Post by cmd1095 on Nov 3, 2023 20:57:41 GMT
Tanzo cursed under his breath as a beam pierced his molten orb, he'd committed most of his available metal to that attack and only had minimal metal in reserve for defense, and even if he had more it wouldn't stop that beam. He threw himself to the side to dodge, the beam narrowly missing him as he landed on his now injured arm. His vision went blurry with pain for a moment, but it recovered in time for him to see Nocturne take the opening he'd made to bring the villains down. That was a top ten for you, efficient as always... now he just needed to go help... wait was that Shinja falling through the sky?
Tanzo's blurred vision and the distance made it hard to tell, but it seemed like she wasn't flying, she must've been knocked out. If she wasn't caught she'd splatter on the ground! He tried getting up, but his bad arm couldn't push his weight up and that was slowing him down. In desperation Tanzo used his remaining metal to lash out into several cables held by his good hand pulling himself forward and staggering to his feet as he sprinted towards Shinja, it saved him the precious few seconds needed to get there in time, lunge forward, and catch Shinja and pull her into a protective embrace as he turned in midair to crash to the ground and break her fall as best he could by slowing her momentum as gradually as he could and preventing her from hitting anything. Shinja would still be bruised up a bit by the remaining forces, but she'd survive now.
Tanzo laid his head back and put Shinja on the ground beside him, exhausted. He began pulling the metal back from his previous attack to have it on standby, in a few moments he'd have enough recalled to properly defend the two of them, but until then he was going to lay here and rest and hope nobody still in the fight targeted them until he could catch his breath. With the calvary here the adrenaline that had been fueling him for the past however long was leading to one hell of a crash. The blood loss from his arm wasn't helping either... he used some of the molten metal that was coming back to him to wrap around the wound and seal it shut, the arm would still be unusable without a healing quirk or a few weeks in the hospital, but at least he wasn't bleeding out now.
"You're a headache and a half, you know that Shinja?" he grumbled tiredly "glad you made it out alive though"
With that Tanzo wrapped the molten metal in a sphere around them, creating a powerful barrier to keep them safe while he recovered a bit and Nocturne and company wrecked shop. If his heat levels got too bad he could always solidify it, but he just needed a minute to rest before he could rejoin the fight to clean things up.
Tanzo's blurred vision and the distance made it hard to tell, but it seemed like she wasn't flying, she must've been knocked out. If she wasn't caught she'd splatter on the ground! He tried getting up, but his bad arm couldn't push his weight up and that was slowing him down. In desperation Tanzo used his remaining metal to lash out into several cables held by his good hand pulling himself forward and staggering to his feet as he sprinted towards Shinja, it saved him the precious few seconds needed to get there in time, lunge forward, and catch Shinja and pull her into a protective embrace as he turned in midair to crash to the ground and break her fall as best he could by slowing her momentum as gradually as he could and preventing her from hitting anything. Shinja would still be bruised up a bit by the remaining forces, but she'd survive now.
Tanzo laid his head back and put Shinja on the ground beside him, exhausted. He began pulling the metal back from his previous attack to have it on standby, in a few moments he'd have enough recalled to properly defend the two of them, but until then he was going to lay here and rest and hope nobody still in the fight targeted them until he could catch his breath. With the calvary here the adrenaline that had been fueling him for the past however long was leading to one hell of a crash. The blood loss from his arm wasn't helping either... he used some of the molten metal that was coming back to him to wrap around the wound and seal it shut, the arm would still be unusable without a healing quirk or a few weeks in the hospital, but at least he wasn't bleeding out now.
"You're a headache and a half, you know that Shinja?" he grumbled tiredly "glad you made it out alive though"
With that Tanzo wrapped the molten metal in a sphere around them, creating a powerful barrier to keep them safe while he recovered a bit and Nocturne and company wrecked shop. If his heat levels got too bad he could always solidify it, but he just needed a minute to rest before he could rejoin the fight to clean things up.
