Energon X had observed the arrival of the others from his post high above the Council Base entrance, but had decided not to interfere- there wasn't a lot Dax could do to Dennis, after all, given that the phantasm was already dead.
He shrugged. Most of the team seemed to be there, and the others were off doing their own thing, as far as he could tell from the snippets of conversation on the team channel. "We don't have time for this. Stand clear of the door, please. I'm going to knock." he said bluntly.
He gave a slow tencount, letting his energies build as he waited patiently. Then, once he judged enough time had elapsed, he released his powers. A blue-white dot appeared about a hundred yards from the entryway, revealing the cloaked Blaster's position. Then, with a roar like worlds exploding, a thermic lance of energy smashed into the doorway, a column of raw force thundering against the reinforced doorway as stubborn matter waged abrupt war with the cosmic forces determined to rip them asunder.
The door being quite thoroughly slagged, Energon X did a fast tactical scan of the visible entryway and the extremely startled Council troops that could be dimly seen through the opening. "Knock, knock." he called down. His voice didn't even get to echo before it was drowned out by the whistling roar of an LRM Rocket being fired, and the entry hallway was swept clear in an orgy of fire and destruction.
"Enemies that way, Greenie LaGoof." he called to the Bishop-ized Dax, pointing at the Council Base whose front door was now a dully-glowing slump of slag. "Time is running out, and he's berserking. Best let him take the lead now that the pathway is open." he said over the team channel. As he glided swiftly downwards, he opened a private channel to Martin. "Sorry about the lack of warning, but I've seen this kind of state before. If we don't turn him loose, there's about a 60-40 chance that he'd kill us all, or at least try to. And we don't have time for that!"
"A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head." Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates
MA Arcs: #12285, "Small Fears", #106553, "Trollbane", #12669, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising"
Meanwhile, a familiar figure had just exited a manhole about a block away from Energon X's position.
"Ach, this is going to stain my best laboratory coat!"
The crystals retracted themselves, whether they had hit Martin was unknown, as Dax turned toward the now open door. He smiled once again, "BATTLE!"
Dax charged through the door flinging crystals with his left hand while slashing at the enemies with his right. The energy around him interfered with their energy weapons and their dampening armor.
I do not know my reasons for posting, but post I must. ~~Build
"We can't stop here, this is bat country."
--Johnny Depp
"I ain't bi-curious, I'm a man. Why do you think I'm wearing this tight spandex and got all these muscles?" Meatwad
Dark shadows covered the holes Dax had placed in Martin's chest. That stung a little...
"You sonova..." he grunted as he stepped forward to do something to the rampaging monster, but Energon X's communication in his ear stopped him.
"Dammit!" he shouted as he jammed a green-fluid-filled syringe into his leg, closing the holes in his body almost immediately, "Next time I see him go nuts like that, I'm breaking his head off and using it as a bowling ball. Somebody warn him of that, 'cause I ain't sayin' it twice!"
Watching Dax storm into the facility, he shook his head and looked up to Energon X before shouting.
"Now, who the Hell said we were supposed to attack? Who gave that freak the go-ahead to go all Terminator on us? I sure as Hell didn't. I don't remember saying anything about fighting! I don't even remember any discussion on the matter!"
A series of expletives followed, but only because Martin knew he was out of options. There was nothing left to do but sit back, and wait for Dax to tire himself out and get shot to [dreck].
My Stories
Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.
((Sorry man, things just kinda happened that way. Anybody else thinking Diov is gonna put me through the wringer?))
*Slash* *Slash* *Parry* *Crunch* *Slash* Dax laughed as the ice bullets the counsil fired smacked into his chest making him frost covered. He roughly jerked one of the soldiers forward and planted a foot into his chin snapping his head back.
I do not know my reasons for posting, but post I must. ~~Build
"We can't stop here, this is bat country."
--Johnny Depp
"I ain't bi-curious, I'm a man. Why do you think I'm wearing this tight spandex and got all these muscles?" Meatwad
((It's okay. I don't live through my characters. I can be angry something happened, but it's a game and a story with multiple player authors (wow, weird concept). I can get over it fast and learn how to deal with it.
Also, in case you're wondering what Martin's expletives were like, I suggest partaking in the film Boondock Saints and watching Rocco's reaction to finding out his best friends have slaughtered the invading Russian syndicate leaders.))
My Stories
Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.
Energon X landed next to the team and decloaked. "Well... not exactly a textbook assault, but it'll do." his synthetic voice observed drily. "In the meantime, we'd better follow him in."
At Martin's comment, he glanced back, eerie yellow flames under a black hood drilling into the homeless-looking man's eyes. "Waiting for him to shred or be shredded would be fine, except for one thing. The City Rep's still in there, remember? Won't do us much good if our only lead gets decapitated by one of us before we can rescue her, even if she has been suborned." The Blaster faded from view again.
"Besides which, isn't it a cardinal rule of warfare not to leave your flank exposed? If we leave this many Council running around in an emergency of this magnitude, it will undoubtedly come back to bite us... or shoot us, as the case may be... later."
"A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head." Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates
MA Arcs: #12285, "Small Fears", #106553, "Trollbane", #12669, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising"
((Don't worries, I'm not gonna wring you.
I'm am curious though.
WHICH Council are you attacking?
The base with the City Rep in it has a camoflaged entrance disguised like a cargo container and has a single soldier with a walkie talkie outside of it.
Schwarzherz and his gang are in the old Freedom Phalanx H.Q. That has reinforced doors.
So WHICH Council base are we all at? Because at the present moment it looks to me like you're chasing after smarmy the dark uber-German Ing-thing rather than your main objective. Not that that's bad, it's just somewhat confusing as to WHY you're doing it.))
((I was under the impression that Karl had given us an exact location for the Council Base (yes, that's where we are). I went for the 'main entrance', because the 'soldier with the walkie talkie' was said to be at... well, here, found the post-
[ QUOTE ]
The Council Soldier walked out of the cargo container that was really the disguised secondary entrance, and surveyed his surroundings.
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He was at a secondary entrance, which I assumed would be around back and not necessarily something Karl would know about. That's why I ignored him and said I was shooting the 'front door'))
"A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head." Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates
MA Arcs: #12285, "Small Fears", #106553, "Trollbane", #12669, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising"
"Loveable scamp, ain't he?" Dusan rhetorically asked, watching as Dax redirected his bloodlust to the poor Council troops inside the base.
Dennis gave a huff and crossed his arms. "So long as he doesn't try to start any conflict. I mean, we told him we were allies, and he still attacked!" Dennis was still clearly worked up about the previous situation, and wasn't going to take kindly to Dax in the future.
"Oh Yeah looks like Dax is using my favorite strategy, B&S!!!"
Bladewing charged in after Dax, dodging bullets and flames, slicing left and right, turning Council to corpses, and laughing all the while.
((B&S = break and slaughter..as opposed to B&E breaking and entering.))
"You, dear sir, are a legend. "- nelly. "PIE DOESN'T HAVE TENTACLES!"
Bladewing Draconian lvl 30 KAT/SR scrapper
DarkNinjutsu lvl 50 DM/REG scrapper
Dajoji Hino lvl 50 elm/ela scrapper
Bloody Byakko lvl 20 claws/sr scrapper
Dennis sighed and averted his eyes to the ground. "Being a hero is just a license to kill for some, huh?" The question was aimed at those around him, namely Dusan and Hobo Ned.
((They're in the old Freedom Phalanx HQ? Isn't Reichsman still buried in cryo-stasis under there?
EDIT to actually post an action/reaction...))
Martin glared back at Energon X.
"Then we should have stopped him before blowing the door open," he grunted back, "There was still a chance we could have talked to these idiots. Not everybody needs to have the sense knocked into 'em. Now, we've got nothing but a fight on our hands, and if they do have the City Rep, they're most definitely gonna use her as a hostage instead of a bargaining chip."
He grumbled a little as he rubbed his furrowed brow.
"This coulda' been so much easier."
My Stories
Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.
((I'm posting while I'm totally exhausted. Again. You'd think I would know better by now >.>
Apologies if any of the following makes sense. Er... doesn't make sense.))
The Blaster stared at Martin for a long moment. "Talked. Just... talked. To the Council." He shook his head in disbelief, leaning a little to the left as a stray grenade whistled past his head and exploded somewhere behind him. "You'll excuse me if I don't share your optimism. The last three times I 'just talked' with the Council, I woke up in one of their holding cells. Thankfully for me, they haven't figured out yet that the bent cop selling them power dampening drugs is actually a Freedom Corps plant and has been selling them sugar water."
He shook his head again, raising a casual-looking hand to paste a Council trooper peeking around the corner in the face, knocking the luckless ubermensch back into the base, unconscious. "They would have used the City Rep as a hostage anyways. It's literally a part of their standard operating procedures. This way is easier, because they can't spare a full security detail to guard her while Greengoon and Bladecrazy are attempting to puree their men."
He looked from Dusan to Martin. "In fact... kid, you can work illusions, right?" he asked Dusan. "Can you get us inside undetected? Or, well, Mr. Sanders and yourself, at least. I can hide in plain sight just fine on my own." he finished, suiting actions to words and fading from sight. He took off at speed, carefully mapping the Council facility unseen and transmitting the data to the HUDs of his teammates.
"A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head." Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates
MA Arcs: #12285, "Small Fears", #106553, "Trollbane", #12669, "How to Survive a Robot Uprising"
"I can 'convince' them that we're not here, er, that is, manipulate their souls to make sure they pay us no mind, but I can't literally conceal us." He replied. "If I couple that with a few decoys, as I like to call them, then we should be golden. Dennis can phase in and out of existance as he pleases now that I've tied him back to the physical realm, so he shouldn't have a problem."
"God damn capes don't know how ta pull off an assault without blowing everythin' to hell," spat Ghoul as he sat back and watched the aftermath of Dax and Bladewing going all out. "God damn stupid masks that don' know a thing about power discipline."
Growling in annoyance and frustration, Ghoul rounded on Martin and the other two capes and jabbed a finger at them.
"We goin' in or what? We can be just as invisible if we let the idiots take the flak while we sneak around another side."
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.
Martin shook his head at Energon's limited view. He knew what the extent of his "talking" with those other Council cells actually was. In fact, he'd done the same thing numerous times. His Freedom Corps Liaison, Agent Wild, had a certain dark spot in his heart for the Council, and he usually sent him and a former mole to kick the tar out of the fascists.
He shook his head sadly. Things had progressed much too quickly out of control.
"You're right," he grumbled, "About getting the City Rep."
He wrapped himself inside that strange shadow cloak he'd learned to use fairly recently. Sometimes, he forgot he even had it.
He didn't like it. The world turned so gray while he was in it and the heat seemed to leave the world. Darkness got some light to it, but at the cost of light losing some of its brightness. Everything was held in a perpetual twilight.
"If we can get any other stealth users in there, it'll be very useful. Glass-spike can keep the Council soldiers distracted, we'll look for the Rep."
He scratched his chin, not that anybody could see him do it.
"Maybe we should have taken the other entrance... The one that Mort told us about..."
((EDIT: Dammit...))
"Okay," he grunted when Brutish Ghoul rounded on him, "You want to lead the way, maybe supplement the spike-fiend down there?"
My Stories
Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.
Dusan nonverbally declared neutrality, and stepped away from what he predicted would be an argument.
Dennis, however, did have an opinion on the matter. "The time to be stealthy is over, I'd say. Bladewing and Dax have pretty much got the Council's attention right now, so if we were to go in now, I'm fairly certain they'd deal with the guys tearing them to shreds before they guys just walking through."
He shrugged.
"But that's just my personal opinion. Whatever we decide on, we need to decide on it quickly."
Dax hacked and slashed at more of the coucil soldiers. He looked to his right at Bladewing, "Don't tell no body, man. That was all just an act. . . .*Crunch* I got bored standing around. . .*Crack* I tried to tell you guys when this all got started I'm dangerous when I'm bored"
Dax brought his fist back and turned it into a pillar of bladed spikes before he jabbed it into one of the soldiers stomach. He looked over and saw a red light floating between Bladewings eyes. Dax roughly threw an arm up in front of Bladewings face and heard a satisfying TINK! as the bullet bounced off his arm. "You owe me a coke for that one."
I do not know my reasons for posting, but post I must. ~~Build
"We can't stop here, this is bat country."
--Johnny Depp
"I ain't bi-curious, I'm a man. Why do you think I'm wearing this tight spandex and got all these muscles?" Meatwad
"Eh, I won't tell anyone and I don't mind owing you a coke...maybe by the end of this I can have you owing me a beer!"
Bladewing dashed forward and around a corner, then came multiple screams, slicing sounds, and splashes of blood.
Then Bladewing walked back around the corner.
"Well I'm up about 50 kills, you had better hurry if you want to catch up Dax!"
With a grin Bladewing ran back around the corner.
"You, dear sir, are a legend. "- nelly. "PIE DOESN'T HAVE TENTACLES!"
Bladewing Draconian lvl 30 KAT/SR scrapper
DarkNinjutsu lvl 50 DM/REG scrapper
Dajoji Hino lvl 50 elm/ela scrapper
Bloody Byakko lvl 20 claws/sr scrapper
((I've been confused about where the task force was heading for some time. That's why I dropped Darkvapor on Schwarez))
There was a howling sound.
And then the air around Energon X began to crystalize .
The aparrent source of this was the little man in the white and blue battle armor a few meters away.
"Ach, you annoying liiitle heroes!"
All throughout the Council base, alarm klaxons blared.
Salvatore, double checking to make sure the Archon's door WAS locked and barricaded, started shouting orders.
"Seal off sections one through five, position squads A through L at the centra complex, send killing sqauds into the corridors, seal off sections ten and eleven and send squads M through P to the mud room between..."
The Council soldier, still at the Cargo Container, heard the alarm klaxons, but remained at his post.
His orders were simple. If he saw anybody coming, alert the base via the Walkie Talkie. Easy. They had even given him a nifty pair of IR goggles so he could see cloaked enemies approaching. Now though, his head was turned back towards the container in surprise as the klaxons rang, although the Walkie Talkie was still pressed to his ear...
"One sec, cape," Ghoul replied as he spotted something. "You remember that old guy?"
Ghoul took a moment to draw Martin's attention to the mad scientist before bounding towards the man.
"Hey! Old fart!" Ghoul shouted as he took one last jump and came down towards Klaus, feet first. "CATCH!"
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.
((EDIT: fricking Hell...))
My Stories
Look at that. A full-grown woman pulling off pigtails. Her crazy is off the charts.
Dax smiled as his head pulled a full 180 degree turn and stared into Martin's face, "Battle?" was all that was said before dozens of crystaline spikes erupted toward Martin's chest and stomach. "Allies?" If Martin had taken the time to look closer he would have realized Dax had completely changed from earlier. He was now a war machine without a foe. Oh well at least he has allies to break.
I do not know my reasons for posting, but post I must. ~~Build
"We can't stop here, this is bat country."
--Johnny Depp
"I ain't bi-curious, I'm a man. Why do you think I'm wearing this tight spandex and got all these muscles?" Meatwad