Hydroponics

[morganknight]

Morgan had been in Hydroponics when the message first came over the comm system. He had exactly enough time to frown at his omnicomm before the power limiters engaged and the hyperspace compartments in his cloak failed. Like some outtake from a horrible collision of the Matrix and Harpo Marx, the entire contents of that space fell back into normal reality, leaving Morgan in a thigh-deep mound of guns, swords, and an electric guitar.

"Damn," he said, mildly, as he rolled his neck. He glanced off into the distance, quickly judged the amount of time he had till the robots he saw way out there reached him, then spent a few of those precious seconds tossing out a heads-up over the comms for his location.

That done, he dug out the multi-sheath he had made back when he used to carry weapons openly, slapped half-a-dozen blades through it, threw it on, then scooped up a pair of submachine guns.

"Why can't there be an army of good robots for once?" he muttered, flicking off the safeties.

(ooc: feel free to thread together to help Morgan defend against the evil robots. Also, evil robot NPCs are needed here!)

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[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Kaya was watching out the corner of her eye Morgan's movements: they would gain more of the advantage, she figured, if she distracted them enough so that he was able to launch his own attack ad they could start to divvy up the sharkticons.

That, and well, they were coming after her now. She'd better start attacking them soon. The sword went back on her back, her fingers now at the holster.

The gun was up and at the ready, shooting at the nearest bot. She knew she wasn't the best when it came to firearms, she only knew basics, but she was close enough where it wouldn't matter.

And with Morgan's jump toward them, it looked like she would have to go back to using the sword again.

[thesystemshock.livejournal.com]

The tree took out a chunk of the remaining robots, although a few at the edges weren't damaged enough to be taken out of the fight and promptly resumed their attack. Kaya's close-range shot hit another in its eyes, taking out the optics and knocking it off its original path. It continued forward, but nowhere near where she was located.

The others started to split off into two groups, moving on a wide enough trajectory that it was clear they were going to try to do to Morgan and Kaya what they did with the tree earlier, even though their numbers were dwindling. To make matters worse, one of the ones that was closest to Kaya leapt at her, metallic jaws unhinged and razor-sharp teeth attempting to take a rather large bite out of whatever part of her it could reach.

[morganknight]

Morgan hit the ground rolling, which he immediately and painfully regretted, but no time for that now. He turned the roll into a kippup that hurt like a son of a bitch, then snapped one leg forward, smoothly drew the shotgun out of his belt (where it had left yet more bruises), then fired it directly into the face of a nearby robot. His other hand, seemingly independently, hewed at another robot. He trusted Kaya to take care of herself, at least.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

That was a bad move on the Sharkticon's part. Kaya had been containing her anger with weapon fire for the moment: it was a good way to at least distance herself from the quiet anger she was feeling. Once the robot leapt toward her though, all bets were off.

The sword was in her hand in an instant and the open jaws were cleaved in two, sparks flying, and the look on Kaya's face enough to scare most people who knew her. There was no forgiveness or holding back here: now, she was more than willing get down and dirty.

She ran toward the robots and hacked at them, screaming all the way, making sure steel met sword.

[thesystemshock.livejournal.com]

If these were more intelligent robots, then they might have switched tactics to compensate for Kaya's furious fighting or the fact Morgan was able to engage with more than one of them at a time. But they didn't, instead continuing to try and trap the others in the circle - a fact made more difficult by the fact that they kept getting cut down.

It quickly became evident they were low on numbers, not enough of them available to swarm in and overwhelm the crew that were there in the battle. This didn't stop them from trying, because being dumb and voracious pretty much meant they were doing to go down doing their level best to at least take a chunk or two out of the humans. As long as Morgan and Kaya could keep it up, though, they would likely be able to finish off what remained sooner rather than later.