He moves like some kind of dying animal and it just makes Dipper feel hollow to watch it. There's a part of him that wonders if maybe he should do what Wash did. And just...end it for good, but -
But it's a different here. Wash had done that because it was the only way they could get away from Pi - from what Pidge had turned into, especially with Dipper reeling and nearly senseless so that Wash'd had to defend him. They still don't know if a cure will be found, and if one is, if it turns out there's a way to cure him and he killed him...
No, he has to capture him. He has to try.
Dipper closes his eyes as Thad approaches, tendrils of teke threading through the room in tiny little threads, like the tentacles of a jellyfish. He uses those to "see." Umbra's been having him practice more finite control, practice using his teke less like a bludgeon and more like another sense.
When Thad charges towards him, he can feel it faster than he would've been able to see it. Since the teke is tied directly to his mind, he can feel it right away, instead of having to wait for images or sounds to travel through his ocular or auditory nerves. He can feel him getting entangled in the threads, and with a flick of his hand, tendrils of teke start reaching up from the floor, tangling around Thad's legs in grasping tentacles.
There's no way he can be as fast as Thad, even with his altered state leaving him at less than his full capabilities, but he can slow him down, by filling the room with things to get tangled in, with obstacles. A speedster can only be fast if they've got solid ground to run on, so the room becomes his enemy, grabbing, tripping, hitting...
"I'm sorry about this, man. I know you were just trying to help find a cure."
It's even worse, knowing that, knowing that this happened because he was trying to help, because he was taking on the risk of messing with the nanovirus itself.
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But it's a different here. Wash had done that because it was the only way they could get away from Pi - from what Pidge had turned into, especially with Dipper reeling and nearly senseless so that Wash'd had to defend him. They still don't know if a cure will be found, and if one is, if it turns out there's a way to cure him and he killed him...
No, he has to capture him. He has to try.
Dipper closes his eyes as Thad approaches, tendrils of teke threading through the room in tiny little threads, like the tentacles of a jellyfish. He uses those to "see." Umbra's been having him practice more finite control, practice using his teke less like a bludgeon and more like another sense.
When Thad charges towards him, he can feel it faster than he would've been able to see it. Since the teke is tied directly to his mind, he can feel it right away, instead of having to wait for images or sounds to travel through his ocular or auditory nerves. He can feel him getting entangled in the threads, and with a flick of his hand, tendrils of teke start reaching up from the floor, tangling around Thad's legs in grasping tentacles.
There's no way he can be as fast as Thad, even with his altered state leaving him at less than his full capabilities, but he can slow him down, by filling the room with things to get tangled in, with obstacles. A speedster can only be fast if they've got solid ground to run on, so the room becomes his enemy, grabbing, tripping, hitting...
"I'm sorry about this, man. I know you were just trying to help find a cure."
It's even worse, knowing that, knowing that this happened because he was trying to help, because he was taking on the risk of messing with the nanovirus itself.