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

[10billionpercent]

"The more people that know how to deal with emergencies the better." Senku agreed with a smile. "It's not my primary thing I do, and a lot of people on board have magic healing, so I'm kind of more in reserve if anything." He answered.

"At home I do a lot more in the medical field because I'm the only doctor." Senku said, wiping his hands on his pants and crouching down to take the piece. At least, that's what he was by default at this point, several years after the fact.

"Nah." He said, taking it gingerly and standing again to bring it to where he could swap it out. "There's three points hit, and the damage in here could be done by a single person, if not maybe two. I don't know what the other place hit was hit with, and then the rest would just have to cause trouble. If they've got tech support you need even less people." He had no way of knowing how many people were involved.

"My best guess would be something like ten people. It's not hard for you to posture and show off and seem like you're a stronger force when you're not, it's my favourite tactic." He said as he slid the piece into place, fastening it in.

[barenakedspirit]

Galo nods, visibly accepting what Senku is saying. He's not the tactical guy of his team and the doc sounds reasonable. He returns to removing more wires, noting they only have a few parts left he can remove.

"So, reasonable guess it's at max ten people on this team and one to two did this. Pending tech support. But we can't nail down how many or what they got." The remains of the drone had burns and dents. But the burn pattern. "Well, we know one thing. This drone was probably taken down by them. I ran into a few out in the jungle with the same damage. They're always placed where its hard to find them."

Not that great. But, he shrugs. "How's the repairs going by the way?"

[10billionpercent]

"Yeah, I can't begin to guess what's going on out there at the moment, and I'm not going to run into a fight. I'm a huge liability." Senku said and finished hooking it in. "Just about..."

He pressed a few buttons and flipped a switch and suddenly blissful silence.

"The alarms stopped." Senku exhaled. "Thank fuck for that." He reached up to rub at his ears, giving his head a shake like that had been really bothering him.

[barenakedspirit]

He leans back with a heavy sigh. "Thanks." But he doesn't say anything else. He climbs to his feet and rests his staff against his shoulder. "We got anything else we need to do before we head out?"

His gaze sweeps the room as he turns to face the west doorway out. Nothing here that he can hear or see. "Seems clear."

[10billionpercent]

"I don't think so." Senku mused. "At least nothing I can see offhand. I can polish things up though." Their repairs were made in the heat of an emergency, he could probably organize them a little bit.

"I'll be fine to do that though, go." He told him. "There's no point in me running into battle anyway."

Andd that's a wrapped thread!

[barenakedspirit]

Galo nods once, and walks out, picking up to a distance eating job once he's in the hall. He trusts Senku will handle the more complicating tech issues. He has his usual job to do. Fires and rescue work.