Darwin's Soldiers: Disruptive Selection

MrDrake · **Reply #4800 on:** February 20, 2012, 03:16:25 AM

Aimee had finally arrived at her destination, waiting around for the others to show up when she heard her name being called. Her head turned to see Neville and in turn, she walked over to him "Hey, thanks for doing this for me. Good to see you again too" she nodded to him "And please, do not ask how my plane trip was either, I'd rather not experience all of that all over again. To put it bluntly, getting through the metal detectors, then on a plane, having to sit next to a Harry Potter nerd, getting into an arguement with said nerd about why Picard from Star Trek, would be better suited to be in charge of Hogwarts than....whoever took over when both Dumbledore and Snape died....and I'd rather not repeat said arguement again"

She then let off a goan as she rubbed her forehead slightly at that "But other than that, as well as killing War, watching my best friend die in front of my eyes, killing another Dragonstorm-related asshole and taking his mechanical eye....yeah, I'm just peachy...."

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #4801 on:** February 20, 2012, 10:50:29 PM

"That sounds really bad," Neville agreed. "Well, be glad its over."

He pulled off of the curb and headed back for the hotel. After a brief pause, "...so, did Picard win, or...?"

"Neville," warned one of the people from the back seat, he didn't turn back to see which. He quickly took their hint.

After a few minutes of driving, he picked up Sharon, Shelton, and James from an empty field on the side of the road.

"Aimee!" exclaimed Shelton, as he crawled into the car. "You're back!"

Sharon smiled, masking the fact that she was put off by the robotic arms. "Umm, hello. Have we met?"

(OOC:I think Sharon joined the team at the same time Aimee went AWOL, at Crimson Base. Not positive though.)

Nick22 · **Reply #4802 on:** February 21, 2012, 11:31:59 PM

Nice to see an friend ' aisha said welcoming Aimee to the fold. ' lets head outr and go see Gustave, shall we

Serris · **Reply #4803 on:** February 23, 2012, 11:20:08 PM

"Aimee, if you want, you can stay in my room," Neville said as he parked the SUV at the hotel. He then tossed her a spare key card.

Alfred got into the SUV with Aisha, Zachary and Dr. Zanasiu.

Sharon exited and introduced herself to Aimee.

(OOC - Sharon did indeed join after Aimee went AWOL.)

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #4804 on:** February 24, 2012, 05:25:34 PM

Shelton quickly left the SUV. He had no intention of seeing Gustave before he had to.

"Everyone, we're off to see Gustave," announced Zachary.

Masters followed Mongoose to the car, until he noticed Crota wasn't following. "Crota?"

"I don't think I'm coming," Crota said, glancing at the bacon tray which had just been refilled. "I never liked the guy, and he tried to kill me back at Deadwood."

"Specialist," Masters warned, "he's a member of our team, and you are coming with us to check on him."

"Don't tell me what to do, Mitchell," Crota snapped back.

"As commander, it's my job to tell you what to do. Move it, now it's an order!"

So Crota slithered to the van, but he didn't look happy about it.

Nick22 · **Reply #4805 on:** February 29, 2012, 07:15:44 PM

I'd like to know how the heck Gustave managed to survive" landon said " he had very serious injuries."
Roux must have gotten him to the hospital just in time" aisha replied as they waited for the rest of the group to hjoin them..

Serris · **Reply #4806 on:** March 02, 2012, 02:27:29 PM

In a few minutes, they had arrived at Platanna Town Medical Center.

Neville parked the SUV and entered the hospital with his group. He spoke to the tired looking receptionist.

"We're here to see Gustave Chiumbo," he said.

The receptionist nodded and pressed the intercom.

A few minutes later, the door to the patient floors opened.

Alfred was the first to enter. He dodged around a nurse carrying some medicines as he went to the room that was mentioned.

There he found Gustave laying in bed reading a raunchy magazine. An IV was in his left arm and his face was covered in bandages. His muscular chest and stomach had several small stitches from where they tried to repair his internal injuries (laproscopic surgery was really a wonder of modern medicine).

Gustave put down his magazine and smiled, revealing several missing teeth. "Al! I was wondering if you'd come back to see me!"

Alfred sat on a chair. "How in the blue f--- did you survive!?"

Gustave chuckled. "I beat the s--- out of the Grim Reaper! Seriously though, we Crocodiles heal quickly and are pretty much immune to infection. But even then, the doctors said another minute and I would have died."

Zachary shook his head. "Gustave, you make Rasputin look like a wimp."

"So when can you leave?" Alfred asked.

Gustave scratched the end of his snout. "Probably today."

MrDrake · **Reply #4807 on:** March 02, 2012, 02:40:20 PM

(Hotel)

Aimee shrugged "To answer your question, I'd rather not get back into any sort of arguement over the whole Harry Potter and Star Trek ordeal, don't want to get another arguement started....so you know what? Sure, why no, let's just say that Picard won" she groaned slightly as she grabbed onto the spare keycard.

Her attention did turn to Sharon next as she nodded to her slightly "Yeah, nice to meet you too, I take it you join us when I wasn't around? Cause I hadn't seen you before is all"

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #4808 on:** March 02, 2012, 04:44:19 PM

"I survived Southport with Dr. Anne Williams," smiled Sharon, "but I'd known these people for a long time before that. I used to work at Pelvanida with James."

She motioned to the hotel. "I can introduce you to Dr. Williams; she's a little shy, and I'm trying to make her some friends among the team. Come with me!"

Shelton had already left the parking lot and returned to the breakfast room. "Dr. Bailey, can I speak to you in private?" he asked.

Serris · **Reply #4809 on:** March 04, 2012, 03:30:20 AM

Dr. Bailey nodded and followed Shelton to his room.

There he sat down on the luggage rack. "So, Shelton," he said, "what do you want to talk about?"

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(Platanna Town Medical Center)

Spc. Crota slithered in. Gustave gave a dirty look to the Rattlesnake.

The soldier was unphased. "Glad to see you're still intact." An insincere smile was on his face.

Gustave didn't notice or if of he did, he didn't care

MrDrake · **Reply #4810 on:** March 04, 2012, 03:49:19 AM

Aimee nodded back "Sure, that sounds like, well, at least something" she started as she followed Sharon. Yet, she also decided to bring up something else as well "And...I saw you looking at my arms, I take it that you're just wondering what had happened?" she paused for a moment "I usually try not to talk about it, since the others more or less know what had happened, but I suppose I still can relate the story at least once more to yourself"

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #4811 on:** March 04, 2012, 05:05:57 AM

Sharon raised her eyebrows. She could tell Aimee was trusting her with a sensitive story. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to stare. They look...really nice."

She paused awkwardly. They were outside Anne's room, but she wanted to give time for Aimee to tell her story. "So how did it happen?"

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Shelton produced a handheld video camera from his pant pocket. He ejected a small datachip and handed it to Bailey. "Back at Pelvanida you were always better at the long boring stuff than me. First of all I need your help tracking down the location of the final Dragonstorm base--"

<Oil rig off the coast of New Jersey, latitude 39, longitude -73,> ROSS reported. <Why are you talking to this guy?>

Shelton faltered temporarily. "--I'd never heard the location myself. Once we find it, we need to open a direct comm to all of their computers and networked televisions--"

<Just compiled a list of their firewall passwords,> ROSS said. <I emailed it to the hotmail account you made in college. You still use that, right?>

"--and finally, we need to broadcast the contents of this chip across the base, so everyone sees it," Shelton finished, looking exasperatedly at nothing in particular.

<Haven't you suddenly become Mr. Helpful?> he sent to ROSS, keeping his thought-voice down.

<I'm trying to speed things along,> ROSS replied. <Our next stop is New Peenemunde. I want to get to New Peenemunde.>

MrDrake · **Reply #4812 on:** March 04, 2012, 05:18:54 AM

Aimee did hessitate at first before nodding to Sharon "Alright, long story short about them, I was taken away, put onto an operating table, had my other arms removed and replaced with these....which aren't as bad now. But anyway, why they were replaced, my real best guess is that it was just al for science, I guess they wanted to see if it could be done or not, replacing arms with cybernetic arms that is"

Though she did let off a light little laugh at that "Well, I guess you could say that it did work....I mean okay, I didn't exactly enjoy it....that and well, I was awake for the whole damn thing too, images are still in my mind and all that. But good thing too is that one of the ones responsible, along with the whole lab, has been taken care of" she then paused for a moment "But there is still another that is still alive that does need to be taken care of before anything else does happen. My best guess is that we'll be seeing her in the final push against Dragonstorm, whenever that will be" she shrugged in the end.

She glanced at the door, then to Sharon again and nodded to her slightly "But yeah, that's what had happened to me in a nutshell, not counting what else I've been through when I went AWOL to rescue my friend....which ended up failing in the end" she sighed a bit as well before just shaking the thought out of her mind.

Nick22 · **Reply #4813 on:** March 04, 2012, 11:12:13 PM

Let me guess" Roux teleported in you just in time to save you" Landon said to Gustave, he was missing close to a doen teeth, but crocodiles were famous for growing new teeth when they lost teeth which was pretty often.. " we honestly thought you were dead Gustave" aishga said looking at him. the bangages and closed wounds made her stomach turn..

Serris · **Reply #4814 on:** March 06, 2012, 03:15:30 AM

(Platanna Town Medical Center)

Gustave drank some water from the cup sitting on his tray. "Well, Roux's teleportion probably saved my life." He then frowned. "But if she expects me to repay her with a good f---; I will seriously hurt her." He had not forgotten about Roux's ravenous sexual appetite.

Spc. Crota tried to leave the room but Sgt. Masters forbade him from doing so as it would seem disrespectful.

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(Unnamed Platanna Town hotel)

Dr. Bailey nodded as he booted up his computer and inserted the data chip. "Assuming it's like the ones at Pelvanida, the base databanks are not connected to the internet. However, as information is being recieved and sent via secure lines, I may be able to break in if I had the passwords."

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #4815 on:** March 06, 2012, 04:11:10 AM

"I was...able to get those before I left," Shelton said. "Just log into..." he flushed red with embarrassment. "Uh..."

<doctorwhoandsheltontoo@hotmail.com,> ROSS helpfully reminded him. <Bailey has a thought chip, right? I'll just tell him.>

<Stay out of this!> "Lemme do it," Shelton said, leaning over Bailey and bringing up hotmail. "Don't look."

After a few minutes he had the passwords in Notepad. "There. Is that what you were looking for?"

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"That's horrible!" Sharon gasped. "I'm sorry for what's happened. Don't worry, if they're working with Dragonstorm, James won't let them away unpunished. They've taken too many of our friends and from us."

Sharon knocked on Anne's door and waited patiently for an answer. "You'll love Anne, she's really nice," she whispered to Aimee, smiling.

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"So, uhhh...Gustave, are you going to come with us to New Peenemunde?" Crota asked, trying to sound friendly. "We're heading there next to put a rogue AI in its place."

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #4816 on:** March 07, 2012, 12:34:28 AM

Upon hearing a knock at her door, Dr. Williams quickly made sure she looked at least halfway decent before answering.

"Good morning, ladies. What brings you here?" Dr. Williams asked nicely.

Nick22 · **Reply #4817 on:** March 07, 2012, 12:54:37 AM

Lets just say gustave that roux has decided to pursue a more monogamous lifesytle from now on Aisha said " so no need to worry about her trying to get freaky with you..you just worry about getting better so we can put dragonstorm out of commission for good.,..

MrDrake · **Reply #4818 on:** March 07, 2012, 12:56:53 AM

"Heh yeah, well, when I see Trinity again....she is dead" Aimee added in, fists clenched for a moment before relaxing them again as she looked to Anne whom had answered the door.

"You must be Anne I take it?" Aimee asked, looking at her "I take it too, that you joined the group when I wasn't around? As I don't believe I saw you with the group before"

(ooc: At least, I'm sure that's correct anyway, I can't recall if Anne and Aimee had already met or if Ann joined after Aimee had gone AWOL, like Sharon had)

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #4819 on:** March 07, 2012, 11:37:28 PM

"Yes, that's me. And no, I don't believe we've met yet," Dr. Williams replied, extending her right hand for a handshake.