Mission 040 - Through the Stomach

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wyverncakes 12:05 pm
(12:05:18 PM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYn2Q-kVNAk
(12:06:07 PM): As Huffman mentioned before, another of the black domes has formed.
ginkansk 12:06 pm
(12:06:45 PM): Raquel "These things ... again..."
wyverncakes 12:06 pm
(12:06:49 PM): And it's not just some weird design choice by some mad artist either... Walt, your weird sense of things verifies it.
tormterra 12:07 pm
(12:07:22 PM): Kei: "Do you know anythin Walt? You can feel something from the domes, right?"
wyverncakes 12:07 pm
(12:07:27 PM): It's also close, worryingly close, to a group of displaced civilians travelling north to the coast.
Overman Zappa 12:07 pm
(12:07:46 PM): Banjou: "Yet another anomaly to handle... I wonder..."
tengusaur 12:08 pm
(12:08:33 PM): Hetepheres: "Will this end in bombardment like the previous two times? It seems that our task here is evident."
frifreeman 12:08 pm
(12:08:51 PM): Walt: Yes... It's the same feeling I got from before.
wyverncakes 12:08 pm
(12:08:57 PM): Hence why you're all traveling to meet up with them, courtesy of a shuttle travelling through the desert en-route to their location.
VJockey 12:09 pm
(12:09:08 PM): Optimus: "Whatever happens, we won't let the creatures inside of them harm any innocent lives."
wyverncakes 12:09 pm
(12:09:33 PM): The saving grace is once they're in the clear then preventative measures can be taken to quarrantine this area of the desert off.
tormterra 12:09 pm
(12:09:43 PM): Kei: "Understood. We need to contain anything that might leave the domes and get the civilians far enough away to allow for bombing."
ginkansk 12:09 pm
(12:09:51 PM): Raquel "I'm starting to wonder if we should just bombard from the get go..."
frifreeman 12:09 pm
(12:09:51 PM): Walt: "I know... I don't know what should we do now. Our experimental weapon back then didn't do jack."
drascin 12:10 pm
(12:10:05 PM): Kagura: "CONTAINMENT AND EVACUATION." Kagura agrees with Hetepheres. "IS THE BOMBARDING FLEET ALREADY TAKING POSITIONS?"
wyverncakes 12:10 pm
(12:10:46 PM): The shuttle pilot answers you, Kagura.
cubey@aol.pl 12:10 pm
(12:10:58 PM): Ren was there too. Strangely enough, they're being really quiet.
frifreeman 12:11 pm
(12:11:08 PM): Walt: "At least from our previous experience, we know that the creatures won't attack us from the beginning. They're always act curious and investigating the area first, right?"
wyverncakes 12:11 pm
(12:11:23 PM): Pilot: "We have one getting in position. At least the saving grace here is that there's nothing that nobody's going to miss. It's just nothing but-"
wyverncakes 12:11 pm
(12:11:39 PM): Suddenly an alarm starts to go off inside of the shuttle's cockpit.
VJockey 12:11 pm
(12:11:47 PM): [Off to the side Ironhide and Cliffjumper are prepping weapons. While the former has a respectable amount of weaponry on him... the latter is doing his best to literally cover himself in them. Carrying a cybertronian designed gatling gun that was almost as big as he was. The look of unholy glee on the red midget had Ironhide shaking his head.]
tengusaur 12:11 pm
(12:11:59 PM): Hetepheres: "Which means that we can observe and wait for them to make the first move." She turns around towards the alarm. "What is going on?"
wyverncakes 12:12 pm
(12:12:00 PM): Pilot: "What the hell- missile lock?"
ginkansk 12:12 pm
(12:12:14 PM): Raquel tenses at the alarm. "Missle?!"
VJockey 12:12 pm
(12:12:40 PM): Ironhide: "Brace fer impact!"
wyverncakes 12:12 pm
(12:12:43 PM): The shuttle starts to bank to the side, the pilot shouting to hold on to something, and an explosion from a near-hit rocks the shuttle hard.
drascin 12:12 pm
(12:12:48 PM): Kagura: "OPEN THE DOOR. NOW"
tengusaur 12:13 pm
(12:13:24 PM): Hetepheres: "Prepare for a hard landing! And for battle!"
tormterra 12:13 pm
(12:13:47 PM): Kei: "Any information about the attackers?"
wyverncakes 12:13 pm
(12:13:48 PM): It spins uncontrollaby, the pilot barely able to keep it under control before it smashes into a dune.
tengusaur 12:13 pm
(12:13:49 PM): Hetepheres: "Major, try to intercept the launcher before it can shoot again."
cubey@aol.pl 12:13 pm
(12:13:54 PM): "Who'd be interested in attacking Unity Group around here?" That's enough to make Ren snap out of it though.
(12:14:00 PM): Well, the crash doesn't do any favors either.
tengusaur 12:14 pm
(12:14:31 PM): The Gebian general stumbles, trying to keep balance during the hard landing. Which isn't easy.
frifreeman 12:14 pm
(12:14:44 PM): Walt: "Lately, I'm more thinking who isn't interested in attacking unity group..."
Overman Zappa 12:14 pm
(12:14:48 PM): Banjou alone stands at the door. "Daitarn! COME HERE!"
wyverncakes 12:14 pm
(12:14:57 PM): Half-submerged in sand, most of the systems go dead and the pilot is fast at work to bring backups online when another blast blows open the side of the shuttle hangar! Fortunately nobody's hurt, but sand seeps in and you can finally see the attackers...
(12:15:33 PM): ???: "Well well well... it seems the desert spiders have caught themselves a bounty of flies..."
drascin 12:16 pm
(12:16:01 PM): Kagura flies out of the hole the instant it's made, ready to intercept any further missiles
(12:16:15 PM): She's the one that doesn't need to get into a robot, after all
tormterra 12:16 pm
(12:16:41 PM): (Are we in our units or would we need to move to get to them? I think the first, but wanted to be sure.)
cubey@aol.pl 12:16 pm
(12:16:48 PM): Ren's Genoace peeks out of the hole, its shield raised in pre-emptive defense.
wyverncakes 12:16 pm
(12:16:52 PM): Standing far off, a slew of machines stand, some with patchwork desert cloaks hanging off their frames!
(12:17:04 PM): (You'll need to get in your machines, but Kagura's covering that)
tengusaur 12:17 pm
(12:17:32 PM): While all of this is going on, Hetepheres quickly boards the Scaraber and boots up the systems.
wyverncakes 12:17 pm
(12:17:51 PM): There's one figure standing front and center, atop an avian machine with its own wings serving as a cloak as well.
Overman Zappa 12:17 pm
(12:17:53 PM): An unmanned DaiFighter arrives and lets a wire down to quickly reel Banjou in. Once in, DaiFighter transforms to the Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3!
wyverncakes 12:18 pm
(12:18:20 PM): ???: "Here I expected to just find another bunch of humanitarian workers but this is much better!"
drascin 12:18 pm
(12:18:24 PM): Kagura: "IDENTIFY YOURSELVES"
VJockey 12:18 pm
(12:18:30 PM): [Optimus is going to help anyone that needs assistance getting to their machines and preparing for combat. Ironhide and Cliffjumper are moving towards the hole to cover Kagura.]
wyverncakes 12:18 pm
(12:18:34 PM): ???: "Gladly."
cubey@aol.pl 12:18 pm
(12:18:43 PM): Ren: "Hello."
tormterra 12:18 pm
(12:18:57 PM): Like the others Kei began moving to board Purple-2 in preparation for the battle they clearly had on their hands
wyverncakes 12:19 pm
(12:19:13 PM): "My name is Hen... and I am a kin like the one in your custody... although one more wise in regards to the way of the world."
(12:19:16 PM): (Hen: http://safebooru.org//samples/1183/sample_719b126d9232cac6c43ae0fc5666b098ec62acc1.png?1232562)
cubey@aol.pl 12:20 pm
(12:20:04 PM): Ren: "What are you doing here, Hen? I didn't expect my kin to prey on human transports."
wyverncakes 12:20 pm
(12:20:23 PM): And sure enough, alongside Hen's machine there are more of those Punishers and Tormentors... but also Shaldolls and Huckebeins armed with lower-level beam weaponry and machineguns!
(12:20:36 PM): Oh... and Banjou?
cubey@aol.pl 12:21 pm
(12:21:00 PM): Ren's voice is strained. This is a sudden and stressful situation, and it's really unsure how much of this courtesy is real and how much is just a mask.
VJockey 12:21 pm
(12:21:10 PM): Cliffjumper: "So we're fighting a chicken?"
drascin 12:21 pm
(12:21:12 PM): Kagura: "THE SUBJECT KNOWN AS REN IS UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF UNITY GROUP AND YOU ARE INTERRUPTING A VITAL RELIEF OPERATION. THIS IS THE ONLY WARNING YOU GET."
wyverncakes 12:21 pm
(12:21:27 PM): With your big grand display of action, Daitarn-3 suddenly comes under fire from the Punishers! Their cannons fire relentlessly, intending to blast apart Daitarn!
(12:21:31 PM): (React: Banjou!)
cubey@aol.pl 12:21 pm
(12:21:39 PM): Ren: "No, it's a Chinese word. Mandarin, I think? Ah, watch out!"
wyverncakes 12:21 pm
(12:21:45 PM): Hen: "And no, you misunderstand my role here, Ren."
(12:22:02 PM): "I'm less leading the charge, and more.... inspiring those here to just take what they want. Isn't that right?'
(12:22:19 PM): And suddenly a number of human voices answer in various affirmative ways.
wyverncakes 12:22 pm
(12:22:28 PM): The pilots in the non-kin machines...
tengusaur 12:22 pm
(12:22:33 PM): Hetepheres: "You are interfering with a rescue operation. Leave, or be destroyed. I am afraid you will not be dining on Ren's flesh today."
Overman Zappa 12:22 pm
(12:22:34 PM): *Bah, shooting at Daitarn with those peashooters? Daitan withdraws a giant folding fan and simply holds it up as a shield, not worried about the damage+
VJockey 12:22 pm
(12:22:51 PM): Cliffjumper: "Well it looks like they want some ammo! And I got plenty to-"
drascin 12:22 pm
(12:22:54 PM): Kagura: "SO NOT ONLY AN AMBITIOUS CUNT, AN AMBITIOUS CUNT WITHOUT ENOUGH GUTS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY."
VJockey 12:24 pm
(12:24:05 PM): Optimus: "Hen. I must implore you and those accompanying you to let us pass. There are lives at stake."
tormterra 12:24 pm
(12:24:17 PM): Kei: "If you value your lives, leave. Monsters will leave that black dome at some point."
wyverncakes 12:24 pm
(12:24:23 PM): [Banjou] You really shouldn't underestimate enemies you've never seen before... or write-off their primary guns as mere peashooters. The Daitarn fan gets struck by countless, twisted pieces of black crystal, and before long your shield is actually destroyed outright! Daitarn's proper body only gets stabbed a bit after that, but they aren't enemies to worry about!
wyverncakes 12:24 pm
(12:24:41 PM): Unfortunately, Hen's not swayed.
cubey@aol.pl 12:24 pm
(12:24:46 PM): Ren: "You have commanded a group of bandits? Why would you do that?"
wyverncakes 12:24 pm
(12:24:52 PM): Hen: "You hear that? More talk of lives 'needing to be saved'!"
(12:25:07 PM): "More lives that have to depend on others, more lives encouraged to be weak!"
(12:25:15 PM): "And what do you all say to that?"
(12:25:19 PM): Human pilots: "No more!"
drascin 12:25 pm
(12:25:23 PM): Kagura: "SAVE YOUR BREATH, OPTIMUS. I KNOW THE TYPE."
wyverncakes 12:25 pm
(12:25:24 PM): And suddenly they charge!
ginkansk 12:25 pm
(12:25:33 PM): Raquel breaks into a run at this poing going for her machine, she leaps into the open cockpit and is thankful that she was already in her flight suit. It takes a moment lock her self in place. The Amazon's optics flare up bright green as it powers up. "...Sociopaths wonderful..."
tormterra 12:25 pm
(12:25:37 PM): Kei: "...Some of those lives were your."
VJockey 12:25 pm
(12:25:39 PM): Optimus: "...At the very least... I had to try."
wyverncakes 12:25 pm
(12:25:50 PM): (Initiative: Walt, Kagura, Banjou, Heph, Kei, Optimus, Ren, Raquel)
tengusaur 12:26 pm
(12:26:09 PM): Hetepheres: "What lies have you told those poor, foolish Earthlings? Their deaths will be on your conscience, if you possess one."
wyverncakes 12:26 pm
(12:26:13 PM): Hen: "These lives that you came to try to pamper are the ones now before you!"
(12:26:33 PM): "I've told them the truth!"
(12:26:38 PM): (Walt, Kagura, Banjou)
ginkansk 12:26 pm
(12:26:44 PM): Raquel "I understand prime." Seriously someday someone will be talked down right?
wyverncakes 12:26 pm
(12:26:51 PM): "That in these bleak times, the devil smiles on those with the strength to take what they want!"
VJockey 12:26 pm
(12:26:59 PM): "..."
drascin 12:27 pm
(12:27:16 PM): Kagura seems rather unmoved, floating in the air completely unintimidated by the charging mechs four times her size
VJockey 12:27 pm
(12:27:18 PM): Ironhide: "Primus' sake! Its another damned Megatron!"
wyverncakes 12:27 pm
(12:27:24 PM): (Enemies: Ruthless Eagle (Hen), Tormentors x 15, Punishers x 10, Huckebeins x 20, Shaldolls x 30)
tengusaur 12:27 pm
(12:27:28 PM): Hetepheres: "Your truth will end with everyone on your side dead. And you have made one crucial mistake." Scaraber draws four khopeshes at once. "That is engaging a Gebian general in a desert."
drascin 12:27 pm
(12:27:51 PM): Kagura: "HAVE IT YOUR WAY"
tormterra 12:27 pm
(12:27:52 PM): Kei: "Still ignoring the dome that spawns monsters, I see."
wyverncakes 12:28 pm
(12:28:17 PM): "Why simply accept what humanitarian aid was handing them? They could just kill the ESUN agents, take everything they came, and continue to gather up strength?"
frifreeman 12:28 pm
(12:28:34 PM): Walt: "Oh boy, monsters AND bandits. We're either going to be eaten or scalped today. 8th genoace team, gather!"
ginkansk 12:28 pm
(12:28:38 PM): Raquel "Kei they likely want it to spread and 'kill' the weak."
tormterra 12:28 pm
(12:28:38 PM): Kei: "And watch soldiers come instead of relief workers?"
Overman Zappa 12:28 pm
(12:28:38 PM): *"Well then, not a bad move. Seems I'll have to be a little more careful! Daitarn Missile!" As he said, Banjou releases a few missiles from the belt of Daitarn, aimed at the same Punishers that fired at him moments ago+
tengusaur 12:29 pm
(12:29:17 PM): (requesting description for enemies)
VJockey 12:29 pm
(12:29:38 PM): Optimus: "Kei... we cannot afford to be delayed here. If we eliminate the leader, we can possibly drive off most of their numbers."
(12:29:43 PM): "Do you have a plan?"
frifreeman 12:29 pm
(12:29:52 PM): The three genoace gather, with their back on the downed shuttle. They kneel and unleashes a ew random shots with their dods gun toward the swarm of enemies.
wyverncakes 12:29 pm
(12:29:55 PM): (Tormentor: thin, edgy, and scrawny machines with wings that can enable flight. For melee they have two daggers)
tengusaur 12:30 pm
(12:30:04 PM): Hetepheres: "Your words are poison. The time for talking is over."
frifreeman 12:30 pm
(12:30:13 PM): Walt: "Protect the shuttle! I really don't want to leave here on foot when the monsters appear..."
(12:30:21 PM): +
wyverncakes 12:30 pm
(12:30:28 PM): (Punisher: as seen before, they're tanky, long-range guys with powerful guns that shoot black pieces of shrapnel. They have claws on their hands)
tormterra 12:30 pm
(12:30:34 PM): Kei: "I'll try to work something out. We'd need to either create an opening through the subordinates or to aim a precise shot..."
cubey@aol.pl 12:30 pm
(12:30:37 PM): Ren: "Hen, I..."
(12:30:48 PM): A huge pause hangs in the air.
wyverncakes 12:31 pm
(12:31:07 PM): (The Shaldolls and Huckebeins have low-grade loadouts. Beam sprayguns and M90 machineguns with physical blades for melee)
cubey@aol.pl 12:31 pm
(12:31:08 PM): But only for a second - a second required for the Genoace's head to shine brighter, as its halo spreads towards allied units.
drascin 12:31 pm
(12:31:16 PM): *And Kagura zooms forward at huge speed, passing right between the legs of the Tormentors - who about a second later will probably notice the fact that a) Kagura is right in their middle and attacking her is going to be rather difficult, and b) she's just left a magazine of explosive stakes lodged in their knees as she was passing, which are due to explode right about BOOOM+
cubey@aol.pl 12:31 pm
(12:31:33 PM): Ren: "I did not take you for someone so low. What are you trying to achieve by taking advantage of peoples' weakness?"
(12:31:51 PM): Ren: "Do you think I did not experience such suffering before? People driven to desperation may do terrible things..."
(12:31:57 PM): Ren: "But it's not their fault."
(12:32:00 PM): Ren: "This time, it is yours."
(12:32:09 PM): Ren: "I am afraid that I will have to kill you, Hen."
drascin 12:32 pm
(12:32:12 PM): Kagura: "I'LL KEEP THE ARTILLERY BUSY. TAKE THE LEADER OUT"
wyverncakes 12:32 pm
(12:32:12 PM): Hen: "Taking advantage of? I'm encouraging them to find the strength to live in this era, Ren!"
(12:32:52 PM): [Banjou] Thanks to Ren's barrier, your missiles shoot out and return the disfavor done to you earlier by those machines! The missile blow apart two of the Punishers!
cubey@aol.pl 12:32 pm
(12:32:55 PM): Ren: "A truly strong individual will find power to live in society, to support it and those precious to them."
(12:33:11 PM): Ren: "Not act like a wild animal preying on its own kind!"
wyverncakes 12:35 pm
(12:35:31 PM): [Walt] Your beams fire into the ranks, one of the Tormentors being shot apart by your combined fire. However, more Punishers turn their attention towards your trio, their cannons firing out again!
(12:35:34 PM): (React: Walt)
VJockey 12:36 pm
(12:36:03 PM): # Walt?
frifreeman 12:36 pm
(12:36:34 PM): Walt: "Oh, boy, artilleries. Scatter everyone!"
(12:37:04 PM): And with that the three genoace boost to different directions.+
tormterra 12:37 pm
(12:37:16 PM): Kei: "And what about when the BETA attack or the Wulgaru strike because people are busy being 'strong'?"
wyverncakes 12:38 pm
(12:38:29 PM): [Kagura] That kind of maneuver is a bit overkill for the kind of frame the Tormentors have, but that just means the machine is pretty spectacularly destroyed in the explosion. But being so close to the enemies now though, suddenly machinegun fire is let loose at you from a number of the Huckebeins. Their accuracy isn't good, reflecting their inexperience, but there's a lot of it!
(12:38:32 PM): (React: Kagura)
(12:39:37 PM): (Gonna nix the support defend, sorry)
wyverncakes 12:40 pm
(12:40:29 PM): [Walt] The blasts miss the Genoaces barely... it's enough that you're okay, but all three machines just go sprawling uncontrollably and have ungraceful landings.
(12:40:45 PM): (Heph, Kei, Optimus)
(12:41:15 PM): Hen: "Then one of two things happens. Either they are strong enough to resist, or they can at least die knowing they lived and fought on their own two feet!"
VJockey 12:41 pm
(12:41:29 PM): "Hen..."
(12:41:37 PM): "I have heard..."
drascin 12:41 pm
(12:41:42 PM): *And that would be exactly what Kagura was hoping for. For someone used to dodging PRAYER fire, that comes in walls of bullets, dodging this is comparatively routine - as is flying under the group of Tormentors as she does so. And given the volume comparison, any shooters trying to trak her are about eight times as likely to hit their own allies than Kagura's small frame!+
wyverncakes 12:41 pm
(12:41:51 PM): "These aren't my followers? Quite the the opposite... I'm just lending them a hand in all of this!"
wyverncakes 12:42 pm
(12:42:34 PM): "And do you even think this is all of them?"
drascin 12:42 pm
(12:42:38 PM): Kagura listens to Hen and does a small noise as she dodges another burst
VJockey 12:43 pm
(12:43:12 PM): *Optimus takes a running start towards the artificial being before transforming into vehicle mode - building up more and more speed before blasting upwards to grab onto Hen's machine! Ironhide and Cliffjumper providing as much coveringfire as they could to keep their leader's way clear!&
(12:43:16 PM): "ENOUGH!"
wyverncakes 12:43 pm
(12:43:22 PM): "I've merely provided that extra push for those travelling and living in or around the area... if you promote and cause enough violence and aggression, others begin to adopt it. And then THOSE people continue to spread it even further!"
tengusaur 12:43 pm
(12:43:25 PM): * With a single leap, Scaraber jumps towards one of the heavily-armored Punishers. Hetepheres stabs all of her blades into it, aiming at one spot - and then slashes with each in a separate direction, creating a large X-shaped gash! +
wyverncakes 12:43 pm
(12:43:38 PM): "Tough love, but it's a lesson that's needed!"
cubey@aol.pl 12:43 pm
(12:43:47 PM): Ren: "You are wrong."
wyverncakes 12:44 pm
(12:44:26 PM): [Kagura] Indeed compared to a bad day of danmakuing, this is far, far easier. Their rate of fire, the pattern of their shots... it's all so much easier to slip through... and their fire ends up only blowing the leg off of one of their own.
tengusaur 12:44 pm
(12:44:48 PM): Hetepheres: "You are taking advantage of people's lowest instincts. Do not call it love."
cubey@aol.pl 12:44 pm
(12:44:55 PM): Ren: "If you think this is humanity's true nature, you are sorely mistaken."
tormterra 12:45 pm
(12:45:01 PM): * "I'm sure that's very comforting compared to simply avoiding the attack in the first place. Anyway, regardless of what Hen claims, they're the enemy leader. If we take them out it can cause the rest to break. However, we need to reach them first...Major, we lack effective capacity for sniping and you're by far the most nimble. I'm sending you what data I can on the weaknesses of their unit. Genoace team and Raquel, target the enemies focusing on the Major to give her an opening to reach the enemy leader." +
frifreeman 12:45 pm
(12:45:27 PM): Walt: "Some people just want to live peacefully, you know..."
wyverncakes 12:46 pm
(12:46:11 PM): [Optimus] The Ruthless Eagle falls back as you try to make a grab at it, and Hen draws a menacing sword to strike at you from close range!
drascin 12:46 pm
(12:46:15 PM): Kagura: "IT'S BASIC WARMONGERING. MAKE PEOPLE SCARED ENOUGH AND LOGIC SHUTS DOWN AND ALL THAT REMAINS IS UNATHLETIC CHIMPANZEES THAT CAN BE EASILY MANIPULATED AND WILL STAB THEMSELVES IN THE FOOT FOR A LEADER SUCH AS THIS CUNT"
wyverncakes 12:46 pm
(12:46:17 PM): (React/continue: Optimus)
VJockey 12:46 pm
(12:46:20 PM): "You preach of strength, that violence and aggression is the answer!!"
drascin 12:46 pm
(12:46:47 PM): Kagura (in a private channel to Kei): "DATA RECEIVED. ASSAULT IN FIVE"
cubey@aol.pl 12:47 pm
(12:47:45 PM): #Optimus
frifreeman 12:47 pm
(12:47:47 PM): Walt: "Roger!" The genoaces rises from their ungraceful landing, braces themself, and fires covering shots toward the enemies that are targetting Kagura. The shots doesn't need to be accurate, just many.
(12:47:49 PM): +
tormterra 12:48 pm
(12:48:01 PM): Kei: "And once everyone is busy fighting who will make the weapons to fend off aliens and monsters? Who will grow the food? Cooperation is what makes humanity strong."
drascin 12:48 pm
(12:48:54 PM): (tell me when I should go for my Kei action)
wyverncakes 12:48 pm
(12:48:58 PM): [Hetepheres] The Punisher, ill-designed for close-ranged combat, can only claw at the Scaraber briefly before it's slashed apart... but more of the human fighters step in to assist! The Gebian machine comes under fire from its sides by beam sprayguns and one brave soul springs from above to stab at the Scaraber's head with a knife!
VJockey 12:48 pm
(12:48:59 PM): *Optimus is going to bring out his axe - not just countering the blade with the intention of fending it off but to hook his axe onto it - run across the flat of the blade and PUNCH the Ruthless Eagle in the face!!!+
wyverncakes 12:49 pm
(12:49:15 PM): (Ren's support defend is approved)
cubey@aol.pl 12:49 pm
(12:49:46 PM): *Ruthless Eagle's sword finds itself countered by a meager defense.
VJockey 12:50 pm
(12:50:12 PM): "You claim that what you are doing is simply showing these people 'tough love', that it is simply in their nature!"
cubey@aol.pl 12:50 pm
(12:50:24 PM): The Genoace's heat stake clashes against it - Ren's mobile suit charged forward, the defense is raised not to stop the attack completely, but to buy those precious few seconds for Optimus.+
VJockey 12:50 pm
(12:50:44 PM): [To say Optimus sounds pissed was an understatement.]
cubey@aol.pl 12:50 pm
(12:50:48 PM): Ren: "Hen, I am not like you."
(12:50:58 PM): Ren: "I am not strong."
(12:51:30 PM): Ren: "But, you see... I think this is not entirely a bad thing. It taught me how, and when, to rely on other people."
wyverncakes 12:51 pm
(12:51:40 PM): [Walt] The Huckebeins are unfortunately ill-made for combat. They were taken from security forces for humanitarian workers, after all. And the DODS Guns are made to deal with much stronger enemies... so it's no surprise when they blast apart another two of the Huckebeins, their power forcing the machines to break off.
wyverncakes 12:52 pm
(12:52:04 PM): Hen: "And how often does that let them take advantage of you?"
cubey@aol.pl 12:52 pm
(12:52:27 PM): Ren: "Other people of this region... even if they turned into your brand of savagery, it is not because of their own actions. The blood is on your hands."
(12:52:38 PM): Ren: "I do not care."
(12:52:54 PM): Ren: "Even if others secretely take advantage of me, I don't care."
wyverncakes 12:53 pm
(12:53:36 PM): [Ren and Optimus] The blade and heat stake meet, the latter weapon already straining from the force and weight of the former's blade. But sure enough, it does give Optimus the chance to knock the Ruthless Eagle's sword away and then strike the kin's machine hard!
(12:53:56 PM): [Kagura can take her support action now]
VJockey 12:54 pm
(12:54:08 PM): "Beings like you... who take the fears and worries of good beings to force them to see no other option but savagery..."
(12:54:32 PM): "I will oppose you at every step and make things right again."
drascin 12:55 pm
(12:55:23 PM): Kagura: "YOU TALK TOO MUCH"
wyverncakes 12:55 pm
(12:55:26 PM): The Ruthless Eagle rises back up though, readying its sword once more! "And you think there are people that will want to 'go back' to their old ways after all of this? You think that even stopping me will somehow make all of this right?"
drascin 12:56 pm
(12:56:01 PM): *And in all this, Kagura has been flying super low, touching the sand to avoid visual, and as Hen is distracted she suddenly appears from behind, the four Faint Plasma cannons in her back glowing as they target the weakpoints Kei outlined and let loose a barrage of arcing energy that converges on the mech's surface and explodes!+
VJockey 12:56 pm
(12:56:13 PM): "Everything begins somewhere."
cubey@aol.pl 12:56 pm
(12:56:26 PM): Ren: "Even if people do wrong from time to time, they are fundamentally decent on the inside. Some do not act on that decency, but it's there."
wyverncakes 12:56 pm
(12:56:34 PM): (Also, Hetepheres can react to that attack. Sorry)
cubey@aol.pl 12:56 pm
(12:56:56 PM): Ren: "This is why I do not care if people use me. I am sure they must have had good reasons."
wyverncakes 12:57 pm
(12:57:14 PM): [Kagura] You've lined up your shots, the blasts suddenly shooting out... but...
cubey@aol.pl 12:57 pm
(12:57:15 PM): Ren: "This is why I am sure people of this region did not all turn into your loyal puppets, Hen."
VJockey 12:57 pm
(12:57:25 PM): "Humanity adapts. Its capacity for change unlimited."
Overman Zappa 12:57 pm
(12:57:28 PM): Banjou: "The word you want is 'cooperation' not being used. Her allies here do not 'use' one another, as they all strive to the same end!"
wyverncakes 12:57 pm
(12:57:33 PM): Suddenly the ground begins to rumble.
VJockey 12:57 pm
(12:57:59 PM): "Stopping you is simply the first step-"
wyverncakes 12:58 pm
(12:58:03 PM): Sand beginning to start to jump around... and suddenly right near the epicenter where Hen, Ren, Optimus are and Kagura's shots are coming in...
(12:58:10 PM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyJMHCKsUNg
wyverncakes 12:58 pm
(12:58:17 PM): Something suddenly bursts from the sand.
(12:58:37 PM): A fleshy, white, conical object... bigger than any of your machines.
(12:58:40 PM): A drill.
drascin 12:58 pm
(12:58:40 PM): Kagura: "SCATTER"
wyverncakes 12:59 pm
(12:59:09 PM): A drill made of... things that look like some mockery of humans all standing ramrod stiff.
(12:59:31 PM): You're all knocked away, but Kagura's shots still seem to find their target and there's an explosion!
tormterra 12:59 pm
(12:59:46 PM): Kei nodded once, taking further to the skies to avoid getting caught by whatever monsters were down there once they started moving in a different fashion
wyverncakes 1:00 pm
(1:00:19 PM): ... But the Ruthless Eagle still soars high up above, undamaged as a hastily-grabbed Shaldoll appears to be the thing that took the hit instead!
frifreeman 1:00 pm
(1:00:19 PM): Walt whines. "Here we go..."
wyverncakes 1:00 pm
(1:00:39 PM): Some of the enemy machines just stare as a gigantic... THING rises up from the sand.
Overman Zappa 1:00 pm
(1:00:42 PM): Banjou: That's just morbid. What a devious looking weapon.
wyverncakes 1:01 pm
(1:01:00 PM): It's like a gigantic machine.
(1:01:07 PM): Roughly a hundred meters tall even.
(1:01:29 PM): But its entire form, at least from what you can see, is just more of those abominations clinging to each other to form a fleshy mesh of a body.
tengusaur 1:01 pm
(1:01:29 PM): * Scaraber is currently protected by the golden anti-physical shield, which won't do much against beam shots. So, instead, Hetepheres slashes at the incoming melee attacker, diving the hooked sides of her khopeshes into the Mobile Suit's body - and then turns around, using it as a shield against the incoming blasts! +
(1:01:55 PM): Hetepheres: "...This is unexpected."
frifreeman 1:02 pm
(1:02:44 PM): Walt: "....this is different. Nobody are hugging each others right now, right?"
drascin 1:02 pm
(1:02:57 PM): Kagura: "KEEP YOUR DISTANCE"
ginkansk 1:03 pm
(1:03:45 PM): (Did I miss my action?)
tengusaur 1:03 pm
(1:03:57 PM): Hetepheres: "Keep the creature engaged. We must not let it leave the area."
wyverncakes 1:04 pm
(1:04:02 PM): [Hetepheres] Your barrier stops that foolish overhead strike by a Shaldoll, and it then does a bang-up job helping defend you from the beam sprayguns. The sheer number of shots means it still ends up trashed though, but better it than you.
drascin 1:04 pm
(1:04:12 PM): Kagura is flying up to get a better view and scan of this thing
wyverncakes 1:04 pm
(1:04:28 PM): (A Kei-enabled one)
(1:04:37 PM): (At any rate, Ren and Raquel can go now)
wyverncakes 1:05 pm
(1:05:45 PM): (Enemies: Ruthless Eagle (Hen), Tormentors x 13, Punishers x 7, Huckebeins x 18, Shaldolls x 27)
(1:05:57 PM): (Yellow enemies: Giant abomination)
(1:06:12 PM): However... as he stares at it, Hen just... starts laughing.
tengusaur 1:06 pm
(1:06:21 PM): Hetepheres: "From the monsters I fought, this one might be the most... wrong."
wyverncakes 1:06 pm
(1:06:35 PM): ^they stare at it
(1:06:45 PM): Hen: "This... this thing..."
(1:07:18 PM): "Can't you just imagine how many lives this thing could endanger here? The destruction it could cause?"
ginkansk 1:08 pm
(1:08:07 PM): Raquel is very good at close combat she enjoys it, perhaps a bit too much from those who pay attention to her. She seems to be already up and rolling at this point. "So a bunch of low lifes who'd prey on aid workers?! " Also Prime's speech has got her kinda fired up. She knows they got a Abomination to worry about and the bandits. She takes a moment debates which to go after and throws her self at the Giant Abomiantion she does not get too close, no she's making use of punching seemingly at the air causing huge bursts of flame to go at it+
tormterra 1:08 pm
(1:08:10 PM): Kei: "It's even more messed up than previous monsters from the domes..."
wyverncakes 1:08 pm
(1:08:38 PM): "Imagine it rampaging, it would be a walking disaster area!"
drascin 1:08 pm
(1:08:56 PM): Kagura: "BETTER THAN YOU CAN. YOU ONLY SEE A KAIJU"
tormterra 1:09 pm
(1:09:00 PM): Kei: "And you're happy about that, I see."
cubey@aol.pl 1:09 pm
(1:09:17 PM): Thump.
(1:09:38 PM): Genoace's weapon is dropped. The heat stake is nigh useless as it is not anyway.
cubey@aol.pl 1:10 pm
(1:10:15 PM): Ren: "This is the kind of an emergency we were trying to prevent from happening here in the first place. By siding with Hen, you made it come true!"
(1:10:39 PM): *The Genoace walks towards the enemies, its arms spread wide in an open and welcoming gesture, not bearing weapons.
(1:10:57 PM): Ren: "I do not know how are you ailing, or how much did you have to suffer. I can only imagine."
(1:11:03 PM): Ren: "But I promise one thing."
(1:11:29 PM): Ren: "I'll make it better. For you, for your families. I'll make it all better, just please, stop getting in the way."
(1:11:50 PM): Ren: "We can work together. So just leave and I promise that nothing bad will happen to you. I swear."
(1:11:51 PM): +
wyverncakes 1:13 pm
(1:13:26 PM): [Raquel] Your burning strikes torch parts of the abomination, but the flames only manage to singe a few of the beings that make it up enough that they're out of commission. The others simply appear to regenerate at a rate surpassing that of the flames' destruction... all the while other components crawl up the head of the Abomination, two strange horns jutting out horizontally from its head!
(1:13:28 PM): And then...
(1:13:38 PM): Voices: "Barababababababababababababaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!"
(1:14:01 PM): Suddenly they spring forward straight at the Amazon with tremendous speed... like some twisted parody of head vulcans!
(1:14:05 PM): (React: Raquel)
Overman Zappa 1:14 pm
(1:14:14 PM): #Raquel
wyverncakes 1:14 pm
(1:14:34 PM): (Approved)
Overman Zappa 1:15 pm
(1:15:24 PM): *Daitarn interposes itself, kneeling down and crossing it's arms, simply allowing the creatures to crash into it's arms in the meantime+
frifreeman 1:17 pm
(1:17:07 PM): Walt: "Wait! Shouldn't they act mysterious and curious first before attacking or something?"
ginkansk 1:17 pm
(1:17:13 PM): Raquel is not intending to find out what they do on impact she moves to attemp to evade but the D3 is moving in to help thankfully. It doesn't mean she /stops/. She's going to make use of it however and will owe Banjou one later+
wyverncakes 1:17 pm
(1:17:34 PM): [Ren] A number of the human soldiers just look and have their guns leveled at Ren as she approaches them. Wondering if this is some kind of trap or trick there's a brief pause... but unfortunately Hen is having nothing of that.
(1:17:52 PM): Hen "Trying to play the martyr? That's easy enough when you can't die, isn't it?!?"
(1:18:43 PM): [Ren cont.] And suddenly the Ruthless Eagle rams into the Genoace from the side, knocking it into a dune! Hand grabbing at the machine's head, the Eagle raises its sword up to strike down the machine!
(1:18:47 PM): (React: Ren)
wyverncakes 1:19 pm
(1:19:13 PM): (Walt, Kagura, Banjou)
drascin 1:19 pm
(1:19:58 PM): Kagura turns slightly to the human soldiers for an instant before moving
(1:21:09 PM): Kagura: "SHE CAN'T, BUT YOU CAN. SHE'S GIVING YOU MORE OF A CHANCE THAN I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU. TAKE IT."
wyverncakes 1:21 pm
(1:21:37 PM): [Banjou and Raquel] Daitarn 3's form is riddled by the "bullets" from the gigantic abomination... some of their bodies splishing into puddles of meat and juice on Daitarn's body while others manage to penetrade its outer armor even a little. But they all begin to reform before long... all pushing off and then kicking back to the "machine"... each individual kick-off adding up to a force strong enough to actually knock the large machine off balance for a moment!
Overman Zappa 1:22 pm
(1:22:37 PM): Banjou: "Be damned! Even that few have the impact of a Megaborg!"
(1:22:44 PM): *While kneeling, Banjou takes the crests off his shins and rears them back, only to let them go at the conical abomination, to see what, if any damage can be done at this point. "CROSS DART!"+
wyverncakes 1:23 pm
(1:23:39 PM): [Banjou] As the Cross Dart spins towards the imitation drill, suddenly it begins to rev up as well! Well... sorta...
frifreeman 1:23 pm
(1:23:41 PM): Walt: "Oh man, everyone, spread, and focus on the monster! Try to at least slow it down!" The Genoace team circles around the giant monster and starts firing at its leg. "Even the bandits should realize that this thing will kill them.... right? Right? Please let them realize..."+
drascin 1:23 pm
(1:23:48 PM): *And without a word more, Kagura flies around the mysterious kaiju, standing on the other side from everyone else to try to lure the swarm's attention, and tries to send a large SOL discharge straight at it, which explodes into a ball of sheer energy on contact, easily the most powerful attack the nuclear KOG suit has at its disposal+
VJockey 1:23 pm
(1:23:53 PM): "We came here to protect you all. That hasn't changed."
wyverncakes 1:23 pm
(1:23:55 PM): "Shiwwwaaaarrrruruuuuuuuuu~~~~~!"
(1:24:06 PM): "Brwuuuuuauauaaaaoaaaaaaaao~~~~~!"
(1:24:15 PM): "Vrrruuuuunanaaaaaaaaaaaanggggguuu~~~~~~!"
VJockey 1:24 pm
(1:24:41 PM): "Nobody else has to die here!"
wyverncakes 1:25 pm
(1:25:59 PM): Countless voicess seem to give their best imitation to the sound of a drill spinning as it collides with the Cross Dart. Daitarn's weapon cuts along its frame, blood and flesh splattering everywhere from the weapon... but at the same time each ruined body regenerates back in a short while... the Cross Dart striking into a hill of sand behind the abomination, covered in all sorts of disgusting fluids.
Overman Zappa 1:28 pm
(1:28:04 PM): Banjou: "Nothing but a mess. I think I'll just take a loss on that." No plans on recovering THAT accessory!
wyverncakes 1:29 pm
(1:29:43 PM): [Walt and Kagura] Daitarn's attack DID open up the doors for the Genoace Team and Kagura to suddenly turn their guns on the creature though. Searing beams cut through the abomination's foot at its ankle, making it begin to wobble unsteadily... and Kagura's SOL discharge blasts a hole in its lower chest that lets you see out the other way. It falls awkwardly into the sand, sending its components scattering.
(1:29:50 PM): ... But they're already forming back up again.
wyverncakes 1:30 pm
(1:30:11 PM): And worse yet... over the crest of the dunes, you can see something that wasn't there before: the black dome.
cubey@aol.pl 1:30 pm
(1:30:16 PM): Ren: "I cannot die, it means I can do so much more for everyone else. It's my duty!"
(1:30:36 PM): *The Genoace tries to cover its head with the shield.+
Overman Zappa 1:30 pm
(1:30:38 PM): Banjou: "It can be stopped. We'll all have to hit it together when we get an opening!"
cubey@aol.pl 1:31 pm
(1:31:00 PM): Still, for Ren this counts as a victory. If Hen is busy with them, then the other, human opponents, do not have their watchful eagle eyes over them.
(1:31:21 PM): Ren: "You understand it, don't you? After all... You used to be just like me."
wyverncakes 1:32 pm
(1:32:46 PM): [Ren] The sword stabs down at the Genoace's body, piercing through the shield and the arm underneath! "... 'Used to', Ren! I've grown up, and I've seen what humans can do when you barge in and make them have to choose between killing for scraps of bread and starving! I-"
(1:33:14 PM): Hen's rant suddenly gets derailed however, as suddenly flames burst up on the side of the Ruthless Eagle!
(1:34:14 PM): Meanwhile, the Abomination seems to rise up again... one of its legs wobbly but more or less evened-out... along with that gaping hole in its chest.
frifreeman 1:34 pm
(1:34:22 PM): Walt: "What...? Was we able to see the black dome from here before?"
cubey@aol.pl 1:34 pm
(1:34:27 PM): Ren: "So... did I..."
(1:34:43 PM): Ren: "And I think you don't know humanity as well as you do..."
wyverncakes 1:34 pm
(1:34:48 PM): Several of the lesser components though are hanging from the top or the sides, trying to make the form of some kind of twisted emblem.
(1:35:14 PM): More gunfire suddenly begins to pelt the Ruthless Eagle. Nothing remarkable, but enough to ward the machine off and make it fall back.
(1:35:25 PM): It didn't come from their human followers though.
(1:35:29 PM): Rather, another group...
(1:36:26 PM): People. Some in jerry-rigged cars. Some on foot. Some in antique robots or damaged mass-produced ones like the bandits'.
(1:36:40 PM): ???: "Stay away from them!"
wyverncakes 1:37 pm
(1:37:06 PM): ???2: "You're the one who caused all of this in the first place! Our lives were better before you came...!"
cubey@aol.pl 1:37 pm
(1:37:31 PM): The Genoace slowly stands back up.
wyverncakes 1:37 pm
(1:37:32 PM): And then, through speakers, another voice. One sounding a little more relieved.
(1:37:40 PM): "Are all of you alright?
cubey@aol.pl 1:37 pm
(1:37:42 PM): Ren: "Another brokem mobile suit. Sorry, everyone..."
(1:37:51 PM): They lift the hand up to the forehead. Yup, all sweaty.
tormterra 1:38 pm
(1:38:01 PM): Kei: "Mobile suits can be replaced and are there for fighting."
VJockey 1:38 pm
(1:38:09 PM): "It is alright Ren..."
wyverncakes 1:38 pm
(1:38:20 PM): (Heph, Kei, Optimus)
tengusaur 1:38 pm
(1:38:24 PM): Hetepheres: "A broken mobile suit is better than a broken horned incurable idealist."
drascin 1:38 pm
(1:38:33 PM): Kagura: "FOR THE LOVE OF. GET THE FUCK OUT HERE. THIS AREA IS GOING TO BE BOMBARDED SOON"
wyverncakes 1:38 pm
(1:38:46 PM): ???3: "They know. We know..."
(1:38:57 PM): "Picked up a few of the transmissions from the ESUN people. Our people."
drascin 1:39 pm
(1:39:06 PM): Kagura is this close to facepalming at the new arrivals. You'd think the gigantic Kaiju would work as a "keep away" sign
wyverncakes 1:39 pm
(1:39:13 PM): "I... was one of the humanitarian aids sent here."
VJockey 1:39 pm
(1:39:34 PM): "Ironhide! We need to stop that creature, at least for a short while!"
wyverncakes 1:39 pm
(1:39:36 PM): "We're not all dead..."
tengusaur 1:39 pm
(1:39:53 PM): Hetepheres: "We will make sure it stays this way."
wyverncakes 1:39 pm
(1:39:55 PM): "And we have some of the refugees to thank for that!"
cubey@aol.pl 1:40 pm
(1:40:11 PM): Ren: "Major Kagura."
wyverncakes 1:40 pm
(1:40:25 PM): "I guess you could say that they're like... the local militia..."
cubey@aol.pl 1:40 pm
(1:40:51 PM): Ren: "I understand you must be frustrated, but these people are here to help. Their efforts may mean little from your perspective, but they are grateful and that is the best they can do to return everything you've done for them."
cubey@aol.pl 1:41 pm
(1:41:11 PM): Ren: "We all understand the value of human life and we will do anything to protect it, together. Besides..."
VJockey 1:41 pm
(1:41:21 PM): *"On it Prime!" With that the battle worn Veteran transformed into vehicle mode and drove quickly at the beast, his arm partially shifting out from the vehicle to spray something at it... what was it you ask? Liquid Nitrogen. If killing the previous creatures with fire didn't work that much, maybe putting them on ice would do something!+
drascin 1:41 pm
(1:41:29 PM): Kagura: "THE BEST THEY CAN DO FOR ME IS GET OUT BEFORE THEY GET KILLED. I'M NOT GOING TO HAVE A PILE OF PEOPLE KILLED ON MY WATCH"
cubey@aol.pl 1:41 pm
(1:41:45 PM): The half-broken Genoace gazes, first at Hen and then at the much more troublesome abomination - the true enemy.
(1:42:06 PM): Its visor shines. "Nobody is going to be killed on your watch here, Major. I swear."
tengusaur 1:43 pm
(1:43:10 PM): Hetepheres: "Keep the pressure up on the monster and Hen. Watch out for the black dome!" Suddenly, a new weapon ejects from a holder on Scaraber's hip, which the insectoid mecha draws. It's a whip - the whip Mantilani used to wield. Hetepheres swings it over her head and then strikes at a nearby Tormentor, grabbing its ankle and sending powerful electric currents through its body. And then she swings the whip again, sending the black machine flying towards Ruthless Eagle! +
tormterra 1:43 pm
(1:43:41 PM): * "Regardless, we need to keep a focus on the mission and minimize deaths. Banjou, once the enemy is frozen and can't move, try using the power of the Daitarn to shatter it. We probably can't truly destroy it, but it should make it slower for it to regenerate. I'll try to see if I can find any structural weaknesses to target." +
wyverncakes 1:44 pm
(1:44:11 PM): [Autobot team!] As you charge at the the giant, your guns begin to freeze over part of its leg again! But the abomination simply has the frozen part of its body fall to the ground... becoming like a sheet of ice that's rapidly thawing in the blazing heat of the desert! A sheet that's then kicked straight at Ironhide!
(1:44:17 PM): (React: Ironhide!)
VJockey 1:44 pm
(1:44:48 PM): Ironhide: "Oh fer the love ah-"
Overman Zappa 1:44 pm
(1:44:52 PM): Banjou: "No problem Kei! You!" He actually calls out the abomination to distract it! "If you don't fear the shine of this sun, then COME AT ME!"
drascin 1:45 pm
(1:45:51 PM): #Ironhide
VJockey 1:46 pm
(1:46:04 PM): *He quickly transforms to quickly leap away from it - Optimus and Cliffjumper opening up on the incoming chunk to keep it from doing harm to their comrade.+
(1:46:23 PM): Cliffjumper: "Well that plan's sunk! How much longer before we can bomb this thing?!"
wyverncakes 1:47 pm
(1:47:22 PM): [Hetepheres] The Tormentor claws at the whip before it suddenly starts to get shocked violently by the weapon! It's hurled at Hen, who simply bats it aside forcefully with its wings! "All of this... falling apart like it is... Open fire! Everyone!" And indeed, the Scaraber does come under fire from the Tormentors' hand cannons and the Punishers' shoulder guns... but the human-piloted machines are hesistating! "What... what has suddenly wormed into you?!?"
tengusaur 1:47 pm
(1:47:42 PM): (type of fire?)
wyverncakes 1:47 pm
(1:47:49 PM): (Physical)
wyverncakes 1:47 pm
(1:47:58 PM): (And the Noble Barrier would be silver this turn)
(1:48:24 PM): "You think there's anywhere going back after what you've done? That isn't what you've learned at all all this-"
(1:48:47 PM): Hen suddenly comes under fire from another beam spraygun. Piddly damage from the Shaldoll that shot, but there's a lot of emotional power behind the attack
(1:48:51 PM): (Hetepheres: react on your end)
(1:49:11 PM): (That support defend can be approved)
(1:49:17 PM): (Ren and Raquel can also act)
drascin 1:49 pm
(1:49:34 PM): *Yeah, Kagura is just not in the mood for empty oaths. Words like "I will protect everyone" don't do much on a battlefield, and she doesn't have the mood nor the time to argue with Ren. So she dives back again, in time to see the giant kick the big block of ice at the Cybertronian - in time enough to turn and fire her gatling railguns into the block of ice, shredding it to pieces+
wyverncakes 1:51 pm
(1:51:01 PM): [Kagura and Autobots] Your cannons fire on the massive ice block, blowing it apart in time. A mess of ice and frozen bits of Things splatter everywhere, the things feebly trying to wiggle and reunite though.
tengusaur 1:51 pm
(1:51:11 PM): * "They have realized that your truth might not be entirely... truthful." Hetepheres quickly kicks a dune, sending a large cloud of sand up into the air to obscure her movements. Hidden by the cloud, Scaraber quickly starts to jump around, to avoid the incoming fire! It also lashes with the whip again, at another nearby Tormentor - trying to get it in the line of fire from other enemies. +
(1:51:43 PM): Hetepheres: "Seconding the request of Cliffjumper. How much time is left before the bombs fly?"
wyverncakes 1:52 pm
(1:52:40 PM): [Banjou] At the same time though, the Abomination does seem to curiously turn its attention to Daitarn! It reaches over, its "hand" suddenly tearing a second one off of its form! The Abomination begins blathering on, making all kind of loud, aggressive shouts before hurling its long-range, imitation rocket punch at Daitarn 3's direction!
wyverncakes 1:54 pm
(1:54:02 PM): [Hetepheres] Well, that is another absolutely trashed Tormentor, the kin's comrades just trying to attack more heavily into the sandcloud and still hitting nothing but their own ally.
(1:54:08 PM): (React: Banjou)
cubey@aol.pl 1:54 pm
(1:54:20 PM): Ren: "I'm sorry for being selfish."
wyverncakes 1:54 pm
(1:54:40 PM): It's then that a fourth voice suddenly speaks up!
Overman Zappa 1:54 pm
(1:54:44 PM): *"DAITARN ZANBER!" Banjou produces a sword of sun-coated energy and takes a ruthless swing at the flying fist of hollow people. +&
wyverncakes 1:55 pm
(1:55:03 PM): "The bomber team is standing by, as a matter of fact. But still, there is something... different that I was hoping to try."
(1:55:05 PM): That voice...!
cubey@aol.pl 1:55 pm
(1:55:07 PM): *The Genoace draws its DODS Gun - a spiralling beam is shot out in the same direction from which the Abomination's drill originated. Surely the flesh beneath it must be a weak point, rigth?+
wyverncakes 1:55 pm
(1:55:27 PM): It's Doctor Eliene! That person who was looking over Walt's arm-stranger-thing!
cubey@aol.pl 1:55 pm
(1:55:31 PM): That's right, Hen. Ren is just ignoring you and focusing on the greater threat.
ginkansk 1:56 pm
(1:56:20 PM): Raquel does indeed owe Banjou one but for now she's got to see there's the monster and worese what's going on here. She sees the bandits hstating. "Just keep out of the way!" She's still trying to go for the horrrible monster and this time sends a focused blast of fire from her hands looks like she's trying to get it's center of mass here.+
wyverncakes 1:56 pm
(1:56:55 PM): [Banjou] Your sword slashes through the fist, splitting it in two! But only some of the components of that rocket punch are slashed up... with others still starting to scamper along the length of Daitarn's blade to go onto their body... but suddenly light machineguns and missiles blast them off while more or less leaving Daitarn no more damaged from the exchange!
(1:57:00 PM): It's another shuttle!
drascin 1:57 pm
(1:57:23 PM): Kagura: "NO"
(1:57:36 PM): Kagura: "ARE YOU SERIOUSLY GOING TO DO WHAT I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO DO"
wyverncakes 1:57 pm
(1:57:48 PM): Hen: "If you're apologizing for being selfish... then take the steps to correct the problem!"
Overman Zappa 1:57 pm
(1:57:52 PM): Banjou: "Don't be foolish! We can handle this job!"
VJockey 1:58 pm
(1:58:00 PM): Optimus: "Major, what is happening?"
cubey@aol.pl 1:58 pm
(1:58:17 PM): Ren: "This is what I'm doing."
cubey@aol.pl 1:58 pm
(1:58:31 PM): Ren: "You've lost, Hen. You will not crush anything here, no lives, nor my mindset."
(1:58:50 PM): Ren: "Just... go home. We have much bigger dangers to take care of."
wyverncakes 1:58 pm
(1:58:53 PM): Eliene: "You see... our mysterious friend is here. She had some insightful things to say in her own way, and requested that she speak with Walt."
(1:59:15 PM): "In fact, she was insistent."
cubey@aol.pl 1:59 pm
(1:59:20 PM): "Of course you may also wait until we are done with this one. I assure you I won't let you just run away once that happens."
wyverncakes 1:59 pm
(1:59:21 PM): "You're free to speak, dear."
cubey@aol.pl 1:59 pm
(1:59:22 PM): Smile, smile.
tengusaur 2:00 pm
(2:00:50 PM): Hetepheres: "What a reckless plan you came up with, doctor. It might just work."
drascin 2:01 pm
(2:01:00 PM): Kagura: "ARE THE OFFICERS OKAY WITH BRINGING THIS CREATURE HERE"
(2:01:04 PM): Kagura, being Kagura, is keeping a very close eye on the shuttle. The slightest suspicious aura or thing and the shuttle gets turned into a Meccano set
wyverncakes 2:01 pm
(2:01:20 PM): [Ren] The DODS Gun cuts through more of the Abomination's limb where the drill is, causing it to hang loosely from the Abomination's form before it reshapes itself into a kind of gigantic, fleshy club-sword thing, with the components sticking their mouths open wide to serve as the edge of the "blade". But you have other things to worry about, as suddenly Hen charges your damaged Genoace! "Leaving may very well be for the best, Ren... but this won't be for nothing!" The Ruthless Eagle strikes down, severing the Genoace's gun-arm while swinging its blade again to cut off its lower section!
drascin 2:01 pm
(2:01:21 PM): because it's not paranoia if they really are horrible monsters out to kill you
wyverncakes 2:01 pm
(2:01:26 PM): (React: Ren)
tengusaur 2:01 pm
(2:01:42 PM): # Ren
wyverncakes 2:02 pm
(2:02:03 PM): (Go for it)
tormterra 2:02 pm
(2:02:20 PM): Kei: "Can we really afford an experimental solution like that here? Bombing the site has worked in the past, we just need to clear out the people."
frifreeman 2:02 pm
(2:02:31 PM): Mysterious being: "They.... are not interested anymore. They're in pain, they're angry. You must destroy them..."
(2:02:43 PM): Walt: "Isn't that what we're trying to do all this time!?"
frifreeman 2:03 pm
(2:03:19 PM): Mysterious being:"... really? have you... really tried?"
(2:03:28 PM): Walt: "Oh yes, all the time."
(2:04:16 PM): Mysterious being:"Destroy the... thing. "
(2:04:33 PM): Walt:"What thing?"
tengusaur 2:05 pm
(2:05:16 PM): * "Are you really this eager to die today?" Suddenly Hen's sword clashes against four blades, raised in a defensive cross-shaped parry by Hetepheres. Scaraber jumps in to defend Ren's unit and try to keep the Eagle away in a pure contest of skill and power. +
tengusaur 2:05 pm
(2:05:44 PM): Hetepheres: "Bombing is still not out of question, if this fails. But it mighr present a more permanent, alternate solution. "
frifreeman 2:05 pm
(2:05:45 PM): The mysterious being looks really frustrated in the video. "That... thing. The thing! The thing behind it! The... tail? Can't you see it?"
wyverncakes 2:06 pm
(2:06:03 PM): Tail?
(2:06:14 PM): There's no sort of thing behind the abomination at all.
(2:06:34 PM): Walt? There's something of the sort behind the abomination.
VJockey 2:06 pm
(2:06:35 PM): Cliffjumper: "Its talking out of its tailpipe here! I don't see a tail at all!"
frifreeman 2:06 pm
(2:06:38 PM): Mysterious being: "Can't you see it? Please! Just open your eyes!"
drascin 2:06 pm
(2:06:41 PM): Kagura: "IT'S PROBABLY INVISIBLE. SCHMERTZ, TRY YOURSELF"
wyverncakes 2:06 pm
(2:06:53 PM): (Have a free action, Walt)
Overman Zappa 2:07 pm
(2:07:08 PM): "There has to be something lost in translation! I wouldn't put it's advice to doubt."
frifreeman 2:07 pm
(2:07:09 PM): Walt: "Well, now I can kinda see something... What is that?"
(2:07:24 PM): Walt looks entranced for a while.
drascin 2:07 pm
(2:07:39 PM): Kagura: "I DON'T CARE WHAT IT IS. SHOOT IT, SCHMERTZ"
drascin 2:07 pm
(2:07:48 PM): Once again, Kagura is really frustrated she can't shout
(2:08:01 PM): because she would totally be shouting right now
frifreeman 2:08 pm
(2:08:03 PM): Walt shoots. And the shot passes through empty air.
cubey@aol.pl 2:08 pm
(2:08:11 PM): Ren: "Thank you, Hetepheres."
wyverncakes 2:08 pm
(2:08:54 PM): [Hetepheres] The Ruthless Eagle's sword crashes against all four of the Scaraber's, your guard holding steady... at least until Hen's forced to instead kick the Scaraber away!
frifreeman 2:09 pm
(2:09:04 PM): Geno, the forgotten wingmate of walt, whispers. "Um, Lieutenant. Did you really see anything?"
cubey@aol.pl 2:09 pm
(2:09:32 PM): *Genoace's left arm uses its shield to try to minimize the impact of the hit. Ren winces as the main hand is cut off... but this is exactly the opportunity they've been waiting for.
frifreeman 2:09 pm
(2:09:41 PM): Walt: I do! I shot something! I swear!"
wyverncakes 2:09 pm
(2:09:51 PM): For a moment Walt's action seems entirely pointless.
(2:09:57 PM): But then... suddenly...
(2:10:03 PM): "Bwwwwwruuaaaaaaaaaaang!"
drascin 2:10 pm
(2:10:08 PM): Kagura: "MAYBE THERE'S SOME OTHER REQUIREMENT HERE"
wyverncakes 2:10 pm
(2:10:11 PM): "KLAAAAXXARAAAAAAAAANA!"
(2:10:28 PM): WUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARP! WUAAAAAAAAAAAAAARP!"
drascin 2:10 pm
(2:10:29 PM): Kagura: "...OR MAYBE IT'S SO DUMB IT TAKES A WHILE TO FEEL IT"
cubey@aol.pl 2:10 pm
(2:10:40 PM): *The mobile suit kicks at Ruthless Eagle, just a wild upwards swing as if someone was kicking at a football. The whole Genoace is swung dangerously out of balance... but that's so Ren can retrieve the dropped DODS Gun. And, the weapon held low, fires it at the Eagle, point-blank.+
Overman Zappa 2:10 pm
(2:10:49 PM): Banjou: "Are those... warning sirens?
ginkansk 2:10 pm
(2:10:58 PM): "If they got an idea of how to stop this thing I suggest we give it a try giving how things are going fo rus.
wyverncakes 2:11 pm
(2:11:18 PM): You can all seem to feel something happening in the air. A kind of lightening of the situation.
(2:11:46 PM): ... And the Abomination seems to react by suddenly swinging its mockery of a sword down at Walt's Genoace!
VJockey 2:11 pm
(2:11:58 PM): #Walt?
wyverncakes 2:12 pm
(2:12:03 PM): (Approved!)
drascin 2:12 pm
(2:12:09 PM): (dammit, ninja'd)
cubey@aol.pl 2:13 pm
(2:13:16 PM): Ren: "I'm really sorry. I wish we could talk to each other better than this."
frifreeman 2:14 pm
(2:14:04 PM): Walt:"Uh Oh!" Walt fires his booster sideways to skedaddle away from the swing's arc.+
VJockey 2:14 pm
(2:14:11 PM): *Now, Cliffjumper may not have as many guns as Kagura does... but he certainly is going to try to rival that amount! With a large gun in each hand he opens fire - sending barrage after barrage of energy and physical projectiles at the sword, Optimus assisting in the firing while Ironhide giving the weapon a blast of liquid Nitrogen to make it a little more easy to break!+
wyverncakes 2:14 pm
(2:14:34 PM): [Ren] The Ruthless Eagle, still off-balance from its previous attack, is knocked backwards and falls to the ground! Ren's shot is locked on its course and shoots out, but Hen suddenly grabs hold of the nearby Tormentor that Hetepheres had previously thrown its way! There's a brief moment of shock coming from the other machine before it explodes... the Ruthless Eagle being blown back a bit! But before you can follow-up the attack-
(2:14:41 PM): "What are you waiting for... cover my retreat!"
cubey@aol.pl 2:14 pm
(2:14:57 PM): Ren: "You use even your own kin as shields?"
wyverncakes 2:15 pm
(2:15:38 PM): Some of the remaining Kin forces are already in retreat as well, others still opening fire on the Scaraber and Genoace. They don't last long though as they're cut down by the human forces though!
(2:15:53 PM): Hen: "Better another than myself!"
drascin 2:16 pm
(2:16:11 PM): Kagura: "SPOKEN LIKE A TRUE PARASITE"
wyverncakes 2:16 pm
(2:16:12 PM): The Ruthless Eagle takes to the skies and flees with all available speed.
tengusaur 2:16 pm
(2:16:43 PM): Hetepheres: "That is one enemy taken care of. Escape to die another day, Hen."
cubey@aol.pl 2:16 pm
(2:16:46 PM): Ren: "I'm really sorry for all of that."
wyverncakes 2:17 pm
(2:17:05 PM): [Walt] The parodic blade crashes into the sand near you with full-force, pulverizing the edge of the weapon! When it rises up though... it's still a bleeding mess
(2:17:09 PM): It's not regenerating.
tengusaur 2:17 pm
(2:17:12 PM): Hetepheres: "...That unit was exceptionally powerful, though. But now, the monster."
(2:17:18 PM): Hetepheres: "It is vulnerable."
ginkansk 2:17 pm
(2:17:24 PM): Raquel "Wait... what...just ... we can hurt it!"
wyverncakes 2:17 pm
(2:17:41 PM): (Everyone can take a free action if they wish here)
frifreeman 2:18 pm
(2:18:15 PM): Mysterious being: "I'm.... helping. I'm friend!"
wyverncakes 2:18 pm
(2:18:25 PM): Eliene: "Yes, yes you are."
Overman Zappa 2:18 pm
(2:18:42 PM): Banjou: "It's volnerable! Everyone! With everything you have!"
drascin 2:18 pm
(2:18:46 PM): Kagura: "THIS IS THE PART I LIKE THE MOST"
wyverncakes 2:19 pm
(2:19:19 PM): "Though... the black dome is indeed continuinig to expand at an exponential rate the longer it stays out and the further it does so. Now's the time to finish it off!"
cubey@aol.pl 2:19 pm
(2:19:26 PM): Ren: "We will not forget your act of goodwill. Well then... all together now?"
tengusaur 2:19 pm
(2:19:26 PM): Hetepheres: "Let us open with high-power ranged attack first, then melee. Go!"
frifreeman 2:19 pm
(2:19:40 PM): Walt: "Well, everything we have is this DODS gun. So, yeah...."
Overman Zappa 2:20 pm
(2:20:01 PM): *As such, Daitarn takes to the sky and looks down upon the abomination. "Borrowing the power of the sun! The deadly! SUN! ATTACK!" Having given plenty of time for allies to not get in in the crossfire, the crest on Daitarn's head unleashes a ball of pure sun energy upon it's foe!+
wyverncakes 2:20 pm
(2:20:08 PM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABiQoDLGmKo
frifreeman 2:20 pm
(2:20:59 PM): Walt and his team mates fire the dods guns toward the creature's chest.
VJockey 2:21 pm
(2:21:03 PM): "Give it everything you've got!"
drascin 2:21 pm
(2:21:29 PM): *Kagura lands and anchors herself. The anchoring is important because the Moon Cradle has a LOT of guns. And they are all turning towards the huge swarm creature - railguns, plasma cannons, missile launchers, explosive stakes, buzzsaw launchers, and half a dozen more clicking into place with a very satisfying sound.
Kagura: READY. FIRE ON THREE. ONE. TWO.
tengusaur 2:21 pm
(2:21:36 PM): * A small rod ejects from Scaraber's armor and spins in mid-air, which Hetepheres catches - it extends into the full-length laser staff. "Scarab Power!" Held with all four arms, the staff is aimed towards the horrible monster, and a huge beam fires from it right at its chest. Scaraber, despite bracing against the ground, still leaves marks in the sand as it's pushed back somewhat. +
drascin 2:21 pm
(2:21:39 PM): Kagura: THREE.
... and with that, she opens fire, letting go her little personal slice of Hell in a cone directly in front of her, shredding the base of the mountain of bodies+
cubey@aol.pl 2:21 pm
(2:21:46 PM): *Ren's genoace fires its gun, the blasts aiming at the same point Walt's team shot at. The DODS Gun is on the verge of overheating as it ejects an empty beam cartridge.+
VJockey 2:22 pm
(2:22:09 PM): *The Autobots don't spare any expense with the firepower, large amounts of ion blasts, energon blaster fire and a whole lot of ordnance on Cliffjumper's part open fire on the abomination - joined by the turret system from Optimus' mysteriously present trailer!+
ginkansk 2:22 pm
(2:22:17 PM): Raquel now has a chance she lunges at the best forming chi about her hand and feet as she attemps to rip into the horror while they can actually hurt it.
(2:22:19 PM): +
tormterra 2:23 pm
(2:23:07 PM): * Like everyone else, Kei joined into tearing the abomination apart, opening fire on it with her vulcans. Something like it should be soft enough that they could easily tear it apart if given time. +
wyverncakes 2:26 pm
(2:26:52 PM): [Everyone] The mass off DODS Guns shots all join together, cutting into the Abomination's side, and Kagura, the Autobots, and even Kei's just wide-spread destruction spreads out the firepower so that not any of the monster goes unharmed. And during all of this, more beam and physical guns fire... even some of the refugees on foot throwing firebombs and even rocks at the monster in the hopes of harming it as thoroughly as possible! Daitarn's Sun Attack strikes the thing at full power too, Raquel pretty much stealing his thunder and replacing him as part of the Daitarn Crash, and Hetepheres's potent laser beam just tears through component after component. The Abomination's very form loses its stability and structure, collapsing inward towards the zone of destruction...
(2:27:13 PM): And ultimately all that's left when the assault subsides is smouldering, ash.
(2:27:33 PM): Eliene: "Pilot, status on the dome's growth rate!"
(2:27:45 PM): There's a moment, and then a sigh of relief.
tengusaur 2:27 pm
(2:27:48 PM): Hetepheres: "Do you detect any signs of regeneration?"
wyverncakes 2:27 pm
(2:27:59 PM): "... The dome's expansion has ceased. And no."
(2:28:22 PM): "It's finally, finally dead."
tengusaur 2:28 pm
(2:28:41 PM): Hetepheres: "Good. The experiment was a success."
drascin 2:29 pm
(2:29:11 PM): Kagura: "LUNA DEPLETED. SOL DEPLETED. RECHARGING"
frifreeman 2:29 pm
(2:29:18 PM): Walt: "We... won? Against the creature from the black dome? All we need to do is shoot its... thing? It's that simple?"
ginkansk 2:29 pm
(2:29:42 PM): Raquel "Well we know now..."
drascin 2:29 pm
(2:29:43 PM): Kagura's guns smoke a bit as she begins retracting them and dis-anchors from the ground
wyverncakes 2:29 pm
(2:29:46 PM): On the civilian front though, the high from the battle has subsided, leaving the full refugees and those that had fallen in with Hen's philosophy now facing each other.
tengusaur 2:29 pm
(2:29:55 PM): Hetepheres: "Did any of the previous one have... things?"
wyverncakes 2:30 pm
(2:30:01 PM): There's an awkward silence.
tormterra 2:30 pm
(2:30:42 PM): Kei: "I think only Walt can answer that..."
drascin 2:31 pm
(2:31:13 PM): Kagura: "EVERYTHING IS EASY WHEN YOU KNOW HOW TO DO IT. KNOWING IS THE THING"
ginkansk 2:32 pm
(2:32:19 PM): Raquel lowers the Amazong's fists for a moment and turns her machine's head to what remains.
cubey@aol.pl 2:32 pm
(2:32:28 PM): Ren: "I made a promise. I intend to keep it."
(2:32:44 PM): Ren: "Just go home. And if you don't have one..."
VJockey 2:33 pm
(2:33:12 PM): Optimus: "Then we will find you one"
cubey@aol.pl 2:33 pm
(2:33:15 PM): The broken Genoace falls to its knees, and the cockpit opens, the pilot falling out in a rough fashion.
VJockey 2:33 pm
(2:33:17 PM): "That I promise you."
cubey@aol.pl 2:33 pm
(2:33:23 PM): Ren: "Ooof..."
wyverncakes 2:33 pm
(2:33:32 PM): At Ren's re-iteration, the stolen machines stand down, their cockpits opening up.
cubey@aol.pl 2:33 pm
(2:33:36 PM): Ren: "Where was I?"
VJockey 2:33 pm
(2:33:48 PM): [Optimus was going to move over to help Ren up.]
wyverncakes 2:34 pm
(2:34:09 PM): Their pilots are a broad spectrum. Men, women, children and elderly... any number of races.
VJockey 2:34 pm
(2:34:10 PM): "You were about to speak to them of your solution if they lacked homes Ren."
cubey@aol.pl 2:34 pm
(2:34:25 PM): Ren: "Yes, thank you." Brushing off dust from the pilot suit.
frifreeman 2:34 pm
(2:34:35 PM): Walt: "If they do... all of the previous losses were my fault..."
cubey@aol.pl 2:34 pm
(2:34:44 PM): Ren: "I promised to make it better. If you don't have homes, I'll try to build one for you."
(2:34:54 PM): Ren: "If you don't have food, I'll bring some for you."
(2:35:02 PM): "I won't be alone, but... I don't have to be."
wyverncakes 2:35 pm
(2:35:23 PM): Still, the same goes for the ones they left behind when they resorted to desparate measures... and before long the two groups move together slowly to reunite, until they're one again.
(2:36:03 PM): Eliane: "They're certainly going to need help setting up a place to live."
drascin 2:36 pm
(2:36:29 PM): Kagura: "SCHMERTZ, WHATEVER IT IS THAT MAKES YOU ABLE TO SEE IT PROBABLY DIDN'T MANIFEST COMPLETELY UNTIL THAT THING CAME OUT OF YOUR ARM. SO DON'T START ANY FUCKING DRAMA OR I'M GOING TO BREAK YOUR FACE"
cubey@aol.pl 2:36 pm
(2:36:53 PM): Ren: "Umm."
cubey@aol.pl 2:37 pm
(2:37:23 PM): Ren: "I suppose Major Kagura does have a point. It is not your fault. Don't blame yourself for what happened, but rather be happy that you could do something to help everyone."
tengusaur 2:37 pm
(2:37:25 PM): Hetepheres: "Threats of bodily injury aside, the major is right."
wyverncakes 2:37 pm
(2:37:54 PM): In spite of the dire start of this situation, fortunately things have turned out better than they could've
(2:37:59 PM): MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
tengusaur 2:38 pm
(2:38:09 PM): Hetepheres: "As for the locals... I will ask ESUN to deploy a relief force. You will not be alone in this endeavour, Ren."
ginkansk 2:38 pm
(2:38:45 PM): Raquel "look if I can help even if it's just being dumb muscle I will Ren."
OvermanZs1 has left the room. 2:39 pm
cubey@aol.pl 2:40 pm
(2:40:01 PM): Ren: "Thank you. This really means a lot to me."
(2:40:10 PM): "Well. Time to get to work."
VJockey 2:40 pm
(2:40:26 PM): "There is much that needs to be done after all."
vertigojockey@gmail.com has left the room. 2:43 pm
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