Gael struggles to get up under the manadrain, but he uses his gluon blade to dispell Jackie's spear before it gets too close. Jackie immediately conjures a black sword in each hand and plunges them into the holoshield, resuming the struggle as Gael reaches for his Emitter.

The chaos mage frantically motioned to Project something at the detective, the motions were swift, but calculated, a series of plucking and palming the air. She noticed Heather take aim, but concentrated on her spell, reaching far into obscurity for something destructive. The lead starts racing towards her, the first bullet is caught by the Arcaulain shield, and dissolves into teal specks. The next series of bullets meet her enchanted robes, the various layers are dissolved with each shot. Once the revolver was out, she was down to a mundane grey undershirt and teal gloves for the torso. She finished the last plucks and executed the spell with a final push.

Black flames erupted from the circular runes. They circled around the formations and around the mage. She cancelled the spell in a panic, sealing her fate. The flames burned everything within a 3 meter radius, including the concrete itself. The mage is quickly consumed by the flames of her own doing, eating away at her skin and even her mystic grey hair. Her body collapses onto the now blackened concrete and the flamed dissipate. She twitches the last bit of life out of her, murmuring "Necro...bia....."

The battery pack within Gael's robes begins to fail; his blade dissipates, and his holoshield begins to flicker. He panics on his console, saying "no, no, no,..." as he tries to divert enough power to his shield to stop Jackie. He fails. The silvery holoshield dissolves and Jackie's arms extend out fully. The swords plunge into Gael's chest: one off to his right, severing his superior vena cava, the other in the center of his chest.

Jackie is shocked for a moment, he expected the shield to hold out longer. He didn't necessarily mean to impale the mage. He hides his shock into a stern furrow, saying aloud "life always" in response to Gael's "Necrobia for all". Jackie demanifests the swords and stumbles backward. A squirt of blood leaves the Technomancer's chest as he falls forward onto the grass. He quickly begins to fade away as he immediately bleeds out from his wounds. He had over-relied on his holoshield to protect him, and didn't invest in contingencies like most Technomancers are encouraged to.

Seemingly ahead of the call, a figure emerges from the sliding door: strikingly tall, but also visibly emaciated. She wears grey robes vaguely similar to Jackie's and covered in dirt and blood stains. She hurriedly walks down the stairs toward Chiasma, often checking over her shoulder, nervously.