Aim to Win [Closed, pre Beyond the Sea Plot]

[thewunderkind]

The excitement of the poddrop had died down after a few days and Lash found herself back to her usual routine on the ship. It was rather amazing how much she could manage to do each 'day', from working in the labs, to shop management to training in the sensoriums. Truthfully, everything served to keep her occupied, which was an excellent thing--if Lash ever got bored anywhere it was a sure setup for a disaster of terrible repercussions. Probably explosive ones. Speaking of which...

"Fire! Fire!"

One of the ship's sensoriums was now being taken by her as she played it wisely and used it to tested out various prototypes before building them. They'd come out with a lot of robot parts to build thanks to SHODAN's rampage, and she was going to make the most use of what she'd gotten. With a typical Lash twist and flare, of course.

The soldier obeyed and fired the first cannon with a button press, the cannonball flying out and landing far away. Lash kept tabs using a CO pad, analyzing how the prototype fared. Upon landing, the cannonball opened itself up amongst the surprised enemy soldiers and turned into a small robot with turrets built on each side.

"Tee hee! It works, it works! Now, if I adjust the energy here, I should be able to build a small army, and that would be useful to aid during away missions..."

As she was about to approve it, the robot exploded. Soldiers, trees, dirt and burnt robot pieces flew into the air, landing close by.

"Oh oops! Hmmm...better not put that much energy into that one. The crew could lose a few arms and legs like that!" She said it with such a calm voice too, even if she was speaking to no one but herself and the nearby soldiers. With a small flick, she brushed off a piece of cracked robot, and began another prototype test.

Just another typical day for a wunderkind.

Comments

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Quietly -- how unusual for Zetta! -- the Overlord stepped into the Sensorium. Behind him, a massive labyrinth of armor, shields, traps, gun emplacements, tripwires, pungi pits, and general death and dismemberment appeared behind a sign that cautioned those who might nose their way in to "STAY THE HELL OUT!"

This needed no interruptions.

"Hey."

[thewunderkind]

Lash was totally cool watching them jump into the water, right into the Kraken's waiting mouth.

"I didn't think they feared me THAT much." She looked up at her chair. "Although I guess that probably helps a lot, tee hee hee!" She looked over at the other ship which mostly had confused prinnies and nothing else. "Maybe we should populate it more. Just so there's a proper battle."

[hit_girl_mindy]

There was little that would have convinced Hit Girl to go and start bothering someone during their Sensorium session. For Hit Girl, she had been enough out of commission with training that she wasn't about to go and waste her time with getting to learn about someone and their weird Sensorium fantasies.

Until of course, she saw the sign telling her to keep up. Really, that might as well have been telling her to push the red button. She needed to do this, simply for the joy of defying whoever the hell it was trying to keep her out.

One look at the traps and danger and pits? There wasn't a doubt in her mind who had put this together. As far as she knew, no one (s?) was this over the top and crazy unless it was the Overlord and Lash, and that alone was enough to get her to want to get through this. It crossed her mind this was likely a test to see if she could get through the traps, and she kept this in her mind as she side swiped, jumped, kicked and generally got bloody and dirty as she moved on. There were a few close calls, and certainly she'd need someone to attend to the wounds, but finally she reached the end, panting and exhausted and certainly tussled but grinnin.

She still had it.

[thewunderkind]

"Well that was certainly something," Lash said when it was all said and done. She tossed her bowl of popcorn behind her and cracked her hands loudly.

A bunch of new traps sprung up from the entrance of the sensoriums to replace the others. If they had managed to come in, it meant they needed to be even deadlier.

"You really taught them a lesson I bet they'll never forget." Now that they were alone again, she could joke about it a bit.

The Prinnies still had no idea what they should do not. Go back to shooting and get accused of making noise? Stay there and get accused of doing nothing? Fall into the sea and just explode?