As Estelle's pursuers enter the alleyway, dark tendrils dart forward, piercing the heads of the robots as they enter the dark alleyway. Two of them get away with smashed optics rather than total destruction, flailing wildly until claws made of shadow smash them to bits.
The bird headed student leaps down from his perch on a nearby windowsill, the shadowy appendages retreating to his side and forming a dark doppelganger. He gives Estelle a nod.
"Thank you for the assistance. However, leading our targets to other competitors may not be the best way to ensure you pass."
"No problem. That's so kind of you to care about your fellow competitor. But don't worry, I have a plan just for this." Estelle said as she walked to the remnants of the robots that she'd lured. Phew, running like a headless chicken was physically demanding. Good thing, she'd been working on her stamina these past few years.
Bending down on her knees, she touched the wreckages, forming a handful of snakes. And with a mental command, the large white snake hiding in the back slithered next to her. She turned around to gently stroke it on the head as the other snakes began to coiled around it, submerging into the the large snake's flesh. Estelle smiled as she saw the snake growing larger with every little snakes twisting into its form. She stood up as it had finished bulking up in size and length. What a good snake. What a cute one at that too.
This was definitely going to put a strain on her.
Now how to go about convincing this guy to help her?
With another mental nudge, the bigger snake slithered out of the alleyway and headed for another group of robots. Ready to coil and strangle them to bits and pieces.
Waving it farewell, Estelle turned her attention back to bird-headed student.
"Hey, ssssay how about we team up. I run out there, leading thosssse robotsss on a goossse chassse and then baiting them to you, sssso that you can dessstroy them with that ssssshadow of yoursss." Estelle unconsciously stretched out her 'Esess' as she spoke. "Oh! My name isss Essstelle what'ssss yoursss?" She smiled, sweats dripping from her neck.
And in the meanwhile, the snake that Estelle had sent out was racking up points for her. As she was speaking to her 'savior', the snake had just finished crushing a 1P robot that had strayed too close to the alleyway. It had set out strangle any 1P Robots it saw, crushing them with its weight. The commands given to it were to avoid large group of 1P and 2P, only to attack a 2P when it is weakened, and avoid a 3P outright since it was too big for the snake to crush it in one go.
With the snake crushing the artificial life out of the robots in the background, Estelle smiled happily at the boy in front of her, hoping to lure him in.
