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wyverncakes 7:48 pm
(7:48:14 PM): A few days ago, the Unity Group received contact from the bountyhunter Westwood with good news. He'd found Sapphire Eyes' hideout, and together with the Unity Group there was good chance of bringing the outlaw to justice.
(7:49:21 PM): There had been the matter of preparing and waiting for an opportune time when Sapphire Eyes and her gang would've been confirmed at said hideout, but a sudden alarm brings all of that planning to a screeching halt.
(7:50:13 PM): Sapphire Eyes was finally spotted... not at her hideout, but launching an attack on the Maryland city of Cumberland!
wyverncakes 7:50 pm
(7:50:26 PM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddyd8WxIOUY
wyverncakes 7:53 pm
(7:53:10 PM): Currently you're on a shuttle en-route to the city, still too far away to see the worst of the fighting.
(7:53:17 PM): Still, smoke's rising up in the distance
cubey@aol.pl 7:54 pm
(7:54:36 PM): "What the hell? Isn't she supposed to be a mercenary, or something?" Chris points at a screen accusingly.
(7:54:56 PM): "Why would Sapphire Eyes be attacking a city for the hell of it?!"
VJockey 7:54 pm
(7:54:56 PM): "...Maybe somebody paid her to do this..."
tengusaur 7:54 pm
(7:54:58 PM): Daniel: "I wonder too. What is she trying to find here?"
arachnion01@gmail.com 7:55 pm
(7:55:13 PM): Jen: "Seems like a kind of boring town, honestly. It's weird."
VJockey 7:55 pm
(7:56:00 PM): [Peola opened her mouth to reply to that Jen... then she looked like she realized something.]
wyverncakes 7:56 pm
(7:56:10 PM): If it's any saving grace, Westwood's also present as well, looking stoic and focused as ever.
(7:56:19 PM): "Whatever she's here for, she's out in the open."
VJockey 7:56 pm
(7:56:53 PM): "...keep forgetting comics aren't real."
wyverncakes 7:56 pm
(7:56:59 PM): He's already gearing up his Lion for the fighting, and speaking of battle though...
wyverncakes 7:59 pm
(7:59:57 PM): You get closer to the heart of the action, and sure enough, Sapphire Eye's TSF is out with her gang, raising hell. Buildings, roads, vehicles, defending forces, all are fair game for her men, but when the shuttle finally comes into view.
frifreeman 8:00 pm
(8:00:07 PM): Grace is there too for some reason.
wyverncakes 8:00 pm
(8:00:09 PM): Sapphire Eyes: "... About time. But... I wonder..."
frifreeman 8:00 pm
(8:00:12 PM): Grace: "It can't be..."
cubey@aol.pl 8:00 pm
(8:00:33 PM): Chris: "Okay, there she is! I'm heading out!"
frifreeman 8:01 pm
(8:01:17 PM): Usually you wouldn't expect her to be somewhere without potential loot at least (like that archeological dig) but for some reason she joins the squad sent for this excursion without needing too much bribing.
cubey@aol.pl 8:01 pm
(8:01:18 PM): The small relic user is running towards the shuttle doors. On foot.
wyverncakes 8:01 pm
(8:01:47 PM): The SU-27 gestures to one of the gatling Shaldolls behind it, hefting its rapid-fire beam gun and firing a spray into the air!
(8:01:52 PM): Pilot: "Hang on...!!"
tengusaur 8:02 pm
(8:02:05 PM): Daniel: "Drop us here. We'll get her this time."
wyverncakes 8:02 pm
(8:02:42 PM): The shuttle banks to the side to avoid the shots, bringing you around to a better deploying position as per Daniel's suggestion.
(8:03:48 PM): Westwood's already cooly launching as well, taking a few sniping shots as he does so to give the rest of you the opening to get out as well!
VJockey 8:04 pm
(8:04:29 PM): [Peola and Salwah are moving out as quickly as possible. Close range being their forte more or less.]
tengusaur 8:05 pm
(8:05:04 PM): Steel Wanderer jumps out from the shuttle's open ramp, and raises its gun, ready to fire.
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:05 pm
(8:05:42 PM): Cethlenn walks on out of that shuttle, taking cover behind various buildings.
wyverncakes 8:05 pm
(8:05:45 PM): Sapphire Eyes: "Finally coming out to play. I was almost afraid by the time we were all done here you still wouldn't have shown. But I knew better."
wyverncakes 8:06 pm
(8:06:55 PM): (Enemies: Su-27 Zhuravlik Sapphire Eyes Custom (Sapphire Eyes), Gatling Shaldolls x 3, Desperados x 3, Daughset x 6)
(8:07:14 PM): (Lineup: Jen, Chris, Peola, Peopla, Grace)
(8:07:19 PM): (Westwood available for supports)
tengusaur 8:07 pm
(8:07:27 PM): (that's Peola twice)
wyverncakes 8:07 pm
(8:07:48 PM): (Lineup: Jen, Chris, Peola, Daniel, Grace)
(8:07:53 PM): (Jen, Chris, and Peola can go)
(8:08:15 PM): Sapphire Eyes: "So do tell; enjoying my handiwork?"
cubey@aol.pl 8:08 pm
(8:08:17 PM): "Killiter Ichiival Tron...~"
tengusaur 8:08 pm
(8:08:38 PM): Daniel: "Sapphire Eyes. Why are you doing this?"
frifreeman 8:08 pm
(8:08:43 PM): Grace is already launching from the shuttle as well, and is now flying in the air in her Daughtress Flyer Custom
frifreeman 8:09 pm
(8:09:00 PM): Grace: "What... How... What are you doing here?"
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:09 pm
(8:09:08 PM): *Jen: "It's cliche and overdone." She pops out and rolls to another patch of cover, firing pistol shots at the Desperadoes as she goes.+
cubey@aol.pl 8:09 pm
(8:09:15 PM): *Chris leaps out ouf the doors, landing atop a nearby building. From above she starts barraging the enemy mobile suits with double gatling fire, trying to suppress them and limit their movements and actions!+
(8:09:43 PM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYNFl1rEOmA
(8:10:20 PM): Chris: "Sounds like you're in a dire need of a serious beatdown!"
wyverncakes 8:10 pm
(8:10:32 PM): As Grace's Daughtress comes out to play though...
(8:10:38 PM): Sapphire Eyes: "-= And there you are!"
wyverncakes 8:11 pm
(8:11:12 PM): Sudden the TSF springs up to go at it, hurling a pair of knives at the machine!
VJockey 8:11 pm
(8:11:22 PM): *Regalis Filia sprints towards one of the gatling Shadolls, arms brought up in front of it so that its guards could take any hits if fired upon. A tactic borrowed from a certain negotiator. Once close enough she proceeds to barrage it with punches. Salway on the other hand is moving quickly to shoulder check a Desperado.+
wyverncakes 8:11 pm
(8:11:33 PM): "What I did... was what I needed to for you to show yourself!"
(8:11:37 PM): (React: Grace)
wyverncakes 8:13 pm
(8:13:30 PM): [Chris] The enemy mooks scatter across the battlefield from your own gatling guns, but one of the Daughsets pulls out a long, hefty torpedo tube, repainted and redesigned to look like a massive stick of dynamite. And one toss later, you have a very big explosion coming at you too!
(8:13:38 PM): (React; Chris)
cubey@aol.pl 8:14 pm
(8:14:43 PM): Chris: "You gotta be kidding me!"
frifreeman 8:15 pm
(8:15:26 PM): Grace's DAughtress' cape is set aside and from inside Grace draw her two guns, one G-revolver and one Beam spray gun, and shoot rapidly at the incoming knives.+
wyverncakes 8:15 pm
(8:15:43 PM): [Peola] The Shaldoll holds its ground, its gun pelting into your guard and slowing your charge. Not enough to keep it from getting socked with haymakers though. Salway's own charge staggers a Desperado too... but the mook is fast to knock her away with a swift swing of its mighty shovel!+
cubey@aol.pl 8:15 pm
(8:15:47 PM): *She looks at the flying explosive - and as it's on the top of its flying arc, missile pods appear on her leg armor and fire several volleys of smaller exploding projectiles to make this one succumb to a chain reaction!+
wyverncakes 8:15 pm
(8:15:49 PM): (no +, derp)
VJockey 8:16 pm
(8:16:41 PM): Salwah: "Ack!"
(8:16:52 PM): "What kind of maniac uses a shovel as a weapon?!"
wyverncakes 8:18 pm
(8:18:04 PM): [Jen] At the very least, Jen's flurry of shots catches another of the Desperados though, causing it to go down from the flurry of tiny shots.
(8:19:38 PM): [Grace] The knives hurtle at you quickly, getting knocked away though with your own shots. Not that Sapphire Eyes seems too torn up about her first attack failing.
(8:19:44 PM): (Daniel and Grace can go)
frifreeman 8:20 pm
(8:20:25 PM): Grace: "How can you find this place? I'm not exactly... I never really told anyone about this place, haven't I?"
wyverncakes 8:21 pm
(8:21:14 PM): [Chris] The dynamite stick gets hammered by smaller explosives just inthe nick of time, lighting up and detonating high enough in the air it doesn't harm anybody or the city for that matter.
frifreeman 8:21 pm
(8:21:49 PM): Grace flies in circles around Sapphire Eyes' TSF and fires with both of her guns rom various angles around her.+
tengusaur 8:21 pm
(8:21:51 PM): Daniel: "The same kind of maniac who attacks a city to draw a target out of hiding." Steel Wanderer quickly turns in the direction of the Daughtseats, slamming the hammer of the Gun of God repeatedly as it sends three heavy armor-piercing Longinus bullets in their direction. +
wyverncakes 8:21 pm
(8:21:55 PM): Sapphire Eyes: "Oh I wasn't going to let something like that stop me."
wyverncakes 8:22 pm
(8:22:28 PM): Inside of her machine, Sapphire Eyes smirks.
(8:22:30 PM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRgf4Hsf6r4
cubey@aol.pl 8:22 pm
(8:22:47 PM): Chris: "Starting fights and wrecking shit for the sake of it? These guys are the worst!"
tormterra has left the room. 8:22 pm
wyverncakes 8:23 pm
(8:23:18 PM): "Call it a labor of love. And if you look hard enough, ask the right questions, and ask the right people..."
(8:23:55 PM): "... You can find anyone's hometown."
cubey@aol.pl 8:24 pm
(8:24:38 PM): Chris: "... What the?"
frifreeman 8:25 pm
(8:25:34 PM): Grace: "Dagnabbit, I never thought I'd think of htis place enough to come back."
wyverncakes 8:25 pm
(8:25:55 PM): [Daniel] It must be an unlucky day for one of the Daughsets, the Longinus shots piercing through it and striking -and igniting- one of its dynamite sticks. Boom. The others scatter away, but one gets blown back a bit more by the blasts, and crashes into the ground back-first.
VJockey 8:26 pm
(8:26:57 PM): Peola: "Well we'll just punch you hard enough in the right place and make you want to run home!"
wyverncakes 8:27 pm
(8:27:57 PM): [Grace] "But here you are, together again with me." The TSF charges as you try to circle her, brandishing more knives instead of guns to block and cut through your shots. The distance comes to a close quickly, with the SU-27 slashing at you!
(8:28:06 PM): (React: Grace)
VJockey 8:28 pm
(8:28:25 PM): #Grace?
wyverncakes 8:28 pm
(8:28:28 PM): "And they should be finishing up any time-"
(8:28:32 PM): (Approved)
wyverncakes 8:29 pm
(8:29:00 PM): Midsentence an explosion shoots up further down in the city!
(8:29:09 PM): "-now."
frifreeman 8:30 pm
(8:30:04 PM): Grace: "Gah!" Grace holds up her beam spray gun to block the incoming knife.+
VJockey 8:30 pm
(8:30:10 PM): *Peola's going to leap into the path of those knives, focusing ki into the Regalis' fists and rapidfire-punch those knives away and try parry Sapphire Eyes' slash away with a strike to the TSF's forearms+
wyverncakes 8:30 pm
(8:30:44 PM): Another transmission comes in, courtesy of Commander Howe.
tengusaur 8:30 pm
(8:30:58 PM): Daniel: "..."
wyverncakes 8:31 pm
(8:31:07 PM): "Everyone, bad news. It's not just Sapphire Eye's gang there."
(8:31:17 PM): "She's found new partners by the looks of it."
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:31 pm
(8:31:31 PM): Jen: "Oh, joy."
VJockey 8:33 pm
(8:33:07 PM): "That's just great... who are they?"
wyverncakes 8:33 pm
(8:33:19 PM): [Grace and Peola] A knife comes plunging down at the beam spray gun, but instead the Regalis is there to take the hits with its fists! The knives go scattering away... but Sapphire Eyes breaks off the attack, sparing a few parting shots from the TSF's assault gun that hit the Regalis and keep it from pursuing.
(8:34:36 PM): Well Peola.
(8:34:44 PM): One of them is kind enough to give an answer!
wyverncakes 8:35 pm
(8:35:15 PM): ???: "Oh you know...we've met before! But if you forgot, the name is-"DOOOOOOOOOOOOMSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!"
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:35 pm
(8:35:38 PM): Jen: "Oh. Them."
wyverncakes 8:35 pm
(8:35:52 PM): Howe: "VIPER forces, by the looks of it."
cubey@aol.pl 8:35 pm
(8:35:57 PM): Chris: "What the hell!"
wyverncakes 8:36 pm
(8:36:00 PM): "... Unfortunately."
(8:36:30 PM): Indeed, more machines are arriving...
tengusaur 8:36 pm
(8:36:31 PM): Daniel: "...More terrorists. Should've packed more special bullets."
frifreeman 8:37 pm
(8:37:15 PM): Grace: "Do you have bullets that only work against crazy people? Because I could use some."
VJockey 8:37 pm
(8:37:30 PM): "..."
wyverncakes 8:37 pm
(8:37:42 PM): Most of them are VIPER's standard mook Formors, but there are two others that stand out, Doomstar's hulking Brute along with the katana-branding machine of Apogee 13.
VJockey 8:37 pm
(8:37:43 PM): Salwah: "Is... is everybody in this place insane?!"
wyverncakes 8:38 pm
(8:38:02 PM): Sapphire Eyes: "You got what you came for? Why are you still here then?"
(8:38:29 PM): Another woman pops up on the comms though.
(8:38:39 PM): (Julia Cantor: http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1164715)
(8:38:49 PM): Wait, didn't she get killed by that Ankaian dude?
wyverncakes 8:39 pm
(8:39:46 PM): Julia: "The nuclear fuel was what we came for, but the Unity Group's arrived as well. The cowgirl's yours, but the others..."
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:39 pm
(8:39:57 PM): Jen: "...I...You're supposed to be dead."
tengusaur 8:40 pm
(8:40:04 PM): Daniel: "In this fight, Grace, that's all bullets."
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:40 pm
(8:40:05 PM): Jen: "I saw you die!"
cubey@aol.pl 8:40 pm
(8:40:50 PM): Chris: "Maybe she's a clone or something similar!"
wyverncakes 8:40 pm
(8:40:53 PM): Julia: "Oh, you saw A me die, yes. But VIPER's resources are just beyond imagining!"
cubey@aol.pl 8:41 pm
(8:41:12 PM): Chris: "Yeah. Definitely a clone, and crazy too."
wyverncakes 8:41 pm
(8:41:34 PM): Doomstar: "And what we're here for... is you want to join in!"
VJockey 8:42 pm
(8:42:19 PM): Peola: "...No thanks."
wyverncakes 8:42 pm
(8:42:23 PM): "VIPER has plenty of room for you all too... minus Sapphire Eyes' target here, but oh well!"
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:42 pm
(8:42:32 PM): Jen: "People die when they're killed, you know..."
wyverncakes 8:42 pm
(8:42:45 PM): Julia: "Oh please... you haven't even heard our offers!"
(8:43:06 PM): "It wasn't just Grace Wallach we were able to learn about. We were able to look up information about all of you as well!"
VJockey 8:43 pm
(8:43:19 PM): "I make it a habit of not listening to crazy people!"
tengusaur 8:45 pm
(8:45:08 PM): Daniel: "I don't have a habit of working for terrorists. Or breaking my contacts before they expire."
wyverncakes 8:45 pm
(8:45:18 PM): "Even when they could offer you a genetically engineered perfect man to take care of all your suitor issues?"
(8:45:33 PM): "Or what about you, Miss Yukino..." flipping through some pages... "Christine?"
(8:46:14 PM): "VIPER wishes for world peace too, through universal domination!"
cubey@aol.pl 8:46 pm
(8:46:32 PM): Chris: "Is that so?"
(8:46:38 PM): She looks down.
(8:46:41 PM): "Heh..."
VJockey 8:46 pm
(8:46:50 PM): "... do you guys really have some kind of deathwish?"
wyverncakes 8:46 pm
(8:46:54 PM): (Jen, Chris, and Peola can act whenever)
cubey@aol.pl 8:47 pm
(8:47:03 PM): "Don't screw around! You're just another group of adults who think they know better and can lie and manipulate me!"
wyverncakes 8:47 pm
(8:47:23 PM): Julia: "Oh if I die too much, I'll just blow up an orphanage!"
(8:47:25 PM): (Enemies:
cubey@aol.pl 8:47 pm
(8:47:59 PM): *Her response is moving forward, with one of her guns shooting towards Julia's unit. She's at the edge of the roof, and jumps - the second minigun joining into the barrage while airborne! BILLION MAIDEN+
wyverncakes 8:48 pm
(8:48:01 PM): (Sapphire Eyes's gang: Su-27 Zhuravlik Sapphire Eyes Custom (Sapphire Eyes), Gatling Shaldolls x 2, Desperados x 3 (1 damaged) , Daughset x 5)
cubey@aol.pl 8:48 pm
(8:48:03 PM): Chris: "And get my name straight!"
frifreeman 8:48 pm
(8:48:13 PM): Grace: "What, no Don't just blow up an orphanage because you're dead. That's just petty!"
wyverncakes 8:48 pm
(8:48:56 PM): (VIPER: Formors x 9, Julia Formor, Apogee 13's machine, Brute (DOOOOOOOMSTAAAAAAAAAR))
VJockey 8:49 pm
(8:49:15 PM): *The Regalis Filia seemingly falls to one knee, slamming its fist into the ground before launching itself into the air. Admittedly her style was centered around punches but at this height? A massive leg drop was more appropriate on Julia.+
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:49 pm
(8:49:19 PM): *Jen: "...I really hope that's a joke." She nanobots-up a rifle around her pistol, and opens fire on a Gatling Shaldoll. "Doomstar, Apogee, you're less crazy than this lady, right?"+
wyverncakes 8:49 pm
(8:49:25 PM): Doomstar: "Heheh... wanting to party? That's fine... time to rock and roll!"
(8:49:37 PM): Julia: "Name wrong, you mean we didn't look up-"
(8:50:09 PM): [Chris] More looking through pages! Which she shouldn't have because then all of that minigun dakka tore through Julia's Formor in a heartbeat, making it explode!
cubey@aol.pl 8:50 pm
(8:50:37 PM): Chris: "... You'll find my rocking too hard for you."
wyverncakes 8:51 pm
(8:51:01 PM): (Julia's already dead Peola. Sorry about that, want to change targets?)
VJockey 8:51 pm
(8:51:53 PM): (...Lets go with the ninja. I'm feeling dangerous)
tengusaur 8:52 pm
(8:52:54 PM): Daniel: "That was fast."
cubey@aol.pl 8:53 pm
(8:53:34 PM): Chris: "From what she said, sounds like she'll be back..."
wyverncakes 8:53 pm
(8:53:34 PM): [Jen] The Gatling Shaldoll gets shot up something fierce by the Cethlenn, but DOOMSTAR is quick to move in, katana drawn and slashing at the Cethlenn! "Do you even need to ask?"
(8:53:37 PM): (React: Jen)
tengusaur 8:54 pm
(8:54:31 PM): Daniel: "Probably."
cubey@aol.pl 8:55 pm
(8:55:17 PM): Chris: "You'll never... ah, look out you!"
wyverncakes 8:55 pm
(8:55:25 PM): [Peola] The Regalis comes smashing down, but as you near Apogee's machine a mist seems to spread. You crash into empty pavement instead. "VIPER Commander's abilities and vision aren't something to just write off. He really is an incredible, generous man. But no matter." The machine's own blade drawn, she charges at Peola and slashes!
(8:55:28 PM): (React: Peola)
cubey@aol.pl 8:55 pm
(8:55:46 PM): # Jen
wyverncakes 8:55 pm
(8:55:53 PM): (Approved)
(8:56:16 PM): (Daniel and Grace can move)
cubey@aol.pl 8:56 pm
(8:56:53 PM): *One of the chainguns in Chris's hands quickly reforms back into its default shape of a crossbow - one loaded with three bolts that already shoot out, homing towards the Brute's face and exploding in front of it, to blind the allcaps enemy at least temporarily while she attacks!+
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:57 pm
(8:57:20 PM): *Jen backlips away, using a grappling hook to pull herself further out of range. "...Right. Sorry for asking." She keeps fighting that Gatling Shaldoll.+
VJockey 8:58 pm
(8:58:17 PM): *Peola blocks with her sword! Or technically the club that's essentially the sheath and broken blade locked together. Neither here nor there. "Salwah!" Because the scarred young woman sends her Machina flanking from around the Princess' machine to lash out with its curved blade at Apogee's sword arm!+
wyverncakes 8:59 pm
(8:59:26 PM): [Jen and Chris] Doomstar's charge gets derailed by exploding crossbow bolts, but giving Jen the breathing room to finish off the Shaldoll. But any damage to the machine is quickly being undone though by its own nanomachines!
wyverncakes 9:01 pm
(9:01:31 PM): [Peola] Apogee 13's blade bites into Regalis's sheath, its monomolecular edge showing off its cutting power. But Salwah flanking her means Apogee can't follow through... but she does spring away, smacking the support's own slash away with her own attacks!
VJockey 9:02 pm
(9:02:22 PM): "That blade's no joke..."
wyverncakes 9:02 pm
(9:02:44 PM): "It's the blade of the World's Deadliest Woman."
frifreeman 9:02 pm
(9:02:46 PM): Grace launches some steel cables from under her mech's cloak, intending to bind Sapphire Eyes' TSF. "What do you need me for now? IU thought you already got the Steam Train part you need when we were at the Batavia Fleet!+
wyverncakes 9:02 pm
(9:02:52 PM): "It ought to be."
cubey@aol.pl 9:04 pm
(9:04:50 PM): Chris: "They're massive showoffs, huh? This kind is always the worst!"
(9:04:54 PM): (Look who's talking)
tengusaur 9:05 pm
(9:05:48 PM): Daniel: "Let's cut down their show a little then. Genevieve, go." He quickly loads a single bullet into the Gun of God
wyverncakes 9:06 pm
(9:06:59 PM): [Grace] "That isn't enough. Not by a long shot," Sapphire Eyes responds, firing and slashing at the cables though she still gets tied up in a few! "That was the start... but you still have a part to play with me. What I want... and need, is for us to become one!" The TSF suddenly spins, coiling itself closer and closer around the bindings but an arm's free and it's being reeled in towards you, knife slashing again!
(9:07:02 PM): (React: Grace)
tengusaur 9:07 pm
(9:07:06 PM): * 's chamber. Steel Wanderer jumps up on top of a low building, to take a better aiming position, and then fires the projectile towards the group of Formors. Mid-flight, the bullet splits into a dozen or so metal pellets, each of which unfolds into a full-sized armor-piercing bullet, which rain down on the enemies! +
wyverncakes 9:08 pm
(9:08:01 PM): And as it gets closer, you can see... that TSF has some parts that are sticking out! Parts that look like they belong on a Daughtress! YOUR Daughtress!
VJockey 9:08 pm
(9:08:07 PM): "Well... my father may be a gigantic idiot.. but he's also still King for a reason. I'll show you just what I've got."
wyverncakes 9:10 pm
(9:10:10 PM): [Daniel] The Steel Wanderer's unorthodox bullets catch the VIPER forces off-guard, Formors getting caught by the armor-piercing bullets. You catch a few, but as you land Desperados are charging you with their shovels, striking at you high and low!
(9:10:12 PM): (React: Daniel)
wyverncakes 9:13 pm
(9:13:18 PM): (Jen, Chris, and Peola)
tengusaur 9:15 pm
(9:15:04 PM): * For a moment, Daniel recalls the melee lessons he had with Sielje, and wants to use them to counter-attack the enemy... But then he remembers he doesn't really have a melee weapon. That makes it difficult. So instead, Steel Wanderer backs away, kicking a big piece of rubble at the first Desperado, trying to knock it into another one and throw them both off-balance. +
(9:15:05 PM): Daniel: "...Shovel this."
VJockey 9:16 pm
(9:16:14 PM): *The Filia takes a firm stance as ki flows into the machina's hands, rushing forward Peola unleashes a raging avalanche of punches upon Apogee!&
frifreeman 9:16 pm
(9:16:46 PM): Grace: "Gah! Becoming one? What are you talking about? Can't you at least ask me to dinner first?" Grace releases teh cables so she's not dragged toward her, puting her guns forward again just in case Sapphire Eys is close enough already./+
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:16 pm
(9:16:46 PM): *"...Back at paradigm, you didn't blow up the dam." Jen fires on Doomstar with her rifle, emptyiing a whole clip at the Brute. "Why? I get the feeling Julia would have done it in a heartbeat."+
cubey@aol.pl 9:17 pm
(9:17:00 PM): Chris: "Crap, you're getting overrun!"
wyverncakes 9:17 pm
(9:17:52 PM): [Daniel] Kinda hard to shovel something when you were trying to shovel something else entirely. The rock does indeed stumble up one, letting it get caught in the second. At least that guy DID get to shovel something though!
cubey@aol.pl 9:18 pm
(9:18:37 PM): *More crowd control is needed. Chris quickly glances at the situation - noticing where she can shoot without causing further damage to the city or allies. Ichaival releases more missiles, which fly up parabolically and then swarm down on enemy mooks down below, special care given to those melee Desperadoes and Daughtaps.+
wyverncakes 9:19 pm
(9:19:36 PM): [Peola] It's boxer vs. katana user, Apogee 13 falling back and defending herself from your strikes and not pushing the offensive... at least not before suddenly springing over Regalis's body and quickly drawing her handguns, firing on you from above!
(9:19:39 PM): (React: Peola)
VJockey 9:22 pm
(9:22:45 PM): *Above?... Peola grins, shunting ki into one hand and the Filia's legs. Rather than defending, the princess chooses to attack! Launching upwards to smash her charged fist into her opponent's machine in a devastating uppercut!+
wyverncakes 9:22 pm
(9:22:53 PM): [Grace] Sapphire EYes just chuckles at your response... and even though she's coiled up, just one swift slash and she's suddenly free! Another flick of her machine's wrist and the knife goes surging out, plunging through your Daughtress's head. There goes your main camera! "I won't waste time on that. Not when I'm so close."
frifreeman 9:23 pm
(9:23:35 PM): Grace:" Ah crap."
wyverncakes 9:24 pm
(9:24:42 PM): [Chris] The remaining two Desperados meet their end thanks to Chival's missiles, and a Daughseat gets blown away too. The Formors are luckier though, and since you previously blew away their boss they turn their guns on you, flechette guns firing sharp chunks of metal straight at you!
wyverncakes 9:24 pm
(9:24:45 PM): (React: Chris)
VJockey 9:26 pm
(9:26:12 PM): "Somebody help Grace!"
cubey@aol.pl 9:26 pm
(9:26:22 PM): Chris: "Aww crap! Kinda busy here!"
tengusaur 9:26 pm
(9:26:55 PM): Daniel: "I will. Don't worry."
cubey@aol.pl 9:27 pm
(9:27:25 PM): *She jumps down to the street level - kicking off the ground as soon as she lands, using her momentum to spin behind a street corner, seeking refuge in cover.+
wyverncakes 9:27 pm
(9:27:57 PM): [Jen] "Our dearly departed hates to die without doing a bit of killing beforehand... it's how she rolls! But me...? Everyone knows what happens when a dam goes pop... and nothing kills the flames of action like water, water everywhere!" Brute soaks up every one of those shots, already regenerating! And to pay back the favor its chest cannon opens up, firing flak straight at you!
(9:28:02 PM): (React: Jen)
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:28 pm
(9:28:56 PM): *Jen :"Damnit!" She dives off the building she's on top of to dodge!+
wyverncakes 9:29 pm
(9:29:11 PM): [Peola] Apogee's shots connect, striking and scarring the Regalis all across its body! But the sudden SHORYUKEN still powers through, connecting with the VIPER machine and sending it sailing up and then crashing back down!
(9:30:23 PM): [Chris] The flechettes strike into the ground, sticking up stiffly and having pierced through sidewalk, roads, and bricks. Still, you're okay!
wyverncakes 9:30 pm
(9:30:58 PM): [Jen] Likewise, you escape just in the nick of time, the booming flak gun demolishing the rooftop you were on just seconds before.
(9:31:03 PM): (Daniel and Grace)
cubey@aol.pl 9:31 pm
(9:31:08 PM): Chris: "You like to play rough... don't you..." She is trying to catch her breath.
tengusaur 9:31 pm
(9:31:32 PM): (enemy list pleas)
wyverncakes 9:32 pm
(9:32:33 PM): (Sapphire Eyes's gang: Su-27 Zhuravlik Sapphire Eyes Custom (Sapphire Eyes), Gatling Shaldolls x 2, Daughset x 4)
wyverncakes 9:33 pm
(9:33:29 PM): (VIPER: Formors x 5, Apogee 13's machine (somewhat damaged), Brute (DOOOOOOOMSTAAAAAAAAAR) (mild damage due to hax regen))
frifreeman 9:33 pm
(9:33:40 PM): Without her main camera, Grace can only shoot blindly at the place where her sensor says there's an enemy there. "Shouldn't have came here. sTupid place. Never liked this place anywhere. Nothing interesting ever happened. Didn't I leave this place on purpose? Why am I back here anyway." Her mout hkeep running as she shoots again and again with both of her guns while trying to get some distance.+
wyverncakes 9:35 pm
(9:35:50 PM): [Grace] And not a single shot hits. Why? Because Sapphire Eyes has gotten behind you! "You're here... because I wanted you here. I wanted you, and here you are.": An assault gun blast to the backside floors the Daughtress, alarms blaring wildly!
(9:35:58 PM): (Grace: downed)
tengusaur 9:37 pm
(9:37:15 PM): Daniel: "Your guard is down." He loads another bullet, and aims carefully... And then fires it at a nearby wall. The Julian shot ricochets off the wall, barely dealing any damage to it, and another one, and then off a Daughseat (dealing real impact damage this time), and finally heads straight for the Su-27's back! +
cubey@aol.pl 9:37 pm
(9:37:44 PM): Chris: "That crappy old mobile suit is downed?! Hang in there!"
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:38 pm
(9:38:43 PM): Jen: "Somebody go rescue Grace!"
frifreeman 9:39 pm
(9:39:32 PM): "Gah!," Grace bit her lips as he's rattled from the crash of her mech. "Damnit, move, you useless flaming wreck!" Grace says as she try to get any response from her machine with no success.
(9:39:51 PM): Grace: "Goddamn it, I won't die here. I heven't even make my first million." The Daughtress' cockpit opens and you can see Grace climbing out from the wreck before running toward the buildings.
wyverncakes 9:40 pm
(9:40:47 PM): [Daniel] The Daughseat turns in confusion from the ricoocheting bullet, but doesn't actually get out of the way for when it finally, fatefully connects. But as you run after Grace to go and save her from Sapphire Eyes...
(9:41:45 PM): Grace, as you get out of your Daughtress... suddenly Sapphire Eyes is stepping in your path.
(9:42:06 PM): "Running away...? That's too bad."
wyverncakes 9:43 pm
(9:43:23 PM): Before you can change directions, a bubble-like field of energy suddenly forms around you two and your machines!
(9:43:50 PM): Daniel's Julian shot strikes into the bubble, crushing itself on impact and falling uselessly to the ground.
tengusaur 9:44 pm
(9:44:03 PM): Daniel: "...What's this?"
wyverncakes 9:44 pm
(9:44:48 PM): Sapphire Eyes: "It's finally time."
cubey@aol.pl 9:44 pm
(9:44:51 PM): Chris: "Coming! ... What the hell!"
wyverncakes 9:45 pm
(9:45:04 PM): She takes a step forward, raising a hand and reaching forward...
wyverncakes 9:46 pm
(9:46:06 PM): Another step forward and Sapphire Eyes' hand moves into, phases into Grace's chest!
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:46 pm
(9:46:26 PM): Jen: "What on earth..."
wyverncakes 9:46 pm
(9:46:43 PM): "You and me. We'll finally be one."
VJockey 9:46 pm
(9:46:47 PM): Peola: "What... what is that?!"
tengusaur 9:47 pm
(9:47:00 PM): Daniel: "..."
cubey@aol.pl 9:47 pm
(9:47:01 PM): Chris is frozen in her tracks, staring at this wide-eyed.
(9:47:19 PM): Chris: "What the shit! Go... away from her!"
frifreeman 9:47 pm
(9:47:49 PM): Grace: G... gurgh... What..."
wyverncakes 9:48 pm
(9:48:05 PM): Sapphire Eyes pays no attention to any of you, all her focus on Grace as runes flash into being all along her body!
wyverncakes 9:48 pm
(9:48:39 PM): Sapphire Eyes: "It's happening..."
frifreeman 9:49 pm
(9:49:24 PM): Grace can only cough in silence as a hand passes through her chest, Really, what can you say when a hand stabs through your chest?
wyverncakes 9:49 pm
(9:49:52 PM): "The train incident... I was hired by... some defeated army wanting a second chance at victory. They wanted a weapon to let them win a battle that was already over..."
(9:50:01 PM): "That weapon was a real, working time machine."
wyverncakes 9:51 pm
(9:51:38 PM): "I couldn't care less who made it and where it came from... but what I care about is you. The train had been the key to it... but then you became the key instead."
cubey@aol.pl 9:51 pm
(9:51:55 PM): Chris: "Come on! Fire at one point!"
wyverncakes 9:52 pm
(9:52:07 PM): "But once we're one..." she took another step forward, more of her arm sinking into Grace's body. "We'll be the key together."
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:52 pm
(9:52:20 PM): Jen: "-Alright!"
cubey@aol.pl 9:52 pm
(9:52:50 PM): (Permission to act?)
wyverncakes 9:52 pm
(9:52:56 PM): (Yes, you all can)
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:53 pm
(9:53:14 PM): *Jen shoots that bubble field!+
tengusaur 9:53 pm
(9:53:19 PM): Daniel: "This better work." He fires a single bullet at the bubble surrounding the two machines - it's a Medard electric shot. He doesn't want to blow Grace's unit up by accident. +
cubey@aol.pl 9:53 pm
(9:53:41 PM): *Chris braces herself. Baring her teeth, she starts firing - the chainguns, the missile MEGADETH PARTY, all projectiles fired at one point which is now engulfed in explosions!+
VJockey 9:55 pm
(9:55:44 PM): *Peola and Salwah add their own assistance to the mix, the latter opening fire with her machina's back mounted guns, the former launching a ki-lance through her sheathed blade!+
frifreeman 9:58 pm
(9:58:33 PM): Grace: "Gah! I can't die here! There are many things I haven't managed to taste!" Grace suddenly manages to gather enough strength and willpower to move her hand and grabs Sapphire Eyes' hand, trying to pushes it out.
wyverncakes 9:58 pm
(9:58:45 PM): [People outside bubble] The flurry of attacks strike at the bubble, making it tremble and its interior rumble from everything you're throwing against it. "Trying to get in the way of us. But it's not going to matter once-"
(9:58:52 PM): "Sapphire Eyes: "What?!"
frifreeman 9:59 pm
(9:59:16 PM): Grace: "Get... out... of me!"
(9:59:49 PM): Grace: "It won't be that easy to get inside me!"
wyverncakes 10:00 pm
(10:00:11 PM): The runes on Grace seem flare up, and inside of the bubble, the flow of time suddenly reverses!
wyverncakes 10:01 pm
(10:01:50 PM): Grace and Sapphire Eyes move back into their respective machines, the damage to the Daughtress undoing itself too as the machine is raised back up to right before the TSF shoots it in the back! And just as it's about to-
(10:01:56 PM): "Not this time."
cubey@aol.pl 10:02 pm
(10:02:07 PM): Chris: "..."
wyverncakes 10:02 pm
(10:02:11 PM): A Lion's railgun shots cut through the air! It's Westwood!
cubey@aol.pl 10:02 pm
(10:02:19 PM): This was too weird for her to comment.
wyverncakes 10:02 pm
(10:02:22 PM): The SU-27's forced to spring back to avoid his shots!
frifreeman 10:02 pm
(10:02:49 PM): Grace pants and cough inside her daughtress. "What... the heck... just had happened."
cubey@aol.pl 10:02 pm
(10:02:52 PM): Chris: "Yeah, you show her!"
wyverncakes 10:03 pm
(10:03:16 PM): (Chris, Jen, and Peola can act)
cubey@aol.pl 10:04 pm
(10:04:13 PM): Chris: "And guess what - I'm still here!"
(10:04:30 PM): *The all-out barrage continues - into the SU's back!+
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:04 pm
(10:04:39 PM): *Jen: "...Okay..." Well, that was weird. But it means there's a chance! Sapphire Eyes becomes Jen's latest target for shooting.+
tengusaur 10:04 pm
(10:04:50 PM): Daniel: "Grace... Are you fine?"
wyverncakes 10:04 pm
(10:04:53 PM): Sapphire Eyes: "It doesn't matte-"
VJockey 10:05 pm
(10:05:07 PM): *Guess what? Even more shooting! Ki lance and gunfire ahoy!+
wyverncakes 10:06 pm
(10:06:26 PM): [Group assault] ... Actually it really does seem to be as Sapphire Eyes' own machine gets suddenly shot up something fierce! It's blown into a building, crashing into it and leaving it as a smouldering wreck from the joint assault.
(10:06:36 PM): Westwood: "It's over, Sapphire Eyes."
(10:07:12 PM): The Lion moves towards the machine, raising up its railgun to add a few finishing shots for insurance... but then...
(10:07:57 PM): Doomstar: "Oh that's right, isn't it Jen? Julia didn't get to her offer for you before tragically blowing up but..."
wyverncakes 10:08 pm
(10:08:39 PM): "... About how much would it take for you to sell all these punks out?"
cubey@aol.pl 10:09 pm
(10:09:00 PM): Chris: "What? We've been over this junk already!"
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:09 pm
(10:09:53 PM): Jen: "...Honestly...If you can keep Julia in line..."
wyverncakes 10:10 pm
(10:10:18 PM): Westwood: "Still trying to-"
wyverncakes 10:10 pm
(10:10:51 PM): -In the confusion, Westwood's Lion is suddenly kicked away!
tengusaur 10:11 pm
(10:11:30 PM): Daniel: "Jen. Are you really-"
cubey@aol.pl 10:11 pm
(10:11:31 PM): Chris: "What? Whaaat?"
wyverncakes 10:11 pm
(10:11:32 PM): Sapphire Eyes's TSF rises up again, the damage sustained by it undoing itself like what happened to Grace's Daughtress!
tengusaur 10:11 pm
(10:11:37 PM): Then this happens.
(10:11:57 PM): Daniel: "Watch out, Westwood!"
wyverncakes 10:12 pm
(10:12:27 PM): "... So it was enough then. Now I can control the time machine's power too."
(10:12:31 PM): Westwood: "It won't be enough!"
wyverncakes 10:13 pm
(10:13:04 PM): The Lion fires relentlessly at the SU-27 and then charges, assault blade drawn!
VJockey 10:13 pm
(10:13:14 PM): "We just have to take her down before she can think to use that power right?"
(10:13:17 PM): @Westwood?
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:13 pm
(10:13:19 PM): Jen: "...An awful lot. But you've got more of these nanobot things, right?"
wyverncakes 10:13 pm
(10:13:22 PM): (Denied)
(10:13:39 PM): ... But then the personal timeline for the railgun shots rewind as well, flying back the way they came.
(10:13:45 PM): Right into Westwood's charging Lion.
(10:14:35 PM): One by one they strike the Assault Module, and the machine's chest bursts in a plume of flame before falling straight to the ground.
tengusaur 10:14 pm
(10:14:50 PM): Daniel: "..."
wyverncakes 10:15 pm
(10:15:32 PM): Sapphire Eyes adds a few extra shots from her own guns for good measure. "It wouldn't have been, but you certainly helped."
VJockey 10:16 pm
(10:16:01 PM): "!!"
wyverncakes 10:16 pm
(10:16:17 PM): With that, the TSF turns and makes its escape!
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:16 pm
(10:16:29 PM): Jen: "Get back here!"
wyverncakes 10:16 pm
(10:16:44 PM): ???: "But you still have your offer!"
cubey@aol.pl 10:16 pm
(10:16:49 PM): Chris: "You..."
frifreeman 10:16 pm
(10:16:54 PM): Grace: "No! Westwood!"
wyverncakes 10:17 pm
(10:17:19 PM): Jen, on your screen a masked figure appears, flanked by a trio of women who are the exact image of that Julia lady you've seen die twice over now!
wyverncakes 10:18 pm
(10:18:00 PM): It's the VIPER Commander!
(10:18:25 PM): VIPER Commander: "If you want more nanobots, they'll be yours! And more money than you could hope to spend in a lifetime!"
VJockey 10:18 pm
(10:18:37 PM): (Can we hear this?)
wyverncakes 10:18 pm
(10:18:45 PM): (Yes)
(10:19:25 PM): "The promises about a part of Australia were impeded in our first attempt, but those cassowaries have been dealt with thanks in part to you, so I'll give you an additional cut of the continent!"
VJockey 10:20 pm
(10:20:15 PM): Peola: "Does that mask make it hard to get air? You're crazy if you think she's gonna take that offer!"
cubey@aol.pl 10:20 pm
(10:20:19 PM): Chris: "Shut up! You..."
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:20 pm
(10:20:33 PM): Jen: "...Actually...Yeah. Sure, let's give it a shot."
wyverncakes 10:20 pm
(10:20:59 PM): (Alright then. Jen, take another action!)
(10:21:06 PM): (Grace and Daniel, you can act too)
VJockey 10:21 pm
(10:21:34 PM): Peola: "...Wait. What?"
wyverncakes 10:21 pm
(10:21:49 PM): VIPER Commander: "Excellent! Another successful new hire!"
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:21 pm
(10:21:50 PM): (Jen holds her action until someone else does stuff)
tengusaur 10:22 pm
(10:22:10 PM): (enemies left?)
wyverncakes 10:22 pm
(10:22:21 PM): "You all had your chances, don't be upset someone had the smarts to join!"
VJockey 10:22 pm
(10:22:38 PM): "Jen... What are you doing?"
wyverncakes 10:22 pm
(10:22:44 PM): (VIPER: Formors x 5, Apogee 13's machine (somewhat damaged), Brute (DOOOOOOOMSTAAAAAAAAAR) (mild damage due to hax regen))
cubey@aol.pl 10:23 pm
(10:23:12 PM): Chris: "WHAAAAT"
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:23 pm
(10:23:17 PM): Jen: "...Something I've been thinking about for a while, now."
wyverncakes 10:23 pm
(10:23:21 PM): VIPER Commander: "She's changing sides, you fool!"
(10:23:35 PM): "Now show where your allegiances lie now! Attack your former friends!"
VJockey 10:24 pm
(10:24:10 PM): "But that doesn't even-"
VJockey 10:24 pm
(10:24:26 PM): "Jen. This is some kind of joke right?"
tengusaur 10:24 pm
(10:24:45 PM): Daniel: "...Jen. If you do it, I'll shoot you. Not joking."
cubey@aol.pl 10:24 pm
(10:24:46 PM): Chris: "You're kidding, right? Now's not the time for that!"
frifreeman 10:24 pm
(10:24:58 PM): Grace has managed to catch her breath, and now she boost toward the wreck of Westwood's mech while shooting rapidly at Sapphire Eyes' general direction. "No, you must be joking right? You're the badass guy who keep saving me all this time! Stand up, Sapphire Eyes is escaping!"+
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:25 pm
(10:25:24 PM): Jen: "I'm sick and tired of how you've been treating me, okay! And then there's all that crazy bullshit too-you UG people dragged a PRAYER home for a pet, and some kid you knew chucked a moon at the earth!"
(10:26:11 PM): Jen: "So, you know what? Fuck it. If I'm gonna be treated like a criminal, I might as well get paid for playing the part."
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:26 pm
(10:26:59 PM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svyCX2qHWXU
tengusaur 10:27 pm
(10:27:33 PM): * Daniel's voice is more tense than usual, because of this whole situation. But Sapphire Eyes is too far away, and Grace is already trying to do something with Westwood, so instead he switches to a Lucia energy generator, and covers the Formors in a barrage of beam blasts, hammering the trigger till it;s out of energy. +
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:29 pm
(10:29:00 PM): Jen: "So, come on. Princess, Salwah, let's dance."
(10:29:43 PM): *Jen's rifle breaks apart, and she uses the move from her fight with Phanuel again-It forms ten long, sharp strings, which she flicks at Salwah and Peola.+
VJockey 10:30 pm
(10:30:05 PM): "Jen I really don't want to have to-"
wyverncakes 10:30 pm
(10:30:22 PM): [Daniel] The Formors come under fire, scrambling for cover though few of them actually make it. In their wake though, mist from Apogee 13's machine is spreading though, obscuring part of the battlefield... until she suddenly strikes, lunging at the Steel Wanderer, katana flashing!
(10:30:26 PM): (React: Daniel)
cubey@aol.pl 10:31 pm
(10:31:15 PM): Chris: "You're crazy! You want to be just as bad as THEM?!"
wyverncakes 10:31 pm
(10:31:18 PM): [Grace] No joking here, Grace. The Lion is a smoking, charrged wreck. This isn't something anyone could just stand up and walk away from. He's gone.
(10:32:02 PM): [Jen and Peola] The strings surge towards Salwah and Peola, sharp and ready to cut you both to shreds!
(10:32:11 PM): (React: Peola. She can combine it with her action if you'd like)
(10:32:18 PM): (Chris can also act)
VJockey 10:32 pm
(10:32:27 PM): *And then Jen does that. "Damn it Jen!" Salwah's quickly trying to open fire at the strings while backing off. Peola on the other hand is going to use the blade/club she has to try keep those razor strings away from her as she rushes at the courier in an attempt to close in and engage!+
tengusaur 10:32 pm
(10:32:31 PM): Daniel: "Jen made her choice." Steel Wanderer looks around in the smoke, not liking this one bit... And then the attack comes! Daniel kicks away, trying to use his reflexes to dodge the katana before it cuts his machine. +
VJockey 10:32 pm
(10:32:51 PM): Salwah: "There really is something wrong with you!"
wyverncakes 10:34 pm
(10:34:02 PM): [Daniel] The ninja's machine blasts past, nicking one of the Steel Wanderer's arms. With a blade like the one it does though, even a glancing hit leaves a gash in the limb!
tengusaur 10:34 pm
(10:34:44 PM): Daniel: "Close..."
cubey@aol.pl 10:35 pm
(10:35:09 PM): Chris: "Today can't get any worse! Shit!"
wyverncakes 10:35 pm
(10:35:28 PM): [Peola] The strings are either knocked away or find resistance striking against the sheathed blade... and you've closed the distance with the smaller machine now to let you start opening up with physical attacks!
(10:35:40 PM): (React: Jen)
cubey@aol.pl 10:36 pm
(10:36:13 PM): *The final missiles in the barrage are shot towards the Brute. Chris is getting tired and her chainguns revert back to crossbows. But she starts running regardless, circling around DOOMSTAR's unit as she shoots the bolts, aiming them towards a single wound, each shot making the damage deeper and deeper.+
wyverncakes 10:39 pm
(10:39:17 PM): [Chris] The Brute's Hulktastic body gets buffered by all your shots, your focus point getting smashed and blown up more and more... and the bulky machine's body starts to suffer as one of its arms sags down because of the damage. "Persistent little girl, aren't you...? Well!" With its free hand, the Brute swings its sword, not directly at you, but to let the weapon's pink fluid be flung out at you in a wide arc! "... You know, I've never seen what this stuff can do to a human body, but let's find out!"
(10:39:21 PM): (React: Chris)
(10:39:31 PM): (Daniel and Grace)
cubey@aol.pl 10:40 pm
(10:40:25 PM): Chris: "Gah!"
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:40 pm
(10:40:32 PM): *Jen forms another weapon as she ducks and dives through the streets-a bullpup rifle. More shots ring out towards Peola, aimed at Regis Filia's legs. And unlike the attacks before, these carry a rider of corrosive nanobots.+
cubey@aol.pl 10:42 pm
(10:42:26 PM): *She quickly looks back and fires a barrage, already on the retreat. A second later, a large water cistern falls where she stood, shot down by the crossbow bolts and serving as cover.+
wyverncakes 10:43 pm
(10:43:22 PM): [Jen] A few of the shots connect, the nanobots quickly spreading and eating into the Regalis's legs at the ankles. The going isn't super-fast, but it doesn't take much to knock the machine off-balance at that point, and the Filia falls flat onto the ground!
tengusaur 10:43 pm
(10:43:32 PM): Daniel: "...Too fast. Let's limit the movements. Andrew." Steel Wanderer fires a shot at the ninja-like opponent, jumps behind a corner and then fires another - both projectiles expand into sticky nets upon impact. Hopefully this will entangle Apogee 13's weapon or slow it down! +
VJockey 10:43 pm
(10:43:41 PM): "OOF!"
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:44 pm
(10:44:54 PM): Jen: "...Hmph."
wyverncakes 10:46 pm
(10:46:11 PM): [Daniel] The net catches Apogee 13's machine! Somewhat. It can still move towards you, just... slowly. And as it does more hazy mist spreads... and with it, the number of ninjamachines seems to spread! Real or illusionary, they all move at the same speed, just trying to surround and flank you. Which one's the real one? "My feet might be bound... but my sword is still just as sharp!" They all charge, but as they strike, which one's the real one?!
(10:46:14 PM): (React: Daniel)
frifreeman 10:46 pm
(10:46:22 PM): Grace is hoping that the rest of the team can handle the enemies, because now her attention is wholly focused on the unmoving wreck of Westwood's Mech.
frifreeman 10:47 pm
(10:47:31 PM): Grace: "No... this can't be happening. Please wake up..." She says as she drops and kneels beside the wreck.
(10:48:47 PM): And suddenly, glyphs starts to materializes around her. And a similar bubble like before start to surround both her and the remains of Westwood's mech.
wyverncakes 10:48 pm
(10:48:57 PM): [Chris] The water comes falling down, meeting the nanomachine goo and keeping it from you. Doomstar will have to wait to see the result of it touching a human!
tengusaur 10:48 pm
(10:48:58 PM): Daniel: "But will it reach?" Steel Wanderer jumps back, firing another shot on the ground between itself and the charging ninja robots - it's an explosive Barbara round, which blows up as soon as they're all in range. Doesn't matter which one is the real one if all of them are within the area of explosion! +
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:49 pm
(10:49:19 PM): Jen: "So, Salwah. How do you like me so far?"
frifreeman 10:51 pm
(10:51:45 PM): And suddenly, the wreckage starts to rewind itself in time. The mecha parts start to assemble itself back, and bullets taht are lodged inside the wreckage flies out of back into the air.
VJockey 10:51 pm
(10:51:46 PM): Salwah: "Not at all! I've got no idea how the princess ever thought you were her friend.... you're almost as bad as Phannuhel!"
wyverncakes 10:51 pm
(10:51:59 PM): [Daniel] Well that's one way to solve the puzzle. The explosion rocks you, but it also knocks away the real Apogee 13's machine, making it crash back into the ground awkwardly far and away from you.
frifreeman 10:52 pm
(10:52:39 PM): Grace: "I...." And as everything looks like just the second before Westwood's mech got blown up, grace falls sideways unmoving.
tengusaur 10:53 pm
(10:53:06 PM): Daniel ejects the empty shell from his gun. Then he sees what Grace has done.
(10:53:22 PM): Daniel: "...Grace."
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:53 pm
(10:53:35 PM): Jen: "...That's rich, coming from you."
wyverncakes 10:54 pm
(10:54:21 PM): Daniel, that means you get to see Grace suddenly get tackled by one of the Formors!
(10:54:50 PM): The Daughtress gets floored again, the VIPER mook raising up its knives!
(10:55:08 PM): Doomstar: "Careful! Sapphire Eyes might still want her alive!"
tengusaur 10:55 pm
(10:55:08 PM): #?
wyverncakes 10:55 pm
(10:55:17 PM): (Denied, because...)
(10:55:57 PM): -Another shot blows through the chest of the Formor, neatly knocking it over!
VJockey 10:56 pm
(10:56:13 PM): Salwah: "What's that supposed to mean?!"
wyverncakes 10:56 pm
(10:56:15 PM): It's Westwood's Lion, looking significantly better!
wyverncakes 10:56 pm
(10:56:50 PM): Westwood: "-And she won't be getting her."
tengusaur 10:57 pm
(10:57:00 PM): Daniel: "Westwood. She really saved you..."
cubey@aol.pl 10:57 pm
(10:57:18 PM): Chris: "Woah..."
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:58 pm
(10:58:01 PM): Jen: "You'll have plenty of time to think on it." Cethlenn looks over towards the Brute. "Where's our ride?"
wyverncakes 10:58 pm
(10:58:28 PM): Westwood: "I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but..."
(10:58:31 PM): His voice trails off.
wyverncakes 10:58 pm
(10:58:53 PM): "... It certainly feels like she did."
tengusaur 10:59 pm
(10:59:04 PM): Daniel: "Will explain later. The fight's not over."
wyverncakes 10:59 pm
(10:59:39 PM): Doomstar: "Well you say that... but Doomstar says... it is!"
(11:00:23 PM): "While we were all fighting here, VIPER agents were also carting away the other thing we came here for... nuclear fuel for furthering VIPER's plans!"
(11:00:48 PM): "And now that it's long left this showplace... Apogee!"
wyverncakes 11:01 pm
(11:01:40 PM): The damaged ninjabot rises up though, knowing what Doomstar has in mind as another mist suddenly spreads out. And afterwards, a sudden, blinding flash of light!
(11:02:36 PM): When it subsides, the VIPER forces, or at least what's left of them, are gone.
(11:02:41 PM): Jen included.
(11:03:26 PM): Westwood: "Sapphire Eyes got away too, didn't she?"
VJockey 11:03 pm
(11:03:32 PM): [There's a low creak as the Regalis Filia punches the ground.]
(11:03:39 PM): Peola: "Yeah..."
wyverncakes 11:03 pm
(11:03:41 PM): The Lion glances around. Plenty of her gang's mooks are downed, but not the leader herself.
tengusaur 11:03 pm
(11:03:47 PM): Daniel: "Afraid so."
VJockey 11:04 pm
(11:04:28 PM): [There's a brief growl of irritation from the princess, her tone bitter.] "Well at least it can't get any worse."
wyverncakes 11:05 pm
(11:05:10 PM): Grace will need tending to also, she's unconscious (but otherwise okay) inside of her cockpit.
tengusaur 11:05 pm
(11:05:27 PM): Daniel: "...Guess all she cared about in the end was money, after all."
wyverncakes 11:05 pm
(11:05:32 PM): But the people you came here to stop and apprehend got what they came here for on all fronts, unfortunately.
(11:05:34 PM): MISSION FAILED
cubey@aol.pl 11:05 pm
(11:05:53 PM): Chris: "Damn. Damn it..."
VJockey 11:06 pm
(11:06:05 PM): "...Guess so..."
tengusaur has left the room. 11:07 pm
(7:48:14 PM): A few days ago, the Unity Group received contact from the bountyhunter Westwood with good news. He'd found Sapphire Eyes' hideout, and together with the Unity Group there was good chance of bringing the outlaw to justice.
(7:49:21 PM): There had been the matter of preparing and waiting for an opportune time when Sapphire Eyes and her gang would've been confirmed at said hideout, but a sudden alarm brings all of that planning to a screeching halt.
(7:50:13 PM): Sapphire Eyes was finally spotted... not at her hideout, but launching an attack on the Maryland city of Cumberland!
wyverncakes 7:50 pm
(7:50:26 PM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddyd8WxIOUY
wyverncakes 7:53 pm
(7:53:10 PM): Currently you're on a shuttle en-route to the city, still too far away to see the worst of the fighting.
(7:53:17 PM): Still, smoke's rising up in the distance
cubey@aol.pl 7:54 pm
(7:54:36 PM): "What the hell? Isn't she supposed to be a mercenary, or something?" Chris points at a screen accusingly.
(7:54:56 PM): "Why would Sapphire Eyes be attacking a city for the hell of it?!"
VJockey 7:54 pm
(7:54:56 PM): "...Maybe somebody paid her to do this..."
tengusaur 7:54 pm
(7:54:58 PM): Daniel: "I wonder too. What is she trying to find here?"
arachnion01@gmail.com 7:55 pm
(7:55:13 PM): Jen: "Seems like a kind of boring town, honestly. It's weird."
VJockey 7:55 pm
(7:56:00 PM): [Peola opened her mouth to reply to that Jen... then she looked like she realized something.]
wyverncakes 7:56 pm
(7:56:10 PM): If it's any saving grace, Westwood's also present as well, looking stoic and focused as ever.
(7:56:19 PM): "Whatever she's here for, she's out in the open."
VJockey 7:56 pm
(7:56:53 PM): "...keep forgetting comics aren't real."
wyverncakes 7:56 pm
(7:56:59 PM): He's already gearing up his Lion for the fighting, and speaking of battle though...
wyverncakes 7:59 pm
(7:59:57 PM): You get closer to the heart of the action, and sure enough, Sapphire Eye's TSF is out with her gang, raising hell. Buildings, roads, vehicles, defending forces, all are fair game for her men, but when the shuttle finally comes into view.
frifreeman 8:00 pm
(8:00:07 PM): Grace is there too for some reason.
wyverncakes 8:00 pm
(8:00:09 PM): Sapphire Eyes: "... About time. But... I wonder..."
frifreeman 8:00 pm
(8:00:12 PM): Grace: "It can't be..."
cubey@aol.pl 8:00 pm
(8:00:33 PM): Chris: "Okay, there she is! I'm heading out!"
frifreeman 8:01 pm
(8:01:17 PM): Usually you wouldn't expect her to be somewhere without potential loot at least (like that archeological dig) but for some reason she joins the squad sent for this excursion without needing too much bribing.
cubey@aol.pl 8:01 pm
(8:01:18 PM): The small relic user is running towards the shuttle doors. On foot.
wyverncakes 8:01 pm
(8:01:47 PM): The SU-27 gestures to one of the gatling Shaldolls behind it, hefting its rapid-fire beam gun and firing a spray into the air!
(8:01:52 PM): Pilot: "Hang on...!!"
tengusaur 8:02 pm
(8:02:05 PM): Daniel: "Drop us here. We'll get her this time."
wyverncakes 8:02 pm
(8:02:42 PM): The shuttle banks to the side to avoid the shots, bringing you around to a better deploying position as per Daniel's suggestion.
(8:03:48 PM): Westwood's already cooly launching as well, taking a few sniping shots as he does so to give the rest of you the opening to get out as well!
VJockey 8:04 pm
(8:04:29 PM): [Peola and Salwah are moving out as quickly as possible. Close range being their forte more or less.]
tengusaur 8:05 pm
(8:05:04 PM): Steel Wanderer jumps out from the shuttle's open ramp, and raises its gun, ready to fire.
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:05 pm
(8:05:42 PM): Cethlenn walks on out of that shuttle, taking cover behind various buildings.
wyverncakes 8:05 pm
(8:05:45 PM): Sapphire Eyes: "Finally coming out to play. I was almost afraid by the time we were all done here you still wouldn't have shown. But I knew better."
wyverncakes 8:06 pm
(8:06:55 PM): (Enemies: Su-27 Zhuravlik Sapphire Eyes Custom (Sapphire Eyes), Gatling Shaldolls x 3, Desperados x 3, Daughset x 6)
(8:07:14 PM): (Lineup: Jen, Chris, Peola, Peopla, Grace)
(8:07:19 PM): (Westwood available for supports)
tengusaur 8:07 pm
(8:07:27 PM): (that's Peola twice)
wyverncakes 8:07 pm
(8:07:48 PM): (Lineup: Jen, Chris, Peola, Daniel, Grace)
(8:07:53 PM): (Jen, Chris, and Peola can go)
(8:08:15 PM): Sapphire Eyes: "So do tell; enjoying my handiwork?"
cubey@aol.pl 8:08 pm
(8:08:17 PM): "Killiter Ichiival Tron...~"
tengusaur 8:08 pm
(8:08:38 PM): Daniel: "Sapphire Eyes. Why are you doing this?"
frifreeman 8:08 pm
(8:08:43 PM): Grace is already launching from the shuttle as well, and is now flying in the air in her Daughtress Flyer Custom
frifreeman 8:09 pm
(8:09:00 PM): Grace: "What... How... What are you doing here?"
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:09 pm
(8:09:08 PM): *Jen: "It's cliche and overdone." She pops out and rolls to another patch of cover, firing pistol shots at the Desperadoes as she goes.+
cubey@aol.pl 8:09 pm
(8:09:15 PM): *Chris leaps out ouf the doors, landing atop a nearby building. From above she starts barraging the enemy mobile suits with double gatling fire, trying to suppress them and limit their movements and actions!+
(8:09:43 PM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYNFl1rEOmA
(8:10:20 PM): Chris: "Sounds like you're in a dire need of a serious beatdown!"
wyverncakes 8:10 pm
(8:10:32 PM): As Grace's Daughtress comes out to play though...
(8:10:38 PM): Sapphire Eyes: "-= And there you are!"
wyverncakes 8:11 pm
(8:11:12 PM): Sudden the TSF springs up to go at it, hurling a pair of knives at the machine!
VJockey 8:11 pm
(8:11:22 PM): *Regalis Filia sprints towards one of the gatling Shadolls, arms brought up in front of it so that its guards could take any hits if fired upon. A tactic borrowed from a certain negotiator. Once close enough she proceeds to barrage it with punches. Salway on the other hand is moving quickly to shoulder check a Desperado.+
wyverncakes 8:11 pm
(8:11:33 PM): "What I did... was what I needed to for you to show yourself!"
(8:11:37 PM): (React: Grace)
wyverncakes 8:13 pm
(8:13:30 PM): [Chris] The enemy mooks scatter across the battlefield from your own gatling guns, but one of the Daughsets pulls out a long, hefty torpedo tube, repainted and redesigned to look like a massive stick of dynamite. And one toss later, you have a very big explosion coming at you too!
(8:13:38 PM): (React; Chris)
cubey@aol.pl 8:14 pm
(8:14:43 PM): Chris: "You gotta be kidding me!"
frifreeman 8:15 pm
(8:15:26 PM): Grace's DAughtress' cape is set aside and from inside Grace draw her two guns, one G-revolver and one Beam spray gun, and shoot rapidly at the incoming knives.+
wyverncakes 8:15 pm
(8:15:43 PM): [Peola] The Shaldoll holds its ground, its gun pelting into your guard and slowing your charge. Not enough to keep it from getting socked with haymakers though. Salway's own charge staggers a Desperado too... but the mook is fast to knock her away with a swift swing of its mighty shovel!+
cubey@aol.pl 8:15 pm
(8:15:47 PM): *She looks at the flying explosive - and as it's on the top of its flying arc, missile pods appear on her leg armor and fire several volleys of smaller exploding projectiles to make this one succumb to a chain reaction!+
wyverncakes 8:15 pm
(8:15:49 PM): (no +, derp)
VJockey 8:16 pm
(8:16:41 PM): Salwah: "Ack!"
(8:16:52 PM): "What kind of maniac uses a shovel as a weapon?!"
wyverncakes 8:18 pm
(8:18:04 PM): [Jen] At the very least, Jen's flurry of shots catches another of the Desperados though, causing it to go down from the flurry of tiny shots.
(8:19:38 PM): [Grace] The knives hurtle at you quickly, getting knocked away though with your own shots. Not that Sapphire Eyes seems too torn up about her first attack failing.
(8:19:44 PM): (Daniel and Grace can go)
frifreeman 8:20 pm
(8:20:25 PM): Grace: "How can you find this place? I'm not exactly... I never really told anyone about this place, haven't I?"
wyverncakes 8:21 pm
(8:21:14 PM): [Chris] The dynamite stick gets hammered by smaller explosives just inthe nick of time, lighting up and detonating high enough in the air it doesn't harm anybody or the city for that matter.
frifreeman 8:21 pm
(8:21:49 PM): Grace flies in circles around Sapphire Eyes' TSF and fires with both of her guns rom various angles around her.+
tengusaur 8:21 pm
(8:21:51 PM): Daniel: "The same kind of maniac who attacks a city to draw a target out of hiding." Steel Wanderer quickly turns in the direction of the Daughtseats, slamming the hammer of the Gun of God repeatedly as it sends three heavy armor-piercing Longinus bullets in their direction. +
wyverncakes 8:21 pm
(8:21:55 PM): Sapphire Eyes: "Oh I wasn't going to let something like that stop me."
wyverncakes 8:22 pm
(8:22:28 PM): Inside of her machine, Sapphire Eyes smirks.
(8:22:30 PM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRgf4Hsf6r4
cubey@aol.pl 8:22 pm
(8:22:47 PM): Chris: "Starting fights and wrecking shit for the sake of it? These guys are the worst!"
tormterra has left the room. 8:22 pm
wyverncakes 8:23 pm
(8:23:18 PM): "Call it a labor of love. And if you look hard enough, ask the right questions, and ask the right people..."
(8:23:55 PM): "... You can find anyone's hometown."
cubey@aol.pl 8:24 pm
(8:24:38 PM): Chris: "... What the?"
frifreeman 8:25 pm
(8:25:34 PM): Grace: "Dagnabbit, I never thought I'd think of htis place enough to come back."
wyverncakes 8:25 pm
(8:25:55 PM): [Daniel] It must be an unlucky day for one of the Daughsets, the Longinus shots piercing through it and striking -and igniting- one of its dynamite sticks. Boom. The others scatter away, but one gets blown back a bit more by the blasts, and crashes into the ground back-first.
VJockey 8:26 pm
(8:26:57 PM): Peola: "Well we'll just punch you hard enough in the right place and make you want to run home!"
wyverncakes 8:27 pm
(8:27:57 PM): [Grace] "But here you are, together again with me." The TSF charges as you try to circle her, brandishing more knives instead of guns to block and cut through your shots. The distance comes to a close quickly, with the SU-27 slashing at you!
(8:28:06 PM): (React: Grace)
VJockey 8:28 pm
(8:28:25 PM): #Grace?
wyverncakes 8:28 pm
(8:28:28 PM): "And they should be finishing up any time-"
(8:28:32 PM): (Approved)
wyverncakes 8:29 pm
(8:29:00 PM): Midsentence an explosion shoots up further down in the city!
(8:29:09 PM): "-now."
frifreeman 8:30 pm
(8:30:04 PM): Grace: "Gah!" Grace holds up her beam spray gun to block the incoming knife.+
VJockey 8:30 pm
(8:30:10 PM): *Peola's going to leap into the path of those knives, focusing ki into the Regalis' fists and rapidfire-punch those knives away and try parry Sapphire Eyes' slash away with a strike to the TSF's forearms+
wyverncakes 8:30 pm
(8:30:44 PM): Another transmission comes in, courtesy of Commander Howe.
tengusaur 8:30 pm
(8:30:58 PM): Daniel: "..."
wyverncakes 8:31 pm
(8:31:07 PM): "Everyone, bad news. It's not just Sapphire Eye's gang there."
(8:31:17 PM): "She's found new partners by the looks of it."
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:31 pm
(8:31:31 PM): Jen: "Oh, joy."
VJockey 8:33 pm
(8:33:07 PM): "That's just great... who are they?"
wyverncakes 8:33 pm
(8:33:19 PM): [Grace and Peola] A knife comes plunging down at the beam spray gun, but instead the Regalis is there to take the hits with its fists! The knives go scattering away... but Sapphire Eyes breaks off the attack, sparing a few parting shots from the TSF's assault gun that hit the Regalis and keep it from pursuing.
(8:34:36 PM): Well Peola.
(8:34:44 PM): One of them is kind enough to give an answer!
wyverncakes 8:35 pm
(8:35:15 PM): ???: "Oh you know...we've met before! But if you forgot, the name is-"DOOOOOOOOOOOOMSTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!"
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:35 pm
(8:35:38 PM): Jen: "Oh. Them."
wyverncakes 8:35 pm
(8:35:52 PM): Howe: "VIPER forces, by the looks of it."
cubey@aol.pl 8:35 pm
(8:35:57 PM): Chris: "What the hell!"
wyverncakes 8:36 pm
(8:36:00 PM): "... Unfortunately."
(8:36:30 PM): Indeed, more machines are arriving...
tengusaur 8:36 pm
(8:36:31 PM): Daniel: "...More terrorists. Should've packed more special bullets."
frifreeman 8:37 pm
(8:37:15 PM): Grace: "Do you have bullets that only work against crazy people? Because I could use some."
VJockey 8:37 pm
(8:37:30 PM): "..."
wyverncakes 8:37 pm
(8:37:42 PM): Most of them are VIPER's standard mook Formors, but there are two others that stand out, Doomstar's hulking Brute along with the katana-branding machine of Apogee 13.
VJockey 8:37 pm
(8:37:43 PM): Salwah: "Is... is everybody in this place insane?!"
wyverncakes 8:38 pm
(8:38:02 PM): Sapphire Eyes: "You got what you came for? Why are you still here then?"
(8:38:29 PM): Another woman pops up on the comms though.
(8:38:39 PM): (Julia Cantor: http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1164715)
(8:38:49 PM): Wait, didn't she get killed by that Ankaian dude?
wyverncakes 8:39 pm
(8:39:46 PM): Julia: "The nuclear fuel was what we came for, but the Unity Group's arrived as well. The cowgirl's yours, but the others..."
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:39 pm
(8:39:57 PM): Jen: "...I...You're supposed to be dead."
tengusaur 8:40 pm
(8:40:04 PM): Daniel: "In this fight, Grace, that's all bullets."
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:40 pm
(8:40:05 PM): Jen: "I saw you die!"
cubey@aol.pl 8:40 pm
(8:40:50 PM): Chris: "Maybe she's a clone or something similar!"
wyverncakes 8:40 pm
(8:40:53 PM): Julia: "Oh, you saw A me die, yes. But VIPER's resources are just beyond imagining!"
cubey@aol.pl 8:41 pm
(8:41:12 PM): Chris: "Yeah. Definitely a clone, and crazy too."
wyverncakes 8:41 pm
(8:41:34 PM): Doomstar: "And what we're here for... is you want to join in!"
VJockey 8:42 pm
(8:42:19 PM): Peola: "...No thanks."
wyverncakes 8:42 pm
(8:42:23 PM): "VIPER has plenty of room for you all too... minus Sapphire Eyes' target here, but oh well!"
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:42 pm
(8:42:32 PM): Jen: "People die when they're killed, you know..."
wyverncakes 8:42 pm
(8:42:45 PM): Julia: "Oh please... you haven't even heard our offers!"
(8:43:06 PM): "It wasn't just Grace Wallach we were able to learn about. We were able to look up information about all of you as well!"
VJockey 8:43 pm
(8:43:19 PM): "I make it a habit of not listening to crazy people!"
tengusaur 8:45 pm
(8:45:08 PM): Daniel: "I don't have a habit of working for terrorists. Or breaking my contacts before they expire."
wyverncakes 8:45 pm
(8:45:18 PM): "Even when they could offer you a genetically engineered perfect man to take care of all your suitor issues?"
(8:45:33 PM): "Or what about you, Miss Yukino..." flipping through some pages... "Christine?"
(8:46:14 PM): "VIPER wishes for world peace too, through universal domination!"
cubey@aol.pl 8:46 pm
(8:46:32 PM): Chris: "Is that so?"
(8:46:38 PM): She looks down.
(8:46:41 PM): "Heh..."
VJockey 8:46 pm
(8:46:50 PM): "... do you guys really have some kind of deathwish?"
wyverncakes 8:46 pm
(8:46:54 PM): (Jen, Chris, and Peola can act whenever)
cubey@aol.pl 8:47 pm
(8:47:03 PM): "Don't screw around! You're just another group of adults who think they know better and can lie and manipulate me!"
wyverncakes 8:47 pm
(8:47:23 PM): Julia: "Oh if I die too much, I'll just blow up an orphanage!"
(8:47:25 PM): (Enemies:
cubey@aol.pl 8:47 pm
(8:47:59 PM): *Her response is moving forward, with one of her guns shooting towards Julia's unit. She's at the edge of the roof, and jumps - the second minigun joining into the barrage while airborne! BILLION MAIDEN+
wyverncakes 8:48 pm
(8:48:01 PM): (Sapphire Eyes's gang: Su-27 Zhuravlik Sapphire Eyes Custom (Sapphire Eyes), Gatling Shaldolls x 2, Desperados x 3 (1 damaged) , Daughset x 5)
cubey@aol.pl 8:48 pm
(8:48:03 PM): Chris: "And get my name straight!"
frifreeman 8:48 pm
(8:48:13 PM): Grace: "What, no Don't just blow up an orphanage because you're dead. That's just petty!"
wyverncakes 8:48 pm
(8:48:56 PM): (VIPER: Formors x 9, Julia Formor, Apogee 13's machine, Brute (DOOOOOOOMSTAAAAAAAAAR))
VJockey 8:49 pm
(8:49:15 PM): *The Regalis Filia seemingly falls to one knee, slamming its fist into the ground before launching itself into the air. Admittedly her style was centered around punches but at this height? A massive leg drop was more appropriate on Julia.+
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:49 pm
(8:49:19 PM): *Jen: "...I really hope that's a joke." She nanobots-up a rifle around her pistol, and opens fire on a Gatling Shaldoll. "Doomstar, Apogee, you're less crazy than this lady, right?"+
wyverncakes 8:49 pm
(8:49:25 PM): Doomstar: "Heheh... wanting to party? That's fine... time to rock and roll!"
(8:49:37 PM): Julia: "Name wrong, you mean we didn't look up-"
(8:50:09 PM): [Chris] More looking through pages! Which she shouldn't have because then all of that minigun dakka tore through Julia's Formor in a heartbeat, making it explode!
cubey@aol.pl 8:50 pm
(8:50:37 PM): Chris: "... You'll find my rocking too hard for you."
wyverncakes 8:51 pm
(8:51:01 PM): (Julia's already dead Peola. Sorry about that, want to change targets?)
VJockey 8:51 pm
(8:51:53 PM): (...Lets go with the ninja. I'm feeling dangerous)
tengusaur 8:52 pm
(8:52:54 PM): Daniel: "That was fast."
cubey@aol.pl 8:53 pm
(8:53:34 PM): Chris: "From what she said, sounds like she'll be back..."
wyverncakes 8:53 pm
(8:53:34 PM): [Jen] The Gatling Shaldoll gets shot up something fierce by the Cethlenn, but DOOMSTAR is quick to move in, katana drawn and slashing at the Cethlenn! "Do you even need to ask?"
(8:53:37 PM): (React: Jen)
tengusaur 8:54 pm
(8:54:31 PM): Daniel: "Probably."
cubey@aol.pl 8:55 pm
(8:55:17 PM): Chris: "You'll never... ah, look out you!"
wyverncakes 8:55 pm
(8:55:25 PM): [Peola] The Regalis comes smashing down, but as you near Apogee's machine a mist seems to spread. You crash into empty pavement instead. "VIPER Commander's abilities and vision aren't something to just write off. He really is an incredible, generous man. But no matter." The machine's own blade drawn, she charges at Peola and slashes!
(8:55:28 PM): (React: Peola)
cubey@aol.pl 8:55 pm
(8:55:46 PM): # Jen
wyverncakes 8:55 pm
(8:55:53 PM): (Approved)
(8:56:16 PM): (Daniel and Grace can move)
cubey@aol.pl 8:56 pm
(8:56:53 PM): *One of the chainguns in Chris's hands quickly reforms back into its default shape of a crossbow - one loaded with three bolts that already shoot out, homing towards the Brute's face and exploding in front of it, to blind the allcaps enemy at least temporarily while she attacks!+
arachnion01@gmail.com 8:57 pm
(8:57:20 PM): *Jen backlips away, using a grappling hook to pull herself further out of range. "...Right. Sorry for asking." She keeps fighting that Gatling Shaldoll.+
VJockey 8:58 pm
(8:58:17 PM): *Peola blocks with her sword! Or technically the club that's essentially the sheath and broken blade locked together. Neither here nor there. "Salwah!" Because the scarred young woman sends her Machina flanking from around the Princess' machine to lash out with its curved blade at Apogee's sword arm!+
wyverncakes 8:59 pm
(8:59:26 PM): [Jen and Chris] Doomstar's charge gets derailed by exploding crossbow bolts, but giving Jen the breathing room to finish off the Shaldoll. But any damage to the machine is quickly being undone though by its own nanomachines!
wyverncakes 9:01 pm
(9:01:31 PM): [Peola] Apogee 13's blade bites into Regalis's sheath, its monomolecular edge showing off its cutting power. But Salwah flanking her means Apogee can't follow through... but she does spring away, smacking the support's own slash away with her own attacks!
VJockey 9:02 pm
(9:02:22 PM): "That blade's no joke..."
wyverncakes 9:02 pm
(9:02:44 PM): "It's the blade of the World's Deadliest Woman."
frifreeman 9:02 pm
(9:02:46 PM): Grace launches some steel cables from under her mech's cloak, intending to bind Sapphire Eyes' TSF. "What do you need me for now? IU thought you already got the Steam Train part you need when we were at the Batavia Fleet!+
wyverncakes 9:02 pm
(9:02:52 PM): "It ought to be."
cubey@aol.pl 9:04 pm
(9:04:50 PM): Chris: "They're massive showoffs, huh? This kind is always the worst!"
(9:04:54 PM): (Look who's talking)
tengusaur 9:05 pm
(9:05:48 PM): Daniel: "Let's cut down their show a little then. Genevieve, go." He quickly loads a single bullet into the Gun of God
wyverncakes 9:06 pm
(9:06:59 PM): [Grace] "That isn't enough. Not by a long shot," Sapphire Eyes responds, firing and slashing at the cables though she still gets tied up in a few! "That was the start... but you still have a part to play with me. What I want... and need, is for us to become one!" The TSF suddenly spins, coiling itself closer and closer around the bindings but an arm's free and it's being reeled in towards you, knife slashing again!
(9:07:02 PM): (React: Grace)
tengusaur 9:07 pm
(9:07:06 PM): * 's chamber. Steel Wanderer jumps up on top of a low building, to take a better aiming position, and then fires the projectile towards the group of Formors. Mid-flight, the bullet splits into a dozen or so metal pellets, each of which unfolds into a full-sized armor-piercing bullet, which rain down on the enemies! +
wyverncakes 9:08 pm
(9:08:01 PM): And as it gets closer, you can see... that TSF has some parts that are sticking out! Parts that look like they belong on a Daughtress! YOUR Daughtress!
VJockey 9:08 pm
(9:08:07 PM): "Well... my father may be a gigantic idiot.. but he's also still King for a reason. I'll show you just what I've got."
wyverncakes 9:10 pm
(9:10:10 PM): [Daniel] The Steel Wanderer's unorthodox bullets catch the VIPER forces off-guard, Formors getting caught by the armor-piercing bullets. You catch a few, but as you land Desperados are charging you with their shovels, striking at you high and low!
(9:10:12 PM): (React: Daniel)
wyverncakes 9:13 pm
(9:13:18 PM): (Jen, Chris, and Peola)
tengusaur 9:15 pm
(9:15:04 PM): * For a moment, Daniel recalls the melee lessons he had with Sielje, and wants to use them to counter-attack the enemy... But then he remembers he doesn't really have a melee weapon. That makes it difficult. So instead, Steel Wanderer backs away, kicking a big piece of rubble at the first Desperado, trying to knock it into another one and throw them both off-balance. +
(9:15:05 PM): Daniel: "...Shovel this."
VJockey 9:16 pm
(9:16:14 PM): *The Filia takes a firm stance as ki flows into the machina's hands, rushing forward Peola unleashes a raging avalanche of punches upon Apogee!&
frifreeman 9:16 pm
(9:16:46 PM): Grace: "Gah! Becoming one? What are you talking about? Can't you at least ask me to dinner first?" Grace releases teh cables so she's not dragged toward her, puting her guns forward again just in case Sapphire Eys is close enough already./+
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:16 pm
(9:16:46 PM): *"...Back at paradigm, you didn't blow up the dam." Jen fires on Doomstar with her rifle, emptyiing a whole clip at the Brute. "Why? I get the feeling Julia would have done it in a heartbeat."+
cubey@aol.pl 9:17 pm
(9:17:00 PM): Chris: "Crap, you're getting overrun!"
wyverncakes 9:17 pm
(9:17:52 PM): [Daniel] Kinda hard to shovel something when you were trying to shovel something else entirely. The rock does indeed stumble up one, letting it get caught in the second. At least that guy DID get to shovel something though!
cubey@aol.pl 9:18 pm
(9:18:37 PM): *More crowd control is needed. Chris quickly glances at the situation - noticing where she can shoot without causing further damage to the city or allies. Ichaival releases more missiles, which fly up parabolically and then swarm down on enemy mooks down below, special care given to those melee Desperadoes and Daughtaps.+
wyverncakes 9:19 pm
(9:19:36 PM): [Peola] It's boxer vs. katana user, Apogee 13 falling back and defending herself from your strikes and not pushing the offensive... at least not before suddenly springing over Regalis's body and quickly drawing her handguns, firing on you from above!
(9:19:39 PM): (React: Peola)
VJockey 9:22 pm
(9:22:45 PM): *Above?... Peola grins, shunting ki into one hand and the Filia's legs. Rather than defending, the princess chooses to attack! Launching upwards to smash her charged fist into her opponent's machine in a devastating uppercut!+
wyverncakes 9:22 pm
(9:22:53 PM): [Grace] Sapphire EYes just chuckles at your response... and even though she's coiled up, just one swift slash and she's suddenly free! Another flick of her machine's wrist and the knife goes surging out, plunging through your Daughtress's head. There goes your main camera! "I won't waste time on that. Not when I'm so close."
frifreeman 9:23 pm
(9:23:35 PM): Grace:" Ah crap."
wyverncakes 9:24 pm
(9:24:42 PM): [Chris] The remaining two Desperados meet their end thanks to Chival's missiles, and a Daughseat gets blown away too. The Formors are luckier though, and since you previously blew away their boss they turn their guns on you, flechette guns firing sharp chunks of metal straight at you!
wyverncakes 9:24 pm
(9:24:45 PM): (React: Chris)
VJockey 9:26 pm
(9:26:12 PM): "Somebody help Grace!"
cubey@aol.pl 9:26 pm
(9:26:22 PM): Chris: "Aww crap! Kinda busy here!"
tengusaur 9:26 pm
(9:26:55 PM): Daniel: "I will. Don't worry."
cubey@aol.pl 9:27 pm
(9:27:25 PM): *She jumps down to the street level - kicking off the ground as soon as she lands, using her momentum to spin behind a street corner, seeking refuge in cover.+
wyverncakes 9:27 pm
(9:27:57 PM): [Jen] "Our dearly departed hates to die without doing a bit of killing beforehand... it's how she rolls! But me...? Everyone knows what happens when a dam goes pop... and nothing kills the flames of action like water, water everywhere!" Brute soaks up every one of those shots, already regenerating! And to pay back the favor its chest cannon opens up, firing flak straight at you!
(9:28:02 PM): (React: Jen)
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:28 pm
(9:28:56 PM): *Jen :"Damnit!" She dives off the building she's on top of to dodge!+
wyverncakes 9:29 pm
(9:29:11 PM): [Peola] Apogee's shots connect, striking and scarring the Regalis all across its body! But the sudden SHORYUKEN still powers through, connecting with the VIPER machine and sending it sailing up and then crashing back down!
(9:30:23 PM): [Chris] The flechettes strike into the ground, sticking up stiffly and having pierced through sidewalk, roads, and bricks. Still, you're okay!
wyverncakes 9:30 pm
(9:30:58 PM): [Jen] Likewise, you escape just in the nick of time, the booming flak gun demolishing the rooftop you were on just seconds before.
(9:31:03 PM): (Daniel and Grace)
cubey@aol.pl 9:31 pm
(9:31:08 PM): Chris: "You like to play rough... don't you..." She is trying to catch her breath.
tengusaur 9:31 pm
(9:31:32 PM): (enemy list pleas)
wyverncakes 9:32 pm
(9:32:33 PM): (Sapphire Eyes's gang: Su-27 Zhuravlik Sapphire Eyes Custom (Sapphire Eyes), Gatling Shaldolls x 2, Daughset x 4)
wyverncakes 9:33 pm
(9:33:29 PM): (VIPER: Formors x 5, Apogee 13's machine (somewhat damaged), Brute (DOOOOOOOMSTAAAAAAAAAR) (mild damage due to hax regen))
frifreeman 9:33 pm
(9:33:40 PM): Without her main camera, Grace can only shoot blindly at the place where her sensor says there's an enemy there. "Shouldn't have came here. sTupid place. Never liked this place anywhere. Nothing interesting ever happened. Didn't I leave this place on purpose? Why am I back here anyway." Her mout hkeep running as she shoots again and again with both of her guns while trying to get some distance.+
wyverncakes 9:35 pm
(9:35:50 PM): [Grace] And not a single shot hits. Why? Because Sapphire Eyes has gotten behind you! "You're here... because I wanted you here. I wanted you, and here you are.": An assault gun blast to the backside floors the Daughtress, alarms blaring wildly!
(9:35:58 PM): (Grace: downed)
tengusaur 9:37 pm
(9:37:15 PM): Daniel: "Your guard is down." He loads another bullet, and aims carefully... And then fires it at a nearby wall. The Julian shot ricochets off the wall, barely dealing any damage to it, and another one, and then off a Daughseat (dealing real impact damage this time), and finally heads straight for the Su-27's back! +
cubey@aol.pl 9:37 pm
(9:37:44 PM): Chris: "That crappy old mobile suit is downed?! Hang in there!"
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:38 pm
(9:38:43 PM): Jen: "Somebody go rescue Grace!"
frifreeman 9:39 pm
(9:39:32 PM): "Gah!," Grace bit her lips as he's rattled from the crash of her mech. "Damnit, move, you useless flaming wreck!" Grace says as she try to get any response from her machine with no success.
(9:39:51 PM): Grace: "Goddamn it, I won't die here. I heven't even make my first million." The Daughtress' cockpit opens and you can see Grace climbing out from the wreck before running toward the buildings.
wyverncakes 9:40 pm
(9:40:47 PM): [Daniel] The Daughseat turns in confusion from the ricoocheting bullet, but doesn't actually get out of the way for when it finally, fatefully connects. But as you run after Grace to go and save her from Sapphire Eyes...
(9:41:45 PM): Grace, as you get out of your Daughtress... suddenly Sapphire Eyes is stepping in your path.
(9:42:06 PM): "Running away...? That's too bad."
wyverncakes 9:43 pm
(9:43:23 PM): Before you can change directions, a bubble-like field of energy suddenly forms around you two and your machines!
(9:43:50 PM): Daniel's Julian shot strikes into the bubble, crushing itself on impact and falling uselessly to the ground.
tengusaur 9:44 pm
(9:44:03 PM): Daniel: "...What's this?"
wyverncakes 9:44 pm
(9:44:48 PM): Sapphire Eyes: "It's finally time."
cubey@aol.pl 9:44 pm
(9:44:51 PM): Chris: "Coming! ... What the hell!"
wyverncakes 9:45 pm
(9:45:04 PM): She takes a step forward, raising a hand and reaching forward...
wyverncakes 9:46 pm
(9:46:06 PM): Another step forward and Sapphire Eyes' hand moves into, phases into Grace's chest!
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:46 pm
(9:46:26 PM): Jen: "What on earth..."
wyverncakes 9:46 pm
(9:46:43 PM): "You and me. We'll finally be one."
VJockey 9:46 pm
(9:46:47 PM): Peola: "What... what is that?!"
tengusaur 9:47 pm
(9:47:00 PM): Daniel: "..."
cubey@aol.pl 9:47 pm
(9:47:01 PM): Chris is frozen in her tracks, staring at this wide-eyed.
(9:47:19 PM): Chris: "What the shit! Go... away from her!"
frifreeman 9:47 pm
(9:47:49 PM): Grace: G... gurgh... What..."
wyverncakes 9:48 pm
(9:48:05 PM): Sapphire Eyes pays no attention to any of you, all her focus on Grace as runes flash into being all along her body!
wyverncakes 9:48 pm
(9:48:39 PM): Sapphire Eyes: "It's happening..."
frifreeman 9:49 pm
(9:49:24 PM): Grace can only cough in silence as a hand passes through her chest, Really, what can you say when a hand stabs through your chest?
wyverncakes 9:49 pm
(9:49:52 PM): "The train incident... I was hired by... some defeated army wanting a second chance at victory. They wanted a weapon to let them win a battle that was already over..."
(9:50:01 PM): "That weapon was a real, working time machine."
wyverncakes 9:51 pm
(9:51:38 PM): "I couldn't care less who made it and where it came from... but what I care about is you. The train had been the key to it... but then you became the key instead."
cubey@aol.pl 9:51 pm
(9:51:55 PM): Chris: "Come on! Fire at one point!"
wyverncakes 9:52 pm
(9:52:07 PM): "But once we're one..." she took another step forward, more of her arm sinking into Grace's body. "We'll be the key together."
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:52 pm
(9:52:20 PM): Jen: "-Alright!"
cubey@aol.pl 9:52 pm
(9:52:50 PM): (Permission to act?)
wyverncakes 9:52 pm
(9:52:56 PM): (Yes, you all can)
arachnion01@gmail.com 9:53 pm
(9:53:14 PM): *Jen shoots that bubble field!+
tengusaur 9:53 pm
(9:53:19 PM): Daniel: "This better work." He fires a single bullet at the bubble surrounding the two machines - it's a Medard electric shot. He doesn't want to blow Grace's unit up by accident. +
cubey@aol.pl 9:53 pm
(9:53:41 PM): *Chris braces herself. Baring her teeth, she starts firing - the chainguns, the missile MEGADETH PARTY, all projectiles fired at one point which is now engulfed in explosions!+
VJockey 9:55 pm
(9:55:44 PM): *Peola and Salwah add their own assistance to the mix, the latter opening fire with her machina's back mounted guns, the former launching a ki-lance through her sheathed blade!+
frifreeman 9:58 pm
(9:58:33 PM): Grace: "Gah! I can't die here! There are many things I haven't managed to taste!" Grace suddenly manages to gather enough strength and willpower to move her hand and grabs Sapphire Eyes' hand, trying to pushes it out.
wyverncakes 9:58 pm
(9:58:45 PM): [People outside bubble] The flurry of attacks strike at the bubble, making it tremble and its interior rumble from everything you're throwing against it. "Trying to get in the way of us. But it's not going to matter once-"
(9:58:52 PM): "Sapphire Eyes: "What?!"
frifreeman 9:59 pm
(9:59:16 PM): Grace: "Get... out... of me!"
(9:59:49 PM): Grace: "It won't be that easy to get inside me!"
wyverncakes 10:00 pm
(10:00:11 PM): The runes on Grace seem flare up, and inside of the bubble, the flow of time suddenly reverses!
wyverncakes 10:01 pm
(10:01:50 PM): Grace and Sapphire Eyes move back into their respective machines, the damage to the Daughtress undoing itself too as the machine is raised back up to right before the TSF shoots it in the back! And just as it's about to-
(10:01:56 PM): "Not this time."
cubey@aol.pl 10:02 pm
(10:02:07 PM): Chris: "..."
wyverncakes 10:02 pm
(10:02:11 PM): A Lion's railgun shots cut through the air! It's Westwood!
cubey@aol.pl 10:02 pm
(10:02:19 PM): This was too weird for her to comment.
wyverncakes 10:02 pm
(10:02:22 PM): The SU-27's forced to spring back to avoid his shots!
frifreeman 10:02 pm
(10:02:49 PM): Grace pants and cough inside her daughtress. "What... the heck... just had happened."
cubey@aol.pl 10:02 pm
(10:02:52 PM): Chris: "Yeah, you show her!"
wyverncakes 10:03 pm
(10:03:16 PM): (Chris, Jen, and Peola can act)
cubey@aol.pl 10:04 pm
(10:04:13 PM): Chris: "And guess what - I'm still here!"
(10:04:30 PM): *The all-out barrage continues - into the SU's back!+
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:04 pm
(10:04:39 PM): *Jen: "...Okay..." Well, that was weird. But it means there's a chance! Sapphire Eyes becomes Jen's latest target for shooting.+
tengusaur 10:04 pm
(10:04:50 PM): Daniel: "Grace... Are you fine?"
wyverncakes 10:04 pm
(10:04:53 PM): Sapphire Eyes: "It doesn't matte-"
VJockey 10:05 pm
(10:05:07 PM): *Guess what? Even more shooting! Ki lance and gunfire ahoy!+
wyverncakes 10:06 pm
(10:06:26 PM): [Group assault] ... Actually it really does seem to be as Sapphire Eyes' own machine gets suddenly shot up something fierce! It's blown into a building, crashing into it and leaving it as a smouldering wreck from the joint assault.
(10:06:36 PM): Westwood: "It's over, Sapphire Eyes."
(10:07:12 PM): The Lion moves towards the machine, raising up its railgun to add a few finishing shots for insurance... but then...
(10:07:57 PM): Doomstar: "Oh that's right, isn't it Jen? Julia didn't get to her offer for you before tragically blowing up but..."
wyverncakes 10:08 pm
(10:08:39 PM): "... About how much would it take for you to sell all these punks out?"
cubey@aol.pl 10:09 pm
(10:09:00 PM): Chris: "What? We've been over this junk already!"
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:09 pm
(10:09:53 PM): Jen: "...Honestly...If you can keep Julia in line..."
wyverncakes 10:10 pm
(10:10:18 PM): Westwood: "Still trying to-"
wyverncakes 10:10 pm
(10:10:51 PM): -In the confusion, Westwood's Lion is suddenly kicked away!
tengusaur 10:11 pm
(10:11:30 PM): Daniel: "Jen. Are you really-"
cubey@aol.pl 10:11 pm
(10:11:31 PM): Chris: "What? Whaaat?"
wyverncakes 10:11 pm
(10:11:32 PM): Sapphire Eyes's TSF rises up again, the damage sustained by it undoing itself like what happened to Grace's Daughtress!
tengusaur 10:11 pm
(10:11:37 PM): Then this happens.
(10:11:57 PM): Daniel: "Watch out, Westwood!"
wyverncakes 10:12 pm
(10:12:27 PM): "... So it was enough then. Now I can control the time machine's power too."
(10:12:31 PM): Westwood: "It won't be enough!"
wyverncakes 10:13 pm
(10:13:04 PM): The Lion fires relentlessly at the SU-27 and then charges, assault blade drawn!
VJockey 10:13 pm
(10:13:14 PM): "We just have to take her down before she can think to use that power right?"
(10:13:17 PM): @Westwood?
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:13 pm
(10:13:19 PM): Jen: "...An awful lot. But you've got more of these nanobot things, right?"
wyverncakes 10:13 pm
(10:13:22 PM): (Denied)
(10:13:39 PM): ... But then the personal timeline for the railgun shots rewind as well, flying back the way they came.
(10:13:45 PM): Right into Westwood's charging Lion.
(10:14:35 PM): One by one they strike the Assault Module, and the machine's chest bursts in a plume of flame before falling straight to the ground.
tengusaur 10:14 pm
(10:14:50 PM): Daniel: "..."
wyverncakes 10:15 pm
(10:15:32 PM): Sapphire Eyes adds a few extra shots from her own guns for good measure. "It wouldn't have been, but you certainly helped."
VJockey 10:16 pm
(10:16:01 PM): "!!"
wyverncakes 10:16 pm
(10:16:17 PM): With that, the TSF turns and makes its escape!
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:16 pm
(10:16:29 PM): Jen: "Get back here!"
wyverncakes 10:16 pm
(10:16:44 PM): ???: "But you still have your offer!"
cubey@aol.pl 10:16 pm
(10:16:49 PM): Chris: "You..."
frifreeman 10:16 pm
(10:16:54 PM): Grace: "No! Westwood!"
wyverncakes 10:17 pm
(10:17:19 PM): Jen, on your screen a masked figure appears, flanked by a trio of women who are the exact image of that Julia lady you've seen die twice over now!
wyverncakes 10:18 pm
(10:18:00 PM): It's the VIPER Commander!
(10:18:25 PM): VIPER Commander: "If you want more nanobots, they'll be yours! And more money than you could hope to spend in a lifetime!"
VJockey 10:18 pm
(10:18:37 PM): (Can we hear this?)
wyverncakes 10:18 pm
(10:18:45 PM): (Yes)
(10:19:25 PM): "The promises about a part of Australia were impeded in our first attempt, but those cassowaries have been dealt with thanks in part to you, so I'll give you an additional cut of the continent!"
VJockey 10:20 pm
(10:20:15 PM): Peola: "Does that mask make it hard to get air? You're crazy if you think she's gonna take that offer!"
cubey@aol.pl 10:20 pm
(10:20:19 PM): Chris: "Shut up! You..."
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:20 pm
(10:20:33 PM): Jen: "...Actually...Yeah. Sure, let's give it a shot."
wyverncakes 10:20 pm
(10:20:59 PM): (Alright then. Jen, take another action!)
(10:21:06 PM): (Grace and Daniel, you can act too)
VJockey 10:21 pm
(10:21:34 PM): Peola: "...Wait. What?"
wyverncakes 10:21 pm
(10:21:49 PM): VIPER Commander: "Excellent! Another successful new hire!"
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:21 pm
(10:21:50 PM): (Jen holds her action until someone else does stuff)
tengusaur 10:22 pm
(10:22:10 PM): (enemies left?)
wyverncakes 10:22 pm
(10:22:21 PM): "You all had your chances, don't be upset someone had the smarts to join!"
VJockey 10:22 pm
(10:22:38 PM): "Jen... What are you doing?"
wyverncakes 10:22 pm
(10:22:44 PM): (VIPER: Formors x 5, Apogee 13's machine (somewhat damaged), Brute (DOOOOOOOMSTAAAAAAAAAR) (mild damage due to hax regen))
cubey@aol.pl 10:23 pm
(10:23:12 PM): Chris: "WHAAAAT"
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:23 pm
(10:23:17 PM): Jen: "...Something I've been thinking about for a while, now."
wyverncakes 10:23 pm
(10:23:21 PM): VIPER Commander: "She's changing sides, you fool!"
(10:23:35 PM): "Now show where your allegiances lie now! Attack your former friends!"
VJockey 10:24 pm
(10:24:10 PM): "But that doesn't even-"
VJockey 10:24 pm
(10:24:26 PM): "Jen. This is some kind of joke right?"
tengusaur 10:24 pm
(10:24:45 PM): Daniel: "...Jen. If you do it, I'll shoot you. Not joking."
cubey@aol.pl 10:24 pm
(10:24:46 PM): Chris: "You're kidding, right? Now's not the time for that!"
frifreeman 10:24 pm
(10:24:58 PM): Grace has managed to catch her breath, and now she boost toward the wreck of Westwood's mech while shooting rapidly at Sapphire Eyes' general direction. "No, you must be joking right? You're the badass guy who keep saving me all this time! Stand up, Sapphire Eyes is escaping!"+
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:25 pm
(10:25:24 PM): Jen: "I'm sick and tired of how you've been treating me, okay! And then there's all that crazy bullshit too-you UG people dragged a PRAYER home for a pet, and some kid you knew chucked a moon at the earth!"
(10:26:11 PM): Jen: "So, you know what? Fuck it. If I'm gonna be treated like a criminal, I might as well get paid for playing the part."
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:26 pm
(10:26:59 PM): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svyCX2qHWXU
tengusaur 10:27 pm
(10:27:33 PM): * Daniel's voice is more tense than usual, because of this whole situation. But Sapphire Eyes is too far away, and Grace is already trying to do something with Westwood, so instead he switches to a Lucia energy generator, and covers the Formors in a barrage of beam blasts, hammering the trigger till it;s out of energy. +
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:29 pm
(10:29:00 PM): Jen: "So, come on. Princess, Salwah, let's dance."
(10:29:43 PM): *Jen's rifle breaks apart, and she uses the move from her fight with Phanuel again-It forms ten long, sharp strings, which she flicks at Salwah and Peola.+
VJockey 10:30 pm
(10:30:05 PM): "Jen I really don't want to have to-"
wyverncakes 10:30 pm
(10:30:22 PM): [Daniel] The Formors come under fire, scrambling for cover though few of them actually make it. In their wake though, mist from Apogee 13's machine is spreading though, obscuring part of the battlefield... until she suddenly strikes, lunging at the Steel Wanderer, katana flashing!
(10:30:26 PM): (React: Daniel)
cubey@aol.pl 10:31 pm
(10:31:15 PM): Chris: "You're crazy! You want to be just as bad as THEM?!"
wyverncakes 10:31 pm
(10:31:18 PM): [Grace] No joking here, Grace. The Lion is a smoking, charrged wreck. This isn't something anyone could just stand up and walk away from. He's gone.
(10:32:02 PM): [Jen and Peola] The strings surge towards Salwah and Peola, sharp and ready to cut you both to shreds!
(10:32:11 PM): (React: Peola. She can combine it with her action if you'd like)
(10:32:18 PM): (Chris can also act)
VJockey 10:32 pm
(10:32:27 PM): *And then Jen does that. "Damn it Jen!" Salwah's quickly trying to open fire at the strings while backing off. Peola on the other hand is going to use the blade/club she has to try keep those razor strings away from her as she rushes at the courier in an attempt to close in and engage!+
tengusaur 10:32 pm
(10:32:31 PM): Daniel: "Jen made her choice." Steel Wanderer looks around in the smoke, not liking this one bit... And then the attack comes! Daniel kicks away, trying to use his reflexes to dodge the katana before it cuts his machine. +
VJockey 10:32 pm
(10:32:51 PM): Salwah: "There really is something wrong with you!"
wyverncakes 10:34 pm
(10:34:02 PM): [Daniel] The ninja's machine blasts past, nicking one of the Steel Wanderer's arms. With a blade like the one it does though, even a glancing hit leaves a gash in the limb!
tengusaur 10:34 pm
(10:34:44 PM): Daniel: "Close..."
cubey@aol.pl 10:35 pm
(10:35:09 PM): Chris: "Today can't get any worse! Shit!"
wyverncakes 10:35 pm
(10:35:28 PM): [Peola] The strings are either knocked away or find resistance striking against the sheathed blade... and you've closed the distance with the smaller machine now to let you start opening up with physical attacks!
(10:35:40 PM): (React: Jen)
cubey@aol.pl 10:36 pm
(10:36:13 PM): *The final missiles in the barrage are shot towards the Brute. Chris is getting tired and her chainguns revert back to crossbows. But she starts running regardless, circling around DOOMSTAR's unit as she shoots the bolts, aiming them towards a single wound, each shot making the damage deeper and deeper.+
wyverncakes 10:39 pm
(10:39:17 PM): [Chris] The Brute's Hulktastic body gets buffered by all your shots, your focus point getting smashed and blown up more and more... and the bulky machine's body starts to suffer as one of its arms sags down because of the damage. "Persistent little girl, aren't you...? Well!" With its free hand, the Brute swings its sword, not directly at you, but to let the weapon's pink fluid be flung out at you in a wide arc! "... You know, I've never seen what this stuff can do to a human body, but let's find out!"
(10:39:21 PM): (React: Chris)
(10:39:31 PM): (Daniel and Grace)
cubey@aol.pl 10:40 pm
(10:40:25 PM): Chris: "Gah!"
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:40 pm
(10:40:32 PM): *Jen forms another weapon as she ducks and dives through the streets-a bullpup rifle. More shots ring out towards Peola, aimed at Regis Filia's legs. And unlike the attacks before, these carry a rider of corrosive nanobots.+
cubey@aol.pl 10:42 pm
(10:42:26 PM): *She quickly looks back and fires a barrage, already on the retreat. A second later, a large water cistern falls where she stood, shot down by the crossbow bolts and serving as cover.+
wyverncakes 10:43 pm
(10:43:22 PM): [Jen] A few of the shots connect, the nanobots quickly spreading and eating into the Regalis's legs at the ankles. The going isn't super-fast, but it doesn't take much to knock the machine off-balance at that point, and the Filia falls flat onto the ground!
tengusaur 10:43 pm
(10:43:32 PM): Daniel: "...Too fast. Let's limit the movements. Andrew." Steel Wanderer fires a shot at the ninja-like opponent, jumps behind a corner and then fires another - both projectiles expand into sticky nets upon impact. Hopefully this will entangle Apogee 13's weapon or slow it down! +
VJockey 10:43 pm
(10:43:41 PM): "OOF!"
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:44 pm
(10:44:54 PM): Jen: "...Hmph."
wyverncakes 10:46 pm
(10:46:11 PM): [Daniel] The net catches Apogee 13's machine! Somewhat. It can still move towards you, just... slowly. And as it does more hazy mist spreads... and with it, the number of ninjamachines seems to spread! Real or illusionary, they all move at the same speed, just trying to surround and flank you. Which one's the real one? "My feet might be bound... but my sword is still just as sharp!" They all charge, but as they strike, which one's the real one?!
(10:46:14 PM): (React: Daniel)
frifreeman 10:46 pm
(10:46:22 PM): Grace is hoping that the rest of the team can handle the enemies, because now her attention is wholly focused on the unmoving wreck of Westwood's Mech.
frifreeman 10:47 pm
(10:47:31 PM): Grace: "No... this can't be happening. Please wake up..." She says as she drops and kneels beside the wreck.
(10:48:47 PM): And suddenly, glyphs starts to materializes around her. And a similar bubble like before start to surround both her and the remains of Westwood's mech.
wyverncakes 10:48 pm
(10:48:57 PM): [Chris] The water comes falling down, meeting the nanomachine goo and keeping it from you. Doomstar will have to wait to see the result of it touching a human!
tengusaur 10:48 pm
(10:48:58 PM): Daniel: "But will it reach?" Steel Wanderer jumps back, firing another shot on the ground between itself and the charging ninja robots - it's an explosive Barbara round, which blows up as soon as they're all in range. Doesn't matter which one is the real one if all of them are within the area of explosion! +
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:49 pm
(10:49:19 PM): Jen: "So, Salwah. How do you like me so far?"
frifreeman 10:51 pm
(10:51:45 PM): And suddenly, the wreckage starts to rewind itself in time. The mecha parts start to assemble itself back, and bullets taht are lodged inside the wreckage flies out of back into the air.
VJockey 10:51 pm
(10:51:46 PM): Salwah: "Not at all! I've got no idea how the princess ever thought you were her friend.... you're almost as bad as Phannuhel!"
wyverncakes 10:51 pm
(10:51:59 PM): [Daniel] Well that's one way to solve the puzzle. The explosion rocks you, but it also knocks away the real Apogee 13's machine, making it crash back into the ground awkwardly far and away from you.
frifreeman 10:52 pm
(10:52:39 PM): Grace: "I...." And as everything looks like just the second before Westwood's mech got blown up, grace falls sideways unmoving.
tengusaur 10:53 pm
(10:53:06 PM): Daniel ejects the empty shell from his gun. Then he sees what Grace has done.
(10:53:22 PM): Daniel: "...Grace."
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:53 pm
(10:53:35 PM): Jen: "...That's rich, coming from you."
wyverncakes 10:54 pm
(10:54:21 PM): Daniel, that means you get to see Grace suddenly get tackled by one of the Formors!
(10:54:50 PM): The Daughtress gets floored again, the VIPER mook raising up its knives!
(10:55:08 PM): Doomstar: "Careful! Sapphire Eyes might still want her alive!"
tengusaur 10:55 pm
(10:55:08 PM): #?
wyverncakes 10:55 pm
(10:55:17 PM): (Denied, because...)
(10:55:57 PM): -Another shot blows through the chest of the Formor, neatly knocking it over!
VJockey 10:56 pm
(10:56:13 PM): Salwah: "What's that supposed to mean?!"
wyverncakes 10:56 pm
(10:56:15 PM): It's Westwood's Lion, looking significantly better!
wyverncakes 10:56 pm
(10:56:50 PM): Westwood: "-And she won't be getting her."
tengusaur 10:57 pm
(10:57:00 PM): Daniel: "Westwood. She really saved you..."
cubey@aol.pl 10:57 pm
(10:57:18 PM): Chris: "Woah..."
arachnion01@gmail.com 10:58 pm
(10:58:01 PM): Jen: "You'll have plenty of time to think on it." Cethlenn looks over towards the Brute. "Where's our ride?"
wyverncakes 10:58 pm
(10:58:28 PM): Westwood: "I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but..."
(10:58:31 PM): His voice trails off.
wyverncakes 10:58 pm
(10:58:53 PM): "... It certainly feels like she did."
tengusaur 10:59 pm
(10:59:04 PM): Daniel: "Will explain later. The fight's not over."
wyverncakes 10:59 pm
(10:59:39 PM): Doomstar: "Well you say that... but Doomstar says... it is!"
(11:00:23 PM): "While we were all fighting here, VIPER agents were also carting away the other thing we came here for... nuclear fuel for furthering VIPER's plans!"
(11:00:48 PM): "And now that it's long left this showplace... Apogee!"
wyverncakes 11:01 pm
(11:01:40 PM): The damaged ninjabot rises up though, knowing what Doomstar has in mind as another mist suddenly spreads out. And afterwards, a sudden, blinding flash of light!
(11:02:36 PM): When it subsides, the VIPER forces, or at least what's left of them, are gone.
(11:02:41 PM): Jen included.
(11:03:26 PM): Westwood: "Sapphire Eyes got away too, didn't she?"
VJockey 11:03 pm
(11:03:32 PM): [There's a low creak as the Regalis Filia punches the ground.]
(11:03:39 PM): Peola: "Yeah..."
wyverncakes 11:03 pm
(11:03:41 PM): The Lion glances around. Plenty of her gang's mooks are downed, but not the leader herself.
tengusaur 11:03 pm
(11:03:47 PM): Daniel: "Afraid so."
VJockey 11:04 pm
(11:04:28 PM): [There's a brief growl of irritation from the princess, her tone bitter.] "Well at least it can't get any worse."
wyverncakes 11:05 pm
(11:05:10 PM): Grace will need tending to also, she's unconscious (but otherwise okay) inside of her cockpit.
tengusaur 11:05 pm
(11:05:27 PM): Daniel: "...Guess all she cared about in the end was money, after all."
wyverncakes 11:05 pm
(11:05:32 PM): But the people you came here to stop and apprehend got what they came here for on all fronts, unfortunately.
(11:05:34 PM): MISSION FAILED
cubey@aol.pl 11:05 pm
(11:05:53 PM): Chris: "Damn. Damn it..."
VJockey 11:06 pm
(11:06:05 PM): "...Guess so..."
tengusaur has left the room. 11:07 pm