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When the first shot hit the queen, the encroaching roach horde stopped to an almost complete halt. Forgetting their own self-preserving nature, the legion of insects all barricaded around their mother, to protect her from the onslaught of flame. The horde took a hefty hit, many of them becoming more burning husks to add to the pile. The Roach Queen screamed out in mix of anger and pain.

"SUCH -KLIK- FOOLISH CHILDREN! FOOLISH GOOD-KLILK- CHILDREN! THEY PROTECT THEIR QUEEN BUT THEY FORGET THEIR PREY!" she roared, shaking the corpses of her young off, flinging them against the time-wall. "THEY FORGET I WAS THE FIRST-KLIK- TO WITNESS THE GREAT DARK MASTERS -KLIK- IN ALL THEIR GLORY! HOW IT VALIANTLY STOOD -KLIK- AGAINST THE LOST GODS AND-KLIK- THEIR TITANS AMIDST THE TORRENT OF DECAYING SANDS!"

She leaped past her dead and dying kin, her own carapace half melted and lit aflame. She seemed to not even take notice of any pain she was in, if she'd felt it at all as she charged at full speed at the though-ship, warping forward in time by a few seconds or two when she could. "I HAVE MORE CLUTCHES! I WILL RAISE -KLIK- A NEW, STROGNER ARMY! ALL LIFE FALLS BUT ROACHES WILL LIVE TO OVERSEE A NEW ERA! NO HUMANS! NO VERMIN! NO LOST GODS! ONLY ROACHES!"

"Whatever we hit 'em with, it's working..." Henry noted. Devon especially had laid the time-tempered battlefield with the corpses of hundreds of roaches, but Henry's main concern was still the speed the Quetzalcoat's Fang was moving at. Would the thought-ship withstand whatever Devon was gonna hit the roaches with next? Perhaps they wouldn't even have to find out. He had some concern over how Polarity or Isotropic rather, had fled off with that Artifact of the Beast, but they had a name to go on and perhaps more. That lead would have to be followed another day.

Looking towards the others, Henry shouted, "Got an idea! Y'all might wanna, uh...hang on." he noted, drawing out his blaster. He held it out as it folded out onto his fist like a sort of 'brass' knuckle, almost as it began to glow bright red and bright blue. "Arisen Sun!" the Red light began to envelop Henry. "Endless Space!" with the blue light following in tandem as Henry leapt off the thought-vessel starboard bow.

Within this vast universe exists a macrocosm of light, Cosmic Titan, "MACROMAN!"

Macroman swooped down below the Quetzalcoatl's Fang and carefully grabbed onto it with his hands, careful to avoid the canons. And with that done, he promptly took off with the ship held above his head, zooming forward towards the Precipice. He was moving fast but just fast enough so the others on board could time their shots against the ravenous massive insect before them.