01-05-2017, 05:47 PM
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Luci breathes calmly and tightens the strap on her bag. Her eyes focus, finding the gaps in the traffic surging on the ground level entrance to Tier-5, and she digs her worn sneakers into the grass, and she starts to run.
Coruscant fades into a blur and Luci spins and dips through traffic with ease, first matching and then exceeding the speed of the traffic. Luci comes to a traffic jam and starts to run on the wall next to the cars, ignoring the sirens she hears behind her. As Luci sprints into Tier-5 at a hundred miles per hour she thinks idly that this is what she is meant to do.
Luci thinks she glimpses a siren ahead of of her, and paints a long golden rope from her spray-can to a streetlight, then swings up to the third story of an apartment building and phases through the wall. She immediately collides with a beer pong table, upsetting a party comprised largely of gnomes and Hutts. Luci sprints through the kitchen, is poked by a pin from a drunken Twi'lek playing "pin the tail on the Rancor", and phases into the next apartment.
A pair of naked male Klingons scream girlishly from beneath an endorian-chicken-feather comforter as Luci lands on their bed, blushes, and jumps through their wall and into an empty apartment.
Luci stops to take several ragged breathes and looks out the window; an imperial squad car is flicking it's lights towards the apartment complex. She hears the Klingons scream again, and the light flashes into the window of the apartment she's stopped in.
Luci stays low and slides out the back window onto a fire escape above an alley. She looks down into the alleyway and sees a mannequin in jeans, with the word 'Jimmy' written across his face. Luci realizes where she is, and looks over her shoulder.
A very surprised orc is crouched a few feet away from her on the fire escape, holding one of the crackling blue guns. He catches Luci's gaze, takes in her glowing elven warpaint, and his eyes narrow. The orc lifts his gun.
Luci flinches as a strom-trooper from the squad car fires off a shot into the back of the orc's head, blowing his scalp off. Luci crouches for a moment, shaking, then jumps off the fire escape, her long golden rope catching the adjoining fire-escape and allowing her to swing down and onto ground level. She hits the ground running and phases into the adjacent apartment complex, not looking behind her to see if the storm-troopers are following.
Luci rolls underneath the legs of a startled ogre in a doctors mask and hops over the head of a Rodian on a couch mixing two smoking bottles of liquid, phasing through the wall into their bathroom and then out into a courtyard. Luci sees the lights of the squad car and hurries out the back of the complex.
Luci comes to a sidewalk and tries to loose the cops in the passing crowd. She pulls her hoodie up over her glowing hair and keeps her eyes on the ground, attempting to blend in with a group of giggling anime girls in revealing school outfits. It works for about a block, at which point Luci thinks she hears the crackle of radio static and tears off down a dimly side street, turning north and coming to a dead end.
Luci takes a deep breath and dives headfirst through the wall, crashing into an Ewok mother serving dinner for her husband and two children. Luci stumbles out the back and phases through a wall into a large garage with a disassembled space ship in the middle. She sprints through the garage door and looses her footing, falling into a steeply slanted drainage ditch.
Luci scrambles to get up and get her bearings. She spots a grey-scale chrysanthemum painted on the side of a bridge; Hover St. She looks up and the garage door she just phased through, and sees the numbers 734 painted in tidy black writing in the top right corner.
Luci runs back, phasing through the garage door, immediately being zapped in the neck by Chirpa the Ewok. The rush of electricity snaps Luci out of her transparent form and knocks her out cold.
***
Luci breathes calmly and tightens the strap on her bag. Her eyes focus, finding the gaps in the traffic surging on the ground level entrance to Tier-5, and she digs her worn sneakers into the grass, and she starts to run.
Coruscant fades into a blur and Luci spins and dips through traffic with ease, first matching and then exceeding the speed of the traffic. Luci comes to a traffic jam and starts to run on the wall next to the cars, ignoring the sirens she hears behind her. As Luci sprints into Tier-5 at a hundred miles per hour she thinks idly that this is what she is meant to do.
Luci thinks she glimpses a siren ahead of of her, and paints a long golden rope from her spray-can to a streetlight, then swings up to the third story of an apartment building and phases through the wall. She immediately collides with a beer pong table, upsetting a party comprised largely of gnomes and Hutts. Luci sprints through the kitchen, is poked by a pin from a drunken Twi'lek playing "pin the tail on the Rancor", and phases into the next apartment.
A pair of naked male Klingons scream girlishly from beneath an endorian-chicken-feather comforter as Luci lands on their bed, blushes, and jumps through their wall and into an empty apartment.
Luci stops to take several ragged breathes and looks out the window; an imperial squad car is flicking it's lights towards the apartment complex. She hears the Klingons scream again, and the light flashes into the window of the apartment she's stopped in.
Luci stays low and slides out the back window onto a fire escape above an alley. She looks down into the alleyway and sees a mannequin in jeans, with the word 'Jimmy' written across his face. Luci realizes where she is, and looks over her shoulder.
A very surprised orc is crouched a few feet away from her on the fire escape, holding one of the crackling blue guns. He catches Luci's gaze, takes in her glowing elven warpaint, and his eyes narrow. The orc lifts his gun.
Luci flinches as a strom-trooper from the squad car fires off a shot into the back of the orc's head, blowing his scalp off. Luci crouches for a moment, shaking, then jumps off the fire escape, her long golden rope catching the adjoining fire-escape and allowing her to swing down and onto ground level. She hits the ground running and phases into the adjacent apartment complex, not looking behind her to see if the storm-troopers are following.
Luci rolls underneath the legs of a startled ogre in a doctors mask and hops over the head of a Rodian on a couch mixing two smoking bottles of liquid, phasing through the wall into their bathroom and then out into a courtyard. Luci sees the lights of the squad car and hurries out the back of the complex.
Luci comes to a sidewalk and tries to loose the cops in the passing crowd. She pulls her hoodie up over her glowing hair and keeps her eyes on the ground, attempting to blend in with a group of giggling anime girls in revealing school outfits. It works for about a block, at which point Luci thinks she hears the crackle of radio static and tears off down a dimly side street, turning north and coming to a dead end.
Luci takes a deep breath and dives headfirst through the wall, crashing into an Ewok mother serving dinner for her husband and two children. Luci stumbles out the back and phases through a wall into a large garage with a disassembled space ship in the middle. She sprints through the garage door and looses her footing, falling into a steeply slanted drainage ditch.
Luci scrambles to get up and get her bearings. She spots a grey-scale chrysanthemum painted on the side of a bridge; Hover St. She looks up and the garage door she just phased through, and sees the numbers 734 painted in tidy black writing in the top right corner.
Luci runs back, phasing through the garage door, immediately being zapped in the neck by Chirpa the Ewok. The rush of electricity snaps Luci out of her transparent form and knocks her out cold.
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