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

[Gearhead mk2]

The man would run right into Armstrong's blast, and be knocked back. He did managed to get a kick in, but it had little visible effect and it would feel like kicking a tank. Emily's microwave beam started heating up the metal flesh, but Armstrong softened himself, picked up a chunk of rubble, and threw it at her head worryingly fast. However, he would be left covered in burn scars, especially on the network of engorged veins over his heart.

"What?" Samus asked, worriedly. "Why?"

 

[Outisakanobody]

Seras got thrown away and landed pretty hard. She was getting tired of being tossed around, but she decided to take a moment to gather herself.

 

[Kirke]

You recount what Seras did, how she killed the cyborg prisoner, drank his blood and showed no regret over it. With a bitter tone you say she's like a pirate - killing for her own gain. You admit that bounty-hunting can be seen as the same thing, but that killing somebody after accepting their surrender is a rotten and immoral thing to do.

 

[Slenn]

Gwen tossed EMily into the air with a gravity tug to avoid getting hit by the boulder. She softened her landfall with plasma jets. She continued her assault with her microwave beams.

"Keep pushing guys!"

Gwen returned with her 7 g field to crush him.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Joel moved in after Armstrong blasted the crazy man away, and slashed at the senator's waist again.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Armstrong hardened himself to block Joel's Muramasa strike, which bit into his side and lodged there. He kicked him away and took the blade out, then softened himself to prevent Emily's microwave beam from damaging him too badly. He jumped forward lightning fast, towards EMily, hardening at the last second to use himself as a human cannonball.

Samus was quiet for a second, visibly tensing up when Shara mentioned piracy. "...confront her." Samus said, quietly and calmly but giving the impression of intense repressed rage.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Joel got to his feet and quickly retrieved the Murasama, before moving towards Armstrong from behind and waiting for an opportunity to strike.

 

[Slenn]

Gwen gravitationally pushed EMily out of the way of Armstrong. He was particularly easy to track because of his large mass, even without the metal coating. She moved in closer to Joel and created a time-haste field to double reaction time.
<color=purple>"What is it with you guys and charging attacks?"

EMily fired plasma jets to slow her push and put herself behind wherever Armstrong was after his launch. She fired microwave beams at the back of Armstrong to continue the assault.

 

[Kirke]

You look over at Samus, and for the first time you truly see what a weave is. Not the net made around a fighter, which is a simple thing in most beings, hard and efficient. But the weave within the mind, how a being is built up inside. You are astonished by the sheer complexity of it, the way each layer protects the one beneath. Yet, you see signs of strain and wear, things trying to get out from the web holding it in. With a sudden and frightening revelation you realise that a single tug at the wrong place could shatter the weave. You shudder as you close your eyes and let go of your focused state, scared of what you could do.

After composing yourself you say that you have already done so, and in the interest of keeping the mission focused you promised to let it be until Desperado had been defeated.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Armstrong turned to face Joel, hardening, deciding to try and tank through Emily's barrage for a while at least. He stated beating on him, throwing punch after punch, trying to knock the Murasama out of his hand, finishing the combo with a stomp that created a huge, firey explosion.

Samus noticed Shara looking at her, and her shudder. "Is something wrong?"

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Joel, using the increased reaction times Gwen had granted him, took a step back with his left foot, lowing his center of gravity, and sheathed the Murasama. Then, he stepped forward with both feet to meet Armstrong's attack, throwing his entire body weight into a shoulder-barge aimed at Armstrong's chin and chest.

 

[Kirke]

You shake your head saying that you just felt odd for a moment, nothing serious. To change the topic, you ask how Samus thinks you should deal with Seras.

 

[Slenn]

EMily could now deliver a full power microwave beam at Armstrong, intending to cook him.

Gwen kept up the haste-field for a while until Joel could connect with his attack.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Joel slammed into Armstrong, and the men pushed against each other, Armstrong trying to push Joel over.

"Be direct, honest, and don't attack unless you have to."

 

[Kirke]

You nod, then say that not attacking her will be difficult. You feel like she ought to be punished somehow, but you don't know what would be appropriate. You've mostly acted missions given to you before, or fought enemies who attacked you first. Never have you had to decide what sentence a crime should get.

 

[Slenn]

Gwen created a 4 g gravity field intending to push Armstrong away from Joel.

"Wait a minute. I haven't tried an EMP on him yet. If this guy likes cyborgs enough to use them, he must have something mechanical inside his heart to assist him. Perhaps what's inside him is what's coating his skin with that metal. Although I doubt it'll penetrate metal, I'll at least have to try it on his metal skin."
EMily took aim and fired a massive EMP at Armstrong.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Joel took a step back again, after impacting with Armstrong, and quickly drew the Murasama, intending to land a long, vertical slice up the centre of Armstrong's torso.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

The metal skin glowed and burned from Emily's previous microwave attack, some of it flaking off to reveal bare skin underneath. The EMP crackled over his skin seemingly without effect, but Emily may notice the energy being absorbed and taken into his heart through a network of tubes and repurposed veins.

Joel's slash cut through the metal and also skin, but the heart was protected by the veins above it. It would need a few slashes. Armstrong slowly atruggled forward, trying to push through Gwen's gravity feild, and delivered a haymaker to Joel's face to knock him down with one superheated hand, and if he could he would follow that with an elbow drop.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Joel moved back, resheathing the blade as he did so, to avoid Armstrong's haymaker.

 

[Knife-28]

If he wasn't hemoraging from the ragged stump of his arm then the sight of the man being blown backwards and twirling through the air might have been almost comical. As it was it was no doubt quite a shock, moreso when he landed with a blood curdling crack next to Samus and Shara. The man coughed, splattering blood down the front of his singed blue shirt. "Shit...bastard must have had one hell of a crotch protector." He muttered before slumping forward dead.