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His demeanor changes rather drastically however, from trying to cooperate with you, to outright trying to disable or hurt you when you start focusing on his back and particularly the jetpack. It hadn't been your intention at first, merely you were trying to stop him from using any gadgets against you. But with your body partly wrapped around his back, you can't help but notice the jetpack and the danger it poses you. Specifically his ability to pursue you without fail... so what if you were to disable it? You couldn't possibly hope to understand the apparatus and with it cased in metal you wouldn't be able to damage it. What if instead though, you just removed it from the guy's body?
Thinning yourself out to squeeze between his body and the device itself, and start pushing outward against his back with all your might. You're not strong enough to just bust the thing off him outright, but the space you create shows every connecting belt or latch to his body, which you immediately assault with your hands and body however you can to try and loosen, unlatch, or otherwise separate. Of course he doesn't just let you do this, but his violently serious effort to stop you takes many forms in rapid succession, from trying to attack you with various gadgets to simply trying to pin you in place between his back and the jetpack by backing up against a wall.
<span class="mu-r">"-you don't know what you're doing Stretch! You're gonna get yourself killed!"</span>
<span class="mu-b">"Mwahaha! Sounds to me like you're scared of- <span class="mu-s">WAAAAAGH!!</span>"</span>
Unfastening the securing harness or support belts is one thing, but when you find and pull tight some cable and try to bite through it, the jetpack suddenly activates. It probably wasn't Jetstream himself since he emergency separates him the rest of the way from the device, before he suffers the same fate you do... screaming bloody murder as the jetpack rockets off skywards in an uncontrolled flight, with you clinging to it for dear life. A black trail of smoke and fading screams in your wake, as you smash between the building walls of the alleyway back and forth in your ascent, till finally clearing the rooftops and spiraling off over the city skyline to god-knows-where.
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<span class="mu-b">"...oooouuuugh... my... everything hurts..."</span>
Struggling to even move, you reach up to grip the rim of the dumpster and pull yourself up, alive but in a world of pain. As it were, the malfunctioning jetpack careened off through the skyline of Malton in a haphazard arc, striking and rebounding off several more city obstacles along the way before attaining a downward trajectory and and crashing back to the earth. And all the while, with you barely hanging on for having your body tangled in the harness trailing behind. The final landing was a crash along a rooftop restaurant, before plummeting over the side and taking you with it to smash-land in a heavy duty dumpster far below.
