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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"Something doesn't bode well with this place," he muttered although there were a handful of skateboarders. "Not that I'm sensing that with my abilities or anything."

Nothing of her memories bothered him other than Shadow being angried she had to go through some of the things she had. Lydia was smart and strong. He knew that the moment they met, her strength only further substantiated by being a single mother in his absence.

He looked in the direction she spoke about where the device should be located. "Maybe it's underneath? In a basement?" he offered while looking around.

"Maybe because it looks like it might fall in some more?" Lydia replied, glancing at the skateboarders too. They were watching them now and then, glancing over curiously as they wondered what the two of them were up to since they were there without skateboards.

"If it is, I'm not going down. That's just screaming for trouble." She hummed as she studied the screen, moving forward slowly to where she could see a spot to jump down. As she peeked over the edge, she noticed there was an opening that looked like a drain. One of the large ones that someone could wander into if they needed.

"Shadow, can you help me down?"

He stared back at the skateboarders who stared at them until they went on about their business. Shadow hadn't meant any harm but under the circumstances, looked like someone none of them would want to anger.

"Yeah," he answered and finally broke from staring down the onlookers. Only when Shadow looked to where Lydia was referring to, his head shook in disapproval. "Unless you can see what's down there, I'll go first and catch you. Or I'll lower you but hold onto you until you can see what's there."

Lydia remained quiet as he stared the skateboarders down, knowing full well that he was using his size and his presence to intimidate them just in case they had any ideas for causing trouble. It didn't surprise her when they all looked away, deciding to focus on their skateboarding and chatting rather than paying the two any mind. It made her smile briefly as she reached to give his arm a gentle squeeze before turning away.

She was peeking over the side, gauging the drop when he told her that he wasn't going to just drop her down. Which, again, didn't surprise her.

"Okay, you can go down first as long as you're careful," Because his safety mattered as much to her as hers did to him. "Maybe peek into the drain and see if you can spot the device we're looking for?"

Her smile elicited one from him. Albeit, soft but genuine and as smitten as ever. They were assessing the location she felt they needed to get to when Lydia agreed to let him go first. He gave her a nod and began to lower himself into the spot.

"There's something flashing," he called up to her after a look into the drain. Shadow stepped further in for a look around then moved back to where he could catch or help Lydia down if she chose to join him. "Looks clear down here."

The way he smiled at her was one of the reasons that Lydia was as equally smitten with him. Shadow wasn't afraid of showing the fact that he cared about her. If anything, he seemed to crave the affection between them and she was happy to reciprocate.

She moved further down, following him quietly until they found a spot where it wouldn't be such a drop or so hard for him to help her down. It took a bit of maneuvering since, of course, she was wearing a skirt but they managed it when her feet touched the same ground he was standing on a moment later.

Making their way back to the drain, she peeked in before nodding and looking at him. "I think that's it. It's in the right spot."

He could hold her with one arm and not be showing off. Shadow wasn't the type to brag unless joking or pulling off a con which he wasn't doing either with Lydia at the moment.

In fact, it had been a long time that he'd done a con at all. He preferred a con over all the fighting he'd been in the middle of but at least the practice helped while they were in a place like Haven.

Shadow caught Lydia and set her easily down in one swift motion. They headed to the drain where she confirmed it was the device. He bent over and grabbed the grating with both hands, using strength to remove it. "We destroy it, right?" he confirmed with her immediately after.

Anyone who looked at Shadow would think that he was strong, but Lydia knew just how much. She knew he could pick her up with very little effort on his part which was a strangely nice feeling since it made some part of her feel small and delicate. Which was a feeling she would normally scoff at since she wanted to be a strong, independent woman but no one had to know but the two of them.

"That would be the idea whether they said to or not," She replied, waiting for him to move the grating away before she squatted and started to reach down into the hole. She felt his eyes on her which drew her gaze upward since she knew he wanted to stop her. "There is no way your hand would fit."

Even as she told him as such, she continued to reach until her fingers were brushing against the device and she could get a hold of it. It felt a bit clumsy and awkward as she pulled it up, but she was holding the device out to him a few seconds later. "Here."

There was no hiding the worry on his face as she reached down even if she was right about his hand not fitting. It wasn't that Lydia needed someone to take care of her, she had endured a pregnancy and the first year alone with their son while working and going to school. The memories he'd seen had only substantiated what he knew about her. She was stronger than anyone might think by looking at her.

Just because terrible things had happened to Lydia, it didn't stop her from smiling or sharing affection with him and Leo. She was beautiful and intelligent... Shadow could go on and on. He might have had concern about her reach for the device but trusted for Lydia to do her share.

He took the device when she handed it to him and bashed it along the wall immediately after. "There. I think that's the end of that."

It wasn't just the things that had happened to her that mattered as she had seen a hint of the things that had happened to him and she marveled at times over how he was able to remain the man he was. All the things that had happened to him, all the things he had lost or had been taken from him? She thought it was a miracle that he was as sweet as he was and wanted what he did. It made her appreciate him all the more.

Which was partially why she trusted handing him the device and watching with a small sense of relief when he smashed it against the wall. Then she stood there for a few seconds, almost holding her breath as she waited to see if she would feel anything different but she didn't.

"Maybe the other devices aren't all destroyed yet," She looked up at him before blowing out a little breath and glancing around. "Let's get out of here."

"Then maybe we can look for more and speed up the process," he offered then headed to the exit.

It wasn't that Shadow went unaffected from glitching. The pain was intense but he could take it. He wished he could take Lydia's, prompting his words about finding the rest.

Shadow linked his hands together and crouched down so she could step into his hands to hoist her back up. It was too easy to see up her skirt but the mood wasn't light under the circumstances.

"I thought they had different people designated to go after different devices," Lydia mused as they walked towards the exit. "Let's check the app once we get back up. We should be able to see if there are fewer blips than before."

If the little blips were disappearing off the screen, then she would take that as a good sign meaning that other people were finding the other devices.

Pausing to tuck her phone into the front of her bra, she glanced over at Shadow as he clasped his hands together and crouched down. Placing her hand on his shoulder and the other near the edge, she kept herself steady when he hoisted her back up. Despite his strength and her agility, it was trickier to get back up than it had been to go down.

Still, she chuckled as she glanced back at him. "Are you peeking, Mister Moon?"

Shadow wanted to speed up the process but could also stand to wait how Lydia indicated. As long as they were together and preferably not glitching.

"I mean, why let that view go to waste?" he quipped with a tease in his tone and on his face.

More than lift her back up, Shadow repositioned to palm each of her heels and push her up before reaching to grab a hold so he could pull himself up. Rock climbing or scaling walls weren't something he practiced but his arms had more than enough strength to get back up.

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