raisetheearth | Echo Incursion 01 - Jurassic Gateway (August 10th, 2016)

It's a particularly hot day in the Gateway City zoo. What else could you expect? It's not like it's not to be expected, it is the middle of August, after all. But there's plenty of things to see here at the zoo, and the visitors' center is air conditioned well enough.

Just a normal summer day in a typical summer vacation spot. Right?

Well, that's when things change. Those in the visitor's center would find the building changing around them. There's suddenly a dinosaur skeleton in the middle of the place, with the banner "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" hanging from the ceiling.

That's not all. The animal enclosures are now different. What used to be a pen for the african elephants now has very large, very long necked reptiles in it. A gigantic, meat-eating dinosaur just tromped its way out of the lion habitat it's too much too large for, and unfortunately for the people around it, its vision is based on movement. The monkey house? Well, those are velociraptors breaking out of it. The aviary? Now filled with particular aggressive flying pterosaurs.

These are just some of the creatures making their sudden emergence, and it's not long until they spill out of the zoo and into the city proper. Dinosaurs are now walking the streets of Gateway City.

Yes, indeed. Just a normal summer day.

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Dinosaurs, of all things, stomping around was a pretty clear call to action, And Rakka would sooner or later make her way onto the scene of the disaster as well. When she did, it wasn't too difficult to single out one of her allies.

"Lily!" She comes running up... just in time to hear that blurt. It makes her kind of stumble. "L-lily, did the dinos hurt you?"

Lily blinks hard, and takes a half step back to glance in Rakka's direction. Only quickly though, as she's trying to keep her eyes peeled for any... well, unfortunate advances of these newly appeared animals.

"No, no, I'm fine," said quickly, as if that stupid blurt hadn't come out of her mouth in the first place. "But I'm glad you're here."

"Uh, okay." Rakka still wasn't entirely sure what Lily had blurted out... was actually coming from her. She knew that her friend could be quite the nerd sometimes, to rival her, but... Lily...

"Me too." She had seen the news, watched the confusion and panic going on, and had to get to Gatewater as soon as possible. "We have to make sure no one gets hurt, and keep these dinosaurs back!"

A slight pause. Then, almost alarmingly, "W-we're fighting dinosaurs."

Lily's just going to completely act like she said nothing. She's got enough to worry about beyond her looking silly, and a lot on her mind from this, and the last couple weeks altogether. But... she has to keep herself together, and focus.

She gulps a bit, and nods.

"Yeah. Dinosaurs."

She lets out a little breath.

"Is that any worse than Santa Clause and the Grinch, is the question."

"Dinosaurs!"

It's beginning to fully dawn on Rakka how much is happening. Seeing it on TV hadn't really prepared Rakka for this.

"W-we're fighting dinosaurs." She scans the area ahead, making out the varying sizes and shapes of the beasts.

Is she shaking a little, or is that just the ground?

"I don't know." She swallows. "But, we just have to deal with it... right?"

For all of Lily's own worries about herself, her friends and family, when she catches that little shake from Rakka something flips in her mind. She lets out a breath and extends a hand, reaching for Rakka's shoulder, trying to smile.

"Yes, we do. Because that's what we do, isn't it? When it comes down to it in the end... That's really all there is, right?"

She sighs. "It's not easy after all this time, I know."

Rakka appreciated the gesture, no matter how small it was. It reminded her who she was standing here with, who was a teammate that she'd fought alongside for a long time. But Lily was more then that, she was her friend.

She nods back at her. "I-it's not. But that's right, isn't it?"

...Sure would be awful if the moment was ruined by raptor screeching. Rakka turns her gaze forward. Sooner or later, she knew she'd have to punch a dinosaur.

"You ready?"

Lily nods a little bit. "It is, but... to tell you the truth?" She leans in a little bit, her voice dropping a hair. "It kind of makes me feel a lot better to know I'm not the only one really nervous. I was beginning to think there was something wrong with me, there."

She straightens up then, just in time to hear that screech. She swallows, and tries to calm herself.

"I'm as ready as I'll ever be. Be careful, and watch your back, okay?"

"Ohh...." If they weren't smack dab in the middle of a battleground with dinosaurs running around, Rakka might have given Lily a hug.

She smiles, turning towards the threat and taking a running stance.

"You bet. I'll be right behind you."

Lily nods, and finally begins moving again. At the very least, they had back up. They had friends. That their back up was their friends is part of the worry, of course, because she doesn't want anyone to put themselves in danger... but she also knows they have little choice. So, she begins to move a little more confidently, because she has to.

"Just keep an eye out, and yell if you need anything!"

Echo Incursion 01 - Jurassic Gateway (August 10th, 2016)

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