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

[Chungus]

"Yes. Let us do just that." Caius said in response to Gwen's statement, uncrossing his arms and turning towards Sophia, not sharing the desire for sensitivity as Yeul did.

"Why are those men after you?" He asked Sophia, taking a step towards her. "What did you do?" Although not sounding the most friendly, Caius' tone couldn't be called accusative.

Yeul frowned a little at Caius' approach, but said nothing, waiting to see what would happen.
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Zooming out after getting a good look at the giant's face, the eye drone notice the giant's claw blades twitching. It didn't move, however, instead hovering in place again, zooming on on the various trophies hanging from the giant's armour, then to the insignia on the pauldron. The movement of the camera couldn't be seen behind the black cover, however, leaving it a guess as to what the eye drone was looking at, exactly.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Samus, who was around for the broadcast, looked at Sophia questioningly. She wouldn't turn her in, but she wanted a few answers.

 

[Zepherus14]

Sophia hadn't looked away from the tv yet, this feeling like the second she did, the knight would jump out of it to get her. It wasn't until Caius turned to move towards her that she finally snapped out of the trance and looked towards him. The way she looked at him, or better towards him, it was like she saw him more as a 300ft tall man about to stomp his foot down on her than a man trying to understand what was going on. She then bolted away from the doorway. "G-Get away!" She wailed in terror.

 

[Chungus]

Caius hmphed as Sophia bolted out of the room. He stepped out of the room himself, and turned to see the direction Sophia was running in to, but didn't make any effort to follow after her, deciding that if she stayed in the ship, he could question her at a later time, and if she ran away entirely, then that was the problem dealt with well enough.

"You could have been less direct." Yeul said as Caius entered the room again, shaking her head lightly.

"If there is a threat, it is my charge to see to it it does not reach you. Subtlety in that is not a priority."

 

[username sucks]

Roland took his hand off his holster, more at ease but still watching the giant closely. "I assume that you come from another world. Such is also true for all of this Ka-Tet." Roland said to the giant armored guy. "Is that flying machine yours?" he asked, pointing at the camera thing.

 

[Random berk]

As the occulum continued to float over his head, the giant quickly became incensed at its impassive gaze. Before he could so much as flex the bicep that would level his combi-bolter to blast it out of existence however, his attention was caught by the sound of a commotion within the ship. He glanced over at it, noting that the human with the pistol could not hear with his unenhanced senses, just as the man spoke.

"No, I have not seen it before. I suspect that its intent is less than trustworthy too." He gavce the man a quick once-over, noting his use of a phrase from some unfamiliar dialect.
"Which planet did you travel from? And what world is this?"

 

[FPSfanatic]

Hans sighed, and moved to follow Sophia, his greatcoat and mask sure to add a layer of menace in the coming chase that he didn't feel.

 

[Drakmorg]

"Oh, great. So it's just a bunch of racist humans then."

Vicky rolled her eyes and said, shrugging off any idea that the armored men's claim was even approaching legitimacy. If anyone was paying attention, not that anyone actually was, they'd notice she still had a sense of anxiety in her tone. Hearing Sophia shout and run off, she stood up and made to follow her. She made a point of roughly pushing past Caius and spitting,

"Nice job, jack-ass."

at him as she went.

 

[Zepherus14]

Hans' attire wouldn't really help the situation at all, although Sophia wasn't thinking straight enough to consider even a friendly chaser was trying to stop her. Although Victoria might have been gaining ground on the chase, she still had a ways to go before catching up fully.

 

[username sucks]

"Planet? I do not know what you speak of. I am of Gilead, a land in All-World. This world is known as Earth." Roland explained to the giant. "If that robot is not yours, then I will deal with it." He said before drawing and firing his revolver at the occulum with speed that would make his hand appear no more than a blur to an average person.

 

[Chungus]

Caius was thrown off-balance as Vicky brushed passed him, but managed to find his balance again easily enough. He gave no response to the snide remark, other then an disinterested and dismissive, "Hmph."
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Having observed the armoured figure sufficiently, the eye drone turned around, now training its camera back on Roland, zooming in on his face as Roland look up. It couldn't get a lot of footage, however, as it was shot at by Roland soon after.

The machine wasn't build for endurance, its plating fairly thin, so the bullets penetrated easily enough, even going through and through. The machine beeped as it struggled to keep airbourne, begining to lose altitude. A small compartment on the topside of the eye drone opened up, out of which an antenna extended. This antenna shot a blue beam into the sky that lasted four 1.2 seconds.

After this, the eye drone began hovering away, losing more altitude as it went. It wasn't moving fast, and could easily be shot at more times as it went.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Samus followed after Vicky, just a few paces behind.

 

[Slenn]

Gwen followed after Vicky. <color=purple>"Let's take this easy now. She's likely to pass out if she's stressed too much."

 

[Random berk]

Ah, a primitive. how delightful. The giant thought as Roland spoke. Any minute smugness in his face was replaced by visible disbelief however, at the mention of Earth.

By the Dark Gods... it is true? This is really... If Roland noticed the look of stunned amazement when he turned back, he might have attributed the behemoth's surprise to his blindingly quick draw, though the warrior had been able to follow Roland's hand through it's entire movement. He gave no indication of this however, in his genuine surprise.

 

[Drakmorg]

Vicky continued following after Sophia.

"Good point, so maybe you should back off."

Vicky replied to Gwen, slightly confrontational in tone, but not overtly so.

"The last thing she's gonna want to see right now is more [i]humans[/i]."

She added, a slight emphasis of disgust on the word 'humans'.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Joel stayed sitting, not wanting to chase Sophia in case it made her panic even more. When he heard Roland's gunshot, however, he decided to investigate. [color=003399]"What happened out here?"[/color] he asked Roland.

 

[Zepherus14]

Sophia continued to run clear out of the ship, stumbling as she tried to clear the access hatch, slowing down enough that Hans could potentially try to tackle her to the ground. Even if he did manage to get her, she'd still try to get away from him. Her normal strength would require at least someone else to keep her from throwing him off in her panic.

 

[Slenn]

Gwen's brow went downward as if it was literally pressing down her anger towards Vicky's tone.
<color=purple>"You might want to elaborate on that one to me. What's with this sudden change in tone?"

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Samus stayed quiet for a moment, listening to what Vicky had to say.

 

[Drakmorg]

"All I'm saying is she seems scared of those humans we saw, so maybe the sight of a bunch of humans chasing after or crowding around her isn't the best thing right now."

Vicky impatiently explained to Gwen as she kept moving and gradually picked up speed.