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.

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[10billionpercent]

Control Station

It didn't make one lick of difference that he was injured from engaging robots before, he was close enough to that control station that he took the crticial message as a suggestion he should go and deal with that.

He was honestly hoping not to end up in another combat situation, especially when he saw the toppled tree.

Senku entered and his SCA began beeping incessantly to warn him of danger. He was taking a brief, but long look around.

Beep. Beep. Beep. Not only were there alarms everywhere but the one on the SCA wasn't in time to the rest of it.

"I got it." He growled and ripped the SCA off his wrist. He would glance at whoever came in. "If you can't help fix this, take this and keep watch for whoever caused this." He held out the SCA.

If they knew how to help, he'd stuff it in his pocket to try and muffle the sound, how was he supposed to fix anything with all that racket?

Senku dove for the control panel and started the process of stopping each thing he came across.

[OOC: Senku is now without translation, but if your character speaks Japanese, English or Russian, they're in business. Otherwise, well that's going to get interesting.]

[fun_thementalist]

After he found out Senku got hurt, like hell Gen was going to leave him out of his sight. Apparently it didn't matter if it was American snipers or killer robots, random people simply had it out for his genius partner. So he's just a step behind him entering the control station.

His eyes went wide. "Senku-"

But apparently, whatever the SCA was protecting him from, it wasn't this planet. Not immediately. He made an exasperated sound. "You tell me what I need to press, and I'll do my best."

Fortunately, they both were fluent in English and Japanese. If Senku started cursing in Russian, Gen would be out of luck. "For all we know, this place is what the SCA was warning us about, and, well. We've got to be here."

He rolled up his sleeves and leaned in.

[10billionpercent]

"I'm sure it is." Senku answered and started with the first alert, grabbing the tools to start opening panels. Actually...

He held out a screwdriver.

"Start opening these panels, I'll work on those wires." He wouldn't understand many people, most likely, but Gen he understood just fine without the SCA.

[fun_thementalist]

Gen took the screwdriver from Senku without complaint, then turned to the panels. Or, he didn't complain, but he would vaguely joke; "That is at least something I'm able to do - it's just another version of taking something apart."

Of course, his own SCA was still alarmed, and there's the warning blares within the station, so. Whatever they needed to fix, they had to do it fast, warning lights were flashing everywhere.

The panel was open in no time at all.

[10billionpercent]

"Yeah, pretend we're rebuilding somthing if it helps you." Senku quipped as he repaired. The alarms were so noisy and if he could shut them off, he absolutely would.

He knew there was a problem, but it was just so loud. The SCA, he found already, was incessant when there was danger which is why he didn't want to hear it.

"Look around for some spare parts." He pointed at the shelves. "Someone was smashing things in here!"

[blue_ice]

"Why---"

Kaiba looked a little alarmed at the sight of the abandoned SCA. Luckily, he could both speak Japanese and do some work.

"You know this has to be the worst time to take that off, right?"

But he wasn't wasting any time either. He raced over to one of the panels, untangling the damage with practiced hands as he spoke.

[10billionpercent]

"It's too fucking loud in here and it's out of sync which is driving me up a wall." Senku retorted easily.

It was only because of the difference in dialect - usually he heard the dialect that was similar to the villagers', which was likely an indication of how his own language had evolved over time - that he realized he no longer had the benefit of translation which must've been done through the SCA.

Fascinating. Something to tinker with at a later date when imminent danger wasn't happening.

At least Kaiba was speaking Japanese, that made things a lot easier.

Senku went to another panel and started undoing wires that had been crossed and moved around. "This is just the most annoying way to fuck up this station." He grumbled.

[blue_ice]

"They clearly knew what they were doing. They were hiding and plotting against us for days..."

Really they should've stationed patrols here too. He's cursing himself for the oversight. He's really hating the beeping, but for him it's something he has to live with.

"If the worst happens, I'll evac us. Hopefully with enough warning."

[10billionpercent]

"Yeah." Senku agreed as he untangled the mess and started connecting things as they should be. "But the damage didn't look like sabotage, it looked like things were just overgrown and worn out. Either there's a lot more to these people than we're expecting, or they're taking advantage of a situation."

Or, he mused, it was a bit of both, but now he was drowning out the noise, sort of, he was focusing on the task at hand. He didn't normally have to repair so frantically, but that didn't mean he was going to be sloppy about it.

"That's fine." Senku would now expect it, if he was suddenly grabbed and evacuated. "If you see the thing that's causing the noise feel free to break that, we'll fix it after."

[barenakedspirit]

Galo can speak English or Japanese, whichever Senku uses Galo answers in. He has the typical train gear but instead of a shirt he has his red and yellow fire fighter coat. “Stuff it in your pocket! You might need it later.” He turns his head to the drone he had been leading and points, “Hey, locate the spare toolkits and bring em.”

He props a crystalline looking staff that reflects almost iridescent in the light up against the wall and kneels down, popping a panel open. “I got down here. I have some spare wires in my pocket. Bot buddy should know where the other repair tools are.”

Sure enough the drone comes toddling back as fast as it can with two toolkits. It drops them down and looks expectantly for orders. Galo pauses long enough to go, “Direct both of us where you need us. Pain in the ass they messed it up this way!”

[10billionpercent]

Senku's default was Japanese, albeit a bit of a stranger dialect than Galo might be used to and the odd English word thrown in. He stuffed it into his pocket and nodded.

"You work on that side, I'll work on this side." He said, taking up the tools to start opening access panels.

"Real piece of work this is." He agreed with a frown.

[barenakedspirit]

The drone toddles over to another spot and sets about doing what it was made to do, repair things. Galo frowns as he studies the problem he's confronted with. He snags the toolkit, pulls on safety gloves and leans into it.

"Looks like they just ripped up wires here. I'm not seeing any circuit damage. We got here before it started scorching anything." Which is good but it also means- "We probably just missed them."

[10billionpercent]

"That's a small stroke of luck, because that's more of a pain to fix. Ripped up wires is easier." Senku responded. "It's the same here, some of them are tangled up and crossed in odd places...but there's more panels and the alarms are still going so I'm guessing this isn't only it."

[pleple]

"I guess that's one way to solve that." English is probably the main language of the Gundam future? One of them? Let's assume that it is and that linguistic drift hasn't gotten very far.

That was one problem they didn't have to worry about it. The rest of the problems were noise, and imminent death, which Ple Two hoped to help him avert. "I'll be working on the next one over," she added as worked on figuring out what the different switches, buttons, and gauges might mean. "Tch."

[10billionpercent]

It was interesting that he hadn't considered a potential language barrier when he removed his SCA, but he was glad for the fact she was speaking English, so he would respond in kind. He had a mild accent, but not too terrible. He was clearly used to it enough, and he had a fluency nearing a native speaker.

"Call if you see something you don't understand." Senku answered as he started opening access panels.

He wasn't sure whether or not she knew what she was doing but he wasn't going to be picky, not in an emergency.

[pleple]

He probably should have considered that, in fact, but they were in luck between the two of them. Imagine doing this with a language barrier.

"Do you understand this entire station?" she asked, curious if he could really make such a claim.

[10billionpercent]

"I understand as much as anyone does here." Senku answered. "The mechanical parts are typically the same as I'm used to, so that helps. The parts that do things are similar to what I know, so the repairs aren't that hard, or they weren't. Sabotage is another matter."

[tokenloveinterest]

"Are you crazy?!"

Rei takes the SCA and hurls it back at Senku. "What are you thinking?! Don't these help keep us alive here on an alien planet?!"

[10billionpercent]

Senku catches the SCA and tosses it onto a shelf.

"I'm not dead am I?" He quipped, all too unhelpfully, going to the controls.

"I need all this racket to fucking shut up!"

[tokenloveinterest]

"You're not dead yet!" She growls, retrieving the SCA to shove it back at him. "You won't be able to help anyone if you keel over from oxygen poisoning or something!"

[10billionpercent]

"Stop that." Senku protested as he focused on opening panels and outright ignored her trying to shove the SCA at him.

"I'm not kidding, do you want this thing to blow up? Get the noise away from me." He growled a little bit. "I'm trying to fix this."

[consider8]

Eight had followed behind, breaking all the rules of the control stations being the jurisdiction of the red team. She wanted to fight, yes, but she wasn't prepared for it. At best she could get one bucket splash out per minute; she needed her tank.

But she also wasn't about to let a physically incapable and injured Genku run in unaided. As she trailed behind, her attention focused down the halls for any signs of the robots that were giving people trouble. Nothing in sight, but everything screaming put her on edge.

And then it happened. Eight stared at his SCA now in her hands and blanched. "Wait, what are you doing?" But instead of any discernible language, what instead comes out sounds something like drowning seagulls.

Things were definitely about to get interesting...

[10billionpercent]

"Huh." Senku said, pausing in his haste to look at Eight with a bit of a frown.

"Anyway." He moved back to the task at hand, flipping switches as he found them out of place.

"I don't know what you said, but I'm going to assume you said I was crazy or something to that effect and, probably I am." Senku responded easily enough. "Guess the translation is related to that stupid annoying beeping thing."

[consider8]

Eight could feel her heart drop. Though her instinct is to SCREAM AT THE IDIOT she now knows that he would pay her any mind... even more so than normal.

So she won't.

If he's going to be an idiot, she's going to make sure he's not going to dive into that stupidity any longer than she needs to. She grabs Senku's shoulder. HARD. Once she gets her attention, she brings a finger to herself, and then points to a shoulder.

"Me too." Even if he can't understand her, she was sure the intention would be made. Point her to what you want done, Senku, and she will do it.

[10billionpercent]

Senku jumped a little bit when his shoulder was grabbed, his body tensing, and he let out a reflexive complaint. "Too close!"

Then he just groaned. "Ugh." He might have to put up with it since he couldn't understand.

He did, however, understand she wanted to help. He held out one of the screwdrivers.

"Start opening panels. You might be able to tell when something's in the wrong spot."