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-=the image clicks on as the sfc hits the ground, spinning a few times before it slows to a stop, continuing to film at an odd angle=-

Ahh! No, stop!

-=Tavros seems to be pressed up in a corner, caught on his horns against the walls. He's pushing back with his arms as his robotic legs keep trying to walk him forward into the walls=-

Tavros! I'm coming!

[A blur flies through the air, knocking Tavros onto his back and sitting on his chest as his legs continue to flail.]

What's happening?! Why won't they stop?? [The blur-turned-kitty-troll looks down at him anxiously, looking rather strange in a brown-symboled shirt that's far too big for her rather than her usual green one.]

I, uh... I don't know!

Equiuuuuuuus!!! We need help!

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He nefur feels anything with his legs.

[Said in the tones of someone who has tested this out quite thoroughly.

...yes, she's a little bit annoyed with her moiral just now.]

[Wow, Nepeta. Wow.]

[Equius gives her A Look, the kind of look that says they're going to discuss this later, ad nauseum, then turns his attention back to Tavros' legs.]

I can change that. I can make you feel things in them, if you want.

[First things first, though... he needs to figure out how to make them stop glitching.]

R-really?

-=he curls an arm around Nepeta's waist to try and and shift her a bit so he can face Equius when he speaks=-

B-but uh, I have no felt anything in them... in a very long ti-

-=and then his free leg swings upwards at an odd angle, rolling his lower body as well=-

Gaaah!!

[And that sure is a kittytroll going flying across the room!

Good thing she always falls on her feet.]

It's just a matter of connecting them to your spinal cord and... NEPETA!

[Equius drops Tavros' leg and rushes to his moirail to make sure she's okay. Sorry, Tav... priorities.]

No! Nepeta!

-=that's quite alright, Equius. he wouldn't have it any other way. in fact he's trying to drag himself after her with his arms, strong enough to actually manage somewhat despite his legs fighting him the whole time=-

Are you okay? Did I, uh... did I hurt you?

I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm fine, purromise!

[She attaches herself to Equius' side.] Just a tiny little bruise or two, that's all. [She sounds hopeful. Surely a bruise merits one of her special bandaids...?

And then she notices what her matesprit is up to.]

Tavros, don't do that, you'll get hurt much worse than me!

Oh, for heaven's sake.

[This is getting absurd. Equius stalks over to Tavros and promptly sits on his legs, pinning him down at the thighs and keeping him from fishtailing all over the floor.]

You might want to move, Nepeta.

[If Tavros cooperates, Equius is going to flip open the hatch on his hip that leads to the control panel for his legs and investigate.]

-=kick kick kick flail kick kick kick=-

Uh...

-=he'll cooperate, it's not as though he as much choice=-

What are you, going to do?

[Nepeta crouches down close by, just out of reach of Tavros' flailing legs, and watching intently as her moirail starts working on her matesprit's legs.]

Can you see what's wrong, Equius? Can you make it stop??

I don't know!

[Equius' frustration bleeds through in his voice.]

I don't know why they're not working! Everything looks fine!

I, uh... did not even do anything to them.

-=he pouts, getting frustrated=-

They just, started to not listen all on their own.

We can't just leave him like this! He could get really hurt!

[Oh dear, it's a troll frustration party. This can't be good.]

What are we going to dooo?

Of course I'm not going to leave him like this!

[Because he might kick Nepeta!]

It must be some kind of curse that's making them act this way, because my design was flawless!

-=sob why do things like this always happen to him=-

Is, uh... there a way to turn them off, until it's over?

[She doesn't like the idea of him not being able to walk for a while if only because she knows how much his legs mean to him, but it's still better than him getting hurt.]

Is there some way to do that??

Maybe. I could...

[The world will never know what Equius might have done, because it's that exact moment that one of Tavros' legs flails upward and kicks him in the back of the head. Equius jolts forward a little from the impact, and then instinctively turns, snarling, and rips the offending leg clean away, the metal tearing halfway up Tavros' thigh.]

[On the plus side, that leg stops kicking!]

-=he couldn't feel anything, but it was horribly loud. and that was his leg. his leg. he's come to identify with the robot parts as his legs more than he had his actual ones=-

O-oh...oh my god!

No! Oh, no no no, Equius, hush, shoosh, calm down.

[As much as she wants to comfort her matesprit, calming Equius down before even more damage is done seems like a better idea just now.]

[Equius isn't really that upset--it's just an instinctive reaction, after all his sweeps making and fighting killbots--and Nepeta's voice acts like a soothing balm. Soon, he's blinking dumbly at the disembodied leg held in one hand.]

Uh... it stopped kicking?

I, uh... guess that is a way, to do it.

-=so much for getting fixed=-

[Her poor Tavros! Now that Equius doesn't seem ready to rip things apart anymore, she turns to her matesprit to comfort him with a hug, patting his back gently.]

Once the curse is over, Equius will make you even better ones just like he was talking about last time.

[Equius tosses the broken leg aside and turns his attention to the still-kicking one. He holds it down with both hands.]

I'll make you a new, better pair. But, uh... I might need to break this one too.

Okay.

-=it's better than kicking someone to death inappropriately. and it's not so bad, knowing he'll be able to walk again soon=-

Uhhh... Nepeta? I, uh... think that maybe, you should get the four-wheel device I used, when I came to the bubble.

[With a final squish of her arms around him she leaps to her feet, nodding vigorously.]

I know where it is, I'll be back with it in just a minute!

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permission to break Tavros' legs in Equius' next tag?

Permission granted o7

Nepeta is not amused

sorry, Nep, has to be done!

sob

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