Pacific Northwest
Covered in dense forest and small towns, the vast majority of the large
Pacific Northwest is made up of natural, untouched lands, left pristine
and beautiful. Only the rare occasional city appears, long standing old
cities like Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon. Most of the
natural area found here consists of a mixture of traditional trees and
pine trees, with a rich diversity of wildlife, including mountain
lions, black bears, and the occasional sea otter along the shores, many
of which almost risked extinction in the twentieth century. Now,
though, they thrive thanks to the vast wildlife preserves and
consolidation of the human population into cities.
<Global News Network> Today's weather forecast
for Seattle.... High 60's with a low chance of rain in the morning, low
70's in the afternoon with cloudy skies, Robot Masters in the eveni--
what the *****. We bring in a special bulletin for all our viewers!"
The scene: the Archie McPhee's Superwarehouse, a long-established
novelty goods dealer. This is not worthy of citing the E-word. What is,
is the approach of Robot Masters. It doesn't matter how or why. It's
the Masters approaching a warehouse. C'mon. You guys know what to do
from here.
The Pharaoh hovers a few
feet above the ground, arms crossed about his chest. In one hand rests
his scepter, in the other, his khopesh. A smug, satisfied smirk crosses
his face as the drone forces reach the warehouse. The fences are
quickly torn apart, as are the rent-a-cop security guards. Ra floats
onwards amidst their screams as Joes blast their bodies into burnt
husks.
"You all know what we're looking for. Take anything
that will work. Kill anyone who interferes. Thus commands the Pharaoh!"
His optics turn towards a fleeing factory worker as the man scrambles
into his car, and tries to start the engine.
The smirk widens, and the car is engulfed in flames.
Fire Man, on site, is
mesmerized by the terrifying sight of the giant head of a plastic
frilled lizard. He burns as brightly, hotly, and vigorously as ever
before, but yet, he is deeply disturbed at some fundamental level of
being here. This was where the next glorious plan of Dr. Wily's would
be built from, but yet...
He is holding onto a package of gummy bacon.
Meat... with a strawberry flavor? That cannot be meat at all. Even as
people flee, drones gather, and other Masters do what they do best,
even Fire Man, the hot-headed seeker of eternal infamy and fear, feels
that at some subconscious level, his understanding of the world is at
its limits.
The master of magnetism follows quickly behind Pharoah
Man and the others. Raid time, raid time, tra la laaaaa~~~~! The RMs
doing what they do best, looting.
Magnet Man is currently NOT powered up. That's not to say he won't
activate his Force Metal powers the moment something happens, but he
always likes to pretend he's intimidating others by his flashy
transformation. It took him HOURS to choreograph if until it was
/perfect/.
"It may not be epic loot, but we need it to complete
our current quest! Rewards await, bros, so lets get looting! Alliance
sucks, Horde ruuuuuuuuuuuuules!" Zug Zug.
Sword Man had followed some of his brothers for this
trip. He's only got a single reason to be there.. Steal stuff. But.. He
didn't approve of the car being exploded. Nor does he quite like the
idea of just killing anyone that gets in his way. It's so.. Barbaric.
Of course he's not one to talk, he's lost his marbles once or twice
before already. Not that it matters now since he's there and for the
moment rather sane. "Oh please. Please tell me this is not like a yon
Zergling rush 'for the horde'. That is so.. Yesterday.." Uh huh.
And the Yawning Void opens forth to engulf the
mortals...
No, wait. That's Gate Man picking up
a Tub 'O Ninja and dumping them into the non-space vortex in his chest.
Maybe they'll work as a covert ops unit for Sgt. Barringer. "I am sure
that Master Wily would be greatly pleased at our efforts. Let us
proceed and make sure to gather what the Master desires, yes?
Although..." He glances at another Tub 'O Ninja. "There are so many
/curious/ things here!"
Greymalkin Arsenal, a private military contractor,
assists in the protection of cargo and warehouses in the Seattle area.
Most of the time, it's easy duty; small-time criminals and the
occasional Yakuza heist attempt must be foiled, but day in and day out,
the work is ordinary.
Maynard "Cherokee" Mongoose is a new hire by
Greymalkin. He joined through the Hong Kong office on Monday and won a
position by testing out of all of the physical exams within a day. He
hasn't been rotated into active duty in some of the more dangerous
areas Greymalkin works in, primarily because his employers are doing a
background check to be sure he isn't a government infiltrator.
Maynard is a mild-mannered man and is liked by his
fellow security-guards. This is his third full day on duty, and at the
time of the attack is riding in a Jeep with his shift partner, Leona
Hezekiah. "You like the states, then?" she asks. He seems about to
answer when the explosions start.
"Time to get to work!" she calls out, turning the wheel
hard and speeding back toward the McFee quadrant. Mongoose pulls on his
balaclava and slaps a clip into his carbine, nodding once. His first
non-VR live fire incident. Mongoose tries not to look nervous.
As the Joes starts gathering inside the warehouse, a
certain someone shreds the first oncoming units to scarp parts. Scythe
hums as its wielder awaits a second unit. This time, a storm blast from
inside, of both air currents and blades that slices anything of its own
will.
And that will is, Red of Red Alert. The commando
looks out through his lonely optic while it rains bolts and screws. The
commando doesn't express any certain feeling on his face, not happy,
not sad, not worried. Gusts swirl around him as he walks, almost
silently, with only the winds at his back.
Alpha has been waiting to take on Robot Masters for a
while now. Not that they haven't given plenty of chances, but Alpha
likes to be efficient and instead of showing up to every battle, she
tries to spend her energies on ones that intrigue her. Namely, two of
the Robot Masters spied heading for the mysterious warehouse.
Alpha doesn't blink in, rather she arrives via her Cosmonaut armor
which does not appear to have such systems. She's a fast traveler at
any rate, but she seems to be holding off from jumping in quite yet,
trying to size up the situation. Pharaoh Man? Well usually she'd be
happy to try and destroy him, but for today she is still feeling the
reprecussions of another Robot Master's actions. She eyes Gate Man,
then glances at the Joes heading for the warehouse.
[Radio: (A) Chat] Pharaoh Man transmits, "Drones report
Red's presence. Alpha's as well."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Cut Man transmits, "/DESTROY THEM/."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Magnet Man transmits, "Time to pump up my PvP rep!"
Robot Masters? In MY funky crazy store somewhere in the
Pacific Northwest?
The reports say so, and since Clock isn't so partial to
many of the Robot Masters, the bus went out in full motion. It hurried
down the streets, first coming from a teleporter before charging
towards the area like a chariot of rock. Clockverk's latest album
blared from the interior sound system. And if that's only the interior
system, it leaves one to wonder how the bass is.
Still, Clock lays down on a bean bag chair inside the
bus as it enters the scene, strumming his new six button guitar. The
Robot Masters took his last from him. They aren't getting it again. He
looks up towards Oil Man.
"You ready for this, Big O?" He wears a grin on his
face.
[Radio: (A) Chat] Pharaoh Man transmits, "The Gatespawn
is mine."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Sword Man transmits, "Gate Spawn? Pardon me?"
[Radio: (A) Chat] Magnet Man transmits, "Red, dude, Red."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Sword Man transmits, "Oh."
Pharaoh Man turns slightly as
drone reports reach his audio sensors via radio. So. The leader of
Gate's more heroicly inclined children has arrived. How quaint. The
Delta blinks out of sight for a few moments, and the drones go on as
normal.
That is, until a large crate
full of little religious figures is flung through a window at the
Commando. "Now, now, Red. It seems you've angered St. Adrian, patron of
arms dealers, butchers, and prison guards!" Ra calls from a hover
behind the portal, grinning sadisticly. "Best you make amends, or it
could be rather difficult for you."
Pharaoh Man strikes
Red with his Generic Melee attack.
Attacking Australia's not such a big thing.
Ain't at all interesting. But when you start to mess with people who
ain't calling to be destroyed, then you're messing with the wrong
people.
Clock Man might not like them,
but Oil Man just thinks they're lame. Like, every last one. Alright,
there's Guts Man but there's always a few oddities. As the bus went in
full motion, Oil Man actually was surfing on it for a bit, readying a
few things, before swinging into the bus, taking control over the
autopilot. No, he can't drive, but that's the point. You're bound to
get there faster.
With the beats pumping and the
rock on high, Oil Man was pumped. Leaning back, stomping on the break
while turning to Clock Man, Oil Man smirked, a slick smile of sorts.
"Tic Toc man, you know I was BORN ready. A'int no one stoppin' our
flow."
Standing from the drivers
seat, Oil Man kicks open the door of the bus, hey, it's meant for that.
Who can ALWAYS open the damn door? He then walks out, the sound
broadcast outside. Yeah. It was pretty loud.
Sword Man sighs very quietly to himself, flexing the knuckles of both
hands. This armor is good and all.. But really. He wasn't concerned
with the armor so much as how readily Pharaoh Man jumped in to attack.
Almost like there was no plan at all, or logic. This was going to be
one of those days, he can tell. The good news is that he's not
attacking anyone just yet. He's only waiting for a good opprotunity to
begin picking up loot.
Fire Man is still just outside
of the warehouse. Boxes upon boxes of things are hurled carelessly.
Frustration at little things in particular build higher and higher to
the point that he'd love to do as he always does, which is to just set
things on fire. But wait, what's in this box? Or that box? Mental
stimulation and curiosity in a Robot Master often turns out very deadly
or very funny. Sometimes even both.
There's a jeep and some bus driving nearby
behind him a ways, but he pays them no mind as he opens the ninth box
he's torn open and searched through - corndog air fresheners.
Another part of him dies a little more at the
prospects.
Magnet Man's pace continues as they approach the
warehouse. Thoughts of quest rewards dancing in his head. So much so
that he nearly runs straight into a speeding car that drives into the
area. A quick jump, tumble, and roll forward gets him out of harm's
way. But he looks less than graceful in the attempt, though.
"Alright! Who's the wise guy that tried to drive at me while my guard
was down!? Lame tactics, noob!" He shouts, spinning around to try and
find the car that nearly winged him. Search and destroy, search and
destroy. He has a hard time spotting it, though. Must be briefly
disoriented.
The box smashes into Red from the side, shattering the box and a small
amount of figures. He doesn't fall over nor does he flinch, but turns
towards the sound of the voice of Pharaoh man. Red grins too, as he
spots the portal of whatever realm the Robot Masters blabber about.
"I don't recall you being a saint yourself nor that you
could ever befriend one." Red replies, despite having a couple of
St.Adrian on him. He blinks in a spilt second and reappears infront of
the portal that Pharaoh man is inside. Red stretches out his arm and
hand, trying to grab him and slam the Robot Master into the concrete
ground
Red strikes Pharaoh
Man with his Dirty Fighting attack.
"Oh dear, sir. You don't need to be endangering
yourself in such a way." One of the security guards gets an oversized
d20 lobbed at him for his trouble. "Please, just remove yourself and we
won't have any trouble." At the shout of Pharoah Man, however, the
Master of Subspace glances up towards the arrival of Alpha. "A Hunter!
Excellent, I was hoping to test a few new things today..." The
chestgate swings open, and he produces a flintlock pistol, with which
he fires at the incoming Alpha. "Oh, do stand still! It will reduce the
pain." You'd think a primitive firearm such as that would be utterly
ineffective against modern armor, but... Something seems different.
Gate Man strikes
Alpha with his Generic Ranged attack.
"Our priority is to protect the civilians," Leona says,
as the Jeep tears toward the attack. "We protect human life. The
property is insured. That's the second thing we worry about. The third
thing," she says, reaching behind her seat and pulling out her own
carbine, "is wasting every last one of those sons of bitches for doing
this near the end of our shift."
Leona tosses the carbine at Mongoose. He fumbles with
it for a moment before efficiently slapping in a clip and running the
action on the rifle, putting it in the rack next to her. She laughs,
like a bark.
"Shake it off, Mongoose," Leona says, bravado hiding
the real fear she has of the Robot Masters -- she's not a combat
machine, just a well-trained soldier. "If we die before payday, I'll
never let you hear the end of it."
Mongoose grunts, picking up his own rifle and setting
it at the ready.
Leona swerves around Magnet Man, not stopping to
engage. That's not their job. The Jeep rushes past the main attack and
stops on the opposide side of it, about 50 yards off. Leona and
Mongoose jump out, looking for any trapped civilians. Leona pulls a
bullhorn out of the Jeep and starts shouting evacuation orders to
anyone she sees still in the area. It still stands out a little above
the music. Mongoose thumbs the safety off and nervously looks across
the street for drones. His body knows what to do. Will his nerves hold
out?
Ra is shocked at the speed and
efficiency of Red's movements, caught by the neck and sent careening
into the pavement below with sickening crack of metal. Sparks fly upon
impact, even. While wounding, the android is far from seriously hurt,
and calmly picks himself back up. "Oh, but I am so much more than an
elected peon of a benficial deity..."
Turning, he unleashes a howling wind of sand and dust
upwards at the Repliforce Commando. "...I am unto a God! Ra Nubarak,
Servant of Amun-Wily!"
Sword Man shakes his head a few times, looking at the store. Then he
makes up his mind and starts rinning. He will need to get into it and
evade stray shots. Hmm. Here's hoping. A simple thing to think of, but
harder to execute. Surely this won't be too easy.
Pharaoh Man strikes
Red with his Sandstorm attack.
Alpha's first priority is killing Gate Man dead. But gosh, she really
should take into account the civilians. Turning to do just that, Gate
Man shoots Alpha with a ... flintlock pistol. It bangs her on the
shoulder and doesn't seem to do much damage, just denting where it
hits, failing to pierce all the way, but then again: That's more than
what a normal flintlock pistol would have done.
Alpha turns back towards Gate Man and glares at him,
remembering again just how one of her dearest friends had died.
Bringing an arm forward to protect her body, Alpha swoops down for Gate
Man at about half speed, aiming to clock him against the head, aiming
to knock that helmet clean off--even if she has to tear it off him with
a section of his skull.
"The pain of what?" She hisses, even if it does hurt.
Alpha strikes Gate
Man with her Kite Shield Swipe attack.
Magnet Man finally spots the jeep, and watches it drive
away. He looks a bit irritated. They're just humans, by the looks of
things. Security personell. Probably not worth his time, as he has
other things he should be doing.
Buuuuuuuut...
To Magnet Man, they're just 'grey' to him. Shouldn't
take more than a few moments. And besides, they made him look a bit
foolish when he had to jump out of the way, even if it was mostly his
own fault. "Heeheehee... I'm /so/ gonna gank them." He says to himself,
running after the jeep. As he approaches, he thrusts his hand forward,
sending a magnetic wave towards their vehicle to flip it over. Not
aimed to hit either human, but just to let them what they're dealing
with, and to keep them from getting away too easily.
The sandstorm send Red into the air, landing on a few
crates, breaking them. He gets back up slowly, not because he is
injured but rather that he feels rather confident when it comes to his
own turf of skill.
"Well now. I can't just let you shove me around even
though you claim to be a god." Red snickers, as he stretches out his
arm. The gust of the sandstorm have gone silent and died. A new wind
arises and is more powerful than the last. Red directs it with his arm
and tries to lift and twirl the pharaoh into the wall.
Red strikes Pharaoh Man with his
Zephyr Blast attack.
As Oil Man heads out, Clock Man comes as well. "You got it man. lets do
this." When he gets out, the battles already started. Looking around,
the GERC lowers his gaze on Sword Man as he retreats, the Irregular
coming out with guitar in hand. He's running? That's no good.
Clock Man is quiet for a moment, before raising his
voice towards the Robot Master. "HEY MAN, DON'T YOU ME MESSIN' WITH
THAT STORE. Ya dig? Cool."
For a moment, the rocker just cradles his guitar, only
before to strum across is really quick. "I got this one man, you go
kick some ass." Clock calls, before brining his hands down on the
strings, striking them across, sending a pulse away and towards Sword
Man, probably giving him a little jolt to his senses.
Clock Man strikes
Sword Man with his Wake Up With The Clock attack.
Pharaoh Man tries to resist, only to be shoved hard
into a wall. There is a trickle of mechfluid from his grimacing mouth.
"ENOUGH of your insolence, boy! I shall burn you into an ashen husk,
for the glory of Amun-Wily!" He begins to blink rapidly, appearing only
momentarily behind Red to launch a blast of explosive sand-his melee
implements stored away for now, one arm having formed a cannon from
which the attack is launched.
As he teleports, a taunt is loosed, "And I'll deliver
it myself to dear old, Maverick Daddy."
Pharaoh Man strikes
Red with his Sand Burst attack.
Sword Man shakes his head in reaction to the entirely
off-key music. Auch that was horrible! He slows to a stop, turning his
upper half to face the guitarist. "Learn to play yon instrument
properly cretin! Thou art off key! And its not symphonic metal!" What
does symphonic metal have to do with this? nevermind. Rethoric
question. Ah.. Perfect.. A fire hydrant! And an empty car.. Double
perfect! He rips the door off the car, then kicks the hydrant off the
street. The resulting spray of water is cause for him to jump back
briefly to avoid, then he grits his teeth and uses the car door to
bluntly redirect the flow at Clock Man. Collld water. Very. "Now please
chill ye out, I've got a job to do!"
Sword Man misses
Clock Man with his Generic Ranged attack.
There's two guys in that warehouse. They were
just about ready to begin the evening shift. They are not what one
would call the favorites of their management - goof-offs even among
people with a sense of humor that work here. There's two of them in
uniform: Ryland "Fuzz" Redman, nicknamed for his uncanny resemblance to
the ancient action figure based off of a real person, and Victor
"Bacon" Grant, a guy who loves his cooking. Both are overweight white
males that may never have had any real future given that they both
dropped out of college and weren't stellar in earlier grades to begin
with. Given that they are very close to the presence of deathbots, the
two are huddled up in a corner somewhere away from the main action.
"Dude, we're so boned, so boned, so boned,"
Fuzz chants over and over again as he hides behind a very large tiki.
Bacon is, naturally, munching on some gummy
bacon. "I never had these before," he says with a whole mouth full.
"Want some?"
Meanwhile, Fire Man is wrestling with yet
another box of goods that do not seem to come close to anything at all
resembling 'logical' or even 'important,' but yet he is adjusted to the
mentality that everything you grab has to have some use, but what if
it's candy hearts shaped like real human hearts? He is in very close
proximity to Clockverk and his greasy lackey, but has not yet paid any
true attention towards them.
The music still plays though
they leave the bus. It's needed though. Can't kick ass without a beat.
As Fire Man continues to go through box after box, Oil Man spots him,
throwing a thumbs up to Clock. "All over it. Got me a sucker, ripe and
ready." He hooks that thumb towards Fire Man.
Moving slowly over to him, Oil Man looks at
what Fire Man's doing, the boxes being opened, sorted through,
examined. Why the heck's he doing all this? Ah, no biggy. Ask questions
after you dealt with the losers. Moving right behind Fire Man, Oil Man
taps on his shoulder. "Yo! Man I got somethin' for ya!"
If Fire Man turns to find out who's tapping
him on the shoulder or not, there's still going to be a fist aimed for
the side of his head. If only to help send the Firey robot master into
the mess of boxes.
It's a pretty strong punch, but the element of
surprise ain't lost on him.
Oil Man strikes Fire
Man with his Sucker Punch attack.
Leona doesn't want the Robot Masters' attention. She focuses on trying
to get the stragglers out. The ever-present Wily drones make this more
difficult. Plasma fire starts coming their way. Leona and Mongoose slam
down behind the Jeep, using the armored vehicle as momentary cover.
"God dammit," Leona says. "Cover me!" She weaves out from behind the
Jeep and starts blasting. Mongoose ducks out a little ways from the
Jeep and does as ordered, blasting at the Wily drones. Just like in
training. Drones. Just drones. They go down in a few hits, giving Leona
the room she needs to get to another warehouse to set up a rough
perimeter for the civilians to flee behind.
The magnetic wave flips the Jeep, catching Mongoose in the temple. He's
dazed, his hands slipping on his carbine, but fortunately the Jeep
lands on its side a good distance away.
"Goose!" Leona calls out. Mongoose gets up from the brief strike and
stumbles over toward an alley, and she is momentarily reassured of his
survival. Losing her partner on his third day -- corporate would have
her ass.
Mongoose might have a concussion. He's going to need a minute. Leona,
palms sweating, shoots at Magnet Man with her own plasma carbine. "Go
down, ***hole!" He won't, of course, but it might buy Mongoose a minute
to regroup.
Leo strikes you with a glancing hit
from his Generic Ranged attack for 5 units of damage.
Red straightens himself as Pharaoh man starts moving. But he doesn't
react before it's too late, when he finds the pharaoh behind him. Red
flies quite a bit before tumbling around on the floor of the warehouse.
He gets up as he grinds his teeth in pain, as smoke comes from the
scorching hot dents on his back.
Red looks angrily towards the pharaoh and speaks out loud. "One, that
ain't my father. Two, I'll make sure I cut you to pieces and scatter
them across the world and make Wily have a treasure hunt!" Ooooh, he is
mad. A strong wind blows from where Red is standing. Red raises his
scythe and holds it there, while the wind starts increasing in
strength. Soon, Red's body starts crackling red sparks and shines
brightly red. You can see the wind have become red, as anyone can see
the currents so clearly. But the wind have changed, into a typhoon,
spewing red thunder as it goes forth against Ra.
Red strikes Pharaoh Man with his Red
Cyclone attack.
Clock Man continues his advance, even as the cold water comes. Clock
stops, only to hurl himself upwards and over the water, rolling forward
after hitting the ground, poised out on a single knee before he rose.
Clock was fine with this and all, but when Sword man tells him to
'learn how to play', Clock Man's optics beat down upon his figure.
There is even a fire starting in them, thanks to the holographic
systems he's equipped with. "Oh man. You did /not/ just say my stuff
sucked." Clock man thinks for a moment. He's a Robot Master. He's
probably never heard it before.
"I'll tell ya' what. I'm going to give you my new record and
everything, and all you have to do is give this to Dr. Wily. Trust me.
He /loves/ my work." The Irregular grins, fishing out a CD from
subspace before hurling it towards the figure of Sword Man. It might
hurt a bit.
Clock Man misses
Sword Man with his Generic Ranged attack.
The Cyclone slams hard into
Pharaoh Man, who was far from expecting such a powerful move this early
in the bought. His body torn and twisted, the cyclone expels him into a
crate of boxing nun puppets. Pieces of his armor and outer body lay
scattered about, showing his path. There is the telltale sound of a
blink occuring, and a mangled Pharaoh Man appaars floating in midair.
He blinks continiously, face growing in rage with each teleport.
"Oh, did I upset you, Red? Did I say something you couldn't cope
with!?" In one hand, an orb of crimson heat is gathering. "Maybe you
should simmer down Red...before you GET BURNED!" Finally, it is flung,
a tiny sun.
Hope you remembered your sunscreen, Red.
Pharaoh Man strikes
Red with his Pharaoh Shot attack.
Sword Man blinks at Clock. Oh, this was on. Kind of. He spots the glint
of a CD flying and tilts sideways, catching it and slipping it away. At
least it didn't smack him. "I might. But seriously, yon attempt to play
a second ago was of less than fair quality. Methinks it was entirely
meant to injure mine audio reception systems." He still has the door.
It's still good for a throw. So he backs away from the water, aiming
with the door and throwing it to skid on the ground and maybe trip
Clock Man. "Be a friend please and put this door back on the car, ye?"
Uh huh..
Sword Man strikes
Clock Man with his Generic Ranged attack.
*blam blam blam* The bullets mostly ricochet off of
Magnet Man's armor, but a couple hit a few sensitive areas, doing minor
damage. It doesn't seem to slow him down any. If anything he just seems
/madder/, now that he's actually been wounded by these so-called
'greys'.
"Ooooohh... NOW you're gonna get it! You're just lucky you're not made
of metal, or else I'd turn you into a pretzel!" He shouts, pointing a
finger at Leona. "That gun of yours is fair play though! Prepare to be
schooled!" Time for some fun. Magnet Man sends another, smaller,
magnetic wave towards the human which should cause the gun to fly
upward and smack her in the face. Unless she is a /lot/ stronger than
she looks. It's so easy for him to understimate puny human strength.
Gate Man reels from the impact of the shield, the helmet jarring and
cracking, but not falling off. Not at least this hit. With a grunt of
pain, Gate Man arches an eyebrow. "Why, the pain of the testing, of
course. But you seem to know a great deal bout pain, yes?" Gate Man
grins malevolently, opening the chestgate once more. From within the
roiling vortex, a number of objects begin flying towards Alpha: A
number of small plastic ninja, three shoes, several bricks, and a lava
lamp. What an odd barrage! It would be almost laughable if they weren't
being propelled at such high speeds.
You strike Leo with a
glancing hit from your Embarrassing Self-wounding attack.
Gate Man strikes
Alpha with his Non-magic Missile attack.
Fuzz and Bacon remain in their (currently)
safe hiding spots, but the sounds of carbines discharging nearby is
pretty worrying. They don't know who's out there yet. It could be
another killbot or two. Or three. Or more.
"Dude, we're about to die, and you're eating
the merchandise?!" Fuzz, in horror of the situation, doesn't want to
poke his head out to see how things are going.
"They're gonna chalk this warehouse up as a
loss anyway. No skin off our backs, man," Bacon has himself another
handful of the candy. Mmm, candied bacon.
Fire Man, on the other hand, stops his search
briefly when tapped on the shoulder. "Hm?" He looks behind his left
shoulder, which was the wrong side in which to catch Oil Man sucker
punching him in the back of his head, because that's just what happens
- he gets knocked head-first into the crates, which ends up with
something catching on fire since that's where he's always on fire.
Fire Man growls in added frustration when he
rises to face the slippery GERC. "Do you know who you just struck?"
Fire Man glowers, flame atop his head flickering while the fire starts
to spread behind him. Air fresheners start to smell really strange when
they're on fire. He seethes at the very idea of someone messing with
him, not like that's anything new from over the last nineteen years by
now.
Fire Man forfeits a
turn to charge WE.
Leona is not much stronger than she appears. She tries to wrench the
gun down under her forearm when Magnet Man states his intent, but
Magnet's force is stronger. The stock of the gun snaps up and strikes
Leona dead center in the face. She goes down, knocked out from the
force.
Mongoose takes a few breaths, getting himself together. He's got to get
Magnet Man's attention. His heart bangs in his chest, adrenaline
filling his body. Magnet Man's a killer robot, he's a man. But if he
doesn't act, she might die. How many times does it have to happen
before you act, he thinks, raising up his carbine.
The bottom falling out of his stomach, Mongoose fires at Magnet Man.
Unlike Leona's fire, his is targeting known weak areas. He barely
thinks about it as he pulls the trigger, the sleeptaught training
taking over.
Leo misses you with his Firing
Solution attack.
Clockverk wasn't ready for the door to fling across the ground, so it
takes him by surprise, only clipping the bottom of the Irregulars feed,
but taking him to his knees. Only minor scrapping. "Yeah man, give it
to him. Dr. Wily be so damn happy. I'm sure would thank you for it."
Clock man feeds out a sort-of slippery grin, nothing what Oil could do
however. Oil was a lot better at being slippery.
"Man, don't worry bout that damn car." Clock Man called as he rose from
the ground, dusting himself off.
"Worry bout yourself, dig?" The Irregular called, a second Clock Man
appearing directly next to him. On hopped onto the broken car in
question, before hurling himself into the air. The other hopped as
well, the holographic Clock Man meeting with the real one directly on
the dot, only for Clock to literally propel his hologram towards Sword
Man, arms out and ready to tackle.
The car, well, is getting totalled. Clock lands, shrugs, and tosses a
small wad of cash into the drivers seat through the open door.
Clock Man strikes
Sword Man with his Time Management attack.
When anyone does a very powerful move, they have to cool down. No
matter who you are. And Red happens to be that one. When Pharaoh man
tosses the tiny sun at Red, his face wears the expression of, "**** a
duck..." The flames spray over him, shining brightly as the sun. The
flames should be visible for anyone since the lick everything outside
the gate.
after the flames have burnt out, Red still stands. One of his shoulder
tips have melted, along with cracking one of his boobgems. He's overall
purple have gone rather dark, along with parts of his face that wasn't
covered by his arms. Red finally looks up at Ra and replies, "I can
comprehend reality. If you really where a god, you wouldn't be
eating.." Red blinks right to eyelevel of Pharaoh man and shouts
"THIS!" while swing his scythe at him, blasting him with a energy wave,
at pointblank range.
Red strikes Pharaoh Man with his
Scythe Wave attack.
Sword Man has to hand it to this irregular. At least he
cares a little. "It is not that damaged. Unlike some brothers, I at
least worry about certain aspects of combat.. Like keeping innocents
out of the crossfire before it starts." WHUD! Okay.. We have one clock
man slamming into his body.. And another just sitting there. He didn't
go down, though the clang of the impact is quite a loud noise. He pries
the hologram off his armor, only to watch it fade away. Okay, that
scrapped that idea. But he has another in mind. He blurs out into a
black streak of motion, rapidly approaching the smaller droid and
reaching down to grab at one of Clock's arms.. And throw him into the
warehouse. He could miss, since he's not really laying that much
attention to where he's really going.
Nonmagic missile? Haha, that's so -funny-.
"Yes, I suppose I do. What is your purpose in attacking this
warehouse?" She smacks the ninja aside because she thinks Shadow Man is
a tool, and Necro incinerates two of the three shoes. The third,
however, konks her on the head, doing no damage whatsoever, but
distracting Alpha from the bricks, which konk her on the shoulders and
face, sending Alpha tumbling backwards. The lava lamp lands on her face
as she hits the ground.
Alpha pulls her shield back and whips out her hatchet. She STILL hasn't
gotten her berdische back it seems. Regardless, the hatchet may be more
dangerous because of what it guides Alpha to do. She leaps for Gate
Man's body and slams the weapon for his throat.
Sword Man strikes
Clock Man with his Throw attack.
Alpha strikes Gate
Man with her Berdische Jab attack.
Grinning as Fire Man goes
down, then setting things on fire, Oil Man gets what he wants. A free
fire and even getting to see a robot master end up looking like a fool.
Mission accomplished. Course, the guy is getting back up. They do that
alot.
Not knowing of the poor guys inside, Oil Man
is dealing with the robot master. Hey, if you're weak and fat, then
you'd probably cower too. Specially if you're slow. More importantly is
the stuff that's sent out, burning, from when Fire Man goes down. Does
it smell like bacon?.. Yeah that's bacon. He totally doesn't have a
nose, but you know, it's pretty unmistakable. "Doin' some cookin' ya
wuss?" Hey. That's totally the reason for it.
Backing up as Fire Man raises, Oil Man keeps
the grin when Fire Man faces him, just backing up a bit, scarf moving
as he does. Heh, that's a stupid question. The fire's getting taller on
the masters head, but Oil Man's got something else to do. "Do I kno'
who I jes' jacked? Some freakin' Loser." He grins before attempting to
add injury to insult.
He attempts to slap that mug with an oily
b****-slap across his face. It's a smooth move too, no hesitation at
all.
The Pharaoh ceases blinking, and in fact,
stands there, allowing the scythe to slice deeply into his chest. A
dark, fluid filled gash appears, sparking internals behind it. Ra
smiles wickedly, "Oh, but you see, it's the fact that I can 'eat' that,
and still defeat you, which makes me so much your better." He starts to
laugh, almost maniacly. Forms start to shift and skitter beneath his
bandages.
Ra wretches suddenly, doubled over from the laughter. Robotic scarabs,
black, tangled swarms of them erupt from his wounds, stream from his
mouth. All are intent upon feasting off Red.
Oil Man misses Fire
Man with his Greasy Slap attack.
Pharaoh Man strikes
Red with his Scarab Swarm attack.
Red falls to the
ground, unconscious, due to massive systems damage.
Magnet Man can't help but chuckle when Leona goes down. "Oh MAN! After
/one/ strike? You humans really ARE wimps! They have you partoling this
area, and then you stand up to US? This is hilarious!" His tirade is
broken, though, as he sees Mongoose getting ready to fire again. You
know what time it is?
Bullet Time.
Or rather, Magnet Man's approximation. He slows the bullet down with a
strong magnetic field (something not very easy to do, even for him, but
since it's just /one/ bullet it's do-able) and slowly backflips, as he
lets the bullet pass over him, just missing him by an inch. He has to
show off with everything he does. He doesn't let the bullet go on its
merry way, however, he has it suspend in mid-air just as it passes over
him.
"You seriously have no idea what you're up against, do you noob? Trying
to shoot me is like jumping into the middle of a +5 mob." He floats the
little bullet back in front of him, so that it's facing Mongoose. "Now
then, doesn't this belong to you?" He says, before firing the bullet
with a properly timed magnetic burst back at Mongoose. Aiming only for
one of his limbs. He's not done playing with him yet.
You miss Leo with
your Generic Ranged attack.
[Radio: (A) Chat] Cut Man transmits, "Status report."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Pharaoh Man coughs, "Red is....dinner."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Cut Man transmits, "Good job."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Pharaoh Man transmits, "I am heavily damaged however,
he does not take well to commentary about his father."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Magnet Man transmits, "Ganking some noob humans who
decided to be sassy."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Cut Man transmits, "I hope you've shown the fooly of
their ways, Magnet."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Sword Man transmits, "Clock Man is being entertaining
to a point. But he just made a nice hole in the warehouse for us to
enter through. I think."
Training will only take you so far. Magnet Man's ability to distort
energy fields around him makes him a harder target to hit than most.
Magnet Man's showy moves do get the job done.
Mongoose doesn't have a lot of showy moves. Perhaps he should invest in
some. For instance, this one.
Mongoose reacts before he is consciously aware of the bullet. The shot
races at a point directly between his eyes. He snaps his head to the
right sharply, the bullet whizzing by his balaclava. He might not have
even known he did that.
Mongoose runs out of the alley and starts to strafe around Magnet Man,
firing harassment shots at him. He's trying to lure him further away
from the other Robot Masters, running off pure instinct and reflex now.
His mind screams at him that he should run -- he forces it down. He's
not running any more.
Leo strikes you with a glancing hit
from his Generic Ranged attack for 3 units of damage.
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily hums and adjusts his tie.
[Radio: (A) Chat] Cut Man transmits, "Goin' out, Doc?"
[Radio: (A) Chat] Sword Man transmits, "Apparently he is."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily transmits, "Heh heh Heh!"
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily transmits, "I SUUUUURE AM!"
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily transmits, "After all, I'm a hero."
The swarm of robotic scarabs lunge onto Red and encases him. They falls
to the floor hence some splatter off him while those still on eats on
him. Red desperately tries to get them off, but realizes too late it is
futile. He is optic disappears and goes white, as he shuts down from
lacking power. His body is full holes along with burn marks and dents.
Wonder if anyone will pick him up.....
Pharaoh Man smirks slightly, as the scarabs
return to rest within his body. He then coughs suddenly, spattering up
bits of metal and mechfluid. That last attack took a lot out of him,
and there wasn't much left after Red. Glancing at his fellows, and the
battle with Clock Man-an obvious and known timestopper user-he decides
to leave the drones to their work and retreat.
Pharaoh Man retreats
from the area swiftly, leaving him open to pursuit or parting shots
from Sword Man, Alpha, Clock Man, Fire Man, and Magnet Man.
Gate Man shudders as the hatchet slams into his throat area, cracking
the armored area right above the Gate with the powerful blow. This
causes sparking and a quick scramble back as he howls in pain. "Don't
HIT me there! You could cause a malfunction! Do you have any IDEA what
might happen if I... malfunction?" The eyes of Gate Man glaze slightly,
and he gives a low giggle...
He reaches up towards the gate in his chest, and
pulls it open, the portal expanding outwards. The fabric of spacetime
within seems to bend and warp as a great hand reaches out, slamming
towards Alpha with incomprehensible force. "THEY WAIT IN THE DEEP! THE
BLACK GOAT HUNGERS! And besides, our work here is none of your business
anyway, Hunter."
Gate Man strikes Alpha with his Hands
From Beyond attack.
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily transmits, "Come Ballade!
Bring out the nice suit."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Ballade transmits, "Of course, sir."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily whistles a happy tune!
Bacon starts to lose his composure when the
buzzing swarm of locusts are heard nearby. "I think I'd better start
working off those calories," he says idly in an attempt to ligten the
mood. His mood. But all he really does is just elicit another worried
response from Fuzz.
"We can't stay in here, man, what if they
decide to just blow **** up? I don't wanna be in here!"
"Me neither."
They silently count to three before heading
out towards the west end for freedom! And maybe another small package
that their upper management would miss.
Fire Man holds up his hand to intercept the
oily slap. Optics narrowed, he shakes his head. "Hmph," he snorts. The
world will one day speak his name in fear, he figures, but it won't be
over something so... trivial. Almost meaningless! "You dance too close
to this flame again... you will be burned."
He, almost at a casual pace, walks away from
the McPhee's warehouse and from Oil Man, towards the designated
rendzevous point.
Fire Man retreats
from the area swiftly, leaving him open to pursuit or parting shots
from Sword Man, Leo, Gate Man, Alpha, Red, Clock Man, Oil Man, Magnet
Man, and Pharaoh Man.
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily transmits, "Okay. Anyone who
PROMISES to behave can come."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Pharaoh Man transmits, "...do we have to keep those
promises?"
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily transmits, "Uhhh, yeah."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Pharaoh Man transmits, "Just clarifying, Amun-Wily."
Clock Man is picked up by the large android, trying to pull away as he
does. "Man, what the hell dude. Let me go." And he was let go, thrown
across the ground, bounding into the warehouse. He finally lands,
shaking himself a bit, before getting up once more. "Man, I know you
give a damn about the other people, but man, don't think I don't, dude.
The people love me, and I love them, see?" Clock grins, his right arm
changing into a small plasma cannon in a flashy process with small
clock everywhere, and little notes and even a Irregular symbols.
The plasma cannon whirs to life as the Irregular points it at Sword
Man, trying to keep him back.
"And damn, they sure as hell don't love you."
Before the Irregular fires, he sees something try to escape, old Wily
Lover Pharaoh Man. Looking back to Sword Man, Clockverk smiles. "In
times like this, I'm glad Scott gave me this kicken' system." The power
which went for the energy cannon was converted quickly to power the
lone hammer on Clock Man's head, between the bells.
"Excuse me for a moment, Swordy, when I kick it hard, will ya? Thanks
man."
Throwing himself up into the air, Clockverk spreads out his arms and
legs, before the hammer crashes into the bells above his head, the
triangle on his forehead glowing.
"TIME SWITCH!"
The area begins to slow, a small ripple, before another comes through,
aiming to hold all around the source helplessly in place. This goes for
the area around the warehouse as well.
Clock Man strikes
Sword Man with his Time Switch attack.
Sword Man is temporarily disoriented
by Clock Man's Time Switch attack.
Clock Man strikes Leo with his Time
Switch attack.
Leo is temporarily disoriented by
Clock Man's Time Switch attack.
Clock Man strikes you with a glancing
hit from his Time Switch attack for 0 units of damage.
Magnet Man is temporarily disoriented
by Clock Man's Time Switch attack.
Clock Man strikes Pharaoh Man with
his Time Switch attack.
Pharaoh Man is temporarily
disoriented by Clock Man's Time Switch attack.
Pharaoh Man falls to the ground,
unconscious, due to massive systems damage.
Clock Man strikes Oil Man with his
Time Switch attack.
Oil Man is temporarily disoriented by
Clock Man's Time Switch attack.
Clock Man misses Gate Man with his
Time Switch attack.
Clock Man strikes Alpha with his Time
Switch attack.
Alpha is temporarily disoriented by
Clock Man's Time Switch attack.
Pharaoh Man had just left
instructions with a Joe as he leisurely walked back to the transport.
Easy, really. Then, he hears Clock Man's posturing. "Oh no..." His
shoulders slump. Power is insufficient for an emergency blink. This is
gonna suck. The wave strikes him, and his form shattered from power
imbalances caused by the timestopper field.
Oil Man's hand gets stopped by
Fira Man. He's prettty good. The HMPH is ignored slightly, but even
worse, Fire Man has the guts to say to warm him... and then walk away.
Oil Man for a bit stands there as he begins to
walk away. And then he hears a ringing, but unlike last time, he's not
as quick on his feet.
Raising the nozzle towards Fire Man, he's
about to fire... and then he's stuck in time. OH SHI-
[Radio: (A) Chat] Sword Man transmits, "This is odd..
What is heeeee *this goes on a bit*"
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily transmits, "Heeeee?"
[Radio: (A) Chat] Gate Man transmits, "Oh dear. It seems that Cousin
Clock has unleashed a Timestopper effect on the area."
Alpha says, "What?" at Gate Man, not caught by his
dramatic flaire. She is, however, caught by the hand which tears her
frontal armoring apart. Alpha screams and hisses as she tries to pull
away and then ... FLASH ... she vanishes!
Which means she fails to see Pharaoh Man get owned. How depressing!
[Radio: (A) Chat] Guts Man transmits, "Punch him in the
face."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily transmits, "He's not your cousin, he's a
retarded Scottbot."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily transmits, "That was redundant of me."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily transmits, "Look, just shoot him."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Gate Man transmits, "Of course, Master Wily."
Fire Man stops by Pharaoh Man on the way out.
For whatever reason, he wasn't caught by the distortions in time. He
sees Pharaoh Man shatter and short under the influence. He watches only
briefly enough to see the demise of one with an ego similar to his size.
It is almost comforting. So comforting he's in
a good enough mood to drag Pharaoh Man off.
[Radio: (A) Chat] Cut Man transmits, "Shoot him hard."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily transmits, ".oO(I should get a cape.)Oo."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Cut Man transmits, "Doctor."
And, also, Fuzz and Bacon were caught in the
time freeze. The cameras in that corner of the warehouse was not. It
gets a nice view of them looting a smaller box of junk. Looks like
their jobs are not guaranteed following this, hah!
[Radio: (A) Chat] Cut Man transmits, "We are hearing your thoughts
again."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily transmits, "What?"
[Radio: (A) Chat] Ballade transmits, "Nephew. Scott is Wily's wayward
son, and the son of one's father's son is one's nephew."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily transmits, "Damnit. I knew that device would
be trouble."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Ballade transmits, "Have you reached Security Level
20, sir?"
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily transmits, "...."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily transmits, "Just. Keep. Driving."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Ballade transmits, "Yes, sir."
Sword Man winds up to follow Clock, blurring into that
black streak again. This time with a streak of red. But then the
timestopper hits. Everything freezes, except for one person. But he
isn't that person. He is clearly in dash-jet boost, caught in the
timestopper effect with one fist on fire. Oh dear.
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily transmits, "The Skull Limo
wants not of your jib jabbery!"
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily .oO(Maybe I ought to open a boat shop.)Oo.
[Radio: (A) Chat] Sword Man continues to emit 'eeeeeeeeeeeeee' as the
timestopper continues. Good thing there is a volume control on
everyone's radio that is transmitter specific. His drone of 'eee' can
be turned down.
The warping timestopper field flares outwards, bending
and halting all motion and movement around the area.
However, as the wave intersects Gate Man's subspace
portal, timespace warps and alters, the hand shattering with an
eldritch scream. Perhaps Clock Man had just managed to slap the wrist
of some unknowable entity. However, the interaction had also managed to
spare Clock Man from the time stopping force.
The portal closes, and Gate Man tilts his head,
listening to the reports over his radio, before turning to Clock Man.
As Alpha is frozen, he can leave her be for a moment. "Nephew Clock, my
apologies, but I have been told to shoot you for your actions." Gate
opens his portal once more, and from within, a small cannon pokes out
of the chest, the type that comes with toy solder kits. Standing at the
wick, is an animate soldier group, loading the cannon and applying
gunpowder. The cannon belches fire, the recoil pushing it back into the
vortex... but the cannonball flies towards Clock Man!
Gate Man strikes
Clock Man with his Toy Cannon attack.
Magnet Man isn't one to be daunted. In fact he's
incredibly easy to string along. Mongoose may not be trying to throw
him into a blind rage, but it's working. There's nothing Magnet hates
more than being shown up by a noob. As far as he's concerned this human
shouldn't even be able to HIT him. That's what makes the spray of
bullets so darn infuriating.
"Rrrrgh! Lucky shot, noob, lucky! Don't think it'll work a second
time!" Shouting that, he runs after Mongoose, easily being fooled into
seperating himself from the others. He'll worry their actual mission
when he's done pwning this fleshsack. "Get back here!" He screams,
chucking a game controller bolo at Mongoose's feet. Or.. at least, he
was ABOUT TO, right before he got stopped by Clock Man's time stopper.
Mongoose keeps firing on Magnet Man, going numb from adrenaline and
barely-controlled terror. He's using all of his mental resources to
keep cool and use good strategy, just like he programmed himself to. He
starts to swerve around the controller -- and then, well, Time Switch.
This is interesting, Mongoose thinks to himself, suspended inside of
time. Is it supposed to hurt? It doesn't hurt.
Clock Man landed, much of the area holding still. He saw Pharaoh Man no
more, and took it to memory that Pharaoh might just have been weak. But
maybe there was something else as well. Just maybe. He would have to
try again later.
But then there was an eldritch scream, the rocker's face peering over
towards Gate Man's area before he actually comes from the area where
the scream had originated.
The cannon gives the rocker a good laugh, before the toys actually
/fire/ the cannon, sending the balls directly into his chest. Clock Man
gives a broken smile, in a wince of pain, as he aims his own plasma
cannon towards Gate Man, and fires off a low yield shot. Even on the
ground as the cannon ball keeps him pinned for a moment. There is a
nice dent there as well.
"Don't worry MAN... I guess I'll just have to give it back! Damn, hope
you don't like returns!"
Clock Man strikes
Gate Man with his Plasma Shot attack.
Clock Man, for now, ignores Sword Man. How much time
could a Sword Man chop if a Sword Man could chop time?
Time returns to normal as well. But... is it really? It seems kind of
fuzzy, but you do feel released from the Time Stopper.
*Zzzzzrrrr-POP* Magnet Man's time alignment snaps back
into focus... or whatever the current technobabble is for that. His
running pace only slows for just a minute before picking up again as he
mumbles "Freaking time stoppers..." He's eternally grateful that his
systems aren't weak to timestoppers. Nothing more irritating than being
killed by LAG.
Oh right, his attack. His chucking of his game controller bolo was
thrown off by the time shift, so he reaches out magnetically and grabs
whatever bits of metallic debris he can find around the area. Mostly
small stuff. He flings it all from every direction at Mongoose. Hell,
there's even a kitchen sink in the mix.
Sword Man is again in motion. Like someone pressed play on the
universal remote control that is time. But Clock man is nowhere to be
seen in his direct path. He slides to a stop agan, looking. ".. How
rude!" Rude nothing. It was only fair really. But he's blurring again,
approaching and swinging his flame-lit fist. Ah.. The kiss of the
flame. Too bad it isn't kissing food and it is on a fist swinging for
Clock Man's head.. If he even had one.. No matter. "Moving without
saying anything!"
Sword Man strikes
Clock Man with his Fire Punch attack.
You strike Leo with a minor hit from your Metal Storm attack.
Breaking it finally, being let
back into the flow of Time, Oil Man shakes off the effects a bit. He's
gotten used to it, hanging with Clock, but you never really do, you
know?
Fire Man? Loooong gone. He snaps his fingers
once, and then gets a running start. Gotta be some more robot masters
around here, obviously he had to stop for a reason. Slick gets to
moving, forming a board of oil speeding to look about. It's a decently
large oddity shop, but there's a all kinds of flashes and explosions
going on.
He speeds towards the latest ones, which
happen to be Sword and Magnet. He's fast, but he's gotta take stock of
what's going on. Okay, in the warehouse. Almost there!
He's going to be coming in fast when he does.
This is very interesting, Mongoose thinks, hanging in the air
mid-dodge. I wonder if moment --
Mongoose's question is answered when he drops dead out of the air once
the pulse passes, being jarred by the impact. He grunts, rolling back
and up.
The environment assaults Mongoose. He puts his arms up around his head
and takes the battering from ejected brass, aluminum cans, screws and
even, yes, the kitchen sink. This kind of abuse would knock out a
normal man.
Mongoose snarls, the shocks of pain enough to jar him out of being
afraid for the moment. He switches his carbine to full auto and blasts
indiscriminately at Magnet Man, starting to strafe back around him
again to get out of the metal areas.
Leo strikes you with a minor hit from
his Carbine Full Auto attack for 12 units of damage.
Alpha shakes off the frozen time, blinking a few times,
eyeing her damage. She seems about as damaged as she was before she got
frozen, but it's hard to be sure since she was in the process of being
damaged even when she was frozen.
And Gate Man has his attention off her. Let's see if he can predict how
long a timestopper is supposed to last. Alpha slides closer to Gate
Man, getting closer, and closer, and... then she lashes out with an
axehandle towards the back of Gate Man's neck before sweeping a leg
out, aiming to knock Gate Man down onto his face.
Alpha strikes Gate
Man with her Combo attack.
Gate Man finds himself on the receiving end of two
attackers! At least he hit Clock Man. The plasma blast shatters the
armor off of one arm, exposing delicious complex circuitry and arm
systems, while Alpha whacks him in the neck, another loud CRACK
resounding out as she shatters the back of Gate Man's helmet, and the
sends him sprawlign to the ground. "Ugh... This is most unpleasant."
Gate Man comments, his face buried in the ground. He does, however,
slowly, push upwards, standing... And then he begins projecting a large
octagonal field from the subspace portal. "I must begin recalibration
efforts."
Gate Man holds one hand in front of him, and suddenly a
large, octagonal grey gate, much like the one on his chest. It hovers
ominously, moving always in a pattern that places it between Gate Man
and his foes. The gate shield is raised.
Again Magnet Man is shot up. The bullets hitting his armor with more
severity than before. "Grr..." This isn't good, he can only get SO
angry before he starts making up excuses. "Okay... maybe you're not
grey to me. Green, perhaps. Blue at the most. So congradulations, noob,
you just became worth defeating!"
Magnet Man reaches out and grabs yet another metallic object. A rather
large piece of colored, decorative metal that looks as if it were a
prop on a carnival ride. Must be something from one of the storage
crates in the immediate area. Magnet Man flings it in Mongoose's
direction. "Heads up, squishy human!"
You miss Leo with
your Blunt Object attack.
[Radio: (A) Chat] Sword Man's 'eeeeee' drone stops. "..
he moved! .. Gate Man, you must realize this leaves me open to group
attack while you recalibrate."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Gate Man transmits, "I'm afraid, Brother Sword, that
this is quite necessary. Master Wily gave you upgrades using Force
Metal technology, why not use them to actually succeed?"
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily transmits, "Because he's the new "D.irector
O.f P.roduct E.nhancements.""
[Radio: (A) Chat] Color Man transmits, "Hee hee! Good one pops!"
[Radio: (A) Chat] Sword Man transmits, "I heard that Father. It's not
very well appreciated. Now.. Brother Gate.. The armor is meant to
enhance my speed and strength, NOT my durability."
Clock man takes the fist to his face, wincing terribly as he does.
"Ugh, man... I freakin' told you to excuse me. Man, whatever. Don't be
hatin' one me now, man." Clock states, looking towards Sword Man as he
back up, staggering due to the force. Much of it crushed a good portion
of his forehead, so there is a good reason for the staggering.
"You know what man. Its that damn time again, and you know why? Because
I said so." The rocker announced with a grin, taking his left hand,
taking a hand right off his chest. Funnily enough, it comes off, and
one appears right where it was. Placing it in the plasma cannon, it
starts to glow with the heated plasma swirling around it.
Clockverk aims the cannon towards Sword Man, aiming right at his chest.
And with a sly, quiet voice, Clockverk talks again. "Its party time."
The weapons shoots off, trying to impale itself, the plasma swirling
off, trailing like a blue ribbon, aided only by the holographic system
Clock has.
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily mutters.
[Radio: (A) Chat] Mist Man transmits, "I found it very clever, Sultan."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Ballade transmits, "Perhaps if you spin your upper
half around fast enough you will become briefly invulnerable."
Clock doesn't have to worry about Gate Man. Alpha's got that covered
now. He throws a thumbs up to her with his left hand.
Clock Man strikes
Sword Man with his Party Time attack.
[Radio: (A) Chat] Mist Man transmits, "..."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily transmits, "Or incredibly dizzy. And ugly."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Guts Man transmits, "Perhaps if Sword Man stopped
wussing out he'd be more effective."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Color Man transmits, "Yeah pops, Sword's jes got pie
on his face!"
[Radio: (A) Chat] Sword Man transmits, "However.. Father.. Because you
are going out to take your place as hero.. I'll still attempt to help
finish that giant pinball machine ye wanted to build."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Ballade transmits, "Either way, we'll know."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Gate Man transmits, "Then use your strength and speed
to avoid attacks and cut them down before they hit you."
Alpha glowers at Gate Man, "Unpleasant huh..." She
isn't a duelist in battle so much that she strikes at multiple
opponents typically with low powered, but directed, bursts. In this
armor, she is somewhat inexperienced in its use, but she seems to be
naturally gifted with it--perhaps a product of Cossack's genius more
than her ability. Regardless of why, Alpha gives Gate Man time to
recover because she's not typically a close quarters combatant, though
she is more experienced in this than a complete amateur. She rears back
with her berdische and tries to take another hefty stab into Gate Man,
aiming to break through his shielding.
Alpha strikes Gate
Man with her Berdische Stab attack.
Gate Man's forcefield withstands the
attack.
Mongoose burns through an entire clip. He ejects it
with a smooth motion and slams in another one as Magnet Man starts
talking again. Behind his mask, his jaw tightens. The fear is going
away. He can do this. He /will/ do this!
The metal pole rushes at Mongoose. Mongoose jumps up over it, boots
scuffing across the pole for a moment. Instinctively he jumps back,
getting even more air; he grabs onto the side of the building with one
arm, boots digging into the wall, and aims his assault rifle with one
arm down at Magnet Man without even thinking about it. The bullets
start flying in a steady stream at their target.
Leo misses you with his That Jack
Ryan Groove attack.
Sword Man really wishes he had a forcefield. Poor
robot. Buut. He can attempt to ward it off. Both hands come up to
block, catching the ball and shoving him back. But its got mroe
velocity and it manages to slip past his hands and thump against his
chest armor. Luckily, he slowed it down a little and it only left a
darker black scorch mark on his armor. Of course, wearing black force
metal armor made this harder to see, but it was there, along with a
whisp of smoke from his hands and chest. It stung. But not much. "Of
course nephew. I just felt like it. What's a little familial
rough-housing for yon brother, and indirect insults about one's
mother?" Er.. What? Maybe he's cracked. On the other hand.. He's a
robot master. his sanity always was in question even if he's the only
one with a shred of common sense and honor. "Now please excuse me for
doing this, but it must be done." Both hands ball into one large blunt
irregular bumpy 'orb' as he clenches them together. It's good to have
two hands. He jogs back into position and takes a crude swing from over
his head and down. he wants to bust Clock Man's bells. Who's to say if
his aim is good right now? It's just the way things are. He can
certainly try.
Sword Man strikes
Clock Man with his Bash attack.
Speeding into the warehouse,
Oil Man notices two combatants. Sword Man, who he can't immediately get
to, and Gate Man, with a glowing gate all around him. Well. That's a no
brainer, that octagon... is totally sweet.
Why? Crouching, Oil Man kicks the back of the
board, him and the board leaping high, in an ollie, to come landing
down on Gate Man, the field of force to be his target, the board
parallel to the forcefield... with feet on both sides of the board,
it's slammed against the forcefield.. if Gate Man doesn't move.
He'd just grind the rest of the way off
anyhow, it was the impact from the ollie that'd do the force.
Warehouses rock for that reason though, as he'd ollie off to start a
grind to go about the warehouse.
Oil Man misses Gate
Man with his Hard Landing attack.
Magnet Man continues chasing Mongoose, until he does
the wall-clinging act again. "You are SO not Spider Man!" He shouts,
right before he sees another stream of bullets raining down on him.
"Nnngh!" He grunts as he dives to the side, not able to set up a
defensive magnetic field in time. The result is the same, though, as he
narrowly escapes being shot up for the third time. He even manages to
get back to use feet making use of the patented dodge roll.
"Ok ok ok, enough playing around. Time to show you /my true power/!!"
Which is more true and powerful than Mongoose's power! Sending another
magnetic wave up at his human opponent, Magnet Man tries to get any and
every piece of metal on him to go plummeting down to the ground.
Hopefully taking Mongoose with it all.
You miss Leo with
your Magneticrush attack.
Not quite, Mongoose. He'll have to work on that move.
Mongoose isn't Spider Man, that's for sure. His aim isn't very good
with this carbine, which is not intended to be dual-wielded. He runs
the clip out, ejecting it -- but the clip starts to fall weirdly,
giving him an indication of another magnetic surge.
Mongoose throws himself forward across the magnetic material. He
executes a series of impossible running leaps against gravity, evading
the small pieces and using the big ones to navigate.
Mongoose flips up over Magnet Man about halfway down, slinging his
carbine behind his back. He snaps out his laser pistol as he lands
hard, balls of his feet taking the impact of the landing, arm dropping
down to stop himself. He fires quickly as he rolls back, luring Magnet
further and further away.
Leo misses you with his Laser Pistol
attack.
Gate Man mutters as Alpha and Oil Man slam into the
Gate Barrier. The force barrier holds, even though it begins cracking
as Alpha begins laying into it. It's not going to hold long at this
rate. The barrier, however, repels Oil Man without effect either way.
Looks like Oil Man will get some nice air out of that. The Master of
Subspace begins the verbal-command recalibration routines... "Ph'nglui
mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn..."
Gate Man forfeits a
turn to charge WE.
Clock Man gets throttled by the fists, falling
backwards from the attack, landing against the wall with a loud crash.
He felt that one. The balled up fists and the hard wall didn't really
seem all that fine in the end, causing Clock Man to start bleeding. He
didn't look all that well after it. His right hand turned into a hand
again, as mechafluid started to flow across his figure.
He slowly rose, looking towards Sword Man as he did. "Yeah. Whatever
man. I'm tired of this now. We gonna kick this up now, ya hear? And
there ain't nothing you can do to stop me." There is a glint in Clock
Man's optic as he rises to the occasion, even terribly beaten and
bruised, he had to do this. The hour and minute hand on his chest spins
around his figure, quickly, plain in Sword Man's view. They both stop
at Midnight.
"Because you know why? You can't stop the rock."
The rocker cracks his neck, before grasping both the minute and hour
hand, each pulsing with energy as the area around him turns black, a
large clock tower appearing behind him with a bell. It rings, twelve
times.
The same amount of times which Clock Man lashes out, small waves of
energy washing off of the blades towards Sword Man ten times. The
eleventh the hour hand is thrown towards his figure. The last, was the
minute hand, striking out directly for his chest.
After both hands are lost, the warehouse returns to normal. If Sword
Man was fast enough, this would easily miss. Still, Clock knows he over
exerted himself. He doesn't mind however, no matter how much it burns.
Clock Man misses Sword Man with his
Midnight attack.
Running away again? Oh no ya don't! "Don't engage in PvP if you don't
plan to stand and fight!" Magnet Man shouts, conveniently forgetting
the fact that he was the one started all this. But to him that's just a
minor detail. Running after him, the Gamma Gamemaster takes out a
makeshift lightsaber. Nowhere near as powerful as most of the other
ones used by people like Zero and the other pretty boy lightsaber
users, but it gets the job done. Especially against a fleshy human.
What needs work, though, is Magnet Man's technique. He just swings the
sword wildy while chasing after Mongoose. Even the Star Wars kid is
more coordinated.
You strike Leo with a
glancing hit from your Lightsabre Facsimile attack.
Alpha says, "Is that Lovecraft?" stunned. "Argh, no
wonder he went crazy!" She has no patience for it, you see. She takes
another chop at the forcefield with her berdische.
Alpha strikes Gate
Man with her Berdische Chop attack.
Gate Man's forcefield withstands the
attack.
Mongoose starts charging up his pistol. He's a good
distance away from the main fight now. Leona will be OK; the drones
aren't going after civilians, they're just stealing. He could care less
about goods. He won't let another person fall because of his weakness.
Never again.
The sword slashes at Mongoose's midsection, causing a flesh wound and
ripping through his fatigues. The sudden intense heat shocks him,
disorienting him for a moment -- blind instinct has him raise the gun
at Magnet Man's head and fire with a powerful shot.
Leo strikes you with a minor hit from
his Charged Laser Pistol attack for 10 units of damage.
Sword Man must be lucky. Wave after wave of energy
flies at him. he ends up doing a dance. A black blue in a ballerina's
grotesque display of agility and grace. It was freaky. Ten wqaves he
dances around, over, and sometimes even under. The clock hand blades
fly by as well, except the minute hand which he picks up from the
ground. He has plans for that. "I enjoyed that Nephew. There may yet be
some way to sto you, but that dost depend on fate's dice, yes?" His
blur of motion turns into a gold DBZ-esque cheesy display of light as
he zooms by. He's certainly fast enough for short-distance motion.
Enough to make him a blur. "Let me set you up then nephew. Step one,
paralysis!" As he passes again, he pops this golden bubble of energy
(which was really a bright yellow fire field) and unleashes its
shockwave at Clock Man. Here's hoping!
Sword Man strikes
Clock Man with his Fireburst attack.
Clock Man is temporarily disoriented
by Sword Man's Fireburst attack.
Clock man was taken by the golden bubble of energy, the
fire field causing Clock Man to be a bit more on the burning side. He
wasn't really happy in the field, as he didn't look at at all. Some of
his armor burned away as he went.
"Man, stop calling me that! That ain't even cool man. Do you want to be
not cool? Because it looks like you aren't cool."
Clock Man can't do much more then try to escape from the field of fire
by putting it out.
Magnet Man's celebration for going all jedi on the
hapless security guard is cut short by one of the most dreaded shots of
all.
The head shot.
Magnet Man only likes headshots when HE'S giving them! He's just lucky
the bullet isn't powerful enough to fully pierce the armor, but it does
its share of damage. Some sparks fly out of the hole, and it takes
Magnet Man a moment to get his vision straight.
"Rrrrrgh, if you weren't such a lame twink you'd be defeated by now!
All of this is only a fluke!" He insists, shouting a bit. "A FLUKE!"
Another wave of magnetism rips through the air, this time attracting
much larger objects. Three of em to be precies. And they all close in
on Mongoose's location. Magnet Man finds himself wishing he WAS
fighting a non-human, since he just can't use his magnetism to DIRECTLY
affect this jerk.
You strike Leo with a
solid hit from your Fatal Attraction attack.
Mongoose NOSCOPED you, Magnet Man. Never forget that.
Mongoose is off-balance and can't adequately avoid all of the objects.
He leaps back onto the first, wall-runs onto the second, but the third
-- a large, heavy metal box -- is where he gets tripped up. He can't
land a solid footing on it, and the crate slams him against the wall of
a warehouse hard enough to dent the metal exterior.
Mongoose coughs up something wet behind his mask, skidding down the
wall before landing hard on the ground. His ribs aren't broken. He
can't understand why his ribs aren't broken from that. He can still
breathe. Breathe. Breathe.
Mongoose jerks over off the ground, rolling behind some trashed cargo.
A can of kerosene is laying half-ruptured on the ground. He chucks it
over at Magnet Man, expecting him to grab it magnetically. As it sails,
he slides another clip into his carbine and fires through the can,
hoping to ignite the fuel while drilling Magnet full of more holes.
He's got to put him down. It's either the robot or him.
Leo misses you with his Tactical
Maneuver attack.
Sweet he got some AWESOME air
off that one. Being launched from Gate Man's shield, Oil Man gets some
phat air before grinding on some of those industrial line lights, then
on the steel graters, or other such materials, that usually hold up the
boxes. They aren't stacked on top of each other all over after all.
Clock goes all out, watching, but doesn't hit
gold. Aww man. Well, if you go all in, you go all in.. and Oil Man's
going to follow right after him. So the guys fast... that ain't a
problem. Just gotta watch him. Oil Man grinds while watching as he
sends out a shockwave, stunning Tic Toc. Well, now that's no good..
He's gonna need some backup!
Nephew huh? "Ah man.. we aren't his freakin'
lame relatives." Oil Man, still grinding, looks about the room while
his slick mind goes to work, at least in situations like this. The
nozzle fires at one of the objects, a quick blast of oil and fire to
melt the beam in the middle, sending it bending downwards. It'll give
him the speed he needs.
Crouching, Oil Man ollies to the beam, already
pretty fast but going down, picking up even more speed, barreling down
towards Sword Man, who's currently got Clock Man at his mercy... well
that ain't good at all.
As he zips by, Oil Man attempts to slam into
Sword Man and then keep him hanging on, heading out of the warehouse
and towards the wrecked car on the outside. Sword Man still hanging on,
if he is there, would see Oil Man grin if he were looking to him, as he
stopped, leaving Sword Man on a crash course for twisted metal.
All or nothin', G! You play big or you don't
play at all.
Oil Man strikes Sword Man with his
Skate Or Die attack.
Gate Man gives a dim smile as she chops again, the Gate
Barrior cracking and fracturing in the impact. "Why yes, yes it is. I
find that it makes a wonderful recalibration method." The Gate Barrier
vanishes, and the Master of Subspace stands vulnerable once more. "You
know, I met another Hunter once. Aa large, glittering round one. Quint
had the audacity to shove him into my Portal. I don't happen to
remember his name.... Do you?" He laughs, and spreads his hands
outwards, reciting the final words to finish the calibration.
"PARGON WILY PARGON PARGON ANTORBOK PARGON PARGON
REDGORMOR PARGON!" lights flicker on around the edge of the Gate as he
speaks, and with a low hum, the doors open once more, unleashing a
howling windforce that whips outwards, scattering crates and loose
objects everywhere. From within the chest, a massive cannon extrudes,
humming with power, and Gate Man grasps the sides. "They say genius is
simply madness with method. Let us see yours!" The cannon fires, a
large vortex of junk and wind blasting towards Alpha.
Gate Man waves a hand dismissively, and the ominous
looking gate shield disappears back into the nothingness which spawned
it.
Gate Man strikes
Alpha with his Gate Cannon attack.
Magnet Man will never admit anything! It was nothing more than a lucky
shot!
He does indeed magnetically grab the kerosene can. Some quick dodging
keeps him from getting gas all over himself, these same fancy moves
also cause him to narrowly dodge the shots. This was totally on
purpose. It was, seriously!
Flinging the gas can to one side, Magnet Man seems about fed up with
this pesky human's inability to just go down like all the other weak,
squishy humans (except Wily) SHOULD do! He doesn't even seem to be
enhanced! "I don't get where you're getting all this endurance from,
human, but it's about to come to a quick end. Prepare to face my
/ULTIMATE ATTACK/!" This can only mean one thing. If Mongoose is even
the slightest bit familiar with Magnet Man, then he should know enough
to start putting some distance between him and the magnetic master. If
he fails at this, well, Magnet Missiles find their target. Metallic or
not.
You miss Leo with
your Magnet Missiles attack.
Sword Man takes the minute hand, coating it in a little
flamable liquid. This will be sweet. "Okay. Game over." Then.. WHOOMPH!
Ooh! Look! Flying! And a board. And an Oil Man. ".. You know, it is
very rude to interrupt a duel. I'm afraid I'll have to hurt you." Okay,
so he hasn't been flung yet. He has a good dent.. But he lets go of the
board and grabs onto a passing lamp post to swing around and get back
on his feet. It bent the post.. Broke it.. And it lands on his head.
Ow. Another bit of pain. Of course he had to have let go after Oil
stopped. but the pole was so convenient. "I guess this will have to
do." He lights the liquid on the minute hand he stole from Clock, and
starts spinning about like a helicopter rotor. It fans the flames,
making a tornado of fire around his body. And then he's flying again.
At least his torso is. His legs and hips go dashing back and forth in
madd streaks of black, trampling anyone stuck on the ground in his
path. Ah.. A fire spin. And using one of Clock Man's gadgets against
him at the same time. "Have at, both of ye!"
Sword Man strikes
Clock Man with his Fire Spin attack.
Sword Man strikes Oil Man with his
Fire Spin attack.
That didn't work out very well. However, it could have been worse. At
least he didn't light himself on fire with that stunt.
Mongoose knows about Magnet Man. He knows that he has homing missiles.
He also knows that missiles have a minimum effective range. How all
these facts connect together in his head all at once is a mystery.
Mongoose runs off something that is totally opposite to his animal
instincts. He charges at Magnet Man as the missiles fly at him,
throwing his gun between their flight path. The missiles get confused
and start to bow inward.
Mongoose leaps up into the air, jumping on the first set of missiles,
then the next, dashing across them like he was darting across stones in
a lake. He doesn't know why he's doing this. Conditioning. Programming.
Insanity.
He draws his laser pistol again and starts firing as he jumps off the
next set of missiles. With his other hand, he grabs the carbine and,
without really aiming, starts to lay down fire. The entire time, he's
sailing toward Magnet Man, leading with his right foot. He bellows in
mixed rage and fear as he races at the robot, rounds blasting.
How did I come to this point in my life? he asks himself.
Leo misses you with his Two Gun Mojo
attack.
Alpha can't Metacrush people. Her gaze hardens as Gate
Man taunts her over Mirror Orange. The 'goofy accidental' master is
showing his Wily Fangs. "Yes." Alpha says quietly, "I hope you aren't
too proud of that."
She has no idea what Gate Man means or wants her to show him. On the
other hand. She doesn't care. Too angry to dodge, the cannon assault
tears through her armoring as Alpha is forced to slam her hatchet into
hte ground and steady herself. Her body shakes and her ears ring but
she doesn't hold her position for long.
Alpha pushes herself forward with a gravity thrust for Gate Man's body
and as she passes by, she swipes out for his neck with the hatchet full
force.
Alpha strikes Gate
Man with her Berdische Executioner attack.
Gate Man falls to the ground,
unconscious, due to massive systems damage.
[Radio: (A) Chat] Sword Man transmits, "This isn't
going well brothers. What say we thus retreat?"
The sword cuts through Clock man, causing his to recoil after the fire
is gone. But as the minute hand comes back, and slices him, he winces a
bit. He can take the minute hand if he wants, as long as he gives Dr.
Wily the album that Clockverk wanted him to have.
Still, the blade sears into the rocker, and at this moment, it was a
good time to run. "Alright Big O, up to you now bro!" Clock calls as
mechafluid seems to seep down over his figure. Blades were not Clock
Man's fun time weapon. They really hurt, as they could easily travel
through his figure like a hot knife through butter, and usually do.
"REMEMBER. GIVE THAT RECORD TO WILY." Clock yells towards Sword as he
dashes towards the bus. He didn't look that good, beaten up and covered
in mechafluid.
Clock Man retreats
from the area swiftly, leaving him open to pursuit or parting shots
from Sword Man, Alpha, and Oil Man.
[Radio: (A) Chat] Magnet Man transmits, "But.. this noob isn't owned
yet--- hey wait, where ARE you guys, any way?"
[Radio: (A) Chat] Magic Man transmits, " I am available for backup if
needed, gentlemen. What seems to be the trouble?"
[Radio: (A) Chat] Guts Man transmits, "Sword Man's wussing out again."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Sword Man transmits, "We're outnumbered. Fire Man was
forced to retreat. Gate Man I think I saw collapse. It's just me and
Magnet Man. And we have two enemies to deal with each."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Cut Man transmits, "Gate Man Collapse--OH GOD."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Magnet Man transmits, "Whoa, really? I didn't even
notice."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Cut Man transmits, "Tell me his gate is closed!"
[Radio: (A) Chat] Sword Man transmits, "Guts Man, if I hear another
crack from you about wussing out, I will take this minute hand I stole
from Clock Man and wrap it around your head in a bow."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Guts Man transmits, "Wuss."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Sword Man transmits, "That's it.. Just wait till I
return home."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Guts Man transmits, "You do that."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Ballade transmits, "Magic Man, please join us at
once. I require a holoscan of the mayor and as many of his entourage as
possible. No violence until otherwise notified."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Dr. Wily transmits, "Last I checked I had programmed
it to auto-deactivate when he does. Let's hope that's still working. It
if isn't, well... it was nice knowing you."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Magnet Man transmits, "AHHHHH OH GOD WHAT IS THAT
VORTEX WE'RE ALL GONNA DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE-------- psyche."
[Radio: (A) Chat] Magic Man transmits, "At once, sir. I'm on my way."
Oh man, now that stings a bit.
The fire blade slamming across his frame, slashing into he grease and
under it, the machinery struck. Yeeeouch. Cut up a bit before he's
launched away, board dissipated and gone, he gets up, pulling himself
off the ground before watching the slashing and moving of the legs and
upper body. Nothing you get used to, fore sure.
He comes out of the action figures and
launchers, of rather odd things, and throws the thumbs to Tic Toc.
"Later Tic Toc, ain't going going to let this moron get me."
Raising up the nozzle towards Sword Man, he
notices the legs... hey.. yeah that'd rock. Aiming towards where they
were headed, where the spinning arms blazed and cut, Oil Man plans on
tripping those things up pretty badly. So badly, after all, that it'd
end up doing one of those air flips straight into the air at his body.
Maybe making him dizzy in the process.
"Man, you gotta deal with Oil Man now, and you
ain't got a chance G!" The oil's fired. Let's see if he's really as
slippery as he's named after, an oil slick created for the legs.
Oil Man strikes Sword
Man with his Slick Terrain attack.
Sword Man is temporarily disoriented
by Oil Man's Slick Terrain attack.
Magnet Man nimbly dodges the hail of bullets, mostly
using his own reflexes but he does send some out of his way with a
magnetic barrier. How did he get to this point in life? Magnet Man
doesn't have an answer. But if he were to give one, he'd probably tell
him he shoulda bought a strategy guide. Not his fault he didn't look at
a walkthrough.
Speaking of walkthroughs, Magnet Man's about run out of strategy he can
use against this guy. He's crushed him with metal, didn't work. He's
shot at him. Missed. He's tried his game bolo, way to go Clock Man.
This human just won't go down. He's like Solid Snake. Except a
Mongoose, the natural enemy of snakes. So... does that make him MORE
awesome? Such a thing is inconcievable! He's not going to stand for
this! As Monboose is still overhead Magnet Man lifts his arm and fires
a bolt of pure magnetism at him. It'll have less effect on Mongoose
since he's just human, but the force of the blast interacting with all
the metal on and around him should be enough to slam him to the ground.
Hopefully.
You strike Leo with a
minor hit from your Magnet Buster Megablast attack.
Sword Man turns in the air, coming in after Clock Man.
His legs do the same. The prob, oil on the ground. the legs slide and
go off course. They smack into a car, and as if his two halves are
linked by an invisible cord, his spinning torso is jerked to a halt
that seems to have him tilted in an effort to chase Clock Man down. But
the tilt turns too much and he stalls out. What happens when a
practical spinning rotor stalls out without its stabilizer? It falls.
WHAM! Ow. At least he's on his back for the moment. Ow. What just
happened? Aw he's getting away! "Magnet Man! Shoot Clock Man down, NOW!"
[Radio: (A) Chat]
Sword Man transmits, "Anyone available for backup so we can make a
retreat? Or are we going to have to deal with this ourselves? Of
course, I blame Pharaoh Man for such a total lack of planning."
Well, human or not, nothing likes being hit with
radiation. The shot of magnetism is packed with his own ejected brass
and various inconsequential metal parts of debris, which knock Mongoose
back and away from Magnet Man for about half a block.
Mongoose skids across the ground, rolling back hard. He skitters to a
stop, disoriented. He's losing blood and is badly hurt. If he dies out
here, he'll never complete his mission.
Mongoose hears Sword Man's order. He should retreat, but he's sure as
hell not going to let them take a shot at someone else. He reaches into
his vest, pops out a flashbang grenade, and chucks it at Magnet Man. If
nothing else, it'll draw attention to his position.
Leo strikes you with a glancing hit
from his Flash Bomb attack for 0 units of damage.
Magnet Man is temporarily disoriented
by Leo's Flash Bomb attack.
As Sword Man slams against
things, Oil Man saunters over at the spinning, then falling, then
stalled Sword Man, shaking his head when he gets over him. And when he
starts to command Magnet Man to shoot Tic Toc? Ain't gonna happen.
"You know loser, that ain't cool. You dented
Tic Toc. Slashed up my scarf somethin' good too. AIn't coming outta my
budget, it's gonna come outta yours." Putting a foot on Sword Man, he
points down the nozzle, an odd, greenish glow happening before a line
is fired out, towards Sword Man's armor, the chunk it land on being
ripped off and then returned to Oil Man, the armor being used by his
'upgrades' to 'pay' for the damage he's done.
After wards, he walks off of him. "A'ight man,
we almost even. Now I jes gotta kick yo ass." A smirk, although he's
walking away from him.
Magnet Man seems to be ignoring all the talk going on the radio, and
opts to keep going after Mongoose. He's not stopping until he goes
DOWN! In his haste to chase after his opponent, though, Magnet Man
isn't prepared to shield his eyes. In fact he doesn't even attempt it.
He just tries to DODGE the Flashbang grenade, thinking it would be so
simple. But no, that's not good enough. The flash blinds him, and stops
him cold. "MY EYES! ZE GOOGLES, ZEY DO NOTHING!" What goggles?
Oil Man strikes Sword
Man with his Smooth Criminal attack.
Oil Man drains energy from Sword Man.
Clock Man is on his own from here. Mongoose uses that brief moment of
disorientation to make his escape, staggering off into one of the
warehouses to try to sneak back to Leona's position.
Leo retreats from the area swiftly,
leaving him open to pursuit or parting shots from Sword Man, Alpha,
Clock Man, Oil Man, and Magnet Man.
Sword Man glowers, then reaches up. "That belongs to me
you miserable excuse for an android, You will give that back right
now!" He's standing. Or hovering. His legs have come back to him only a
second later. But there's just one problem as he attempts to attack.
The black armor peice that was stolen held a component he needed to
generate an attack. Even if the armor chunk itself was just
tungsten-titanium plating and not force metal, tit was still needed.
And boy did it severely impede him. He seems stuck between trying to
decide. ".. I doth hate you. And one day I shalt wipte your miserable
carcass across the floor. But not today." A blue of motion. "Magnet
Man, break off! We're leaving! Now!" Dashdashdashdashdashdash.
Sword Man retreats
from the area swiftly, leaving him open to pursuit or parting shots
from Alpha, Clock Man, Oil Man, and Magnet Man.
It takes a few moments before Magnet Man's sight
returns to normal. When it does, there's no sign of Mongoose. He ran.
He ran and he STRIPPED MAGNET MAN OF HIS PVP REP!
"Argh!" Magnet Man shouts, kicking a tin can which was so conveniently
placed a foot away from him in the confusion of the battle. Then he
hears Sword Man's order, and he decides to cut his losses. At least he
wasn't hurt as badly as his other brothers. But he can't help but think
he's forgetting something... surely they came here for SOME reason. As
Magnet Man flees he turns his back to the warehouse of giant decorative
props, perfect for Wily's pinball machine. So close, yet so far,
perhaps it just wasn't meant to be.
Magnet Man retreats from the area
swiftly, leaving him open to pursuit or parting shots from Sword Man,
Clock Man, and Oil Man.
Mongoose crouches in the dark, listening to the retreat of the Master
forces. He silently opens up his medical kit and starts to close up the
deeper wounds on his body to the best of his ability, bandaging things
so he can stay up right. A few shots of painkillers and synthetic
adrenaline and he should be good to get his partner out of harm's way.
Leona starts to come to in the alley, dazed and with a black eye from
the sharp hit from her own weapon. She clicks over her internal radio.
** Mongoose, report. **
** Just dandy, ** Mongoose transmits back over his internal radio. **
Forces are retreating. Could use a medivac. **
As Sword Man gets moving, Oil
Man watches Sword Man and Magnet Man get moving. Giving ha;f a wave,
Oil Man watches them run off. "Losers, GET MOVIN! You ain't got nothin,
ya' hear me?" He smirks, leaning against the building before heading
over to the bus.
Taking a shot on those losers would be too
easy. So damn lame. But man, he totally thought Sword Man had it when
he made that idea up earlier. Maybe he was just too big. Ah hell, he'll
try something better next time. Wily couldn't make a good robot if he
tried. Scott did it right countless times.
Oh yeah, one last reminder. Yelling out over
the buses booming music, Oil Man reminds Sword Man. "YOU MAKE SURE WILY
GETS THAT CD, G, OR I A'INT GOIN' EASY ON YA NEXT TIME!" He leans
against the bus in the end, nodding. He still got it.
Magic Man , having slipped in under stealth some time
ago, now deactivates his active holographic cloaking to cover his
brother's retreat. Stepping forwards with a holographic flash of light,
he throws back his cape with one arm. "Gentlemen, if I may have your
attention for just a moment..." He then clenches a fist, producing... a
tiny rubber ball. "...The show is over." He then winds up and chucks it
at Oil Man as a distraction.
Magic Man strikes Oil
Man with his Generic Ranged attack.
Oil Man is hit by a ball,
having his eyes closed, but open them slightly dizzy as Magic Man takes
advantage of the situation. Glaring at him, Oil Man raises the nozzle
of his arm, pointing it towards the Magician. "A'ight, the show is
over. Got it. NOW GET A MOVE ON, and get the **** OUTTA HERE!"
What, don't they give up?
Oil Man, meanwhile, is charging up, pressure
rising to pump out more oil.. and fiya! "So go on, get the hell out.
Last chance dog. You be toyin' with me now!"
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