"Took you long enough!""C'mon! What do we do?!"I suppressed a nervous chuckle from escaping my lips as I turned to my detractors. I honestly wouldn't blame them. I would've left a long time ago if I could."We're not escaping. Not by a long shot," I began, noting the gasps and cries of some of my fellows. "They've blockaded the only way out of this place. The only thing we can do is fight!""Fight?!" a burly Denominator shouted incredulously. "You're sending us out to die?!" Battle cries rang from both sides of the fight as we waited with bated breath for the Decimals to begin their charge. The blazing, hot fires around the Central Hub visibly distorted the air as whispy mirages of the enemy forebodingly continued their approach."GET READY!" I shouted at my ragtag army from behind the veritable wall of Denominators blocking access to the Central Hub. "THEY'RE COMING!"*THUD! THUD! THUD!*I tensed up as the march grew louder, their footfalls now reverberating through my body as the Decimals now visibly lined up in front of us. We waited... "Did we win?""Already?"I could hear my fellow Dens on the front lines ask themselves the same question I'm currently repeating nonstop on my head. The veritable army of Decimals that I expected to eventually overwhelm us through sheer numbers had retreated...And I didn't know why."Sis?" Beside me, Olivia already looked at me with something resembling pride and accomplishment. "We won, didn't we?"Quite The Least Common Denominator VIII.III Integral Calculus
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"Move forward!"
"Are you sure that would be wise?"I stared straight at Backus's face as he asked me the exact same question that I did to myself just a few minutes ago. It might not be wise, but it's still an idea that had a ton of merit in terms of possible doability and lack of proper planning needed to execute such a stupid gambit.But hey, a girl can dream of better ideas when I'm dead."I can't see any other way that we would break through that wall without casualties," I explained as we walked and talked through the whole thing. "Olivia and I are the only two people here with actual combat experience. And we might as well
With a start, I took off; my feet almost leaping off the ground as we rushed ahead of our front line. The roaring heat of the surrounding vats washed through my face as each step felt like a lungful of humid, super-heated air; my hair flapping through the wind in long, heavy clumps while my eyes struggled to remain open for me to spot a potential opening for our attack."Stick close!"We only had one shot at penetrating this wall. Better make it count."On my mark, 'Livia!""Got it!"It wouldn't be long now till we hit the blockade, perhaps just a few more seconds of running at ful
This was a problem.*CLANG! CLANG! STAB!* One-two parry quickly followed up by a visceral stab to the poor tin can's neck.With every Decimal that we manage to take down, two more seemed to take their place as we stood dab smack in the middle of the enemy forces. The scenery around us was like a fucking massacre; dead bodies piling up around the small circle that we claimed for ourselves as we shakily held our ground. As the seconds ticked by, each swing started to become a challenge, and if this keeps up, we're bound to get overwhelmed before we can even manage to get my signal out.*Crash! SLICE! STAB!* A side-
Olivia frowned as she heard her sister laugh like criminal walking towards the gallows."WE'LL GET OUT OF THIS ALIVE!"With that sentence alone, the brunette already knew that her big sister was going to do everything in her power to make sure that she gets to live. It didn't matter to the redhead if she died; only that her little sister managed to survive through the bloody defense that they had to muster.If only she hadn't been wounded. A brief bout of overconfidence led the young brunette to take a shallow hit on the side of her abdomen. While it was no longer bleeding as profusely as before, it made a dent on her ability to breathe properly; the pain shooting forth from each deep inhalation causing her concentrati