There was no time to think, no time to plan. Eventually the Aegis would arrive on Earth and whoever had sent the contingency to kidnap Jupiter would be taken care of. Caine wasn’t going to wait on that. He had been assigned as part of her personal entourage, and there was no time to think of anything but her immediate safety. Not even time enough to call Stinger.

Snatching up her gravity boots, he shoved them against Jupiter’s chest before gathering her majesty into his arms. Another time he’d have taken time for boots, to take her hand and ensure if they were separated, she would be okay. This was the first attack on her since she had taken her title and he knew they weren’t entirely ready for it, the planet still set for harvest rather than protection.

Setting the portal device on one edge of the roof, set for Captain Tsing’s ship, he took a running start even as the soles of his boots began to glow. Unfurling his wings, he launched them into the air at the portal just as the first blast fired over his shoulder.

Curling into a duck and roll as he hit the shimmering surface, pulling up from the dive just in time to avoid… a tree.

That shock left him fluttering a moment, losing altitude.

“This isn’t the ship,” he muttered, feeling stupid for even saying it. That they weren’t on the ship was very obvious as they hovered on the edge of a settlement that was much more like Earth than the Aegis ship he had been aiming for.

((ooc: open for either Caine or Jupiter, or both if you want. Just let us know.))