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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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Apparently, Hal didn't do his research, because electricity projectors come out of the walls as do laser guns.

Other gun turrets start to set themselves up--but all these temporary ones are not shielded. Maybe they can be taken out with gun fire?

More blasters. Hal sure does love his blaster fire.

More than that, big, chompy...chompers come out of the floors and walls, like venus flytraps or other grinding mechanisms, trying to chew them up and spit them out.

Who wants to be a treat?

Sink holes. The floor is treacherous here and unstable where they stand. Holographic pits of death are opening before them. There are stakes--hey is that an pit of acid over there. Hal puts his hard-light holographic projectors to the test, and the safeties are off.

Watch where you step.

The floors are sticky, the walls are sticky, and it makes it hard to move. Think superglue.

Oh, also there might be poison gas.

Bladed things. Axes hurled from walls, shurikens, knives. If it's bladed, it's zipping at you at high speed.

Would you like some fire? Because there are jets of it everywhere. Fire here, fire there, fire everywhere.

Have some holographic water pouring into your blocked off chamber. It can drown you just as good. Also, there's some prehensile tangle weeds trying to drag you under.

Holographic robot warriors appear in front of you. Fighting is in close quarters, every time you destroy one, another will appear, and they're massively strong and keep going unless you manage to completely knock them to pieces.

Someone wants to speak with you. Y'know, mentally.

Jono stares at the pits for a moment before shaking his head. Too bad I never figured out that flyin' thing Ev managed.

Everett makes him think of Jaime. And he's not looking that direction again. Way too much going on right here in front of him. Instead, he looks to Batman. Who IS a team leader. Got a plan?

"If you have no invulnerability, get behind me and Slobo!"

They're the toughest right now. Cass doesn't have invulnerability, which means--well, it means he's being hella protective.

There go the eye beams, blasting at the blaster turrets.

"...How nostalgic."

It's all Sheik has time to say before he's forced to put his agility and instincts to the test - it's disconcertingly similar to some of the more unpleasant parts of the Shadow Temple, bladed traps and guillotine blades and Stalfos appearing just when you're trying to navigate the other traps...

Still, that's in the past. Right now, he's a little too busy fighting for his and Zelda's lives to reminisce.

Working on it. In the meantime, there's a series of thuds as several cabled batarangs hit the wall, extending a Swiss resort's worth of safety ropes out across their patch of floor.

"Supergirl, I need you airborne yesterday. Everybody take a rope and buddy up. Gentry, you're with me."

Edited 2009-10-24 22:20 (UTC)

Dani wasn't too worried about blades zipping at her, specifically. That's what intangibility was for, but still, there where others there. She'd be horrified at what happened later, but right now, not dying was better.

She kicked out her feet, making a sweeping blade of ecto energy fly out to stop the weapons flying at the team. Now the question in her mind was...

Well, could she make herself and five other people intangible at once?

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.

The death of Jaime Reyes apparently hasn't phased him. Death happens. One advantage to emotional detachment is Brainiac 5 has a tendency to keep his head in the game even in the face of tragedy. However, being separated from Sensor DOES phase him, and he's momentarily distracted by it.

He doesn't see it in time, he's looking toward Sensor, to see if she's in danger, in the other compartment. It's only a half-second of checking on his team-mate, but it's enough.

Before Dani knocks the weapons out of the air, a shuriken goes slicing through his arm, and another through one of the compartments of his shield belt, and he drops to his knees with a cry, his shields going up.

But they're glitchy--weak, and half-flickering in and out.

"Sprocking sprockety sprock--" is what he says, but to the English-speakers, it's translated to: "#%$&ing #%$&ity #%$&--"

Yes, the genius has just as much a foul mouth sometimes as the rest of the Legion, and he's cussing under his breath as he goes for his medkit. The suit is constricting and it's helping to staunch the bleeding and disinfect the site, but he needs a little more than that.

"It nicked my bracial artery," he informs the others. "I'll need a moment."

Please cover him--he has to kinda fix himself up so he doesn't die.

Having been hovering during the whole ordeal, Holly had a slight advantage, since she wasn't touching anything. But then a little blinking icon started going off on the displays inside her helmet's visor... "atmosphere composition changes"? What did that mea-

"Oh, D'arvit. Not good."

Mai yells in alarm as she realizes that she's been seperated from Zuko, "Zuko!"

She can see him (dimly) through the walls. Really, that's all she has time to do before her attention is diverted by flying blades. It's actually a bit odd, being on the receiving end, but she's agile enough to dodge them. She flows easily from one spot to another twisting around flying projectiles. She even goes so far as to knock a few away from herself (and her teammates) with her own knives. In fact, she's doing that for Brainy right about now while he fixes himself up. She might be a cold, apparently uncaring person, but she does know the value of teamwork.

Still, she's only human. She won't be able to keep this up forever.

"There has to be some way of shutting these down!"

And there was the tail blade, whipping out to cut away the weeds that were trying to latch onto him.

< We have to get moving, now! > Who was on his team? Let's see...

< Brainiac 5! Can you disrupt the signal making the water? > Because he doubted that they'd be given enough time to just outrun the water.

Feeling a little tentative somewhere in his muzzy, fuzzy brain, Caden has to restrain himself from raising his hand and asking if he could just skip the rope bit and take on his smaller dragon morph. Then again, he's a panther at the moment, so raising a hand isn't much of an option...

Ah, to Hell with it, he thinks, blinking slowly as he shifts from one shade of black to the other. With a hard flap of wings, he rises to eye level and puffs a small bit of flame to get Batman's attention, as though asking "Is this good? I can do airborne, too!" If you think he's not taking the situation seriously, take it up with his confused, messed up brain.

Edited 2009-10-24 22:44 (UTC)

The suit filtration system came in handy right about now. It cut down on the threat of poisonous gas, for her in suit at least. However, the suit didn't deal with the sticky floor all to well. Movement took too much effort, and when she managed to go forward, it was awkward, jerky, and slow. No, no, no, this wasn't good. She had to keep moving.

BLADES!

The Chief would be more concerned were they armor-piercing. Shurikens skid off his shields, a net of golden sparks tracing across his body. They can hold out through successive hits and even if they do go down, he's confident that the plates will protect him. Mostly. And even if something gets through, he's had far worse.

At Brainy's yell he runs back to him. The Chief uses his body to shield him, being as big as he is helps, and tries to figure out how to stop this whirling, bladed death trap.

Big, regularly-swinging guillotine blade over there. He has an idea.

"Dani, can you break that blade off? We can use it for cover!"

If it works, it'll buy time.

Dodging lasers? He could do that and Dark Smoke Puncher does, throwing out shuriken at a rapid pace to start taking out those gun turrets as he tries to calm his mind enough to actually think of a more efficient way to get them all down.

"I can try!"

That was something that'd be easier in his other form, so Brainy made the rapid switch to his larger mode, braced himself, and began projecting a disruptive signal on as many frequencies as he could manage.

Unfortunately he couldn't guarantee it'd be effective, and even if it was it would take some time for him to find the right frequency, so he had to hope that the rest of the group could take care of themselves until then.

Owen's working his superspeed at short range the best he can. A long-operating boomerang is launched, and it stops in mid-air to keep spinning at high speed, hopefully drawing gases away from them. Hopping rapidly from one foot to the other keeps the bonding from setting.

"Walk light and fast, touch as little of your feet to the ground as possible to weaken the bonding."

Right now he's worried about the lady in the giant heavy space-armor, in that regard.

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Phase 2 - Running the Ratrace

Group 1 - Picard, Dark Smoke Puncher, Jack Spicer, Luke Skywalker, Dr. Jackson, Static, Chris R.

Group 2 - Kyle Reese, Slobo, Superboy, Tobias, Wags, Wonder Girl, Wyn, Paco

Group 3 - Batman, Supergirl, Allen, Billy Cranston, Caden, Chamber, Mara Jade

Group 4 - Captain Boomerang, Holly Short, Motoko, Princess Projectra, Robin, Samus Aran

Group 5- Chief, Ax, Brainiac 5, Dani Phantom, Mai, Sheik/Zelda

Group 6 - Ron Stoppable, Jean Grey, Sensor, Speedy, Stature, Zuko, Chris Redfield

Group 7 - Elfangor, B5, Cissie, Pixie, Hellion, Sheeana

Group 8 - Katara, Kelly, Danny Phantom, Seeley Booth, Impulse, Sokka

The Telepaths - You have a phone call.

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