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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2020-11-13 04:28 am
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Not with a Bang Start and Ongoing

"Good Morning passengers. Today is day seven of the month of Imagination." The voice echoes through the train as passengers wake up in their beds. Not long afterwards their SCA’s glow with the colour of the void and a holographic image will appear.

Preperation

They have about an hour to prepare, a little less than usual but perhaps expected, given the urgency of the task.

The cupboards in the dressing room are open to reveal rows of tents, in all four team colours as well as some basic camp cooking equipment. They are in bags that should be easy enough to carry.

"Shortly arriving on System #6416. All passengers get ready to disembark. Next stop world 6416. Exit from void in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one." The train rocks and lurches, bright colours of the void filling the space and then fading as they fly downwards towards a very green landscape.

Arrival and Initial Task

The train lands in a clearing, curving round in an attempt to fit. Once everyone who wishes to disembark has done it flies back into the air, vanishing from sight.

The air is heavy and humid, though it is not currently raining. The clearing is open to the sky and looking up will reveal a worrying sight. The sky is an angry red colour, colours shifting as if the clouds themselves were on fire. It's an unnerving sight.

Their SCA's show three points, one Orange, One purple and one that is half blue and half red. The three control centres. Each are a few hours treck through the jungle and it certainly feels like there is no time to waste.

Those that don't want to treck through the forest can start setting up camp, though the darkening sky might be a little distracting. As time goes on flecks of fire drift down, though they extinguish before hitting the forest floor.

Orange are to travel to the north, Purple to the south and Blue and Red must travel together to the west. Each route takes them through thick and unrelenting jungle. Flying is difficult here unless you can get up past the canopy layer, which means vision of the ground is severely hampered.

The control stations themselves are half buried in vines and require cutting into. If voidtreckers are unlucky they will meet their first security robots here, firing on the intruders. They might even meet their first giant Armadillos, the creatures are curious and may wish to investigate. They are not helpful or constructive to trying to power up the stations and prevent the destruction of the planet.

The control stations are simple enough to operate, but there's quite a lot that needs to be done in way of repairs and clearing. It will take a team effort to get it in working enough order to activate the shield.

The shield itself, when it is activated, is mostly invisible but there is a loud humming sound. The meteor, which has gotten more visible throughout the five hours, hits the shield and splinters, fire enveloping the whole sky. It is visibly terrifying, but no fire falls to earth, no rocks get through, the planet is safe.

Ongoing

Once the planet is safe the voidtreckers deserve a rest. But once the next morning dawns it is time to start with their next tasks, to make sure that this planet stays safe from future threats.

Red

The robots at the control stations are not the only malfunctioning security robots around. They roam the jungle, or are more often stranded in the jungle, powering up only when faced with a new threat.

Some are benign, terraforming machines whose only crime is using up precious power. These need to be dismantled so that power can be saved for the shield system. Others are security robots that will attack the intruders to the planet.

Though the machines are scattered they are often obvious, emitting warning alarms or flashing lights. Their SCA's will show some areas where there are larger clusters but machines can be found anywhere.

Purple

Their SCA's are filled with hundreds of purple dots, each a solar stations that needs cleared and brought back online. It's not the most glamourous job, the stations are deep in the jungle, the treck is difficult and most of the work needed is weed clearing.

But once the weeds have been cut away they will need to patch up the station, doing basic maintenance to get it back online. In some cases wires need to be patched back together but it shouldn't take any great feats of engineering to get the stations up and running.

They may run into some of the security automatons, needing to fight their way into the stations before they can begin the clean up operations.

Orange

Like the red team their SCA will show areas where there are clusters of the small insectoid automatons that need to be rescued and restored. However they can be found anywhere throughout the jungle, they are not too suited for the terrain outside of the stations and so they have gotten tangled in vines. They can be found powered down, stranded and in dire need of maintenance.

Tools and spare parts can be found in many of the solar stations that purple team have been locating. Actually repairing the robots takes some engineering knowledge but once they are restored they will go about their tasks in the stations. They will need help getting to the further flung stations as well as the main control centres.

They are very basic in design and follow pre programmed instructions rather than being able to hear and listen to orders. But once in the correct place they are very effective at their job.

Blue

Once the shield is up there is a faint humming that can be heard throughout the jungle if they listen closely and find it among the sound of rain and insects. But once they hear it, it is obvious where it is louder and more prominent.

Their SCA will pin point some of the larger control boxes but there are truthfully too many to show on a map. Not all of them have attracted Violet Pandas, but many of them have.

They are curious creatures, both of the power boxes and the voidtreckers. They are protective of each other but not so much of territory and therefore it is not difficult to move them on. Keeping them away is another matter, the power humming is interesting and they will unearth wires and chew through them. It doesn't seem to do them much harm, there is clearly safety stops in the system for such eventualities. It does however cut power off to entire solar stations and require a lot of patch work.

Good luck voidtreckers!
ramengroupie: (object)

[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-17 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
It'd be nice if they could sense when they needed a charge.

[ Panda delivery: Complete. Seeing some of the others are making life difficult for the blue team, Stingmon swoops over to continue ferrying purple fur lumps from one spot to another. There we go. ]
fionnuisce: (your name's all it knows)

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2020-11-17 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
That would take someone with a hell of a lot more engineering and programming experience than I have, at least. [said while gently nudging a panda to turn around]

Or solar panels, maybe, but somehow I doubt we have the equipment for that.
ramengroupie: (brood)

[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-17 12:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Solar panels...

[ Ken feels like he's seen something like that around. Where...?

Stingmon, between pandas, glances over. Need a hand, Waver, or you okay?

--Wait. Oh no. It cannot be.

Is that a panda looking at Ken-chan??? ]
fionnuisce: (hope discarded and broken)

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2020-11-17 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, if they don't need to charge then they won't have to wander off, right?

[oh no, a terrible and nefarious panda is pawing gently at ken's feet. how awful.]
ramengroupie: (serious)

[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-18 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
That would solve the problem.

For the materials...

[ He'll have to look through everything they have on hand, and have found. He knows he's seen something recently.

Stingmon's wings are beginning to vibrate a little faster. He's trying not to panic. But. But.

Ken-chan is letting himself be pawed! And now the panda is pushing itself against Ken-chan's hand----

Stingmon, midair, begins wobbling backwards. ]
fionnuisce: (and lead me straight to your heart)

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2020-11-18 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
I'm a mage, not an engineer. The specifics are pretty far beyond m-...

[Waver trailed off, looking up at Stingmon.]

...You alright?
ramengroupie: (huh?)

things i should have remembered before regaining digivice: i don't know how to write "dignity"

[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-18 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ Stingmon doesn't respond, frozen (aside from the wobbling.) Ken-chan is---lifting his hand and -

Ken-chan

pets

the

panda.

And Stingmon, with a crash of broken tree limbs, faints into the jungle. ]
fionnuisce: (that right here by your side i can stay)

oops

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2020-11-18 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Wh--what the hell? Ken, is he alright?

[DOIN A SIZABLE ALARM]
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[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-18 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
Eh--?

[ Ah. There's a flash of light, too, shooting back into Ken's pocket, of all things. The panda who had come for attention is alarmed enough by this that it ambles off to go traumatize some other creature.

Now doing a smaller alarm than Waver, but only slightly, Ken heads over to see what has befallen his partner. ]
Wormmon? What happened?

[ Wormmon is lying with all ten of his legs sticking straight out, staring up at the harsh, unforgiving sky. He appears to be unharmed.

But he is also choking back tears. ]
Edited 2020-11-18 02:08 (UTC)
fionnuisce: (though it's dark)

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2020-11-18 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Waver knelt down next to Wormmon in a way he knew he was going to regret later, checking him over for injuries.]

Did you get hurt? ...Is he supposed to just go back to normal like that?
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[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-18 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
When he's out of energy.

[ Ken kneels on the opposite side of the patient, picking him up. No apparent physical damage. Psychic damage, however....

Wormmon is now conscious enough to be audibly sobbing. ]


Boo hoo. Boo hoo hoo hoo. Snrkh.

[ Sorry. Web sniffle. ]
fionnuisce: (and lead me straight to your heart)

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2020-11-18 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
[...oh, honey.]

You, uh...you okay there? What's wrong?

[this is not within his field of expertise]
ramengroupie: (brood)

1/2

[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-18 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ken....has a sinking suspicion, but he also can't believe it would be true. Yes, Wormmon is working with limited energy based on what happened earlier, but would he really break an evolution over...?

Wormmon curls up to hug Ken's polo shirt close to himself, wiping his face on it. ]


Ken-chaaaaann!!! I don't like it heeeeeere!! Because, because -
ramengroupie: (jog)

2/2

[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-18 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
EVERYTHING HERE LIKES KEN-CHAN TOO MUUUUUUUUUUUCHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ And it's SUCH a miserable sensation, because he gets it! Ken-chan is the best! Anybody who doesn't see that is not very bright! Wormmon is even glad that he got attacked earlier because it meant that a friend wanted to protect Ken-chan so badly he stopped thinking!!

But the repair bugs like Ken-chan. The repair bugs absolutely cannot get enough of Ken-chan.

For the pandas to like Ken-chan, too--!!!

Missions are HARD! ]
fionnuisce: (join them where they can meet)

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2020-11-19 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
[honey]

Ken. How awful. How could you. [It was very hard to sound deadpan when Waver was openly struggling not to laugh. He reached over to give Wormmon a reassuring headpat, only continuing when he was reasonably sure he wouldn't crack up.]

Now, now. You should be happy, shouldn't you? After all, he's as popular as all that with the wandering wildlife, and yet with all the choice in the world, you're still his partner.

And you're more impressive than I gave you credit for. With a form like that, you look the part of a gallant hero yourself, you know. [he can't be sorry if he's right.] So you should pick yourself up and hold your head a little higher, since you're both lucky to have each other.
ramengroupie: (soft)

i made an undignified, amused noise

[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-19 11:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ This rousing pep talk does help Wormmon lower his volume and intensity to a simmering sniffle instead of outright bawling. He was a - he was a gallant hero??? And Ken-chan - Ken-chan...

Ken strokes the back of his partner's head, too - it's okay, Wormmon, he's here. ]


That's right. I couldn't ask for a better partner.

[ Thank you, Waver, for the cue. Ken smiles. ] You were cool, Wormmon.

[ "You were cool, Wormmon"!

Wormmon's head overheats and he flops back into Ken's hold, still leaking a little but the extant tears on his face have just evaporated in joy. Ken gives Waver a grateful look.

You're good with children, Professor. ]
fionnuisce: (your name's all it knows)

[personal profile] fionnuisce 2020-11-22 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Waver just answered with a small shrug--he didn't have a lot of experience with ordinary children, but self-worth issues? He sure as hell knew those inside and out.]

Glad we cleared that one up.
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[personal profile] ramengroupie 2020-11-22 10:28 am (UTC)(link)
...Ah.

[ Now he just needs to give Wormmon time to reboot. Ken is happy to do so, holding his partner close so Wormmon can be soothed by his presence, and looks around. ]

....In any case, this world's situation is troubling.

[ ken that's

that's not smalltalk

ken ]