Dimension of Perfection (And Its Flaws)

Chapter - 9 - A 'Lovely' Reunion

The sound of the running gets closer as I see a figure dashing through the crowd, dodging and weaving through the fray while knocking people as they go.

"Sorry! Pardon Me! Sorry! Oh, Excuse Me! Coming Through!"

The individual bursts out of the group and halts at the cusp of the crowd to regain their breath.
The person whips back up and scans all around, looking for someone.

I look at the unknown person for a bit with my eyebrow raised in confusion.
Though not for long, as I realise it's actually 4663 again.

She's probably mad at me for something and most likely only found me from my screaming before.

I freak out and clamber back to my feet, trying to lift the book to my new height. I make a running start and begin bolting back into the market hall from earlier.

4663 snaps her head to my position, and yells out to get my attention.

"HEY! GET BACK HERE!"

She sounds angry, so I speed up to as fast as I can go, and listen as she rushes after me in pursuit.

I race down the tunnel to the right, and arrive back at the door that I walked through to sit down.

I scramble at the knob and bash the door open with the book as a makeshift battering ram. I round the corner into the left aisle of markets and shops. I am not fast enough, and 4663 catches the last glimpse of my pointed tail whipping around the wall.

I suddenly find myself back in the sea of 'UD's', and leap up into the air to get some leverage on 4663.

I am quite foolhardy in my ascent into flight, and still manage to hit some poor person with my tail, even when trying to prevent such an occurrence.

The kick off is made even harder for my 'Flawless' physique because of the book of truth I have bouncing around in my grasp.

All 4663 below me can do is try her very best to push past the people below, also still saying multiple apologies in the span of 5 seconds.

"Sorry! GAH- Sorry! Excuse me!"

Now stable and orientated in the air, I look for the exit through the shifting colours and garments, and at last see an opening a short distance down the aisle.

I speed up my flight above the crowd, and below me 4663 opens a bag of some sort, pulling out an object from inside.

I glance back at her and see that the item is a small makeshift slingshot.

"GAH!" I yelp as my flight path deviates to the side.

In preparation for the attack, I preemptively start to dodge as I fumble through the air.

Behind me, 4663 pulls the slingshot back, after putting something hard in the spot for firing, and releases it with a *TWANG* that I can somehow hear through the crowd.

I dodge at what I think is the right time, and knock into one of the signs from the storefronts.
After returning back to where I was, only then does the projectile hit me and send me careening into the crowd like the Hindenburg.

Gasping in pain, I brace for impact, and so does the poor bird thing from before..

"HEY, LOOK OUT!!!" I cry, as I come back out of my brace like an idiot.

I land head first into the ground, and on the chest of the robot, cyborg, looking thingy..

I scramble to my knees, and see that the bird on top of the robot is now on the ground, squawking ferociously, batting me away with its wings, and pecking my arm like a piece of corn.