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The fight had gone on long enough that the fatigue was starting to get to even her, “It… MIGHT… be kinda sort of on our side… for now.”\n\n“As long as it keeps stabbing at this monster and not us, WHOA” Nyx flapped hard and dodged a flick of Asmodeus’ tail, “We should find a way to slow him down though.”\n\n“Oh?”\n\n“It’s keeping the buildings between it and the backup.” Nyx said flapping ahead, “Hopefully we get more than one chopper of backup. Follow me!”\n\nKate flapped after her, trying to ignore the burning in the muscles of her wings. She wasn’t sure if Nyx’s could get tired, since hers weren’t flesh and blood, but metal; it would however be taxing her mind hard to continue controlling them like that. Luckily Nyx seemed to find whatever she was looking for amongst the refuse covered streets.\n\n“Look, there!”\n\nKate followed her as she quickly landed next to an abandoned 18 wheeler, “What are you thinking Nyx?”\n\n“Moving wall.”\n\n“He’ll go over it.”\n\n“Not instantly he won’t, he’s not THAT big. It should at least slow him.” Nyx bashed the window in with her sword and crawled into the driver seat before ripping open the side of the steering wheel and poking around inside.\n\n“What should I do?”\n\n“Drive the truck”\n\n“I don’t know how…”\n\n“Right pedal goes left petal stops” Nyx said as her hotwiring worked and the truck started up. “I don’t have time to teach you how to shift so hopefully you don’t burn out the engine in low gear.”\n\nKate stepped aside as Nyx clambered back out and half shoved her into the truck in her place, “And what will you do?”\n\n“I’m gunna find another truck”\n\nMeanwhile Lazarus was clinging on for dear life, every motion that his prey made seemed designed to toss him off, and with only one working arm it was getting harder and harder to stay attached. Every time he took a moment to slash at Asmodeus’ flesh, he risked losing his grip. He had already been dragged along the asphalt and knocked against walls multiple times, and the damage was starting to add up even above the shredded left arm. He heard clinks and pops as components came free and skittered along the road away from him. He could only hope he held together long enough to have his proper revenge.\nHe was making progress though. Cuts and gashes covered Asmodeus’s immense body. Blood flowed freely and Laz could tell that his prey would soon start to slow down. His own mechanical muscles however would NOT slow, so long as they were intact, and his core still produced power. An active ionizing source surrounded by radioelectric panels would keep going for quite some time. He hated to admit that Victoria had done good on that regard, but not worrying about recharging for 500 years was definitely an upgrade.\n\n“You Pathetic failure” Asmodeus growled at him, “You LOST, just let go. I’m the one most suited for this world.\n\n“Oh I’m going to win. But first YOU have to lose!”\n\n“And if that chopper catches up to us?”\n\n“Your corpse will shield me from bullets just fine.”\n\n“Idiot, You’re not walking away from this eithACH!!!”\n\nLazarus was launched forward tumbling head over heels as Asmodeus suddenly slowed way, way down. All at once. Sparks flew as he hit the pavement at speed and skidded to a stop. “What the fuck?”\n\nKate gasped for air. The airbag had punched her hard in the chest when it went off. She had plowed into the wall in Asmodeus’s path blocking it. The dragon then collided hard with the side of her truck, overturning it and giving Kate an immediate lesson on why you wouldn’t drive without a seatbelt as she was tossed about the cabin before landing in a tangled heap against the door when the truck finished falling.\n\nShe struggled to untangle herself and get out, but decided to stay in the cabin a bit longer when the gunshots started up.\n\nAsmodeus screamed in pain. The gunship was unloading onto him. His stone hide stopping some of it but cracking under the impact and letting subsequent bullets through. The damage was far too much for him to sustain for long.\n\nSo, he did the only thing he could do and reared up to crash down on it. His body swallowed dozens more bullets before he even got close, then the blades started to shred into him even as the impact shredded the blades in return. Luckily for its occupants they weren’t that far into the air, but the chopper still hit the ground in a screeching wreck of twisting metal.\n\n“You’re not going anywhere anymore” Lazarus said staggering to his feet, “You die now!”\n\n“Fine. Time to end it.”\n\nLazarus charged at Asmodeus and he charged in return, a large part of his massive form not responding, but he could still bring his massive jaws around on the approaching foe. Lazarus waited till the last second then dodged to the side. Or he would have if his leg had responded correctly. The servo’s had taken damage in the fall and slowed him down. Just enough that he smashed off the upper jaw and went sprawling away. He staggered up only to get hit again and smashed into the brickwork of a nearby building.\n\n“You’re too injured.” Asmodeus panted hard, dragging his half limp body away from Laz, “I will heal though. You… You are just a broken toy. I’ll leave you to them.”\n\nLazarus braced himself against the wall with his good arm and struggled up on his good leg. He had little chance, and he knew it. Even in the severely injured state of Asmodeus, his own damage was extensive as well. If only those damn mortals hadn’t shot him up. If only he had noticed his leg before trying to dodge, and if only the insubordinate little shit hadn’t betrayed him and taking his burgeoning army with him. Now his prey was going to escape again, and he might not be able to himself. Was he really done this time.\n\nA loud crunching thud shocked him out of his self-pity he was in and made him look up. A delivery van with a smashed in front now sat where his enemy was mere moments ago, and said opponent flopped forward into a groaning pile in front of him.\n\nLaz saw his change and reached for his enemy. Maybe at long last he would finally be able to do it even if it means this own end.\n\nPain exploded in his ruined body as Asmodeus lurched forward and snapped his jaws down on Lazarus’s lower half. Stone teeth sank into metal and rendered what little flesh was left of the original body that Laz’s cyborg form was built on top of. He responded by slashing and punching as hard as he could with his good arm. He tore out the dragon’s eye and shredded the flesh on the left side of its face, but the teeth kept sinking deeper. He was going to be cut in half by the massive jaws any moment now, but damn it all he was going to sink his claws into Asmodeus’ brain before the end.\n\n“I’m going to win. Even if this body dies, so long as you lose. I win” He gasped out between blows as his body screamed at him.\n\n“No you won’t.” It wasn’t Asmodeus that spoke this time. The dragon couldn’t talk with his mouth fill of Lazarus after all. No, it came from within.\n\n“Victoria?” he asked internally.\n\n“Yes, its me, oh leas pleasant of roommates.” Victoria taunted him, “This isn’t your win. Its mine”\n\nLaz barely even had time to read the system warning that popped up, much less react to it.\n\n‘Self destruct’\n\nAnd all his senses ended.\n\n[url=http://www.postybirb.com]Posted using PostyBirb[/url]", "description_bbcode_parsed": "Folder for story: https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/morpheuskibbe/folder/820616/Gods-for-the-Machines

Chapter 66: Boom

“The other demon’s back!” Nyx shouted over the noise of the dragon’s scales grinding along the pavement and the buffeted thunder from the pursuing chopper.

“I noticed.” Kate replied panting a bit.  The fight had gone on long enough that the fatigue was starting to get to even her, “It… MIGHT… be kinda sort of on our side… for now.”

“As long as it keeps stabbing at this monster and not us, WHOA” Nyx flapped hard and dodged a flick of Asmodeus’ tail, “We should find a way to slow him down though.”

“Oh?”

“It’s keeping the buildings between it and the backup.”  Nyx said flapping ahead, “Hopefully we get more than one chopper of backup.  Follow me!”

Kate flapped after her, trying to ignore the burning in the muscles of her wings.  She wasn’t sure if Nyx’s could get tired, since hers weren’t flesh and blood, but metal; it would however be taxing her mind hard to continue controlling them like that.  Luckily Nyx seemed to find whatever she was looking for amongst the refuse covered streets.

“Look, there!”

Kate followed her as she quickly landed next to an abandoned 18 wheeler, “What are you thinking Nyx?”

“Moving wall.”

“He’ll go over it.”

“Not instantly he won’t, he’s not THAT big.  It should at least slow him.” Nyx bashed the window in with her sword and crawled into the driver seat before ripping open the side of the steering wheel and poking around inside.

“What should I do?”

“Drive the truck”

“I don’t know how…”

“Right pedal goes left petal stops” Nyx said as her hotwiring worked and the truck started up. “I don’t have time to teach you how to shift so hopefully you don’t burn out the engine in low gear.”

Kate stepped aside as Nyx clambered back out and half shoved her into the truck in her place, “And what will you do?”

“I’m gunna find another truck”

Meanwhile Lazarus was clinging on for dear life, every motion that his prey made seemed designed to toss him off, and with only one working arm it was getting harder and harder to stay attached.  Every time he took a moment to slash at Asmodeus’ flesh, he risked losing his grip.  He had already been dragged along the asphalt and knocked against walls multiple times, and the damage was starting to add up even above the shredded left arm.  He heard clinks and pops as components came free and skittered along the road away from him.  He could only hope he held together long enough to have his proper revenge.
He was making progress though.  Cuts and gashes covered Asmodeus’s immense body.  Blood flowed freely and Laz could tell that his prey would soon start to slow down.  His own mechanical muscles however would NOT slow, so long as they were intact, and his core still produced power.  An active ionizing source surrounded by radioelectric panels would keep going for quite some time.  He hated to admit that Victoria had done good on that regard, but not worrying about recharging for 500 years was definitely an upgrade.

“You Pathetic failure” Asmodeus growled at him, “You LOST, just let go.  I’m the one most suited for this world.

“Oh I’m going to win. But first YOU have to lose!”

“And if that chopper catches up to us?”

“Your corpse will shield me from bullets just fine.”

“Idiot, You’re not walking away from this eithACH!!!”

Lazarus was launched forward tumbling head over heels as Asmodeus suddenly slowed way, way down. All at once.  Sparks flew as he hit the pavement at speed and skidded to a stop. “What the fuck?”

Kate gasped for air.  The airbag had punched her hard in the chest when it went off.  She had plowed into the wall in Asmodeus’s path blocking it.  The dragon then collided hard with the side of her truck, overturning it and giving Kate an immediate lesson on why you wouldn’t drive without a seatbelt as she was tossed about the cabin before landing in a tangled heap against the door when the truck finished falling.

She struggled to untangle herself and get out, but decided to stay in the cabin a bit longer when the gunshots started up.

Asmodeus screamed in pain.  The gunship was unloading onto him.  His stone hide stopping some of it but cracking under the impact and letting subsequent bullets through.  The damage was far too much for him to sustain for long.

So, he did the only thing he could do and reared up to crash down on it.  His body swallowed dozens more bullets before he even got close, then the blades started to shred into him even as the impact shredded the blades in return.  Luckily for its occupants they weren’t that far into the air, but the chopper still hit the ground in a screeching wreck of twisting metal.

“You’re not going anywhere anymore” Lazarus said staggering to his feet, “You die now!”

“Fine.  Time to end it.”

Lazarus charged at Asmodeus and he charged in return, a large part of his massive form not responding, but he could still bring his massive jaws around on the approaching foe.  Lazarus waited till the last second then dodged to the side.  Or he would have if his leg had responded correctly.  The servo’s had taken damage in the fall and slowed him down.  Just enough that he smashed off the upper jaw and went sprawling away.  He staggered up only to get hit again and smashed into the brickwork of a nearby building.

“You’re too injured.” Asmodeus panted hard, dragging his half limp body away from Laz, “I will heal though. You… You are just a broken toy. I’ll leave you to them.”

Lazarus braced himself against the wall with his good arm and struggled up on his good leg.  He had little chance, and he knew it.  Even in the severely injured state of Asmodeus, his own damage was extensive as well.  If only those damn mortals hadn’t shot him up.  If only he had noticed his leg before trying to dodge, and if only the insubordinate little shit hadn’t betrayed him and taking his burgeoning army with him.  Now his prey was going to escape again, and he might not be able to himself.  Was he really done this time.

A loud crunching thud shocked him out of his self-pity he was in and made him look up.  A delivery van with a smashed in front now sat where his enemy was mere moments ago, and said opponent flopped forward into a groaning pile in front of him.

Laz saw his change and reached for his enemy.  Maybe at long last he would finally be able to do it even if it means this own end.

Pain exploded in his ruined body as Asmodeus lurched forward and snapped his jaws down on Lazarus’s lower half.  Stone teeth sank into metal and rendered what little flesh was left of the original body that Laz’s cyborg form was built on top of.  He responded by slashing and punching as hard as he could with his good arm.  He tore out the dragon’s eye and shredded the flesh on the left side of its face, but the teeth kept sinking deeper.  He was going to be cut in half by the massive jaws any moment now, but damn it all he was going to sink his claws into Asmodeus’ brain before the end.

“I’m going to win.  Even if this body dies, so long as you lose. I win” He gasped out between blows as his body screamed at him.

“No you won’t.”  It wasn’t Asmodeus that spoke this time.  The dragon couldn’t talk with his mouth fill of Lazarus after all.  No, it came from within.

“Victoria?” he asked internally.

“Yes, its me, oh leas pleasant of roommates.” Victoria taunted him, “This isn’t your win.  Its mine”

Laz barely even had time to read the system warning that popped up, much less react to it.

‘Self destruct’

And all his senses ended.

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