Blood on the Asphalt biker
The main cannons, misaligned by the catastrophic drop, fired wildly into the sky, their heavy plasma bolts dissipating harmlessly into the clouds.
The severed upper half of the Forge skidded to a grinding, groaning halt barely twenty yards from our barricade, dead and bleeding thick black oil into the street.
I severed the connection. The Phase-Blade blinked out of existence.
I collapsed backward, gasping for air. Leo and the other Code-Born slumped to the ground, exhausted but unharmed, their sapphire veins dimming back to a soft, healthy pulse.
The silence that followed was heavy, broken only by the crackle of localized fires burning on the ruined chassis of the Forge.