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Wendy listened as Rondo in his character Lance Bravestar told the nomad children that they too one day could become a protector like he was even if they never developed powers because the legendary riders of the wasteland had a place for anyone with a brave heart.
He pulled from his roadrasher suit several nutrient sticks in flavors like chocolate, strawberry, blueberry, and kiwi flashing his big smile so that the reflection of sunlight off them was a bit dazzling. Then he tousled a couple of heads and ran to his bike called the Night Fury saying ”Come Raven lets ride people need saving and daylight is a burning” using his gamma gift of the voice to send a chill of excitement through her and the audience here and at home.
Wendy hated that gift and had almost fallen into its trap and accepted his offer two nights ago to go over lines in his trailer but he’d blow it with his facial expression looking like some sex crazed boy at prom. Still though she had to remember his talent and brace herself against it or become another notch in his bedpost a fate that helped revolt her back into reality.
”I’ll do my best Commander Bravestar” she said managing to get out her line without having the director shout; “Cut!”
Her bike rumbled awake throbbing with over 600 brake horsepower as she threw on her helmet an tapped the kickstand up less than a second before she boiled the earth under the rear wheel making an instant dust cloud that was swept across the scene framing them in its shadow just as the director asked.
As Raven she was supposed to be weaker than Lance but her bike was another matter it was a relic of the wars which almost had its own starring spot in the script. It was a silly concept bike armed with a 5 barrel minigun on the left hand side that could spew over 1,600 brass out of it as the weapons nitrous fuel jet made a flame 4 feet long from the top muzzle. It had taken her 6 days to make the prop work the way they wanted and another to make it even more ridiculously visible when her first try was labeled weak.
Once the front wheel of the modified Thunder God touched down she checked her reaview to make sure Rondo was close enough on his Electric Night Fury to still be in the shot and was pleased he was and hadn’t dumped it like he had in rehearsals.
She eased off her throttle a little to let Rondo catch up and match pace beside her as they left twin trailing contrails of dust. Above them were about 6 camera drones focused on them and in front of them 3 more 100 meters ahead so any disturbance they might cause in the dust wouldn’t show. In the distance were three dust devils moving across frame and not under the film crew’s control.
Bad day at White Flats
In her blind the jilted woman was so intent that she failed to notice the dust devils coming her way; she wanted him close when he and that whore died in her trap.
The sniper’s blind was made to near perfect but even it couldn’t cope with the chaos caused to its holo projection by the dust devil that shook it violently exposing her presence.
Rondo noticed the distortion and his paranoia kicked in before the crazy woman was revealed about 300 meters away and reacted by leaning on his bike hard trying to turn away. More muscle than dex his attempt at radical maneuvering dropped the bike at around 265 kph (165 mph). Its right foot peg dug in briefly flipping the machine and flinging Rondo like a rag doll about 40 meters into the air his former ride missing Wendy by Inches before it detonated around 9 meters in front of her.
She was saved by the fact that her bike was made with a shell wind fairing that was bulletproof because it was as easy as making it look like a military bike with fake armor but the explosion made it impossible for her to keep her machine upright.
Unlike Rondo she dropped on the fine powder that made up the dry lake bed thankful it was free of rocks and debris as she slid maybe 200 meters laying as flat as she could her Roadrasher suit protecting her as designed.
Time to react boys and girls, the crash site is half a kilometer away
Rondo is hurt but he is a Gamma so it’s not lethal but someone will need to confirm that
Wendy is hurt as well but she fell properly
The Crazy woman is taking off, she’s a flyer her top speed 200 kph
Good luck
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