Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:Crossover2 (section)

===Part 25===

'''(Heivia/Ground’s Nir)

The best option for the Plasma Horn may have been to throw out their pride and fall back while continuing to fire on those puny humans. After all, an Object could freely move about the battlefield at more than 500kph. Looking at ground vehicles, it was unknown if even a linear motor train could overtake one moving at top speed on a straightaway. Its enemies could not stay focused enough to continue dodging and defending forever. If it kept its distance while continually firing, its enemies would eventually self-destruct due to human error.

But Boo Boo was a different matter.

For one thing, he was not human.

His giant body raced between the trees of the forest like an artillery shell and approached the fleeing Plasma Horn. It was not that the Object was losing speed due to all the trees it was knocking down. The pig-faced giant was just that extraordinary.

And Beatrice was a step behind him. Intense flame wings erupted from her back and she flew just off the ground instead of running. And unlike Boo Boo who was a physical shell racing in a straight line, she had many forms of fire Magic. She did not need to actually reach her enemy to attack. Sometimes it was multiple lines of heat that tore through the scenery and sometimes it was balls of light that scattered sticky flames when they hit. The attacks covered the Second Generation in orange.

Of course, not even a nuke could destroy an Object, so this was not enough to seriously damage it.

But what was the entire concept behind the Plasma Horn’s design? It intentionally reduced the stability of its plasma to scatter heat and shockwaves over a wide area, that melted the enemy Object’s surface and slowed its movements, and then it finished off that enemy with a focused main cannon blast.

Couldn’t someone else do the same thing?

In other words, Beatrice’s attacks held it in place and Boo Boo supplied the true attack while it was knocked back.

“…”

The giant gray body arrived at the bottom of the H-shaped static electricity propulsion device. While that close, it was actually harder for the Object to target him. Instead, the Plasma Horn moved closer to Boo Boo to either tear him apart with the powerful static electricity that kept that colossal mass afloat or to simply hit him with that same mass.

The pig-faced giant did not fight it.

As the Second Generation slid sideways toward him, he took his club, which could be mistaken for a log or a steel beam, and stabbed its tip into the dirt ground.

A moment later, a massive amount of dirt erupted up in a hemispherical dome.

It was like a meteor strike.

And whether they used static electricity or an aircushion, Objects generally kept themselves afloat by constructing a layer of air or a field of power between the ground or sea and itself.

So if something it interpreted as the ground was placed in between, it would try to move along that instead.

Yes.

For example, a dome-shaped explosion.

Part of the problem was how the Object had turned so sharply to crush Boo Boo.

It floated up.

Unable to hit Boo Boo, it passed by far above his head as if crossing an invisible arched bridge.

And that temporary footing would not last forever.

Once it lost its support, the Plasma Horn wobbled in the air. Unable to regain its balance, the side crashed into the ground instead of the H-shaped static electricity propulsion device. It then bounced and picked up speed. There was no stopping it now. Like a giant bowling ball, the cutting-edge Second Generation rolled from the forest and toward the coast of the island.

“Well, that was awful. They just won with brute force before even trying to investigate the Object’s weaknesses. I can see why the Plasma Horn wanted this so bad.”

Heivia lamented to himself once everything had finally settled down.