Blood on the Asphalt biker
"They didn't retreat. They just moved out of the way to let the big gun through."
Outside, the weaponized hurricane suddenly stopped. The torrential rain paused, suspended in mid-air by a massive, localized gravity-well.
The green-lit water of the crater began to boil.
Rising slowly from the depths, dwarfing the grounded Ark of Neo-Angeles, was a machine forged in the absolute, crushing darkness of the Mariana Trench. It was a colossal, biomechanical leviathan a submarine dreadnought designed like a massive, armored deep-sea viperfish, its hull bristling with heavy acoustic-siege batteries.