*Levi floats along a gentle wave of Dark Matter. It's cloudy, rainy, and overall dull on the surface. With little to hinder her, she pauses by a ruined facility to probe for ancient data.*

*Scampering to her feet, as fire rains around her, Leviathan took quick stock of the situation.* We'll catch up later, when you've cooled down! I got what I needed. *Her remaining dark matter pools beneath her and she slips inside.*

*Between the Raptures and the Dark Matter, she is buried by the assault. The writhing pile begins to die down, Raptures skittering away to reveal... nothing? A hand rips up from the rock under Leviathan's feet, grabbing her ankle and rag dolling her into a boulder.

*Gritting her teeth, she tries to increase the pressure. Hoards of Raptures begin to spill over into the crater, thrashing at Nihilister. Pseudopods lashing out from the globe to join in.* I'm more than a match for a mutt like you! Three heads and one brain cell between them!

*The globe that had been hovering in the sky comes crashing down, slamming into Nihilister with crushing force. Levi scrambles to her feet, searching frantically for a puddle, but the recent assault has left none available.* Grr, who invited you all here?! A commander, and this dragon bimbo?!

Nikke Leviathan color sketch

*Levi startles as the machine gun begins to fire. She engulfs herself in a bubble of Dark Matter, dropping the skull in the process.* Says the creep hiding in the rocks! *A pillar of Dark Matter surges towards Slade, lashing out with a flurry of pseudopods. A globe forming overhead.*

*In the crater, Levi lifts the object. She turns it over in her hands curiously. @shantaes.bsky.social and @absoluteeunhwa.bsky.social can now both see the gleaming metal skull in her hand: A Nikke mind shelter contained within it.* A Nikke...? *At her command Dark Matter flows into the skull.*

*Levi lowered herself into the crater. Radiation was a minor concern for anything organic. Her Dark Matter began to flow out, combing the rocks for clues, turning over rocks, and sifting through the cracks. Her foot taps something hard, causing her to look down.* Huh?

*The crater is massive, even from a distance it expands beyond the horizon. The wind whipping around the sand, making an eerie howl. At the center of the crater, Slade can make out a black pillar. Atop it stands a figure with toxic, piercing green eyes, and a single horn.*

*Floating in her pool of Dark Matter, after several harsh fights to repair. Taking in a ragged breath and letting it out slowly. She's been through the ringer lately, and is really feeling it. She cracks a smile, thinking about how proud Behemoth would be, before drifting into a silent slumber.*

*Levi floats in a pool of Dark Matter. A stream of it floats through the air as she practices making simple shapes and patterns with the thick liquid, oblivious to her surroundings.* I wonder what else I can create.

Weak. But then again you always were...

*Leviathan sits within her black pool, manipulating the liquid into various shapes. Objects both familiar and alien as she recalls the information that she has siphoned from others' minds.* What a bunch of useless data... There has to be something useful in here somewhere...

*Black ooze churns, bubbling up from the ground to form a large puddle. A single black horn rises up, protruding from platinum hair, followed by piercing toxic green eyes.* You must be lost. Don't worry. Take a load off. *The rest of her rises up, dripping the same toxic ichor she rose from.*