Fix My Mechanical Heart

[IceQueen]

Kiora smiled. "And you are going to whish you hadn't said that." She said, zipping out of the garage so fast that it was hard to notice her. She jumped off the ground and into the air, her wings unfolding as she flew into the sky.

 

[grey987]

Hardly able to register Kiora's moving speed, Mark acted quickly as he boosted forward out of the garage and chased after her. "Damn, she's fast," he muttered to himself as he climbed up the side of a building and ran across the rooftop. This was going to be quite a chase.

 

[IceQueen]

Hollow looked at him on the top of a building and she soared away from him. She waited for him, halfway across the city almost taunting him from far away. She smiled and waited for him, shaking her head.

 

[grey987]

"You are such an asshole!" Mark shouted as he charged towards Kiora more aggressively. He was now determined more than ever to catch up to her.

 

[IceQueen]

Kiora smiled and dodged out of his way. "Nice try~" she cooed, zipping to another building, waving a hand at him.

 

[grey987]

"Stay still for one damn second..." Mark growled, zigzagging between two buildings with the help of his thrusters before charging forward again, intending to tackle Kiora.

 

[IceQueen]

Kiora dodged easily. "I told you, it's hard to catch me." She said. She taunted him some more by pretending to clean her nails as she stared at them, looking at him from the corner of her eye.

 

[grey987]

Mark now simply stood and stared at Kiora, deciding to wait it out. While he could catch up, that would require near excessive use of his thrusters and that would not only wear him down but disorient him as well. So he tried seeing what she would do if he stopped chasing after her.

 

[IceQueen]

Kiora smiled and looked at him. "Had enough?" She asked lightly, drawing out her blades from the thighs, the ends unfolding into large katana's. "Because I was just getting started."

 

[grey987]

Mark smirked from where he stood inside the mech, closing his fists once before opening them up again. "Come on. Let's see what you've got."

 

[IceQueen]

Kiora smiled as she prepared to do the fastest run by, but instead she shot upwards, falling as she reached her peak height, slashing at his body as she zipped by at around 200 mph.

 

[grey987]

Kiora was quick, Mark was willing to give her that. But he'd already anticipated that she'd try a move like that. Despite her managing to etch a cut into the front of Hunter, he sidestepped the attack and spun around, slamming his elbow into her back. He then boosted forward and bashed into Kiora with his shoulder.


"How's that for ya, hot stuff?" Mark laughed, boosting backwards in order to keep his distance once she got up.

 

[IceQueen]

Kiora had known it was a risky move, and she had gambled, and lost. Seeing her health drop to critical as she was launched towards the ground with a thud. This knocked her head into the front of her mech, making a large gash as she went unconscious.

 

[grey987]

When Kiora lay on the ground, unresponsive, Mark tilted his head. He couldn't lie: he began to get worried. "Kiora?" he asked. There was still no answer from her.


"Oh crap," he hissed, boosting forward towards Kiora. He turned her over so that she was now lying face-up, and tore the helmet of her mech off, where he immediately noticed the gash on her forehead. Mark wasted no time in hoisting Kiora over his shoulder, heading back to the apartment where he could get her wound fixed.


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Later, with Kiora still lying unconscious on the couch in the living room, Mark busied himself with cleaning the gash, rubbing a cloth soaked in water over it slowly.


I should have been more careful, he thought to himself, looking around for a bandage when he'd finished. He eventually found one in the bathroom's medicine cabinet, and he placed it gently over her forehead. Looking at her for a while longer, he went to go sit on a chair by the fireplace, leaning his head back and closing his eyes to take a nap as he waited for Kiora to wake up again.

 

[IceQueen]

Kiora woke up a while later, pressing a hand to her right eye. 'Hmm?" She said, sitting up and scrunching up her face. 'How am I here?" She asked quietly, looking around.

 

[grey987]

Mark opened his eyes slowly and sat up straight, noticing that Kiora was up. "Ah, you're awake. Uh... that was my bad," he said guiltily, rubbing the back of his head. "I hit you a little too hard during our sparring match. You got a cut on your head and you went unconscious, so I brought you back here to fix you up."

 

[IceQueen]

Kiora felt around her head, feeling the smooth bandage. She blushed a bit. "Thanks." she said, looking away from him. "That is how I move so fast. I put my mortal body in harms way. I get bruises all the time, but I have never done well against opponents that are offensive. They are always so strong." She said.

 

[grey987]

Mark stared at the floor, shaking his head before looking back up at Kiora. "You should have told me that before we fought," he told her with a mildly scolding tone. But at the same time, there was an almost surprising hint of concern in it too. "What you're doing is dangerous. What if you'd been killed?"

 

[IceQueen]

Kiora shrugged. "Not a huge problem. Normally I don't gamble like that in a real fight, especially not then. But then again my trash talk usually gets them so riled they get careless.

 

[grey987]

Mark sighed through his nose. "Yeah, well, there could be the occasional one or two people who aren't. You can't get too cocky or you could get seriously hurt."

 

[IceQueen]

Kiora pursed her lips and looked away. "Whatever." She mumbled, still looking royally mad for being told off by him.

 

[grey987]

Mark continued to look at Kiora blankly for a moment, before letting a small smile tug at the corners of his lips. Quite a rebel she is, he thought to himself.

 

[IceQueen]

Kiora pulled one of the strands of red hair to the front of her face, fiddling with it to distract herself from her red cheeks.

 

[grey987]

Mark tilted his head upon a closer inspection of her face. "Are you blushing?" he asked, a sly grin forming on his face.

 

[IceQueen]

Kiora blushed darker. "No." she snapped at him, turning her head away from him.