girls just wanna have murder and hot youtube clicks

[pundemic]

who: ellie and hana song
what: bonding
when: this very moment
where: somewhere out in the forest-y areas
warnings: a child soldier meets a child apocalypse survivor this will certainly end well (also cw for hunting/etc)




[She doesn't need to hunt. She keeps telling herself that. She can go to the supermarket, pick up whatever she wants. She can take it back to Taako and he'll turn it into something that's fucking delicious, and she'll have leftovers for days.

But she tells herself she can't justify letting her skills decline. Sooner or later, she has to go back. And when she does, she isn't going to have supermarkets, or food every day, or an endless supply of hot water.

So she's hunting. She's already got one rabbit dead, gutted, and tied off to her backpack, and she's stalking another. She hasn't quite decided if she'll shoot it yet, but if nothing else, the tracking is good practice. She follows it across several game trails and through some underbrush, and then she.

Stops. Stares. Outloud:]

What the hell is that?

[It's said in incredulity and awe, because she is definitely looking at a gigantic pink... robot? Given the last time she met something robotic looking and it turned out to be not only sentient but human, she decides to treat this one a little differently.]

Uh... hey there?

[please talk to her this is so cool please come on]

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[bunnyhopped]

[ Hana tilts her head to see what the other girl is holding and

oh.

There's no hiding the look of shock and horror on her face because that sure is a dead bunny. ]

What? Like... for fun?

[pundemic]

[Somehow, it's just never occurred to her that people might actually do that. She wrinkles up her nose.]

What? Fucking-- no. I'm going to eat it.

[bunnyhopped]

[ That is even more horrifying than the fact that she killed a bunny in the first place. ]

What!? [ this time, with more feeling. ] Why?

[pundemic]

[what is this fucking pearl-clutching nonsense even!!]

Because... I like food?

[She just sounds baffled and incredulous by now. She's literally never met anyone who was against hunting, or the spoils thereof. This is so new to her as a concept she has no reaction but utter bemusement.]

[bunnyhopped]

[ more like what is this bunny murder ]

You couldn't like, go get takeout somewhere instead? Why'd you have to kill a little bunny?

[ Hana, on the other hand, has no idea why someone would go hunting, for rabbits no less, when she can name at least ten yummy food joints to go to in the inner city by now. ]

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[Ellie has now got it in her head that she is dealing with the world's most spoiled prima-donna child, okay. She has, for the most part, kept quiet about the world she's from. She doesn't like bringing it up, and right now only Taako and James know much about it at all.

(Clark knew everything. But Clark's gone.)

Ellie points a finger right in this girl's dumb face.]

Because not all of us get to go back to perfect fucking worlds with a grocery store on every goddamn corner, and if I don't keep my skills sharp I'm going to fucking starve when I go home!

[bunnyhopped]

[ Prima-donna, sure, but as far as spoiled goes...

Hana's brow furrows at the accusatory finger - and even moreso, frown pulling at her face to go with it - when this girl accuses her of being from a perfect fucking world when she doesn't know anything about Hana, much less the completely unperfect fucking world that she comes from. That bit clearly strikes a chord with the mech pilot, whose eyes widen at the ridiculous claim. She crosses her arms over her chest immediately, almost defensively, and her tone goes just as combative as Ellie's. ]

What do you know about the world I'm from, huh? Nothing!

I'm just asking why you're hunting wildlife out here when you can get food just as easily in the city, and you've answered my question, so thank you and have a nice day.

[ spoiler alert: she doesn't sound appreciative at all. With a decisive harumph, Hana begins walking over to her mech. ]

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[and fuck you very much for real! Ellie just flips her off to her back and then turns to angrily start storming away when she sees something, a flash in the corner of her eye.

Instinct tells her to go still, and she does instantly. She reaches for her Beretta, and tips her head to one side so she can watch the creature (something like a massive sabre toothed tiger or some fucking thing?) clearly stalks after Little Miss Priss.

Ellie has a very brief vindictive flash where she strongly considers just sitting back and seeing what happens. Ultimately, though, she's just not that kind of person.

So she unhooks the rabbit from her pack, grabs it by the ears and chucks it at the creature, hard.]

Hey, fuckface!

[Facing a large predatory animal is basically the least of her worries. Better that than a human. At least if an animal wants you dead, it's not just because it doesn't fucking like you. Or because it thinks the killing's fun.]

[bunnyhopped]

[ Hana misses the flash; her instincts have gotten her far, but they're not finely-tuned for survival like Ellie's are. But naturally she does catch the "Hey, fuckface!" and, thinking it had been directed at her, Hana spins on her heel, ready to yell it right back at Ellie, but what she sees a flying dead bunny (ew) hurling toward a giant cat. Pettiness forgotten she turns back around and dashes for her mech, launching herself into the open hatch at its back. The mech comes back to life, lights glowing a bit brighter and the whirring of machinery growing louder.

Ah, jeez. She was really hoping this patrol would go on without a hitch.

Because Hana, by contrast, is not used to fighting living things. Or things that are not a giant killer robot or its drone minions. But she can't show that hesitation now that they're in battle and the soldier in her shines through now. ]

Hey, you! [ since hey rabbit-killer wouldn't be very party-friendly at the moment ] I'll draw it away, hit the flanks!

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[She spares a moment for the mech because what the actual fuck-- but the call-out drags her back to the reality of the moment and she nods grimly. She shoves her Beretta back into her waistband and drops her pack on the ground. Plan. She needs a plan.

The girl gets the monster's attention, and Ellie scrambles around behind it without really bothering to be stealthy about it. Apparently a large, glowing hunk of metal is distraction enough. The creature lunges at the mech, and Ellie doesn't pay attention to what happens after (presumably, it can survive a few hits) she just grabs the low branch of a tree and hauls herself up.

She unslings her rifle from her shoulder and from the relative safety of the tree she takes aim at the creature.

It's hard, while the two are grappling around like some fucking wrestling match, to get off a clean shot but after a few seconds she sees her opportunity and she squeezes the trigger on an exhale. The bullet hits the creature just above the front shoulder-blade. Injured, but not fatal. Shit.]

Fuck! Get out of there, it's going to rip you apart!

[She says that while she's drawing the bolt back on her rifle, readying for round two.]

[bunnyhopped]

Please. I've dealt with way worse than a giant angry cat!

[ Even preoccupied with the creature as she is, Hana's lips curl into a smile when Ellie's shot comes in clean. This girl is good, after all - and if she missed, Hana can always pull her matrix up and neutralize the projectile, but she really would rather not seeing as - giant angry cat.

With a gaping wound in its shoulder, though, the creature's just pissed now. Its shrieking cry of pain turns into a ferocious growl at Hana as it positions itself to try and pounce at the mech. ]

Come at me, kitty!

[ When it does pounce, Hana hits her controls hard and strafes to the side, hoping momentum will send it crashing into a tree or something else instead so she can swing around and get a few shots in, herself. ]