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[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 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!

[pundemic]

[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. ]