Rashida roared as her search was interrupted by the suddenly surrounding dusk. She was not especially eager to be raped by these things again, and this was evident to anyone who could see her when rather than drop the food storage shed, Rashida made it her weapon. With a scream of rage, she swung it over her head at an obscene speed and down onto the heads of two dusk, crushing them but also destroying the shed and scattering food everywhere.<br/><br/>Tentacles worked their way at Rashida from both sides, and she dived forward, grabbing two cans out of the sand and using them each as heavy bullets. The first one found its mark between the armor of a dusk, bursting out the other side. The other smashed into a dusk's plating, shattering it but not knocking it off.<br/><br/>The dusk started moving in more quickly. One of them wrapped a tentacle around Rashida's ankle (thankfully with her water-logged pants in the way). She lurched and smashed the tentacle. Its blood splattered all up her arm, but it wouldn't be affected as quickly as the rest of her would. She reached forward and dug her fingers underneath one of the dusk's plates, latching onto it and turning it into a weapon, spinning it around her and non-fatally knocking a few dusk away. She grabbed another can of beans and ran through the opening she created. From her new vantage point she saw Franz as he was finishing his line of slaughter and was picked off his feet. And he appeared to quit fighting. Rashida seemed to remember hearing about his powers on a few occasions and shouted as loudly as she could across the battle at him,<span style="color: Navy">"Franz! Babe! Your friends can use help! You... have the power!"</span><br/><br/>With a mighty heave and a flare of blue light from her palm, Rashida threw the can of beans like a cannonball as dusk worked their way into her line of sight to obscure Franz. The creature's prominent head took the hit.<br/><br/>Rashida heard all kinds of shouting from behind her now, and she turned to see Chiara, Hack, and Sam lifted into the air. She was about to run to their aid when she felt a tentacle wrap around her waist from behind. Rashida turned as much as the tentacle's grip would allow and grabbed one of the dusk's teeth. With a savage growl of indignation as the thing started to lift her shirt, she yanked on the tooth and ripped it (and a large portion of the creature's jaw) off. As it backed away she used the opportunity to throw the large chunk of chitin at the dusk holding Chiara as she ran toward it.<br/><br/><span style="color: Navy">"We FIGHT this Crusade now babe, yes?!"</span>Rashida screamed as more dusk moved to catch her before she could reach the nun.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>