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Storms Make Cowards Of It All

WHO: Tommy Shepherd, You
WHERE: Diner, Around Temba
WHAT: Storm related panic attack, Heroics both good and failing
WHEN: October 10th-12th for first prompt, October 13th otherwise
WARNINGS: TW: panic attacks, blood, mouth related body horror, 'animal' attacks

I. Cowardly Behaviors | CW: Panic attack

Storms are the worst. Storms mess with Tommy's head like nothing else does. His powers are who he is, and the amount of times they've been taken away lately have been pretty upsetting. Which of course is why Tommy does the only thing he knows how to do. He hides. Hides in a corner of his new apartment over the diner, hiding under a blanket and shaking.

He's powerless and that scares him. Always scares him. Keeps getting him injured. Keeps reminding him he's worthless without what he can do. So he hides and tries to breathe because his whole body seems like it wants to shake out of his skin. And that's just how it goes.

This is just how his sanity goes.

II. Being A Hero | CW: 'animal attacks', possible explosions, possible blood

Power surges into his system and Tommy does the first thing he can think of. He takes off into the city, running at full speed.

Simple fact of the matter is that he wants to be a hero. More than that, you can do a hell of a lot of damage with speed. Force equals mass times acceleration. A lot of force happens when even someone wiry and slight like Tommy was bowls into something with an outstretched fist at sixty miles an hour. He's heard at mach three you basically turn a person into paste.

Really, the demodog deserves it, and Tommy has no issue at all booting it away from it's intended victim like he's a fucking... Whatever the name for the dude in football who kicks the ball when they kick it is called. Don't ask him. He doesn't watch sports.

"Well, that was fun," he says as he watches the creature go sailing limply through the air. No way it would get up wherever it landed. Then he looks to the person he rescued. "You okay? See or hear any others around?"

Because there always seemed to be others around.

III. When The Hero Needs Saved

What Tommy wasn't expecting once the powers came back in was for them to suddenly fail him again. Especially not when he had been hunting something. Something taller than him. Something with a big, screaming, flower-petal face.

"Shit," he curses as he feels it all flee him again. And he tries to back away.

"Shit," he says again as he throws himself at a tree, trying to haul himself up into it.

IV. Wildcard
[OOC: Tommy's heading into the Upside-Down on the 14th through the Fountain Gate. And he's a hero that specializes in emergency rescues. So if someone needs a rescue during the Mindflayer fights. If someone needs to be rescued and taken out for a doctor, we can wildcard Tommy showing up to rescue.]

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Yeah, it really does. Tommy's done that. He reaches an arm down, hoping to offer the guy an arm up.

"Yeah, that's basically been my whole damn day."

Sonic isn't great at jumping right now due to no powers + busted leg, but he manages to hop high enough to grab Tommy's hand while he tries to scramble up this tree.

"Ugh, this is so frustrating! All I wanna do is run into monsters really hard and not throw my back out when I do it!"

Speaking of monsters, it's making a horrible angry monster noise now, so that's fun.

Tommy is glad to haul him up to wait until their powers come back.

"Welcome to energy storms. They're always miserable. They don't tend to flicker like this though. It's been weird."

"I guess its better than not having them at all, unless they go out in the middle of a fight..."

Sigh, of course they can't have nice things. Once he's up on a higher branch, he scans the area for their new monster buddy, or any more that may be coming to check out the commotion.

"I wasn't sure exactly what to expect going into this, but things trying to eat me wasn't at the top of my list. They haven't managed to chomp you too, have they?"

"Yeah, middle of the fight is absolutely the problem," he sighs. And that makes him so fucking annoyed.

"No, they haven't chomped me yet. I'm so very lucky about that. And it's been a miracle so far."

"Good, I'm glad you've had better luck than me! It's not great, I don't recommend it."

He hikes his leg up on the branch and fiddles with the bandage, grimacing at the fresh red spots forming across the white fabric. Looks like a dumbass opened some old wounds.

"Ugh, probably should have listened to that Steve guy."

"Normally my luck in storms is total shit, so I'll take what small victories I can get," he admits as he looks down below.

"Which Steve? The high and mighty one, or the teen?"

"Uhhh... Didn't realize we had more than one. He was real skinny but said that was because of the storm? Nice guy, I just hope he's not right about my leg."

Sonic also looks down groundward. "...Those thigs can't climb, can they?"

"Because of the storm huh? I guess that's Rogers, the high and mighty one. He's a good guy."

Can they climb? Tommy frowns. He really doesn't know.

"I mean, there's bats. So that's a problem."

"High and mighty, huh. I wasn't picking up on that, but he was giving off some strong 'big bro' vibes."

Well they're about to find out if that big flowerfaced weirdo can climb, because it's spotted them and scrumbles over to try doing just that!

"I haven't seen any bats lately, but y'know, this is fine! We're definitely going to survive this! Uhhh..."

He's just gonna try to snap off a branch to waggle at the monster to try to keep it from coming after them? But he has twiggy arms and can't get the branch to snap THEY'RE GOING TO BE FINE!!!

"He's something like that, yeah," he says with a nod. "That's rogers alright. But high and mighty is a thing he does too. He's not always wrong either."

AH. Monster Tommy frowns.

"Higher up?"

"I can buy that, he seems like the type. Anyway, yeah, I'd say up is ideal."

He carefully stands up and tries reaching for a branch above him, but alas it is just out of reach.

"Y'know, trees never used to feel so big before."

Before, when he could just run up the side of them.

Tommy lifts himself easily up to the higher branch and then leans down to offer Sonic his hand.

"Don't worry, man. I've got you."

Sonic isn't even a tiny bit worried! He steadies himself and hops up to grab Tommy's hand flawlessly, excellent teamwork!

Unfortunately, their monster buddy does, in fact, know how to climb trees. Sonic grabs Tommy's hand, and the monster grabs Sonic's foot. Cue panic.

"AHHHTOMMYITLEARNEDHOWTOCLIMB!!!"

"Shit shit shit," Tommy says as he tries to haul Sonic up. "Hold on buddy. I'll get you safe."

How? HOw the fuck!?

Haha who knows!

Sonic tries kicking at the monster's wrist, but seeing as the only free leg he has is his injured one, there's not a lot of power behind it. Each strike is punctuated by an 'ow', clearly this isn't going well.

New strategy. He manages to snap a dead twig off the tree, it's long enough to whack the monster in it's weird head with. Again though, there's not a lot of power behind the swings because he's just a weird little guy right now.

"It's fine! It's fine! Maybe if I annoy it enough it'll let go!"

It's not fine haha.

This is so not fine. Tommy frowns. he doesn't know what to do here. So he grabs Sonic's other hand. Or grabs for it.

"If I can just get you close I could kick it."

Maybe that will be enough.

Sonic had his arm up to take another swing at yikes face, so Tommy shouldn't have any trouble grabbing it. Sonic drops his twig but it really wasn't helping anyway.

"Tommy, I want you to know you're my friend and I trust you, but this idea sucks! I don't have any better ones though, so go for it!"

As if to emphasize how much this sucks, the monster gives Sonic's leg a hard yank. Time for the worst game of tug of war ever?

"Yeah well I'm not the ideas guy unless I have several weeks to think about it in. And without powers..."

He doesn't have those weeks. So he grabs Sonic's other hand, takes a deep breath, and does something truly stupid. He slips himself back over the limb. It puts him into a fall but there's enough weight now to pull Sonic up some. That's got to suck. And enough for Tommy to swing down and kick at the creature's ugly face. They'll have a whole other problem when the thing releases Sonic but what else can he do?

Oh it definitely sucks. It's the worst suck Sonic has ever experienced. Ignore the weird phrasing.

Sonic yelps in pain now that he's stretched from both ends like some kind of pointy blue slinky, but the monster is just as surprised by this turn of events as he is, so that's good! It takes a foot right to the head and lets go of Sonic's leg, falling to the ground below.

Now it's time to tangle with that whole other problem.

Yeah, the other people of falling to another branch below problem. Ouch, that is going to hurt. So Tommy lets Sonic's hands go. Maybe the hedgehog will catch the higher branch. Tommy will have to just run.

Sonic doesn't catch the branch so much as get his skull mashed onto it, but it still counts. A bit dazed, he manages to hoist himself up into it and he clings to it like his life depends on it. Then he realizes that Tommy isn't up here with him and panics, frantically looking groundward for his good buddy.

"Tommy!" Oh God oh man he fell out of the tree and he's gonna GET EATEN ISN'T HE.

Yeah, he might. God, this hurts so damn much. He's groaning on the ground and the demogorgon is starting to move and he is not yet.

"Alright then," he says with a groan. He's got to move. He's got to move. Move dammit.

Wow somehow this got even worse! Amazing.

"Get up! Run!!"

Yelling isn't helping, sure, but what else is he going to do right now? He's small and stupid and if he jumps out of this tree he's just going to break his legs and get eaten and then Tommy's going to get eaten, but doing nothing obviously isn't a good strategy.

He starts trying to climb down, not that he can do much. This is kind of the worst.

Yes, it's even worse. Tommy groans and pushes up and then yeah, the creature is pushing up. Pained and shaken Tommy raises a hand up.

And there is a surge then, a surge of power. His powers. But he's still too busy to use it. Maybe, though, Sonic was better now too.

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