closed ❖ our minds are troubled by the emptiness

[conciliant]

🧙 WHO: 2B & others
⚔️️ WHAT: July catch-all!
🕒 WHEN: Throughout the month
🗺️ WHERE: Wherever the threads happen
⚠️ WARNINGS: N/A

Some closed threads for the month! If you'd like to plot something with 2B, please feel free to hit me up via PM or @ crystariums, or at the cr meme and I would be happy to do a starter 💖

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[scandroid]

N-Not the treasure we were hoping for, huh?

[ Some data is just not meant to be recorded, and yet 9S regretfully catalogues everything he knows about Simon the Minotaur, from top to bottom.

Thankfully, this sophisticated battle android can dodge a balled up cloth that's hurled their way, and he trusts 2B to do the same. The bigger danger here is the giant enemy with an enormous axe. ]

That weapon looks like it takes a lot of strength to handle, but I bet he'll need to let his guard down when he's using it.

[ He's just relying on common sense at this point. He knows how slow those heavy weapons tend to be! ]

One of us is gonna have to intercept the axe while the other goes for the strike!

[conciliant]

[He's making every desperate move it can to beat them down and keep them cornered—slamming fists against the walls until the cave shakes, slamming the axe into loose rocks, and stomping his feet—that 2B stops to wonder if the Minotaur is even looking for a fight, or if he's just protecting his home that they've just trespassed into.

It's short-lived, however, because 9S's suggestion has her whipping her head around to face him.]

I'm guessing I'm the one going in for the strike?

[Only because it doesn't need to be said that she doesn't doubt his Kinetic magic is stronger than hers, and she could say that it's pretty damn good for a battle android. If he can use it to intercept the axe, then she should be able to take this guy down no problem once he's unarmed.

There is one problem she has with it...]

It's a reckless plan. ... But if you think we can do it, I believe you.

[scandroid]

It's the only one we have. It's gonna work.

[ Reckless, sure, but no cost is too great when it comes to making sure 2B is safe. Even if he were to crumble under the might of the axe, it would still give her an opening, and that's good enough for him.

It's going to work indeed... no matter what happens to him. ]

You'll know what to do!

[ He waits for her signal until they're ready to move in unison, even if their counterstrike means they have to do it apart from each other at the moment.

He makes sure to keep Simon's attention this time, switching out his sword for the polearm as he goes in for the attack. While his polearm is normally used for good reach in combat, this time it serves to block the giant axe as he grips his own weapon with both hands and clashes the rod part of his polearm against the sharp steel of the axe. Kinetic magic can only help him so much, but it takes a considerable amount of physical strength to ward off the minotaur's force, too.

He can feel his knees about to give in, but this is the opening he has created for his partner...! ]

[conciliant]

[Watching him now, she wonders if it might have been better to swap roles in this plan, but there's little time to wish otherwise when he's fighting off a Minotaur with nothing but his spear and some magic. She growls under her breath when she sees his knees buckle under the axe, and that's what spurs her into action. And yes, she knows exactly what to do thanks to him!

2B is quick on her feet, dashing between the Minotaur's legs and using her momentum to wheel her sword around at the ankles, but with his thick skin, it barely scratches the surface. It does, however, do the trick in snagging his attention, and he lets up just enough that it should give 9S an opportunity to slip through and find a spot at her side.

Well, after he takes a swing at 2B for scratching his ankles, and with the sharp end of her large sword up, she braces for direct impact. Her own knees are buckling when she feels the weight of the axe bearing down on her, but she holds strong against it, roaring back at the Minotaur as he growls at her.]

9S!!! Go!

[Following the sound of her voice is the crunch of wood splintering, and the head of the axe is falling over her head, falling, falling...

Is 9S through!?]