Fading Memory
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(Idiocy)While Dawnbreaker knew that the tornado move was a cool addition to his intro. It often got in the way of visibility. Could he see what was happening to Chainsawyer? Uh, maybe? It was certainly hard to tell. Could he hear what was happening? Not really. The wind flowing around him was going pretty fast so only the sounds of the chainsaw flinging around and the occasional punch could be heard. Still, maintaining a hero pose for a reasonable length of time was crucial to success and it must be held.
Was that enough? Give it another half second. Ok there we go.
The swirl of air flowing around him began slowing until it was a reasonable pace. It was still present and ready to protect him. However, he was now able to perceive a lot more. This was the first time he was looking to assess the situation in the train car. What is all the red stuff flying around? It couldn’t be… No, it looks as though the heroes were winning. Heroes don’t do that.
"Excuse me, Chainsawyer? You there, the vermin." Dawnbreaker heard from across the train car. "You missed. The train car is still connected."
It was just a normal woman, standing there in normal clothes. Had there been a stowaway civilian in the train car, who is now endangered by the evil sky pirates? It must be, she wasn’t rushing in to stop the villains so she didn’t seem like a hero. She must be terrified of the proceedings here, even if she was hiding it well.
Dawnbreaker rushed over with a gust of wind and stood between her and the fight. “Do not worry, innocent lady. I, Dawnbreaker, am here to save you from the fowl villainy of these pirates. You are safe.” His cape continued to flow to the side and he stood in confidence that his assessment of the situation was correct.
The woman had been squinting against the wind storm, not quite able to make out what was going on anymore either. For a few moments she totally ignored Dawnbreaker, before casting him a half-lidded, cold-eyed stare.
”Oh, my hero.” She said, flatly.
The rush of a fight and struggling to pick up on sarcasm can be a terrible mix. Because Dawnbreaker had confused her words for a genuine call to be rescued. “There's no need to thank me. The honor of being able to save the fine people of this city is more than enough for me.” He turned to face Pandora and picked her up off the ground. “Just to let you know, I have my pilots license.” Dawnbreaker gave the cheesiest hero smile that looked all too practiced before the two began taking to the skies.
Blinking slowly, her eyes glazed over and she stared off into the middle distance. The princess carry wasn’t on her agenda today. Sighing, she resigned and mentally shrugged, smirking. ”Well, that’s great. Dawnbreaker, right? With heroes like you around, no doubt-” The young man in question looked at her in pleasant surprise. “Dawnbreaker is correct. I’m kind of surprised you know my name.” He begun trailing off into some talk about his popularity. Which few would have the ability to pay full attention to.
Pandora sat up straight, looping her arm around Dawnbreaker’s neck and pulling his head down to look more clearly over his shoulder. “I haven’t really made a debut yet, but I guess the fan club reach is better than I thou… hey what are you doing?”
”For fuck’s-” Pandora complained quietly. Leaning back, she stuck the tips of her fingers into the side of Dawnbreaker’s face, and using that as leverage, turned his head. “Ow ow ow ow ow” Dawnbreaker repeated as the previously kind civilian was now forcing his face around with some pretty hefty piercing force. Now he could see the enemy’s hovercraft and the noticeable nuclear bomb shaped box trailing after them from a wire.
”Quit complaining- they’re getting away with the bait. Go on, flyboy, get after them, now! We can still catch up.” Pandora pointed with her order. She retracted her fingers from his head, pivoting him in the right direction.
To say Dawnbreaker was startled by this sudden tonal shift was an understatement. Why had she suddenly become so mean, he was just trying to save her. Also, why did she say ‘we’? “Uh, um, hang on.” Dawnbreaker sputtered out. Realising he broke character, he shook his head to get himself back into it. The bravado and confidence of Dawnbreaker was back, he couldn’t be unheroic in front of a civilian after all.
“To put an innocent civilian in harm's way would go against my hero code. Do not fear, I can take you to safety and save the day in no time. It's what heroes do.” While Dawnbreaker wasn’t entirely sure if he could actually do that, he certainly said it in a tone like he could. It sounded heroic in his mind, but to an outside spectator it was nothing but a bold display that he had not caught on to his mistake yet.
”No, you can’t!” Pandora rebutted, clearly frustrated. ”I work with HERO too, you fool! Why doesn’t anyone read the fucking roster?!” Pandora ran a hand down her face and then pointed again to the escaping plane.
Dawnbreaker was dumbfounded by this. He only just realised how comically wrong he had been about the situation. His ‘put on’ demeanor dropped and went back to how one would expect him to talk like. “W-well, I do read the roster… skimmed it… had a glance.” His words trailed off. “Wait! How come you didn’t say anything earlier!? I feel so dumb.”
Pandora didn’t have a good answer for his question, so she ignored it, letting him think he was dumb rather than she was just petty.
”If you can get me close enough, launch me, and I’ll cut the wire.” The redhead ordered. After what had happened, Dawnbreaker was ready to follow those orders entirely. Out of lack of confidence in his decision making abilities if anything.
“Alright here we go.” In a blast, the two rocketed toward the hovercraft. This was at a much higher speed than before. When he had mistaken her for a civilian he had to take it slowly, but there was no holding back now. Pandora blinked against the wind, raising a hand to shield her eyes.
Dawnbreaker dropped her off at the wire. Nodding to him, she held on tight and focused on her work. As for him, he didn’t stick around there. Villainy had to be confronted. He flew upward and dropped on the hovercraft in front of the cockpit, where he stood with arms crossed and cape flowing in the wind.
“So, the villainous mastermind shows her hand. A thief who expects to just steal a bomb and fly away on the winds of freedom. But freedom is a place of heroes, and only one hero holds domain over the skies. I, Dawnbreaker, will bring you to justice.”
The details of the speech would have been lost to the rushing air. But it was more for himself than anyone else.
Meanwhile, the woman formed her free hand into a chop, focused on turning anything her hand touched into liquid. When she saw a space for the bomb to land in a clearing, she eyeballed it and sliced through. Nuclear bombs aren’t activated by impact, but going in there and rooting around with her Alteration powers might do it. So this would have to work.
