Chapter 29: Kronos and Joshua

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With all the bridges down and tunnels collapsed aside from one, there was only one way Kronos could get his forces on to Manhattan island, barring some kind of magical entrance. So naturally, there was a supernatural entrance. Located in Central Park, monsters were pouring in while monsters were also pouring out the Lincoln Tunnel...right into Piper.

The Central Park assault wasn't shit, because Clair was there, pulling a Fire Lord and expelling monstrous amounts of flame from her open palm and burning the entire forest down without a care in the world. Yes, nymphs and nature spirits were killed, but that was a sacrifice Clair was willing to make...

Nah.

She enjoyed watching things burn and listening to the screams of the dying.

On the tunnel, Piper decided to try something. "You know, I've never actually tried this, never had a reason to, even when my boyfriends and I were dimension hopping, but I suppose this is as a good an excuse as any. Ōkō Katachi."

Her eyes glowed bright pink, the world darkened with a pink light illuminating it, and her hair shot straight up. Chakra poured from her, shrouding her in a violent curtain of pink, while epic winds raged and the concrete crumbled and buckled around her.

Piper's back bulged and stretched, before it all ripped open in an explosion of gore. A massive assortment of cables and wires, all varying in thickness and length, dripped blood. At the end of each was the head of a drill. The drills whirred, and burrowed deep in Piper's body, driving through her arms, legs, and skull.

Things happened from that point, horrible, grotesque things. You can imagine them yourself, it shouldn't be hard to use your imagination. Anyway, Piper's Ōkō Katachi was a huge, stocky, mechanical humanoid machine, big enough to swallow a man whole. Digitigrade legs, elongated head, solid pink slits for eyes, a mouth filled with nails, a body of metal, and two generators stood from her back, sparking with pink lightning. The entire hulking form was black, and radiated a primal rage at anything living.

A pressurized jet of steam erupted from Piper's mouth, and she raised her gigantic hands. There was the clanking of metal, the grinding of gears, and the smell of motor oil as the limbs changed shape into a pair of massive, five-barreled chain guns. They began to spin, revving loudly, before they began to spew fire and metal with a high-pitched scream. Bullet casings for .50 cal rounds poured like rain from exhaust ports on her shoulders, accumulating into dual mountains of gleaming brass.

Monsters were blasted to shreds, predictably, and when a loud pig squeal was heard, Piper didn't so much as twitch. Lines of computer code rolled across her eyes, and a missile went firing from the side of her leg, flew through the air and blew Clazmonian Sow out of the sky. Piper exhaled heavily, satisfied, when a smoking, bleeding, gigantic pig went crashing down behind her and went up in a cloud of red.

Limitless was her ammunition, and she only stopped shooting when her internal systems identified no more things to shoot at, but then there was a cow bellow, and the Minotaur came running out, and Piper struck the monster with a fist and sent the monster sailing into the sky, with a golden sprinkle of dust raining down moments later. A puff of steam belched from Piper's mouth.

Then a fiery ball of a man went streaking into her, and carried her several dozen meters before Piper grabbed the offending thing and tossed it away. It seemed to have been a very hot man, if her glowing palm was any indication of heat.

Piper didn't wait to see what was coming back for her, though her systems said it was the Titan Hyperion. Her body cranked and clanked as it shifted, her upper body transforming into a cannon. A single second was all she needed to get a good charge in, and Hyperion flew right into her range. A simple discharge flattened everything in a straight line for ten miles, and the Titan went skidding across the ground as a charred piece of meat.

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