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Not with a Bang: Finale

It's been a strange few days, between trying to complete all of the tasks needed to stabilise the solar stations and keep the shield going, keep the pandas and armadillos away and fix robots whilst smashing other robots. That's not even counting the strange events that kept happening.

They might have heard the news from those who had found themselves on a small adventure of their own that there were potentially dangerous saboteurs on the planet and indeed once they were aware there were more signs, things moved, pandas far more frightened than they should have been, robots back in areas that had been cleared.

But no sign of the saboteurs themselves as the days go on. Until the evening of the twelfth day of Imagination, the sixth day of the mission.

Everyone's SCA alerts them to an exclamation mark, the Western Control Station, where red and blue had initially went to initialise shields. Clicking on the exclamation mark will show the message. Danger: Control Station unstable. Attempt stabilisation. Situation critical.

A few seconds later there is another exclamation mark, this time on a solar station about an hours walk to the south. A herd of Violet Pandas are loose in Solar station #13, clear the station and minimise damage.

And a few moments after that there is a third exclamation mark, right where they are in the camp. Robot activity approaching. Any red team members who check will see many red rots approaching their camp.

Control Station

For those that decide to tackle this one it is clear the moment they arrive that things are not as they should be. A tree has fallen, or been felled and though it seems the station is designed to withstand falling trees it makes getting into it difficult.

Every alarm is blaring, and indeed when they get inisde their own alarms on their SCA start to flash amber. It's dangerous in here!

Something they will quickly have learned anyways. It looks like someone pressed every button, flicked every switch. Every guage is showing too high, every warning light is flashing.

It's going to take some very quick fixing before this place overloads and explodes. Hopefully their work on the stations in the last few days has taught them enough that with some very quick and diligent work they should get the situation under control.

Solar Station #13

To the south in one of the solar stations a very different situation is unfolding. Those that arrive here will find pandas... everywhere. Somehow they have gotten into the station itself and are busy chewing on wires, exploring machines they really shouldn't be exploring. Some are trying to climb the solar tower and others are just lying on the monitors, seemingly enjoying the lights.

Luckily it seems less damage can be done to the solar stations than a control station, but still, there are alarms and flashing lights and far too many pandas. It will be some work to clear them all out.

Base Camp

It doesn't take long for the robots to arrive. There are a lot, some seem very patched together, as if someone had gone around scavenging parts and remaking them. Some are large terraforming machines, others the smaller security drones. Some are even the automatons that were used for maintenance, yet here they were being put to another purpose.

As they approach the permitted of the camp they stop and six human figures step forward. All are armed with large rifle type weapons and a tall woman speaks in a loud, clear voice.

"You are trespassing on our land. You will leave this place or you will die."

She casually waves the robots forward, they attack.

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Trunks is also doing what he can to keep some of those shots from hitting the kneeling man, parrying with his sword in quick-strikes almost too fast to follow. "Rest, I've got this." He comments, before teal-green eyes narrow.

He launches himself at the bigger robot heading their way with a yell of a battle cry. Slicing out for weakpoints with his sword in quick and strong strikes, moving fluidly from the swordwork into a harsh side kick, then bringing one hand up with ki charged in it. And the force and fury of a super-saiyan behind it, aimed right at the big robot in threat-range.

"Kh-!" Enna is certainly loud- enough that Yuume can think to answer while she fights. The crowd is thinning at least. Less problems to deal with bit by bit. And-

"THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THEIR OWN!" she roars, slamming her blade through one robot to use it more like a hammer to be thrown as she spins. "IF THEY DID....They would have stopped when I took the first hostage..!" Yuume declares, shout performed with an astoundingly low tone.

The skewered bot is thrown against others as she continues, hissing. "As it stands we cannot simply stop, not until they are at minimim immobilized and unarmed! Not unless you wish to see more of us evacuated and dying, CAPTAIN!"

Death isn't necessarily the answer.

But if they drop their weapons they Will die.

Glorfindel agreed that killing wasn't necessarily the best way to deal with the saboteurs, but others were on that. His job right now was to keep his coworkers alive. Any saboteurs that lived, the Council would deal with.

He noticed Trunks' altered appearance and grinned. Blond was an interesting look for him.

The robots near him were all falling down, and Amra and Yoite were safely away, so he charged over to help Trunks with the big robot. Not because he doubted the other's abilities, but because taking out these robots was fun.

Allen frowned slightly, even he was very much against kill with only slight exceptions which he could honestly probably count on one hand.

With that in mind, he simply let Timcampy go, in an attempt to at least pink the woman down and to hopefully disarm her. Thankfully Timcampy made sure to at least shrink a bit so that his size couldn't kill the other, but with Allen having been focused on where to drop him had not thought to prevent himself from not being shot by covering his already harmed torso.

So when a shot hit in right in the abdomen he flinched. Why. Why must people keep hurting him there? But the shot was enough to get the young man to go back to the ground for the time being, holding himself in the area.

Nita, for better or worse, is distracted by her own foes - and her own signal, which isn't going exactly the direction she'd hoped for.

Pity, but she's not going to make any assumptions about how bad things here can get from, well, here. ~~She did that enough during the mission with Eva.~~

Instead, she draws her shield in close, electrifying it as well, and starts outrunning her robotic entourage...

Yotsuyu slumpst behind Enna's shield, doing her best to not take more damage, despite the robots.

She does take the wrist of the man Enna has downed, in an attempt to check his pulse. He may have been struck, but he may also be alive, simply unconscious. The bird-child is unlikely to be able to drop her shield and check; Yotsuyu shall do it for her.

"Be wary. The robots still seek us, and I can do little more. But I shall not harm this one more." She might like to, but the order to stand down has been given, and Yotsuyu will obey.

The large robot shoots at Trunks and at Glorfindel when the latter arrives to back Trunks up. They make quick work of it and it collapses in on itself in a heap of metal and wire.

There are other robots converging on them and Yuume, but it is clearly the last wave, the last remnants of robots, yet even so they are relentless, trying to separate the three of them, from each other and from Xue Yang, shooting them all, a steady rain of fire and energy.

Tincampy drops onto the last standing saboteur, pinning her to the ground, she is pinned, unable to fire her gun. However two robots arrive, aiming at Allen, firing energy towards him.

Yotuyu will discover the saboteur behind Enna is indeed dead, she doesn't need any medical training to know such things. The robots nearby still shoot at Enna and her shield but are much less coordinated than the others on the field, shooting across to other groups rather than focusing on the two of them.

Oh, screw it.

Yuume uses the shadows for this again. Her victim is far beneath the surface, and frankly, a good distance from where she is even going off the matter 'horizontally'- and frankly, she just needs quick bursts. She uses the void- the area within shadows rather- for its momentum. To dip in and out, gathering speed in the frictionless end and shooting out just as quick. It makes this final wave more tolerable- more bearable-

It also makes it far, far harder for the final wave to hit her...but then, there's others there trying to fight as well.

...

Well, hopefully they deal with these last remaining ones fast enough that it won't matter then, she thinks as she snaps the blade against another bot. Her cloak is smouldering, and her goggles are fogged, and frankly, she wants a nap.

Trunks was mad; mostly at himself--maybe if he'd been here sooner he could've prevented more injuries and deaths. Maybe if he'd transformed sooner, back in the camp, he could've cleaned up more robots there more quickly to get here. Maybe if---it was always the 'maybe if' when he failed to protect people.

Good thing there are some very convenient robots for him to vent that anger and annoyance on. Once more it's sword and ki-blasts, along with kicks and an occasional punch. He's moving at full speed and strength to try and reduce those robot-numbers quickly.

Glorfindel looked around to see where he'd be the most use. Trunks looked like he needed to burn off some energy, whereas no matter how much Glorfindel burned, he still had more.

Spotting Xue Yang looking quite the worse for wear, he ran over to see if there was some aid he could give.

Enna can infer quickly enough that the man behind her- The one that they already had, helpless- was dead.

And the one who did it... also dead.

The last saboteur... pinned. Hopefully, not dead.

Enna's frustration gets the better of her, and she lets out a wordless, angry scream. A primal scream, of anger, frustration, and rebelling against her own powerlessness.

Despite the gunfire, she dismisses her shield. And as it vanishes, she starts running- towards the robots.

The shield of Scutum only allows her to manifest one shield at a time. But that's fine. The power of Scutum is a rigid shield, but that doesn't mean the power itself is rigid- With the power of the Stars, creativity is paramount. Enna jumps into the air, and-

A shield manifests under her feet, for a split second. She kicks off of it, and the shield vanishes again, and she summons it again, right under her feet again, and she kicks off it again- She rises higher, and higher, and higher, until she's high enough to be face-to-face with the tallest robot, and then-

Diving out of the air towards it, she roars, and manifests the shield once more. She's manifested it wedged into a gap in the robot's armor where the head is, where a gap has to be to allow it to move, and the shield is sticking out of it.... and Enna's falling, from a remarkable height...

She lands directly on the shield, gravity forming a powerful lever to rip the robot's head right off.

Well, color Yotsuyu impressed. Especially when Enna does her best to take the largest robot's head right off.

She has a dribble of Tsukuyomi's power left--and she will use it to try to take out one of the robots who was firing on her and Enna, manifesting and then throwing a pair of katana at it. One bright, one dark--they will explode, should they connect.

And then a small sphere of pale, bluish-white light drifts from her body and dissipates into nothing. Yotsuyu is battered, bruised, and bloody--but relatively unbroken. She has enough sense, then, to slap her SCA three times and get the Hell out of there!

The robot that Enna has leaped on crumples under her attack, it's head coming off in her hands, metal and wires spilling onto the battlefield below.

The last few robots seem to be trying to converge on Allen but are soon taken down by Glorfindel, Trunks, Yotsuyu and Yuume. There are still two close to Allen but shouldn't be hard to take down either by Allen himself or anyone coming to his rescue.

It seems like this fight is over, blood and wires strewn across the churned up mud of the battfield, one saboteur dead, one silent and pinned underneath Timcampy and one vanished into shadows.

Ah. She should probably do something about that guy soon huh. Yuume doesn't think about her just yet though, merely heaving as things finally slow down and the adrenalin goes with it.

"Hahh...hahh...hahhh..." Robots aren't replacing the ones they took down...

So....

"Is...that it then..?" she heaves, sword slamming into the ground as she leans on it. She's smoking somewhat still, and very much bleeding in trickles from her wounds across arms and legs. It's fine. She'll be fine.

Trunks still has energy to burn (literally and figuratively) and would head straight for the last two converging on Allen. No one else is dying if he can help it; at least not in this battle.

Tch, he should've made it here sooner. Could've been more help, maybe prevented some of this. These are the kind of thoughts fueling him as he goes for the last two robots.

Allen was sure to make quick work of the two robots that remain before going landing next to Timcampy and kneeling down next to Timcampy who still was happily sitting on the saboteur. He wasn't sure what exactly they will do with them but he was at least sure as hell making sure that they didn't kill this one.

"Seems to be the case. Can we just make sure to not kill this one, or is that too hard?" Yes, he felt the need to have to say that.

The woman was pinned but she was still struggling, glaring up at Timcampy as she tried to get free.

The final robots go down under the voidtreckers attacks. The fight, it seems, is over.

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Well done all!