Flowing Flowers and Strings

Chapter 12: Preservation

Cocolia:...

Bronya: We are guardians, mother! Chosen from the masses! Our duty is to preserve the world built by humanity! We are not gods! We are not arbiters! You seek to crush humanity underfoot while masquerading as...as such! I cannot let you!

Cocolia:...So...that is your choice, Bronya. I understand. Such a pity that you would never seen the resplendent world, unable to free yourself from the shackles of your mind. You were supposed to be...the mother of the new world. The fate of this city...of Belebog...is sealed. It will unfold in our hands. And you...will become the foundation...

OF THE NEW WORLD!

Cocolia holds her hand out, and summons a large sword of ice.

Cocolia: You must break the old to build the new.

She raises her sword, rises into the air, and yells:

Cocolia: The Supreme Guardian commands you...Rise, Engine of Creation!

From behind her, a gigantic arm shoots up, and attempts to sweep the group away.

Y/N: Shit, that's one of the Architects creations. Be careful, everyone!

The group runs, dodging the hand, as the rest of the giant Robot appears.

March: Th-this things a thousand times larger than Svarog!

The robot goes for another slam with its other arm.

Y/N: I got this!

Y/N pulls on his neck flower stems and stomps, as a wall of flowers and vines appear, blocking the robot's arm, but as the others retreat, the arm breaks through the shield, and Y/N disappears under the arm. He, in fact, did NOT got it.

Stelle: NO!

Seele: Damn it!

The robot lifts its arm, but oddly enough, Y/N's body is nowhere to be seen.

Bronya: Where's his body?!

Dan Heng: Focus, everyone! We've got company!

Fragmentum monsters appear, and the group is forced into combat. Bronya fires a bullet into a Frostspawn, while Seele slices apart an Everwinter Shadewalker(those ice guys with axes). Dan Heng takes out another Frostspawn with a stab from his spear.

Cocolia: Engine, break them!

Cocolia points her blade at the group, and the gigantic Robot fires a laser at them from its face.
The group jumps back, right before the laser turns them to dust.

Seele: We need to stop that thing!

Stelle: Open to suggestions right now!

More waves of Fragmentum monsters appear, but are quickly all taken out by the team, fueled to fight and defeat their enemies.

March: Watch out!

The Engine of Creation raises its arm, ready to crush everyone under it, when all of a sudden a laser from the sky shoots right through it, causing the arm to fall onto the battlefield, missing the group.