The Big Damn Fight

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Spoilerthis was gonna be a single post but it got long so i thought i'd split it up but then i thought well i've already written the thing so i'll just post it anyway

“This is your last warning, step away from the princess.”

“Alright, well, I’m gonna turn around now.” Noise turned slowly. There were two guards, one male one female, in military uniform holding futuristic weaponry and sweating profusely. They had bags under their eyes and essentially looked like they’d been having a bad day for several weeks at this point. “Now I’m gonna step away.” Noise didn’t have to do it this way. She could zip out of the room and be on the other side of the space station before they even pulled the trigger. Or alternatively she could just be sound for a few seconds, let the bullets, or lasers or whatever these things fired pass simply through her, but cooperation seemed like a better strategy in this particular instance, which meant going through this whole rigmarole. She stepped slowly towards the guards.

“Good good just like that.” The male guard said. He was older with grey hair, some battle scars and a finely trimmed moustache.

When Noise was close enough, he grabbed her by the arm, pressed the barrel of the weapon against her, and the female guard ran past her to check on… the princess Noise supposed.

“Look, I’ve cooperated okay. I mean no harm and I might have just saved the… um… princess from a terrible purple fate. You can trust me.” Noise said. The guard holding her shot her an unpleasant look.

Over on the other side of the room the princess and the female guard were whispering. “Is it her?” The male guard called over after a moment.

The female guard nodded. “Code word checks out. She’s the real deal.” The princess was holding her hand tightly her eyes wide with fear.

“Oh! You’ve got a shifter problem.” Noise surmised, mainly because she’d set up similar codeword protocols with the rest of the Masque girls for shapeshifter scenarios. “Well, as an outsider I guess I’m pretty fu-” she was stopped short as powerful electricity flowed through her, clamping down on her ability to simply resonate away. Noise tumbled to the ground and the last thing she saw before blacking out was the purple ooze, all that remained of the shapeshifter that had been about to, presumably, take the place of the princess, slowly, almost imperceptibly slithering towards a vent in the wall.