Tinker!Walta and Glam in Worm
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"Alright.—your things are nonlethal, right? My suit is bulletproof but I'd rather not, like, break anything."

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"I'm not going to use the big one on you! It's in case I run into Empire 88 or something. Everything else should be pretty nonlethal unless I shoot your face from point blank a dozen times in a row or something."

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"Cool then." They float right way up. "Hit me."

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She raises one arm, and with surprising speed a telescoping pole shoots out of the wrist towards Glam.

The mechanical arm on her shoulder grabs something attached to the armor's back.

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Glam dodges out of the way, having been expecting that, and grabs a sleek white tinker-looking gun from behind their back.

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The long pole has the advantage of still being attached to her body, she uses that to swing it into one of Glam's legs despite the dodge. It delivers a sting that's followed by a numbing sensation.

She starts moving towards the dubious cover of a burnt-out car. The robot arm has grabbed... Something, and points it at Glam.

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"Ow! Should make that insulating," they say, flying away towards the cover of a dumpster.

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"Wouldn't have helped!"

The ball at the tip of the taser-pole explodes into a few dozen prongs as he passes it - a couple make brief contact with the same shock. Then everything retracts.

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They grunt, but they don't really need to move to fly, and now they're surrounded by a forcefield. "I can just figure out what would!"

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No more words. A barrage of winged projectiles spring from the armor, they arc high and aim to fall on him on their way now. Another strike with the pole.

The thing the robot arm is wielding follows her gaze, mostly, but it's not shooting anything.

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Well Glam's behind a car and has a forcefield around them, the projectiles can do whatever they want Glam's protected.

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She puts away the targeting laser and pulls out a scanner. Forcefield: What are you made of and how can she disrupt you?

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Who knows, it's disabled as soon as she starts looking and now Glam is fleeing that way—

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Eat telescoping pole again!

The legs are very nimble - she dashes over to where all the projectiles landed and the curled-up one picks them up and loads them back into their launcher. She keeps the scanner out to track where Glam's going by his nerves' bio-electricity.

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...well if she's scanning Glam's nerves' bio-electricity she'll find out they're probably not a he. Or a she.

Also they swat away the telescoping pole by twirling midair and hitting it with a pole of their own, except the tip of theirs wraps around hers and gets very strongly attached to it.

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The scanner isn't sophisticated enough to tell that. Just that there's a human-size mammal thereabouts.

As to the pole-attaching... She can use that to pull sharply and accelerate towards him. Or just run towards him with those powerful tentacle legs if his weapon comes loose. Two of the flying wings come out again on a lower arc, too.

...This is fun!

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...pulling sharply might not have been the best move, because Glam's other hand now has a gun thing that shoots a set of weighted ropes directly towards her—

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Sharp dodge that looks mechanically improbable! She leaves cracks in the concrete from where that foot pushed off.

The flying wing things burst into nets of their own, made with some kind of metal in intricate patterns.

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Round forcefield, crackling with energy and expanding outwards—

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- Okay scanner what is it and can she tune her pulse field into destructive interference...

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Yeah her scanner isn't gonna help identify things here, this is either tinker tech of a different stripe altogether or something else entirely. As far as the scanner is concerned, there's nothing there.

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If there's no electromagnetic bounce there, it can't block her electro-gun. Zap time!

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...yeah it totally doesn't block her electro-gun, but Glam's suit does. "Ow! How'd you do that?"

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"Whatever that is, it's not blocking electrons or I'd be able to scan it. So of course a coherent electron packet goes right through!"

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"Hmm. Well then I can just change a thing here—" And now it's completely opaque to her.

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