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"I think I'm gonna have to call it," Yue grunted to Alex, settling back onto her haunches. Her right arm was hanging limply at her side. "Sai, your suit dislocated my shoulder!" She called out over the lip of the crater with a note of dissatisfaction.

"Hmm," muttered Sairyn. The sound of furious tapping on a slate screen lilted over them for a moment. Yue shifted uncomfortably as she got to her feet, cradling her shoulder against the harsh numbness pulsing down her arm. "Looks like the tolerances on the shock channels are off. I'll adjust them when I do the other calibrations."

"Ugh," she muttered. "I need something else to wear then, since my other armor is in pieces," she complained, leaping up to the lip of the crater with a gentle of flash of crimson. She exhaled heavily, trying to leverage her shoulder back into place when she noticed the maw full of jagged teeth flying towards her.

Yue flinched hard, and a spike of adrenalin accompanied with an unfamiliar feeling in her gut suspended Jemma in the air before her. She'd been exhaling and releasing her power as she landed, so there was no electric crackle. No lightning sensation buzzing through her nerves... she couldn't even force her body to take a breath. Yue was frozen in time, only able to watch in agonizing slow motion as Jemma drifted sluggishly across the gap between them.

"Oh," she managed, just as Jemma slammed into her and drove her into the earth at the opposite edge of the crater. Yue struggled in a near panic beneath Jemma's weight dragging on for what felt like minutes. She was still accelerated. It had only been a couple seconds. The armor was holding, for the most part. The impact resistant gel absorbed the brunt of the hit, though one or two of Jemma's claws had managed to slide between the armored plating and bite into her skin. Yue wondered what to do for a long time before she managed to catch her breath. Strength and mobility was returning to her limbs which was helping her calm down.

"I'm okay! I'm okay!" Yue called out, mostly to Alex as she fell back into real time. She tensed like she was going to fight back for a moment, and then seemed to think better of it. She'd seen Jemma behave like this before during the diner attack and was struck with an idea. Yue relaxed under Jemma and trusted the armor, reaching up to pet her neck reassuringly with her good arm. "Sshh, sshhh. I didn't hurt him. I promise he's fine." There was a long, uncertain pause between them before Sairyn's voice broke the silence. He was on his feet, staring at the horror mouth agape.

"Oh! Oh, I see it now! There's a significant lag in the recovery of the impact layer, that's why you're experiencing so much feedback on successive hits, Fang!" He called over the crater excitedly. "I can probably fix that! Thanks Jemma!"