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The Pirates wake up in the sky
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Sable has reached the point of tossing multiple out blind and timing how quickly she can snag them all back, by the time Momo is ready to test this.

"Practice has been going well, so sure. Sounds like fun."

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She can tell!

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"Alright, I'm loading this up with barely any weight, so even if it goes wrong we'll have plenty of time."

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And without further ado, she pushes one of her dummies over the edge, after double-checking that the batteries are charged and the settings are set.

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And, somehow to her own surprise, it works exactly as it should.  The blades slice, the weight is ejected, everything triggers at the set distance, and both the weight and the faux body are propelled back to the skyblock's surface.

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Sable laughs and grins and pulls Momo into a twirling hug. "That's amazing, Momo! That's going to be such a big help!"

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She bounces happily and very readily reciprocates the hug!

...She may even, from sheer overflowing glee at her success, kiss Sable!  On the cheek, they're not at the point where more - aggressive - kissing seems right yet, but something about this situation just seems to demand celebration, and kisses are celebratory!  If Sable would like one!

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"I'm really glad it's working!"

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The cheek kiss gets a blushy smile from Sable, and a lingering fond gaze.

"Thank you for all this amazing training gear, Momo."

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"I probably shouldn't get all the credit for it, I stand on the shoulders of support engineers - but I'm glad you like it.  Do you want to try catching one of these, now?"

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"Little nervous, almost wanna keep working on target practice first, but I'm doing well enough at that." She takes a breath. "Yeah, let's give it a try."

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"Alright, in 3, 2, 1," and off the edge goes one of the training dummies!

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The moment it's off the edge and tumbling, Sable lunges to the edge, bare feet and one hand sticking her to a stop just at the edge. Left hand hangs down, shoots a capture web directly at the falling dummy, a more-elastic swing-line trailing behind it. It hits the dummy solidly at center of mass, exploding outward in a spray of webbing that wraps the dummy's arms and legs, spilling high to support the head, almost a little too much covering the face but not quite.

In that moment Sable grabs the web-line tight, elastic stretching as the dummy decelerates to a stop.

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Then she blows out a breath and starts hauling back up, hand over hand.

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Momo smiles...  And pushes another dummy off the edge, without a word of warning.

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!!!

Slap the web-line she's currently holding to the ground with a simultaneous burst of webbing to hold it in place, then lunge down to catch that one too! Capture-webbing spills out across the dummy, cocooning it quickly, and she yanks hard on the support line, hauling up as it decelerates.

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"You're doing great!  Here comes another one -"

And this one is much smaller, half the size of the 'adult'-sized ones.

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Eep! Slap that webline to the ground and stick it! Shit shit shit and this one's smaller okay tighter on the capture-webbing she's got a smaller target here fuck.

She whips a capture-web down at the child-dummy, webbing snapping out to envelop it supportively, webline stretching out as it decelerates.

Fuck.

Hand over hand, haul the dummy up while checking to see if Momo has any more.

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She doesn't yet.

"You did very well with this, Sable.  I'm impressed."

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Sable smiles at Momo over her shoulder while hauling the dummies upward. "How's the deceleration score? Smooth enough to keep 'em alive?"

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"Let me just pull up the graphs..."

"Yeah, it looks like you did just fine.

"We'll keep practicing, three does not a sufficient sample make to judge you competent instead of lucky, and I have other surprises waiting - but I do think that if something like this comes up, you're most likely going to be able to handle it well."

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Hand over hand, hauling up the dummies.

"Well, it's a start. Nothing like having to react quickly to debug these reflexes, right?"

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"Right!  Now, let me make you your new hero uniform..."

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"...Or, well, I might need some more measurements first, though, to know how much give it's going to need to have in some places, especially if you want it skintight...  Which I am assuming you do because you have superadhesion?  Is that, uh, localized?  Or all over?"

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Sable grins and blushes as she sets the last dummy on the ground. "Yeah, that's all-over. So I'm absolutely going to want skintight. Also for the sake of making you blush, and generally looking hot, but mostly for the strategic value. That's also why we're not wearing boots around the skyblock, mostly."

She steps away from the edge and spreads her arms wide. "This do, or shall I strip the shirt and pants off first?"

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