastly growl erupted throughout space. Everyone in the battlefield could hear it. A deep growl of wrath.
Everyone shuddered. Even the Gaunas trembled fearfully in the face of this cold wrath.
A black and red light erupted from the area where the colossal beam originated.
The concept of time was forcibly halted.
At this moment, a streak of black and red light flew across the space like a burning meteor.
It went past everyone's eyes in an instant, reaching the speed of light.
As for what it was chasing?
The colossal beam heading towards Sidonia!