Chapter 86: Bring the Thunder.
Seven headed over to the mine with Thundertail in tow who was still doing her little bouncing jig as she walked which he couldn't help but smile at, for something so massive and vicious looking she really was a gentle sweetheart who was as innocent as a newborn lamb in her ways despite how she looked.
Though as soon as they met up with Sherriff Hawk and he directed them into the mines Seven found out pretty quickly that angry Thundertail was not someone with which you wished to fuck, power armour or not.
They'd barely even gotten inside before they encountered the first of the blood worms and it was obvious to him that this was where the nest was located as they were all over the place and they seemed to be both protecting something and bringing food to it by the way he watched two of them dragging what appeared to be a dead radstag along.
It was like someone crossed worms with ants somewhere along the line, but the moment she saw them Thundertail let loose a low-frequency bellow that vibrated through Seven's power armour like he'd suddenly sat his metal arse on a giant washing machine.
"Me kills all the nasty worms! Then friend Seven takes Thundertail to meet other friends!!" she bellowed right after her war cry and hell even her run made the whole place bounce but then it was kinda like watching an angry dump truck deciding to beat the ever-loving shit out of something.
So as Seven covered her Thundertail tore into the worms like a force of nature, when she brought that tail of hers down on some unlucky worm's head not only did it turn into paste but it had the side effect of sending a miniature shock wave out in all directions that sent any near to her flying.
This resulted in the worms bouncing around inside the hollow passage like fleshy pin balls as Thundertail put her side and considerable strength to very effective use, though Seven did begin to worry about the integrity of the mine shaft itself if she kept doing that, it might not be such a good idea to let her go hell for leather further in as it might collapse the place right down on their heads.
Once they'd cleared the entrance Seven walked up to the big Gator girl and patted her on the back, "Nice job Thundertail you really showed them whose boss," he said chuckling as she wiped worm paste off her massive tail.
Thundertail gave him a huge toothy smile that was full of joy at the praise and it was obvious as that toothy smile on her face that she wasn't used to compliments, a fact he was sure would change as soon as they found someone brave enough to take her on.
"Alright, we're gonna need to go further in to make sure we wipe out every last one of these fuckers now you're gonna need to be careful as we go deeper, try not to slam your tail down on them as the shockwave could cause the place to collapse, kicks and punches hell even bites yes, but no tail smashes ok?" he said tapping a beam to make it shower dust down on them to prove his point.
Thundertail looked at the falling stones and dust as Seven tapped the support beam and nodded her massive head, "Thundertail will be careful, not want to die now she has a friend," she said making Seven's heart lurch somewhat, despite their simpleness there was serious power and weight in those words, it was like she'd waited her entire life just to meet him so he could show her the way to be who she wanted to be.
So as they proceeded further in and encountered more worms she kept to her word and used her clawed hands and feet to great effect, when she did resort to her tail it was to do long sweeping flicks and strikes rather than downward smashes, but as it turned out these strikes carried just as much power to them a point that was driven home by one worm that was hit into another by one of her strikes and the sheer force turned the pair into a paste on impact.
It took them a couple of hours to clean through the place because of its size but eventually, they made it through to what appeared to be the queen's chamber, this was blatantly obvious by not only the huge number of small ball-like red coloured worms eggs laid absolutely everywhere, but by the massive fifty-foot long worm that sat right in the middle of it all.
The queen rose up and flexed her massive mouth at them showing off the perfect circle made up of jagged teeth as she swayed back and forth somehow able to see them despite not appearing to have any kind of eyes.
"That is a big ugly worm, might have to use tail for this one," Thundertail said looking the worm up and down and that's when an idea struck Seven and he grinned inside his suit.
He stepped forwards and patted Thundertail on the massive thigh, "Don't worry big girl I got this, got something real special for this fucker," he said and instantly he could see the worry on Thundertail's surprisingly handsome face.
But before she could say a word or shout a warning the worm shot forwards with blinding speed heading right for Seven only to get stopped in mid-air as it collided with an invisible wall, this confused it as it tried again only to have the same thing happen, it also confused Thundertail who grew even more confused when the worm decided to try and strike her inside only to hit yet another wall.
"You picked the wrong fight today fucker," Seven said and with that, he lifted his hands out to his sides as he focused his anger towards the creature that while innocent in the fact that it was a simple creature and had no concept of right or wrong angered him by the sheer amount of equally innocent sentient lives it had ended.
As his anger grew the smokey fire-like wings appeared out of his back through his armour like it simply was an illusion, he lifted off the floor and hovered as he focused because he wanted to do this in one hit and not have to refocus, energy crackled around him as Thundertail stood staring at him with her massive mouth hanging open, until in one single movement and with a snap of his fingers every egg in the chamber flew right at the queen all at once.
The queen was instantly buried under an avalanche of her own offspring but Seven wasn't done, he focused his power and with a bellowing roar that would have made a Claw proud he unleashed his power crushing the invisible net that held all the eggs and queen inplace like a shrinking snow globe the whole lot began to crush and pop like overripe zits under the pressure, sending jets of puke green ichor into the invisible bubble until with one last bellow Seven crushed the whole thing down to the size of a soccer ball.
Once Seven released his grip the whole thing dropped to the floor with a heavy and very sticky-sounding thud and he gently floated down to the ground letting his wings evaporate along with his rage though it still made him kinda dizzy and still filled his head with a bag of broken glass, but at least he didn't pass out from it, he was really starting to get better in his resistance control now.
Thundertail was still standing there with her mouth hanging open as he turned towards her, "Looks like we got em big girl, now all we gotta do is tell Sherriff Hawk and we can start sending freed slaves here when we start getting rid of the bad humans," he said with few breathless pants thrown in amongst his words.
