Go, Go, Godzilla!

[wiredup]

Who| Eddie, Suze, and Guy.
What| Huntin' dinos.
Where| Starting at the T-rex's cage, then into the jungle.
When| Back dated to soon after the T-rex's appeared.
Warnings/Notes| Death.

Eddie was exploring the ruins, and the twisted metal of the cages that had clearly been broken apart recently, and was admiring it when he became aware of the heavy breathing behind him.

The big, heavy, breathing.

"Shit." He moved quickly back to the edge of the trees, back to where he'd wander from Suzannah, moving like the ground was lava.

"Shit, shit, what the hell..." He cursed, as he finally stopped to look back, seeing the behemoth T-rex, which, thankfully, hadn't seemed to see him.

Now he could see the bars around it, and felt a little idiotic for booking it so fast, but, you know. It wasn't every day you realized you were standing in front of a T-rex. In fact, he could solidly say this was a first.

"Son of a bitch. You see that thing?"

Comments

[dividedgirlofmine]

"'Course I do, honey," Susannah says, as she unslings the bow from her arm and reaches for one of the arrows in the quiver strapped to her back. "I'm thinkin we ought to shoot it down."

There's an odd smile on her face, like she's looking forward to taking on a dinosaur with nothing but a bow and arrow.

"You might want to boost me to your shoulders, Eddie, sugar. I need to know if there's a thinking cap to aim for."

[acroodawakening]

It wasn't long before they weren't alone. Guy had been hanging back, peeking in at the noise - trying to decide whether to approach the people there or run away.

Then he saw the cage. Then he moved in closer to see what was in the cage.

Then he saw what was in the cage and gasped, choking down a scream.

"Big lizard! Big death lizard!" he hissed in a voice that was quieter than Susannah and Eddie's voices, but loud enough for them to hear. "Oooh no. Oooh that is a very big death lizard."

[wiredup]

Eddie had already gotten use to lifting Suze up. If he was 100% honest with himself, and it seemed really irrelevant not to be right now, he liked the way he'd gotten use to everything quickly with Suze. Being with her was comfortable, familiar...homey. Something he always thought was to be avoided.

But right now, in the arena, fighting off withdraw, it was everything he wanted.

When he heard Crood he turned, hands steadying the woman on his shoulders, not taking the chance that he wasn't about to shank them.

"You think?" he hissed back.

[dividedgirlofmine]

Susannah casually shifts the bow and arrow in her hands so that it's pointing at the... well, honestly, he looks like a caveman more than anything, though she knows they all must look pretty prehistoric by now. She doesn't draw it back, though. Not yet.

"Yes," she says, voice rather friendly despite the whole aiming an arrow at Guy thing. "It's a very big death lizard. Eddie and I are going to shoot it dead. Do you want to help us or do you want to leave? Because, sugar, I really don't recommend still bein' here when we do."

[acroodawakening]

Guy thought about it for a moment and mentally calculated how fast a death lizard like that could run through open terrain as compared to how fast he could.

He lifted up his spear, showing it off.

"If you're going to kill this thing to bits before it gets a chance to eat us, yeah, I think I can get behind that."

He moved in closer, cautiously. "I think we're going to have to get it in the eye and try to get its brain. Our weapons are too small to do much damage anywhere else and its heart might be hard to find."

[wiredup]

Even feeling like shit on a stick, Eddie could appreciate Fred Flinstone's smart thinking there. He also had no idea how hard it would be to get through a t-rex's skin, never having had the opportunity before.

But the eye? Those were usually pretty squishy.

"Let's do this shit then." He said, shifting Susannah again, making her secure on his shoulders. "We're Eddie and Suze. You?"

[dividedgirlofmine]

"I think I can hit that big old lizard eye," Susannah says. "I know I could with a gun, but unfortunately the gentlemen organizin' this little circus sideshow didn't think to give us any."

[acroodawakening]

"Guy," answered Guy. "Guy Crood. If you miss and we're lucky enough this cage holds, I've also got my spear and I've got good aim but I'd rather save that as our last resort."

[wiredup]

"Guns are too fast. They take all the fun out. You'd have a victor as soon as they hit the cornucopia."

He let out a small snort of disgust, before glancing over at Guy.

"Guy. Nice and informative there. I'm Eddie, this is Suze, welcome to team badass." Glancing up towards Suze, he tightened his grip on his thigh. "Sounds like we've got a plan, you ready to shoot?"

[dividedgirlofmine]

"Guns," Susannah declares, "are plenty fun. You'll see if I ever get one in your hands. Though you're right, honey, the whole thing would be decided on whether me or Cuthbert got our hands on one first. Or possibly who's fastest at reloading." She states this matter-of-factly, like there's no question that the two of them would slaughter everyone in sight if they had firearms.

This, Eddie, this is the woman with whom you've placed your affections.

"I'm always ready, sugar. I'll just need you to do a quarter turn to the left so I can aim better... yeah, that's good." As she takes aim, either Eddie or Guy might hear that she's muttering under her breath. It almost sounds like she's reciting something.

"... I kill with my goddamn heart," she finishes, a little louder than the rest of it, and lets the arrow fly.

The good news is, it hits the death lizard square in the eye.

The bad new is, it doesn't seem to have penetrated far enough into the eyeball.

That's one angry death lizard currently bashing itself against its cage right there.

[acroodawakening]

"Oop, okay, backup plan. Definitely the backup plan."

Guy moved in, leaning his whole body back to put as much force as he could on the spear throw, but even though he moved fast, it wasn't quite fast enough. With horrible screeching and groaning noises, the metal gave and then snapped, right before Guy was about to throw the spear.

The creature turned to bear down on them.

"RUN!"

[wiredup]

"If I ever get one in my hands, yeah, I'm gonna have lots of fun with it."

He laughed, but there was something under there, and Suze would see it. Even if he wasn't her Eddie, she would pick up on the darkness under that sentence.

He shifts, balancing her careful, and starting to do a cheer when the arrow hits...and then sees it doesn't work.

And neither does the back of plan.

"Good plan C!"

He twist, and runs, gripping Suze tighter. "You got another arrow in there, sugar?"

[dividedgirlofmine]

Susannah's about to demand just what he means by that, but then the arrow fails and there's more immediate dangers to deal with. "At least half a dozen, honey!" she calls down as she takes out said arrow, notches it, and pulls back on the bowstring. "What I wouldn't give for a damn revolver!"

[OOC: Feel free to puppet her for the actual boyfriend shooting, Te.]

[acroodawakening]

"Head for the trees!" Guy cried out. "They're all close together! It'll have trouble moving through them!"

The thing was pretty goddamn big, after all. While it was probably strong enough to knock trees right over, that'd certainly slow it down.

And maybe that'd give him time to line up a shot to its eye.

[wiredup]

Eddie is trying, real hard, to balance running into the trees, keeping a good grip on Suze, giving her a clean shot, and also not shitting himself due to the fact a T-rex is right behind them.

So far so good.

And the terrain is getting thicker. Good for escaping rampaging dinos.

Bad for pretty much all his other jobs.

He isn't sure how exactly they got from point A to B. He started to feel his balance go down, and didn't want to hurt Suze. Not more than she already would be.

T-rex was behind. So he threw her forward.

Which would have probably worked well if she hadn't be letting an arrow go at the same time.

"Shit."

[dividedgirlofmine]

Her arrow.

That was her arrow sticking out from his chest, her arrow that must have pierced a goddamn lung or something because look at all the blood coming out of his mouth, oh Eddie, oh God, oh no.

(Oh Discordia!)

"I'm sorry," she whispers, blinking away tears. "Oh Eddie, honey, I'm so sorry."

[acroodawakening]

Guy slowed up just a bit as he looked back eyes wide and horrified, filled with overwhelming pity.

He didn't know if they were friends or something more but it was horrible either way.

But there was nothing that could save him now, so Guy tugged at her elbow to make sure she'd keep moving despite what just happened.

"Come on!"

annnnnd I'm out.

[wiredup]

The t-rex had paused, mid-stride, it's tail twitching nervously. It's programming was holding it back as this scene played out for the cameras, and it clearly was not sure why.

Eddie, eyes glazing over, looked down at the arrow and laughed.

"Good...shot." He feel forward, before looking up at Suze. "Go. Now."

i'm sorry about susannah, so very sorry

[dividedgirlofmine]

"No," she whispers.

The Susannah darts forward, kisses his cheek, and pulls back before yelling, in a voice and accent that sounds way more like Detta's than should be comfortable. "Whatchu lookin' at, you ugly lizard mahfah? I outlived my man once before an' I'm shore not doin' that agin. C'mon, you yella dino, EAT ME."

[acroodawakening]

Guy resorted to grabbing her arm and trying to drag her now. The death lizard was right there! Right right there!

"You need to run! You have to at least try to -"

[dividedgirlofmine]

She shoves him away. "You save yo'self," she growls. "I was done for a long time ago."

[acroodawakening]

He couldn't say he didn't understand it. He definitely understood it, and that was why he gave her one last sad look before he ran, one that said a million things at once, but mostly "I'm sorry."

But he ran because he knew she was serious and tried to ignore the noises that came after.

Later when he had set up a trap with the coil of metal wire he'd gotten and the spikes of wood, he tried not to think about the despair in those words.

'I was done for a long time ago.'