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[Badgermoon]

Truth be told, this wasn't exactly where he had wanted to be on a fine evening such as this. When the sun was setting and the sky was awash in soft pinks and blues, he liked to be sharing tongues with his Clanmates, or perhaps settling down with a piece of prey - even heading out of camp on an evening patrol was fine by him. But this...well, this wasn't ideal. The black-and-white tom had found himself stuck in a gorse bush, his hindquarters somehow above his head and his forelegs dangling uselessly, not quite able to touch the frosty ground. The problem lay in his broad shoulders, in fact: they were pinned between a particularly dense tangle of gorse and the rock against which the shrub had grown, and no matter how hard he twisted and turned he couldn't seem to free himself. Badgermoon let out a puff of air, frustrated, thrashing a little more and earning only a cut across his muzzle for his trouble. "Oh, for StarClan's sake..." It wasn't the most dignified position he'd ever found himself in, that was true, but then again...it wasn't the most foolish he'd ever looked, either, and he would much rather be laughed at and helped out of his predicament than left to dangle interminably. Resigning himself to being found, he filled his lungs with air and let out a yowl across the moor, hoping someone would hear it and come to rescue him.

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[Galeforce]

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Finding things to laugh about were becoming rarer, but this. This. It left him nearly crippled with the force that the laughter erupted from him. Wheezing for breath and with his eyes streaming, Galeforce forced himself to stand upright in his prime little vantage point near the edge of the gorse. It had been the yowl that had attracted him over in the first place and he was hardly disappointed with the view. "How in StarClan did you manage to get yourself in such a tangle?" He was genuinely impressed.

Easing himself in with care, he gradually pulled up closer to the older tom. He looked at Badgermoon's predicament and he struggled to think of the easiest way in which to free his clanmate. "That's... er... quite the bind that you've gotten yourself into. What can I do to help?"
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[Badgermoon]

"Oh, Galeforce, thank the stars it's you." the bicolor tom had taken an immediate liking to Galeforce - the brown tabby was friendly and easy to talk to, and didn't seem inclined to prickle at the smallest of things, a feature Badgermoon greatly appreciated. He let out a dramatic sigh and nodded, waving a paw in a "go on" motion at the younger warrior's incredulity. "Would you believe me if I said I heroically rescued a beautiful molly and her baby kits from a terrible monster and just so happened to get stuck in the bush afterwards?" it was clearly a joke, and he hoped it passed along the message that he wasn't offended at someone finding his ... predicament ... funny. It was pretty funny, really, but he wasn't quite ready to laugh at it - the gorse was tugging on his pelt uncomfortably and blood was starting to pool in his head. "Think you could try to pop my shoulder from this rock? I think that's where I'm sticking..."

[ you're welcome to powerplay getting him out or whatever! <3 ]​

 

[Galeforce]

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"Heh! If there was really a beautiful molly here I'd be ditching you there and running off with her." Galeforce teased as he continued to investigate the gorse tendrils and rock. He wanted to get a full layout in his head of everything before daring to make a move, lest he risked making things worse. Right, he would focus on the rock then, especially now that he had been prompted to do so by Badgermoon. Fortunately he wasn't a small cat otherwise he might have been forced to seek help from someone else in the area.

Rearing up on his hindlegs, Galeforce aimed to push his head and shoulders up against Badgermoon's chest as a way of manoeuvring the other tom away from the rock. Once he did so he then gave a jump and aimed to latch his jaws somewhere on the older warrior's forelimb before yanking towards with force. It wasn't pretty, it was probably going to hurt, but with luck it would jostle the trapped feline free at last. Though during the rescue attempt a fair amount of debris was knocked loose, some of which had landed in his eyes. Galeforce gave a whimper and he shut his eyes tight whilst they streamed in response to the discomfort.
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[Badgermoon]

"Ahh, c'mon, Galeforce, you don't need my damsels," the warrior scoffed in mock derision, "I'm sure you have mollies and toms falling all over themselves for you." it wasn't meant to be a flirty remark, though to be fair he wasn't always the best at differentiating between the two. Badgermoon braced himself as the brown tabby clambered up closer and then began the laborious process of budging his big-bodied self out of the gorse, involving a great shove, a leap, and the feeling of a jaw clamping down onto his leg - then, pull - and he felt his shoulder, at last, grind loose from the stone. With a grunt of pain, he landed on his feet in a heap next to his rescuer, wincing slightly where Gale's teeth had needed to be. Then again, perhaps he'd gotten off easy - he gave a sympathetic sigh as the debris rained into the younger warrior's eyes and he moved closer. "Keep 'em closed, hang on - " with a few decisive licks, he attempted to clear the dirt and scraps of dead vegetation before backing up and giving a huge groan of relief. "StarClan above, it feels good to be out of there. Thank you very much." freedom! He was free!​

 

[Galeforce]

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"You'd think so, but no." Galeforce sighed in feigned disappointment, not that he particularly cared in truth. He only had eyes for Sunsetbreeze anyway. Casting the jests aside he remained focused on the task and he felt relief when Badgermoon was finally freed from his embarrassing predicament. Though now the sense of misery was weighing on his shoulders thanks to the grit in his eyes. The younger tom gave a grumble of discomfort as he was subjected to the licks but it was soothing and did the trick. "Thanks for that. Glad you're free now, just avoid climbing into anymore bushes, okay?" He let a laugh escape him as he blinked a few times to clear the last specks still affecting his eyes. "So... why were you in there in the first place? You didn't get dropped by an eagle or something?"
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[Badgermoon]

Badgermoon was unstuck, Galeforce's eyes were clear: the ordeal seemed to be over with, and the tom heaved a final sigh of relief before leaning back on his haunches. "Ah, no. No eagles. It's, uh...it's kind of a long story." and truth be told, he wasn't particularly into explaining it. It made him look...well, quite silly. Then again, was there really much more potential for respect to be lost? Galeforce had already seen him stuck in a gorse bush. The ending was already clear; telling him couldn't do much harm, could it? "So, there was this rabbit..." it was a long story indeed, involving a very lucky rabbit, a very unlucky Badgermoon, some missed jumps, and one unfortunate landing... "and then I landed in the gorse and it startled me, and I tried to wiggle my way out, but I was all frustrated because I could see the stupid thing running away, and so I moved around too much, and then all of a sudden I was wedged right the way you found me." Stupid rabbits.​

 

[Galeforce]

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"Oh jeez! That's... yeah, quite the adventure, heh! Well, live and learn, no more chasing bunnies through gorse bushes. I won't always be around to save you." Galeforce offered up a cheeky wink as he spoke, amusement still glowing in his now bloodshot eyes. Standing up, he then aimed to brush past Badgermoon on his way out of the bush. "Lets not hang around here any longer, you might get stuck again." He teased as he pranced giddily across the long grass.
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