We Are Our Avatars IX: Act V: The Sabotage of the Scandolous Saurian Scoundrels (Open)
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Previously. More specifically, twenty minutes after touchdown.
You finish up the post-flight routine as Sophia asks you if she can help out, and you glance over your notes for a minute and say that you could use an extra pair of hands checking out an engine that didn't quite preform right. You pull out a toolbox from under the control desk and tell Sophia to follow you. As you walk out to the starboard engine, you wonder how Sophia healed so quickly. With all the strange things you have seen lately however, you do not think too much of it.
You finish up the post-flight routine as Sophia asks you if she can help out, and you glance over your notes for a minute and say that you could use an extra pair of hands checking out an engine that didn't quite preform right. You pull out a toolbox from under the control desk and tell Sophia to follow you. As you walk out to the starboard engine, you wonder how Sophia healed so quickly. With all the strange things you have seen lately however, you do not think too much of it.
Previously
"Um... sure I guess? I've never worked on stuff like this, but even if I just hand you tools that's fine." Sophia said happily, walking along as she looked towards the engine.
"Um... sure I guess? I've never worked on stuff like this, but even if I just hand you tools that's fine." Sophia said happily, walking along as she looked towards the engine.
The sectoid ran up to it, and stared at it.
Medic stared at the cat.
"Vhell. Vish I could disect you... Vait!..."
He pulled out a few surgical knifes, "Vould you mind holding him down? I intend to preform a disection, Live, of course." he said, pulling out a small asthma inhaler, "He vill not notice a thing."
Medic stared at the cat.
"Vhell. Vish I could disect you... Vait!..."
He pulled out a few surgical knifes, "Vould you mind holding him down? I intend to preform a disection, Live, of course." he said, pulling out a small asthma inhaler, "He vill not notice a thing."
[color=a52a2a]"I think we're talking about different kinds of cursing."[/color] Ross said, before glaring at the Medic.
Jumping on top of the jeep, the glue-covered ranger painted his rifle at the bug, a bit shakily, the glue covering his face hampering his ability to breathe, and the noxious fumes weren't helping in that regard. Seeing the rifle pointed at it, the bug swept its tail at the ranger as he aimed, knocking him out of the jeep. The ranger landed on his back and tumbled a few times before coming to a halt.
While the bug advanced a few paces after knocking the ranger out of the jeep, the ranger that had taken over the steering picked up his rifle and pointed it at the bug over his shoulder, largely blindly taking a shot at it. The shot did hit the bug, wizzing past the side of the abdomen, taking out a piece of its exoskeleton. While uttering a pain, shrill shriek and loosing its grip, the bug managed to regain its grip after sliding a little before falling off of the jeep. Making snorting noises, the bug advanced over the jeep again, towards the ranger who was now struggling between keeping the jeep under control and loading the next round into his rifle. This gave the bug all the time it needed to approach the ranger and lunge its maw at him. The mandibles closing in around his head, the ranger uttered a muffled scream while the bug applied pressure, before a crack sounded, followed by a wet thumping noise. Lifting its head, the bug swallowed the top half of the ranger's skull it had bitten, leaving what was left behind to topple over and spill grey matter.
After swallowing the bite, the bug leapt up and flapped its wings to safely touch down on the ground, shrieking a little as the bullet wound pained it. While the jeep spun out of control over the bumpy dirt road and flipped onto its side, the bug spun up a patch of the same material it used for its cocoons, and applied this over the entry and exit holes of the bullet wound, then limped over to the ranger it had thrown out of the jeep, its tail dragging behind it.
Reaching the ranger, and began eating him, hurriedly biting the body into smaller chunks and gobbling them down. When finished, the bug moved off the dirt road, back into the grasses, where it huriedly dug a small tunnel. Crawling inside, the bug cocooned itself.
While the bug advanced a few paces after knocking the ranger out of the jeep, the ranger that had taken over the steering picked up his rifle and pointed it at the bug over his shoulder, largely blindly taking a shot at it. The shot did hit the bug, wizzing past the side of the abdomen, taking out a piece of its exoskeleton. While uttering a pain, shrill shriek and loosing its grip, the bug managed to regain its grip after sliding a little before falling off of the jeep. Making snorting noises, the bug advanced over the jeep again, towards the ranger who was now struggling between keeping the jeep under control and loading the next round into his rifle. This gave the bug all the time it needed to approach the ranger and lunge its maw at him. The mandibles closing in around his head, the ranger uttered a muffled scream while the bug applied pressure, before a crack sounded, followed by a wet thumping noise. Lifting its head, the bug swallowed the top half of the ranger's skull it had bitten, leaving what was left behind to topple over and spill grey matter.
After swallowing the bite, the bug leapt up and flapped its wings to safely touch down on the ground, shrieking a little as the bullet wound pained it. While the jeep spun out of control over the bumpy dirt road and flipped onto its side, the bug spun up a patch of the same material it used for its cocoons, and applied this over the entry and exit holes of the bullet wound, then limped over to the ranger it had thrown out of the jeep, its tail dragging behind it.
Reaching the ranger, and began eating him, hurriedly biting the body into smaller chunks and gobbling them down. When finished, the bug moved off the dirt road, back into the grasses, where it huriedly dug a small tunnel. Crawling inside, the bug cocooned itself.
Samus had followed the others on the bounty job, and now stood behind them, cannon raised and ready to launch into a fight, glaring determinedly at Ross through her visor.
Tavish pointed his grenade launcher at Ross as soon as he mentioned curses."You aren't gonna be cursin' me other eye."
[color=a52a2a]"Well, I could curse you so your presence makes crops wither and die. Or stop your cows producing milk. Or just give you terrible luck."[/color] Ross explained. He then turned to Tavish and said, [color=a52a2a]"No, I won't. I don't know any eye-specific curses."[/color]
Maasai Mara, Kenya - 13:11PM
After a little over ten minutes had passed, the ate its way out of its cocoon, emerging being 3cm taller and 2cm longer. It's body shape had change quite dramatically, having developed a pelvis and haing moved its abdomen between it and its thorax, giving it a more mammalian built. It had also developed a smaller thorax on which its human-shaped arms were positioned between its original thorax and neck, a thicker back, paw pads, and shortened antennae.
Crawling out of its tunnel, the bug coughed up a pellet containing bits of clothing and sand and buried this, then moved away a few paces and sat down and scratched the purple material from its abdomen with its hind leg, seeing there only were discolourations on its exoskeleton where it had been broken. After eating the patches it had scratched off, the bug went to collect its rifle and bag, stowing the former away in the latter. After this, the bug went to collect the Browning T-bolt rifles the rangers carried, tracking them by the scent they left on them. It wasn't sure wherther the rifle ammunition was compatible with its own rifle, and decided to take one of the rifles and the drum magazines from the others. Flicking the safety on, the bug stowed its new rifle in its bag as well, before closing it.
With this done, the bug went to lick up the blood trail it had left, then moved on, moving east.