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4th Words: Passing Engine's Rider

Who: Atoli and OPEN
Where: ALL OVER TOWN
Summary: Atoli cannot motorcycle to save her life.
Warnings: Mass panic and somewhat cartoony violence??

Atoli’s alarm clock had awoken her just a little too late. The way things were, she wasn’t going to get to her little meeting with Kotoha on time!

But as she ran down the stairs, one more option presented itself to her: her steam bike, which had sat there for months unused. It should still work fine...

Welp. Here goes nothing, she thought, as she got on and took off.

Not two minutes later she’s careening uncontrollably through the city, since video game vehicles are rarely designed to be practical. She doesn’t exactly consider this, though, and to be quite honest hadn’t.

You hear a faint, high-pitched screaming of “SOMEONE HELP ME STOP THIS THIIIIIIIIIING”, and may notice a light coming straight towards you.

[No, your character won’t be injured if they’re run over. Try anything.

Definitely inspired by this log.]

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Kotoha had almost managed to make it to the meeting point when she heard the screaming as Atoli zoomed past her on some kind of steampunk bike. She wastes a few seconds staring and trying to figure out what just happened before she snaps out of it and reaches into her bag.

It only takes her a few seconds to unfold and mount her bicycle, pedaling like the wind after Atoli.

Well, at least she'd been headed the right direction! Which is a small comfort when there's a wall straight in front of you. After taking a quick glance behind her to see who was following her (and how; dang girl your legs are strong), Atoli leans hard to the left, causing her bike skid horribly but showing no signs of actually slowing down - if Kotoha's not careful, her bike might get caught on the mess of pipes and levers attached to the side of Atoli's machine.

Kotoha eyes the steam bike and comes to a decision - reaching down to her belt, she draws out one of her Pokeballs and throws it forward, releasing Tesla.

"Tesla! Keep that bike from moving!"

As the Magnezone buzzes in response, a magnetic field is emitted from its spinning magnets, latching onto the metal bits of the steam cycle.

This would be a rather solid plan, but there was one thing no one could have accounted for: it was an improperly materialized data object, and as such reacted rather violently to the magnetic field.

Meaning, it was suddenly consumed in a glitchy-looking burst, loosening itself from it before suddenly gaining a burst of speed that was lost only a moment later.

...well crud. The extra speed is enough to outdistance Kotoha, who reluctantly recalls Tesla and brakes her bicycle - no point in trying to keep up with that now.

"Solar Logos!"

As she dismounts the bike and kicks it back into the collapsed form, she summons forth her Volcarona. Shoving the collapsed bike back into her bag, she clambers onto Solar Logos' back and directs the sunmoth to fly after the steam bike.

Oh no, she remembers Solar Logos. She's not going to try to blow up the bike, is she? Of all the days to not have a defense against Fire.

Right now she's just trying to keep it in control (relatively speaking) and look for an open area to steer into.

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Kotoha and Solar Logos will just keep pace with the bike until it's in that open area, at which point part two of the plan will be enacted.

First, Solar Logos will swoop a little closer, and Kotoha will extend her hand towards Atoli.

"Grab on!"

Assuming that works out successfully, she'll then release Arthur and have the Lucario wrestle the bike into stopping.

Atoli reaches her hands out for Kotoha's, but this has the usual effect of letting go of the controls of a speeding vehicle: it starts shaking uncontrollably.

She flinches, bringing her right arm back down to one of the handlebars, which doesn't completely stabilize it but helps a little bit.

"I think you're going to have to grab me!"

Okay, Operation Have The Jackal Wrestle The Bike is a no-go, and Solar Logos doesn't exactly have feet or...anything else Kotoha can hang off of...

This might be difficult.

...oh wait. Kotoha takes a length of rope out of her bag and quickly fashions it into a lasso. Releasing Tesla again, she fastens the other end of the rope onto its primary antennae and cinches the lasso around her waist. As Solar Logos puts on a burst of speed, flying just ahead of the bike, Kotoha jumps off his back towards Atoli and the bike.

She hits Atoli in the face. The shock throws her off even further, tipping the bike over completely; its tire casings drag along the ground with a horrible grinding noise.

But it's still moving.

Tesla hovers up the instant Kotoha makes contact, the Trainer wrapping her arms around Atoli so that the pair of them are lifted off the bike. Tesla floats down low enough so that Kotoha can let go of Atoli.

"Tesla! FLY!"

With that, the Trainer-and-Pokemon pair zoom after the bike. Solar Logos lands from his flight and makes a sort of tired-sounding buggy rumble, almost like he's complaining to Atoli.

Eventually the bike slams into a wall, with no visible damage to it or the wall, and it just keeps running despite not actually getting anywhere.

"...I'm definitely going to have to get that looked at."

Kotoha just sort of hangs from the rope like a sack of potatoes, blinking, as she stares at the bike.

Solar Logos rumbles in complaint again.

"I... think you can drop us now," she says, more to Logos than to Kotoha.

It doesn't take much time to get everything situated - Tesla and Solar Logos returned to their Pokeballs, the rope untied, Kotoha and Atoli standing like normal people.

"Okay so! You wanted to talk to me about something?"

"I really should have mentioned sooner, but..."

She draws out her Pokéball and releases her Taillow, Rustica.

"ever since I fought that giant robot duck, Rustica's been acting a little oddly."

Indeed, she turns her head away from Atoli almost immediately.

...

"...robot duck?"

Run that by her again?

"Oh, right, I haven't told anyone... Remember that one week that was all the same day? Two other people and I were suddenly taken to some weird place to defeat the monster that was causing it, and that was the duck."

She won't mention the other things she got from that just yet.

Kotoha continues to stare blankly for a little bit before suddenly clapping her hands together.

"Clean cup! Move down! New topic!"

With that, she draws a Pokeball from her belt and releases Zoroark.

"Zoroark can act as a mediator - find out what's troubling Rustica and then tell us, since he's capable of human speech. That work for you?"

What is that. He does the practical thing and throws up a Dark Shield, bracing his feet against the pavement behind the translucent wall. Maybe it's not the smartest thing to be playing chicken with a motorized vehicle, but if it needs to be stopped, then...

Atoli can't exactly see the shield at the speed she's moving, she can only see the person behind it.

"NOT LIKE THAAAT!" she screams. Fearful of running the boy over, she swerves hard, although she can't stop the bike's rear end from hitting the barrier.

"Can't you just brake?" he calls, letting down the shield so he can hurry after her and make sure she's okay.

She turns around and hollers at the silver-haired boy.

"That's what I've been trying to do, but I can't find it!"

Then panics and swerves again once she faces forward again, since she was about to hit a streetlight.

"So jump off!" If she's not on it to control it, maybe it'll stop...? Riku's a pretty fast runner, and he's keeping up all right, but this is kind of ridiculous.

"...well, I don't have any other ideas... I'll do it!"

As she slowly lets go of the handlebar the bike starts shaking a little bit. But as she moves her right leg over the seat, the bike tilts sharply and she slams it back down.

"Come on!" He can't help but groan when she sits back down. "I'll catch you, okay? You'll be fine!"

"Maybe if I move my leg first it'll work better," she states, trying to swing her leg up after grabbing the handlebar again. But it's tough trying to move her leg through such a tight space, as the posture needed to ride the bike is rather forward-leaning.

"Just jump! Or I can cast a spell at it or something?" Hopefully he won't hit her, but...

..."What kind of spell?"

That would be important, since Steam Bikes don't take damage like people. She, on the other hand, is still quite vulnerable...

"I don't know, if I cast Slow can you get off?" Why didn't he think of that before...?

"I need to be going faster than the bike, so try not to affect me with it!"

She assumes it's kinda like Dek Do, from the name, and silently applauds it for being simple and practical.

Riku summons his Keyblade next, though he's kind of getting tired from all this running at top speed. He can jog for long periods of time, but he's not really a sprinter.

He points the blade at the front wheel of the bike, careful to shoot at it and not at Atoli.

Well, the bike only has one wheel, but that's enough for it to have a front wheel.

His plan works, at least, although the sudden downshift in speed causes Atoli to lurch a bit.

Still, she jumps off after a few seconds.

He slows to a stop, kicking up a little bit of dust.

"Jeez. You okay?" He dismisses the Keyblade, approaching.

She tumbles, badly, when she lands, since the bike was still going pretty fast.

"I should be fine." She is missing a little bit of HP, but she can fix that with a quick Repth.

Riku approaches slowly, holding out his hand to Atoli to help her up. "Okay. You're a little scraped up, though, huh?"

She accepts Riku's hand, saying "It's nothing I can't fix."

"Heh, well. Here." He lets go of her hand once she's steady, then summons his Keyblade back to his hand, raising it a little and casting Cure. Green light twinkles around her for a moment. "There. It's not perfect, and I didn't fix everything, but it's a bit."

"Hmm... it feels different from my own healing spell, Repth. Thank you."

Really, Repth didn't feel like much at all...

!?

Homura sees the thing coming, but her focus is on the girl who's barely hanging on. It would be dangerous to let this rampage continue! So Homura's waiting for the machine to get closer so she can stop time long enough to pull the key out of ignition.

It looks like a motorcycle, so it's gotta have a slot for a key, right? Homura breaks out into a run, trying to keep close to it.

The bike is only going a little bit faster than Homura's running speed, but if she looks at the controls, there's not a key or ignition to be found.

Atoli, still panicked and looking for the controls, doesn't say anything, but she notices Homura's approach.

When the bike seems to be running at a constant, Homura lets her eyes wander onto the control dashboard, scanning over what she could see even as the blonde girl covered much of it. It's pretty hard to see, but she squints, and realizes there's no slot for the key. Her eyes widen in surprise.

Maybe she could deflate its tires by shooting at it? Although on another glance, she's beginning to wonder if the thing even HAS tires. Maybe if she just let it run, it would run out of gas... or whatever it was that it ran on.

The chase continues. At least the girl seems to have noticed her now. Homura's hand drifts over her shield, wondering if she could pull the girl off in the small period of time she would be allotted when time stopped.

The dash of the bike has one two-sided curved thing which is obviously a steering wheel and a whole bunch of unmarked switches and levers.

It doesn't have tires so much as a single wheel, either, and if she checks, there's no apparent opening for fuel of any type on it. It runs just as much on video game logic and magic as steam, after all.

Those levers, maybe? One of them could possibly stop the rampaging machine, or the girl could try and extricate herself and Homura could catch her in mid-air (or try to, since she's not that strong to begin with) with her powers. Would a jump be possible, though, at that speed? Plus, there's the addition of the girl being too scared to jump to begin with.

Homura bites her lip, then slowly calls out, "Try one of the levers! Or jump!"

She flips one of the switches, and suddenly music starts blaring. After a couple seconds, she flips it back off.

"No..."

Not yet deterred, she unwittingly creates a blast of superhot steam around the entire bike.

So that one is the horn, and the other... she doesn't even want to think about what the steam was for. Homura shakes her head, those levers seemed to have some effect on the bike itself then, so it wouldn't be all that out of place to suggest that one of them was in fact a brake.

"Try another!"

Obviously that switch was meant to vent the steam chambers in case of engine overheat. Unfortunately the next lever is the nitro booster; the bike flies forward, Atoli hanging on for dear life even more.

"Damn it!"

She spins her shield the moment she recovers from it speeding up, the world melting to grey. The bike's not out of range just yet, and Homura breaks into a faster run than before, making a long jump for the bike frozen in time for the time being. If she could just get on that bike with the blonde girl, it would be enough. It's all she has time for in the 2 minute Time Stop she's been given.

That's when the sand fades of its greyscale and into colour once more, and Homura flails, clinging to the girl's back for dear life.

Ok maybe this wasn't part of the plan.

No, she's not sure why the other girl has suddenly grabbed her, but the sudden change in pressure on her back startles her, causing her to squeeze her eyes closed and scream a little more.

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