[quote=@Doc Doctor]Donny brought his watch up and began staring at it. The others might notice the hitman absently shaking out a cigarette and lifting it to his lips as he counted each second.[/quote]
Five whole seconds passed. The tiny dot that was New Nemea below grew larger. The halo of light around it expanded to become the still massively distorted but not faintly recognizable morning horizon. The sun was long, thin, oval-shaped beacon shining to what must have been the East, assuming anything about the crazy geometry held true to what was familiar. The light it cast was so very curiously [i]cold[/i]...

"Hiecro, why's ma shield breaking up?" The male pavise knight practically shouted the question with barely restrained panic, the fingers of his gauntlet jerking while his appendages twitched in barely controlled terror.

"Redistribution by volume, not surface area!" Hiecro shouted back, eyeing Donny's movements like a hawk. A hawk in cardiac arrest. "But that doesn't matter because nearly all of it is being contacted across one side and there's too much force to spread! It's also supposed to link with our armor, but that requires contact!"

Another ten seconds passed. The tiny dot bloomed into a sphere with elevating contours and ridges. The horizon started to rise up around the slug like a bug-catching net, and the sun began to shrink and fatten.

"You still have your shield!" The pavise knight yelled, craning his head to give Hiecro a curious look. A look filled with apprehension...and something else. A hint of calculation. "Can you do something for if the sphere doesn't slow us down when it sheds?"

"I don't know!" Hiecro yelled back angrily. "Don't get any stupid ideas! Even if I survived and we made a ring, we'd still be spinning..." Her eyes wildly glanced about. "...too fuckin' fast for Mercury godsdamnit! The acceleration would kill us all!"

Another ten seconds had passed. The contoured sphere's edges began to eerily curve upwards and outwards from an unseen space behind the universe. The horizon enveloped the whole of the slug and snapped shut behind them, the iris of space above vanishing and giving way to the whole of the sky. The morning sun was approaching its original shape, though it was still below them for the moment. 

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"Don't need to ring-up before we slow down! Just need to wait until the spin winds down! You there, gearhead!" The male pavise knight turned his head towards Luca. All traces of fear had evaporated, replaced only with a grim kind of desperation. "You could survive the acceleration! Push her into the wall, grab on, and let your feet hang out behind you! Once the walls start to slow down, we can all grab on and ring up..."

"You fucking bastard! You don't know that the slug won't shed our velocity! We're still inside it, that part should still work! It's gravy, not a fucking bungee cord!" Hiecro shouted, fury blooming across her features. "Don't do it gearhead! Even you can't calculate how my bits and pieces would be affected! They could fly back inwards and kill us all!"

A whole twenty seconds passed during the exchange. The rest of the world below bled up from nothingness, the sphere widening out to become a disc with edges obscured in the distance, as it should have been. Below, the world was gaining fine nuance and detail - they were still a little too high up to make out individual buildings, but blotches of organized color and meaningless vague, clustered shapes were beginning to form. There we virtually no clouds in the sky, with the few that were present looking more like small slices of static on a computer screen than anything natural.