fluxscape | July 3rd: Seek and Destroy

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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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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