>>5436849“I’ll get ‘em for ya, don’t worry.” You leap out of the tree you were perched from, exclaiming “Woah woah woah woah, hoooooold it. Come on Lapis, ya can’t just interrupt the combination sequence like that!”
“Sure I can.” he replies nonchalantly, even casually letting out a Kiai to knock the closest one away. “None of these guys are heroes.” He then drops some of the caught bullets, dusting his hands off. “So it’s perfectly within reason to stop combination sequences like that.”
“But don’t you wanna see how it looks all transformed?”
He shrugs. “Eh, not while I’m on the job. Might hurt some animals in the process.”
The poachers are now utterly perplexed by your conversation, most just staring slack-jawed as some keep trying to sneak away. Not very well, but there’s an attempt being made. Some in the mech suits even attempt to get the machines up and running again. They almost think your arrival is a blessing in disguise. Oh boy is it not.
“Look, tell ya what. I’ll handle the robot, you can take on the bad guys. Team work!”
Lapis blinks and asks directly, “You just wanna see a cool robot don’t you?”
“...That’s not the only reason?” you admit. “Come on, Pantea can make use of it.”
He ruffles your hair. “Dork.” Cracking his knuckles again, he turns to the poachers once more, “You’ve got one chance. Make it quick before I decide it’s funnier to blow it apart mid-sequence again.”
“...H-hahahaha! Foolish boy, you don’t know what you’ve done! Formation MOGUERA!”
(cont.)
