"Have at thee!" Podo shouted as the pistol fired. He leapt into the air and performed a spin, contorting his body to dodge the blast. The plasma whizzed by, but managed to burn his large belly viciously despite the fact. The goblin landed and sprang forward with respite, slashing at the rikti's hand as bullets whizzed down.
Johnny screamed bloody murder, and rose with his Tommygun.
Inside the crowd, the section with his gang was screaming, yelling, booing wildly, and getting violent.
Johnny walked to the hole where his enforcer's firing post had once been.
He stared straight at the mech.
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The giant robot began to feel the world get heavier. It turned its visual sensors to Johnny. A purplish glow surrounded him.
Johnny had Consigliere cybernetics.
((SOOOOO sorry I'm late, electricity got knocked out here, can the next poster fill me in?))
OOC: Chertak is fighting Podo. The thugs are fighting Titan AE after losing two of their number. Atomic is fighting Adam and Eve and CptCommie joined and is currently not doing much. You're still being attacked by the remaining Gunman and the Mentalist. I'll post stuff after you do something.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
Digging its feet into the ground, Eve wheathered the concussive wave and the following onslaught of radiation. A chunk of car sliced into the Devoured's side and left a gaping wound in the mutated monster. Eve screeched in pain but held its ground. Adam was slightly better off, the radiation slowed it down further and the concussion tore off strips of skin but it kept advancing anyway. The Swarm was completely obliterated, but that wasn't very important. What was important was that Adam lobbed a ball of acid spit at the small crater that Atomic had made.
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Chertak hissed in pain as he was too slow to pull back his hand and was cut across the top of the hand. His hand reflexively opened and the pistol dropped to the ground. The Warmaster pulled back another couple of steps and pulled out its warblade again.
"Small green thing: Very impressive. But I: Shall win this," announced Chertak as ihe lifted up his sword in preperation to strike. But then he suddenly straightened and groaned loudly as CptCommie's rounds dug into his rear armor. The actual bullets themselves barely manged to penetrate the Rikti's advanced armor but that was all the penetration they needed as the shards of mercury stabbed deep into Chertak's flesh. Only the Rikti's natural toughness prevented Chertak from going down right there and then. Instead, Chertak dodged to the right to avoid any follow up rounds and then fell to his knee, one hand planted on the ground for stability. Panting heavily, the Rikti commander cast a burning gaze up at CptCommie's position.
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Titan AE reacted just as quickly as before to the onrushing rocket. It's defensive options reduced, the Titan fired at the approaching rocket with its machine guns. The rapid firing weapons proved to be quite effective as an anti-missile system and quickly blew the weapon out of the sky. Titan AE only wished it had thought of using its machine guns like this before hand so that it could have kept its arm.
Then the gravity attack hit it and the giant machine groaned in protest as its superstructure attempted to hold up one and a half times its weight. Knowing that if this kept up it would be torn to pieces, the Titan locked all avaliable weapons on the gang's position. This time, it would obliterate the entire building.
"Target lock-locked," stuttered the Zeus Titan. "Cannon cha-charg-charging. Fir-ir-ir-ir-ir-ing."
Forty missiles, one plasma beam, and about 300 bullets shot toward Johhny and his pals.
OOC: You can decide how the increased gravity effects Titan AE's accuracy. Use your imagination.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
The Plasma and bullets smashed harmlessly into the terrain in front of the Mech. The massive gravity pull had thrown its targetting systems off; its visuals aimed for the thugs, but its weapons systems were lowered slightly due to the force.
The missiles screamed forward, having successfully locked, but Johnny stood firm. They flung towards him at insane speeds, but at the last moment, The Knife flung his hands forward. The Missiles began to swarm around a point, a small white dot to everyone else. They orbited the small sphere, deftly avoiding contact with each other. This went on for a few moments, but then the sphere began to grow. The missiles compacted, their warheads becoming too dense to detonate, until they were points of light hurtling around a core.
The Singularity rippled with force, picking up several large chunks of concrete and steel and throwing them to the titan.
The Family in the crowd exploded with yips and cheers.
The acid spit flew true and would have severly wounded, if not killed Atomic. But the acid fell on empty ground.
Atomic was no longer in the crater, along with the various car parts he had blown himself clear of the epicenter of the explosion, and landed about a hundred meters away right near the Titan, which was pounding away at a building which was quickly looking to be a deathtrap for anyone inside it. Atomic knelt and concentrated for a moment, as energy repressed from the previous attack surged around him, with a sudden movement, what appeared to be a distorted sphere of light lanced away in all directions. Atomic had triggered his EMP right next to the electronics heavy Titan. No matter what happened to anyone else because of the attack, Atomic would be disoriented and drained for a moment, and stumbled towards the nearest building to recover.
OOC: Doesn't the big atomic blast you just did also drain your endurance for a bit, thus rendering you unable to use your EMP pulse?
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
((Jumping in))
Becky took the shoots from the rikti and didn't even react, Becky launched herself into the air and landed on top of Titan AE and readied her blade to impale the central control area.
Scowling, the Mentalist put forth a tremendous effort and telekinetically pulled Becky off of the Titan and onto the ground. Hands pressed to his temples, the Rikti concentrated and held Becky to the ground. The Gunman, knowing what the Mentalist was doing, teleported in front of the prone Becky and shoved his rifle right next to her head.
"Regenerate this: Human," it said as it fired.
OOC: I have utter confidence that you'll find your way out of this. Also, I'll post what happens to Titan AE and the others after I talk to ARRR.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
"SCREW THE TRAP!" Screamed Johnny as he slowly crunched his hands together, holding his Singularity stable. "ATTACK!"
The Mobsters, blind with fury at two deaths, ran screaming from their building, spraying lead everywhere. The Buckshot ran yelling, jumping into the air, falling and firing a spray of shot into the Gunman who was holding Becky.
Catching the glare of Chertak, and taking great enjoyment from his obvious pain, CptCommie smiled. He raised his hand in front of his face and gave a thumbs up, returning the gesture. However, CptCommie swiftly changed it into a far more menacing hand signal. Turning his head to the right, he shouted for Semenov to fire. He raised his rifle, taking careful aim for the crippled and wounded Rikti, and fired his rifle grenade. CptCommie let loose with another clip of standard ammunition at the Rikti as well.
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Scowling, the Mentalist put forth a tremendous effort and telekinetically pulled Becky off of the Titan and onto the ground. Hands pressed to his temples, the Rikti concentrated and held Becky to the ground. The Gunman, knowing what the Mentalist was doing, teleported in front of the prone Becky and shoved his rifle right next to her head.
"Regenerate this: Human," it said as it fired.
OOC: I have utter confidence that you'll find your way out of this. Also, I'll post what happens to Titan AE and the others after I talk to ARRR.
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((Problem with this already. Intergration. But I'll go along with it.))
Becky teleported behind the gunman and put her sword to his throat. "You can't teleport fast enough to dodge this!" she said as she readied herself to slit the alien's throat and end its existance once and for all.
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The acid spit flew true and would have severly wounded, if not killed Atomic. But the acid fell on empty ground.
Atomic was no longer in the crater, along with the various car parts he had blown himself clear of the epicenter of the explosion, and landed about a hundred meters away right near the Titan, which was pounding away at a building which was quickly looking to be a deathtrap for anyone inside it. Atomic knelt and concentrated for a moment, as energy repressed from the previous attack surged around him, with a sudden movement, what appeared to be a distorted sphere of light lanced away in all directions. Atomic had triggered his EMP right next to the electronics heavy Titan. No matter what happened to anyone else because of the attack, Atomic would be disoriented and drained for a moment, and stumbled towards the nearest building to recover.
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The acid spit flew true and would have severly wounded, if not killed Atomic. But the acid fell on empty ground.
Atomic was no longer in the crater, along with the various car parts he had blown himself clear of the epicenter of the explosion, and landed about a hundred meters away right near the Titan, which was pounding away at a building which was quickly looking to be a deathtrap for anyone inside it. Atomic got out two stim packs he had bought at the arena store, one was filled with a blue liquid, the other a 'break free' as it was known. Atomic used both and then knelt and concentrated for a moment, as energy repressed from the previous attack surged around him, with a sudden movement, what appeared to be a distorted sphere of light lanced away in all directions. Atomic had triggered his EMP right next to the electronics heavy Titan. No matter what happened to anyone else because of the attack, Atomic would be disoriented and drained for a moment, and stumbled towards the nearest building to recover.
OOC: Sorry, the edit period ran out.
The concrete and pieces of machinary slammed into Titan AE's chasis, knocking it back a few steps. But by this time the Titan had recalibrated its targeting system and refocused on the dimmly seen form of Johnny. Laboriously lifting up its plasma cannon, Titan AE charged and fired, aiming straight for Johnny. But then, an instant after the cannon fired, Atomic's EMP charge went off and the Titan started jerking and shuddering as its electronics misfired and myomer muscle clumps fired spontainiously. With a shuddering groan, the Titan teetered back and forth of its feet but seemed about to keep its feet when one last chunk of road slammed into it, knocking the devastated machine down onto the ground. Arcs of electricity scittered over its head and its limbs went limp as Titan AE shut down.
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Grunting in surprise, the Gunman reached up and grabbed Becky's sword in his hand. The sword began cutting through his gauntlet, but at least it wasn't his throat. The the pair of Family charged, spraying bullets at him and the Gunman got a brilliant idea. Leaning forward, the Gunman rotated and tried to get Becky between him and the continuing barrage of bullets. One round managed to penetrate and dug into the Gunman's side but he ignored the pain and carried forth with his plan.
Scowling at his ineffectual mental attacks, the Mentalist decided to shift targets. Spotting the charge of the Family, the Mentalist grinned to himself and levitated a nearby shopping cart and hurling it at the pair of gunmen.
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Adama and Eve let out identical screeches of outrage as they saw that Atomic had escaped. As one, the two Lesser Devoured turned and began loping back toward the main battle. A pair of Swarms issued from their mouths and leapt forward. None of the Devouring Earth would make it in time to affect the current fight, but they'd get there quickly.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
The two family gunners were bowled over by the shopping cart, falling behind several barrels.
Johnny thrust his hands forward, sending the Singularity into the plasma blast, destroying it, but letting him live. He turned his attention to the Mentalist that was harrassing his men.
"Lesse who wins, eh? Tech or freakyness!" He yelled to it, the cybernetics in him beginning to form a field of gravity around it.
"Eeeeeeeeeat THIS!" He yelled, thrusting his arms up, hoping to catch the Rikti in enough of a gravity flux to smash it into the ceiling.
((Dammit! Stop doing that! My character had the sword RIGHT DIRECTLY TOUCHING the gunmans throat, no grabbing! Gawd! But I'll go along with it...))
Becky smiled and flipped the gunman over herself. The alien had underestimated the womans skills. As Becky held the creature directly in the line of fire, her grip tightened, "If you teleport, I go with you." she said with a smirk.
OOC: Let's just consider this revenge for the Dragonball Z-ness of Coldfire and Charcold. But I'll try to keep my rage in check and let you kill the Rikti at one point.
BIC: Chertak's eyes widened as he saw the grenade sailing through the air toward him. Acting quickly, the Warmaster grabbed his sword and held it in front of his face. The grenade landed a foot or two away from the Rikti and sent him on a one way trip to a pile of rubble. But since most of the blast was deflected by his armor and his face was protected by his sword, Chertak was saved from any greivous wounds. But his sword was ruined and Chertak cast it away in disgust. Weaponless now, Chertak grabbed a long rebar with his unwounded hand and leapt to his feet. Grabbing a rock with his other hand, he hurled it at Podo in order to get the goblin's attention.
The Gunman gurgled as the sword cut through his hand and into his armor's neck seal. With only a second left to live, the Gunman took one last action against the race he had sworn to destroy. He teleported right in front of the onrushing Adam and Eve. Then Becky's broadsword cut through his throat and yet another Rikti left this plane of existence.
The pair of Lesser Devoured, surprised by this event, were a bit slow to react to Becky's appearance. But they recovered and each lobbed a globbet of acid at the scrapper. The two Swarms sped on, their hunt for Atomic Firecracker leading them into a bombed out building.
The Mentalist, flush from its victory over the pair of humans, raised its hands up and pumped them several times. Then the Rikti staggered as the gravity around it shifted and seemed to rotate. The Mentalist screamed in fear as the ceiling came rushing up at it and it struck out blindly with its mind at its aggressor. Then it hit the ceiling with a crunch and began its slow descent downwards before its medi-beacon activated and it faded away.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
Johnny grabbed his head in pain, but his cybernetics saved him from anything major. He stood and laughed, pulling a car off of his remaining troop's legs.
"Man, we on fire. Open up!" He yelled, drawing his own tommygun and picking the Devoured as a target.
They let loose a hail of bullets.
A sixth sense told Podo to stay back, and it proved correct as the grenade sailed down at Chertak. Whoever was trying to help Podo was doing a terrible job at it. His shots were keeping the goblin away from his target, lest he be hit by attacks meant for the rikti!
Chertak chucked a rock, and Podo's arm shot up and snatched it out of the air. After hearing the shots and seeing the vapor trails, the goblin was fairly sure where the grenade and rounds had come from. Using his stronger robotic arm, he threw the stone at the spot, cracking the ladge CptCommie stood on and making it too unstable to stand on, though he had no intentions to send the man to his doom. He simply wanted time.
Turning his attention fully to Chertak, Podo thrust his sword into the ground and held his hands out to his sides, signalling peace. "Yield to me, rikti swordsman. Thou hath fought well and honorably, but thou cannot claim victory now. I will show thou mercy if thou wishes, please yield to me."
As Johnny emptied his first clip, he turned. Podo was giving the Rikti an opportunity to surrender, and that was his opportunity to strike. As the alien listened intently to the goblin, Johnny picked up a large girder beam precariously balanced on the building above with his cybernetic gravity powers.
He brought it crashing down vertically on the distracted Rikti.
Goro sat back a bit and blended in with the terrain. He used his stratigest side of his brain this time and studied his tagets and decided on a plan of action.
(OOC-So whats going on, and don't give me a read back a few pages.)
OOC: *cough, cough* You can read back. Besisdes, the fight's almost over anyway.
BIC: Eve staggered back and screeched as the bullets tore at its flesh. Grabbing a rock, Eve threw it at one of the gunners and then charged.
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Chertak looked at the goblin, uncomprehension written plainly upon his face. But then understanding hit the Rikti and he relaxed from his tensed combat posture. Chertak lowered the rebar and looked about to say something when Johnny dropped the support beam on him. Luckily, Chertak managed to notice the heavy object about to fall on him and dove forward. The beam hit the ground and knocked dust and smaller debris all over the place. Throwing the rebar to the ground, Chertak looked over at Podo and raised his fists.
"One last: Contest. Then I: Shall yield," he said.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
"BRING IT ON, FREAK!" Screamed Johnny, drawing from the ground all sorts of rubble and debris and chucking it towards the Rikti.
He picked the beam back up and used it as a sort of bat, smashing it towards the Rikti.
"Homer fo' sho'!" He yelled in delight as his massive weapon swung.
Johnny lost all pretense of bad-mouthing and chiding. They were about to die.
"EVERYBODY DOWN!" He screamed, all of his men falling immediately except Erik.
He had been loading another missile, and as the plasma shot forward, Johnny could only scream --
"DROP, YOU--"
Fwoosh! TsSsShsSk!!
Johnny looked up. The missile was off and still flying, but as he turned to his enforcer, he threw up on the floor.
His top half was gone.