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esper may acquires a lia as a champion
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[Agreed. Going to switch to rooftops in a couple of seconds.]

And indeed they are soon airborne, clearing one building entirely and landing on the far edge of another. Another leap and their momentum takes them to the next building. Each hop taking less time until their momentum dissiates, leaving them on a six story building overlooking a debris filled intersection.

The scene isn't much changed from the photo, except the pile of broken cars is smaller, with several chunks have been ripped up and throw, smashing into the surrounding street and buildings. The velociraptor-man stands on top of the remaining pile, hefting a cars door. A man stands next to the pile, holding a glowing red whip of some sort, scanning the surrounding street.

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God, what are they even trying to do?

May aims and fires, one shot per head to start. She's her own silencer; she leans into Lianelle.

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The first shot misses, the second leaves a gash but nothing serious, and the third hits its mark -  straight through the center of the last head. The other two tense up growling...

And then the bullet falls out of the dead head as it perks back up, eyes looking around for its attacker.

"Oh, have you decided your champion can't handle mine on it's own?" asks the man to the open street. There's no reply until a strangely vibrating blur darts forward towards the man, only to be repelled by a crack of his whip.

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[Should I keep shooting it?]

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[Might work if you can get three heads in a row.... or you can try for the summoner.]

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Head head head.

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Getting one headshot off at this distance is a challenge, getting three off rapidly in a row is something only an experienced sniper with top percentile reflexes could manage. As it turns out May falls into that category - the monster falls. The man glances up desperately, trying to bring his guardian back even as he searches for the source of the shots. Before he can locate them, a globe of green energy blasts out from one of the second story windows, his whip moving of it's own accord to snap it out of the air. Leaving him undefended when the blurry figure once again darts in, this time for the kill, decapitating him.

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Lia can squeeze May a bit in support. The blurry figure darts around for a bit and then departs.

"You okay if I go down and see if anyone is alive in that wreckage?"

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"Maybe I should in case whoever sent the blur is around watching, you might be seen."

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"I'm going to be able to search through the wreckage and I'm guessing that stuff is to heavy for you to move around?"

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"Some of it is, yeah, but I think I could budge anything that might be hiding a live person."

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"Okay."

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May jumps off the building. She doesn't have to do more than a split second of flying about it - she just doesn't want to hit the ground, so she doesn't go all the way down, and then she changes her mind about the ground when it's a short drop. She jogs over to the wrecks to look for survivors.

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There're four people in parts she might be able to free by heaving things aside, though one of them turns out to be dead. There are also some muffled sounds are coming from further under the wreckage.

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[Yeah, come help, there's live ones, I'll call an ambulance - I can't believe they're not already here, honestly, somebody must have done magic about it though they didn't stop the cop cars -] 911 here is her emergency.

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There's a ruined ambulance down the street, where a car door thrown by the monster had smashed through it. Additional ambulances approach soon after, as the cops starts anxiously approaching the ...no longer exploding car crash.

Lia jumps down to the scene and can extricate people - bending metal and lifting ruined cars as needed to help get people out. 

[I don't know if this man has more than minutes left - is there somewhere I can get him for treatment right now?]

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[I don't know the city, I'll look.] Maps, maps, hospitals near me -

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There's one a few blocks away.

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She shows it to Lianelle.

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And she's off, carrying the injured man in her arms.

[If you need me in the next minute you can discorporate and recorporate me faster than I can get back to you on foot.]

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[Well, I don't want you to drop the guy, let me know when you've gotten him there.]

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It doesn't take her long.

[Headed back to you.]

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[Acknowledged.]

May checks the news again in case anything else is up.

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Nothing obvious - some guy interrupted the city orchestra but no one was hurt, and there are some articles about crimes that seem basically mundane.

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