People Who Probably Aren't KoutaScreams echo through the club. Lights strobe; hearts pound. Somewhere on the dance floor two squads of Hunters regroup.
((Yuki spends 2 Resolve!))
Yuki closes her eyes and steadies her breath, focusing on her convictions. The air around her begins to calm. The world begins to seem less treacherous, the situation less hopeless. To her, and to Faith.
((Faith spends 1 Resolve!))
For Faith, the pressure seems to wane, the bloodlust begins to fade. Her determination remains all the same.
She sprints forwards across the length of the balcony Yuki in tow as they cross by Minato and Noriko, the other pair moving into cover as the boy bends low to the grab something near the fallen cake and shattered bottle.
But as she approaches Hanzo, the aura of calm seems to affect the Hunters too. One of them snaps out of their madness and realizing Faith's intent, lunges for the detonator.
((Minato spends no Resolve, because mama didn't raise no bitch.))
The cake knife pierces their palm, jamming it to floor mere millimeters away. Minato may not be transformed. Minato may not have his usual weapons. But he is still lethal with a blade. And here, fucked as the situation may be, depressing as it may sound he was in his element.
The Hunter recoils in pain, scrambling for its rifle. Too slow. Minato snatches a handgun from another Hunter, the fallen squad leader, points it to his foe's throat and pulls the trigger. An arcane bolt rips through the air, rips under the Hunter's helmet, and out through its paint-like flesh. Red and black staining the cushions behind it.
Snatching the detonator, he spins around Reinforcement magic spreading across the table as he kicks its base, and slamming the whole damn thing into the rest of the squad.
The force is too dispersed, his targets a bit too armored for the blow to kill. But he's pretty sure he broke something, and that's enough for him now as he rushes back to Noriko's side.
By now Faith has closed the distance. Hanzo is in view,well within range, and also curled up into a ball screaming along with the rest of his goons.
A portal opens up under him. There's a gunshot and a flash of light.
Okay, so now he's curled up into a ball, screaming,
and naked. Extending her will, Faith reaches into his body and tears
something out, the explosion spell she thinks, casting it over at the squad of Hunters Minato just brutalized.
Hanzo falls through a portal, his phone through another, a fancy fountain pen through a third.
The pen drops amidst the Hunter squad outside. The phone drops into a dumpster. If it wasn't a bomb they'll be wanting it later.
It is at this point that Yuki grabs Faith and dives to the side.
Imagine whale leaping out of a still sea. White water crashing upwards, waves and ripple radiating outwards. What happens is not dissimilar.
Blue-shifted space and psychedelic images. A wake like an explosion. Two Hyperspace Dopants crash onto the battlefield right where the pair were standing.
Yuki spins as she falls, eyes flashing red as she draws her gun. A teleportation arrow lunges upward, passing straight through one of her assailants.
It wasn't really there. Not yet. They weren't fully in-phase with reality. Able to harm, but not able to be harmed, not yet.
She waits as she falls, finger slipping towards the trigger. Watching as the aura that has enclosed this club spirals down into her chest, spirals down to fill her void.
In her enhanced sight, she see the presences fully solidify. Two shots ring out.
Two black arrows streaking from her Regalia, discharging into each Dopant. Sparks fly, armor rend. The pair are immediately thrown a backwards, chainsaw wounds tearing into their forms.
The less fortunate of the pair falls into her teleportation arrow, Yuki teleports to them, going from falling on her back to falling fist forward, driving a gauntleted fist into their head.
There's a metallic shriek as the helmet fails, as Yuki's fist crushes it, red and black spilling across the floor.
She turns to face its comrade. Waves ripple through the aura as she exerts her will.
"Mourir."Hand struggling against its own will it complies, or at least tries to, drawing its combat knife and with shaking grasp forces it into its own throat. It's still alive, but its time is running out.
A voice rings through the team's ears.
"Shef, please modulate your aura. You're scaring your teammates. Evac will be arriving shortly."KoutaYou drive into the car, slamming the door before the man can even react. You hit the ignition, pull the handbrake, fail, try again, fail, get it the third time, switch the car off park and gun the engine.
Oh wait no, that was the brakes.
Okay,
now you gun the engines.
You haven't ever driven a car before, but you've seen people do it in movies, and you've done it before in video games. It can't be that different can-
OH GOD YOU'RE GOING TO FUCKING DIEThe radio switches to its next track, and the chase, is on.
You scream down the road (a tad more literally than planned) and find yourself quickly closing the gap to the van. Traffic is very light at this hour, rather fortunately because that's really the only reason you haven't crashed already given that you're swerving like crazy.
You see your quarry in intermittent bursts - you've fallen into a pattern of bobbing up and down, up so you can see where you're going, down so you can hit the accelerator again.
Noticing the erratically swerving car behind them (it's admittedly hard for them not to), the van begins speeding up and through the rear window you think you see one of the figures inside of it ready a rifle.
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