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[He'll very happily hand this goose over to John. The goose however is mad enough at being picked up and now it's suffering the indignity of being passed off.

It tries very hard to bite John.]

... Maybe further forward? There could be a hoard of them somewhere.

[ The two of them may or may not see Vriska's hand wave, but John will, very fortunately, not end up getting bitten at all. How lucky!

Vriska will set her feet on the ground. ]

Sure. Let's keep going. We're doing pretty well so far, after all. Just follow the honking until something tries to kill John again.

[ a smile. ]

[He worries about the geese, but he doesn't get bit. Wow!! That is lucky!! The goose disappears into his sylladex with a final, annoyed honk.]

We're already halfway there! Between me and Shouto catching them and Vriska distracting them we are getting them faster than I thought. [There's a bright grin and he floas forward to lead the way.] Forward's a good start.

[They only get about fifteen feet ahead before he pauses.] Honking. That way. [And he moves forward brushing past a thicket of bushes where there's another cluster of geese.]

[Ah. Maybe it was Vriska? He thinks he saw her wave out of the corner of his eyes.

He walks forward as John makes his way and again he can hear more of the honking. Once again he'll ice over the ground.]

Best get off the ground.

[Because once again it's totally covered in ice. One of the geese breathes a fireball directly at it and manages to get free.]

Damn.

[ She's off the ground before Shouto can spread his ice, kind of hanging back with him so John can be the sacrificial windy boy.

But when one of the geese escapes she heaves a sigh. ]

God. What did I bring you two for? [ with that sweet comment she'll drift over to the escaped goose,

which,

because she wasn't 100% taking this specific goose seriously,

fucking bites the shit out of her fingers.

immediately there is a lot of shrieking from both girl and goose. ]

[...yeah unfortunately John's response is to kind of be an asshole and start laughing since maybe Vriska deserved that for being rude? He glances back at Shouto with a thumbs up.]

For the most part the icing method's working really well! [With that he's swooping down to use the wind and break off a few pieces of the ice, irritated honking from the geese as John picks up two of them with ice still attached to their feet and shoves them in his sylladex. Eight. The goose that Vriska has is nine and he approaches while she continues shrieking and flailing, sneaking up before grabbing the goose's body and immediately shoving it in his sylladex as it snaps at his fingers, too.]

You okay? [Because even as an asshole, he's a little concerned about her.] We've got nine out of twelve now.

[Shouto's first instinct is grabbing one of the canisters of disinfectant on his waist and gesturing for Vriska's hand.]

We should disinfect it and wrap it up.

Three more geese and we'll be done.

[ wehhhhehehehhhhh. it's a very sulky and pissed off vriska with gross scratched up fingers who offers her hand to shouto once he gestures her over.

John gets a nasty glare, and since Shouto is holding one of her hands, he'll definitely see the way she moves the other.

a breeze blows past them, not terribly strong or out of place, but enough to apparently knock a few spiders loose from the tree above. three of them fall directly on John's head. ]

I'm fine, thanks! [ GET FUCKED, EGBERT ]

Can we just finish this?

Vriska, what the fuck! [His hands immediately fly up and he swats at the spiders. Stupid luck stats! Stupid spider trolls!! Still, once he shakes off the spiders and looks ridiculous doing so, he faces the two of them again.]

Three more geese. Shouto, is her hand good to go? [Mostly because their method of icing things down and tackling the distracted geese has been working and that cannot be a thing if Shouto's occupied. Granted, there's a semi-grateful look as well.]

[He sprays Vriska's injuries down and wraps it up in a strip of cloth.]

The wounds don't look that deep. But I'm not a medical professional.

Okay. Do you hear more honking?

[ she cackles delightedly at John's misfortune, instantly in a better mood. once shouto's done with her fingers, she admires his handiwork with a smile while she wiggles them. ]

Works for me! I managed to walk around with one of my arms ripped off for a while once, so it's fine. This is wigglers' stuff! Seriously though, thank you.

[ vriska, what the fuck. ]

Come on, let's go! The sooner a goose attacks John the sooner we can get out of here. In fact, I'll even make the weasels go first since I'm so nice.

[ blows a kiss at him

JUST

to fuck with his head. #boybye

god why does shouto have to put up with these two ]

[Save Shouto from these morons. Either way, John listens to their surroundings and tries to blatantly ignore Vriska (why did he ever like her?????) before he stops and points to their right.]

That way. Send the weasels and ice that way, I can hear a whole bunch of them. [As they get closer and closer, they will, in fact, hear a whole symphony of squawking.] Same tactic? Distraction weasels and ice blocks?

Please don't ever tell Midoriya you ran around without limbs. He'll get ideas.

[Midoriya's body is made of glass bones and paper skin. He's getting better about managing his limbs, but Shouto still feels ll that stress of being Midoriya's friend.]

Works fine for me.

[ John, she wonders the same thing. How did she EVER like someone who is such an idiot and a jerk and a traitor--

hey let's not think about that right now

Vriska just AGGRESSIVELY ROLLS HER EYES (not that you can tell) and again tosses the dice. The weasels will appear the same as before, twitching their merry way over towards the geese, whose honks ascend to shrieks.

Shouto, on the other hand, will get a slightly wide-eyed look. ]

How is he still alive? Serious question.

[ quietly she decides to totally tell izuku about the time her arm got ripped off. ]

Let's maybe keep him alive? [A pointed look. But he floats up into the air, hovering a bit as he makes his way toward the geese.]

Looks like there's four of them. That's plenty for what we need. Be ready in case they pull that fireball trick again though.

Determination, probably.

[Shouto ices over the ground and puffs out a little breath of iced air, making a little flame in his left hand to warm himself up.]

No John, I love watching my friends get killed for stupid reasons!

[ at once bland and somehow deeply acidic.

have they literally for even a single moment stopped fighting?

anyway. the weasels get stuck in the ice along with the geese, so a few are getting their heads gnawed on. probably a good time to snatch the geese up! ]

[He doesn't say anything, though there's a look that says "not now, not here" before he swoops in and plucks up all four geese. Honk honk whatever. He lands on the ice, trying to stay out of range of the weasels.]

That's it. That's twelve of them. Or thirteen, actually. Maybe we'll get an extra reward? Unless Mr. F wants us to follow the quest exactly.

[He really doesn't know what's up between John and Vriska, but it sounds like a sore spot.]

Put one back. Somebody might need it when they're doing their quest. I don't know how many of the geese are out here.

[ not caring how obvious it is at this point, really, vriska just tiredly flips John off and lets him do his thing.

her dice go back in her pocket. the weasels will peter out on their own, so as far as she's concerned they're done here. ]

I agree with Shouto. Let's finish the quest to the letter and leave the rest. I don't want to see someone else fail because there's not enough of these nasty fuckers around.

[Yeah. He doesn't bother responding to that and gives her space before he roots through his sylladex and counts out one of the geese. It honks indignantly and John sets it on the ground quickly before backing off.]

Good point. [He hadn't thought about that and maybe that's why it was best to do this with someone who had a level head.] Let's get these back to the town and let them do...whatever the fuck they want to do. It just said to capture them and bring them back.

[He looks at the retreating goose.]

Do you think we're allowed to eat them once we bring them back?

[ Vriska had already opened her mouth to reply,

but then Shouto says literally what she was thinking,

and she has to smother a snort that turns into barely held-in laughter.

ahem. ]

I am totally down for a monster goose roast. We can always use more food, right?

I don't see why not. [Heading back to town they go.] Once the geese are accounted for and the quest is completed we don't have much else to do with them.

[Not long after this, John will learn that he'll be the proud father of ~~four~~ five geese living in a coop on someone's roof for the sole purpose of eggs. But whatever.] As long as they taste like bird and not ash, at least. But there's color so maybe they're okay.

I think as long as they have color they have taste. That's how it is with the vegetables.

[.... Do they have taste? He doesn't want to think about that.]