( there are a few more blasts, trying to clear a path before the suit swoops down, flying into the enemies. it needs to be close, to get them, and to be as far away from ray and sarah as she can do. gideon needs them safe.
and then it comes. the signal. the activation. the blast. how effective it is only ray can tell her. she's cut off and, temporarily, unresponsive. what ray can't see is the effect that the self-destruct had on gideon.
she can't focus. her processing capabilities are overwhelmed from the reverberations of the shockwave, an almost feedback being sent back to her from where-- how she'd been connected. it processes as pain, and a lot greater and deeper than the headaches that gideon had previously experienced. her head is ducked, hands having to rest on the console she'd been working on to keep her upright, firmly holding the edges. it's too much.
for all that ray can't see to notice this her may have been able to catch an indication of it verbally. not a cry in pain as a human might give, but a gasp --and the start of a word that had been halted, as if something had overloaded )
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( there are a few more blasts, trying to clear a path before the suit swoops down, flying into the enemies. it needs to be close, to get them, and to be as far away from ray and sarah as she can do. gideon needs them safe.
and then it comes. the signal. the activation. the blast. how effective it is only ray can tell her. she's cut off and, temporarily, unresponsive. what ray can't see is the effect that the self-destruct had on gideon.
she can't focus. her processing capabilities are overwhelmed from the reverberations of the shockwave, an almost feedback being sent back to her from where-- how she'd been connected. it processes as pain, and a lot greater and deeper than the headaches that gideon had previously experienced. her head is ducked, hands having to rest on the console she'd been working on to keep her upright, firmly holding the edges. it's too much.
for all that ray can't see to notice this her may have been able to catch an indication of it verbally. not a cry in pain as a human might give, but a gasp --and the start of a word that had been halted, as if something had overloaded )