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"If I had the fancy kind of teleport I could just vanish with the gun," bus guy grumbles to his windshield, and then pops back and forth across the aisle of his bus five times, anxiously - "does this stupid country even have police -"

He steps out of the shuttle. 

 

He and mugger and gun disappear.

 

He and mugger and gun appear in the middle of the ocean.

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Mugger can't swim, it transpires.

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They can get repeatedly lifted like a foot above the water. He's never done that many teleports in a row but this is supposed to run off strong emotions, right, and "terrified and pissed off" is a strong emotion. 

"If you drop the gun I'll take us somewhere else."

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It's ambiguous whether bus guy was audible over the hollering but the gun gets dropped eventually anyway.

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They land with a plop on a soccer field on Earth. "You asshole," says bus guy. "Now they're probably going to take my teleportation license - you can buy the magic stuff -"

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Mugger is busy hyperventilating.

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"Do you need medical attention -"

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"Aaaaaa?"

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"Do you need medical attention," he says slowly.

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"I don't think so?"

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"Right. Would you like me to drop you off somewhere, leave and have another teleporter come by and drop you off somewhere, or just leave?"

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"Where are we?"

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"Federation Earth. It was just the first place I thought of that'd be clear and safe to leave you if you wanted me to leave, my girlfriend and I visited here a couple months ago -"

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"I can't just stay here."

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"Would you like me to drop you off somewhere, or leave and arrange for someone else to come and drop you off somewhere?"

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"Can you just put me back - uh - maybe under the platform where nobody'd see me -"

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"Yes. Uh, they'll probably follow up with you in a couple of days."

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"- they?"

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"The people who gave me a teleport."

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"Why?"

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" - because I'm not allowed to teleport people in a manner that endangers them, and I did that, and so they're going to take my teleport and do an investigation and stuff, and that'll involve talking to you since you're the victim."

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"I'd really rather they didn't."

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" - I can tell them that you don't want to but I don't know much about the process, they might want to anyway. You can tell them not to when they stop by to talk but I don't know if I can get them not to stop by in the first place, I think once it's reported they are strict about procedures and stuff."

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Mugger shivers.

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"...they're not going to arrest you, that'd be up to Calado, they just can't have people misusing a teleport."

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