"Glass?" asked a confused Emily at the sight of the ground around the airport link. "How strange... This seems entirely illogical given how loud airport terminals can get. Hopefully there aren't any outbound flights pending to shatter it all..."
"I'm a little more worried about the viruses on the glass, personally... They're all hard-hitting types, and I don't think the glass is going to hold up long if a fight with them drags on." noted Mir, particularly of the Armadills and the Catack. "But really, the link is right there, how did these guys manage to cut me off?" she added with a sigh, pointing to her destination on the other side of her enemies.
"No use fretting over that now, Mir. Let's try out the chip that came out of the Mystery Data just now; it seems like it'd help when you're outnumbered like this." replied Emily as she picked up her new Totem off the dresser in her bedroom. Before she slotted it into the PET, however, Emily paused and fell into thought for a second. "... Dunno how the LTC will run an object chip, though..." she muttered, before shrugging it off and letting the experiment sort itself out.
Not just an object chip though, thought Mir as the data uploaded. She had given the Totem's information a glance before running into this last group of viruses, and somehow or another this thing was running both Fire and Wood designations, neither of which agreed with the very high-tech LTC all that well. Despite those reservations, Mir did run the chip's routine through her cannon, allowing the object to materialize itself right beside her. Thankfully, the LTC took the lazy way out of interpreting the strange Totem, simply reformatting it into a grounded probe of similar shape. Its lone camera eye shifted the lens focus so the Totem probe could get an accurate view of what it and its summoner were up against.
"... Well alright, I guess we can call this 2 vs. 5 now." declared Mir cautiously, while keeping her safe distance from the probe. Given her prior experiences, it was pretty fair for her to be nervous about anything Fire element that the LTC spawned. "Is it really going to help much, though? What if it explodes or-"
*fwooooom*
Before Mir could finish that hypothetical, the Totem provided an answer by opening a slot on its front and spewing waves of intense fire upon the viruses. The initial focus of the Totem's surprise flamethrower was the first Armadill, before the probe rotated itself around to spread the blaze across the glass to the second Armadill and one of the Melodies. Once it had spread its blaze around thoroughly enough, the Totem closed its flamethrower slot an assumed an idle position to notify Mir that it was done with its business for now.
"..." Unconsciously, Mir had already braced the LTC in front of her as a shield at the sight of the Totem's produced wildfire, and that response was about the best she could muster. Words failed her as she, an Elec Navi testing NAXA's penultimate project, once again was reduced to roasting viruses with what amounted to exhaust fumes. She was really beginning to dislike fire...
"Hmm... That was pretty effective as far as the fight goes, but a flamethrowing probe isn't going to provide any viable new data for the LTC..." sighed Emily in recognition of the lost efficiency. "Oh well, I don't think we need much more trial data at this point anyway. Let's just focus on getting you through these viruses and to the airport's page. Can you do anything about the all this glass? Such fragile footing seems... treacherous."
"Um... Oh! Maybe I can call in a request to the Terraforming Satellite Network. " exclaimed Mir with a realization, before making a few taps with her finger on the LTC's touchscreen. "Something sturdy... Err, which satellite class was that again? Not Torch, that's lava... Ah, Saber! Okay, 3 should be strong enough... Here we go!" With all those mumbled calibrations sorted out, Mir assumed her firing stance, lifed the LTC skyward, and shot a single Lumian beam high up and far beyond where the eye could see. A second passed... Two seconds... Well, not really, this was beyond-lightspeed communication after all. Almost instantly, the sky responded to Mir's beam, raining down more beams tenfold onto the ground. The glass around Mir and the Totem probe glowed a bright red as the beams danced around them, completely overwriting the transparent appearance of the terrain until the light faded, leaving only in place a flooring of stark, opaque steel.
"Wow... That was pretty extravagant for some minor terraforming." noted Emily after the laser light show concluded, having never actually seen NAXA's digital satellite arrays at work before.
"Gets the job done pretty well though, I'd say." replied Mir, tapping one of her boots against the metal ground to produce a satisfactory clang.
"True... Anyway, now that your footing is safe, here's the Thunder to fight back with more than just the Totem." explained Emily as she slotted in a second Battlechip for her Navi.
"Just coincidence that it'll produce some Lumian data for you, I'm sure." chided Mir playfully as the Thunder loaded into the LTC and she calibrated it to some firing vectors Emily sent along with it. She turned the LTC towards the second Melody that her Totem probe had not attempted to roast earlier, charged up the LTC for an instant, and then launched the electrically charged Lumian orb that lurched its way towards the bouncy virus. With that done, Mir retreated back a little on her platform of metal, hoping to avoid the hard attacks these viruses could deliver.
Actions:
1) Totem1 (100 HP Object, Fire/Wood Element Shift, 3 Turn Duration)
--Totem1 Fire Breath (100 Fire damage [A], Spread 2) @ ArmadillA/B/MelodyA
2) NTSN: Saber III (Large Area Metal Terrain, 1TCD) around self/Totem
--Rocket Science (Passive Take Aim) to:
3) Thunder1 (45 Elec damage [A], Stun 1, Homing) @ MelodyB
4) Dodge
Cooldowns:
NTSN: Saber III - 1 turn
