[ Verity balked at the jump when push finally came to shove. In the precious few moments before their standoff went into direct conflict, Verity's thoughts were in freefall and her finger shaking over the trigger.
It boiled down to one simple fact: she knew Prowl. This was not some facsimile whose sentience was academic or an unknown. There was a name attached to face that, for good or ill, resonated with her. And at the last second they both came to the same conclusion and her aim jerked upward with the crosshairs towards the plating in his shoulders; nonlethal but enough to slow him down.
The ion blast went off and at the same time a low yield burst exploded at her feet. The armor plating around her right ankle slid into place at the worst possible moment and Verity braced as she watched her knee buckle and the direction of the joint contort in the wrong direction. Verity bit back her urge to cry out and instead pushed that rush of pain in a more productive direction. Armor on, her helmet locked into place around her head and with the HUD activated she whipped around, looked for the first way out and in a full tilt run she would not have been able to achieve without the armor let alone with the leg plates holding her ankle in place, bolted away with warning shots going in a directionless spray patter over her shoulder. ]
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It boiled down to one simple fact: she knew Prowl. This was not some facsimile whose sentience was academic or an unknown. There was a name attached to face that, for good or ill, resonated with her. And at the last second they both came to the same conclusion and her aim jerked upward with the crosshairs towards the plating in his shoulders; nonlethal but enough to slow him down.
The ion blast went off and at the same time a low yield burst exploded at her feet. The armor plating around her right ankle slid into place at the worst possible moment and Verity braced as she watched her knee buckle and the direction of the joint contort in the wrong direction. Verity bit back her urge to cry out and instead pushed that rush of pain in a more productive direction. Armor on, her helmet locked into place around her head and with the HUD activated she whipped around, looked for the first way out and in a full tilt run she would not have been able to achieve without the armor let alone with the leg plates holding her ankle in place, bolted away with warning shots going in a directionless spray patter over her shoulder. ]