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VoidTrecker Express Mods ([personal profile] voidtreckermods) wrote in [community profile] middleofsomewhere2020-11-23 06:39 pm

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.
blitzcheer: (when you stare at mobius)

base camp

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-25 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Natsuno please do we have time to admire your teeth.

Maybe someone who appreciates the finer things in life, like dental hygiene. For Tidus, he turns to the call, a maintenance automaton jumped on a half-standing tent and getting ready to pounce on him. Instead it meets with his blade as he sends it flying back, an extra kick of water to his slice. The thing isn't getting back in.

"Yo! Natsu!" There's still the rest of the battlefield to take a look around, this not the same as the few pathetic bots outside the station the last time they teamed up. A pause before he continues. "You need a weapon?"

Or is he fine just doing his own thing like that since, you know, that's fine if he is--
reluctantjinrou: (Dangerous)

[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2020-11-25 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
There isn't time now, but later Tidus if you ask, he'll show you his teeth.

Precious few people could get away with calling him some form of his first name and Tidus is in luck that he is friend enough to now fit that bill. Otherwise he might've gotten a glare.

He was safe for now.

Natsuno responded by ripping an arm off one of the bots and tossing it aside. "I don't think so."
blitzcheer: (ummmooo)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-26 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Please Natsuno, it's a battle, no time for glaring!! Gotta rush-rush-rush.

"Fair enough!" Yeah, look at that guy go. There isn't as much time here or ease for speaking, but will that stop Tidus from sharing whatever he wants?

"--You should get claws! You'd look cool!" oh! "Or a gun!"

Absolutely not.
reluctantjinrou: (Dangerous)

[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2020-11-26 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"Claws?" Sure, it wasn't the most ideal time for banter, but when has that ever stopped them? Banter seemed to make combat more bearable anyway.

"What kind of claws would you have me have?" Natsuno snorted slightly.

He absolutely, definitely, 100% should not have a gun.

"I wouldn't know how to use a gun."
blitzcheer: (know what that means?)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-28 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"You'd know how to use claws?" --shit, fire! But for the shot that comes for Tidus, he pays it back with a bolt of electricity, catching a maintenance bot in the process. Nice.

"Doesn't have to be claws. Something you can punch real good a machine face with! Gloves-- knuckle dusters!"

Look, he doesn't usually think about these things. It took him a second to remember that name!
reluctantjinrou: (Dangerous)

[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2020-11-28 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't think people typically use claws." Natsuno quipped.

It was a bold statement from someone who wasn't human and was definitely a lot closer to an animal at the moment.

"Possible." He answered. "Probably my best skill is that I'm strong."
blitzcheer: (heyy you want some???)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-29 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's a big void!" Tidus quips right back cheekily. Yeah, fight that cheating logic! "Next mission could take us to a world where everyone uses them!"

Got you there, Natsu!

"How about flying? Can you fly?"

They did float that one time. Can he move around more?
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[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2020-11-29 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"That...I can't argue with that." Natsuno responded after a moment with a punch at a robot.

Tidus did get him there.

"I suppose you could call it that, yes."
blitzcheer: (whatcha gonna do about iiitt)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-11-30 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"How fast?" It comes, not directly after Natsuno speaks. Some of these sentries are getting the idea not to directly approach them both, but Tidus isn't exactly into being an idle fish for them. And he has speed too, dashing into a jump that lets him swing his blade with the momentum of his movement.

He speaks. Takes a second to stab down, and finishes:

"Good to know - for emergencies!"
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[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2020-11-30 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"I've never tested it, I'm not sure." Natsuno admitted, jumping off a robot corpse and leaping onto another one.

"Faster than a human could fly, if they could."
blitzcheer: (arms folded time!!)

[personal profile] blitzcheer 2020-12-01 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Faster than a human could fly...!? So Tidus is trying to think about, what does that even mean, Natsuno! - but his thoughts are interrupted as a small bot that managed to sneak his notice lands on his forearm, needle-legs digging into skin until he tears it off with a curse and throws it.

"I'll test you on that one day!" Said, like he's ever going to fly...
reluctantjinrou: (Half a smile)

[personal profile] reluctantjinrou 2020-12-02 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, sure, not a problem. I could beat you in a race anyway." Natsuno, those were fighting words. At least, in terms of friendly competition.

He sniffed a moment. Wait. Was Tidus bleeding from that?