Wooded Unexplored Area, Saturday Evening

[thatsweirdright]

Jason was still relatively new to the whole heroing thing, so he wasn't quite sure if there was something in particular he was supposed to be doing right about now. Roaming around town looking for stuff to fight had worked okay with the sharks, so he figured that was probably a good start. A bit more within his skill set than hanging out in the library doing research, anyway.

[ooc: for one in particular, but can be open, sure!]

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[thatsweirdright]

"I'm not," Jason said, firmly. "Not yet, anyway. And I don't plan on being so anytime soon."

[cracked_n_corrupt]

"Plans," Peridot spat, shaking her head. "What good are plans?"

She turned her head to stare up at him with those empty eyes of hers.

"Shatter me, shatter the Earth, it's all the same. Promises won't matter anymore."

[thatsweirdright]

Mindless putties, a giant monster made of gold, even Rita; those had all been, well, the physical fights had been difficult, but it hadn't been hard to motivate himself to do so.

This... Peridot was a friend. Jason took a deep breath, pulling his arm back before letting loose with another punch.

[cracked_n_corrupt]

Another punch was enough. Peridots were made of sturdy stuff, but when their Gems were damaged as badly as this one's was, holding oneself together was harder than it was ever meant to be.

She gasped, eyes going wide, and just stared up at Jason for a couple of seconds, like a horrified freeze-fame of herself.

And then her body exploded into smoke, and her broken Gem fell harmlessly into the fallen leaves below it.

[thatsweirdright]

And as her body exploded into smoke, Jason fell to the ground with a thump as there was suddenly no Peridot beneath him.

He laid there for a few seconds, just... just trying to breathe.

His armor dissolved in a shower of sparks as he reached out for that cracked Gem.

"I'm sorry," he whispered to it as he stood up, tucking it in to his jeans pocket with his own red gem.

He turned and started to head back to the dorms. Strangely enough, wandering around looking for something to fight had lost all of its appeal.