The Last Avenger and The World of Omni: Raincheck

[Mami Tomoe]

Mami met the horrifying serpent before her eye-to-eye and, in a terrible bout of regaining memory, felt her neck with her left hand. Wide-eyed she sucked in her breath and regained her composure - Her eyes turned from wide open to a squint of determination as she flipped backwards, picked up the pain-ridden Uchiha and jumped out of the way of the grand but terrifying snake that now hurtled forwards at them. It bit down on the curious, white substance that made up the floor of the Nexus and found itself stuck, which Mami took as an opportunity to set Sasuke down.

"Aren't you in high demand?" Mami joked with a friendly smile. "If you're up for it, I think we should handle this as a team," she thought, recalling Omni's comment on how there were others like herself. Hopefully these others, like Sasuke, would have powers like her own - Which the flaring and expanding mark on Sasuke's body seemed to prove. She extended her hands out, creating a rifle in each hand. "I'll distract it as best as I can. You try to find a weak point and exploit it the best way you can. I don't know exactly how you fight, but hopefully you can figure out a way to--" Mami glanced over her shoulder and saw the serpent pulling out of the ground. She pulled Sasuke to his feet, muttering a soft "Sorry" in the process. She dashed away to face the serpent head-on, leaving it to face her and not Sasuke... While he was left to stare at the girl who had just unloaded so much on her without even a pause to catch her breath. He couldn't help but wonder why he had let her run off and fight...

Then again, she had weapons. And she had created them out of thin air. Maybe she could hold her own for a while? But Sasuke himself had something to do, didn't he? Right, she wanted me to-- Find a weakness? Orochimaru's snakes don't have a weakness. Unless-- Sasuke looked up at the snake's head, and there was the man who had made his curse mark. I need to fight him. But am I strong enough? And is it worth risking never getting the power to kill... Him? Itachi's face flashed ever-so-vividly in his mind. Weighing his options briefly, Sasuke decided he had to prioritize living now.

Mami tossed her right-hand rifle into the air, removed her hat and swiped it across the ground at shoulder level. A number of rifles, identical to the pair she was holding, appeared in front of her. She put on her hat and caught her right-hand rifle, shooting it as she caught it, hitting the snake in between the eyes - Though this appeared to have little effect. She shot a glare down the sight of her left hand rifle and fired it at the same location, then tossed both rifles to her sides. Mami grabbed another rifle, still staring down her opponent, and shot it in the same location, discarding the used rifle, and repeating with the opposite hand and another rifle. Again and again she fired, expecting no great result, she hoped that Sasuke could find something so she could avoid facing down this monster seemingly alone.

Gritting his teeth and occasionally letting a muffled cry of pain through his lips from his burning curse mark, Sasuke dashed along the body of the serpent with a strange sense of determination. It appeared that he wasn't noticed by Orochimaru, as he appeared to be watching Sasuke's 'friend' with amusement, with his back turned to Sasuke. The snake twitched below him every now and then, causing him to jump to later portions to avoid being knocked off and occasionally stumble, grabbing the scales and seemingly running on all fours for a step or two. Though before long, he had approached the snake's master himself - Though before he could so much as lay a finger on him, Orochimaru turned around.

"Sasuke," he chimed with a devilish smile. "It's been too long."

Good? Good. Okeh? Okeh. Good night.