PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
Then she looked at the pristine, arrogant Up-Worlder threatening her reef.
"You come into my house, crush my shoreline, and tell me to step aside?" Nero clicked, her mandibles flaring in absolute defiance. The massive hydraulic pistons in her oversized mechanical pincer revved to a deafening roar, venting thick white steam into the cavern air. "The Mid-Aerie doesn't own the dark, bird-man. You’re out of your sky."
Nero charged.
For a creature carrying hundreds of pounds of calcified chitin and scavenged iron, she moved with terrifying, explosive power. She closed the distance in two massive strides, swinging her hydraulic pincer in a devastating horizontal arc designed to snip the Falcon in