Oh.... FINALLY. Action scenes that are not just "BAM WHAM BOOM!", actually plot things happening and story progress!
Let's recap.
2 People down on powers.
New objective (finally) acquired: Go close the portal FFS
Shrimp is opening the way
Vamola Mech is taken over
Vamola is a hostage
Fat nerd is back
Seriously, last few chapters you could mark one or two things, or maybe three, as "Hey, something happened this week".
Feels good to finally have story progressing again.