Boarding Action. Will a savior come? [Prim]

Something to look into later; Prim was busy calming his breathing and steadying himself under the crate he hollowed out. Closing their eyes to better hone onto that sense of life that the creatures shared with anything else that lived. The big trio that stumbled into the lab to greet them were much larger and stronger than the little entrance guard they stumbled into. The chittering and scraping their bodies made when carelessly moving around were an even bigger indicator of where they were than the sixth sense Prim threw out.

Unable to communicate with the fox, their best bet was to wait and see if action unfolded. The pair would have a lot more room to work with here, so even if they were outnumbered and outgunned they could play their cards right. A few of the creatures stumbled close to the place he stuffed himself, close enough for Prim to hear the sizzle of broken down metal from the acid leaving their maws. It wasn't the Kashvar that got caught out by their senses, though. No, the sudden violent movement was directed elsewhere. With no real way to tell where their focus was, Prim only had to assume it was away from him.

The pale warrior lifts the crate as quietly as they can. Crouching low to keep their profile the same as the crates covering them. Those sharp blue eyes peer at the closest of the trio to him, with their back turned at them while it focused on Yakito. The other two were trying to surround the foxling. None of them seemed to take notice of Prim, so it only made sense to strike now. Couldn't make it worse since they were forced to fight now.

This closest creature would soon find its spindly legs covered in sand. Prim raises a hand to conjure some from the ground underneath and make it latch on. The creature was stopped in its tracks, attached to the ground by sand that now tried crushing its legs from behind. The source of this sand was unclear, other than 'below' and may further confuse the bug as Prim worked from cover. Disabling them without them even realizing there is some other threat would work in the pair's favor for now.

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Prim had a few moments to really seize the legs of the creature they themselves captured, gaining the attention of the other two. It was all the other boy needed to capitalize on them. The fox rips the one stuck in sand away from its legs and tosses it aside, exuding a tremendous amount of force on it in a sudden shift from the earthling. With that power, you'd think the bugs would be absolute pushovers. But these things were sturdy enough to take moon-shattering throws and avoid the incoming swing that used their friend as ammunition.

The third one that wasn't a target of Yakito remained turned to face the interloper and his sands. The pale warrior pulls back the sand and reforms it around the area in a light dusty mist, letting the former legs of the unfortunate target fall to the wayside just as Prim's own bug took the crippled one and started flailing it at them like a savage. Both the bug itself, using their own arms, and the body used a flail tried to cut the Kashvar down to size.

Given they could even move around Yakito's standing speed now, Prim had little choice but to dampen the flailing monsters assault. The dust surrounding them would thicken and try slowing arms as they cut at him. New wounds would open up as the arms cut deep into the Kashvar's arms and legs. It'd save them from getting chopped in half, but the insect's body would follow up and be smashed overhead. Throwing sand away crashing down into the head and bracing arm of Prim.

A sick crack is heard as Prim falls, a forearm bone disjointed and snapped in two as they cry and feel the tile of the lab to their back.

"Faaaaak! KRISH'NA!"

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Prim did their best to fight the pain and keep light. Their other arm, keeping a grip firm on their blade, was used to slam against the floor and quickly knock their body into a roll away from the bug assaulting them. The pale orange shades they wore at this point were forfeited to the ground in the sudden jerking roll. This bug was still flailing for its life, trying to kill the thing that made it helpless. The pale warrior could tell from both their states at a glance that neither could keep up the numbers if something didn't change. Begrudgingly, the kashvar had to agree in silence with the fox zoan.

It was do or die.



With their single sword arm, they'd swipe some of the appendages away and grant themselves some distance with a leap. With its slower movements and no way for it to be thrown easily again, it shambled closer. Giving Prim just enough time to hold the blade out. Winds and sand start to billow again as a glowing, dark energy made of blue aura started pouring out of the alien's eyes. Those blue sharp eyes would glare at the bug as tattoos of this same blue color also glow iridescently on their face, their arms. Almost forming cracks-like designs, like the energy inside was being contained by failing skin. With this, their power skyrockets.

"Kail Hydruga!"
They spoke more of that konatsian underbelly dialectic, leveraging their smaller size compared to the incoming bug to dash just under some claws and swing up at the disjointed torso and head it had. Splitting the thing in nearly two from the one uppercut. Its blood flies and blood splashes all over Prim and the lab equipment as it falls down quickly, leaving the kashvar panting from exertion. At least they had room to breath.

For the split moment. They'd need to help Yakito soon...

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Prim's sudden outcropping was met with a carnal fear almost all life had in the face of sudden changes. Blindsided, and with little ways to dampen the impact of being sent into the ceiling. Yakito was well in a way able to hold off what Prim couldn't help capitalize on yet, earning him enough of a breather to straighten back up and ready themselves for what was to come. The first though he had was to squish the other bugs like the first, crush it under a tomb of sand, but they and Yakito moved too quick in their flying combat for that to work.

It was quickly down to just one of them, the earthling proving far more a match now that they weren't trying to look out for the admittedly weaker pale warrior. It gave him plenty of time to reach out to the deserts of Konats and pull more and more sand from its endless realm. Those glowing eyes give the earthling a passing look as they tried evading a desperate last ditch move pulled by this bug. it was pretty clear from body language what it was about to try on the pair.

"BEHIND!"
The Kashvar commanded before swirling sands whip up air past them and start forming a thick dome of protection around them. Far denser than the waves and whirlwinds Prim pulled previously, it could withstand the coming explosion or flurry. It sealed up around them just as the elite bug was upon it, holding steady as it crashed into the shell of sand. No doubt expediting the process of blowing itself up. The force of which would shake the ground beneath their feat and blow away most if not the entire lab clean away. If they were strong enough to fight the pair, they'd put a hole in any infrastructure.

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Prim would only be able to give the Fox just enough time to fall in line beside them before this sandy dome around them enclosed. Quickly enough to reactively beat back the sudden exploding insectoid that got in right up against it. A ringing would drive its way into the pair's ears as the proximity of this goey explosion was very akin to gunpowder explosions. It'd disperse sand around the dome, but only manage to shake some of the interior structural sand in its wake as it held firm over their heads for this last big kamikaze attack.

Then, silence overtook the dying ringing that threatened to deafen lesser beings. Prim held up the shield just in case, just for a few more seconds, before letting it fall at their sides with an unclenching of their forward hand. A mix of gross acidic blood and sand neutralized on the floor from the bugs mixing with it, and the kashvar was soo to nearly loose her footing standing her ground here. The adrenaline was still pumping, but only for as long as this engrossing blue energy poured out of her.

"Ship...?"
The pale warrior scoffed at the idea, lowering her hand and trying to shrug off the limp arm. Most of the closest equipment was destroyed, leaving for them barely anything at the very edges, where most of the equipment either got thrown back or incinerated. He, just like Yakito, did not like leaving empty handed. "No... Little further, we need fuel anyways..."

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Prim was already expecting the usual resistance and need to lord over their decisions. Those burning eyes, still leaking blue power, narrow in anticipation for something that never came to be. Instead, the earthling settled for doing it the way the Kashvar wanted with a caveat. No fuss, they instead encouraged Prim to take advantage of their weapons and powers to cover them from a range, just in case they had to deal with anything else. Given the painful state of his arm and the general fatigue setting in from taking hits and cuts across their body, the pale warrior agrees to the terms and sheaths the blade still held in that good hand.

"Good."
Yakito was correct in assuming that limp, broken arm was being ignored for the sake of pushing forwards. Even mentioning it, Prim heaves a sigh and looks away from the fox boy. "Just make it quick. I don't want to stick around, and I don't know how far this body can push it." Which, he did. Yakito would get a hiss out of the Kashvar as the arm had to be moved into a proper splint, with the sash slung around their neck to support it. The rest of the cuts and wounds were shallow enough to ignore for now. They weren't nearly as life threatening. With it set up, the Kashvar checked how it felt to walk with it bundled up using a few steps.

"Mmh. Something like that. Come on."
A capsule is produced from their pouch again to retrieve that blaster pistol again, having long since cooled off from its temporary storage from earlier. With any luck, he'd not have to cycle through too much of that equipment with just a single hand... Yakito would get a fair lead on them, just as he wanted, the burning Kashvar content to eyeing the surroundings for any more obvious life forms in their area and beyond.

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