User blog comment:The Reptile King/Reptile Kingdom What Do's/@comment-27950421-20161216164811/@comment-30700719-20170417185702

I slowly back up and start running back to my house. "ICARUS, it's happened. Launch a Rauser, now."  "Yeah, but this...this, I cannot handle. Just nope." I look around. This small house has been my home for about eight months now. "Well, put this place on the GPS. Someday, I'll come back here." I sigh and walk out the door. I start walking up one of the dormant volcanoes, with everything that I either need or can't let trackers have. About halfway up, I hear a loud explosion. The Brachy is flying through the air. "Holy crap! They've learned how to rocket jump?! Don't tell me she's American..." I double my pace.

I reach a convenient ledge. I had sat here many times over these last few months. It was the closest thing to flying that I had. "Oh boy, it's going to be great getting back into the air."  A bright blue figure goes flying up, landing on the small ledge. I jump to my feet, whipping out my hunting knife. "Stay back! Stay-oh, what am I saying, you're a Brachy, for god's sake." I jump onto the wall and scramble up onto a larger ledge, climbing higher up the volcano. "NO! YOU WILL BE MINE!" I look up and just manage to dodge the olive green figure swooping down from above. "Geez, I'm out of practice! I dodged WAY later than normal!" I swing with my knife, but it bounces off the Brachy's armored wrist. I back up some more and climb higher. "ICARUS, when's my flight gonna be here?"  "Sixty seconds. Just sixty seconds longer." The Narga fires off three quills, and I barely dodge them. "Now you guys are just making me look bad!" I throw my knife at the Narga, fabricate another one, and jab at the Brachy's shoulder. She shrugs away from it, and I catch a gooey fist to the face. Could've been a cannonball, as far as I could tell. I stagger to my feet. "How the hell am I not dead yet?" I run straight towards the Brachy, then jump into the air. She blocks the twp-footed kick, and I jump off her fists towards the Narga. That razor-sharp wing slices through the air, nearly cutting my hair. I flail for the ledge and pull myself up. I gotta be getting near the top by now.  I look up and see the familiar cepia form racing through the sky, and my heart beats a little faster. "YES!" I fabricate the metal-bowl-and-explosives combo under my feet, then set it off, flying up to the Rauser. A second explosion radiates under me. "Oh god, she rocket jumped as well!" I grab on the the Rauser's wing and start to crawl towards the cockpit. A barrage of highly accurate quills buries itself in the edge of the wing, and a plume of smoke trails out from behind the Rauser. I make it to the cockpit and clamber inside. "Yes! Oh, god, I've forgotten what flying feels like..." I watch as the volcano disappears into the distance.

(Don't worry, Rep, I'm still a coward on the ground.)