Let it Snow: Blue Start

[voidtreckermods]

The moment the doors open for purple to jump the train is speaking again. “Blue team to doors. Void shift imminent. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one” The train lurches and shudders as the windows flash the colour of the void for a split second before it shakes again and they are back in that frozen tundra.

The doors open and blue can jump down into a large snowdrift. They are at the foot of an impressive mountain range. Snow swirls around them, the wind hows. Ahead of them, half obscured by snow is a tunnel entrance.

Even getting there is exhausting, wading through the snow. Inside there is no snow but it is cold. The walls and floor shine with ice and the way is treacherous. It is pitch black.

Their task is to find those hiding in the tunnels. Some have formed makeshift camps in large caverns, others have fled into the small tunnels and have gotten themselves lost.

The voidtreckers are lucky to at least have a map on their SCA though it does not show where anybody else it. It is time to start the task of rounding everyone up and making sure they can survive the storm.

Comments

[pleple]

"And you don't treat me like an idiot!" Could she just 'mistake' him for an icicle and bash him?

...no, then she'd probably have to carry him around, and he's like three times her size. "And give me a spare of that if you have it." To make up for being rude.

[anewhero]

Marcus eyed Pie two. "Could you handle that then? I just saw that was about to smash into you..."

"But you can handle it. I understand perfectly."

Marcus eyes his gun "When I find time, i'll give one to you. "

[pleple]

"All I've got is this damned bit of metal, I have to stay close!" She doesn't even want to give these things a chance to, what, reset themselves? Unfortunately, it was tiring her skinny little arms out just keeping up, but she couldn't lay down and let other people do the hard work.

A gun will be appreciated, if that ever actually happens.

[anewhero]

Marcus frowned "This is just as bad as shooting endless Terminators that keep coming."

"How long do these things keep spawning?"

"Somebody go in and find the people, We can hold the ice off so far!"

Marcus kept up his aim at the ice while he hoped Pie could hold off what she could with the ice.

[pleple]

Thwack, crunch - she could keep this up until her arms fell off. "I don't think... we have an expert... on hand!"

All she needed to do was at least work her way closer to the people they were rescuing, clear a path for people who knew how to do things like being comforting. "They can't be... endless!"

[anewhero]

"Bang, .. Bang"

"I hope the hell not."

"I can keep this up for a while."

Marcus looked at the icicles and keep loading and shooting at the ice until they at least cleared a path for the others. "At the very least, these coats are at least fur lined and made to survive a nuclear winter I hope."

[pleple]

"Don't think... I want anything nuclear happening..." ...at least not near her and uncontained, thank you very much. Nuclear fusion as a power source is welcome.

[anewhero]

Marcus frowned trying to shoot in the cold, "Heh, you should see my world. Man vs machine war, rouge AI named Skynet. Fun Shit."

[pleple]

"Shouldn't let machines... get that smart, huh?" Thankfully, her series was written in the 80s when that seemed less completely inevitable. Lucky her.

[anewhero]

"It wasn't my idea to create Skynet anyway... I just got involved in the war."

[pleple]

"I guess someone should've taken that advice sooner then." But ah, someone probably stood to benefit from it in the short term - only to destroy themselves with it.

[anewhero]

"Probably, somehow."