Best Gadget Buddies [Open]

[morphitudinous]

There was only one destination in mind when the war started: work. Billy had dashed down to the transportation tubes, arriving on the first floor when he'd hit a snag: a robot swarm already assaulting the Med Bay and Special Weapons. But that wouldn't stop him: his coworkers and friends could be there, and the lab could easily hold the key to fighting back. He'd struggled and shoved his way through, roughed up very well by the time he crossed the threshold of his lab.

The hordes were closing in. Only his guns and a narrow doorway stood between Billy and death, and so far it seemed that death was gaining the upper hand. Would there ever be time to cobble together a better solution or escape? He doubted it. Not unless help arrived for them.

(ooc: Defend the laboratory? Your characters can be trapped with Billy rigging together some kind of defense system or trying to get through to him. If it gets bad, though, they might all have to escape and blow up the tech...)

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[zouichi.livejournal.com]

Zouichi looked at the Bigfoot, then back at the robots. Then he ran up one of the walker's legs, ascending until he was standing next to the cockpit.

"Don't tell me those missile pods just for show."

[thewunderkind]

"They're not!" she answered back, trying to push her way in. "But they've only been working at intervals and I've only got six left! I want to make them count!"

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

"In that case..." Zouichi holstered his other weapons, snapping the coil rifle down and setting it to a high yield blast. Even if the effect were dampened, it should --

The blast lit up the area in an instant; a bloom of diffuse energy sent a mass of the robots in front of the Bigfoot's legs flying. That didn't stop the robots who hadn't gotten caught in the blast from crushing forward as quickly as they could, but it was a temporary reprieve.

[thewunderkind]

"That's about the seventh different type of robot I've seen so far," Lash mentioned as they slowly advances, sometimes making the large machine dodge just in time before a shot got at them. The robot was slowly starting to get more and more hits, however.

"How did we not notice any of these before? I swear if we survive this, I'm going to comb the ship from head to toe, starting with the city first!"

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

"Same way we didn't notice the Reavers. And KAIN. And everything that came before that. The ship's just too big, and too good at hiding away what it's got."

Zouichi continued clearing robots from their path left and right, instinctively covering for the machine's bulkiness and blind spots. "I'm willing to bet most of this was kept in restricted areas, anyway." His faith in the ship could be more or less described as 'relatively nonexistent'.

[thewunderkind]

"Right. Maybe we could install some anti-defense weapons next to whatever 'restricted areas' we have," she mused, taking one of the large iron planks she had and throwing it as well as she could into another robot.

"I need to install arms on this thing next time. Gwah! What a piece of junk." The fact Lash was complaining was a good sign, in any case. If the situation was really dire, she would have become completely silent.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

"And lasers," Zouichi agreed, dispatching a robot trying to climb up the walker's leg. "I'm surprised this is the only thing you had lying around."

Similarly, he didn't talk much either when there was too much going on. But he could handle talking and shooting robots at the same time. "You have something in Special Weapons to use against these guys?"

[thewunderkind]

"I do have lasers!" she answered. "They just keep malfunctioning. Which makes no sense! I bet it's whatever is causing us not to have our full powers." You could tell how frustrated she was.

"And yeah, I need to get some coils and wires to see what we can do with Wheatley," she explained. "We're gonna try branching him into the network. From what I understand, he was created to dumb down GLaDOS, I'm hoping we can do the same for SHODAN or at least keep her distracted."

In other words, they were going to turn Wheatley into the multiverse's most annoying spam advertisement.

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

"You know," Zouichi said, picking off another robot, "After this is over, we should see about creating a countermeasure to these dampening fields. This is the second time someone's pulled this trick on us, and I can only assume it'll happen again. I'd prefer not to be caught off guard like this if possible."

He spared a glance at Lash. "Is that what he was created for? You're not worried she'll destroy him?"

[thewunderkind]

"Well he's a robot. We can always rebuild him. Besides, there are aparently more of them in the hanger or something. Imagine if we get two or three plugged in. She'll have no idea what to do. Also..." she stopped to let a few more shots fire, before sending one of her only missiles right into a particularly powerful group. "...we need to get GLaDOS back online."

[zouichi.livejournal.com]

The infamous GLaDOS, who Zouichi kept hearing about but never seemed to meet face-to-face. "Yeah, but he won't be the same if you do that. And he's one of us. Even if he's kind of annoying,I'd rather not see anything happen to him."

He paused for a moment, hesitating. "If you need someone to help out, let me know. Hacking into computer systems is basically one of Fuyu's core functions."