Week 15 -- Friday WHO: Ratchet, Jax, NPC mechanic, NPC guards WHAT: A little punishment WHERE: The power plant (and perhaps somewhere else, depending on Jax's method of punishment) WHEN: Evening RATING: ...depends on the extent of the violence. STATUS: Incomplete // Closed
Anyone that knew Ratchet knew that she didn't tolerate very specific things in people. Cowardice, stupidity, timidity...and those were just a few. And yet with the Mountain Lions and even with the Jackals, it seemed like she was swimming in these traits! So that was why she'd walk around the plant with a big wrench slung over her shoulder and a scowl on her face. Really, was it so hard for some of her mechanics and electricians to A) grow a backbone and B) get a few brain cells to rub together? It seemed like half of them never knew what they were doing and if they weren't whining to someone else for help, they were whining to her. That was another thing she hated. Whining. It honestly made her want to club most of them over the head until they'd shut up for good. But she couldn't do that...not unless they could be replaced.
Now, slightly earlier, one spineless, stupid whiner had come to her. It seemed he had a bit of a problem with something that didn't relate to the plant. And it involved Jax. That automatically peaked her interest, but she didn't show it openly. Instead she told him to get on with the damn explanation so he could get back to work. So he talked on and on, describing how he'd escorted Sumi to the river like he'd been asked. And then he'd fallen asleep, leaving the girl to nearly drown in the river. Jax had shown up shortly after that. Cowardly mechanic boy had taken the horse and gone back to the lodge as fast as he could. "Wow...and here I thought idiocy couldn't reach a new level," she said to him. He practically begged her to not tell Jax and to keep him hidden so that he wouldn't get his ass kicked. Or worse. Now, Ratchet wasn't the sort of girl who'd keep an idiot from his punishment for being a negligent idiot. He had to know that...and yet he believed her when she said that she'd keep him safe. She still smacked him with the wrench and told him to get back to work, though, with that typical attitude that had so many afraid of her.
Once he'd left, she called for someone to run a message to Jax back at the lodge. The message was simple. "Come to the plant ASAP." She figured that he'd be wanting to know which scumbag had almost let his precious little Asian princess drown in the Belle Fourche. She watched the runner go off with the message with a smirk on her lips. It wouldn't be long now.
She passed her supervising duties to one of the other higher-up mechanics and actually waited outside for Jax and his guards to show up. This was going to be very fun, she thought. What was going to happen to the little coward? There would be blood, that was for sure.