" hmm what oh ya just say when Sean " ..Rik pulls a strange dark green lumpy sphere about 15cm across , from his pocket ..it has one medium size blue button ...
"Well considering the distance.. as soon as it's bigger than the skyline." Sean smirked, knowing full well that was in a matter of moments, and no one could see him smirking.
"Rik.. give it a few moments your know when to do it, trust me."
Around Paragon
As the number of Heroes fighting off the endless waves of Bombbot, somehow not setting them off, above each battle hovered a Droni Drone watching the battle and waiting for something.
Catz had been quiet most of the meeting and the way there. Which is pretty unusual for her, but I digress, she was flying alongside the Helicopter listening into the conversation going on without the need for a coms, unless she was talking back.
"Sounds like a plan Sean. As long as we have a means to get in, I think I have that area covered"
Molly continued her flight alongside Sean's flyer, listening in on the whole convo.
I hope he knows what he's doing... she thought to herself as she readied her rifle. Something was telling her this could get a bit nasty. That, or something she'd eaten just wasn't quite agreeing with her today.
Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
Stuff
Time Remaining: 5 hours 37 mins
The group fastly came up on the Flying fortress, its main hull looked like a normal factory, for the first few floors then a muddy line split the building look from the lower more technology looking part, the giant fan mounts under it's under hull seem to give the lift and keep the whole thing airborn. Dotted over it's hull were the tell tale signs of damage and repair work, at one of the lower parts was still being repaired and was open to the air showing the two floors that the hole covered. near the front about halfway up was another hole, smaller but bigger enough for entry.
"Ok people we're almost ther.. huh. woah!" Sean bluted out as suddenly the whole fort seem to flicker before moving upwards, and away from them.
"Moving Fortress. How magical, like a Fairy Tale" Catz sighed and flew a little further ahead of the Helicopter, gaining some speed to see if outpacing them could get her a landing spot on the flying fortress.
As Infinitron closed in on the fortress, focusing in on a weak point from the Rikti attacks, he sped up; raising his fists infront of him as they began to glow - focusing in the latent energy he could tap into.
But as he got within 20 metres the fortress suddenly shifted, and the weak area of hull that he was aiming at became a slightly more solid looking area.
Too late to slow down or change direction, Infinitron merely focused all his energy into his fists and kicked his jets up a gear.
With an almighty crack, he made contact with the hull. Ripping a hole in the metal as he punched through, Infinitrons momentum took him through the corridor and throgh the next internal wall, but unfortunately straight into a bulkhead. Dazed and drained of energy, Infinitron slumped to the floor, muttering in his metallic drone,
"Knock knock"
Red Commissar glanced through the cockpits window glass watching Infinitron slam through the Fortresses Bulkhead, feeling the Helicopter Lurch as the AI made adjustments for the landing as the Fortresses it self began to move...
"Zat iz one vay to make entry, You alive down zhere or vhat? if you are, Ask Sean man vhere ve land and scout ahead..."
Sean watched Infinitron crash into the fortress's hull wall, he quickly shifted his flight plan to take him towards the far lower hole.
"Ok, thats odd.. it's almost as if the temporal phase it was under has suddenly gone, which is a worry." He said applying more power to the chasers engines so it could keep up with the now hovering upwards Fortress.
"Those heading for the Main Computer Core, follow Inf." he paused for a moment to adjust the chasers flight plan again "Those for the hostages, follow me."
Sean's Chaser hovered just by the large two floor hole at the lower most part of the hull, waiting for those to follow him in.
Inside the fortress
The lights were Infinitron has crashed into the bulkhead flickered for a moment before slowly coming from far down the corridor he was in, behind it's slideing door at the end came the sound of metal on metal footsteps, and a dronning hum of hover jets.
Rik , casual stepped out of the helicopter , impossibly he stood in midair for the few minutes it took him to strap on his flying pack ..with a ear spliting whine a geen glow errupted from the exhaust of the pack ...Rik played with the controls and the noise stopped and the glow became blue ...
" as im more a people person ill follow you Sean " he spoke into his head set mic
Catz landed right behind Infinitron, she'd been slowing her pace after seeing him bump his up a little, speeding up behind him and finally landing a second after he did.
"Way to make an entrance Tinman."
She looked back "Speaking of Tinmen.. I hear more."
Time Remainning: 5 hours 35 minutes
Command deck, Fortress.
The monitors flicked as the bots sitting infront of them seem to turn their head to face where a figure stood, the figure was Assasion, his now half cyborgnic side seem to glint in the light of the room as the red lights from in filtered in.
"Seems Sean wants to play at last.." he muttered before talking up, "My Bots we have guests on board, give them a short warm welcome will you."
His still smile changed to that of a grin, an evil smirking grin has he let out a short laugh.
Corridor outer hull, level 6
The door slid open to show the darkness of the next part of it, there suddenly in the darkness was the red glow of the Boombot eyes, and the slimmer of silver grey of the Tronoz drones hovering by their heads.
"Targets found, Giving them a short warm welcome, Lord Assasion." Was all the voice of the Drone said before they stepped into the light of the corridor.
Rising to his knees, Infinitron clicked his neck as he moved it side to side, pushing back and rotating his shoulders. Hyperextending his fingers as he stood, to a series of satisfying little pops, he unclipped his rifle as it extended into full length. Levelling it at the door, he muttered,
"Ok, let's do this" and awaited to receive whatever would come in, with a 0.50 calibre welcome.
Meanwhile, Next Dimension stuck with Sean.
Molly rushed in, landing with something of a lengthy skid over to Infinitron's position. Just before she stopped, the young genius, hopped to her feet, raising her own rifle in front of her within the last few steps.
"Something tells me you might need my help, so!" Molly piped up as the pink rifle let out a quiet whine.
Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
Stuff
Corridor outer hull, level 6
The bots entered the from door, three of them, with two drones hovering above their head. They glanced at the three heroes before each bot smirking in turn, with a single unitsoned voice they spoke "Your weapon are pittyful, defeat will be short."
With that said they ran at the group, head first taking whatever hits come their way.
((Bombbots are invn/SS tanks with the ones with guns being more towards AR/energy types,they also have a limited version of super speed on top, which gives them a broad range of attacks and defences. Remember they have been "upgraded" to deal with the heroes of paragon.))
Corridors 10/11, outer hull rear.
Sean managed to notice the fortress had once again came to an almost stop before he leapt from the Chasers cockpit over to the corridor.
"Right people.. Im head for the hostages, I take it Rik and Red your with me yea?"
Rik clicked on his mike .." Roger that i have your Six leader ...tally ho ..Mr Lumps inbound .."
As the first bombbot charged, Infinitrons rifle glowed a faint red as he transferred his energy manipulation into the weapon itself.
Firing one shot, that ripped throught the cranium of the front runner. As it stumbled and crashed tot he floor, inactive, Infinitron merely muttered,
"Pitiful eh?" and then turning to the pair beside him,
"Don't get in my way" and then turned his attention back to the bots, raising his aim to the drones.
The drones unfolded their weapons before opening fire, the green pulses from them quickly heading for the group of heroes. The bot of the ground lay there while the other two charged over it, focusing on the one who shot down their other. Raising their fists and jumping upward, one grabbed the corridor ceilling while the other clung onto the undamaged wall before they ran towards the heroes again like some form of mechnical spiders.
With a silent command, Molly's stealth suit activated, rendering her invisible to the naked eye as she charged for a wall opposite Infinitron. Right before she noticed one of the drones coming right at her.
"Oops!" Molly yelped as she pushed herself from the wall again, swiveling round to fire off a short burst at the offending drone, following up with a single slug round.
Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
Stuff
The drone shifted it's movements to try a dodge the incoming bullets from the rifle, only to bump the wall it's self then take the slug shot to its left side, as Molly would see it, which sent it spiraling dwon to the floor infront of her, and spin about letting of the odd shot which add no aim to them.
Corridor level 11, outer hull rear
"Right, people remember those uni scanners have the map of this place on them, Coms should of updated them with the nearest task point to you the help out, just follow the arrows." Sean spoke into his headset so everyone could hear him.
Setting off down the corridor where he was towards the inter workings of the Fortress. The lights flicked, in the distance the sounds of the drone from the fans could be just heard, and the sound of bots moving about. Appoaching the corridor door, it slid open to show a barely lit room, a wallway seem to be just lit by the corridors light. It looked like that of a over head footbridge.
Corridor outer hull, level Six
Suddenly another drone appeared behind the group from no where, it flew quickly pass Infinitron seeming to grav link his gun during the pass, pulling with all it's might to take the gun from him.
"Right, people remember those uni scan.." was all Infinitron heard before he clicked off the communication; but still had the map pulled up on half of his HUD.
Distracted by the momentary message, he didn't notice the drone until it was too late. Ripping the rifle from his grasp, he could only watch as it flew towards the hole he had made on entrance. As it disengaged its grav link, he watched it arc through the air and out of the fortress, tumbling towards the ground.
"Great" he muttered in an angered tone, marching forwards, his fists glowing. As he neared the downed drone infront of Molly, he casually dodged the errant shots; and kneeled down, forcing his fist into the machine, sparks flying as it flickered to a halt.
"I'll let you two handle the rest of these" the almost robotic drone ground out, and as he did he turned and leapt - spinning in midair as his boots ignited and blasted past the remaining bots through the door they had entered from. As he zoomed along the corridors, his suit gave him directions towards the core.
"Hold on a Moment Sean Man..I vill join you in second" replied Red Commissar and moved over to the controls, closing his eyes for a moment and trying to best to recall the basic training of having to ever fly a Hind if the Pilot got killed in a raid before taking the controls of the Helicopter into his hands.
"Sean man, tell ze Helicopter AI to vork vith me, Catz and co, prepare for zome air support!"
He grinned under the face mask as he prepared to move the chopper close to the hole in the fortress.
Catz had her hand through the heads of one of the robots, her other hand pressed against the headset attached to her ear "Air support, Hell Red you always know how to give me an early Christmas present!"
She swiftly ducked as another swung at her, smashing the head of the one she was stuck in clear off "Talk about bad mood."
She grinned as her fists began to glow "Oh Boyyys!" Poor robots didn't know what hit them as fist hit metal and scrap began to fly everywhere.
Time Remainning: 5 hours 30 minutes
"Red, hit the control console keys, put in auto assistance mode semi colong air support, and the A.I will help ya out." he said as he looked into the darkned room.
Stepping into it, he glanced around before switching his visor to nightsight mode, which he saw the room was infact large with the metal wallpath spanning it to about halfway acroos then another on seem to go of at a right angle to it towards the left hand far wall. The rest of the room seemed empty, with the very faint blue lines on the far right wall going down far below the walkpath.
"Guys, come on we got to get to those hostages quickly."
Corridor level 6, outer hull.
With the drone gone with Infinitron following it, another two bots appeared from the oppersite way to the others, changering at Catz and Molly. The first remainning one seems to jump striaght toward them, in an attempt to grab at Catz as the first one she hit did.
Time remainning: 5 hours 40 minutes
Sean facepalmed quickly "didn't Red listern or read the board.." he thought, as he uncovered his face.
"Red, people, plan is simple get in, tricky but do able theres quite a few holes still from what I can tell any would do fine, hopefully the nearer to the computer core or hostages the better." he paused, looking at the skyline there hovering at the center point over Paragon was the Flying Fortress, of course it was still slightly phased out.
"Rik, did your friend give you that way to phase us into aligment with the fortress?"