deercountry | april catch-all : sersi

Sersi's quick to follow him- doing her best to urge whoever doesn't listen to his warnings to listen to hers. Thankfully most everyone they passed didn't need to be told twice, especially as they saw the Deviant gaining on the two running.

"If we can get out of the district- toward the beach, maybe?"

She's not even sure if they're going the right way to get there... but anything like it would do. The next question in her mind, however, was whether this deviant was more interested in her or others.

[ Beach, yeah. He remembers that. Seems like a good place to draw whatever the hell that is, and he's hoping he gets to ask the lady the finer details after.

Hard to think about those nuanced points when he can practically visualize the creature's bulk just from the sound it makes when it runs. So the direction his new friend picked is the direction they're going and honestly it's a wonder V's gaze doesn't drift back over his shoulder in deep curiosity more often.

Is he terrified? Sure. But that sweet taste of adrenaline and feeling alive feels good in its own way. ]

Please move move move--

[ Is that an ice cream truck rolling to a stop in his path? He doesn't have time to really focus in on the menu, the cyberware he's got installed in his legs making the jump onto the truck's roof seem effortless. It's about then he turns around to chart his new friend's progress, and the creature still in hot pursuit.

The beach is tantalizingly close, and the giant plastic ice cream he rips off the top of the truck is for throwing, obviously, if the lady needs a distraction. ]

[ She knows she'll owe quite the explanation once everything's said and done, but that's something to worry about later.

Now she gets to worry about the ice cream truck that's managed to wedge itself directly in their path. Eyes darting around, she took a moment to see if there was any easy way for her to move around, even as he was effortlessly jumping on top of it.

Of all the people to come across the deviant with her, she was grateful for someone that was clearly capable of holding his own. ]

Jump!

[ Maybe even throw that piece of plastic at the deviant, because it's going to look like Sersi's running face first into the vehicle. But with her hands out and touching the metal first, it dissolves into a flurry of light orchid petals. If she was going to destroy someone's livelihood, the least she could do was turn it into something that would fetch them whatever they needed to be able to trade for another.

Thankfully the driver had exited just before she did so- Sersi stops briefly to apologize urgently, offer assistance later, and to get them out of the way... and unless the deviant got distracted- they might have to start fighting it here. ]

[ Flinging himself off the top of the truck isn't the dumbest thing he's jumped off in a dicey situation. So when she yells 'jump' he does exactly that.

Optics feeding her trajectory into his neural network, it's clear she's going to run right into the side of the truck, and V's instincts want him to yell out in warning. As if she hasn't seen it herself - 'course she has. The novelty jumbo ice cream decoration he pried from the top of the truck is still in hand as he lands neatly enough on the ground, petals drifting into his hair soon after. ]

What the-- DUCK!

[ The creature's maw splits open on approach and all V's got to hand is the fucking ice cream. An ice cream he voluntarily throws at those gaping jaws before it can close on anything fatally. ]

[ They can both follow orders well, thankfully. As he had jumped at her command- she's ducking at his... just in time for the novelty decoration to fly past her and straight into the deviant.

Eyes wide at how close the creature was now, Sersi breathes out a short breath and urges the civilian towards the alleyway before she rushes over to the man helping her. ]

Thanks- we're almost there...

[ She'll be on the look out for any long sticks she can grab along the way- eager to find anything that can be changed into an effective weapon.

This would be so much easier if Kingo or Thena were here... ]

[ Part of him wants to take in the sight of this monstrous creature chowing down on a giant novelty cone, but it's really only as funny as the both of them not meeting the same fate. The woman's back in proximity for yelling to be overkill, and he nods once in understanding as she draws close.

Almost there is good, he doesn't like the chances of them being able to keep other people safe the longer they're in a populated area. The creature rights itself after a few seconds of dealing with the plastic prop, and V's optics widen as he checks on the woman's progress and then splits off to run round the other way to the shoreline. ]

Time for a beach vacay.

[ A little commentary for his own benefit, and he's wildly looking around for his new ally as he breaks out onto the sand. Where is she? ]

[ She is... looking for sticks. She still hasn't noticed if the deviant is targeting her or other people- so she can't anticipate which way it'll go.

Sersi notes that he splits from her and heads a different way to the shoreline- but she's quick to get back within eyesight of him, now with a bundle of sharp looking sticks in hand that she picked up along the way.

She's really only given a moment to catch her breath with a small wave to the man to assure him she's there and ok before she looks around for where the deviant has gone... and immediately gets tackled by it with a shriek.

Most of those sticks have left her hand, but the ones left she quickly turns to metal and sticks one horizontally in its mouth to keep it from getting her. This is it- this is the one she'd turned into a tree back home. Up close like this, she recognizes its design... and that it targeted her instead of anyone else.

No biggie, just grappling with a creature she thought was dead on the sand of the beach. As one does. ]

Aw shit, not good.

[ Swerving towards where the woman's now wrestling the creature in the sand, V's brain is cycling through his options as fast as he can come up with them, all at a full pelt sprint. He's yet to figure out what's holding its mouth open, but it seems a good enough reason to act now.

Launching himself onto its back, his organic hand grips into a stripe of what he can only understand as a ridge of muscle, both knees squeezing into its sides. His cyberware hand instead reaches over the top of its head, fingers hooking firmly into the top of its snout and pulling it back, as though he's forcing it to look up at the sky.

Mostly he just wants to cause enough of a distraction so the woman can crawl out and do whatever it is she meant to do leading it down here. ]

[ Sersi abandons the now metal sticks as the man force's the deviant's snout up- allowing it to take them with it. She's more interested in scrambling out from under it.

She doesn't have the extra power from the Emergence to fall back on now. She's certain that she can't create a tree from the creature again- she's going to have to think like Thena or Ikaris. There's the perk that this man helping her is strong, stronger than she is... so when she catches sight of a piece of driftwood from the corner of her eye, she's quick to run that way- turning it to iron the moment her fingertips touch it. ]

Let it chase me... grab this and drive it through the top of its head.

[ The suggestion is breathless and she's only... vaguely... second guessing herself. But the deviant won't attack him- he'll be able to get to the crude weapon and hopefully catch up with her again in time to save her. ]

[ Deferring to her better judgement, V understands what's required of him even as he's still trying to keep hold of that snout without getting even his cyberware fingers chomped off. Eventually though he'll let his knees loosen from gripping either side of its back and it throws him off easily.

Rolling away from it, V's expecting for it to turn around and try take his head off, but it doesn't. There's a moment where it just snarls, its attention on his new friend in the distance. The moment ticks into the next and it launches itself forward, barreling towards the woman he's teamed up with and he scrambles to his feet in pursuit. ]

Incoming!

[ He yells as his cyber-enhanced legs carry him with speed that's definitely above and beyond what humans can normally hit. ]

Toss it upward!

[ He adds, optics calculating the trajectory he'd have to jump to catch the makeshift weapon - he'll ask about that later - and slam it through the creature's head. ]

[ Sersi's already found a direction to run by the time he's thrown off the deviant- and she knows it's only a matter of time before it catches up to her even with her own enhanced speed.

She does have to slow down a little in order to look behind her and nod at him. Up.

She takes a deep breath and tosses the makeshift weapon upwards- hoping that he'll catch it before she inevitably gets tackled again... He's trusted her this far, she has to trust that he knows what he's doing as well. ]

[ Prone to trusting first and getting burnt later, V does trust the woman's direction, and they've made it this far together already. In his mind that counts for something, and anybody whose attention is firmly fixed on making sure innocents don't get flatlined has earned kudos from him.

When the weapon sails up into the air he's ready, every piece of cyberware he has honed in and focused on making this count. Launching himself forward to intercept with a burst of energy, he's acutely aware of the beastlike creature launch itself at the woman again. Whatever it has against her, he'd like to find out. Though not before they've successfully put down the threat.

With both hands wrapped around the metal, his descent towards the creature's back feels like it's in slow motion, optics feeding him the visual input from below. He just needs to strike before it can, and as his feet connect with its back he stabs downward. ]

[ It's only when the makeshift weapon connects with the Deviant exactly how she expected that Sersi breathes out a sigh of relief. He managed to get it before she was knocked over again, but she still stumbles backwards a little before coming to a full stop. ]

Thank goodness that worked.

[ She thought it would- assumed it would... but she's never been entirely confident in her abilities. ]

Thank you... I'm sorry I sort of roped you into helping with that.

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apologies for the delay!!

all good! also wow just noticed I changed format lmao so sorry... autopilot >.>

to be perfectly honest, i didn't even notice! XD <3

lmao I noticed when I went back to reread and was like WHOOPS

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