A New Partner (Closed with Em, and Paddy)

[Paddy]

"Truly tragic," She gave a heavy sigh, not wanting to speak on it any more deeply than she already had. It was becoming burdensome to think about the crushing weight of such a reality, that these were once gems. A shame that Homeworld didn't know more about corruption, its cures or causes. Then, the ground began to tremble, and Padpara halted when Em threw up her palm. She remained silent, her eyes darting around the canyon as her anxiety grew. As Em continued to speak in her hushed tone, the sapphire gave a quick nod to confirm her understanding of the situation. Upon the emerald's description of the creature, Padpara was too curious to stay in the shadow. She too peered out, and her eyes widened when she saw the lumbering beast.

In contrast to Em's giddiness, the sapphire was feeling dread well up in her gut. Never had she seen such an enormous corruption, such a monster would be able to crush them swiftly if they made a mistake. I'm always regretting it! the sapphire lamented to herself, why didn't I bring a few soldiers?! Still, knowing that Em was a capable fighter gave her a little piece of mind. She gave another curt nod,"I-I can try to slow it down, and perhaps, if it's not resistant to high temperature...I can deal some damage from a distance as well," She glanced back out at the creature,"Here's to hoping this one isn't so...sentient,"

With that, the sapphire began to generate a huge amount of her glowing plasma. In the heat of the day, the intense light from her wasn't so pronounced, but she still hoped she was hidden enough to keep it from glinting into the corruption's beady eyes. She threw it out as quickly as it could go, and the plasma slithered across the sandy floor of the canyon. She attempted to surround the creature without it noticing, but the farther her plasma went, the slower it formed, and the more viscous it became as it dried. 

[Em]

    Em allowed Padparadscha a few minutes to let the goo slowly surround the beasts feet. After watching read to fight at any moment she could tell the plasma was just about to make contact with the beast feet. Once it touched the beast let out a startled shriek, and looked down. Within seconds it noticed the plasma, and tried to step away from it, but ended up only getting more on its feet. It slowly trudged around the canyon obviously trying to release itself from the plasma's grasp. Em jumped out from the hole in the wall, and sprinted to the leg of the corrupted that had it's gem on it. Once she reached it she jammed as many thumb tacks around it's gem as she could trying to break off it's connection with it's physical body. By the time she had a few jammed around it the beast seemed to slow a bit more seemingly having a even harder time moving. The beast shook it's foot angrily, and threw Em off. She flew through the air, and hit against the wall falling down it. "That was painful." She groaned to herself massaging her head trying to take away the pain. While she had become distracted the beast ran toward her. She looked up only to notice it seconds before it reached her. She quickly climbed into a different hole in the wall looking for sanctuary from it. The thing angrily clawed at the wall trying to reach Em. "Lightbuddy try to distract it!" She yelled worriedly scared the beast's claws might make the hole collapse on her at any moment.

[Paddy]

The sapphire grit her teeth as she tried to keep a handle on the corrupted gem. It stumbled and fought with the plasma, and the emerald made her move-- Padpara gasped when the creature tossed Em through the air with ease. The creature was impeded, but made a B-line for the other gem, wrenching through the quagmire of burning liquid, unfazed by it. Her whole body was tense as she used her plasma to pull back on the creature, but it was too far for her to move quickly enough against its strength and mass. She would have to get in closer in order to have an affect.


The amount of plasma she had to create for her initial attack had already nearly depleted her stores of energy, but she had to do something. With the light buddy making a move to distract the creature, the sapphire slipped along the wall, trying to get closer without getting into its field of vision. She bit her lip, hoping that she could get there in time to help Em. The enormous creature thrashed at the walls, making her knees feel weak as she imagined what would happen if its claws struck a gem. 

Finally, with the creature in range, she retracted some of the material she'd used before, and redirected it to envelope the corruptions feet in boiling hot plasma. In a quick motion, she tried to yank it back by its heels, and wrapped more and more of the hot substance around the creature. It struggled and roared, flinging debris around as it trained its attention on the sapphire, whose knees now felt ready to give out.

"Agh!" She uttered, wrestling with the monster through exhaustion. She hoped the opening would last long enough for Em to take advantage of it, if not-- well, she didn't want to think about what would happen if this thing got away from her.