Arm the gravity cannon.
A sheet of the metal of her bike's front slid over and a nasty looking protrusion extended out, looking like a five-pronged syringe. A dark matter began coalescing within as sparks of electricity facilitated its irregular pulsations. Esdeath aimed towards the center of formation of Orks where she would fall and fired. The weapon fired with the recoil sending it back into the body of the bike. A black sphere zoomed out from it, tearing a tunnel through the clouds as they were drawn into it. Once it broke through the cloud surface, it surprised the Fly Boyz and tore through a few Orks before finally stabilizing.
The result was it stopping in midair and pulling everything into it within two hundred meters. Clouds, water vapor, smoke, Fly Boyz, and even an unlucky scaly bird were caught in the event horizon and pulled into the gravity well. Fly Boyz tried to fly away with their rockets going as fast as they could but even hope bends to logic and since they were not moving faster than light, there was no chance for them to escape the miniature black hole. Once the Orks hit a certain point, their bodies began stretching and distorting, pulling apart atom by atom. Some Orks were stretched to more than forty yards before finally being consumed.
The black hole continued feeding its bottomless stomach all matter before its stable structure finally fractured. The instability was enough as like a tower with weak supports, the rest of it collapsed, imploding upon itself and sending a massive surge of energy in a ring shape tearing through the sky for miles on end, ripping through hundreds of Fly Boyz, dozens of Ork ships sitting in low altitudes, and unfortunately it also nabbed several Buzzard drones.
From her throne that she was connected to in Outer Heaven, Yggdra was watching the war through all of the minds of the Valkyrians fighting. Other portions of her mind were focused on the numerous monitors in front of the bridge where she even saw the small, expanding ring from Esdeath's actions. The queen gave no expression for her thoughts and simply continued monitoring the battle, directing her gaze to wherever her forces were. These point of views were mainly from the ship primals of the ground invasion fleet since the major majority of the Type-22s, Drones, and eventual ground forces were A.I. and V.I.s.
By her side was T-ELOS whose hair was the target of her child's attention. She'd asked the gynoid to try and get acquainted with her charge while she worked. The Aggressor model was outmaneuvered and cautiously held the small child against her chest, trying to be mindful of how she handled him since some parts of her armor were pointy and metal. She wasn't really sure how to entertain the energetic tick but luckily he found her silver hair similar enough to his mother's to play with. Currently, he was gnawing on some strands.
T-ELOS huffed in reluctance while KOS-MOS sent her a small smirk. T-ELOS really wanted to kick her counterpart's face inwards. T-ELOS tried to ignore her and focus on the screen tracking the TATSUMI.
"That's Esdeath's bike project? It looks more like a hover tank without the turret." She was aware of a little of what the mad woman was cooking up but the warden kept her cards pressed to her chest in this case. T-ELOS looked over at Frija who was devoting a single percent of her brain to independently give commands to the thousands of ship primals as the overall situation was constantly being updated while the rest was doing Almighty knows what. "Do you know anything about that thing, Lady Frija?"
The aloof scientist snapped her head towards her due to not expecting to be questioned on it, not while she herself was very curious about it as well. Esdeath had done all of the work in her head and only made physical copies of the data instead of digital. While being damn impressive, it was wholly inefficient and the main reason it took Esdeath so long to finish it but that also meant Frija couldn't sneak through her computers to spoil the surprise. She was as much in the dark as anyone else but seeing it for the first time, she knew there was something unique about it, not counting its size and weapon load out.
"I do not and I'm very excited to see what our fellow Royal has in store for us."
Esdeath's bike free fell at terminal velocity, a mach cone forming around her nose. The battles around her were blurs and she didn't care to detour from her tunnel vision to focus on them. Her focus was on the large concentration of Orks camped on the ground ten miles below and twenty North of where she'd fall. It looked the largest camp complete with fortifications made from the remnants of the planet's previous inhabitants that were most likely killed and eaten.
Multitasking, she also locked onto a much smaller encampment of about a hundred Orks and set her landing there. These Orks were about to tremble from her sheer ferocity. If they didn't, then she'd just keep killing until she could lick their tears of fear from their dying faces.
When her altitude reached 4,000 ft, she activated the auto landing while ejecting herself from the cockpit. Her form was hit by the sudden windfall but with an inhuman amount of body control and coordination, she maneuvered her body with the jolt of wind to slide into a vertical dive. Her bike was a few dozen meters away and seemed to be auto-correcting its course to stay with her.
One of the Orks looked up and saw her falling towards them. He yelled to his buddies and pointed up at Esdeath. That response was all of the greenskins lifting whatever weapon they were holding if it was a gun and start shooting up at her. Eight inch long miniature rockets (aka the actual bullets) flew around her. Any that would have hit her body were instead redirected around her due to her EM field manipulating its trajectory.
At 1,000 ft, Esdeath gave a cry of glee and with a shout of "Show time!" began activating her favorite ability. Ice grew from within her feet and ankles, forming a solid, smooth surface wide enough for her to slide on. The continuous use of it had her forming a frozen track in her wake. She used her own speed to her advantage by adjusting the angle of the ice to send her from a free fall into a decline. The Orks had no idea how she was doing it but to their credit, their single-tracked minds didn't let them stop trying to shoot her out of the sky.
Esdeath's decline soon turned into a chaotic roller coaster as she slid into bumps and barrel rolls to avoid the explosive firepower. The TATSUMI finally slammed into the ground like a meteorite, sending a concussive shockwave that ripped apart the earth and nearest Orks while those further away were knocked off their feet. The larger Orks managed to stay on their feet by bracing themselves. Esdeath took advantage of that and held her two now frozen hands up in front of her. Using her ice manipulation to have her circle the furthest group, her hands began firing dozens of foot long icicles that were sharpened to a molecule.
The ice flew like bullets and slammed into the small grouping of Orks, piercing flesh and metal alike while some simply missed and hit the ground. Those hit either lost a head, limb, or were simply sporting a new hole in their body. This didn't deter the ones who still had their heads as with a cry of WAAAGH!, they ran around trying to get close enough for their guns to actually hit the fast sliding Valkyria who was raining painful, cold impalement on them. Having fired hundreds, Esdeath had killed half of the forty strong group. With a smirk, she snapped her fingers.
At all the places where an icicle was protruding from, whether it be the ground or an Ork, dead or alive, the ice shard began shrinking but the area of impact was frosting over. The ground became covered in a mirror-polished coating of ice and dead Orks were frozen solid. The Orks still fighting were caught unawares by the feeling of sudden numbness. The icicles in their bodies looked to have been melting at first but when their body parts began freezing and getting stiff, even they knew something was wrong. A few Orks didn't have that pleasure as icicles near or in their heads froze their brains within seconds.
In just ten seconds after snapping her fingers, the battleground and its occupants became a winter horror land of 0 degrees Kelvin ice.
On the other half of the encampment, close to the crater left by TATSUMI, a whirring sound was heard which was ignored by the dazed Orks trying to get their bearings.
"Oww, me head's a achin'," one large Ork said in a groan, weapon clutched tightly in his head. "Stupid hummie dropping giant rock at us! I'll kill ya!" he roared, the psychological effect of the WAAAGH! to cause destruction helping the others to recover faster. They looked around and saw Esdeath sliding through the air on ice with a long track twisting behind her. With a cry of WAAAGH!, they charged at her location to meet her challenge.
TATSUMI within the dark dust cloud of the crash site watched them with its infrared, taking tally of all hostiles.
"Engaging Hostile Forces."
It flared its PPB engines momentarily, blowing away the dust cloud by effect. The noise got the nearest Orks' attention and when they turned around, they saw the monster-sized hover bike breaking apart at the joints. Instead of falling to the ground like a broken machine would, the body tilted upwards to float vertically with the parts floating. The rear portion of the bike split in two halves and moved up with the front part that turned over until the "nose" of the craft was facing the Orks, the slanted forward blades forming a slight resemblance to an angular face. The "rear" portion floated on both sides of the "head" with the railguns rotating to face towards the Orks like shoulder-mounted cannons. From beneath the lower portion of that set, the pieces detached and moved into position underneath the "shoulders".
The 15 ft middle portion ejected two parts from the sides, carrying the SHEAR blades with them. These parts formed a mockery of forearms with the blades unfolding and becoming obvious melee weapons. The body split horizontally below the middle, just under the cockpit, and the bottom split vertically once more to form two squat legs with a PPB on the back of each and anti-gravity propulsion engines on the bottoms. The third and main PPB engine was still on the bottom/back of the middle body. The cockpit canopy stayed closed to shield the "heart" of the vehicle.
Finally, as the parts were floating in place, ports on each side of each part that was facing another opened up and glowing green wires and thick cords sprouted forth like tentacles and entangled themselves with the other, forming a physical connection to each part resembling muscles and ligaments.
With the transformation completed, it stood at a height of twenty-two feet and looked every bit as menacing as it did cool. The Orks, avid lovers and fanatics of anything that could smash, slash, burn, shoot, or blow up stuff, were slack jawed in awe and reverence...
*WHIIIIRRR*
*THUMP**THUMP**THUMP**THUMP*
… until the four railguns on the mech's shoulders began blowing their heads off, the electromagnetically stable energy slugs smashing through their faces and the rippling effect causing their heads to explode like a bloated carcass that's been left in the sun for weeks. The four bodies fell dead near instantly and four more were quick to follow within the rear ranks of the Orks charging at Esdeath's general location.
TATSUMI locked on to not them, but the area they would move into, calculating their speed and direction. From the back of its shoulders, the two ADMM pods launched a full volley of thirty mini-missiles, sixty in total, into the air. They gave off a low hissing sound as they arced through the air and descended from two hundred feet. The Orks didn't even notice them in time as the sixty missiles exploded in sixty air bursts that threw plasma over their forms.