Vault Challenges

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

She looked up and imminently fell backwards into the water of the sight of the gun leveled at her. She threw out her hands and pleaded, almost in tears. "H-h-hey. C-c-come o-o-on. Th-th-th-think about th-th-th-this."

[Philote]

Firefly did not see any point in speaking with the dead. With the girl only a fourth of the distance away as before, her luck was about to run out. He pulls the trigger on the rifle.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

"LUGGAGE!" She screamed in pure panic. The air between her rippled as the power from her core rewrote what was there. Appearing between her outstretched hands, as though it had always been there, a smart red suitcase with gold trim. It's latches clicked as they popped open and the suitcase opened up wide, throwing up a wall of clothes massive enough to completely block the view between. The bullet tore through a festive shirt, a pair of socks, and a hat on its way through the wall, before flying into the open luggage and vanishing into its depths.

Ginny slammed the luggage shut and, going on pure momentum, gripped the handle and threw herself into the air toward the assassin. "Travelers Trunk!" she screamed, as as she swung the suitcase around it grew and hardened into a large red and gold trunk, bigger than her. She gripped the handle of the trunk and brought it down on the area where she had seen him last like the fist of god, screaming all the way.

[Philote]

His bullet sunk into a veil of clothes that had not been there a moment before. "A Core" he says to himself.

His vision lights up red as his Core works to display information on the inside of his mask. The girl launches at him with trunk in hand as he comes up with a plan. A red pulse flashes in his free hand and he drops a couple black spheres as he pushes back with his wings. A loud bang is heard and a blinding flash of light is released as the spheres activate.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

She lands, the shock of the trunks impact spraying water into the air, as the flashes go off. But she's still screaming. She redoubles her grip and swings the trunk around, handling it as though it were a hammerhead strapped to her arm. She swings it again, back and forth in place, never once letting her yell up.

Her eyes were closed. They had been closed since she jumped.

[Philote]

A red flag popped up on Firefly's screen. His first tactic had failed and he was about to pay for it.

The girl's wild swings eventually made contact and clipped against his body, causing him to tumble back into the waters.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

The shock of contact that shot up her arm brought Ginny back to earth. She stopped screaming and opened her eyes in time to see the assassin tumble back into the water.

"I winged him." She says to herself, before quickly undoing the trunks latch. The trunk sprung open hungrily, containing nothing save for some featureless dark void. She threw the trunk up, caught it by the inside edge, and swung it forward to engulf him.

[Philote]

Firefly reactivates his wings while he is down in the water, spraying up a wave and sliding him out of the girl's reach. The wave carries another black orb dropped by Firefly and it gets swept away into the girl's trunk. Another red pulse appears in his hands and as it fades a remote detonator can be seen. He presses the button and sends the signal for the orb to detonate, hoping to gather info on the nature of the trunk.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Nothing happens. As she lifts it back up it snaps shut, taking up a scoop of sand and water with it. Despite this, and the fact that the trunk is at least as big as her, she handles it as though it's nothing. As the scattered clothing falls around them like peals in the side she slams it into the earth lengthwise, placing it between the assassin and herself and hiding behind.

"Yeah, a core. I have one of those." She calls out from behind it. "In, in, in fact, I was running from you for your sake. You've stepped in it now, buster. I have so many amazing powers, it's not even funny how many powers I have. But I don't want to fight anybody, so I'm just going to let you leave. You go away, I'll away, we'll forget this whole thing ever happened."

[Philote]

It was fortunate that the girl had adverted her gaze from him behind the barricade. Firefly drops another device into the water as he begins to move.

Moments later, as the girl is finishing her speech, she sees Firefly coming around the corner of her trunk, within arms reach and raising a pistol towards her.  He ignores her speech, seeing through her words. "You've succeeded in getting my attention now girl. It is a rare time that I get a bit of excitement on one of my jobs so I may as well tell you my title. It is Firefly."

If she is actively tracking movement with her Core: She senses an entity traveling behind her.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

"I don't care about you title." She says, leaping backwards. "Go away!"

The trunk pops open beside him. A burst of mud and water is violently expelled in his direction, along with his neatly primed device from before. A devise that only just now seemed to be getting his memo to go off.

[Philote]

(Wouldn't she be dropping that on top of herself as well considering he walked right around the trunk next to her to be able to get into her view?)

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

(Your dude came around the corner of the box, and she panicked and leaped backwards in the direction that would take her farthest from him: the opposite side of the box he came around from. She isn't in its firing line.)

[Philote]

The Firefly she sees doesn't flinch as the contents of the trunk are dumped his way and even casually fires his pistol towards her as it happens. The combination of mud, water, and explosion causes the image of Firefly to flicker and distort in a red static before returning to normal, standing unmoved from the position it was in. Likewise, the bullet moves through her without harm as she backs away into something more solid.

The real Firefly shoves just enough to have room to raise his rifle towards her again. "You don't have the experience for this girl. Just accept your fate."

(Was this too cheap? Or did it make sense?)

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

"Ahh." She says, and without turning around quickly reaches out toward the luggage. The trunks handle snaps to attention, seeming to pull the entire trunk through the air on it's own, carrying the trunk through the air like a missile.

But she doesn't catch it. Instead, she just ducks to let it shoot behind her.

[Philote]

Firefly shifts the aim of his rifle as the girl reacts and fires another explosive shot towards the trunk.

(I'm assuming he manages to do this before it catches up to where the girl is standing since she and Firefly are relatively close. Either way, feel free to narrate the outcome since they are all standing relatively close together.)

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

The gunshot cracks the air, burning in Ginny's ears. The bullet hits the trunk, sending it tumbling end over end through the air.

Ginny shoved one hand into the water while he was busy deflecting it, scooped up a think, gooey handful of mud. She spun around and raised herself inside his defense,slapping the mud on his helmet to try and cover the three red lights. Then she ducked around in behind him, again extending her hand to the trunk. It reoriented itself, and began to sail to her hand again. No satisfied, she began moving her arm in a wide circle. The truck, trying to reorient itself to land in her hand, began to corkscrew through the air so that, even if he could still see, it would be harder to shoot.

[Philote]

The girl was becoming troublesome. Firefly quickly raised his free hand, wiping off his mask to the best of his ability before reversing the motion and grasping out behind him on instinct. He grabs onto her outstretched arm and grapples as close to her as he can using one arm as the trunk flies towards them both.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Ginny outstretches her hand and the trunk lands in it by the handle. "Day Bag!"

The handle turns into a red strap, and the trunk changing into a underarm purse. She sent a mantel request to the bag, telling it she wanted her exotic rock collection. In not even a moment the bag bulged out, completely filled with exotic stones. she swung the bag around her side, into Firefly's back.

[Philote]

Firefly takes the hit to the back. It was to be expected after all, even if the impact was not quite as large as he had imagined. The presence of a second impact and the lack of either of them being thrown into the water clues him in to the presence of more of the girl's power trickery.

Not one to take a beating without returning one, and wishing to return to a more advantageous position at range, Firefly does a combination of headbutt followed by a shoving motion.