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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.
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onceandforall
She'll fall over a lot at first, unless she has really great coordination.
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.
"Shall I leave a drone here? Eyes and ears. Well, no ears unless you count a seismometer."
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
"Are we on the half visible from Earth? Are we freaking out NASA?"
"Yes, and I bet they're plenty freaked out already, don't you?"
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."
"You'll only get one chance if, as I hope, I'm not here next time."
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."
onceandforall
"You don't have to have made a contract with an evil alien to get in and have a look at them. But you might need an escort - I don't know, I'm always around when I'm around, you see. Witches can be fought with conventional weapons. I do it while time's stopped, but that's just for convenience."
"So they're in some sort of... Sub-dimension. I'm seriously considering making you a pocket nuke... To me, it's a slim chance of total extinction weighed against a moderate chance of massive collateral damage."
onceandforall
"I'd love to see what a pocket nuke does against a witch. But during a reset I'm definitely not planning on keeping, in case the answer is "irradiates Seattle".
"Yes. None of the WMDs I am considering are without radiation and fallout. The closest you'd get without radiation are Vance crystals, and they're only about thrice as powerful as the explosives your planet has now. And I don't have any and can't make any."
The first section of a three-part engine comes out of the reshaper. "I designed the new engine so all three sections are identical. Time for a shortcut?"
The first section of a three-part engine comes out of the reshaper. "I designed the new engine so all three sections are identical. Time for a shortcut?"
onceandforall
"Sure." Dip. "The best case scenario is that a pocket nuke can obliterate a witch without any spillover to outside of the witch's little dimension, in which case it'd be very efficient."
"As long as you left quickly." She should carefully watch him join the three engine parts together - it's the most complicated part. Then he attaches the engine to the rest of the craft.
"It'll fit into the airlock, and it runs just fine with no air. It will control a lot differently in vacuum, though. If you want to test it, climb in when we land and I'll carry you outside."
"It'll fit into the airlock, and it runs just fine with no air. It will control a lot differently in vacuum, though. If you want to test it, climb in when we land and I'll carry you outside."