As the beam of her proton cannon hit the ground Zero Five spread her wings and headed for the site even though the explosion had yet to die out.
She pushed against the air pressure and heat trying to get there even one second earlier, however the resistance she faced disappeared all of a sudden.
The dome of light that had formed in the distance, swelling and swallowing everything it came by, had vanished without a trace. There was no sign if the mushroom cloud that would normally follow such explosion, only a large crater showing the area that had been eaten by the beam.
A window appeared in front of Five showing her the center of the crater.
There was a humanoid female figure, the limbless Torso they have been fighting so far. It was no longer limbless, with two long arms stretching from its shoulders and legs that matched bent as it crouched on the ground.
