Leia wasn't caught off guard this time, and braced against the attempt to invade her mind. It didn't help much. Still, if the entity hoped to frighten her, it didn't work. Even as the illusion engulfed her again, she remained steady. Pity, sympathy, and empathy remained, and certainty joined them. The entity could definitely bury her in illusions, but ultimately that was all they were, and when they faded, she would remain.
She didn't attept to strike back against the entity the way she once might have, but neither did she surrender. She made the entity work for it as much as possible, in a process that felt much longer to her than it actually took in reality.
But in only a moment of real time, Leia the Voidtrecker was subsumed by Leia, special agent of D-Force and high-powered telekinetic. Even her clothing got a makeover, from something a civilian would wear, to a light-weight uniform with a prominent D-Force ID badge. It was meant much more for ease of movement than combat readiness, but then Leia was hardly suited to be a brawler, and her powers and marksmanship let her easily work from a distance most of the time.
She'd been called in to track this particular fugitive ever since he'd set off that fist bomb, both in hopes of apprehending him and in hopes that with her tracking skills he'd make some sort of mistake that would lead them to his Voidtrecker friends. Both would be ideal, but she would take just one if the opportunity presented itself.
And it just had. She'd been ready to apprehend him on her own as soon as the dust settled from his latest attack, but she would hardly say no to backup. Powerful and skilled though she was, she was hardly in her prime any more, and this criminal was particularly dangerous and unpredictable.
As her colleague spoke, Leia emerged from the alley where she'd been waiting, expression hard. "I suggest you take her up on that offer," she added. "It's been a very long day for all of us, and we're not likely to be especially gentle if you choose to resist."
It would be immediately clear that something wasn't right. This wasn't at all what they'd rehearsed, and Leia was definitely not looking or behaving as expected, and she wouldn't have changed things up so late in the game. That plus Sunset's vanishing would point to trouble with a capitol 'T'. The question was, what did Loki intend to do about it?
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She didn't attept to strike back against the entity the way she once might have, but neither did she surrender. She made the entity work for it as much as possible, in a process that felt much longer to her than it actually took in reality.
But in only a moment of real time, Leia the Voidtrecker was subsumed by Leia, special agent of D-Force and high-powered telekinetic. Even her clothing got a makeover, from something a civilian would wear, to a light-weight uniform with a prominent D-Force ID badge. It was meant much more for ease of movement than combat readiness, but then Leia was hardly suited to be a brawler, and her powers and marksmanship let her easily work from a distance most of the time.
She'd been called in to track this particular fugitive ever since he'd set off that fist bomb, both in hopes of apprehending him and in hopes that with her tracking skills he'd make some sort of mistake that would lead them to his Voidtrecker friends. Both would be ideal, but she would take just one if the opportunity presented itself.
And it just had. She'd been ready to apprehend him on her own as soon as the dust settled from his latest attack, but she would hardly say no to backup. Powerful and skilled though she was, she was hardly in her prime any more, and this criminal was particularly dangerous and unpredictable.
As her colleague spoke, Leia emerged from the alley where she'd been waiting, expression hard. "I suggest you take her up on that offer," she added. "It's been a very long day for all of us, and we're not likely to be especially gentle if you choose to resist."
It would be immediately clear that something wasn't right. This wasn't at all what they'd rehearsed, and Leia was definitely not looking or behaving as expected, and she wouldn't have changed things up so late in the game. That plus Sunset's vanishing would point to trouble with a capitol 'T'. The question was, what did Loki intend to do about it?