Sorry for not posting; I haven't had the time to write. First, my mom needed me to watch her for the doctor(she was drugged to sleep to check for cancer)
Then I wasn't sleeping because there was a drunk/drug asshole screaming from 2 am to 5 a.m.; in the morning, I was going in and out of sleep. I swear to god i was going to fight someone; I didn't even care he was hopped up on something
Good news: I hit Diamond 2 in rank
Ps pls leave a review; I want it to go up
Damn, it's my 1-year friend anniversary with page_picker, plus she's posting for I Will Create a Good Ending for the Yandere Villainess. To celebrate, I shall write an R18 chapter; I've been studying porn for this moment!
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But her actual combat experience remained limited, and every aggressive movement demanded concentration she was not accustomed to maintaining.
Three more Cybermen entered from the access tunnel before she could recover properly.
They immediately opened fire.
Engineer sprinted sideways while several energy blasts followed across the floor behind her. UNIT soldiers returned fire from multiple positions, forcing two machines to adjust their targeting while the Engineer headed toward the third.
The Cyberman tried tracking her movement while stepping backward.
She changed direction suddenly enough that its next shot crossed empty space.
The Engineer reached the machine and brought her sword downward against the weapon itself. Hardlight tore through the barrel before the Cyberman's arm jerked backward under the impact.
She rotated the sword around her wrist while stepping across the Cyberman's left side. The machine turned toward her before she slammed the pommel against its helmet and followed immediately with a horizontal strike through the neck joint.
The head came free before the body could properly regain its balance.
The Engineer caught the falling Cyberman's shoulder and used her Strength to shove the entire armored body toward the next machine. The second Cyberman caught its disabled ally automatically, which occupied both arms for exactly the amount of time the Engineer needed.
She ran directly behind the thrown body.
The Cyberman discarded its inactive ally and raised one arm.
The Engineer jumped onto the fallen machine's torso, used the armored chest as an improvised step, and launched herself upward with enough force to clear the Cyberman's reaching hand. She brought the sword down during the descent and buried the glowing blade directly through the upper chest armor.
The impact drove the Cyberman backward.
The Engineer landed with both boots against the machine's torso while maintaining her grip around the sword. Her momentum dragged the Cyberman onto the floor with her before the hardlight blade tore through the internal systems surrounding the core.
She pulled the sword free while immediately rolling away from another incoming blast.
The third Cyberman had already adjusted.
The Engineer came up on one knee while the machine advanced toward her.
Its weapon charged again.
Sergeant Okafor fired several rounds into the Cyberman's shoulder from across the chamber, forcing the machine to turn partially toward him.
The Engineer moved immediately.
She crossed the remaining distance before the Cyberman could decide which target deserved priority. Her sword struck the damaged shoulder first, severing the weapon arm before she stepped past the machine.
The Cyberman rotated after her.
The Engineer rotated faster.
She brought both hands around the grip and swung with her entire body behind the strike. The hardlight blade passed through the neck connection with enough momentum that the Cyberman's head was thrown several meters away before striking the concrete.
The armored body remained upright for another second before collapsing heavily behind her.
The Engineer stood among the disabled Cybermen while her glowing blade hummed beside her leg. Her coat had gained another scorched section, her shoulder hurt from blocking the earlier blast, and several strands of hair had escaped whatever arrangement they originally possessed.
She looked considerably happier than anyone surrounded by that many destroyed Cybermen probably should.
Commander Shaw emerged partially from behind cover while keeping his rifle raised. "I would like to officially withdraw several previous complaints regarding your decision to manufacture that sword."
The Engineer rolled one shoulder while checking the hardlight emitter temperature. "I appreciate your extremely delayed recognition of my excellent judgment."
Sergeant Okafor looked across the collection of severed Cyber helmets and inactive armored bodies. "Your excellent judgment appears considerably more violent than it did earlier."
The Engineer rested the glowing blade across one shoulder while her Omni-Tool continued scanning the chamber. "They formed a coordinated firing squad around me, so I believe proportional response became extremely flexible."
Her System displayed the updated physical attributes while several experience notifications appeared beneath them. Strength now remained at four hundred sixty-two points, Dexterity remained at four hundred forty-four points, and every one of her six hundred eighty available points had been completely spent.
The Engineer dismissed the experience notifications before staring toward the other side of the chamber. She had been enjoying herself enough that the enormous Cybernetic entity had briefly become somebody else's problem.
That mistake corrected itself quickly.
The much larger machine stepped through the smoke while its red optical sensors tracked every disabled Cyberman surrounding the Engineer. Gallifreyan components glowed beneath its layered armor while temporal shielding distorted the air around its massive frame.
Her Omni-Tool immediately displayed the familiar warning explaining that ordinary hardlight penetration remained severely reduced against the creature's defenses. The System also reminded her that even after increasing Strength to four hundred sixty-two points, direct comparison with the enormous Cybernetic entity remained deeply unfavorable.
The Engineer tightened both hands around her sword instead of looking discouraged. Fighting the smaller Cybermen had taught her several useful things about her new speed, her new strength, and exactly how much abuse the hardlight projection could survive.
The giant machine looked toward the disabled Cybermen before returning its attention toward her.
"THE ENGINEER HAS INCREASED COMBAT CAPABILITY BEYOND HISTORICAL EXPECTATION."
Engineer smiled while lowering the glowing blade from her shoulder. "You came here expecting the younger version of me to remain easy prey, which sounds suspiciously like your first major mistake."
The massive Cybernetic entity raised one armored arm while several temporal weapon systems activated beneath the plating. UNIT personnel immediately spread around the chamber as Commander Shaw ordered everyone toward stronger defensive positions.
The Engineer remained where she stood while her Omni-Tool began mapping every visible joint across the creature's enormous frame. She already knew the temporal shield would resist direct cutting, which meant attacking the obvious armored surfaces would accomplish absolutely nothing.
Fortunately, the previous fight had reminded her that armor only mattered when somebody respected it enough to attack where it was strongest.
The Engineer shifted the hardlight sword into both hands while her violet eyes followed the targeting markers appearing around the machine. Her grin widened when the Omni-Tool identified several Gallifreyan components hidden beneath vulnerable mechanical connections along the neck, shoulders, and upper torso.
"If you want the Engineer Protocol that badly, then you can come across this room and personally try taking it from me."
The enormous machine started moving toward her while the entire chamber trembled underneath its weight. The Engineer lowered her center of gravity, adjusted her grip around the hardlight sword, and prepared to discover exactly how much trouble four hundred sixty-two Strength and four hundred forty-four Dexterity could cause against something built to survive her future self.
The enormous Cybernetic entity started moving before the Engineer had completely settled into her new stance, and the first heavy step cracked enough concrete beneath its foot to remind everyone inside the ruined relay that this machine belonged in an entirely different weight class.
The Engineer kept both hands wrapped around her hardlight sword while her Omni-Tool painted targeting information across the machine's enormous body. Temporal shielding shimmered around the outer armor, Gallifreyan components remained buried beneath several reinforced sections, and more than forty possible attack points appeared across her vision before most were immediately marked as inefficient.
Her recently increased Strength and Dexterity had completely changed what her body could accomplish, but the System had already made one uncomfortable fact extremely clear. Four hundred sixty-two Strength sounded impressive until something several times her size attempted to turn her into a decorative feature on the nearest wall.
Commander Shaw ordered UNIT personnel farther away from the central engagement while keeping their weapons trained across the machine. The previous Cybermen had been vulnerable enough for concentrated fire to create useful openings, but their larger enemy possessed enough armor and temporal protection to make ordinary gunfire mostly irritating.
The Engineer watched the Cybernetic entity accelerate toward her while several increasingly important thoughts passed through her mind. She had a sword she had created approximately several minutes earlier, physical abilities she had possessed for even less time, and almost no formal experience fighting something capable of throwing armored vehicles.
Fortunately, she also possessed something considerably more dangerous than experience.
She could learn.
The machine crossed half the chamber before her System automatically activated another ability.
[Time Sense has increased chronological perception during immediate combat conditions.]
The Engineer felt the world change around her without anything actually becoming slower. Her brain simply began processing the surrounding movement at a rate that made ordinary perception feel painfully sluggish by comparison.
Dust rotated through the air with enough visible detail that she could follow individual particles. Empty shell casings from UNIT rifles appeared to tumble lazily toward the floor, while the massive Cybernetic entity's charging movement separated into dozens of smaller mechanical actions.
Its right foot struck the concrete before the left shoulder rotated forward. Three internal servos shifted beneath the shoulder armor while the elbow bent, and the massive hand opened several fractions of a second before entering grabbing distance.
The Engineer saw everything happening clearly enough to understand the attack.
Understanding did not automatically mean avoiding everything perfectly.
She moved left when the machine committed its weight forward, but her unfamiliarity with the enhanced Dexterity caused her to overstep slightly. The Cybernetic hand missed her torso but caught the edge of her coat, and the sudden force nearly ripped her completely off her feet.
The Engineer twisted before the machine could close its fingers properly. Her hardlight sword came upward against the wrist joint, but the temporal shielding flared brightly before knocking the blade away.
The impact traveled through both her arms.
She disengaged immediately and crossed several meters before the machine could attempt another grab.
Her Time Sense returned toward normal perception once the immediate attack ended. The Engineer shook both hands around the sword grip while processing what had happened.
The System had already started doing something considerably more interesting.
[Superior Intellect has increased baseline learning efficiency by five hundred percent.]
[Observed enemy movement patterns are currently being converted into predictive combat data.]
[Personal movement errors have been identified and corrective adaptation has already begun.]
The Engineer raised one eyebrow while the enormous machine turned toward her again.
"That might be the most beautiful notification you have ever shown me."
The Cybernetic entity raised one arm while temporal energy gathered beneath the weapon assembly. The Engineer saw the charge building before the cannon reached full strength, and her Time Sense immediately expanded her awareness again.
She watched the weapon's internal mechanisms through the Omni-Tool scan while the machine prepared to fire. Energy passed through three temporal regulators before reaching the primary emitter, and a tiny delay appeared between regulator synchronization and actual discharge.
Approximately zero point fourteen seconds separated the final synchronization from the weapon firing.
For an ordinary person, that information would have been completely useless.
For her current Dexterity, that information was practically an invitation.
The Engineer waited until the third regulator synchronized before moving sideways.
The cannon fired exactly where she had been standing.
The beam crossed behind her while she accelerated toward the machine's left side. Another weapon began charging on the opposite arm, but she already understood the preparation sequence enough to change direction before the targeting system completed its prediction.
Commander Shaw watched from behind a damaged support structure while the Engineer crossed between two incoming blasts. Her first evasive movement had been awkward, but the second looked cleaner, while the third already seemed disturbingly intentional.