Under the Sea: Mission start

[voidtreckermods]

After fleeing the strange shapes in the sky the voidtreckers are perhaps not looking forward to yet another mission and indeed the first few days of Fiddlesticks go by without any strange dreams, no warning that another mission might be nigh. Yet on the morning of day five their SCA's will glow with the colours of the void and a holographic message will appear.

Preperations

The dressing room is open once again, though the clothes this time are simple in choice. A wet suit for each void trecker as well as a pair of flippers, a helmet and a breathing pack. It at least has instructions and there will be a little bit of time for them to figure out how to use them. Apart from that there are some waterproof packs for supplies to be packed in.

They will have a couple of hours to get ready for their mission.

Arrival: Blue and Red

"We are now approaching world #7625000129523. Drop order is Red and Blue, Purple then Orange. Red and Blue team to doors. Arrival in world #7625000129523 in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one."

The train shudders and lurches as they exit the void, the view from the window goes from the ever shifting void to a beautiful deep blue sky. They fly through the air and swoop down to land on a sandy beach. The doors open allowing those who are taking part in the Blue and Red missions to debark. The doors close and the train swoops up into the air.

The beach stretches from one side to the other, in the distance as the beach turns into sloping green hills they can see a village. Beyond that there is a jungle. Any red team who check their SCA will see four points, the rock pools.

The villagers have noticed the huge train sweeping down onto their island and so contact is made quickly. They will be quite accepting of the help and explain the situation. They will help any of red team to the rockpools if asked.

Red

The rockpools are built up and indeed made so the water will reach a persons waist if they stand in them. The water is cold but not overly so. When the water shoots up anyone in them will shoot up also.

They will find themselves in a vortex of water, with anyone else who enters that rockpool. The water itself seems to be fighting them, tendrils of water reaching out of the whirlpool to try and drag them further into the chaos. It takes a whole lot of willpower to stay in the centre, the water can be fought with weapons, even with fists. They feel as if they are falling or flying, perhaps both. Surrounded by the pure chaos of the ocean.

Blue

Hopefully they spend the day helping with preparations because when night falls the monsters emerge from the sea. Terrifying twisted creatures. The villagers only have simple weapons but will tell them that fire is helpful against these water creatures.

Hold off the monsters and keep the people safe.

Purple

The doors close and the train flies off into the sky, flying over the island to the other side where it lands on a rocky bay, near tall towering cliffs.

"Purple team to doors." The doors open, allowing the purple team to disembark before flying off once again.

In the cliff face there is a large cave entrance, over the entrance there are symbols, translated by their SCA's. Clear mind, clear heart. Come those who seek to serve.

There are six people stood by the entrance, looking quite surprised at the new arrivals. One, a woman with silver hair recovers enough to speak first. "Ah. Void warriors. We are honoured by your help."

Once introductions are made the spiritual leaders will happily accept the escort and their adventure can begin.

Orange

They fly up and out across the ocean, a longer flight than before but eventually they descend and there is a slight juddering before they land, floating on the ocean.

"Orange team disembark, please use luggage or dressing carriage doors only."

They will step out onto an inflated platform that streches around the train. Down below are the depths of the water and their SCA's show them at the point of Bui. It is below them so all they need to is dive.

The dive takes a while, and depends on their swimming ability but hopefully with a bit of teamwork they arrive at the silent city of Bui.

Comments

Ple Two - OTA

[pleple]

Prep

Wetsuits. Diving equipment. Nothing Ple Two is exactly familiar with, although she understands how it all works; she can swim, probably, well enough. She might not find out anyways, if her team is handling shore defense, but she'll at least be prepared in case the situation evolves.

"Maybe we can get a speargun or something..." she mutters.

Blue Stuff

There's a far more distressing problem than just not having a speargun here. Ple Two could feel it when they touched down, long before the fight, impacting every bit of how she moved and communicated. A barrier of some kind was blocking her Newtype senses - from feeling any of it - and reinforcing just how much she relied on those.

Which would be a much bigger problem in combat.

Ple Two had acquired a nice little short sword to defend herself when better weapons weren't imminently available, and by the time the fighting had started she'd discovered that she could use some of her Newtype senses with great effort. Fighting with a headache, though, was too far from ideal. When the monsters arrive, it shouldn't be too hard to notice that her reactions are dulled, far more jerky and panicky, especially when she's sent sprawling on the sand to avoid getting her head taken off by some... massive appendage swung her way.

A little help?

Prep

[so_dark_a_road]

Curufin is already in his orange diving suit, carrying his gear.

"I wish the train would think of that. We don't have weapons made for this kind of mission. A speargun would be perfect."

[pleple]

"A flechette-firing underwater assault rifle would be even better, but I assume there are limits." Or just give her. The giant robot. She'll solve all your problems, train.

[so_dark_a_road]

"A what?. . . flechette-firing underwater assault rifle? Hey, I'll take one of those." Curufin grins. "But if you're going with Blue Team, you might need an assault rifle more than I will. But better make that an above-water assault riffle."

Train, you should listen to Ple Two!

[pleple]

"True." Guns. Mechs. Easy. "I would love to be properly equipped for any threat."

[so_dark_a_road]

"I sure would too!" he agrees. "But I'm taking my goblin sword and dagger from that earlier mission. I've got some extras, in case I need to loan any of them out. These aren't guns, but they sure are better than nothing. Want one?"

[heartismyown]

Now that Roxas has had the experience of fighting with a group, he's become a lot more attuned to teammates who may need his help, and it's important to help teammates.

When he saw Ple Two struggling and an appendage coming her way, he used his speed ability to close the distance and block it with both keyblades crossed together, sliding backwards a bit from the force of the blow.

His leg wavered and he dropped to one knee, a sign that maybe that little trick took a lot more out of him than it normally would. "Hey, over here!" He called at the monster. One step and he was back on his feet at least.

[pleple]

Ple Two really needed help. She'd noticed the impact on her senses when they arrived, but hadn't realized just how fully she relied on those extra senses to not die; now she was scrambling to catch up.

And very, very lucky to have teammates. Ple Two forced herself to her feet as quickly as she could, eyes locked onto the nonspecific sea beast, brandishing her sword. Once she had herself focused on a single opponent, it was much easier to keep up.

"Just need an... opening."

[heartismyown]

"Leave it to me!" Roxas said, running a bit further away, baiting the monster's attacks.

"Hey, I'm over here! Can't get me!" He taunted and slid along the surf quickly, almost as though he'd used a bit of magic to up his speed. Every time the appendages tried to reach him, he deflected them.

Ple Two just needed to find that opening and take it.

[pleple]

...he really could just handle this so much better than her, couldn't he? It's a bit galling being so behind the curve when magic is in play. Hopefully she can at least put on some muscle as she grows up. Yeesh.

That said, she was ready to slip up behind a distracted monster and impale the heck out of it, right in the side. And... hope that did the trick.

Blue Stuff

[sobothersome]

There was the sound of a chain and then a flash of blue. A wet, squishing sound of blades slicing through something fleshy, and the tentacle was left in pieces on the sandy beach.

And a few feet in front of Ple Two, crouched with his back to her was a young man with glowing red eyes and long, wicked looking glowing black and blue 'claws'. There was a chain hooked to his neck and flowing back behind him, seemingly floating but moved and sounded like there was weight to them.

He waited for the monster to make another move.

hi i'm here too

[happyends]

Madoka's appearance isn't nearly as sudden, but it follows very quickly after the young man is done attacking the tentacle and crouches there. But rather than directly moving over to him, Madoka instead runs up to Ple Two's side, carefully grabbing the other girl to help her up.

"Ple Two.. Are you okay?" While the worry is evident in Madoka's eyes as she looks at her, there's somehow no fear about Madoka for once, despite the battle situation they're in the middle of right now. After all, it's hard to be scared when she has full trust in the one protecting her. "It's alright.. I'm here with you."

Instead all she has to do is stay near the other girl to make sure she's safe. And try to calmly think what's best in this situation to keep them safe. Madoka glances across the chain that runs from her wrist to the guy's neck, before calling out: "Maru! Take out its other tentacles!"

After all, the monster will have a much harder time reaching all the way over there without those.

[pleple]

Hey. Hey you. Protect Madoka more than her.

But she can't say that; and Madoka would want to protect her. And in the grand scheme of things, killing all of these monsters will make it safer for everyone. So, she can't object to Maru saving her.

Fortunately she was covered or she might have some nasty scrapes from hitting the sand, and she pushes herself up with only a slight wince. "I'm... I'm fine. I can..." she trails off, looking at Madoka. That confidence is... certainly new. All it took was a new pet, huh?

[sobothersome]

He could protect both.

Maru heard his order and was immediately on the move.

These creatures were disgusting. They needed to be removed. And stopped from hurting Madoka's friends.

He fairly flew toward the tentacled creature, removing each one of it's waving appendages with flashes of his claws as they came crashing down toward him, until it was just so much calamari on the darkened sands of the beach.

Maru kicked at one of the wriggling things, sending it sailing off into the ocean. "Gross..."

[happyends]

Despite what Ple Two is saying, Madoka still quickly looks the other girl over once she's sure that Maru has the monster fighting part covered. She's just trying to make sure Ple Two isn't actually hurt, but it seems like she really is mostly fine. It ends up putting a relieved smile on her face.

"I'm so glad you're okay.. You--" She pauses, her cheeks colouring. "We have to be careful.." Madoka hasn't forgotten that she's pretty squishy too, after all, despite having her vampire bodyguard helping her out here. Especially since a few of the things involved with her bond with Maru don't seem to be fully working in this place for some reason.

She doesn't move even an inch away from Ple Two (you couldn't make her at this point!), but does turn her head to glance at said vampire bodyguard.

"Maru, good job..! You're okay too, right?"

Prep

[loveandduty]

"Maybe we could have had outfits that were better than the wetsuits too. I feel like this is constricting of movement." At least it felt that way anyway. She turned on her heels tugging at it as it snapped back into place.

"But does the train really not give weapons for missions? You would think that would be a smart idea."

[pleple]

"What, did you want a tiny little bikini?" That's the image she has of Minako, at least. "Weapons would be appreciated, but there are those who can provide some basics here."

[loveandduty]

"No, but wetsuits that we aren't really going to be using seems like a bad choice. They are used for diving so it makes sense for some of the teams, but the one I'm on doesn't seem like they are." Which she figured there could have been clothes that worked with whatever local were there rather than wearing something tight and never really going to be used.

"Provide some basics? You mean like training?"

[pleple]

"Simple weapons, too." Piccolo can just make them appear? He's a magical alien who can punch space ships and shoot energy blasts. Just roll with it.

"I imagine the concern is that we'll at least need the option no matter what - as the situation evolves, we may all end up in the water."

[loveandduty]

"Roll with it seems like the best choice here." because otherwise, she could be here a while having to take every strange thing in.

"That makes sense and I guess we do look good in them. Shows off the curves and such."

Blue! (If this is alright?)

[nobodys_puppet]

Xion - dressed in a long black coat, black pants, black boots with heels, black gloves, and a makeshift blue cloth sash around her waist - rushed over. She moved oddly well over the sand, despite the heels. She was trying not to use magic, in case it was draining on Roxas. She figured they were probably draining on each other since magic only fatigued her this much when they were, generally. the rest of the time it just worked or it didn't. So she had been avoiding magic. But it was needed here. She apologized mentally to Roxas, though she knew he wouldn't hear her and swung her Keyblade back at the fallen person, touching the metal to her side. "CURAGA!" was the cry from within the hood, the healing magic would bring PlePle back to where she was at the start of all this, though it couldn't do anything to stop the place from draining her again. Then Xion swing her blade towards the monster without looking to see if her first spell had worked. Using it as a focus for aiming she yelled "THUNDAGA!" and lightning struck the creature.

Without giving herself a moment to allow herself the exhaustion the two spells wrought, she launched herself at the monster, swinging her Keyblade at it while it was still reeling from the electric attack. She didn't know it yet, but she was going to sleep for at least a week after this....

[pleple]

How... dark. Thank goodness the sun isn't beating down, or Xion might get a heat stroke.

Instead, Ple Two was the one in danger - although whatever that magic was pretty quickly staved off the throbbing in her head from getting clobbered. And Ple Two wasn't even on her feet again before Xion zapped the absolute hell out of the monster, and began pounding on it...

All she could do was sit back and watch for a moment, impressed.

[nobodys_puppet]

Xion was used to this sort of thing, and she was even used to fighting through fatigue, hoping that if she felt this badly that meant Roxas was at his strongest. She kept fighting the beast, trying to stick to melee combat. She raised her blade to deflect a blow, then raced in to the area exposed by that attack.

[pleple]

Ple Two had to scramble back and watch Xion for a moment, while she got her bearings.

It didn't seem like she was especially needed. Damn.

[nobodys_puppet]

Xion got several good blows in before the monster flung her back and away. She skidded on the sand then rushed forward again. It didn't occour to her to ask Ple Two for hlpe. Not that she didn't need it, she was just... not used to working with strangers who WOULD.