Giselle could only shake her head in amusement since it truly was easy for the two of them to fight their way through the monstrous horde between them and freedom.  Helena was going to get a nasty surprise as Giselle watched Tyger disappear into the shadows.  "You better."  She teased, heading down the old fashion way, though slowly so she'd be able to get a glimpse of whatever it was that was waiting for them down there on the first floor landing.  Something told her that everything up until now had been too easy, and that whatever monstrosity that Helena had cooked up was going to test them both to their limits.  Her guess wasn't too far off the mark either as she opened the door and immediately dived to the left as a concussive blast took the door off of its hinges and most of the wall it had been attached to at the same time.  It was a Geth Armature, a 'tank' of the synthetic army of robots that had taken over the Perseus Veil a long time ago.  While not as strong as a Colossus, it was still able to kill infantry with a single shot of its primary weapon which had thankfully missed Giselle by mere centimeters.  Helena was cackling like a madwoman as she saw the mighty ranger having to run behind cover, trying to catch her breath from such a close call.<br/><br/>"Oh how far the mighty have fallen."  She called from the creature's back, having climbed aboard when it had previously been folded up in a neat little package until now, a gift from her master to deal with any pesky intruders like the ranger that was cowering behind a feeble barrier that her metal colossus could crush without even firing its main weapon.  The orb had been a gift as well to help with her mad plans, unaware it was about to go critical in five minutes in a blast powerful enough to destroy her entire mansion and part of the block around it.  Giselle meanwhile panted from how close that first shot had been, amazed and shocked at how powerful the beast was.  "Come out little warrior!  Face death and crumble to ash at my feet!"  Giselle had to laugh then as she did come out, fire in her brown orbs as she ran up to the metal beast, her blades sinking through the kinetic barrier that was meant to block bullets and laser rounds, not swords that moved considerably slower than either, and thus it was unable to stop her attack.  However, the metal that made up the Armature was strong enough to block her attack, although she was able to leave a sizable cut in its front left leg, and it couldn't fire on her without hurting itself as Giselle slipped underneath the creature and ran out to its back end, confusing it as she bounded off the wall and landed on its hind quarters just as Helena turned, ready for such a tactic.  "You aren't the only one with tricks up her sleeve, half Drow bitch!"  Helena screamed, a green orb of light forming in her left hand.  A Melf's Acid Arrow?!  Giselle dug her blades into the beast and fell back instead of continuing forward, just as the spell went over her head and slammed into the wall, melting a sizable hole in the process, but the half Drow had managed to rend the Armature a couple of new wounds in the process since she had fell with her swords dug in deep before falling to the floor in a roll that landed her on her feet a second later.  This...was going to be harder than she thought.<br/><br/>(http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-05/art/me-geth-armature.jpg)