"If you can, please try and make sure that I don't get swatted out of the air," Peridot groans to Rita and Yuya, since Zan appears to be distracted elsewhere. She wriggles out of Rita's arms and takes off, zooming through the air towards the Mother once more.

The power that Rita passed on to her... She focuses on that now, willing it to help her make sure her strikes really count. The bat lands on one of those mechanical arms where it joins back into the chassis, and then turns back into the gem, who pulls the vorpal sword out of her gauntlet. The blade hovers in front of her for a moment; with two fingers to her temple, Peridot growls and sends it flying towards one of the arms currently threatening Ignatius with that dark energy. If she can, she'll sink it into the metal and pull it downwards in a devastating slice, before calling it back to her hand once more.