We Are Our Avatars IX: Act V: The Sabotage of the Scandolous Saurian Scoundrels (Open)

[Slenn]

<color=purple>"Two humanoids, heavy mass. Both are over 100 kilograms. Third mass is large in the shape of some large robot."

"And its mass? The extra mass from the humanoids could be from the additional electronics and metal I'm sensing."

<color=purple>"On the order of single metric tons."

OOC: @Gear. I hope I'm estimating those correctly.

 

[Kirke]

As you pull up and prime your weapon systems you wonder what purpose this mechanical beast could have, but decide that whatever it is, it is not friendly. You come down in a dive and unleash hell with your blasters, and even launch four radar missiles at the target for extra effect. You pull out earlier than you did before as you are not in a hurry to find out what kind of weaponry is mounted on the large vehicle, using your afterburner for extra speed.

 

[Drakmorg]

Sundowner's punch landed square on Vicky, knocking her back and off of him. She hit the ground several feet from him, grunted as she did. Vicky managed to get back to her feet rather quickly however, hardly seeming phased by the hit in the long run.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

When Shara got close, she got a better look at the thing. It was a giant mech, the size of a building, with two blade wings and a bird-like head. One of the wings had a logo emblazoned on it. It opened it's mouth and let loose a mechanical roar as the blasters and missiles hit, scoring and denting its armour, and a panel on one of the wings slid open. From the newly revealed compartment, a swarm of missiles flew out, chasing after Shara. Most were deterred by the speed, but a few kept flying. The mech itself opened it's mouth, exposing a plasma cannon, and fired a giant beam at Shara, the blasts strong enough to punch through a skyscraper.

Spoiler: The mech, the Custom Ray.

Spoiler: The logo

 

[Kirke]

You swear as an alarm lets you know that you have been locked on, and you quickly slam into a barrel roll. When the laser beam shoots past, you nearly forget about the missiles. That is, until they close in and find their mark. The ship shakes around you and the shields drop to 50%, making you swear again. As you pull up into a loop for another run, you quickly send a message to Samus that there is a giant, heavily armed mech in the city that you are enganging. Breaking contact right after saying this, you close your eyes for a moment and focus on your opponent, recalling the teachings you last used in the fight against Ronin. You come back around, dancing through the waves of the mech as you send out your smaller, but more accurate, waves.

You come back around and fire a continuing stream of missiles with about 0.5 seconds between each launch, along with firing your blaster cannons while dodging and rolling to avoid incoming fire. You soar past the target and continue to fire radar missiles a little while after, with a total of sixteen fired during the attack run.

 

[Chungus]

Mara Triangle, Kenya - 13:53PM​

Over the course of ten minutes, the bug watched the building burn while shooting those who fled from the fire, either through the doors, or jumping out of the window, as well as shooting people who came from the lodge with the intention to extinguish the fire. After firing two rounds, the bug found the rifle making a clicking noise when it tried to fire again, having run out of bullets. It tried to fire two more times before realising the problem, and snorting as it tried to reload the rifle, tossing the empty magazine down and trying to load the one it had tied to the side. Its inexperience in handling weapons left in somewhat clumsy in doing this however, alowing some people to escape the burning building and head towards the foliage for cover against the unseen shooter.

Once it had reloaded the rifle, the bug looked for the few that escaped. It had seen where the rangers had fled to, but had trouble seeing where they were currently with its bare eyes. To that end, it used an ability it hadn't the chance to put to real use before - it's thermal imaging. Although with this active, the glare from the burning building made things somewhat difficult to see overall, but it could still spot the yellow and orange shapes that were its targets well enough. Taking aim, the bug shotn down onw of the fleeing rangers. After taking the shot, however, the bug hissed as pain shot through its shoulder, the fairly heavy recoil of the rifle doing a number on the integrity of its exoskeleton.

Clacking its mandibles, the bug switched to hold the rifle with its left hand on the grip and fumbled about with the rifle to get used to it, and fred two shots at fleeing rangers, shooting them dead. By the time it set its sights on a third, however, the bug found the ranger had taken cover behind a tree. It resolved to take care of the ranger later, and instead set its sight on others who fled from the building.

The bug shot three more people, killing two and injuring another. It moved its sights to another ranger, but lowered the rifle when it saw a helicopter approaching. Determining the helicopter was definitely headed towards the conservancy, the bug stowed the rifle way in its bag and removing the webbig from it. Climbing down from the tree, the bug moved further away. After eating a few grasses, the bug dug a tunnel and climbed inside, setting down the bag there and cocooning itself.

 

[Wackymon]

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You swear as an alarm lets you know that you have been locked on, and you quickly slam into a barrel roll. When the laser beam shoots past, you nearly forget about the missiles. That is, until they close in and find their mark. The ship shakes around you and the shields drop to 50%, making you swear again. As you pull up into a loop for another run, you quickly send a message to Samus that there is a giant, heavily armed mech in the city that you are enganging. Breaking contact right after saying this, you close your eyes for a moment and focus on your opponent, recalling the teachings you last used in the fight against Ronin. You come back around, dancing through the waves of the mech as you send out your smaller, but more accurate, waves.

You come back around and fire a continuing stream of missiles with about 0.5 seconds between each launch, along with firing your blaster cannons while dodging and rolling to avoid incoming fire. You soar past the target and continue to fire radar missiles a little while after, with a total of sixteen fired during the attack run.

Medic quickly got the Ubergun out of the way of the sword, launching a barrage of needles as he retreated toward samus.
"HOLD ZE ARM TO ZE STUMP!" he shouted at her, "HELP!"[hr]
Engineer, however, had a far more difficult time, having his usual robotic hand cut off.
He quickly scrambled on the gunslinger, holding the wrangler and having the repaired (To point of level 2, anyway) repaired sentry fire at the Medic's attacker, as he ran from the dog-thing.[hr]
Demoman smiled at the pinned dog, making another slash at the same notch in the tail, before hearing Medic's cry for help. Demoman quickly launched a few pills in the way of the Medic's assailant.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

The Ray kept firing missiles as Shara approached, trying to shoot her down. Shara's own missiles impacted, creating smoking dents in the Ray's body armour and knocking it back, but not doing much damage to the core systems. When she got close again, the Ray opened its mouth once more, firing off a close range plasma blast. After she backed off again, large multi-barrelled turret popped up on each of it's shoulders and thighs, shooting off a hail of inaccurate but constant anti-aircraft fire in Shara's general direction.

 

[Kirke]

As you approach, you rely on speed and agility to avoid the flurry of quick waves, slipping through the gaps with amazing precision. But as you come close, a large and deadly wave catches you off-guard, and as you barely get out of the way you can feel the heat of the plasma beam even inside your ship. Your shields flare and fail, an alarm wailing in your ears as you speed away. The attack leaves you stumbling and another flurry of small waves hit you in the back and throw you forward. You blink to find yourself flying dangerously low to avoid further fire, clipping an antenna in a hail of sparks. You grimace as an alert makes you aware that you could not take another hit like that. You fly forward, blasting towards the city limit. As you close in on freedom, you realise that if you run, nobody could stop the mechanical beast, and all your newly made friends would likely be destroyed or captured. Your determination hardens as you see their deaths before you, and you know that if you ran the image would never go away. You put your ship in a wide turn back towards the mech, with the shields managing to recharge to twenty percent by the time you close in.

As soon as you are pointed towards the mech again you open fire with your radar missiles, sending a steady stream towards your target. As you get closer, you start to dodge and weave again, narrowly slipping through the incoming waves. You fire your blaster cannons, screaming out your defiance as the thumping shakes the ship.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Sundowner stood, looking Vicky over, then bolted to the end of the street, surprisingly quickly given his size.

Between EMily's laser and Tavish's sword strike, the robot wolf lost its leg and it's tail. Howver, Minuano came to its aid, slicing at Tavish's face (his eyepatch specifically) picking up the robot and jumping away from his enemies, following Sundowner.

Samus barely heard the Medic's or Shara's messages, shock and blood loss beginning to take their toll. She stood woozily, trying to make her way to her severed arm but losing a lot of blood, the crimson beginning to seep into the seams of her armour.

As the group fought, the masses EMily and Gwen had noticed earlier rounded the corner. There was a lanky man who seemed to be floating in pieces, a tall woman with a neckbrace covered in mechanical arms, and a toad-like mini-mecha with a giant axe with a buzzsaw head. The mech raised the axe, striking the ground hard enough to make it shake, trying to knock the group off balance and give Minuano and Sundowner a second to retreat.

Spoiler: Mistral

Spoiler: Monsoon

Spoiler: Khamsin (the one in back, not the robo wolf)

[hr]
The Ray roared in return, firing off a swarm of missiles and trying to use it's AA guns to limit Shara's movement. It opened its mouth, charging another plasma shot, but one of Shara's missiles hit it square in the plasma cannon as it fired, blowing up the cannon and a good portion of the Ray's face armour. It recoiled, screeching in pain, trampling through a small building as it reeled.

 

[Zepherus14]

Sophia would be obviously horrified by Samus losing an arm, staring until Medic's loud shout spooked her out of her stupor. Realizing that crazy nutbar was the only one here that could repair that arm, meant that Minuano needed to be slowed down.

Not thinking the most clearly and unable to form a proper spell to really do anything, she was about to attempt to fling some of her mana directly at Minuano's face to hopefully blind him. Him running off however meant that she didn't get suck a chance.

The great ax would be enough to make Sophia stumble, but she'd manage to still keep her footing. "What the!?" She shouted.

 

[Slenn]

EMily kept herself stable as the axe made her shake a little. But afterwards she sent her energy into her heart, activating Photon Form. All quantum mechanical data regarding electromagnetic activity was at her disposal.

Gwen was hardly shook by the tremor in the ground. She levitated about a few centimeters above the surface. She fired five pieces of rubble, the size of bowling balls, at supersonic speeds (~425 m/s, speed of sound is 334 m/s) at the mech's pilot.

 

[Drakmorg]

Vicky took notice of the new combatants when the ground shook, though it did nothing to throw her off balance. Ah hell, reinforcements... She regrouped with EMily and Gwen, picking up her knife as she had dropped it when her hand was crushed. Despite the force that had crushed her bones, the knife seemed to have been completely unaffected by the force.

 

[Kirke]

You pull up, preferring to take your chances with the AA fire rather than the missiles. However, as the fire hits your ship and quickly drains your already weakened shields, a missile gets through and hits one of your engines. Losing much of your manoeuvrability, you are unable to pull out and crash belly-first straight into the reeling mech. You shout a final exploitive before the shock knocks you out.

You force yourself awake, you have no idea of how long you were out. Sparks falling down around you, and you grab the comm. unit you have in a pocket. You open a channel to Sophia and call out her name, coughing and feeling a sharp pain in your chest as you do. You whisper into the comm. unit an apology, that you are sorry that you could not take her to see the stars. An explosion rocks the ship making you drop the communicator, but you barely hear it, it is distant and soft. Your vision falls away and your last thought is of the stars you had yet to see.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

The Ray keeled over as Shara's ship struck it in the chest, ploughing through the ribbed armour and right into its power core, smashing the core to pieces. The lights of its compound eyes dimmed and went black, it gave off one final birdlike death shriek, and it fell over, dead, crushing the pavement beneath it.

 

[Wackymon]

The sectoid commander came to it's wits, and looked around at the surroundings, and immediately saw Khamsin, and it quickly tried to wrangle control of it from it's owner.[hr]The engineer successfully got his sentry back online fully, at level three, as he quickly wrangled it and fired at it repeatedly to the robotic wolf.[hr]Medic quickly scrambled up to the woman, the medi-gun beam keeping her conscious, as he quickly grabbed his arm with his free hand and held it to the stump, where it knit back to it for the remainder of the turn.

 

[Demonjazz]

Dace had been flying over head and watching the battle. He didn't except the woman to die off... She practically saved his life and yet he just stood there watching... He thought that the least he could do for her was to help the rest of the group. That's what she would have wanted. "Dave! Take da guns! We got people to save!" He shouted. Several shots were fired at the mechs and cyborgs before Dace landed and opened the ramp to his ship before he shouted to the group. "Get in!"

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Minuano tossed the wolf bot to Mistral, who caught it and easily held it up with the arms on her neck brace. Minuano then jumped in front of her, spinning his blade to deflect the sentries' and Dace's rounds.

Khamsin closed the compartment of his mini mech, the rubble Gwen fired bouncing off and Dace's attacks denting the armour but neither penetrating it. The thick armour, combined with his natural will and the fact that half his brain was mechanised or laced with wiring and cables, allowed him to fight off the Sectoid's mind domination.

Samus nodded wearily at the Medic in thanks as her arm reattached. She tried activating her arm cannon, but it was damaged and glitchy, only appearing for a split second before phasing away.

"Well, it's been fun, but I think we'd best be going now." Sundowner said with a massive shit eating grin as he and the rest of the Winds backed off. "Places to go, people to kill, that sorta thing. Though I gotta admit, this was fun." Minuano looked at Sundowner, shocked that they were retreating.

OoC: Fight over.
@Demon: Post in chat for you.

 

[Wackymon]

Medic grumbled as he looked at the Cannon, "I vill have Engineer fix zhat up."
He looked over to the rest of the army in pause, and then said, "ZHAT IS EET!? VHAT!? I VAS HOPING FOR VUN OF YOUR CADAVERS! I VANT VUN OF YOUR CADAVERS!" medic cried in anguish.[hr]
The engineer sighed, as idly slid his wrangler back into his pocket.
"I hope ya gonna just fuck right off, because I'm god damn tired of this fighting. So quit with ya wars and go get a real job in another field." he said.[hr]The sectoid stared at them in shock, and quickly tried to reach into Sundowners mind to figure out why.

 

[Drakmorg]

"Yeah, you'd better run you wastes of flesh and metal! And keep running! Because the next time I see any of you, you're dead!"

Vicky shouted after the cyborgs as they all ran off. Noticing Dave's ship land, she quickly climbed in.

"Great, now he can chase after those sons of bitches."