"Not a one thanks to you two," Gracelyn says.
Ariel smiles down at Echo as she walks past her and towards the only conscious guy at the moment. "Well, well...Bravo is it?" Tapping her foot on his hip, "How they hangin'?"
"I think you broke something," he wheezes on the brink of tears while laying sideways in the fetal position.
"It wasn't my shot that hit you, so I didn't break anything...yet," she says before looking over at the other guy. "I took out boob boy over there," stepping on and walking over Bravo's waist on her way to Tango, getting a yelp of pain out of him in the process. "I think he's wearing Liz's vest," Ariel observes with a laugh.
"Probably is since we haven't seen her in ages," Amber says, "it was the only one we had available for him."
She walks over to Bravo while Gracelyn keeps Echo held in place.
"You know, you looked a little smarter at first glance, I'll give you that," Amber says, leaning towards him, "but you still haven't learned to keep your mouth shut."
"Yeah. Since you and dumber over here planned to use our friend as a hostage, there will be consequences," Ariel says as she retrieves Tango's weapon.
"I told you we were miked," Echo says to Bravo, "but nooo, you said the shocks would disable them," she mocks him before banging her helmet back against the ground. "Nit-wit."
"Should've listened to your friend there," Amber tells him, "might have spared you some degradation later."
Ariel laughs, "Yeah, key words there - might have!"
Amber and Gracelyn laugh along with her.
"Not bad for bean bag cannons with no laser scopes," Cindy says as she approaches the group. She looks over at Tango, "You knocked him out?" looking to Ariel.
"Yep!"
"Nice! Good thing he's easy to drag around. It should be no problem getting him back to the garage." Cindy assures her, and then directs her attention to Bravo. "Can you walk? Or is your...transmission...broken too?" making emphasis on the terminology Tango used earlier.
Before Bravo can get a word in, Amber speaks on his behalf, "Oh no, he's not walking! He'll be crawling if nothing else!"
Shrugging her shoulder, "Well, you heard the lady," Cindy says, "looks like you're crawling."
He groans as he rolls onto his knees. As he moves past Amber, she unclips his cup from his waist and holds it up.
"Wow! My shot inverted the curve! Bet that hurt like a bitch," she sasses at him. He crawls a few more paces before she turns and kicks him between the legs, sending him face first into the dirt.
Cindy smirks at his pain before turning her attention back to Echo. She pats Gracelyn on the shoulder to take her foot off the girl, and then offers her a hand up. "You aren't going to try and run, or be any trouble now are you?"
Echo is puzzled by Cindy's inquiry. In her peripheral vision, she catches movement from Ariel and looks over to see that she's pointing the retrieved paintball gun at her while grasping the still unconscious Tango by the ankle. After an audible gulp, she shakes her head 'No'.
"Lean your head forward then," Cindy tells her.
Gracelyn, Ariel and Amber eye the girl like hawks as Cindy deactivates and removes the shock collar.
"It would be in your best interest not to make me regret this," she says, holding up the collar for Echo to see. "We're going to follow your accomplice back to the house. No need to walk any quicker."
"What? You really aren't going to try and make a break for it?" Bravo asks Echo, kicking up dust with his huffs of breath. "Some accomplice you are."
"You know what, fuck you!" Echo yells near the top of her lungs, not just because she can with the collar removed, but because her tolerance for him reaches its breaking point. She starts to take off towards him, but is held in place when Cindy grabs her by her vest. "I'm so sick of your shit, Dick!" kicking dirt at him followed up with a spit of disgust. "I don't even care anymore! I hope these people fuck you up royally!"
"That can be arranged," says Ariel with a smile on her face.
"Good! Because he fucking deserves it!" Echo tells her, and then turns back to Cindy. "It would be in your best interest to keep me away from him the rest of the time I'm here!"
Cindy doesn't say anything as she maintains her hold on Echo's vest.
"Or else what," Bravo taunts her, "you gonna try and kick my ass too? Ha-ha, good fuckin' luck."
Echo tries to make another advance at him, but Cindy pulls her to a halt once again. As a last resort, the girl removes her helmet and throws it, nailing him in the shoulder and almost hitting Amber as well from the ricochet.
Cindy yanks Echo back down to the ground and holds her in place with her shin over her chest, "That's enough!" She looks back to Amber, "Get him out of here."
"Move," Amber orders Bravo with a kick to the side of his leg, "and God help you if you screw that up!"
Ariel follows her with Tango dragging unconsciously behind. "You two going to be alright out here?" she asks Cindy and Gracelyn.
"Pshh, totally fine," Gracelyn replies. "We'll see ya in there in a bit."
Ariel smiles back, hooking Echo's former helmet on the end of the paintball gun as she makes her way out of the forested part of the yard.
Cindy turns her attention back to Echo, "Listen, just because I removed your collar doesn't mean I buy you're little spat with your buddy."
"Like I give a rat's ass what you think," Echo replies still pent up with frustration.
Cindy looks up to Gracelyn, "Did you hear that sweetie? It sounds like she wants to help you get into your groove again."
Gracelyn smirks as she puts her foot on the ab section of Echo's vest.
"No, no! Not again! I'm sorry!" Echo says as she braces prematurely for Gracelyn's weight while already struggling under Cindy's leg. "It's fine if you don't believe me, really!"
"Should've thought about that before you spoke out of line," Gracelyn says as she steps on and over the girl's stomach, squeezing a small groan from her. She turns and poses her foot on the girl again.
"I'm sorry, I promise," Echo says in a huff.