[ It all proves to be the usual song-and-dance: incompetent thugs who can barely shoot to save their lives, and it becomes a matter of picking them off, one by one.
Their leader and the man they've come for (Cryon, she recalls from the Nova Reports) stays at the back, and Gamora catches flashes of him in between skewering his men. She can see the rising panic on his face, the way his eyes dart towards the exit, but with yet another man down, Gamora plants herself squarely between Cryon and his way out. A smirk spreads across her lips, and the dealer raises his gun to fire, only to be met with the knife from Godslayer's hilt, catching on the back of his hand and forcing him to drop his weapon with a yell. ]
D-Don't— don't come any closer!
[ Despite the tremor in his voice, he still tries to glare at her, looking between Gamora and Peter and backing steadily away.
Gamora, of course, advances instead. ]
I said stay back!
[ And Cryon kicks off the lid of one of the nearby crates, revealing a pile of glittering Dust that shimmers in the low light. He plunges his hand inside, pulling out a fistful of the drug, and that finally stops Gamora short. From the intel they'd been given, the last thing they want anyone getting their hands on is that mess of a enhancer, and Gamora's eyes flick uncertainly over to Peter. ]
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Their leader and the man they've come for (Cryon, she recalls from the Nova Reports) stays at the back, and Gamora catches flashes of him in between skewering his men. She can see the rising panic on his face, the way his eyes dart towards the exit, but with yet another man down, Gamora plants herself squarely between Cryon and his way out. A smirk spreads across her lips, and the dealer raises his gun to fire, only to be met with the knife from Godslayer's hilt, catching on the back of his hand and forcing him to drop his weapon with a yell. ]
D-Don't— don't come any closer!
[ Despite the tremor in his voice, he still tries to glare at her, looking between Gamora and Peter and backing steadily away.
Gamora, of course, advances instead. ]
I said stay back!
[ And Cryon kicks off the lid of one of the nearby crates, revealing a pile of glittering Dust that shimmers in the low light. He plunges his hand inside, pulling out a fistful of the drug, and that finally stops Gamora short. From the intel they'd been given, the last thing they want anyone getting their hands on is that mess of a enhancer, and Gamora's eyes flick uncertainly over to Peter. ]