"Theme music? Look out, Char; someone's gunning for the position of lead protagonist."

As the ships fire, a group of creatures that look more at home in the ocean than floating in the air drop down from the sky. From their mouths surge forth a stream of bubbles, a rather futile gesture against cannonballs.

As the artillery passes through, it... -- Hold on. ...It doesn't pass through. Somehow, the cannonballs come screeching to a halt the moment they touch the bubbles, suspended in mid-air within the now-gigantic bubble shield.

"Nifty, isn't it? I spent half of my R+D budget on the Mahvas alone."