mission 010.

[overconfidently]

WHO: Nate, the anomaly, and those involved
WHEN: near the end of the mission
WHERE: Earth-2
WHAT: anomaly end of mission shenans
NOTES\WARNINGS: threads will be marked where needed but blanket violence + death warnings

catch-all post for all things related to the anomaly near the end of the mission. feel free to do up your own top-levels here, tag out, fighty-fight, etc. info related to the anomaly, the timeline of events, and players involved found here for reference. feel free to toss any questions or do gentle plotting there.

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[fourthwalled]

"Ga-ah! Ouchies!" Wade falls like a marionette with cut strings after his Achilles tendons are cut, face-planting onto the rooftop. And while that might stop anyone else from continuing to pursue this fight, that's not how Wade works. He's the Energizer Bunny of trying to murder assholes.

Wade flips himself over getting to his knees, guns back up and trying to fire his last two bullets, "Can't you at least give me a little banter back here? Feel like I'm feeling a brick wall with crazy eyes!"

[rudelanguage]

The mirror image flickers out of existence as Pending kicks at one of the guns, hopping out of range of the other.

"Just stay down!" he cries, voice pitching low at the end, like someone was messing with vocal filters mid-plea. "Stay! Down!"

[fourthwalled]

The gun flies out of Wade's hand and off the roof. Well, right about now would be a perfect time to be able to curse like a sailor, but even now he can't.

"Can't stop. Won't stop." He answers, lifting the still remaining gun with the intent to splatter his brains on the rooftop.

[rudelanguage]

It happens the moment Knife moves to abandon the fight: A dodge slightly too slow, and a bullet shaves skin off the lower jaw and makes Pending howl and stagger. When they look back, their face is splattered with cobalt-blue blood like some fucking homestuck character.

Momentarily forgetting his cause, Pending roars and lunges forward to wrest the gun free, to cut or skewer at fingers with a recklessness that leaves much to be desired in the artful assassin category. It's just raw frustration lashing out - some effort to do something that makes a change in Knife's favor.

[fourthwalled]

Oblivious to Knife's feeling about his own blood, Wade is already commenting on it, still trying to fight despite his injuries, "Ooh, blue blood-- I didn't realize you were a cop!"

The last gun goes flying too and Wade is reduced to trying to throw a punch instead--- and losing a few fingers for his trouble, "Hey! I NEEDED THOSE!"

This fight... is really not going too well for Wade, is it? He just hopes it will give Nate time to get away or stop this guy. He'll heal from all of this, but it's going to get some time.

here comes the cw: eye gore

[rudelanguage]

"Don't--" DON'T LOOK.

Pending's focus is pivoted immediately away from the hand hackjob, and he slaps the palm of one hand down on Wade's forehead. The other raises the knife and plunges it toward an eye.

Can't prove what you saw if you have no eyes, Knife figures. Not the best plan, but they're not thinking with the best of faculties in a moment of panic.

He raises the blade away to go for the other with near as much haste, but he is already thinking far away from here - Gotta stop it. That's more important. What's trying to nest in his head is a bigger deal. This is already unkind to Wade, but there's no resources to care with while stabbing down again.

woot woot! cw: gore continued

[fourthwalled]

Wade is looking at the blood and doesn't seem to be making any attempt to stop. Until. Well. His eye makes a sicking squelch as it's pierced, the liquid of the eye itself squirts out first before blood comes along right after--

"HOLY FUCK KNUCKLE!"

It seems the anomaly's influence is only going so far right now. But even the most proper person would be swearing at time like this! He's reaching with his nearly fingerless hand to try and stop the blade coming down again. And the blade ends up going through his hand and right into his last remaining eye.

He flails still trying to attack the man despite not being able to see him it all now. Blindly grabbing with his other hand, he manages to find fabric, curling tight to it. He sounds desperate now, but it's not for him, "Please don't hurt him."

[rudelanguage]

"Fuck him," Pending spits, barely stopping to think about it while yanking the knife free with a jerking motion to send any gooey bits free of it. "Fuck him, fuck you, anything the fuck in my head--"

Knife's words - they're Knife's, the cadence of Pending's voice shifting to the speedy tempo of inner thoughts - they speed up with anger as their move away is halted by the tug they now feel. Furious, Pending turns on his heel and kicks at Wade's face until the grip relents and he can hop out of reach, backing up a few paces more before turning outright and making a break for the next roof and a way down to a confrontation with Nate.

Not with blood on your face, you're not, they think, scrubbing at the wounds and hissing at the sting. Scrub again, and the face starts shifting, reforming to wear Antigone along the way.