His head was bleeding now and he was probably concussed. Again. Panting and having trouble getting the air into his lungs because of the foot pinning him down, Hiccup looked up at the Kessek with wide-eyed terror, and then he closed his eyes for a second, his expression relaxing back into the resolve of moments before.
Opening his eyes and looking over at the Daligig, his voice strained from the weight on his chest and slightly slurred, but very calm, he said, "I was just trying to get his hand. To get it to Medbay. So they could hopefully reattach it."
Blood trickled down his face and he had to work very hard to string all the words together.
"I have no powers and I didn't have a weapon in my hands. And as far as I know I didn't break any rules like trying to desert. And I didn't throw any punches."
Which meant they basically looked even more like tools, hitting an unpowered, unarmed, non-hostile, one-legged teenager that looked like a couple of rubber bands tied together--before he even threw a punch.
"I sure hope it doesn't get out to your allies that you're okay with knocking around unarmed noncombatants--who are, by the way, former elected officials--when they were just trying to help someone who was injured. That would be a pretty inconvenient tidbit of information to wind up released publicly on, say, those interdimensional GIA news networks."
Punishment for desertion they could explain away as inciting a necessary response for the sake of discipline. Giant Kessek slamming down tiny disabled people for trying to help someone who was hurt was a little more difficult to pass off.
Even if it wasn't, it probably didn't hurt to remind the Daligig that everything that was happening here wasn't private, wasn't something they could keep a dirty little secret from the rest of the GIA, an alliance comprised of countless member worlds that likely didn't all have the exact same opinion on how the war was to be handled. If they wanted to torture two teenagers that broke a rule they didn't know was even there, beat down on people trying to save them, rip people's limbs off, and knock down the little guy, they needed a little reminder that everyone else they were allied with could find out about it.
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Opening his eyes and looking over at the Daligig, his voice strained from the weight on his chest and slightly slurred, but very calm, he said, "I was just trying to get his hand. To get it to Medbay. So they could hopefully reattach it."
Blood trickled down his face and he had to work very hard to string all the words together.
"I have no powers and I didn't have a weapon in my hands. And as far as I know I didn't break any rules like trying to desert. And I didn't throw any punches."
Which meant they basically looked even more like tools, hitting an unpowered, unarmed, non-hostile, one-legged teenager that looked like a couple of rubber bands tied together--before he even threw a punch.
"I sure hope it doesn't get out to your allies that you're okay with knocking around unarmed noncombatants--who are, by the way, former elected officials--when they were just trying to help someone who was injured. That would be a pretty inconvenient tidbit of information to wind up released publicly on, say, those interdimensional GIA news networks."
Punishment for desertion they could explain away as inciting a necessary response for the sake of discipline. Giant Kessek slamming down tiny disabled people for trying to help someone who was hurt was a little more difficult to pass off.
Even if it wasn't, it probably didn't hurt to remind the Daligig that everything that was happening here wasn't private, wasn't something they could keep a dirty little secret from the rest of the GIA, an alliance comprised of countless member worlds that likely didn't all have the exact same opinion on how the war was to be handled. If they wanted to torture two teenagers that broke a rule they didn't know was even there, beat down on people trying to save them, rip people's limbs off, and knock down the little guy, they needed a little reminder that everyone else they were allied with could find out about it.