cityship: (Meanwhile...)
cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92011-07-23 01:02 am

Gently, but with undeniable will divesting myself of the holds that would hold me. (Pt. 5: Chances)

The plan was...well, it wasn't simple, but it sort of was.

While the CLF attacked multiple Clone Processing centers to distract the government, the group with the CLF would target one particular one in the region that'd once been New Jersey. The group with the government would offer their services in putting down their own people.

In the center, they'd split up into several groups. One would fight a fake fight, create a massive diversion, and blow up the room where the samples their DNA were being kept in the process. Another group would secure a teleporter pad. That team would teleport out other teams to steal a ship, steal some med tech to teleport to said ship, and steal a medical database. Another team would go to the main command center and hack into the government mainframe to down the sensornet around the planet so they could escape. And Nightwing himself would accompany the clones to upload the harvested memories to the Mother Brains, left unguarded because of the diversionary fighting, and make sure that was all they did.

Meanwhile, there'd be a standing order for all teams to avoid killing other crewmates, and avoid killing guards unless absolutely necessary.

It was a complicated plan. If a single part fouled up, they might find themselves dead, trapped, or worse. But if it worked, it'd work pretty spectacularly and leave them with medtech, a medical database, the clones helped, and possibly a grateful Council depending on how the fight went, because of the ones seemingly aiding the government.

In some worlds, things that were a million-to-one-chance (exactly a million-to-one) by their nature had to work. Let's hope this world is one of them, eh, mission crew?

[ooc: Only comment to threads if it says they are open here. All threads: OPEN. Characters may get injuries up to and including 7 on the Injury Scale (scroll to the bottom). Any higher, and they must ask permission of the plot-runners, just to make sure everyone isn't immobilized without enough people to help move them.]
ext_988045: (Default)

Re: Open to anyone to join her

[identity profile] zouichi.livejournal.com 2011-07-27 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, hi, Lash -- hope you don't mind a Synthetic Human hitching a ride on your magnificent fountainous chariot.

Zouichi glanced up at her, pistol in hand. "You need some help picking them off? I assume there's a reason you're shooting to kill rather than to disable."
thewunderkind: (Movement - OBJECTION!)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-27 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Damn right," she answered, kicking away the non-clones. "My CO Powers are cloneable. Heck, we did that in my world. The last thing we need right now is a bunch of lame fake-mes realizing what they can do due to war stress!"

She shot one in the head. It was rather weird seeing your own face fall lifeless to the floor, admittedly. She took a few seconds to regain herself.

"Sides. There's should never be more than one me around." And original was best.
badassfreakingoverlord: (crap I'm a book)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-07-27 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Hey! Which one of you is the real Lash?!" the book demanded from its vantage point down on the ground.
thewunderkind: (Mffph)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-27 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Zetta you idiot, I'm wearing my yellow outfit, don't tell me you're suddenly colorblind!" Seriously.

Seriously.
badassfreakingoverlord: (sweat drop)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-07-27 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
"That's exactly how a fake Lash would try to trick me!" the book called back suspiciously.
thewunderkind: (What in the world...)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-27 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Normally, she wouldn't have thought about it, but due to the clone videos, Lash's thoughts about the whole videogame status screen thing was still fresh in her mind from yesterday. Hadn't Zetta said that before...

"Hey! Would the real Lash the only one in yellow, might I add, tell you to look and uh...activate whatever it takes to use that status screen thing power of yours."

Clearly they would show him everyone else was Lash (Clone). They'd be lots and lots of levels under her. Maybe they'd even be color coded to make things easier!
badassfreakingoverlord: (why am I hurt?!)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-07-27 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
"Hey! Sh-shut up! I know what I'm doing! I don't need YOUR advice, uh, obviously fake Lash!"

Glaring, Zetta consulted his status screens, then sent his minions after the clones.
thewunderkind: (Raspberry - Rolling eyes and annoyed)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-27 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Obviously fake Lash stuck out her obviously fake tongue at him, rolling her obviously fake eyes.

Obviously.

"Make sure they go for quick kills!" she warned him. "Remember during that training with Ruffnut and Hit Girl? This could be as a stressful situation for them and they might suddenly unleash their powers!"
badassfreakingoverlord: (maniacal glee)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-07-27 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"Like it was yesterday," he called back. "STEP IT UP A NOTCH!"

In response to the Overlord's bellowings, the minions did just that. Lash clones went flying as minions threw axes, conjured inexplicably large explosions of out rifle barrels, or dragged them around the world with fishing rods.
thewunderkind: (Explosions!)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-27 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
You now, she shouldn't be getting this much glee in seeing herself mutilated in so many ways...but...it was oddly fascinating. Mentally, she told herself it was just a science lesson in biology, just as important as another on--

Boom! Headshot! Heh heh heh her clone totally didn't see that.

Pretty soon there weren't that many Lashes left.
badassfreakingoverlord: (Standard Zetta)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-07-28 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
"See? I told you they wouldn't be so tough without your experience!" Zetta said, as another one got smashed into pulp by a comically-oversized mace.

Not once in this entire fight had he made a crack about a twin threesome fantasy or any such perversion.
thewunderkind: (Raspberry - Evil teasing)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-28 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Good. Because Lash would have probably be confused, not sure if she should be insulted or not.

In the end, she just continued to watch the carnage, a tiny smile on her face.

"Yeah yeah yeah," she said with a small flick of her wrist. "You won that one, Overlord."
badassfreakingoverlord: (smug sneer)

[personal profile] badassfreakingoverlord 2011-07-28 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"Don't worry, Lash. I'll... try to let you win one. Someday. Maybe."

The book surveyed the carnage with a thoughtful expression. Looking at all these fallen Lash copies didn't really bother him, either; now that he'd remembered the status screens, the difference between them and the real one was so obvious he couldn't even think of them as Lash. "Still, glad the real one didn't get hurt."
thewunderkind: (Tee hee I'm innocent)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-29 08:50 am (UTC)(link)
"I said that one. But you haven't won the others." She was taking out a few more bombs to be able to disintegrate them completely and destroy all the DNA evidence. Her face curled into a strange smile when she threw the first one.

"...Don't worry. I told you I don't get bruised that easily."

It was as close as someone like her could say thank you, honestly.

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[identity profile] zouichi.livejournal.com 2011-07-27 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
"CO Powers?" What on Earth was Lash on about?

He took one of the clones out with a single shot; easy, if you had enhanced shooting accuracy. If the existence of Lash's clones was dangerous in the way a clone of his was dangerous, they needed to be destroyed, the quicker the better.

"I didn't want a government like this to be able to clone an army of individuals with my abilities. Even only a portion of them. It would be disastrous."
thewunderkind: (No emotion)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-27 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Same," she answered. "They might not be as smart as me, but leaving copies of me here is not something I intend to happen. It's too dangerous."

She fired again, using her own guns instead of the ranger's arsenal. Somehow using those almost seemed wrong, in a strange way.
ext_988045: (Zouichi: glare)

[identity profile] zouichi.livejournal.com 2011-07-27 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Zouichi took out a couple more. Quickly, face expressionless. Just like pulling off a band-aid. "So, you didn't seem too terribly into helping the CLF at first. Something make you change your mind?"
thewunderkind: (Movement - OBJECTION!)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-27 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
Actually Lash wasn't completely sure why she had changed her mind. Maybe when Zetta suddenly switched his?

"Idunno" she said shrugging, breaking the neck of one of the girls nearby, talking as if this conversation was perfectly normal to have in the middle of murdering clones. "It just happened. But the point was..." She fired a shot at another, "that this would definitely the most interesting out of all the possible solutions." And something about Zetta making her changing her mind.
ext_988045: (Zouichi: aim)

[identity profile] zouichi.livejournal.com 2011-07-27 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Zouichi paused briefly in between headshots. "That's a weird reason."

He started up again, drawing a bead on another clone, not bothering to get into actual physical altercations now that the objective was to kill Lash's clones rather than to disable them. This was business; efficiency was key.

In fact, this place was actually starting to remind him a little of home.

"You going to have someone incinerate your clones when you're done? Lot of genetic material lying around."
thewunderkind: (Explosions!)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-27 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Don't worry, I've already thought about that."

A little bit behind them, a firebomb blew into the sky, incarcerating a few of the clone bodies. The fountain moved forward by the heat, knocking a few of the soldiers out cold.

"Of course I only have a limited supply of these. Maybe I'll get Zetta to punch the rest into the moon or destroy them with his lasers, tee hee hee!"
ext_988045: (Zouichi: shooting)

[identity profile] zouichi.livejournal.com 2011-07-27 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Now you're thinking with firebombs," Zouichi said under his breath.

"Glad you're thinking ahead. Now, you got a plan for beating those Councilors? Because if they have shielding like the kind they used to protect Kanner, well. They might be a littler tougher than your average superpowered jerk politicians."
thewunderkind: (You've got to be kidding me two-eyes!)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-27 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
"Well uh..." truthfully she had never thought about taking down the entire ruling office, more concerned with the revolution and killing her own clones. Most leaders would stay hidden away and not come in full force. "Maybe if we shoot various weapons at them, we could see what causes reactions in their shield system and move from there."

Logically, this actually made some sense!
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[identity profile] zouichi.livejournal.com 2011-07-27 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. And yet somehow, they had...

"So basically, shoot at them until something sticks. Guess it's as good a plan as any."

Oh, Zouichi was planning to shoot things at them, all right. ALL THE THINGS. "You think the no-kill order is still on for them?"

Well, technically, it should apply to their clones, but for aforementioned reasons, Zouichi was going to treat that part as an exception. Dangerous clones are dangerous.
thewunderkind: (Thinking - Very hard)

[personal profile] thewunderkind 2011-07-27 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah probably." She had a feeling Dick wouldn't be too happy about Lash killing her own clones, but if there was no evidence of them being there, it wouldn't be as bad, right? Totally logical in a wunderkind's twisted mind. "But let's be honest, the way they've been programmed means there's not much we can to to help them out except kill them."
ext_988045: (Zouichi: :()

[identity profile] zouichi.livejournal.com 2011-07-27 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
He looked at her for an instant, than shrugged. "The order was not to kill unless necessary, right? If we left our clones alive, they could have destroyed far more lives than your average human clone. They might have changed the military makeup of the planet's security forces, stamped out the CLF and any other dissident clones altogether. And they could only have been manufactured because we were here. I'd say that sounds pretty necessary."

"...besides," he said a little more quietly, "I wouldn't wish that kind of life on anyone."

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