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| Blue Warlord | Aug 31 2012, 09:21 PM Post #11 |
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Luckily for Rusty, 05 was still scrambling in the dirt and the bullets whizzed over his head, barely missing the mechanic's cranium. Growling slightly as his advance was cut off the mechanic was forced to defend himself from two other N.O.L operatives as 05 got into cover. Blocking their attacks with Metallica, he lashed out with a swipe to one 's knee, tripping him up and then stomping on the guy's head hard enough to knock him out. Meanwhile, his buddy tried for a frontal assault and got a puff of flame to the face. Whilst he clawed at the blistering skin, Rusty ran up, used the guy's shoulder for balance and kneed him full in the face, sending both of them crashing to the floor. "You destroyed my home, you son of a bitch!" he yelled out over the commotion, hoping 05 would hear, barely getting Metallica in the way to make 05's last bullet veer off to the side. He was just about to follow after the guy, but Ashley's shriek caught him off guard. Whirling, his eyes widened at the sight of the metal golems. Feeling a bit overwhelmed, the rocker was no less than grateful when Ashley proved her worth once more, slamming the jeep into one of them. "NICE!" he commended, just about avoiding another swipe at his head from an N.O.L private. But the other golem was still pointing it's gun at Micah. And the mechanic was torn. Go after one of the bastards who vapourised his home? Or go help his friends? His question was answered by a Red Devil. "SPARK BOLT! A crackling orb of yellow slammed home into the remaining golem, sending it nearly off balance. White lines of static buzzed around the metallic construction, disrupting it's firing upon the gunsmith. Giving Tager a thankful look, Rusty then ran towards the barracks 05 had run into, using Metallica to shoot off a massive gout of flame inside. He didn't go inside just yet, more concerned with smoking the rat bastard out. Tager wasn't done yet though. His hand began to glow the same yellow as the Spark Bolt, steam erupting from the limb as he stared down the golem who was nearly as big as he. "Genesic..." Edited by Blue Warlord, Aug 31 2012, 09:22 PM.
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| vicroc4 | Aug 31 2012, 09:49 PM Post #12 |
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Micah dives to the side just before the golem opens up, passing behind the Jeep Ashley is driving. Getting to his feet, he brings Fornax up just as Tager unleashes his Spark Bolt. Thumbing Fornax's fire-selector, he starts running for Building 7 as he levels the shotgun in the golem's general direction and pulls the trigger. The big gun barks, sending a spray of glowing pellets at the golem. He doesn't look to see the results of his shot as he pushes to get to the ammunition building before the enemy can recover. Edited by vicroc4, Sep 1 2012, 04:51 PM.
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| Gleam | Aug 31 2012, 10:21 PM Post #13 |
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05 slings himself behind the metal door of the barracks and pulls it wide, using it as a crude shield against the heat wash, although it still blisters his fingers through his suit. He twists around to the nearest tiny window, rips out a grenade, and punches through the glass, hurling it behind Rust. "Suck it, civvie!" the soldier snarls, and draws back. Then he pauses just the barest moment, enough to let Rust get moving, and shoulderblocks the metal door, slamming it closed with a vicious bang. The golem struck by the spark bolt flinches and starts to spread its stance in order to counter the magnetic bolt, but Micah's shotgun blast hurls it off balance, and it is sucked into Tager's grip. Then there is another, louder shriek, and Ashley comes barreling back out of the Warehouse. She doesn't make it. Halfway there, a purple blur, like a landshark, smashes her feet out from under her, launching her skyward. Then it leaps up, absorbs her into its mass, and spits her out like a cannonball to the side. Ashley slams into the wall of the warehouse with an almighty crunch and drops to the ground. The purple blob twitches, before a tri-holed mask swims to the surface and swings to affix on Micah. A single burning-red eye stares out of it. "Az__E!" It howls, and blasts a wall of creeping miasmia at the beastkin, before diving underground and reappearing on the opposite side, sliding through the soil like water. |
Class. Dig it up, dust it off, hang that shit crooked on an ear. My halo's a land mine rind, amigo.
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| Blue Warlord | Aug 31 2012, 10:49 PM Post #14 |
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"SON OF A BIT-" *BOOM* The grenade sent Rusty flying. Having been dazed by the metal door slamming into his face, the explosion sent the hapless mechanic tumbling through the air, end over end until he crashed into a couple of other N.O.L officers, sending them over like skittles. Groggily, he tried to pull himself to his feet, using Metallica as a makeshift crutch of sorts. Just in his peripheral vision, an officer sliced down at his head with a saber, too dizzy to raise a block. His Soul Pick glowed white. Blurring slightly, Rusty managed to spin round the blade like he was made out of water, Metallica splitting into Moody Blue and Red Special instantly. A blow took the officer across the knee, making it buckle before the blunt end of Red Special made it's way under his chin. Spinning, Rusty then delivered a double swipe to the guy's abdomen, shooting the officer backwards. Instictively, the Moody Blue was held behind his head, blocking another sword strike from a different officer. The mechanic then shifted it off his shoulder, again turning and crashing both axe blades' blunt ends on the second officer's head, like a pair of cymbals. The last officer has his go, only for Rusty to plant a hand on the floor and swing behind him, flicking both blades under the officer's armpits and hurling him away. The rocker blinked, back in control. The Soul Pick dimmed back down. "What...what the fuck?" he questioned, looking at the Pick in confusion again. "That seithr thing Jagd mentioned?" His musing was interrupted by Ashley's second shriek. He instantly turned. Tager, meanwhile had grabbed the golem. "Emerald!" Swinging the golem around like a ragdoll, The Red Devil launched it heavenward, a steel comet speeding into the sky like a firework. The giant was not too far behind, servos whirring madly as he jumped, catapulting himself up to catch up the the golem. Magnetic gauntlets wrapped their black fingers around a metallic throat. "Tager!" The duo fell, hurtling downwards, the wind screaming past Tager's ears. Impassively, the Red Devil dragged the golem down, preparing it's end via sharp drop and sudden stop. When the eyes behind his glasses widened. "ARAKUN-?!" The sentence was cut off midway as Tager slammed the golem down into the barracks 05 had locked himself into, shattering the ceiling and hopefully anybody inside. Rusty was too busy distracted by the gigantic blob...THING to take notice of Tager's flight. Seeing Ashley go flying, he acted. "ASHLEY! OH SHIT!" Moody Blue and Red Special held out to either side, the rocker began to run full pelt but it was too late, the girl being swept up by the creature and slammed unceremoniously into the warehouse wall, dropping to te floor like a puppet with it's strings cut. "GODDAMN IT!" This is going to Hell and fast. What the hell is THAT thing?! Some kind of N.O.L superweapon like the Kingfisher?! No time! Ashley's hurt! Knocking aside another officer, gut instinct overcoming lack of skill for now, Rusty continued to run for the downed hacker whilst the beast trained it's eye on Micah. Raising both axeblades, the mechanic started to shoot fireball after fireball at the creature, it seemingly having no effect. What the HELL?! Skidding to a halt in front of Ashley, Rusty kept his eye on the thing attacking Micah, trying to get as much time for Ashley to recover as possible. "Ash, could really do with you getting up here!" he called over his shoulder, still trying to work out what he could do against the blob thing. "You alright back there?!" A quick glance over his shoulder couldn't tell him much. However, the girl hadn't responded. Both tips of the dual weapons glowed a ruddy orange as Rusty crossed them above his head. "X-CHORD!" Slicing both down diagonally, a large X of flame shot out from Rusty's position, screaming as it spiralled towards the blob. The mechanic dropped to a knee panting. The seithr usage was already catching up to him. "Ashley, c'mon...speak to me here..." |
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| vicroc4 | Sep 1 2012, 06:07 PM Post #15 |
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Micah is close enough to the warehouse that he gets a brief flash of the thing that's attacking Ashley as she attempts to flee. Just as he's about to yell to her to watch out, he sees her get picked up and smashed into the wall. He picks up his pace, swearing violently, and he asks, "Dunmainn, you alright?" Then the blob comes after him. He manages to redirect his momentum perpendicular to the miasma, turning away as it approaches. Barely having time to react as the thing appears directly in front of him, he acts almost instinctively. Fornax comes up, receiver flaring red as he pulls the trigger. There's a violent thump as the shotgun spits a cluster of red-hot pellets in the direction of the mask, with its glowing red eye. Wherever the pellets impact, they explode into a ball of searing fire and a rending shockwave. |
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| Gleam | Sep 1 2012, 09:29 PM Post #16 |
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05 screams like a bitch and bails out the window he had just broken as Tager comes down on the barracks like the fist of God, shattering it. The concussive wave knocks him flat, and he rolls behind a set of uniform crates, groaning and attempting to reload his pistol. ~*~ Arakune is smashed by the wave of fire and throwing back, screeching. "_eRm_N N_t __rThy!" The shapeshifter howls, and backpedals away from Micah, leaving a trail of yet more of that purple gas. The shapeshifter ducks into the barracks that Tager had just descended into, and leaps at the recovering titan, screaming its war cry again and thrusting a hedge of spike at the cyborg in mid-air. ~*~ A hand clamps onto Rust's boot, and Ashley drags herself up to one knee with that as leverage, snarling, "What the fuck was that?" Then she launches herself backward off Rust's knee, slamming herself into the wall hard on her shoulder. It pops loudly, and she hisses with pain, rolling over to put her back up against the wall. She glances up at Rust and blinks at him before she levers herself to her feet. "Think they've got a handle on it?" she gasps, picking up her Scout from where she had dropped it. "Or - FUCK!" She dives sideways, yanking Rust with her good arm, as the two soldiers that had followed her into the warehouse open fire, bullets sparking from the steel drums they had landed behind. Ashley bites her lip and makes a pained noise as they land, but rolls over and yanks her pistol out, firing back blindly, making one soldier duck. |
Class. Dig it up, dust it off, hang that shit crooked on an ear. My halo's a land mine rind, amigo.
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| Blue Warlord | Sep 2 2012, 12:05 AM Post #17 |
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The golem was crushed under Tager's magnet gauntlet, gravity plus pressure performing a deadly number upon the construct. The crater formed from the Genesic Emerald Tager Buster would prove how much force would have been applied to the head of the creature. Suffice to say, it was MORE than enough. Crossing his arms in front of him, more out of instinct than any sense of forethought, the Red Devil just about managed to block the powerful spike from Arakune. The mad creature was here?! But why? Ragna was nowhere near here, up in the sky attacking Arcturus somewhere with the Murakumo Unit,the OTHER potential source of Azure energy. In fact, this seemed like the worst possible group for the former scientist to attack! Tager used science and nuclear fusion as his power source, Cholin was mainly a weapons based attacker as was Dunmainn and Hetfield could only just about use enough seithr to get by and launch maybe 1 or 2 big attacks. It didn't make sense! Then when did Arakune make sense? "Gah! Arakune! Stop! It's Tager!" he tried, the giant being pushed back by this new powered up version of his old friend. He realised it was probably futile to try and reason with it, but this new upgraded form...perhaps some intelligence and sanity came back? He had to try, for her sake. "Arakune! Litchi's still searching for you! Carmine!" Eventually, the pressure gave and Tager shot out of the barracks himself, cannonballing through a wall and skidding as he tried to right himself. He had hoped mentioning the Chinese doctor would have given the blob pause. Obviously his calculations were a little off. Maybe if he tried another tactic... "LOTTE! LISTEN TO ME!" "I have no fucking idea..." Rusty answered honestly, seeing the blob charge into the explosion Tager had created. "But I vote we get out of here and fast. This is going to Hell in a handbasket. You hur-JESUS CHRIST!" He just stared as Ashley popped her shoulder back into joint. He tried to shake his head to clear up his gobsmacked expression however. The entire lot of them are absolutely nuts! Why the fuck would you do that?! Of course, he already had an answer. The mission. They still hadn't got to the presses. Offering Ashley a hand up, the mechanic helped her to her feet, not saying anything and somehow managing the assist whilst wielding Red Special at the same time. Watching Micah deal with Arakune by blasting it straight in the face, he gave a massive WHOOP! "Great hit, mate!" he called over, then was jerked by one half of the Dunmainn Twins. His eyes widened as the soldiers raised the guns, already diving as Ashley helped him out, landing behind the steel drums. Oh crap...steel drums is normally oil. Oil plus fire equals BAD Hearing the bullets plinking off of the metal, the rocker cursed. "Fucking A. Every time we get a step forward, we take two steps back!" His cursing, however, would come to an end pretty soon. Tager exploding out the side of a building would distract any human being and both officers, no matter how well trained, had their gaze flicker over... WHAM! Moody Blue slammed one of the two right between the eyes, knocking him clean out as the axeblade began to spin back. Attraction Ars glowing a healthy white on his glove, the rocker looked down at Ashley, who was still behind cover. "Get to Warehouse 7 and start hacking that thing open. Go on! I got these bastards! I'll come back you up when I'm ready, alright?" Red Special then made the same journey, aimed right for the second soldier. "MICAH! DOING OKAY, MAN?!" he called, double checking on the wolf beastkin Edited by Blue Warlord, Sep 2 2012, 10:57 AM.
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| vicroc4 | Sep 4 2012, 09:52 AM Post #18 |
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Breathing heavy, Micah can't help but grimace as he feels the aftereffects of Fornax recoiling into his shoulder. It was mostly healed from the torn muscle that the beastkin suffered evacuating his shop, but it was still a bit sore. Bracing the big gun against it was not helping matters, as every time he fired, the muscle protested being abused in such a manner. Moving to the other shoulder wasn't an option, either, as Fornax's ejection port was positioned in such a manner that the spent shotshells would be bouncing off his arm and face. Rolling his shoulder a bit to stretch the muscle out, he yells over to Rust, "I'll be alright if you can keep that blob away from me! I don't even want to know what kind of sewer that thing crawled out of!" He begins moving towards Building 7 again, picking his way around the still-dissipating fog that Arakune had left. Breaking into a run as he clears the last plume, he almost makes it to the door before a previously-unseen pair of guards opens up from their position atop another warehouse adjacent to Building 7. Micah is forced to go for cover behind a second jeep, parked in the turnaround area just outside the loading bay that the Air Corps soldiers had come out of earlier. Growling as these new guards empty their magazines into the jeep, he crouches behind the engine block and prays that none of the bullets gets a bad ricochet. None do, and the fire dies down as the soldiers both exhaust their ammunition and have to reload. As they do so, Micah pops up, bracing Fornax on the hood of the jeep, aims, and fires. The cluster of pellets is fairly spread out by the time it enters the window that the guards were firing from, but the ensuing explosion ends up blowing out the window frame and destroying much of the room behind it. Swearing as he ducks behind the jeep again, he's forced to wait until the pain in his shoulder subsides to a manageable level. Then, having heard no further gunfire from the window, he makes a break for the door next to the loading bay. Edited by vicroc4, Sep 4 2012, 02:53 PM.
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| Gleam | Sep 4 2012, 03:10 PM Post #19 |
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The shapeless blob that was Arakune trembles - shudders - and then the mask cracks as the eye flares red. The porcelain crackles as it curves, smoothes, heated from within until its material becomes soft and malleable, backlit by the shadowy purple of fusion seithr. It looks like an attempt to make the mask more recognizable, but the execution is botched. All three holes of the mask resemble some nightmarish mix between lips and eye and wound, mouthing and blinking and bleeding in a sinuous, unending contortion. "DEN_ED." Arakune booms, straightening up from its slouch. A psuedopod splits off from the main mass and stabs into the ground, bone lancing down its length, corded fungus tendriling after, binding the construct together. "DR_V_N, ABHO_RED." A second limb joins the first, and Arakune lifts itself from the ground on steady limbs for the first time in years, as its eye sears the dead red of a dying star. The apertures of its mask purse their gashes, tremble, then utter, quite clearly: "Never again - the weakness, frailty, of biology." The mask revolves once, each gap distorted and sickening, before a tiny tear connects each and opens the entire thing wide, revealing a pulsing core of energy behind it, frothing in captivity. "F - Inverse." ~*~ "Well then turn around and hop backwards." Ashley mutters, dragging herself up behind their cover and extracting her Scout again as Rust deals with their opponents. "If the rules suck, cheat." She flashes Rust a heady grin and pulls herself up the rest of the way to a stand, as the other soldier, the bars of a Lieutenant on his shoulder, ducks the return of Moody Special, taking cover against any more slung axes. She waits until the Lieutenant is fully in cover then makes a break for the doorway he's hidden in. When he swings back out, she slides in behind a pile of pallets and releases a small black wheel with her momentum, which rolls into the hallway. A moment later, the Lieutenant hurls himself away and out of the doorway, and Ashley pops off a pair of shots mid-lunge, managing to catch him in the shoulder once. He swings his rifle to aim at her, and instead the Monoc operative's next shot takes him in the face. He slumps. "Pff, I just pulled that wheel off a dollie." Ashley says, shaking her head and jogging to the soldier's downed bodies and pulling a dogtag off one, who had the bars of a Lieutenant on his shoulder. She scans it briefly with her Scout, adding its permissions to her database, and then drops the loot back on the body. "Guess he wasn't looking too hard." She stands again with a bit of a wince, and glances down the hallway - it looks clear. "I'm heading in!" she barks, and books it deeper into the complex, towards the unguarded armory door. ~*~ 05 drags himself to his feet with a groan, his knees shaky, and he glances back at the melee now taking place in his former barracks - then limps away, grimacing. He pauses once his eyes pass over the vehicle depot. A smile blooms. His steps quicken and he takes off in a sprint for the building. Edited by Gleam, Sep 4 2012, 03:12 PM.
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Class. Dig it up, dust it off, hang that shit crooked on an ear. My halo's a land mine rind, amigo.
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| Blue Warlord | Sep 4 2012, 03:52 PM Post #20 |
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Tager's eyes widened as his scanners picked up just how powerful this attack Arakune was charging was going to be. The seithr output was off the charts, even considering his previous encounters with the blob. Just what had happened to his old friend? He was corrupted far more than the Red Devil had first thought. Arakune called out the name of his attack and Tager tried his best to defend in time. Utilising his magnetised gauntlets, he tried to pull in a nearby abandoned jeep and flipped it until it was vertical, hiding behind it as a makeshift shield. Against any other attack of Arakune's, it would have been successful. This, however, was a super powered F-Inverse. There was the sound of a cannon firing as a gigantic purple and black mass erupted from Arakune, right for Tager's position. His world went purple. Red Special getting swiped out the air by his gloved hand, Rusty took cover again as the Lieutenant popped off some more shots, before Ashley dealt with it in that very unique way of hers. "You randomly carried around a spare wheel from a broken toy?" he asked incredulously, before shaking his head and motioning for her to get her ass in gear and get moving down the corridor. "Look, I'm heading back out there to deal with Micah and stop anyone following you in here, okay? That blob thing's gotta be wrecking shit out there and Tager seemed to somehow recognise it. Find the ammo, tell Rachel and start evacuating it. Then you get through the portal. I'll try and grab Micah and Tager, but at least one of us has to get back through. You've got all that info on the Scout thing and we CAN'T afford to waste it! Get going!" Charging right back outside, Metallica once again being formed, Rusty slammed the blunt edge into a private's head, who had been aiming at Micah's back. Meeting the wolf beastkin halfway, he once again took cover as a few more N.O.L operatives opened fire. "Jesus Christ! Remind you of our first meeting much, mate?" he drawled to Micah, before a light bulb went off in his head. His gaze wandered over to a spare jeep. "...Speaking of which..." Before he could relay his idea however, there was an unholy shockwave of power from where Tager and Arakune fought. "WHAT THE FU-?!" |
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