Beam reference

We took what cover was available. Filtration systems the size of four-story buildings were spaced out around the 'room', pipes big enough to drive a truck through feeding out of those systems into wall, floor, and ceiling. The domed ceiling high above us, accommodating the structures, and concrete fences were set here and there to ward employees away from dangerous parts of the structure.

***

The mechs floated closer, to the point that some of our capes who'd been behind cover weren't anymore. I was one of them. The halo angel had lights at its side that were glowing, and those lights grew brighter as it revved up its engines. Antigrav panels, turbines, and larger rotary propellers encased within protective cases all sped up and glowed brighter as it prepared a charge.

Sarah and the artillery cape attacked it from behind. The halo deflected the shots, but the engines went dark, steam venting around the mech's body as it twisted in the air to face them down.

The warrior angel with the glowing sword pointed the weapon at me. I flew down and away, using pipes for cover-

And it reversed its hold on the sword, gripping pommel with one hand and handle with the other, sword pointing backward and past its own hip. The beam tore into the water filtration structure, taking out a good chunk of it.

A feint.

***

The halo countered. A single beam down the center of the geyser. Water was superheated into steam, and the expansion of steam disrupted the geyser's course. What had been a focused stream of water became a splatter, a dump truck's worth of of water thrown casually across three suits that could have taken ten times the amount.

He blurred, turning water to rock. Splatter became a light rock coating, half of that coating crumbling away in a matter of seconds as plates shifted and parts moved. Ventilation systems ejected stone as a plume of dust.

- Dying 15.5