Ingrid looks towards the gun pointed at her. Behind her the background is lost in a wall of static. INGRID (VO): Kind of a bad place to be. Body's falling apart. Static's not letting me shape shadows. Then there's this gun. If I move at all, she'll shoot. No way I can heal it. The Orchestrator raises up her sword arm. Light glints off the blade. ORCHESTRATOR: i am going to sever your limbs. please do your best to endure. Ingrid's face goes dark. INGRID (VO): Bad place to be. Close up on her face. Flame flickers in her eyes. INGRID: But I've been through worse.
INGRID: You know, the problem with tying me up like this... ORCHESTRATOR: ? In an instant, spikes of bone extrude from all over Ingrid's body, poking out from between the wires ensnaring her. INGRID: Is you can't see what my body is doing. She narrows her eyes. The bone spikes fly from her body like missiles, and one nails the Orchestrator right in the face. The static disperses.
The Orchestrator flinches backward and releases her grip on Ingrid. Ingrid falls back towards the ground, the shadows whirling around her body. ORCHESTRATOR: zzt. pressurized blood to fire zzztyour bones. you are at the end of your zzztrope. She fires another burst of static at Ingrid. The mass of shadows explodes in multiple directions.
The mass of shadows splits off into four distinct trails, each one weaving around the Orchestrator's static beam. One of them contains Ingrid, though it's not clear which. ORCHESTRATOR: with that final attack depleting your zztcalorie reserves your only zzt remaining option is to hide in shadows and attempt misdirection. The Orchestrator brings all four of weapons to bear. ORCHESTRATOR: unfortunately Each of her weapons tears through one of the shadow trails. ORCHESTRATOR: i can strike four targets at zztonce.
four targets