Ellen Park, the Lone Wanderer

"I definitely approve of that." Tanya is highly allergic to flame-baths.

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"Then you should get ready to do it," says Ellen as they continue moving. "I think we're coming up on that unfinished area the scientist told us about."

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Red is ready for some big ants, and it sounds like the others are too.

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Yuuno flies up for a clear line of sight and preps a bind.

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Either the scientist is bad at estimates or the ants have grown considerably since last he was in this part of the tunnels. The ant that beginms to scramble around the sloping, rough, irregular curve up ahead is probably at least a foot longer than Hellboy is tall, and broad for an ant, too.

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"Going Up! First stop, sniper's nest," Val yells out as a warning to Tanya as she sends her up. "You've got two meters of diameter and I'm making a wall your waist height to hide behind if any fire comes your way!"

Then she turns her attention to an ant muzzle hoping she fast enough to block the fire blast.

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"Damn."

The ant is bigger than expected but Red only stares a moment before he's in action. Big bug or little, there's still a job to do.

Running to meet the thing head on he jumps and comes down hard with his fist.

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Spoon scrambles past Red and his ant, so that if something else comes after it they won't be caught off guard.

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Hellboy's ant? It's holding still. Chain bind does that, and so very well too.

Next is holding anything that looks reasonable for Tanya to shoot from her perch.

On the topic of ant size? Yuuno's pretty sure the scientist is at least a little incompetent.

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Well, if Yunno is holding down a target for her, it would be rude to not fill it with bullets, right?

Tanya raises her gun and focuses, the world slowing down for her senses: The Eye happens once more and she sees every detail of her target.

Each bullet travels just below the speed on sound, piercing an eye and sinking to the brain, tearing past an exoskeleton junction and into internal organs, punching throughout softer abdomen tissue. They all do what they are supposed to, tumbling inside the ant, ripping and tearing flesh into horrific internal wounds before exiting the target in a spray of insect-gore.

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It takes a disturbing number of bullets to drop the ant, but drop it does... which is good, because the noise has caught the attention of another heaving form of similar size in the shadows, coming this way. Ellen, for her part, is aiming for it already. Whatever she can tag with the laser pistol, she'll tag- it's no high powered rifle but it does hurt the damn things.

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When the first ant goes down Hellboy lets out a small, slightly annoyed sound. It's not that he doesn't appreciate the help, but he prefers to do his job himself. As Abe said, 'the whole lone hero, thing'.

Still, there's more coming so he lets dead bugs lie and goes to grapple with another. They're big bugs and they can take a hit, so he slugs it several times, gripping it by one leg and tackling it so they're struggling on the ground.

A few kicks land along with the big stone fist and the solid blows start breaking down the ant's armor, revealing the squishy bits underneath which he hammers at.

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Spoon is doing much the same thing Hellboy is, only from a different angle. Specifically his ant is getting torn up from the bottom with a combination of sharp weapony things and I can totally heal it Spoon...Spoonness.

He maybe got himself into a competition with Hellboy over who can kill an ant dead the best. Without actually. Telling Hellboy.

Look, boy is good at guts. Brains? Not so much.

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Val lowers Tanya and then sprints after the boys.

"Ellen, you want me to give you a 'boost' like I did with Tanya next attack?" she yells out toward Ellen as she runs by. She stops short when she sees another ant behind the ones the boys are playing with and hits it with a dumpster sized force field, mostly stopping it. These things are storng. "Yuuno, we need a bind up here!"

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Saint King's Bones and all his Knights.

Yuuno twists in midair and shouts, "Chain Bind!" sending out a fresh batch of glowing green chains to wrap the latest addition.

Between the angle and the poor light, you probably can't see the eye twitch. Ellen's isn't going to make his list of favorite worlds.

He's going to need such a decontamination when he get's back to Milliways.

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"Any help I can get is good help!" Ellen calls out. "How many of these things have we got? The scientist said there were five total!"

(And he's right, about that at least. There are only five of the ants-bigger-than-Hellboy to contend with down here. Thank God for small mercies.)

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Disturbing, yes. Tanya is used to her targets dropping with one or two shots, but those insects... well, they were much like knocking down a cow with a slingshot.

"I knew I should have brought the Big Gun..."

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"You. Don't. Set. People. On. Fire!"

Each word is punctuated by a hit and by the time Red is through the ant is not only dead, it's missing a few limbs and it's head isn't attached as well as it once was.

Straightening up from the bug carcass Red takes a look around, throwing an impressed head tilt in Spoon's direction when he sees the state of the ant he's been handling.

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"Up you guys go!" Val yells out feeling a bit embarrassed that she just put Tayna back down but how could she have know the ants would be so nice as to come to them? "Same two meters as before and a waist high wall for each of you to duck behind. I think we're at four now aren't we?"

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"I think so!" Ellen takes the opportunity to reload her laser pistol. "One left, then, and then we can run like- huh..."

There's a cable running along the rough, unfinished floor of the tunnel, she's just realized. If she squints along its length into the darkness, there's a faint glow: the scientist's terminal, near the Ant Queen's hatchery chamber.

And in the shadows beyond that something huge heaves its bulk along the floor with a low thrumm.

"I think the queen's down there," she murmurs. "I think that's where the scientist has his generator and his equipment. So we need to find that last ant and kill it and get out of here."

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One more? They can totally do one more. Right?

"And not break the gear," adds Yuuno. He may have spent to much time in the field with the forwards. They get a bit hard on the walls (and the ceiling and the floor...) when they're in a hurry.

He pulls closer to the ceiling for a better look down and, "Chain Bind!"

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The last of the nest guardians scrabbles out of the shadows- or would, if Yuuno's Bind hadn't slammed into it. It tosses its head as far as it can and clacks its mandibles, struggling to ready its fires.

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