System Shock - Fight the Power!

[thesystemshock.livejournal.com]

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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[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"It's not a fight without the Overlord," Hit Girl said, sounding more wooden then she meant to. That actually had been her intention, to get the Overlord into the fight, but she was, of course,s till struggling a little with what she saw, and channeling that pain into rage, where it belonged.

"I'll enjoy myself when I'm grinding more of these fuckers under my feet," she said, able to keep her voice even now. I'm good, my head is clear and all that good shit. So let's show that alien bitch what happens when she tortures a ship with two Overlords on it."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Hey," Zetta said, attempting to block her path as effectively as he could given his rather slow drifting movement. "What's eating you?"

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Hit Girl was a little surprised by him getting in front of her, and anyone else, EVEN Ruffnut, she would have shoved aside and kept going. But it was the Overlord, and its not like she was going to do that to him.

"She destroyed pods. Like, people not yet popped were all dead and stuff. And some people who made an appearance, dead. My dad was one of them."

Again, she kept her voice even, quiet.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Oh." The book blinked. "Yeah. I can see why that'd upset you."

A moment of silence, before he looked sidelong to his minions. In creepy harmony, the entire rampaging group screeched to a halt, then stomped back over to fall into ranks behind the two. Zetta propped himself on a ridge on the outside of one of the robots.

"All right, then. Let's get you some extremely violent vengeance."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"Now that's what I'm talking about!" Hit Girl said, and a moment later she was back in the game, pistols at the ready: this time, one of them was the one the Overlord gave to her and the other one was the gun she'd gotten from that Pactio with Negi.

This was how Hit Girl dealt with problems during a fight: no break down, no sitting down to recover. Hell, to be honest there was as little feeling possible when it came to that: what she needed was to fight and kill, not mourn and regress. She could feel that later.

A hole punched through a few robots later, the thrill of almost dying and adrenaline reigned supreme. Just the way she liked it!

[badassfreakingoverlord]

The book merrily directed its minions hither and thither, though for the moment his minions were serving as fire support and flanking for Hit Girl. This wasn't personal for the Overlord, merely annoying, so he didn't mind letting her work it out.

Though after a minute or two of violence, Zetta said, "Don't forget that when this all is over, and we wish the cosmos back to normal, stuff like this gets included."

Not exactly the most sympathetic and empathetic way of consoling and encouraging her -- well, for the Overlord, maybe it was. Hit Girl knew the demon party line on love and family, after all.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Hit Girl knew that it should't be a personal thing, that it should have been just another stupid attack on the ship, but she knew better than that: it was personal because Shodan had MADE it personal. She hadn't just killed Damon Macready, she had mocked her, had said HER NAME and laughed about it. So about now, she figured, it was abut time she returned the favor in spades.

So that bitch had to die. It was one thing to get derailed because she had to go help out another hero, but her vengeance would not be denied. NO ONE dangled a part of Mindy's heart in front of her and crushed it for fun. She knew this feeling of rage and principal would carry along when she became an Overlord: and she would have people fear for their lives if she came at the like this.

"It's the principal of deliberately fucking with me," she said bluntly, shooting in the exact same way. "I have to establish my dominance. If that bitch thinks messing with a little girl's head is a turn on, she's gonna pay for it."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Which is a damn good principle to act upon. Just make sure you're acting and not reacting." Which was probably the most hypocritical thing Mr. Burn The Sacred Tome Because It Insulted Me had said in the entire length of his time on the ship, and that was saying something.

*died laughing*

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"Oh come on Overlord: can't it be a little bit of both?" Hit Girl feasibly COULD separate her feelings on what happened of course: she'd had to before, during the last showdown with D'Amico. It could happen.

The question was, did she really want it to?

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Sure, it CAN, if you're fine with your opponent dictating your actions! Even if it's not what they wanted you to do, it's still not what you would've done if they hadn't done something."

There was more than a little amount of demon pride at work here, obviously.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"What are you talking about? I was already trying to get her the fuck off the ship: she's an arrogant bitch with an attitude problem. Now she just made it personal, that's all. It doesn't change anything, it just makes me want to kill her fucking more."

Which she was more than obliged to do.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Yeah, and you're not enjoying it," the book pointed out. "That's the real tragedy here. If you start forgetting how much damn FUN it is to be an Overlord, or an Overlord-in-training, you've forgotten the point!"

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"You can't enjoy every kill you make, can you?" Hit Girl said, reloading her gun. "But if you can't have fun, you can at least gets some good goddamn satisfaction out of killing some more of her minions. Trust me, this feeling's not gonna last. It's not like this is the first time I had to deal with someone dying."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"The only victories I don't get a kick out of are the ones against foes so weak it was a waste of my time to fight them," Zetta said, and he meant that sincerely. He'd never truly had motivation to pure hate and anger, a burning desire to inflict suffering over all things. Not yet, anyway. Not as deep and dark as he could go.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"Hey, I'll work through that sadness. Any battle you're in, you give it your all. Luckily for me, I always give a hundred and ten for mine. But I'd agree with you on that. I'll tell you what though: I will do my best to enjoy shooting and maiming the shit out of those robots, ok?

As much as she could, anyway.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"That's probably the best I can hope for." Zetta might have relaxed to the point where he could accept this sort of emotional display (as completely inhuman as it was from the perspective of a normal, functional human being) from his disciple, but he didn't know how to be gracious about doing so.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Hit Girl did not need him to be gracious about it. In fact, the last thing she wanted was a lecture. There was no way, she knew, that she would have been laughing it up as she killed enemies, not after seeing Shodan take out her dad. What was needed now was cold fury, killing fast and deliberately so that Shodan slowly lost speed.

"Should we make a move to command deck then?" Get rid of more of these guys?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"I'm following you," the book said, nearly falling off the robot in his efforts to shrug. He couldn't give any real emotional support or any of that crap to her, so letting her take charge was his way of contributing to her well-being.

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

(OOC, we can stop here, but I also threw HG here: http://trans-9.livejournal.com/871427.html?thread=72200707#t72200707) if you want to continue.