We Are Our Avatars IX: Act V: The Sabotage of the Scandolous Saurian Scoundrels (Open)

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Tavish shrugged. "Well I blew up the wizard that did it." Tavish said to Sophia. "Long as ya don't try an' take me other eye, we should be fine."

Tavish turned his head to Vicky. "That arm a' yers isn't magic, lass. One a me old team could of built something like that in his sleep."

 

[Zepherus14]

"I won't think of it!" Sophia exclaimed as she brought her hands up surrenderingly.

"So that's actually magic powered?" Sophia asked with a hint of surprise, pointing at Victoria's arm.

 

[Outisakanobody]

"Well, I'm actually from this city, sort of, and it seems like EMily wouldn't have too much trouble remembering or finding a meeting place with that...thing she uses." Seras said.

 

[Drakmorg]

"It's magic. I'd think I'd know more about it than you do, seeing as how it's been attached to me for several years. And no, I highly doubt they could."

Vicky replied to Tavish in a deadpan tone.

"Yup."

She said to Sophia, holding her left arm out and flexing all the joints for show.

"I still don't really see what we stand to gain from splitting up."

She said to Seras.

 

[Outisakanobody]

"This is a pretty big city. " Seras pointed out.

 

[Zepherus14]

'I wonder..?' Sophia thought as she looked over the arm then back up to Victoria. "That's really cool actually." Sophia said happily.

 

[Drakmorg]

"So covering more ground then? Seems kind of pointless when we have someone who can just lead us right to the guy."

Vicky replied to Seras. She cracked a smile at Sophia and gave her a

"Thanks. Though it can do a lot more than just that."

 

[username sucks]

Tavish chuckled at Vicky's claim that her arm was magic. "I'll let ya go on thinkin' it's magic then. But I'm just sayin', the man built one a those arms fer himself. Without magic."

 

[Drakmorg]

"If there was no Magic involved, then saying what they built is anything similar to mine is just straight up wrong."

Vicky replied.

"For example, could it do anything like this?"

She held up her left arm so that Tavish could easily see it, also waiting until they were under a street-light for good measure. After a moment, the metal across her arm would start to shrink, making it look smaller, while at the same time a series of inch-long metal spikes grew out of the outer edge of her forearm.

 

[username sucks]

Tavish was impressed by Victoria's arm transforming, but he did his best not to show it. "He could also build a machine that would make metal and bullets outta the air. Not impressed, lass."

 

[Drakmorg]

Vicky stared at Tavish with half-lidded eyes.

"I wasn't [i]trying[/i] to impress you. I was making a point that my arm is different from whatever you must have seen before. Just because something looks similar, doesn't mean it's the same."

The spikes descended back into her arm, which prompted it to return to its original size and shape.

 

[username sucks]

Tavish rolled his eye at Vicky. "And I was just saying that if you really think it takes magic to do that fancy stuff, you've got a lot to learn. Engy could build something better, and you wouldn't have to worry about losing an eye to some spell. [sub]But you would have to be careful about letting robots take your job...[/sub]"

 

[Drakmorg]

Vicky rubbed her temple with her right hand for a moment.

"And [b]I[/b] didn't say that [i]all[/i] metal arms run on magic. Just that mine does. And no offense, but I kinda doubt this 'Engy' person could surpass Feline engineering."

She stuffed her hands back into her pockets as she kept walking.

"And there's a [i]lot[/i] more out there that has a better chance of making you lose an eye than magic."

 

[username sucks]

"I've been blowing people up for over 20 years and never got hurt more than the medic could fix. But it was the very first time I ever encountered magic that I lost my eye! So don't you try and tell me that magic is safe!" Tavish said angrily.

 

[Drakmorg]

"Oh no don't get me wrong, it's crazy dangerous. But so long as you know what you're doing you can redirect all that danger towards enemies instead of yourself. It's like your primitive little gunpowder weapons. If you're pointing it at yourself when you let it off, of course it's [i]you[/i] that's gonna get hurt."

Vicky returned.

 

[username sucks]

Tavish waved his arm dismissively at Vicky. "You're hopeless. Don't come crying to me when your eye flies out of your head and becomes a monster."

 

[Drakmorg]

"I won't. Because that is never going to happen. You know, because I know what I'm doing."

Vicky brushed Tavish off.

 

[Zepherus14]

Sophia squirmed a little as she watched Victoria's arm transformed. She settled back down once the arm was back to normal though. "Well magic can be safe, you just got to respect it you know, not use it willy nilly right?" She said out loud, but somewhat aimed at Tavish.

 

[Chungus]

Flying towards the poachers, the bug thought on what would be the most effective method of taking them down, deciding on the method it used to hunt baboons. Holding its wings still, the bug began to descend, then went into a dive. While swooping in, the bug shot a glob of thick glue from its nasus at the poacher that walked up front, covering him in the sticky residue, and when the other poacher began to turn around upon seeing this, the bug took hold of both of his arms with its pincers.

While the poacher that was covered in glue tried to move, which wa smade more difficult by the noxious fumes the glue gave off, the bug lifted the poacher it was carrying closer to its mouth and took a bite out of his neck, tearing out a piece of the cervical vertibrea, essentially decapitating the man. Shallowing the bite whole, bone included, the bug descended again and touched down on the ground, dropping the corpse and walking over to the poacher covered in glue and stung it with its tail stinger, injecting a large amount of venom.

With its still living prey envenomated, the bug walked back to the dead poacher and felt at the corpse with its palps before biting the it into manageable chunks, which it then swallow, hair, bone and clothing included. Once this was done, the bug felt at the rifle that was left behind with its palps, and lightly clacked its mandibles upon finding nothing about it was edible, thus being nothing it wanted to bother with.

With its first prey eaten, the bug moved to the second poacher, who by now had collapsed as a result of both the venom coursing through his veins, and the noxious fumes. Pulling the poacher out of the glue with some effort, then began biting the poacher into chunks again and eating these.

Once it was finished, the bug moved to the rhino corpse and began eating this was well. It could only manage to eat a portion of the lower left hind leg, however, being full after it. The bug tried to drag the rhino away, but with it weighing well over a tonne, it was way too heavy for the bug to move, and it was forced to leave the corpse for now.

Walking away, the bug dug a tunnel, crawled inside, and cocooned itself.

 

[Saltyk]

Goku kept walking, but looked over his shoulder and said back to Sophia. "So, you use magic? I've always relied on my own strength and Ki."