[h2][color=00aeef][b]Marrie Knight[/b][/color][/h2] [color=00aeef]"Tch!"[/color] That was all Marrie was able to get out of her mouth as she was tossed over the paleguard with its rather impressive technique. But this was fine, she had expected something like this. She let go of the grip of her Instrument, and with the very last instant of her flight Melody, she adjusted her course so as to only clip Finn rather than barreling into him. It was only a few degrees off from the aim of the throw, but hopefully he'd be able to put that change to use. Much more importantly, she was glad that her Instrument had changed as much as it had since coming to Pax. When she was flung she initially had horrible flashbacks of her first mission again, and wondered if something similar would happen. As she rolled to her invisible feet, relief washed over her. It seemed that her chain was working well. And to better use that chain... She prepared to rip Apexer Predator up and through the paleguard's shoulder, hoping to sever it complete, when the giant snake slammed into the MicroMart. As the cultists swarmed out of the snake, Marrie had a single thought. [color=00aeef][i]Why does god hate me?[/i][/color] It didn't help that the truck began to take off, rightfully so, or that the homeless were beginning to be- [i][color=00aeef]Fuck...[/color][/i] She slapped herself on both of her temples, just hard enough to hurt but not enough to knock her unconscious. [i][color=00aeef]Rationalize later.[/color][/i] Did she dare try to switch places with the one-and-a-half-armed man, on a moving vehicle, with the only cast note that could do it giving a huge warning to him that it would happen? ... Probably not. But what was she supposed to- And then [i]it[/i] happened. [i]Something,[/i] some fucking THING, slammed into the front of the truck. [i][color=00aeef]Well then. I suppose that solves this mission.[/color][/i] She tore her gaze away from the truck before she could see what happened to it, but she'd made up her mind on what to do. If these bastards were going to hurt genuinely innocent, unlucky, fucked-over people... To [i]kill[/i] them... Were they any better than any of the few people Marrie'd been forced to kill? Was self-defense the only acceptable reason, or did protecting other count? Even if she couldn't save any of the homeless people who were here, wouldn't she be saving people in the future from the same fate? [i][color=00aeef]Rationalize. Later.[/color][/i] With her Instrument still stuck in the paleguard's back, blade pointed upwards and its chain laying across its shoulder next to its next opposite the stab-wound, she couldn't just leave it. But these things were fighting for the mob, right? They were trying to protect them from the Freelancers like her. Would they fight for them against this group of trash? She could only hope so. Besides, better to fight them than another esper, in her experience. So she stood up, jumped forwards as hard as she could, and hoped the monster was stronger than it looked. The instant her feet left the ground, she retracted her Instrument's chain, using the paleguard, who moving in the opposite direction, as a weight in an attempt to trebuchet herself at the actual cultists. The musculature was hopefully just strong enough for her to highschool physics class her way out of this, and just weak enough for AP's blade to come loose once the stronger force was put on it from the launch, letting it come back to her hand as she flew. It was up to fate- - that she would succeed. As she flew the few yards that her maneuver had afforded her, AP would return to her hand as she instantly began casting a Melody, pointed directly at the group of cultists. She'd make sure not to hurt anything other than those fuckers. {Silver Beam - Scatter - If Foe - [Warm (+1 Rank) Damage X]} - that she would fail. After quickly regaining her balance after being swung about slightly, she'd dash forwards and retract her chain, now from the direction of the paleguard's back, to return AP to her hand and cast a Melody through her foot onto the ground. {Silver Touch - Portal} [center] [hider=Stats] 19 | Female | Freelancer | Misty Steps Apexer Predator | Dagger | Physical | Heavenly Chain Wind-Carved Glacier | Masking Step of the Monsoon | Wind | Riding the Currents After You Get Smacked Up | Gunstock [Storm (4), Flight (6)] Damage (2), Damage X (6), Slow Fall (4), Blink (4), Transplace (8), Magic Sense (6), Heal (16), Stabilize (0), Portal (8), Rain (2), Bounce (0), If Foe (0) DAMAGE: C | SPEED: D | SENTINEL: C | 744 {Silver Beam - Scatter - If Foe - [Warm (+1 Rank) Damage X]} = 240 {Silver Touch - Portal} = 48 PHYSICAL: E | ARCANE: D | CHAOS: C | 504 696 [/hider] [/center]