Catz dived out the way, one Robot quickly taking the chance to dive upon her as they slide across the floor, the grenade just blew up as the hit the wall "Right about now I wish I had some solid ground to stand on! Minus armour is such a -pain-!" She snapped one arm from the robot off with the word pain, it struggled to keep a hold of her as she swung it into another wall and straight through it "Clean up on Aisle 3."
((I'm not intrested in participating in the RP, but I'm really enjoying this open RP session - it feels like one of those awesome bits at the end of action movies!))
Corridor, level 6, outer hull.
With the granade blast taking out the new set of drones, falling to ground and exploding, the door they had came from remaind open while the other one quickly slammed shut.
The hole where the bot had gone through into the next room was dark, the only light sources seem to be that of the corridor and the glow from the deactiving bot. From the open door a sudden breaze blew before the sound of quite alot of metal feet, to the point of the bits of drone began to bonuce and shake their way across the floor.
Room EVF1, level 10, rear.
Sean stepped onto the walkway, testing to see if it was stable enough or them to use, to his luck it was.
"Red, Rik, Next Dimension.. you guys coming or am I going in here alone?" He asked turning about to face the door and waiting from them to coming into the room.
The skies above Paragon City
The effects of gravity and a rather painful descent to Terra Firma had been somewhat averted by the use of a handy Raptor Pack (Best Before: 2005). While he was still airborne, the sounds coming from the pack's thrusters was not particually promising.
Using the information provided by Sean, Quin found the giant structure in the sky below his position, and he manouvered into a position to land somehwhere on it's surface. The jets on the pack then chose this moment to suddenly cut out.
Realising that a teleportation from the outside to the inside would probably be rather risky in this situation (Plus, considering the results of the previous attempt), Quin had very little time to formulate a new plan. He turned midair to face the fortress, and created a thin magical barrier that could probably just about pierce the outer hull considering his current speed and momentum.
Somewhere inside the Fortess
Quin burst through the outer hull, and within a split second, used a very short range teleport spell to dramatically reduce his speed.
"One dramatic entry, served with a side order of magic."
((You can choose where I end up, Drade))
As sean spoke, Next Dimension materialised next to him in a bright shimmer. "Lead on" he asked, as he reformed into human form - with his eyes burning brightly and still s white shimmer around his entire body.
Meanwhile...
Pulling up sharply to a halt, Infinitron had arrived at his location; the central core. But stopping him was a very large blast door.
"Where's your grenades when you need them" he muttered. Then the scuttling noise of metal on metal caught up with him; his flying antics had caught quite a bit of attention.
As the first rounded the corner, Infinitrons fists lit up like a beacon as he focused the energy, along with his rage.
"Who's first?" he growled.
Catz jumped to her feet again, brushing herself off. "I need more of a challenge.." She peered through the hole in the wall towards the small, visible light. Watching the metal scurry along the floor she glanced up at Molly "We've got more incomming and I'm going to guess and say the moving scrap may cause a bigger problem.."
The marks across Catz's arms and upper torso lit up with a flick of her wrist, ready for whatever was coming their way.
Rik waved Mr Lumps , the man of rock , forward and then set about himself and the others a faint mist-like cloak of unearthly energy ((Steamy Mist))...
" all good to go here Sean , just say if you want any room flushed before we enter.."
Red pressed one of the buttons on the control panel and much his surprise, the targetting computer and AI began working together, gunning down several more drone reinforcements just entering the corridoor where Catz and company stood, the heavy rounds carefully halfing their bodies and removing their heads making sure not to set any explosives off, Red moved to the door and heaved it open, leaping out into the air and activating the gravity thrust sensors in his boots.
He glanced at the tracker and headed to where Sean, Rik and the others were as the attack helicopter hovered nearby helping with the rest of the lower levels infiltration.
EVF1 room, level 10, rear.
Sean nodded to those there before he noticed Quin drop in behind him.
"Well thats handy." sean said before carefully making his way around Quin to walk along the path.
The walkpath itself swayed a little as those on it began to across, Sean keeping the lead as best he could followed by the rest of his group, ever so often he glanced from side to side as if looking at something in the darkness, to him his nightsight mode was on showing they were a suppend walkway, to the right was quite some distance way, what appeared to be a large wall, the left was another wall with something else that seem to be attached onto the wall the far side, the way they were heading had the end of the walkway.
"hmm.. you know.. I don't like this.. wheres the bots..?"
Command deck
Assasion paced his way up and down before stopping as one of the bots turned it's head to look at him.
"Lord Assasion sir, there appears to be three group in the base, one is in the corridor near to the factory, the other is at the main computer core corridor, the last is in the Enigne Vent Fan one area." the bot said as the groups lit up on it's display of the fortress.
"Ah.. right deal with the first two groups with force, as for the the last one... I believe it is time for us to move upwards is it not?" Assasion replyed with a evil smirk on his lips.
The bot nodded before tapping something into it's keyboard, suddenly the words: Engines enganged: forwards thuster: power full, came up on it's screen before the whole place groaned.
EVF1 room, level 10, rear.
Suddenly a bright orange siren lights flicked on on the right and left walls, before the dron noise of something starting up. As that happend the right wall began to flip up in eight large segments opening up like a giant thuster vent it was. The left wall openned up to show a large fan, which began to spin upto speed, the wind from it moving the walkway, rocking it towards the right hand wall.
"OH [censored]!" was the only words heard on the headset from Sean as he grabbed hold of the rails beside him as hard as he could, "We're in the damn Engines!!"
Rik reacted instantly ..upon his unspoken command a mass of ice formed over the fan's pivot , jamming the whole assembly ... Mr Lumps then leaped forward into the fan , his rock body further preventing rotation ....
Rik then leaped across to join Lumps and they started to unmake the fan , Rik's strangly powerful fists smashing the Fan's blades ...
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Catz jumped to her feet again, brushing herself off. "I need more of a challenge.." She peered through the hole in the wall towards the small, visible light. Watching the metal scurry along the floor she glanced up at Molly "We've got more incomming and I'm going to guess and say the moving scrap may cause a bigger problem.."
The marks across Catz's arms and upper torso lit up with a flick of her wrist, ready for whatever was coming their way.
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"Why am I -so- not suprised?" the cloaked genius responded as she once again raised her rifle, aiming in the direction of the scrap and muttering quietly. "I wish I'd built a shotgun!"
Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
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Red simply aimed his Assault Rifle at the remaining fans with the quickest spinning blades and fired a grenade from his Battle Riflers underslung grenade launcher whilst grabbing hold to a fixture on the wall and reversing the thrust in his boots sensors.
Time remainning: 5 hours 25 minutes
EVF1 room
Sean glanced up to see the others take aprat the fan blades, before watching a large piece of one fly striaght through the air towards the walkway ahead of him. in the spilt secounds of noticing it he jumped to his feet, now the powerful blast from them had stopped, and pressed something on his palm of his right hand making the blades of the suit shoot out and the lines on thier centers glow brightly blue. With a single upwards thrust he set of a barrage of energy from the blades ((Focus)) at the fan blade bit just as it came to the walkway, the energy wave cut the piece in three and each of them missing the walkway by inches.
"Guys watch it.. I really don't want a sudden drop." Sean muttered into his headset mic, "That was a little close then."
Level 6, outer hull, Corridor
The rumble got nearer the scrap now bounced harder before suddenly stopping, as did the rumble.
Catz froze where she was, looking down the corridor, Heart beating in her head. She'd exhausted some of her magic fighting off the robots and was composing herself for whatever was to come.
"This can't be good.." She put a hand to her headset and clicked it on "Sean, we may be running into some trouble here. I think the robots are recomposing themselves, either that or their scrap has a mind of it's own."
"Catz? whats happening over there? what do you mean by the scrap having a mind of it's.. own..." Sean said before looking at the door they had came from, "..Catz.. RUN! get out of that place now!"
As he looked at the door it came open again, with the sound of a rumble, before the quiet and then a dark mass appeared like a flood covering not only the floor but the walls and the door completely.
"Guys! Run! Mites!" was all Sean said as he ran along the walkway to it's end.
behind him was the flood of the small mites, robotic like spiders, so many that it was like the fllor had came alive, and they didn't seem to come to an end.
Then same time, the same thing came from the door, thousands of Mites flooding into the corridor like a great wave of metal, they seem to eat and repair anything in their path.
Rik splashed a wide grin across his face ...again with out words he made things happen ...The surface under the sea of mites shimmered and became a cloying mass griping the mites and reducing their progress to a crawl ((quicksand))...this he followed up by unleashing a field corrosive gasses((volcanic gases )) which started to eat at the mites systems diabling the horde into a convulsing mass of metal ...
Mr Lumps started to play "stamps" and metal fragements filled the air
The first bot to reach Infinitron got the total focus of his energy, clearing its metallic head clean from its shoulders. The rest of the horde began to react, crawling up the walls and the ceiling.
Seeing this, Infinitron launched himself into the air, smacking his fists against the ceiling - sending energy along it. As the energy spread it locked up the joints of the bots and they fell from the ceiling into a heap on the floor.
Momentarily distracted by the falling bots allowed one of the wall crawlers to leap at Infinitron, knocking him back and pinning him against the door.
Infinitrons hands stopped glowing, and the glow travelled along his arms to his chest. With a thrust he focused it into a small but highly charged bash. The bot came loose and adeptly landing on its feet - but its chest was heavily damaged and began to glow bright with a whine. Realising the core was overloading, Infinitron took a large step forward and used a power thrust to send the damaged bot backwards into the crowd of advancing mechs. The explosion was smaller than previous detonations in the city; some sort of suppression must have been applied within the fortress; but it was still enough to blow the wall and ceiling down - blocking Infinitron between the rubble and the blast door, and of course, 3 friendly bombbots.
Seeing his predicament, the bots straightened and stood side by side. Each one made a large click noise before the now familiar whine began and glow could be seen from their chests.
"Not good... but maybe..." he muttered to himself before springing into action with a plan. Running quickly towards the 3 bots, he palmed each one with a thrust, staggering them backwards into the blast door. As he did so, he turned - diving, and at the same time activating his personal forcefield and hardening agents on his armour [(force of nature)]
The blast still hurled him into the pile of rubble, cracking his helmet on a large section of ceiling. Dazed, he waited for the dust to settle.
Red Commissar covered Riks back and unleashed a fiery hot intense blast of flame from the flamethrower attachment on his Assault Rifle, aiming the AR carefully his slashed curtains of flame across the floor slowing and melting many mites to molton slag which hardened quickly seconds later to be shattered by the vibrations of Mr Lumps.
"Sean man, zis iz just quick solution. We need good one to solve zis problem now!"
"Don't want to ruin a good mask" Catz disappeared from the spot she was in further back down the corridor in a split second, her eyes burning bright red, she whiped her mask off releasing a beam of energy from her eyes, taking out the incomming mites..but not all of them.
Those that got past started jumping at her "You could've warned me before I got here!...Or was that because I was late, Sean?"
One bit into her arm "OW! What're these things made of! If they draw blood I'm damn well taking each and every last one out."
As the mites swarmed toward Next Dimension, he merely phased out and hovered through them ((quantum flight)). Once he was clear of the walkway and their reach, he reformed and unleashed targeted energy blasts - but having very little effect.
Meanwhile...
Crawling up onto his knees, Infinitron discarded the broken remains of his helmet.
"Great, rifle AND my helmet. [censored] stupid mission."
Looking up with his solitary remaining eye; the scarred blind eye glazed with a white sheen, he noted that the blast door had a substantial hole in it - where the metal had been vapourised.
"Looks like I made an explosive entrance after all".
Command deck
"Lord Assasion sir, the main computer core is under attack, the main blast doors have been taken." A Tronoz drone said hovering quite fast upto Assasion. "And the Mites are attempting to repair the damaged caused by those interlopers."
Assasion glared back at the Tronoz Drone for a moment before switching his view away from it, "Why are you infoming me of something I already know? when you should be sending in more to deal with those idiots."
"But Lor.." was all the Tronoz drone could say before it was blasted to bits by another slightly bigger one.
"It shall be done at once." Was all the new one said as it attached a probe onto the computer near to it.
Main Computer Core Room.
Has the dust began to settle the room filled with the red glow from not only the ten bombbots but their helper Tronoz drones aswell, each and everyone of them turning to face the now blasted doors, focusing in on the hole.
EVF1 room.
"Working on it Red!" Sean shouted out of his face guard, has he span on the spot to face the way where the Mites were.
With that he held up his arms and pressed a small button on his palms, this time the blades retacted in and from their ports shot out a blade disc which hit the wires holding the walkway up where the Mite were, with a groan and crack the walkway gave way falling down and crashings its way out of the fortress's underbelly hull.
The mites seem to follow the walkway down, like lemmings jumping to their deaths.
"Dumb Mites, they always have to stay together." Sean muttered before tapping his mic on again.
"Catz, their the repair bots, however I thought they had all been destoryed the last time I face him, sorry for not giving a heads up on them, their a dumb as anything just get out of there or blast them with fire or ice.. or those EMP granades would work."
Molly's boots suddenly fired into action, sending her into a short hop into the air before hovering safely in the air above the mites.
"I was kinda hoping to, you know, -not- use these so soon," Molly muttered as she send a silent command to her rifle to switch her ammo. "But you gotta do what you gotta do." Molly then immediately pointed the rifle downward, straight at the amassing mites.
"Hey? Anyone wanna play with the ZAPPY fun ball?" She yelled at the bots as she pulled the trigger, promting a quiet whine from the gun.
Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
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Reaching behind him, Infinitron picked up a large piece of debris from the explosion; focusing his energy into it, it began to glow.
As he hurled it into the room, he dived and fired up his boots, following it in.
The shrapnel tore a hole through everything in its way, clearing a path into the room for Infinitron. 2 bots down already, he thought - doing a quick reccy, eyes flicking around the remaining bots - 8 to go.
Main Computer Core
With the debris chunk taking down two of the bots almost instancely, the two which had been infront of the doors at the time of the first hole happening, each losing an arm during it. The other seven marched in on Infinitron, their eyes glowing and ripping up the seats they had been sitting on to use as make shift weapons, the last one however on the upper level platfrom nearest to the core where there seem to be a control console for it, it just glanced down at him before it smirked.
"This is XYY-003, hero sighted, and about to be taught a very important lesson." The bot said, this one was darker than the normal ones and appeared to be one of the Elite Guard of Assasion, this one had its clear parts coloured dark red.
With that XYY-003 bolted over the guard rails of the platform and landed with a crash in the floor below making a small dent in the floor, infront of the rest of the bots with it's fists glowing with electrical energy which seem to spread across it's whole body like a sheild.
"Boy you picked the wrong Computer core to invade, now you get to deal with the head of it." XYY-003 said stepping forwards towards Infinitron smirking and cracking it's knunckles.
"Incoming!" Molly yelled as she swung her rifle into the direction of the new drones, a short whine sounding from her rifle before a single grenade popped its barrel.
Sam: "My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas."
Max: "Me too."
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