Reign of Destruction

[ohm-nom-nom.livejournal.com]

By this point, the Ohm had spread all across the planet.

Destruction spread throughout the cities of Zokez II. There were evacuees that still needed to escape. People that needed saving.

It was time for the crew to do what they did best.

[ooc: Sub-plots! Check here before tagging.]

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[obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com]

The problem with having a weapon of choice the size of a building is that it doesn't work so well within the bounds of a non-Zoid friendly city.

But luckily, not all of the Ohm are in the city. Ohm are taking up siege positions outside, where there's enough open ground for him to move. It's a perfect equation. Vega's been itching to do something useful for the longest time, and he finally has his chance.

And the Berserk Fury is all too happy to be going with him on this.

<< This is Vega! Anyone who can fight with tanks and firebugs and stuff, there's a whole bunch of 'em coming up on the north side of the city! I'm taking the Berserk Fury out to fight them and could use a hand! >>

The siege party's front line is made up of tanks, with the even more massive firebugs following behind and some smaller types at their feet. The tanks are there to protect the firebugs from attempted melee, and the firebugs are there to use their ranged abilities to clear the way. Their job as they advance is to prevent any on-foot escapes and round everything into the "kill zone" of the city.

Vega strafes along the front with the Fury's boosters, his Zoid's small beam cannons firing at the tanks. They just leave scorch marks on the heavy armor. He's looking for a way in close, so he can do some real damage. The firebugs keep him from staying anywhere for very long at this range.

[killsfengshui.livejournal.com]

Mei-Xing has been doing her best to hide, stay out of this madness. She's not a soldier, she's never been in a war zone that her father and his crew hadn't created. And even then, all she had to do was wait a few minutes for the problem to be solved before she risked poking her head out.

This? This was insanity, and she wanted nothing to do with it. Mei-Xing did her best to avoid death on a daily basis, but surrounded by it? By insects, no less? It made her remember the trip to Chicago, and the nightmares that had followed for months afterwards. Still, even now the bugs follow her. And now, instead of looking to eat her, or devour her soul, they were there to destroy a planet.

She coughs a bit, watching as the Berzerk Fury makes its runs. It's hopeless for that thing alone, she realizes this. It won't stop the bugs. Dammit, looks like I'm going to be working for free.

<< You're Vega in the big slagging mech? All right, kid, listen up. This is Mei-Xing, and you're about to watch some wild drek. Try not to panic, okay? >>

Despite her words and tone, Mei-Xing is far from sure of herself, but she's got nothing else to do. Just staying here might mean everyone else dies, which means no ride home. So she makes her way to the roof of her crumbling building, and starts to... dance. Surrounded by carnage, she twists, spins, and weaves a dance, sending out a mental call throughout the metaplanes. Begging a favor.

There's no clear answer at first, but the wind picks up and the earth trembles near her after a few moments. Blood streams from her nose, coating her lips and chin, and a whirlwind appears in the air, as the earth cracks and brings a building down near her. She's never summoned spirits this powerful before, she's never needed to. But from the whirlwind surges forth a massive, serpentine dragon, made of dark clouds and twisting wind. From the ground erupts a massive stone Titan, maybe thirty feet in height.

She collapses to her knees, coughing and clutching at her head. "Drek. Just... Geek the fuckers." She gestures towards the Ohm, and the two elementals surge forth, the earth titan making a bee-line towards the tanks while the air dragon twists and flows towards the fire bugs.

They're large and powerful, but they won't be able to get the job done alone. Even an elemental spirit can fall to enough punishment. And if Mei-Xing should pass out or die, they'd go wild and start destroying everything.

[rekindle.livejournal.com]

Cagalli had been flying the Akatsuki over a nearby area, looking for where her mobile suit's capabilities might be most useful. There were some things going down on the ground, but the sheer size of her unit would only hinder things. That's when the message came through.



She cut the message off there and changed course a little, veering off to the north as per Vega's transmission. Hopefully things would be sort of manageable there.

[obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com]

<< Who's panicking? >> Vega calls back to Mei-Xing. He isn't afraid. Nothing has ever beaten him, and a combination of his optimism and diminished understanding of danger have him sure it won't happen again. He's in his Zoid, nothing has ever gone wrong here and nothing can go wrong.

<< Alright, I'll save some for you! >> he responds to Cagalli.

Vega takes advantage of the brief distraction offered by Mei-Xing's elementals, and the Fury plunges into a gap in the line with a roar of challenge. The buster claws are together to form two huge Magnesser drills, spinning rapidly. A tank lunges at the Fury but Vega hauls one of the claws to bear, boring into it and carving downward through its armor. Several are already converging on him, and the Fury lashes with tail, teeth, and claws to keep the ground around it open and spreads out fire from the beam cannons. They're not much good against the tanks, though the slightly more fragile firebugs trundle backward. A few are trying to get back far enough for a good range to launch bioplasma at him. Vega's already working toward disengaging himself from this rush with his boosters, having mangled a few legs. Unfortunately, he hasn't managed to down anything.

This might be harder than he thought.

[killsfengshui.livejournal.com]

Mei-Xing's elementals spew power and fight well, but they can only take on one or two Ohm at once. She watches this critically, then gestures towards the monsters Berzerk Fury had already attacked. The earth elemental follows, moving from his target to the injured Tanks, grabbing at their legs and pulling down, snapping them with some effort.

She lets out a chuckle over the frequencies at Vega, but it's disrupted when the newly-damaged tank falls against her building. It shakes her up, but she's good.

<< I've got to say, this isn't how I planned my shore leave. >>

The air dragon loops in and out of the Tanks, trying to rip here, blast another off its 'feet' there, but it's mainly being distacting. Mei-Xing concentrates on that one now, trying to order it to be more destructive.

Her head is throbbing. I shouldn't have summoned two powerful ones like this. I don't know if I can keep them under control.

[rekindle.livejournal.com]

If the two fighters looked above them, they'd see the approaching mobile suit, golden armor gleaming in the sunlight. It slowed down as it approached, keeping its distance from the bugs, but firing its beam rifle all the while. As it fired, the beam canons mounted on the striker pack went into position underneath the Akatsuki's arms.



Right after the message was relayed, the beam canons fired a string of shots behind Vega. Some firebugs were hit, hopefully giving him a little more time to retreat.

[obscura-prodigy.livejournal.com]

<< Yeah, that's why we gotta teach these guys a lesso- oh crap! >>

Vega pushes the Fury's head downward to duck a swipe from one massive tank leg. Fortunately, with a flare of boosters, he's clear.

Except he's not.

FZASH!

Bioplasma splashes across the Zoid's side, too quickly for Vega to twist out of the way. One of the Firebugs managed to sneak into position to get a bead on him. And he gave it a nice straight run to lead off the shot on, too.

The Fury's controls stiffen in his hands as it roars, the hit knocking their course and changing the flow of air over the Fury's body as it melts armor. The Zoid is livid, it wants to wheel around and face the things attacking it, to break them in its claws and teeth and blast them to pieces. The Berserk Fury doesn't run away.

<< MOVE, FURY! >> They need to get out of here. Vega's trying to assess the damage and get a buffer of distance between his Zoid and the Ohm line at the same time, all while the Fury's controls are shuddering under his hands with its conflicting loyalty and rage.

The left booster on the Fury's back hisses and whines under the strain, plasma boiling away metal.

It fails. It flares up again. It dies with a shower of sparks and a small burst of oily black smoke.

There's a choked yell from Vega as the Zoid tumbles head over tail in midair, unbalanced. The Fury bellows, crashing into a building and then a second as it struggles to right itself. Vega's comm channel goes to static as the seat of his cockpit ejects in time for him to avoid one final smash.

The Fury lashes at the rubble of a third building as the first it slammed into collapses into the one Mei-Xing is standing on.

Vega's seat is drifting through the air, just a spot of color dangling from a parachute. It's what Sarah always told him to do if he thought he couldn't survive a crash.

[jesushasagundam]

<< Vega! ...Cagalli...! >>

There's a new voice over the communication lines as yellow blasts rain from the sky at hypersonic speeds, tearing through the Ohm lines before exploding with kinetic energy - the Strike Freedom's railguns.

Enter reinforcements from space.