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Lauren's grin sharpened as her hand shook the Mistralian girl's confidently, but their moment of Jacobin female bonding was broken by the twin thunderclaps of an arriving airship and - well, arriving thunder. Ever the people person, Lauren's prediction of Estelle's duplicitous nature had come true before the eyes of the class. Leave it to a white bitch to come five minutes too soon.

[color=8882be]"[i]Weeeeell,[/i]"[/color] Lauren drawled, stretching out her word and her limbs, back arching as she drew up to her full height and withdrew the folded weapon from beneath her jacket. Lauren drew her arms through the sleeves of the leather garment and felt the familiar, snug fit against her body with a grin. Whether they were in a sim or not, her jacket was endearingly real - and so was her new gat. 

Lauren flicked her tongue along the tip of her thumb and held it up in the direction of the airship, testing the impending storm winds that tousled her hair with greater and greater insistence. 

[color=8882be]"I think that's our cue, friend-o mine. Hold onto something tight, and--"[/color]

Gratia, from behind Lauren, grabbed onto the con artist's breasts with all the finesse and passion of a fundamentalist's training bra. 

[color=8882be]"[b][i]-wew[/i][/b], and let go when you think is best, yeah? We're not gonna have much of a timetable here, Grat, so wherever you think you can stick the jump you go for it. The hatch we're looking for will be near the bow of the ship, but the noses on these things are weirdly elongated, so once we're inside we'll need to take a quick stroll to the cockpit. Got it? A-one-fuckin' awesome. [i]Testing, testing, [i][b]Hautdesert![/b][/i][/i]"[/color]

The package Lauren Negasi had been carrying under one arm for most of class, much like her team captain's, was an astonishing grower.

What had been a rectangular, beam-shaped wedge about the length of an arm had transformed twice - first unfurling into an exceedingly pretty one-bladed axe, ornamented in a jade color lighter than Lauren's eyes and burnished with brass and gold ivy leaves along the shaft, and then transforming yet again into an enormous projectile weapon that could only be described as a [color=8882be][i]jumbo fucking ballista.[/i][/color] It planted itself in the sands as they slowly turned to mush beneath the oncoming torrent, with a crank vaguely reminiscent of one of Ben's original tonfa jutting out towards the back of the weapon. Lauren, easily lugging the symbiotic, expressionless Gratia over her shoulders, planted her feet squarely along the center of the weapon, pulling the crank back and twisting it a couple times. Off in the distance, she saw a pillar of steam attempting valiantly to signal the airship. Lauren grinned. As long as Beryl could keep it up, she would have the perfect landing zone in a minute.

[color=8882be]"Oh yeah, Grat, and the most important thing is to--[i]FUCK[/i]--"[/color]

A large beam of energy was starting to glow from the back of Lauren's newly christened wave motion bolt thrower. Liftoff was inevitable now, whether either girl was beginning to silently have second thoughts about this arrangement or not.

The sands gave way into a pillar of their own as Hautdesert took flight for the first time, a screaming, jubilant pilot riding astride her as a normal twenty-one year old girl might ride a skateboard. Together, Lauren and Grat soared like the superheroes they had each always idolized, and there was not a storm god worshipped on Remnant whose fury could pluck the two Huntresses from the sky, nor could any of them match the valor of Lorena Negasi's hysterical cry.

Not even the wind itself could rip the volume from that cry.

[color=8882be][h1]"yyyyyyyeeeeeEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH[i]HHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H A H A H A H A H A H A H A Ｈ　Ａ　Ｈ　Ａ　Ｈ　Ａ　Ｈ　Ａ　Ｈ　Ａ　Ｈ　Ａ　Ｈ　Ａ　[b]Ｈ　Ａ　Ｈ　Ａ　Ｈ　Ａ　Ｈ　Ａ　！　！　！　！　！　！　！　！　！　"[/b][/i][/h1][/color]