Gardenof extends his hands in the direction of the lifeless bodies of the kaijus, they begin to decompose, and a green energy comes out of them and goes towards Gardenof, you can see how his body begins to emanate this energy in the same way.
- Aah, that feels good! - exclaims Gardenof letting out a sigh of relief. Moments later he puts two fingers on his lips and whistles, a pair of kaijus similar to the ones that chased Apollo quickly appear among the trees and join Gardenof.
- I hope these are not as useless- Gardenof touches the shoulders of the creatures and fills them with the absorbed energy, they grow in size.
The kaijus leap towards Apollo and Emma, aiming their claws at them. Emma jumps backwards narrowly dodging, but Apollo is frozen in terror.
My body... doesn't react
The world tries to turn back to gray, but Apollo's eyes begin to bleed and change doesn't come.
Rein makes a jump towards the kaiju, leaving lightning bolts in his path, and with a kick directed at the stomach, he deflects it, saving Apolo. What they didn't notice was that right behind the beast, Gardenof covered himself and tried to touch Rein with his hand, who managed to move his weapon and block the enemy with the shaft.
-Tsk - Gardenof clicks his tongue and uses the shaft to push himself backwards.
- You handle the freaks - Rein turns to Emma without taking his eyes off Gardenoff. Emma nods and assumes a defensive posture.
Apollo begins to feel pain in the area where the mole kaiju "bit" him, he also is having blurred vision from the blood gushing from his eyes.
I'm reaching my limit
Rein lifts Apollo up with one of his arms and quickly runs backwards, moving them into some trees.
- Emma is going to need you, be quick - Rein mutters to Apollo, he looks worried.
Right after, he accelerates towards Gardenoff and with one hand tries to thrust him with his naginata. Gardenoff puts his hand in front of him and creates an energy barrier.
- Ha!, nice - exclaims Rein while smiling - But weak - Rein moves his arm backwards tensing his muscles and charging his weapon with electricity, he thrusts again and manages to break through the barrier.
- Damn you! - shouts Gardenof, he manages to dodge the attack by moving to the side, he extends his hand touching the traces of energy and absorbing it. Both prepare to exchange blows.
Meanwhile, Emma is dodging the claws and lunges of the deer kaiju, she doesn't manage to attack, since its long arms and claws keep it at a distance.
- Son of a bitch, don't you get tired? - Emma shouts at the kaiju.
At the same time, Apollo is wiping the blood from his eyes, hiding among some trees.
I have to help, b-but I keep shaking.
The pain does not allow Apollo to move, he can only watch how the others fight.
The kaiju manages to corner Emma against a tree.
I-I have to help her!
Apollo manages to gather some strength and courage, although he is not able to move yet, he aims his weapon towards the kaiju's back.
I'm a bit far away... for god's sake, I can't miss this!
Apollo fires a shot, it passes over the kaiju's head.
FUCK!
Although he miss, the shot causes the kaiju to be distracted for a moment. Emma takes the opportunity to throw a horizontal slash at the leg and dives to the right rolling out of harm's way.
- Good shot! - Emma shouts to Apollo
- Uh... yeah, you're welcome - he smiles nervously.
Emma's attack was deep, but the wound healed as if it had regeneration.
- What the hell? - Confused, Emma exclaims.
It couldn't be that easy, could it?
Apollo hears shrieks from the other kaiju that Rein kicked recovering, stares at Apollo, sprints towards him and jumps up, extending one of his claws upwards to slice it, Apollo is panicking.
The world tries to change colors again, but fails again.
T-this again?
Instinctively, Apollo jumps backwards throwing himself to the ground, even so, the creature manages to graze his eye.
- AGH!!!
Lying on the ground face up and in pain, Apollo looks with his remaining eye at the beast, preparing to lunge again.
When the kaiju gets down on two legs, it lets out a distorted bellow imposing terror on Apollo, but behind him appears Emma with a leap, and with a horizontal slash of her saber slices its head off.
Even so, he does not fall as if he were a zombie, then Apollo from his uncomfortable position aims his gun and makes 2 shots. One hits his shoulder and the other in the chest, and so at last the beast falls.
- There is still one left - Emma says, moving next to Apollo, standing on guard and looking towards the remaining kaiju.
Energy is released from the corpse of the already defeated kaiju, and is directed towards the standing one, which absorbs it, making it bigger and increasing its physic.
- Eeeh... I don't think I can cut that," says Emma, a bit worried.
The powered kaiju accumulates energy in its snout and launches a beam of energy towards them.
Emma acts fast and kicks Apollo out of danger, she tries to move too, but the attack grazes her arm, causing a burn.
AAGH! - Emma screams from the pain, dropping her saber.
On the other side, Apollo, lying on the ground again, tries to stand up.
Please God, tell me this is all just a bad dream.
He looks to Rein to see if he can call for help, but he continues to struggle fiercely with Gardenof.
The kaiju recovers from the attack launched and begins to advance towards both of them. Emma seems to be regaining her composure, but she barely manages to stand up, looking exhausted.
I-I have one shot left... but I can't stand my shoulders.
Due to the strong recoil from each shot, Apollo's arms and shoulders are in bad shape, he is not able to aim with full accuracy now.
The kaiju recovers from its attack and starts to move forward, and is preparing to charge once again.
- Uff uff, hey I know maybe it's too much to ask, but if you manage to distract that thing maybe I can kill it - with tired sighs Emma asks Apollo for help.
- But how am I going to do that!!?
- You still have shots, don't you? Figure it out!
It's not like it's that easy
The kaiju starts running towards them, it's not as fast as its other versions.
Oh shit!
Apollo takes advantage of the approach and without thinking too much he shoots his gun towards the kaiju with his last strengths, even though his eyesight is not at its best, he manages to hit it in the head, stunning it for a few seconds, but without causing significant damage.
- Run! - shouts Emma, both run in opposite directions, Emma dissapear between the trees and the kaiju chases Apollo, manages to sneak between trees too, behind Apollo the beast launches claws that cut the trees, but he manages to dodge them.
I can't go on anymore
After a couple of minutes of avoiding being killed, Apollo falls to the ground dead tired. The kaiju plants itself in front of him, launching a powerful bellow, raises its claws to kill Apollo. He tries to fire his gun, but he has no more shots.
Emma, if you're going to do something... it better be now!
- Hey dipshit! - Emma yells at the kaiju, she is on its back, she opens a portal from which she pulls out a gun resembling a one-handed shotgun, her arm, and the shotgun starts to light up just like Rein does.
The kaiju sensing danger turns around as it launches an attack as it spins around, but Emma shoots point-blank before it can do anything, the shot was so powerful it made the entire upper body explode into hundreds of pieces.
Did she make it?
- Mia is going to kill me... - Emma says, seeing that the shotgun was destroyed, she looks scared.
Is that what you are worried about now?
- Let's go back to Reinhardt, we have to help... cof cof- Emma starts coughing violently blood....
- I don't think you're in any condition - answers Apollo, worried, he tries to extend his hand to help her walk, but she refuses.
- I'm fine, let's move.