Ariana was too fast to be hit now, and she reflexively stepped around the wild charge, easily countering Jarno three times in the process.  Once on his right shoulder, once across his stomach, and again across his neck with the flat of her staff though his arm wouldn't be of any use if her blades struck as she hoped they would at all.  She easily jumped over the blast from his stomp and twirled in the air high enough to dodge his next attack as she came down on his other side, her staff aimed for the back of his head.  Even if she missed and he somehow managed a counter, she had a block ready to go mentally as she landed on her feet and sliced apart two more N-Bots that got too close to her.<br/><br/>Then the new enemies came upon them, and Ariana knew her staff could be assembled into a shotgun that could decimate a room with a single shot.  She pulled her weapon apart, dodging around her enemies still all the while.  It took a couple tries, but she figured it out as the newly created weapon activated with red sparks and lightning forking across it for a couple seconds.  When it was charged, she turned and pulled the trigger, nodding to her new partner in this fight as a dozen red energy beams sliced through the air in a wide but deadly spread that totally obliterated everything in front of her, which included several of the N-Bots and one of the new allies that Jarno had somehow called in.