The anticipated earth-shattering tremor never came.
The Giant Puppet on the far left, its eyes flashing red a few times, raised a metal arm with a grating CREAK.
Then, as everyone watched with bated breath, the arm stopped halfway. With a FZZT, the red light in its eyes died out completely.
The Puppet froze in place, motionless.
Immediately after, the red light in the eyes of the Puppet next to it had just begun to glow when a puff of black smoke billowed from the Energy Source in its chest. With a loud BANG, its entire chest cavity blew open, and countless rusted parts CLATTERED to the floor.
Of the remaining eight, five went completely inert before their eyes could even fully light up. The other three simply fell apart, their towering bodies collapsing into useless piles of scrap metal.
A thousand years was a more terrifying Corrosive Potion than any enemy.
