Brock wanted to give the Silver Scorpion a good, hard BRAAAP! but she and Shawnacy flitted around so much, he felt afraid he might hit Shawnacy by mistake. He tried to get a sense of a pattern to their flying, but...

     Shawnacy handled the problem.

     With Belle on her tail, Shawnacy flew right at the glowing, hovering Brock.

     She flew at him, then over his head, to go behind him so that, now, the Silver Scorpion came right at Brock.

     It was a maneuver they'd worked out.

     BRAAAP!

     Belle twisted at the last moment so that Brock missed her torso, which was what he'd aimed for.

     Got her tail, though.

     Sliced it right off at the stem.

     "Aaagggghhhh!"

     Belle hated losing her tail. She snatched it out of the air to hold to her bosom....

     which only made her an easier target for Brock's second blast.

     BRAAAP!

     That blast got her right in the breastplate to slam her against a courthouse wall.

     "Fuck!"

     They were failing the mission! They had a time bomb in their armor that was due to go off at any second, and they were failing the mission! Fuck! Belle got so angry in that moment as she fell, she threw her tail as hard as she could...

     right at Shawnacy's face.

     Belle intended to bloody and disfigure that face of Shawnacy's if it was the last thing she did in life. 

     Shawnacy looked surprised, in shock, kind of. The tail came at her face too fast. She wouldn't be able to dodge in time. She went to...

     BRAAAP!

     Brock had it handled. He azure-blasted Belle's tail to dust.

​     BAM! 

     Belle slammed into the floor...

     hard!

​     "Good," Brock said.

                                                       CONTINUE