fluxscape | July 3rd: Seek and Destroy

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July 3rd: Seek and Destroy - A Party-Style thread.

Who: Those who are smashing devices and anyone tagging along.
What: All throughout Haven.
Where: Several various places.
When: All throughout the day
Warnings: Violence. Swearing. CW your tags, please.

This is it. This is the day people have been hoping for. This is the day when all devices are found and smashed. A code has been pushed to the FluxPhones that'll help locate the devices causing so much trouble, and will disable the cloaking programmed into them, too. Then, it's just a matter of finding something heavy to smash it with.

Those devices and the people destroying them are:

1: Market Place - Declan Lynch
2: Broken down mall - Shoe Store - Tandy Bowen
3: Broken down mall - Book Store - Malcolm Bright
4: School - Art room - Miles Morales
5: School - Old gym - Eli 'Hawk' Moskowitz
6: The roof of the hospital. Quentin Beck
7: The Caldera, right inside an old drain - Lydia Martin

Bring a friend. Stumble upon people destroying things. Team up if you want! And if we got anything wrong and put more than one person on something, it's okay to assume all of those people found the same device. Anything not claimed is found by NPCs.

By 9:37 PM, all devices will be destroyed. All powers will be returned and all Glitching will end.

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"Kind of brings back flashbacks, doesn't it?" Tandy did her best to make the comment sound light and airy but still, even nearly a year later, she was still affected by what had happened the last time she was in an abandoned looking mall.

Glancing over at Ty, she sent a tight smile before looking ahead to where Zorro was sniffing around. The puppy had already grown quite a bit and seemed more comfortable with his blipping abilities though he hadn't used them since Tandy and Ty had lost their own. Which made her wonder if he was affected as well or just sensed that maybe he needed to stay close to his owners.

Pausing, she glanced at her device to look at the app, pursing her lips a bit. "I think we're getting close."

The last thing Ty thought he'd be doing again so soon was entering an abandoned mall. A year ago for Tandy but it had only been a couple of months for him. It was also under equally disturbing circumstances. "Yeah, it does," he'd told her solemnly with a worried gaze.

Glitching was terrible enough to go through without having to add the loss of powers and seeing her memories. Ty had seen some before Haven but not the crash into the water when Tandy lost her dad, alone at the church, and her recent kidnapping. He didn't leave her side other than to take Zorro out.

Zorro seemed to share the sentiment, not teleporting all over the place. The pup had grown in the couple of months since Tandy found him in her house. Ty didn't think he was as comfortable as she was with the dog but had a routine with him until the glitching began.

"Zorro seems alright," he offered Tandy. The dog not being alarmed had to be a good sign that they weren't heading for some kind of trap. Ty continued looking around, a hand holding hers.

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It had been strange seeing Ty's memories, some of which she had known about but most of them she hadn't. Especially the memories with his mom. Still, she was more comfortable sharing those (involuntarily) with Ty over anyone else. Plus the fact that he had stayed with her, once again proving how dependable he was and how he cared about her meant a lot.

Of course, she had done her best to do the same for him. She might have checked in on a couple of people but she never strayed for his side and, whenever he had a glitching episode, he would usually come to with her sitting beside him and petting his head. Sometimes Zorro would be there licking his face too.

"That's because nothing really phases him," She murmurs, not really thinking about the wording as she glances at her device and then looks up at the store in front of them. An abandoned shoe store where she could see fallen shelves and boxes all over the place. "I think it's in here."

He wondered if anyone else had seen their memories the way that they saw each others but Ty never voiced it. Tandy was smart enough to have the same question and also hadn't said it out loud. Or maybe the suffering from glitching silenced the thought like it had much of the conversation in the time that it started.

"Hopefully that means that there isn't anything here that'll harm us." Ty was worried about how well he could fight without his powers. He'd gotten into plenty before discovering he had any but Haven was a strange place.

Without letting her hand go, he reached and opened the door to the store. Zorro immediately entered with a look around then back at his owners. "Can you find it?" Ty asked the pup who tilted his head before panning his gaze around the dilapidated store.

Tandy was hoping that no one else had seen their memories as she wasn't comfortable with the idea. But, then again, she was more guarded than Ty was. Not that he was an open book by any means but there were times when she closed herself off completely just so she didn't have to reveal or deal with anything.

"It seems like this place is kind of quiet and I haven't heard anyone mention monsters in here," Even as she said it, she couldn't help but look around somewhat warily. Almost like she half expected something to come jumping out at them. Which normally wouldn't be a problem...if they had their powers.

Tandy watched as Zorro looked back at them as though he were waiting for permission which was given by Ty's question and Tandy's nod for him to go. Almost immediately he started to sniff the ground, his tail wagging while he moved forward. Tandy looked at the device again before pointing in the direction Zorro was heading which was to their left. "That way."

"I miss him looking like a puppy but if there is anything down here? Pretty sure it'll think twice about messing with Zorro," he added when Tandy spoke about no mention of monsters where they were at.

The dog still had a very youthful energy and curiosity about him where Ty continued to see him as a puppy but Zorro had physically grown closer to an adult than he was to being newly introduced into the world.

It was scary how mean he could look when Tyrone would roughhouse with him, yet it never went too far with Ty. If the dog would accidentally catch him with a tooth and Ty jerked back with pain, Zorro immediately would lick him frantically. Under the circumstances, Ty was glad he'd seen that furious side to him.

Zorro let out a very big dog growl then a high pitched bark to indicate he'd found whatever they were looking for. "Good boy!" Ty rewarded the pup verbally.

"I miss him looking like a puppy too," Tandy offered a slight pout as she glanced at her boyfriend, knowing full well that he would understand since there had been a lot of cuddling with Zorro at first. Of course, Zorro tried to get as much cuddling as he had before but it was a bit harder and a lot more amusing when he did.

But Zorro was a great dog and it was clear that he was above average intelligence. He understood everything so well and sometimes it felt like he was reading their moods or even listening closely. Plus he was protective of them both. She knew Ty would probably say it was only her but she had seen how much Zorro cared about him as well.

She jumped at the sudden bark before blowing out a breath as she realized that Zorro had found something. Hurrying forward, she reached to touch the back of his neck before spying the device he was sniffing at. It was small, seemingly flickering in and out as it sat in a shoe box on a shelf. "Do you think it's okay to touch it or should we just crush it with something?"

Zorro really didn't seem to have an idea that he'd gotten bigger, still climbing onto the couch and trying to curl up with them. Bed was even worse. Ty had only caught a break since the glitching began. The pup seemed not to have any sympathy prior to that, getting into bed to where Tyrone had better sleep on the couch. Until the dog blipped and nestled on top of him there too.

But when the glitching began and both were dropped to the ground in agony, the pup became super concerned. Zorro didn't disturb their sleep in bed but stood watch. He quietly walked from one side of the bed to the other, leaving only his head on the bed when he approached, curling up on the floor in a spot where he could see both to rest.

Now he was excited to be out with both who hadn't dropped to the floor in pain and doing what they asked of him.

It was tempting to have Zorro destroy the device but Ty didn't want to chance putting him in worse danger than the already had. "Better be safe than sorry," he answered Tandy while carefully grabbing the box it was in and placing it on the floor.

He looked around for something to smash the device with when Zorro took matters in his own hands--rather, his jaws and attacked the box.

"Zorro, no!" Ty exclaimed with worry not reprimand.

It had certainly gotten tricky a time or two when Zorro tried to crawl up onto the couch or bed just to be with them and those times when Tandy didn't have the heart to make him get down. There seemed to be times too when he tried to take over Ty's space instead of Tandy's who had merely tucked herself in against the wall and slept on, somewhat unaware of what was happening.

At least until the glitching started happening and Zorro got very worried over the two of them. Now he was almost trained to sleep on the floor rather than crawl up onto the bed with them and she wondered if it would stay that way now if they managed to fix everything.

Taking a step back, she started to look around for something to smash the device with as well but it seemed Zorro had other plans as he attacked the box. She stepped forward to stop him but she was the one to stop when she heard a crunch a couple of seconds before Zorro spat the now destroyed device on the floor. She looked at Ty warily before quickly moving forward enough to stomp her foot down on the device, breaking it further and grinding it with her heel Then she jumped back like she expected something bad to happen because of it.

The dog seemed to meet his worry with determination. Ty now had a new concern should anyone remotely seem like a threat to them, Zorro might take a limb. ...Tandy might want to warn her trainer on her next session. There wasn't a way to stop a teleporting dog that he could think of.

Tandy looked as if she was going to get Zorro to stop chewing the device until the very clear sound of metal crunching rang in the space where they stood. She immediately went to stomping on it when their dog dropped the device. Both of those who teleported stared with some confusion at her.

"Are we supposed to take it somewhere?" Ty broke the silence and crouched down to take a closer look before standing on it and also stomping on the pieces.

Unbeknownst to her, Tandy was thinking the same thing as she really realized for the first time just how protective their dog was over them. There had been no hesitation on his part to do whatever was needed to do what he thought was the right thing to protect them and she wondered now what would happen to anyone he viewed as a threat. So yes, maybe she should make sure Zorro was with Ty whenever she went off to one of her lessons.

"I don't know, it doesn't really matter now?" She shrugged a little bit as she looked at the device and then at him again. "I mean, do we really want to give them something that could do something to hurt us or others? You and I know all about big shadowy corporations. Maybe it's better to destroy it and leave it at that."

And she stomped on it again, just for good measure.

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