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[OPEN] You're Out of Touch

[There's something amiss in Legion World— aside from the obvious hiccups in general time. A bright splash of phosphorescent green and pink, flitting in and out of public space. Eventually the little streak of color slows to a halt: runs clawed fingers across pristine walls, over statues and murals and statues without reverence, just an abundance of fixed curiosity, as though it's all so new.

And for her, it really is.

Across her face, glowing body paint cuts the shape of a stylized skull, making otherwise young features look decidedly more vicious. A notion that's punctuated by her predatory posture and the gun resting openly at her hip.

In front of a heroic depiction of the Legion's finest, she snorts to herself, quietly:]

Where the hell am I?

II: TAGGED TURF

[Graffiti. There's a lot of it, all over the less-used Legion World hallways— and the statues, and occasionally the floors. Variations of 'Tierra de Los Muertos' or 'Sombra', and a few iterations of the telltale skull pattern painted across her cheeks. Where she got the paint is anyone's guess, but she's putting it to good use while she can.

After all, why would anyone even waste their time trying to stop her?]

III: WILDCARD

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The ring.

[ All it would take is a split second, her pulling her eyes away, and it's like he's known how to do this for years. Suddenly he's not standing there at all, or doesn't appear to be, but there's movement. The air shifts, the sound of his footfalls, and then invisible fingers wrapping around Sombra's wrist and twisting the gun aside. Using her own arm as a brace to force her up against the hallway wall and hold her there.

Not hurt her, not more than maybe knocking the breath out of her or squeezing a little too tightly, but. Just holding her there. Must be odd, feeling that presence at your back and seeing nothing. ]

Tch—!! [It's a hissing spit of a snarl, a feral sound as she twists less against his grip and more against her own weight in a bid at pinning down his silhouette before she realizes he's entirely masked from view.

Like her.

Or like she should have been, and so carelessly chose not to be in favor of overconfidence.]

Te parto la madre!! [She drops the gun, using it to mask the way she bears forward into the wall as a brace for the kick she hammers down against where his leg should be, hoping to force him to drop back or lose balance— any opportunity to try and lunge for him instead.]

[ He grunts at the kick, smartly striking against his leg even if he's a little more resilient than he remembers being, but he holds fast. Even as he staggers back, he keeps his hold on her arm, because if he loses his grip, this is going to ugly.

Well, uglier.

She lunges and he twists away, trying to keep himself at her back. ]

[To her credit, she's quick. To his credit, so is he.

Each time she comes close to catching him with her claws, he's already rushing to slip away, a series of near-misses that have her more frustrated by the second: finally, exasperated, she drops her weight for a hard sweep, regardless of how much strain it might put on her shoulder or its joint. She's not afraid of a little pain for a cause, after all.]

[ It catches, and suddenly Sam goes down with a grunt. The second he hits the floor he tries to move, to shift out from under her before she can pounce.

She is, however, remarkably quick. ]

[Free and clear, there's no time wasted before she shifts into invisibility rather than doggedly chasing the attack. Her hardware isn't as advanced as it had been before time tore her past to the present— there's no noise cancellation in her footwear, no teleportation, no perpetual stealth— but with a little luck, it means he'll leave himself open in the process of trying to reorient and guard himself.

There's no underestimating how much value lies in blindsiding your prey.]

[ Alright. Alright that is all kinds of not good, and she'll go for his throat if he lets her. His pulse pounds in his ear as he turns his head, trying to listen for her, and it's...

He's not afraid. No. This is something else entirely.

A second more of thought and he pushes what advantage he has. The ring. She'd neglected it, but he knows what it can do now, and a second later he's lifting off the floor and into the air. She'll have a harder time knocking him off his feet, at the very least. ]

[It helps, but it doesn't stop her from lunging at him: clambering for a grip-point from behind with enough determination to give that ring's ability to float a run for its interglalactic money.

And those nails of hers? They hurt.]

[ He lets out a pained grunt as she leaps up, like some overeager cat, and impulse has him spinning about to try and slam back into the wall.

He's not trying to hurt her, just stun her enough to let go. But damn, if she isn't vicious as all Hell. ]

Get...off of me!

[ Scrub up the paint, he said, it'll be quick. He'd missed a few on that first pass and here he is going through a second time, bucket of suds as he approaches yet another of her damn tags.

The sounds of a scuffle catch up to him right about the time as he bodily thuds into something solid that he can't see and water? Goes FLYING. ]

What the fuck-

[Her tech's homemade: it works, it's reliable, but it's not fresh-off-the-line levels of foolproof. Which means in summary Sombra's setup can handle water, electricity, heat— just not the full, unrelenting brunt of it.

She's got her claws dug in when York trips over them (literally), aching to bring down the unfortunate target of her ire. She's poised to strike when she's doused— alongside the both of them— her invisibility fading with a sharp snap and a dull fizzle that's enough of a short to have her letting go.

She drops to the floor and lands on her heels, half-crouched and soaking wet and not looking happy about it.]

—Seriously??

[ Locus, too, comes crashing down, though he manages to get a knee under him to brace before he's also doused in water.

It drips from his hair, hanging into his face, as he lifts his head to glare at the girl. Then, his eyes shift towards York, and he looks almost vaguely guilty. ]

She started it.

[ A very important point to be made, first and foremost. ]

You! You're supposed to stay out of trouble, that was the deal!

[ It's why he's out here with a bucket of water to clean shit the old fashioned way (some might look at him funny but all the future tech in the world did fuck and all against the paint. Scrubbing with soap and water? Worked.) ]

And you- [ He levers himself up, offering both of them a hand up. ] You know better. Sombra this is Locus- Sam. He's that friend I told you about. Sam this is Azucar- Sombra. Same right back.

Wasn't my fault he decided to be a dick.

[Huffed out more stubbornly than it needs to be, there's still adrenaline flickering in her veins; shaking it for the sake of playing nice is less of a quick stop, and more of a slow roll. She snakes her way out of the heap, using her bare hands to wipe away water where she can find it— phosphorescent paint dripping away as the seconds tick on.

What a waste.

When she finally flicks her eyes over to take in Sam's face (to really take in his face, instead of pegging him for a target) she adds, mildly:]

Doesn't look like much of a friend to me.

You shoved a gun in my face. You're the one who's being...

[ But he cuts himself off before he can actually swear, looking cross and smoothing his hair back out of his face before straightening. They're both soaking, dripping down to the floor, but he looks more tolerant with his current state than she is.

It's York's statement that's proving more difficult to swallow, and his pale eyes dart in the older man's direction with a raised brow. ]

You're sure about that?

I swear to god- [ He takes a slow, calming breath. Counts to ten. ] You need to stop looking at him like he's a target, you need to quit looking at her like she's a threat, and you're both going to wait for me on the beach. Got it?

[ They'll listen and get along long enough for him to finish this shit and straighten things out or...fuck if he knows. ]

Just. Trust me on this. Sam, I know you trust me. [ He swigs his eyes back over to Sombra and stretches his mind for some kind of excuse that'll work for her. ] I'll bring a fresh bottle of tequila. Or five. Just try to play nice- meaning without trying to kill him.

I am a threat.

[Purred out with a slow-burning, toothy little grin that's all for (antagonistic) show: the current that'd hidden beneath Azúcar's sweet exterior, rolled back into its predatory prime.

But her attention drifts soberly back towards York a moment later, the calavera patterning that masked her face now entirely gone, damp hair draped down across one eye.

She stands up. Offers a played-up salute.]

Try not to take too long.

I don't want to get stuck with babysitting duty.

What beach?

[ Don't even acknowledge it. He's angry, but not enough to pursue another fight. If York says they can work this out, then they can, he's just got to avoid her claws until then.

Like a feral cat. Possibly with rabies. ]

Her beach. [ He jerks a thumb at Sombra. ] Lead him there. No mugging, no tagging, no drowning him, no fighting. Just. Talk. Like people do; y'all actually have some shit in common when you're not hissing like cats and dogs.

[ Why is this his life?

He gets what's left of the bucket and heads to the art on the wall, resuming his earlier 'scrub off paint' duty. ]

This won't take long.

[It doesn't take long.

Reaching the beach, plodding over to it wordlessly as though they're in some kind of stalemate. She doesn't pick a fight with 'Sam', but she doesn't figure he's worth her time: York seems like he's telling the truth, and if they really are friends— somehow— it's better for them both if they take a few minutes to come down from one unnaturally rough first meeting.

Still, she isn't idle once they hit the shoreline. It's a nice beach, sure, it's just not her kind of beach. So while Sam does...whatever to pass the time, Sombra takes to rearranging the coded structure of the beach by hand: shifting the coastal skyline to reflect Dorado instead, adding a few tags here and there (York might've said no tagging, but this space is hers, she gets to use it however she wants).

Picking through the coded lines in front of her, Sombra glances back over the curve of her shoulder, infinitely more human-looking now that all the painted bones have been washed away.]

So what's your deal, anyway?

[ Sam, meanwhile, looks the beach over for stones he can throw into the lapping edge of the water, watching them disappear beneath the foam. He's quiet, he's always been relatively quiet by nature, but it's clear he's still watching Sombra from the corner of his eye.

He's no fool. ]

You're going to have to be more specific.

[ It feels like bait. He's not the most socially graceful, and she's got a quick tongue and a quick temper. All he needs is to waltz into some conversational bear trap she's laying down for him. ]

If we're friends, there's got to be something you're good for.

[Or good at, or know about, or—

She stops working, abandoning a recently added mural to Los Muertos added along Dorado's portside seawall: a colorful, neon series of drawings and threats all purposefully intertwined. If someone wanders in here? They'll know exactly where they are.

And who they're dealing with.]

[ He considers that a moment. Friends due to necessity. York hadn't mentioned that, and he didn't know how well that sat with him, but...

Frowning, he picked up another pebble, smoothed it over in his fingers. ]

Pick a spot.

[ And he nodded towards the wall, covered in tags and colorful paint that she'd so painstakingly placed. ]

[She could make it easy on him— it's a long ways off by default, that wall— but instead, after pursing her lips in thought for a moment, she flicks a clawed hand up towards the highest point of where the wall juts forward at an angle, digitally painting a little skull-laden 'x' for a target. Position-wise, it's facing away from him just enough to be a challenge. Maybe impossible.

But if he fails, at least it'll be interesting.]

Knock yourself out, amigo.

[ There's a moment of observation, taking in the needed trajectory. The height, the angle, the stirring of wind. He narrows his eyes a moment in thought, turning the pebble over again.

And then he turns his back. Lets her see him do it before winding back, only at the last second swiveling to pitch the pebble with the necessary force. There's no way he could have lined up that shot in that short of a spin.

Ding! Right on target. ]

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