The Null Space creature barely reacted to the moves that the girl was making as she speed blitzed it. Her blows landed like the rapid-fire blasts of a machinegun, but none of them seemed to do anything to sway the beast. It just stood there, allowing each blow to land.
"Why isn't it doing anything?" I asked BB under my breath.
BB replied.
It was a visible gain in strength, too. Every time her fist struck the carapace of the Null Space invader it bulged slightly in response until, after it had been sustaining the hits for a while, all that energy simply had to come out.
The girl hit the creature again, but this time it reacted.
It grabbed her hand mid-strike and launched her away from itself hard. She careened through the air and smashed into a wall. It must have been made from the same stuff as the training room I had battled Yr'Arl in, because while the wall did bend outward a little for a moment, it didn't break. It just flexed back into position and deposited the girl onto the ground.
She stood, shakily. It was clear that hit had injured her, but she also clearly wasn't planning to go down so easily. The Null Space invader didn't care either way.
The creature strode toward her with slow and heavy steps. It brought its three clawed fingers up to its own chest, and plunged them in with a sickening squelch.
BB said, responding before I could ask why the creature seemed to be maiming itself.
"So what the hell is this thing doing on a highly populated megacity?" I hissed, "Surely that's a bit of a health and safety oversight."
BB explained.
I offered her my hand, she took it, and pulled her up.
"Where's the invader?" She asked.
"It took off after it did its screech attack, everyone was disoriented, I was the first to come to and it had already left," I explained, she looked more worried with every word.
I knew what she was going to say before she even said it.
"Looks like we're going to have to go find it, then."