Evan looks back to see the soldier, frozen in a position before flying off the bike. The bike, without a rider, crashes into a tree nearby. Ryan barely misses the rubble by sideways wheelieing, and going over the remains of the bike. Stunned, Evan sees the man stumbling around, trying to recover, but definitely out of commission. He beams at Nea, who is still waving the phone charger around wildly.
"Hahaha! That's what you get for trying to mess with..." Evan cuts his sentence short because suddenly, Nea taps him on the shoulder, pointing straight ahead of him. Evan turns back around to see a fallen tree, and yelps in surprise. "AHH!"
He barely manages to duck it. Nea leaps over the obstacle with relative ease but has to rely on the phone charger to lasso herself onto Evan again. Luckily for the landing, his speed slows because Nea's power temporarily leaves him. Once Nea connects to him again, there is a shockwave as Evan's speed increases drastically. Evan lets out a sigh of relief.
"That was close! And you managed to keep a hold of my..." His sentence is interrupted by Nea throwing the phone charger lead at the other two people pursuing them. "...phone charger." Evan's face turns sour.
Ryan points at the remaining dirt bike soldier and signals him to close in on Evan and Nea. The soldier revs up his engine and takes an alternative route to avoid the fallen tree, and he jumps over the group.
Behind, Ryan approaches the almost fallen tree and punches it, breaking it to make a straight path forward, keeping up with their pace as the soldier manages to be side-by-side with the two. Evan gulps.
The soldier gets close and goes to grab Nea with a big swipe, which Nea ducks. The soldier works to get even closer and attempts the action again, and Nea is forced to move in the opposite direction. The process repeats and Nea has to physically jump in one of the grab attempts.
After that, the duo knows that they're one more grab attempt away from being caught. Evan notices vines hanging down from one of the trees that they're approaching. He wills himself and prepares for the jump, uncertain about what will happen. The soldier reaches out, but Evan grabs a vine at the last second, and they loop around the branch. Evan screams nervously whilst Nea screams with adrenaline and glee as they perform the tree loop.
Evan feels relieved to land safely on the ground once again. Nea starts to giggle, having enjoyed the experience. Awkwardly and briefly, it looks like Evan is chasing the soldier now.
"Eheh..."
Behind the soldier, they have more breathing room for the time being. Evan decides it's time to turn in a different direction. Learning from the vine swing he just did, he grabs onto another one but this time swings around a corner to the left, wrapping around a tree. Ryan and the remaining soldier similarly take a sharp left, pursuing Evan.
Seeing how Nea's idea worked, Evan also decides to use objects around him to his advantage. He picks up a large stick and tosses it behind his back. It rolls behind him, and although it throws off the balance of the remaining soldier's bike, there is no effect. He then picks up something that looks like a stick...but turns out to be a snake. He doesn't process the error until he sees the moving form in his hand and a hiss from the animal.
"SNAAAAAAAAAAAKE!" screams Evan in the same high-pitched voice as before. Nea laughs silently. Without hesitation, he throws it backward and it hits the soldier in the chest. The snake slithers around the soldier's shoulders.
"GET IT OFF! ARGH!" The remaining dirtbike soldier yells. It eventually falls off of him. Evan then grabs some dirt from the ground which is also thrown at the soldier.
Despite having a visor, the soldier's vision is still moderately impaired. Nea picks up on this and sees a big, hefty branch ahead on the ground. She grabs onto the branch and pulls it with her until it's ready to be flung backward. She lets go of it and the branch flies backward onto the bike, knocking the soldier off the vehicle and into the dirt. His body tumbles around as he is knocked unconscious by the fall.
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Kindred Connection
AdventureA tragic history of an unknown tribe is almost entirely wiped out of extinction 100,000 years ago from our present-day by a devastating creature within the Earth's core known as Calamity. This magnificent tribe who were known as the Novalites contai...