[ Ben is too far away to get between the rampaging thing and Peter, but that doesn't matter; Peter jumps up and just sticks to a tree branch and god, that just never stops being cool. There's no time to be jealous of Peter's powers, though, because the cow is bellowing, enraged, and Ben sees that its teeth are definitely way sharper and there are way more rows of them than a cow out to have. It snorts, scraping hooves in the earth, and rams its horned head into the tree Peter is clinging in. Like it's going to try to knock it down. Ben doesn't know enough about cows to know if that's normal, either.
He hesitates for just a few seconds. The animal seems fixated on Peter for now, and Ben furiously calculates in his head if there is any other way. Any way to stop this without killing it. He could climb a tree, too. Scare it off somehow. Peter could use his webs...
But then the thing is winding up, and ramming into that tree again, and Ben hears a groan from the wood. Fuck.
So he shouts: ]
I- I got it. Just- stay still.
[ It will be easier for Ben to control the creatures, keep them from wanting to go after Peter too, if he is not moving like prey. He plants his feet, opens the portal. It's all over much more quickly than things had gone, with that swarm of nanites. Even a super-strong, super-pissed mutant cow can't do much about a tidal wave of otherworldly tentacles slamming into it, wrapping around its neck and horns and legs and slamming it against the ground a few times. Ben keeps himself from screaming this time, at least, even though his vision is blurred around the edges with pain. He feels the moment when the cow's neck is broken, and he slams the portal shut at once, staggering and dropping to one knee.
There wasn't too much blood, at least. Ben wipes the little that has splashed on his face off with the sleeve of his hoodie, breaths shaky with revulsion. When he can manage a few words, he asks: ]
cw for gore
He hesitates for just a few seconds. The animal seems fixated on Peter for now, and Ben furiously calculates in his head if there is any other way. Any way to stop this without killing it. He could climb a tree, too. Scare it off somehow. Peter could use his webs...
But then the thing is winding up, and ramming into that tree again, and Ben hears a groan from the wood. Fuck.
So he shouts: ]
I- I got it. Just- stay still.
[ It will be easier for Ben to control the creatures, keep them from wanting to go after Peter too, if he is not moving like prey. He plants his feet, opens the portal. It's all over much more quickly than things had gone, with that swarm of nanites. Even a super-strong, super-pissed mutant cow can't do much about a tidal wave of otherworldly tentacles slamming into it, wrapping around its neck and horns and legs and slamming it against the ground a few times. Ben keeps himself from screaming this time, at least, even though his vision is blurred around the edges with pain. He feels the moment when the cow's neck is broken, and he slams the portal shut at once, staggering and dropping to one knee.
There wasn't too much blood, at least. Ben wipes the little that has splashed on his face off with the sleeve of his hoodie, breaths shaky with revulsion. When he can manage a few words, he asks: ]
You okay?