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Bella's on her way to kill a witch.
It usually hits Port Angeles, inspires arson, and then if allowed spins off a familiar that does the same in Forks. She's tracked it back far enough that she can reliably head it off before it makes that fellow set that apartment building on fire as long as she hops in the car without doing her hospital exit paperwork. If she's lucky, this time she's early enough to nab it before it lights up the bakery, too.
...The fuck is that? It's not usually there.
onceandforall
They're going towards the moon pretty fast. Really fast. Nick probably knows what he's doing, though.
onceandforall
Well, she did warn him about what happens if she dies. He'd better know what he's doing.
They continue going really fast until the last possible moment, and settle onto the moon's surface as gently as anything as big as a spaceship can.
"Time to put on our pressure suits! I would have started scanning, but you probably want to look around first."
"Time to put on our pressure suits! I would have started scanning, but you probably want to look around first."
He explains. It's fairly obvious, almost like putting on heavy winter clothes on, with some checking of seals in between. The suit restricts her movements somewhat, but not all that much more than a thick coat would.
Nick also bounces around, perhaps less enthusiastically. Then again, the moon is just another rock to him. He waits out her excitement patiently.
onceandforall
Eventually she is calmed down. She finds a place to stash her grief seed, after offloading the last of her soul gem crud into it.
He passes into the airlock and back out, carrying something with wheels. He sets it down. "These are designed to survey moons for natural resources. When we go back to Earth, make a communicator and I'll hook the drone up to it."
So they go back into the ship, and it starts circling the moon. Much faster than it circled Earth (thank you, lack of air resistance).
Nick shows her how to assemble the non-engine parts of her new speeder. The engine is definitely going to be the biggest and heaviest part. The whole thing is barely large enough to sit down in when folded out and assembled.
"I won't guarantee this thing to my usual standard of safety. I don't expect it to lose control and crash by a long shot, but I wouldn't be quite as surprised as if my ship did it."
"I won't guarantee this thing to my usual standard of safety. I don't expect it to lose control and crash by a long shot, but I wouldn't be quite as surprised as if my ship did it."
onceandforall
"You know what, if it crashes and I die in a horrifying fireball, I can live with that."
"Heh. So to speak."
Suddenly - "Woah, excellent! One of those craters has the last component I need for D-fuel. Plotting a course now. Maybe thirty minutes until I can land thanks to inertia."
As the autopilot takes them down, Nick goes back to fiddling with the new engine design.
Suddenly - "Woah, excellent! One of those craters has the last component I need for D-fuel. Plotting a course now. Maybe thirty minutes until I can land thanks to inertia."
As the autopilot takes them down, Nick goes back to fiddling with the new engine design.
onceandforall
"Well, yes. I wonder if you're a dramatic enough exception to the usual way of things that I can try to leverage government-sized sticks against the Walpurgisnacht. I tried it once with just puella magi powers and that didn't go well, but may as well give it another go when there has recently been a spaceship."
onceandforall
"Yeah. All the more reason to give it a try. This hasn't been a perfect run so far, but maybe I could pick up military passwords or something. Or just call it good if the world doesn't end even if I didn't get every witch I know about."
"Would non puella magi even be able to touch it? You implied that I wouldn't be able to fight witches earlier, I think."