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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, a reason no one else knew about!" Hit girl said, swinging one SAINT around in a circle and flinging him at another one, creating a pretty violent explosion. "You're not still pissed about Mr. boring guy, are you?"

"...Lash really likes him," Zetta said quietly and unusually seriously. He'd seen things... especially in her dreams.

Hit Girl was in full swing, breaking robots and moving so fast she couldn't really be detected, but despite this, she was really going to have to remind the Overlord of something.

"Dude, I don't know about all girls, just me," she said. "But who do you think makes more sense to be attracted to: the boring guy that was your commander, or the bad ass, scheming, strong guy that likes making as much of a mess as you do? It's kind of a no brainer."

"When the hell did 'sense' ever come into any of it?" Zetta demanded irritatedly. "Because Lash and me don't make sense to begin with. It took a series of ludicrous coincidences for it to happen! As opposed to this guy she has a long history with?"

"Oh shut up, there's plenty of sense! Just because you guys are fucking nuts and shoot everything doesn't mean things won't make sense! You guys were gonna admit you liked each other eventually. And what the hell, this guy just got on the ship! Who's Lash STILL spending more time with?"

"I'm like two thousand times her age, and she's a human girl," Zetta pointed out. "You really can't say that makes a lot of se -- hey! Whose relationship were we talking about here anyway?!"

Man, talking and fighting actually did take continued effort, but finally, Hit Girl managed to at least temporarily clear the area with Zetta's minions help.

"I said it made sense, I didn't say it wasn't goddamn weird. That's what makes the whole thing so fun: on paper it shouldn't work, it just does! And duh, we're taking about yours."

"Not originally!" He's on to you. Also he helped by blasting a couple of robots just as an afterthought. Needless to say he had forgotten to take the battle seriously. Something about vengeance and... yeah, this current discussion was much more important. "So you guys are definitely settled and not going to pretend any more, then?"

One soaring jump later, Hit girl crashed hard into a trip of robots, and one very loud explosion later, they were disposed of."

"Huh? Yeah, of course. She's my g-girlfriend."

It was still weird to say aloud though.

"...Jeez, even I can say that Lash is my girlfriend without stuttering." Though he would still reflexively deny it just out of pure habit for a while.

"Shut the hell up, I'm still getting used to it!" Hit Girl said, throwing a robot in the air. Seriously, she had never been with anyone, let alone a girl. "All these feeling is shit is usually just not a part of my deal! You of all people ought to get that!"

"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."

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