"Excuse me!" The businessman with ice crusting over his moustache and
eyebrows leaned in a little closer and smacked his briefcase into the face
of the armored suit currently trying to freeze him solid. "Can you shut
off the armor, please? You're freezing us out, here!"
The suited figure straightened in his seat with a jerk, and his hands
flailed in front of him momentarily. As the ice sublimed off, his face
faded into view, and he looked around at the other people in the car
hugging themselves and shivering. "Awww, crap, I'm sorry, folks! I didn't
even think of that, and got distracted reading." He opened his mouth to
apologize further, and the train whooshed to a stop. The doors slid open,
and the civilians in the car scattered out into the streets of Talos
Island as if they had been fired from a gun.
"Oops." The blue-and-white armored suit was heard to mutter as it stomped
out the door, before turning it's fields back on and leaping into the sky.
Tales of The Legendary: Back To The Streets
I could feel the hot flush of embarassment in my face as I launched from
the open asphalt in front of the Green Line station in Talos Island. Not
my best showing, but in my own defense, it had only been one evening's
worth of work in over twenty years of idle. Still..
I flew over Talos Island, eyeballing the unfamiliar layout and buildings
as I streaked towards the ferry. Touching down momentarily in the harbor,
water freezing into a solid under my feet, I repositioned and launched
again. A perfect shot put me down on the back deck of the ferry, and I
settled in for the trip to Peregrine.
Peregrine Island spread before me, the island saturated with buildings
like crystals precipitating out of solution. I turned on the radio
scanner, and started off, jumping low arcs over the docks and commercial
district. One touchdown put me in the perfect place to catch a high school
aged girl as she was blown out of a warehouse by an explosion. The force
of her impact whirled me around, and she used the swing to launch out of
my arms and back into a full-on run, back into the warehouse.
"Thanks! Wanna help with this?" She yelled back over her shoulder, and I
found myself sprinting behind her, running full speed into a warehouse
with smoke and flame rolling out it's doors. Combat Jump kicked in and I
went airborne, cruising over the young lady's head and face first into the
inferno.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
eyebrows leaned in a little closer and smacked his briefcase into the face
of the armored suit currently trying to freeze him solid. "Can you shut
off the armor, please? You're freezing us out, here!"
The suited figure straightened in his seat with a jerk, and his hands
flailed in front of him momentarily. As the ice sublimed off, his face
faded into view, and he looked around at the other people in the car
hugging themselves and shivering. "Awww, crap, I'm sorry, folks! I didn't
even think of that, and got distracted reading." He opened his mouth to
apologize further, and the train whooshed to a stop. The doors slid open,
and the civilians in the car scattered out into the streets of Talos
Island as if they had been fired from a gun.
"Oops." The blue-and-white armored suit was heard to mutter as it stomped
out the door, before turning it's fields back on and leaping into the sky.
Tales of The Legendary: Back To The Streets
I could feel the hot flush of embarassment in my face as I launched from
the open asphalt in front of the Green Line station in Talos Island. Not
my best showing, but in my own defense, it had only been one evening's
worth of work in over twenty years of idle. Still..
I flew over Talos Island, eyeballing the unfamiliar layout and buildings
as I streaked towards the ferry. Touching down momentarily in the harbor,
water freezing into a solid under my feet, I repositioned and launched
again. A perfect shot put me down on the back deck of the ferry, and I
settled in for the trip to Peregrine.
Peregrine Island spread before me, the island saturated with buildings
like crystals precipitating out of solution. I turned on the radio
scanner, and started off, jumping low arcs over the docks and commercial
district. One touchdown put me in the perfect place to catch a high school
aged girl as she was blown out of a warehouse by an explosion. The force
of her impact whirled me around, and she used the swing to launch out of
my arms and back into a full-on run, back into the warehouse.
"Thanks! Wanna help with this?" She yelled back over her shoulder, and I
found myself sprinting behind her, running full speed into a warehouse
with smoke and flame rolling out it's doors. Combat Jump kicked in and I
went airborne, cruising over the young lady's head and face first into the
inferno.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies