[Irvine doesn't really expect the shotgun blast to hold, but it still makes panic surge in his gut. If he had a sniper rifle ... she would just block that too. She blocked it before.
[But the blast is strong enough to give him time, and he presses his fingers to his forehead, opens the link between him and Carbuncle. Once upon a time it would have taken over ten seconds for Carbuncle's presence to sink in, go from not quite there to definitely there. These days it takes a blink, the GF's power rushing through him until he feels, for just a moment, as ghost-like as the GFs probably do when they're hibernating in his mind.
[He flings his hand to the ground in front of him and the ground drops away where he points. Carbuncle bounds out of the perfectly-formed hole with the garnet on its head already flashing, and the sorceress's wave of magic slams into the convex green barrier of the Reflect spell. Blue energy skates past either side but where it hits full-on, it bounces back right at the sorceress. Hah! Can't shatter a GF's cast, can yah?
[Carbuncle, bless that shy green bunny, dives back into its hole before it dissolves back into Irvine's brain. For a split-second Irvine's instinct is to take the opportunity and run--he has no backup, he has no idea where he even is. But if this really is the sorceress from earlier time, or followed him in some guise ... he might not get another chance. And if he ignores this one, what if he's condemning the others to being trapped? For all he knows he's the only one who made it this far, and she's keeping them from joining him.
[Quistis. Zell. Squall. Rinoa. Sefie.
[Green light flares in a circle around him and power surges down his arm, and he flings the Meltdown at her. It'll hurt. Probably wouldn't kill, not someone like her, but it'll hurt, and make her body brittle, and it means if he can land a shot it might be enough to kill her proper. If it hits. If either of them do.
[He's really glad the street's already cleared, though. Fake or not, the sorceress was right, at least about him. He couldn't have killed bystanders who looked like confused people.]
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[But the blast is strong enough to give him time, and he presses his fingers to his forehead, opens the link between him and Carbuncle. Once upon a time it would have taken over ten seconds for Carbuncle's presence to sink in, go from not quite there to definitely there. These days it takes a blink, the GF's power rushing through him until he feels, for just a moment, as ghost-like as the GFs probably do when they're hibernating in his mind.
[He flings his hand to the ground in front of him and the ground drops away where he points. Carbuncle bounds out of the perfectly-formed hole with the garnet on its head already flashing, and the sorceress's wave of magic slams into the convex green barrier of the Reflect spell. Blue energy skates past either side but where it hits full-on, it bounces back right at the sorceress. Hah! Can't shatter a GF's cast, can yah?
[Carbuncle, bless that shy green bunny, dives back into its hole before it dissolves back into Irvine's brain. For a split-second Irvine's instinct is to take the opportunity and run--he has no backup, he has no idea where he even is. But if this really is the sorceress from earlier time, or followed him in some guise ... he might not get another chance. And if he ignores this one, what if he's condemning the others to being trapped? For all he knows he's the only one who made it this far, and she's keeping them from joining him.
[Quistis. Zell. Squall. Rinoa. Sefie.
[Green light flares in a circle around him and power surges down his arm, and he flings the Meltdown at her. It'll hurt. Probably wouldn't kill, not someone like her, but it'll hurt, and make her body brittle, and it means if he can land a shot it might be enough to kill her proper. If it hits. If either of them do.
[He's really glad the street's already cleared, though. Fake or not, the sorceress was right, at least about him. He couldn't have killed bystanders who looked like confused people.]