Rage and betrayal flooded her veins. Energy coursed through her, like the barrage of lightning between the Vizsla's. Mevia was empowered by a sense of... justification. Justification, and a sick freedom. She had laid all her misgivings, jealousy, and self pity out on the floor. It was all in the open, and she no longer had to work so hard to hide it. Furthermore, she could
act on it. She was free to lash out, free to rage, and free to fight. She was strangely numb to the implications and consequences. She was not focused on the future, or what was ahead. She was free to tear it all apart, here and now. Here and now, she was locked in the present with boundless opportunity to be all the things most would fear.
The lightning died down momentarily. Mevia bolted forth with her jetpack. She rammed into Elise's midsection. Her crushgaunts sunk into the soft armorweave beskar did not cover. The sound of glass shattered around them, and the lightning grew dark, as they flew through the building and came out the other side. Elise's own jetpack activated by fluke, and the two were suddenly sky bound. Elise struggled to turn her jetpack off, and Mevia struggled to control them both. Hurdling through the air, Mevia could feel the lightning bolts narrowly missing them. Mevia gritted her teeth, and as Elise finally shut off her jetpack. With the aid of her boot's repulser, Mevia kicked Elise downwards. Elise's frame crashed through another window, but sustained minor injuries according to Mevia's HUD.
Force Augmentation. Kark it all!
Another lightning strike flashed just to the right as Mevia flew in after her. She slid into the building, an office building, and shattered a desk as she thudded heartily onto the floor. Her natural Chiss infrared vision, and her HUD, picked up on Elise's warm bodyheat across the room, struggling to stand up.
The lightning once again started a barrage outside. The flickers of light were enough to light up the room, but not enough to see in more than mere shadows. With a growl, Mevia charged for the other Mandalorian. She screamed, shoving office chairs and desks aside. Computers shattered and papers flew through the air as she reached her target. She unleashed a furious barrage of punches and kicks... and her opponent took every one.
Mevia rasped,
<"Traitor! You traitor! You betrayed us! Betrayed Buir! Betrayed dad's memory! Auntie's memory! You betrayed me! Then again, when did you not!">
She pulled out her Skathe pistol, loaded and locked, and fired. The slug round bounced off her armor, sending her back, though it did not pierce. Unsatisfied by the sound, she threw the hand canon at Elise's frame before rushing her again.
<"You left me! You went off to train with those shamans when you were twelve, and you left me at home! So soon after dad died! You lived in another world I could never reach! And you left me here! Alone!">
She yanked her beskad from its sheath, activating the Chiss plasma cutter. The sword slammed into the Force Augmented Mandalorian, slashing with brutal, cutting precision. The plasma cutter sliced through the armorweave with intent to cut with painful, but not deadly, punishment. She quickly became unsatisfied with that as well, as the object of her wrath still stumbled backwards. Still in the game. Mevia tossed the blade aside and lifted her leg. Her repulser activated again as she kicked her opponent into the wall. She fell, crumpled, as her helmet hissed loose.
The buy'ce fell to the floor. Outside, the lightning only intensified. So much lightning was striking the streets now, it replaced any need for a sun. The room was illuminated in a yellow glow as Mevia retracted her vambrace's wrist blade. Her opponent was looking down to the floor. Her hair covered her face. Mevia's enemy was finished. Time to finish her!
<"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!">
Her boots smashed a fallen datapad. Tunnel vision engulfed her as she stampeded towards her enemy.
Then, the Mandalorian lifted her head.
Mevia tripped, her ruthless charge halted in an instance.
Mevia skidded, her body slamming into the office wall. Her wrist blade embedded the wall with all the force she had meant for
her. She panted, looking down as she paused.
Her
face. Her opponent's karking
face.
Blood gushed from her nose, and a black and blue bruise was rapidly forming on her cheek. Shaking from the cuts inflicted, the girl looked up to her as tears flooded from those red eyes. Mevia's own eyes widened beneath her buy'ce. But for her, the barrier was gone. This was an enemy, a traitor, and a threat. And yet... she was still
her sister.
Mevia... could not go through with the deed.
She panted, leaning against the wall as she looked down at her weeping, bruised, bloodied sister. Jac'Eli'Serum, Elise Vizsla.
They remained there. Still and hushed. Was it a moment? Was it an age? Mevia did not know. But the love she felt, and the heartbreak of being on opposing sides, penetrated so deeply that she too began to shed silent tears.
No words were spoken. They simply remained, frozen. Neither seemed to have the strength to move.
<"Mevia Vizsla, this is ###### of ## War Dogs. We are evacuating Kiffu in ##### minutes. Yael Kandar got ###, but we ########-your location if you are joining. Over.">
Mevia gritted her teeth, yanking her wrist blade from the wall. She staggered back, eyes locked on Elise Vizsla. With her voice hoarse and cracked, she responded.
<"This... Is Mevia Vizsla. Here's my coordinates. I'll be waiting by the win-window... Over.">
She turned around, rage and energy exhausted. There was only vacant sorrow as she silently trudged towards her beskad, embedded into a chair. She pulled it out, sheathed it, and stumbled towards where her Skathe hand cannon had been dropped. She paused before the pistol, half buried under papers, and bent down to pick it up. She heard a rustling noise and bolted upwards with the pistol.
Elise had fled the scene.
The grim happening made Mevia frown bitterly.
After today, things would never be the same again.
She shoved her pistol into its sheath and limped towards the window. The lightning died down again, bathing Mevia in an eerie darkness...
