Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-36289716-20190914222403/@comment-26892768-20190916015708

Elsewhere, a small figure rendered invisible to the naked eye takes flight.

Mechanical wings slice through the air as she soars along the coastline, looking over the nearby city. Unseen, her expression turns to concern as she sees the city shift and change before her very eyes.

Well, that confirms the increasingly-frantic posts on social media the humans on the surface are making. Honestly, she can't blame them for panicking. Even as someone who's been through many weird and confusing escapades, she'd have a hard time keeping her cool if Haven were to suddenly be interspliced with another, completely unknown underground city, complete with its own inhabitants.

...her mind flashes to the gnome she heard on the way to the station, screaming about how there was suddenly a waterfall running through his house.

No time to think about that - her priority is to set up these sensors so that the local centaur can try and figure out what's going on. Hopefully. Apparently, communications between the surface and the lower elements have been going wonky.

She spots an alley between an apartment and what seems like some kind of prison and flies down, landing carefully and precisely. She looks around and sighs.

She is Captain Holly Short of the LEP. She's gone through, in order, a kidnapping orchestrated by a young criminal mastermind, a plan that nearly dismantled the LEP and a rescue mission to save the aforementioned criminal mastermind's father at the same time, a heist to secure some fairy tech from a greedy Mud Man, a plan that nearly destroyed fairy society as they knew it, the return of demons - as well as skipping three years of her life thanks to time travel - yet more time travel, the criminal mastermind developing a mental disorder while a man long-forgotten made his move, and finally, what was nearly the apocalypse.

She is not, by any means, new to this sort of thing.

Doesn't mean she has to like it.

As she goes to place a sensor, however...part of the prison wall shakes.

Holly pauses. She's still shielded, so there's no risk of being seen, a combination of past experience, instinct, and common sense tells her that whatever's shaking the wall is decidedly not good and she should wait to deal with that. Her hand goes to her Neutrino and she backs away, keeping an eye on the section of the wall that shook.

Sure enough, the wall shakes again, and again, and again, with each shake spreading cracks along the wall and loosening the brick that makes it up. Seems like whoever or whatever is on the other side is using brute strength to break through. Holly's guessing either a battering ram or, depending on who's on the other side, a troll.

Then the shaking stops, and Holly stands still and waits for a moment...and, sure enough, she's rewarded with the sight of the person on the other side breaking through -

- which causes Holly to do a double take, because whatever she was expecting, it was not a tall, muscular mud woman breaking through with a savage cry of rage. And she does mean tall; very much so. Holly understands that she's not exactly tall by human standards: she is a solid meter in height, or roughly between three feet three inches and three feet four inches, and she's dealt with tall humans before, like the bodyguard of one Artemis Fowl. She has not dealt with a human that is somehow nearly four times her height.

Although, on second glance, it's clear that whoever this woman is, she's not human. At least, not entirely. There's the obvious things, like the aforementioned height and the striped horn coming out of her forehead, but there's also some things that are more subtle, like how her legs seem a bit disproportionately long in comparison to her body, or how her canines are more prominent and her incisors seem to be sharpened to a more cutting edge, and how claws that seem to be biologically designed to hook into flesh take the place of fingernails and toenails...

...and the ears. The noticeably pointed ears that are really throwing Holly off.

She has no idea who or what this woman is, but Holly does know that she just broke through a prison wall with brute strength alone (although not without some drawbacks; she's noticing a few cuts along her arms that the woman is completely ignoring) and can deduce from the black and white stripes on her outfit that she was a prisoner until just now.

The mysterious giant woman pants after breaking the wall down, eventually stopping to look around in amazement. "...wow. I can't believe I just did that."

Her expression quickly shifts to annoyance. "Of course, I shouldn't have had to..."

Grunting, she turns her eyes to something else - the metal cuffs around her wrists, connected by a strong chain of the same material. Don't mistake these for handcuffs - that implies they're designed to be able to be taken off. These aren't.

"Now, onto the next issue..." The woman, better known as Scythana, immediately flexes, pulling her arms as far apart as she can to try to break the chain, but no dice. She tries to slam the tense chain on her knee, but no dice. Letting out a monstrous snarl, she starts to slam the chain against the edge of the apartment building, quickly growing more and more frustrated. "How the hell do I get these CUFFS OFF!?"