Not with a Bang: Finale

[voidtreckermods]

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.

Comments

[emerald_mirror]

"You're in the zone, don't worry about it." He can feel the guilt, even though in her fugue state she isn't feeling it. Xander knew what he might be getting into; it was a risk he was more than willing to take.

"Keep going, I've got your back!" And while the hand she'd scored is bloody, underneath all that it's slowly sealing and healing itself. "You kick robot rear, I'll keep you healed!" Not safe; neither of them were particularly safe at the moment, but they can still potentially do some damage.

[knifewithnoname]

She probably feels very strange to Xander right now, her emotions bouncing around her, as if she were wearing an armour to keep them away from her heart. Fear, exhaustion, anger, guilt. Nothing that touched her.

She nodded, if he was offering to heal then she could accept that. She would fight and make sure nothing got him, he could heal her, that was teamwork.

She span around to drive a knife into the nearest robot, ducking under its arm and twisting it, to make sure it's weapon was pointing away from Xander.

[emerald_mirror]

He wasn't going to slack, either--Xander can keep the robots from swarming just by opening up miniature sinkholes beneath them. Just enough to swallow them up like they'd never been. Being on a planet, instead of the void train, meant he had something of a renewable resource at his fingertips. Or beneath his feet, as the case might be.

Xander is less likely to grab her now that she's aware of his presence. He might not like to admit to his angelic side, whether or not it's obvious, but between his earth magic and that, he might be able to do a little bit about the fear and exhaustion, too. Because she is in the emptiness, it'd be at a remove, but there's a small bit of golden warmth creeping in when next he rests a hand on her shoulder.

[knifewithnoname]

Robots vanishing into the ground was strange, a snippet of information filed away to deal with later.

She focused on fighting, every now and again feeling the strange golden warmth, like a second bubble overlapping the bubble of the emptiness.

It was a little strange but not enough to be distracting.

She nodded at him when she felt his hand on her shoulder, in a quiet moment.

Only for a second before she rushes past him, to jump on the robot that was coming up behind him.