Orchid Does Jenga

====Prompt=====
Orchid showing off her jenga skills by using her tail tendrils to poke through floors of a building
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The cordoned site was due for deconstruction. As part of the public relations plan for the blue dendrobium project, the designated kaiju caretaker was there on the streets. The road was cluttered with onlookers kept back only by police cordons and the two figures who dominated the space with their presence. Above the hushed whispers was the the muffled whir of a reactor core and the scratch of a tail gently swishing against a picket fence.

A mechanical arm swept over the front and grabbed a piece of the hotel, just under the eaves of the roof. Massive fingers pulled, ripping out a long plank of steel. The house shuddered and snapped as rivets popped and welding broke. The caretaker winced at the awful tearing and inwardly braced himself, but the building remained standing. "Jenga," the loudspeakers crackled as the piece was deposited in a dumpster.

Orchid, who had been sitting patiently, squeezed up against the other side of the building in the back yard, looked back around the corner and then peeked through the hole where the support beam had been. "Ooooooh," she chirped.

The towering mecha, the only jaeger not mothballed at present, turned to a group of construction workers huddled around a large diagram. They gave the thumbs up. "Your turn."

Orchid stuck her tongue out in concentration, a singular fang poking out overtop of it. The caretaker idly wondered if she ever bit her tongue before when she suddenly opened her mouth happily, finding something in particular. "Ah!" she gasped and leaned to the side a little. Her tail wound around itself, glowing cords creating a singular thick cable made of thousands of wires. The back half of the tail straightened vertically like a tower, reaching up to the same height as the seventh floor. The brighter end of the tail smacked against a hallway window, punching through the glass easily. The jaeger crouched, looking into the window at the other end while the tail continued to slip in like an octopus squeezing into a pipe.

The kaiju looked away, focused solely on feeling around with the tendrils branching off of the main tail. Inside, it was a horror movie, a neon worm sliding over the carpet and pieces writhing and probing. Suddenly there was a boom as the tail lurched towards the ceiling, pieces breaking through to wrap around another beam and leaving plaster and dry-walling in their wake. The tail reversed course, starting to pull back out through the window.

The building groaned in agony as a central steel support beam refused to give. The tail wrapped around it further, grasping and pulling until it snapped in half with a muffled clang. The tail retreated, hairs peeling back to reveal two snapped halves. She tossed them into the dumpster. "Jenga," she grinned. All parties looked at the mostly untouched exterior. "Is that even legal?" one of the jaeger pilots grunted.

All eyes turned to the foreman who stood by the makeshift table, plans laid out in full. He stoked his stubby beard and nodded. The crowd gasped, whispering to each other while someone booed a "No fair!" The caretaker raised an eyebrow. For an entire line of machines that carried the hopes of humanity, the war mechas famed as the only thing that could beat a kaiju and their specially trained pilots, a defeat, no matter how silly, would be demoralizing for everyone. At worst it would draw the ire of the crowd and not only not make them want to support the kaiju research project but openly oppose it if Orchid turned out to be too good.

For now, the attention turned to the pilots. The jaeger mechas were never given to facial expressions but the incredulous shrug it made said it all. The mecha raised up to its full height. "Fine," the pilots huffed in unison. "Stand back." The arm wound back and then rushed forward, violently punching through timber, breaking steel, and causing more than a few people to flinch. The arm retreated, a fist full of broken wall in its hand. The building groaned, the roof sinking low to one side as the building was thrown dangerously off balance. But, it didn't fall. "Jenga!" Applause broke out across the crowd while the jaeger tossed the debris into the dumpster with a cocky, dismissive air.

The kaiju swallowed nervously while the mecha was busy doing a triumphant fist pump. Orchid turned back to the building, thinking as she inspected it. She may not have any knowledge of construction, but the caretaker swore he could hear the gears turning from both her primary and secondary brains. She narrowed her eyes, fidgeting with a hoof in the dirt as her ears flicked forward attentively. There clearly weren't many options left.

Finally, she picked a spot, tail winding up the side of the building. The tail dove into the other side of the gap made by the jaeger, other hair tendrils plunging into balcony doors and windows along the same floor like a movie kraken. The caretaker watched in apprehension as Orchid pulled with her weight, flicked her hindquarters back while the tail flexed in a wave, tugging hard. Once, and steel moaned from deep inside the building. Twice and something broke with a few loud clangs and snaps of wood. The building started to shift and with the third motion, the the tail flew out like a whiplash. The entire floor came with it, everything above falling as she ripped its guts out. The roof upper levels sank onto the floor below, the building itself not falling over as the section was whisked out from underneath it like a tablecloth from under a plate. The noise petered out into dead silence as jaws dropped and a few in the crowd applauded.

Orchid stamped her front hooves enthusiastically. "Jenga!" she sang.

Her caretaker looked back to the mecha its palms up, torso swiveling as it tried to comprehend what had just happened. Orchid's tail discarded the wreckage into a neat pile, coming back to her side to wag, excited at her own performance. "Your turn."

"We know." The jaeger squared its shoulders, armored panels dramatically clanking into battle position. "It's go time!" The massive machine balled its hands into fists, planted its feet into the ground, and hunched over, crouching into a squat. The caretaker just gave them a flat look. Silence fell over the street again as it locked into a death stare with the ravaged hotel. Spotlights flashed on, roving across the holes. The head turned this way and that in the silent glare punctuated by clicking gears. It leaned back, a hand sinking into the ground floor.

The roving warmachine's fingers whirred and clicked as pieces assembled with that looked like jet engines at the tips. "Flaming fingers!" the pilots yelled.

The caretaker almost choked as he could see sparks igniting from the ends of the hand. Gouts of white-hot plasma sheered sheered through whatever surfaces happened to be in the way. The machine cleared away a few support columns, collapsing a corner of the 2nd and 3rd floors. The jets sputtered, the metal around them a muted red as it shut off and began to cool down. The hand reached for the rubble and pulled it out, rolling the remnants off the hand and into the bin. The building started to teeter as they stomped their feet to the ground like a sumo wrestler. "Jenga!" the mecha called.

Cameras flashed and the construction crew murmured to themselves.

"That's it."

"Yep."

Meanwhile, Orchid had her face on the ground, peering in from the other side. When she poked around the corner of the building again she had a definite drop of nervous sweat on her face. Or was that just some errant water? With her it was hard to tell as the kaiju leaned this way and that, looking the damage over. She thought long and hard, craning her head around to get a full picture.

The building was barely stable now, holes and a missing floor, the ground floor lobby torn out and a collapsed corner with zero support. Something far down was out of the question. Her antennae opened up as she scanned along, trying to pick whatever thing she could remove without the entire thing going down. Her tail snaked across the of the building while she peeked inside, trying to be absolutely sure of where it was going.

Every time the tail brushed against some newly moved piece or another she stiffened up nervously. It continued to snake and probe with as light a touch as she could manage, individual hair strands breaking away instead of feeling with the main mass. She carefully picked her way around, settling on a horizontal bar somewhere deep inside.

Slowly, the tail started to wind around it, gently taking it in its grasp.

She flinched with a squeak as there came a definite loud clang of something breaking inside. A portion of the center stairwell fell with a crash that made the caretaker's heart leap. The structure held, somehow. Orchid, the pilots, and the gathered spectators collectively inhaled and held their breath as they could see the tail starting to come back out towards her side, holding a steel I-beam.

It slipped against a portion of the wall, scraping noisily as she rotated it to avoid some of the rubble. Orchid turned her head, letting one eye peer past the tail as more and more of it slid out, with aching slowness. Finally, it drifted into the sunlight, Orchid glancing between the glowing hairs clutching it and the hole it had exited through, her mouth hanging open in wonder. The building rocked with a groan of metal trying to keep its shape. Still, it eventually settled and Orchid released the breath she hadn't realized she was holding as her astonishment turned to glee.

"No way!" the jaeger barked.

She trotted in place with a huge grin across her face. "Jenga!" she laughed with relief.

And then it fell. Something broke apart deep inside. Unable to take the poorly distributed weight, the entire building collapsed like a tower. What's more, it crashed towards the kaiju, apparently guided by vengeance for all the buildings her cousins had torn apart in the past. She squealed as the structure fell on her, flimsy walls breaking apart against her horn and crumbling where it slapped her snout. Chunks fell from the main structure as she instinctively tried to brace it in an awkward hug, impacting her body and falling apart.

The resulting dust cloud fogged the scene, hiding the fate of the kaiju. As it cleared, there was a heap of rubble left over. On top of the heap, was Orchid. Loose pieces still fell from her as she sat there. Chunks of building had scattered across every portion of her, collecting on her snout plate, mane, and tail in particular. Cheering rang out in the street with a few kinder "Aw's". The jaeger blared its horn, hands raised up in victory. Cameras flashed and reporters started talking about the 'decisive win for the jaeger program like old times'. Construction crews prepared to clear the remaining trash while Orchid scanned the crowd for a familiar face, landing on a single figure near the construction team.

The caretaker flashed a thumbs up in her direction. The kaiju managed to slip an embarrassed smile back, dusting off some of the debris from her noseplate. Orchid had exposed her nicer, more playful sides to the public. Win or lose, the "mission" was successful. As the street rang out with conversation, the monsterhorse was content in the knowledge she was getting at least one bag of chips for this.. "Jenga!" she laughed with relief.