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

[Chungus]

Spoiler: And now, a battle theme:

Although its own flames made it difficult to see, the bug could it had hit the people. It had meant for them to disperse so it could make itself scare rather them incinerate them, although it was no proverbial skin off its nose when the did get hit.

Stopping generating the fire, the bug hissed softly as its hands smoked, still being unable to actually diverte fire away from itself. Seeing now arivals through the smoke, the bug found its escape route cut off once more. By one who appeared to be mechanical, at that. That Samus' armour was, in fact, armour, the bug didn't know. What it did know, is that it had to take a different approach to the situation. Fortunately for it, its thought processes were as fast as its reflexes, coming up with a plan in less then a second, although it didn't think the plan through entirely, largely due to now feeling panic at being trapped in a confined space.

Seeing Victoria lunge at it, the bug tugged in its tail, leaned to the side, and leapt towards the wall to the right, evading the knife jab. It used its insect wings to adjust its trajectory, turning its feet toward where it would land, and as it did this, haphazzardly blasted a jet of flame at Victoria with its left hand.

Wherther it would hit or not, the bug colided with the wall, bended through its knees, then imediately pushed off it, lunging itself at Shara holding up the blanket. It tried to grab her throat with its right arm, and Shara's left arm with its left hand. It used quite a bit of force in pushing itself off the wall, possibly throwing Shara off the bed if it was successful.

 

[Kirke]

You fail to notice the bug-like creature coming against you, being preoccupied by the dangerous liquid in your blanket. All of a sudden, the thing has a grip on your throat and left arm and you are knocked aside. You collide with the metal bar of the side of the bed, paining you but keeping you on the high ground. With your right arm still free, you make a fist and punch with all your strength against the thing's head to try and knock it loose.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Joel removed his shirt, jacket and bag again as he entered the room. [color=003399]"What the fuck is this thing!?"[/color] he asked as he stared at the bug.

 

[Drakmorg]

Victoria raised her left arm and clenched her eyes shut as the bug launched fire at her. She projected a field of psionic energy in front of her, visible as an opaque red shimmering curtain. As the flames hit the curtain, most of the thermal energy of the fire was converted into light, filling the room with a bright red light for a moment. The curtain was unable to completely protect her, but with it she only received first-degree burns across her left arm and left side of her face, causing her to hiss in pain and lose her balance for a moment, falling to her knee.

"Stop asking stupid questions and kill the damn thing!"

She angrily shouted in reply to Joel.

 

[username sucks]

Roland had his gun drawn since he first heard Shara's scream, but he had been unable to get a shot in due to the fire blocking his view and other people in the way, as well as having to cover his eyes from Vicky's flash of light. Now however, he saw his chance. He fired at the bug's left forearm, having made sure that the bullet wouldn't hit Shara if it went all the way through the bug's limb.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Samus switched to the Power Beam, shooting at it repeatedly, aiming as close as she could to its centre of mass without being somewhere Shara run the risk of getting hit. Each hit would feel like a gutpunch.

 

[Chungus]

Grabing hold of Shara, the bug buzzed with its insect wings more and placed its feet on the sides of the bed to stop itself from going further then it wanted, the buzzing stopping when it came to a halt.

It saw her reeling its arm back, and with its systems running in full throttle to maximise its chances of survival, reacted to its. Turning its head so that its mouth was facing the direction her arm came, it pulled its head back when Shara swung the punch, then opened its mouth and thrusted it at the arm, catching Shara's forearm horizontally between its mandibles. Fortunately for her, its speedy reaction meant it couldn't deliver much bite force right away, alowing Shara's arm to remain attatched to her.

The bug's sight wasn't hampered much by the room being filled with light by Victoria's converting the fire's thermal energy. Not having any eyelids, its eyes were equiped with filters to prevent it from being blinded by the sun, not too dissimilar from sunglasses.

Being shot at by Roland, the bullet passed straight through its arm, its exoskeleton not being very hardy, and its bones were hollow. This made it screech, releasing both Shara's arms and throat, and making it stand wobbly on its feet. The hole in the bug's arm, however, presented a new hazzard for Shera, as the bug's blood was also highly irradiated, as was everything inside of its exoskeleton.

Samus' power beam hitting it repeatedly knocked the bug down, probably making it falling down ontop of Shara. Wherther it would fall ontop of Shara or not, the bug pushed itsself over the pain with its adrenaline flowing, and focused its fire powers. There was a wave of heat, before the bug generated an unstable ring of fire around the hospital bed, the flames haphazzardly increasing and decreasing in volume and size.

"Away!" It shouted with a raspy and shaky, alto voice. "Stay, girl dead and burned everything else!" It added, unable to form a correct sentance.

 

[Kirke]

You spit out a curse as the bug collapsed on you, and the burning blood starts to bite into your skin. After the beast speaks you laugh, though it comes out as a grunt, and you place your hands on it's belly and push away, trying to throw it off the foot-end of the bed.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Joel drew his HF blade with his left hand, then activated it. Once it began to vibrate, Joel charged forward and swung at the bug's tail, intending to slice it off.

 

[username sucks]

Roland was about to take another shot, but lowered his weapon once he saw that the creature's blood was hurting Shara. After a short pause, he raised his weapon again, waiting for one of the others to get the bug a safe distance from Shara before he took a shot.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Samus, seeing Joel charge with the HF blade, decided to hang back and charge her beam. "Get it to the door!" she told the others.

 

[Drakmorg]

Forget it.

 

[Chungus]

Being shoved by Shara, the bug couldn't manage to grab on to the railing of the bed well enough with one of its hands wounded, having come to rely on them for grabbing. It could only prevent it from reeling through its own fire ring by flapping its feathered wings once, and buzzing with the insect wings, alowing the bug to control its trajectory, landing with its front legs on the bed, and the hind legs on the ground infront of the footend. However, its tail still ended up coming into contact with the flame, burning it.

Uttering a screech as it was burned, the bug lost control for a moment, causing the fire raging to disipate for a moment, before returning. Although in that moment, anything that was flammable continued burning. Already pulling back its tail as a result of it sustaining a burn, the bug was able to evade Joel's slashing at it when he charged through the flame, only needing to pull back the tail a little more. It was suprised by his coming through the fire completely unscathed, however, and first thought could have control over fire like itself, but then figured this couldn't be the case, or else he would've dispersed the bug's fire. Thus, the bug figured Joel must have some resistance to fire.

Turning its head towards Joel, the bug fired a glob of glue at his face. As it did this, the bug clenched its right hand, having the part of the fire ring that was closest to the wall close in on the bed. Although it didn't know Shara was half paralyzed, the bug noted she hadn't left the bed since it entered, and knew this meant she must be somehow immobilised. With its warning having gone unheeded, it was time to make true on its threats. The flames first moved slowly and fluctuated like they did before, but as they closed in, they became a little easier to control, and began moving faster.

"Away! Away! Away!" It shouted from its position, its voice begining to sound more sluggish.

OoC: Grouping from now on.
Group 1: Kirke, Twilby, Drak.
Group 2: Username, Gear.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Joel quickly wiped the glue off his face with his right hand, the heat coming from his body and head preventing it from solidifying, then brought his blade down towards the bug's neck and head.

 

[Outisakanobody]

I decide to stay outside the hotel and stay mostly hidden in the ship. I imagine people won't take too kinely to me.

 

[Kirke]

You throw the blanket off the side in the respite you get, gasping from the burning on your arm, now nearly through the skin. You notice that the fire is slowly coming closer to you and know you have to move. Leaning over the side, you yank the brake out. You then roll over to your stomach and drag yourself a little closer to the head-end of the bed. Placing your hands on the wall, you wait until the fire is nearly at the bed before pushing away. The bed rolled fairly smoothly, going through the wall of fire. It did catch fire and stopped not far from the fire on the other side. You call out to the group that you can't move. You also notice that the pain in your back is starting to return, the adrenaline no longer able to keep it back entirely.

OoC: Knocked out in two turns.

 

[Wackymon]

Medic panicked, looking around the room, before healing Shara from a distance, her legs regaining full control, as she rather rapidly healed to a condition to walk.

The sectoid stared at it, before trying to lay suppressive fire on it, to keep it from moving.

Engineer began to set up a dispenser in the hallway.

 

[Drakmorg]

With the bug setting pretty much the entire room on fire at this point, it was all Vicky could do to generate another psionic curtain to protect herself. Having made the curtain properly this time instead of as reflex, it completely protected her from the flames.

 

[Chungus]

Its attention largely focused on Joel, the bug saw him raising the blade, and calculated the trajectory it would be swung at. To avade it, the bug bended through its hind knees, then pushed off against the ground with its right foreleg, evading the slash when the blade came down.

Seeing Shara remove the brake, then move to push the bed away, the bug jumped up to prevent it from falling over as the bed was pushed away. As it jumped, it used its right hand to blast a jet of flame towards the door opening, where Roland stood, the ring of fire extinguishing as it did this. Seeing the Sectoid aim at it, the bug buzzed its insect wings, and flapped strongly with its right wing, adjusting its trajectory and landing to the left of the room. It avoided a few shots like this, but giving how small the room was, couldn't avoid all.

One shot ended up hitting the bug in the chest, near the shoulder of its right hand, where the plasma reduced the exoskeleton and majority of the muscle underneath to a searing pulp. Screeching, in pain, the bug fell through its knees, landing on its side and feebly twitching on the ground.

 

[Kirke]

You shout out to those attacking the bug that they should try to keep it alive. You feel your legs once again, but you do not yet feel like you could stand, for you feel very weary and the radioactive material on your arm is terribly painful.