Talk:Dalton "Hunter" Gallant

Confrontation with Dixie Kwill
Deep within the confines of a GUN base not too far away from Station Square, A purely white furred cat takes a step back from a complicated looking array of wires, looking mildly frusterated.

"C'mon..." The cat muttered under his breath, "It worked the last time I wired it like this..." As if on cue, the wires spark several times, then a dull humming is heard nearby. The engineer-cat punched the air in victory, then stopped the clock on the table behind him before looking at it. "Faster than last time too!" After a few more minutes of celebrating, the cat powered down the machine in frount of him and set to removing the wires from the board in frount of him, humming an aimless tune as he worked.

[Suddenly, a huge BANG resonates from upstairs, followed by a riotous cacophony of noise. A bit of smoke leaked through the cracks in the ceiling above him.]

The cat looked up and sighed. "Can't the demolitions unit find a new place to test thier new toys..?" Shaking his head in annoyance, he sets the last of the wires back in thier proper places for the next guy to practice with before heading to the nearest elevator to see what the Demo-Crew blew up this time.

[The scene that greets him is a little more chaotic than he thought; smoke fills the air and soldiers run around like headless chickens, some with spines sticking out of them from all angles. The cat can just spy a mysterious figure in a hood, skirt and boots racing away through the haze.]

The cat looks at the scene before him for a full minute, before comming-to when the elevator doors close in his face. After a few more seconds of bewilderment and asking himself "What do I do..?" he makes a decision and opens the elevator doors. Knowing full and well that this attacker is most likely interested in dispatching as many of his brothers-at-arms as they possibly could, he decides to draw thier attention in order to prevent further casualties.

"BRING IT ON TERRORIST B*ST*RD!!!" The engineer bellowed, releasing a silent spell that clears the mist, followed by two more that change his coveralls out for his normal street-clothes and activate an aura known as "Prayer," which marks the fur under his eyes a light, mildly glowing, blue, respectively.

[The figure stops at the loud declaration, spinning on her heel and looking at Dalton for a moment. She giggles and mimes blowing a kiss before taking off at top speed, daring him to chase her.]

Contrary to what the Hedgehog may have thought, this cat is no fool, and is under no illusions when it comes to his own limits. So, instead of chasing the intruder he could never hope to out-pace, he simply walks out into the center of the room, paws glowing and eyes closed.

[There is a pause, and the figure returns, head tilted questioningly.]

???: ...that's it?

There's a loud POP in answer as the cat suddenly blinks into existance in frount of his foe, thrusting both of his paws towards her torso at high speed, set to let loose a Focus Blast on contact!

[The hedgehog laughs as the attack plows into her stomach, shredding her hoodie and sending her careening down the hallway to smash into a wall with an audible crack.]

???: Ooh, that's a good one! C'mon, man, what else you got? [she pulls out two small crossbows]

"More than you're ready for, b*tch!" The cat yelled back, breaking into a full on run towards the Hedgehog with his paws glowing dangerously.

[She giggles, and shakes her head, pulling several of her spines free and loading them rapidly.]

???: Oh, come on, I didn't even kill ''anyone! ''I think you're overreacting a little bit, yeah?

"You call defending my home and my brothers over-reacting?!"

POP. Now he's on the ceiling, charging what seem to be a pair of Aura Spheres.

???: I call losing your sh!t over some brainwashed slaves of the system being roughed up a little overreacting. [She blows a raspberry at him as she fires several spines at him.]

"SLAVES?!"

What happens next the hedgehog doesn't get to see clearly simply because of how fast it transpires, but she sure as heck can hear it. There's a series of POPs so fast that it sounds almost like a string of firecrackers went off, after which the cat is almost directly in her face with a spine or two sticking out of his torso and arms, the hands of which slam their glowing orbs into her own torso.

[Laughing as she is sent spinning across the room again, the hedgehog giggles and climbs shakily to her feet]

???: Oh, that one felt good! Haven't hurt like that in a while!

"THEN THIS'LL FEEL GREAT!!" The still infuriated GUN agent bellows, hurling the glowing spheres of energy at the wounded hedgehog.

???: Ah-ah-ah! [She giggles again, and dodges skillfully out of the way] Buy me a drink first, wouldja? [she turns on her heel and races down the hall, heading towards what Dalton knows is a dead end]

With a roar, Dalton gives chase, several aura-marks appearing on his arms at the same time.

[The hedgehog races down the corridor, Dalton right behind her, until she comes to the end of it: a large glass wall, and they're quite high up now. Nowhere to go but back past Dalton, it seems...]

Guessing the hedgehog's intentions, Gallant charges another pair of spheres.

[She looks around, casting her gaze over the whole room, planning.]

???: Hmm... Well, looks like I'm in a bit of a pinch, yeah?

Dalton doesn't bother with a refined response, instead electing to roar yet again while hurling the orbs at his fleeing quarry before POPing in front of her to slash at the hedgehog with those spines she shot at him not even a full minute ago!

[It's futile, however; she dodges skillfully around all his attacks, and her body begins to glow with a red energy.]

???: Well, I gotta go. I'll see you around, yeah? Later!

[She tauntingly blows him a kiss before throwing herself straight through the glass as it shatters into a milllion pieces and goes hurtling towards the ground.]

If Dalton were in his right mind, he would have let her go then, but then again, he doesn't regularly roar and mean it, does he? No, instead of doing the sane thing and using an elevator, or Blinking from floor to floor, he jumps out after her, paws burning brighter than ever!

???: [her eyes widen] Well, you're persistant- [hits the ground with force, leaving a small indent as she gasps]

Dalton impacts on top of her, sphere he was charging shattering and embedding painful shards of mana in both of their bodies as it is crushed between them.

???: [battered, broken and bruised, gives him a cheeky grin] Okay, okay, you win this round. Calm your farm.

Though she may have conceded defeat, it appears he in no better shape than her as he struggles to even lift himself off her. "N-note to s-self: d-don't do that again..." With a groan of combined effort and pain, he manages to roll himself off her just as some much more level headed agents rush out with their weapons, sending one back inside for some medics while the others stand gaurd once they realize it's already over.

???: [giggles a little, then her giggles erupt into full-blown laughter] Oh, that was fun! Can we do that again?!

Beside her, the cat just shakes is head in disbelief, the adrenaline wearing off. "You're... Insane..."

???: [rolls onto her side, grinning at him] Completely.

He just turns his head to loot at her, exhausted. "Also... I'm no slave..." Just as he says this the medics finally rush out, carting them off on separate litters.

???: Oi! Bugger off! I'll be fine in a minute! [she wriggles a little, glowing with red energy again, and tears right through the bottom of the stretcher]

A voice sounds just behind the medics.

"If that's the case..." Before the hedgehog can gather herself a pair of inhibitor-cuffs are slapped on her wrists, stopping the glow dead. "The we can take you straight to holding instead." And with that a pair of strong hands grab her by the shoulders and cart her off.

???: [looks a little startled] Well, you boys are certainly getting better at this. Last time you just stood around and looked out the window while I buggered off.

"That was a ground-forces base. Got rocks for brains, I swear..."

???: Oh, fair enough. Anyway. [puts on a mock melodramatic face] Put me away, boys; I've been a wicked girl and should never be allowed to see the light of day again. [quiet giggle]

The man just shakes his head before throwing her into a simple cell with a bed, a toilet, and a sink.

???: Nice lodgings. I could get comfy here.

"Good, because you're going to be here a while we assess just how much damage you caused."

???: [nods, and watches the man leave, looking around the cell to see if there are any cameras or anything]

While there are no visible cameras inside there's one outside the shatter-proof glass door pointed on the opposite wall monitoring her movements. Why glass? Because metal bars are better put to use holding the place up, don't you think?

???: Amateurish. [smiles at the camera, but unseen by it, she tenses her neck and imperceptibly shakes a spine loose]

Meanwhile, in the medical wing...

"Hold still! We need to get that stuff out of you!"

"D-don't... L-Lemme reaa-AAAAHHG-bsorb it..!"

"Just leave it in?! Are you mad? Think of the infection!"

"J-just bandage... me as is..."

"No, I refu-"

"Do what the kid says, Jacob."

"I a- what?"

"You heard me."

"B-but wh-"

"Because I ordered you to."

"Y-yes sir..."

[The female hedgehog works the spine into the cuffs, successfully unlocking them; although she gives nothing away to the camera.]

The camera blinks.

???: [stands up and stretches] Well, boys, it's been fun, but I'm hungry. I know a little cafe... [shows off her clearly uncuffed wrists] Same time next month, yeah? [she claps her hands, sending a huge shockwave of red energy that vaporises the camera, the door, and the wall, leaving a giant hole to the outside] Later! [she winks, tossing a little card into the cell before making her escape]

The blast is clearly heard throughout the base, and several agents rush to the scene. One of them picks up the card after recovering from the shock of the discovery.

[It appears to be a calling card, with "to Whitey" written on it, and the back is signed "Dixie Kwill" with a black kiss mark on it.]

The agent looks down at the card, then back at the carnage before them. "Good god..."

Eventually the card is handed down to Dalton after going through countless scans to make sure it doesn't contain any trace of Dixie's destructive energy, whom now has a large bounty on her head and name. The cat, still not fully recovered from their prior encounter, simply stares down at it, wondering what his next move will be.


 * (where should we go from here?)
 * (I dunno, time skip?)
 * (Obviously, but to where?)
 * (*Shruggles* I dunno)
 * (They could run into each other at the shops or something)