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Sadde is home; it's a Friday evening, his shift is over, and there's no school. He's reading a book, lying on his bed in his small-but-tidy apartment.
He is also quite naked, because it's his place and why not?
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"...yikes. And you went after one of those when you were five?"
"'Was'?"
"Dunno, you're studying all the time." Pause. "Okay, point."
Leap shoots a blast from his feet, calculated to not destroy the asphalt while giving him quite a lot of bounce, and shoots up thirty feet into the sky before using the blasts to soften his landing. 'Cause where's the fun in having such a cool power if you can't stretch it sometimes?
Leap takes a bow, and decides to be even more dramatic, running towards a wall then kicking it at an angle, then the wall of the building opposite that one, and he does that until he's all the way above the roofs.
The thing about leaping higher than the buildings around you is that it's quite noticeable. Other people might notice. Other people like, say, the hairy shirtless man wearing a metal sheet shaped like a wolf's face as a mask. Said shirtless man finds the street the two Wards are walking and runs towards them, jumping and feeling the blades and hooks explode from his core—
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...and Sokoreth pulls a stun wand and spins and fires, catching Hookwolf in midair and mid-transformation.
Leap notices this as he's landing, and immediately calls it in: "Console, Hookwolf is here."
"Acknowledged," says Dauntless. "Sending reinforcements."
Hookwolf is not stunned, apparently, but shakes his head and looks somewhat dizzied. He snarls, and starts shifting again.
"Acknowledged," says Dauntless. "Sending reinforcements."
Hookwolf is not stunned, apparently, but shakes his head and looks somewhat dizzied. He snarls, and starts shifting again.
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In which case, judging the threat too high to take chances, Sokoreth puts the stun wand away and draws his force staff from its place on his back, aiming a blast at Hookwolf.
Which hits him like a truck, cracking the asphalt. He gets up slowly and shakes his half-wolfy head, then finishes his transformation.
"Shiiit, is this the kind of thing you get with calculus?" Leap asks in awe.
Hookwolf, appropriately, starts bounding towards them again.
"Shiiit, is this the kind of thing you get with calculus?" Leap asks in awe.
Hookwolf, appropriately, starts bounding towards them again.
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Sokoreth doesn't answer Leap: he holds his ground for a moment, then catches Hookwolf midair again with a second force-blast that propels him backward a significant distance.
A significant distance, and while he gets his bearings faster than a regular wolf would (after all, blades and hooks give one quite a bit of traction), that seems to annoy him even more. He tries going for Leap, zigzagging unpredictably to try to avoid Sokoreth's blast.
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Sokoreth laughs.
"Go high!" he calls to Leap, aiming repeated force blasts in Hookwolf's direction. One misses and more or less obliterates a streetlight; the next catches Hookwolf slightly off-center but still manages to slam him into a wall.
"Go high!" he calls to Leap, aiming repeated force blasts in Hookwolf's direction. One misses and more or less obliterates a streetlight; the next catches Hookwolf slightly off-center but still manages to slam him into a wall.
And Leap does! And so does Hookwolf!
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And now Hookwolf is locked into a midair trajectory, which allows Sokoreth to take leisurely aim (well, if a quarter of a second is leisurely) and, with much greater precision, force-blast him into another wall.
Hookwolf is almost liquid, the mess of sharp bits losing form on impact and regaining it once he is on the floor. Other than the sound produced by the whirring blades moving in a blur, he is utterly silent, trying to think of the best way to deal with these children.
He zigzags again, aiming for Sokoreth and trying to dodge Leap (who is hanging from a fire escape's ladder)'s blasts.
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Sokoreth stands his ground again. This is, in principle, a really stupid thing for Sokoreth to do, because if Hookwolf closes on him he could very easily die, but on a psychological level the point he is making is that he is supremely confident in his ability to keep Hookwolf at a safe distance using only his staff and it benefits him much more than Hookwolf if they keep going back and forth like this.
(He doesn't actually know that his reinforcements are closer by than Hookwolf's - but he likes the odds, given the apparently opportunistic nature of Hookwolf's attack and the fact that none of Hookwolf's allies are on the scene yet, nor has he noticeably called for them.)
Another on-target force blast sends Hookwolf sailing an impressive distance down the street.
(He doesn't actually know that his reinforcements are closer by than Hookwolf's - but he likes the odds, given the apparently opportunistic nature of Hookwolf's attack and the fact that none of Hookwolf's allies are on the scene yet, nor has he noticeably called for them.)
Another on-target force blast sends Hookwolf sailing an impressive distance down the street.
It's kinda impressive just how bouncy Hookwolf is in spite of the metal, before he turns into liquid again to absorb the rest of the impact and stop bouncing. He seems however to decide that he agrees with Sokoreth's assessment of the benefit of drawing this out, because after a momentary pause he starts beating a retreat.
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Sokoreth doesn't try to run him down. The point has been made.
He does keep his staff in his hands until he can neither hear nor see Hookwolf, though.
He does keep his staff in his hands until he can neither hear nor see Hookwolf, though.