Oddly enough, the leviathan had stopped its barrage of attacks. I had no idea what it was going to do next. But I guess that was something we were all afraid of to some extent, right? The unknown and how things will unfold.
Then it hit me. Now that there were less targets for the beast--two compared to four--it no longer needed to throw out a flurry of attacks to defend itself. From this point, it was more than likely going to be more subtle in its approach.
So I decided to take advantage of it.
“...Silverstream. Can you get me an opening?” I asked quietly. Why? I wasn’t entirely sure if it could understand us or not. These large creatures tended to have little consistency when it came to understanding our speech, and it annoyed the hell out of me.
The pink Hippogriff looked at me. “What’s your plan? Do you think we can actually beat this thing?”
“Honestly, I have no idea,” I replied with a sigh, “But we have to do what we can. We need to penetrate those scales somehow…” I looked up at the sky to find a decent array of clouds above us. That could be the perfect ammunition. “Okay, I got it.”
I put a hoof around the back of her neck, and turned away from the leviathan to discuss my idea in a quick huddle of sorts.
SHING!
Before we could blink, the leviathan’s tail rose up from the water beneath us!
“Look out!” I pushed Silverstream out of the way, but...it took one of my wings in the process. “GAH! Ow!” I had been flying the whole time, but the loss of one of my prosthetics forced me to flap twice as hard.
“Guts--your--”
Before Silverstream could say anything else, I started to take off towards the clouds in the sky. “Keep it busy...I’m gonna...argh...break this thing down!”
As I flew off, I heard Silverstream fall into a complete rage-induced fit from below me. I was laser-focused on getting into the air towards the clouds, so I couldn’t see what she had done. However, I heard lots of angry screeching followed by the sounds of hard pieces of flesh and bone which scraped against each other like sandpaper.
I was curious, but I absolutely couldn’t imagine what she was doing to it or what it was doing to her. That aside, I forced myself up, kept going. My heartbeat was racing again from the extra amount of effort I needed to apply thanks to only my right wing remaining.
But at long last. I made it up to the clouds. I struggled and managed to climb on top of one of them which allowed me to take a breather for a second. “Whew...okay...gotta get started.” What then? Well, I still had one of my wings left.
So I would have to make use of it.
I clasped my jaws around my remaining prosthetic wing, and yanked it out by force. “Hrrk...ngh...bah!” I let out a shrill shriek from the sheer magnitude of pain that came from ripping my limb out. I guess I never mentioned it but...these things were manufactured to where I could feel almost everything. When the Leviathan struck me a bit ago and took my left wing, it was so sudden that I could barely feel it. Here though? It was painful.
Anyhow, what I did next could be described as crazy or hyper-intelligent depending on your perspective of what was considered strategy. I pressed a specific little button on that wing--a switch that could only be activated in emergency situations like these. I held it up, and all of the magic from the clouds in the area were absorbed into it. It became extremely volatile as a result, and primed for a clean detonation.
“Okay Guts...you’ve got one shot at this. Don’t mess it up…”
From below, I could see the leviathan charge up an overwhelming surge of power that caused the waves to rise and crash violently against each other. The sun was blocked out, and a storm was formed. From what I could tell, its next attack would likely wipe out everything nearby--including the underwater civilization of the seaponies if it went off. Silverstream could barely fly properly anymore, and looked beyond tired at this point with a few scrapes and scuffs all over her body from the battle--likely from high-pressure blasts of water. There was no more time to waste, it was now or never!
I jumped off of that cloud, and yelled at the top of my lungs. “DON’T EVEN TRY IT!”
The jaws of the leviathan were wide open, ready to take me in. With both of my wings gone, I couldn’t exactly fly to maneuver out of the way. Like I said before, I had only one shot at this.
Before it could even think to attack, I forcefully chucked my severed metal wing down and into the mouth of the beast. I was about to hit the ocean face-first except...I came in contact with rocks and sand. Then I looked up from where I had landed.
The leviathan had parted the entire ocean! With massive waves that were as high as the serpent itself...it felt hopeless. From down below, Silverstream and I could do nothing except look up and stare at the gray skies behind the leviathan and the gigantic waves of water that were prepared to swallow us whole.
I felt her claw suddenly grasp onto one of my hooves. “...If this is how things end...then it was an honor to fight alongside somepony as cool as you.”
“...You too…Silver…” was all I could really say in response. Truth be told, I still had a faint hope--just a sliver of hope that what I had thought up in--pssh--a minute or two would come to fruition?
Well...there was a faint, yet rapid beeping noise coming from the belly of that thing…
“...But we aren’t dying here,” I mumbled to her.