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Post by Atomic Robo on Jun 15, 2015 18:05:56 GMT -7
When floating, Chiaros's ability to move ranged from approximately "limited" to "absolutely helpless". Thus she freaked out a suitably large amount when the dinosaur crashed into another building, shook itself off and wheeled around, coming back to face them again. It lumbered back over and stood underneath them, watching the two with a keen eye.
"Shoot," Chiaros said, "friggin' shoot, shoot shoot shoot." Then there was a rasping hiss, not unlike an alligator's hiss but again with the popping undertone, and the beast's front legs left the ground. It began to read up toward them, and Chiaros knew she was about done for. Once she was up here there was no way for her to go any way but down unless the wind pushed her, but there was none today. She wheeled her arms frantically, trying to push herself toward Sociri, but as in space there was no resistance, and thus there was nothing to get her moving. "Sociri!" She yelped, watching as the dinosaur's muzzle reared ever closed. Wow, she thought, wow wow wow those teeth were enormous. Tranqs would be really great right about now.
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Post by Ian on Jun 15, 2015 18:23:14 GMT -7
As the dinosaur reared onto its hind legs in an almost slow-motion effect, Sociri's wings stalled in the air in shock. She quickly began flapping again, making up for lost height, and then saw where the beast's muzzle was pointing. It was making an attempt to snap up Chiaros. She heard her friend shout and tipped forward, grabbing Chiaros by the back of her suit. One wingbeat, two, trying to avoid smacking Chiaros in the face with her second set. Three, four, pulling them up and a little to the side as the dinosaur reached up toward them, jaws gaping wider. How tall could it stand? A second later her question was answered as its maw closed with a dull, reverberating thud, the skin and scales along its jaw shuddering with the force, less than a dozen feet below them. It dropped, slowly, back to earth, glaring at them in an almost calculating fashion. Sociri panted a bit as she brought them higher, just for safety.
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Post by Atomic Robo on Jun 15, 2015 18:45:25 GMT -7
Chiaros gasped for air, breathing unevenly like she'd just come up from underwater. Her panic was fairly understandable, since they'd never faced anything quite like this before. Usually it was just minor, lower level 'super' villains they dealt with, but dinosaurs? Where had this thing even come from anyway?!
Reaching up, she wiped at her eyes, which had begun to water in her moment of terror. "Thanks," she gasped, barely audible over the sound of Sociri's double wingbeats. She dabbed at her eyes again and put her shaking hand down, sucking in a few deep breaths to calm herself as the dinosaur analyzed the two from below. Then she straightened her face, narrowed her eyes and flicked her ears forward. Her breathing was still shaky, but she managed. Time for her game face.
"Hey Alan," she said nonchalantly after clicking her communicator on.
"Yeah?" Alan's tired response came through immediately.
"How quickly can we get a crate full of dinosaur tranquilizers?" She asked, still acting like this was completely normal.
"I'm sorry, what now?" Alan asked, sounding unsurprised.
"Elephant tranqs," Chiaros amended, then added, "Lots and lots of elephant tranqs."
"On it." Alan said.
He didn't need to say anything else, and neither did Chiaros, but she ended the conversation by adding, "Check the news!"
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Post by Ian on Jun 15, 2015 19:16:20 GMT -7
(THE MOMENT WE WERE ALL WAITING FOR or, at least, the moment that we two were)
Sociri let out a breath, letting go of Chiaros and running her hand through the feathers on her head. "No problem," she murmured in reply. Following Chiaros's lead, she turned the comm back on. They would probably need it. "You think elephant tranqs will be enough?" she asked, meeting the gaze of the dinosaur beneath her. It blinked, and she shivered, thinking of how close it'd come. "That's kind of a really big dino," she commented unnecessarily.
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Post by Atomic Robo on Jun 15, 2015 19:19:44 GMT -7
"I was almost eaten by it," Chiaros said flatly. "Yeah, it's big, but they don't exactly make whale tranqs." She furrowed her brow at that. "Do they? Whatever. Plan? I say we stick it full of tranqs whenever they get here." She suggested, slamming a fist into her other, open palm for emphasis. It seemed like a gesture more suited to pounding or punching something, but it did the trick. The dinosaur shifted beneath them, turning in a full circle. "Oh, frick, what's it doing now?"
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Post by Ian on Jun 15, 2015 19:38:24 GMT -7
Sociri raised her sort-of-nonexistent eyebrows. "We'll need to keep it from eating whoever brings them," she said, "But otherwise, pretty good plan." She slipped sideways uneasily through the air as the dinosaur moved, watching it. "I...don't know. Maybe it's going to try again? Chiaros, we haven't fought anything like this before. Maybe we've bitten off more than we can chew." What she just said appeared to register and Sociri winced. "Sorry. Pun not intended."
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Post by Atomic Robo on Jun 15, 2015 19:52:45 GMT -7
Chiaros pointedly ignored the pun and Sociri in general, instead choosing to pull herself to the ground as quickly and as far away from the dinosaur's head as she could. Unfortunately, the lumbering giant saw her and came closer even as she landed, and she watched for a second as its front claws came down, the toes splaying out and class gouging deep marks in the shaken pavement as it pulled itself forward. Then she turned tail and ran, sprinting as fast as she could though she knew it wouldn't be enough- with the sort of strides that thing could take, it wouldn't be long before it caught up to her. True to her prediction it was ready to overtake her almost immediately, and she stopped dead in her tracks and whirled about as its momentum carried it forward, braving running directly underneath the dinosaur. For a moment she was terrified that it was going to stumble and fall on her, but instead of dodging out to the side like she wanted to she continued straight on down, avoiding the flailing, double-sailed tail that floundered above her but quickly left as the dinosaur kept moving forward and Chiaros kept running back.
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