Fighting Titan Ophion 1

A spike struck my breastplate, found a moment of resistance, punched through, and reached me. It was the same moment my forcefield came back, extending from skin outward, around clothes, to meet the spike and fizzle out again.

I flew back and away hard enough that I slammed into Ophion's side, and might have concussed myself if his flesh wasn't so spongy. Escaping the one spike and pulling it free of my breastplate. I flew up-

The pain was blinding. Full-speed flight into a spike. Me meeting spike, rather than the other way around. I'd collided with the shaft shoulder-first. Pain sang down my arm, and my right hand felt numb.

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A bio-alteration spine lanced its way into my forcefield, which couldn't even fully expand, and met its resistance, pausing for the half-second my forcefield held together before continuing on its way, sliding into flesh with a wet sucking sound.

Just a foot from my ear, it found its home in Ophion's body. The shaft of it had passed through my armpit, right past my breast, and perilously close to my face, which was bent down.

I continued to slide down, breastplate scraping against the narrow, abrasive spines. And as I made it further, the way got easier.

Until I was blocked by an 'x' of two more spines.

A twist, a bit of flight to help me on my way, and-

The sides of three spines running in near-parallel pressed against my bicep, elbow and shoulder, close to my gun wound.

I tried to fly down, and my injured foot came into contact with a sharp point that caught on the material of my boot heel.

I let out the breath I'd been holding, and it came out as a very small sound.

- Infrared 19.6