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

[Zepherus14]

The knights in the chariot continued their approach, taking note of the ship that now flew over their target. It might have been hard to see given the distance of what the two knights at the back had done, but shortly after the fire trail underneath the chariot grew larger as the chariot gained another burst of speed, they were definitely within EMily's range of fire now.

 

[Slenn]

EMily had sat down in the chair for the guns, the screen of Photon lighting up her face. Photon alerted her that the cannon was locked onto her targets, accurately accounting for time of flight of the projectile towards the target's position. Its holographic screen showed a zoomed in picture of the targets, much like a sniper's scope on a rifle.

"Power to laser cannon. Fire." A heavy electrical sound was heard as EMily's energy helped assist the guns charge up. She pulled on the trigger of Photon to fire 3 substantially powerful shots at the chariot.

OOC: Dunno how heavy these guns are with damage. Also can we assume the door opens for Gwen and Samus?

 

[Outisakanobody]

Seras and Faro nodded and took up positions on either side of the bathroom door.

 

[Kirke]

You ready your blaster, setting it to high power and steadying yourself against the engine. You doubt it does much good, as the entire ship is vibrating, and you are still shaking from the high winds. However, as the knights are still fairly far out, you duck behind the engine and wait for them to come closer.

 

[Zepherus14]

Dave soon opened the hatch up after giving Gwen and Samus a warning to brace themselves.

As EMily launched the plasma shots, the knights in the chariot moved to get out of the way of the incoming fire. The chariot was able to duck and weave through the shots, but it was tight, EMily managing to constantly fire where they would be headed, slowly the knights down somewhat. The third shot especially making the chariot having to veer out of the way rather abruptly, giving an opening for anyone willing to take a shot.

The two archers that were crouched near the front of the chariot let loose their two arrows in EMily's direction in a counter attack. These two arrows would quickly approach EMily's location, and although one would miss by quite a large margin, the other would get dangerously close to her area, and although it wouldn't hit her directly it might be able to obstruct her ability to continue firing for a short time unless she acted upon it.

[hr]

The two knights that had been chasing after the interceptors fired of a bolt of magic towards them, hoping to cripple the ship before heading back to the chariot.

 

[Slenn]

EMily found the com link to the cockpit where Dave would be. She spoke into the microphone telling Dave there's incoming fire towards the guns of the ship.

She charged up and fired another three bolts with Photon attached to the gun before bracing herself in her chair.

-----

Gwen ordered Samus to hold on tight to her body. Once the two of them were ready, Gwen shot out of the airlock. She kept up the speed with the ships by using her energy and a fraction of Samus' energy. If Samus needed to go faster, more energy tanks would be needed.

<color=purple>"You tell me where to go!" Gwen yelled over the wind.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Samus grabbed onto Gwen, sharing some of the suit's power. She pointed at the knight closest to the ship with her arm cannon. "Just get me close! I can jump off and handle it from there!" she shouted over the wind.

 

[Slenn]

<color=purple>"Very good then! You'll have to tell me how much energy you have on you so I can accelerate without any repercussions." She shouted back as she glided over to the knight, moving at a brisk pace of 9 meters per second with respect to the ship.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

"I'm at full power now, give or take. " Samus told her.

 

[Zepherus14]

Dave would receive the message, moving the ship downwards to try and mitigate some of the incoming damage. This would have two resulting consequences, for the occupants and EMily. The members still inside the ship would feel the sudden dip, not enough to feel weightless, but still noticeable.

EMily herself would notice that as the ship moved, the arrow that was close to hitting her looked like it might hit her, but as the ship continued to move the arrow would just graze over the area that EMily was situated in, impacting farther down the ship. Given the amount of time EMily required to recharge, the chariot had righted itself from the attack before, dodging much the same way as last time, and having much the same result. The chariot was getting close enough that the sniper scope EMily was using might be too magnified for her to properly target the chariot after that.

[hr]

The birds that had been chasing the fighters before eventually collapsed onto each other, creating one final explosion that didn't harm the ships, but did look rather fancy. The lone knights however continued their chase of the fighters, once again using their maneuverability to keep up with the jets as they turned around, both quickly after seeing the jets heading back to the chariot fired off a spread shot of sorts towards the ship, in conjunction with another two in the chariot firing off a similar volley towards the approaching jets.


[hr]

As the ship dropped down slowly and Sophia felt herself feel slightly lighter, she yelped as she quickly reached her hands out to grab one of the hand bars on the side of the wall near the toilet.

 

[Kirke]

The interceptors who were fired upon turned slightly to avoid the incoming projectiles, and then turned fully to come in for another run, locking on to the main carriage.

 

[Drakmorg]

Feeling the space-craft drop, Victoria braced herself against a nearby wall to remain standing. As she did, she manifested a psionic membrane around her feet to help her cling to the floor and avoid falling over if the flight path shifted again.

"You alright?"

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Matilda lost her balance and stumbled a little as the ship dipped, fumbling around for a wall to prop herself up on. [color=006d5b]"What the hell did your friend do to warrant this!?"[/color] she asked, hoping someone was within earshot, who wasn't occupied with something else.

 

[Slenn]

Gwen was now about 20 meters away from the knight, gliding around him at a running pace with respect to the ships' speed.

<color=purple>"Now's your chance!"

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Samus activated her boot thrusters, pushing them into overdrive as she let go of Gwen and flipping in mid air, activating the Screw Attack to turn herself into what could only be described as a laser buzzsaw as she hurtled towards the knight.

 

[Kirke]

The interceptors both took evasive manoeuvres to avoid the incoming fire. At the same time however, they fired a missile each against the chariot. After that, they broke off, heading east.

 

[Slenn]

EMily adjusted herself and realigned her viewing. She charged up the guns and waited for the targets to become stable with respect to her vision.

-----

Gwen wasn't alerted from Samus that she would do a screw attack. So she remained at altitude and circled around the knights so that Samus' screw attack would eventually land her back in Gwen's arms.

OOC: BRB.

 

[Zepherus14]

"I'm alright." Sophia said as she looked around. "I-I don't know how safe this room is after all." She commented, not seeing any means to strap herself down in the room, and unfortunately not having gekko powers like Victoria.

[hr]

With EMily's shots again unbalancing the chariot, the knights on it weren't able to simultaneously keep the chariot whole and avoid the screw attack from Samus. The group instead leapt from the chariot, taking their own horses as the light that had been used to form the chariot dispersed among them. Samus however did not leave empty handed however, as she did manage to clash with one of the knights, having drawn a sword to shield himself moments before the impact. The clash rang out loudly as the two held their ground for what seemed like ages.

Eventually though, the knights armour dimmed as Samus was able to cut through, shredding into the unnamed knight in a rain of gore and metal, the remains of his lifeless body plummeting towards the surface below, hopefully no one was going on a walk at the time.

[hr]

The missiles Kirke had fired would have a hard time locking on the now disappeared chariot, but aiming at the location where it had been would put the missiles approaching the fallen knight and Samus. Gwen would have ample time to see the missile heading for Samus if she was going to stop it. The missile that was trained on the fallen knight exploded violently, making his then lifeless body into lifeless paste.

[hr]

The now individual 8 continued forwards, the archers [footnote](Two of the knights, numbers 3 and 5 if listed in a line)[/footnote] again readying another volley of arrows near where EMily has sitting.

[hr]

 

[Gearhead mk2]

Samus tore through the knight, picking up the missile on radar. She headed upwards, the Screw Attack allowing her to double jump in mid air an unlimited number of times, and broke out of it for a second, firing an array of shots at the missile heading towards her, intending to blow it up before it got close enough.

 

[Slenn]

With less mass on her, Gwen could accelerate more to catch up to Samus after she had completed her screw attack. Her sense of masses alerted her to the incoming missiles. She was moving at a 20 m/s with respect to the ships by the time she got to Samus. She would subsequently move themselves out of the way of the missile's path.

OOC: Are the knights riding in the air? I'll be back in 15 or 20 minutes.