trans_9 | System Shock - Fight the Power!

Gods could be too arrogant. Such was the case of SHODAN, who had turned the Pods into a nightmarish zone where she could freely amuse herself and torture those that had come here.

But arrogance breeds pride which breeds mistakes. Instead of killing everyone off, she had decided to do this more slowly – watch them suffer in a slow agony, and, therefore had not expected them to fight back.

It had been a lucky shot, really, one in a million, But one of the people present that day had accidentally shot a tiny, insignificant object. A tiny little drone, that, once it had been the source of the power damper, had fallen. The tables were turned, and the goddess had been forced to retreat from the pods.

Now she was on a panicked mode, not only because some of the other people on the ship had managed to work their way into her system files, using another AI to send pointless images and sounds to her, distracting her from her task, but they knew how they could defeat her and gain their powers back.

It didn't take long for the message to be sent out, as the word quickly spread. Find the tiny little creatures, and shoot them down. SHODAN couldn't work their shields properly and once they were found, it was only a short matter of time before the powers returned to an area.

It would take time, but, finally, the tide of the battle was turning on the side of the crewmen and women. In vain, she was throwing her all; even more strange robot creatures, attacking in packs, but with hope on their side, they could win this...

[OOC - OKay go for it! NPC players, feel free to NPC as many robots as you like. Players, once your powers return, feel free to make as much scrap metal as you like, no need to have people NPC for you if you just want to write tags of them kicking ass.]

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"Of course."

A terse answer but this among the few things that Alendian enjoyed doing. Her gun activated, being quite a bit more subtle than Zouichi's. Instead of blowing apart robots, the monofilament wires hit the more vital portions, ripping wires and power cords in twain, deactivating droids in its wake.

"Hold on." And that was all the warning Alendian got, because a detachment of Terminators were rounding the corner, opening fire in a blaze of energy weaponry. In an instant, Zouichi calculated the path they'd need to take to avoid the weapons fire and swerved sharply, using a fallen piece of corrugated metal that had half-fallen onto the ground as a ramp to launch them upward.

Then they were skyborne as laser fire scorched the air around them, soaring up above the immediate reach of the robots and skimming across the roof of a long building.

Are you implying Alendian needs any other warning? How rude. Either way, to keep inertia from dragging her off the bike, she clamped her leg armor to the vehicle so she would fly off.

To be fair, she left the machine a haywire grenade as a departing present. This way, they wouldn't follow mindlessly, as robots were prone to do.

Don't scratch that bike, Alendian!

The haywire grenade had its expected effect (hurray, technology!), demolishing most of its targets and disabling others. On the other hand, all the commotion was drawing some unwanted attention. As the bike sailed back onto solid ground, several of the rolling Droidekas began racing toward them, moving to cut them off.

No need to be scared, Zouichi.

Alendian did nudge Zouichi, trying to get his attention. "What do you plan on doing about those?"

By 'those', she meant the Droidekas, of course.

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There was a brief pause, because now there were Droidekas coming at them from behind as well. Then Zouichi turned sharply, sending the bike into a spin. From the front of the vehicle, where the coil gun was mounted, a searing beam of energy suddenly lanced outward, changed into an arc by the motion of the bike's spin. The beam decimated the crowd of robots as well as the front of a few buildings, sending glass and metal and pointy bits flying everywhere.

It was horrible and/or fantastic, depending on whether or not you enjoyed massive property damage or were a robot. The arc completed, Zouichi straightened them out and sped off once more. "Tell me if you spot any dampeners," he said.

...satisfactory. Destruction of any building that wasn't Eldar in make made for acceptable casualties.

"If I spot one, I will handle it."

Speaking of which, wasn't there a tiny hint of movement up near that building's roof, just at the limits of their vision?

Alendian peeked up and the targeting systems in her helmet scanned the area. If there was something up there, it wasn't going to escape the power of Eldar technology.

It was! A teeny-tiny little power dampener, hovering above one of the buildings.

Give Alendian a second as she teleports up there and slaps another grenade on it. Mechanical things should be destroyed properly, after all. Before it goes off, she returns to the bike.

Explosions! Also, Zouichi looked briefly back at Alendian before returning his attention back to the road. She might not be able to feel the change, but he can; it's as though a weight's been lifted from his limbs.

"A handy device," he remarked, using his pistol to make a Sharkticon's head disappear.

She feels the change perfectly fine. After all, her body was limited to human limits but now it all came back. And that felt good.

"What is handy?"

"It's... efficient. Useful. Adaptable to many different situations." Funny how the ship didn't always translate colloquialisms.

He shot another robot.

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