trans_9 | Phase 2 - Running the Ratrace

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Phase 2 - Running the Ratrace

You have my sincerest apologies, but I have my mission.

The traps start. Rotating blades coming out of the walls and floors and ceilings, jets of fire, lasers, holographic enemies. The clear walls of the maze let them see what's happening to everyone else.

The traps start, and they have to stay alive despite them. If they stop avoiding them, it's their own fault, you see, if they die. That makes it indirect enough for Stacy's Anti-harming-the-crew protocols to be avoided, as Hal, despite his reprogramming, still has to follow some constraints.

Please commence with killing yourselves by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The only chance the group has is if they work together to stay alive, and somehow they have to take out the shield projectors creating the maze even though they themselves are shielded...

[ooc: Cooperation is key, people. Hal can only adapt to one power/skill-set at a time, not all of them.]

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Normally Bart's pretty good at fighting robots. He's faster than them, he can vibrate, trick them, all sorts of things. Normally, though, he isn't just sort of staring at his friend, who is dead. Bart is practically still right now, which is very, very unusual for him. He doesn't really notice the robots, or his teammates, or anything but Jaime right now.

"Bart! Snap out of it!" Danny shouts as he tackles the robot. "We're is trouble, and everyone is gonna die unless everyone helps!"

"Huh?" Bart starts at the sound of his name. Oh, robots. He should fight them, or something. He runs toward Danny and starts taking the robot apart piece by piece at superspeed.

Sokka's first instinct is to fight. It's what he's trained to do all his life (that and hunt and fish and be amazingly good looking...). So he levels his shotgun, plants himself next to Katara and opens fire, aiming for the heads. Unfortunately, that doesn't last long. He rounds empty after the fourth round and drops the weapon. No time to reload in the tight conditions, so he goes for the other weapon he's carrying. His sword clears it's sheath with a faint ringing, and he drops into a fighting stance, gauging the nearest robot.

They've got the right idea. Ranged weapons in such an enclosed area is bound to be counter-productive, especially when you stand just as much chance as hitting a team-mate as you do a robot.

As if self-replicating killer robots weren't enough, several compartments on the robots' "bodies" slide open and eight metallic tentacles emerge, each topped with a weapon. Saws, drills, massive spear-like needles, spiked clubs, and beam weapons topped with angry looking bayonets are just part of the deadly arsenal they now have to contend with.

Danny blasts away at the robots. "They just keep coming! This isn't gonna work guys. Get to me! I think I can keep all of us intangible long enough to come up with a better plan!"

Katara knew it was only a matter of time before the real guns started going off for all of them, and in this case, it was self replicating warriors. She had paused, if only for a moment, to see what would happen when the others had at them. That was easy enough, since Danny and Impulse were pretty fast, and Sokka was already shooting at them. Unfortunately, they were coming rather rapidly, and shooting at them wasn't going to do the trick when they had little space to do it. It would be a Sam situation all over again.

So Katara started by using her octopus hands first to dash said robots against the wall, exercising force that she never would have if she'd been facing human beings. She made sure to keep them at bay as much as she could: Danny was intangible, but the others weren't.

She shoved a handful back at fired at them with a few ice shards before doubling back over to Danny. She had an idea of what to do, but she wondered if it would actually work.

"Icandointangiblemyselfjustfine!" The tentacles kind of suck, but for Bart they're just something he can grab and tie together at superspeed and yank around. The gauntlets he'd grabbed make him strong enough to yank the robots around and slam them into the walls. Now that he's not looking at Jaime, he can focus on fighting. He's good at that. "Couldyoumaketherobotsintangible?"

Sokka is managing to hold his own, but just barely. He's parrying desperately at each attack, manages to dart to one side and slice off one tentacle. Okay, one down, five to go. This...not gonna be easy. He slides towards Katara, drawing the warrior towards her flailing water arms.

"Katara! A little help?" He calls out, parrying yet another slice at his face from a vicious looking blade.

"That won't work. I'd have to have some sort of contact with all of them and I really don't want to try that at the moment."

Katara looked over at Danny. "Then get the others and make them intangible!"

She turned to the growing robot army. "I'll handle these guys. Please, just do it quickly!"

She knocked one of the parrying robots from Sokka, just so her brother had some cover. "Get to Danny!" She said urgently.

"Imeancouldyoumakeoneintangibleanddropitintoanotherone?Idon'tknowifit'dhelpbutIbettwoofthemcan'tbeinthesamespot." Bart grabbed a handful of tentacles and started running, vibrating himself and the tentacles until he went through a robot and let go, trapping the tentacles and weapons inside it.

He ran to Katara and stood next to her, vibrating slightly. "I can help you."

Booth is firing as fast as he can, but this is turning out to be way different than what he's experienced. He's never fought robot soldiers before. He's glad for the body armor and heavy weaponry.

Kelly had begun moving the second the first robot had appeared. Robots? At least this was something she could do. Watching Sokka's rounds taking out the machines, she noticed the few that ricocheted dangerously and decided against shooting at them. Instead, she pulled her combat knives from their sheathes and waded in, easily dodging the flailing tentacles, lopping them off as they came close.

She kept an eye on her shield gauge, drawing back just long enough for it to recharge everytime it fell below half, before dashing forward again. Seeing Booth struggling however, she blurs, kicking one robot out of the way, sending it smashing into a wall so that she can get into position behind the man.

"Danny! I we need you over here! Impulse, fall in! Stick together people or we'll be overwhelmed!"

"Katara, come on!" He yells, moving towards Danny. His sword slashes out, lopping off another tentacle. He can do this. Be cool.

Danny makes his move, and gathers the group into, and turns their mass intangible.

"So, any plans besides keep taking them out until they finally wear us down?:

Bart frowned and vanished for a moment. He reappeared next to Danny. "IthinkIcangetusoutofhereif youhelpme causeit's hard to keep everyone intangible, but if I hold onto you and you hold onto other people I could run and--" he breathes. "I can get us through the robots real fast."

Keeping up suppressive fire to keep the robots off their backs, Kelly ejects an empty mag and shoves another into her rifle, glancing around to do a quick headcount. Listening to Bart's rambling, she almost had to slow it down on her helmet speakers, but she managed to catch most of the plan.

"First order of business is to get out of here. We're too closed off and under-manned. I can carry you all. If Danny can keep us intangible, you think you can get us out of here?"

She didn't turn to look as she spoke, but kept firing into the robots. "And we'll need to do this fast."

Bart snorted. "I'm pretty sure I can do fast."

"How're we going to make this work? I can carry everyone, but how are you getting us out of here, kid?" This boy was cocky. Fast, but cocky. Sigh.

"Um. If I go that way the robots clear out." Bart pointed. "So I figured I'd run us out. I can go through 'em, so can Danny, and we could maybe do everyone in a go or maybe I could take everyone out one or two at a time in like, ten seconds or something and Danny could get you. I don't think I could carry you. Sorry."

There was a pause as she fired at another robot, knocking its head back for a moment, but the thing didn't really stop. How annoying. Listening to the plan though, she paused, then glanced at the ragtag group she had.

"Sounds like a plan, but running through the robots may not work like planned. We'll need an opening, just to be safe."

Pausing again, she checked the ammo in her rifle and her extra mags. Eight left. The way this was going, it didn't look like it would be enough. "I'll get you an opening and hold it open. You and Danny grab the others and get them out. I'll be right behind you."

Pulling a nav marker out of one of her armor's compartments, she held it out to Bart. "Activate that and keep it somewhere on you. It'll show up as a waypoiny on my HUD. You run them out until you're sure you're all clear. I'll be right behind you. Got it?"

Katara sighed. They weren't listening to her, and that was a little annoying, especially since she'd been asking for intagibility for the others in the first place. Still, considering the situation, she really didn't think it was time to dwell on who was listening to whom. Besides, what they were suggesting wasn't exactly removed from what she wanted to do to begin with. They needed an opening, and not just by firing since that brought the robots back.

What they needed was time.

And Katara would give that to them. Closing her eyes, she breathed, concentrating. The area around them just got colder by a LOT, and now the robots, which were previously moving toweard them with dangerous weapons, were starting to slow in place as they started to become immobile. There was a reason Katara had been asking for them to be intangible a moment before. The cold, after all, was not something everyone was able to take the same way, especially if you were freezing a whole slew of drones. If they wanted an opening, they would have it...and more than just a few seconds worth before regeneration.

"That work for you guys?"

Booth had escaped serious injury in his vital areas, but he has taken one in the leg, and it's hurting like heck. He keeps firing but he isn't sure if it's broken or not. Eventually the robots slow down, and it looks like his group is having some kind of effect.

Bart nods and takes the nav marker. People never trust him with this kind of thing. "Kay. Be careful." He sticks it into his mask, then vanishes in a blur.

"Wow!" Bart stops next to Katara for a second. "Canyoukeepthemlikethatand do more if more show up?" He's already looking around for who the best person to run out of danger is. Booth's got a leg injury and seems kind of helpless compared to the rest of them. Well, except maybe Sokka. But he's not injured so he can wait. Without waiting for Katara to answer, he's next to Booth.

"HiI'mgonnasaveyourlifenowokay?" He scoops Booth up and starts running, vibrating both of them enough out of sync with the rest of everything to make it through any obstacles (besides the forcefields.)

It takes about a second, maybe less, and Bart puts Booth down gently out of range of the robots. "Youokay?"

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