Holy Smoke defeats Vladimir but Ms Decadence gets away

In an act of bravado, and to save herself and her drained friend, Holy Smoke pulled herself up, clutching her sacred ivory cigarette holder. As she did Ms Decadence, still on her hands and knees, rose up and drew the attention of Vladimir and his controlled Cossack battlesuits. As Vladimir turned his attention back to Holy, a cloud of white smoke engulfed his face.

"Your sister tried this before. I cannot be poisoned by g....” stated Vladimir, but then his voice grinded. Holy's hand danced and moved; manipulating a wisp of smoke she blew at the cybernetic mastermind. The particulate matter of her smoke entered into the fine joint spaces and bypassed any and all gaskets. The micro gears had havoc wreaked upon them as fine desert sand wreaks havoc on machinery.

Vladimir's internal networking circuits began to overheat and lost control of the Cossack battlesuits, allowing the drivers of the suits to return to guarding Ms Decadence.

Ms Decadence seeing this as a chance to escape the terrible fate that Vladimir had put before her, she commanded her guards "Get me out of here! We fight another day!" The Cossacks formed a perimeter around Decadence as she regained her composure and started to form a dark cloud of smoke that surrounded herself and her guard.

"Good luck dealing with this problem, sister!” cackled Decadence as the cloud phased the party into a gaseous material and dissipated away in an escape.

Holy Smoke's wracked body was causing herself to start losing concentration. "Ultramom, go! I don't know how much longer I can hold this up.", pleaded Holy Smoke to the defeated heroine on the floor below her. Ultramom, barely able to get up begins to hobble and run out the door of the room in a chance to escape.

After a few moments, only Holy and Vladimir remain. Holy immediately phases her body into a mist and dissipates away. A minute after that, Vladimir's system reboots and comes back online. Raising his fist, Vladimir states to himself, "Very well played heroine. I expected that move from Decadence and incapacitated her for it, but I didn't expect that move from you. You bought yourself some time..."