Astraletos' sword floats by its side as it slowly grips its head with both hands before... letting out a screech, bolts of purple plasma arcing into the air and raining down towards everyone.. (14)
Some of the molten slags land on Exca, too focused on aiming to have been ready to dodge in time, while Clover gets a bad burn on his side, having missed one bolt in the air.
(D20: 6, 7 + 4 = 11...- 4 = 7)
(7) COGNIZANCE tries to dodge, but gets nailed in the leg, most of the armor on said leg being blown off, and the leg being warped to the side.
The machine weakly gets up as he inspects his destroyed leg, chuckling a bit.
"This is pretty bad, huh?"
He starts limping towards Astraletos.
"HEY, BIG GUY! HIT ME!"
Astraletos swings down on him. (15)
(8) And COGNIZANCE takes the slash directly into his shoulder, cleaving halfway through his chest.
He falls to one knee, the sword still stuck in his torso as he wraps his arm over the top of it to keep the machine's blade in place.
He is now on fire, lights flickering.
Exca reaches out to them.
"WHITE BOT-"
With its one open arm Astraletos redirects the lightning bolt entirely (20), but..
The explosive shot hits the machine in the side (3).
A little bit of the void pool splashes onto the rings of its core as it buckles.
The sound immediately vanishes from the area, as if torn out..
The glow from Astraletos' core brightens immensely.. the machine looking around frantically.
It heaves its sword a few more times, to no avail.
It begins to buckle, its armor cracking and pulling inwards as the machine starts to fall into itself, firing plasma wildly as it does so. (8)
Get clear of the blast radius.
Clover immediately books it with a Quick Step, dodging the raining plasma. Exca, meanwhile, ducks and explode-jumps out of the way of another wave of plasma, landing by COGNIZANCE.
(D20: 11, 11 + 4 = 15)
(6) Brambol is KO'd.
(1) And so is Fikitt.
Exca looks around at the K.O.'D persons, looking back at Astraletos, probably about to detonate, with concern.
<...Alright. Alright. Think think...>
<...GOT IT!>
Exca punches her fists together, her armour immediately folding out and shifting into a large, 5 meter tall mech.
<...bit shorter than I expected...but this'll do.>
Exca shoves COGNIZANCE to the edge of the rock platform closest to Astraletos, jumping on the edge opposite to catapult him away from Astraleto. She then jumps after Brambol and Fikitt, still falling, assumedly, to catch them and carry them away to safety
(D20: 12, for overall rescue effort), though possibly not quite getting the last two or herself out of the blast radius in time.