Azur Lane Research Facility Entrance
"Finally, the sun. phew, it's been a while since I saw it back in a month ago." Purifier really couldn't keep her mouth from being shut.
TB came out of the facility and saw the skies over Azur Lane Base is filled with puffs of airburst shells and rain of AA-Fire. At ground level Base Personnel runs around with boxes of ammo, some haul heavy Shells from the trucks that carry it to the main AA-Cannon Battery.
"HAHAHA, everyone is working their butts off."
"Siren!" One of the Base Personnel shouted.
All of them then start pointing their Rifles at them. They all didn't need the signal to start firing their weapons as they all pulled their trigger as soon as they raised their Rifles.
TB uses her 'Matrix' powers to stop all the bullets midflight, but one bullet manages to get pass through and hits Purifier on her forehead.
"Ouch! What was that you jerks!" She cried out after receiving a headshot, by accident.
"The Sirens are unharmed; we need heavy support –" He was cut off from his report as one of his subordinates pointed out.
"Sir, she got Vestal, we can't open fire at her." He pointed at the person that TB was holding in her right arm.
"Shit! Hold your fire, I repeat hold your fire!"
The Base personnel were on standby with their Rifles raised and pointed at TB and Purifier. They all hold their fire in order to harm Vestal.
"Fuck! I never expected a hostage situation would play around here." He uttered in frustration.
Purifier's Head flashed a grin as she wanted to try something. "Take this!" Her two eyes then glow in order to hypnotize the men.
"Cover your eyes!" One of them shouted after guessing what Purifier is trying to do.
TB uses this opportunity and waves her hand off to the other side, the men on the ground are all thrown as if they were all being pushed aside in the rugs.
"Fire, Fire!" The Tank Commander gives a frantic order to the Tank Crew.
The M4 Sherman Tank aimed its Main gun at her, the shell was loaded and ready to fire. The Tank shook from the recoil of the Main-Gun being fired.
TB the clever she is uses Purifier's Head as a shield, sort of. She swung her head at the incoming projectile, but the curvature of Purifier's forehead the Tank Shell veered off course and hit any unsuspected target.
"Ouch! My forehead! – what was that for!" Purifier cried after using her forehead to deflect the incoming Tank Shell.
WTF faces were plastered at the Tank Crew's faces after watching a 75mm Tank Shell being deflected by a mere forehead.
"Reload!" The Tank Commander broke from his daze and ordered the Tank Crew to redo their shot, this time aiming for the Little Girl who was holding Vestal.
"NOOOOOO... – "
TB once again uses Purifier's forehead to block or deflect another Tank Shell. The Shell bounced off on Purifier's forehead with a resounding *Clang*.
-I guess that's what would happen if you don't keep your mouth shut Purifier-
At the Azur Lane Research Lab Facility, Langley made out at the entrance of the building while hauling William at her back.
"I didn't expect you to be this heavy." Langley said in complaint at William's tonnage.
"Quite whining, you ain't getting nowhere." William said while still holding his M9 Berretta.
"I can't believe she can put up with you."
"Yeah... I can't believe it too." William said, reminiscing what he and Vestal become.
"Right, we're here." Langley said as they reached the end of the entrance.
"Where is she?" William asks with a serious undertone.
"There." Langley points above to where TB is at, she's hovering while still having a grip on unconscious Vestal.
William raised his M9 from his left hand and aligned his sights at his target.
"Careful, you might hit Vestal." Langley said in concern about William's aim.
"Don't worry... I won't miss." He said before pulling the trigger of his M9.
TB noticed the 9mm Bullet coming for her head, she quickly diverted her shield (Purifier's Head) to intercept it. The 9mm Bullet bounced off.
"EH!"
Illustration here>>>
Both William and Langley were dumbfounded by what they just saw, they both knew Sirens were unaffected when it came to bullets let alone using their foreheads as the shield is beyond ridiculous.
"What was your forehead made of, vibrainium?!" William blurted out loud.
"Why did you hurt me this much?" Purifier asks cryingly.
"Hmm... you seemed to be persistent even though some parts of your body are failing to move according to what you wanted to." TB said in a monotone voice.
William responded in a smartass way. "I don't need my knees to shoot at you."
Langley concerned, cuts in. "Hey, hey, don't say such things she might—"
"Is that so... well then..." TB then commenced her attack.
TB uses Purifier's Head as a cannonball and heads straight to both William and Langley. Langley moves out of the way at the incoming projectile.
Langley carried William out of harm's way as she hauled him at the back. William returned fire with his M9 Berretta.
TB recalls Purifier's head back to block off William's attack. Purifier's forehead serves its purpose once again in deflecting bullets.
William and Langley are both playing dodgeball when TB throws Purifier's head as a cannonball at them with force.
Purifier didn't like the role of being the Ball of the Game Dodge Ball, she whined and cried as her face impacted any hard surfaces.
"Please STOOOOPPPPP...." *Crash* *BOOM* "STOOOPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!"
"How are we going to stop her?" Langley asks in frantic as she runs while carrying William on her back.
"I don't know... Every time I took a shot she recalls Purifier's head to block my shots." William said as he now down to the last mag.
"I need destruction to get a better shot at her."
Then suddenly, Purifier's head was suddenly recalled back and defended her from another attack coming from up above the air. Up above, Enterprise-6 arrives with her SBD Dauntless Dive Bombers Squadron.
"We – we, wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
TB fling her index finger up, to where the Dive Bombers were.
Purifier's head flew like a rocket and targeted all the diving Dive Bombers one by one including Enterprise's Dive Bomber.
*BOOM*
One by one the Dive Bombers explode. Enterprise-6 abandoned her SBD as it was targeted too. She pulled the string of her Bow and aimed at TB from below her.
TB waved her hand and positioned Purifier's head in between at the incoming Enterprise's Arrow.
"Wait! my forehead can't deflect Enterprise' Arrow!" Purifier cried out, terrified that Enterprise's Arrow might have pierced her head off.
TB didn't care about that as long it diverted the attack out from her.
"NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!" Purifier cried in like the damn,
Enterprise-6 released all of her Arrows, luckily, or its just her forehead is made-up of vibrainium. Enterprise's Arrow was all deflected as TB moved Purifier's head in synchronization with the tip of her arrows.
Explosions everywhere, as Enterprise's arrows were all deflected and rained down below. Even Enterprise-6 herself was surprised to see the usefulness of Purifier's forehead.
Enterprise-6 landed and made a roll to lessen the impact of the landing, after getting up she pointed her Bow up to where TB is at.
"Let go of Vestal." She demanded.
TB Stared down at her with an answer. "No."
Enterprise-6 released an arrow directed at TB with great precision and velocity but was all a miss as Purifier's forehead blocked the incoming arrow.
Purifier was crying profusely as her forehead was subjected to all hits. "My forehead.... No....!"
The arrows didn't work, but that doesn't mean it would stop her in her tracks to save Vestal out of harms way. She moves side to side to avoid Purifier's Cannonball of a forehead.
She jumps, rolls, and evades here and there as Purifier's head smashed into the stacks of crates and base infrastructures, or worse, the solid ground.
The amount of damage that Purifier's head sustained would make even Darkness from Konosuba made dream herself.
Langley let William rest at the corner as he tended to his sustained wounds, mostly on his leg. A stray shrapnel manages to hit him at his right thigh from a previous attack when Purifier's head cannonballs itself at the entrance.
To stop the bleeding Langley rips a small part of her coat to wrap around the wound. She wrapped it around the thigh to stop the bleeding. In her pocket, she brought out an autoinjector pen and injected it into the wound to stop the pain.
William then checked again his spare magazine left, and to his frustration, none were left in his pockets. He was on his last round, and he cannot waste any of the bullets as long as Vestal is still in the hands of TB.
"Damn it! I'm down to the last mag." He cursed after checking his load out.
"Get that guy's Pistol and spare Mags." William pointed at the unconscious Soldiers lying around them.
"Wait!" Langley objected. "You can't be serious, I mean you were injured – you can't just face her like that, let Enterprise-6 handle her."
William with an irritated face retorted back. "No. I can't just sit here and watch, I going to save her with or without your help." He said straight and then grabbed the Pistol and the spare Magazines from the vest pocket of the unconscious Soldier.
Langley held her head hanging low, she couldn't just let him go there and be a hero by himself, she had no choice but to help him. Like always she assisted him in getting up, and be his feet in this fight.
William enters the battle with his newly acquired M1911 Pistol and spares Magazines while being carried/assisted by Langley.
*Arrows Swoosh*
*Cling, Clang. Ca-Clan, Clang, Clang*
"My Forehead!" Cries Purifier.
Enterprise's Arrows were all deflected by the toughest material that existed in this world, Purifier's forehead.
'I know Purifier's head is a mouthful one, but I never ever thought her forehead is tough as a diamond!' Enterprise-6 thought as she saw her arrows gets deflected by Purifier's mere forehead.
All the arrows she has thrown got deflected and veered off course at the curvature of Purifier's forehead. Like the one that didn't give a Fuck, Enterprise-6 continued unleashing all of her arrows at TB.
The scene played be it rewind, arrows were deflected by Purifier's forehead without even landing a single hit.
Enterprise-6 ponders about the toughness of Purifier's forehead and what plan she might use to counter the blocking technique that TB uses. Her contemplation was then cut off as the sound of a Pistol being fired sounded. She turned and saw Langley and William enter the fight.
William with the gun fires his shot at TB. TB recalls Purifier's head to block the bullets that were being fired at her.
This little distraction of the two gives her a window of opportunity to exploit, she aims, and pulls the string of her compound rigging Bow. She aimed her sight at TB.
To the surprise of everyone watching, the arrow that Enterprise-6 released was blocked in a quick second that was like a blink of an eye.
"What the!" She was a gasp at seeing her attack fail.
Smoke settles and a battered head of Purifier emerges with its bruised forehead. TB quickly moves Purifier's head at a speed of sonic that her arrow sways off course to the target.
"You think that small opening is enough to take me down... think again." TB said in a robotic monotone.
"It... it can't be.... That was so fast... I can't even see it." Langley mumbled to herself as she got spooked by the reaction speed of TB's defense.
"Crap.... She's been toying with us the whole time!" William just now realized TB could have just killed them all from the start. Now, she's playing them like a damn fiddle.
"Now it's my turn." TB flinched her index finger forward and pointed at Enterprise-6.
Purifier's head moved at such a sonic speed that she failed to react, Enterpriae-6 was hit in the abdomen making her out of the fight.
'Ach! ..... that was so fast, I can't even barely see it.'
The force of the impact was so powerful that it sent her flying to another warehouse, Enterprise-6 crashed at the warehouse and got knocked unconscious from the crash.
"That's one hindrance out, two more to go." TB said as she turned her head slowly at them.
After seeing Enterprise-6 being blown away, Langley's knees froze along with her body, shivers running down her spine as fear clouded her mind and engulfed her with a smoke of doubt.
William is not as shock as Langley, he tries to get her back into her senses as TB would attack them next.
"Get into your senses Langley, get into your senses!" He shouted to get through her clouded mind.
Langley broke from her daze and noticed her knees shaking nonstop. She tries to move out of the way of the incoming head of Purifier, but her knees won't move. William out of option embraced Langley to shield her from the impact.
Langley closed her eyes as she accepted her fate of being hit by Purifier's head, she curled as to embrace at the impact.
To their surprise, the anticipated attack didn't come and the only sound they heard was a resounding *Clang* of metal to metal.
Both William and Langley opened their eyes to know what exactly just happened. They were both shocked and astonished to see a peculiar one protecting them.
A small twin-bun platinum hair girl blocks Purifier's head with its hand-held hammer that is shaped like a cat-paw.
"Bulin!" Langley said in surprise.
"Mk-3." William is delighted to see his adopted daughter.
[Author's Note: I almost forgot Bulin Mk-3 was adopted by William in Chapter 100, that Chapter was written 2 months ago. So I kinda forgotten about her existence.]
"Bulin..." Bulin Mk-3 happily said as she hammered Purifier's head like a baseball in a pitch homerun.
Purifier's head flew in supersonic speed as it was hammered back, like any supersonic projectile Purifier's head struck one of the buildings in great velocity that caused it to collapse. The collapsing rubbles then buries Purifier's head under, and it prevented TB from using it again.
No expression, no nothing, she spoke. "I guess you served your value for today. Now that loudmouth out of the way... seems like I need to get out of here." She said coldly.
Heart drops as everyone in the vicinity feels the ominous aura coming out of TB as she exerts her dominance.
William the ever wise man that didn't give any bullshit opens fire with his M1911. "Don't bullshit me, little girl!"
TB once again used her Matrix powers and blocked all the bullets that William fired at her, Bullin Mk-3 ran in a pace of attack with her Hammer.
'I'll save Mommy..."
( IMAGE )
Bullin Mk-3 with her Hammer is trying to attack TB in close range by hitting her in the head with a hammer. She jumps and prepares her hammer attack, TB wipes her out in the sky as she uses her telekinesis powers.
"Mk-3!" William shouted her name in concern for her safety.
Bulin Mk-3 comes out of the boxes where he fell, she dusted off her clothes as dust is all over her, she waves her open palm hand to tell him she's alright.
"I'm okay..." She said while waving a hand.
William sighs in relief that she's alright with that fall, now that's out of his concern his eyes are focused on TB who's still holding the unconscious Vestal hostage.
William is filled with guilt as there's nothing he can do as he is only a mere Cargo Ship without any offensive weapons only defensive ones. Vestal is in danger and there's nothing he can do but to shoot with puny Pistols at a Siren with telekinesis powers.
As William is preoccupied with his shortcomings an explosion catches his attention and saw smoke coming to where TB is floating at.
Enterprise-6 comes out of the warehouse Bow raised, she's the one who fired the shot that got TB's attention.
"That attack...." TB remembers the velocity of the attack and reminds her of certain someone who uses arrows in such ways.
Enterprise-6 tries to copy CVN-80's kinetic-based arrow attack. CV-6's arrow is based on energy attack only as we can in the anime and games. CVN-80's arrow is based on kinetic attack only as the two magnetic rails push the arrow at a hypersonic speed that can one-shot one-kill a Siren.
She pulled the string of her Bow and strengthened her arrows, she aimed precisely so as to not hit Vestal.
*Fuushhh*
She released arrows from her Bow and it made some huge explosions, the combination of kinetic and energy-based attack combination caused the explosion. This got TB's attention, her defenses seemed to be cracking as the force of each arrow grew stronger than before.
Enterprise-6 puts more force and weight on her arrows mirroring that of CVN-80's kinetic-based arrows. This attack also injures her, her Bow is now starting to crack as the force she's been putting on each arrow is massive and her Bow can't hold it.
TB has to force her hand to wave in synchronization with the attack, each attack is getting into her, and her hand is feeling all the force and then it starts to bleed.
Small cuts can be seen on her open palm hand as she blocks every arrow that Enterprise-6 throws at her. One more shot could be the result of her defeat, she need to act fast and get out of the Naval Base and regroup with the Siren Fleet.
'Her attack... it seems it mirrored that of hers....' TB thought of the attack that is being thrown at her.
Enterprise-6 fires her last shot as her Bow gets torn into pieces, her Bow can't hold much more of the force she's putting in.
TB is also in her last leg, as her defense couldn't block the last arrow in time. Her hand bleeds as the forces of the explosion tear her defense.
Her right hand is out of commission because of the injury she sustained from blocking the arrow. Enterprise-6 is also in her own last leg as her Bow got snapped into two, she's also out of energy after releasing too much energy.
TB released an SOS signal at any Sirens in the vicinity that might catch the signal, as she released her distress signal for teleportation. Behind her, was a shadow of an unknown figure of a girl with two gleaming eyes, two hair buns and a Hammer – emerged.
( IMAGE )
Bulin Mk-3's Hammer strikes down at TB's head with greater force, so strong that the programming at TB's head rewrote the program and deleted some files and memories of being a Siren for once.
TB got reprogrammed/amnesia at the head after getting bonked with a hammer. Her eyes turn circles followed by some short circuit sound.
*Data: Delete. Combat Experience: Delete. Files concluding Modern Warfare: Delete. Confidential: Delete*
All the data files she had gathered were all now deleted as last ditch effort of prevention, of letting crucial data feel into Azur Lane hands.
The cheeky Bullin Mk-3 manages to sneak behind TB for a surprise attack after she gets distracted after releasing an SOS Signal for a short moment.
"Bulin...."
Bulin Mk-3 then catches Vestal from falling on the ground after TB got knocked out cold with a bonk in the head. Vestal is still unconscious with all the things that transpired.
Both William, Langley and Enterprise-6 let out a sigh of relief as they all saw Vestal was all alright and safe.
Everyone had wide smiles on their faces. Langley's back and knees were all sore after carrying and hauling William for the past half an hour, she's been keeping her own frustration to herself as her knees can't take it anymore.
"Umm...William...? Can you walk on your own, my knees are giving up?" She said embarrassingly.
William notices and lets his grip on her as he notices the trembling knees. "Oops... sorry my bad, I'm sorry that I let you carry all the way here. I think you should need some rest."
After Langley is put to rest, William then slowly walks towards Bulin Mk-3 and the unconscious Vestal as he limps from his injured leg.
Bulin Mk-3 waved her hand at him as he slowly got close to the two, he may not need some firepower like the others have, but he has friends that are with him and would help him at any time. Relief and smile were all plastered on his face as he saw the two together, his adopted Bulin Mk-3 and Vestal. The one he calls family.
"I'm glad you two were alright." He said kneeling and closely hugging the two he called family.