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

[Wackymon]

"Vhat about vhen somevun gets behind you, or vhen you need to krit, vhat zhen? Vill you just lie back and die?" medic asked.
He looked at Victoria, "You vant zhem dead more zhen I do, vhy not? Vhy can't you?" he said, "And eet ez not junk. Zhat can save your life. Vhat if, instead of simply getting better vhen fighting him, you became invincible? Or could take him down vith a punch? Vould you like zhat?" he asked.

The sectoid began to crawl around the cargo bay.

 

[Demonjazz]

Dace sat down on the floor. "Dave plot the course!... [sub][sub][sub]I could have saved her.[/sub][/sub][/sub]

 

[Chungus]

Mara Triangle, Kenya - 14:02PM​

Nine minutes passed had passed, where after the bug ate its cocoon, emerging not having grown any in height or size, but not sporting a larger wingspan and a broader chest. Picking up its bag and crawling out of the tunnel, the bug regurgetated bits of sand in a small pallet, which it burried. Approaching the conservancy, the bug smelled a plethora of new scents, all human, it could tell. And figured they were those that came in the helicopter. Hanging the duffle bag around its neck, the bug blimbed into a tree to get a vantage point, there seeing the fire had been extinguished, and that some people were searching for and collecting the dead, few were tending to those who had survived as best they would while waiting for an air ambulance to arive, while others moved around in pairs of three to look for the shooter.

After staying put and overhearing the various people talk, the bug snorted softly and leapt out of the tree, gliding in the opposite directionfrom the conservancy. Once it touched down, it began jogging away at a fair pace, though it was careful not to russtle too many leaves as it went. Once out the foliage, the bug began to sprint east, moving at an extremely high speed for something that didn't look all that agile.

The bug had thought things over as it rested in its cocoon, and what it had just seen and heard reaffirmed its thoughts. It had given it cause for a change in plans.

 

[Drakmorg]

Vicky rolled her eyes as she said,

"Your lies so you can poke around in my insides aren't gonna help ya. And when I say 'can't', I mean [i]can't[/i]. My rib-cage is reinforced to the point that your primitive tools would all just break trying to cut through it to get to my heart. So don't even waste your time trying."

 

[Zepherus14]

(Talked with Kirke about it actually but we can do it that way too, never mind me.)

Sophia would call into the comm link a few more times, then paused to wait for a response. Eventually Shara's message would finally get through. At the beginning, Sophia seemed relieved at least until Shara started mentioning about how her promise would have to be broken before the explosion in the background cuts off everything. "Shara..? Shara!? NO! COME BACK!" She cried into the comm-link, visibly shaken by the past events and now this tipping her over.

 

[Demonjazz]

The cargo bay just had supplies in it and a couple blasters along with some modifications that could be put on the weapons.

 

[Wackymon]

Medic stared at Dace.
"Vhell... She... es gone... But ve, ve vill kill her killers. She vill not haf died in vain!"
He looked at victoria, "I can go avound ze vibcage, and more importantly, zhey are not lies. I vill not lie to you, I speak ze truth, you can ask Demoman or Engineer, even YOU haf experienced a veaker version of ze ubercharge! I swear, on my life, zhat I vill not expiriment on you. Wholely, and completely." he said.
Engineer stared at Medic for a moment.
"Ya know he's right. Yeah, I know, why trust the new guy, but he really is right. Everything he said is true as can be, I've worked with that madman for ten years of my life, and he really doesn't lie all that often. If it's gonna hurt, he'll say it'll hurt. If he's gonna expiriment on ya, he'll expiriment on ya. But if he says he won't... Well, that's the truth. Take it from someone who asked." Engineer said.

Medic heard the com-link.
"Zhey vill die, yes? I vill help. I vill slay zhem all, and you vill get to watch and laugh at vhat I vill do vit zhem."

 

[Drakmorg]

"I have no reason to believe what any of you crazy fucks say. So thanks for fixing my hand, but just shut the hell up."

Vicky started chewing on her left pinky finger now.

 

[Slenn]

"No..." She put her hand to her head, making a grieving facepalm in response to Shara's death. "And it felt like I was just getting to know her. I'm so sorry, Sophia." She said in a tone that expressed mourning for the loss of Shara. If only I did know her better.

Gwen choked up a bit in her mouth. Something in that message about space hit a tense nerve.

 

[Outisakanobody]

Seems like jazz might be the best fit for right now. Maybe it'll make someone feel a little better. Hopefully.

 

[Zepherus14]

Sophia didn't respond to EMily, still sobbing as she clenched the comm-link in her hand tightly, the static still buzzing.

Hearing Medic's response to what had happened, Sophia continued to sob before slowly getting up and slugging the man. The punch would have enough force in it that Medic should be knocked off his feet, although nothing like a bone fracture. "DON'T YOU DARE SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT!" She roared at him, her voice full of phlegm, her whole body shaking.

The chocolate smell in the ship would be back, being rather pungent too.

 

[Wackymon]

Medic sighed, "I just vant to HELP, but I cannot help to my full potential until you ALLOW me t-"
He was then knocked off his feet, facefirst into the ground.
"Ugh..." he grumbled, "Look, I am sorry iv I offended you, but I just vant to help. I vant to be capable of helping everyone here to my fullest potential, but I cannot vitout ze implant. I just vant to help." he moaned.

 

[Slenn]

EMily didn't say a word as Sophia shouted at Medic what needed to be shouted. Both EMily and Gwen looked very displeased at how he was treating the situation, as if the people he were dealing with were more like subjects to test and laugh at his leisure.

The chocolate smell was somewhat jarring.

There's gotta be something I can do to help Soph..... There's that smell again.

<color=purple>Chocolate? I thought I smelled something like that earlier.

<color=purple>"Then do your job as an honest medic. Most people don't need an implant in their heart to be super strong or invincible. A heart can be strong without implants. All it takes is bravery and courage."

 

[username sucks]

A wooden door appeared in the center of the ship, not visibly connected to anything yet still standing upright. It would only be visible from the front. Anyone who were to look at it from behind would not see anything there.

 

[Zepherus14]

"Then you can help by trying to earn my damn trust for it! What simpleton would allow a complete stranger to do something like that!?" Sophia continued to shout at him, trying to brush some of the hair out of her face.

Sophia was on the wrong side to see the door appear, although currently she wouldn't be very perceptive of it for the moment.

 

[Wackymon]

Medic sighed, "Vell, no. No, ze human body can only take so much, it is not made to handle ze stuff I am offering alone, it vill need it. Unless vun of you vant to try it, vitout ze implant. Vhile this talk of vill and strength, I vill say my opinion: To have vill is useful, to have strenght is useful, but if you face an oponnent who has both, zhen vhat it vill come down to is a test of body. Vhat I can do is extrodanary, but I cannot do it vitout your cooperation! I am tired of vhat I haf being useless because none of you are villing to simply take ze visk of trusting me. I do not blame you for it, but I just vant to be capable of helping you to my full potential. Ve are facing things zhat can kill us in an instant, and I vant to make sure zhat ve haf a chance. Pardon me for asking." he said.
"Zho is saving Samus not enough? Is healing Victoria in battle not enough? Is trying my best to help you all in battle not enough? As for who... Vell, zhat guy. Look, if I do it on him, vill you trust me? And if I show you how to do it on myself, vould you trust me?" he asked.

 

[Slenn]

<color=purple>"To face an opponent who has equal will and strength, then you must outmatch the opponents bravery and courage and no more. I can trust you, medic, as long as you heal those in need. But to demand this surgery on people who know they have strong hearts to begin with tests their trust in you. And I don't give a damn about what you say about a test of body. The mind can accomplish many things and can set back immense pain and bleeding with enough meditation. And it takes a strong mind and body to do so."

"The medics where I come from save thousands of lives off of the battlefield by helping others heal. They study hard to prescribe the right medicine, treat the wounds with care, and always take the proper precautions. They never wielded weapons or inserted chips into soldiers."

 

[Outisakanobody]

Seems these guys aren't such good friends. Don't really like the hostility, but I'm no mediator.

 

[Wackymon]

"Vhell, zhey do not haf vhat I haf. I can heal a thousand vounds in an hour, I can save a thousand lives in two. Courage and bravery, zhey are useful, I vill admit, but if you are brave and brash, you charge in and die to a sentry or a gun or a sniper. If you are couragous, brave, vit a vill of steel and a heart of iron, zhen you vill still die to five seconds of minigun fire to ze face zhat vill rip ze flesh from ya bones. And I do not speak of heart in ze spiritual sense, for zhat is en ze mind, I speak of zhem as vhat zhey are: Muscle, pumping blood through ze vains, keeping each cell alive vith blood and air. I do not question ze mind, I know ze mind is a magical thing, but ze BODY vill not be capable of handling five seconds of minigun fire to ze face. Or a sword through your skull, or ze removal of ze head, vitout any help. Zis is vhere ze mind comes in, vhere it comes up vit ideas zhat vill improve yourself. All I vant is to be able to help you to my fullest potential, and to help you veach your own, but I require trust. If you vant, I vill lie down on this car, and I vill show you how it vorks vit my own body."

 

[Zepherus14]

"You're pathetic." Sophia scowled, not having the patients to listen to Medic long winded talk. She sat back down where she'd been before, trying to wipe her face with her arm as she continued to listen to the static.