Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-5999656-20190205035159/@comment-5999656-20190718042659

Lustra was pressed against the deck army crawl-style as the bullets whizzed overhead, tearing indiscriminately into the mass of rodent bodies welling up into a misshapen mound behind her and the other girl. Once again, she found herself engaged intimately with the floor in a rushed attempt to avoid being shredded to bits by the seemingly neverending pool of lead rain inside the facility. This was the third time tonight that she'd found herself in such an unflattering position - or was it the fourth? It was probably the fourth.

Anyhow, outstretched as she was, Lustra could now clearly see the red lines crisscrossing her left forearm, and the tiny beads of blood now building up along the thin cuts decorating her skin. Metal wire, that was something she hadn't expected to be deployed when Jett's jump failed. As a result, she had failed to ready her depleted Aura reserves in time, and the coil had dug into her skin under the full burden of Jett's body weight. They stung a little, and her entire arm was tingling, but these cuts, finer than a surgeon's scalpel, would heal in no time once she made it out of here.

Once she made it, yes. Lustra wasn't going to consider the possibility of dying tonight until it was staring her straight in the face with no way back or sideways.

But that wasn't the only thing she noticed. After a brief canvassing of her minor injuries, Lustra's eyes fixated on the gold bangle clasped around her left wrist. From the outset, it was a nice piece of jewelry, decorative but clearly not real gold, the kind of thing a young woman like herself would wear to spruce up her outfit a little when going out. In reality, though, it was a glorified tracking device, no different from the ankle monitors that criminals wore while on probation.

But there was one singular other aspect to it. A built-in, rudimentary one way communication aspect. If Lustra squeezed the bracelet, it would send out a GPS signal to the person at the other end. That person being, of course, none other than Nozomi.

Without hesitating, Lustra reached out and gripped the bracelet tightly. After a few seconds, she felt the vibration that confirmed the sending of the signal, and let go just as quickly. Now, at the very least, Nozomi knew she was still alive, and she could focus once more on the situation at hand.

What was this girl doing? Lustra looked at how Jett was crawling blindly towards the direction of gunfire, an obvious no-no in an active situation. The logical action was to escape to the side, to take yourself out of the target zone. Lustra reached forward and grabbed Jett by the ankle. For just a second, her fingers squeezed sickeningly against the ruptured layers of synthetic muscle, and then with a great heave, Lustra swung Jett a good two meters to the side, out of the way of the unending gunfire. Lustra army-crawled after her as fast as she could, only raising herself to her knees when the both of them were hidden behind the concrete wall, and safely out of the active fire zone. There she cuffed Jett sharply on the head, not hard enough to hurt, but hard enough to convey her disapproval.

"What are you doing?" Lustra asked sharply. The last thing she wanted was to get hurt again because of the hurriedness of this inexperienced companion. Without expecting an answer, she continued in the same breath.

"From now on, you stay behind me, okay? Especially with that leg of yours."

Lustra cast around. The rats were being steadily decimated by the unending stream of bullets. She reached into her pouch and pulled out the last of her earth Dust crystal. Once the onslaught calmed, that was when she would make her move, busting through the cracked wall to join those on the other side with Jett in tow.

As for what came after that, well, she'd deal with it one at a time.