Entry tags:
Good Hunting
Who| Shepard, Garrus, and All Of You
What| Attempting to murder some folk, or at least cause injury
Where| various floors
When| Week Three, et all
Warnings/Notes| Probably language, game-typical violence
Shepard: Good Hunting in the Hallways, any floor
The second time, she’d been caught by surprise and normalcy of the challenge. The first, by the novelty. But in every arena, there was a simple rule— they would do something unexpected. Same recipe, like variations on a theme: this arena had sprinkles, that one had Dinosaurs, this one had… Well, still Dinosaurs, but considerably less terrifying ones.
By now, she’s no longer surprised, merely grateful for the shallow comfort of long lines of sight and well-defined shadows. Grateful for the way that having bare feet is an advantage rather than a hindrance, and for the weight of the bundle on her back, heavy with food both perishable and otherwise. It’s wrong; she should be angrier, but rage can’t solve her problems right now, and hiding is no longer the order of the day— she’s hunting, and if she finds you, she will kill you.
Garrus: Dioramas, Floor Two
Bullets were great but not having a gun to use them limited their functionality. If there was a gun to be had that fit the bullets, Garrus figured the best place to look would be the dioramas of human history. If nothing else, he would look a few of the spears and consider taking those. It wasn’t a great place to hide but his plan was to get in and get out of there as fast as possible.
Either or both: Elevator, any floor
Ding!
Beautiful thing, a choke point. Every bell meant something. A person. A sponsor gift. A tense waiting moment for everyone on the floor. A vantage where you could see the elevator but not easily be seen was worth more than anything right now. The perch just outside the door where one might lie in ambush was risky, but damned useful— as were the Elevators themselves.
Which was why most people took the stairs, it seemed. Which was why Shepard and Garrus had largely been taking the elevator. So far, it’d been nothing but empty corridors and tense breath-holding moments. Once or twice they’d pressed a button on their way out, send it down to the basement, send it up to the roof, just to see if anything would happen, to watch rushing feet kick up bits of roof-gravel as they scattered over the skylight.
But it was possible, this way to draw out the targets. Which was, after all, what Shepard wanted most right now. And what the Commander wanted, was what she usually got, in the end. No matter how many people had to die before she got it.
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What| Attempting to murder some folk, or at least cause injury
Where| various floors
When| Week Three, et all
Warnings/Notes| Probably language, game-typical violence
Shepard: Good Hunting in the Hallways, any floor
The second time, she’d been caught by surprise and normalcy of the challenge. The first, by the novelty. But in every arena, there was a simple rule— they would do something unexpected. Same recipe, like variations on a theme: this arena had sprinkles, that one had Dinosaurs, this one had… Well, still Dinosaurs, but considerably less terrifying ones.
By now, she’s no longer surprised, merely grateful for the shallow comfort of long lines of sight and well-defined shadows. Grateful for the way that having bare feet is an advantage rather than a hindrance, and for the weight of the bundle on her back, heavy with food both perishable and otherwise. It’s wrong; she should be angrier, but rage can’t solve her problems right now, and hiding is no longer the order of the day— she’s hunting, and if she finds you, she will kill you.
Garrus: Dioramas, Floor Two
Bullets were great but not having a gun to use them limited their functionality. If there was a gun to be had that fit the bullets, Garrus figured the best place to look would be the dioramas of human history. If nothing else, he would look a few of the spears and consider taking those. It wasn’t a great place to hide but his plan was to get in and get out of there as fast as possible.
Either or both: Elevator, any floor
Ding!
Beautiful thing, a choke point. Every bell meant something. A person. A sponsor gift. A tense waiting moment for everyone on the floor. A vantage where you could see the elevator but not easily be seen was worth more than anything right now. The perch just outside the door where one might lie in ambush was risky, but damned useful— as were the Elevators themselves.
Which was why most people took the stairs, it seemed. Which was why Shepard and Garrus had largely been taking the elevator. So far, it’d been nothing but empty corridors and tense breath-holding moments. Once or twice they’d pressed a button on their way out, send it down to the basement, send it up to the roof, just to see if anything would happen, to watch rushing feet kick up bits of roof-gravel as they scattered over the skylight.
But it was possible, this way to draw out the targets. Which was, after all, what Shepard wanted most right now. And what the Commander wanted, was what she usually got, in the end. No matter how many people had to die before she got it.
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Hallway, 4th Floor
Even when he clung to the shadows, his skin caught what little light there was and reflected it back a color shadows weren't supposed to be.
He froze when he saw movement, saw someone entering the fossil hall.
For him, freezing and hiding wasn't enough.
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But you, boy, you are not stealthy. And your skill, such as it may be, is a little questionable when your best move seems to be freeze and hope my natural camouflage compensates. A snowshoe hare, you are not. Still, Shepard's eyes slid over the confused jumble of shadows without pause, a smooth, thoughtful glance. Did she see him? Maybe not.
And then she started down the aisle, long purposeful strides with her crowbar held low. Watch out, rabbit.
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While he was a competent fighter thanks to the same training with Karate Kid most Legionnaires had, he'd never bothered with most skills that were useful for combat or survival. Who needed stealth when they could stand there and let their forcefield deflect energy blasts?
"Motherfucker."
Another "sprock" helpfully translated for the home viewing audience.
He bolted, knowing that with his current state of exhaustion that there was no way he could outrun her if she was in remotely decent physical shape. It was to buy a few extra seconds.
"LYLE!"
Just a few extra seconds. She'd catch up to him first, though.
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"Oh for fuck's sake," Of course he had a friend in the wings. She raised her crowbar on the approach, ready to cave his noisy little skull in, for his trouble, "Every damn time."
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He was still running, running, gauging how far she was behind by the sound of her footsteps, running, stopping -
Stopping?
He stopped suddenly right when she was nearly upon him, reversing direction, turning and diving into a roll back towards her, ending it by launching into a sweeping kick aimed at her feet.
Exhausted and outmatched though he was, he certainly wasn't helpless. And he wasn't about to just let her run up and bash him in the head from behind.
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Clever rabbit, not too bad, really. He had potential, if nothing else; but it wouldn't save him.
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Lyle had been trained to run silently, but he'd sacrificed stealth for speed when he heard Brainy screaming for him. Which meant, if she wasn't too focused on the chase, that she might have warning enough to dodge before the impact of knuckles against a pressure point made her drop her crowbar.
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That, and, he wasn't exactly going for the stealth ambush.
So when Lyle came at her, she found the presence of mind to dodge. It was an undignified little two-step straight out of the dodgeball playbook, but it did the job. Alright fine, if not your friend, brat, then you get to be my dance partner. Eat crowbar, punk.
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Roll with it, ROLL WITH IT--
"Whooft!"
Lyle hit the floor hard, with the wind knocked out of him and his side on fire. He tried to move, or failing that, to fade from sight; but he couldn't do the latter because of whatever the Capitol had done to suppress his powers and his attempts at the former could have been knocked aside by a month-old kitten until he could get his breath back.
I don't wanna have my head smashed open in front of Brainy...
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They were alone in this place together. After having lost so much, to be detached from the Legion, from what they did have, was already painful. All they had in this place was each other. By themselves, they were certainly heroes, but only together could they be Legion, even if it was only a legion of two.
Of course, the ferocity wasn't just that. There was also the fact that before all this, they'd spent an awful lot of time together and this was the first mission or life or death situation they'd been in after spending that awful lot of time together.
That was possibly why Brainy was half-focused on Lyle, making it so his kick was angled in a way that didn't have much power to it, even if it was fast. The fatigue from starvation wasn't helping either.
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She wasn't looking until the scuff of Brainy's foot heralded his kick. She turned just int time to catch the kick across her cheek and brow rather than the sensitive and vulnerable amp port at the back of her head. Later, she'd be grateful, but in that moment, Jane saw stars.
Don't mind her, she's just going to stagger against the wall for a little while.
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"Go, go, go, go," he panted, staggering in Brainy's direction. Like sprock he wanted to stick around here for the crowbar-happy lady to recover!
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