Darwin's Soldiers: Disruptive Selection

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #4960 on:** June 03, 2012, 11:49:36 PM

"A stereo?" Shelton repeated. "Well, you could probably find those in the same place we're going, the internal control room. It'll have a backup portable radio in case of power failure. I'm not sure what stations it'll pick up this deep in the base, but it will function."

MrDrake · **Reply #4961 on:** June 03, 2012, 11:54:27 PM

"Alright, that's good then....need a stereo for the fight against the AI. It is essential after all, otherwise, the whole fight's just going to be boring and dull and well....if it's going to happen like that....then I wont hang around if it's not interesting" Nixx answered back "So then, let's go" she spoke, motioning ahead.

Though, she did glance at Alfred as she whispered to Shelton "Is he okay? Looks like he's just going to explode soon"

Serris · **Reply #4962 on:** June 04, 2012, 08:26:46 AM

Neville lashed Alfred with his tail.

"Erm, yes, I'm fine!" Alfred blurted out. The fighting gloves he wore were still intact thanks to the fact that the metal was shielded by layers of heavy canvas.

"Anyone got a gun or something?" Neville asked.

Alfred ripped a pipe from the wall and tossed it to Neville. "Here, better than nothing."

Neville caught the pipe and shrugged. They'd have to get their guns elsewhere.

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The explosion blew a rather sizable hole in the roof. Luckily all the concrete amd steel weakened the blast so everyone was still alive but dazed

Dr. Zanasiu shook his head to clear it. "Everyone all right?" Suspecting the worse, he grabbed a sizable piece of concrete and prepared to toss it into the hole.

"What?" the Mongoose Cobalt soldier yelled, putting a hand to his ears.

Dr. Zanasiu pointed to the hole in th roof. The Mongoose Cobalt soldier unhooked a frag grenade from his belt, pulled the pin, held it tight so tjh timer wouldn't activate and got ready to toss it down the hole.

"Guys what the hell did you do!?" Gustave shouted from the ground floor.

"Something blew a hole in the roof!" the Mongoose Cobalt soldier shouted back.

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Sharon climbed out of the snack machine and dusted herself off. She could see a faint beam of sunlight through the dusty air. Even more remarkable was that she heard Dr. Zanasiu.

"James!" she shouted. "Aimee and I below you and responsible for the blast!"

(OOC - I assumed the control room to be like a bunker with snack machines, bathrooms etc. inside.)

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"Stop! Don't throw anything down the hole yet!" Dr. Zanasiu ordered. He placed his hunk of concrete as the Cobalt trooper slid the pin back into his grenade amd clipped it back on to his belt.

"Sharon! If it's you, get a ladder and open the security room door!" Dr. Zanasiu shouted down the hole.

StarfallRaptor · **Reply #4963 on:** June 05, 2012, 04:46:33 PM

Cale forced his way out of the rubble over him, his glass barriers cracked badly, but mostly intact as he clambered out of them, letting them shatter into dust moments later.
"Ah...James. Good to see you're well."
He said lazily, rolling his neck idly as Neku pushed a large shard of concrete off of his barrier.
"James! Good to see you're okay!"

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #4964 on:** June 06, 2012, 01:15:57 AM

Sharon dug through the rubble until she reached the supply closet, which she pried open using a long metal strip as a makeshift crowbar. She returned moments later lugging an extendable ladder.

As she propped it up, she kept it steady for the others to crawl down. She smiled as James' team descended, prepared to tell them all about defeating Death.

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"Awesome, let's move out then," nodded Shelton.

He led the way out of the armory, where Hawkeye, Kagetora, and Roux were still in tbe hallway. "New girl on the team, right up your alley," he said offhandedly toRoux before the others had entered the hallway.

Alfred watched Nixx as she left, entanced. Neville stepped in the way, frowning. "Are you going to turn completely useless for the rest of this?" he demanded.

Alfrwd shook his head once Nixx was gone. "I'm fine, don't worry," he breathed. "Just glad I wore my thick pants."

Neville winced and turned away in disgust. "Mammals..." he muttered, leaving the room.

MrDrake · **Reply #4965 on:** June 06, 2012, 03:34:13 AM

Nixx just hummed away to herself as she headed off ahead of the others, not really slowing down to even wait for them, or even let them catch up at the moment. Though, as she had headed off ahead, she turned a corner and had vanished for a few moments, or so it had seemed.....until she was seen being pushed back by one of the flying robots.

Though, in what seemed to be a blink of an eye, Nixx sprouted her angelic wings again, along with her metal fists as she pushed against the robot "Hey, question for you, how many awesome beings does it take to defeat a bunch of metalheads, such as yourself hmm?" she asked the robots.

"Well, if I did my math correctly, it's suppose to be one of me, a bunch of you lot....give or take like, twenty or thirty" Nixx spoke, as if she was just making up numbers along the way "Carry the one....and...." she paused for a moment "Ah forget it" and in turn, she flew just up by a few inches and slammed her fist down onto the back of the robot's head, causing said robot to just slam into the ground instead "The answer anyway, is just one" she added in, folding her arms underneath her breasts again as she landed back onto the ground, as if she wasn't even taking anything all that seriously.

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Aimee coughed somewhat as she waved her hand in front of herself in order to get rid of some of the smoke clouds that were still present "Well, at least it worked" she spoke as she stood back up again.

Zyanya too, stood back up as she just glanced around at what had happened before her eyes fell upon the others "Let me guess, more friends?" she asked both Aimee and Sharon in particular about James and the others that had shown up.

StarfallRaptor · **Reply #4966 on:** June 06, 2012, 06:39:47 PM

As another robot closed in on the group, Roux flickered out of view, appearing above the robot and diving down onto it, slamming it into the ground and driving a knife into the top of it, sparks flying everywhere as she flipped off of it, landing next to Shelton.
"Heh. You know I'm taken, Shelly. I think I'll let Alfred have this one~"
She teased gently, twirling her knives lightly...
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Cale was the first one up the ladder, rolling his neck and grinning at the group.
"Well, looks like we found you."
He said idly...

Nick22 · **Reply #4967 on:** June 06, 2012, 07:21:30 PM

Aisha was helping to clear some of the debris from the roof and toss it into a pile..
pity we don't have a jackhammer or anything like that ' hopefully the others are ok..She added " we'll be joining up with them soon..

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #4968 on:** June 07, 2012, 02:10:42 AM

Alfred beaned the final robot with his lead pipe. "Hah!" He glanced to see if Nixx had been watching. She hadn't.

Shelton stopped cowering behind Hawkeye. "All right, we can keep moving then?" he said, almost a question.

"It seems like the waves are getting closer together the deeper we penetrate," Neville noted.

"Understandable," Alfred twirled his pipe. "We are really gonna need some guns though."

As the team walked, Shelton noticed that Nixx was lugging a particularly heavy bag, though it didn't seem to burden her. "So...just wondering, but what exactly is in the bag?" he asked, trying to gauge their new teammate a little better.

MrDrake · **Reply #4969 on:** June 07, 2012, 02:21:38 AM

(ooc: The bag isn't exactly heavy, nor all that big, like in a way, a bag that say, Cole wears from the game inFamous....not sure what sort of bag that's ccalled)

Nixx glanced at Shelton when he asked his question, ignoring the whole comment about the robots for the time being as she bought up a finger, pulling her bag around to her front "That's simple really, but to know what's in it, you gotta know that me and Zyanya were in the south part of America, whatever it's called. Anyway, came from there, took a few things and that's what's in my bag"

And in turn, Nixx opened it up to show nothing but syringes in it, most of them filled with different coloured liquids. Though some were empty, as if they had aslready been used "Yeah, found there liquid like stuff in these.....things and had to take them.....but I don't even know what's in any of them, but apparantly, one gave me my wings, and then another gave me my metal hands" she spoke, as if she was trying to point out that she had just been taking any of the syringes and injecting herself with it, without knowing what was in it.

She thought for a moment and pulled out out, one with red liquid in it and handed it to Shelton "Here, you might find it useful, could give you something awesome like, horns, or claws, or turn you into a llama....or it might not even do anything, but hey, only one way to find out" she mused, her angelic wings finally pulling back into her back.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #4970 on:** June 07, 2012, 05:53:14 PM

Despite getting a sudden flashback to his college years, Shelton merely took the offered red syringe and did not immediately jab it into his arm. "Maybe later," he suggested. "Since we have no idea what it'll do, I want to be in guaranteed top condition for the upcoming mission."

He was intrigued by the notion that this girl had jabbed herself full of syringes and apparently wasn't dead. He resolved to do some testing on the syringe he had been given once he had the opportunity, perhaps after this New Peenemunde business.

"So, these syringes, you just injected yourself, and developed mutations?" he asked. "Were the effects immediate? No complications? Did you prepare any sort of preemptive health or safety precautions?"

MrDrake · **Reply #4971 on:** June 07, 2012, 06:12:58 PM

"Nah, you know how it is, you see these needle things full of liquid stuff, get curious as to what's in it and then wham, you jab yourself with it, injecting the stuff into your body and find out that way" Nixx replied back, though with a light smile upon her face.

"Besides, it's like I had said before, what better way to find out what's in the stuff than to just go right ahead and jab yourself with it?" she asked rather rhetorically.

Serris · **Reply #4972 on:** June 08, 2012, 04:35:05 PM

[Surface Levels]

(Roof)

"Yeah, the door was in our way," Dr. Zanasiu said. "Now can you please move aside so the rest of my team can descend?"

He then saw Sharon. "Sharon! Open the main doors!" he shouted.

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(Control Room)

Sharon did so, vaulting over a fallen robot as she slapped the button to open the main doors, which creaked as they slid open. "James! Tell the others to enter through the main door - they're open!" she shouted up into the hole on the rood.

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(Roof)

Dr. Zanasiu nodded. "Gustave! Take everyone else and enter through the main doors, they're open!"

"Thanks!" Gustave shouted back.

"Anyways," Dr. Zanasiu continued as he wiped some sweat off his forehead. "What did you find here?"

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[Lower levels]

Alfred frowned. "The last time I stuck a syringe in my arm, I nearly died!"

"Don't tell me you're a drug user!" he blurted out

"Look, I was like fifteen when I did that okay! You do stupid s--- when you're a teenager!"

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #4973 on:** June 11, 2012, 12:29:03 AM

"Sounds like a fun experiment...once we're out of this whole situation. If I developed something like magnetism, I would be signing my own death warrant."

They'd reached the security room. Shelton dug around in the supply drawers until he unearthed a small satellite radio, which he threw over his shoulder in Nixx's general direction.

Neville had already brought the computer system out of sleep. "So, Shelton, what can you do here that you couldn't do back where we started?" he asked.

"Nothing..." Shelton walked over and pulled a tab. A huge portion of blank wall opened up to reveal a view into an expansive chamber. "...except this."

The chamber was huge and circular, with machines dotting the walls, and some sort of massive creature was being constructed in the back. More importantly, Bailey's team was standing in the center. Soundwave was pointing a massive rifle at them.

Alfred whistled in surprise. "What are we going to do?" he exclaimed.

"Don't worry, the glass is one-way; they have no idea we're here," Shelton assured, missing the point of what Alfred asked.

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Crota narrowed his eyes. "We'll just have to kill you first!" Quickly drawing his pistol, he blasted a whole round of bullets at Soundwave.

"All right, doc," he said under his breath, "first we ice the robot, then we deal with the serpent before it's finished. If you can't fight, find something electrical to do to help!" Dropping prone, he prepared to dodge any retaliatory fire from Soundwave.

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Sharon flung her arms around James. "It was amazing! Death didn't stand a chance! We flamed him and electrified him and he ran for his life!"

Seized by the moment, she bent forward and kissed her love passionately.

(OOC: Just looked back and noticed that 'Bailey's team' literally consists of just him and Crota. Apparently Alfred teleported back to Shelton's team at some point.)

MrDrake · **Reply #4974 on:** June 11, 2012, 12:43:28 AM

Nixx caught the radio and immediatly, she started to play around with it, turning it on for a faint signal before she tapped it and walked over to Shelton, placing her arm on her shoulder "So, that's it?" she asked, finally pointing out that she was looking at Soundwave in particular, though not sounding all that impressed.

***

Soundwave stood there as the bullets were fired at him, yet, seemed to just have no effect on him at all as he aimed his rifle at Dr. Bailey before he fired a single shot at him.

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Nixx continued to watch on with what was going on "Yeah, they're probabally going to die at this rate, I mean, look at that thing, they can't even damage him" she noted as she reached into her bag and pulled out a syringe of her own, looking at the liquid in it, then back at Soundwave again....as if she was already thinking of injecting herself with the syringe she was holding.

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #4975 on:** June 11, 2012, 02:08:15 AM

"Well, that's why we're here; to give them a fighting chance." Shelton withdrew the mechanical eye from his pocket and located a receptor. "Let's give Soundwave out two cents," he said, plugging it in.

The computers in the room unlocked and gave the group access.

"Alfred, we need James' group for backup. Use the third console on the left to light up the hallways that'll lead them to Soundwave.

No answer. Shelton glanced over. "Alfred! Put your eyes back in your head and help out!"

Alfred snapped his gaze away from Nixx's chest. "Sorry!" He walked to where Shelton directed, but couldn't understand the controls.

Shelton sighed and did it himself.

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Suddenly, a door lit up in James' room. A mechanical intercom voice announced, "Open Sesame, signed Shelton!"

Masters walked over and opened it. The hallway led to a three-junction where only the lights to the far left were on.

"Follow the Yellow-Lit Road, love Shelton!" the voice cheerfully announced.

MrDrake · **Reply #4976 on:** June 11, 2012, 02:20:32 AM

"Well, you do that then, while I do this...." Nixx spoke and without any other warning, injected the liquid into her neck from the syringe. But after a few moments, nothing had happened, no new powers, nothing.

She looked at the now empty syringe and sighed in a bit of annoyance "A dud" she groaned and tossed it over her shoulder "Ah well, you win some you loose some" she shrugged in the end and turned the music on the radio up, the song being "What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction as she walked over to Alfred. She looked him over for a moment and seemed to just get an idea as she looked over to where Soundwave was again, then back to Alfred once again "Speaking of which...." she leaned into him some what.

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Aimee's ears twitched at the voice "Love....Shelton? Really?" she had to question, as if she was a bit unconvinced that it really was Shelton's doing.

"Let me guess, it's that machine you're wanting to fight? Like the....how you say..." Zyanya paused for a moment, trying to think of the word she was after "The big machine-like creature? The boss of this place....that AI thing you're all talking about"

(ooc: And no, I don't like that song, it annoys me since I hear it all the time....I just figured Nixx would like a song like that is all XD)

Serris · **Reply #4977 on:** June 12, 2012, 03:11:27 AM

Dr. Zanasiu returned the passionate kiss. The two seemed oblivious to everything until a buzzing rattle interrupted them.

The two then looked at the source to reveal a somewhat upset looking Sgt. Masters. "I know you two probably are probably in the mood for 'glad to be alive' sex but we have a mission to do," he said, pointing to the hallway that was now lit up.

The door creaked open and Zachary and Gustave entered.

"So what's the plan?" Zachary asked as he unslung his rifle and got ready.

Gustave unslung his shotgun and checked to see if it was loaded. "Kick some ass."

Dr. Zanasiu unslung his shotgun and checked it to see if it was loaded. "Hold it Gustave, we're not kicking ass until we're all ready."

Sharon looked at her empty shotgun. "Erm, ammo?"

Dr. Zanasiu tossed her a few shotgun shells, which she quickly slid into her gun.

Zachary noticed a door that said "armory". "Shouldn't we raid the armory for some firepower before we go help Shelton?"

"I'll meet you down the hallway," Gustave said as he headed down the lit hallway.

Dr. Zanasiu shrugged.

Zachary then found a key inside a drawer and unlocked it. Much to his surprise, the armory had been stripped bare. Only some rifle magazines - which didn't fit his gun and a box of shotgun shells were visible. He stripped the bullets from the magazines and pocketed them and handed the shells to Sharon.

"All right," Sgt. Masters said with a frown. "Let's move! And hope Gustave doesn't get to Shelton first."

Dr. Zanasiu looked at everyone in the room. "All ready?" he asked.

Zachary, the Mongoose Cobalt soldier, Sgt. Masters and Sharon nodded.

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As soon as Dr. Bailey saw the rifle aimed at him, he dove behind a crate full of assorted electrical components. In the process, he slid on the slick floor and crashed into the crate.

He looked around for something to use when he spotted a laptop computer nearby. Reaching over to it, he crouched down behind cover and booted it up. He gave a silent cheer as it booted up and immediately went to the desktop. He plugged his memory stick in and waited for the mixture of malware he concocted to execute. He hoped that it would cripple or outright destroy Soundwave. His jaw dropped when the message revealed that the memory stick was corrupted - and now useless.

MrDrake · **Reply #4978 on:** June 12, 2012, 03:27:42 AM

Soundwave fired his nano rifle again in an attempt to hit Dr. Bailey, but so far, missed each shot. He watched as Dr. Bailey got to a laptop and loaded up something onto it as Soundwave aimed his rifle and fired another shot....in order to destroy the laptop.

He had succeed in doing so, but was too late to stop the virus as it already started to spread through the mainframe. Though at first, nothing seemed to be different until he found his Rhino suit starting to play up, though it only lasted momentarily for the time being as he dropped the rifle and instead, aimed his right write in Dr. Bailey's direction as a rocket popped up, trailled on him before he fired it.

His attention then turned to Crota as he switched weapons, since his only rocket had been used up and instead, from his shoulders, two machine guns pulled out from it and already, he unloaded a round onto him before all bullets were exhausted.

That was when he turned the other strange machine that was present behind him, inserting his fists into it and in turn, two cables shot out and attached themselves to Soundwave's shoulders. Moments later, he removed his fists as the two cables retracted back into the machine again to which he returned his attention back onto Dr. Bailey and Crota, another rocket appearing from his right wrist, as if he had reloaded his weapons.

(ooc: Yes, that's what his machine is used for, in order to help Soundwave to reload. And don't worry, the virus is slowly affecting Soundwave too, though not straight away)

aabicus (LettuceBacon&Tomato) · **Reply #4979 on:** June 12, 2012, 11:39:13 PM

Alfred got uncomfortable at Nixx's close range. "...what?" he asked.

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Crota rolled backwards, but he still took the brunt of the machine gun fire. Luckily his body armor withstood the non-armor piercing rounds.

However, he was in no position to return fire. He felt like he had bruises along his entire spine.

"Bailey!" he hissed. "Get out of here! Save yourself..."

He hoisted his pistol to cover his ally when a rust turret blasted his pistol. It crumbled into rust particles in his grasp.

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Shelton glanced with worry at the situation in the main room.

He had no way of knowing whether Soundwave relied on visual sensors, so he couldn't risk cutting the lights. Instead, he turned on the industrial sprinklers, dousing all three combatants in the room. He then glanced at what was on the floor above them.

A series of conveyor belts that delivered engines to the shipyard.

"Nixx, Alfred," he said, spinning around. "Anyone else who's interested. I need somebody to go up into the catwalks in that room and blow some holes in the ceiling. If you get the hole right above Soundwave or other vital targets, i can dump hundreds of tons of machinery on his head repeatedly."