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A paintball course on the mainland- Sunday afternoon

On one hand, this really wasn't Sabine or Lana's holiday. But it was a good excuse for a date, even if their version of celebrating something like Valentine's Day meant finding a paintball course on the mainland.

As it turned out, they weren't even the only people with this idea. The course was filled with couples who were probably more concerned with being cute together than actually playing.

Which was why as they were getting their gear, Sabine said, "So we're going to destroy everyone here, right?"

[For the girlfriend!]

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"I think that goes without saying," Lana answered, grinning. "The only question is how artistically you can take them down."

"I do like a challenge," Sabine said, considering this. "Though I don't think it'll be hard. I doubt anyone else is taking this seriously."

Suckers.

Lana rolled her eyes. "Earth. Their loss. It's a shame we only get to use one colour, though. I'm sure you're up to the challenge, but it would be more exciting with more."

She paused. "Are there rules against capturing other people's guns and using those?"

Sabine paused.

And leaned out just enough to read the rules.

"It's not explicitly stated that we can't..."

"Good enough," Lana said. She checked her "weapon" and tried to make sure it would fire as well as possible. "What colour shall we start with?"

"Yellow," Sabine decided. "Nice and bright, be obvious."

Also it matched Lana's eyes and why not.

Lana would be totally flustered if she realized that, but she just nodded. "Yellow it is." She grabbed up the ammunition. "Frontal assault or sneak attack?" She looked around at the other mostly-couples. "I doubt we'd have a problem with straight on; most of them seem a bit distracted. On the other hand, sneaking probably gives us time to get closer and take their weapons."

"Sneak attack's more fun, too. Get a reaction, grab their stuff, move on to the next," Sabine said. "Then see what colors we get."

Which was the most important thing.

"Right, then." Lana grinned. "Let's try for the entire rainbow."

Outside there was a bit of forest to one side, and she headed for that, keeping her eyes open for anyone else with a similar idea. Just because nobody here had the training of a Sith or a Mandalorian didn't necessarily mean they weren't intelligent.

There were almost definitely some intelligent people here. But they were also almost definitely vastly unprepared for the competition.

Sabine darted towards a partition near the perimeter, which didn't get a lot of attention since it was out of the way, but it gave her a good view of the area and no one would really take note of her.

It was only about a minute before the first pop of a paintball and some guy's undignified, "Ow!"

And shortly after that, a yelp about five feet away as Lana got his partner, who'd been invisible behind a tree but clearly there in the Force. She saluted Sabine and ran carefully over to get the woman's gun.

"Hey! What -"

"Ours now," Lana announced cheerfully.

"I hope the others make this more challenging," Sabine said, picking up the man's gun over his protests that they had to give those back.

"We'll see they get back," Lana told him.

"Hopefully," she said to Sabine. "Or we could just try for...what is it they call it here, a speed run?"

"Run through and get as many as possible as fast as possible?" Sabine said. "Could even turn it into a friendly competition."

Still on the same team, but with stakes!

Lana grinned. "I like that. You're on. Don't think this means I don't want to see your art on them, though."

It might be a very slight handicap, but hey, blasters weren't Lana's primary weapon.

Edited 2021-02-15 00:35 (UTC)

Trying to make art out of this would be Sabine's handicap so they might even out!

"How long do you want to give us?"

Lana thought about it. "There were what, ten or twelve groups of people? Five minute maximum," she decided. It probably wouldn't take either of them that long, but you never knew.

"All right," Sabine said, hefting her second paintball gun because now she had two and really this was dangerous for all involved. "See you in five."

And then she was darting off to start taking no prisoners.

Lana thought for a second, then shrugged and dropped the extra gun back in her target's lap; two would be more of a liability for her than a help.

She headed off to where she could feel another pair of opponents. A broken branch in the opposite direction got their attention long enough for her to hit them both, and then she was heading off again.

Since she was used to working with two weapons- okay, not this size, but still- Sabine was focusing a little more on taking out her targets creatively. Which mainly meant seeing what kind of pattern she could make on her shots before the shock wore off on the person, and she could sneak in to steal their gun.

She'd trade off one each time, though. It was pretty hard to carry more than this, even if it would make for more interesting color combinations later.

Lana was sticking with yellow; might as well make it obvious who was winning.

It was definitely them. Not the pair she sniped from the top of a hill; they were barely even trying.

Sabine was fast, though the creative part was definitely slowing her down a little. Still, picking off the couple that was too busy making out where they didn't think they could be seen at least let her pick up the pace a little.

Five minutes felt like not enough time now.

Lana was aware she was probably falling behind, and her next pair had actually spread out a little, so she had to pick them off one at a time.

Fortunately, taking out the first distracted the other one. The first shot just winged him, but Lana ducked behind her cover, grimaced, and shot again, getting him square on.

Blades were so much more accurate!

Sabine's last pairing came just before the five minute mark, a long distance snipe of a couple too busy having fun playfully shooting towards each other that they didn't realize at first that someone else was even there.

And by then Sabine had swiped one of the guns, just in case there were any other easy targets on the way back.

There would be at least one more, because without using the Force to enhance her movement, Lana was having a slower go of it, and the latest pair was being fairly smart, so she had to work her away around them, sighing at the loss of time, but ultimately getting one of them and drawing a bead on the other.

Sabine got back to where she'd left Lana a little after the five minutes, but her targets had all been hit before then so she'd take it.

She'd totally pick off anyone unlucky enough to come her way while she waited, but she wasn't counting them towards her total.

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