Time slows and the scene is so clear. Jinx, sprawled on the ground in the dust, her long blue braids coming undone. Vi pulling against Cait to reach her sister. Vander, what was left of him, raged, a bright burning star of red, of pain. Soldiers rushing in, chaos.
Her small hands on the gun, one searching her pocket. Those little blue orbs she wanted to eat, shining against the leather. She looks up and sees Jinx, her only family, bleeding before her. She had to do something.
She runs, taking off, pushing her hat back onto her head, gun in hand. She leaps, a bird in flight. She is calm, confident. She knows just what to do. She slides in under Warwick, pushing the Hex crystals into the gun’s chamber.
Jinx meets her eye and she is screaming - “Isha! Isha, no!” Vi fights to hold her back. Isha closes her eyes and pulls the trigger, expecting silence. All she can hear is the buzzing behind her eyes, her little heartbeat fast like a hummingbird.
Jinx scream and suddenly, she is light. She doesn’t care what happens to her, she must save Isha. If Isha were to die …
Jinx couldn’t even bring herself to think. The Shimmer in her blood bends and twists her bones and she flies through space, closing the distance between her and Isha in a heartbeat.
“Powder! Get back here!” Vi screams, but Cait is pulling her away, pulling her to safety. Jinx’s arms close around Isha’s body. In one heartbeat she tosses the gun under Warwick’s massive form. In the next she is running, almost warping them through space, back to where Vi waits for them.
Jinx sets Isha down gently before yelling, “What were you thinking kid? You could’ve gotten yourself killed.” She kneels down to her level and pulls her back in close. “Don’t ever scare me like that again, promise?”
Isha pulls back and wipes a tear off of Jinx’s stained cheek. They do their handshake and Jinx pushes Isha’s helmet down over her eyes. Vi pulls Jinx into a tight hug.
“I thought I was going to lose you again,” she says. “God, fuck,” they stand and watch Ambessa’s army close in on Warwick. He roars as they bring him down. Cait pulls on Vi’s hand.
