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Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 5h

"Damnit damnit damnit damnit DAMNIT."

"How the hell do I keep getting myself into this shit!?"

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 6h

I am now reaching through the fourth wall to STRANGLE YOU.

𝕄𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣⚡𝕠𝕗⚡ℙ𝕦𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕥𝕤 @technomancercat.bsky.social · 6h

Xandr

Still can't get a neck like CorpseGrinder...

Skill issue.

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 6h

HELLO HI I'M THE ONE WHO LISTENS TO POWER METAL.

ME. JET THE HAWK.

I AM TALKING DIRECTLY TO YOUR WRITER. FUCK THE FOURTH WALL.

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 6h

HELLO HI I'M THE ONE WHO LISTENS TO POWER METAL.

ME. JET THE HAWK.

I AM TALKING DIRECTLY TO YOUR WRITER. FUCK THE FOURTH WALL.

𝕄𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣⚡𝕠𝕗⚡ℙ𝕦𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕥𝕤 @technomancercat.bsky.social · 6h

Xandr

Shadow would not be listening to power metal... The hedgehog is 50+ years old, he probably would be listening to The Beatles.

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 7h

"Screw that! I've heard enough outta you! I don't give a damn how I fit into whatever goals you've got or what thinly-veiled threats you decide to throw my way. I'll suffer all the 'bad luck' you've got planned for me before I ever decide to do anything for you!"

"And that's FINAL!"

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 7h

"Business partners?"

Something in the avian finally snapped, his hands clenching around those feathers now so tightly that one would believe he'd simply grind them to dust.

"That's all you think they are to me!? Some kind of tool to be used to get ahead!? Like they're disposable to me!?"

Kage @kages-log.bsky.social · 8h

"Jet, ya takin a lot of this personally, when this was a purely business move. Did I involve your business and business partners? Yes, because I think the 3 of you are most dangerous together."

An irritated sigh finally escaped the cat as he pinched the bridge of his nose, ears folding back up+

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 10h

"So you take your consequences and shove them right back into the hole you crawled out of!"

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Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 8h

"My father. Dude was a savant with anything he laid a talon on. Extreme gear, cars, bikes, aircraft, it didn't matter. He had a touch with pushing any machine to its limit that no one could even match."

"I always strove to get so much as a fraction of his talent, anything worthy of his legacy."

Duc Nightingale @d00dletamerduc.bsky.social · 10h

"What got you into racing, just out of curiosity?"

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 1d

(( I'm stealing this too just before I head out for a doctor's visit. ))

(( Leave my dumb bird questions I guess oops. ))

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 10h

"So you take your consequences and shove them right back into the hole you crawled out of!"

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 10h

"Yeah, and did you have to get my team directly involved!?," the bandit snarled, once again holding the feathers up in clear view like his own little ticket.

It felt violating to think that these actually belonged to Wave and Storm.

"Like I said...THIS...this was overstepping your boundaries!" ...

Kage @kages-log.bsky.social · 11h

His demonstration with the feathers was well over so there wasn't any resistance.

"Overstepped? This is the price of knowledge Jet. You asked, I demonstrated. That deal is sealed already, and backing out has a lot of consequences, not just to you or the rogues..."

Jet was always+

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 11h

Despite it all, the bandit remained defiant as he grasped out and snatched back the two feathers of his comrades.

"You overstepped your boundaries with this little stunt! If you think I owe you anything after this, you're dead wrong! Any deal you thought we had, it's over!"

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Reposted by Jet the Hawk

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 1d

(( I'm stealing this too just before I head out for a doctor's visit. ))

(( Leave my dumb bird questions I guess oops. ))

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Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 10h

"You ever stop and wonder what it would be like if you weren't born into a family of thieves?"

"Y'know, if you got to live out a more...normal life?"

Tron Bonne @heroicmisadventure.bsky.social · 1d

[[Stolen ages ago.

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 11h

No, I guess I couldn't relate with being so useless.

[ Rolling his eyes, the hawk gave a dismissive wave of his arm. ]

Forget it. If you're gonna bore me like this, you're not worth my time.

⠀ 𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐎. 🌸⠀ @ninja-detective.bsky.social · 12h

❪ Blank expression… ❫

Again, it’s not possible.

Even if I were to be able to do such, I’m ectothermic, so it would render useless in extreme weather conditions. You couldn’t relate.

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 12h

My point is that you're letting a talent like that go to waste! You don't think changing color to fit the environment is useful? Get into the snow and turn white to hide in the powder? Hop into the desert and turn a sandy tan to sneak through the dunes?

How can you not see the value in that?

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 11h

Despite it all, the bandit remained defiant as he grasped out and snatched back the two feathers of his comrades.

"You overstepped your boundaries with this little stunt! If you think I owe you anything after this, you're dead wrong! Any deal you thought we had, it's over!"

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 11h

Though he'd try to hide it, the twinge tugging at the corner of his snarling beak, the tremble in those fists balled up at his sides. Jet felt like the devil just revealed themselves to him.

He was in over his head.

"I already told you I'm not doing a damn thing for you. Find another lackey."

Kage @kages-log.bsky.social · 12h

A small grin lit his face, "Yeah yeah I'll believe it when I see it. I will call in that favor, and I'll even amend it a bit. No life threatening and no world take over situations."

Maybe this Jet was his favorite Jet... Not that he'd ever tell the hawk.

"And it's only one person that's stopping+

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 13h

"I can't just be okay with that kind of uneasy truce."

"Mark my words, I'm cranking that number up to four. I don't care what I have to do, but I'm making it happen."

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Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 12h

My point is that you're letting a talent like that go to waste! You don't think changing color to fit the environment is useful? Get into the snow and turn white to hide in the powder? Hop into the desert and turn a sandy tan to sneak through the dunes?

How can you not see the value in that?

⠀ 𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐎. 🌸⠀ @ninja-detective.bsky.social · 12h

Color change is a form of communication, I already know how to camouflage effectively.

What’s 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 point here, exactly?

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 12h

Like I said, what's the point? Seems like a waste of an ability if you're not even skilled enough to harness it properly.

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 12h

Like I said, what's the point? Seems like a waste of an ability if you're not even skilled enough to harness it properly.

⠀ 𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐎. 🌸⠀ @ninja-detective.bsky.social · 13h

You thought wrong, apparently. Changing colors for camouflage is a myth.

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 13h

Here I thought it'd be useful for camouflage. Turns out you're a less stealthy color than even me...If you can't change color on command then what's the point, really?

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 13h

"I can't just be okay with that kind of uneasy truce."

"Mark my words, I'm cranking that number up to four. I don't care what I have to do, but I'm making it happen."

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 13h

"So that's it? You're telling me the only reason you haven't wiped us all out is because of three people you think would stop you?"

That feeling of helplessness, like his life was at the mercy of the guy standing right in front of him...it didn't sit right with him.

"To hell with that!"

...

Kage @kages-log.bsky.social · 13h

"Yeah, well I haven't."

This is why he didn't explain his powers, everyone realizes he's a threat, it stung every time someone got to this point.

"And ya can't back outta a deal after ya already took it and benefitted from it. Ya ain't felt bad or even sick since then have ya?+

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 13h

That realization hit Jet like a freight train. He'd seen that exact trick before...

Every second this carried on brought about a twisting, retching feeling in the hawk's gut.

"A favor...to you!? Hell no! Deal's off now! You expect me to trust anyone who's got that kind of power not to abuse it!?"

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Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 13h

Here I thought it'd be useful for camouflage. Turns out you're a less stealthy color than even me...If you can't change color on command then what's the point, really?

⠀ 𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐎. 🌸⠀ @ninja-detective.bsky.social · 13h

I change colors depending on my mood and weather changes. Other than that, it’s nearly impossible to change colors voluntarily.

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 13h

Whaddya mean, not voluntarily? You just change colors randomly or something? One day your body feels like pink and then the next it's chartreuse? Magenta? Navy Blue?

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 13h

Whaddya mean, not voluntarily? You just change colors randomly or something? One day your body feels like pink and then the next it's chartreuse? Magenta? Navy Blue?

⠀ 𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐎. 🌸⠀ @ninja-detective.bsky.social · 13h

I can’t do that voluntarily.

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 21h

Can you change to a color that's less pink?

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 13h

That realization hit Jet like a freight train. He'd seen that exact trick before...

Every second this carried on brought about a twisting, retching feeling in the hawk's gut.

"A favor...to you!? Hell no! Deal's off now! You expect me to trust anyone who's got that kind of power not to abuse it!?"

Kage @kages-log.bsky.social · 13h

"It would be if I were lying, but using shadows like portals is kinda ridiculous,"

The feathers at their end did have a few drops of blood, showing they were alive feathers he pulled,

"Now now, I ain't trying to take ya down, ya still owe me that favor afterall~"

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 14h

Jet's eyes narrowed to a glare, his tone losing the usual smugness for something more serious.

"What, you're telling me that you managed to just pluck a feather from each of my team from miles and miles away?"

"Makes a lot more sense to just say those are fake, wouldn't you think?"

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 14h

Jet's eyes narrowed to a glare, his tone losing the usual smugness for something more serious.

"What, you're telling me that you managed to just pluck a feather from each of my team from miles and miles away?"

"Makes a lot more sense to just say those are fake, wouldn't you think?"

Kage @kages-log.bsky.social · 14h

"Noooow this isnt a threat, I feel like I need to reiterate. But if I can pull these off your crew, standing in front of you. What makes you think I can't pipe bomb you while your riding?"

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 14h

"As if you'd get the chance. You really think anything like THAT would just slip past us?"

"Sounds like a stupid plan, the type that'd never survive first contact with the enemy."

Kage @kages-log.bsky.social · 14h

"A few well placed bombs can take care of you and the crew, not scared of you.

Sky would love any excuse to murder you tho, I'm sure I can get her a body and she can do that...."

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 14h

"Hmm, sounds like a mistake."

"You should add us to the list."

"Like, right away."

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 14h

"Hmm, sounds like a mistake."

"You should add us to the list."

"Like, right away."

Kage @kages-log.bsky.social · 15h

"Babylon rogues are considered as one and not on the list."

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 15h

"I can certainly think of three."

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 15h

"I can certainly think of three."

Kage @kages-log.bsky.social · 15h

"I think there are a total of... 3 people I don't wanna cause problems for.

Wanna take a guess who?"

Jet the Hawk @jetthehawk.bsky.social · 15h

"By the time anyone even realized there was an emergency, we'd already airlifted out a quarter ton of the 24 karat good stuff."

"Pretty impressive for what was a bunch of pre-teens back then. Getting robbed blind by a group led by a freakin' seven-year-old must have been embarrassing."