badfic_manor | [Video/Memory] Everyone was young once...

[It's a little hard to tell what's going on at first - there's ... well, quite a few explosions. A LOT of explosions. And whatever it is, it doesn't...really look controlled.]

[Wait, wait, there IS something in all the smoke and chaos that's visible - and whoever it is, they're either sorta tiny, or not more than fifteen or so... and first really visible after they end up on the ground from getting thrown into a wall, then scraping up and scrambling on, one hand on a hat, a steady stream of swearing in Italian going on.]

[This, children, is a mission gone Situation Normal: All Fucked Up, because even when you've already been earmarked as one of The Strongest Seven, you have your limits...And accidentally setting off some chain reaction explosions in a compound is, well, not the best way to go about a quiet assassination.]

[There's a bit of something that could almost be set to Benny Hill with scrambling to get out of the way of debris, flames, further explosions, and occasionally getting thrown into walls and around thanks to failing at that last "avoiding further explosions" part, and somewhere in between explosions, there's some other voices that sound very very angry and apparently have guns.]

[Yep, someone fucked up but good, and the gunfire only makes that scramble all the more frantic and the swearing a bit more colorful.]

[Except the number of people off in the smoke yelling and chasing seems to be dropping - and was that one cut off in the middle of what might've been an order?]

[either way, after a minute it's mostly quieter, and the poor sod ends up hitting one last good "whoops", staggering away from the wall, and tripping flat on the ground in the fading smoke...now a little more visible, with a black suit and black lump that happens to be a very distressed chameleon pretending to be one with the suit.]

[And then he looks up to see a squirrel right in front of him, staring at him... and further up to the feet of a lady with short, dark hair in a white dress, a star tattoo on one cheek, who's shaking her head in wry amusement; next to her is another boy with a camo jacket and a sniper rifle, trying and failing not to crack up laughing.]

[And the kid who'd been doing the scrambling? Just gets a miserable lineface and gives up, slumping his face into his sleeve with a muffled, "Shove it" at the sniper, which is enough to break that "trying not to laugh" and get the lady to roll her eyes.]

[Video/Memory] Everyone was young once...

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