[The stabbing that SecUnit has done isn't quite efficient - enough to enrage the monster, but not the neat efficient dispatching it's committed in previous fights, relying more on instinct than whatever strategy or machine intelligence is usually giving it the wherewithal to strategize and react on the fly.
Which means two things - one, that Serph's strike to the charging creature does much more to halt its rampage than the SecUnit's maiming, clipping two legs and leaving the creature stumbling into a growling heap. The second is a direct result of that fall, as SecUnit's bladed arm fails to give it enough leverage to remain perched on the creature's winged back, and it gets knocked to the ground, immediately struggling upright and fumbling with the catches on the helmet with one hand.
When it finally peels the helmet away and drops it to the ground, the extent of the transformation becomes more obvious. The human features are still there, but distorted by a strange grey mottling, and the transformation of its mouth - small mandibles line its jaw, and its mouth has been warped into something more jagged plating than human.]
Don't come closer.
[This time, it has the cadence not of a warning, but a threat. There's resolve to its eyes - it doesn't want to, but it knows it will kill if it has to.]
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Which means two things - one, that Serph's strike to the charging creature does much more to halt its rampage than the SecUnit's maiming, clipping two legs and leaving the creature stumbling into a growling heap. The second is a direct result of that fall, as SecUnit's bladed arm fails to give it enough leverage to remain perched on the creature's winged back, and it gets knocked to the ground, immediately struggling upright and fumbling with the catches on the helmet with one hand.
When it finally peels the helmet away and drops it to the ground, the extent of the transformation becomes more obvious. The human features are still there, but distorted by a strange grey mottling, and the transformation of its mouth - small mandibles line its jaw, and its mouth has been warped into something more jagged plating than human.]
Don't come closer.
[This time, it has the cadence not of a warning, but a threat. There's resolve to its eyes - it doesn't want to, but it knows it will kill if it has to.]