with a grunt and she instantly changes direction, the blades on her forearms extending as she prepares for a shift in the slaughterhouse. Steve continues firing at the drones, looking for Lieutenants to pick off and scatter the main force. But there are none, they must have learned their lesson well from the last encounter and held back.

They’d given him a beating, but with a very lopsided score line in his favour, and many more and heavier losses against Belle, it was a series of lessons that clearly gave them enough feedback to reconsider their approach.

The swarm was huge though, two hundred at least from what he estimated when the Beast hit the first drones. It was hard to tell though, the light was poor and the heavy rain obscured anything past a