She gets to safety

Your flames spread along with the snaking vines that curl and wither from the heat as acrid scent rises from the ashes. Behind you, you hear Allegra's footsteps across the floor as she realizes that she is outmatched here and will only get in your way. You're sure that it hurt to admit that for Allegra, but she is strong-willed and soon will be so much more powerful. It'll be together that you will be facing all those who stand in your Queen's way.

"Foul mechanical intruder, begone from this sacred place!" Your Alarune opponent presses through the doorway. Only half of her body is visible. The woman's lower half has merged with a blooming flower. Her skin is a verdant green, while her hair is like lichen and falls in locks down the side of her face twisted with fury and pain. "Nature will not be stopped by one such as you."

"Oh?" You almost feel the urge to laugh. This weed is nothing compared to the perfection offered by the machine.

The Alarune's tentacles vines wrap around their mistress in a protective cocoon, adding new layers as you burn through them. She must have absorbed the entirety of the greenhouse as she still has enough vines to send toward you in a counterattack. Your mind calculates their trajectories in the few milliseconds it takes to send the commands to your limbs to dodge out of the way.

Allegra is not so lucky. You hear her scream as one of the vines shoot past you and wraps around one of her legs. She falls to the floor with a heavy thud and starts getting dragged back into the center of the room. "A friend of yours?"

Your fury is incandescent. The twin beams from the pair of your hands become white from the sheer intensity of the fire as you draw on the portal's powers. And the gaps between the segments of your plate begin to glow, collapsing the holographic projection. Before the Alarune reforms her shell, you catch her look of disbelief and surprise, her mouth hanging open. You also feel Allegra's gaze burning into your back and flexing wings.

"I told you to run." You cut away the tentacle around her leg and position yourself between her and the Alarune as you follow her scramble inside a white and gold door after a moment of hesitation. The fear you saw in your friends eyes stung and you knew she wouldn't join you willingly.

But it also meant you no longer needed to hold back. The pistons in your legs hissed as you launched yourself toward the plant woman. You would exact your revenge then go back to assimilate Allegra.