---

Sleipnir, who is ridden by Valkyrie, comes to a screeching halt. Valkyrie Woman immediately hops off and gives the unicorna hug, letting go only to grab it by the face.

Tusen takk, Sleipnir.
...

Releasing Sleipnir, she then turns around, immediately staring down a mysterious figure standing on the edge of a cliff above.

Notte evenne a dayye, and you've already become more attached to der horse dann der rest of us.
Who are you!? Speakken, now!
...Valkyrie. Der Aesir callsen back all of it's mennen damsels. You have beenn relieved of yourren soorvenillance dooties.
(Familiar...)

Valkyrie Woman draws out a blade.

I holden no interest in any more agendas! my fate is minne aloenn to influence!
...
Soorely, a jest… a lowennr-rankennd varrior sooch as yourself, rebelling against your sooperiors? To even dare abando–
I vas abandoned first.

The enigma rubs their forehead...

So be it. Treasonnen forren you, it shallllen be... it hassen beennen farren too longngen sincenn I have pootten my mettle to der teststen, anywayyen.
Have at thee.

The brazen looking man leaps from the cliff and darts headfirst towards Valkyrie Woman. A small crater forms from his landing, and dust is knocking into the air from his momentum.

You! You are T--

Before she can finish her sentence, she is forced to put both of her arms up, as she only barely blocks the large, bullet-like fist from a left punch blasted towards her.

...Tyr.
You remembered.

The one Valkyrie refers to as Tyr headbutts Valkyrie's blocking arms, penetrating her guard and forcing her arms into the air. He attempts to follow up with a strike from his right arm, but whizzes his upper body back in time to dodge a well-placed Valkyrie Blade. slash.

(He is still strongn! I moosten hitten beforenn beingn hitten!)

Valkyrie thrusts her sword forwards with multiple stab attempts, which Tyr avoid, though few graze him. Proceeding her offense, she spins her entire body with her Valkyrie Blade, becoming a live mini-tornado. Once again she takes aim for Tyr, who counters with a simple leg sweep, causing Valk to lose her balance long enough for her to receive a kick to the torso!

(Aldough it is a strooggle, she cann keep up vidden my movennments.)

Something then reclaims Tyr's attention. A blue glow, emanating from Valkyrie Woman as she stands back up. Wings sprout from her.

Take hold of the mayonnaise. When did--!?

Summoning Valkyrie Spears (and then a few Needle Cannons at the back) by the dozens, Valkyrie takes aim at Tyr, as the light-constructs home towards their target. This seems not to deter Tyr much, however, as he runs towards the spears and pulls out a a long, broad blade of his own!

Ha! Fine!

He slashes the spears one by one while still moving forward. Valkyrie watches in an expression of awe, and later determination as she herself glides towards Tyr while he backhands away the remaining Needle Cannons.

(If I falter, he vill overwhelm me!)
(If she is strongn as she is stoobborn, she may be trouble...)

As the last projectiles have been cleared, Valkyrie pulls her Steedslayer axe. While Tyr lunges forward with his sword, she does the same with both her axe and Valkyrie Blade, creating a ground-rumbling, quake-like collision.

Valkyrie shakes her head.

Nei! Sleipnir is nice horse! He vill bring no harm!

Casually, she wraps an arm around him. "Sleipnir" seems indifferent to such.

...
Where I come from, he vas der travel horse. Boot I never rode'nn him.. I woonder... why is he here? Why--

Something seems to dawn on Valkyrie Woman, as she has come to a realization. Her tone drastically changes.

...I must go.

Valkyrie Woman quickly hops on Sleipnir, and points in a direction. In a yellow trail of light, they ride into the distance.

As the Unidentified Descending Object reaches closer to ground level, it creates a non-harming, but moderately strong shockwave, though still damaging no one. Gust and dust clear the area, leaving a very obvious crater. Valkyrie Woman stares in it's dead center, patiently awaiting it, as a dim, yet yellow glow shines through the fog.

...
...
...
...?
...
*whinny noises*
!!?!!?!?

It's... a unicorn? Valkyrie Woman seems frozen in reaction to this, but her facial expression seems to no longer express any hospitality. The "invader" also seems rather unthreatening as well.

...

The (presumed) creature looks left and right, and up and down, but stays in the same location. Whether or not it is friend or foe is unknown, but...

The sky's color seems to change it's hue ever so slightly.

Valkyrie seems to take note of something above. From the sky, a yellow streak seems to close in on the group's vicinity, although the trajectory makes it obvious it'll crash near instead of at them.

.....Moon...

Valkyrie Woman glares in the sky, towards where the silver celestial body once was. There is a stern edge to the single phrase she says.

...

Valkyrie Woman's reaction seems to be delayed. An eerie silence builds.

...

She grabs one of Hellion Lady's arms, and shakes it. Almost yanking it. Tightly. Although her facial expression is the same, her tone is rather firm this time around.

Valk. Y. Rie. Woman.

After finally letting go, she addresses Brickell.

I am fint-- fine. You seem to be as vell, now. I am glad.

Valkyrie Woman returns to the general area of the group she previously left, waving to everyone as she approaches. She doesn't seem beat up anymore...

Hallo, allies! Hva skjer??

Valkyrie Woman nearly collapses onto the counter, slamming a conveniently approximate amount of Zenny. Now more clearly then ever roughed up from the previous battle, she teeters from place to place, gathering random items (Of which seeming to be a Level Up, two more Upgrade Abilities, and a Cutter Core.), as her shaky legs and wobbly body take her again away from the store.

---

Now, away from the shop, she exhales.

*sigh*... pain...
...But vorth.

She grabs her two Upgrade Abilities...

---

Valkyrie Woman feels something within her evolve...
Sacred Revival undergoes a slight change!

Sacred Revival | Light  | No Damage | 100% Accuracy | 6 WE

Marks the user and the allies that make their moves before and after them, bringing them back and boosting all their stats by a stage where they'd typically be disabled. Amount of stages increases twice for every Light type move used prior.

---

Valkyrie Woman feels something within her evolve...
Light Scourge undergoes a slight change!

Light Scourge | None/Light  | No Damage | 100% Accuracy | 4 WE

Can be shared with an ally, and both are immune to debuffing or negative statuses. Triples the efficiency of boosts or bonus damage for 4 turns. When using a STAB or sub-STAB weapon while this is active, said weapon will gain the same damage properties as a weakness. This status carries on after a user has been disabled.

---

...

Valkyrie Woman pockets the Cutter Core she had obtained, and takes hold of her Level Up.

Okay... so before the raid, she was level... what, 6? 7? Honestly, she can't be too high u...

!--!?!?
...Oh dear.

---

Valkyrie Woman has reached Level 12!
(also taking into account the EXP she received right after the Raid)

+3 Energy - Total: 400 (20)
+1 Weapons - Total: 40 (20)
+3 Attack - Total: 40
+22 Defense - Total: 40
+11 Speed - Total: 20

---

Valkyrie Woman has unlocked a new Weapon Slot!
Valkyrie Woman has learned Outer Spirit!

Outer Spirit | Light/Weapons  | No Damage | 98% Accuracy | 3 WE

Transfers positive stat changes and status effects to an ally.

---

Valkyrie Woman has unlocked a new Weapon Slot!
Valkyrie Woman has learned Heal Flower!

Heal Flower | Nature/Light  | No Damage | 100% Accuracy | 12 WE

Heals the user and all allies by 20%, and provides a 5% Heal over Time (HoT) for 3 turns.

---

As the golden aura fades, Valkyrie Woman looks down at her fists, this time no longer in pain. It seems leveling up has made her physical body more used to her newfound power.

...Hmmm!

With a more determined than ever look, she carries on.

(HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH KNEEL SUCKERS)

---

Now rid of her wings and Light Scourge, Valkyrie Woman struggles to rise, digging her sword onto the ground to gain balance.

...Gh...

She wobbles, but after a few moments manages to maintain her center of gravity. She looks over to T-Verse Quartet, along with the of her allies, and cracks a slight smile.

...

Without wasting any more time, she steadily limps away into the distance.

G-GHHHT!! GGGHGGGGGRRRRRRTT!!!!

Valkyrie Woman struggles to maintain her power output, as accumulated strain drastically takes its to'l. She momentarily loses her balance, but manages to control herself long enough to dart forward and hack at STar one last time with Steedslayer.

Steedslayer. BlasT! GO!

Valkyrie Woman folds her arms, as she watches Hellion Lady dash past her with a judgemental facial expression.

...
(...Jeg liker henne ikke...)

She thrusts blade forward, and rallies with Inner Valor.

...

Without turning back, Valkyrie Woman Ignites another Light Scourge.

The Psy Link is accepted. Valkyrie turns to the direction Ghost of Stache is in, and gives him a nod.

(Unnskyld forren der inconvennience frommen previously. Disse time, I intendn on makingn fool use of our mental bondn.)
(Und...)

A purple, glow hue from the Warp Accel from Warp Man envelops Valkyrie.

Disse, as vell.

Valkyrie's wings shift into flight position, as a single flap has her skyrocketing into the sky, leaving off twinkles and feathers, in addition to several booms from the velocity. Not even ten seconds have passed before the clouds in the distance have completely parted.

Momentarily, a mountain of pressure is felt from the air above. Clear as day is a vastly large purple and blue spiraling vortex of energy, descending like a falling meteor. A muffled noise can be heard in the distance, being slightly difficult to make out, but not impossible to deduce:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
(You shood move.)

Still midair, Valkyrie Woman takes a crouching position, pointing her large Steedslayer axe downwards, as her blinding momentum carriers her downwards, slamming into STar, who is dead center in the explosive shockwave of ener--

Ah--!

Like a mile-long freight train, Valkyrie takes the full brunt of the Blast Raid, flipping her over backwards as the sheer force of the attack ragdolls her through the ground. Her Light Scourge completely fades.

...And yet, something can be felt within her... rising? Slowly, but surely, she rises once again, although her pupils are noticably missing. Her sword is dug into the ground, to help her maintain her balance. Once again... she begins to flicker...

...Disse battle... der enjoymennnt of castingn all doubts aside 'nto der vind...
Evennen if it poots my soul on der line.... I'll nott'n let it end!

Valkyrie radiates even more power than before, seemingly shattering her own limits yet again. Once again, she sprouts large wings from her shoulders, although blue flames seem to sprout from her eyes as well.

...

With the lightest tug, she uproots her blade from the ground beneath her and points it to the skies above. She readies another Sacred Revival, and then preparing herself from what comes next.

Who cares? Training's boring.
Correction: Training and exercising is boring for you because you won't personally get anything out of it. Without it, most of us human beings are flesh and bones.
"most"...

Scale rests a hand onDelta's shoulder, kneeing to make eye leve.

I'll put it to your little peabrain processor like this: Your average robot is miles better off than your average man. Whatever alloy you have is going to make you a lot better off than them.
But there's also the 1%. People with rare genetic codon which give them special traits regular people don't.
(Ugh. Here he goes again, babbling on about this stupid nerd stuff of his. Honestly, why is this important to us? We're not meatbags like him.)

Scale stands up.

A lot of the time it's random, but it can be a hereditary thing. I've heard of families all sharing this same genetic trait.
Oh! Is that why Mr. Scale is so smart???
.....It doesn't undermine my intellect. But yes.

He turns to look at Soul.

Come now, what's with that dirty look for?
......Stay the hell away from Opera.
Gh!

Scale recoils. He is noticably taken aback by this.

H-hey, butt out, will you? You don't-- It's not your place to say!
As her brother--
Sister.
Brother-- I think it's a fair call to make. Besides, there has to be someone better for her t-than... you.
...Wow. No matter the structure, you remain ever the meathead. There's no "doing better" than the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.

Scale runs a hand through the front oh his hair.

With that negative nancy attitude of yours, you'll never find a soulma--

Scale is sent flying by something, sending him crashing into a sedan placed decently far away.

!

Recognizing the Psy Link, Valkyrie accepts with little hesitation. She then casts yet another wave of Sacred Revival.

(Ignorenn der voices.)

Seeing Unpaused Konngara struggle from the corner of her view, Valkyrie Woman casts an Inner Valor, (I'm Still Not Calling It Buster Charge +) restoring her weapons. At at another glance, she spots Dord's limp body. She shuts her eyes in rememberence of her fallen ally.

Well, well, aren't you a nice little lady taking your kid out?

Delta turns around confusedly. Soul, however, stares in the direction she is in. With an unhinged facial expression, she murmers to herself.

No... I must be hearing things... there's no way he's here. No!

Footsteps approach louder, with the speaker in a surprisingly casual tone.

Hey, Delta, why's your mom acting weird? 's like she's seen a ghost or something.
What? But Soul's not my momma...
.....WAIT! IS SHE!?!?
Human piece of SCUM...!

The figure draws ever nearer, with their hands in their pockets..

Hmmm. Well, the most logical conclusion is that she caught a glimpse of my beautiful features, and thus became too timid to turn around..
No! Soul doesn't get timid of anything!
Please. I doubt even a computer could process my stunning
WOAH. Scale hunches forward, as a swinging arm from Soul soars inches over his head. A slight current of wind blows back from the force of the narrowly-missed attack. Cockily, he flashes a grin at Soul, the agressor.

...Missed me, princess. I appreciate the enthusiasm. The attempted physical assault, not so much.
How the hell did you avoid that, anyway? You're just-- A guy! A normal guy!
Your movements are repetitive, and lack refinement. On top of that, you were throwing that punch at me into your blind spot. Sloppy technique like that won't touch a hyper-genius like me.

Scale taps his temple.

And don't call me "normal", my IQ is in the quadruple digits. There are no mortal words in the English lexicon to describe what I am.
Oh. But... why is Mr. Scale here?
Because unlike you glorified AI, I need to actively take care of my tender muscles and moist complexion. It's called exercise.