Astra vs. the Automaton (with a little help from Fred)
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 42049
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“You go for the eyes!” Fred shouted back. “I’ll hold it off!” Astra shook her head. “That’s what I just said, dimwit!” “Right! I was just reaffirming our strategy! It never hurts to reaffirm one’s strategy. I guess I’ll go ahead with part one of our plan, holding it off.”“You do that.” “Okay. Here I go.”A few seconds passed, and Fred just stood there. Astra was growing more and more exasperated with each passing second.“What are you waiting for!?” she gasped. “I’m waiting for the right moment to present itself. Now just to be clear, I’m going to hold it off and while I do that you’re going to go for it’s eyes. Right? Our plan hasn’t changed, has it?”“NO!” “No our plan hasn’t changed or no I’m not to hold it off?”Pushing the lack-witted man out of her way, Astra charged the machine head on. One of it’s blades lashed out at her, but she nimbly sprang aside and countered with a strike to it’s left eye, shattering it. Unfortunately, her dagger got jammed in the process. She gulped. If machines could smile, this one certainly would have been doing so. It centered it’s crossbow on Astra’s face and prepared to fire at point blank range.But that’s when Fred, albeit unwittingly, came to the rescue. That potion had been doing quite a number on his stomach, and he’d been suppressing the urge to vomit for awhile now. But he could suppress no longer. Like a scene from the Exorcist, he unleashed a salvo of chunks that showered the automaton and obscured it’s ‘vision’. Astra wasted no time at all. With only her bare hands she laid waste to the machine, blow after deadly blow, until nothing remained of it but a bunch of twisted metal shards. She then slumped to the ground, exhausted.Fred’s jaw dropped. “Wow! Did you see that!? You just totally kicked that thing’s ass! Did you see that, Astra!? Huh!? Huh, Astra!? Astra! Hey, did you see that!?” “YES! I SAW THAT! NOW LEAVE ME ALONE FOR A MINUTE!”Fred wisely did so, and instead turned his attention toward the man whose throat Astra had cut. “Did you see tha - er, I guess not. Well I really wish you would have. She was like, wam! BAM! BAM! WAM! WAM! BAM! It was so cool! I mean, it was probably the coolest thing I’ve ever seen! Wow!” Astra struggled back up to her feet. “I don’t think he can hear you, Fred.”But that didn’t seem to matter, as he continued to relate the story to the fallen guard even as blood still pooled around his mutilated neck. Eventually...
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