With temperatures at a simmer and his digging pace slowed, the only thing motivating Joe to work on was that it made a good heat vent. Oh, and the buried PT was nice too, he guessed. "Should've stayed on track, moron…”
In honesty, Joe's mind wandered back to the plan in question and Katherine, two things he forgot about with his fossil find and the heat, both seeming more interesting than the latter. "Seriously, would it kill them to install proper ventilation in these thin-"
Quickly retracting his statement, Joe dived back into his hole, ears ringing as Katherine's beam zoomed over him. The hit, taken by the Tau's wing, melted it right off and gave Joe a gruesome idea of what was sizzling behind him.
All the heat and excitement must've gone to Joe's head as he immediately got up and, ignoring any and all doubts, reached for the comm. However, before he could give Katherine a piece of mind for nearly killing him, Joe did a double take at the monitor. Was it him or was the Tau's wing closer? The wing wasn't the only thing moving, tailing it was a wall of road. Without even a chance to shout, Joe was shoved down the hole, everything going dark.
Under the Huckebein's one-eyed glow, Joe questioned if the choices leading to his burial had really been the best. "Yep, definitely should've stayed on course…"
Unlike Smith, Joe had the luck of not instantly being crushed to death via road, the flipped Huckebein did a good job of carrying that weight. Instead, Fate had other plans. Even though Joe managed to get out of it and into the spacious cave unscathed, the Huckebein’s molten backside had fused with debris above the hole, essentially turning Joe's salvation into a coffin
It also didn't help that Joe was now on an apparent time limit. Oxygen was the elephant in the room, and that room didn't have much of it left, Joe soon realized. The Huckebein mostly disabled, save for the head, there wasn't any chance of calling now either. His only chance of escape now was...
"This better pay off..." With that, Joe got too work. It'd be a long trip down to the gigantic PT's cockpit, but there wasn't much of a choice, with it being his only hope and all. It'd be easy anyway, all Joe had to do was not slip to his death. Thrilling.
In honesty, Joe's mind wandered back to the plan in question and Katherine, two things he forgot about with his fossil find and the heat, both seeming more interesting than the latter. "Seriously, would it kill them to install proper ventilation in these thin-"
Quickly retracting his statement, Joe dived back into his hole, ears ringing as Katherine's beam zoomed over him. The hit, taken by the Tau's wing, melted it right off and gave Joe a gruesome idea of what was sizzling behind him.
All the heat and excitement must've gone to Joe's head as he immediately got up and, ignoring any and all doubts, reached for the comm. However, before he could give Katherine a piece of mind for nearly killing him, Joe did a double take at the monitor. Was it him or was the Tau's wing closer? The wing wasn't the only thing moving, tailing it was a wall of road. Without even a chance to shout, Joe was shoved down the hole, everything going dark.
Under the Huckebein's one-eyed glow, Joe questioned if the choices leading to his burial had really been the best. "Yep, definitely should've stayed on course…"
Unlike Smith, Joe had the luck of not instantly being crushed to death via road, the flipped Huckebein did a good job of carrying that weight. Instead, Fate had other plans. Even though Joe managed to get out of it and into the spacious cave unscathed, the Huckebein’s molten backside had fused with debris above the hole, essentially turning Joe's salvation into a coffin
It also didn't help that Joe was now on an apparent time limit. Oxygen was the elephant in the room, and that room didn't have much of it left, Joe soon realized. The Huckebein mostly disabled, save for the head, there wasn't any chance of calling now either. His only chance of escape now was...
"This better pay off..." With that, Joe got too work. It'd be a long trip down to the gigantic PT's cockpit, but there wasn't much of a choice, with it being his only hope and all. It'd be easy anyway, all Joe had to do was not slip to his death. Thrilling.