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A convenient excuse. [After the planetside mission]

A scream of raw, Viking fury ripped through the hallways cut painfully short and then a sickening dull "Thud"

To any who happened to be close enough to watch it happen a smoldering blackened bundle of flesh and hair came flying out of a suddenly open hole in the wall, that just as suddenly closed behind her. A trail of smoke followed the screaming roaring body as it shot across the hallway and slammed into the wall before falling backwards to the floor and laying there dazed.

Ruffnut looked and felt like she had been on the receiving end of a burn ward's top ten list as lightning crackled and raced along her body. Her fists were balled up so tightly the knuckles were white.

As an after thought, GLaDOS re-opened the portal Ruffnut had made her abrupt exit from and spat out her helmet which clattered loudly next to her.

Uttering some words that her parents would have smacked her if they'd heard she lay there smoking as she caught her breath and regained her strength. Not yet aware that she had finally escaped the tests that she'd been abducted for RIGHT AS SHE WAS LEAVING THE SHIP TO GO ON THE MISSION WITH EVERYONE!

So full or rage...and ouch. Rage and ouch.

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Zouichi happened to be wandering through the halls in just the right time and place to see Ruffnut careening out of the portal... and hear some of her swearing. He approached her quickly, concerned. "Miss, are you all right? What happened?"

Ruffnut's head popped up, hair shaking off the burnt tips of it and blinked confused at the voice. "I'm out?" She asked carefully before sitting up and pumping her fists in the air. "I'M OUT!" Followed shortly by her doubling up and clutching at her sides. "Ow ow ow" She began to laugh with joy broken up by her pain. "Hahaha ow, hahahaow."

Well, she seemed energetic enough, although he still had no idea where she'd come from or why.

"Careful, try not to move around too much." He offered her a hand to help her up. "Where did you come from? It looked like you just appeared out of nowhere."

She had looked for her everywhere, actually. After the insanity that was quality time with the crew members and their marriage fest, she was looking for a person that was completely the opposite of that. All of that good will and no fighting: that was NOT her idea of a vacation. Sure, she'd gotten to buy a few things (for certain people), but now she just wanted to find her freaking partner and just beat something up.

And none too soon too: there came a spat out person right in the hallway, and they looked worse for wear. She Gave a closer look and saw it was Ruffnut, exactly who she was looking for.

And promptly laughed.

"What the hell?" She said, snickering. She bent over to pick up the helmet, and spit on her hand to put out a spark starting to form at the end of one of Ruffnut's braids. "Were you taking on Stacy permanently or something?"

For her part, Hit Girl looked surprisingly refreshed, but bored.

Ruffnut took his hand and yanked herself roughly to her feet. "I dunno there was this stupid voice telling me I had to do these tests and she kept promising cake but I never got any!" She punched a hand into fist and sparks scattered from where the connection was.

Ruffnut's eyes were crossed and she shook her head to clear it. "I dunno I was on my way off the ship and then suddenly like...there was this room and this voice. This annoying computer voice thing that was telling me I had to do stupid tests." She growled and then winced still sore from her landing rubbing her backside as she struggled to her feet.

He took a preemptive step back at the sudden appearance of the sparks coming off her hands. She was obviously very incensed about there not being any cake.

"Tests? ...oh, you were kidnapped by GlaDOS? You look like you made it all out in one piece, at least."

That earned a look of annoyed confusion, "What and the who? Gally?" She looked back at the hole accusingly. "That stupid thing tried to kill me! Like...alot!"

"GlaDOS. I was told it was a shipboard artificial intelligence that routinely abducts members of the crew and performs tests on them. Particularly if your soul seems in danger of detaching."

He glanced back at the portal, curious. "But I didn't think it tried to kill people."

But Ruffnut had gotten stuck on the other words, "My Soul? My soul was gonna come out?" She grew pale for a minute. "But I like my soul! I mean...I need it!"

"Well, I, ah. I wouldn't worry about it too much. I think you passed the test. Meaning your soul is safe and sound for now."

"Well...well good!" She punched the wall where the hole had been so hard her fist made a crack noise.

"But that stupid Gallywhozits made me miss the mission! AGAIN!"

"The mission? Oh, well... perhaps you didn't miss much. Unless there was someone you were looking forward to marrying, that is."

There was a solid minute where she stared in confusion.

The finally, "Marry? Like...marry marry?

He nodded. "There were... Consummation Huts."

Yeah, he still hadn't gotten over that one..

"What?"

No seriously, she had no idea what that word meant.

"Like...food?"

"No, like..." Okay, he wasn't going to say it. He had no idea how old this girl was or where her parents were, but if she was too young to know what that meant, she was probably still a minor.

"Er. Actually, never mind. The point being, it was a rather awkward situation all around." He considered her appearance for a moment, then added, "And all we got out of it was some sort of map relic, so it's not like you missed any surprise Ohm attack or anything."

Ruffnut's confusion and frustration were playing tag on her features as she contemplated the situation.

"What a stupid mission!" She decided and thus it was law. "Guess being stuck here wasn't so bad then." She muttered darkly eyeing the wall in case she was going to get nabbed for round two.

Zouichi was about to agree with her, but what came out of his mouth was a word in a language he'd never heard before. If he'd known a single thing about magic, he might've recognized it as a stun spell... but he didn't.

Ruffnut was about to ask him to repeat himself because she didn't understand, but her eyes crossed and she suddenly found herself incredibly dizzy. And once more, totally unable to move.

She sway on her own two feet looking like someone had just soundly bashed her over the head with something heavy.

He looked bewildered. He couldn't remember what he'd just said, but more importantly, Ruffnut was wavering and dazed, looking as if maybe she'd maybe sustained more damage in GlaDOS's experiments than he'd thought. If she had a head injury, it could be serious.

"Miss? Are you... can you hear me? Hello?"

Ruffnut's knees buckled and she fell forward only catching herself at this point and shaking her head to clear it. "What the...What did you do!" She growled glaring up at him.

Well, at least she looked like she was recovering.

"I... I'm not sure? I don't think I did anything."

"You...you said something and then that happened! It has to be your fault!" Her infallible Ruffnut logic was kicking into gear. She stood up again fists balled and crackling with lightning. "What did you do?"

Hit Girl shook her head and helped Ruffnut up, and was shaking the burn ciders out of her hair.

"I don't get how you do this," she chuckled, brushing the bigger chips off. "But at least you had something to do. I just like, got married and did shopping or whatever.

She shrugged and motioned to two boxes on the floor. "Like those. They're yours."

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