"I'm not so foolish as to imagine you actually wanted me around," he replied dryly, "But I'm afraid that for now, you're right. While I image that Vern would be just as suitable a stabilizer as you, Vern's not here. And there's something going on here that I need to know." Kefetasura looked around the car as he strapped on his seatbelt. A distant look glazed across his handsome features for a moment, and a tiny HUD appeared on the upper left portion of Acid's windshield.
"The lines are streets, the red dots are roadblocks or other places of regime related unpleasantness. Hope you don't mind, but I took the liberty of mind-snooping the locals." His gaze turned outward, past the passenger side window and out into the city streets as they whizzed by. Though the demon didn't seem content, he was at least being quiet.
Midas let out a loud yelp as Vern began speaking, unaware that the creature was sentient. He quickly sat down and stared at the thing, disliking it intensly. This being wasn't even humanoid! He didn't like the looks of it at all. Of course, he hadn't liked the looks of much lately.
"Essex, why don't you be a good little girl and tell me where you came from?" the Stone asked politely, as though speaking to someone of extremely inferior intelligence. "I'm sure your daddy would want you to tell us so we can help you better."
Damien turned from his crouched position when he heard the stone talk to the little girl.
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"Essex, why don't you be a good little girl and tell me where you came from?" the Stone asked politely, as though speaking to someone of extremely inferior intelligence. "I'm sure your daddy would want you to tell us so we can help you better."
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Damien turned back around to face Essex. Damiens eyes went all cross-eyed as he imitated what the stone said.
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Damien turned back around to face Essex. Damiens eyes went all cross-eyed as he imitated what the stone said.
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"Don't you have something dishonorable to justify by claiming it was just business?" the Stone asked mockingly. "You're less charismatic than the child, or even the lizard."
John frowned, while also raising an eyebrow. "I think someone needs to teach the talking rock some manners... Or at least get it some anger management lessons..." he muttered, eyeing the stone with slight annoyance. "I am sure there is SOMEONE crazy enough to try and give a stone therapy..."
Thuel and his convoy arrived at the New Mu entry point, wich was heavly guarded and well fortified. "Kommdant," one of the armed guards spoke out at the convoy, "present your ID."
Thuel shuffeld though his backpack for his ID holder, he pulled out his dust coverd ID holder, flipped it open and showed it to the guard without a word. He checked his rifle for amunition, and wether or not he would need to restock.
"Al-," the guard was cut off with Thuel walking inside New Mu twards the sky-riseing tower in the aproximate center of the capital.
Vern sighed. This band was even more easily distracted than a bag full of Space Pirates when you threw something sweet in.
"I don't mean to be rude." he commeted, "But do you guys mind putting that on hold for a little and coming with me...?"
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((I'm going to take the checkpoints are between sectors. It'd make little sense to have them really everywhere. 
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Weaving through the sparse traffic - if a vehicle every now and then could be called that - the black Ferrari soon arrived at a sector checkpoint. The chain-linked bar gate stretched acros the entire road, and there seemed to be no way around it.
Then again, that was of little consequnce. Acid had no intention of doing do. The equally black mirrored windows of the car hid its occupants completely as it rolled to a stop a few meters from the gate...
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On both sides of the checkpoint soldiers and robots alike watched the black car pull up. In the guard box a soldier extended his arm to the window. Another watched the car with a mounted machine gun.
"Hand over I.D and show your face please."
Acid smirked. Now he'd see what sort of world Archlich had really created.
with the flick of a switch, the mirror effect on the windows vanished as the one-way opaque material repolarized, becoming transparent to both sides.
Acid just grined toothily as he spoke, the car's speaker system conveying his voice outside flawlessly, "Howdy, boys. Sorry, I'm afraid i don;t have any ID on me. Then again, even if I did, it probably wouldn't be the one you're looking for. I'd like to speak with your bos, the Over..."
He stopped for a moment, turning to Kefetasura, "Okay, seriously, was it magus or magnus now...?"
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((Commie, I dont' know if you're waiting on anything with Gretchen or not. Let me know.))
Essex looked around at them all reproachfully, but swallowing nervously. "I'm from...from my father's lab, in the city..." she said, rather unsurely as she got up, warily eyeing the fire imp before gathering up the stone and looking after Vern. "Do you think...we should follow...him?"
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Code Exodus. In her mind, Rosie sighed in relief. She knew she could count on Cortianna.
The injured border collie sprinted through the halls, her blood littering the ground afterwards. She knew taht Corti was more than capable of keeping up with her...and the section of escape tunnels that she had specified for the two of them were essentially a heavily warded labyrinth. Anyone who didn't know where they were going were bound to find themselves in a world of hurt...
Japancakes.
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"Bah, I am sure the sentient lizard... thing can do stuff on his own..." 2.0 muttered, dusting off his armour in the obssesive way he had been doing even in the other 'universe'. "You can, I guess, but I personally am gonna hang out up here."
"Well," Moonscribe said, looking carefully around at them all and then settling on Essex. "I think it would be an excellent idea for you to accompany Vern on this mission, Essex. Wait. . . do I have any way of knowing that? If not, please do tell me your name so I have an excuse. . ."
"At any rate, I really should remain here. It seems foolish for the leader of a Resistance movement to come in person on a simple rescue mission. Besides, I am here through my Disciple, and he is really not that effective in combat. . ."
Experiment glanced at Moonscribe with a face of utter confusion. "Wait... You... You think it is a good idea for a little girl to follow a sentient lizard on a mission in a hostile enviroment?! Are you totally insane? Does your ability to somehow know everything not include the ages of children who could seriously be hurt on these types of things?!"
John sighed, closed his eyes for a moment in thought... And nodded to himself. "Right. Fine. If she is going, I am going too. I don't think a talking lizard could really help against anything that someone would throw at us, and today seems pretty unpredictable."
OOC: Nothing in particular really. I was going to reference the encounter in the next massive post.
The soldier stared at the car with his arm outstretched. It wasnt often someone approached a check point and admitted to forgetting their I.D.
"Sir I'm going to have to ask you to either turn around and go back or find that identification. Im going to do you a favor since you sound out of town and not just arrest you where you sit."
((OOC: Okay. Just take it for granted that she gathered up anything of importance and went along with the soldiers, then. Thanks Commie. XD))
Essex's eyes widened. "You think I should go with him?" she asked unsurely. "Um..." She glanced over at Vern, marginally hesitantly.
Vern.
That is Vern. He's very nice and amazingly smart.
He knows Father.
"...You know my father, don't you?" she blurted out to Vern, without thinking about it. Scooting down from her seat, she trotted over, and tossed her arms around the dog-sized lizard's neck.
"I'll go with you if you want me to." she said. Turning her head towards Moonscribe, she inclined her head just barely.
"Yes..." she said. "Please...just...call me Essex."
Japancakes.
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Acid smirked. Now he'd see what sort of world Archlich had really created.
with the flick of a switch, the mirror effect on the windows vanished as the one-way opaque material repolarized, becoming transparent to both sides.
Acid just grined toothily as he spoke, the car's speaker system conveying his voice outside flawlessly, "Howdy, boys. Sorry, I'm afraid i don;t have any ID on me. Then again, even if I did, it probably wouldn't be the one you're looking for. I'd like to speak with your bos, the Over..."
He stopped for a moment, turning to Kefetasura, "Okay, seriously, was it magus or magnus now...?"
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"I do believe it's magus," Kefetasura said smiling widely at Acid, "Not that I imagine these apple-polishers would really care, since it is so very late at night and I imagine they're getting extremely tired," the demon giggled as he glanced down at the clock on the dashboard, "Why, look at that! It's so very close to nap time already!"
Acid sighed. Well, there went the easy way.
Or did it?
Within a few moments, he'd entered a few commands into the center console of the car, the interior of which looked more like a glass cockpit anyway.
SENECA's reply was quick and conclusive. It was a probability calculation. Compiled from data throught the World Empire, the probability returned the chances of what would happen if Acid let himself be arrested.
The readout listed them as being...
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"At any rate, I really should remain here. It seems foolish for the leader of a Resistance movement to come in person on a simple rescue mission. Besides, I am here through my Disciple, and he is really not that effective in combat. . ."
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"Rescue mission?" Vern questioned, somewhat befuddled, "Damn, don't tell me Archie already knows where the base is and there's someone there we have to save! Guess I'll have to ready a few bots then."
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"...You know my father, don't you?" she blurted out to Vern, without thinking about it. Scooting down from her seat, she trotted over, and tossed her arms around the dog-sized lizard's neck.
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"Er..."
Vern was caught at a lack of words as Essex clung to him. That was a new one. Or was it? Well, with Essex being human, anyway, it sure was.
"Well, I'm not sure to be honest. I know my version of Daniel if that's what you mean." he answered her, placing a wing about her. As it didn't look like she was going anywhere, he decided to lifte her on his back. At least she was light...almost too light. Still, an attentive observer would notice that the wing had nothing to grab onto her with. She just seemed kind of attached to it.
"Mr. Ballard," Vern turned once more to Experiment as he trotted out of the bridge, "I would appreciate if you'd stop calling me a lizard..."
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Acid sighed. Well, there went the easy way.
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((Just to clarify, and I realize now that I could have been more clear about this originally, but Kef didn't actually do anything. He was just offering a solution and guaging Acid's reaction to it.))
The guard waited patiently for another moment. Then he removed the outstretched hand, and with it the option of turning back. He nodded to the other guard manning the machine gun. He cocked the weapon and brought it to bear on the car. From the other side of the street a squad of Army of Steel soldiers approached the vehicle, weapons at the ready. The spoke through their simple vocoder.
"Stay where you are. You are placed under arrest by the Overmagnus."
With them a large, brutish man followed. He smiled as the malicious group approached the Ferrari.
((So what did the search bring up?))
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OOC: OH! I thought...I didnt know...oh. Well, I could just explain it here. Arrested, taken to a far off place, and interrogated. No 'Let me take you into my lair and leave you with my easily seduced mistress or incompetent lackies' thing. If I need to I can change to post, I dont think I've done anything that wouldnt happen anyways...
"Oh dear, my boy," Kefetasura said to Acid, "It does appear they've outsmarted us. I guess there's nothing left to do but surrender."
A tiny white flag appeared in his hand and he waved it quickly back and forth.
((That'll work. Oh man, that one about the easily seduced mistress just about made me fall out of my chair! ))
Acid scowled. Getting arrested sure wouldn't get him anywhere. Well, he'd tried the polite way.
"Too bad robots don't sleep." Acid nodded to Kefetasura, touching another screen.
Everyone in a fity meter radius suddenly lost the ground under their feet as gravity took a holiday. Any tread of a foor instantly propelled the thing or person it was attached to into the air. Any further movement only worsened the situation.
Acid figured it was a safe bet that Archie's troops weren't trained in zero-g combat. Still, he decided not to wait around and see.
"Hold on." he grinned to the purple demon in the passeenger seat, stepping on the gas.
The car roared and lurched forward, the gate blockng the road screaming apart with the squeal of overstressed metal, parting into a hole slightly bigger than the vehicle's cross-section. if a later analysis wa performed, it would reveal the gate had been force apart by a powerful magnetic field.
As Acid and Kefetasura left the scene, the car took its gravy reversion with it. Andything in the air was rudely recalled to the ground, gravity decideing it was going to work after all...
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Kefetasura waved at the troopers with a manic smile as the car flew away, laughing in utter delight at the confusion below.
Of course, the troopers below would never have noticed. As far as they could tell Kefetasura and Acid had stormed out of the car with guns blazing. Unfortunately for the soldiers, they thought their robot allies were the bullet-sprayng Kefetasura and Acid.
The demon sighed happily.
"Nothing like a little Mass Confusion to cover a retreat," he said whimsically. "I also managed to find out what the guards look for to spot fake ID's. It's possible we could use that knowledge to make our own ID cards. Of course, heir is a computer scane, so to complete the deception we're going to have to plant files in their systems that match the stories the ID's tell. That part I can't help you with. I'm afraid I'm not what you'd call computer savvy.
"This is all, of course, assuming that you'd be interested in that kind of thing," he said with a casual wave of the hand and a grin. He then looked out behind them to see what was going on with his minature pandemonium.
((Edited for sake of clarity))
((Aw man, Hal, that reminded me SO much of person Man!
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"Hm, I can't say I'm pleased you came." Acid admitted, "I'd much have preferred it had you gone with Vern for exactly that reason. I'm not exactly an expert when it comes to planets, but I think you would have benefited the most from where he's going."
Acid sighed, then smirked to the demon, "Well, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you're going to stay no matter what I say anyway. Hm...I wonder how long before there's a roadblock...?"
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"That's a big wilco." SENECA replied, "I'll grab him at the same time as you guys then. That should avoid confusion as muc as possible..."
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