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[wildkotetsu]

[Kotetsu was just on his way to meet Kaede at the school; he's been enjoying that, lately. Something very relaxing, walking your family home. Something maybe he's missed too much (even if he was late a lot). As he reaches the bridge between the two, he's cut off by the droids. Whatever message he was about to send out? It's temporarily placed on hold. His first thought is to keep them away from where people were most frequent (Kaede had to be safe; he couldn't let them get close; god, thank god it's not her they're after this time), so he glows blue and darts off toward the forest. One droid, hidden and prepared, cuts him off and slams into his shoulder, throwing him through the trees. 

The journal falls from a particularly high place, and lands open, flat. At an odd angle, Kotetsu lands on one knee, wiping a bleeding nose with the back of his hand. His frown is deep.]

Kinda' funny that you guys were massaging people's feet a month ago, ain't it?? I'm not going without some kinda' fight. Not when I got people who'll get pissed at me for skipping out on my jobs.

[He growls out something of a battle cry before rushing off screen, kicking off a large clump of earth, and a droid flies across the journal's field of view with a crunch; nothing it couldn't handle, because it's right back to attacking him.]



I got someone I gotta meet, you bastards! I can't be late--!

[Another droid flies, hits a tree. There's metallic thunks, distant and not-so-distant. Kotetsu's blue glow tinges half the recording blue. He was desperate to at least try--try to kick their asses and run them off. What else is there to do but never give up? They were able to fight off the droids before, but they're so damn fast about things.

Even so, he wouldn't give up. He wouldn't give up. He wouldn't--

[A gasp of surprise, caught off-guard.

Well, shit.

And then there's a thunk, but it's more... metal hitting a skull, than a tree. And then the blue glow is abruptly gone.]

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action that was totally on time

[maplemimicry]

[Kaede'd been flipping through the journal as she waited for Kotetsu to pick her up from the school. Not that she couldn't have made it home on her own, but it'd been...rather nice, walking home with him every day. Even if he'd been late sometimes. She's sitting on a bench and swinging her feet, poking around through the recent entries for anything interesting while she waited for him, and that's when she sees it. Her dad, facing down a whole bunch of those robots she'd heard about.]

Dad!!

[She glows blue and takes off in the direction of the forest then and there. So what if he'd told her not to go in there? He was in trouble, and she had to go help him. She wasn't going to let another damn robot try to take her dad away from her.

Kaede arrives on the scene just as the droid knocks Kotetsu out, and she tackles the robot trying to drag him away.]

Let go of him!!

[She beats on it with her Hundred Powered fist, but the small dents she makes aren't enough to make it let go. One of the other robots grabs her by the jacket and pins her against the tree until the first droid is out of sight before dropping her and following.

She manages to land on her feet, but when she tries to chase after the bots, they're long since gone.]

D-dad....

[She falls to her knees, eyes welling up and then spilling over with tears. Kaede had heard about these kidnappings, of course, but she'd never imagined one would happen so soon, and to her father of all people. And of course she hadn't been able to stop it; she was just a kid, right? She wasn't a Hero. But what was she supposed to do now...? Just sit around in the empty apartment and wait for him to come back?

She wants to do something, doesn't want to just give up, but...that's...all she can do. It stings.]