I am a horrible person for doing this to her~ [open]

[hadesandback]

Characters: Meg, anyone on the Fiertia
Content: She was exploring the ship (and staying off the top deck) when she caught a whiff of the fear gas. Feel free to bother her, or play out any fear-gas shenanigans you like in this log.
Setting: All over the Firetruck
Time: Mid-afternoon to early evening
Warnings: Frightened, irrational Meg

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[noturbitchkthx]

Jabu bolted through the corridors, fists raised, staring wildly through any open doorways he passed in terror that there would be someone there. He had his armor on and his cosmos bristled around him in preparation for attack, but it couldn't quell his panic. Fear, to him, meant that there was a fight he needed to win, but this one lacked a visible enemy. It was only a matter of time before he met one of the crew in his wild running - in this state where he was going wasn't particularly important to him - and then he wouldn't hesitate to attack, because they were after him and that meant they were going down.

He halted at an intersection, desperate to cover his back, and whirled, trying to see all four directions at once and failing. Which way? Which way were they so he could take them out? "Them" was still only a vage construct in his mind, but whichever way they went he was sure to encounter them and then... his cosmos surged with panic and anticipation. Let them try to get him.

[point_to_heaven]

Kamina was glad he had checked the network after noticing that funny smell in his room. It didn't do a man good to be out of his right mind like that, and with this stuff, who know what would happen. He began to work his way up to the deck in the hope that the fresh air would counteract some of the effects of the gas. The wet moistened strip of fabric he had wrapped around his nose and mouth helped too, but it wouldn't last forever.

So far his journey upwards had been quiet. An intersection with a jittery and panic-stricken Jabu was going to change that.

[hadesandback]

It went without saying that Meg was terrified.

She had taken one look at Jabu and bolted; a wise move, considering the first mate’s current state --it had given her a head start when he turned to chase her down. She could hear the thud of his armored boots in the hallway behind her, and quickened her pace. Meg had kept her lead by taking as many corners as she could, but he was rapidly catching up to her.

“Get away from me!” she gasped, too panicked to think straight and save her breath for running. She tore around a corner, sandals flapping against the wooden floor, hair fanning out behind her as she spotted Kamina. Meg’s eyes went even wider, and she skidded to a halt, caught between the two men. Shrinking back, she glanced over her shoulder at Jabu, who was rapidly closing in, and shrieked.

T-t-t-trapped. The one word echoed in her head. She was trapped. She couldn’t run anymore. Trapped on a ship that was dangling above the edge of the continent--Overcome by her fear of Jabu and Kamina and her fear of the great

[noturbitchkthx]

There they were. Two of them. Jabu's journal was on the floor in his cabin, lying where he had thrown it when he had gone for his armor; his hands were free to pummel them until they had nothing left with which to come after him.

He was focused on Meg now, she being the closer of the two targets. He'd gotten one hell of a dose of the fear gas, having bent down to pick up the leaking container in the hangar - he was so far gone that Meg's panic registered only as proof that he could take her in a fight, that he was frightening her into backing down. She was between him and Kamina, which meant that she had to go down first.

"STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!" he roared, unheeding of the fact that he was the one approaching her. He increased his pace as he drew closer, gathering his cosmos around him for a punch to send her through the corridor wall.

[nice_young_man]

Earlier, Quatre said the mission would be easy. Earlier, Quatre said that they would see no action, so long as everything went according to plan

/assuming y'all were waiting for me, sry |D

[noturbitchkthx]

In a surprising show of control, Jabu pulled his punch seconds before it connected with Meg. He hit the corridor wall instead, leaving a dent that didn't seem to injure him at all. He whirled to face Quatre, fists raised again but unsure of which one to attack first. There were three now, and though Meg was the closest Quatre had a gun, and the armor did not provide full protection. Moreover, he did not want to turn his back to Kamina.

Strategy wasn't Jabu's strong point even when he wasn't panicked, but his mind whirled as he tried to think of a plan. He was stuck in one place unless he wanted to risk an injury that could prevent him taking out all of them before he succumbed to blood loss. So he had to get them all close to him so he could punch them all at once before they had a chance to gang up on him.

"Come and get me!" he shouted at Quatre. "You gonna stand there and wait for me to take all of you out? Come here and fight me like a man!"

well, a Kamina post is what we're waiting for, I think

[hadesandback]

She screamed again, dropping to the floor and curling up into as small a target as possible.

.....

Alive. How was she alive?

But she was, somehow. Somehow, Jabu had missed. But she wasn't going to be that lucky again. She scrambled across the hall, looking from Kamina to Quatre (a gun, he was pointing a gun at her, he was going to kill her, she was going to die!) and back to Jabu. She looked like she was trying to sink into the floor. "Stay back," she gasped, "or I swear, I'll --!"

She didn't know what she was going to do, but it probably entailed running away.

Yeah, we were waiting on a Kamina BUT IT'S OK I'M HERE NOW 8D

[lustrolupo]

Yuri heard the chaos as he ran down the hall - Meg's screaming, Quatre's quiet, yet firm orders, and Jabu's roar.

Heh, a roaring unicorn. Yuri shook his head; it wasn't the time for that sort of thing, entertaining though it usually was to tease Jabu. He had a crew to protect.

Dashing into the combat zone, Yuri took a split second to asses the situation. Quatre had Jabu's attention, though the first mate was frighteningly close to a huddled person that he thought was Meg.

He ran towards Jabu on the tail end of his challenge and shouted back. "Well, since you asked so nicely-!" Almost effortlessly, Yuri swung his axe for a crushing blow to the first mate's plated head.

[noturbitchkthx]

Jabu never saw it coming. He was focused on the gun, on Quatre, on the undefeated danger that was Meg, on Kamina behind him - there were only so many people he could keep in his peripheral vision at the same time, and Yuri's speed was better than Jabu's reaction time

[point_to_heaven]

"No the hell you don't!" Kamina roared as he rushed towards Jabu. Damnit, this was getting bad. How did somebody stand up after that? And why hadn't he reacted to the situation sooner? He was the great Kamina-sama, he didn't have time to stand around and gape at everything. In fact, he didn't have time to think right now. So he purged his mind of all his worries and the niggling paranoia at the back of his head and focused on what was happening now: kicking Jabu's ass before he hurt somebody.

He slammed into his commanding officer's back, hoping to throw off his punch and give Yuri time to dodge. Kamina didn't expect his tackle to do much damage because of the thick armor, but since he was already winded and confused from his knock upside the head, he figured it had to do something.

[lustrolupo]

Yuri was more surprised than he wanted to admit that Jabu got up again after a blow like that. He pulled back as Jabu swung at him, and brought his axe up to block. The force of the hit, especially coupled with the extra tackle Kamina had thrown in, struck hard enough to send Yuri sliding backwards. Kamina had thrown the first mate off balance though, so Yuri didn't take the punch straight on.

Which was definitely a good thing, he thought. Yuri was only just able to catch himself in a low crouch - had he taken a straight punch, he probably would have toppled completely.

He jumped back to his feet, then dove back at Jabu again, some wordless shout on his lips, and feigned to the right, away from the corner he'd been backed into. As he moved, Yuri caught sight of Meg against the wall and frowned. Why the hell was she still there? "Someone get her out of here!" he yelled at no one in particular.

[nice_young_man]

Quatre grit his teeth and stared at the brawl. The corridor was too narrow for him to get to Megara, not without entering the fray, but there was nothing he could do to help with the actual fight; if he fired his gun, the bullet was just as likely to hit Yuri or Kamina instead of Jabu. He needed to find some way to get them further away from her...

His finger moved away from the trigger and rested against the guard, but otherwise his face remained the same. He scowled, and said, "If you want me, you'll have to catch me, first!"

Quatre hoped that the other two men would catch on.

[hadesandback]

N-n-no, they'd seen her! Damn, damn, damn!

.....but Kamina wasn't blocking her way down the corridor anymore. It registered in her mind as an escape route. Still crawling on the deck, she scrambled away, down the corridor, glancing over her shoulder to make sure they weren't following her.

Understandably, she tripped over her dress. It wasn't made for crawling in, and she was paying more attention to the chaos behind her than her own feet. She fell in a tangled mess of limbs and dress, skidding painfully to a halt with a yelp. Her first assumption was that one of them had caught up to her, so she shouted, "No -- stay away!"

She curled up again, into as small a target as possible.

[noturbitchkthx]

Jabu's head spun painfully as Kamina hit his back, and he staggered without landing much of anything. Knocking Yuri back provided a short moment of clarity in which only Kamina behind him and Quatre down the hall were immediate threats, but even focusing on both of them at once was difficult in his current state.

Clearly, he was going to have to do something about everyone nearby at once. Unicorn Lightning Kick would work against one at a time - so that meant he had to get sufficient distance between himself and the others so he could pick a target.

He'd already spent too much time planning an attack. Better take out the enemy behind him first. Jabu found his balance, forced himself to gather his cosmos, and threw a spinning kick at Kamina, planning to throw him clear down the corridor if he had to.

[point_to_heaven]

Kamina never had a chance. He was just beginning to straighten up from his tackle when the kick connected with his side, sending him flying down the hall. He landed with a painful thud as his body and head hit the wood floor. Even Kamina had to admit that hurt a lot more than he was expecting. It took a good amount of willpower not to cry out in pain. Winded, wounded, and wiped out, he was temporarily down for the count.

[lustrolupo]

"Fuck!" Yuri shouted vehemently as he saw Kamina go flying down the hallway. He had been hoping to juggle Jabu between the two of them, but with Kamina out Yuri was the only one left in melee range. Not good.

Still, if he moved fast, he could probably get a good shot at Jabu. While the first mate was still distracted, Yuri lunged forward and swung a hard blow towards Jabu's back with the blunt end of his axe.