.... so. Who wants to read a baseless snippet from the omnic fic I’m working on?? :3c
Blood dripped into his eye from the deep, crushing wound that cut diagonally across his face, the omnic's tail having no doubt smashed bone and broken his nose when it slammed him against the transport. Gabe's vision was blurry and swam when he tried to lift his head, bruising turning the skin around his eyes dark and swollen, and the painful throbbing inside his skull couldn't be a good sign.
The air was hot and reeked of fresh machinery, heavy in his lungs and leaving the thick, acrid taste of metal coating his tongue. Clearly he wasn’t at the Birkenkopf rallypoint anymore; it’d probably dragged him back into the Omnium. Half-congealed blood that refused to dry in the humidity oozed sluggishly out of his nose, his breath rattling and wet as he tried to fill his lungs, the familiar push of broken ribs lancing hot pain through his torso. His thoughts were muddled, pain-addled, his brain filled with cottony haze until the attack came back in sharp, crackling clarity.
The Omnium floor under him was unexpectedly soft, squishy as he pressed his arms underneath him to try and prop himself up. The pain of moving nearly knocked the breath out of him, blood and saliva dripping from the corner of his mouth as he struggled not to scream, unfocused eyes watching it drip down to the faintly glowing peach-red floor. Something stood out in the periphery of his vision, a dark, clashing shade against the uniform red and black and silver. His bloodshot eyes cut over to it, trying to make out any identifying marks; a crumpled form, lifeless and still, made of tattered blue fabric stained dark with dried blood.
The silver pillars framing it suddenly swayed, what he thought were merely support columns were sporting long, thick claws that splayed out against the uneven surface, leading up to a bulky chest. Sickly yellow-green mesh that hung loose beneath a thick neck drew his eyes up, up, until the glittering optics of the omnic met with his own, the luminescent golden liquid dripping, shimmering and bright, from its grinning blood-smeared jaws as though it had consumed the sun.