[quote=@Doc Doctor]From but a few feet away the knight would find a sudden gout of pure, blinding pain hitting her visor. Were she to swing unseeing at Donny, she'd find that he was no longer occupying the space he had been in. Ghost-like, conservative, his presence was suddenly behind her, his illegally strong stun gun thrusting into the small of her back and boasting a kick badder than an apartment wall socket. [/quote]
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The stun gun snapped and crackled menacingly for all of half a second before it emitted a distinctive popping noise, sparked excitably, and then died in his hand. Hiecro had thrown down her pavise - which fell over only to slowly pinwheel end-over-end as it drifted off through the air - and was busy wiping down her visor with her freed hand without much success, shouting threats and promises of eunuchdom all the while, appearing completely oblivious to Donny's attempted electrocution. She swiped blindly at the air with her crossbow's bayonet ineffectually, overbalancing herself in the process and falling flat on her rear beside Donny with a loud [i]clacking[/i] noise - almost like plastic, but the armor seemed to be metallic. At least, it seemed until Donny got a closer inspection and saw flecks in the polished finish of the armor and determined that it was merely painted to look like metal. In truth it seemed to have been made from some kind of ceramic or plastic.

[quote=@PlatinumSkink]Amelie couldn’t do much, but at least neutralize one opponent. If she managed to catch him, she’d search with her legs to see if she could recover the submachine-gun she had put down earlier, not letting go of the man with her eyes. Her eyes would be the one thing keeping him in place, as she glared with shaking hands holding her shirt with spikes on it stretched before her constantly.[/quote]
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Amelie found the effort of redirecting the man's motion to be much more difficult than anticipated. Her redirection orb was letting her redirect the kinetic energy of his movement just fine, but there was some weird kind of corrective [i]force[/i] inherent to his motion. He started to raise his right leg to move, she redirected the energy to keep him still, and then the redirected kinetic energy seemed to be swallowed by the air before reappearing and amplifying the original motion. Thankfully whatever was responsible was operating with diminishing efficacy, and with some extra effort and focus she was able to keep the pavise knight rooted firmly in place.

"What-" The man grunted in frustration, his eyes wide in apprehension despite the snarl on his face as he stumbled in place in his effort to move. "Wha-oh, to Hades, Hiecro cut it out! He can't hurt us anyway-" He continued to struggle - Amelie noted that he seemed particularly invested in raising his pavise off the ground again - but he had turned the brunt of his attention over to where Hiecro and Donny had started their slapstick routine.

[quote=@mdk]"HEY!" he shouted, hoping to get everyone's attention -- which admittedly might have been difficult amidst the continuing battle. "HEY!!!" 

He held the arrow an inch away from his own throat. 

"Knock it off! Or the next one to die is your biometric pass!" Priority one is to protect human life. "I mean it!" He was almost certain that he really did mean it.[/quote][quote=@Bright_Ops]Sheer rage overcame Fortune as he turned to glare at the two 'knights' that had made an attempt on the Damsel's life, a growl escaping his throat as he demanded with surprising conviction "STAND DOWN NOW BEFORE YOU DISGRACE YOURSELVES AND YOUR MASTER FURTHER WITH YOUR DISGRACEFUL, COWARDLY AND THUGGISH BEHAVIOR FURTHER!"

Taking a deep breath, he quickly followed up at a somewhat more softer yell "These 'extra's' are with me. If you dare try to attack them again, I will end your disgraces on all bretonnian knighthood myself. Is that understood?!"   
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Hiecro continued to swear and futilely wipe at her helmet with her left hand, but ceased swiping at the air with her bayonet - though she kept a firm grip on the compound crossbow nonetheless. The male pavise knight seemed to be more inclined to listen, though his attention was wavering between Fortune and Luca as the apprehension of his expression turned to bemusement.

"Look, we were just trying to protect you. Don't you know there's a hit out on all of you?" He said with some exasperation in his voice, only mildly tinged with anxiety. "I was only told about FIVE passengers, for all we knew those two were sent by Leona or Ceto or the Iris or Apollo knows who else..." 

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Fortune's perception of time froze again, and a flashing glimpse of that other reality swam through his vision once more. 

[quote=@Bright_Ops][s]As he fell to his knees his mouth was opened in a soundless scream, the sheer pain more then enough to choke whatever cry he might have filled the air with. He didn't know how anyone else would respond to his pain as it was too much for him, his eyes rolling into the back of his head as he collapsed forwards as the blissful blackness of unconsciousness claimed him.

A dream of the male pavise knight's last words rolled sonorously through the darkness of his rapidly descending cognizance. [i]"Kid, it does not matter if you kill yourself. You were sent here just to suffer. Nobody would care..."[/i][/s][/quote]
Reality proper - or what passed for it - snapped back into focus. Fortune was abruptly confronted with the accusatory questions of the pavise knight, still awkwardly squirming and struggling in place as he spoke.

"Why the hell did you even bring them? How come the spotters never saw them enter the limo? How the fuck do we know they aren't going to give away our position or undermine the barricade at the university? And WHY THE HELL CAN'T I MOVE?" His tone turned from confused to infuriated as he practically shouted the last inexplicable question.