"They're disintegration weapons," says Ellen after a stunned silence. "We need to move. I'm coming-
What follows is possibly the most painfully slow five minutes of her life, as Ellen creeps oh-so-very-carefully out of the gorge and its shadows at what she sincerely hopes is a pace the watchers above won't notice. If they'd just been carrying ordinary-but-high-quality guns, she'd have been willing to move faster. The suit's designed to slow down or stop bullets, after all. But as she told Annabelle back when she was getting rid of the alien guns at Milliways, I call this model the Disintegrator because that's what it does.
You don't take chances being winged with something like that.
"I'm in the open now. Please, for the love of God, tell me they're looking the other way so I can move properly."
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Date: 2013-02-25 06:59 pm (UTC)What follows is possibly the most painfully slow five minutes of her life, as Ellen creeps oh-so-very-carefully out of the gorge and its shadows at what she sincerely hopes is a pace the watchers above won't notice. If they'd just been carrying ordinary-but-high-quality guns, she'd have been willing to move faster. The suit's designed to slow down or stop bullets, after all. But as she told Annabelle back when she was getting rid of the alien guns at Milliways, I call this model the Disintegrator because that's what it does.
You don't take chances being winged with something like that.
"I'm in the open now. Please, for the love of God, tell me they're looking the other way so I can move properly."