>>5364646Not keen on wasting any more time, you leap onto another skeleton, one clad in a <span class="mu-i">very</span> garish Hawaiian shirt, no less, and tackle him to the snow. Your <span class="mu-b">PARKOUR</span> cravings sated for now, you instead kick off the sanguine slush and sled down the hill through the blizzard towards where you last saw your friends.
Say what you will about the storm, it doesn’t make the skeleton’s aim any better. Serpentining just in case, you skid to a halt in front of the gang and dutifully stick your <span class="mu-g">BONE CLAWS</span> through the skeleton’s dome.
“Tell me we’re leaving!” Tucker huffs with remarkably less composure than usual as Kiki sprays a hail of bullets into your pursuers!
We’re <span class="mu-i">leaving</span>, you nod before turning to examine Mitzi. Though her armor is more or less intact, bits of the ceramic are chipped off and some of the heavy fabric is burned away too, revealing several hastily-bandaged wounds. Blinking lazily beneath her blood-flecked hair, the Rent-A-Cop sluggishly moves her head to look at you.
“<span class="mu-i">Hey, bos-</span>” Even those two whispered words send her into a coughing fit, one that makes you think twice about talking to her any more.
“She took a few hits getting us outta there.” Tucker explains as you both follow Eddie to another car while Kiki provides covering fire. “I’ve been trying to patch them up, but they’re bullet wounds, not <span class="mu-i">cuts</span>...”
As Kiki moves to join you, a trio of rockets impact into the ground between cover, sending the pint-sized student flying backwards across the pavement! Landing on her shoulder, she still manages to return fire as Eddie abandons you to retrieve her!
Okay, you nod as you fire a rocket of your own into the approaching horde, can he fix her, though? He knows First Aid!
“I can <span class="mu-i">try</span>,” Tucker huffs as he moves to shield Mitzi from the brunt of the blizzard, “But I can’t promise anything… and I definitely won’t be able to while we’re being shot at!”
Another explosion rips the car you’re hiding behind apart, thankfully ignoring you, but also forcing everyone to move deeper into the lot. Proceeding with caution, you nearly walk into a bullet when one streaks across the lot and past your freckled face! Thankfully you know exactly where it came from, and after firing a <span class="mu-g">ROCKET</span> at the nearby guard tower, you don’t run into any more problems!
Okay, you nod, just sit tight–Gus and Denise are gonna grab Art and Syb, and then-
Before you can finish, your explanation finishes itself–from off in the distance you hear the sound of a mighty engine roaring across the blizzard along with the report of a familiar mounted turret. They’re close!
>CONTD. 