Greer pulled out her phone and played the video fo what happened (for ease I'm gonna copy and paste the story here)
**Sato stood there, behind the fence, with the control. “Alright we have everything set, are you sure you want to do this one?”
“It’ll be fine. Even if it goes crazy, I should be able to get out no problems.”
Sato nodded. “It’s set to random, so I won’t know when it’ll shoot. So just focus your thoughts on the balls missing you.” She started focusing, her eyes glowing. The machine turned on. It took almost a minute but the ball came and she dodged it easily. Minor issues occurred, like her tripping. But nothing to bad for the first 5 or 6 volleys.
Greer looked. “Got enough data?”
Sato nodded. “Phase two then. Don’t move.”
Greer nodded and let the first one hit her, to be certain it was on track. Then focused on the ball somehow missing her. She didn’t focus on how as that would be the next phase. Just not getting hit.
The ball fired and… never got near her. Instead she saw a big chocolate brown lab run in and grab the ball midair. Greer looks to see where it had come from, oh right she forgot to close that gate. Sato shouted something, but she missed it. Had to be about the dog because it suddenly knocked her over. It stood on her, growling a bit.
If she had to describe the feelings that came next, it would be like realizing you were going down a hill of ice on a sled. You realized there were things you were going to hit and you just keep leaning hard one way and then another, losing control as you go. The dog was going to bite her, she needed it to be distracted she needed-
The machine suddenly made an odd sound and a ball hit the dog square in its side. The dog jumped off and ran. Greer slowly got up and reflexively tried to block the next ball so it didn’t hit her head. It hit HARD. “Oh sh-“ She need the balls to miss they were coming in too hard!
The dog got angry and jumped on the machine changing the settings and angle. Now the balls were coming faster in more random directions. The dog ran off. She needed the balls to not her! Don’t hit Don’t hit! Now Sato couldn’t get to the power switch, something had happened and the remote was now dead. Nononono. Don’t don’t don’t don’t…
Some of the balls were somehow managing to bounce back INTO the basket. Providing more ammo as she tried to get to the fence. It was too late Greer realized she hadn’t been thinking about escaping. As evidenced by someone who had left their bike against the gate in such a way it was now locked into place. “GAH!”
Now she was speeding down towards a frozen lake, as far as the feeling of her powers went. One chance to not end up on thin ice.
She looked around and found a branch. Don’t-hit-don’t-hit…. She grabbed it. Turn off. She ran towards it. Shut it off shut it off… she smacked the machine as hard as she could so it’d break. A few good slams and it sputtered and died. She stood three breathing heavily as she looked at it. “….stupid… thing….”
To continue the analogy, both the sled and the ice were insulted at this point and wanted to get back, but she thought she was safe- not noticing the cracks in the ice.
She kicked the machine and started to head off, when she got hit in the back of the head, stepped on a ball, and fell forward getting knocked out and her nose broken in the same go.**
Greer chuckled. "Luce was so mad after that...."
