roleoflore:
There were so many trees passing before his eyes, it was a wonder that he didn’t get hit and loss consciousness yet by this insane transport. He could probably get hurt from this before that creature even touched them. Oh, that was the first thing they need to deal with if they were going to travel freely in this area. Although, the freest the boy wanted to be is free enough to get away from this whole place. Get away the fact he probably had to fight with an actual weapon with a less-than-optimal partner. He wasn’t dissing Hunter’s abilities. He was absolutely dissing how their dynamic could end up being a sort of weird amalgamation that may not yield ideal results… Who was the one babysitting anyways?
Oh, good, Hunter took his suggestion. He could feel relief flooding his veins. However, his heart wouldn’t stop pounding in his chest. Another tree. He wanted to squeeze his eyes shut from all of this and wait for a safe area to open them. That wasn’t something he had the privilege of doing. Another screech, this time much, much farther off. Before he could respond to any of the soldier’s words, the grip loosened around him. Actually, the first sound that left his mouth was yelp as he rolled to the wall. Everything was spinning. He forced himself into a sitting upright, shaking his head to clear his thoughts. Standing up seemed futile. He was still dizzy.
Maybe… he should be glad that Hunter decided to bring them here instead of charging at the avian. There was no returning if they fought the enemy in their current state. Some things stood out to him from Hunter’s previous words. First was that the soldier came from a wasteland, and he agreed that he should get a gun or any weapon for that matter, but… “Did you name your gun?” Sounded trustworthy…
From his position, he found a stick nearby and drew a weak line in the dirt. Okay, this would be a decent start to write their plans and visualize them. The creature would have a hard time spotting them and they had a somewhat clear place to look around. “Okay, yeah, where would we get another gun?” Better question: how fast can Lore learn how to fire a gun? Pretty sure, this weapon gaining was something his ally was going to budge from. “This isn’t the same as the wasteland, is it…? In any form? It’s not similar to my place at all, aside from the amount of trees.”
Just because Hunter looks like he’d fly like a brick didn’t mean that was the case. There were times, in the past, where he flew worse than a brick, but what Lore didn’t know didn’t hurt him. The fact that they had cover now meant that the boy didn’t have to deal with the mutants wild maneuvering for the time being. If they were lucky, this thing wouldn’t find them for awhile. Luck wasn’t something to rely on, but it was one of the major things they probably had right now. Compared to Lore, he didn’t seem all that bothered by the rough tumble he threw the both of them into just to dive into cover. Really, he was conditioned to a lot of harsh movements.
Now that they at least had a chance to catch their breaths, Hunter took the time to draw in a nice, long intake of the liquid radiation flowing from his tank, through his respirator, and directly into his body. Oh that felt great. Now it was time to give Lore the seemingly upset side eye at such questioning. “Gunther is best friend! Best gun deserves name.” The title of ‘best gun’ was arguable, but not in his own head. Not like he was willing to argue. He was too busy concerning himself with getting as comfortable as possible while they were within their cover, taking up a cross legged position with a slight lean forwards.
Now, at first, he just thought Lore was just drawing in the dirt for fun, which confused him. It took him a few more moments and seeing the complete image for it to even click. All of what was being asked ended up being good questions, but questions he wish he knew actual answers to. “Dunno. Is weird place, and no know if they have guns here like they do wasteland. Place seem veeeery different from wasteland, too. Only thing it has like wasteland is big, screechy monster things.” He only made it plural because he assumed that this could not be the only horrible creature that might be out to get them.
His seated position adjusted just a tad, mainly so he could rest his head on his left hand, using the elbow to hold it up. An index finger idly tapped at his helmet, making small ‘THUNK THUNK THUNK’ sounds. “...Ooonly way to get gun... is ripping out of bird. But that is hard. Might not work! Guns have triggers and stuff, and no know if lasers from bird have triggers.” Though, the idea of ripping out one of those blasters the bird had was cool, it was probably extremely uncanny and had a high chance of not amounting to anything unless either of them found a way to reconstruct the entire thing to work like a handheld weapon.
















