( excuse you, you're talking to copguyver over here. mako gives him a flat look, and then fishes a knife out of his pocket. he turns the blade sideways and uses the blunt edge as a screwdriver to fish the screws out of their sockets. as he sits, he scuffs the ground in front of him with his foot until it's smooth and flat enough, and as he takes the screws out and sets them down in the same pattern they were in entombed in the plastic. the battery, when he finds it (how do weird mp3 players work we just don't know) he pops out and holds in his hand.
he's never done this without a conduit before, but he is still aware that he can. it'll just take an immense amount of concentration. he holds up a hand, a tacit request for minato to be silent, and then he just focuses on the battery. lets himself react into the current. he needs to generate just enough that he won't overload it or himself, which makes him realize he can probably use his own body to direct some of the energy, but he'll have to bleed it off when he's done. hope astoria doesn't mind lightning strikes up into the sky!!
for now, though, it's just a delicate trickle of power fed into the battery's terminal. just a few seconds that seem stretched out to eternity, and then he holds it out for minato to take. it'll probably shock him like static when he does, albeit mildly. )
Okay, hold on, I have to get rid of the rest. Stay there.
( he stands up, takes a few careful and practiced steps back and then directs his left hand towards the sky where it's going to do the least amount of harm. the lightning surges up and outwards with a crack, but it arcs away and dissipates and mako dusts his palms together. )
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he's never done this without a conduit before, but he is still aware that he can. it'll just take an immense amount of concentration. he holds up a hand, a tacit request for minato to be silent, and then he just focuses on the battery. lets himself react into the current. he needs to generate just enough that he won't overload it or himself, which makes him realize he can probably use his own body to direct some of the energy, but he'll have to bleed it off when he's done. hope astoria doesn't mind lightning strikes up into the sky!!
for now, though, it's just a delicate trickle of power fed into the battery's terminal. just a few seconds that seem stretched out to eternity, and then he holds it out for minato to take. it'll probably shock him like static when he does, albeit mildly. )
Okay, hold on, I have to get rid of the rest. Stay there.
( he stands up, takes a few careful and practiced steps back and then directs his left hand towards the sky where it's going to do the least amount of harm. the lightning surges up and outwards with a crack, but it arcs away and dissipates and mako dusts his palms together. )
There. Let's put it back together and see.