Snippet #1190289

Lightning listened to them intently and decided that while they certainly weren’t friends yet, they weren’t enemies. Since she had recently ended up forming a tight group with random strangers she knew how important circumstantial meeting could end up being. When the...viera – Fran - went on alert she automatically laid her hand on the hilt of her gun blade. Then the man – Balthier – drew his gun and pointed it at the enemy. They looked like four reflections but she took it in easily since she had fought some pretty weird stuff in the past months. She signalled to Hope and he moved up beside and snapped out his high tech, bladed, weaponized boomerang and held it at the ready.

Quickly she took out the knife that Sarah had given her for her last birthday and made shallow cuts on both her own cheek and Hope’s. Then she put the knife away and drew her gun blade, hitting the switch that unfolded it and locked it into its form. She wasn’t sure just how much of a clone these people would be so she had done the small cuts as a way to tell the real Hope and Light from the fake ones once they were in the midst of battle. She had no desire to hit the wrong Hope and had an equal dislike for the idea that he could end up blasting a spell at her instead of the fake. The cuts might be completely unnecessary and she had the feeling that they knew each other well enough that even if the clones were nearly perfect they wouldn’t need them, but better to be safe than sorry. Besides they might end up needing them, and it certainly made identification easier.

“Looks like we’ll have to hold our end of the formalities. Hope, you take the other me and I’ll handle the other you. Chances are they only know the fighting style of the ones that they are copies of so we might end up throwing them off balance. If I’m wrong then we also know enough about each other to counter whatever happens.” She kept her voice low as the whole idea of a battle strategy was that the enemy didn’t know it. Hope nodded in response and glanced over at Balthier.

“When this is over I so want you to explain your ship to me.” Light resisted the urge to roll her eyes and did it mentally so that she didn’t lose sight of the enemy. Sometimes Hope was such a nerd, but his statement indicated that he clearly thought they would get out of this just fine. Hope would have her back and she would have his as always, even if they were focusing on different enemies. She assumed the other two were the same – it was what happened when you were partners with someone.