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There's fighting on Eros.
Aegis knows a little about Earthside politics, but not all that much: what matters is that several factions want to capture ("rescue") Aegis and Sue. (Or, as they are collectively being called on the nets with no consensus about which of them is which: "War and Peace".) The rest of the jeesh are in trouble too.
Aegis and Sue have been locked in their room for their own protection, and Sue has received conflicting orders about which contingent of soldiers he should be psychically helping.
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autokinetic
By the time he shoots, Sue is already behind him.
Where can you see to put people? he asks.
Where can you see to put people? he asks.
autokinetic
The guard falls to his knees, clutching at his throat, dropping the gun.
mind_game
I'm not sure. Do you mean see? Anywhere with a camera connected to something on the nets. Do you mean know where it is? Anywhere in astronomical maps.
I have to know where I'm going if I want to go there, he says. I should find out where I am now.
He starts heading down the corridor.
He starts heading down the corridor.
autokinetic
The corridor branches out at the end, left and right, and there's a guard in each section.
Dunno exactly, he says. Being able to see it from where I am seems to work just fine.
And he picks the corridor with the guard that is closer to him and shifts all the way to its opposite end.
And he picks the corridor with the guard that is closer to him and shifts all the way to its opposite end.
autokinetic
"What the hell -"
"Where'd he go?"
"Blue-nine to Command, 'War' has -"
"Where'd he go?"
"Blue-nine to Command, 'War' has -"
- started punching people in the throat again?
Yep!
Yep!
autokinetic
"Blue-nine? Blue-nine, report," says Blue-nine's communicator.
Sue takes Blue-nine's communicator, and their stun gun for good measure, and skips nice and close to the other guard and shoots them with it.
He keeps going.
It is much faster to traverse someplace like this when he can keep - teleporting, he supposes that's the word - as soon as he sights on a new destination.
What is the place, anyway? A ship? A station? He should be getting a pretty good idea by now.
It is much faster to traverse someplace like this when he can keep - teleporting, he supposes that's the word - as soon as he sights on a new destination.
What is the place, anyway? A ship? A station? He should be getting a pretty good idea by now.
autokinetic
The gravity and the slope of the floors suggest that he's on Earth.
How the hell'd he get to Earth so fast? They must've been keeping him under for a while. Maybe Aegis isn't awake yet.
Well, sucks to be them. If he's on a planet, he can get outside, and then he'll be able to do this a lot faster.
How's your satellite imagery of Earth? he asks Jane.
Well, sucks to be them. If he's on a planet, he can get outside, and then he'll be able to do this a lot faster.
How's your satellite imagery of Earth? he asks Jane.
mind_game
It's swell! And she sends him a dizzily radial image of the entire planet from all directions at once. She can make out houses but probably not individual people except in the most heavily viewed areas - which would be more densely populated than this one seems. Like so!
Very nice, he says. If I get out in the open I'll try to match up and see where I am.
For now, though, he's just flickering through the complex as fast as he can. Is that a fire exit? That looks like a fire exit. He goes for it.
For now, though, he's just flickering through the complex as fast as he can. Is that a fire exit? That looks like a fire exit. He goes for it.
mind_game
Apparently the complex is on some kind of lockdown, because it won't open. He does, however, manage to set off the fire alarm.
And with the fire alarm going, the fire exit still won't open? Fucking typical. He sizes up the door, and then teleports to the other side of it.
He transmits this information to Jane, along with as much of a visual of his surroundings as he can stand to gather, and then he flicks back inside where it's warm.
mind_game
It's snowing and cold a lot of places. I don't know how to turn what the temperature felt like to you into degrees Celsius, apologizes Jane.
And there are more guards coming, converging on his position.
And there are more guards coming, converging on his position.
He shrugs.
And he starts flicking from guard to guard - hitting somebody once, very hard, in whatever vulnerable spot they're presenting at the moment, and then moving on before they can hit back.
And he starts flicking from guard to guard - hitting somebody once, very hard, in whatever vulnerable spot they're presenting at the moment, and then moving on before they can hit back.
autokinetic
Yeah, they're not really equipped to deal with a prisoner who can teleport.