Meanwhile, Ellie and Inago had entered a large cavern. As they carefully advanced, they spotted a large group of Malta agents ahead, including a Hercules Titan. Grabbing Ellies hand, Inago pulled her back for a hurried discussion. Ellie-Chan, can you take that mech?
A small smile crept onto Ellies face and she nodded slowly, That I can little one.
Inago looked at her closely, puzzled by the odd change in her speech, uh, OK. You take the mech then, Ill concentrate on the sapper. Then well take down whatevers nearest, right?
Ellie nodded slowly, the glow in her eyes flaring ever brighter. Then, stepping back from Inago, energy rippled over her body and the ground trembled as she transformed to Kurukt, the White Dwarf. Inago hopped backwards, startled at her sudden transformation, Jeez, warn a guy when youre going to do that, will you?
With an almost disdainful gesture, Ellie turned to face the Malta agents; then Inago heard a single word in his mind, Go!
At that, Ellie vanished in a burst of light and energy, only to reappear behind the Hercules titan, and immediately slam her massive claws into its back.
With a wild yell of Banzai!, Inago leapt after her, ploughing into the surprised group of agents, and headed directly for the sapper. As he slammed into the sapper agent, crippling him with a kick to the solar plexus, Ellie roared with rage and slammed her massive foot into the ground, channelling a huge burst of energy through the floor and knocked the herc and the other agents to the ground.
As the herc went down, she doubled her fists and delivered a massive hammer blow to the central chassis of the mech, smashing through its outer casing. Quickly, she continued her assault and ripped through the damaged area to the machinery inside. Grasping a claws worth of components, she ripped them free and the mech fell limp, the whine of its servos fading as she severed the connections to its power plant.
Turning from the downed mech, she saw Inago finishing with the sapper and immediately moving to take down the gunslinger. Grunting with confidence at his prowess, she turned to face an operations engineer, just as he armed a turret and leapt away from the hail of bullets that slammed into Ellies armoured hide.
Inago turned at the sound of the turret opening fire, just as the gunslinger he was fighting dropped to the ground, unconscious. Ellie-Chan! Coiling his powerful legs, he leapt over Ellie as she was driven back by the hail of bullets. Landing lightly behind the turret, he aimed a crippling axe kick at it, smashing it with a single blow. With a loud blast, the turret exploded, throwing Inago back to crash painfully into the wall.
Roaring in rage, Ellie dropped from the dwarf form, powering her shields as she did so, and summoned her photon seekers to take care of the last of the enemy as she rushed to Inagos side. Humming loudly, the three seekers darted towards the last group of Malta and detonated, throwing their bodies in all directions. One slammed into a wall, straight into an alarm signal. Instantly, a loud klaxon blared into life, accompanied by a synthesised voice Intruder Alert! All forces to ready stations! Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert!
Ellie swore as she knelt by Inagos still form. Placing her hands to his head and chest, she concentrated and a pulse of healing energy flowed from her hands and into his body. With a loud gasp, Inagos eyes snapped open, Itai! What the hell hit me?
Helping Inago to his feet, Ellie spoke, You forgot Inago, turrets explode when damaged. Please be more careful in future. Now, the alarm has been raised so we must proceed faster. Turning her head to look down the corridor, Ellie sniffed. This way, I smell Jo.
Swearing in Japanese, Inago nodded and the both headed deeper into the complex, Ellie following a familiar scent.
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Back in the control room, Jess cursed as the alarm started to sound. She turned away from the now unconscious forms of Langdon and Harding and headed to the control console. Looking quickly over the myriad array of controls, she swore softly. Dammit Ellie, where are you when I need you?
Sighing deeply, she reached into her magic pouch and fished out one of her few admissions to technomagic; a small device, a mixture of scrying tablet and what could only be described as something resembling a star trek tricorder. Muttering the spell to activate it, she passed it over the controls, watching the runes form on its screen as it scanned the equipment it was passed over.
Finally, the devices screen glowed green as it identified the control to shut down the alarm. Reaching out to the identified control, Jess hit the switch and the klaxon died. Sighing in relief, she reset her device to scan the bases computer system for information on Jos whereabouts.
Images flickered over its screen and then finally, a view of a security cell appeared. Crumpled in the corner, seemingly unconscious, lay Jo. Jess quickly called up the location of the cell and called to Ellie through their bond. Ellie, Ive found her. Shes held in the security cells in the southernmost cave system. Im going to wipe their systems here and meet you there.
We are on our way. Came the reply.
Frowning slightly at the odd way Ellie had phrased her reply, Jess set her scrying device on top of the computer console, and muttered another spell. Immediately, the device began to glow a deep red as it began to access and wipe the mainframe, storing a copy of the data as it went. A few seconds later, a low chime came from the device as it finished its work, and the lights in the entire complex went out, the hum of the ventilation system stopping as all power in the base was cut off.
A few seconds later, emergency lighting flickered on, then steadied into a dim red glow. Making sure the two bosses were still out cold, Jess turned and left the control centre, picking up her scrying pad as she left and returned it to her pouch. Then she turned invisible as she headed through the tunnel leading to the detention cells.
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Ellie and Inago paused as the lights went out around them. Muttering a curse, Inago shielded his eyes from the bright glow surrounding Ellie, Hey light bulb, hit the dimmer switch will ya?
Ellie frowned at Inago, then the glow surrounding her faded out, leaving only her eyes glowing brightly, lighting the tunnel. Then the emergency lighting system kicked into life.
Looks like Jess-Chan has taken out the base control systems, thats good!
Ellie nodded, She has located Jo, in the southernmost caves, just around this corner. She will join us in a moment.
Nodding, Inago replied, Wed better wait here for her.
Ellie didnt reply, but instead sat on the floor, crossing her legs and closing her eyes. As they waited, Inago looked worriedly at Ellie; something had obviously happened, she was acting so strangely! But what?
A few minutes later, Inagos keen hearing picked up a soft footfall, and Jess faded into view. You two OK?
Inago nodded at Jess, Im fine, Ellie-Chan though Shes acting a bit weird.
Jess frowned and moved next to Ellie, putting a hand on her shoulder, Ellie?
At her touch, Ellie rose to her feet in a single fluid motion, Come, we must hurry; Jo needs us.
After a second of observing Ellie, Jess nodded, Youre right, lets finish this.
Moving to Ellies side, the three stepped into the final chamber before the cellblock. At the back of the room, stood another Hercules titan, and a large group of both Malta and Crey operatives.
The gunslinger at the front of the group spotted them immediately, There they are! Open fire, we cant let them have the woman!
Unhitching his rifle, the sapper immediately took aim and fired a blast at Jess, in virtually the same motion; she muttered a quick incantation and raised her hands. As the sapper beam reached her, a dispersion bubble sprang into being around the group. The beam slammed into it and was deflected away in a wild coruscation of energy.
As the beam was deflected, both Inago and Ellie leapt into battle. Inago reached the gunslinger scant seconds before Ellie, and with a spinning kick to the wrist, disarmed him. As the kick landed, there was an audible crunch and the gunslinger screeched and dropped to his knees, clutching his shattered wrist in agony.
Ellie charged forwards, her face a mask of fury, and as she leapt over Inago, she transformed with a huge surge of energy into the form of Mefnanim, the Bright Nova. As her almost squid-like form slowed above the group of villains, a huge surge of energy rippled from her form and a blast of energy smashed into the centre of the group, scattering them like pins. Then, with a twitch of her tail, multiple bolts of energy fired into the still downed villains, knocking many of them senseless. As some of them tried to regain their footing, she fired further bolts of energy into them, disabling two more, before shifting back to human form and ploughing into those remaining, a feral snarl on her lips.
Jess paused for a second, astounded at Ellies ferocity, before shifting her attention to the Cryo Tank that was taking a bead on her position. Quickly summoning her singularity, she bid it move forward between her and the tank just as he fired. Quickly, the singularity dashed forwards and absorbed the blast of ice intended for Jess, then it cast a hold against the tank, lifting him into the air and holding him harmless as it increased gravity around him in a crushing field of force.
Inago, meanwhile, was busy dealing with the two Voltaic Tanks that had decided to remove him from the equation. As one fired a blast of electricity at him, he ducked and swept the legs of the other out from under him. With a loud clatter of armour against the stone floor of the cavern, the tank crashed into the floor and Inago was upon him in a second, aiming a crippling axe kick at the mans head before leaping off, arms outstretched, right into the gut of the second tank.
Catching hold of the tankers arms as he barrelled into him, Inago swung him over his shoulder the moment his feet hit the ground, using the momentum from his leap. As he arced over Inagos head, Inago executed a back-flip and rammed his feet straight to the tankers gut, slamming him into the ceiling of the cave and putting him out of commission.
Dropping to his feet in a half crouch, he swivelled just in time to see Jess taking out a couple of tactical operatives. Jess-Chan! Everything good?
Trying to catch her breath after having been kicked in the stomach, Jess nodded, Wh wheres Ellie?
As she spoke, an ear splitting scream of rage rattled the very walls of the chamber. Ellie had engaged the Hercules titan in head on combat, and this time, without the advantage of surprise. Taking a direct hit from a salvo of missiles, she staggered back, but dug her feet into the ground, tearing a long furrow as the missiles battered her backwards. Spitting blood and with energy flaring wildly, she leapt at the mech, energy claws fully extended, and tore into it.
Seconds later, a large explosion rocked the room, staggering Jess and Inago, as the herc exploded. As the blast echoed through the chamber, a bright ball of light streaked past Jess and slammed into the wall, leaving an appreciable crater, and the light flickered out. Rushing over to the smoking hole, a horrified look on her face, Jess looked inside.
Inside, Ellie was trying to get to her feet. Smoke was rising from her singed fur as the armour coating hung in tatters about her. Blood was flowing freely from a cut in her forehead and soot caked her face.
Coughing and spitting blood, Ellie clambered from the hole in the wall, Jess helping her. As she climbed back to the floor of the chamber, a bright green glow surrounded her, and the cut to her head sealed itself.
Jess, worried for her lover, fussed around her, checking for further injuries, Ellie, are you alright? What the hell do you think you were doing, taking that thing on alone!? You could have been killed!
Taking hold of Jesss arms for a moment to still her fussing, Ellie looked her in the eye, I did what needed to be done, and I am fine. Come, Jo needs us.
Nodding at Inago, she stepped away from Jess and moved to the rear of the chamber, to the cellblock, leaving both of them with stunned expressions on their faces. Glancing at each other, as if to say What the hell?, they quietly followed her.
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Why do you allways do seperate threads? Why not do 3 seperate posts on the same thread so it's easier to read?
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Cause it makes for too big an thread, and last time I did it, people moaned.
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Meanwhile, Ellie and Inago had entered a large cavern. As they carefully advanced, they spotted a large group of Malta agents ahead, including a Hercules Titan. Grabbing Ellies hand, Inago pulled her back for a hurried discussion. Ellie-Chan, can you take that mech?
A small smile crept onto Ellies face and she nodded slowly, That I can little one.
Inago looked at her closely, puzzled by the odd change in her speech, uh, OK. You take the mech then, Ill concentrate on the sapper. Then well take down whatevers nearest, right?
Ellie nodded slowly, the glow in her eyes flaring ever brighter. Then, stepping back from Inago, energy rippled over her body and the ground trembled as she transformed to Kurukt, the White Dwarf. Inago hopped backwards, startled at her sudden transformation, Jeez, warn a guy when youre going to do that, will you?
With an almost disdainful gesture, Ellie turned to face the Malta agents; then Inago heard a single word in his mind, Go!
At that, Ellie vanished in a burst of light and energy, only to reappear behind the Hercules titan, and immediately slam her massive claws into its back.
With a wild yell of Banzai!, Inago leapt after her, ploughing into the surprised group of agents, and headed directly for the sapper. As he slammed into the sapper agent, crippling him with a kick to the solar plexus, Ellie roared with rage and slammed her massive foot into the ground, channelling a huge burst of energy through the floor and knocked the herc and the other agents to the ground.
As the herc went down, she doubled her fists and delivered a massive hammer blow to the central chassis of the mech, smashing through its outer casing. Quickly, she continued her assault and ripped through the damaged area to the machinery inside. Grasping a claws worth of components, she ripped them free and the mech fell limp, the whine of its servos fading as she severed the connections to its power plant.
Turning from the downed mech, she saw Inago finishing with the sapper and immediately moving to take down the gunslinger. Grunting with confidence at his prowess, she turned to face an operations engineer, just as he armed a turret and leapt away from the hail of bullets that slammed into Ellies armoured hide.
Inago turned at the sound of the turret opening fire, just as the gunslinger he was fighting dropped to the ground, unconscious. Ellie-Chan! Coiling his powerful legs, he leapt over Ellie as she was driven back by the hail of bullets. Landing lightly behind the turret, he aimed a crippling axe kick at it, smashing it with a single blow. With a loud blast, the turret exploded, throwing Inago back to crash painfully into the wall.
Roaring in rage, Ellie dropped from the dwarf form, powering her shields as she did so, and summoned her photon seekers to take care of the last of the enemy as she rushed to Inagos side. Humming loudly, the three seekers darted towards the last group of Malta and detonated, throwing their bodies in all directions. One slammed into a wall, straight into an alarm signal. Instantly, a loud klaxon blared into life, accompanied by a synthesised voice Intruder Alert! All forces to ready stations! Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert!
Ellie swore as she knelt by Inagos still form. Placing her hands to his head and chest, she concentrated and a pulse of healing energy flowed from her hands and into his body. With a loud gasp, Inagos eyes snapped open, Itai! What the hell hit me?
Helping Inago to his feet, Ellie spoke, You forgot Inago, turrets explode when damaged. Please be more careful in future. Now, the alarm has been raised so we must proceed faster. Turning her head to look down the corridor, Ellie sniffed. This way, I smell Jo.
Swearing in Japanese, Inago nodded and the both headed deeper into the complex, Ellie following a familiar scent.
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Back in the control room, Jess cursed as the alarm started to sound. She turned away from the now unconscious forms of Langdon and Harding and headed to the control console. Looking quickly over the myriad array of controls, she swore softly. Dammit Ellie, where are you when I need you?
Sighing deeply, she reached into her magic pouch and fished out one of her few admissions to technomagic; a small device, a mixture of scrying tablet and what could only be described as something resembling a star trek tricorder. Muttering the spell to activate it, she passed it over the controls, watching the runes form on its screen as it scanned the equipment it was passed over.
Finally, the devices screen glowed green as it identified the control to shut down the alarm. Reaching out to the identified control, Jess hit the switch and the klaxon died. Sighing in relief, she reset her device to scan the bases computer system for information on Jos whereabouts.
Images flickered over its screen and then finally, a view of a security cell appeared. Crumpled in the corner, seemingly unconscious, lay Jo. Jess quickly called up the location of the cell and called to Ellie through their bond. Ellie, Ive found her. Shes held in the security cells in the southernmost cave system. Im going to wipe their systems here and meet you there.
We are on our way. Came the reply.
Frowning slightly at the odd way Ellie had phrased her reply, Jess set her scrying device on top of the computer console, and muttered another spell. Immediately, the device began to glow a deep red as it began to access and wipe the mainframe, storing a copy of the data as it went. A few seconds later, a low chime came from the device as it finished its work, and the lights in the entire complex went out, the hum of the ventilation system stopping as all power in the base was cut off.
A few seconds later, emergency lighting flickered on, then steadied into a dim red glow. Making sure the two bosses were still out cold, Jess turned and left the control centre, picking up her scrying pad as she left and returned it to her pouch. Then she turned invisible as she headed through the tunnel leading to the detention cells.
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Ellie and Inago paused as the lights went out around them. Muttering a curse, Inago shielded his eyes from the bright glow surrounding Ellie, Hey light bulb, hit the dimmer switch will ya?
Ellie frowned at Inago, then the glow surrounding her faded out, leaving only her eyes glowing brightly, lighting the tunnel. Then the emergency lighting system kicked into life.
Looks like Jess-Chan has taken out the base control systems, thats good!
Ellie nodded, She has located Jo, in the southernmost caves, just around this corner. She will join us in a moment.
Nodding, Inago replied, Wed better wait here for her.
Ellie didnt reply, but instead sat on the floor, crossing her legs and closing her eyes. As they waited, Inago looked worriedly at Ellie; something had obviously happened, she was acting so strangely! But what?
A few minutes later, Inagos keen hearing picked up a soft footfall, and Jess faded into view. You two OK?
Inago nodded at Jess, Im fine, Ellie-Chan though Shes acting a bit weird.
Jess frowned and moved next to Ellie, putting a hand on her shoulder, Ellie?
At her touch, Ellie rose to her feet in a single fluid motion, Come, we must hurry; Jo needs us.
After a second of observing Ellie, Jess nodded, Youre right, lets finish this.
Moving to Ellies side, the three stepped into the final chamber before the cellblock. At the back of the room, stood another Hercules titan, and a large group of both Malta and Crey operatives.
The gunslinger at the front of the group spotted them immediately, There they are! Open fire, we cant let them have the woman!
Unhitching his rifle, the sapper immediately took aim and fired a blast at Jess, in virtually the same motion; she muttered a quick incantation and raised her hands. As the sapper beam reached her, a dispersion bubble sprang into being around the group. The beam slammed into it and was deflected away in a wild coruscation of energy.
As the beam was deflected, both Inago and Ellie leapt into battle. Inago reached the gunslinger scant seconds before Ellie, and with a spinning kick to the wrist, disarmed him. As the kick landed, there was an audible crunch and the gunslinger screeched and dropped to his knees, clutching his shattered wrist in agony.
Ellie charged forwards, her face a mask of fury, and as she leapt over Inago, she transformed with a huge surge of energy into the form of Mefnanim, the Bright Nova. As her almost squid-like form slowed above the group of villains, a huge surge of energy rippled from her form and a blast of energy smashed into the centre of the group, scattering them like pins. Then, with a twitch of her tail, multiple bolts of energy fired into the still downed villains, knocking many of them senseless. As some of them tried to regain their footing, she fired further bolts of energy into them, disabling two more, before shifting back to human form and ploughing into those remaining, a feral snarl on her lips.
Jess paused for a second, astounded at Ellies ferocity, before shifting her attention to the Cryo Tank that was taking a bead on her position. Quickly summoning her singularity, she bid it move forward between her and the tank just as he fired. Quickly, the singularity dashed forwards and absorbed the blast of ice intended for Jess, then it cast a hold against the tank, lifting him into the air and holding him harmless as it increased gravity around him in a crushing field of force.
Inago, meanwhile, was busy dealing with the two Voltaic Tanks that had decided to remove him from the equation. As one fired a blast of electricity at him, he ducked and swept the legs of the other out from under him. With a loud clatter of armour against the stone floor of the cavern, the tank crashed into the floor and Inago was upon him in a second, aiming a crippling axe kick at the mans head before leaping off, arms outstretched, right into the gut of the second tank.
Catching hold of the tankers arms as he barrelled into him, Inago swung him over his shoulder the moment his feet hit the ground, using the momentum from his leap. As he arced over Inagos head, Inago executed a back-flip and rammed his feet straight to the tankers gut, slamming him into the ceiling of the cave and putting him out of commission.
Dropping to his feet in a half crouch, he swivelled just in time to see Jess taking out a couple of tactical operatives. Jess-Chan! Everything good?
Trying to catch her breath after having been kicked in the stomach, Jess nodded, Wh wheres Ellie?
As she spoke, an ear splitting scream of rage rattled the very walls of the chamber. Ellie had engaged the Hercules titan in head on combat, and this time, without the advantage of surprise. Taking a direct hit from a salvo of missiles, she staggered back, but dug her feet into the ground, tearing a long furrow as the missiles battered her backwards. Spitting blood and with energy flaring wildly, she leapt at the mech, energy claws fully extended, and tore into it.
Seconds later, a large explosion rocked the room, staggering Jess and Inago, as the herc exploded. As the blast echoed through the chamber, a bright ball of light streaked past Jess and slammed into the wall, leaving an appreciable crater, and the light flickered out. Rushing over to the smoking hole, a horrified look on her face, Jess looked inside.
Inside, Ellie was trying to get to her feet. Smoke was rising from her singed fur as the armour coating hung in tatters about her. Blood was flowing freely from a cut in her forehead and soot caked her face.
Coughing and spitting blood, Ellie clambered from the hole in the wall, Jess helping her. As she climbed back to the floor of the chamber, a bright green glow surrounded her, and the cut to her head sealed itself.
Jess, worried for her lover, fussed around her, checking for further injuries, Ellie, are you alright? What the hell do you think you were doing, taking that thing on alone!? You could have been killed!
Taking hold of Jesss arms for a moment to still her fussing, Ellie looked her in the eye, I did what needed to be done, and I am fine. Come, Jo needs us.
Nodding at Inago, she stepped away from Jess and moved to the rear of the chamber, to the cellblock, leaving both of them with stunned expressions on their faces. Glancing at each other, as if to say What the hell?, they quietly followed her.
@FloatingFatMan
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.