Useful as he finds the tactic of lobbing a concatenation of expertly-prepared optical and pulmonary irritants into the fray rather than entering into direct conflict himself, Nicholas does not terribly find himself predisposed to linger on the sidelines as their joint opponent sweeps the smoke aside with a wing flap whose strength and sound and velocity approximates a sonic boom.
Asadi has helpfully positioned herself behind him, allowing Nick clear shot as the other man, possibly some sort of partially-avian pyrokinetic, lashes out at her with a gust of flame.
He raises the dark coil of his weapon and fires once, a bright blue bolt of energy arcing at the presumably organic target with a high-pitched, distinctly electrical whine.
He contemplates firing twice. Firing twice would create a positive feedback loop of electromagnetic energy that would build into an overload and superheat one's internal organs to the point of manufactured necrosis, but killing the other man seems drastically counter-intuitive, particularly provided the consequences should he miss, which he will not, because he is fair deadly accurate with his choice in sidearm and has been for some time.
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Asadi has helpfully positioned herself behind him, allowing Nick clear shot as the other man, possibly some sort of partially-avian pyrokinetic, lashes out at her with a gust of flame.
He raises the dark coil of his weapon and fires once, a bright blue bolt of energy arcing at the presumably organic target with a high-pitched, distinctly electrical whine.
He contemplates firing twice. Firing twice would create a positive feedback loop of electromagnetic energy that would build into an overload and superheat one's internal organs to the point of manufactured necrosis, but killing the other man seems drastically counter-intuitive, particularly provided the consequences should he miss, which he will not, because he is fair deadly accurate with his choice in sidearm and has been for some time.
And so. Nick only fires once.