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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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"Yeah, that totally stopped everyone else every time I said demons don't do love." The book rolled its eyes (as near as anyone could tell), entirely unsympathetic. "And you've been together longer than Lash and I have... uh, officially."

"Well you two were just obvious, everyone knew that," Hit Girl replied, similarly rolling her eyes. "You hung out all the time, you made all these innuendos that made people barf, and it was obvious there was something there. Me, I'm not exactly Ms. sociable in ANY sense of the word."

Demonstrated, of course, as she positioned her guns and blew away three more robots. "It's not so much that I can't do love as it is that I have no idea what the fuck is going to happen next."

"We hung out together because we enjoyed blowing stuff up," Zetta said, glossing over just how much fun they had even when they weren't detonating things. "And I made all those innuendos because Lash is hot and I'd totally like to bang her. THAT hasn't changed. That doesn't require love, either."

That was too much information, wasn't it?

"Who cares what happens next? You couldn't guess it even if we weren't on this stupid ship. Enjoy it."

"Yeah, anyone can enjoy just blowing stuff up. Hell, all FOUR of us enjoy blowing stuff up. But that doesn't necessarily equal chemistry, which anyone with eyes could see the two of you have. And totally ignoring that whole banging part, by the way."

Yes, wayyy too much.

"That would be what I thought the day I kissed her, you ass. SOMEBODY had to finally take the initiative, and it sure as hell wasn't going to be her. Just because it's a new scary feeling didn't mean I didn't know what it was. We've already been on dates and...well, if it took all that time just to say how you really felt about Lash, obviously we had to do something like that, right?"

Oops, off goes the head of a SAINT.

"I guess," the book reluctantly admitted. "Lash isn't just a hot body. I can respect her." Which was almost as big an admission as the whole 'love' thing anyway. "Honestly, I was wondering how long it would take you two to catch on myself. You were doing about the same thing."

"Duh, even I know that. Maybe you haven't caught on yet, but I respect the hell out of Lash. Why do you think it grosses me out you saying she's hot in the first place. You might as well be talking about my sister when you say that."

She snickered, beheading yet another robot. "On some level, I knew, but like I said, I'm shit with people, and I had to convince a VIKING I liked her? Not exactly something you wanna go all balls out for. Hell, as far as I knew, I was totally straight until I met her."

"If you had an older sister, I bet she'd be hot," Zetta said with a smirk. He was mostly just messing with her, as true as it likely way. "Seriously, though, how could you have a problem convincing Ruffnut?"

"God there are times I feel like I shouldn't stop hitting you," Hit Girl said, shaking her head, though there was still a smile there, whether because of their conversation or because she had just offed two more robots. Strangely enough, this conversation was at least making her feel a little less shitty.

"Uh, because she's Ruffnut and has the attention span of a fucking brick?" Hit Girl said. "She's as bad with this stuff as I am, but I guess she just needed a...nudge."

"Hey, I'm sure you'll be a catch when you put on a few years too," Zetta said. "And so what if she has a short attention span? She's not that stupid when it comes to PEOPLE. Clearly it worked out just fine."

"Right, because what I need right now are hormones and my period!" She said taking a knife to a SAINT. "Like the fact that I'm a psycho isn't scary enough!"

That, and the boobs. She was REALLY going to have to tape them down. She didn't really picture herself beating down bad guys with C's getting in her way.

"Obviously I figured that out, or we wouldn't be where we are now! Besides, I'm the one who just has to get over saying 'girlfriend' and shit. Besides hand holding and all of the kissing, we still haven't changed, anymore than you two. That's the awesome thing about being friends first."

"Hey, next to that, the hormones and stuff should be no problem." Seriously, what was she gonna do, start swearing and stabbing things?

"Actually, Lash and I haven't managed to even talk about all of this. You know, rampaging robots really put a damper on a heart-to-heart somehow."

Yes, exactly, Overlord, but more! "I'll take your word for it. I keep hearing about sullen, droopy teenagers and I'm really trying to avoid that at all costs. That, and really not looking forward to my period either."

When that day came, there would be swearing. So much swearing.

"Nah, I can't imagine you'd have the time to do it to begin with. But take her out sometime and do some fun shit afterward. It'll be fun."

"You're already an emotional disaster, you shouldn't need to worry." Zetta meant that in the best possible way, honest. "Yeah, I'm gonna grab her and do... I dunno what. Figure out what all this means for us, first of all."

History suggested that they would both just shrug and keep doing what they were doing anyway, but still, this was kind of a big thing.

"Don't I know it," Hit Girl said, snickering as she gave the finishing touches to a group of robots fleeing the scene. "But the best thing is to just do what you guys are doing anyway. All that romance shit will come n its own, YOUR way. And that at least makes things less awkward."

Oh, poor robots were now scattering as she blew them away. "How did you NOT know at halloween anyway? We were holding hands and everything. I figured you would just be all 'I knew it a long time ago' or something."

"YOU guys didn't say anything official," Zetta said. He'd stopped bothering to fight, but his minions were doing the job for him as they mowed down as many robots as they possibly could. "I wasn't gonna say anything."

"YOU weren't going to say anything?" She had to stop for a moment and give him an amused look. "You, Mr. perv comments all the time, wasn't going to say anything? You'll forgive me if I don't keel over in shock."

By now, the robots were actually giving them a bit of berth.

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"No, I wasn't going to say anything," the book snapped. "The LAST thing I want is you guys having some sort of weird moment on me because I pointed it out. You've been dancing around it for weeks now without saying anything one way or the other, after all!"

"When has that ever stopped you before?" Hit Girl said, chasing the robots down and eliminating them one by one. "Besides, we figured with all of our hanging out and small cues, you'd know. I'm giving you the benefit that you already knew, are you really gonna get on my case for it?"

Apparently Hit Girl was a poor judge of who WOULD know already. She'd already made the mistake of figuring Ruffnut woudl ave known to tell Hana. THAT had ended up really annoying.

"You two are my disciples," Zetta said simply enough. He turned slightly to unleash his wrath on... on...

"Uh, hey, I think we cleared out that group of robots pretty well."

And despite there being no more robots around, it is actually this reason that stops Hit Girl dead in her tracks. No matter how much she argued and joked and needled him, she respected the Overlord for reasons she would never voice, and he told exactly why, of all people, he should have been the first to know.

"Oh. Well...yeah. Sorry about that. So me and Ruffnut are a couple. We'll still be awesome fighters, so don't expect anything super mushy, or that either of us will neglect anything! She and I will just be together."

And saying that, strangely enough, DID ease something in her, even with her dad's death (again).

"Yeah, well, I'm not happy about this whole 'Overlord team-up' thing you've got going on. It's not how things get done." The book exhaled. "But it works for you, so... whatever. It's not worth complaining about, to me, so long as that keeps happening."

"It works for now," Hit Girl said. "But that doesn't mean we won't be competing later. Hell, we compete NOW, even when we train. We just...happen to be living together and all."

Yeah, that didn't help.

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