middleofsomewhere | Orange Team Finale

Well. This isn't great. Every part of him feels like it's on fire in a panic. For as tough as he talks...he's never been in an actual war situation before, but that's no excuse not to act. They have to do something, and before he can even think he's sprinting for the hangar.

"We have to fight them off in the air! I'll fly one, we need more pilots! And gunners!"

Edited 2020-03-25 00:28 (UTC)

"We need fighters in the air now!" Well as of yesterday, but same thing. "And we need a ground crew."

Because she doesn't believe for a second they'll stay in space. Oh no, she's fully expecting at least some sort of ground-based trouble. Well, station-based, but details.

Eventually, her gut's proven right and both her and Princess are in battle with the unlucky sods who've landed on the station. Eva, fiercely determined to do her best, hangs back while the clefairy's eyes glow pale pink as he pins one of them with a Telekinesis -which makes it impossible to miss and attack- before unloading a Moonblast or three into them.

It's not pretty or nice when it hits, but she can and will deal with the fallout later. For now, she has people to either defend or fight alongside.

Edited 2020-03-25 08:55 (UTC)

"I'm on it," Danny calls as he runs towards the ships, transforming into his ghost side between one step and the next.

"We need to hit them hard," Kaiba answers, swinging the door open and jumping in.He'd flown over on the way, of course, but going into the heat of batte was new. Trusting a stranger in a life or death situation is just his life now.

"I'm going to pull their fire away from the base, then we swerve and strike. Got it?"

"Got it!" Danny follows him in and grabs the pilot's seat, quickly starting up the engine.

Being the space nerd that he was, he'd studied every detail of the ships on the trip over here, and still had a pretty good idea on how to fly it.

Good thing he'd played all those space simulators.

Kaiba had been expecting to take the pilots' seat...and he wasn't sure about how much he could trust him. But he could shoot. Not a problem.

He took the controls, gritted his teeth, and prepared himself. He radiated tension.

"They're coming from the left!"

And that's where he'll aim his fire.

Yugi thought they had been doing pretty well all things considering. At least until the ships came in and the shield went down. People scrambling to the ships, Yugi had soon found himself being tagged along to one of the ships.

He really wasn't sure what he could do and soon found himself assigned as a gunner for one of the ships, which made the boy a little bit wary.

"I've...never actually used these things before, but I will try my best." At least he hoped he could figure it out easily. But soon he looked over at who he was put up with and smiled. "I guess you'll be the one flying, huh?"

Garrett was no pilot. He didn't even know how to operate a car much less a spacecraft. And though he was a good shot it was one thing to aim a bow or gun, an entirely different matter to aim a ship's armament while careening through space. He would remain on the ground, thank you, where his footing was sure and his aim steady.

He didn't really want to be a part of this fight but there wasn't much getting away from it at this point. Besides, he'd already helped fend off a few soldiers what was a few more? Least he wasn't hungry anymore...

Garrett spotted Eva from his vantage point above--on the ceiling to be exact--and followed her line of sight to the pink creature fighting the enemy soldiers. It looked cute but it was wrecking havoc on the enemy. Eva had done Garrett a solid by helping him earlier and he intended to stay in her good graces lest he be outed for his monstrosity.

Garrett sighted down the blaster he'd borrowed and let loose two shots. The blasts hit an enemy behind the clefairy as it dealt with another opponent.

"On it!." Danny swings the ship in a broad sweep to the right, aiming to simultaneously dodge any incoming fire and give Kaiba an opening to shoot.

Telli saw someone coming up behind Eva without her or Princess seeing and moved before she thought. Her cane arced through the air, the bottom half falling away seconds before a bright green blade made of energy sprung from the handle Telli still held. It pierced straight through the body of the man who'd tried to attack Eva and he crumpled where he stood.

The blade hummed as Telli removed it from the body and took up a fighting stance, her lightsaber angled to deflect any incoming blows or shots.

Okay. Kaiba sees the enemy fire in his line of vision and can calculate where it's likely coming from, but he needs a better lock. Where...there?

There. He hits fast and hard, pulse thundering in his ears. There's so much riding on this. He won't fail. He can't. He's too good.

Right?

"Pressure them!"

Pressure them? That was... really unhelpful as an instruction. Danny takes a wild guess at what he meant, and pushes the ship into a tight curve back around towards the enemy.

Hopefully Kaito didn't get airsick easily because Danny piloted a lot like he flew. With lots of high speed aerial acrobatics.

"Hold on tight!" he calls over before slamming the speed on and taking the ship in close.

Okay, so he probably deserved that. Kaiba did look a little green, but he held it together long enough to take his shots. He knocked one out of the sky, two...but now he had their attention, and they were pointing their way.

"Agh---"

He fires, praying that his reflexes are faster.

"I've got this."

They have to. The others need them.

If she's surprised, she doesn't show it outside a grim nod. There'll be time for thanks later. Right now, they need to stay alive long enough to dispatch the enemies.

Thankfully, a lifetime of dealing with monsters, of street battles, of the battles and fights in the wild, of honing survival instincts means she's on the ball as far as moving out of the way of shots aimed at her, and Princess doesn't seem to be bothered by any that hit him.

Well, glance him because dispite the glowing eye trick, he's not staying in one place for long, and he's fast. Then again, he's getting to go carte balance on these guys and show exactly what a fairy can do. A Bite to the neck area. A Mega Punch here, an Icy Wind there. A Moonblast in the face-

"Eyes!" It's short, sharp, and very much an order as Eva throws up an arm to cover her eyes, squeezes them shut and turns her back on things. Sorry, Garret. She'd warn you, but she doesn't want to warn the enemy about the so very much not battle legal, literally blinding, Sun-as-a-camera-flash Flash of light that's coming.

The good thing is it's only a second or two and the enemy will be blinded, or at least spots in the eyes for the next minute.

Laser sword in cane. Cool.

She'll deal with that later. There's maybe two enemies left that need to be dealt with before anything else, and life and death battles are not the time to talk. But at least it's not a street battle and Princess is the only pokemon throwing around Infinity Energy.

"Mo!" It's short, sharp, and very much an order to her monster. Princess is moving as Eva thrusts her hand out towards the closest one, wings aglow with pale, silvery light as he leaps into the air. At the same time, glowing pink energy forms a rough sphere between his paws for a few seconds before it's hurled at the target, the pokemon landing with a skid as he wheels around for another attack, eyes already glowing again as he attempts to pin the other enemy in place.

"Anytime you want-"

Now this was going to be a little tricky. Danny waits just long enough for Kaiba to take the shots, then slams the speed on and takes the ship above in a quick evasion.

The moment the main shields go down, Dairine's personal shield goes up. Earlier she had expanded its parameters so it'd cover within a few yards of her position. So anyone else within range has some extra protection from blaster fire.

Boy, she's glad she pre-programmed some precautionary measures.

"We need emergency power on, NOW!"

Dairine's already on the move, making a beeline for one of the power units.

"I can boost the system temporarily, but we'll need the main units online before we can get full coverage. Damage report?"

As one of those who opted for ground support through this whole thing, Persephone has kept one eye on the sky and the other on whatever simple machine someone taught her to use. Space battle renders her powerset rather useless. But this--this she can help with. Her hair started out today as cropped short. Probably was never destined to end that way.

"Give me a second!" Persephone raises a hand and around the shield, twisting vines start to grow, curling around themselves, leaving gaps that flourish with leaves and on occasion, sharp thorns.

Edited 2020-03-29 06:25 (UTC)

The shout had Garrett frowning, the intensity of battle slowing his mind, not really used to working with others in the first place the brief warning was lost on him. He started to glance at the monster to see what she was ordering but that turned out to be the absolute worst idea. Garrett hissed in pain as he was blinded from the flash of light.

The plus side was he was on the ceiling and most of the enemies that knew he was there were already dead because he'd hit them with a bolt. The minus side was that he had eight eyes and while the scorpion ones tended not to care about light for vision so much that was really fragging bright and he wasn't certain whether his spatial eyes were working either or not. He was too busy blinking his main two eyes to notice.

Which also meant he was easy prey while he hung upside down without consciousness for the battle stick raging beneath him.

The last target shot wildly at Telli and she used her lightsaber to deflect the shots, sending them away from anyone close by. She approached as she did and once within reach she used the butt of her weapon to stagger the man and then reached for him with her free hand. As soon as she touched skin a faint shadow seemed to reach from her hand into her opponent and the bit of skin visible appeared to almost age and wither.

Her opponent gave a strangled gasp before crumbling dead to the ground. The shadow drew back into Telli's skin and as it did it appeared as if the cuts and scrapes she had from constant fighting healed over.

"I believe that's the last of them."

The aging effect is noted but it's far from the most alarming thing she's seen. If anything, the look in her eyes suggests it's downright normal, more so when she notices the healing effect.

Interesting, but ultimately, not the weirdest thing or most alarming thing she's ever seen.

"Good," Eva says as she crouches down and roughly rouns her hands through Princess's fur to extract any and all viscera the clefairy might have. "So. Laser sword in cane?"

Curufin returned to Shield Station Two by a roundabout route. When he had first arrived with Orange Team, he had worked hard to get the power back up and keep it up, and then he had flown a few patrols off-station to keep the Empire forces away, and then he helped Garrett fight a battle with some Empire soldiers who had landed on the station in a cloaked ship and sneaked into the hanger. Curufin had then answered Tony's call for reinforcements for Red Team. He went with Loki in a transport ship to slip past the Empire ships and into the second wormhole. With the Red Team members who based their efforts on Planet One, he stayed long enough to help that team, including his father Fëanor, with their distraction efforts, in order to give the stealth people time to collect enough information to locate the mega-weapon. After that, he went with those who were going to disable it and fought a great battle outside the shipyard, using his vision-casting ability to scare the crap out of the Empire soldiers and guards who were supposed to keep their foes away from that mega-weapon. The weapon was successfully disabled. And finally, he helped to get Nita where she needed to be to shut the second wormhole. She SCA'd back to the train and Curufin took a fighter ship back to the shield station that Orange Team was defending.

He had been worrying about his team the whole time, and he was very glad to get back to them. Shield Station Two had been attacked again by then, and he was just in time to fight off a couple of Empire fighters and then take his ship into the hanger. He had heard the radio communications on the way in and knew that the enemy had knocked out the power again. He planned to help with power restoration and then get back up into space to fight again. GO TEAM ORANGE!

Edited 2020-04-29 02:17 (UTC)

Curufin is back. He dashes from his ship into the hanger and then up to goes to find Dairine one of the engineering sections.

"I'll help with that. Let's see what's what, here."

He goes to the console and pulls up a readout. "Almost the main units are out. Let's get to it." He pulls his tool kit out of his satchel, goes to a wall cabinet and grabs a few more specialized tools that he himself doesn't own, and helps Dairine get the nearest power unit's cover off. It clangs to the floor.

Curufin is back. He spends some time helping to get power restored, and then he runs to the hanger, where he finds Eva and the others.

"I can do either," he says. "I can take my fighter up again alone or fly with someone. Or I can stay here and guard the hanger from Empire troops trying to enter via cloaked ships."

"I'll fly, if you'll shoot!" answers Curufin with a grin. He vaults into the pilot's seat and starts to run through the flight check list, giving Yugi a chance to check out the gunner's controls.

He nodded slightly, going to the place he was going to be shooting from and simply checking it over. Sure the controls were not something he knew extensively, but they looked similar enough that it would be like playing a video game.

A very real type of video game. Which made the young man a more than a little nervous. but soon he got ready and glanced over.

"Let's go."

The flight controls and the gun controls were more or less self-explanatory, once you knew what they were for.

Curufin smiled at Yugi. "Yes, let's do it!"

And he pushed the stick forward and took the craft out of the hanger. Once out, they roared off into space and headed for the battle. One of the Empire ships saw them coming and peeled off its formation, coming at them with guns blazing.

Yugi was more than a little nervous, but with a small breath he managed to somewhat calm himself down moment sb before they took off. This was all new having to actually shoot something that wasn't in a video game.

It was two different things... He honestly wasbn't sure what to make of it, but right now there hadn't been much of a choice. It was very much needed.

Eyes looked over seeing the empire ships and his hands moved along the controls to star6t aiming. Once he was sure that they were in the firing line he pressed the button to start the gun off.

Direct hit on one, but the others had managed to avoid it and flew off in different directions.

"Okay so we need to figure out which one to go for first."

She powers down the lightsaber and picks up the half of the cane that had fallen away, snapping the two pieces together so the weapon is once more hidden.

"It's called a lightsaber in my world, but yes. It's quite a handy disguise for getting weapons into restricted areas."

She walks over to Eva and Princess and kneels next to them. "Are you both okay?"

Thankfully for Garret, nothing manages to target him.

Though that might be because of the thumps hitting the ground as Princess rips through the stunned soldiers with brutal, monstrous efficiency, and by the time he can see again, there's a mass of bodies behind Eva as she blinks sheepishly up Garret.

"Sorry about that... It's all clear now though. Though I think he might have gone overboard..."

That's a lot of blood and gore behind her and all she can say is a 'bit overboard?'

Well, that was a horrid sight to open his eyes to. Thankfully, Ryslig had prepared him for such sights. He swallowed noticeably but let his eyes shift to Eva. No worse than his own mess, just in a larger scale. He could ignore it. He was full, he didn't need it, so best not to look and be tempted anyway. Stupid monster traits.

"Just a bit." He responded to Eva with a wry smirk of the lips. "At least I wasn't the only one that flash worked on. Good job." Highly efficient. Garrett hated all the killing but as long as it wasn't him, he would get over it. They attacked first, it was their fault for it. The people here were just defending themselves.

The arachne hopped down from the ceiling and landed like a cat, twisting mid-air to drop onto his feet. "We should probably clear this out," he said. "And prepare for the next attack."

Everybody's nervous in their first real space battle! Especially in this kind, where there is so much at stake. This wasn't Curufn's first space battle, but he was still fairly new to this sort of war.

"You got them!" shouted Curufin, grinning at Yugi. The ship Yugi had hit exploded in fragments while the others fled.

"Let's go for the nearest, and that would be. . . that one," added Curufin, responding to his shipmate's question. The Empire vessel that seemed not quite willing to leave the scene, and was beginning to come about in a great circle that would bring it back around towards Yugi's and Curufin's ship. "Think you can hit it from this distance?"

Edited 2020-04-24 04:43 (UTC)

It was vastly different from the video games, more so at the realization at what he was really doing. There were actually people on those ships, but he also knew that it was either they got shot out or many more people might get hurt if they aren't... It was a dilemma that he didn't like at all.

So he was deciding for the moment to just focus on the task. Looking around he was quietly judging if he could.

"I can try, but no promises."

Curufin was no video game player, but he was a fighter. It was true that killing was a moral dilemma, and it was also true that in war, it was kill or be killed, or watch others be killed. Curufin hadn't had to think about this since early adulthood, because his life had been war and his values were already formed, but he'd have understood Yugi's concerns.

"All right, I'll move us into position." They zoomed towards the oncoming ship. "Fire when ready!"

Yugi nodded slightly, a little bit more nervous than he had been five minutes ago. He knew that it had to be done it was them or more people being hurt or worse. So when he looked around checking where they were he get the gun ready to aim.

"Just a little closer..." He said before nodding to himself again and firing. The first shot just missed, but the other had moved at the last second cause Yugi to become slightly annoyed briefly. "okay... was maybe a little off. Can we follow him?"

Curufin answered, "Yes, we can!" He grinned and did the space pilot equivalent of stomping on the gas. They sped towards the target ship, bringing it within easy range. Of course that meant that they were within its range as well, and it started firing at Yugi's and Curufn's fighter.

Edited 2020-04-29 02:25 (UTC)

Yugi knew that if he didn't hit it this time that the odds were they were going to get hit and that was not a good thing at all.

So taking aim again and making sure that this time it would work, he fired.

Target Hit. "Got them... How many are left? I saw at least one."

"Well, he is a fairy and I am his human..." Eva shrugs, eyes tracking to the fairy who is thoroughly unrepentant.

Also rather gore covered, but details Eva's not exactly thinking of right now.

"We should. Maybe salvage whatever bits of tech we can in the time we have?"

That was assuming there was anything useful left. Um.

Edited 2020-04-30 11:35 (UTC)

Garrett looked at her with a small smirk to show her what he thought of that: that his mind was already there and she had just read his mind. "Always," he quipped shortly.

The sneak thief was a obviously a pro at finding useful and salvageable items from limp bodies. He moved quickly over the dead and found plenty of things to scavenge from them despite the soldiers only having bare necessities for their battlefield operations.

Curufin grinned and gave a whoop as Yugi fired and hit the target. "Got them!"

He scanned the space around them and answered, "Four, but three of them are running. The fourth is coming back around. Let's blast that one!"

And so it went.

As long as they find something, Eva really doesn't care what it is.

As it is, she gets to work moving the looted bodies out of the way into some semblance of a neat pile. It's hard work, and some of them are messier, but if Eva's squeamish, she doesn't show it.

Not because she's not, but because there's no time to waste.

Garrett got a good haul from the bodies before helping Eva pile them out of the way. Touching people wasn't his forte but dragging unconscious (or dead) bodies didn't seem to bother him in the least. It was as if they were just heavy objects to him.

Once that was done, he shared some time with Eva showing her what he picked up if she showed interest and organizing his pockets while they waited for the next attack. It wouldn't be long with the way the day was heading.

He readied his bow when the first signs of new visitors making their way towards them occurred.

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Good place to end this thread?

maybe a wrap?

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