Leave a “Get Me” in my ask, and I will write a drabble about my character saving yours.
Darkness swallowed everything outside -- but it was impossible to tell in this place, where the sun was always beating down with the intensity of high noon in the desert. It would have been entirely too easy to lose days, even weeks in that place. Her breath came labored beneath the overbearing sun, her gaze darting to and fro as she kept her arms up around her face in a guard -- waiting; waiting for the impending attack. It would come again, relentless.
The air around her shifted, and she turned with deft agility just time to catch the blow against her arm. She wasted no time in retaliating, throwing her leg up in a powerful kick -- but the opponent matched her reaction time, catching the kick mid-flight and bracing its other hand against her calf. Using her own weight against her, it lifted her in a spin and hurled her across the dusty tundra. She landed on her shoulder with a grunt of pain, and her body bounced across the rocky dunes until she skidded to a halt. With a groan she hoisted herself back up, but it was already upon her again, having leapt over the great expanse of distance it had created between them.
It came down like a force of nature, throwing all of itself into a great blow against her -- fortunately she was quick, and she was able to dodge the attack and use the wind it created to widen the gap between them. Catching her feet against a cliff that sprawled up towards the ceiling, she used her velocity to catapult herself back towards the creature. They pair met mid-flight, and while she had managed to land a few punches prior, ultimately the twisted doll-like creation appeared to have more stamina than her -- which wasn’t entirely shocking, considering she had just breached the outset of womanhood, only having turned fifteen several days prior. It caught her intended blow and turned over to deliver a kick to her stomach that knocked not only the wind from her entirely, but sent her hurdling towards the ground at break-neck speed.
Yoruichi’s body hit the floor with such force that she bounced back, leaving a sizable crater around her throbbing form and a cloud of dust rising up around her. Her body trembled with objection as she attempted to get up again, and a moan of pain and frustration slipped past her grit teeth -- then she gasped sharply as she saw the growing form of the machination barreling down toward her like a missile. She closed her eyes and threw her arms up over her face to protect herself from the impending blow -- but it never came. Only the sound of an impact, and then a deafening stillness.
Hesitantly, she peeked out from behind her braced arms, but she saw only the endless sky painted across the ceiling of the underground training facility. Befuddled, she sat up slowly and turned to scan the expanse behind her -- and in doing so, she located the source of her salvation. Her playmate, and incidentally the one who had created the doll she had just been fighting, had intervened and taken the apparatus down long enough to shut it off. It lie motionless in the dirt at his feet as Kisuke spun the little plastic key that dictated the training automaton’s mode around his finger, turning back to flash her a smug smile.
❝ – well, well ~ Looks like you’ve been slacking off on your training, Yoruichi-chan. You did say you wanted me to build one that would challenge you -- looks like I succeeded! ❞
The initial confusion in her expression melted away, replaced with a cocky sneer of her own as she turned away from him in a tiff, and with a confidence in herself that should have been entirely undeserved after taking such a sound beating.
“HA! If it’s anyone’s fault, it’s yours for distracting me with your foolish games all the time!”
But she never objected to sneaking off to play those games -- though, of course, that part passed by unmentioned as he smirked and moved to stand at her side.
“--Besides, I would have had him if you hadn’t stolen my thunder. --Sss!!”
She hissed as she moved to get up, immediately retracting the weight she had attempted to put on her ankle. She looked down at the appendage skeptically, as though she were debating on how she should proceed, when she heard a snort erupt from the blond boy at her side. Throwing him a venomous and outraged look, she shook a fist out in his direction.
“--what’re you snickering at, you jerk? What kind of gentlemanly behavior is that?? Help a lady out, you cretin!”
She berated him, and he could only laugh in reply before stooping down to sling her arm up over his shoulder and heave her weight up to support her against his side. He smiled patiently as they began to limp together toward the exit ladder he’d undoubtedly have to carry her up so he could bandage up that twisted ankle.
❝ – right, right. C’mon then, thunder cat -- but y’know, I’d help a lady out without a second thought ...if only I saw one around here ~ ❞
She hauled off and kicked him in the shin with her good foot.