It's The Final Countdown

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This was it. Endgame. The crux of the battle, the turning point, those crucial moments that would decide if the crew won or lost, that would decide if the Ohm would reign victorious or go running with their chitinous tails between their legs.

Did the crew have enough grit to win? Could they defeat a full Ohm fighting force?

With the flagging confidence of the GIA forces, it'd be up to the crew to turn the tide.

And one of the crew would pay the ultimate price to make sure the others walked away alive.

[ooc: everything is up!]

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Space

[cityship]

In outer space above the planet...

Leviathan

[cityship]

To have any chance of all at winning this thing, at least two Leviathans needed to go down, but that entailed a hopelessly risky fight.

Could they do it?

[supersonicracer.livejournal.com]

It had been a risky attempt, but it paid off - Sonic had reentered the battle, but this time as Super Sonic. The hedgehog's pure, unadulterated speed was only signified by the gold streak that plowed through the Shrikes as he blazed past them.

"Alright, you ugly creeps! Time to take care of business!" he said, charging forward. He needed to push forward, get to one of the Leviathans. Maybe his small size and incredible speed could stop it!

Leviathan 2

[cityship]

Could they take out both?

[indeliblepast]

They had finally gotten the Ptolemy prepped and launched - not without a few false starts and a great deal of running around, but Feldt had gotten separated from the rest of the crew, and doing the work of at least four or five people with only two was difficult at best. Not to mention that Sumeragi's piloting skills were both basic and rusty - she made a mental note to do something about that once this fight was over.

But they were here now, finally approaching the field of battle.

Node

[cityship]

There was a node coordinating the enemy fleet. If they took it out they had a chance of sending them packing, but it was well guarded indeed.

Re: Node

[noboothneeded.livejournal.com]

Clark rocketed into the Node's guards He wasn't quite powerful enough to do major damage to something that big on his own, but he could clear some space for the others to work in..

Ship

[cityship]

It was a glancing hit, from somewhere on the surface below, and after coring away part of Stacy (fortunately not a part that would cause the crew to vent into space) the beam hit the uninhabited planet above, causing massive cracks over its entire surface.

The entire ship shuddered, and then... the lights died.

Dim red lights running on backup power went on, but they were still losing power! And that meant losing the ability to move to avoid another beam, it meant malfunctions everywhere.

Engines Down!

[cityship]

Consoles exploded! Klaxons were blaring! The engines were down, and they needed to get back up again or there was the risk of gravity dragging the ship down on the evac point on the planet!

Re: Engines Down!

[metalwebhead.livejournal.com]

"Crap. Crap. Crap. CRAP!"

The fecal matter was starting to pile up. First Ohm attacking, now an attack tearing into the ship, now everything starting to shut down. Spider-Man quickly raced from the scene, ignoring the pain of the wounds he was inflicted with to make it to what consoles were active.

Everyone who's still on board, I'm gonna need help here! The ship's dead in the water - well, space, but you know what I mean - and there's no way your Friendly Neighborhood Wall-Crawler can bring everything back up to speed!

Pod Caverns

[cityship]

Power was out at a crucial juncture near the Pod Caverns. A repair team would have to head down and get it back up, or people were going to suffocate in their pods!

Hanger

[makeherblue]

The battles raging in the hanger continued as more Ohm swarmed in increasing numbers, compromising the ships. The hanger itself shook as the floor rolled underneath those in the hanger, bucking underneath the hit. The lights flickered, died, and an eerie red light flooded on in the hanger, this dim sort of light that would make it even more difficult to fight the Ohm.

[syncopath]

He wasn't too keen on the Doctor's plan of using the TARDIS to attempt to stabilize Stacy (seeing as it was the Doctor's plan), but the Master was well aware that the best place to be in the thick of a losing battle was near escape craft. Especially if one happened to have a well-armed guard standing by to draw fire. And so he trotted along behind the other two as they made their way into the hangar. Best to let them go ahead first.

He did wish he'd had the foresight to bring along more powerful weaponry himself. A laser screwdriver was more than enough for humans, but he wasn't so sure it would work as well on the Ohm.

The Master swallowed as the doors opened (well, one door-- the other was hanging by its... could those even be rightly classified as 'hinges'?) and the scene became absolutely clear.

The hangar was filled with smoke, illuminated by red light and brief flashes of gunfire of various sort. And the Ohm. The Ohm were everywhere, spilling into every available space like cockroaches. Strangely segmented, militarized cockroaches.

"Probably not so clever, walking in through the front," he commented acidly, but if the Doctor or River cared to take a look behind them, they'd see he'd gone ghost white.

Med Bay

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Anyone looking into Med Bay would see controlled chaos: patients being treated as fast as they could be, medical staff running from bed to bed with bandages and supplies, and always more people coming in. They had to get people stabilized enough to move, both to get them to where they were going and to free up the attention of the staff.

But once the lights went out, there would be nothing to see for an instant; only hear, as people shouted and even screamed. The emergency lights came up, but it was clear that the staff's work had just become that much more complicated.

Re: Med Bay

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"Oh no!"

Kaya was close to frantic. The last few hours had been quiet at least, a change in what had taken place recently. Kaya had controlled naps now, and the vials that Nokosi had given to her had been a great help: they had kept her with a level head for quite a time. But now there were rumors that the commotion was getting worse, and she wished more than anything she could be out there, find out exactly what had happened with all of the people she'd been fighting with against the Ohm.

And now? Chaos.

"Please everyone, calm down! We have to keep a level head! Relax: we'll get to the bottom of the situation!"

[i-saw-myself.livejournal.com]

Getting back on the ship with the retreating soldiers and refugees was a lot easier when you had a dragon that could fly over the crowds, but after getting shot back there in the fight, he could feel the blood pooling inside the Thorn Armor, even through the constricted pressure bandages created by the plantsuit.

He needed to go to Medbay, but there was something else he had to do. Astrid never checked her comm--hell she barely carried it around.

"Toothless, I really need to you to do something for me," he said, placing his hand on the dragon's snout, and leaning in close so he didn't have to shout over the din of the refugees that were crowding the ship.

He was getting paler before the dragon's eyes, but it wasn't himself he was worried about.

"I'm heading to Medbay--" He gestured to the Hub that led down to the Medbay corridor with his good arm. "I'll be fine--but I need you to find Astrid, make sure she's okay. Can you do that, bud? I need to know that she made it out."

Ground

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On the ground...

The General

[cityship]

There was a mighty crash as a pod dropped down from orbit, and a sixty-foot-tall behemoth of an Ohm clawed it way out.

GIA soldiers screamed in fear at the sight of it and swore in a variety of languages. Apparently, this wasn't the first time this particular Ohm had showed up in battle.

"Juggernaut! It's the Juggernaut!"

"Retreat!"

The Ohm swept through soldiers, tossing them aside like rag dolls, picking up hover-tanks and crushing them in its massive claws. Its only weakness seemed to be that it was on the slowish side due to its massive size. It charged a beam equivalent to a mid-sized Leviathan's and blasted away a swath of the fighting force on the battlefield, apparently trying to destroy as much of the opposing fighting force as possible.

If that thing got remotely close to the shields, they wouldn't stand a chance.

Rangers/Riders | The Final Countdown!

[radiantcourage.livejournal.com]

Nazca knew that the renewed energy she was given wasn't something to use so carelessly and so, she was making sure to make this work. With her speed greatly accelerating thanks to the form she was in, she was able to take on several of the remaining Ohm down with a few sword slashes and energy spheres - the latter being something that she appreciated in this form. She continued to fight her way through, even with the electrical shocks being administered every now and then due to it malfunctioning. But now wasn't the time to worry about a defective Driver. Now was the time to make sure that her friends were okay and safe. She could almost see them and now it was just a matter of time.

Though, what caused her concern was a large attack being thrown at her friends, namely at Odin and Double. She widened her eyes behind her helmet, slashed through the small group she dealt with and kicked her speed up to the point of there just being an orange blur dashing through the skies.

With her sword drawn to her side, Nazca put herself between her teammates and blocked the blast with the blade, deflecting it to the side. Then, she looked up at the Juggernaut and pointed a finger at it.

"I don't care who you are - you don't go after my team, and more importantly, my family!" she challenged, moving to point her sword at the Ohm before a surge of thunder and lightning went right for it as she turned her attention to her teammates. The tip of her sword was aimed for them, bathing all of them in a warm healing light.

"Nothing can keep me down for long."

Around the general

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Around the general were swarms of Ohm, grunts and tanks and bombadiers, guarding the approach to the general itself.

People would need to get them out of the way to allow other individuals to have a crack at the general.

Protect the med-tents

[cityship]

While the general kept most of the battlefield distracted, on the urban side of the evac point, near the med-tents, an Ohm force was making a rush for the shields, hoping to break through by force and attack the MASH unit on the other side.

Could this fresh surge in enemies be stopped before it was too late?

Endgame

[cityship]

After all the other fighting had reached its culmination, the death weapon was unleashed from an Ohm transport pod. It looked just like a Firebug, only it was far more massive, a half-mile high, in fact, massively wide, with more legs supporting it than a Firebug had.

"A firewurm! Concentrate fire on the firewurm! It could bring down the Trans 9 right on top of the evac point, and it'll flood the area with radiation as it charg--"

Even as the GIA general spoke, a beam shot up and hit the edge of the Trans 9 (causing a great many engineering problems) and went right through to hit the planet above it. Fortunately, it had only hit the edge of the ship. It'd take another shot to bring the ship down, but if it did, it'd crush the whole evac point before they'd finished evacuating.

As the weapon charged again, radiation levels started rising, causing portable radiation counters to start ticking wildly.

A communication went out across all comms, across all networks among the forces opposing the Ohm.

[Radiation levels of an unknown form of radiation are rising due to the firewurm charging. They'll reach unsurvivable levels within ten minutes! All forces must regroup behind the shields. I repeat, all GIA and allied forces must regroup behind the shields!]

[ooc: Some threads in this will be open or closed, and noted in the ooc note.]

Radiation evac

[cityship]

There were a LOT of crew members and GIA allies that had to get behind the shields in a very short amount of time, including quite a few of the injured. They'd only manage to do it through cooperation.

[ooc: open to all]

Tactics

[armsraced.livejournal.com]

Attempts to take the firewurm out with strikes from the ships in space weren't working. Neither had heavy artillery. Now anyone else that could strike at it with powers wouldn't be able to get close without getting irradiated.

Several weaknesses had been noted, however, and Admiral Kasna thought he had a solution, but first he needed to talk with the Trans9's captain.

"Captain Kennedy! I need to speak with you immediately regarding our next move!"

The Sacrifice

[cityship]

Armed with the single radiation shield that had been cobbled together, one person would have to fight their way through countless Ohm. One person would have to get past another Ohm general, a 30 ft tall monster called "The Behemoth" by GIA forces, a horrible Ohm with a mottled grey-blue carapace.

One person would have to take out the firewurm singlehandedly.

Were they up to the challenge?

[ooc: closed]