Hyuuuuuuuung how much longer are you gonna take to rescue every—

Vworp.

"Got 'em," he says, dropping most of his weight on Tae-hwan.

Oh thank fuck okay he can bridal carry Woo-young and continue to jog in circles but now the worm is no longer being actively contained and if Tae-hwan doesn't miss his guess those slams were starting to get really half-hearted there.

slam.

......

It's hard to read emotion in a creature this large, and this alien.

But as the worm's head and several segments of body smash into the ground instead of getting stopped by Tae-hwan's power, the bellowing sound from its mouth sounds less like an angry scream and more like a surprised yelp.

"Get fucked and die, asshole."

...since the the two of them are now the only moving thing in the area, it is definitely going to pick itself up off the ground and try its level best to squish or chomp them.

It sure can try. "I said get fucked and die, asshole," he says, grabbing his gun from its holster and with a practised motion shooting at an angle where there's no one around and locking the worm's head onto the bullet for just a fraction of a second.

Arrakis's sandworms are very durable. Infamously so!

...however, having your head's velocity instantly changed from an effective standstill to well over three hundred meters per second instantaneously is not, typically speaking, a thing that results in you continuing to have a head in the sense of it being still attached to the rest of your body. (Sandworms are durable, not indestructible.)

The sheer force of it rips the first three worm-sections violently apart. The head, imbued with a frightening amount of kinetic energy, flies upward and slams through the ceiling, demolishing large amounts of concrete, wood, and construction steel. It's very loud.

Okay fuck that was probably a bad idea he's gonna need to turn his jogging in a circle into actual running.

Woo-young has finished sending a request that someone who can tell whether people are in a worm and help them come here into the system so he says, "Alright, guiding tents?"

"Yes please!" He literally cannot stop moving right now, fuck, that was such a bad idea—

It really was.

Vworp.

(The worm, as it turns out, is not fully dead, but it's wounded beyond ability to further act, and it's so badly damaged by the experience that it takes hours for it to withdraw through the portal, an impact which could also be measured in lives saved and millions of dollars in prevented property damage.)