pavement
rating: T warnings: graphic description of injury, impalement, blood, gore, violence, major character death. summary: when the line between friend and foe is blurred, and close calls come a bit too close, all it takes is one wrong step, one good intention twisted beyond recognition, to pave the way for ruin.
A/N: so i heard y’all were drawing varian getting impaled by the black rocks. this is my contribution. please heed the warnings. - Aqua
pavement
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“No!”
Varian tightened his grip on the controls, forcing his mech upright again.
Adrenaline sent his heartrate into a frenzy, his mind racing. What had that been? The princess, the rocks- she’d connected with them, and then an explosion of blue light had sent him staggering. All over the clearing, black rocks shot up from the earth to rip through his automatons like they were made of paper.
How was she doing that? It shouldn’t be possible! And yet there she was, wielding the black rocks like deadly weapons, and the sick irony of the situation wasn’t lost on Varian. She would have the black rocks be his defeat, the very thing that’d ravaged his home and gotten his dad entombed.
White, hot rage blocked everything else out. Varian urged his mech forward in a full-on charge, metal groaning as it thudded against the earth.
Rapunzel met his approach with a volley of black rocks. One by one, they tore off the limbs of his mech until just the right arm remained, sending him into a wild, uncontrolled skid. Gritting his teeth, Varian shoved at the joystick to raise the final limb up, a giant fist prepared to come down on top of the princess-
A black rock shot up through the front of the mech. It narrowly missed Varian by a few inches, whistling past his ear. With a loud shriek, it smashed through the glass window and punched through the metal hull, piercing the very heart of the machine.
The mech jolted from the impact, and the forward momentum sent Varian through the front of it, crashing through the already shattered glass. As he tumbled weightless through the air and the screeching of crushed metal filled his ears, Varian had a single moment to regret not installing a seatbelt before he hit the ground.
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