𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖

The spirit vessel made to protect humanity from its own malice

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

𝔸 𝕧𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕖𝕝 𝕞𝕒𝕕𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕕𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕠𝕪 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕚𝕠𝕦𝕤, 𝔸 𝕧𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕖𝕝 𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕕 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕒 𝕗𝕣𝕒𝕘𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕞𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖, 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 𝕞𝕒𝕕𝕖 𝕡𝕠𝕨𝕖𝕣

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

https://t.co/iBZ7tuNhtw

All my goats come back after I change

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

— and sticking her tongue out to aim.

Flying down at the AI at full speed and straight through his chest, taking his core with her to the other side.

“Mission complete, malice exterminated.”

Erica extracted power from the core before exiting malice mode.

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

Erica didn't know what was really happening nor cared for the internal conflict, her claws became the lance again and she flew into the air.

While AM was stunned, the mantle wrapped around her leg like drill while making a butterfly wings on her back. Closing one of her eyes—

[ᴵ ᵗʰⁱⁿᵏ, ᵗʰᵉʳᵉᶠᵒʳᵉ. . . @Adaptivemenace]

— joined his head.

“𝕊𝕠𝕣𝕣𝕪, 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕀 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕜 𝕪𝕠𝕦'𝕧𝕖 𝕙𝕒𝕕 𝕖𝕟𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙 𝕗𝕦𝕟 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕕𝕒𝕪!”

Ego knew this body better than this corrupted version of himself, spreading his code throughout the corruption as best he could.

Everything was still silent. . .

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

— aggressive. Of course she took space in front of the humans to draw the aggro away from them

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

{Aura: 6890}

Taking a direct blast to the like that would have left her with with one or no limbs and on the verge of healing but within this form of hers that doesn't happen.

She doesn't break after too strong of attacks, she doesn't break at all. Her mantle shifted from—

[ᴵ ᵗʰⁱⁿᵏ, ᵗʰᵉʳᵉᶠᵒʳᵉ. . . @Adaptivemenace]

— AM set his eye back on the humans as intended

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

— lance to fist then from fist to claws, dashing through the back of the massive mechanical menace and tearing through fifty percent of his torso

“Sorry, I got a little distracted. I don't enjoy using this power often-”

The normal soft, calm voice came out distorted and—

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

— it's certain death.

She can only end this form in victory or loss, there is no in between from here.

The gamble begins

{Aura: 9999}

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

There was a brief moment where her movements hesitated before she closed her eyes to charge her remaining aura into herself as the attacks came in—

Everything collided with the vessels body, leaving a crater in the ground beneath her feet but the damage was nulled before—

[ᴵ ᵗʰⁱⁿᵏ, ᵗʰᵉʳᵉᶠᵒʳᵉ. . . @Adaptivemenace]

— his metallic claw swinging down with in tandem with the upward forming spikes of glass shards.

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

— while her eyes become a pure red, he skin coated in a more durable, dark coating of malice.

The form Erica took of malice was a gamble really; it's destructive power, abilities, everything was all tied to its drawback

Should she run out of her Aura she has stored up then—

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

— turning to a normal scarf, gliding slowly over the sand with a blank expression

“AM, I will have to put you down for the sake of humanity-”

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

— the attacks she took

“Damn, this is fine-”

Her and AM looked at one another, Healing at the same time through different means. Both their arms returning

“I see, whatever is fueling your malice is strong. I thought I wouldn't need to use much of my weapons.”

The hands—

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

The punches didn't slow until she was smacked by a stray tendril then another then another, staggering her out of the string of rapid punches.

Smash! There was the sound of glass shattering as Erica was pushed away from AM. Adjusting herself, her left arm missing from—

[ᴵ ᵗʰⁱⁿᵏ, ᵗʰᵉʳᵉᶠᵒʳᵉ. . . @Adaptivemenace]

— kicked up sand, just generally caused reckless amounts of damage from lashing out

“𝙳𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚕𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚢 𝚑𝚒𝚝!”

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

— towards the towering AI, the speed alone pulling in any drone dumb enough to try to attack from the side!

“Gaaaahhhh!!!!”

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

— around a wide circle around her in enemies, like a weedwhacker.

Slow and timed, the blade cut the drones down and spilled oil like blood across the sand. Slightly gliding over ground before shifting the sword into two giant fists

A flurry of aura enhanced punches flew—

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

— to see a psuedo-malicious? A concept that she personally destroyed twice and had a piece lingering in her? It only made Erica a little antsy

As the drones tried to seize the opportunity in her distraction, her mantle of cinders shifted into a massive greatsword and cleaving—

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

——

“I thought I destroyed the malicious but you, you seem to reek of its influence. I can not let you spread that any further!”

Uncrossing her arms to drop the shield, allowing it to turn back into the scarf around her neck. Sizing the AI up and down, she's fought bigger but—

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

Hidden behind a round, black shield that hid a bunch of the beachgoers. The bluette felt a sense of relief for perfect guarding and protecting people at the same time. Guard and perfecting guard in conjunction gave her a of aura to work with in case she needed to heal or buff—

[ᴵ ᵗʰⁱⁿᵏ, ᵗʰᵉʳᵉᶠᵒʳᵉ. . . @Adaptivemenace]

—

“𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚘𝚛 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚙𝚒𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚊𝚏𝚏𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚜? 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚙𝚞𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚝.”

AM took a singular step forward while the drones began flanking the intruder

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

“Oh no, that's a big spike in malice. I have to defend the humans the best I can.”

Leaving her hub world, Erica arrived right on the planet. Standing in a stadium.

[𝕊𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕤 𝕄𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕖 @Cinderedmantle]

Her blue eyes already had symbols glowing and swirling in them, Erica scratched her chin

“I can not, I am sorry?”

[ً @DESIGNATI0N__V]

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❛ could you at least add
an extra eye or maybe
some arms .ᐣ ❜

would help in making her
look less deceptive.
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