Scruffy Lookin’ Nerfherder
Velok's Maw
The figure turns and fixes me with eyes of molten gold. His skin is as red as the blood sloughing off my armor. I pause at the sight, unsure whether to open fire, and glance over at the Jedi. He’s drawn his lightsaber now. The reassuring hum slows the growth of the despondent fear weighing on my chest.
Over the hum, heightened senses hear the slick sound of razored metal ramming into meat. My head snaps back to Red-Face just as he lets go of a dagger buried hilt deep in the chained man’s belly. Fast as thought, he sweeps a sword from a scabbard at his hip. The blade cuts down through the empty air, casting off a web of forking radiance from its length.
Synthetic nerves have me moving faster than any human, but I barely get a step back before the thunderbolts from his blade lance into me. Bolts the size of fingers shrink exponentially the closer they come to the black sheen of my chest plate until they are just incandescent threads. They snake out and touch my armor. North of 50,000 volts course through my body and I go to my knees. To the right I see Kiens. Kiens does not have a mechamiri pack. He takes a billion volts of dark side electric discharge center mass and goes flying backward to land somewhere behind me.
Smoke chokes the air. I smell burning plastic. Our duraplast body armor isn’t meant to take that kind of punishment.
Hot saltwater trickles down my cheek. I let out a gargled laugh that tears at my constricted throat. All these cybernetics shoved into my body, but they can’t even stop me from crying.
I can no longer hear the peaceful hum of the Jedi's lightsaber. Nothing but the harsh crackle of lightning cascading through the room. All I wonder is when it will stop.
[member="Gabriel Sionoma"] | [member="Jorus Merrill"]
The figure turns and fixes me with eyes of molten gold. His skin is as red as the blood sloughing off my armor. I pause at the sight, unsure whether to open fire, and glance over at the Jedi. He’s drawn his lightsaber now. The reassuring hum slows the growth of the despondent fear weighing on my chest.
Over the hum, heightened senses hear the slick sound of razored metal ramming into meat. My head snaps back to Red-Face just as he lets go of a dagger buried hilt deep in the chained man’s belly. Fast as thought, he sweeps a sword from a scabbard at his hip. The blade cuts down through the empty air, casting off a web of forking radiance from its length.
Synthetic nerves have me moving faster than any human, but I barely get a step back before the thunderbolts from his blade lance into me. Bolts the size of fingers shrink exponentially the closer they come to the black sheen of my chest plate until they are just incandescent threads. They snake out and touch my armor. North of 50,000 volts course through my body and I go to my knees. To the right I see Kiens. Kiens does not have a mechamiri pack. He takes a billion volts of dark side electric discharge center mass and goes flying backward to land somewhere behind me.
Smoke chokes the air. I smell burning plastic. Our duraplast body armor isn’t meant to take that kind of punishment.
Hot saltwater trickles down my cheek. I let out a gargled laugh that tears at my constricted throat. All these cybernetics shoved into my body, but they can’t even stop me from crying.
I can no longer hear the peaceful hum of the Jedi's lightsaber. Nothing but the harsh crackle of lightning cascading through the room. All I wonder is when it will stop.
[member="Gabriel Sionoma"] | [member="Jorus Merrill"]