[GROUP-FIC] Rise Of The Machines - THE END

[mr_rubbish]

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Ok, this is a little experiment as I haven't done a semi-serious group-fic before (or written about androids (or read any of DeathScytheAlpha's fics http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif )).

ALL are welcome as long as they read the guidelines below.

1. Do NOT talk about fight club.

2. Spam is to be kept to an absolute minimum. It must only be about story issues and only contributors can spam as long as it is *Absolutely Necessary*. (Kadou I'm looking at you here.)

3. Do not do anything that would disrupt the flow of the story, like killing another contributor's character without their permission, introducing magic potions or altering the fabric of time and space.

4. Comments should be separated from story in your posts by underscores e.g. ______________________________.

5. Mono/Di/TriMates and Resta are not all powerful magic healing things. They will only help with minor wounds or make serious wounds less so. Moon atomisers will only be useful in the event that the deceased's body has not been fatally wounded (else they will revive only to die about a second later).

6. If you are unsure about joining in, don't be! Just introduce your character(s) in the backround and when you have built up enough confidence it should be easy to have them meet up with the main characters in a coincidental fashion.

7. This group-fic is semi-serious, this means there is humour but not silliness (Unlike "Welcome To Ragol (http://www.pso-world.com/viewtopic.php?topic=66563&forum=12&510)").

8. Above all Have Fun!!!! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

9. ...And whatever you do, no matter how much they plead, no matter how much they beg, never ever feed them after midnight...

PS This group-fic will (hopefully) run parallel with whatever group-fic is spawned by this thread (http://www.pso-world.com/viewtopic.php?topic=75685&forum=12&44)


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[mr_rubbish]

Rise Of The Machines


Rachet craned his head back to take in the high vaulted roof of the dimly lit room they had just entered. He let out a low whistle of appreciation. He nudged his RAcast companion with his elbow.

"Hey Clank. Check out that architecture eh? Can you imagine it? We're some of the first Coralans to ever step foot into this place."

"I do not need to imagine it. We are here now."

Rachet sighed loudly. "Looks like your 'figure-of-speech' chip is busted. Well enough chat, lets make history!"

The RAmar took a few steps foreward but paused at a juddering sound coming from behind him. He turned to see Clank in mid-stride shaking.

"Does not Compute!"

"What doesn't compute? We're in the ruins of an ancient civilisation buried over a kilometre below the surface. Thats not a normal everyday situation you know."

Clank stopped shaking and straightened up.

"I MUST KILL -"

Rachet took a few steps back, alarmed at the android's outburst.

"Whoa buddy! Are you okay?"

"Illegal input! I must return to Pioneer Two for repairs." With that final statement, Clank spun around and stomped off back towards the entrance of the ruins.

Rachet scratched his head. He had never seen Clank act like that before. He turned again to look in the vast room. From somewhere beyond came back the alien shriek of something clearly not friendly.

"Wait up!" Called out the RAmar running hurriedly after his distant partner.

[Garanz2]

I don't think we've quite decided on the next group fic yet. Still, I'll join in if this takes off.

[mr_rubbish]

Woohoo! 2 posts in and already we have spam http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif (j/k)

But I am always amused by people who say they will join in if others do, the others are waiting to, so no one posts.

I've had THREE group fics fail like that! Come on Garanz! Don't be afraid!

[Garanz2]

That wasn't spam. That was me expressing my opinion. Oh well, might as well type some stuff up. Bye bye chemistry coursework, I will see you in hell.

I'm also going to try using one of my new characters. Meet Antitank everyone! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif Page 1 of the character bank if you want a description.

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As Ratchet and Clank turned round and headed out of the ruins, Antitank sighed. She wasn't afraid of strange noises or malfunctional fellow droids. This was an important mission, with a massive meseta reward at the end. She wasn't about to put her tail between her legs and run. Antitank drew her twin daggers, smiled as the blades activated, and stretched her arms. If this place was anything like the mines, there would be plenty of combat ahead. Combat was fun, especially if she was winning.

The entire area was slightly hazy, and Antitank detected various minimally harmful chemicals in the air. For the umpteenth time since she became an android she realised what a blessing a lack of sense of smell could be.

The walls of the small room were coated in strange designs and glyphs. Neither Antitank nor her orange Sato bothered to try to translate them as she strode confidently into the first corridor. Everything was silent, apart from the slight humming of her daggers.

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I'll leave it there for now. I suppose more than just a lone HUcaseal would be venturing into the ruins. I'll expand on that once I know who's participating and who isn't.

[KaFKa]

are we going to run this parallel to the rest of the group fics? oh well, im implementing the little subplot from all the small things...
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Mome sat in his thronelike chair, petting his small white cat. The room closely resembled Tyrell's office, but with a sinister aura about it. He looked to his left to see Yaski sitting down on the ground holding her Yaskimov7000. He then looked to the right and saw one of his 'agents' standing with his arms crossed, the RAcast was painted in pitch black stealth paint.

"Black paper, Kafka is here sir" sounded on his small com device

"Send him in."

A red and black HUcast, eight feet tall, walked in, purple bood still dripping from his hands.

"Have you completed your mission, Kafka?"

The android kneeled down and bowed his head

"Yes, master. All rappies have been terminated. from the lowly rag rappy to the elusive love rappy."

"And what of the infected del rappy?"

"Terminated" He said, raising his hands and showing the putrid purple blood.

"Eeeeeeeeexelent" Mome said, with a broad smile.

"What is my next mission, master?"

"You are to escort Yaski into the ruins and find my, 'parcel' it should be in the engine room, since that is where my agent last sent its transmission"

"ERROR! DOES NOT COMPUTE!" Kafka twitched, sparks and electricity shooting out momentarily.

"What?" Mome said, taking on a confused look. Yaski stood quickly and got in between her master and Kafka.

"MUST KILL-"

Intantly the 'agent' drew its Justy and opened fire, the bullets bouncing off of his advanced plating.

"MuSt SeE MaStEr-"

Yaski opened fire as well, making many dents and dings on Kafka's armor, and grabbing hold of Mome.

"I'll just play dead for now" With that, mome went lifeless and limp.

"MaStEr CaLlS FoR mE-" Kafka stood and turned, walking out of the room.

Mome came out of his catatonic state and sat back down.

"Secretary, i want every agent not doing delicate operations to hunt down Kafka, now...."

[Sagasu]

Im game, hope we can get some origional ideas cooked up soon.

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Janet yelled and jumped aside as the glowing blade of the creature struck through empty space.

"Come on you cruddy..." Of all times her sniper decided that it was time to kick the bucket. She side stepped and tried to use the sniper like an improvised club. A dull thud greeted her efforts as the weapon bounced and recoiled away from the creatures thick hide.

"Not good" The monstrosity made no noise, it raised its arm again preparing for another strike. Janet stumbled backwards, she desperatly tried to maintain her balance but ended up falling flat on her back. The horrific creature swung again, he rolled aside not to soon. The blue blade on the montser arm managed to slice through the arm piece of her outfit.

Janet kicked out at its legs, knocking it to the ground face down; If you could call it a face. She drew the brand from her belt and slammed its tip against the skin of the delsaber, once activated the blue photon energy ate hungrily into the hardened flesh. It let off an unearthly shriek as it struggled to get free, but it was pinned down.

She swiftly retrieved her sniper, after she hit it a few times the weapon sputtered to life. Taking quick aim, Janet pulled the trigger letting loose the deadly photon straight to the delsabers head. Janet raised an arm as the torso spattered over the floor, trying in vain to ward of the green ooze that was the creatures contents.

Janet grimaced as she picked up her brand, she wiped it against her shorts but realized that they too had been covered with delsaber insides. Clipping the brand back onto her belt she swore to herself.

"Im gonna give that shop keeper hell for this. Its going to take forever to clean all this crap off of me."

The HUnewearl thought of going back to the Pioneer 2 but decided against it.

"At least there's some water flowing down that..."

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Any guesses what happens next?

[Garanz2]

Any guesses what happens next?

You take a shower in the waterfall? Then take all your clothes off and have Zi'zuku take pictures a la 'ruins run'? http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

KaFkA! YOU KILLED THE DEL RAPPY! I must kill you later in the fic now! I must have retribution! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_argh.gif

Okey dokey...I'm sane now...

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It seemed like someone had already been here. Disappointing. Antitank continued through the next few rooms. All of them were caked in purple and green blood. Finally, Antitank came to a large room. A huge pit filled one corner, and several small waterfalls trickled down it. The room was huge, stretching for several meters. It also looked untouched by battle. Antitank's sato hovered by her shoulder, glancing round the room. Antitank stood still, her daggers ready for action, but everything was quiet and still...

Antitank stood competely still for almost a minute, taking in the environment. She then casually swung her arms backwards, trisecting the Delsaber creeping up on her.

"I hate sneak attacks."

All of a sudden, enemies began to materialise all around her. Crude flying blades, to barely intelligent creatures with swords for hands.

"Stupid, crude and powerful. Just the way I like 'em." Anti tank leapt on the mass of enemies, her daggers cutting gashes through flesh and chitin. She felt a blade graze her back, and laughed. She was far too good for these weak monsters.

"Bring on the hard stuff!" She yelled, as the last dimenian collapsed into a pool of blood. But nothing happened. Everything was silent once more.

[Sagasu]

On 2004-02-10 12:10, Garanz2 wrote:



The room was huge, stretching for several meters.




Several meters is like nine or ten feet, bud. Do you mean several hundred meters?
(or something like that)

As for the HUnewearl, umm, you'll have 2 find out ^_^

[Deathscythealpha]

The Ruins hadnt been opened for long, but already large groups of Hunters were swarming all over the place. Intelligent Hunters went in groups, brave Hunters went alone. Malice was from the latter group.

He twisted the blade from left to right and pulled it out of the Diminians corpse. A few seconds later and the things body had disapeared, leaving Malice to stare a the large puddle of blood it had left behind.

"What is with these things" he muttered to himself as he cleaned the blood off of his agito. He stood up and flicked back his long blue hair, and for a second the long scar that ran down his right eye was visible. Even though he was a brave hunter, even this place gave him the creeps.

A noise! He heard the sound of battle and knew he had to get there. He sheathed his balde and sprinted for the door.


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Woo, ive brought back my old character Malice. Hopefully this fic wont die like every other fic hes been in...

[mr_rubbish]

I can't believe I spelt Ratchet's name wrong http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_argh.gif
PS I also can't believe "All the small things" would come back to haunt me http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif (Easy on the wackiness KaFKa!)

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Ratchet sat on the couch in the dirty waiting room. From the closed door beyond came the sound of electric drills and wielding. He had been waiting there for the better part of two hundred Beats and the sound effects were doing nothing to calm his nerves. He stood up nervously when the door finally opened and Doc. Stone emerged.

"How is he Doc?"

"Near as I can tell there seems to be nothing physically wrong with him." Said the Doctor attempting to wipe his hands on an even more oilier rag. "I suggest you go home and get some rest. I'll keep him here overnight in the workshop and run a diagnostic on his data core."

Ratchet nodded in agreement and walked towards the exit before hesitating.

"Take good care of him okay? That's my best friend you got in there."

Doc Stone noddded in acknowledgement and watched as the downcast RAmar left silently.

"Looks like I'm going to need more coffee!" He said cheerily to no one in particular.

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Black. Everything was black. The figure sat down against the wall, eyes shut, ears attuned, and mind open. He was not meditating, but merely wished to reflect upon himself... alone. He felt the room he was in would be best. It branched off from a square room, with a square platform in the middle, that was only reachable via warp pad... well, normally. The room the figure sat in was a dead end; only containing a few boxes and beasts. Many would find this room useless, and not a room to waste one's time on. Yet this particular hunter felt a somewhat differently.

This room had no light. An untouched red button, hidden behind a few boxes offered to releive the room from it's gloomy state, but the figure shunned upon it. He merely wished to be alone to reflect upon himself, while nobody would disturb him. To reflect upon oneself... how many times does one do that in their life? This figure even began to ponder what other's thought of his very name.

'Zi'Zuwho?' is a probable reply one might get when asking a norm about him. Yet obliveous to some, he was well known by others. Zi'Zuku was a well known assassin on the Pioneer 2 underground. 'An old fashioned cut-throat' he heard one say. But he was no common murderer. He took priority in the means of stealth, putting literal use to the term 'not knowing what hit them'. If you did manage to see him, he was easy to point out. He wore a midnight black cloak, and kept a metal facemask over his lower face. He wore his blue hair down over his right eye, with the intention of it never being seen. He was famous to employers, but infamous to everyone else.

Yet he hadn't gone on any 'missions' for a long time. His conscience occasionally prodded him, and thus, he would find himself in the ruins like this, reflecting upon his actions. He had heard a rumor that the people of pioneer 1 died according to how 'good of a person' they were. Those who were good died instantly in the explosion; a quick and painless death. Those who wern't exactly perfect died in a normal way. But the rumor he had heard was that the 'bad' people were mutated into the D-cellular organisms we find in the ruins today.

"i think i'd have liked to be a delsaber" Zi'Zuku whispered in his ussual tone. But then again that rumor was probably utter nonsense, and he quickly disregarded it. His large newman ear perked, as something else caught his attention. The sweet song of combat whispered to him from the distance. However, at the same tome the small communicator attached behind his ear gave a faint vibration, indicting a link opening. Only those with 'buisiness' in mind know about his personal comm channel.

"Give me a name."

"Kafka. Reward'll be payed by black paper."

Zi'Zuku thought for a moment. A few small time syndicates had employed him before, but black paper had ussually dispatched its own agents to deal with this type of thing. But, Zi'Zuku felt he was getting a litte 'soft'. The job payed well anyways...

"Understood." he coldly replied, before shutting off his link.

Zi'Zuku ended his self reflection with a final ironic thought. His weapon was the Caduceus. Not the most powerful of weapons, he did have stronger, but his style had this one suit his best. He didn't use it as a rod, yet more like a twin saber, or staff. He knew being a melee force shunned upon mostly, yet he found himself to be more of a hunter. A he did not approve of being a 'tech hunter', and so remained with melee tactics. But enough of that. He best make his way towards the ending sounds of battle. Though against his style, he felt he needed to brush up on his skills a bit before hunting down this 'Kafka'.

With his final thoughts thought out, he silently made his was through the shadows.
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In short, hi everyone! ^_^

[White_Knight]

"Come on give us a chalange!" Yamishi screamed as the dimenias fell left and right to the might of his Partian of Lightning and much help from Kori's Magic's
"Are you really sure you want a chalange Shi?"
"Yeah I went the entire mines without a real chalange so I expect one here."
"OK." Kori says kind of sulkingly.
"Don't worry I'll make it up to you later this evening just be sure to have my back OK?"
"OK." She says as she picks up at the idea of geting a reward of sorts.

[Solstis]

Introducing: Solstis, the mech-gun wielding HUmar with terrible aim!
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Solstis picked his way across the floor, carefully stepping over monster goo. He tried to balance as best he could while carrying his beloved H&S 25 Justice (after all, only about 6000 were ever made!). Solstis was listed as a Bluefull Humar, but secretly wished he had taken Ranger Training 101.

As he walked in the “Ruins” that he had heard so much about, Solstis saw bits of delsaber all over the floor. Next to a pile of dead delsaber he saw its left arm, apparently severed. He swiftly picked it up, put into his item storage and said to himself,

“I wonder if someone can use this?”

He walked over to the next room, whistling a little tune to himself.

[KaFKa]

damn you -Z! now i must find a way to thwart your evil attempts at killing my utterly invincible killing machine http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif
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Yaski slinked through the Ragolian underground. Her active camoflauge keeping her perfectly invisible, except for the 'shadow' effect it gave her. (think halo) She kept just out of reach of Kafka's sensors, which she had done many times before, when 'checking up' on him on his previous mission.

"Ma'am, do you want us to launch an attack?"

Yaski's com link had opened up on her, causing her to momentarily lose focus.

"Go ahead, but i doubt you would be able to take him down." She replied emotionlessly, knowing first hand what they were up against. A perfected melee killing machine. She knew that he would make shredded metal out of Black Paper's 'elite' agents.

She deactivated her active camoflauge, and waited behind a storage case, waiting for the inevitable sounds of Justy fire, followed shortly therafter by the gruesome sounds of metal being ripped apart by metal.

TSSEW

There it was, the first sound of battle between the agents and Kafka.

Yaski opened up her com link again

"You should have hired more than one assasin, master."

"No, im quite confident in my choice. You, on the other hand, are to keep tabs on Kafka and assist the assasin if need be."

"Yes, master" Yaski replied and closed the com link.

"makes me wonder who it was that he hired" She mused, knowing that she would have to bail this outsider out before he got himself killed.

But this thought made her question her very AI. Why must she listen to some idiot that plays dead at the first sign of real danger? Why not apply her superior skills elsewhere and be free? What is free? is it something tangible that can be felt and touched? What is it? Why is freedom so seemigly available to everyone, but not her? She tried to think farther, but was then shut down by her subconcious override and rebooted without knowledge of the self reflection.
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there, no more wackiness, happy now rubbish? http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif



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[mr_rubbish]

Thanks KaFKa!
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The conference room buzzed with hushed chatter from the occupants until Principal Tyrell strode in purposefully, Irene in tow. Silence was almost immediate and all eyes watched as their leader elect sat down.

He addressed them. "Ladies and gentlemen. I've called this meeting in light of the new discoveries on Ragol. Namely the ancient ruins."

A representative of the Hunter's Guild, a FOmarl, spoke up. "Numerous hunting parties have been dispatched to explore it. I think I can safely predict we will have cleared the area for the scientific and archialogical communities within the next 2 to 3 days."

"That is not what I have heard." Tyrell said through gritted teeth. "Preliminary reports suggest an 86% injury rate with a 12% fatality rate. Every hundred Beats those figures seem to go worse."

"What would you have us do?" Thundered a battered old HUcast hammering the table with a rusty fist. "Pull out and let the army handle it?" The last words came out almost as a sneer.

One of the Generals sitting opposite almosr chocked on his indignation. He turned to face Tyrell.

"I'm sorry but the Millitary is just not trained to handle these sort of situations." He said apologetically.

"And that maybe the least of our worries. Late last night an android trashed a Guild Tekker booth."

"So?" Said a HUmar. "We all know what kind of cheating scum Tekkers are. He probably deserved it!"

The rest of the Guild representatives nodded or murmmered in agreement.

"Well the android, a HUcaseal, could not be restrained or contained and had to be terminated." The Principal paused for effect and was rewarded with a few quiet gasps. He continued. "This maybe no isolated incident. That was the third report of an android malfunctioning in the 2000 Beats since the 'ruins' were discovered. There is a population of over 100,000 androids on this ship. What is your recommendation Doctor?"

Everyone at the table turned their heads to look at the other end where Doctor Mome sat. He started to blush after having been put in the spotlight so suddenly.

"Er... Its not really my field of expertise. I'm a biologist not a Mechanic."

"But you are head of the science division for Pioneer Two..."

"Oh! Yes I am. In that case... I'll prepare a preliminary report for you by this evening."

"Very well, dismissed!" Said Tyrell leaving as swiftly as he had arrived.

I'm running out of time!

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Zi'Zuku cassually, yet silently made his way through the ruins. the padded bottoms of his shoes let him move as quickly and silently as he pleased. leaning forward, he maintaned a steady stride, hoping to encounter something soon. yet as he approached the upcoming door, he heard the hushed humming of a photon weapon, and the door sliding open in front of him. he had to act quickly

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antitank walked through the door before her, and noticed her current enviornment. a room that had an elevated platform, and a warp pad atop it centered the area. the area she was on seemed like a thin path around it that had many doors branching away from it.

"well, one of these doors should lead me to some action..." she muttered to herself, exiting the room

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Zi'Zuku gave a small sigh. he followed through with a well practiced proccedure in a time like this. first, he embeaded the spiked bottom of the caduceus into wall directly above the door. then, he simply pulled himself atop it, and hoped that whoever was to come wouldn't look back.

"perhaps this one could lead me to some practice...?"

retreiving the caduceus, he followed cautiously.

[Solstis]

Solstis heard something, somewhere, sigh. He wondered to himself if delsabers could sigh, or if they even had mouths. As he pondered this, he sat down one of the many boxes in a small, brightly-lit room.

As soon as Solstis sat down, he heard a CLACK! come from behind him. He whirled around and fired his mechguns at whatever strange creature was attacking him. It had an odd, blade-like body, somewhat like a claw. The creature, apparently slightly ruffled by being shot at (and missed), leapt at Solstis again. Solstis leaned backward, swore to himself, and hit the ?claw? with whatever he could find.

"Thwump"

He knew that the arm would come in handy sometime, though he was now covered in monster goo. Solstis brushed the goo off of him and cradled the delsaber?s arm-shield close to him, and wondered where he would go to next.

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Why don't my quotes stay quotes! WHYYY!



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[Sagasu]

Hi -Z, good ta see ya back.

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Janet stopped suddenly from her task of re-arranging her hair back into a pony tail, she shivered, it felt like someone was watching her.

"Wonder if these creatures stalk people" She mused quietly, but no sooner had she spoken did she realize that there was something hovering over head. She sighed to heerself and pulled her shirt back on, the water had been cold but the wash had been worth it. She picked up a small pack and tossed it around her shoulder and took a few steps forward, her burgundy hair dipped down past her back as she crouched, preparing for the leap.

Swiftly Janet wheeled around and lounged at the object, tackling it to the ground holding it tight against her chest. She sat up to see what she captured, a small sound of surprise passed through her lips as she stared at the aspras mag trying to avoid her gaze.

"I never thought a mag would turn out to be a peeping tom" Her own Sato whizzed in front of her protectively, the aspras bleaped apolegeticly as her Sato seemed to berate it with a loud series of high pithced beeps and buzzing noises. Janet laughed and plucked her Sato fondly out of the air,

"Aren't we jealous now? You had a front row seat yourself." The other mag emitted a rapid series of noises which she was sure was laughter. Janet smiled warmly and stood up again,

"Allright you two, I need to get the reward money for this quest or we're not eating anytime soon, so, we need to get a move on." The white sato returned to its masters shoulder side while the aspras looked dejectedly around.

"Oh come along then, you can come to" The aspras bleeted happily while the other hummed angrily.

"Will you two stop it? I dont know about you but I'm not to excited about eating plain rice for another straight month!"
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Next http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[White_Knight]

Just what is Janet you had some inconcistancies(sp) on your last post
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"So Shi where are we off to now?" Kori asks after they had cleared out yet another room with little difficulty.
"We started to explore down here for some extra cash I wish android parts weren't so bloody expencive."
"Yeah but you have to live with such things you know?"
"Yeah I know."
"Good."
"Wait I have an idea."
"Oh and what would that be?"
"you'll see." He says as he starts to send a BEE link to someone.
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I won't be here for the next five days have fun peeps

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[Sagasu]

If you read my first addition to the story, you would know that Janet is a HUnewearl, things are always more clear if you read more thuroughly through a thread.

[White_Knight]

but shes using a sniper which is a rifle class weapon hence why I asked

[KaFKa]

hmm... why do -Z and i both always seem to have a connection to each other? it seems to be strange...
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Yaski carfully navigated through the cluttered battlefield. Shredded armor plating and expolded motors were complimented by computer chips and hard drives. Kafka had sure had fun, since some pieces seemed to be untouched, while others were mangled beyond all recognition.

She tried to figure out where Kafka was going, they were approximately ten kilometers underground, which was right above the newly discovered ruins. Why these ruins? What was so special about them?

"Kafka, just wait, your time is coming"

She followed him, and gave a sigh when she saw the entrance of the ruins come and go, as well as a group of four unwary hunters being torn limb from limb for getting in his way. She was getting worried about when that assasin would show up, hopefully before he got too deep in the ruins...



Hikande ryukered into a random room of the ruins, not sure what to expect. She marveled at the exotic metal that it was made out of, as well as at how amazingly vacant it all seemed. An amazing amount of malice and hate was sleeping here, that much her newman intuission told her. The walls screamed with silent agony, the air writhed with nonexistant haterd.

For the first time in her life, Hikande was scared. Scared for her life. Scared for what might happen to her.

Scared of the unknown.

She walked into an adjacent(sp? tired) room, drawing her Lavis Blades. Bringing the pommels up to her lips, she kissed them.

"One more time, my friends"

As that happened, twenty black things appeared, and their forms lit up with brilliant blue photon energy. They raised their arms and started for her, as she prepared for the battle that was about to begin
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*sigh* if only i could pull myself out of this battle-fetish... >.>'

[Garanz2]

Ah, once again I end up with -Z stalking me.

Not enough time to post now, but I will this afternoon. This isn't spam, I'm just saying don't do anything with Antitank until I post. Thx.

[Deathscythealpha]

"Rargh!"

Malice had found a fight and was now realising that maybe it wasnt such a good idea to look for one. The Diminians and Claws hadnt given him much of a challenge, but the Del Sabers were starting to become a problem. One of their jumping attacks had left a large gash in his right leg, and even before htta had started to slow him down he was having problems trying to counter attack them.

As he tried forcing one of them back with his Agito, a second jumped him from behind. The creature couldnt help but give out a hooting noise as it leapt, giving himself away to Malice, as the thing came closer. he just dropped to the floor. There was a ripping noise and the second Del Sabers buster had cut through the first. A quick thrust from where he lay put his Agito through the things back and finished that one off.

He leant on the katana and pulled himself up from the ground. His leg was bleeding quite a bit, and it needed treatment to at least stop the bleeding. He rummaged through his pack only to turnup nothing. He swore at his stupidity for not bringing enough supplies and decided that maybe heading back to the entrance would be a good move. Too bad he no longer new where that was. He also failed to notice the purple fog welling up from the ground, slowly taking shape and moving towards him.

"Wha-arrrgghh" he made a wet thump as the Chaos Bringer charged him, slapping him across the ground with its large canon arm. He lay on the floor in utter pain and stared up as the centaur like monster stalked over him. It placed its canon arm out in front of itself and began to charge its attack.

[Garanz2]

Antitank looked round. For a second she thought someone might have been stalking her. She sighed and continued down the corridor. As she approached the next door, she heard sounds of combat. She pressed herself against the wall and inched up to the doorway. the door opened slowly, and Antitank stuck her head through. A hunter was lying on the ground, blood pooling around him from a gash on his leg. A chaos bringer stood over him, energy gathering around it's cannon arm.

Antitank hesitated. She was supposed to avoid contact with anyone during her mission, but she retained enough of her human emotions to want to help the hunter. Her mind won over her CPU, and she dashed through the doorway, throwing herself at the chaos bringer side on. Her weight knocked it to the ground, and the blast rocketed into the ceiling somewhere. Antitank lay in with her daggers, cutting chitin and flesh again and again. Finally, the beast gave in and died.

"I hate centaurs." She thought aloud, shaking some purple blood from her helmet.

she looked up to where the chaos bringer's shot had hit the ceiling. Cracks were already spreading from the impact spot.

"Time to go, sato." Antitank took a moment to sheath her daggers, before grabbing the hunter in a fireman's lift. She made a mad dash for the door as the ceiling already began to cave in. Barely a second later, the room collapsed entirely, rocks filling the doorway, and crushing one of Antitank's legs as she ran through.

She dropped the hunter as she fell to the ground, but he hit the floor without too much of an impact. He seemed OK, but not fully conscious. That bringer must have hurt him more than she thought. She looked round, to see her right leg completely crushed flat under a pile of rocks. It was still connected to her body by a few wires, and sparked periodically.

"Well, so much for helping people..."

Antitank's sato bobbed up and down in front of her, pointing towards the exit doorway with one paw. A figure stood there, shrouded in the darkness.

"God damn. Another guy. Just what I need. He's probably got a claw clamped on his ass right now and wants me to get it off."

"Not quite."

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Cue Zi'zuku!

[-Z]

No time to post now, i'll be back later this afternoon ^_^

[mr_rubbish]

White_knight if you're going off for a while be aware that no one will be able to write about your characters as you didn't provide any kind of descriptions for them. All I can gather is that Shi is a male hunter and Kori is a female force!

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The black and purple HUcaseal suddenly jolted into life. Tamarin was unsure of what was happening to her. According to her internal chronometer she had been offline for 17 Beats. Not wise in a location as hostile as this one.

Something else felt different too... The mag! An Apsaras a friend had lent to her was no longer present in usual position behind her. She glanced around the darkened surroundings but could see no trace of it.
The mag seemed very eagar for battle which caused some friction between the two of them, Tamarin preferred stealth to outright confrontation.

"Apsaras!" She called out.

Her voice echoed back distorted and she raised her Heat Daggers into a defensive position instinctively.

"Damn emotion chips!"

Still she had to find it quickly, the ruins were no place for a mag or android to find themselves alone. She promptly ran forward into the unknown.

[Lone_Wolf_Nasca]

Hi guys ^_^ !! Long time no see Mr.Rubbish ^_^ !!
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A Humar with long, red hair stands in front of a warp computer terminal in Pioneer 2. The terminal speaks to the Humar with a femenine voice.
"Please input name, hunter license # and section ID."
"Wolf Nasca, hunter license # 75211257, ID Redria."
"ID confirmated. Welcome Wolf Nasca. Please input destination coordinates and warp #."
"Ruins 01, warp 02831x."
"Please confirm command input."
"Confirm."
"Command has been confirmated. Please stand by and wait for the warp security gates to open."
A loud noise is heard as the warp gates unlock and slowly begin to open, revealing a blue colored ring of light that emanetes from the warp pad.
"Please step into the warp pad and start the warp mechanism."
"Warp mechanism active."
"Please prepare to warp in 5...4...3...2...1...0." SHING !!
In a instant Nasca emerged in the ruins. He looked around at his sorrounding, the ruins were dark, the walls seemed to be made out of some natural materials, but they were, in fact, made out metal. The air was thick with a strange purple mist that made breathing most unplesant.
"I dont like this place, it reaks of evil. I am going to need you here more than ever Old Friend." Said Nasca to his katana smiling. The katana just gave out a gentle white glow as if to reply to its master.
Nasca steped out of the empty room into a new room, the purple mist seemed thicker here that in the previous room.
"There is something sinister in here..." as soon as Nasca spoke those words a strange creture leaped out of the of mist and attacked Nasca with a sword-like-arm. Nasca barely blocked the blow with his katana still in its sheath and pushed back the creature.
Nasca's katana began to glow, ready to punish the daring creature.
"It is not worthy of your power" Nasca instead drew a small photon handle and fliped the swich on, revealing a yellow photon blade, otherwise know as a Gladius.
"Ready when you are,ugly http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif." Said Nasca sticking his tongue out at the creature. The creature charged Nasca in blind fury, swinging its blade arm wildly at Nasca. Nasca side-steped the blows and stabed the creature in the back of its head with his Gladius, swiftly ending its life.
"Sorry pal, all I can give you is a quick,painless death"
Nasca turned the gladius off and continued exploring deeper in to the ruins waiting for a real challenge to appear that could justify the use of his katana.

[Hikara]

heh. Both Zi'Zuku and Nasca are in the Ruins. Should I get ready to update my sig? http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif

[-Z]

"Well then, what do-"

"Quiet. What are you down here for." Zi'Zuku said. his tone sounded more like a demand than a question, yet still remained but a whisper.

"My buisiness is my own. What do you want anyways?"

Zi'Zuku stepped forward from the shadows, just enough for her to make out his cold, emotionless glare.

"What do you know of the name 'Kafka'?"

"I asked you a question."

"You, risk the loss of your leg... and your life. Answer me, and i may assist you."

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"I don't know anything about this 'Kafka'. Anything else?" She said angrily. Zi'Zuku raised an eyebrow, and procceeded to the pile of rubble that trapped anti-tank. Weather she was lying or not, he didn't know, but he did know he had wasted too much time.

"I was hoping for a challenge to atune my skills..." he started, while lifting a rock and throwing it to the side.

"... hoping that since you had ventured furthest so far, you could previde one. But i see you take up the wrong priorities, and thus, i have no interest in you."

"I can assure you i am more than a challenge for a mere FOnewm. But tell me, what do you mean different priorities?"

"Him." he said, motioning to the hunter she had just saved.

"Had you left him, you would have been able to run to safety."

"Are you suggesting that i shouldn't have even bothered!?"

"like i said, my priorities are different than yours." he was nearly done with clearing Antitank's leg when a thought suddenly hit her.

"Hey, wouldn't be easier for a FOnewm like you to foie those things away?"

Zi'Zuku heaved the last peice of rubble away, and procceeded out the door.

"I'm not like other FOnewms."

[BOC]

At one of pioneer 2's less classy bars, three friends where enjoying a drink. Travesy, the Pale, black haired Humar, B.O.C. the dented black RAcast and Vodka the shimmering Hucast. Who was also black. If people didn't know any better, they'd think they where part of some black-clad group.

an animated discussion was taking place.

".......so next thing i know this droid is pulling that fat ass tekker over the counter by his hair. it then started slaming its head into the weapons guy desk until it popped like a god dam melon!" the over excited Humar said, waving his arms about.

"really?" said B.O.C. quite bored, making little patterns on the table with the small drops of beer that had spilled from Travesy's glass. This was the third time Travesy had relayed this story to him and Vodka. Boc glanced over at his Hucast buddy. He was holding his head up with his arm, his crimson red eyes seemingly duller than usual. 'He must have slipped into sleep mode' Boc thought to himself.

"yeah, then those army guys ran in to try and stop it, the dam thing began tearing them apart. dam thing kept screaming...."

"MUST KILL-" Vodka interupted in a dull voice.

"yeah, thats exactly what he said. Thats what all the crazy droids have been saying." Travesy said. he eyed Vodka suspiciously.

"do you think......" he continued.

"nah, hes in sleep mode. probably dreaming about one of our many killing sprees." Boc said. The rusty Racast then slammed his giant fist into the side of Vodka's head.

The Hucast awoke with a start "wha- under attack, activating.... god dammit Boc! If you want to wake me up just lightly tap me. Next time i might pile-drive you into tin foil!" the grumpy russian sounding bot said.

"well don't fall asleep!" Boc said pouring more oil into his 'face hole'.

"i can't help it, Travesy keeps telling that dam story!"

Travesy sighed. "well the point is, i was wondering, what do you think is making all these bots go nuts?"

Boc flicked a peanut off the table clear across the bar hitting the dart board on the far wall. "dunno. probably a virus. this happens every few months, some scumbag asshole fleshy creates a virus and starts distributing it amoung the droid population."

"mmmmmmmmm" travesy said, taking a swig of his beer.

"so, any of you lesser hunters been into the ruins they discoverd the other day yet?" Vodka said, trying to change the subject of conversation before Boc began a rant about droids been treated as second class citizens.

"no, not yet. i heared on HNN (hunter network news http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif) that 86% of hunters that go down get injured, 12% die." Boc said.

"Since when have you been afraid of a little damage??" Vodka jabbed, pointing a random dent in the RAcast's body.

"I'm not. The MyTea B.O.C. does not fear a buncha evil death-dealing creatures from the aybss! i just haven't had cause to go down yet." he answered, his blue visor glowing hotly.

"well why dont we-" Vodka was cut short by a large bang outside the bar.

The three hunters jumped from their seats, weapons at the ready.

A woman screamed outside.

a robotic voice could be heared booming throughout the neighbourhood: "MUST KILL!"

[Sagasu]

*authoritive voice*

so, the gangs all here, http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif

White_Silly_Kniggit
If you think about it, why the hell shouldn't a HUnewearl be able to lift up a sniper and fire it, those restrictions in the game do not really come into play when you are writing like this. Tis true that she is much better suited to melee weapons, but for the sake of reality And origionality I'm letting her use a long ranged weapon. I fail to see a problem

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Janet walked catuiously through the next door, she grimaced and held a hand up to her mouth untill she forced the bile back down her throat. The ground lay strewn with the dead, hunter and monster alike. Thier contents smeared on the ground, the smell of burnt flesh assailed her, and the sickening scene before her churned her stomach.

The Asparas seemed to be sulking somewhat guiltily, she flahed ?him? a smile and turned her head in puzzlement. It would have a master, wouldn't it? So just where could he or she be?

Her thoughts where interupted by a movement that caught her eye. A delsaber struggled to get itself free from the corpses of a HUmar and a deminian. Janet pursed her lips as she drew her brand and activated it. The hum of the photon blade attracted the delsaber's attention as it finaly was freed from its burden. it took her a moment to locate its black beady eyes, they shone with malice.

TYhe creature suddenly vaulted into the air, bringing its arm/saber down with quick a quick vengefull strike. She had barely enough time to take up a defensive stance before their weapons locked. The raw power portrayed by the creatures attacked made her stagger. Her Sato glowed warmly, and she too began to glow. New strength flared within her tired body with a flash of red. The Aspras rammed the delsaber in the face, momentarily confusing it.

Janet seized her chance, with a quick twirl to give her weapon the momentum nessesary, she split the creature down to its abdomen. Its wound crackled and burned, she took a moment to thank the mags before she returned her gaze to the delsaber.

"At least my heat brand is working" She smiled grimly to herself"I almost feel sorry for it.

A clacking noise betrayed the presence of another monster, it carried a glowing staff and was flanked by two purple gems. It backed off and raised its staff when it noticed that she had realized its presence. The purple gem on the right, a tinted shade of purple quickly changed to a light pink. With a motion of its staff a circle of binding fire appeared around her, erupting into deadly hellfire.

"Aieeeeeee" Her long drawn out scream reverbrated in the room, hopefully someone would hear her. Three delsabes materialized by a large crystal in the middle of the room. Her mags circled her protectivley and created a photon sheild out of the energy they had absorbed. She knew that the barrier wouldn't last long.

Janet closed her ired eyes, she knew she had been burned badly, and she didn't want to know what had happened to her clothes. Her armor smelt of blood badly, whether it was her own or her enemies she didn't care, for she soon lapsed into a deep unconciousness.
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She's not dead yet http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif Cue anybody http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif

[KaFKa]

Yaski heard the sounds of a cave in.

"A cave in already? Seems these stupid hunters are getting impatient with destroying the very thing that gives them their livelihood"

She stopped and watched as Kafka had found where the cave in was. He had started to knock the smaller pieces away, while lifting and shoving the larger parts aside.

By the time he was halfway through the room, Kafka started to pulverize the stone with his bare fists.

After a good ten to twenty beats, Kafka managed to pund his way through the final stones, and reach the other side.
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I'll do the Hikande side of the story later, after i get done with some things.

[Solstis]

Solstis, aimlessly meandering, decided to let his mag out. The little Chu-Chu, affectionately named Chu, cheeped at him sleepily. As he pet the little mag on the head, he heard a scream from not too far away. At once he bolted towards the next door, not yet realizing that he had left his Hk?s in the previous room.

As Solstis burst in, he realized the only weapon he had was the delsaber's shield, and cursed inwardly. The first thing he noticed was a Hunewearl laying on the ground with some strange creature floating in front of it. Two mags were circling around her threateningly, but were beginning to look tired.

Deciding to take action, and do the heroic thing (pg.33 of the Humar manual details this), Solstis took the Chu-Chu, and threw it at the monster. *Plink!* While the monster was distracted by the now angry mag, Solstis snuck up behind it and hit it with the shield.

Thwack!

'Ooh, a cane, I co..'

Solstis was interrupted by the sound of two delsabers teleporting in.

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Next poster: permission to beat the stuffing out of Solstis http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif

[BOC]

The bar door flew open, the three hunters barreling out into the street with feirce speed.

"once....just once.." Boc said cocking his Yasminkov 7000V, "I'd like to be able to get a can of oil without some kinda bloodbath happening."

The street was chaos. civies where running back and forth trying to escape the carnage, a hovercar had been overturned and was on fire.

A HUGE HUcast was battling with a muscle-bound HUmar, the towering yellow machine delivering powering blows to the human, the helpless hunter trying to fend off the attack with a saber.

close by a RAcaseal had a Fonewearl clutched by the neck, pinned up against a nearby wall.

They both kept chanting....."MUST KILL"

Vodka lifted his dragon slayer sword into an attack stance. "ok, Boc you take on that walking battleship, Travesy help get these civies to safety, i'll take on the ranger girl!"

"great, i love a challenge." Boc remarked, stomping off to help the besieged hunter.

The yellow Hucast pounded its fist into the ribs of the hapless hunter, a sickining shattering sound ringing out, with the added scream from the hunter. The hunter hadn't even hit the ground before the droid smashed his skull with his other fist. he was dead.

Boc dived at the giant droid, knocking it to the ground. The death machine didn't seem phased at all, it lifted Boc off of himself with ease, chucking him to the side like a paper cup. "crap!" Boc muttered, raising his yasminkov, letting off several shots. The small metallic pellets simply bounced off the Hucast. "MUST KILL!" it droned slowly approaching the floored RAcast.

"lead and giant death machines dont mix." Boc mumbled to himself, pulling out a virista.

The yellow hucast pulled boc up from the ground by the neck, slamming his fist into Boc's chest, leaving a rather large dent, then tossing him to the ground again. Boc rolled along the ground, firing several shots at his attacker. the shots connected with the metallic-beasts chest, barely slowing it down.

Boc sprung to his feet, slamming another photon bullet into the droids shoulder. Seemingly enraging the beast, he lifted up an errant metal bar, throwing it like a spear at Boc. The long metal poll shot through Boc, shattering several circuit boards as it went.

"ahhhhhh!" the heavily damaged Racast feel to the ground. he looked up ad the HUcast loomed meancingly over him.

"MUST KILL!" it droned again, bringing his fists back to finish the job.

[mr_rubbish]

WooHoo! All hail tha' MyTea B.O.C.!
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Principal Tyrell looked through the window out on to the City of Pioneer Two. Though it looked peaceful from up here somewhere down below fights were starting to break out as androids started to malfunction. Fortunately it was still confined to the Hunter's quarter, at least the citizens there were heavily armed and could defend themselves. If this... Madness eascaped into the general population...

He shuddered at the mere thought. His advsiors had informed him that so far the incidents had involved androids with low spec AI cores. It seemed feasible that those equiped with high-level emotion chips would not be affected.

However this made his only course of action all the more unpalatable, namely have all androids on board quarantined and taken offline until they could be fixed. There was a chance that this could lead to a revolt, Hunters valued androids as equals far more than civilians do, a civil war would be just as bad as a robot rampage.

He sighed and turned back to his desk. Pressing a button on a vid screen activated it and he was confronted with the image of Doctor Mome.

"You and the other scientists have 200 Beats to find me another solution."

He turned off the vidscreen and sat heavily in his chair, rubbing his temples in the dark room. He knew it was going to be a long night.

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[KaFKa]

Hikande ryukered back to Pioneer 2, seemingly uninjured. She fell to her knees, breathing heavily.

"Are you okay, miss?" The check room clerk asked, obviously concerned.

"Im fine, just need to calm myself down." She answered, her tone soft.

"Do you want me to help you to the hospital, miss?"

"Yes, please"

The check room clerk girl went and helped Hikande to the hospital, and helping her check in.

"Have you heard about the androids in the hunters areas?"

"No, what happened? They arent going on a mass murdering spree are they?" Hikande asked in a comical manner.

"At least 31 deaths so far..." The check room clerk trailed away and looked to the floor, clutching herself as if a chill had enterd the room.

Hikande froze in an expression of dread. She could almost hear the agonizing screams of the vicims. She burst out of the hospital, drawing her Lavis Blades, running twoards the hunters deck.

[Solstis]

Since Solstis is tied up, introduced a new char., Toldos the FOnewm...
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It wouldn’t be fair to say that he was a bad force. Toldos, the FOnewm had tried his hardest to master the Foie technique, but never was really good at it. So, he considered himself a Zonde and Barta expert.

Those two techniques, apparently, are not effective against a giant killing machine. A massive RAcast stomped toward him, only stopping to briefly crush the skull of an offending HUmar. ZAP! ZAP! ZAP! In rapid succession, Toldos cast zonde on the android, with no effect other than an odd smell in the air. He tried to remember: did you have to focus the air around you, or did you have to put all of your energy into your palm? Stupid disks, he thought, they never tell you anything.

His thoughts were cut short when the RAcast finally reached him. It yelled, "Kiiillll!!!", so crazed and warped that it could not say anything else. It picked up the force, shook him a little bit, and tossed him into the air. As he was flying, and nearly unconscious, Toldos heard a beeping noise signifying a BEE message from Solstis.
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Dang cliffhangers.

[BOC]

Vodka had already worked out exactly how he was going to stop this RAcaseal before he had even pulled out his sword.

First off he zoomed in quickily to close the distance between him and the deranged droid, he then slice her arm off, freeing the woman she had pinned to the wall. the woman slid down the wall, choking and gasping for breath.

He then deliver a spinning round-house kick to her mid-section, sending the maddened droid spirling to the ground.

He began to swish his dragon slayer about meancingly before finishing up by slicing her head unit off. He watched as her body switched and fizzed.

He looked up seeing the Yellow HUcast looming large over Boc. "god dammit rusty, why do you always get your ass kicked?"

He had to think fast and act faster, otherwise his buddy was going to be making a trip to the scrap yard.

He lifted the still twitching corspe of the ranger, hurling it at the HUcast. "Yo! yella-belly, catch!"

The mad Hucast didn't look up. it was focused entirely on Boc. the corruption of its AI seemed make it focus entirely on destroying Boc. The RAcaseal clanked against the Hucast, drawing its attention to Vodka. it looked up at the Dark droid. "MUST KILL!"

"lets dance!" Vodka said, swinging his sword. The HUcast charged at Vodka, fists swinging about madly. It didn't stand a chance as Vodka sliced vertically, cutting through its thick metal body with no effort.

Vodka's Crimson optics glowed with satisfaction as he watched to two halfes of the droid slump to each side. satisfied it wasn't getting back up, he strode over to Boc, who was struggling to his feet. "you okay rusty?"

Boc swayed a little as he got up. He pulled the metal bar out of his chest and waved it at Vodka. "does this look okay to you??"

"do you need to go get repaired?" he said.

"nah, us older models are alot tougher. they don't make them like they used to." Boc said, motioning to Vokda's factory fresh metallic body.

"yeah, right" Vodka answered.

The both walked over to the injured woman, as she lay slumped against the wall, still trying to catch her breath. "are you okay miss?" Vodka asked, handing her a monomate.

"*cough* i'll be okay." she replied breathlessly. She looked past the two dark droids at the two dead droids and mashed up hunter. "but those guys... i just lost my entire team."

Boc's visor grew darker. "you mean to tell me those droids where part of your team? what the hell happened, you piss them off?"

"i don't know, we where just in the ruins, and the two of them started acting all twitchy. when we got back here...." she dropped her head.

Boc and Vodka exchanged glances. "something screwy is going on here, and its not just the lose bolts in me." boc said stroking his chin.

"i agree. *bzzzt* i agree." Vodka replied.

"you okay?" Boc said

Vodka thumped the side of his head. "yeah, just a little glitch. Come on, we need to report to Tyrell."

[Lone_Wolf_Nasca]

"Aieeeeeee"
Nasca heard a loud scream a room ahead of him. He rushed throu the door ready for battle. The room was littered of dead hunters bodies and android parts were scatered all over the place. Two Delsabers had pinned down a unarmed Humar and a Hune was unconsious on the floor protected by an improvised barrier made out of the photonic energy gathered from her mags.
"Hold on, im here to help !!" Nasca rushed the closest Delsaber to the Humar with his katana drawn. The delsaber noticed Nasca a second too late, before he could raise his shield-arm to block the fatal blow. Nasca had made a downward slash, hitting the delsaber's head first and then cutting all the way down, without effort, the beast fell apart blood and organs spilling out. The pinned Humar stared in disbelief, one moment he sees his whole life flashing before his eyes and the next thing you know some guy appears out of nowhere and saves your ass.
"Who are you !?" Soltis asked fearful.
"No time to answer !!" Nasca quickly spun around and faced the surviving Delsaber. Nasca quickly made a foward stab, the Delsaber pushed the blade away and swun its blade at Nasca. Nasca quickly blocked the slash with the katana's sheath and pushed the Delsaber backwards making it stumble.
"You made your last mistake" Nasca stabed foward again reaching the Delsaber in the middle of its body, purple blood splurted everywhere, Nasca then turned the blade upward and finished the beast with a powerful upward slash. The Delsaber just fell backwards, dead. Nasca sheathed his katana and turned to Soltis.
"Are you OK ?"
"Yeah, just of couple of cuts and bruises. Nothing to worry about....I think.
Nasca turned around and took a look at the unconsious Hune, her back was badly burned.
"Analize physical condition."
"Second degree burns, her pulse is stable" The medical monitiring devise in Nasca's arm responded.
"Good, she is going to make it" Nasca said full of relief.
"But I wonder what could have caused these burns ?" No sooner Nasca began to wonder a incoming fireball hitted Nasca in the middle of his chest plate sending him flying against a wall.
"Damn !! How could I get so careless ?"
"Hey are you OK ?" Shouted Soltis to Nasca.
"Quickly, get the girl out of here, before the situation gets worse" Nasca quickly tossed a Telepipe to Soltis.
"But what about you ?"
"Forget about me, get going !!" Nasca shouted
"But you are hurt !!"
"I will be fine, now get going" He shouted to Soltis with a commanding voice.
Soltis was hesitant about leaving Nasca, but he dared not to disobey and anger Nasca, he activated the pipe near Janet and teleported to Pioneer 2.
"Good, now I can focus at the bussines at hand" Nasca removed the upper part of his body armor, now useless, and threw it away.
"Nasca unsheathed his katana and focused on his sorroundings, searching for the Chaos Sorceror.
The Sorceror revealed itself from the other side of the room, spell ready to send Nasca to his grave.
"DIE !!!" Nasca swun his katana far away from the Sorceror, a white wave emanated from his katana reaching the Sorceror and cutting it and its crystals cleanly in half.
Nasca sheathed his katana and then said a small prayer for the dead Hunters.
"Thank you Old Friend ^_^" said Nasca to his katana before going on futher into the ruins.

[Deathscythealpha]

Malice's mouth tasted of blood, and his whole body hurt. Chaos Bringers were tough, and he hadnt realised it. He lay still for a bit, assessing himself. His leg was still sore from his encounter wiht the Del Sabers, and now his chest and head hurt from the Chaos Bringer. Broken rib's from the initial strike, cut mouth from the landing.

He coughed and opened his eyes.

What looked like a Fonewm was lifting rubble off of an androids leg. He guessed that one of those two had saved him, and from the looks of him he was guessing it was the Fonewm.

He coughed and spat some blood, attracting the attention of the two. He wiped the blood from his lips.

"Im guessing i should be thanking one of you two"

[mr_rubbish]

The two figures watched the green mirrored japanese text cascade down the monitor. It represented the data core downloaded from the RAcast Clank.

"It looks like a glitch in his matrix. What do you think?" Said Doc Stone to Doctor Montague.

"It looks like a digital version of D-Cellular corruption..." He replied.

"So what can be done about it?"

"It can only be stopped at one place... The Source." He said grimly.



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[-Z]

"Im guessing i should be thanking one of you two" Zi'Zuku heard.
He had just cleared off the last bit of rubble, and was already headed out the door, yet it seems the other hunter awoke from his injuries. Zi'Zuku did recognized this as what some would call 'impressive'; for the fact he was able to awaken from his wounds quickly. yet sadly, he was in no condition to put up a fight. Zi'Zuku's original thoughts was that he needed someone or something to sharpen his skills before he went after Kafka. However, if he could not find one, he would have to hunt down his target directly.

"Theres only one person here." Zi'Zuku whispered, before motioning to Antitank. Malice looked at her for a few seconds before turning back and saying "Well what about yo-"
...
but by then Zi'Zuku had already taken his leave. He wondered for a second about supposed 'ghost sightings' where figures just dissapear under your nose... was he a ghost?

The ruins. It was such a dark place. A place who's very walls bled with malice and despair. Perhaps that's why Zi'Zuku liked the ruins so much... It's a shame he did a lot of his leveling up in the mines. Simple worker droids with only the crudest of attack planning left it simple. That was, aside from the Garanzes and Sinnows. He began to ponder on the very being of a machine. What made pioneer 2's machinery go corrupt? Is that perhaps why he's chasing Kafka? But he always thought andoids could go about the mines as they pleased, and not get affected in the pressance of Vol Opt. Vol Opt... it's supposedly one of the three greatest peices of machinery ever to exist. Weather it be through overriding, or simple will, the machines in the mines all flock to defend it. Yet if Vol Opt could be corrupted... who's not to say the same about the common androids we see today?

Zi'Zuku decided. He would find a rekindle his skills in the ruins for a bit, then make a trip to the mines.

[Lone_Wolf_Nasca]

I feel like having a duel today ^_^
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Nasca sat down and rested after clearing yet another room from monsters. He wondered why in each new room he entered android parts littered the floor, usually androids are very strong and dependeble, almost invinsible in melee combat. Something was not right...
"Why...." a loud growl is heard coming from Nasca's stomach.
"Heh, I guess monster slaying brings out my apetite http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif, No use wondering on a empty stomach. " Nasca took out a small loaf of bread from his Hunter's pack and took a bite from the bread.
"Ah, wonderful !! It sure was worth it to go the Caves just to get some bread from the sisters ^_^ !!"
As Nasca took out another loaf of bread Zi'Zuku ran by Nasca.
"(What the o.O? Whats Zi'Zuku doing down here ?) Zi'Zuku stop !!" Zi'Zuku just kept on running ignoring Nasca.
"Oh no you dont !!" Nasca sprang up to his feat and chased Zi'Zuku throu the ruins at top speed.
"Zi'Zuku STOP !!"
"..."
"You leave no choice !!" Nasca threw the small loaf of bread still in his hand at Zi'Zuku, hitting him in the back of his head, making him halt.
"I stop, are you happy now !?!"
"Kinda, you made me waste a loaf of bread. Anyway, what are you doing around here ?"
"Its none of your bussines" Zi'Zuku replied coldly. Zi'Zuku was about to turn away when he remembered something
"Actually it IS your bussines" Zi'Zuku drew out his Caduceus twirling it around like a baton with much skill then stopping it in front of Nasca's face"
"I came for a challenge, and I found you, funny how fate works eh ?" Said Zi'Zuku with smirk under his face mask.
"Yes its funny how fate conspires. I too, came down here for a challenge and I find you the Ultimate challenge !!" Nasca draws his katana with inhuman speed, striking Zi's Caduceus with such force that it pushes Zi'Zuku back a good 6 feet back.
"Thats better. I dont like sharp, pointy objects near my face you know." Said Nasca with sarcasm.
"I can only imagine..."
"Yeah well, enough of the chit-chat. Ready when you are Zi'Zuku !!"
"I was born ready."
They both stood there, weapons draw, staring down each other. Who will make the first move !?

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Ready whan you are -Z ^_^ !!

[KaFKa]

Nasca vs. Zi'Zuku... hikara, you better get that scoreboard ready to correct ^_^
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Hikande ran swiftly through the hunters deck, trying to find any signs of androids going on a massive killing srpree. She didnt have to run far.

A big grey HUcast was holding onto an RAmar by the legs and was slamming him into the ground repeatedly droning.

"MUST KILL!"

Hikande shot a purlpe beam into the HUcast, knocking it over and making it lose its grip on the RAmar. Hikande quickly sheathed her lavis blades and drew her TJ sword, making ready to deliver a quick lethal blow. The HUcast stood up quite quickly and grabbed at the sword. Hikande powered through the motion, cutting the HUcasts arm all the way up to the shoulder. The HUcast rached for he with its other arm, still droning.

"MUST KILL!"

Hikande leaped away, dragging her TJ sword with her and firing off a high-powered zonde. The electricity ripped through the androids circuits, blowing fuses and shorting wires. She fired another one, and a third. Hikande dropped her TJ sword and kept pelting the android with zonde until it was a smoking pile of scrap metal. She picked up her TJ sword and put it back in her inventory, redrawing her Lavis blades. She ran past the RAmar, giving a quick resta and dropping a monofluid.

Hikande ran further, and encountered two black androids, a HUcast holding a dragon slayer, and an RAcast wielding a yaskimov7000, looking at a FOnewearl that was backed up into a wall. Hikande shot two beams, one into each of the androids, who were promtly knocked down and skidded to a stop. Hikande stood maybe fifteen feet away, blades at the ready.



Yaski watched as Kafka tore through being after being, using such crude methods as grabbing a delsaber by the shield arm and using it as a large club, or as tactical methods as making two dark belras shoot each other. She watched as wave after wave of these D-cellular organisms were torn apart by him, sometimes making use of his stag cutlery, sometimes making use of enemies themselves. He was run over by a chaos bringer once or twice, as he tried to take the charge head-on. Yaski sighed and shook her head as she watched from afar.

"At least his intelligence didnt go up." She sighed, growing bored with her current mission. She noticed that there were other lifeforms nearby, and not the multitude of D-cellulars that had been filtered out.

She saw two, obviously ready to do battle with one another, an android and another fleshie, and six or seven others. She tried to predict Kafka's course as best she could, and realized that he would go straight through the two fleshies that were about to rip each other apart. Approximate time: 10 beats

[mr_rubbish]

I wonder how Principal Tyrell will feel when two large heavily armed androids burst into his office demanding to speak to him?



On 2004-02-12 16:36, BOC wrote:
"you okay?" Boc said

Vodka thumped the side of his head. "yeah, just a little glitch. Come on, we need to report to Tyrell."

[Garanz2]

"Nice guy. Weird, but nice guy."

Antitank got shakily to her feet, but she knew that trying to walk would be useless. Her entire right leg was barely attatched to her body, and the armour had fractured and shattered in several places, leaving wires and circuits hanging out.

She looked down at the wounded hunter, still lying on the floor. "You OK?"

Malice spat another mouthful of blood onto the floor. "Never better." He sneered sarcastically.

"Well if you're going to take my saving your life the wrong way, I'll just pipe out of here and leave you to the next chaos bringer to come down this way. I've got a mission to complete and I need to get back to Pioneer Two to get my leg fixed up. Either you come with me and say thank you, or I leave you here by yourself."

Antitank opened a telepipe, and as it shimmered around her, her sato moved into the beam as well.

"Five seconds."

"All right I'm sorry! Thank you for saving my life."

"That's better."

Antitank entered the telepipe, returning to Pioneer Two in an instant. Instead of closing the telepipe as she would have done, Antitank waited for Malice to come through.

"One second more and I would've closed the damn thing."

"Whatever."

Malice began to limp away as Antitank sat down on the ground and tried to fit a wire in her right leg back together. The medical center could wait. She still had to track down Black Paper's agent.

She looked up for a moment and twitched. Something had happened in her system. She looked around. Noticing nothing out of the ordinary, she got back to fixing her leg. It was a power spike, nothing more. No point running a virus scan. Someone shouted something from a lower deck, and she ignored them, not bothering to analyse the cry. Her physical mission was more important than her mental comfort.

[Deathscythealpha]

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Time Fabric fixed. That will teach me to go wondering around my flat and not cheacking out my post.

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[mr_rubbish]

Phew! Reality fixed! Next time I'll do something useful and PM the guilty party/parties instead of attempting to post (un)humerous warnings http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

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[BOC]

Boc had just stretched out his hand to help the injured FOnewearl up from her feet when he felt it.

He had felt this many times before. A wave of over-whelming electricity shot through every one of his sub-systems, causing the droid to fall to the ground. All his motor functions where causing his arms and legs to spasm. 'Dam.... zonde...' the dented black droid thought to himself.

He looked over at Vodka, he had been hit too, though the effect had been less severe. Vodka regained his footing, turning to face the source of the assualt.

Hikande stood not 15 feet away, in a rather menancing looking attack stance.

Boc slowly heaved himself to his feet, reclaiming his Yasminkov from the floor as he went. He tried to yell out to the attacker, to warn her that they weren't crazy, well that crazy, but the zonde had knocked out his vocals. He couldn't trust Vodka to be the voice of reason, if somebody, or something attacked him, he would be determined to wipe it out.

"time to die little lady!" the black HUcast yelled, charging towards Hikande madly. A small smile crossed her face as she easily avoided the droids first clumsy strike, side-stepping and countering with a glancing blow to its torso.

She jumped back a few feet, preparing herself for its next strike. Vodka raised his dragon Slayer above his head, preparing to strike. Hikande charged in close, hoping to strike at his chest again before he had the chance to react.

She had taken the bait, as she zoomed in, Vodka kneed her in the stomach, doubling her over. HE went to strike again, Hikande rolling out of the way just in time. regaining her footing, she fired another bolt of zonde at the towering black bot.

Boc raised his Yasminkov. He took aim at Hikande. he had the perfect shot lined up..... he paused. He couldn't do it. This hunter was only doing what she thought was her duty. maybe she had thought they had been attacking themselves? He would have to try and stop the fight.

While Vodka was still shuddering from the zonde effect, Hikande planted one of her blades into his hand. Like a humans neverous reaction he dropped the dragon slayer. she spun round, lining up a strike at its head... when he caught her arm. a look of horror crossed her face as she starred into Vodka's flarring red eyes, while hearing the bones in her arm begin to splinter and snap.

Vodka threw her to the ground, retrieving his dragon slayer. he raised it once again, ready to plunge. "make your peace with god." he said coldly.

Just as the blade was soaring downward towards Hikande, Boc stepped in the way, igniting a saber, blocking the strike.

"Boc! what the hell! get out of my way!" Vodka growled.

Boc's voice faintly crackled "no**...NO. FrIEnD. Don'T KiLlll..*crackle*"

"she attacked us! its her or us!" he bellowed, swishing his sword about. Boc's visor glowed. Vodka had such a bad temper. Truly he was amazed at just how unreasonable his friend could be when angry.

Boc's vocals crackled back to full volume, as his auto-repair systems re-routed power. "no Vodka, she must have thought we where attacking that force over there. She was trying to help. even if she did fry our circuits a bit."

Vodka's eyes narrowed. He hated it when Boc was right. He hated it even more when the dented RAcast was right and Vodka: Superior HUcast was wrong. Reluctantly, he lowered his dragon slayer.

Satisfied his friend was cooling off, Boc turned and knelt down beside Hikande. "errrrr, greetings miss. sorry about my HUcast friend, he can get a little pissy at times. I'm The MyTea B.O.C.: RAcast extraordinaire! let me help you with that arm." the RAcast said enthusatically, pulling out a dimate from some unseen compartment.

Hikande looked up uncertainily at the run-down RAcast. "teach me for shooting first and asking questions later."

Vokda kicked a piece of rubble. "*grumple* don't call me pissy." he moaned to himself. He ran a damage assement of himself. red text began to flood into his vision, lising the damaged systems. he was still 80% operational. Not bad.

But more text kept crawling into his hud:
recieving file d-cel.................
File d-cel recieved:
opening file.........
ERROR: closing file.

Vodka banged on the side of his head again. dam zonde must have fried his systems. His AI systems had been acting up though, since.....since he'd been to the ruins yesterday........

[mr_rubbish]

Ratchet slapped the slighty denty RAcast on the back.

"Damn good to have you back buddy!" He beemed as they walked out of Doc. Stone's workshop.

"Should we be leaving now?" Questioned Clank.

"Listen, I don't have enough money to cover the repair bill and you sure as hell don't... So we sneak off to the ruins and complete the mission, grab the cash and be back before he knows it. Unless you would like to be impounded until I can scrape together the cubes..."

"Your logic only has a few flaws to it. Therefore I agree."

Ratchet raised an eyebrow. "Are you feeling ok? You're speaking a little strange..."

He stopped mid-sentence at the distant sound of commotion.

"Hmmm, perhaps its some kind of celebration. Come on, let's get moving!"

The two of them started to jog towards the Guild's main transporter.

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The General spoke in a terse, insistant tone.

"Your orders sir?"

Tyrell knew he was running out of time. Would history condemn him for the choices he would have to make soon he wondered.

"Sir?"

The voice jolted him out of his contemplative mood.

"Have your men set up a perimeter around the Hunters Guild's section of the city. Nothing gets in or out. But..."

"But what?"

"They are not to move in till I give the word, is that understood?"

"Perfectly sir!" There was the faintest hint of a smile before the image faded to black.

What have I done?

[-Z]

~_^ bad day to challenge me Nasca...
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Much to Nasca's surprise, Zi'Zuku slowly put away the caduceus, and lowered his hands beneath his cloak.

"What are you doing!? O.o?"

"I havn't time for games..." he started. Nasca saw him remove his hands from beneath his cloak. On them, were a pair of red adamanian gauntlets. Cold air visibly poured our from its knuckles.

"I'm working." - with that, he punched his hands together, and took a stance: the right fist pulled back a bit, and the left hand open in front of him. His eyes looked as cold as the icey Angry Fists he wore. Nasca however, was not concerned with his intimidation tactics. He knew Zi'Zuku long enough to know what the word's "i'm working" meant.

there was a long silence.

...

"Who?"

"You, if neseccary." came the hissed reply, and with that, Zi'Zuku ran forward. He kept his fighting stance, but only moved his feet in a running like motion. Nasca prepared himself.

*whisk!*

Nasca made a quick stab, but his results wern't what he had expected. Zi'Zuku had been able to pivot his forward foot and duck under the stab. Taking the upper advantage, Zi'Zuku grabbed Nasca's sword arm by the wrist, and pulled him forward. When he was off balance, Zi'Zuku shifted to his other foot to get behind Nasca, and thrust his palm into the back of his head. Nasca fell face first to the ground, but was ably to quickly roll out of the way. This was fortunate, for when he looked back at where his head was before, he saw the dark cloud of megid disolving. Zi'Zuku was out for blood; literally.

Nasca rolled back to distance himself from Zi'Zuku a bit. He began to seek a weakness in Zi'Zuku's plans; but he had no lead. Not once had he ever faught Zi'Zuku using his angry fists, nor did he know anyone that had. A FOnewm wasn't ever really one that phased Nasca as an effective fist fighter. Then again, Nasca knew Zi'Zuku wasn't like other FOnewms. Nasca raised his sword to prepare himself oncemore, but he realized he was having some difficulty. He looked at his wrist where Zi'Zuku had grabbed his arm. A small layer of ice had formed over it. It was nothing terrible, but it would hinder his movements a little. The back of his head was also numb; he assumed it was the same as his wrist. Nomatter; he prepared himself as Zi'Zuku came at him once more.

*whish!*

he tried a horizontal attack, but Zi'Zuku ducked under that too. Nasca saw a powerful upppercut coming his way, but his balance was off as well. Strangely, something pulled on his arm, and he was able to lean back just enough to dodge Zi'Zuku's devestating blow. Nasca realized that it had been his sword, who couldn't bear to see its master with a fist in his gut. Nasca made a mental note to thank it later, but he wasn't out of the fire yet. Using his momentum to his favor, Zi'Zuku turned his back to nasca, and elbowed him in the gut. Zi'Zuku quickly followed by thrusting his hand to a vertivle position making a right angle with his arm... and smacking Nasca square in the nose. Nasca stumbled back a bit, but quickly readied himself. He felt the throbbing pain leaving him as a numb state followed. The blood flowing from his nose quickly froze over. Zi'Zuku clanked his gauntlet's together again, letting the frosty air bleed out of it.

Zi'Zuku readied his stance once more and awaited Nasca's move.
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"Nice surroundings, isn't it? No cliffs of gal da val, erupting with nature. No illuminated battle ring. Just you, me, and the darkness around us. ain't it great ^_^."

EDIT: just needed to get an obligitory '^_^' in there http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

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[Sagasu]

Im back, k, so I'm ina jospital now, I guess...

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Janet sat up only to be greeted with a splitting headache. The nurse that was reading her vitals calmly gave her a everything's gonna be ok smile.

"Excuse me, but how did I get here?" The nurse logged a few things into a computer before answering,

"A HUmar brought you in, we where worried that you might not make it." Janet grumbled to herself.

"You mean you where worrie dthat I was going to die, and then I couldn't fork over alot of meseta." The nurse didn't reply, but left her to hersef. Her BEE unit rang, it was an urgent message from Professor Montague, her client.

It plainly read Me and Elenor are in the ruins, where are you? Janet sighed and made a quick reply

on my way, sir

[Solstis]

I guess I'll have to save Toldos myself http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif
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As Toldos fell, he saw one of Pioneer 2?s many lampposts just within reach. He struck out for it with his hand, held on for dear life, and managed to stop himself from plummeting to the floor below. Toldos stood unsteadily on the ledge, his platform shoes not helping one bit.

The RAcast, apparently, was not fazed by the newman?s acrobatic act, and continued to walk towards him menacingly. When the android was only a foot away with its arm raised to strike, Toldos pointed his hand at the brute, and focused whatever mental strength he had left in him.

A large jet of flame struck the RAcast in the chest and melted his internal circuits. Toldos would have danced, if not for the unsteady footing.

Effectively dead, the RAcast began to see-saw, its motor functions going haywire.

"Ah!" Screamed Toldos as the machine fell forward on top of him. Hunters battling androids on the decks below were startled to see a FOnewm, a RAcast, a lamp, and a sizable amount of railing fly through the air.

[BOC]

hikande's arm hadn't taken long to heal. the wonders of mate. That said, her and Vodka where at each others throats, so as the three of them jogged along, Boc stood in the middle to seperate them.

Hikande had been kind enough to relay the current situation.

"so let me get this straight. Seemingly normal droids are going totally nuts on a mass scale and killing everybody? and so far its confined to the hunters section?" Boc said.

"yeah. Which is why you and that excuse for a droid over there should try and get out of the sector before your mistaken for crazy bots." she said.

"yeah, already happened once. Good thing she couldn't finish the job." Vodka sneered.

"I suddenly wish that you'd be striken from above." Hikande snapped back, glarring at the HUcast.

"do you hear that?" Boc said, searching for the source of the sound. "a scream?"

"half the people in this dam section are screaming because they are getting mauled by bots dumbass." Vodka said.

"its getting louder."

Vodka looked up just as a falling RAcast smashed down upon him.

"my prayers are answered." Hikande said bewildered.

Boc looked up to see another figure falling through the air. "crap, hold on buddy, i'll catch ya!"

Boc held out his arms, just in time to catch the falling Toldos. The young force looked up relieved, until he realised he was in the clutches of another droid. "ahhhhh!! droid! get off! get OFF!!!" he yelled struggling from Boc's grasp.

"relax kid, He ain't one of those mad droids." hikande said grapping Toldos by the shoulders.

"oh no, that dam bastard crushed Vodka." Boc said, lifting the mangled RAcast corpse off of Vodka. The tall dark HUcast seemed to be de-activated.

"Vodka-bot, come on, wake up you silly bastard." Boc said, pushing a small button behind his section ID. it was labeled reset.

Rebooting system......
Improper shutdown detected - running scandisk
............... scandisk - Cancelled.
Opening file: D-Cel...........
New Directive: Extingush life....

Boc sighed relief as he observed Vodka's crimson red eyes illuminate. "you okay buddy? say something. anything?"

"MUST KILL!!!" Vodka droned, his arm shooting up, clutching Boc's neck.

[Garanz2]

Antitank got to her feet. It would be useless trying to repair her leg by herself. She needed professional medical attention. At least she had replaced enough parts to allow her to limp. As she switched her sensors back to full power, she heard a scream, followed by a crash. She stepped to the edge of the platform and looked down. A man was falling from a tower to the street below. Antitank didn't watch him land. Instead, she looked to the window he had fallen from. A RAcast stood there, convulsing slightly. Antitank looked back down at the streets, trying not to pay too much attention to the mangled body of the man thrown from the window. Androids and hunters were everywhere, fighting in the streets. it was absolute chaos.

"What the hell? I go on one mission and this whole damn place goes- ... Another damn power flux ... crazy?"

She heard footsteps behind her and looked round. A RAcaseal was staggering towards her.

"MuSt kILl...wHy...yOU doN'T kIlL?"

Antitank computed the potential replies and reactions for a second. She figured the best approach would be to bluff.

"yOu dO gOoD jOb."

"yeS. mUsT kILl..."

The RAcaseal drew a rifle and advanced towards Antitank. The HUcaseal adopted as good a combat position as physically possible as the RAcaseal moved up right next to her. It pointed it's gun down off the platform, and fired. A scream echoed from below, and the demented machine chuckled.

Antitank stepped behind the RAcaseal, and looked over her shoulder.

"i MaKE gOoD sHOt..."

"No, you make good crater."

Antitank shoved the RAcaseal off the platform with both arms, and didn't bother to watch it smash into shards on the pavement below. Whatever the hell was going on was damn bad, and Antitank needed to get her leg fixed up before the whole place fell apart.

[Deathscythealpha]

To Malice Pioneer 2 seemed less safe then being in the Ruins. There was a small war going on between most of the decks as the androids and the hunters fought. Bodies were littered around the deck he was standing on, and he grimly relieved one of them of a Dimate he so badly needed. He applied the gel to his leg and felt the muscle and skin tighten as his wounds begain to heal. To bad there wasnt enough to sort out his ribs as his chest still hurt a lot...

There was a scream and a hunter came plummeting past him, msahsing into the deck below him with a sickening thump. He ran over and leant on the rail and stared at the body, then quickly had to move out of the way as a Racaseal followed.

"This place is going to hell and im here on my own? Not a great move Malice" he said to himself. He leant back over the railings and tried to spot any ther hunters who had crowded together for survival, sticking with them would be a good idea he thought.

He spotted a crowd in the distance and ran to the nearest teleporter to take him to that area. He didnt know if the crowd consisted of androids or hunters, but he would find out soon.

[mr_rubbish]

Dr. Montague gave Elenor a weak smile.

"Okay... That's the last BEE message sent. Hopeful we can amass a small group of Hunters that will allow us to stop whatever force is responsible. All we can do is wait and pray to the Light that there's still time."

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Dr. Stone ran out of his surgery, a small box in one hand, double saber in the other. The box contained just under 200 mod chips. From his analysis of Clank he was able to determine that blackmarket emotion mod chips could make a 'droid switch back from the kill state, thus providing a certain amount of protection. The things were cheaply made and would burn out soon under these kind of stresses.

All he could do now was hope that he could buy Dr. Montague enough time to save them all, but he could not do this alone. He would need the help of his best customer, the MyTea B.O.C.

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The two RAngers moved through the ruins quickly. There was no sign of resistance but ample signs of battle.

"It looks like someone's doing the hard work for us!" Panted Ratchet trying to keep up with his mechanical partner.

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The RAcaseal felt the cold wall against her back.

"Please! I have done nothing wrong!" She protested.

The assembled group of humans and newmen fanned out to prevent her escape. A tall, muscular HUmar stepped forward.

"The Organic Brotherhood can no longer permit androids to threaten the livelyhood of REAL people. This robot rebellion is all the evidence we need..."

He signalled with a wave of his hand. Some of the people from the front of the group activated their photon weaponary and began to advance.

Malice appeared on the transporter pad in time to witness this scene. The RAcaseal turned to face him.

"Help me!" She pleaded.

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[Deathscythealpha]

"Come on brother, help us finish of the mechanical one" the Leader of the group said to Malice.

"Why? What has she done? Has she turned into one of those killers?"

"No, but she has the potential to"

"Your persecuting and android for something they could possibly do? Thats one of the stupidest things ive heard today"

The Leader of the group sighed and shook his head.

"Another sympathiser. Tut, it is a shame, maybe we should let you join the android in its fate" as he finished off his sentence he pulled a hand gun on Malice and went to fire. There was a brief moment of movement in the air, and then a confused expression crept across the Leaders face. This confusion soon turned to an expression of pain as he watched the handgun slide into two pieces, along with all his fingers.

"Aaarrrgghhhh" he screamed and the rest of the Brotherhood turned to see their Leader in pain. Some started to move in on Malice, weapons raised. Again, there was some movement, then all the mens weapons fell to pieces. Malice just stared at them down the end of his katana.

"I would leave now while your unharmed and unarmed, unless you want to find out why they call me Malice"

The group took a couple of steps backwards, then ran in fear, some of their members taking their wounded Leader with them. As soon as they were out of view, Malice fell onto his right knee and clutched his chest. He had moved to fast and agitated the wound. He could taste blood again.

"Thanks for saving me, are you ok?" said the Racaseal, putting her hand on his shoulder.

"Yeah, im ok, its nothing to worry about" he straightened up and looked at the Racaseal. He outstretched his hand to her.

"If you dont want to get caught by morons like that again, i think you should stick with me. The names Malice, whats yours?"

[mr_rubbish]

The grey and yellow RAcaseal bowed slightly.

"My name is Matilda. My master was killed earlier trying to defend me, since you saved my life you are my master now."

She produced a trimate from her phonton storage unit.

"Please allow me to help with your wounds."

Malice could feel himself blushing a bit but could not say why.

[BOC]

Boc pawed frantically at Vodka's iron grip. He could hear his neck beginning to groan under the pressure. "dammit Vodka!"

The maddened vodka rose to his face, holding Boc dangling in the air. quite an impressive feat, considering how heavy the RAcast was, and how far you'd have to hold an 8ft droid up. "exterminate." he droned, hurling Boc into a nearby concrete wall, Boc smashing into it, sending large cracks shooting through the wall, then slowly slumping to the ground.

Vodka turned his attentions to Hikande and Toldos. He began to laugh manically. "Crush fleshies!!" he uttered, slowly beginning to approach the pair. Hikande raised her Lavis Blades "bring it on bitch, this time, your mine!" Her attention however was drawn to the mag floating above Vodka's shoulder. it was jittering up and down.

Toldos' eyes widened. "hes gonna photon blast us!"

He had barely finished shouting when Vodka unleashed the power of his mag. A large looming figure appeared above the dark hunter, Pilla. It began to unleash its attack.

"MOVE!!" Hikande screamed, pushing herself and Toldos behind cover. But they still where injured to an extent. Both of them lay stunned on the ground, as Vodka approached.

"DIE!" he droned, lifting his dragon slayer. Suddenly several photon bullets struck his back, knocking him to the ground. Hikande and Toldos jumped up, maaking some distance between themselves and Vodka. They looked to the source of the shots.

Boc was still slumped against the wall, but held a Anti-android rifle. His aim still pointing at Vodka. "guys, get outa here, i'll hold him off." the damaged RAcast said, struggling to his feet.

Hikande nodded in aknowledgement, snapping Toldos by the hand and the two limping off down a nearby Alley.

Vodka trained his attentions back on Boc. "must kill"

"Vodka, i don't wanna kill you, snap outa it!" Boc yelled, knowing his warning fell on deaf audio receptors. He didn't want to destroy Vodka. He had made a habit of not killing his friends. And more truthfully, he knew he couldn't take him on.

Vodka charged again. Boc let rip with another barge of shots, each shot seemingly doing nothing to stop the mad droid from charging. Boc dived out of the way, narrowly avoiding the business end of Vodkas sword.

Boc jumped to his feet, firing another few shots at his friend. Vodka attacked again, this time a successful hit, his powerful blade slicing Boc's left arm clean off. Boc was quick to re-act, smashing the butt of his rifle into Vodka face, knocking the metallic beast back, then following up with a kick to his chest. "you piece of shit! i needed that dam arm!!"

Boc whipped out a single mechgun, and began to spray Vodka with it. Vodka thrusted his dragon slayer straight on at Boc. The dented RAcast didn't have a chance to move. The powerful sword peirced through his stomach, coming out clean on the other side.

Vodka's eyes glowed with malice and hatered. Boc raised his mechgun limply, aiming it at Vodka. The dark HUcast swotted the gun from Boc's hand. "i....ain't ......dead.... yet..." Boc groaned, clawing vainly at Vodka, the light in his visor beginning to dull. Vodka pulled his sword from Boc, letting the dying droid slump to the ground.

"must kill!" Vodka droned again, turning around and running down the street, searching for a new victim.

Boc lay in a pool of his own oil. He laughed to himself. "i ain't dead yet." he repeated. Somehow he knew.... help was on the way.

[Deathscythealpha]

Matilda applied the Trimate to Malice and he blushed even more.

"Eh, um, thanks?" he said.

"Thats ok Master Malice"

"You can drop the Master, sounds like to many M's in my way"

"Ok, Malice"

This was awkward. He wanted to help the Racaseal, but he ddint want a servant. He remembered back to several films he had seen where stuff like this happened, and the lead always, in the end, taught the android to live their own life. Maybe it would work here...

There was a large flash of light and the huge figure of Pilla raised up along side the deck they were standing on. There was a large flash of light and it finished its attack and disapeared.

"What the hell? Its like the lower i get the more trouble i seem to find. Come on Matilda, we better check this out too, hopefully there will be more survivors to band together with"

It took them about ten minutes to find a transporter that woul take them to that deck, and by the time they got there it was all over. It had been a big fight from the looks of it, and the looser was slowly leaking to death on the floor in front of them.

"Wow, this guys really been battered. Matilda, your an android, no anything that could help him, or at least stop him from shutting down straight away?"

[mr_rubbish]

"I'll try." Matilda replied.

Knelling down beside the now very second-hand RAcast she opened a service panel on her stomach and began to connect several coloured leads into the socket where his left arm used to be. There was sounds of electrical sparks.

"I think I can stabilise his AI core functions Master Malice."

Boc groaned back into life.

"...Vodka I'm going to rip you a new exhaust por..." He stopped. "Who the hell are you?"

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"We're all going to die Bart!"
"Everyone dies, Lise."
"But I meant soon."
"So did I."

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[KaFKa]

sorry BOC, i had some business to deal with yesterday. thanks for keeping my character around, though http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif
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Hikande led Toldos down the back alley, hoping to get away from Vodka. Toldos looked behind them, watching the black HUcast barrel down the alley. Toldos let out a meep, and poked Hikande on the shoulder, pointing behind him.

"Damnit, why does he keep coming...?" Hikande sighed, getting to the other side of the alley, and making a quick right, then going around another corner, trying to get Toldos away from the action.

"MUST KILL FLESHIE!!" Vodka was already around the corner when she looked behind her again. Hikande quickly stopped, and got herself ready for his charging strike. Vodka swung his dragon slayer downwards at her, but missed as Hikande dashed away.

"Bring it on, bitch" Hikande blasted Vodka with a bolt of zonde, which caused him to stop for a moment. Hikande fired a couple more bolts, as Vodka started to collapse. Hiknde stopped to swig a monofluid. When she looked back down, Vodka was back up, his Dragon slayer high above his head, charging at full speed. Hikande learned from their last skirmish and charged him as well, but instead of making an obvious blow for his gut, she jumped into the air and to the side, away from his vertical strike. She spun in midair and managed to hit his side, activating the beams, which sent vodka skidding in the ground, finally stopping on a pile of rubble. Hikande rolled and stood, using a low-power resta.

Hikande looked at Vodka for awile, waiting for him to get up again. Hikande watched for a few moments, and Vodka started to move again. He tried to lift himself up, but collapsed and went into a 'sleep' mode, as his flaring cromson eyes dimmed but didnt go out.

Hikande rushed over to BOC, and motioned to Toldos that it was safe for him to come out now.

"I ai'nt dead yet." BOC said

"Good. come on, lets go and get you repaired."

"I ai'nt dead yet."

Hikande slumped when she heard it. She patted the MyTea B.O.C. on the chest, and wiped a tear from her eye.

"Thanks for saving my life, friend."

Hikande stood up, and looked to toldos, who was staring in morbid fascination.

"Come on, lets go, im sure theres more androids that are going haywire.." Hikande trailed off, slowly turning around and starting twoards the sounds of destruction.

"I ai'nt dead yet."

[edit] sorry rubbish, i fixed it... kinda http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

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[BOC]

"I'm Matilda, this is my master Malice." the
grey and yellow RAcaseal said.

Boc went to sit up, when Matilda firmly place her hand on his chest. "lie still, your pretty badly damaged. i'll see what i can do." she said smiling.

"I've been worse, come on, we gotta stop him!" Boc said again trying to sit up. Matilda pushed him back to the ground firmly again.

"No! lie still!" she said.

Malice picked up Boc's severed arm. placing it next to his body. "best not to move, your pretty beat up. who or what did this to you?" he said.

"Vodka." Boc replied.

"didn't know alcohol had this kind of effect on droids." malice said, a slight smile creeping across his face.

"its the name of the droid that did this to me, smartass. He was okay, but he kept attacking all twitchy, then he attacked." Boc snapped, grunting disapprovingily as Matilda removed a component from Boc's wound.

"Mast-, er, Malice, this droid is beyond my abilities to repair. I'm afraid i'm not familiar with his systems. They are quite old."

"let me take a look." an unknown voice called behind the trio. Malice and Matilda turned to see a HUmar dressed in black armour. He wore a lab coat over it, and was weilding a double saber. His hair was a silvery blue, typical sign of stress.

"Doctor Hailin B. Stone. But please, just call me Doc." he replied triumphantly.

[mr_rubbish]

In the very darkened room the six Generals sat around the circular table facing each other, each one hoping that it would be another that would be the first to speak.

It was General Sophos who eventually broke the silence.

"It is 50 Beats to the deadline yet Tyrell wants us to do nothing more than sit on the frontline and twiddle our thumbs!" He raged.

General Mcafee was quick to counter. "We all have seen the reports of chaos within the Guild on the Holocasts but I think it is prudent to see if the Hunters can resolve their own..."

"Hunters? Bah!" Interrupted General Symantec. "We have suffered for millenia as undisciplined civilians took weapons and matters into their own hands under the banner of being hunters."

"General Symantec is right..." Interjected General Norton. "The way I see it, this could be our opportunity to rid ourselves of them once and for all."

"Tyrell will never allow us to take such an action." Replied Mcafee.

"Tyrell is a hunter sympathiser. His own daughter is lost in the Ruins on the surface somewhere. It is clear that he is stalling and this put ALL the people of Pioneer Two at risk." Said Norton.

"The way I see it..." Stated General Panda slowly and clearly. "Is that the time has come for change. To that effect, I have a W.O.R.K.S. special forces team ready to move in and secure the Guild's main transporter... To ensure that there is no escape."

He gazed slowly around the table at each of the Generals.

"I trust we are unanimous on a course of action and not words?"

"You know me..." Said General Ayeveegee. "... I just want to blow shit up!"

[Lone_Wolf_Nasca]

Nasca realized that he was in trouble. Zi'Zuku had the upper hand in terms of speed with his Angry fists and without the upper part of his armor Zi'Zukus blows inflicted that more damage.

"Time to make a quick change..."Nasca sheathed his katana and put both his hands inside his hunter pack.

"Gave up already ?"

"Not quite." Nasca removed his hands from his pack revealing two gloves with small red wings in each of his hands.

Zi'Zuku stared at Nasca wondering what was he up to. He asumed a defensive stance waiting for Nasca to make his move.

"HHHHHAAAAAAA" Nasca screamed as he charged Zi'Zuku with his gloves aiming for Zi's face.

"Fool !! Dont you realize I can just counter-punch your gloves and freeze your fists with my own" Said Zi'Zuku as he prepared to match Nasca fist by fist.

"I know..." Suddenly Nasca's gloves ignite with photon energy revealing...

"Claws !!" Zi'Zuku quickly tried to block Nasca's surprise attack by punching Nasca hands away but he only managed to move away the left claw, the right one reached Zi'Zuku in his left cheek leaving behind three cuts that he could feel burning even more flesh away.

"Dragon claws..."

"Yes, neat little effect they have dont they ?" Said Nasca almost smiling.

"They also manage to counter your freeze effect"

"Not good..." Said Zi'Zuku rubbing his burning cheek with his Angry fist trying to cool down the burning wounds. Zi'Zuku had never (or anyone for that matter) had seen Nasca fight with claws.

"It is true that nature is absent in these ruins and that I cant fight you with my katana's full power, but..." Nasca stoped talking and walked toward a big piece of debris and made a little display of power by slashing in two with his claws.

"I still know how to use other weapons" Said Nasca smiling.

"....you finished talking already ?" Said Zi'Zuku annoyed(sp?)

"Yeah, well ready for round two ?" Nasca then asumed a defensive stance and dared Zi'Zuku with his right hand to come foward and attack.

"You are going to regret that"

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Argh !! Got to run !! I will finish this later ro tomorrow !! -Z you are free to do anything you want with Nasca's and Zi'Zukus fight ^_^. Later all ^_^ !!



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[Solstis]

Thanks for taking care of useless 'ol Toldos guys! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif
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Solstis was not amused. The FOnewearl he had brought to the hospital had vanished, and someone had previously broken into the check room.

"Are you sure that Yamato isn't there?"
"Yes, sir, I'm sorry..."

The clerk paused for a second.

"Hm?"
"Well, we could offer you a rental."

Solstis rubbed his chin.

"We have a repossessed gladius here that you can rent for only 10 meseta."

Solstis knew that he would need a weapon, and 10 meseta sounded like a deal. After paying the woman and testing the saber on a decorative lamp, Solstis decided to look after his young buddy Toldos.

Solstis, though, was stopped by 3 armed guards blocking an entrance to the Hunter sector.

"Halt! No one gets in or out of this area."
"But my friend is inside!" pleaded Solstis.
"Too bad. Run along now hunter, before I show you your place."

In a few seconds the three soldiers were missing at least one limb. A wrist lay a few feet away, and someone was missing a leg. More amazingly, Solstis had severed the head of the impudent guard, caught his hat in mid-air, and put it on. Solstis, feeling relaxed, happily stepped over the now headless guard who had blocked his way.
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Fixed several errors... ew!


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[Garanz2]

Antitank decided it would be best to stay on the high levels of the ship, at least until she could walk properly. She'd picked the complete wrong time to become crippled. A group of soldiers ran past her as she staggered into the medical bay.

"They're coming up the left hand side! We need to meet up with the WORKS squad right now! Move it you stupid lazy bastards!

The queue for the medical bay was immense, but she could wait. Most of the people ahead of her were far more badly injured. A baby was crying somewhere, and Antitank turned down her audio sensors. She hated that sound. The man in front of her was big and broad, and held a stag cutlery like he really knew how to use it.

"Excuse me, but what the hell is going on?"

The guy turned round, and Antitank realised her mistake.

"DROID!"

"Uh oh."

[Logical2u]

Whee, back. Hope you don't mind that I'm so late. Don't worry, no crazy bots, they got shut down or somethin by Tyrell, right? Safety precaution for all dormant droids. (Oh yeah, nice choice of names there Mr.Rubbish)
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"Damn you, Norton! I'll hunt you til the ends of the earth!!!"
Logical2u screamed as he pounded his fists on the door of his guild. All the doors in the Hunter's section were locked by some 'administrative' order from the (idiot) Generals and Principal (idiot!) Tyrell.

"I can't believe I decided to not change the encryption on that door."


Suddenly, a long, loud, and angry sounding scream erupted from the upper windows of the Guild Center. Followed by shattering glass. And a falling L.Soldier.

"ARRGGH STUPID ARDO, YOU LOCK ME IN I KILL YOU NOW!!! *splat*"

Logical2u shrugged, sighed, and cast resta on the face first prone body of L.Soldier.

"Now, when do you remember that I jump out windows. Not you. Now, go back in there. You have to make scavenge up money to repay me for that broken window."

L.Soldier crawled off the ground, bleeding from many parts of his face still, grumbled an expletive and started trying to jump back into the 2nd story window he broke.

Logical2u walked off, equipping his Ano Rifle and the scope he manufactured with parts from the Mines. The black gun had served him well. And when the orders come from on high, the populace is in big trouble.

Logical2u grumbled his own expletive, upon the foul deeds of the generals. Then he proceeded to try and get the hell off of the Pioneer 2 while he still had the chance!

But, of course, no such luck!

[-Z]

Gotta fight fire with fire... ^_^
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Zi'Zuku cursed silently to himself. though the angry fists helped numb the pain, he was a bit displeased that his mask didn't help sheild the blow to his face. Yet this battle was becoming most... tasty. Zi'Zuku realized that he would benefit from fighting against an unknown style, and learning how to counter it.

"Never thought i'd have to do this..." Zi'Zuku mumbled.

"Whats that?"

"You see..." Zi'Zuku said, cracking his knuckles simply by balling them into a fist.

"...as you know, i'm not like other FOnewms..." he continued, by loostening his hands, and letting them hang open.

"... but i still am one. RAFOIE!"

Nasca jumped back, and braced himself. Though he was clear from the original explosion, he knew Zi'Zuku's high level rafoie had a strong shockwave that followed. But he wasn't even done being pushed back yet when,

"RAFOIE!"

Nasca shouted out, but it wasn't heard as the high pitched ting combusted around him, sending him flying into the wall. He looked forward to see Zi'Zuku with both hands open.

"FOIE,FOIE,FOIE,FOIE,FOIE,FOIE,FOIE,FOIE,FOIE,FOIE. ..!"

A FOnewm with open hands can use techniques VERY quickly. Nasca made his best to avoid Zi'Zuku's barage, but it was inevitable that one or two would hit, burning his upper torso. the barage stopped. Nasca knew Zi'Zuku well enough to know he didn't give up advantages, and thus, MOVED!

*SLAM!*

Once again, Nasca had moved just in time to avoid Zi'Zuku's K-O punch. But unlike last time, Nasca took up the opportunity, and slashed at Zi'Zuku. Zi'Zuku made no yell of pain, but simply gritted his teeth, and spun around in fury.

"RRRRRAAAAARGH!!"

Zi'Zuku ran at Nasca. Beleiving his opponent was in a blind fit of rage, Nasca made a defensive slash. Zi'Zuku made a roundhouse punch to knock it away, and into the other hand preventing a double strike. yet disregarding he was in the middle of an attack, continued the motion by throwing his elbow forward, catching Nasca in the neck. Nasca swung his claw down to retaliate, but Zi'Zuku's elbowing arm made a reverse backhand swing to knock it away. And as if in a manner that his left hand was being left out, he thrust it into Nasca's gut before yelling

"Gibarta!"

the small snowsorm pushed Nasca back, as well as freezing a good amount of his body. As Nasca struggled as fast as he could to releive himself of his icey prison, Zi'Zuku stood at the opposite side of the room, and slowly raised his hand.

"MEGID!"
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Heh, a creative little way to leave something hanging. your move.

EDIT:
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"i am NOT a Jester!!" http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

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[Kadou]

Boo..!
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"AARRGH!"

One of Medley's henchman cried out in pain, just before those componants which allowed human speech bubbled and melted away in the excess heat passing by.

Ridley soared past, scarcely noticing the man she had accidentally just incinerated. He wasn't a great cause of concern in compairison to the others, carrying no weapon save for an FEM pulse rifle, which against Ridley was useless, seeing as her synskin possessed special insolation to cancel just such attacks.

The new model HUcaseal blasted her way down the inseperate halls of Pioneer 2's lower levels, the black, Rati-like thrusters extending from her back contrasting her matte black armor with a white-hot glow. The blazing butterfly wings of blue fusion flame which propelled her would easily blast her through walls, or several, probably reducing her and the next three compartments ahead of her to molten scrap metal. This was, if her EM repulsers were to fail for even a second when thrusting the android around the sharp corners which were so common down here in the lower levels of Pioneer 2.

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"It just has to be a day or two. Only until this crisis has passed, at most," Medley had attempted to reassure his beloved creation.

"But why?" Ridley had demanded, her face contorted into an almost perfect simulation of an outraged, confused, or more than a bit insulted expression. "I'm supposed to have some of the best equipment available! That's what the model specifications you gave me say! Shouldn't I be able to fend off some stupid virus?!"

Medley's expression had obviously been pained. He honestly didn't want to shut his near-perfect "daugter" (as he often thought of her) down, if even only for a short while, but he couldn't run the risk of having her turn around and try to kill someone. Hell, if she managed to hack herself access to Ignatious' arsenal after contracting this virus or whatever it was, the entire ship would probably be doomed.

This could actually be a good thing, if stopped just at the right time. With most of the city in chaos fear of the androids, the rest of the organization could make millions plundering P2.

"Look, I know you don't want to... go to sleep, but you don't want to risk killing someone who the boss hadn't assigned you to either, would you?" it didn't come out exactly the way Medley had meant for it to.

Ridley had been stricken, speaking in terms, of course, of what her rudimentary AI could allow. It always pained Medley to see Ridley in such a state, not just because his "daughter" wasn't happy, but also in his regret of having to have put all effort on her into speedy processing to allow quick reactions in flight or warp, rather than an acceptable emotional AI system.


There had been only one thing in Medley's entire life he had ever regretted more. Ridley had flown off to escape being shut down. The boss could never allow her to act on her own, so Medley was forced to authorize the puruit, and if necessary, destruction, of his beloved, though very dangerous, creation.

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Ridley stopped short in mid-flight, the superconductive coils which were her repulsers crackling audibly even through her semi-flexible black armor. The four broad, meter-long flames disappearing quite suddenly, leaving only the faint and quickly fading shimmering of heat that extended at least 20 feet behind her.

Just before where the android hung in the air by only the magnetic force of her repulsers, was another artifical being. A tall, bulky HUcast fitted with dented and unpainted armor loomed over her, filling the entire 7' height of the hallway, flickering claymore held in both hands in a negligently defensive position.

"You-" began the low buzz of a default, synthesized voice. Before he could get any further, the HUcast was cut off by a short, but thunderous crack of a real gunshot; a sound which was not often heard on P2 or Coral due to the replacement by photonic weaponry.

Ridley hovered motionlessly in the air before the HUcast, her left arm outstretched and a long-previously stolen Yasminkov 2000H held smoking in her fist.

Save for the harmless fall of the claymore from the HUcast's hands there was no movement for, though for slow-brained human what would have been only a couple seconds, seemed actually to the supersonic reflexes and mental processing speeds of the two 'droids to be several minutes. In this brief, or perhaps not, time, Ridley was searching her databanks desperately for the schemetac of a standard HUcast.

Even as she did so, the massive 'droid before her was rerouting power from its primary, but bullet-stricken source, to a secondary battery. Within no time his plain, yellow-white eyes re-ignited and focused onto his target. Without making the mistake of bending to pick up his now deactivated claymore, HUcast lunged foward, his left shoulder plate screeching against the wall, with arms extended.

If she were a human, or even a standard-model android, Ridley probably wouldn't have been able to pull out of her distraction and react quickly anough. Her processors, though, were designed specifically for the reflex speed needed to handle flight and in some occasions, intrusion of stealth. Calculating the best reaction, Ridley focused all available power to her foward repulsers.

Not surprisingly, the female droid was jolted backward, slamming into a wall which not a second ago had been at least 5 feet behind her. The resounding noise of the impact probably caused everyone within a mile's radius to jump startledly.

Coding flashed before Ridley's flickering field of vision, translating to damage reports and percent estimates of power depletion. The droid ignored these, waiting momentarily for her vision to clear, and stood up. She had achieved the desired effect, although at a notable expense. The electromagnetic field she had given off had knocked out most of the other android's physical hardware.

Just in case, Ridley bent and ignited the purple blade of her ratractable-shafted glaive, which at the moment was attached to her outer right forearm in such a way that the blade, when activated, would extend a foot or so beyond her fist and the butt of the pole exactly 4 inches past her elbow. With no hint of remorse but a persistant sense of worry, she cut away the front ofthe HUcast's armor, slashed across a couple times, and from her crouched position lunged foward and up into flight.
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Well that came out a little long.. Sorry if I'm too late. I'll make sure to get rid of this if you guys want me to.

[KaFKa]

now that i have permission, here goes another fleck of my battle-fetish thats been consuming my writing as of late http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif
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Zi'Zuku watched as the megid ball flew twoards Nasca, he couldnt help but let a morbid smile come across his masked face.

CRASH!!!

Zi'Zuku jumped back as a portion of the wall was knocked away and a towering red and black HUcast.



Yaski shook her head in frustration at Kafka's impatience. Instead of hitting the switch, he decided to just knock away a portion of the wall and make a door. He walked right into an oncoming ball of megid. Which just hit his plating and dissipated. Kafka looked at the source of the megid.

Zi'Zuku had used his Cadecus to get into the shadows, but he was found out. His own body heat giving him away.

"DIEEEEE" Kafka rang as he leaped for Zi'Zuku.

Zi'Zuku instantly dropped from his semi-perch. As he hit the floor, he dashed to the side, trying to figure out a sizeable wakness in his new adversary.

Meanwhile, Nasca had managed to get the larger portion of his body free of the ice. As he got his right arm out of the ice, he was met with an unseen gun stuck into the back of his head.

Zi had fired a foie at the android, making a small scorch mark on its paint. He tried to figure out a way to get past its obvious strengths when it made a charge for Zi. He moved to the side and made a quick slash, which would have cut a deep wound into the chest area, were it not meeting a meatl that was just as hard as the Cadecus. He made a mental note that the cadecus would only deal superficial damage against this opponent, at least on its heavily armored portions.


Yaski placed the barrel of her Yaskimov at the base of Nasca's skull. She applied a small amount of pressure to the trigger.

"Where did you get that sword?" She interrogated in a cold tone, looking at Nasca's remarkable weapon.


Zi'Zuku stuck the android in the back as he spun behind another charging attack, the ice breaking off as the android spun.

"Damnit, why wont you just die?"

"MUST KILL... MEET MASTER"

The android threw what looked like a pallasch straight at Zi'Zuku, who absently dodged to the side. Kafka charged again, but this time he charged at a quicker pace, catchin Zi'Zuku off guard at his sizeable increase in speed. He tried to dodge away, but was met by a huge metal fist in his chest. He flew back, and managed to stop himself using his Cadecus. Zi'Zuku breathed hevily as he resta'd himself, watching as the mad android stepped twoards him. The android's mag spread out somewhat, as the burst of shifta and deband filled the area around him. The android drew forth a Stag Cutlery, moving in a slow, menacing walk twoards the FOnewm. It's blood red eye units flared violently as it spoke something of value for the first time in a day.

"Remember the name Kafka, fool. For I shall be your slayer."


Nasca quickly cut Yaski's gun in half with a swift strike. He then looked as the looming HUcast slowly strode twoards Zi'Zuku. His eyes narrowed in his internal decision, as he ran twoards the two, set in his mind what was to be done.
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have fun guys ^_^

[-Z]

Just a warning to all you freaked up androids out there:

I WILL DRINK YOUR OIL!!! (cause ya know i do that sometimes http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif ... wonder if he's 5W-30 or WD-40?)
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"You cannot be my slayer
For I've died time and time again
Yet i burn away each layer
Taking down each new bane."

Zi'Zuku stood up, holding his caduceus alongside him. The stag cultery was a weapon Zi'Zuku wished he could use, yet his newman hands could never get a great grip on it. Strangely, he used his own weapon in a similar way, and thus, feared nothing. He was actually pleased that he was saved the trouble of huntng his target down; he was being served door to door service. The hulking droid slowly advanced.

kafka came down with a heavy strike, followed by the stag cultery being flipped over for a second quick attack. Zi'Zuku forced the shaft of his weapon upwards against the photon blade opposing him, in order to block the first swing. He was fortunate to have a weapon with a good, strong shaft. However, the weapon rolled over, and the other side of the photon blade came thundering down on Zi'Zuku. In response, he ducked a bit further down, and shifted his body to dodge the verticle attack. Quickly pulling his Caduceus back, he prepared for the next 'round'. This time, it was Zi'Zuku who made the first strike.

Leaning forward, yet holding his weapon behind him, Zi'Zuku sprinted at Kafka. Holding his weapon with both hands at the bottom, Zi'Zuku made a long, baseball bat like swing at Kafka, which he easily knocked to the side- as expected. With the momentum going back at him, he choked up on the head of the Caduceus, and spun around, thrusting the pointed bottom behind him. Though this made only a dent in Kafka's thick chest plate, it was all he needed for now. He quickly pulled back the Caduceus, and took up an old kendo stance. One advantage the Caduceus had over the Stag Cultery was that you could hold it towards wider ends, giving you a wider range of attack, and more control over where your attacks go.

Kafka's eyes flared. He ran at Zi'Zuku, stag cultery ready. he made a horizontal attack, rolling it over Zi'Zuku's vetically- put Caduceus. Zi'Zuku ducked under that blow, but immediatly had to get up and back away as it was rolled around a third time. Zi'Zuku made a horrizontal slash at Kafka's chest Kafka, blocked by putting his weapon vertically, giving enough time for Zi'Zuku let go with one hand, and grabbed Kafka's 'face'. The result: frost and ice condensing on Kafka's optics. Zi'Zuku held the Caduceus like a pool stick, and stabbed at Kafka's chest, before quickly retracting the caduceus and procceeding again. After about the third stab, Kafka sprung into action with heat sensors, and with his shifta'd up state, powerfully knocked the Caduceus to the side. Zi'Zuku pointed the bottom into the floor, to allow him to jump kick Kafka, as well as avoid the slash that would have cut him in two.

Zi'Zuku got down from atop his weapon, and retreived it from the floor. Kafka mused at him.

"You tire."

From beneath his mask, Zi'Zuku was breathing heavily, gasping for air in this short break.

"Exaustion... is not... my limit..."

"We shall see."

Zi'Zuku in response, released his cloak from behind him, letting his blue hair spike about. Reavealing his face from the shadows of his hood, yet not his mask, Zi'Zuku was able to focus completly on his target. He ran at kafka, with his caduceus held across his front like a partisan. He ran close enough, that Kafka would make the first strike. But he had adapted to Kafka rolling over his blocks. He blocked a little higher, making it easier for Kafka to roll under the bottom. When that happened, he would simply move his weapon lower, making it easier to go above. And while the two shuffled around points of preassure on that side, Zi'Zuku made a slash across the Kafka's chest. Zi'Zuku jumped back.

"SHIFTA! ZALURE! GIFOIE!"

Kafka walked forward. The flames lashed around so violently, he was unable to see Zi'Zuku. Yet even in his Zalure'd state, he was still a walking juggernaut, and procceeded through the flames. However, Kafka noticed that this had caused Zi'Zuku to vanish from his heat sensors. it wasn't long till he found Zi'Zuku though. For behind the wall of fire was Zi'Zuku himself, running as fast as he could at Kafka, Caduceus held like a lance. Zi'Zuku rammed the pointed bottom of the Caduceus into the same spot on the chest he had been attacking all this time, running it, and Kafka into the wall. Zi'Zuku wasn't sure weather he had penetrated to the other side of his metalic opponent, but even if it was just through the heavy armor, thats all he needed.

"RABARTA!"

The ice erupted from the tip of the Caduceus's spike, inside Kafka. Hopefully, it would freeze up enough machinery that Kafka wouldn't be able to opperate. But he'd better not take chances. Zi'Zuku removed the Caduceus, and cast a rafoie at the ceiling above Kafka, sending debre down upon him.

Zi'Zuku walked over to his cloak, and wrapped it around him again.

"Get up." he spat.

"I'm not done with you."
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w00t long fight scene! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[mr_rubbish]

Damnit! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_nono.gif You people are all masochists! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_bondage.gif

Welcome back Kadou and Logical! (Logical Sorry for not sending a PM about this one!)

BTW I'm going to create a tidied up version of this group-fic as I definitely think its worthy of submission to the fan-fic archives. If anyone knows who's the best Mod to get in touch with about this then PM me.

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Colonel Ortega put his fingertips to his radio earpiece, he nodded and said two words. "Affirmative sir."

He turned and faced the assembled group of special-ops marines.

"We have been given a green light. Our objective is to penetrate the Hunters Guild and secure the main transporter by any means possible. If we are unable to hold it, then it is to be destroyed."

He looked around at the men before him. None of them showed an expression of anything less than total commitment.

"Alright. Red and Blue teams will take the upper levels. Green and Black, the lower levels. White and Orange teams will go through the middle. Gold team, you're with me. Okay you have your orders... Lets hustle!"

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Dr. Montague looked at his watch again. He tapped it briefly. He sighed. He stared at his watch some more.

"Doctor?" Ask Elenor.

"Hmm? You're right Elenor. we cannot wait any longer."

He reached into his pockets and started pulling out electrical components and fiddling with them. He then attached the result to a telepipe mat. Pulling out a message disk he recorded a short message and then set the two items onto the floor. The telepipe mat burst into life, creating a tall column or pale red energy.

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Janet had been dutifully following the trail of destruction leading through the ruins. She emerged from a doorway to find her self in a giant room with a large central walkway flanked by what could only be some kind of mechanical constructs. It put her in mind of Pioneer Two's engine section...

In the middle of the room was Dr. Montague, his android and a gropu of at least 15 hunters milling around behind him. As she ran closer she saw him set a telepipe on the ground and the group began to walk away.

"Wait up! Wait up!" She called out, almost out of breath. "Sorry I'm late... I had to go to the hosiptal... I think."

Dr. Montague grinned at her. "Better late than ever eh?"

"Doc..." A RAmar spoke out. "Clank here says he can hear sounds of a battle taking place about 500 hundred metres that way." He pointed to the room beyond.

The group broke into a run.

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"Strength through arms." - W.O.R.K.S. motto.

[BOC]

Malice and Matilda had stepped off to let the Doc get to work. They stood weapons ready. The sounds of battle seemed to grow closer with each passing moment. Every so often, a maddened droid would appear, only to be cut down expertly from a combo of attacks from Malice and Matilda.

"Doctor Stone, Long range sensors show hostile androids are approaching on all sides. I would recommend haste." Matilda said, aggitated.

The Doc was working furiously, a pair of wire cutters in one and, a screw driver in the other. He was fixing up Boc at an amazing speed. "I'm going as fast as i can, this rust-bucket is worse of than a smashed up demolition derby car."

"Doc you sweet talker." Boc chirped, still lying on the ground. Green text began to flash every so often on his HUD, most of his systems where coming back online.

A crazed HUcaseal dived out of a nearby window, lunging at Malice. He made a succession of quick swipes, the droid falling to pieces before it knew it was dead.

The Doc reached over to the fallen pieces, cracking open her chest, pulling components out. "This is actually pretty handy, all the spare parts we need."

The Doc began clicking parts into Boc. "Dammit Doc, are you giving me a sex change or something?"

"Well Boc, you've always had a softer side to you." The Doc said, using a welding iron to re-attach his let arm.

"less banter, more fixing!" Malice yelled.

"hes done! he should be able to function, even if hes only at 50% operational capacity." the Doc said.

"no deal Doc, I'm still not able to use my legs." Boc said.

"Awwwwwww SH*T!! WORK YOU F*!KIN PIECE OF RUSTED SH*T!!!!" the Doc screamed, banging a spanner against Boc's chest.

A whirring sound began to emit from Boc. "looks like your special cure worked Doc, as usual." Boc said lifting himself to his feet.

"good, cause you can help kill these things!" Malice shouts, pointing towards the horde of ravenous droids that began to appear.

Boc hoisted his frozen shooter. "My Pleasure, I'm in the mood for spilling some oil!" the dark droid said, beginning to fire into the approaching swarm of death.

"just don't get yourself damaged again, your not even working properly, and i don't wanna be putting you back together when a HUcaseal is trying to claw my eyes out." Doc Stone said, standing up, holding his spanner in an attack stance.

[mr_rubbish]

A small note. A recompiled version in rich-text format is available at http://mr.rubbish.go.to
Just follow the link to the group-fictions section. I have also stuck in some obtuse chapter headings at regular intervals to make it more exciting than it actual is http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

PS Woe betide anyone even THINKING of printing it out. As it stands at the moment its 30-ish pages of A4!

[Logical2u]

Logical2u stepped up to the heavily armored men gaurding the teleporter from the Hunter's Guild to Ragol and other sections of Pioneer 2, which, instead of being within easy walking distance, were locked down.

One of them stepped up to the RAmar, holstering his varista. "I'm sorry, sir. This section is off limits to any Hunter's Guild personel. Including you. I'm sorry, but you'll have to go back home."

Logical2u put on his best poker face and glared at the soldier. "You, maggot, are preventing one of the most elite surviellance units on Pioneer 2 from functioning at its full-est cap-ac-tiae! Move, maggot!"

The soldier blinked twice, muttered 'What the hell?' and silently stepped out of the way.

Suddenly, a RAcast's BEE system went off beeping, and in a very mechinazed voice it suddenly yelled 'No, wait! It's Ardo Melnikov!'

The other soldiers blinked at the RAmar in their small semicircle.

Luckily, he was already running in the opposite direction. "So long, suckers!"

Suddenly, Logical2u stopped, looked at the sky, swore and muttered "I was supposed to go that way wasn't I?"

He unleashed a foie and continued running. About 15 minutes later, after losing the W.O.R.K.S. team near a ruined street where a androids fallen body was the center of discussion.

Suddenly, he ran into a coated humar, smashing them both to the ground.

"Sorry about that, Mister?"

The man spat out a tooth, muttered 'Doc', when some very angry guy in white and orange armor yelled 'Get him!' and several hundred combat droids yelled 'KILL ALL!'

Then BOC leveled a very cold reception at Logical2u's chest.

"You'd better not be who I think you are!"

[Deathscythealpha]

It was starting to get ridiculous. They were cutting down androids left, right and center, yet they still kept coming. Were they going to have to kill the entire android population of Pioneer 2 here today?And now someone else had run into there small group.

"Guys, i dont care who the new guy is, but if he's got a weapon it would be great if he could help with the fighting" he said as he put the butt of his agito into another androids face, smashing armour and internal receptors.

"I also think we need to think up a better plan then stand here and fight to the death. My things to do today definately doesnt have dying on it!"

[Deathscythealpha]

On 2004-02-15 05:20, mr_rubbish wrote:

BTW I'm going to create a tidied up version of this group-fic as I definitely think its worthy of submission to the fan-fic archives. If anyone knows who's the best Mod to get in touch with about this then PM me.



If the fic gets into the Fan Fics archive, you can nomrally pm a mod like Hikosaka the cleaned up version and they will put it in. I was going to do it with DH2, but college got in the way befor ei could get the edited version done.

Sadly the Fan Fic archive doesnt seem to have been updated in awhile, but hopefully it will be sorted soon.

[mr_rubbish]

Thanks for that.

But I just checked the archives about 20 Beats ago and suprisingly most of my new fics have been put up now along with a tonne of others dating up to mid february.
Amazingly my RRR story now has over 1000 views and its one of my weaker storys! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

Well I'm PM the mods to death as soon as our rag-tag bunch of heroes get round to saving the day!


On 2004-02-15 08:22, Deathscythealpha wrote:
If the fic gets into the Fan Fics archive, you can nomrally pm a mod like Hikosaka the cleaned up version and they will put it in. I was going to do it with DH2, but college got in the way befor ei could get the edited version done.

Sadly the Fan Fic archive doesnt seem to have been updated in awhile, but hopefully it will be sorted soon.

[KaFKa]

Kafka's chest cavity had been frozen solid, but his systems were already generating enough heat to melt it away. Kafka let go of his stag cutlery, letting it drop to the ground. Zi'Zuku watched, tryijng to figure out what was happening. Kafka started to get up, but then collapsed, his ocular components dieing out, and all noises generally associated with a working droid were gone.

Meanwhile, Nasca had stopped running, and was watching them both, getting ready for an offensive from either.

CAPCAPCAP!

Nasca felt six bullets pierce his legs, one in each ankle, another in each calf, and the last ripping through the knees. But these werent photon bullets, he felt the heavy metal bullets still in his legs, as he collapsed to the ground. Zi'Zuku instantly looked, and saw a shadow behind nasca, but with nothing casting it. He ran to the side, then twoards the shadow, keeping an ear out for movements from Kafka. He saw the shadow quiver some, then was met by an unseen item shoved into his face, an RAcaseal appearing in front of him. From what he could see, it was a Yaskimov9000, that was pointed in his face.

"Are you the assasin hired by black paper?" The RAcaseal demanded, putting some pressure on the trigger.

"What if i am?"

"I've been assigned by black paper to assure that you complete the job."

"Well then..."

Yaski jumped back, activating her active camoflauge. Zi'Zuku turned swiftly, and was met by a trap in his shoulder.

"What the...?"

Zi'Zuku saw Kafka charging twoards him, black spiked gauntlets upon his already metal hands. Zi'Zuku started to dodge, but then the trap activated, and exploded in a freezing blast that caught him semi off-guard. Zi'Zuku froze in place, in mid step.

"Like how it feels!?" Kafka roared, as he ran twoards Zi'Zuku.

Yaski had found a suitable hiding place, from which to fire from. At long last, she could finaly be rid of this annoying robot.

Kafka grabbed Zi'Zuku's head with his left hand, and rammed his right into Zi'Zuku's gut, shattering the ice encasing him. Kafka pulled his hand back, and rammed it again into the writhing FOnewm. This time lifting him up sevral feet off the ground. Then a third time, lifting Zi'Zuku up over Kafka's head. He then threw Zi'Zuku away by his head with his left hand. Zi'Zuku flew for forty feet before meeting the ground unceromoniously. Kafka started twoards the reeling FOnewm.

CAPCAPCAPCAPCAPCAP

Twelve shots pierced into Kafka's back, ripping through vital areas. He knew only two other beings that knew exactly where to place such a barrage, and one of them was dead.

"So Yaski, you really wish to die today?" He laughed, cracking open a star atomizer, which fixed most of his internal damage, but left the holes in his plating.

"I know what you can do, Kafka, while you have no clue of my capabilities."

"Are you sure about that?"

Kafka looked around, and saw that Yaski was moving around the room, her active camoflauge doing its job of hiding her presence to the eyes. She fired six more shots, but Kafka blocked them, his secret gear taking most of the damage. Kafka's god hands glowed with power as he chased after Yaski, who in turn fired off another twelve shots.

"ZONDE!!"

Zi'Zuku was hurt, but not dead. He fired off another zonde bofore using resta to heal his superficial wounds, and starting the mending process for his broken bones. Zi'Zuku picked up his Cadecus, and fired off another bolt of zonde.



Hikande had found the teleporter off of the hunter's deck. She nodded to Toldos who broke out in a sprint, not realizing that there was still a good 100 meters before they reached the teleporter. A tall HUcaseal, painted in dark blue and orange, dropped down in front of toldos, who slammed into her metal chassis. Hikande pulled out a ruby bullet, and fired a precise shot into the HUcaseal's Oran sectionID, pushing her back. The HUcaseal drew a twin brand, and dashed at Hikande.

[Solstis]

Yeah, yeah, I know it's short, but Kafka is more bloodthirsty than I am http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif
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A Pioneer 2 soldier’s hat lazily drifted down in front of the tall HUcaseal.

"Having fun, are we Toldos?" yelled Solstis, who had been tracking down the deranged droid for the last thirty minutes.

Solstis jumped down from a ledge, held the gladius like a spear, and threw it at the bot’s rear plating.

He missed the HUcaseal, but the gladius hit the left blade of the twin brand, unbalancing the monster. It regained its balance, and spun around confused, wondering who to attack first.

Solstis kicked the force in the ribs, stirring him only slightly. Well, it’s her turn now, Solstis thought, putting the cap back on.

[-Z]

"You just don't give up do you?"

Zi'Zuku did not reply. He mounted the caduces in the floor, and used it to raise himself to a stand; wrapping one arm around the shaft as a crutch, and using the other to point an open palm at Kafka. He focused hard on his target, and the ground behind it.

"GIZONDE!"

a bolt of lightning sprung fourth from Zi'Zuku's hand, shooting at Kafka with amazing speed. Because of the distance between the two, Kafka was able to just spin out of the way. However, using the ground behind him as a focus point, it jumped back, and struck Kafka's leg. Electricity coiled up and down Kafka's body, making him spasm a bit as it hit the exposed part of his chest.

"TrIckY..." Kafka grunted. He proceeded towards Zi'Zuku, figuring it would be best to take him down while he was weak.

"GIZONDE!"

Kafka Made a motion to sidestep the electricity, expecting it to come at him from behind like last time. However, the lightning fell short of him, and shot straight up into his head. This short cuircited his visor for a bit, giving Yaski time to fire off a few shots. Kafka raised his arm in defense to block any shots to his exposed chest, but took some lead to the legs. he looked around. Zi'Zuku had apparently fallen back to the shady section of the wall. he couldn't make out any distinct details, but heat signitures were still eminating from him. Look at him. Just standing there in his little cloak, looking down. Was he admitting defeat? Kafka walked towards him.

"MuST KILL!!" he droned.

he approached the cloaked figure, which seemed to make no indication to retaliate. as he brought back his fist to make his skull crushing blow, a red light eminated from beneath the hood.

"WAIT A SECON-"

Kafka's words were cut off as a fireball shot out from the hood, and cinged his open chassis. The cloak fell to the floor, revealing the caduceus, with it's red jewel atop glowing. Kafka's concerns wern't on the fast that he fell for a simple prop, but that he saw his advarsary dropping down from the shadows atop him, thrusting his hands into Kafka's open machinery, and yelling at the top of his lungs

"RAZONDE!!"

Zi'Zuku held the electric current going for a good 10 seconds, before it slowly died down. Zi'Zuku crawled over to his cloak and weapon, before sitting down up against the wall. He unhooked his face mask from his ears. The leaned to the side, and coughed out a large amount of blood he had been holding back. removing a flask from his pack, he quickly downed a trifluid, and put his face mask on again.

the mechanical menace stopped spasming from the electricity purging through every fiber of his system, and remained still for a bit. Zi'Zuku watched intently.

"please stay down." he thought to himself.
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EDIT: heh, if this doesn't work Nasca may have to continue this fight for me http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif ^_^

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[Lone_Wolf_Nasca]

It just keeps getting better and better ^_^ !!
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"Damn !!" Nasca took a quick look at his wounded legs. Blood was splurting at a high rate of speed from his wounds.

"Lead bullets..." If he sealed the wounds now with a mate he would die later from lead poisoning, but if he did not do something quickly he would pass out from all the blood lost or worse...

Nasca searched for something in his pack while the battle raged on between Zi'Zuku and the two mysterious androids.

"Thats it Zi'Zuku, keep em busy for a little longer while I deal with these wounds." Nasca took out a couple of green leaves and a few bandages. Nasca put a leaf on top of each wound and the with the bandage he secured them tightly in place. The leaves were a special kind of medical herb used long ago in the past before the invention of mates that speeded up the natural healing process of the body and killed the pain.

Only Nasca and handfull of people knew were to find and how to harvest the herbs properly.

"Now back to bussines" Nasca slowly got ready to sprang up and waited for a opening to make his move...

Kafka was moving around blocking bullets from a cloacked Racaseal all his attention focused on her and Zi'Zuku who was casting a barrage of zonde at the crazed Kafka. Nasca kept waiting for the right moment.

"I must catch him off guard" Nasca thought to himself as he watched Kafka's moves.

"Be patient you only have one chance to do this" Nasca's hands tightened on his katana's handle. Sweat beggining to bead down his face.

"Wait for it.....wait for it" Kafka began to turn away,exposing his back at Nasca and using both his hands to block the Racaseal's shots.

"NOW !!!!" Nasca sprang up and threw his katana at Kafka with incredible force and speed. Nasca's katana flew true, hitting Kafka in the back of his head, penetrating the Hucast's head and going throu all the way to his forehead.

Everyone just stoped and stared at Nasca in surprise, Kafka turned around still operetional and stared at Nasca with only one thought going throu his CPU....

"KILL" Kafka reached for Nasca's katana, still imbeded in his head, with his left hand and pulled it out and looked at the blade that managed to pierce his armor.

Big mistake...Nasca's katana began glowing wildly and unleashed a powerful explotion of pure white light. Once the light dissipated it reavealed a still standing Kafka missing his left arm.

"MuST kIlL !!" Kafka kept moving towards Nasca

"Come Old Friend !!" The katana returned to Nasca's hands.

"Brace yourself, Old Friend !! The storm is about to start !!" Nasca stood there, katana ready to face the rage of the coming storm, Kafka....

[mr_rubbish]

Doh! Now my post doesn't make sense.

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[Lone_Wolf_Nasca]

EDIT: heh, if this doesn't work Nasca may have to continue this fight for me ^_^

Ha !! I just readed your mind ^_^ !!


Doh! Now my post doesn't make sense.

At least it was a short one http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif . Sorry anyway http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif




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[BOC]

Boc grapped Logical by the collar, spinning him out of the way of an attack from a crazed droid. He shot his frozen shooter into the droids face, then punching it hard, watching as his head exploded into a shower of ice and sparks.

he then pulled a trap out of his backpack and launched it into a crowd of bots that had the Doc and Malice hard pushed. Matilda began unloading a spread into the frozen crowd, dismantling the crazed bot.

Boc lifted logical up harshly, still shooting like crazy into the crowd. "I agree malice, i got better things to do myself. as much as it pains me to say, we should fall back!"

"i thought the MyTea B.O.C. never retreated?" logical quiped, unloading his justy into the chest of a RAcast.

"feel free to stay and fight if you want ardo, I promise after the fight to come back and collect whats left of you for the funeral." Boc said, tossing another trap.

"less talk more retreating!" the Doc yelled, running off, the rest following close behind, Boc firing random shots over his shoulder as he went.

Logical hesitated for a second, watching as the crazed bots advanced. "its not worth dying for." he mumbled running after the others.

[mr_rubbish]

/me posts. Take two!

Where the heck is Sarunakai? Or the rest of the runis team for that matter? Hmmmm....

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Dr. Montague lead the charge, his C. Bringer Rifle a comforting weight in his hand. When he had entered the room he stopped suddenly and was almost run over by group of hunters behind him.

What had caused him to stop was the sight of a HUmar, a FOnewm and HUcast engaged in a three way battle. It was not clear at this point who was friend and who was foe.

The HUmar held out a hand and a katana flew out of the HUcast's head and into his hand. Adoping a defensive stance he said "Brace yourself, Old Friend !! The storm is about to start !!"

"Did we come at a bad time?" Ask one of the HUmars.

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I hope that does it!

[KaFKa]

Yaski walked forward, deactivating her active camoflauge.

"I thank you for your service, newman. Now if you will excuse me-" Yaski was cut short as she stood above Kafka. The seemingly dead droid lifted his right arm, slamming into Yaski's midsection, sending her reeling. Zi'Zuku slowly backed away, getting ready to fire more zonde blasts if need be. Kafka slowly returned to life, his self-repairing systems working their hardest to fix his grievous damage.

"Blast him damnit!!" Yaski screamed, firing multiple shots into the damaged droid.

"YoU cAnT kIlI Me YoU fOoL"

"ZONDE!!"

Kafka twitched from the blast of electricity. He managed to pull another star atomizer out of his inventory, he held it in front of his face, crushing it instinctively.

Instantly both Kafka and Yaski were showered in the staratomizer. Zi'Zuku could see that Kafka had managed to get his mangled frame up, which grabbed the shocked Yaski.

"Damnit, why doesent he jsut stay dead...?"Zi'Zuku cursed, casting a potent resta to get himself back into a somewhat battle-ready form. His vision was starting to blur, his body hadn't been this batterd in quite some time. oddly enough, the android had only managed to land four or five hits.

Zi'Zuku was drawn out of his reflective state by the sound o metal being torn apart, and the sounds of Yaski screaming in pain. He looked and saw Kafka had torn one of Yaski's arms off, as well as one of the 'hairpieces' she had on her head. Yaski was trying to get away, but her oil was leaking out at a swift rate. She fired blindly behind her, as Kafka limped forwards, holding her dismembered arm in his hand. Kafka threw the torn member at Yaski, but it fell short. Yaski ran into a corner, and fell down, cowering. Kafka had gotten to Yaski, and was preparing to deal the final blow when a bolt of zonde hit his shoulder, freezing up his arm.

Zi'Zuku looked for a source, and saw Nasca, crawling twoards Kafka, sword in hand.

"I will not let you live..."

Kafka staggered a bit, trying to find where the bolt had come from. The last shot had knocked out his heat sensors, and he tried to find where his adversary was from basic vision.



Hikande holstered her ruby bullet, and drew her Lavis Blades. She raced twoards the distracted HUcaseal, firing off a zonde before closing in. The HUcaseal turned around and made a violent horozontal strike. Hikande easily ducked and slashed off the droids left leg at the knee. The HUcaseal made a downward strike, but hikande he jumped away, blasting the HUcaseal wth gizonde.
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im not bloodthirsty >.>;

[mr_rubbish]

Man this three-way battle is really starting to get surreal!

[Logical2u]

As logical2u holstered his Ano Rifle (again), he started shouting at BOC "Maybe, it isn't such a good idea to come back the way I came?"

Suddenly, BOC ground to a halt and 5 Humars, 3 RAmars, and 2 military droids shouted 'THERE THEY ARE, GET THEM!!!"

Logical2u hefted his gun and pointed it at the leader, a HUmar in Orange and White armor.

"Uh uh. You dont wanna delay us."

BOC nodded, waving his Frozen Shooter to indicate which way to run.

The group of ten blinked and looked at each other. Finally, a RAmar muttered 'Huh?'

Logical2u ripped off his eye band, revealing cold gray/blue artificial eyes.

"Listen to me! If you delay us, the damn crazy droids will kill us all! KILL US ALL! Whats your rank, soldier?" He motioned to the man in charge.

The Orange and White humar muttered something about stupid silly military technology making lives worse for him then said "First Sergant."

Logical2u heaved a sigh of relief and said "Stand down, soldier. That's an order. Lt. Commander Ardo Melnikov, brainwashed and honorable discharged. Now get outta ma damn way!"

Logical2u ran through the crowd of W.O.R.K.S. members and passed several confused glances.

[Solstis]

Yeah ya are ;p
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Toldos awoke to see a familiar face peering at him.

"Solstis! You found me!"
"Yeah, its been a long time, hasn't it?"

Both winced as a piece of the HUcaseal flew past.

"Snazzy hat Solstis, except for the blood stains."
"Yeah, that can be a problem."

Solstis ducked as the twin brand's handle came at him.

Toldos stood up, looked up to see Hikande get punched by a one-legged, one-armed HUcaseal, and decided to cast Grants.

Hikande looked cross as pieces of metal showered her.
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[Deathscythealpha]

"Ok, so Pioneer 2 is going to hell, most androids seem to have become crazed lunatics bent on killing anything remotely humanoid, the hunters section has been completely blockaded off, weve got W.O.R.K.S Soldiers after our ass' and none of use have a clue whats causing all of this" Malice recapped as he tried to keep up the pace with everyone else. His leg had only just fully healed and it was still feeling a bit numb.

"Well, i wouldnt say we dont have a clue whats going on" said Doc Stone, holding out the box of microchips.

"Hmm?"

"Well something is over riding the androids normal sanity programs, turnign them into those crazed killers. I think it may be some sort of virus, but what sort is totally beyond me. But i did figure out that these balck market emotion chips, that i legitamately got hold of, should be able to counter act the virus and switch the androids out of their madness"

"So how do we get them to work on the androids?" ask Logical.

"Well first we have to pry off the casing covering their main CPU, sadly this is located in different places on each droid. Once were into the CPU, we must solder..."

"Wait a minute", interupted Malice "You want us to get in close enough to those crazed things to take the time to slowly remove pieces of armour, then skillfully solder things to their CPU's? And how in gods name do you suggest we do that without having any of our favoured limbs being torn from our bodies?!"

The Doc looked a bit crest fallen at that point.

"Um, i didnt quite plan that far"

"Obviously"

The group continued to run untill the androids and W.O.R.K.S Soldiers were out of sight. They eventually stopped outside one of the closed Guild Halls to catch their breaths.

"Ok, so whats the plan now?"


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And it fitted in after all.


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[-Z]

"Time for my last hurrah..."
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"Resta... Shifta!"

Zi'Zuku stood up, and slowly backed away into the shadows. Leaning forward, he ran to the wall. Embedding the spiked bottom of the caduceus in the wall, he jumped up, and perched himself atop it. preparing himself, he jumpped, ripping it from the wall on the way up, and embedding it in the wall when he was at the topmost point of his jump. after climbing atop his caduceus again, he repeated this process until he reached the top of the wall until he reached the ceiling. while performing this balancing act he looked down at Kafka. he was approaching Nasca, and he didn't look like he wanted to play. Seeing nothing else he could do, Zi'Zuku removed the Caduceus from the wall, and kicked off it at the same time. He swung the Caduceus down in a long, archlike motion, aiming presicely for his opponent's shoulder.

*SHING!*

The Caduceus's wing at fully submerged itself into Kafka's shoulder; only being held back from the small arch that held the wings on. Casting a foie through the jewel of the Caduceus, Kafka's right arm was succesfully removed. It writhered around for a bit, sparks spraying about, before it finally stopped, and lay as dead as the ground around it. though this helped Zi'Zuku out a lot, the left wing of the Caduceus was officially blunt and bent. Kafka's eyes ignited with fury, as he made an about face, and took up his Stag Cultery in his left hand.

"I WILL ENJOY KILLING YOU, NEWMAN!!"

...

"I'd preach about not going on rampages, but that would just be hypocratic."

Kafka made a strong horizontal slash. Zi'Zuku, naturally put his Caduceus vertically, but was unable to do much else; the two were locked in a struggle for power. Zi'Zuku, even with his high level shifta cast, was still weary; not to mention his opponent was a hucast. Kafka, however, only had one arm. it was a lot harder to control a weapon of the master's with only one hand. However, he had a better idea.

Kafka pivoted on one leg, and delivered a roundhouse kick to Zi'Zuku's head. During Zi'Zuku's unexpected flight, he felt a searing pain elapse through his side. He immediately applied a trimate to his side to help prevent the profuse bleeding on his side. Kafka appraoched him, and presented his weapon to the air.

"FALRA! I SUMMON YOU!!"

"GOLA! SAVE MY ASS!!"

Farla of the snake, and Gola of the elk. Two apparitions of mere legends, made of pure photons appeared overhead. Farla spun around, setting loose a shockwave of raw energy, as Gola concentrated it on the exact spot that would cross Zi'Zuku. A huge explosion rocked the room as Kafka and Zi'Zuku were flung into the walls. As the photons cleared, Kafka examined the situation. He had taken a large dent to the head. He looked across the room to see a stream of blood flowing down from Zi'Zuku's forhead under his hood. Kafka got up, as Zi'Zuku clung to conciousness. he was in no condition to go on.

"You've put up a nice fight. Now you die."

*CAP!*

a lead bullet caught Kafka in the head. he looked to the side to see Yaski barely aiming with the one arm she still had attached to her. He considered crushing her for her insollence, but Nasca stepped up before him, katana drawn.

Kafka made a slash that would follow the motion of hitting a golf ball. Nasca sidestepped this, and made a stab. Kafka, using his momentum, was quickly able to bring his weapon parallel to his eyes, and catch it precisely by the photon blade. Kafka made a kick at Nasca, but seeing how that caught ZI'Zuku before, nasca was ready for it. What Nasca was not ready for was when Kafka thrust forward his backhand and whacked Nasca in the face. A plate slid open and closed on Kafka's shoulder. Nasca wasn't sure what that was for, but he didn't care. He dashed at kafka, a heavy attack in mind. Holding the Katana facing his opponent, yet keeping his elbows back, he charged. Kafka, left this happen.

*ting!*

nasca gasped as he realized what happened. that plate allowed several traps to be released into the air, unbeknownst to Nasca, who blindly ran into it. The explosion took Nasca out of his stance, and gave kafka an opportunity to slash down. Though Nasca's trusty katana made its best to block the blow, Nasca saw the unevitable, and put his forearm up in defense. A gash that was going to leave a mark was born upon Nasca.

"MUST... KILL!!"

"Zi'Zuku! I hope you're still awake, cause i;ve got a plan! You may not like it but,"

"Ugh... no, not that one..."

"We have no choice. Get ready!"

Nasca threw his katana at blinding speeds into Kafka's chest. though the star atomizers helped assemble his mangled chassy, they could not releive the battered up state of Kafka's chest plate. The katana penetrated to the other side, as Nasca yelled

"NOW!"

"GRANTS!!!"

Nasca's sword, being a weapon of purity and light, was able to absorb this attack, for it was what Zi'Zuku had cast his technique upon. With the boost of power the Caduceus gave to it, and the focus the katana applied, an amazing light shone through Kafka.

"POweR F-f-Lo-w T-o-to- to-- 2- HIGH! SYSTEMS shutting down..."

Kafka's blazing red eyes had finally dulled. The juggernaut had been incapacitated for now.

*CAP*

and with the final appliance of force, the towering hucast fell to the floor. Yask, Nasca, and Zi'Zuku let out their sighs of releif.

"I'd... better be... getting payed in cash for this..."

"Easy now. I think i'd better get you to the hospital. or something."

"Can't... i'd be arrested... besides, we still have work to do... Shifta! Deband! Resta!.... there, that should suit me for now..."

"I'll get some agents to take him back with me." Yaski started.
"Maybe we could still use him for something... i thank you for your services. Your job is complete."

"I'd still like to examine my hunch on the mines..."

"Well, we-"

"*Ahem!*"

The three looked to the side, and noticed the audience they had apparently accumulated during their fight.
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w00t, reallym really long post! ^_^

[Kadou]

And then there was light. Clear, beautiful, real light, pouring through Pioneer 2's dome from the sun of Ragol-system. Ridley soared up on wings of flame for the first time into actual sunlight.

Unfortunetly, the experience could not be savored. There was a rush of sound coming in from all directions, and field sensors indicated unusual photonic activity, the kind one might expect from an army of photonic-weapon-wielding soldiers, heat signatures from fires and large groups of people, and several other abnormal readings from electrical and magnetic sensors, sonar, radar, and incoming tightbeam radio transmissions.

And then, of course, there were the two highly maneuverable, one-person hover vehicles pursuing the HUcaseal. Ridley soared upward at nearly imperceptable (too humans, anyway) speeds, faster and faster toward the cieling of the city. The two hover cars trailed after her, not realizing that the shifting distortion of their active camouflague (sp?) actually made it easier to spot them with optical receptors.

From up here Ridley could see nearly the entire city, with it's columns of smoke rising slowly and gathering at the top of the dome and the few people still outside gathered in defensive groups and surrounded by large parties of crazed andoids. Flashes of photonic gunfire were visable, as were many seemingly spontaneous explosions of traps and the glow of blades.

With a sudden arc, Ridley dove toward one of the larger groups of people and androids, the two hover cars turning sharply to keep up, one firing a flickering line of golden light which was vulcan fire. Ridley turned her head, focusing her realistic grey eyes on the one which was attacking, and fired a shot from her Yasminkov toward a prominent heat signature that was the driver. She was not surprised when the vehicle continued to attack, apparently opperating on autopilot.

Ignoring the report that her lower left shin had suddenly been all but severed from her knee, Ridley continued at insane speeds down between two tall buildings, into a street were the smaller party of humans was being chased by at least three times their number of androids. Hopefully, this would distract her pursuers long enough to forge some plan of escape.

Of course, luck was never on one's side at the moments when it was most needed. It was not until she was but a few meters above them when Ridley noticed the 10 W.O.R.K.S. soldiers and swung upward and through the closed window of an empty apartment. Her two pursuers, their vehicles too large to follow here, pulled up and out of the way, one flying to the roof of the low building across the road and the other to the other side of the apartment building to await the droid's re-emergence.

[mr_rubbish]

Wow! Now that was an epic fight sequence.

And since you all mocked the awesome power of the W.O.R.K.S. special forces team you are all have to punished...

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Bernie stood upon the crushed hovercar that formed part of the barrier made to mirror the army's one running parallel some 50 metres down the road. He turned and looked down at the assembled group of hunters before him. Human, newman, android all banding together for a final cause. They were tired and battle-weary but he knew that the worst was yet to come.

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Major Killemoff surveyed his troops as they were lined up behind the barrier cutting the hunters off from the rest of the city. With civilians and the press pushed back 500 metres where they could not see he had now an enforcible neutral zone. His wrist communicator beeped for attention. The main transporter had been secured, standby for orders. Now it was just enough time for a speech.

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"Friends, I know that this may seem like our bleakest hour..." As if to illustrate his point, a loud scream could be heard in the distance. "... But soon the army will be sent in to pacify the area. I have it on good authority that they will be shooting indescriminantly, they don't care who they hit. Even androids who are not malfunctioning! There are 'droids here who I count as friends and I will not stand by while my friends are murdered!"

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"You all know that our orders are to shutdown all androids, but that is not the end of it. There will be hunters there that are... misguided and will no doubt try and stop you. You have all been granted authority to take whatever measures necessary to defend yourselves..."

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".... Please remember that those soldiers out there are following orders. If possible use all means of non-lethal force. Killing should always be our last choice..."

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"... Remember that Hunters are trained to kill and will do so without compucture. If in doubt shoot to kill..."

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"We will show them once more why it is that hunters should be feared!"

The crowd cheered, even if it was a little more half-hearted than Bernie would have liked.

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"We will show them why they should fear our might!"

The men cheered as the Major hopped back down to the ground. He could feel that it was almost time.

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Principal Tyrell was startled when the video intercom burst into life. He could see Irene and she was upset.

"Sir! Sir! They're planning to-" She tuned to look at something off screen and suddenly the screen went blank.

"Irene?" He pressed the talk button. "Irene?"

The door to his office burst open and two armed officers stepped in. Tyrell made to stand up and one of them pointed a handgun at him.

"Please remain seated sir and no one will get hurt."

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A subordinate brought a field communicator to Major Killemoff. He accepted it.

"Your orders sir?"

The voice that came through was filled with suitable menace.

"Wipe them out... ALL of them."

Major Killemoff grinned. Finally.

[mr_rubbish]

Holy Carp Batman! I hope I didn't kill the thread http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

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Dr. Montague put away his rifle.

"Excellent! You've manage to immobilise him. I'll just fit him with a mod chip and he'll be back to normal in no time!" He said running towards the stationary Kafka.

He froze mid step as Yaski jammed the barrel of her gun again his forehead.

"I don't think so!" She said coldly.

*GULP*

Yaski turned and noticed that Elenor was pointing her Meteor smash at her. "Looks like we got ourselves a Mexican standoff..."

[KaFKa]

Yaski looked at elenor coldly.

"Do you really expect me to back away?" Yaski said smugly. Her active camoflauge activating.

As that happened, a swarm of stealth black RAcasts wielding justies swarmed the area, making no sound except for the clanking sound that RAcasts always make.

"And this would be my cue to exit" Yaski's voice rang from nowhere. "And now i bit you all, A'deu"

When Yaski was done saying that, the RAcasts, along with Yaski and Kafka disspeared through telepipes.

Montague piped up. "That was interesting. heh heh heh..."



Hikande heard the explosions. All of the WORKS personell had evacuated. Hikande had gone out alone and was now standing in a non-working teleporter.

"God damn military. Dont they know that theres civilians still alive down here?"

She watched in horror as the hunters guild was being slowly blown apart by the military

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TehDeluxeYoinkTheNewModChip! (http://www.angelfire.lycos.com/mech/ziz/Theif2.gif) http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif
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"... Montague was it? Whats the current situation on Pioneer 2? I've hadn't got a chance to make contact since i got here."

"Androids everywhere are randomly attacking whatever in sight. We have a hunch it has to do with a combination between weak mod chips and emotion drives. Only problem is, we cant figure out a way to replace the bad ones with ones that havn't been infected with this virus. But whats worse is that people are rioting, banding together against the 'droids. Even the ones that havn't rebelled yet. Thats all i know of."

"Great."

"I see... i'm going to the mines. i've got a theory i need to expand on. If anyone wants to come, thats your choice. keep two things in mind. One: i'm going back to pioneer 2 for a bit. Two: you may not find my attitude... tasteful. Bye... RYUKER!"

"Wait! i think i remember you... you never gave me your name, but i was wondering; how's that booma's claw i gave you?"

"I ate it."

*whish!*

As Zi'Zuku entered the ryuker, he could swear he heard Montague utter

"...oh."
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[mr_rubbish]

"...Oh." Dr. Montague exclaimed. That FOnewm seemed to just get weirder and weirder. Why was he going to the Mines anyway? There was nothing there other than murderous robots out-of-control.

He turned his attentions to Nasca, who looked very much the worst for wear.

"How about you? Would you like to join our noble quest...?"

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As Bernie and the others prepared for battle he was suprised to see an android soar past overhead followed by the dull, muffled roar of two cloaked hovercraft.

It looked almost like an angel... Was this a good omen or a bad one?

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[BOC]

Doc Stone lead the group down a darkly lit alley, trying to avoid any more encounters with the ravenous droids or the WORKS squads. "Come on, down this way!" he whispered.

Matilda followed closely beside Malice. She was frightened. Her whole world had been turned upside-down in just a matter of hours. Her only hope that life would return to normailty would be that her new master would look after her. Lost in thought, she didn't notice the door to her right slowly creep open.

Malice turned, hearing the rusted hinges creak. "Matilda watch out!" he yelled. The door flung open, a small RAcaseal stepping out. she pointed her handgun in the direction of Malice, clipping him on the shoulder.

"No master!" Matilda yelled. the crazed RAcaseal punched Matilda in the face, sending her spirling to the ground. she wasted no time jumping atop her. She firmly held her head still in on hand. raising her other hand.

Matilda watched in fear as the tip of its index finger opened to reveal an interface port. The crazed droid connected it into Matlida's neck port.

beginning data-transfer

"NOOOO!" she screamed. the droid smiled cruely.

*CLICK-CLICK* the droid turned to find herself starring down the barrel of Boc's yasminkov.

*BOOM* its head exploded in a shower of sparks, her body slumping to the ground. "what did she do to you matilda? are you okay?"

download complete

"MUST KILL!!"

Matilda clawed at Boc, the black giant quickily stepping back. "by the light, shes one of them!" he said.

"kill her, we gotta kill her!" Logical screamed.

"NO!" malice yelled, tackling her from behind, knocking her to the ground. Boc was quick to re-act, pinning her on the spot, using his weight to hold her down.

"Doc, work fast, get one of those chips into her now before she tries to chew my arm off!" Boc said.

the doc threw his lab coat off, kneeling down beside her. "okay boc, hold her, just hold her. Logical, use your vision, try and locate her CPU." said the doc, pulling out a his tools.

Logical scanned her body with his eyes. "there!" he said, pointing to the middle of her chest, snapping his finger back quickily, avoiding her teeth.

"malice, hold her head down!" the doc commanded.

The Doc once again showed his skill when it came to droids. almost instantly he had her chest plate off, and was pushing aside wires, beginning to remove the CPU cover. "logiacal, open that Box, get me a chip!" he commanded.

logical opened the chip-box, lifting out one of the chips, handing it gently to the Doc. They all held their breath as they watched the Doc begin to solder the chip into place.

The Doc replaced the CPU cover. "its done!" he said, wiping some oil from his hands.

"DIE!" matilda screamed, her usually pleasing voice a mangled cry of pain now.

"Doc shes still mental!" logical said, as the doc replaced her chest plate.

"give her a second." he said cooly.

new hardware detected - intializing

As if by magic, Matilda underwent an instant transformation. the crazed look that had filled her eyes was gone. She stopped struggling against Boc and Malice's grip. She let out a gasp.

"are you.....you?" logical said.

Matilda began to cry. Boc released her from his grip, she turned to hug Malice. "it was horrible! i couldn't stop it! don't let it take me again!" she cried, Malice patting her on the back gently,

"its okay. *shush*"

while he was comforting her, Boc and the Doc (hey!) glanced at each other. "nice work doc. your cleverer than you look."

"its evolving. the 'virus' is evolving." the doc said somberly.

"what?" Boc said.

"this thing first could only affect droids who had been to the ruins. but its starting to make sense. why so many have been infected. why higher AI droids are falling to it. Its evolving, finding new ways to infect droids. Did you see how that droid infected Matilda, it simly interfaced and downloaded it. Soon enough it may find was to transfer itself over the BEE system, and then it won't matter if the WORKS squad terminate every droid in the hunter sector, it'll be able to transfer to the rest of the ship." the doc finished, drawing a deep breath.

"so.....we're screwed then?" logical said.

"yes, unless the team in the ruins can find whatever is causing this, and find a more permenant cure." the doc replied.

"wow. wait. what do you mean a more permenant? is she not virus free now?" Boc asked grimly.

"no im afraid." the doc whispered, not letting malice or matilda hear. "that chip only surpresses the violent urges these droids experience. Its only a matter of time before it finds a way to overide the chip."

Silence fell. In the distance, over the gun fire, a cheer could be heared from the soldiers about to move in.

"...Doc... we gotta find a cure. I'll be damned if i let Matilda or Vodka or any of my other droid buddies get taken by this thing." Boc said.

"agreed. lets move."

Boc grapped logical by the shoulder. "logical, if i get infected, put me outa my misery, i'd rather not exist than be wondering around like some kinda zombie." the droid said quietly.

Logical's enhanced eyes twitched a bit. "....alright..."

Malice helped Matilda to her feet. "lets move people! i don't fancy are chances against that horde of droids if it catches up."

[Kadou]

Ridley waited for what seemed like an eternity, never allowing her Yasminkov the leave its aim at the door. A freeze trap had already been placed near the shattered window, so for now, she felt secure enough to wait out the completion of her autorepair.

Seated on a leather couch, her leg propped up, Ridley watched idly as microthin filaments laced out from her upper shin the lower section of her leg, which was now attached only by a few strained cables. Some of these filament began wrapping around wires and pulling hem back together, soldering them with heat given off by a tiny electric spark. Others gathered up into thicker strands and attempted to press out dents, though with only minimal success.

Eventually, Ridley's leg was repaired as best it could be without a proper repair by a human technician. The the flight-model HUcaseal did not immediately get up to leave, though. If she were to do so, Medley's henchmen would certainly shoot her down.

Perhaps there would be a telepipe somewhere in the apartment? It was worth checking, Ridley decided, and set off with a trained burglar's grace to find one.

[WraithVerge]

Hello everyone! Awesome story so far. This is my first post in here and I hope the story I contribute doesn't step on anyone's toes.

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Voshay awoke before he felt the slight buzz on his right wrist. He sat up in his bed, swung his feet around to the side, and stood up. The principal is in trouble... , Voshay thought as he holstered his Varista to his right side. He slid the closet door aside and pulled out his armor and NUG-2000 launcher. He donned the armor quickly and secured the large weapon to his back. Voshay began to key in the code to activate a telepipe directly to the principal's office, but paused as his eyes rested on the painting above his desk. He pulled the painting off the wall, revealing a small safe embedded into the wall. He keyed the code in and opened the door. Inside was a rare handgun given to him as a gift from a close friend. Voshay had used it for only a week prior to receiving the weapon. Using the weapon's special attack in a forest outside his home, Voshay almost ended his own life as energy poured from the heavens and struck the ground around him, igniting the forest with flames. Voshay shook his head and holstered the weapon behind his right shoulder. No time to reminesce! I've got to get to the principal! I may be too late....

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One of the officers within Tyrell's office stood directly in front of the desk and glared menacingly at the principal. The second officer sat off to the right in a chair behind the first officer. Neither noticed the six foot fout inch, black haired, black and white armored RAmar silently materialize in the corner behind the second officer. Voshay pulled his Varista out of its holster, twirled it around his index finger, grabbed the handle and slammed the butt directly in the back of the sitting officer's head. The principal had blinked, missing the fantastic display of finesse seeing only Voshay appear then the officer slump over. The officer standing could only rotate his head to see Voshay pump a paralyzing shot into his right hip, sending him sprawling unconscious over a chair and into the wall. Positive that both threats were neutralized, Voshay looked up at Tyrell. "You OK, boss?" Voshay asked.
"Never felt better. Thank you."
Tyrell examined Voshay and his battle attire.
"What's with all the equipment?"
Voshay grinned. "I expect you have more for me to do than rescue you from thugs."
Tyrell smiled and nodded. "You are correct, as usual Voshay. I've got a special mission for you. I want you to go down to the recently discovered ruins and locate a team of hunters on a mission. I want you to aid this group in any way you can. I'll get intel to give you a complete list of who's in the group as you pipe into the ruins."
"Sure thing, boss. I'll go right away." Voshay turned and walked to the door.
"Good luck!" Tyrell exclaimed as the door closed behind the RAmar.

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Once again, good story so far and I hope I don't conflict or contradict anyone.

[Solstis]

Nice post, makes it more interesting now! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif
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Solstis and Toldos walked together down a rubble-filled alleyway, avoiding falling debris.
Hikande had gone out ahead for some reason that she never really explained. Solstis expected to never see her again, though Toldos was enthusiastic about the whole affiar. Somehow or another, Chu had appeared all of a sudden. It seemed to be highly agitated, and had expended a lot of energy finding its master. Solstis gently placed him in his pack, letting him rest.

Weapon-wise, Solstis had picked up a Red Saber he had gotten out of some rubble, deciding the previous owner no longer needed it, the only visible part of him being a shoe. Toldos foie'd a droid in the face and took its autogun, and put it to good use as they travelled.

Every now and then a stray android would cross their paths and were easily taken out by Solstis's new saber and Toldos's shooting. The fact that they weren't meeting heavy resistance worried Solstis, it was as if the droids were amassing somewhere.

The two finally came up to a BEE facility where an abnormal amount of droids were congregating for some reason. A few seemed to be carrying heavy objects to the top, and others were posting guard. So far, they hadn't seen the two yet.

"Um, Solstis. My BEE communicator has a virus." said Toldos, pointing at the screen.
"Landale?s ghost! They've gone wireless!"

Solstis desperately wished for some help soon, because some way or another, that BEE tower had to be destroyed.
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Dun! Dun! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/spam.gif!

[Edit] Stupid question marks!
[Edit 2] Forgot the mag! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif
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[-Z]

On 2004-02-16 16:56, WraithVerge wrote:
Once again, good story so far and I hope I don't conflict or contradict anyone.


Not at all! After all, its a group fic! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif
Actually, thats a nice piece you've wrtitten just now. I look forward to see your future posts.

Welcome to PSO world! ^_^
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A small vortex of swirling light sprung to life ina back alley of pioneer 2. When Zi'Zuku opened his eyes, he found himself behind a few storage bins by the hunter's guild checkroom. Knowing he was in a public area, he routinely took out a small pocket mirror, and looked around the corner. what he saw shocked him. what looked like a good third of the Pioneer 2 military force was parked outside. Soldiers positioning themselves behind peices of rubble, snipers standing atop buildings, armor units surrounding the guild on the street. The hunters had mocked the military for their weaker weapons. However, what they lacked in firepower, they excelled in complex tactics. they were easily able to take down a group of hunter who were unable to operate in a group of more than 4. looks like they had the last laugh.

Zi'Zuku was about to curse at his luck. he had come here to steal some medical equipment, and use a MSFR device (Medically Simulated Flesh Regeneration device) in perhaps an empty room. But with the military parked right outside, and him as a wanted criminal, how couls he possibly get inside!?

wait. he had an idea. harly anyone had seen his full face.

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"Sir! Civilian, three o' clock!"

"What!?"

A sergent, garbed in red uniform, turned to his right to see who had the stupidity to come into the birth of a war. A newman, approximately 5"11, in long sleeves and pants, a peice of cloth wrapped around his head and over his left eye, weakly walked in their direction, muttering

"please... help me..."

"What do you think your doing!?"

"please... please help..."

the man's voice was so weak, it was hard to tell what his original voice had sounded like. he certainly looked like he had just gone through hell.

"Get him to the medical center! Men! Let this man be inspiration to you as to who you are defending!"

the men cheered a bit, and two men came from their ranks to help him on their shoulders to the medical center. yet as the man kept his head low, the following words brought his mind to race, as someone had noticed something.

"Sir... you have a hunter's pack on your back."

...

"Well!?"

"i found it by a dead hunter... i thought it would help... it only has a few mates..."

...

"alright. mind if i look inside?"

the man flicked his wrist, using the soldier on his left as a visual block. he was pretty sure the sergent was surprised as a powerful rafoie erupted from amidst his platoon. as he demanded for a status report, the soldiers supporting the man left him by the door, intructing him to go to the front desk and ask for help, before leaving him to assist their commander. the man hobbled forward, as the hospital doors closed behind him.

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The nurse at the front desk looked up to see who had cause the doors to open and close. Zi'Zuku, pressed himself behind the small protrusion in the wall, conceiling himself from the nurse's view. He removed his small sweatcloth, and adjusted his hair, before dressing into his regular attire, and stepping out towards the nurse.

"*gasp!*"

"silence is a life saver. heed this, and you will live. Nidra, watch her."

The scorpian like mag floated up from Zi'Zuku's hunter pack. though its optics looked simple, the nurse knew that its reports would determine her fate. Zi'Zuku proceeded through the door leading to the medical staff. he saw a few nurses around, but they seemingly attempted to hide from him. he made a right turn, and entered the room. he layed down on the platform, and hit the neccassary activation codes; he had done 'hospital raids' many times, enough to find the activation codes for this machine. the platform retracted into the MSFR device, and he felt himself being healed all over. he always loved the way it felt. after a short minute or two, the platform extended, and he was free to leave.

but he made 1 last stop. he proceeded to the androids repair area. it didn't take long before he found a ratchet. he made sure it was posotive that nobody was around to see him, and stripped down to his boxers. well, almost.

had anyone seen him, they'd have seen multiple metal bindings on his body. you see, ever since Zi'Zuku was 7, he had been training with weights. he'd add a bit of weight, and slimply go through everyday life. eventually, his body would adapt, and this added weight would seem 'normal' to his body. a bit after that happened, he would add a bit more weight, and go throught he proccess again. These 'weights' were actually just strong metal, but a single bolt on each allowed it to be pressed down harder on his body. like a torque wrench, this preasure equal out to an amount of weight. forearms, biceps, thighs, calfs, stomach and back; these were the places with weights. Zi'Zuku slowly torqued about a pound to each, and got dressed.

"better get going..."
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EDIT: that turned out a bit longer than i expected it too. sorry about that http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

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[Lone_Wolf_Nasca]

"How about you? Would you like to join our noble quest...?" Asked Dr.Montague to Nasca.

Nasca slowly stood up and started walking away from Montague and his group and Hunters.

"So whats your response ?" Montague yelled to Nasca

Nasca halted and turned around. and simply said...

"I am sorry, but I'm tired and my wounds need tending. I would only be a burden to your group in my current condition" Nasca removed a strange devise from his belt and let it fall to the floor, instantly a weird colored portal opened, taking Nasca away and closing in a instant.

"Was that a telepipe ?" one of the Hunters asked.

"No. That was a private warp." answered Montague.

"A what ?" Anther hunter asked, confused.

"Its a devise that allows the user to return to a desired programmed location, a telepipe warps the user back to Pioneer 2."

Somewhere...

A Racaseal is watering some plants inside a greenhouse, humming a little tune, unaware of the troubles outside of the tranquil heaven she is in.

"I wonder when will Master be back. He said he would only be gone for a couple of hours" She thought to herself while she watered the plants. Suddenly a warp opened behind her and a badly wounded Nasca tumbled out, unconcious.

"Master !!"

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Dont have much time to post >.< !! I will have to continue this later.

[mr_rubbish]

Welcome aboard WraithVerge! Don't worry about messing up... I doubt you could make things any worse than I already have! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif
(Now all we need is Zzzzzzz http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_sleep.gif )
Note to self: Go back in time and give 7 year-old Zi'zuku a cuddly ill Gil toy...
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Dr. Montague was inwardly devestated though he tried not to show it. In the space of just a couple of Beats he had lost four very powerful allies. He had dropped a permanant telepipe a short distance back, but there was no guarantee that any form of reinforcements would be coming.

Still there was nothing that could be done at this point.

"Onwards and er... Downwards!" He said cheerily, leading the group into the unknown.

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Colonel Ortega stepped into Tyrell's office and surveyed the scene. The two officers were recovering themselves from their stupor. He realised he should have sent his own men to secure the Principal instead of relying on grunts. He turned out of the room to where his team were assembled.

"Fratz, take six men and find the Principal before he leaves the Guild section. He must NOT be allowed to alert the civilian authorities. The rest of you come with me. I'm going to track down whoever did this and execute them personally!"

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It began with a roar...

The hovercar was rocked so violently by the impact that it bounced half a metre into the air before crashing down just shy of where the resistance stood. A hail of rifle and mechgun fire filled the air with brightly coloured photons as several more military hovertanks opened fire upon the defensive positions.

"Fall back! Fall back!" Shouted Bernie, struggling to be heard over the sounds of battle.

[Lone_Wolf_Nasca]

"Master !!" The panicking Racaseal ran towards Nasca and crounched(sp?) in front of him. She opened a small hatch in her wrist.

"Start medical scan !!" On her command a blue light coming from her wrist started scaning Nasca's body.

"Subject has: Weak pulse and trouble breathing, 3 broken ribs, 1 dislocated arm, severe blood loss due to extreme external bleeding from 6 gun shot wounds in both legs and 2 deep gashes in his arms and internal bleeding from a blunt object impacting the chest area several times. The subject must recieve urgent medical attention.

"Probability of survival ?" The Racaseal asked scared.

"Computing."
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"The subject has 23% chance of survival with close medical attention. Probability of survival will drop by 10% , if medical attention is not recieved within a hour."

"Master...." The Racaseal stood there for a moment and contemplated on the situation. What could she do ? She only had basic medical knowledge within her programing and Nasca needed urgent medical attention, she had to get him to a hospital !!

"I wont let you die Master" She whispered in Nasca's ear as she prepared a photon lift to move Nasca to the hospital. The lift slowly began raising itself in the air while the Racaseal guided it out of the greenhouse and into a rather large hover car that Nasca had bought a long time ago to transport plants from other locations to his greenhouse. The Racaseal got inside the hover car and started it up.

"Welcome, please input user name and ID"

"Galatea, ID Oran"

"Welcome Galatea, what is your desired destination ?"

"Pioneer 2 Hunters Hospital."

The hover car engines began to fire up, the machine began to hover and finally took off with impresive speed towards the Pioneer 2 Hunters Hospital. Galatea unaware of the chaos that awaits futher on...

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Will continue later ^_^. Oh and if anyone wants the details on Galatea's background story feel free to PM me and ask ^_^.

[Garanz2]

I'm not really up to writing at the moment unfortunately, I'm having a helluva busy week (I'm in a play). If possible, could someone take over my character, (1st page of the character bank) or just leave a space for me to get back in next week. Antitank's probably had the stuffing beatenout of her by now though.

[mr_rubbish]

I don't Antitank should be too worried. Nasca will turn up and save her! (After having a nice long rest to heal his wounds http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif )


On 2004-02-17 11:08, Garanz2 wrote:
I'm not really up to writing at the moment unfortunately, I'm having a helluva busy week (I'm in a play). If possible, could someone take over my character, (1st page of the character bank) or just leave a space for me to get back in next week. Antitank's probably had the stuffing beatenout of her by now though.

[BOC]

The hapless heros had been able to creep along the street without drawing too much attention to themselves.

They where perched behind another building, Malice swerved his head around the corner to take a look. Logical grapped him by the shoulder and spun him back into cover. "let me" he said, starring into the wall.

Malice gave a puzzled look, then remembering this strange ranger had some kinda voodoo eye thing going on. "what can you see?" he said.

"lots of gun totting soldiers that way, and lots more droids that way." he replied cooly.

Boc was shifting his feet about. "so whats the plan? we just gonna keep running around in circles? whats the point?" he said, kicking a stone.

"You got a better idea rust-bucket??" logical said.

"lets go help montague and his team in the ruins. hell wouldn't hurt to have two eggheads working on it." the dark droid said jesturing to Doc Stone.

"The main transporter has more soldiers guarding it than you have photon charges. whatya suggest we do, blindly charge in there and start slaughtering them all? we'd be dead before we knew it." logical moaned.

"hell, i'd be game for a little mass slaughter!" matilda said evily. The rest of the gang eyed her nervously. She tapped the side of her head "hehehe, dunno where that came from." she said surprized at herself.

"we don't have to use the main transporter. Follow me." Boc said, leading them off to an unknown destination.
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20 minutes later, the group found themselves faced with a shuttle hanger. The door where sealed tight. "brilliance rusty, shear brilliance! use a shuttle and go down to the planet." the Doc said.

"Why aren't the military guarding it?" matilda said.

"thats a 2metre thick reinforced hanger door, its sealed by one of the most sophisticated locks on this ship. only people with access can enter." Boc said.

"do you have access?"

"no. but these can get us in." Boc said, pointing towards logical's eyes.

The short ranger smiled. they scurried up to a panel beside the door. a small optical reading station was placed beside it. Logical walked up, letting the scanner read his eyes.

"i don't get it, if he doesn't have access either, how can he get us in?" the doc questioned.

"my eyes can adjust themselves to suit optical readers. think of a locksmith picking a lock." he said.

"who woulda thought somebody's eyesight would be so handy." Matilda said, just as the large door began to slowly open.

The group walked inside, greeted by two lone soldiers, each looking rather nervous. "H-HALT! stop right there. who are you, how did you get in here? are those droids with you??"

logical stepped up to the two guards, as both nervously pointed there guns up at him. "how dare you boys point your weapons at a commanding officer!!"

"commanding officer?"

"Lt. Commander Ardo Melnikov, i've been ordered by the good general to comindeer a shuttle for a vital mission to ragol. stand down soldier." he said in an authoritive military tone.

"but sir, we where told not to trust any droids." he said motioning to Boc and matilda.

"they aren't just any droids son! thats lance corporal Boc, a hero of the coralian wars! and that is First Sergant Matilda, she is a deranged killer so you better watch your mouth boy!"

Boc tried to stiffle any laughter, opening the door to the nearest shuttle. "come on, lets get going before he tells them that Malice here is incharge of the pioneer naval fleet."

They all piled into the shuttle, Boc taking up the pilot seat, Matilda manning the co-pilot chair. they watched as logical kept yelling at the two helpless guards. he pointed off towards the launch room, and turned entering the shuttle.

"those dumbasses are gonna clear us for launch. We better get going before they found out i was discharged."

Soon the small shuttle was soaring towards ragol, pioneer 2 getting smaller each minute, looking like a jewel in the sky. "okay, we land, we hike through the forest, caves, mines.... we should be there in a few hours." Boc said.

"thats a few hours too late." the Doc replied.

Malice leaned forward in his seat. "Boc, how well can you fly this thing?"

"well i flew when i was a military drone. so pretty okay. why do you ask?"

"when i was in the ruins earlier, i came across this giant hole that seemed to go the whole way to the surface...." he said wrily.

"way ahead of you master, scanners show it 2km due north." Matilda said.

Boc pulled on the controls. "lets just hope this thing will fit down."
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wow that was long. welcome to the party WraithVerge!!! always good to have new blood! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

PEACE!!!

[Zzzzzz]

w00tness! As always I'm going to use some random guy. I might use him in future groupfics!

The men and I stood in the main military building. The building was, like anything military, simple and rough. There were few decorations and even fewer benches to sit on.
Finally, after waiting for (Insert number of beats for ten minutes here) beats, the sergeant came out. "Men," he said with a wide smile on his face, "Our squad has finally received the A-OK to do operation "Hunt Hunters."
That didn't seem to be the answer I was looking for. Sure, we're the newest squad and we're just finished combat training, but why are we fighting every hunter? I thought the other squads went out to stop the violent androids, not kill every and any hunter.
This bothered my conscience. I then wondered if it bothered the sergeant's conscience, too.
"Sir?"
"Yes, Jerheroc?"
"Aren't we supposed to stop only the androids, not kill the hunters?"
I noticed that everyone around me began to move away from me despite the fact we had to stay in formation. But the sergeant didn't care. He had his eyes fixed on me as he approached me. "If there's a law I strongly enforce around here," he said in an oddly calm voice, "it's NEVER QUESTION THE ACTION OF A COMMANDING OFFICER! GOT IT, SOLDIER?"
I almost passed out due to his bad breath. Seriously.
"Yes, sir."
"Good."
He looked around at everyone before he spoke again. "ARE YOU TIRED OF THESE HUNTERS TAKING OVER YOUR JOB?" he yelled loud enough so that everyone could hear. Almost everyone but me shouted "YEAH!" with ethutheasim(sp).
"ARE YOU TIRED OF THESE HUNTERS GETTING MORE MONEY ON A SIMPLE MISSION THEN WE EARN IN A WEEK?" Everyone shouted in agreement again. "WELL, NOW THAT THE HUNTERS ARE IN CIVIL WAR, WE CAN EXTRACT OUR VENGENCE! NOW MOVE OUT!" The whole squad shouted even louder and left the building. The sergeant wanted me to stay here because he had a special mission for me.
"Since you're reluctant to kill too much, Jerheroc, I want you to find a man named Doctor Stone." He showed me a picture.
"He was reported of going on a shuttle heading towards this location."
He showed me the ruins. There was a hole in the ceiling leading up to the surface. I raised an eyebrow and asked "How do you know this, sir?"
He pulled out a little device. He twristed a knob and I could hear voices. He pressed a button that seemed to have rewinded the voices, then turned it up so I could hear better.
"those dumbasses are gonna clear us for launch. We better get going before they found out i was discharged."
There was some noise, then silence. Someone spoke.
"okay, we land, we hike through the forest, caves, mines.... we should be there in a few hours."
"thats a few hours too late."
"Boc, how well can you fly this thing?"
"well i flew when i was a military drone. so pretty okay. why do you ask?"
"when i was in the ruins earlier, i came across this giant hole that seemed to go the whole way to the surface...."
"way ahead of you master, scanners show it 2km due north."
He turned it off.
"I want you to bring Doctor Stone and the box he's carrying, back undamaged. Understood?"
"Understood, sir."
"Good. There's a teleporter over there," he said and pointed to a blue teleporter, "I input the clearance and the exact coordinates. I want you suited up then leave through that portal."
Being the expert sniper of the squad, I went to put on my gray and partly green camouflage suit when I heard the sergeant spoke up.
"And if you meet a man called Ardo Melnikov AKA Logical," he said as he came up to me and handed another picture, "You are to bring him back...dead."

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Sorry for the first person thingy. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif I write better in that view. And some things might look wierd due to the fact I had to explain how's he's gonna find Doc at the last minute.



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[Logical2u]

1st: Logical (2u, whatever) is actually not that short. but although I bet to BOC (who is probably highest height setting) Logical2u is.
2nd: Future reference: BOC hit my idea on the nose with lock picks. For my Story (Defeats Finest Hour), Logical2u was a spy, of sorts. Was on a ship to Ragol to supervise some military operation in the mines and to check for security leaks. He got his eyes ripped out by a renegade soldier on the way to Ragol, they got replaced by some high technology, including infrared scans. Unfortunately, because they wanted to keep the renegades a secret, they were forced to wipe the memories of Ardo and anyone close friends he divulged the information to. And, ok BOC gave me the idea, why wouldnt they give me countermeasures? (Before they realised they would have to wipe my brain!)

After being deposited on Pioneer 2 by the ship, parts of his memory resurfaced (see D'sFH), instilling extreme anger at the military, principal and lab, essential creating the Logical Guild, which is a currency/counter-military based guild.

Oh yeah, he's only a Lt.Commander because he was trying to capture renegades on the military ship. It helped him blend in. He worked as a Liason between the Armory and the command chain.

Logical stands for Leader Of Gamma Infiltration Commandos, Armory Liason.

IE: It's LOGICAL to you!

And BOC, I don't use a Justy anymore, I gave it Raziel Kai.



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[Deathscythealpha]

The shuttle rocked gently as it decended, rocking the passengers back and forth. Malice thought it was quite soothing.

He had ben staring at Matilda for most of the flight, he didnt know why. The incident with the crazed android had really shooken her up before, and he felt the need to comfort and look after her since then. He didnt know why, it was just something he felt inside. The side off his lip curled into a gentle smile has he stared at her.

"Coming in close to the entrance now Malice" said BOC, leaning over his chair to tell him. There was a crunch and a judder and BOC quickly swivveled back in his chair.

"Um, weve hit the entrance, heh, now decending"

'Not the smoothest of entrances, but it will do' thought Malice to himself. He unsheathed his agito as he sat there, already knowing the sort of things they would be facing.

"Theres going to be a bit of distance between us and Doc Montague, i hope all you lot are ready for a fight"

[DarkRadiance]

this is my first post here and ill be fighting along side Voshay. i hope i can keep up with the story. ive never done this before. he and i are going to be alternating and taking turns telling our story through our character's eyes.
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Kryoden woke with a start. He glanced quickly around the room, letting his eyes get used to the dim light flooding into the room from the single tinted window along the right wall. The first thing he noticed was his brother's empty cot. The sheets were askew and a pillow was resting on the floor.

Kryoden stared, puzzled. "Voshay never leaves his cot like that," he said to himself, "I wonder where he went."

As a habit, Kryoden began to examine the room. His eyes swept over the room and stopped on a painting on the far wall. The painting was slanted just slightly, but enough to catch the attention of the not-so-ever vigilant HUmar. He got up, and not bothering to make up his cot, a thing his brother was very compulsive about, walked across the room and removed the painting from the wall.

A wave of panic swept over Kryoden when he noticed the safe open and the HeavenPunisher not in its place. Wondering what his big brother could have gotten himself into and remembering the flattened forest back home, Kryoden lept to his bed and threw on his armor. He snatched up his Yamato blades and grabbed his Varista before finally sitting down to gather his thoughts.

Hang on, Kryoden. He thought to himself. Mabey I can find him with the tracking devices implanted in our bodies.

He sat on his bed and accessed his radar. With a beep, the blank screen sparked to life. On it, a small white dot appeared. Readings began to scroll accross the screen.

"I knew it!" Kryoden exclaimed, "He's gone to the ruins."

Kryoden terminated the radar and got up. He closed his eyes and began to imput coordinates in his mind.

"RYUKER!" he yelled, and vanished, leaving the room dark and empty.

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Well, there it is. WraithVerge will pick it up from here.



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[mr_rubbish]

Welcome on board Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! & DarkRadiance!
Fresh meat for the grinder! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

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Tamarin had been most relieved to chance upon Dr. Montague's message disk and telepipe. The holographic projection relayed a sense of urgency as well as a possible reason to her blackouts. It was quite possible that if she ventured further into these ruins, her chance of losing herself to this 'virus' would increase... But what choice did she have?

The HUcaseal finally caught the group, they had been halted by the presence of six Dark Belras. These lumbering behemoths were built like tanks but unable to maneuver fast enough to land a solid hit on any of the much more nimble hunters. Heat Daggers in hand she jump into the thick of battle.

It was only after the battle had ended that she noticed her Apsaras had taken up with another hunter. Tamarin confronted the RAnewearl. (I know she's a HUnewearl)

"That's my mag!"

"Looks like it doesn't like you." Janet replied smugly.

Tamarin ignored that last remark. "Come on Apsaras. Come back to me!"

The mag responded by sinking low behind Janet's back, beeping as it did so.

"What do you mean you're afraid of me?" Tamarin asked it, but it did not reply further.

"Listen. I'll look after it until this is over okay?"

"Alright, but when this is over, I'm telling your master about this!" She said pointing to the hiding mag.

[Zzzzzz]

I heard noises as I waited in the shadows. "It seems my patience wore off," I wispered as a slight smile went over my face. I always liked sniping targets that didn't know you were there. It always seemed...fun.
First Doc walked out, followed by a RAcast the papers identified as BOC. then Ardo and a HUmar and a RAcaseal. The HUmar seemed to be engrossed in watching the RAcaseal.
I looked through the scope on my sniper. I aimed for the target that would noice me first. BOC most likely. The papers I was reading said something about Ardo's eyes, but I doubt he'll see me in the darkness. I aimed for BOC's head...

[WraithVerge]

Thanks for the welcome, everyone =)
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Finding an alternate pipe to the ruins was easier than Voshay thought possible, due in large part to the mass chaos on board Pioneer 2. He would have preferred to used the pipe Montegue had set up, but decided against that as the pipe was heavily guarded.

Voshay materialized in a darkened room within the ruins. He drew his Varista and activated the lightbeam. A cone of light struck the wall infront Voshay, illuminating the wall and a door. Voshay turned his back to the door and moved the light around the room, getting a better view of the content within. It was empty save for another door on the other side of the room, a few blackened surfaces, and weapons strewn about. When nothing presented itself, Voshay stepped through the door behind him.

The corrider was only marginally brighter than the previous room, enough so that Voshay deactived the lightbeam and proceeded cautiously amidst the shadows. He reached an intersection leading to the left and right. A slight hum was eminating from the left hall and the right hall came to an abrupt stop at a collapsed ceiling. Voshay moved down the left hall, following the humming sound. Rounding a few corners, Voshay came to a large door adorned with cryptic symbols. Large, spiny portrusions lined the sides and upper portion of the door. Voshay examined the door for a time, then attempted to open it. It didn't budge.

Sighing, Voshay stepped back to assess the best way to solve the problem when his foot landed on a concealed stone switch. Voshay tensed his body as the door began to slide open. Bright light poured out from the widening crack, and Voshay was forced to shield his eyes. When his eyes adjusted to the sudden light, his jaw dropped at the sight beyond.

Hundreds, possibly thousands of hidious beings filled the huge chamber. Human-sized beasts with long, colored blade arms were grouped close to Voshay's right. Small, floating worms with sharp blades protruding around what seemed like a mouth hovered close to a larger, flapping jelly-fish looking monstrosity. Floating beings with 2 crystals hovering on each side were posed in the center of the congregation. Large, centuar-like beasts with massive arm blades and towering, wobbling brown beasts walked around the room, seeming to examine the mass of beings. Amongst the monsters were Casts and Caseals roaming about or standing still in a silent pose. The congregation didn't notice the RAmar for most appeared to be sleeping or, in the case of the droids, recharging. Voshay, in utter astonishment, did not notice the closing door behind him. He turned around and intended to retreat from the room, but instead slammed right into the door as it closed. The impact against the door caused Voshay's right hand to squeeze the trigger on his Varista, sending a photon shot bouncing off the floor and striking a blue double-bladed beast in the head.

The beast toppled and cascaded into the larger group, causing a domino-type effect as others began to fall with the dead being. Cursing his bad luck, Voshay searched for an exit and found one beyond the group of blade-arms. Voshay, not giving the congregation any time to figure out what happened, bolted through the blade-arm group and down the corrider. A deafening roar sounded behind Voshay, followed by a barbaric chant, "MusT KIll! MuST KiLl!"

Voshay reached a door at the end of the corrider. He had hoped it would be unlocked, but luck was not with him today. He holstered his Varista, backed up a considerable distance, and pulled the NUG-2000 off his back. Voshay fired a shot off at the door, completly destroying it. He ran through the blackened hole, but paused as he emerged into the room. He had to find a way to hamper the beings' progress toward his position. An idea came to him, and he looked up at the ceiling. Voshay moved to the center of the room, aimed at the part of the ceiling zenith of the hole he had come from, and fired a rocket. The ceiling collapsed, smothering the hole with large debris. Sparks and small pieces of debris struck Voshay's armor and bounced off in all directions. Satisfied with his handiwork, Voshay placed the NUG-2000 on his back, turned to leave the room, but stopped. He whipped around pointed the barrel of his Varista to the forehead of the hunter that appeared behind him. The hunter threw up his hands and had a shocked look on his face. Voshay recognized the kid with long, black hair. "Kryoden!", Voshay exclaimed.

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Hehe, I have plans for this little "stampede"... if all goes correctly Vos and Kry should meet up with Dr. Montague and the group. I'm still not sure who all is in that group, but I'm going to re-read previous stories to find out.


P.S. I accidently put "black, long-haired kid" when I meant "kid with long, black hair." A little mistake can cause a whole lot of confusion!

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[mr_rubbish]

The ruins group consists of:
Dr. Montague
Elenor
Janet (HUnewearl with rifle)
Tamarin (HUcaseal)
Ratchet (RAmar)
Clank (RAcast)
Possible Shi & Kori (dunno what they are though one is HU the other is FO)

plus 12 or so 'miscellaneous hunters'. These are fodder as well as being a pool of people to draw upon to drive the plot or develop into proper characters. Please do not kill all of them http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

I think thats it. Everyone else went back to P2 but are now on their way back down again.



On 2004-02-17 15:52, WraithVerge wrote:
Hehe, I have plans for this little "stampede"... if all goes correctly Vos and Kry should meet up with Dr. Montague and the group. I'm still not sure who all is in that group, but I'm going to re-read previous stories to find out.

[Solstis]

On 2004-02-17 15:58, mr_rubbish wrote:

plus 12 or so 'miscellaneous hunters'. These are fodder as well as being a pool of people to draw upon to drive the plot or develop into proper characters. Please do not kill all of them http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

I think thats it. Everyone else went back to P2 but are now on their way back down again.


I think Solstis and Toldos are still stuck way back in the Hunter section of P2 alone ( *sniffle* ). Everyone ditched them... maybe I'll "borrow" a misc. guy or something. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

Or they'll find some mysterious teleporter leading to the ruins in the BEE tower... hmm.. the possible plot holes are endless.

[Logical2u]

As Logical2u followed BOC in the dark and musty ruins, a small warning alarm beeped on his BEE. A contact with a hostile, even after all these rooms had been previously cleared?

Even as he was thinking that, BOC fell to the ground clutching his head and screaming "I still aint dead yet!" He saw a still glowing impact point from a photon weapon.

The entry indicated someone behind them!

Logical2u swung around glancing into the shadows behind their landed shuttle.
It was highly likely that a soldier could've gotten here first with the teleporter.

And if they were shooting at them, Logical2u knew they must know his history.

Ardo equipped the miltary rifle he had. If the shooter could see them (which, if it was a human/newman, without a scope of some sort, was unlikely. The room was of such a size that a sniper was possible though), it might flinch, or move, or something, giving them time to find the shooter.

Logical2u brought up his left hand in the classic Rifle Resta pose. the aura covered up the surface wound of BOC's but the internal damage was still there.

Logical2u glanced around the room. On the main mode, it was pitch black. The eyes switched from mode to mode, setting on Infrared.

Unfortunately, that was almost worse. The room was giving off heat of it's own, betraying the darkness with warmth. But one spot was brighter. As Logical2u settled his eyes on the target, it grew brighter, almost as if it was sweating in fear.

Logical2u propped the rifle up next to his eyes and scoped on a small outcropping of rocks above the figure.

He fired.
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The rest is up to you guys, here.

[DarkRadiance]

On 2004-02-17 15:52, WraithVerge wrote:
Voshay recognized the black, long-haired kid. "Kryoden!", Voshay exclaimed. Voshay recognized the young, black-haired boy.
"Kryoden!" Voshay exclaimed.

Kryoden is not black. -no racial offense intended.-

[Zzzzzz]

I saw Ardo fire a shot at me. I jumped back expecting the bullet to almost hit me, but it didn't.
It was a wild shot. I smiled and pulled up my scope when I heard a noise from above.
"Aw, crap."
I managed to jump out of the way, but I couldn't save my communitation device from the falling debris. "This is not good."
I kept running, barely avoiding his shots.
Then I decided to do one of the craziest things I ever thought of. I started running towards Ardo, using my sniper as a shield as it absorbed all the shots. I knocked Ardo in the head with my the end of my rifle, obviously knocking him down.
But he wasn't out and I aimed my rifle at his head.
He just smiled as I pulled the trigger.
*Click*
It wouldn't fire.
*Click, click*
He hit it in the key locations. He knew I was planning to do this! No one could have known unless...
I threw it down and raised my hands.
I looked and at him and said "Heh. You read the EACO book, I take it?"

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Epsiognage And Covert Operations. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif
Logical, hopefully I didn't make your character too smart (my character is a rookie, though).

[Solstis]

The two decided to hi-tail it out of there, and ran into an adjacent alleyway while the andriods were stunned. In the alleyway, Solstis spotted two shiny objects.

"Hey! Are those my Yamatos?"
"Your Yamato?"
"Whatever."

Attached to the Yamato was the hand of an obviously dead HUmar. Very obviously dead.

Solstis picked up the swords with reverence and shook the offending hand off. On the hilt of both was inscribed "And one ring to rule them all".

"What?"
Solstis looked again.

"Um... I mean, 'Solstis?s swords, back off!'"

Now the two needed a way to get into the seven story tall BEE building before the droids transmitted the virus to all of Pioneer 2, and eventually, Ragol.

"Rafoie!" The building collasped as the fire consumed the bottom floors, crushing all of the androids in and below it.

"You know rafoie?" asked Solstis, scratching his head.
"I read some disks on the way here." replied Toldos, holding up a collection titled "Rafoie, Volumes 1-6".
"Anti-climatic, don?t you think?"

Toldos shrugged, and the two continued to walk down the road, not knowing that their path would lead to Bernie and the others.
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Mome cackle with glee. He had finally finished creating Alpha 360, a RAcast painted with the traditional camo. It was a short for a RAcast, and not much to look at, unless one considered that it was made with the technology used in the construction of the Sinow class machines.

Alpha 360 was capable of producing multiple images of itself, and was only truly destructible via an exhaust port located on its right inner-hip. No one would know, or even think of this weakness except for Zi... whatever his name was, and Kafka would surely have killed him by now.

Alpha 360 also had the primitive form of resta that the Sinow Golds can use after meddling adding a new A.I. core called "FOCAST".

Mome laughed again as he sent out his creation to track down Elenor and the others, and dispose of them.

"Soon..." he said. "Soon..."

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longer than I thought... and I can be bloodthirsty too, ya know!

[Edit] @(&^$! (*$&(# #$U@#*$&#*(&$*(@#&$@!!!!!1!

Fixed, sorta.

[Edit^3] Yeah, that's the last time I fix this (I hope)




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[WraithVerge]

On 2004-02-17 16:03, Solstis wrote:


On 2004-02-17 15:58, mr_rubbish wrote:

plus 12 or so 'miscellaneous hunters'. These are fodder as well as being a pool of people to draw upon to drive the plot or develop into proper characters. Please do not kill all of them http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

I think thats it. Everyone else went back to P2 but are now on their way back down again.


I think Solstis and Toldos are still stuck way back in the Hunter section of P2 alone ( *sniffle* ). Everyone ditched them... maybe I'll "borrow" a misc. guy or something. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

Or they'll find some mysterious teleporter leading to the ruins in the BEE tower... hmm.. the possible plot holes are endless.



Looks like Sol and I posted a story bout the same thing at the same time. Hehe, its his char so I delete my story.

actually, I saved it just it case....

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[WraithVerge]

Oops.... sorry Sol. I didn't know you were going to post.

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Ridley crept about the apartment cautiously. She searched frantically for a telepipe, but to no avail. Frustrated, she opened the door that led out into the hallway. She peeked down both sides of the the hallway, saw that it was clear, then headed into the room across from her. She closed the door behind quietly for she believed the W.O.R.K.S. soldiers would be storming the building by now. She searched the room for a telepipe, but failed to find one again. A dimmed explosion sounded outside the apartment, and Ridley moved to peer out the window. She spotted a HUmar and FOnewm heading in the direction of a large group of W.O.R.K.S. soldiers...
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Go at it Kadou. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif
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[KaFKa]

wait for me! i can make it to the ruins... i think...
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Hikande sat and stared coldly. She watched the atrocities the miltary was performing. She couldnt believe what was happening. The crashes and explosions that rang out from time to time, they were all dulled, softened. The entire scene took on a surrealness to it. As Hikande sat and stared, a single tear fell down an emotionless face. Hikande knew what she had to do.

Standing up, she cast her most powerful shifta and deband, and brought up her hand to her lips. "One last time, my friends." Her eyes filled with tears as she ran out, preparing for what must be done.

A lone hoverdroid flew low over the battlefield, looking for any more signs of life. As it turned a corner, it crashed into the ground as a HUnewearl landed on its back and proceeded to rip it's wiring apart. One of the military snipers fired a shot, aiming for the hunter's head. The hunter dodged and fired a powerful purple beam that desroyed the sniper's perch along with the sniper himself.

Hikande threw powerful rafoies on the congregated miltary platoons as she dashed through the deck. Hikande ran past screams of agony and sounds of death that she had caused. Hikande destroyed driod after droid, and hunter android after hunter android. She couldnt bear the amount of death and destruction she was causing, but somehow knew that it must be done. Taking out entire columns with her lavis blasts, Hikande tore through the military, always appearing where the military didnt expect her.

As Hikande finished off a commander with her Lavis Blades, she heard a general announcement from one of the flying droids.

"Attention, all WORKS personnel are to hunt down and kill a HUnewearl wearing blue, known by the name 'Hikande'"

Hikande cast resta and sheathed her lavis blades, taking out her TJ sword.

"So, they want a hunt." Hikande said, looking over her TJ sword. "This prey fights back."

Hikande launched from the rooftop she was on and landed on a hover droid, stabbing her sword through its chest compartment, and channeling a powerful gizonde through the sword, bringing the robot down with little incident. The second she hit the ground, Hikande felt a hot photon eat away at one of her legs, and instantly took flight, using alleyways and ruined buildings as cover. She found herself under increasing fire, giving flight more and more, instead of attacking the military.

She ran through an alleyway, and found herself in front of a whole WORKS platoon. She skidded to a halt, and took flight down a main street. Hikande turned at every intersection, getting more and more soldiears in tow. As she ran, photon bulltets ate away at her armor and body, causing a large amount of damage. Hikande could barely run when she found herself in the fountian in the middle of the hunters deck.

She looked around, and realized that she had the entire area on top of her. She was surrounded. Even multiple hover droids had beads on her. She stood exasperated. She was almost at her breaking point.

The WORKS batallion had closed in on her, giving only five feet of leeway. They stood, perfectly still, both WORKS and Hikande.

A lone sniper, from too far away to land a telling blow fired. The photon bullet came past the heads of WORKS, and struck Hikande in the shoulder.

That was it. That was the breaking point.

Hikande's sato charged itself with energy, and produced a field of invincibility around Hikande and itself.

Hikande knew what must be done.

She swung one final swing, and a brilliant explosion of blue energies ripped through the WORKS batallion, tearing most of them to shreds. Their screams faded into nothingness as the energy faded, and what was left was just a barren field of death. Hikande held the sword loosely, the blade resting on the ground.

A single tear rolled down an emotionless face.

Hikande collapsed and laid face down in the fountian's water.

My last hurrah...



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Yaski went through the ruins, having been repaired and outfitted with better equipment. She looked around, and commanded the varitable brigade of agents that Black Paper had assigned to her.

The monsters of the ruins couldnt stand up to the sheer amount of firpower that was brought down upon them.

Yaski led them through the various rooms, giving telepipes to most of the stranded hunters, and delving deep into the depths of the ruins.

They came across a group of maybe thirty hunters, which she realized was the earlier group they had evaded. Complete with the stupid pink RAcaseal.

Yaski activated her active camoflauge and ordered the agents to hold, walking up to the group.

Yaski appeared in front of Dr. Montague, whom promtly jumped out of fright. Instantly Elenor had a meteor smash aimed at Yaski, who had a red dot placed perfectly upon Elenor's CPU. Montague put his hand on top of Elenor's meteor smash, trying to get her to lower it.

Yaski lowered her Yaskimov2000 and looked to Montague.

"I come to offer my services in dealing with the root of the malicious virus." She said coldly.

"Why, thank you-" Montague started, but was cut off by one of the random hunters.

"You're one of those agents that Black Paper uses, why should we trust you?"

Yaski looked at the bold hunter with contempt. "This is why." Yaski brought up her left hand and snapped her metallic finger. The brigade of agents swarmed the area, nearly twenty times the origonal group.

Yaski looked at the hunter, her mirror-like armor shining in perfect symmetry.

"I guess you'll just have to take my word for it." Yaski said coldly as she smiled slightly.


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The multiple generals sat at a large combat table, conversing the siege of the hunter's deck, and the rogue hunter that managed to take out two complete divisions before she was dealt with.

"All thats left is the second quadrant, and we will have purged the deck."

"Good..."

"But what about the origonal virus that made the androids go berserk in the first place? Now that we have dealth with the hunters what of that."

"Im not sure..."

The generals' conversations turned to this problem. As the conversation rose to an argument, a calm, cold voice entered the room.

"We already know where the virus has origonated from, and are on our way to take care of it." A small RAmarl, wearing tactical red and black, with a military emblem on her shoulder and a red beret drooped to the left, walked into the room, silencing the generals.

"Pandora? The Covert aWps division has nothing to do with this matter." One of the more ballsy generals proclaimed. The mention of her name opened the eyes of all the generals, and dropped the jaws of a few. The name Pandora was somewhat of a legend, since almost none of the officials past the council and principal Tyrell knew for sure wether the ghost commander of the 'invisible' division existed.

"This matter concerns the entirety of Pioneer 2 and its mission. I doubt the council would keep us at bay. And for your little siege on the hunter's deck is to stop, or else..." She trailed off, drawing a Bravace. and aiming at the closest general.

"Commander, call off the siege. NOW DAMNIT!!!"
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I hope you guys dont mind me bringing in something from my own fic. ^_^

[Kadou]

Thanks new guy (forgot your name >.<;), and sorry I didn't have time to post recently. Like I told Rubbish a few days ago or something, I'm barely getting any time to even check what's going on here, much less type a post. That's why I haven't gotten my char too involved (yet, I hope). I'll keep trying, though.

Hmm.. Did I inspire that last post of yours, Kafka? Flying droids was sort of supposed to be a new technological innovation, but it doesn't matter to much, I guess.

Edit: Oh yeah. The two stealth hover cars were from Black Paper, not WORKS. I guess it wouldmake sense for WORKS to investigate, though.

Medley is an electronics technician who works for Black Paper and specializes in android design and production. He also knows a great deal about inorganic AI's (meaning, he knows nothing about Osto and Mantegue's D-Cell-cored emotional AI's).

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[-Z]

"Nidra, how's she been?"

Nidra simply nodded, letting him know the nurse made no notions to warn the military of his preasence. simply as a joke, he dropped 10 meseta on the front desk, before asking

"Kindly open the doors automatically."

"What? Why don't you just walk up to it?"

"Suit yourself..."

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there was a pause in the battle. reinforcements of troops and tanks had just rolled in along the streets. the hunters returned to within the guild, in attempt to form some new battle plan. the back lines of troops all readied their rifles, searching for something to shoot. they were a bit eased to see their odds though. their armored devision of heavy hover tanks was there to aid them: so heavily armored, they could not fly, but simply hovered a foot above a supporting surface. their firepower was so great, they were even able to take down one another. yet even with their help, tension was high.

tension soon turned to panic as the doors of the medical center behind them turned red hot, and exploded open in a blaze of fire. a single dark figure could be seen emerging from the inferno, sliting the throat of a certain sergeant on his way out. wasting no time, it jumped atop a backline hovertank, and blasted open its top hatch. as soldiers turned to shoot, a sole ranger yelled

"NOW!"

the doors of the hunter's guild swung open, and a horde of hunters swarmed from it. the many windows of the guild building opened, as rangers let the photons fly. forces about the crowd showed no hesitation to cast any type of technique possible. the military quickly reacted to this, using their presice formations to deal with the sudden onslaught. yet they were curious to know why a certain tank had heavy metal music blasting from its speakers, and its main turret swivelling away from the hunters guild.

*FOOM!*

a hover tank some 15 meters away instantly exploded as the hellfire shell impacted on it, leaving but a flaming chassis. the rogue tank suddenly started its engine, and drove through the ranks. as it knocked soldiers under it, the anti-gravity engine put tons of preasure upon the helpless beings, leaving a trail of red paste behind. the tank plowed pull speed into another tank, driving it, and itself off the side of the platform. as it was on the verge of going off, the black figure jumped out from the blown off hatch atop it.

"Cloaked dude!" he heard Bernie shout out.

"I know you're wanted by the hunters guild, and the military, but nonetheless, you ARE a hunter! where do you stand in this war?"

the figure stared at him for a bit, before pointing his palms at the hunters, and the military, firing a rafoie at each. when the blaze had passed, the figure was nowhere to be seen, as photons flurried the area it previously stood.

its a shame it left just before a commander shouted over a megaphone

"Hold your fire! Hold your fire! We're being pulled back!"
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obligitory- ^_^

[KaFKa]

On 2004-02-17 19:17, Kadou wrote:
Hmm.. Did I inspire that last post of yours, Kafka? Flying droids was sort of supposed to be a new technological innovation, but it doesn't matter to much, I guess.


well, i saw a possibility, and exploited it http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

and yeah, i kinda blew some holes in the fic, but i think its good right now http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

[mr_rubbish]

Pandora does a what now?
Hmm time to breakout a small tub of hole filler http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif
I also can't belive that I'm being outposted!!!! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif
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Before....
The resistance did their best to slow down the incoming forces. Heavy tank fire pushing them back into a crossfire with the few surviving berserk droids. Casualties began to mount. Worse still, corrupted BEE messages began showing up. Maybe the virus was being spread in that fashion?

"Get inside the buildings! We'll fight them hand-to-hand!" Bernie commanded the hunters.

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The Beats seem to stretch out and become unbearable. Everytime they tried to stand their ground they were forced back by sheer firepower. The orders issued earlier to try and avoid killing the enemy impossible to follow now, it was kill or be killed. Jurion, a RAcast, approached Bernie who was hiding behind the rubble from one of the collapsed walls. He was clutching his ribs with one hand while struggling to level his Flame Visit at the enemy line some 70 metres away.

"Are you alright?" His voice tinged with concern.

"Bernie smiled grimly. "Yeah, that HUcast clipped me a few Beats ago, I'm just winded is all. Listen, round up everyone you can. We're going to fall back to the hospital."

"Aye aye sir!" The android saluted him and ran off to gather the others.

Bernie shook his head and moved his hand away from his right rib area. There was a small trace of blood and he was pretty sure something was broken there two. A shadow fell across him.

"Need some help stranger?"

He glanced up. It was Hikande.

"They're that way!" He indicated with a thumb. "Try and be gentle!" He grinned.

She did not return the favour as she unsheathed her Lavis Blades and marched into battle.

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Oretga paused. Reports had just come in that Green, Black, and Orange teams were all dead and Blue had suffered major casualties all in one encounter. He frowned at what the hunters might posess that could be so devestating. He soon put the thoughts from his mind. He had located a telepipe that lead off the ship into the ruins. The Hunter was to become the hunted!

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After Pandora had left, General Panda gave a wry smile.

"It does not matter. The Hunters Guild is finished now as far as I'm concerned..."

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Phew! Caught up a bit!

[Deathscythealpha]

Malice stood forward and rasied his agito to the soldiers throat.

"Matilda, can you give Logical and BOC a hand please, ill keep an eye on this one" he stared at the soldier he was now holding hostage. He seemed to be holding himself well in this situation, but a single tears of sweat running down his face gave away a small amount of his fear.

"Why have you followed us? And why have you put a photon bullet in BOC's armoured skull?"

"Self preservation"

"And you following us...?"

"The same reason. I didnt want to take part in a massacre"

[Lone_Wolf_Nasca]

"Stop !!" A soldier signaled Galatea to stop the hover car as he began to aproach the still moving vehicle.

"I wonder whats going on !?!?!?" Galatea thought to herself as she reached the military road block, composed by several soldiers, who were standing guard and a few tanks nearby. Galatea stoped the hovercar and opened the drivers side window of the hover car. She poked her head out of the window and shouted...

"I have a wounded man !!, I must reach the hospital"

The soldier stoped cold on his tracks, terrified, when he saw Galatea. He rose his weapon and began firing wildly at the hover, alerting other soldiers nearby.

"Droid, DROID !! Kill it !! KILL IT !!" The other soldiers upon hearing the warning began shooting wildly at the hover car !!

"What the hell !?!?" Galatea quickly step on the gas and broke throu the blockade, photon bullets breaking the front window and hitting the front of the car.

"We have a situation here Sir, an android broke throu !!"

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Damn !! I cant believe this !! They are kicking me out of the center http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_argh.gif !! I WILL FINISH THIS !! Mark my words http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_evil.gif

[mr_rubbish]

I was hoping that Nasca would make it to the hospital in time to save Antitank but now the war is over! It's time to dust off my brother's character (again).
PS Nasca, I hope you forgive me over that Rappy incident... I am sorry!
PPS Thanks for the votes!
/me for president!

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Rebooting OS...
Loading CORE.PRC...
Loading EMO_01...
Loading EMO_02...
Loading D_CEL.DAT
Loading EMO_03...
Executing DOS 6.1...

Antitank activated her optic sensors only to be confronted by brilliant light. A silhouette moved into view.

"Are you the maker?" She whispered.

"No... I'm a nurse."

The brightness faded and the room came into focus. Antitank sat up. If she was organic she would have probably been blushing at this point. She was at least glad that she give not have chromatographic skin.

Swinging her legs off the bench and placing them on the ground she managed to get a good look at her surroundings. It was a small unfurnished room usually reserved to patients wishing to recover in private.

"You saved me?" She asked the nurse?

http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif "Not quite. The hospital mechanics patched you up. But HE was the one who saved you." She stepped to one side to reveal a HUmar leaning against the wall.

"I suppose I have you to thank for saving me... Mister...?"

"Call me MonkeyKing." He offered a hand for her to shake, and did not flinch when she accidently squeezed it a little too hard.

"You'd better stick with me for a while. There are still alot of idiots out there with pointy sticks."

"I guess..." She took a step forward and stumbled slightly. He caught her.

"Hmm, I feel slightly odd. Looks like I'll need a full service when this is all over."

"Come on. Lets see if there's anyone else who needs our help."

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MonkeyKing. HUmar, Approx 2m. Looks like SSVegeta.(blonde spiked hair). Dual wields a Yamigarasu and a Elysion.

[WraithVerge]

"Voshay!" Kryoden exclaimed. "Easy there! Sorry for scaring you!"
Voshay's right eyebrow rose quizzically. "Scared? Damn right I am! Scared about putting a hole in your forehead and the huge stampede of... of... THINGS coming after me! And what the hell are you doing here anyway!?"
Kryoden, looking into Voshay's frightened and angered face, replied quietly,"I... figured you needed.... my help..."

Before Voshay could respond, a large Chaos Sorcerer appeared behind Kryoden. "GET DOWN!" Voshay yelled as he shoved Kryoden to his right. Voshay fired a shot at its head, but the sorcerer brought up its staff and deflected the shot. La Diminiens began to appear behind the sorcerer. Voshay backed up and to the left, hoping to position the Sorcerer's back to Kryoden....

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Colonol Ortega and the 10 Gold team members arrived at the large, arcane door leading into the congregation of droids and beasts. One of the soldiers stepped upon the activation switch, and the door slid open to reveal a nearly empty room. A few droids and Diminiens were laid out on the floor, writhing in pain and agony from being trampled and left behind to die. Soldiers began to fire at the down droids and beings. Ortega's eyes wandered from the massacre to the floor, where he noticed a small, charred spot left by a photon shot. Ortega grinned, then ordered the soldiers to cease firing and continue onward. They left the area and followed in the wake of the stampede.

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Ridley devised a plan to escape. She found a bunch of discarded items among the apartments: some string, some Celeco elastic bands, electrical tape, an old suit of armor, a few traps, an old handgun, and a cloak.

Ridley placed a fire trap between the handle of a fire extinguisher attached to the wall near the door and wrapped a few Celeco bands around the handle and the extinguisher to hold the trap in place. She tied one end of the string to the trap's activation switch and the other end to the handle of the door leading onto this floor. At the end of the hallway, she situated a few couches and chairs to act as barricades and positioned the armor to act as a dummy. She placed the cloak around the armor and the gun in the lifeless hand. Ridley placed a few traps in random rooms just to buy time. Making a few last minute checks on her homemade-trap, she crouched down near the window where she spotted the two hunters. Ridley heard footsteps coming up the stairs to her position, and prepped herself for her escape....



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[BOC]

well logical would be short compared with a 8ft racast http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif
and i kinda realised i was taking a risk with the eye trick, but i hope u don't feel i stepped on ur toes http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif
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Matilda was helping logical back to his feet, holding a tissue to his nose, as blood leaked slowly out. "i don't really know what pain feels like, but i'd say that that really hurt." she mused, logical snorting as she applied to much pressure.

Boc was sat on the ground, seeming slightly disoriented. The Doc was investigating his head, smiling to himself. "see boc, didn't i tell you that if you got that extra reinforced plate for your head it would safe your circuits one day?" the Doc said.

Boc wasn't in the mood. he raised himself to his feet, storming slowly over to their prisoner. His blue visor glowed hotly as he looked straight down at the human. "any reason why you decided to try and blow my head off?" he angerily hissed.

The human looked straight up. showing no signs of fear. yet his eyes betrayed a slight sign of regret. "orders. my commanding officer gave me the option of coming after you or partaking in the slaughter above."

"what where your orders?" malice added, bringing his weapon closer to Jerheroc's chin.

Jerheroc cleared his throat. "find and bring in Doctor Hailin B. Stone and the box he has with him. Find and exterminate Logical." he rhymed off.

"bring me in?" the doc said confused "why? why do they want this box?"

"the military most know you have a temporary cure Doc, they probably would rather there was no cure so they can continue their little war." Boc said.

Malice sniggered a little. "you mean to tell me that your first name is hailin? so your hail stone?"

The doc rolled his eyes "what can i say, my parents had a cruel sense of humour."

"Enough! i say we grease this little rat!" logical said, shaking free from matilda and pointing his gun into Jerheroc face.

Boc grapped logicals arm. "trust me dude, i wouldn't mind putting him 6ft under myself, but we can't fault the kid for just following orders."

"well we can't let him go, what if he catches up to us and gets the jump on us?" logical protested.

"then we take him with us." Boc said, pulling out a pair of energy binders.

Logical glarred at Boc. "fine, but hes your baggage rust-bot. he tries anything and i'll place a photon bullet between his eyes."

"We need to find montagues team. any idea which way Doc?" Malice said, lowering his sword.

"no, sorry. Boc, he should have a beacon active, can you home onto it?" the Doc said taking out his ancient saber.

"scanning...........beacon: montague - located." Boc droned of in an unusual computer voice. his normal more human sound voice returning. "follow me" the dark droid said, proding his yasminkov into Jerheroc's back, motioning the direction to go.

[Lone_Wolf_Nasca]

I got your PM mr.rubbish http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif . Dont worry about it, I was afraid that I was the ONE that had upset you http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif. So dont think I am upset at you, all is fine ^_^. Go Rubbish for team captain ^_^ !!

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"We have a situation here Sir, an android broke throu !!" Shouted the soldier into his comn. link.

"You are to chase and destroy the traspasser, use tank fire if necesary !! Responded the commanding officer.
"Understood sir !! Move out men !! We got a target to seek and destroy !!" The men began entering the tanks and went on hot pursuit of Galatea.

Galatea was still going on top speed towards the hospital, wondering what in the name of that is holy was going on the Hunter Guild sector.

BOOOOOOMMMM A explotion coming from a rocket made the hovercar rock to its side.

"Aaaahhhh, Master !!" Galatea screamed as the glass shatered and smoke and debris began pouring in the car. Machine guns firing upon the hover car and its occupants. Galatea turned around and took a peek of Nasca's condition, she had to get him to the hospital, no matter the cost.

"I have to save Master !! I cant let him die !!" Galatea swichted(sp?) off the auto-pilot and took control of the car, making a tough left turn into a narrow alleyway to evade the tanks firepower"

"Damn !! Team Beta follow them throu the alley and open fire upon them, team Alpha try to cut them off further on, team Gamma follow me !!

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Today is not a good day for me to post it seems http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif. I get kick out of the computer center and now my room mate needs the comp for work (sigh*). Oh well...guess I will do this later...AGAIN !!

[Kadou]

Frogive me if I get your concoction wrong, Wraith. I'm too lazy to open a second window to go back to it for reference. But again, thanks for keeping Ridley alive.
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Ridley waited, crouched and poised for attack or flight, as the footsteps drew near. Silently, she removed what was left of her solid ammunition from her Yasminkov so as to conserve it. Should it be necessary, she'd want her pursuers to believe the dummy was firing at them.

During a long, interminable second, Ridley watched through the couch as the two humanoid blobs of red and yellow rounded the corner.

"Stop! Drop you weapon!" a deep, masculine voice shouted echolessly. In the quarter of a second it took the two WORKS soldiers to realize the thing in front of them was not alive, Ridley detonated the nearest trap via standard (to android) microwave remote.

In the seconds that followed, a massive cloud of thick, white foam not so much exploded as it did instantaneously inflate to fill the entire hallway and shrouded the soldiers' vision. Immediately following the sudden explosion were the sounds of random, frightened gunfire as the humans instinctively went into a panic.

Ridley, of course, launched off into the next room, on EM repulsors rather thrusters for the lack of sound and to keep from blowing away the makeshift smokescreen, ducked under her own cloaked trap, and through a previously opened window, using her thrusters only minmally so as not to create a flaring blue beacon. The "HUcaseal" jetted upward and set off the rest of the traps when she was less than a meter above the open window.

The resulting explosion roared thunderously out from the entire section of that floor, flames following the initial shockwave in massive backdraft. It was not nearly the power of a well-synchronized group of Rafoies could have been, though. After all, they were only traps, but it was enough to blast out the windows at least, and the fires soon spread.

Ridley held no remorse for the two or more men she may have just killed. She was interested only in keeping herself alive, now perched on the roof of a building on the other side of the city block, crouched low so as not to be seen.

From here she could see most of the nearby city, and it was not a particularly attractive site. Many areas were ravaged by the androids and military, the Hunters District especially. A dark cloud of smoke had formed at the top of Pioneer 2's dome, blocking out what little sunlight managed to filter through the radiation screen.

The nearest group of emaddened (is that a word?) androids had been driven away by WORKS, and the military group itself was still busy trying to investigate the building Ridley had just about demolished. The two cloaked hovercars were nowhere in sight (weak pun intended).

Ridley half-walked half-crawled in her crouched position to the edge to the roof and peered over. Most of the nearby buildings had been destroyed by androids, but some few, such as the one Ridley now stood upon, were still fully intact and more or less unharmed. In what what would probably be the luckiest event of the day, one of these unharmed buildings - in fact, the one on which the android was perched atop - was a public warp nexus.

Ridley, in a boring way that need not be explained, ended up at the bottom floor of the building without being seen, and approached a triangular teleporter. She stepped cautiously in and began a direct microwave interface with the machine.

"Please insert universal card or meseta cube, please," Ridley could here the synthesized voice of the public teleporter say. It seemed slightly muffled with Ridley's systems focused on a less used and more energy-requiring "sense."

Coding made up the HUcaseal's vision, shifting and scrolling as she attempted to manipulate it.

"Thank you," the teleporter droned. "Destination?"

"Hunters Guild," Ridley heard herself say. For some reason, likely the concentration on the machine, the voice did not seem to be hers.

"Access to that area is restricted to Hunters only. Please input Section Identification and number or state a different location"

Ridley feigned a digital Oran and searched the teleporter's memory until finding the last used ID number of an android Hunter. She used this, of course, and quickly closed the wireless interface as the teleporter whirred and she found herself in the teleporter ring of the Hunters Guild. She repeated the process, save for her destination. As long as this civil war was going on, P2 would not be safe.

The computer chose a random teleporter on Ragol, and Ridley soon found herself in a world of darkness and strange organics.

[White_Knight]

woo hoo I finaly get to post sorry it took so long long drive and there are some here who know what my chars look like if they search memory anyway...
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The door to the room that Shi and Kori were sitting in opened to allow a RAcesal and a FOmar walk in. The RA was black with her "hair" tied back and covered with an AA rifle in hand. THe FO had a black and blue robe with the leg bit cut out so that it looked more like a long coat than a forces robe his hands in the pockets of his real pants undernith(sp) short black kida spikey hair and no visable weapon on him.
"It's about time you two showed up." Shi says
"Tenshi-sama" Kori says running over and giveing the FO a hug then running back to Yamishi who had stood and started to walk over to them.
"It was harder than I thought theres a war going on up there you know?"
"Really?"
"Yeah androids have run craz. Do you think will be safe with Kase here?"
"Don't worry about me Tenshinoshi I have a much higher emotion chip than the droids that have gone berserk." THe RA says in a slightly simulateed voice
"Theres that answer for you."
"So where are we off to?"
"Not sure lets see if we can find the cure to whats making the droids go crazy."
"I would like to help my fellow droids Master Yamishi."
"We'll be doing that then Kaseifu."
"Thank you."
"So Tenshi do you still fight like back in the days we worked together?"
"Yeah."
"Good."
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Sorry Kori is a FOnewral in Blue defalt hair no makeup and Shi is a HUmar black red armor and siver hair tied back in a pony tail with a bit over right eye forget the style number

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[Solstis]

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Solstis and Toldos stopped on a rooftop to rest for a bit away from the marauding soldiers and driods. They heard a noise commotion a block away as a heavily damaged hovercar sped away from military. Two tanks were also poised to close in to pull a pincer trap on the hovercar right under the building that the two rested on.

Solstis grinned and asked Toldos for deband. The force gave in, and just as he did, the hunter leapt off of the three story building onto an adjacent two story building and then to one of the military hovercrafts below.

"Idiot." Toldos shook his head and fired Rafoie at the WORKS soldiers closest to the fugitive car.

Solstis, with a sadistic grin jabbed the two blades of the Yamato into the window of the hovertank (yes, this one has a window) and shouted "Barta!"

The barta, amplified by the swords, traveled into the cabin of the tank while the stunned crew looked on.

Another tank pulled behind Solstis and fired a shot at him. Chu, the mag deflected the first shot with an invincibility barrier, but Solstis knew that it couldn't last for very long. Before the tank could fire again a blast of Rafoie hit it on the right side, tipping it over.

Solstis pulled his swords out of the cabin and waved them at the rooftop where a now tired Toldos weakly smiled back.

Solstis hopped down off of the tank just as the speeding hovercar flew past.

"So much for a thanks.'
"Hey Toldos, lets get out of here before the other tanks come."
A message come over the radio of the frozen tank, "Alpha, respond! Alpha...."

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Alpha 360 took a secret teleporter to the ruins that Mome had set up. So far, no one knew of his mission, and no one, if things went according to plan, would ever find out.

Alpha loaded his Yasmikov 9000v, a gift from the scientist in order to carry out his mission. He smiled as best a RAcast could. Already he detected a few non-D-cell life forms moving away from him towards his primary target, Montaque.

What Alpha did not know is what else lay inside his A.I. that Mome had implanted as a fail-safe.

He ran at this top speed through the ruins,only pausing to tear through the denziens of the area.

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Note: Alpha 360 is killable (I'll bring him back later if so).

[-Z]

A few blocks away from the hunter's guild, a spectacular pillar of swirling lights flickered to life, as Zi'Zuku stepped out.

"Well, that was fun- HOLY $#!-"

Zi'Zuku jumped off a wall, and grabbed a nearbye fire escape ladder, allowing the large oncoming hovercar to speed through the narrow alley. As he turned to curse out the driver, a thought flashed through his mind.

wait a sec... is that Nasca's car!?
Zi'Zuku only knew this because Zi'Zuku visited Nasca's house frequently. Well, that it through his binoculars. He didn't think it would be such a good idea to let Nasca know he knows where he lives. He looked as the car made a sharp turn into another alley, and an enormous explosion elgulfed the intersection. Zi'Zuku turned to see a battle tank aiming its turret down the alley. Luckily for Nasca, the tank appeared too wide to fit through this narrow passage. However, it moved forward, allowing 2 jeeps to continue the chase. The first one passed through with ease, but the second found a Zi'Zuku jumping out from the shadows onto it. Before he could react, Zi'Zuku decapitaded the machine gunner in the back. When the driver turned around to shoot, he found the pointed bottom of the Caduceus to his face.

"Drive. Shcnell!!"

Seeing no other option, the soldier grudgingly followed the leading jeep. Zi'Zuku manned the machine gun behind him, keeping his trigger happy fingers ready. As he saw the upcoming jeep, he smiled and took aim. Yet as he did so, he gasped as the tank had cut in from an intersecting street.

*ChittaChittaChittaChittaChitta!*

Zi'Zuku pelted the tank's turret, using any means neccassary to get annoy it. he knew his fire would do nothing against its juggernaut armor, but he could try to do something. that was, until he saw its main turret swiveling towards it. the driver saw this too, and jumped out of the vehicle, using a standard duck and roll. Zi'Zuku kept a constant fire on the barrel of the tank's turret. if he couldn't stop it, he could at least batter up the turret a bit, making it harder to get a clean shot. He was upcoming on the tank, this was going to be close.

"Rafoie!"

the shockwave of the technique knocked its barrel away from him, as the tank shot its hellfire shell and layed the building beside him to rubble. that was when Zi'Zuku realized his jeep was going forward simply out of its own momentum. he jumped to the drivers seat, floored the accelerator, and turned up the radio.

*ChittaChittaChittaChittaChitta*

The jeep in front of him had already already opened fire on Nasca's car. The heavy machine gun riddled holes, as the powerful photons penetrated through parts of the vehicle. Nasca had tried to turn out of the way, but Zi'Zuku knew it wouldnt be long till his car would be destroyed. an intersection came up ahead. Nasca and the jeep in front of him went forward, as Zi'Zuku made a turn. He knew that the street they were on would double around, and intersect his street. he simply took a shortcut. as he nearded the end of his street, he saw Nasca pass an intersection up ahead. Zi'Zuku floored the gas, and jumped out of the car. As his jeep went into the intersection, it colided with Nasca's persuer, leaving both vehicles a mess. having confidence in the jeeps unoperablitiy, he left them.

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Galatea looked in the drivers mirror to see a the second jeep mysteriously crash into the first. she proceeded down the backstreets, an attempt to make a U-turn to get Nasca some medical attention. Yet as she traveled down one street, she saw a cloaked figure waiting for ther their in the middle of the street. It looked a bit suprised as she stepped out of the car, as if it was expecting something else. But this black figure seemed somewhat... familiar.

Searching database.
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(1) Match found.

"Step aside! Master needs help, and i cannot allow you to risk his life!"

The man raised an eyebrow, and slowly stepped forward.

"Stay back!" Galatea demanded, as if ready to fight over her command.

"Master has told me much about you Zi'Zuku..."
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w00t car chase! ^_^

[Zzzzzz]

BOC prodded me with his yashimkov.
"Come on, kid. Your're coming with us."
I shrugged, trying to look calm but inside I was cowering with fear. I knew anyone of them would want to take me out.
BOC, because I almost killed him.
Ardo Logical, because I was ordered to kill him.
The HUmar, probably because I attacked his friends.
I don't know Doctor Stone's stand on this, but the RAcaseal seemed to look like she wanted to tear me apart. Of course, that could be her normal look. I don't know. I didn't know Doctor Stone had a cure for the virus, either. The papers said he was the cause of the virus. It makes me wonder which side is telling the truth. The papers said BOC was a ruthless android, but he saved me from Logical.
We finished walking through the first room and reached the second without incident. In the second room, however, there were 8 So Dimineins(sp). I sweated more and simply said:
"Uh, guys? http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif"

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An old man sat in a dark room. A familiar looking man walked in.
"I sent the one I thought would best fit the mission, sir."
"Good," said an old and weary voice,"He is a rookie, right?"
"Yes, sir. He hasn't even memorized the names of all the generals."
"He he heee...Those other generals think I'm a fool, don't they?"
"That's....what I heard, sir."
"He is able to rip eyes out?"
"Why's that, sir?"
The old man sigh.
"Why do you think the other generals think I'm inactive now?"
"Because they're fools, sir," the man said.
The old man slammed his fist on the arm chair.
"NO! It is because I can't see a damn thing!"
"I'm sorry, sir, I didn't me-"
"Before this war is over, Sargeant Gihaldien, the generals will have to kiss my feet as I walk because..."
"Because what?"
"I will rule Pioneer 2 with an iron fist!"
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Sorry for my posts not showing more of you guys. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

EDIT: Added the general subplot^_^.



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[WraithVerge]

On 2004-02-18 16:49, Kadou wrote:
Frogive me if I get your concoction wrong, Wraith. I'm too lazy to open a second window to go back to it for reference. But again, thanks for keeping Ridley alive.


Hehe, No problem bout keepin Ridley movin. I initially set that 'concoction' (I like that term http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif ) to be a proxy bomb, but we could say that the WORKS guys came up a different set of stairs instead of the trapped one. The remote bomb works just as well.... =)


Ridley, in a boring way that need not be explained, ended up at the bottom floor of the building without being seen

LMAO that's just great.... I love it! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

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Kryoden stumbled a few feet, but regained his balance. He quickly entered his ready stance, prepared to fight the Sorcerer. He noticed Voshay diverting its attention, allowing its back to become exposed. The Sorcerer began to chant, and the La Diminiens began to move as well, luckily (or unluckily?) toward Voshay. As an impulse before his first attack, Kryoden danced the right Yamato blade around his wrist, letting the handle twirl around and end back in his palm. Then, he charged. Voshay jumped back as Kryoden made his move. Both blades struck the Sorcerer full force in the back. The Sorcerer felt the blades enter his back, but quickly disappeared before the wound become too great to heal.

Kryoden blinked, started to say something, but was interrupted by a gun shot. A La Diminien fell face first at Kryoden's feet. Kryoden turned and stabbed a blade through the nearest La Dim and sent a numbing cold reverberating up its body, ending its life as he brought the second blade around to decapitate it. Voshay fired a rapid succession of shots from his Varista, striking three La Dims in a split second. The hollowed corpses smashed on the ground.

Kryoden and Voshay positioned each other to stand side by side to take on the other La Dims, but a resounding CRASH! grabbed their attention. The pile of rubble blocking the stampede exploded outward as a Chaos Bringer charged through it, followed by a massive swarm of life sentients and droids. Kryoden's jaw dropped and his eyes bulged as the beasts poured into the room. Voshay quickly grabbed Kryoden by the neck and dragged him to the door behind them. Upon reaching the door, Kryoden regained his senses and bolted down the corrider as the door parted. Voshay, firing shots into the crowd as he backed up, began pursuit.

The duo ran at top speed, gaining few, precious seconds and small distance from the swarm. They began to lose sight of the beasts behind them, but that did not bring any joy. The duo came to a door, but did not slow, hoping it was not locked. It wasn't, and the duo plowed through it without slowing. As the two entered the room, another group also walked into the same area from a door to their left. Voshay counted out six people: two droids, two hunters, a docter, and a wounded soldier who appeared to be restrained at the hands. Voshay darted past the confused group and screamed at them as he passed, "COME! NOW! Follow me! No time to explain, just RUN if you value your life!"
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Dang, well now we have yet ANOTHER uber robot on the loose and of course that whacky bastard Mome is behind it. And I have a bunch of soldiers hunting me. YAY! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

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[mr_rubbish]

You KNOW what you must do now...

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Yaski and her enforcers made sure that Dr. Montague's group walked up front. She didn't want any nasty traps befalling her that was for sure. They had lowered their weapons, confident that no one would try and escape, but since they all had the same destination in common it wouldn't matter.

All were suprised by a cry of pain from the centre of the group. They split to show Janet falling to her knees, back arched in pain as she tried to remove a dagger plunged between her shoulder blades.

They all turned to find the owner of the blade, Tamarin the HUcaseal, had moved in front of them.

"tHe MasTEr iS HunGRy!"

With a high shrieking laugh, she ran for the door beyond as a horde of Delsabers formed a perimeter around them.



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PS KaFKa has told me that he's going to be out of action for a bit, that means....
OPEN SEASON ON HIS CHARACTERS! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif
Seriously though, I'll be bringing back Hikande from the brink......

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[Solstis]

Toldos and Solstis ran the rest of the way to the main teleporter, dodging behind buildings to hide for a few perilous seconds. The group around the teleporter seemed a little disenchanted; half their number lay in stretches, and another fourth were dead due to Hunter/Robot/Rafoie attacks. The remained had set up a flimsy perimeter and hardly flinched when the Hunter jumped out.

"Go ahead."

"What?" Solstis stopped mid-step.

"Go on, we'll pretend we didn't see you, just don't kill any of us on your way there."

Solstis nodded his head and motioned at Toldos to join him. The two uneasily walked to the transporter as the soldiers looked on. Right before they set the coordinates to the second floor of the ruins, Toldos waved at the soldiers.

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[Edit] Quick Alpha 360 bio:

Created by Mome to counter Montaque's creations
Traditional military camo-job, somewhat skinny and short.
Was created with the same skills as the Sinows (beats, golds, not the Spiegels or such on Gal da Val). That means weak resta, invisibilty, multiple images.
Physically weaker than Kafka, but has Sinow Beat's blades on arms (pop out). Has no traps, so you can't bust open that sucker.

That ventilation-shaft on the inner-right-thigh would not blow up the ENTIRE bot (ala Star Wars).

Just some helpful tips http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif !

*Severe YOINK!*

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[mr_rubbish]

>.>
<.<
I hope this isn't a double post...

Thank goodness you forgive me Nasca http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif When you didn't reply to my PM I thought you weren't talking to me anymore! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif
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Hikande opened her eyes only to be confronted by brilliant light. As her eyes adjusted to it she found herself in a completely white room. At least it could have been a room, there were no distinguishing marks and no shadows to indicate walls. She felt warm but light-headed, as if the air was thin.

She did a full turn to see if there was some exit to this place or at the very least something other than her, but the room was empty... Or was it?

A figure had appeared there while her back was turned and it walk slowly towards her. Instinctively, Hikande adopted a fighting pose and was distressed to discover she no longer possessed any of her weaponary.

"Who are you?" She challenged the approaching figure, her voice oddly muted.

It was less than three metres away now and Hikande could see it in detail, or rather, lack of detail. It was a brilliant white, almost perfectly camouflaged in this environment. It wore a full length robe but she could not tell where the robe ended and its skin began.

"I'm warning you! Stay right there!" She said backing away slightly.

Undeterred by her threats it continued until it was one metre away. She could see that this figure was not human, rather it had the facial features of a human-goat hybrid. But its eyes...

The creature's eyes were a liquid-black, soothing to look at in contrast to the constant brightness. The only colour visible except for her. It looked up and down her full length, appraising her.

"Where am I? What is this place?" She demanded.

The creature gave no indication that it either understood or was even paying attention. A few moments later it turned away and began to walk slowly back to where it had come from.

"Hey! Don't turn your back on me! Hey! I'm talking to you..."

It gave no response. Hikande had decided that enough was enough and started to chase after it. But each step she took became slower and slower, her muscles labouring as if gravity had increased. A rushing sound filled her ears, like she had walked into an invisible waterfall, the weight of the water pushing to the ground. She just managed to raise her head to see that the figure had once again vanished before the rushing sound filled her world and she closed her eyes...

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*Cough!*Cough!*Cough!*

The rushing sound faded as she coughed and choked her way back to consciousness. The water in her lungs making her want to retch.

A stray tank shell had impacted against the wall of the fountain in which she had collapsed, shattering the wall, allowing the water to flow out. Her Sato floated down in front of her face, clearly glad its master was alive. She smiled weakly in response.

"I'm glad to see you too!"

She tried to get up but was too weak from exhaustion. A shadow fell across her face. She turned her face up but could not see who or what it was.

"Please... I'm not ready..."

[BOC]

The group where walking. topic of discussion: what could be able to cause this virus in the first place. nobody was really paying attention to what was happening infront of them. All apart from Jerheroc who had noticed the 8 blood thirsty abominations that had materialised infront of them.

"uh....guys?" he said.

"....so is unlikely that the virus was created by pioneer 1 engineers due to the unique alien design...." the doc was rambling on, trying to quench the idea that Malice had about pioneer 1 having a hand in the virus.

"uh guys.." Jerheroc said with a little more urgency as the 8 Diminiens shuffled quickily towards them.

"shut up kid." Malice mumbled, trying to listen to the Doc.

the first deminien was in striking distance of Jerheroc. "CHRIST JESUS B.O.C.!!!" he screamed.

Boc looked up, pushing the human out of the way just as the creature swiped. "god dammit, these things get uglier the deeper we go!" Boc said, placing his yasminkov to its forehead (or what he believed to be its forehead) and perferated its head, purple blood splattering in all directions.

The other seven creatures kept coming. Boc took aim at the next creature, proceeding to blast it as quickily as he could.

Malice swooped in from the left, slicing another of the beasts clean in two. the doc came in from the right slicing another with a quick succession of glancing blows.

Matilda and Logical sprayed their weapons into the remaining monsters, the photon bullets ripping them to shreds. "area clear." matilda said cheerfully, as if they had won some great battle.

Boc picked Jerheroc of the ground, dusting the human down. "you ok?" the bot enquired.

"yeah......thanks." the soldier said.

Logical approached one of the dead creatures, rolling it over, staring at the dead menace. "ha! these things aren't so tough. bring em on i say!" he announced triumphantly.

a door to the side of the room opened, two hunters running through at full speed. they barely slowed down as one of them shouted "COME! NOW! Follow me! No time to explain, just RUN if you value your life!" , before disappearing through another door.

A number of confused looks where exchanged between the group. the doc finally spoke "what the hell where they talking about?"

a thunderous sound could be heard. the doors the hunters had emerged from burst outwards, as a horde of creatures and a few crazed droids began to pour into the room.

Matilda, Boc and logical all raised their weapons beginning to fire into the approaching wave of death.

The doc grapped Malice. "screw fighting, lets cheese it!" the doc yelled, following after the two hunters.

Malice and Jerheroc followed suit. "yo ranger kids! move your asses!" malice yelled. Matilida broke off her attack, following her master, Boc and logical lingering a little longer, to take a few more down.

Boc flung several traps into the air, turning tail as him and logical bolted, firing behind themselves briefly as they went. "you just had to open your mouth didn't logical. you just had to say bring it on!"

Logical just smiled a bit. not really the time for it, but he thought it was simply typical of boc to complain when the heafty droid frequently made such battle cries.

The two weaved through the maze like corridors, the rampaging horde not too far behind. "down here!" matilida called from an open door. the two rangers swiftly ran down into the room. they just crossed the door when Voshay slapped down on a button that locked the door.

"that ain't gonna hold em!" malice said, looking for an exit.

"who was the idiot who lead us into a room with only one door?" the doc said.

Kryoden grimanced a little. "hey, anyone could have made that mistake!"

"SHUT UP! everyone!" Boc boomed. "we are gonna have to make a stand. everyone get your weapons ready!" the droid commanded.

he turned to Jerheroc, removing his energy binders, dropping a spread needle into his hands. Jerheroc gave a nod of aknowledement.

"take your positions!" kryoden said as the horde on the far side of the door could be heard trying to break it down.

Boc dropped on one knee, beginning pulling several explosive traps out of his back-mounted trap launcher. "hows your aiming these days logical."

"excellent, as always." the RAmar said, cocking a rifle.

"remember that freesbie trick we used to do?" the Big black bot said, a glint in his visor.

a small smile crept across logical's face. "sure do. you just throw them quick enough to keep up with me."

Malice raised his katana into a defensive stance. "Matilda, stay close.".

The RAcaseal looked at her master. "yes master, the closer you are the easier it is for me to protect you." she said smiling. Malice chuckled a little.

The Doc pulled out a soul eater. the door was beginning to buckle. "here they come. brace yourselves!"

the door split open, the onslaught of evil crashing through like an onstopable wave..............

[Solstis]

*Takes a deep breath*

Alright, Alpha 360 battle delayed. Whew!

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[mr_rubbish]

Major Killemoff surveyed the scene of devestation before him. The orders had come in to retreat back to the defensive line but there was no 'urgency' to it. They had lost 5 battalions but according to preliminary reports from the field commanders, Hunter losses were maybe 60% or more.

Once they held the line they could just bide their time as the survivors destroyed themselves.

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"Please... I'm not ready!"

The FOmar knelt down in front of Hikande. He could see
that she was injured badly, possibly delusional. He held his hands over her and concentrated. A green energy coalesced around her and she stirred slightly.

"Damn 'droids! Should kill 'em all!" He muttered.

He put his hands around her waist and hoisted her up. He placed her arm around his neck and supporting her weight as best he could, lead her towards the cover of the nearest building.

"My name is Kursher. Once we get you patched up you'll be able to tell me yours..."

[Deathscythealpha]

The doors were ripped apart as if they were tinfoil, letting the flood of creatures flow through. The Diminians were the first to enter, and also the first to die as a couple of explosions engulfed them. As some more swarmed through the door BOC flicked a couple of traps out in front of him, and as the spun through the air Logical shot them with pin point accuracy, detonating the trap and blowing the Diminians to kingdom come. But even before the smoke had died away, more creatures were breaking through.

"Covering fire, covering fire!" yelled Logical to Matilda, who qucikly lowered her Rifle and started blasting away. Vorshay soon joined her, leaving Malice, Doc Stone and Kroydon stcuk behind them, trying to work out a plan.

"I dont think holding out heres exactly a great idea, there seemed to be alot of those things and we will soon tire" said Malice, his agito still drawn incase anything got through the hail of fire and explosions.

"Yeah, but how do you suggest we get out of here? Theres not many exits in a square room with only one door" said the Doc.

There was another series of explosions from the doorway. BOC probably only had a couple of traps left, meaning that more creatures were likly to get through.

"Were going to have to fight our way through somehow. Or maybe just a few of us try and get through and lead those things away from the rest who stay here"

"Are you volenteering yourself there? I dont fancy trying to fight my way through a sea of blades and teeth!" replied the Doc. Deuce just grunted and tightened his grip on the agitos handle.

"Man, how did you two get so many monsters pissed off with you?" he asked Kroydon.

"Short story that im sure neither me or Vorshay want to go into"

The three's talk was suddenly interupted by a series of beeps emitting from there wrists. The Doc was the first to answer the BEE message, and was greeted by a series of horrible squeels and squeeks, only quietened by smashing the communicator.

"Their transmitting the virus already! That things going to automatically inbed itself into any android that answers that BEE's system and slowly turn them into one fo those homicidel killers weve been running from"

"What about Matilda? And BOC?" Malice said, only adding BOC onto the list as an after thought.

"They should be alright for the time being, the chips i put into them should hold back the urges for the minute, but i dont know how long they will last"

"Its in a BEE message?" asked Kroydon, "Im sure there was a transmitter in the oppisite direction from where we were running from"

"Hmm, if we can shut down the transmitter quickly, hopefully the virus wont get to too many androids"

"Right, so we should try to get out of this hole first, then go after that transmitter"

"Sounds like a plan"

"So all we have to do is deal with those things first"

There was suddenly a fluster of fire as soemthing other then Diminians started to come through the door.

[White_Knight]

Shi Kori Kase and Tenshi had just walked through another room without incident.
"Damn this is getting borring I thought that this new area would atleast let me use some of my powers." Tenshi says obviously agitated.
"Yeah me to that was one of the reasons why I called you down here." Shi replies.
"Massive D-cellular creature count!!" Kase says
"Where?" Shi and Tenshi say in unison.
"There" Kori says as she points to the hall where the hored of monsters are breaking through a hall way.
"This will be fun." Tenshi says as his eyes glow with a black energy.
"I hear ya." Shi says as he draws his Sange and Yasha and surounding the tips in black flames.
"Well here we go again." Kori says after giving Shi a quik kiss on the cheek.
"Weapon loaded master sould I begin fireing now?"
"If you'd be so kind."
With that Kase starts to fire her AA rifle as Kori gives them a shifta and deband. Shi starts to run in to take out the hord from the back and Tenshi opens fire with black rafoies, razondes, as well as other spells all black.

[White_Knight]

Shi Kori Kase and Tenshi had just walked through another room without incident.
"Damn this is getting borring I thought that this new area would atleast let me use some of my powers." Tenshi says obviously agitated.
"Yeah me to that was one of the reasons why I called you down here." Shi replies.
"Massive D-cellular creature count!!" Kase says
"Where?" Shi and Tenshi say in unison.
"There" Kori says as she points to the hall where the hored of monsters are breaking through a hall way.
"This will be fun." Tenshi says as his eyes glow with a black energy.
"I hear ya." Shi says as he draws his Sange and Yasha and surounding the tips in black flames.
"Well here we go again." Kori says after giving Shi a quik kiss on the cheek.
"Weapon loaded master sould I begin fireing now?"
"If you'd be so kind."
With that Kase starts to fire her AA rifle as Kori gives them a shifta and deband. Shi starts to run in to take out the hord from the back and Tenshi opens fire with black rafoies, razondes, as well as other spells all black.



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[Solstis]

Alpha 360 stood still in a dark room hidden behind a few boxes. He had placed cameras in the exitless room and now watched the hunters fight.

Apparently, they had received more help from some odd hunters.

If his A.I. was advanced enough he would have question Mome's decision to send Alpha without Yaski knowing about it.

Alpha 360 would not be stopped however, he knew of alternate ways to rid himself of meddling hunters....

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Toldos and Solstis appeared in the second level of the ruins. Far off in the distance they could hear the sounds of intense fighting.

They scoped the small room they had appeared in and noticed that the return teleporter was broken.

"Well, this will be interesting." said an annoyed Solstis.

"My newman sense is tingling." muttered Toldos, clutching his forehead.

"What?"

"I sense a poweful force on this level... I don't think we can trust him... well, I can't be sure of that either."

Solstis nodded as they plunged into the darkness.

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<(^^)>

[Kadou]

Double post, WhiteKnight.
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Ridley walked aimlessly through the labyrinthine halls of the ruins. Though she had never had the occasion to come down to Ragol, she knew about as much information about the place as the Hunters Guild had managed to collect and digitally store.

Were she human, the light would barely be enough to see by unless she had taken a pair of nightvision goggles or military combat visor. As a newer model android, however, she had the light-amplifying technology built directly into her real-looking grey eyes. Despite this, she kept her glaive activated at all times, partially despite and partly because of the bodies, both human and otherwise, littering the floor of some rooms.

Other prescences were clearly visable on deep radar, mcuh farther into the ruins but still close enough to pose a threat. From this distance Ridley could not get an accurate heat reading, but she assumed that they were mostly human with maybe a handful of androids.

Then, out of nowhere a BEE message arrived. Ridley knew immediately not to open it. Who the hell would want to message her? Medley pleading for her to come back? The bot discarded it and continued on.
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I'd prefer no one messed with this, including you Wraith. The only reason I'm stopping now is because I ran out of time o.< . Why would anyone want to mess with Ridley anyway, though?

By the way, did any of you know that with Windows and Mac, an item deleted from the recycling bin can still be recovered?

Dun dun DUN..!

[White_Knight]

woops

[Zzzzzz]

I kept firing while I came up to Doc, Malice and the new hunter. When I finally reached them, I could hear them talking about a plan.
"Hmm, if we can shut down the transmitter quickly, hopefully the virus wont get to too many androids"
"Guys?"
"Right, so we should try to get out of this hole first, then go after that transmitter"
"Hey, people it's me!"
"Sounds like a plan"
"So all we have to do is deal with those things first"
I pulled out my explosives from my hidden compartment of my suit and set it in between them. That got their attention.
"Guys, I got a plan."
"Are you going to blast a hole in the wall?" the Doc said with an eyebrow raised. "We have no idea what's on the other side!"
I raised my shoulders, and said "There's three plans to this. Plan A, Blast a hole in a random place on the wall. Like the Doc said, there's a low chance we know what's on the other side."
"Plan B, we could bury these monsters under rubble."
"Plan C," I said as I was pointing to wall a damp wall, "We could blow up that section of the wall. I found out there's a river behind it. The chances of us surviving the river..."
I lowered my head and looked at the floor.
"...is low. Either way, I have to have some one cover me while I plant the explosives. I'm more skilled at planting them then any of you, so no arguing. I suggest we try my plan unless you come up with a better one?"
They all looked at the explosives and thought about it. Before any one could speak, though, I heard an explosion behind us. I turned around and saw as tons more new types of monsters appear.

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[WraithVerge]

Sure thing Kadou.

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Voshay and Matilda did a good job of keeping the swarm at bay. The bodies of the sentients began to pile up considerably near the door, slowing many of the creatures; however, as bigger monsters appeared the two began to lose ground. A large Chaos Bringer charged through the dead sentients toward Matilda, but Voshay fired a paralysis shot that struck its front right leg, sending the Bringer smashing to the floor. Matilda opened fire at the Bringer, tearing off its gunblade arm and adding two holes into its chest.

Voshay chanced a quick look over his shoulder and spotted the group moving to a damp section of wall with the soldier holding an explosive of some sort. Voshay turned back to face the swarm and found a La Diminien directly in front of his face. Voshay slammed the butt of the Varista into its face, then brought his left fist up to connect with its exposed cheek. He used the momentum from both swings to twirl around, allowing him to bring his right foot up to smash against its head, sending the beast spinning. It landed right in the path of an oncomming punch from Matilda, snapping its neck. Matilda fired off more shots at the swarm, but called out to Voshay, "CATCH!"
Voshay turned and caught a Varista she had tossed to him. "Thanks."

An explosion erupted to Voshay's left, and Dark Belras and droids began to appear. The Chaos Sorcerer with one crystal floated menacingly beside the smoldering crater in the wall. It fired Gibarta at Voshay and Matilda, but both dodged the attack with ease. Instead, the icy shards sliced through numerous Dimienians and Claws.

Voshay and Matilda began backing up from the openings, but picked up the pace, firing shots rapidly in a fanning motion and with precise aim. Belras, the Sorcerer, and a bunch of Diminiens and droids died in a flurry of shots from both rangers. Voshay thought he heard someone cry out, but another explosion sounded, this time behind him and the sound of rushing water swiftly engulfed the roof....

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I believe the ruins is actually a spaceship, but then again the room we're in could be adjacent to a river-filled cavern.


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[Logical2u]

Trap BLAM argh trap BLAM argh!

The cycle continued. The more the monsters came, the larger the hole in the door got. The other soldier had pulled out some traps and was currently deciding if he should escape, kill, or possibly kill every single thing in the ruins.

One hoped it wasn't the last option.

PAP PAP PAP! The rifle screamed. It was beginning to overheat, the safety override long since disabled.

BOC groaned and pulled his Yasikmanov out and started popping the monsters.

"Too many, time to go MyTea-ly!"

Logical2u smiled at the droids pun, but also grimaced at the lack of grammar. and possible infection spreading through his systems.

The BEE mail system beeped and beeped but Logical2u continued firing at the horde, and occasional sorcerer that appeared.

Logical2u screamed in rage as the nearest Dimenian failed to die. He grabbed his Durandal and took it down the hunter fashioned way.

Suddenly, the wall directly behind him burst.

He equipped his Ano Rifle again and put his Red Handgun in the other hand, intending to go down fighting.

A Dimenian got a cheap shot at his back but his Parasitic Frame absorbed it.

He jumped into the ragin river...

[Lone_Wolf_Nasca]

Thanks for doing the car chase scene -Z ^_^ !! That saves me a lot of trouble ^_^ !!

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"Master has told me much about you Zi'Zuku..." Galatea slowly reached for something behind her back, while still facing Zi'Zuku.

"Really ? I can only imagine..." Zi'Zuku said in a sarcastic tone of voice, still walking towards Galatea.

"I TOLD YOU TO STAY BACK !!" Galatea revealed her hands holding a Raygun, pointing it directly at Zi'Zuku's skull. Zi'Zuku kept walking foward, not one to be intimidated by a gun pointed to his forehead, with his line of work and all.

"STAY BACK !!" Galatea shouted and shooted two warning shots near Zi'Zuku, the two of them missing by a couple of meters. Zi'Zuku kept walking foward and stopped in front of Galatea, grabbing her hands, that still holded her gun, and pointed it directly at his forehead.

"Try now..." Zi'Zuku stood still in front of Galatea, staring directly into Galatea's eyes. Galateas hands began to tremble, the gun shaking quite a bit. She began to remember Nasca's stories about Zi'Zuku, the man who did not fear death, but rather embraced it, making it his servant...
She always wondered if such a man existed, and now there he stood in front of her, a handgun pointed to his forehead and not a drop a sweat in his face.

"I....I..cant" Galatea dropped to her knees and began to cry, dropping her Raygun in the pavement. (I know that Galatea is a android, but she can cry becuase she is special http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif )

"Weakling..." Zi'Zuku kicked away her weapon and began walking towards the back of car. He removed his Caduceus from his back.

"What are you going to do with that !?" Galatea rose her head, tears still rolling down her eyes.

"I am going to finish, our interrupted battle. You see, I never leave my work unfinished..." said Zi with a grim smile behind his face mask as he began to open the back door of the hover car.

"NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOO" Galatea sprang up and charged at Zi'Zuku tackeling(sp?) Zi'Zuku away from the door.
"I wont let you hurt Master !!" Galatea stood in front of the door, ready to protect her master with teeth and nail, agitated from the sudden rush of energy she used to tacke Zi away.

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Thats it for now ^_^ got to go and tend my stawberries plants !! Your turn -Z ^_^ !!

[mr_rubbish]

Sarunakai/Garanz/Kafka PM me if you get free and are able to take control of your characters so I don't accidently double post ok?

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Bernie surveyed the scene in front of the hospital. After that maniac Zi'zuku had passed through it looked like the army was beating a hasty retreat. Some good news at last. Also he noticed that the flood of corrupted BEE messages had stopped. He squinted in the direction of the far end of the Guild section. A column of smoke was visible where the Guild's BEE transmitter tower once stood.
Hmmm... Thought Bernie. Maybe the army did one thing right for a change.

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Kursher lay the injured Hikande upon the softest pile of rubble he could find in that shell of a building.

"The hospital is too far to move you to, but I always carry one of these in an emergency."

He produced a TriMate capsule, open the lid and put it to her lips. A once she could feel the non-replicating medical nanites coursing through her body. Kursher stood up, stretched and walked over to a wall to look out through one of the windows, the glass long since gone.

"Hmm, there's almost no sounds of fighting anymore. Looks like the army has pulled back and most of the robots are dead. You know... I'm a member of a secret organisation. Well its not so formal as to be called an organisation... Er, whatever. I mean, this group I'm a member of... We're against those filthy robots. They steal jobs from honest people. REAL people, you know what I mean?"

He cast a quick look over his shoulder to see if she had recovered before returning to his musings.

"Listen, I know those robots must have beaten you up badly, but you look like you could handle yourself. And we could always use a real fighter..."

Hikande could feel the strenght flow through her body once more, her lips curling into a snarl...

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The industrial complex on the far-side of the Guild section of the city. Next to the Dome wall...

The building was large and unassuming, almost no distinguishing marks upon it. Automation meant that apart from the occasional maintainence, there was no one there.
A collection of over 30 allsorted androids clustered around the reinforced steel door. They were silent in their labour, the strongest of them peeling the door away. Obstacle removed, they flooded in, saying one sentence in unison before disappearing from view.

"tHe MasTEr iS HunGRy!"

As the door rocked slowly to a standstill a sign could be seen upon it.


Plasma Converter Sub-Station
Section 3-G

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Ratchet leaned against the cold stone wall tending to his bleeding arm as his RAcast partner looked on impassively. After that crazy android (Tamarin) had attacked that rather nice RAnewearl (Janet) they were jumped by by a bunch of very nasty nasties (Delsabers). The other crazy android (Yaski) and her troops were caught unawares and most of them were decimated when the lethal living suits of armour had materialised amongst them. He hadn't really felt any sympathy over that since they were hold them hostage but they did fight for their captives... Like they were making sure that they survive long enough to fulfil some purpose...

Beyond the doorway that Tamarin had escaped down, lay the 'Longest Corridor in Existance'. Its walls a departure from the cold, dark metal of this area. Instead they pulsated and moved of their own accord, as if living. Bright orange light emanating from the 'flesh'. Urgh! Too creepy.

"Could it possibly get any worse?" He said aloud.

"There is a 98% probability that the situation will become less advantageous."

*Sigh*

"Don't you know a rhetorical question when you here one?"

"No."




Chapter 14 : The Root of All Evil

[-Z]

The root of all evil? .... "ME!"
^_^
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"Good. Good..." Zi'Zuku said, springing up off the pavement. He could see the anger in Galatea's eyes.

"Anger is a powerful thing. Yet unless you learn to control that anger, it could erupt like a wildfire. Be careful, you might just get burned... so might he."

"I won't let you hurt him!" came the response, before she began sprinting at him with impressive speed. When she got close, Zi'Zuku turned the Caduceus, pointing the spiked end towards the upcoming android. She dove at him, looking as if she would not hesitate to take his life. But Zi'Zuku ducked down, and impaled her with the spike of the Caduceus. Using her momentum, he flung her over him, and cast a quick foie to hit her in the back.

"A bit hastey, arn't we?" he muttered as she struggled to his feet. A thought flahed through her 'mind' of his cruel sence of humor with the whole 'you might get burned' joke. But then her eyes came to terror as she remembered the next line. '... so might he.'

"I wonder if theres still enough fuel in there to combust..." Zi'Zuku said, pointing the jewel of the Caduceus at the car. It began to glow a bright red.

"Tell me, would you punish your body to save him?"

"How can you be so cruel?" she sobbed.

...

"Death is a cruel thing. It bestows those who fear it, yet omits us who welcome it. Everywhere I go, death seems to linger. Everywhere I go, people always seem to die. Everywhere I go, death always forgets me. You have your anger to lead you into a fight. Me? I have my jealousy. A part of me was hoping you'd pull the trigger. Now it shouts out at me to make you suffer for your mistake."

*FFSSH*

The slow moving, high powered fire bomb moved towards the car. Galatea ran, as fast as she could towards it. In fact, she ran right past Zi'Zuku. His cloak whisked a little as she ran past him. He didn't turn around to see what would happen. He stared straight at the spot he left her when he heard an audible explosion. after turning around, he saw Galatea's smoking body bashed up against the car. Zi'Zuku slowly walked down the street, swishing his Caduceus back and fourth. She tilted her ash blemished face up to see him approaching. her will told her to get up and fight, but she began to wonder if it would make a difference. she watched him approach until he was only 5 feet away from her, staring at her with apathetic eyes.

...

there was a long silence before Zi'Zuku began to make his way to the side of the vehicle.
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i'll leave it there.

Suspence! dun dun DUN! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[WraithVerge]

Matilda was hit with a massive wall of water. She was knocked off her feet and was sent careening into Voshay. As they submerged, Voshay switched on his internal rebreather. Unable to see clearly under the water, Voshay activated his heat sensors. He spotted Matilda close by floating gracefully, watching a bunch of sunken beasts flail about futilely.

He scanned the room and spotted the rest of the team floating at the surface, fanned out in a semi-circle from the newly opened hole... except for Malice. He had somehow sunk to the bottom of the room and lay unconscious. Voshay pointed out the downed hunter to Matilda, and her glowing eyes flared brighter. They both swam down and gathered up the injured hunter and headed for the surface.

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Truth revealed! Voshay is biomodded. However, he retains 70% of his human body, so he's not affected by the virus. He has the ability to breathe underwater, use heat scan, an advanced target system to aid in aiming and firing, and a few more, yet to be revealed enhancements. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif



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[DarkRadiance]

Chaos reigned as the Demon-like monstrocities continued to pour through the massive archway that was once a door. Explosions rang out from all sides and photon shots ripped the air around Kryoden.

He had taken out his varista and was in the process of pumping a Chaos Bringer full of photon when he felt a sharp pain across his back.

Kryoden was thrown to the floor. He struggled to get up, but each movement brought a new wave of pain.

He turned his head to find a So Diminian bearing down upon him. Suddenly, a blast rang out and the far wall collapsed revealing a raging river. The sound of the blast threw Kryoden's world into silence. He reached for his Mate-Pack, and was horrified to find he had forgotten it in his haste to join his brother. Kryoden cursed himself. He knew it was over. With his last reminance of energy, Kryoden extended his hand towad the beast which was standing over him.

"Foie," he said weakly. Kryoden watched as the So Diminian burst into flames and fell. It was dead before it hit the ground. He was able to stay concious just long enough to see the remainder of the group disappear into the river. Kryoden smiled.

"Good luck, my brother," he whispered.

With that, Kryoden's hand dropped, and he blacked out.

[mr_rubbish]

******
A message to the new guys...
We're going to attempt a group-fiction contest. If you've developed a taste for blood and want in on the deal checkout this thread (http://www.pso-world.com/viewtopic.php?topic=76358&forum=12&1) and PM me so that I can add your names to the writer's pool.

******

[Kadou]

Ah! Rubbish just pointed out that I have 1000 posts! I spend too much time on this site.. used to spend...
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Finally, Ridley's fuzzy logicistics processor beat out what little curiousity her rudimentary emotional AI had managed to create. She was not getting anywhere other than lost, and in so doing she was depleting energy. Besides, the ruins presented only a repetitive pattern of pulsing.. not even lifeforms but things.

The HUcaseal sat down in a random hallway, her thrusters, which rather resembled a wingless black Rati most of the time, folded in such a way that she was able to lean against or more or less dead, inorganic-looking section of wall. During this entire ordeal, her Yasminkov had never left her grip until now, the droid clipping it onto her waist. She had long since deactivated the glaive, and now she sat in the cool dimniss of the ruins while her autorepair systems, which even by now hadn't fully completed work on the damaged done when she had launched backward into a wall on P2, activated.

To save power, Ridley shut down all major applications save for infared and sonar, closing her black (literally black, not the brownish hue some humans had attached to the term) synskin eyelids and shutting off optics. To anyone who might come by, she would appear to be in a state of sleep.

It was then, in her weakest moments, when some kind of transmission, although it didn't seem to be radio, macrowave, or even lasered messaging, struck into her primary systems, completely bypassing her actual receivers and striking directly at those applications which were her consciousness. A failsafe against any such things immediately activated and almost as quickly was not so much supressed as it was broken down into its basic coding components.

Ridley leaped up, her center of balance completely lost to her. Before her optical vision, which had automatically blinked on, was a series of complex coding which, although corrupted and broken, could be translated into, "f1784420AL SYS##*EM eRRoR" before going blank entirely.

The droid released a pulse of available tranmission types, none meaning anything. A high pitched scream excaped her throat audio transmitter, her back arching as the programs governing muscle motion glitched, up until her voice cracked and went silent. Optics flickered, flashing normal, infared, and ultraviolet so quickly and disjointedly that it would have caused a human to throw up on the spot, but Ridley could not throw up. She could not even recognize her own malfunction disorientation for what it was.
She could not think.

The android's body fell to the ground, her ploymer musculature pulling and stetching asynchronously, limbs twitching, torso and abdomen writhing in the sheer chaos that now was her internal processing. Transceivers flickered and coughed with static, some failing entirely. Sight was now lost, save for gamma ray frequencies of light. It did not matter. Ridley did not have any attention to direct at anything she might see. Ridley only had pain and disorder.



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[Deathscythealpha]

Matilda swam down and grabbed Malice, putting and arm around his waist, then swam back to the surface. The water roared down the newly found tunnel at quite a speed and whipped the group about in the water.

Matilda checked Malice for life signs. They were all there. A smear of blood was on the top of his fore head, a piece of rubble having struck him from the explosion. She gently shook him to make him come around.

"Master Malice, you ok?"

Malice rubbed his head, smearing the blood more across his face.

"Yeah, im ok, and what did i say about the whole master thing?"

He then took a look around the tunnel they were zooming down. The walls pulsated, and he liquied they were floating in was an off brown colour. Small creatures squiggled around in it.

"Its like an artery" proclamied Malice, awe struck and sickened at the same time. "What is up with these ruins, they seem to be alive"

The group managed to regroup, swimming back together and trying to travel at the same speed.

"Hey BOC, isnt there a dingy or something in that massive torso of yours?" yelled Malice over the roar.

"Hahahah-no!" he snapped back.

"Um, where are we actually going now?" asked Logical, who had managed to grab onto the side of BOC.

"We were going to go to a BEE Transmitter, but it looks like were going where this tunnel goes for the minute, hopefully we will come out close to the transmitter"

[White_Knight]

"Hey Guys Over Here!!!" Kori screams indicating to her raft made of ice.
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sorry it's short nothing else for righ now

[mr_rubbish]

As the group were swept along in the cooling fluid conduit, the darkness slowly gave way to light, orange light. The tunnel widened out slightly and the current slowed somewhat. This allowed them to take stock of their surroundings. Through the occasional glass walls of the tunnel came glimpses of fantastic architecture and monstrosities in equal amounts.

After about three Beats Boc noticed something.

"Hey Log... Can you hear that?"

"Hear what? You mean that ever so faint rushing sound that seems to be gradually getting louder?" Replied Logical.

"Er, Yeah. Does it mean what I think it means?"

"Yup."

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In the engineering section towards the back of Pioneer Two.

"Sir, you'd better come over and have a look at this."

The Deputy Systems Manager was having a very bad day. First his wife had left him and now the battle in the Guild Quarter had resulted in widespread power outages there. Real headache time.

"Yes?" He impatiently asked the man watching the monitor.

"The transformer sub-station in sector 3-G seems to be experiencing wild power fluctuations."

"Yes but the regulators appear to be handling things."

"I know sir, but look at these figures... If those values keep spiking like that the regulators won't be able to cope."

The Manager rubbed his tired eyes. He didn't need this. It looked like the sub-station took some damage during the fighting.

"Okay okay! Keep an eye on this. I need to speak section chief."

It looked like that his headache was now the very least of his worries now.

[Kadou]

It was very dark in the depths of the ruins. Dark, and very, very quiet. Not a single living creature with the exception of the ruins themselves moved.


Emergen//|
cy defragmentation complete. Reinitiating primary d//rives.

Ridley's optics blinked on, flickered, and went black again, only to reappear a moment later. The HUcaseal blinked several times, objects before her not registering immediately, she looking for anyone who might have been nearby like some befuddled human. Slowly, she pushed herself up off the moist floor, trying to recollect what had just happened. Something had attacked her. No, something had tried to communicate with her.

She shook her head in confusion. Her memeory of the last several minutes had been wiped blank, and there as no time in the ruins. Only dark and undulation.

With actual effort, Ridley stood, staring into the dimness of the next room at nothing. Not sure of her surroundings, she sent out a sonar and deep radar pulse.

Somehow rushing closer at speeds slightly greater than humans were capable of running, a group of humanoid objects were nearing this room, though through some passage inaccessable. Wait, no. There was an irregular breech in a wall of a room much deeper in the ruins; probably the result of some kind of explosive or Force technique.

Maybe those people could provide help.
Maybe those people could provide entertainment.
What?

Ridley's processors had apparently been damaged in some way. All the same, she decided to try to reach them. They had to be able to help in some way.

Walking out from the shaded hallway, Ridley decided to remove her glaive from its position attached to her right arm. Extending the shaft ot full length, she/they//|them re-ignited the purple blade and gripped its metal base. Perhaps the weapon would be... useful.


Musstt kill..!

[BOC]

"what, what is it?!?" Voshay yelled over the sound of the rushing water getting closer.

"a....errr.....waterfall." logical answered.

"to where exactly?" Voshay replied nervously.

"well let me think, at 30km bellow the planet surface running through a giant ruin..... do you really want to find out?!?" logical answered, as they all tried to fight the current.

Malice pulled out his katana, swimming to the nearest wall. he plunged his katana into the wall firmly holding onto it with one hand, catching matildas hand as she floated past. in turn she grapped the docs hand as he floated past.

logical and Jerheroc took lead from malice, whipping out melee weapons and blunging them into the walls to stop them from been swept off the waterfall.

Boc clutched the wall within his powerful mechanical grasp, taking a firm hold of the wall. he gave a small grunt as he watch his fingers mash into the wall, almost like it was made of clay. 'maybe im just that strong' the bot mused to himself, giving himself an ego-boost.

"HELP!!!" scream voshay, as the current prevented him from reaching the wall.

"BOC! use that arm thing i installed last week!!" the doc shouted to the big black bot.

Boc extended his right arm in the direction of voshay. a small hook like device popped out of a compartment on his wrist. "this may hurt kid!" the droid said, taking aim.

He shot the hook off, the small silver hook soaring towards the endangered human. Voshay made an attempt to catch the hook. however the hook was too fast. it shot through his left shoulder, coming out the other side. tiny claws extending to stop the hook coming loose.

Voshay screamed loudly in a mixed fit of rage and pain. Matilda griminsed "Boc, why did you do that, by the maker are you crazed?!?" she hissed at the black bot.

Boc's visor glowed as he answered. "nah my small metallic sister, im just going fishing." he said distastefully.

"ROBOT im gonna rip your circuits outa your rusted ass!!" voshay screamed, as boc began winding him in.

"I'm not freakin robot! i'm a droid! besides, what would you rather do, fall over the edge of that waterfall or undergo some slight pain that ultimately saves your bacon? you should thank me!" boc boomed.

"THANK YOU?!? YOUR GON-" voshay began, been cut off by malice.

"shut up, both of you. you can beat seven shades outa each other later. right now we have bigger problems. like how we gonna get outa here." the miffed humar said, the blood still leaking from his head.

"i think we're finally having some luck malice this wall appears to be weak, we could probably get through it." Boc said, still reeling voshay in.

"what the..." logical began. "...im picking up a faint signal on the other side of this wall, i can't tell what it is, something interferring with my eyes. but i think its a droid."

On que, a pair of droid arms blasted through the wall, taking hold of boc by the shoulders. boc gave a quick glance to logical "no shit!" he said before the arms pulled him through, taking Voshay with him, the ranger screaming in pain as the grapple hook twisted as he was dragged through the wall.

"least we have an exit now." malice said, climbing through the hole, ready to aid in the impending battle, the other quickily following through.

they where greeted by the sight of Ridley struggling with boc, and Voshay pulling the grapple hook free from his shoulder.

she slashed her glaive at Boc, tearing through his chest plate, the RAcast stumbling from the blow. "must kill!"

[mr_rubbish]

Dr. Montague was tired from all the walking, which was almost as bad as the constant fighting. They must have been there down for hundreds of Beats. But what really got on his nerves was Yaski's constant 'Fleshbag' remarks.

Suddenly up ahead could be heard a commotion. The sounds of battle. The entire group (except for Yaski and her survivng, stealthy and expensive RAcasts) let out a collective groan. But there was more...

They strained their ears to hear.... Very loud swearing?

"It must be another group of hunters. Lets go!" Shouted out Dr. Montague in an excited fashion.

Another collective groan and then the others reluctantly followed the crazy Newman into the unknown.

[Solstis]

Alpha 360 was not amused.

Somehow, the hunters had found a way through the room.

Not only that, but another mechanical creation was battling them at the moment. He estimated that the chance of success that he could beat the droid and the other hunters was 40%. But, the orders from the master were clear.

The large, rusty android was receiving a severe beating while a few hunters attempted to help. He noticed a female model walking into the room behind a man wielding a katana.

Alpha brazenly walked into the room a fired 3 shots from his metallic hip, two at the man, and one at the droid.

His first shot, against his best calculations, missed and nearly struck a ranger with an injured shoulder. The second was deflected off of the katana, causing the hunter to stumble. The third buried itself into the shoulder of the female droid.

By now, the odd creation had noticed him. Alpha calculated that there was a 99.8% percent chance that its A.I. was infected.

As he computed, a shot tore through his left arm.

Weapon class: Ano Rifle. his A.I. told him.

Alpha decided that his chances of success would increase to 60% if he used his Sinow set of skills. He disappeared before a hail of bullets.

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http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif!

[BOC]

Logical lowered his rifle, scowling. "great just happen to run into a freaking sinow enhanced droid in the go-dam ruins."

He couldn't see the elusive droid. One small adjustment to his super-eyes. "pick-a-bo i see you" he said, the outline of alpha 360 now visable to him.

he raised his rifle.......
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Since Ridley's initial strike, Boc had found it hard to put enough distance between himself and the crazed droid to make any effective attack. Since then he had resorted to weilding two victory axes in his MyTea paws. That said, he was no melee expert. He was programmed to blow shit up from a distance. Not go toe to toe with a expert swordsperson.

And this droid was not only crazed, but unbelievably dangerous. Boc, Malice and jerheroc had all been attacking her, Matilda firing the odd shot into the brawl where she saw the opportunity. The Doc had Voshay lying in the corner, patching up his shoulder wound.

and to top it off logical was busy with another powerful droid that had decided to drop by to join the rumble. it didn't actually seem to be crazed. The shit had really hit the fan.

Boc raised his left victory Axe to block another blow from Ridley, using his right axe to take a failed swing at her.

She let loose a number of swift and professional combos, seeing her strike another glancing blow to boc, then kicking him to the ground and finishing off by deflecting an expert strike by Malice.

Malice was quick to block a counter-attack. he showed incredible speed. "you know Boc..." he said ducking avoiding a swinging blade... "...i had heard of this big droid that was a bullet magnet, that trouble seemed to follow it around. wouldn't be you would it?" he finished, grinning as a clumsy rage attack from ridley missed him.

Boc rose to his feet (once again) "yep, you say trouble follows me around, i just say that my life is never boring!" he said, swiping at ridley once more.

"yeah, well more trouble has arrived!" jerheroc yelled, pointing as montague and yaski and her burely black RAcast's appeared admist the caranage.

Doc Stone looked up from tending Voshays wound. "bout time you showed up big ears!" he called to montague, grinning, happy to see his old friend.

[Zzzzzz]

"Great. Two androids?" I mumbled under my breath. Malice, Matilda and I were helping BOC, while Doc was tending Voshay's wound, leaving Logical with the other android. I decided to help Logical and pulled out my lockgun I had in my suit.
I saw him. He was behind Matilda with a set of blades attached to his arms. I saw a few bullets whizz by me and hit the android, and I knew Logical beat me to it. The android stepped back a few feet and faced me and Logical. I got ready to fire when he disappeared again. Now was my chance.
I dashed across the room, heading for the shadows on the other side. I thought I heard Logical say something but the fighting droned it out. I quickly attached a scope to my gun and lunged for the shadows. My head ran into something mattalic.
I hit the floor and looked up. The android was there and poised to strike. He raised his arms.....
and was hit by several photon bullets from Logical. I used this oppintunity to get up and run back to them, realizing that Logical told me we should stay together. I reached him while they where still shooting. He stopped and I looked back to see it wasn't there. Logical called me detrogatory names. And I deserved it. He then told me it was Sinow enhanced.
We looked around again, and we saw something that made me think this is the end.
It and 11 other androids were heading right for us, and they didn't look too happy.
Logical fired at one and the others disappeared.
The android turned invisabley again.
I saw as everybody was having a hard time from the other android. I heard Malice say
"...I had heard of this big droid that was a bullet magnet, that trouble seemed to follow it around. wouldn't be you would it?"
I kept firing at her, and BOC responded to Malice's question.
"Yep, you say trouble follows me around, i just say that my life is never boring!"
I looked around for the other android again when I noticed a large group of hunters came into the room.
"Yeah, well more trouble has just arrived!" I yelled at BOC, hoping the others would notice.

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Doc Stone looked up from tending Voshays wound. "'Bout time you showed up big ears!" he called to montague, grinning, happy to see his old friend.

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Sorry about that, BOC. Hopefully I cleared it up by editing this. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

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[Kadou]

Ridley leaped foward, swinging her glaive in a wide, horizontal arc. Her opponant, some rust-covered Hunter RAcast, failed to dodge or block. The HUcaseal tore through his armor about as easily one might slash apart wet cardboard. Something seemed to be augmenting her strength.

Continuing from the last sweep, Ridley swung diagonally toward the other droid's right shoulder. Her slash was caught halfway through by an antique katana, held by a dark-haired human. The female droid heaved upward, angling the shaft of her glaive so that the sword slid down and almost into the intense heat of her weapon until its owner lifted it away, not wanting to melt or otherwise damage his precious artifact.

BOC took the oportunity to open fire on the HUcaseal. Ridley, with a powerful EM surge that gave the other droid a slight sense of dizziness and a flare of vaporless, blue fusion flame, launched into the air and out of the other droid's line of fire.

"Holy shit!" someone yelled.

Ridley soared up, replacing her one-handed grip on her weapon just below the blade, and with her left hend drew her Yasminkov 2000H from her waist and began firing with deadly accuracy. Not surprisingly, it was the katana-weilding HUmar whose barrier flashed to life. After all, it only took one or two hits to kill him, rather than the many 2-inch-missed shots that would leave an android still standing.

Again the opportunist, BOC began firing on Ridley again with his Yasminkov, but at a range of more than 100 feet, that gun lost its precision.

Despite what the others might have believed, Ridley was not crazed or bloodlusting. The entire fight, she hadn't uttered, although the thought seemed to float around her "mind" like an annoying insect, a single "must kill." She had not shown the signs of random processing that had befallen the others who had received the virus. Ridley was perfectly calm, cool-headed, and deadly serious in her combat.

[mr_rubbish]

Zi'zuku heard the sound of an object whistling through the air. He leapt back a good 9 meters instinctively.

Between him and the car he was confronted by a HUmar, his face battlescarred, wielding a Yamagarasu and an Elysion.

"Assassin! What is your business here?" Said the HUmar.

A RAcaseal ran over and tended to the injured Galatea.

"My business is all mine and none of yours... You look familiar somehow..."

"My name is MonkeyKing... The last time we met I had a brother in a coma and you had wings."

O_O;

"Ancient history as far as I'm concerned."

"Stop this. I know you are capable of great acts of good."

Zi'zuku twirled his Caduceus with his fingers before gripping the shaft tightly.

"I'm also capable of acts of great evil..."

"Antitank..." MonkeyKing called out without taking his eyes off his opponent. "... Break out the big guns, at least one of us here is going to hospital!"

[White_Knight]

after comming into the same room that Riddley Alpha and others were in Shi and company decided to help out Kase and Kori helped in the battle with Riddley while Shi and Tenshi went to help against Alpha.
"What is it with these things?" Shi asked drawing his partisan of lightning and giving the usual yellow bolts a change to black.
"I have no idea." Tenshi says with the same black energy coming in to his eyes as he fires off black razonde's at the mere thought of the spell.
"I hope will be done with this soon though it's getting old." Kori says as she fires off a blast that resemble spears made out of ice.

[-Z]

... nobody wants to let me get a point on hikara's chart http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif
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"Antitank, break out the big guns, at least one of us here is going to hospital!"

"I was unaware you wanted to join your brother so quickly." Zi'Zuku muttered. Monkeyking had looked for a change in his tone of voice, as a hint to when Zi'Zuku was going to strike. Yet Zi'Zuku kept his tone completely apathetic. Unwavering with that anoyying voice that said 'i couldn't care less'.

"Galatea, are you alrgiht?"

"Perhaps..."

"Good. Don't be foolish assassin, you're working on a 4 on 1 here!"

"I beleive you miscalculate. I have the entire military and hunter's guild instructed to take my life, 24/7. These odds don't worry me."

Zi'Zuku began to walk forward, swishing the caduceus from side to side. As he got closer, Monkeyking could hear Zi'Zuku humming a little tune.

"HHHHRRRUUUUUHH!!!"

Monkeyking charged at his incompatant opponent. He swung with the Elysion in a powerful verticle swing, which was held by the arch the wings of the Caduceus made. The heat both weapons put out were easily absorbed by eachother, and nothing happened. However, Monkeyking made a low, horizontal swing at Zi'Zuku, who (while still holding the Elysion up) moved the shaft to block it. Zi'Zuku had heard that bringing something of purity and something of evil together was a sin. O what a sinner was the man who gave Zi'Zuku the Caduceus. But as Zi'Zuku knew that Monkeyking would bring his weapon back to strike again, he jumped forward, through the air without support and, and dropkicked his opponent. As the two got to their feet, Zi'Zuku still hummed that tune.

*POW!*

Zi'Zuku ducked as a phton bullet soared over his head. Zi'Zuku knew not the name of the weapon this raceseal held, but it was a big one.

*POW!*

This wasn't helping. As Monkeyking charged Zi'Zuku again, he simply lowered his head, and slipped into the thick shadows a few buildings cast.

"Damn it! Can you do a thermal scan?" he said to his raceseal counterpart. She looked around for a bit. A beat of sweat dripped down Monkeyking's face. Usually it wouldn't take this long to find someone. This must mean that Zi'Zuku been able to quickly move from his spot. He could be anywhere. Finally,

"He's over th-!"

"Zonde!"

A strong electric current rained down from the skies and frayyed her vision, ruining her perfect shot at Zi'Zuku. Zi'Zuku stepped out of the shadows, just to duck under the blades of a familiar Huceseal. He was forced to jump back, as she entered his blanket of darkness. Zi'Zuku took off his hood, in order to get a better look around. Due to his constant time in the darkness, he'd developed a nice night vision. However, his eyes got too atuned to this constant darkness, and thus strong light became blinding to him. This is in part why he always kept his hood up; to dim the area over his eyes. Yet now that he needed that night vision, lowering the hood was his best intentions. He could see antitank perfectly. He made a flurry of swings at her, like making a series of punches while holding the ends of the Caduceus. She succesfully dodged them all. When one swing came, she used the curve in her blades to catch snd hold the Caduceus, while free to use the other blade to swing at Zi'Zuku. Zi'Zuku was distracted by something in the light; the raceseal had recovered from her shocked state, and took aim. Zi'Zuku was forced to let go of the Caduceus and make his position known.

"RAZONDE!!"

After the blanet of shadows was clearly lifted, just as Zi'Zuku could hear an audible

*CAP!*

Zi'Zuku had planned this, and pulled the shocked Antitank in front of him, letting the shot hit her in the back.

Zi'Zuku walked out into the street, retaking his position down the road. He looked at his four opponents. Monkeyking and his Raceseal, Antitank, and... wait, WHERE WAS GALATEA!?

*VROOOOM!!*

Zi'Zuku noticed the car behind his opponents begin to rev up and take motion. They had distracted him! He had to catch up. Zi'Zuku, while still down the street, made slow, basic swings with the Caduceus.

"Whats he doing?"

Monkeyking squinted to see small glares of light shining in the air beside Zi'Zuku. They looked like... feathers?

Zi'Zuku made his final swing, letting more feathers out from the Caduceus. He looked at them, just floating around, before turning the Caduceus on it's blunt side, and fanned them at the group in front of him. At first they moved slowly, then began to pick up speed. Soon they were going like photon bullets.

"Heads up!"

The group ducked and covered as each blade-like feather soared at them with amazing speed. They were dodged, but dented armor, made cuts, and most importantly, made a distraction.

"Hey, wheres- GAH!"

The group was a bit stunned to see Zi'Zuku sprinting at impressive speeds right past them to catch or cut off Galatea. The raceseal took aim to stop him, but found a feather had hit her weapon.

"Damn... what now?"
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Too long >_<

Obligitory- ^_^

[mr_rubbish]

MonkeyKing watched as the hovercar speed off, lethal FOnewm in hot pursuit.

"Damnit! I can't run that fast."

Antitank saw him look around and then sprint off into a side street.

"Hey! They went that way!" She said pointing down the street.

She saw him approach a parked hovercar, smash the window and then get inside.

"That more like it." She said to herself running over towards him.

When she got to the car she saw he was sitting in the passengerside seat.

"Aren't you in the wrong place?"

"No." He replied. "You're the 'droid, hotwiring is your department!"

She sighed and crammed herself into the incredibly small cabin.

[Solstis]

Alpha, again, was not amused. He had long gone over his first damage threshold and was shooting sparks out of his useless left arm. Not only that but his targeting systems were off, his rifle lay on the ground somewhere, and his view was constantly being obstructed by something attempting to dismantle his A.I.

Then he remembered something.

Alpha struck out his arms as best he could to his sides and opened his chest cabin. Instead of traps flying out, he glowed green. Still being shot at, he repaired himself with his artificial resta and jumped backwards. The resta repaired his arm a little bit and restored his targeting systems. He was still worried, though.

There were too many opponents for him to destroy Montaque. Then, there was another problem.

Yaski was here. Alpha was not aware of her mission, and she not of his. Had he been betrayed?

Alpha spotted an overeager soldier with a lockgun that continued to pester him. Looking for an escape route, Alpha lunged forward, grabbed the arm of the soldier, and flung him at the man using the Ano Rifle. With that, Alpha vanished and ran out of the android made hole to the artery-area.

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Toldos and Solstis were hopelessly lost. Not only had they seen no person, monster, or android for hours, but they were hungry.

Toldos stopped walking for a second and twitched his ears.

"What's wrong?" asked Solstis.

"I hear a battle... that way!" he pointed.

They set off again, hoping to encounter some allies.

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Decided to save Alpha....http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif

[Edit] *Suddenly realizes he has been spelling "Montague" with a "q". Sounds French!



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[BOC]

Boc fired up at the deadly droid. He snarled in anger, realising just how ineffective his favourite yasminkov was at long distance. "get your fast moving, glaive swing, yasminkov2000h firing ass back down here you!!" he screamed, his vocals cracking with the volume.

Ridley turned, firing down several shots at the damaged RAcast. Boc lifted his shield to protect himself. he then lifted his anti-android rifle out of his inventory, firing several rounds at ridley, two or three shots actually hitting the droid, causing her to shudder slightly.

She returned fire at Boc, clipping him in the chest, at the large gash she had already caused, circuits frizzing as the bullet made contact.

"we can't do much while shes all the way up there!!" Malice said, expertly using his katana to deflect more of her gun-fire.

Boc's visor glowed deeper. the grapple hook on his right arm slid out of the compartment once more. he took aim, firing the small hook at the enemy!

the hook pierced ridley'd knee, the droid showing no sense of reaction, other than looking down at the damage caused.

"oh baby we gonna have some fun now!!" Boc laughed, beginning to pull on the metal wire, yanking ridley from her aeriel posistion, he putting up as much resistance as possible.

Matilda began firing at Ridley as she struggled to resist Boc pulling her in. "that hooks pretty handy Boc! if the master permits it, i might get one installed myself!" she chirped.

Ridley seemed to let out a scream, grapping the wire herself, giving a single powerful yank on it.

seemingly against the laws of physics, Boc was lifted from the ground, shooting into the air. "shhiiiiiittt!!!"

Malice and Matilda both watched slack jawed.

Ridley lined up to take a shot at the fastly approaching giant black bullet.

To her surprize, the gun was blasted from her hand, Boc gliding by swearing as he went, falling once more, smashing into the cold hard ruin floor as he went, Ridley been jerked down with him.

Boc smashed into the floor hard, his metallic body buckling and splitting. he groaned. but didn't move. "this just aint my day...."

Ridley hit the ground a little more gracefully, landing on heer feet, searching for the source of the blast.

She glared as Kase and Kori who both stood twirling their weapons. she pulled the still attached grapple hook from her knee. she raised her glaive, ready to make an attack.
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Montague cunningly avoided the ongoing struggle rushing to the side of Doc Stone. "big ears?!? i resent that!" he said.

"as much as i'd like to debate how easy it would be for you to glide with those things monty, we have bigger fish to fry! like finding the source of the virus. first we should really help out with those two death droids." Doc stone said, placing the last bandage over Voshays shoulder, nodding his head in the direction of ridley, and then towards alpha 360 who was giving logical and jerheroc a rather spirited game of hide and seek.

Yaski appeared behind montague. "What do we do then?" she said.

Montague watched as ridley made an advance on the fresh faced hunters that had just saved Boc's rusted ass. "you see that scary droid? kill it!" he yelled with much bravado.

"open fire 'casts!" Yaski said to her legion of stealthy black RAcasts.

[Kadou]

Realizing that once again she was greatly outnumbered, Ridley made a mad dash toward the nearest door, releasing various traps behind her as she went. Why the bloody fuck had she decided to attack them in the first place?

BOOM! Crackle crackle!

Ridley was slammed against the wall just as she entered the short hallway, bounced off, and skidded several feet against the floor. One of the RAcasts had managed to directly hit one of her thrusters, the photon bullet having torn through the vulnerable point into a small pocket of contained radioactivity from her thrusters' power source.

Several people jogged cautiously over through the cloud of smoke, weapons raised, staring as Ridley, rear armor completely gone, synkin of her left cheek torn away, and sparks flying from various other tears in her armor, attempting to push herself off the ground.

Shit...

[DarkRadiance]

He could feel it. The virus, he could feel it.

That's not supposed to happen, is it? he thought. No, it isnt. what's happining to me?

Kryoden could feel power radiating throughout his body, power beyond any he had ever emagined flowed through him. He could feel the creatures around him. The monstrocities that almost killed him seemed to give off the foul stench that Kryoden knew was the virus.

He stood up and realized that his back didnt hurt, but he quickly dismissed it. The creatures in the room were more of a pressing matter that was to be delt with immediately.

Without opening his eyes, Kryoden raised his left hand toward the celing. He felt power flow through him and focus into his fingertips. He could feel the photon levels in the room begin to rise. The hordes of monsters and androids in the room began to grow uneasy, but still seemed to not notice the HUmar currently standing amongst them bringing about thier doom.

Suddenly, blue shards of holy light formed near the celing. They began to rain down on the creatures, devouring each in thousands of holy fireballs. As each shard of light struck a monster, the stricken demon would burst into flame and fall in a heap of burning cinders where it stood.

The room became a brilliant lightshow of chaos. Shards of light showering down, each striking its own monster or droid, the monstrocities in turn bursting into flame and falling to burn on the charred floor.

In a matter of seconds, the room became dark. only then did Kryoden open his eyes. Power still flowed through him, just as strong as it was before he eradicated the monters both in this room and in the adjacent one. A battle was raging beneath him. He could feel it. It was so far in the depths of the installlation that it was difficult for him to diccern anything. What he could feel, however, was his brother's mangled body lying on the floor. Voshay was still alive, thankfully, but he was badly injured and in imminant danger, and that made Kryoden mad.

He felt his feet leave the ground.
If im going there, he thought, then I'm going there quickly.
Kryoden willed his body forward and into the hole in the wall. Gliding over the river of spacecraft coolant, Kryoden saw that the coolant parted under him as if he was a hovercraft floating over a large lake.

"Now that's what im talkin' 'bout!" he said.

Then leaving his glee behind, he shot down the shaft like a bullet seeking a target. Before this was over, Kryoden was going to teach those virus-packin' bastards a lesson they wouldn't soon forget.

[DarkRadiance]

i hope i didnt overstep any bounderies by giving Kryoden such power. if i did, i can repost. sry if it becomes an inconveniance.

[mr_rubbish]

I sense a potential 'Neoluke and his angels' event coming on. It depends on how you use the power... If it makes you invincible and lasts 'forever' (thus allowing us to defeat the virus source easily) then it's going to ruin the flow of the story.
I'm not sure what the others might think.
(If however it say runs out or something else similar happens then its a wait and see moment)


On 2004-02-22 11:21, DarkRadiance wrote:
i hope i didnt overstep any bounderies by giving Kryoden such power. if i did, i can repost. sry if it becomes an inconveniance.

[Lone_Wolf_Nasca]

Im back ^_^ !!
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Galatea steped on the gas. She felt sorry for leaving the other hunters behind, but she knew that even with their help she would never stand a chance against Zi'Zuku. Nasca never had programmed any advance battle tactics or agression desire into her A.I. for the simple reason that he never wanted Galatea to face the harsh reality of battle. She was more used to the peaceful life that Nasca had provided her in his house as a companion.

"Sorry friends, but I must get Master to a hospital." Galatea looked at the side mirror to take a last look at the people that she had left behind, while she cowardly escaped. A look of terror came to her face when she saw a hooded figure running after the hover car.

"Zi'Zuku !! But how !?" Galatea dared not think how can a organic lifeform run so fast without a vehicle and simply floored the gas on to the max reaching top speed.

"There is no escape !!" Zi'Zuku made a huge leap and landed on top the speeding vehicle, making a loud "bumping" sound.

"Oh, no you dont !!" Galatea began to make the car zig-zag wildly in a attempt to shake Zi'Zuku off of the car. Zi'Zuku lost his balance and fell to left side of the hover car. Zi'Zuku then used his Caduceus to cling(or grasp, whatever ;p ) on to the hover car. Galatea the began to close into a wall to "scrape" Zi'Zuku off.

"Shit !!"

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Alas, its your turn -Z ^_^ !!

[DarkRadiance]

On 2004-02-22 11:33, mr_rubbish wrote:
I sense a potential 'Neoluke and his angels' event coming on. It depends on how you use the power... If it makes you invincible and lasts 'forever' (thus allowing us to defeat the virus source easily) then it's going to ruin the flow of the story.
I'm not sure what the others might think.
(If however it say runs out or something else similar happens then its a wait and see moment)


On 2004-02-22 11:21, DarkRadiance wrote:
i hope i didnt overstep any bounderies by giving Kryoden such power. if i did, i can repost. sry if it becomes an inconveniance.





nah, i think ive got that covered. trust me on this one.

[Kadou]

On 2004-02-22 11:45, DarkRadiance wrote:


On 2004-02-22 11:33, mr_rubbish wrote:
I sense a potential 'Neoluke and his angels' event coming on. It depends on how you use the power... If it makes you invincible and lasts 'forever' (thus allowing us to defeat the virus source easily) then it's going to ruin the flow of the story.
I'm not sure what the others might think.
(If however it say runs out or something else similar happens then its a wait and see moment)


On 2004-02-22 11:21, DarkRadiance wrote:
i hope i didnt overstep any bounderies by giving Kryoden such power. if i did, i can repost. sry if it becomes an inconveniance.





nah, i think ive got that covered. trust me on this one.



I think you've definitely stepped past the border between legal groupficcery and Neoluke.. ery. Now I'm justified if I suddenly decide that I want Ridley to be superfied. After all, your super Neoluke angel of holy light needs a counterpart.

Isn't the virus supposed to be purely digital? It couldn't possibly affect a human unless it had any physical elements, but seeing as androids were infected on Pioneer 2 that seems extremely unlikely. Then again, a RAcast's leg would probably be too heavy for it to lift on its own and Ridley would never be able to fly using only EM repulsors and a Rati-shaped group of thrusters.

I'm too analytical. o.<

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[mr_rubbish]

DarkRadiance assures me that Kryoden will NOT be all-powerful or story threatening...

If he is then you all have my permission to kick his @$$!

[-Z]

Woah, someone put Zi'Zuku on speed O_O. although he is a fast runner, i don't think he's DBZ material http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif. however, i think i can work things out ^_^
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Zi'Zuku hurried to find a way to keep his plan going. he was able to run with the car before it could get too much speed (because it was damaged the spedometer must have been wrong), and pole vault up to it when he felt it would begin to go too fast for him. But as the car inched towards the wall, he could find no alterative but to get off. he disembedded the caduceus from the side of the car, just as it slammed itself up against the wall. Zi'Zuku quickly went into a roll, but it wasn't long till he got up again, and stared at Galatea taking his rival away. This made him frustrated. No, pissed. He concentrated for a bit, before casting a rafoie.

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Galatea sighed as she looked through her side view mirror to see that Zi'Zuku had fallen off. But before celebrating, she peered closer. Zi'Zuku was removing some things... from his legs, arms, and torso.

they looked like... wieghts!?

even though she had already floored the gas, she put additional preasure on it. Zi'Zuku was running. FAST. unbeleivably fast. he was slowly catching up with the car.

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1 pound, every year, since i was seven, in 10 places on my body... Zi'Zuku thought.

it feels so good with all of that stuff off!

Zi'Zuku felt light as a feather, and pushed himself to his fullest. he would not let her get away. the car began to come closer... closer... but alas, it made a turn. Zi'Zuku shot down an alley to cut it off. in fact, using his momentum, he tackled the car, leaving a nice dent in its side for him to position himself in. he began to move towards the roof.

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*WHAM!*

Galatea panicked. Zi'Zuku was on the vehicle, and there was nothing she could do about it. her life, and her master's would be lost at the hands of a lunatic.flahsbacks occured to her of the wonderful memries she had with Nasca. that was all going to end. she came out of her flashback when the Caduceus came down from the roof and pierced her left shoulder.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!"

it came up again, and Zi'Zuku jumped onto the roof of the car. he punched through the windsheild, and grabbed Galatea by the throat. she began to scream again, and slammed on the breaks. the sudden lack of momentum sent Zi'Zuku flying off the car. she couldn't drive, but she still had to do something. the hospital was in the area, she could still get Nasca there. she proceeded to the back of the car, and activated the hover-bed. she looked into Nasca's perfect asleep eyes.

"Master... i won't fail you..."

she burst the doors open and began to run towards the hospital.

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Zi'Zuku got up quickly. he noticed the car had been abandoned, and Galatea was going for it on foot. He relaxed; he knew he could catch her easily. He pulled out his metal bindings and a wrench. cassually, he prepared his 'wieghts' by applying the bindings and torqueing them to their correct wieght. he began his cassual run towards galatea. he was catching up. he saw the look of sheer terror as galatea looked forward, to see him in the path in front of her, caduceus in hand.

"farewell."

*HOOOOOOOOONK!!!!!!!*
"what th-!?"

*SMAAAAACK!!!*

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Galatea was expressionless as the group of hunters that were helping her before used a car to run Zi'Zuku over. he flew a good 20 feet before skidding another 5. she desperately wanted to thank them as they got out of the car, but before she could Monkeyking said

"you're welcome, now go! get him to the medical center!"

back to reality: Nasca was in need of medical attention. she didn't care to tackle to injured Zi'Zuku, clutching his side in pain and using the caduceus as a crutch. in fact, she ran right past him, and all he had the physical strength to do was mutter

"Damn you, and such..."

Her master was going to get medical attention. Nobody was going to stop her.
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LOL, i could immagine a little chibi pic of Monkeyfist raving his head off in the car while Zi'Zuku's got these huge teardrops coming down and Galatea's got that one little face that says "uuuuuh?"

u know what i mean http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif

[mr_rubbish]

Zi'zuku watched his rival disappear through the hospital doors.
You were lucky this time... I only have to be lucky once...
He turned to leave the scene, but froze as MonkeyKing's glowing purple blade hovered mere milimetres from his throat.

"Not so fast. You're going to get patched up in the hospital and then you're coming with me. As I recall the Guild has a considerable bounty on your head."


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Shit! I still have to post the general's subplot, Hikande's sub-plot, the power station subplot, colonel ortega's subplot, fight Zi....

Brain tired! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_sleep.gif

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[KaFKa]

hey, kiddos, i am back and posting again! ^_^
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Hikande snarled as she heard the words. How could he be so cold? To say such a thing. The man that had obviously brought her back from the brink was nothing more than a mislead fool. To think, that androids were nothing more than hunks of metal and silica. That they were nothing but soulless things that were just hinderances.

"And you really think this? That andorids are nothing but objects!?" Hikande softly screamed, weakly pulling her head up and starting to move her arms and legs.

"They-"

"No! How ignorant can you possibly be?" Hikande had found enough strength to get up and stand weakly, bowlegged and arms hanging semi-limp. Her dogged expression showing the hell that she had been through in her life. Her piercing blue eyes shone clear, staring Krusher in the face.

"While it-"

"They are people. Wether metal or man. They have souls, they have feelings, they have passions, dreams, everything that could possibly define one as human. Don't you see that?" Hikande said, straighteneing up and looking upon him, tears rolling down her face, remembering the fallen BOC. "I owe my life to an android. How can you say such things?"

Hikande sat back down, eyes still locked on the man, who was stumbling around for an answer.

"By the way, my name is Hikande." She said, slightly nodding her head to the left.


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Yaski walked to the fallen Ridley, who was still trying to pull herself up. She put the barrel of yer Yaskimov2000 to the spot where she thought Ridley's CPU should be. Yaski then slinked up to bring her reflective face behind Ridley's sound receptors.

"Now tell me, name number and model, so i can send you to the proper place for reconstruction." Yaski quietly and confidently sneered, a slight smile coming across her face.

"Yaski, virus attacking CPU, requesting permission to take precationary steps." The agent collective had encountered the virus, and Yaski didnt feel like having to deal with a varitable legion of agents.

"Take all precautionary steps needed." Yaski sighed, knowing that meant they they were going to teleport back to the warehouse and shut down as a terminal operation.

zuumph

Yaski looked up to see the agents disappear, and sent a message to Black Paper, requesting the return of the agents ASAP.

That was when she felt it. The virus had started to infiltrate her system. Yaski internaly laughed as she stood up and walked away from Ridley, the virus had tried to take her multiple times, each time she purged it from her system with minimal effort. Yaski froze as she realized that the virus was adapting so quickly and efficiently that she actually had to put a full-fledged effort into stopping it from taking her systems over.

"Yaski, are you okay?" Montague inquired, seeing her suddenly stop in midstride.

Yaski only quietly murmered her commands, not caring what was going on outside of her. She cared only for her self-preservation.


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Hugh watched the commotion from afar, not wanting to be notced. He came down here with his companion Durga. But sadly Durga had been infected by the d-virus, and Hugh had to shut his partner down. He now wanted to exact revenge on whatever it was that had caused the infection. This group of hunters seemed to know the source. Hugh turned, hearing a sound behind him.

As Hugh looked, he stared straight in the face of a delsaber, who only looked back, waiting for Hugh to make the first move. Hugh stood perfectly still, his body ready like a steel spring compressed to its maximum.

The delsaber made the first move, bringing up it's shield arm as it lunged backwards. Hugh snapped to action, drawing forth one of 18 specialized photon-enhanced steel daggers, and throwing it with lightning speed, his other arm grasping the hilt of another specialized photon-enhanced steel weapon.

The delsaber blocked the flying dagger with it's shield arm, but was somewhat surprized when the dagger stuck itself a centimeter into the shield. The delsaber had no time for being surprized, however, and leaped into the air, it's sword-arm coming down with lethal accuracy.

Hugh had drawn his sword out to it's full length by this time, a good four and a half feet long of bluish irridescent metal. The blade giving of noticeable amounts of cold. He brought the blade up to guard himself with a single hand, but also dodged to the side, since when the delsaber came down upon the blade he couldn't stop the being from crashing through the simple defense.

Hugh spun away, bringing the sword in front of him, the action causing his cloak's hood to drop down, revealing the greyish-blue skinned newman's face, and a large scar going down the side of his face. Hugh held the sword in both hands now, circling around with the delsaber.

Hugh lunged to the thing's left, making a powerful motion. The delsaber took the bait and brought it's shield up to guard, using it's sword-arm to parry and strike. Hugh feinted and struck the open right side, cleaving through the delsaber, separating it's upper and lower portions.

Hugh spat on the delsaber as it disintegrated into purple blood.

"And to think Durga fell to the likes of you." Hugh snarled, walking to pick up his thrown dagger.
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yeah, i introduced a new character. I know its kinda late in the fic to be bringing in new characters, but i'll post his description anyways. if you guys dont want him to exist, just tell me http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

NAME: Hugh
CLASS: HUnewm
SECTION ID: unknown, since he doesent wear it
AGE: 23 (at least thats how old he looks)
EYE COLOR: Silver grey
HAIR TYPE/COLOR: Silver grey
SKIN COLOR: Greyish blue
VOICE DESCRIPTION: Firm, but also youthful
COSTUME: Hugh wears a dark cloak, under which more dark (yet faded) rustic clothes are.
HEIGHT: 5'8"
WEIGHT: 173
PERSONALITY: Hugh acts and thinks with a death wish, seemingly not caring for his own safety. However, when faced with death, he tries to save himself

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[-Z]

On 2004-02-23 00:04, KaFKa wrote:
NAME: Hugh Zi'Zuku
...

http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif
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"actually, i'm not really in the mood to have my bounty claimed today." Zi'Zuku said, eyes focused on Monkeyking.

"Someone do a thermal scan on him. i can't see his hands under his cloa-"

"Heads up!"

Too late. Zi'Zuku had beat away Monkeyking's hand with an angry fist, a small plate of ice forming around his wrist. Monkeyking made a swing with the Elysion, but Zi'Zuku had positioned himself to yell

"Rabarta!"

After monkeyking's feet froze, he noticed the others coming at him. taking out green box, he took a bow, and vanished with the telepipe.
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obligitory- ^_^

[mr_rubbish]

The group of hunters approached MonkeyKing.
"Are you alright?" One of them asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. That went great!" He replied.
"Great?"
"Yeah... I'm still alive..."

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Kursher was stunned by Hikande's words. He had been bewitched by her beauty and that resulted in his mistake. It was time to correct that mistake...

"How could I have been so blinded. You're nothing but a Bot sympathiser." He spat out the words like bile.

"I thought you had potential, but clearly you're not even worth the air you're breathing."

He held out both hands, palms facing her, fingers spread. A look of intense concentration crossed his face and she was alarmed to see RAfoie energy being formed in each hand.

"Goodbye..."

[Logical2u]

"Holy hell, not this again!"

Logical2u leaned the Ano Rifle against his shoulder as the heat signature of the SinowCast fled into the river.

The soldier kid stood just staring at the small moving shadow.

"What?"

Logical2u slapped his forehead.

"What, is the military not giving any hands on training anymore? Don't you know where a power core on a standard 'Cast is? You read the same book I did. Oh, wait. I learned that from trying to shoot BOC."

The soldier blinked at Logical, muttered huh, and pointed at the damaged BOC. "That- BOC?"

"Yes."

Suddenly, the downed evil flying killer robot thingy was shot and another droid was taunting the fallen one. The black RaCasts disappeared
Suddenly, the taunter was leveling a verrry large gun at the good guys.

"Ah hell no."

"What?"

"I sure hope you have a paralysis attribute on that lockgun."

"What?"

"SHOOT HER, THE INFECTION! IT'S GOT HER!" one of the doctors cried before rolling to safety.

Logical2u hefted the Ano Rifle and pulled the second trigger on it.
The (RaCaseal?/) droid stopped.

"You've got 20 seconds to fix her! GO!"

[KaFKa]

On 2004-02-23 04:43, -Z wrote:


On 2004-02-23 00:04, KaFKa wrote:
NAME: Hugh Zi'Zuku
...

http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif

whats THAT supposed to mean, -Z? http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif (and yes, logical, Yaski=RAcaseal)
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Hikande watched as Krusher readied two rafoies, aimed perfectly at Her. She tilted her head to the right absently, and kept her eyes locked on his.

"Are you sure you want to do that?"

Hikande stood, readying to cast resta if the need arose.


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Hugh waited, watching as the group of hunters seemed to squabble amongst themselves. The large contingent of RAcasts seemed to just disappear. The shiny RAcaseal stopped, then brought out a rather large weapon. She tried to fire but was stopped by an ano rifle to the chest. Hugh rolled his eyes as more squabbling ensued. Silently waiting, he got a BEE message.

"Hi, Hugh, this is Dr. Ripoff, i was just letting you know that the damage has been repaired on your friend Durga, and we are going to run a diagnostics, after which we will put in the proper components so that he won't be infected by the d-cel virus."

Hugh sighed, relieved, and sent a BEE message back, thanking the doctor and giving his current position.

[DarkRadiance]

Flying down the shaft at high speed made Kryoden slightly dizzy. He had no idea what was going on, or how he knew how to use his newfound powers, but he knew he had to get to the battle and help his brother as soon as possible.

He felt his back twinge slightly, bringing back the memory of his injury. He dissmissed the thought as before. Kryoden was almost there.

He could feel that the battle had cooled considerably, but there was still a rather large threat factor in the room. He could now feel more lifeforms in the room. Some good, and some, well, not so good. There was also the question of the Sinowcast in the coolant somewhere in front of Kryoden.

He came upon the opening in the wall. He could feel the Sinowcast's bewilderment upon seeing him. Kryoden decided to ignore the cast below him. He had to reach his brother.

Kryoden landed just inside the opening and immediately felt many bewildered eyes upon him. He ignored them. A wave of dizzyness swept over him the instant his feet touched the floor. This, too, he ignored. Kryoden walked casually up to his brother. He glanced at Doc Stone, then walked up and knelt beside Voshay.

"Resta," Kryoden said. He watched as the wound began to mend. Voshay grimaced as the skin closed around the wound.

"What the f**k," Voshay exclaimed when he saw his shoulder, "how did you do that??"

Kryoden became confused. "I dont know," he said.

Kryoden stood, but was instantly overcome by a wave of nausea. He fell to his knees and vomitted on the floor. His back was hurting again.

Voshay gasped. "Your back!" he said, "it's been torn to hell!"

"No shit," Kryoden replied, wiping bile from his lips, "I can feel it."

Doc rushed forward to Kryoden. "You all right?" He asked.

"Im fine," Kryoden said, regaining his composure.

He stood and looked around. there were more team members here than before. That puzzled him. The new guys seemed to be doing a good job in mopping up the remainder of the bad guys, though, so he thought nothing of it.

But something was wrong, very wrong. Kryoden could not put his finger on it, but he knew there was something amiss here. The virus, he realized. There was something differant about the virus.

That's when he felt it. The stench of virus was radiating from him. He had somehow gotten infected with a new form of it. Kryoden felt the color drain from his face. He turned to Voshay.

"I dont want to die," He said.



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[KaFKa]

On 2004-02-23 09:39, DarkRadiance wrote:
"I dont want to die," He said.

*wishes Yaski wasn't ano rifle'd so he could do something VERY evil and wrong*
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Krusher said nothing, but released the two rafoies, turning away as the explosions ripped through the area. He was about to walk away when he heard something through the low roar.

"RESTA! SHIFTA!"

Hikande used the healing energies to shield her from the majority of the explosions, but she was still singed and burnt. Hikande unsheathed her Lavis Blades, the glowing red shifta covering her weapons and hands. She dropped into a dead sprint, bringing her right hand up in front of her face, and letting her left arm lag behind, purple energy gathering upon the blade.

"DEBAND!" Krusher brought up his arms in defense, preparing for a strike.

Hikande brought her left arm around, letting her right lag behind. The gathered energy from the Lavis blade struck Krusher square in the chest, knocking him back against a wall. Hikande seamlessly charged into Krusher, bringing her knee to bear upon his gut, causing him to double over in pain. Hikande dropped her Lavis Blades and grabbed Krusher's head, pulling her knee back, then thrusting it into his face, making a dull wet pop as it hit. She did it again, then moved to the side, bringing her right elbow to the base of his neck. Krusher fell limp to the ground, as he felt his entire body enervated and responseless.

Hikande picked up her Lavis Blades and sheathed them, and fetched her TJ sword that was on the other side of the room.

Krusher felt his body become responsive again, but very sluggishly. Hikande stood above him, arms crossed, looking him in his bloodied face, her eyes locked on his.

"Never meddle with a woman's scorn, for you will quickly become less alive." She said, hatred tinging her voice.
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im waiting for other people to post before i go on with Yaski and Hugh.

[mr_rubbish]

Crap! I'm going to have to post about 6 or 7 times or risk getting left behind.

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Once they had entered the room Clank had watched it, no, watched her as she had soared around the room. She was unlike any Artificial he had ever seen.
Her curves, her straight lines, her reflective surfaces...
If the maker had given him a jaw it would have been slack right about now.
He watched how she gracefully she dodged the incoming attacks. Maybe he was experiencing that human emotion known as love... or was it the human emotion known as virus? It didn't matter... what mattered was that she balanced his equations...

Once they had brought her down the hostile Artificial Yaski was about to terminate her when she malfunctioned. She sent her guards away and that was the opportunity that the Organics need to paralyse her.

The two Organic scientists began to prise off her access casings and all attention was diverted to that. The mysterious Artificial began to crawl away. Clank saw his chance and moved towards her.

A glowing, flying Organic entered, healed another Organic and then regurgitated his fuel.

Some of the Organics noticed the Artificial was moving again and pointed their guns.

Clank stood between them and her.

"I will not permit you to harm her."

"Oh for the love of the Light! Clank what do you think you're doing?" Said his Organic master.

Clank failed to notice as Ridley attempted to stand...

[BOC]

Montague had a small datapad hooked up to the neck of Yaski, he was frantically surveying over a scymatic of her body, trying to pin point her cpu. suddenly random numbers began to dance over the screen, seemingly the datapad was overloaded by the virus.

Doc Stone rushed to his side. "screw the technicalities!" he said, tearing a small panel from the side of her head, pushing the artifical hair back and reaching inside.

Montague gapped in awe. "what are you doing?? her cpu could be anywhere!"

"monty, shut up and get that control chip ready!" the doc said, removing a protective panel, revealing her cpu.

Montague handed stone the chip, then handing him a salduering iron. The Doc began making the nessecary adjustments as yaski's eyes snapped on, her hand reaching up to grasp the Doc's 'vitals'.

Doc Stone let out of high pitched yell, Malice struggling to release her grip. Against all odds, and against the unquestionable pain of having an android mashing his boys, the doc somehow managed to finish inserting the chip.

Malice pried yaski's grip from the doc, the two of them and montague backing off from her, giving the chip a chance to kick in. "shouldn't it be working by now?" Malice said werily as she raised her gun again.

"*squeaky* the virus is more advanced, the chip has more trouble trying to overcome it!" Doc stone said, rubbing his..... 'stones', wondering if a resta would restore his chances of fathering a child one day.

Suddenly Yaski clutched her head, dropping to her knees, mumbling incoherent babble. she finally looked up, a confused look on her face. "what...what just happened?" she said.
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meanwhile, clank was making a valiant (or rather stupid) effort to stop the rest of the gang trying to decommision ridley.

"I will not permit you to harm her."

"Oh for the love of the Light! Clank what do you think you're doing?" Said his Organic master.

Ridley took this oppertunity to stand to her feet, slowly advancing on clank.

From the corner where he had been flung, Boc stirred from his state of malfunction. what limited auto-repair capabilities he had had brought him back. he turned his head to see ridley about to make a grap for clank. "clankers watch out!!!" he yelled, raising his gun taking a shot at ridley.

Clank glanced ridley from the corner of his optics, then seeing Boc fire. quickily he stepped in the way of the blast, striking his chest. this feat didn't stop ridley form jumping the infatuated droid, knocking him to the ground, frantically trying to pull his eyes out.

Clank however, was no Boc. he wasn't gonna get beat by a girl. be it a extremely hot robo-chick. He grapped hold of ridley, rolling over pinning her to the ground.

She snarled at clank. "off me now inferior machine!!"

"turn away from the dark side my pretty! don't give into your hate!" he said.

"oh yeah, like thats gonna work!" Montague said, manuvering in beside Clank, removing Ridley's chest plate. He spotted the elusive CPU, and began the process of intalling one of Doc Stone's miricle chips.

"Montague is that wise? she seems to accepting the virus programming better than most droids. the chip might not work, and if it does, it probably won't last long!" Logical protested.

Stone crawled over to help guide montagues actions, still in pain, still squeaking. "that may be true ardo, but she would make a great alley to our cause, and the data we could extract from her may prove useful in finding the source of the virus!"

Boc (who seems to spend more time on his back than the cheapest u-know-what) rose to his feet again, aided by Matilda and the now de-bugged Yaski. "hell, she kicked my ass! Not an easy task (*insert cheap laughter here*) she must be good for something." he said, hobbling forward, supported by the two androids.

Logical gave the giant death-bot a strange look. Boc returned the glance. they both looked at Malice, waiting for his deliberation. Malice rolled his eyes.

"what the hell, lets turn her to our side. even if she does go crazy again maybe she'll finally but Boc outa his misery." he said.

"hahahaha, thats funny. organics rot you know!! droids don't!" boc spited back.

"yeah you just rust!" Malice said, smiling, giving a nod to one of Boc's rust patches.

"dam human wit!"

[White_Knight]

"Technicly only driods made out of Iron rust." Kase says slightly irritated.
"She has a point." Kori and the Shi's say.
"Yeah yeah yeah." Logical says.
"If we can get her on our side it would be a help bu tif not I wouldn't mind taking her out." Tenshi says as his eyes start to glow again.
"There she's done for now but I don't know how long she'll last for."
"That's ok if we keep like this we should be ok if she freaks."
"True."
"So then are we to assume that you two are going to help?" Shi says indicating the two new arivals.
"Yes we would be happy to help."

[Zzzzzz]

I walked up to Ridley and stared at her. I couldn't understand how a normal looking RAcaseal have so much power. Well, she looked normal to me. I don't know if they make these types of 'droids or not. Being in military training kinda isolates you from the outside world.
The RAcaseal that came with montague's group seems normal, but I couldn't shake off that sense of fear when I saw her eyes. She looked like she would kill even her maker if she had the chance.

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Sargeant Gihaldien tried contacting Jerheroc with his communicator. All he was getting was silence.
"Stupid communicator. Maybe it broke."
He waited two more beats, then had an idea.
"He might still have his other communicator in his suit."
He twristed the dial and changed the frequency.
"Jerheroc, the mission has changed."

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I wlked up to the RAcaseal, about to ask what where those androids here, when I heard something in my side pocket.
"Jerheroc, the mission has changed. I don't know if you can hear me, but there is a large group of hunters being lead by Dr. Mongague in the ruins. Kill them at all cost, and bring back only the head of Ardo. Sargeant out."
I looked down at my pocket and wished no one heard that, then looked back up.
I was staring down the barrel of a rifle the RAcaseal had in her hands.
"It seems we have a traitor in our mist," she said in a dark voice.
My wish almost came true. No one heard it...except her.
I realized that BOC's "famous quality" had some rubbed off on me.
I'm not too happy about it.

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Sorry for not posting lately. You guys seem to be doing well of taking care of my character http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif.



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[Kadou]

Agh! Zzz, your not supposed to post two seconds before I do. Don't you know the rules by now?

I think my post fits in well enough that I won't have to edit it, though.
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The explosion had knocked out one of Ridley's auditory receptors, but she could still make out what the others were saying, and despite her pathetically archaic emotional AI, she actually felt somewhat insulted, although the suppressed virus could be responsible for any actual emotion (Who knew whether it was conscious or even organic?). The others were talking about her as though she were dead, though she might as well be, what with damaged internal machinery and completely torn, melted, swiss-cheesefied, and poorly reattached armor, shescarcely managed to stand.

One of the newer ones was an arrogant ass, she immediately decided. "... I wouldn't mind taking her out," he had said with no sign of having thought before speaking. Hadn't he seen the damage she had done to the others?

Ridley would have sighed. Perhaps she was being too sensitive? Wait, she was supposed to be incapable of being sensitve at all.

More than a bit confused (and because this state of mind was completely new, also frustrated), the damaged droid lowered herself to the ground again, most everyone's attention on her only in conversation. There was no way she would escape their custody, so she might as well attempt to repair herself.

Pulling her knees to her poorly reattached chestplate and folding her arms atop them, Ridley sat silently as the microfilaments which were her autorepair began to fix her internal mechanisms as best they could and sew her synskin together until it could be replaced.



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[WraithVerge]

Deeee-amn I missed alot. Looks like I'm in conflict with BOC (rust bucket) and now I have a sick, yet mystical Kryoden to thank and look after.

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Voshay was pissed off. Partly at himself, partly at that dented bucket of rusted bolts named BOC, and mostly because he'd missed out on a fight. During his recuperation, Voshay had enhanced his hearing and vision enough to hear all of the groups' conversations and battles, but none of that concerned him. What did concern him was the stange aura radiating off of Kryoden, Tenshi, Kori, Shi, and Kase. In his vision-enhancement-mode, Voshay was seeing Kryoden outlined black while Tenshi, Kori, Shi, and Kase sported a gray outline. The rest of the group showed up with outlines of red (human) and blue (droid) except for BOC (brown).

Voshay shook his head and deactivated the enhancements. He turned his attention back to his brother who had recently collapsed on the floor from the strain of his recent flight. The steady rise and fall of Kryoden's chest eased Voshay's mind a bit. I lose sight of him for once second and the little bastard had managed to make a fine mess of himself. I'm just glad he's alright.

Rubbing his shoulder, Voshay slowly rose to his feet when suddenly a message played in his ear. "Jerheroc, the mission has changed. I don't know if you can hear me, but there is a large group of hunters being led by Dr. Montague in the ruins. Kill them at all cost, and bring back only the head of Ardo. Sargeant out."

Voshay stared blankly out into space. Was that Gihaldien I just heard? Sargeant Gihaldien? How in the hell did that incompetent soldier get reinstated into the army, let alone achieve that rank? And why does he want Dr. Montague and the team dead? Voshay had the questions, and he was about to get the answers.

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Malice, BOC, and Logical turned confusedly to Elenor as she said something to the soldier. She was about to pull the trigger when Voshay reached her. "No, don't! Let me handle this," Voshay said.

Elenor looked at Voshay, then at Jerheroc and finally lowered her weapon. The soldier shuddered almost imperceptably. "What's going on?" Logical inquired.

Voshay replied, "Nothing... other than that this guy recently received orders to liquidate Dr. M and company."

"What!?" Logical turned to Jerheroc. "You traitorous little...." Logical clenched his fist and would have pummeled the soldier if Voshay hadn't intervened. "Like I told Elenor, let me handle this."

Voshay turned to the shaken soldier and grabbed his shirt (armor?). "Look, Jerheroc.... I don't care what that snivelling sack of shit Gihaldien has ordered you to do, but if you want to get out of this alive, then I suggest you disregard any more orders sent to you by that idiot. If by some strange notion you still wish to accomplish your mission, then I hope you can live with the knowledge that you've doomed not only yourself, but Pioneer 2 and its passengers. Without anyone to stop the virus, the droids will eradicate all life aboard Pioneer 2 and down here in the ruins. Friends, families, soldiers... millions more dead.... LIFELESS! Don't try to tell me that the military has a solution. From what I gather, the only thing they've been able to do is complicate matters even more! Right now, this group has the best chance of fixing this damn problem and getting us back to our normal lives. Personally, I'm tired of having freaky arm-bladed monstrosities rampaging after me. I'm tired of wondering if some droid is going to go berserk and slit my throat. I'm tired of this damned atmosphere. On top of all that, MY SHOULDER STILL FUCKIN HURTS! So do us all a favor and tell that slimey shithead Gihaldien to go to fuckin hell and that your following Dr. Montague's command from now on! And send him my regards!"

Everyone, even the sleeping Kryoden and the busy doctors, turned to stare at the irate man. At one point during his speech, Voshay had lifted Jerheroc off the ground nad held him in the air. Voshay relaxed his grip and dropped the soldier to the ground.

BOC broke free of Malice and Logical's support, wobbled a bit, then said outloud. "Damn.... that is one angry meatbag."

Voshay whirled around and glare at the droid. "You.... thank you for saving me earlier, but next time DON'T FUCKIN MISS! A monkey could have made that shot while blind-folded you walking dented vending machine!"

BOC's vision panels flared a bit. "I accept your thanks, but if its any indication of why you're standing in front of me, I didn't miss; however, I'm beginning to wish I had."

Malice stepped between the two as they began unholstering their weapons. "Calm down you two! We don't need another bloodfest right now."

Voshay shifted his gaze to Malice, then sighed. "Your right." He turned back to BOC. "Sorry for the outburst..... Its just that... well..." Voshay sighed again and shook his head.

BOC walked over to Voshay and rested a metal hand on his shoulder. "Its alright. We're all feeling the same thing right now. Sorry for causing you some grief. Let's put that behind us and aid the Docs as best as we can."

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A couple of things.

Sorry for the long story. I could have kept it going for a while longer, but I had to stop for fear I'd write the whole damn story!

Secondly, in my infinate forgetfulness I had forgetten to post a profile of Voshay.... >_<

Name: Voshay Marrik
Age: 35
Hair: Black, spiked back
Eyes: Violet
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 182 lbs.
Armor: Black and White with Purplenum on chest
Occupation: RAmar
Equipment: NUG-2000 Bazooka, Varista (x2 at the moment), a Heaven Punisher, and various Mates.

Profile: Voshay recently quit the military. His confidence in the military gradually diminished as he witnessed countless corruptive acts, so he left and decided to register as a hunter. Normally calm and reasonable, Voshay can get tempermental when under pressure. When actually in combat, Voshay is calm and calculating, using his biomods to ascertain weaknesses and aid in battle. He loves a good fight, but tries to avoid killing when necessary.

Lastly, Happy Mardi Gras!

GAH! I almost lost this whole thing cause it wouldn't post because I wasn't logged in. Luckily I had copied the text! WEEEEE!



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[Deathscythealpha]

As the commotion started to die down, Malice began to pace. The last hour had been a complete rush of fighting, trying to survive not one but two berserk droid attacks, having glowing hunters fly into the group and generally trying to work out wat was going on down here. The Ruins seemed to have some wierd effect on people, driving onwards through fighting. He rubbed his head where he had hit it and pulled a piece of hair infrotn of his eyes. The bleeding had stopped from his wound, but the blood had died a purple streak in his long blue hair. He flicked it away and turned back to the group.

"Yo guys, now that everything has sort of calmed down, anyone worked out what the hell were going to do now? We were suposed to be going after that damn transmitter, but i think im a bit lost as to whats actually going on here now. Anyone got a heads up?"


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Mwah, havent posted in awhile, was trying to work out what was going on to tell the truth, got a bit lost back there http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

Hopefully ill start posting more (and get the next bit of DH:Legacy up).

[mr_rubbish]

I just realised I made a mistake with the post I did with Clank. He would not the the word 'Artificials' to describe his kind as that implies inferiority. Instead he would have used 'Mechanicals'. I hope all the androids in the cast forgive me! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

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As if to answer his words, the ground began to tremble, those without motion compensation sensors struggled to stay upright. A searing wave of cold passed through the group, chilling them all to the core.

Even though Voshay had turned down his sensor enhancements they lit up with the sight of a fountain of mysterious photons erupting in the distance. Strongly visable even through the many walls that must lie between them. He was not the only one to notice.

"What ever it is, I think it knows we're here!" Said Boc ruefully.

[DarkRadiance]

Bah, i forgot to post Kryoden's profile...

Name: Kryoden Marrik
Age: 27
Hair: Black, parted down middle
Eyes: Aqua
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 175 lbs.
Armor: Tan and Black with Skyly insignia on chest
Occupation: HUmar
Equipment: Varista, Yamato, Savitri

Bio: Younger brother of the known ranger, Voshay. Prefers using techniques over blades. Loves a good fight, but, like Voshay, tries to avoid killing.

Kryoden is a young HUmar who idolizes his brother. After the incident in the forest outside their home, Voshay had to become biomodified if he was to live. With their parents long-dead, Kryoden would have been left alone if Voshay had died. Because of this, they have become nearly inseperable. Kryoden shares a mental link with his brother that allows him to know when Voshay is in trouble. It has saved their butts many a time. And it was this link that led Kryoden to the ruins in search of his brother.

He is greatly infatuated with a FOnewearl named Karen Arisa. He considers protecting her top-priority. If anything were to happen to Karen, Kryoden would hunt the person that harmed her and kill him/her himself.



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[mr_rubbish]

Kursher wiped the blood off from around his mouth, turned his head and spit out some more.

"You just don't know who your messing with do you?"

Before Hikande could react he grabbed her ankle.

"RAZONDE!"

The world seemed to turn upside down, pain like a thousand white-hot needles stabbing her centimetre of her skin. When the world finally stopped moving she found herself lying on her side. She could see Kursher rising carefully to his feet.

Electricity crackled between his fingertips.

"I'm really going to enjoy this..."

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MonkeyKing and Antitank watched on as the doctors attended to the injured Nasca, Galatea obviously concerned. After a couple of Beats the two left the room. In the main lobby MonkeyKing spotted a familiar face, Bernie. They exchanged notes. Bernie agreed to post a couple of top notch hunters outside Nasca's room while he recuperated, in the event that Zi'zuku returned.

Bernie in turn filled the two in on what he knew of the android situation. Those that were resistant to the virus were now in the hospital, Bernie had convinced them to enter sleep mode till a solution could be found. Reports from incoming wounded seem to indicate that the malfunctioning robots were heading towards the industrial section of the Hunters Guild. But no one had any idea of what they were up to.

"Since we've got nothing better to do we'd better can an eye on them." MonkeyKing stated.

"Ok, as soon as I can spare some muscle I'll send in back-up, okay?" Bernie assured him.

[KaFKa]

Hikande twitched and twinged as Krusher let electricity spark around his hands. She watched as the psyco brought his palms out before him.

"Im going to enjoy this." He said coldly, his eyes mad and content.

Hikande rolled away, dodging the powerful gizonde that exploded on the ground. Hikande got up to one knee, and cast a barta, bringing out her TJ sword.

Krusher jumped to the side, readying to cast a foie at her. Hikande aw the red energy being readied, and fired off a gibarta, at the exact same time as the foie rushed at her. The foie dissipated as it nulled the gibarta. Kerusher was readying another foie as Hikande swung her TJ sword at Krusher's midsection.

shing

Krusher let the foie fly, but it careened over Hikande's head as he felt the pain of having his abdominal section torn open, disemboweling him. He grunted in pain as his small and large intestines erupted from the gash Hikande had made. He stared down in disbelief, doubling over limply.

Hikande simply wiped the blood off of her blade, and sheathed it. Hikande walked away, dropping a trimate ten feet away from Krusher, taunting him.

[-Z]

As Mome sat in his throne like chair, his comm link sounded.

"Black Paper, the assassin you hired is here." his secretary said.

Mome shuddered for a bit. A bit before, he had thought that Kafka surely would have torn him to jibs at his first encounter. Apparently he got what he payed for.

"... Send him in."

A long shadow was cast as the dark figure slowly stepped forward into Mome's office. He smiled a bit. He sure looked like he had seen hell. He began to think of a good punch line like 'Has the last horse finally reached the finish line?', or his personal favorite: 'You couldn't do it, huh?'. However, the man before him spoke first.

"My payment."

...

"How did it go?"

"Target incopacitated. Gave it to 'Yaski'."

...

"I told you to destroy Kafka! Ha! You incpacitated him, but i told you to destroy him! You're reward has been can- EEEEEEP!!"

Mome's agents sprung to action, aiming their weapons carefully at the assassin, now raising a megid to Mome's brow. The vary essence of death lashed out at Mome, begging for the assassin to release it. Yet as the assassin had 4 guns aimed perfectly at his head, he did not flinch a bit.

"My reward has been doubled, for me going out of my way to keep a fine agent at your side. I'm assuming that's what you were about to say?"

"Y-yes. Of course. Weapons down... I said weapons down!!" Mome said, sweating profusely. His agents looked at eachother a bit, and slowly lowered their weapons. Mome gave the meseta cube to Zi'Zuku, who took it, and stared down his employer for a good 10 seconds, before turning his back and leaving.

"That man is going to give me nightmares..." Mome whispered.

"Shall I have your rubber sheets applied sir?"

...

"yes."
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Next post: Zi'Zuku visits the hospital! ^_^

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Kinda ironic you guys ran over the only guy with all level 30 support/healing techs http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

[Solstis]

Alpha leaned against a wall, resting his damaged circuits. His auto-repair had restored 80% of his functions, but he was still troubled.

Mome... Mome... Mome...

His view slowly turned crimson as he opened a telepipe.

Mome...

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Toldos and Solstis burst into the scene. Literally.
Toldos had slipped on a pool of coolant and Solstis, in an attempt to catch him, fell after.

Toldos fell onto BOC, and Solstis onto one of the many boxes that Pioneer 1 had left behind. It wasn’t a long fall, but both were stunned for a few moments as the group stared at them in surprise.

BOC picked up Toldos and received a weak smile from the FOnewm;

"Heya."

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Woot! Finally got them there.

And... now I have a character on P2! YESH!

[mr_rubbish]

Personally I don't think I've made things worse enough yet! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_evil.gif
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Major Killemoff entered the building behind the frontline commandeered as a command post. The soldiers in the room saluted as he entered and filed out swiftly. Killemoff sat behind the desk, the image of General Symantec's impatient face clear on the vid-screen.

"Sir?" He asked.

"Major, we have a new development. From what I have been told, a contingent of androids have seized a power station on the farside of the Guild quarter. If they are successful in their sabotage they could blow a hole several hundred metres in diameter in the dome wall. I don't have to tell you what that could mean."

"How much time do we have?"

"About 2 or 3 hundred Beats at most."

"Well, Sir... I think there is another way."

"Go on Major."

"Well, I think I could have the engineering teams rig up the atmospheric shield generators used on the shuttle bay doors. We could isolate the 'damage' to just the Guild section."

"Do it!"

The screen switched off. Killemoff smiled smugly to himself. Definitely a promotion in it for him after this.

[BOC]

Boc raised his yasminkov, quickily spinning, checking all corners of the room for movement. his sensors were picking up nothing, other than a rather strange concentration of photon. "logical, what can you see??" he said.

the aurally enhanced ranger began to squint. "nothing, something is muddy-ing up my eyes. the photons concentration is increasing." he said.

"voshay, what you seeing?" the dark droid said.

"same thing!" he said.

"okay people, be on your guard, i feel an attack coming!!!" Yaski said.

"elenor, Clank! guard the Doc's!" Malice commanded.

Kyroden closed his eyes and began to sway from side to side.

Boc eyed him nervously "yo, guys watch super-boy there hes acting fishy."

Kyroden opened his eyes and looked at Boc "its watching us. i can feel it."

The photons kept streaming from the walls, ghostly in their appearance.

Ridley stood up, lifting her glaive up, her synskin still knitting together. "i...feel it too. its a..."

suddenly the photons stopped apruptly. the room became quiet again.

"what happened the light show?" Montague said.

The far wall of the room began to slide away, a huge computer mainframe revealed. a centre screen began to glow, blue symbols beginning to crawl across the screen.

"what the hell is that??" toldos said, still hanging from Box's arms.

"the source!" Montague bellowed.

a deep, resonating computerised voice began to speak in an unknown tongue. "carta elis biono"

"its speaking spooky monkey talk!" Yaski said.

"arkat.... carta elic biono"

"we can't understand you!" Doc Stone yelled at the machine.

Suddenly Ridley began to shudder and fritz, dropping to her knees again as she returned to normal.

"can you understand me now organic?" the voice boomed. Seemingly the machine had interfaced with Ridley to access her language progam.

"yes. what are you?" Doc Stone probed.

"i am the main AI construct for this vessel."

"ship? what the hell do you mean?" Malice replied.

"this is a ship constructed to house the great corrupter. it was sent into space to try and remove it from the homeworld." it replied.

"a giant ship??" Doc stone pondered this thought for a minute. "so you must be the corrupter, saying as you have infected are droids you piece of shit!"

"negative. i am not the corrupter. i am a charged with the task of stopping it from escaping this vessel."

"so what is the corrupter then?" Boc asked the machine.

"*error* data inaccessable. Memory banks concerning the corrupter have been damaged in the crash."

"Have you been active down here the whole time?" Doc Stone replied.

"negative. When the vessel crashed into this planet, the impact shutdown my systems. i was re-activated by one of your kind."

"what?!?" Logical yelled.

"from what i gather from the records accessed from your mechinoids, 'the military' sent a team into the vessel to investigate. One of this team was expirimenting with one of my control consoles and re-activated my systems. He was later dispatched by one of the corrupters minions."

"so why did you infect our droids with a virus??" the doc questioned.

"negative. your mechanoids where not 'infected'. they where upgraded to suit my purpose. I tried to upgrade the organic interlopers, however they lack the software to do so."

"what? why, whats your mission?"

" stop all attempts to release the corrupter from this vessel. My systems indicated the most effective way to remove the attackers was to turn the mechanoids against the rest of your crew. The mechanoids responded well. currently they are taking steps to destroy your ship."

The hunters gave each other worried looks. "listen buddy, just get your virus out of my metallic buddies here andwe'll leave this ship all alone down here." Malice said.

"negative. organics are flawed. their logical is flawed. to put it in your terms organic i cannot trust you, and cannot risk the corrupter been set loose."

"well hows about you give us the anti-virus and stop the droids from destroying pioneer 2 and we'll kill this corrupter for you." Clank replied.

"negative. the corrupter cannot be terminated, only contained. the odds of you primitive mechanoids or simple organics been able to successfully survive an encounter with the corrupter."

Boc snapped a inferno bazooka into his MyTea grasp, pointing it directly at the machine. "listen pal, you either stop this shit or im gonna blow a hole in your freckin hard drive!!!"

"warning - systems in danger - activating defense measures." the machine boomed.

To the horror of the hunters, a number of the horrifying ruins creatures began to appear in the room.

"dammit Boc you just had to go pointing that death-cannon at it!!" Yaski yelled at the droid beginning to take pot shots at the advancing monsters.

Boc aimed his bazooka at the machine. "say goodnite hal!"

"NO!!!" Montague yelled, stepping infront of Boc's aim.

"we can't blow it up, we need to extract the anti-virus from its systems, we can't do that if its in pieces!!" Doc stone added.

"bah!" Boc said, turning and beginning to fire at the monsters, the rest of the hunters having already joined the fight.

"Stoney balls, can you hack into it??" Montague said as the two Doc ran to the control console of the machine.

"this is no normal computer montague, you know that! its an advanced AI. an Alien AI. by the time we figure out how to access its files, pioneer 2 will be a smoking wreck." Stone replied.

"so theres no hope???" Montague screamed, grapping elenor by the hand and squeezing it, in a typical over-reaction.

Stone's expression grew darker. "theres one way...but its too risky."

"you mean...?" elenor said looking at Stone.

"yes, one of the droids will have to transfer their AI core into the source and try and steal the files."

Matilida, who had remained quiet the entire time piped up. "but doctor, that is highly dangerous to a droid. And as advanced as our AI is these days, we couldn't compete with this AI. especially inside its on domain."

Doc Stone sighed. "i know, but its our only hope."

"we could try inserting a few AI's Stoney. that may even the odds." montague replied.

"i doubt any of the droids wish to risk losing themselves in such a way."

Boc who had been eary-wigging in on the conversation the whole time jumped in. "beggin your pardon Doc, But in a few beats, we'll lose our selves to the virus. we got nothing to lose."

"the humans could hold back these creatures long enough for us to try and get the anti-virus." matilda added.

"any volunteers??" montague asked.
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VERY long but i wanted to try and move the story along before we sat fighting amongst ourselves for another few pages.

PEACE!!!

[Deathscythealpha]

"You dont need me to volenteer, just dont let anything happen to Matilda while im fighting" said Malice, and with one quick action he had drawn his weapon and was into the action.

'Heh, this seems familiar' Malice mused to himself, 'This same sort of action was what got be muddled up in all of this. Me going out on my own to slay monsters and make a name for myself. Well least this time im doing this for a reason, to protect my friends' And with that he disapeared into the midst of the monsters...

[Kadou]

Melodramtic!
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Ridley shook her head exasperatedly, though only some of her semitranslucent (appears white) "hair" moved with the motion. The rest had been melted into a mishapen white blob on her forehead sometime during the previous fight. Something seemed.. strange when the machine exposed itself, but Ridley scarcely paid any attention when it began speaking. At the moment, she really only wanted to get a trimate or two and go to sleep back at home, each in the metaphorical sense, of course. The damned machine impeded her ability that, though.

The HUcaseal stared forlornly at the wall. Something was strange, not simply photon readings and this whole ordeal, but something more. She could feel the hive-minded entities flashing through Planck space via some type of archaic warp system even as the android she had nearly torn to shreads raised a weapon against the machine. Not simply picking them up with some bizarre instrument, but feeling their presences the way a human feels air near a flame become heated and expand, pressing slightly against their flesh like the nuzzle of a kitten.

And Ridley could feel a hole being punctured through space and the beasts stepping out as though some violation or injustice had been done to her, and the pain of these beasts as they were cut down by the Hunters seethed through her body through the veins and nerves she did not have.

And all the while Ridley could taste the cold odor of the alien machine's artificial fear.

"Any volunteers?" a newman had asked somewhat sardonically but seconds.. hours ago. Any volunteers to die? To offer themselves to something greater even than death?

"I'm gonna to try it!" Ridley called out o no one in particular. It seemed random, out of the blue, almost so belated as to be misplaced.

But the others new what she meant, and though a couple protested through the din of battle, unable to see the reasoning behind Ridley's decision, the droid did not heed, already lost in a vast and alien world, not of coding, but of pure, unadulterated information.

[White_Knight]

"Master what about me?" Kase asks.
"I had always feered lossing you so I kept you personality and data on back up go ahead and try to help." Shi says drawing his Bloody Arts, being in favor of something faster than the two katanas, and surounding them in the black flame he had surounded the katanas in.
"Yeah we can do well enough with out you." Tenshi says as he fires off black spell after black spell with his eyes still glowing.
"Yeah Kase go kick some alien A.I. but." Kori says giving all the combatants a Shifta&Deband before firing off tons of ice spears that once was gibarta.

[BOC]

Boc fired a rocket from his bazooka into a freshly materialised crowd of claws, blowing them back into the abyss.

"MUH HA HA HA HA HA!!!! feel the wrath of B.O.C.!!!" the droid boomed.

he tossed the bazooka to voshay, knocking the wind out of him. "take over for me buddy!" he said, his visor gleaming.

"I can't let Ridley go in alone, jack me in Doc!" he said.

Doc Stone looked upwards at the 8ft droid. a look of fear on his face. "boc....."

"don't worry doc, i don't have much of a mind to lose. And i won't have any meatbag say that the MyTea B.O.C. refused to help out when it really matters!!" the droid proclaimed, striking a pose.

Logical kept firing into the advancing evils before him. "i think the Doc is more worried about losing his number 1 customer rust-bucket!!"

"love you to logical!" he replied, blowing a kiss to the human.

"what will it be like Doctor?" matilda said.

"honestly i dont know. the machine will interpret its functions into some form that you'll be able to recognise. thats if it doesn't just assimulate your AI." the Doc said, beginning to plug the volunteers into the console.

"anyone else???" montague said.

[Solstis]

Alpha walked somewhat unsteadily on the floor of Pioneer 2. This was only the second time he had been on the ship, and he was not as self aware during the first.

His sensors picked up the presence of two humans standing outside of a building.

Alpha walked up to them intending to ask for directions. Mome was a shrewd master and wiped that bit of memory from Alpha's core.

"It's one of them stinkin' droids! Kill it!" one of the W.O.R.K.S. soldiers yelled, leveling a previously unseen Yasmikov 7000V at Alpha 360. The other soldier to the right of the gunman gripped the blade of a pallash and prepared to fight.

Alpha 360 sighed inwardly as bullets ricocheted off of his plating. After fighting the group of hunters these soldiers would be easy pickings.

Just as the soldier on the right prepared to swing at Alpha 360, the machine darted forward, grabbed the head of the soldier with his right hand and squeezed with all of his mechanical might. His friend gasped in shock and was quickly disarmed by the droid grabbing his right wrist and twisting it while pulling forward.

"I thank you for your contribution!" uttered Alpha 360 in a surprisingly soothing voice.

BLAM!

Alpha 360 reloaded the weapon contently; humming to himself a little tune he had heard Mome sing.

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Solstis joined the fray wielding his Yamato, freezing enemies here and there. The enemies seemed to be endless, and he doubted that the rangers had an unlimited supply of ammunition.

During lulls in fighting Solstis looked at his little buddy.

Toldos was watching Tenshi carefully from the floor where BOC had dropped him. His teachings told him that such use of techniques was forbidden. He felt a deep mistrust for the force that he could not place.

Toldos pulled out his favorite autogun out of his inventory. It wouldn't matter if they were dead, anyway.

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Alpha gets dialogue and kills people! OooOOOh!

*waits for rubbish's retaliation*

Watch out Mome/Military/Hunters, Alpha is on the way!

[Edit]: Made the dividing line longer.

[Edit 3]: You could assume that a "traditional" force would have never seen corrupted techniques before. That's why he doesn't trust 'em.

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[White_Knight]

so his dark corrupted versions of tech's are forbiden huh
<_<
>_>
What?!?!?!?!?!

[KaFKa]

okay guys, just a little FYI: Yaski is now an enigmatic NPC for the time being.
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Hugh listened in horror as he, like the rest of the hunters, recoiled in horror. He drew inward, questioning everything he thought he knew about these ruins.

There was no time for self reflection, however, as a rusty RAcast pointed an inferno bazooka at the huge console, swarms of creatures appeared and attacked the small contingent of hunters.

He stood, unstrapping his archaic bow and producing a quiver of what seemed to be arrows, except that the heads were nonexistant. As he drew one, the head sprung to life in a brilliant yellow photon energy. He pulled the bow back, and fired the arrow, finding its target as a large yellow dimenian fell. He pulled and fired another, aiding a hunter that decided to leap into the fray-literally.

As he fired arrow after arrow, taking out single enemies, he softly mused to himself.

Why exacly AM I using this outdated weapon? Wouldnt i be better served by taking up a ranger's rifle? No. Of course not. There is no prestige in using a dirty, oily weapon that any idiot can use. There is no romance.

Hugh fired again, and reached back, realizing that he had only 20 arrows left in this quiver. He had felled many of the dimenians, most of wich were either large or not dimeans at all.

He fired again and again, aiding hunters and taking out tactical enemies. He reached back, realizing he had only one arrow left before he would have to take out a second quiver.

tiiingBOOOOOM

He saw a dark and twisted rafoie, blowing apart enemies with its vileness. Hugh quickly assesed who was responsible for the technique. He saw a force, readying to cast another corrupted and dark technique.

Hugh turned his aim to the force, and let the arrow fly, oulling down his hood, looking at the force.

Shi(or whoever the force is, sorry for not remembering, but im kinda confused) stopped dead when a photon-headed arrow landed right in front of his feet. Looking up to see what sent such an ancient weapon at him, he saw the grey-blue face of hugh, lowering his bow. The two locked eyes a moment, Hugh giving a look of warning, Shi looking in dread. Hugh then restrapped his bow and drew forth his sword, rushing into battle with the grace and fluidity known only to creatures of legend. As he struck, waves of jellen and zalure flew through the masses of dark entities.

Cutting down wave after wave he attacked, trying to make his way to the group of hunters so he could at least have a defensible position.


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Yaski unloaded all of her respective series of Yaskimov on the dimenians, left with nothing but her backup brand and her last ditch weapon.

Yaski looed upon the scene for a moment, deliberationg on what to do. She heard a scream as one of the hunters took a shot to the side.

"Watch out!!" Yaski yelled, pulling out a NUG2000 bazooka, planting herself and taking aim. "This is gonna be one hell of a boom!"

[White_Knight]

It's tenshi who's the male force and he would never be scared.
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"So you want to play that way do you?" Tenshi says as he lifts the arrow with his mental prowess and fligs it into a near by dimenia.
"You've improved sence we last worked together."
"So." He says as he finaly removes his hands from his pockets and makes a circle of flame infront of him. From there he starts to write archaic symbols in the circle of flames. After that he he brings his hands together with the ring and pinky griped together muttering something. The circle breaks into several smaller ones all the same that position themselves in random places about that room quickly grow back to full size then die.
"Watch where you step everyone."
Shi clinks the burinig blades of his daggers together.
"Dragon's Rage!!!" He says as he smashes the two blade into the ground causing a black flame to come down arounf him and then spreed out amongst the neer by monsters. When the flames clear a small pillar where he was is all that's left around him. It splits in two to reveal him standing there in flames that resemble armor and the armor makes him reseble a dragon slightly. After a few seconds it fades and he goes back to hacking and burning.

[Zzzzzz]

I watched as we took down monster after monster. I was with the RAcast named Elenor. Apperently, when the lights came, her look passed away, and now she looks calm. Like she did this before.
"Watch out!"
I looked around for the source of the voice. It was Yaski with a bazooka in her hands.
"This is going to be one hell of a boom!"
She fired and many of the monsters went flying, with there body parts flying off. One of the claws hit my suit in the left thigh. My right shoulder revealed a hidden compartment not even I knew about. I thought it was used for small shoulder pads.
There were 5 small photon granades hidden in there.
I grabbed one, lit it, threw it in the air, and hope it won't anyone.

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Writer's block can be a pain sometimes. That, and cousins. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_bored.gif

[mr_rubbish]

Clank noticed that Ridley had volunteered to jack in to the Intelligence. He lowered his Freeze Shot.

"I must go in order to protect her."

"What? You crazy 'Bot! You need protecting from her! AND yourself! Your CPUs won't be able to handle it." Said Ratchet.

"The instructions have been executed." Clank stomped off to interface with the computer.

Without Clank's help, Ratchet's own Freeze Shot lacked the firepower to hold back the hordes on their flank. They started to press closer.

"Er.. Guys?... Help!"

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Ratchet of course had been correct. Clank was by far the lowest spec 'Droid in the group. It had taken Ratchet years of scrimping and scraping to pay for the upgrades that Clank now enjoyed. The digital world he stood in now flickered in and out of existance, rendering glitches everywhere like an old graphics card.

The avatars of the others just evident nearby. Before him was the closest representation of the Intelligence that his logic processors could handle. It appeared to be like an ever moving wall of floating grey blocks. The shifting patterns seemed to resemble a kind of crude face. Perhaps of the Intelligence's Creator.

It was what lay behind the wall that caught Clank's attention, or rather what was NOT behind the wall. Visual sensors said that there was nothing there, yet motion sensors screamed that there was something very large hiding.

"Does not compute."

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"Quick! Unplug him!" Shouted Doc. Stone, alarmed at the smoke that started to pour from Clank's head and neck joints.

Montague ripped the jack cable plugged into the back of Clank's head, while Stone opened his service panels. A rolling cloud of dense black smoke as most choked him. He despersed it with a wave of his hand while coughing.

"It's fried... Totally fried..." Stone proclaimed grimly.

[Deathscythealpha]

Cut! Thrust! Slash! Block! Malice ran these words through his head as he battled against the odds. Explosions seemed to be going of everywhere, but there was still more and more monsters turning up. A quick slash to his left relieved a Diminian of its arm and he qucikly rooled back as three more piled in.

He risked a qucik look back towards the Computer and saw smoke. He panicked and tried to double back, he needed to know what was going on. There was a sudden sharp pain from his shoulder and he quickly turned around to face a Del Saber who was now holding it shielf in front of its face. Its Buster hadnt cut to far into his shoulder, but the Photon based weapon still left a tingle.

"You barstard!" he yelled and leapt at the creature, hacking away with his Agito. There was a series of reverberations as he struck the shield, the invisible force it emmitted shaking in the air. After the last blow, the creature pulled its arms back, then slashed downwards. Malice griited his teeth as the photons tore through his armour and his chest. But through the pain he kept mvoing and pushed himself onto the Delsaber, dragging it to the ground. H equickly sat up on top of the Del Saber and tried to bring his Agito down onto its face. But the thing was going that easily. It brought its shield up and blocked all the stabs, then swung its Buster at Malices head. He heard the Photons fizzle through the air just in fornt of his face, but Malice stayed cool. He leant back, then stabbed at the Delsabers un protected stomach. It screamed in pain and waved its arms about. Now without its shield being in the way he dragged his blade through its body.

He stood up from the corpse and grasped at his chest. It wasnt bleeding to badly, but it still hurt. He finally made his way back to the computer to see the Doc's tinkering with Clank, who had overloaded with the effort of logging into the computer. There was nothing Malice could do there, he was just glad that Matilda was still ok. He turned back to the oncoming enemy who seemed to be closing in even closer on the computer...

[mr_rubbish]

Boc... Did you stay up till two in the morning posting last night?
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*POP*
Tiny green fairy materialises behind Alpha and flicks power switch to Off position.
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Matilda was bewildered. She could not see any of the other androids who had interfaced with the alien Intelligence. Instead she was surrounded by a forest of dull black trees covered in the same glowing markings as the ruin creatures. The forest was dense and she was unable to see any further than 20 metres in any direction. Overhead, grey clouds boiled across the sky far faster than any weather system she was familiar with.

That's when she noticed the whispering. It seemed to come from all around as if the trees were talking. The whispering increased in intensity, but she could not understand what was being said. It was like the language that the Intelligence had uttered when they encountered it.

The sound level was starting to reach unbearable levels and when she switched off her audio receptors she discovered that she could still hear it. She threw up her hands to her 'ears' and began to scream.

"Shut up! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!..."

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The industrial district lay between the dome wall and the Guild section of the city. It was here where they had built the workshops, factories, warehouses and other such facilities. It was one of the least populated areas to be affected by the rebellion but the majority of the workers would have been civilians and not hunters.

MonkeyKing and Antitank moved from corner to corner as stealthily as possible. The streets were fairly open with little cover between buildings. They camped down in a doorway when Antitank noticed something in the distance. Using the scope of a rifle combined with her enhanced vision she could make out two heavily armed RAcasts standing perfectly still outside of an open doorway.

"I see two RAcasts.... I think they're guarding something...."

"Do you know what building it is they are guarding?"

"No, I am not familiar with this area."

"In that case, we need to get closer."

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Hunter: Excuse me Mrs. Falz... Can Dark Falz come out to play?

Mrs. Falz: No, he's been a naughty boy and so he's grounded in his tomb for all eternity.

(All the Hunters together): Please!

Mrs. Falz: Oh alright then.

[BOC]

what can i say rubbish, i am a nocturnal (sp?) creature. i'm more alert at the night and in the early hours than i am during most of the day!
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Matilda had the first to enter the machines main frame. clank had followed closley, only to....... have a reaction.

Boc watched in horror as clank began to smoke and fry before him, montague trying to reboot his systems. boc looked nervously at Doc Stone, who was standing with a pair of connection leads in his hand.

"ready to jack in Boc? what about you ridley?"

Ridley simply nodded.

"yeah. im ready!" the RAcast responded, feeling a little disheartened.

"Boc, remember, when you find the anti-virus files dont waste time, get out of the mainframe as quick as possible. you too ridley." Doc Stone said.

"brace yourselves!" he said, inserting the cables into ports on the droids necks, turning and sticking the cable into the machine.
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Boc could fell his conciousness been ripped from him. He could feel himself falling. he could feel. it wasn't normal.

Suddenly he found himself standing in an eerie forest. the trees themselves seemed to pulse with live.

Boc looked down at his hand. Was he really inside the computer? it seemed so real. and yet unreal. something was wrong with this forest.

"to machines, all reality is virtual." Boc said to himself, recalling the words of someone wise, now forgotten.

As much as he'd love to frolic about this creepy forest, he had to locate his companions and find the files. how would he even know what they looked like?

wait. he'd know. something in the back of his mind said he'd just know.

"Boc!" ridley yelled, stepping from behind a tree.

"ridley, where is matilda?" Boc said, raising his yasminkov to get a firmer grip on his weapon. he was surprized to see it. the doc had explained before they had merged with the machine that it would interpret itself into a meduim the droids could understand. this wasn't his gun, it was apart of his own programming, the part that would stop things from attacking him.

Ridley clossed her eyes. "this place. i feel a deep connection to it. i can sense her. over there!" she said.

the two ran into a clearing, finding the petit RAcaseal holding her 'ears' screaming 'shut up! shut up! SHUT UP!' she was in pain.

Boc could hear the unbearable sound. he covered one of his audio-recptors, taking aim with his free hand to try and find the source of the sound.

"the trees! the trees are screaming at us!!" ridley yelled over the noise, herself cringing in pain. understandable due to her 'deep connection'.

"i frickin hate nature!!!" Boc yelled, beginning to fire at the trees, the bark splintering and shattering as his virtual gun began to silence the surrounding trees one by one.

as quick as it had started, the sound attack stopped. The droid stood straight, ready for anything.

"yeah! that'll show yas! and don't be trying anything else, cause i've got a chain saw lurking in my inventory!!" Boc said to the trees.

"that was horrible! i... i've never really felt pain!" matilda said, looking over to Boc and Ridley.

"least now we know how the the meatbags feel in the real world." Ridley said.

Matilda looked around. "wheres clank?"

"he... he... didn't accept the programming." Boc said, remembering the smoking husk of clank.

"come, we have to find the anti-virus quickily! the meatbags can't hold the monsters back forever." ridley said, leading her ranger companions off deeper into the 'forest'.

Matilda whispered to Boc "how does she know where to go?"

"i just do." she replied coldly.

Matilda shot ridley a fearful look. not in fear of ridley herself, but more fearful confusion of how she seemed to know where to go.

"do you think the AI knows we're here?" she quried to Boc once more.

The dark RAcast's visor glowed "it knows. lets just hope the dam thing doesn't get in our way too much."

[mr_rubbish]

I'm archiving this story in an RTF but I forgot the chapter heading for chapter 13 (damn my low quality brain!) I'm hoping at least one person out there (who reads this) will remember.

ch 12 : Heroes and Villains
ch 13 : ?????
ch 14 : The Root of All Evil
ch 15 : Beneath the surface....

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As a side note I thought I might giive some details about Matilda.
She originally featured in DeathScytheAlpha's recent Xmas vaction Group-fic. I had her standing under a lamp post waiting for her master, till Hikande dragged her into the party.
My original plan was to have her master show up and boast how he had told her to wait for him with the intention of never returning (and thus inviting all the other characters to kick some sense into him).

Of course, I stopped posting for two months...
So it's a small irony that she now has a new master in the shape of DeathScytheAlpha's Malice...


She is identical to Elenor except colour, 1st row yellow.


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[Lone_Wolf_Nasca]

It was the "Road less travelled". ^_^

[Kadou]

Eh, BOC, Ridley had already connected to the computer thing via wireless (microwave) tranceiver. That's what the last few lines of my post meant. I guess it doesn't matter that much, though.
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Ridley leads the other two through the forest, the voices of the trees pressing against her ears - she would have blinked. Her auditory receivers like the shreiking of thousands of people, the thousands of people aboard Pioneer 2. She tries to ignore it, but it does not release her.

The other two follow her wordlessly.. Well, except for the occasional curse from BOC as he fires futiley at the trees. Matilda obivously is suffering from the trees' yell as well, but she tries to hide it whenever one of the others happens to glance at her.

In truth, Ridley has absolutely no idea where she is going, but there are such strange sensations here, each pulling at her with an authority like that of her primary programming. Something is ahead in this direction. Ridley feels it, like some peculiar premonition, much like that received by a deer just before a concealed wolf punces at it.

And then the forest is gone, not thinning into a field or something of that sort as a normal, real forest would, but it simply ends at one point, creating what from the outside seems like a long wall of trees. The sudden silence is nearly as painful as the noise had been, as though they are fleshies that have just been released outside Pioneer without any kind of protection, instantly decompressing. Matilda screams a wordless scream. BOC shouts something unitelligable. Ridley winces, but remains silent.

Precisely three meters from where the forest ends, the black-lichened earth does as well, giving way to a massive chasm that extends beyond the infinitely far horizon. A human probably would instantly have gone insane after looking into that void.

But something else is there. In the way a mountain climber looks up to the next, seemingly impossibly high peak with a nauseating mix of thick fear and a vile loss of confidence, all three droids sense something looming near. Matilda iss the one to look up, and if she was capable of it, her jaw probably goes slack. The other two quickly follow her gaze, and both have more or less the same reaction. Even BOC is at a loss of words. Right at first, anyway.

Perhaps, no. Exactly 25 meters out and above the sudden drop, there is a massive.. thing. Its surface is reflective, like a film of water over mercury of chrome, and from one side to the other is exactly ten meters across. It is a perfect sphere, its edge corrupted only by infinitesimal patterns of ripples and undulations.


WHY DO YOU COME/JOURNEY/
LEAVE YOUR PREVIOUS POSITION
TO BECOME HERE
?!?!?!

The noise reverberates inside the heads of the three avatars like thunder. It is not a voice, but more as though one is listening to the sounds of a tornado roaring above an earthquake and realizing belatedly that the sounds are forming words.

[WraithVerge]

Voshay fired off a few shots with his newly aquired launcher, but the damn thing soon sputtered and died. Voshay sighed, muttering to himself that he expected this to happen. He slammed the useless weapon into an oncomming So Diminien, pulled out his two Varistas, and loaded the thing with photons.

Voshay began strafing to and fro, locking onto and firing off lethal shots at Diminiens and Claws that posed the most threat to himself, his brother, and the group. Voshay sensed a Delsaber charging towards the doctors, aimed at it and fired off three shots. The first one connected with its shoulder, the second blowing its head cleanly off causing the beast to topple over in mid run and crash next to the doctors, scaring the daylight out of them and causing Doc Stone to shriek like a little girl. The last shot, however, connected with the Delsaber's flailing shield-arm and ricocheted. The shot connected with one of the BOC's senseor panels, shattering it to a million pieces. The droid did not respond, for he was already within the computer mainframe. From the look on the docs' faces, it would take a long time to repair the damaged droid eye. Fuck... just my luck that I blind the bastard just as we were becoming friends...

Voshay heard a loud, clanking sound behind him and his eye's widened. He barely rolled out of the way as a Chaos Bringer charged past. It nearly slammed into the wall before halting. The Bringer snorted, shaking its weapon around menacingly before turning around. It scraped its front right leg along the floor, snorted once more, then prepared to charge.

While the C. Bringer was distracted, Voshay turned to yell to Kryoden. "Little bro! Airmail to big ugly! On my mark!" Voshay kneeled down and leaned forward, arching his back as high as he could.

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Kryoden danced fluidly among three La Diminiens. Every time he dodged an attack, he would retaliate and slice a large cut into the off-balanced attacker. One of the La Diminiens swung both arms at Kryoden, but neither landed at hit on the agile kid. Instead, Kryoden twirled the Yamatos around, sliced off both of the La Dim's arms, then impaled it with the left Yamato blade. His hand still holding the Yamato impaled into the first La Dim, Kryoden swung with the right Yamato and beheaded the second La Dim. He pulled out the left Yamato and spun to his right to avoid a blow from the last La Dim. He stabbed one blade into its side and the other into its chest. He released his grip from the blades, wiped his brow and parted the hair out of his eyes, then removed the blades and swung both at the La Dim's head, severing it from the body.

As the last La Dim fell, Kryoden heard Voshay's call. He entered a runner's stance and waited for Voshay's confirmation. "NOW!" Voshay screamed and Kryoden bolted toward his brother. Kryoden hopped onto Voshay's back and vaulted over the Diminiens and hunters. After initiating a few spins and twirls, Kryoden landed gracefully onto the C. Bringer's back. He brought down a Yamato and severed the Bringer's right arm. Kryoden almost struck its head with the other Yamato, but it reared back, roared, and sprinted off, almost sending Kryoden flying head over heels. Kryoden seated himself and, to Voshay's utter astonishment, 'caressed' the Bringer on the neck causing it to slow its rapid pace.

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Voshay couldn't believe it. Voshay kept his focus mainly on Kryoden, but had to occasionally kill off a near-by beast that wandered too close. Voshay watched as his little brother took control of the Chaos Bringer, but at a painful cost. Kryoden seemed to be straining hard to keep the beast docile for it did resist his control, but didn't break free. Kryoden used the beast to trample over Diminiens and Delsabers, often reaching down to take a swipe or two as he rode by. Voshay grinned at his brother. Damn... now I have something to worry about when I wrestle my little bro. Snapping his attention back to reality, Voshay made his way over to where the doctors were working.

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EDIT: Minor spelling errors.
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[Solstis]

Sorry if this is excessively long

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Alpha stalked the roads aimlessly, looking for ways to occupy his time.

The android spotted a lone hovertank facing the opposite direction. He snuck up to it, making sure that it was not aware of his presence. Deciding he was clear, Alpha rapped his robotic hand on the tank?s hull.

"Hello? I'm with the Pioneer Daily, and I've been wondering about the situation here." said Alpha in his soothing voice.
A soldier popped open the hatch looking cross. He wondered how the press had gotten so close to the front-lines.

"Sir, I need to ask you to leave the... whaaa???"

The soldier nearly jumped when he saw a droid aiming an antique-looking gun at his forehead.

Blam!

Alpha climbed to the top of the tank, lifted the headless man out of the vehicle and fired at the men inside. The pilot in a desperate attempt rotated the turret to throw the droid off. He thought he had succeeded when he heard a loud noise outside.

The pilot looked back at his comrades with a triumphant smile on his face. His smile soon turned to a look of horror as all of his friends were dead. In fact, one of them was missing nearly half of his head.

He barely stifled a whimper as he heard something climbing down the ladder. The soldier nearly cried as the machine moved closer, its rifle leveled at his chest. Alpha though, oddly enough, felt his bloodlust sated and merely picked up the soldier by his neck and flung him outside of the vehicle.

Alpha would have smiled. This tank was sure to have a current directory of every home, business, and laboratory in the city.

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Toldos gasped in surprise as the odd hunter rode by on the back of a chaos bringer.

"Toldos! PAY ATTENTION!"

The newman snapped to attention.

Solstis faced a large crowd of Diminiens and Delsabers. The left blade of his Yamato lay on the ground, and he held the right blade in both hands as if prepared to swing wildly.

"Toldos! I need you to cast your highest level of barta on the blade!"

Toldos sighed.

"The last time we did this, you passed out for a whole day!"

"I've been practicing! Now hurry up!" The creatures had noticed the HUmar by now and were moving towards him.

Toldos grabbed the blade with his hands.

"Barta!"

The blade absorbed the ice attack willingly, as if it had been fed. Ice formed around the hunter's hand, making him wince a bit. But he shook his head and focused. He couldn't be distracted now.

Solstis rotated his torso as far back as he could and swung while casting Gibarta and using Yamato's ice attack.

"Frozen Wind!"

A delsaber hung in mid-air for a second and crashed to the ground. The diminiens were stuck in place, one about to swing at Solstis.

The HUmar smiled weakly as he passed out.

"Idiot."

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Whew!



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[White_Knight]

You guys remeber the circles from earlier? Well here's what they did.
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Tenshi had just started to slash at the beasts with all the strength and finess of a hunter with his elyson wondering why none of the stupid beasts had steped on his circles. Just then one of the circles burst taking with it two dimenia and two claws and nicking a C-sorcerer.bingo
over the next few minutes more go off as Shi who has stayed near Kori is slashing at more and more monsters now back at to the Sange&Yasha weilding them with deadly skill his eyes that have been warm and caring for most of the time that peoplehave seen him are now cold merciless and emotionless as he slays the beasts with indiferance. His change in moods is so big that had tenshi and kori not already seen it, it would suprise them.
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Kase had just caught up with the other avitars and is just as supprised to see the thing as they were.

[BOC]

eeerrrr, my bad kadou!
now this is a long post! honestly i could ramble on for longer but i don't want to piss anyone off.
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what was this emotion? in his entire borad range of emotions that had been programmed into his systems, had developed and become more human over the year, he had never experienced this before. it wasn't fear. Boc never liked to admit it, but fear did occaisonally creep into his circuits. when he takes an unbelievable shot to his body, when that explosion shook ragol, when the virus was first transfered into his system. but this wasn't fear. it was something more powerful.

it was terror.

Ridley spoke at the giant sphere of molten strangeness. "we have entered this system to retrieve the anti-virus to the virus unleashed upon our droids!

YOU ARE REFUSED ACCESS TO THE ANTI-VIRUS. THE THREAT TO THE VESSEL MUST BE REMOVED! the voice thundered again.

"one way or the other we will get it!" Matilda yelled in a moment of bravery.

NEGATIVE. YOU ARE INFERIOR TO MYSELF. YOU POSE MINIMAL THREAT TO MY SYSTEMS. YOU WILL BE DEALT WITH BEFORE YOU CAUSE ANY DAMAGE TO MY DATABANKS. the giant sphere boomed again.

Boc raised his Yasminkov, ready for an attack. "lets rock!" he said, cocking it.

almost as if in response to his words, the sphere began to shudder. it began to wrap itself, changing its shape, its density......... its appearance. it began to take a humanoid form. something that look so alien and so robot that it defied describition. it looked organic and metallic at the same time.

It floated motionless in the air for a minute. it slowly rose its head, revealing eyes that didn't shine. they refleacted no light. Black. pure darkness.

Suddenly the sphere/ai creature pulled a large meancing looking saber from nothingless, shooting forward, landing beside the three droids.

EXECUTING ALIEN AI'S. it droned to itself, moving in for the attack.

Matilda was the first to let rip. she began blasting away at the droid with her mechguns. what damage was done was no-existant.

Boc began blasting shell after shell at the creature, the lead simply bouncing off it.

Ridley snapped out her glaive, moving in to attack, blades clashing as the AI monster began making almost surgical strikes at ridley.

Ridley ducked and weaved, avoiding each strike, using her glaive to try and stop the rest. One strike slipped through and hit the HUcaseal on her lower torso, sparks shooting from the wound.

"target at 93%."

"die you filth-eating son of a bitch!!!" Boc yelled, launching himself at its back, using his yasminkov to try and strangle the AI monster.

The strange creature gasped for air, pawing at Boc to free itself from his grasp.

Ridley and Matilda say their oppertunity. Ridley clipped her yasminkov2000h from her belt, taking aim at the dead centre of the ai monsters chest. "matilda, aim for the same spot!"

Matilda didn't bother replying, simply begin to pound her mechguns into its chest.


The assualted point began to discolour and warp under the intense firepower.

THe AI managed to get hold of Boc's shoulder, taking hold. Boc slipped a trap from his back-mounted launcher, and shoved it into the creatures still open mouth.

The AI clutched Boc, pulling him from his back, driving his saber into Boc's chest and throwing him at Ridley, the heavy droid knocking the Hunter over.

The trap erupted in the AI's mouth, the creature screaming. Matilda flung one of her traps at the creatures weakened chest, shooting it inches before it impacted.

Ridley jumped to her feet. "come on Boc get up, this ain't over yet!" she made a move to zoom in and strike the creature, when she noticed a lack of swearing from Boc.

She watched as the hulking droid slowly pushed himself from the ground, fluid leaking from his chest.

"will you live?" she said cooly.

Boc, obviously rather badly damaged replied slowly. "its easy to knock me down... its getting me to stay down thats the trick!!"

Ridley zoomed in slashing wildly at the creatures exposed chest. Boc and matilda charged in, each grapping hold on one of the creatures arms, preventing ti from defending itself against ridleys barage of slashes.

THe AI, using Boc and matilda for support kicked ridley away with both his feet, the HUcaseal flying back quite a distance.

Boc snapped both its arms up into a submission move, leaving matilda free to attack, the small RAcaseal smashing her fist with fury into its chest. "this is for my old master! and this is for the people of pioneer 2! and this is for infecting me with your virus!" she screamed, an unknown strength causing her blows to cause the creatures chest to buckle.

"AND THIS IS FOR BOC, WHOES REPAIR BILL IS GOING TO BE HUGE AFTER THIS!!" she yelled driving her fist into its chest again. to her surprize her tiny fist puntured the creatures flesh/armor, it sinking into the chest with a squlech.

The AI screamed again. Matilda pulled her fist out, clutching a unidentifable 'organ'. the lump of organ began to glow a soothing green within her grasp, the glow beginning to spread up her hand, washing over her like a wave.

"by the light! you got the anti virus from it!" Boc yelled.

The creature realed, throwing Boc and matilda to the ground in a single move. he quickily stood over matilda, saber at the ready. he was ready to plunge....

Suddenly, faster than light itself, Ridley jetted into the AI creature, taking hold of it, flying it over the void.

"ERROR. THE INFERIOR AI'S HAVE EXTRACTED THE FILE. LOGICAL DICTATES THATS IMPOSSIBLE!" the creautre bellowed, clutched in ridleys grasp.

"teach you for not upgrading your hardware!" ridley said, releasing the AI creature from her grasp, watching as it fell into the darkness bellow.

she gracefully landed back on the verge, helping matilda to her feet. "you have it! you have the anti-virus!" ridley said, revealing more emotion than she normally would.

matilda smiled as she felt the anti-virus software download into her AI. "we have it! but lets get out of here, i don't think that thing is going to stay down there long."

"lets get outa here!" Boc said.

matilda closed her eyes. "exporting AI from alien mainframe." she said in a computerised voice.

[BOC]

me thinks me may have over-done it with that last post. im starting to feel that everyone may not think it fits in, or it ended that encounter too quickily.

so just to let you know, if anyone would rather i change and/or delete parts feel free to say. no worries.

cause i don't want 2 earn myself the nickname of neoluke the 2nd.

SPAM!

PEACE!!!

[Kadou]

That was really short, but I think whoever introduced Kryoden already earned himself that title. Besides, I'm too lazy to retype this.

Matilda was the only one who was devirusatized, right? She was the only one who actually received the antivirus, I think, and she brought it out. So I guess Doc Stone's gotta download it from her or something?
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Ridley pulled out of the other machine's collapsing, formless data and into her neat, stiffly organized programming. But there was still something there. An awareness, perhaps, that she now held dear. The virus had given Ridley the gift of emotion.

Well, programmed emotion; just slightly more real than simulated but not quite like those of a human.

"Short fight," Ridley heard a voice say, realizing belatedly that it was her own.

"Ah! Goddamn! Where the fuck is everybody?!" BOC's shrieking over the din of slaughter.

Doctor Stone quickly removed the cables from each of the droids' heads and began babbling with questions about what had happened. BOC, after having received an impromptu repair to his optics, silenced him saying to wait until this fight with the ruins creatures was finished.

This fight. Ridley would have blinked, but she did look up. It just occured to her that the group of Hunters were still fighting the Falz-things. Ridley stood, activating her glaive, and then remembered that most of her armor was melted or gone and her thrusters were no longer functional.

Ah well. She could still help out. Deactivating the glaive and drawing her Yasminkov, Ridley began to fire upon what was left of the D-Cell creatures, occasionally tossing a trap in.



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[BOC]

Boc felt himself return to his safe-haven. his home. his rusted old body. but..... darkness.

thats when the thought entered his mind. what if his AI hadn't managed to escape the machine properly? what if this was what happened to droids when they died. what if...... hey, he could still hear.

Ah! Goddamn! Where the fuck is everybody?!" he yelled.

"you had an accident Boc, your optics are damged. give me a minute!" Doc montague said, performing make-shift repairs on The droids damaged visor. his vision returning in a limited, fuzzy manner.

"what happened, did you get it?" Doc stone said removing the lead from Boc.

"i downloaded it. its in my harddrive!" matilda said overjoyed. all elements of the virus had been purged from her system. she felt reborn.

"great, theres the easy part over!" logical moaned over the battle.

"easy part? that was no walk in the park buster!!" Ridley yelled, tearing into the creatures with all her remaining might.

"we still have to get out of the god foresaken ruin. then we have to get back onboard pioneer 2. then we have to start thinking how we are going to avoid all the military dudes and crazed droids up on the ship!!" he replied.

"first things first!" Boc said. he picked up his discarded inferno bazooka and loaded another rocket into it. "i think im gonna enjoy this!" he said, beginning to launch rocket after rocket into the AI machine, firey explosions sounding the death of the machine.

"we could take your shuttle back up, but the general would send his best and brightest to the hanger to aprehend us." jerheroc said.

"i know how those simpering fools think. im sure we can come up with some plan to outsmart them." logical said wryly, blasting another creature, their numbers beginning to thin out.

[Deathscythealpha]

The creatures were nearly all dead, leaving Malice and the group standing in corpse's and covered in blood, some of it being their own. A quick hack downed one of the few Diminians left and Malice looked back to the scientists and where the prone bots had been.

"Thank the light that your all right" he said, limping over to the group.

"Master Malice!" said Matilda, who then ran up to him and tried to cradle his wounds, but Malice just held his hands up.

"Hey, what did i say about the Master bit?" he said with a small smile. "Dont worry, ill be ok. Just a few dabs of monomate should fix up these scratches. Ill just have to find some first. Did you get the anti-virus?"

As a reply, Matilda flipped down her wrist communicator to show of a long series of binery code scrolling across its screen.

"I got it" she said with a large smile.

"Perfect, that should mean we can leave this hell hole"

"We just have to find a way out first" added BOC. Malice looked up at the huge droid.

"Hey, like the look with the eyes. The whole shattered visor things so you" If a droid could give someone the evil eye, espicially with smashed ones, BOC would have been doing it then.

"Yeah, thanks"

"So why cant we just jump in the shuttle and go back to Pioneer 2?"

"They will be waiting for us, they already know we stole the shuttle, and im sure theyve got some sort of bugging equipment on Jeheroc. We will be shot as soon as we entered the docking bay"

"If their expecting us at the shuttle bay, why dont we just use the teleporter?"

[-Z]

*plays Meira's remix to get thoughts moving.* (http://www.therecollectionsaga.com/Media/Dark_Falz.mp3) i think it seems quite fitting for Zi'Zuku ^_^
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Zi'Zuku narrowed his eyes as he peered across the street at the hospital. after healing himself and applying 4 trimates to his side, he didn't mind the injury at his side. He leaned forward, making his way through the shadows. the scene seems to have died down a bit. the only moving thing he saw in the open street were the flames still dancing out of the tank he blew apart before. quickly moving towards down the street, he noticed a lone hunter moving down the street. looking from his build, he wasn't too experienced; Ragol always did prove quite a work out. performing another of his 'shadow tricks', as he once heard one rumor, he stepped from the darkness. from the angle the hunter was at, the seemingly flat-on-wall shadow just spawned the dark figure from nowhere.

*shing!*

he screamed in pain, as his right hand was neatly severed. helpless, he could do nothing to prevent Zi'Zuku holding a foie to his bare skin. scream! was all Zi'Zuku thought at the moment. much to his expectancy, the wailing humar caught the attention of some hunters inside the guild. Zi'Zuku felt that now his preseance was known, he could stop torturing the humar. but he still grabbed him from behind, putting him in a standard hostage hold. his eyes looked around the area for a bit; just to make sure for snipers who thought they would get a lot richer today. after confidently seeing none, he examined his opponents. a hunewearl, a racast, and a fomarl. they were nothing like this humar; stronmg weaponry in hand, obvious marks from battle, a nice stride coming at him. formulating a plan, he held a megid to the humar, and prepared his voice.

"The loss of this man's hand is leading to the severe loss of blood. Let him and I pass into the hospital, and his life may be spared."

"You can't trick us 'Zi'. Our purpose here is strictly to protect the people inside from you."

"Pity."

Zi'Zuku thrust the humar at the ranger. he pushed thehumar to the fomarl, who immediatly cast resta. unfortunately, he looked through the sights of his red scorpio to find Zi'Zuku's megid flying at him. reacting quickly, he ducked out of the way, and fired at the ever close Zi'Zuku. Had he shot at anyone less flexible, their bodyies would have been mauled by the high concentration of distruptive photons. He was surprised to see Zi'Zuku duck, and shift his body to one foot, elegantly sidestepping the wave of destruction. he looked through his sights again, to the unfortunate sight of the caduceus flying into his optics. While the caduceus was impaled between his head and his gun, Zi'Zuku jumped high into the air, and kicked it through all the way. He made to retreive his weapon, but instantly ducked, as a Zamba cut though the droid he was just on. As Zi'Zuku was forced to do a backflip, a powerful grants caught him in the back, forcing his muscles into a wild spasm. he clenched his teeth tightly, and rolled to the side, just as the Zamba came smashing down at him again. Expecting something, he kicked his feet up at his head, and rolled back into a crouching postition, surely enough just as a gizonde struck the ground he was just at. there was a break in the fight.

the hunter had blonde hair, black armor, and had a long scar down his right eye. He held a heavy sword tpye weapon, yet swung it as easily as a saber. The force was a red head, with breathtaking white robes. Zi'Zuku was probably one to detest the morals of one such as her. the only weakness he could see in her was she lacked physical strength; her body looking a little fragile. unfortunately, she seems to have grabbed Zi'Zuku's caduceus while she had the chance.

The weaponless Zi'Zuku made a dash at the hunter. he knew Zi'Zuku expected an attack, and was going to do something, but what was he to do? by the newman's speed, there was no time to decide, and thus, began to swing the Zamba.

"Barta!"

An extremely weak, yet equally fast stream of ice shot in front of the hunter's foot. in order to keep your balance when swinging a sword type weapon, you had to put one foot forward. the ice patch caught the hunter's balancing foot, and thus, he slipped. This left Zi'Zuku a clear chance at the force. cupping two megids in his hands, and sprinted at his advarsary. He began to panic as she pointed the caduceus at him. she seemed to have as much a mastery at grants as Zi'Zuku did at megid. only now, she had his caduceus to add to her power. light began to swirl around Zi'Zuku, as the grants blinded his vision. in a desperate hope, Zi'Zuku flung one of the megids through the miasma at her. the swirling light disapated, as the fomarl was forced to lower her hands and dodge the megid. seizing the moment, Zi'Zuku punched her hard in the gut. she looked at him in disbeleif with her perfect eyes, as Zi'Zuku released the megid, taking her life. Had he been someone compationate, he would have cried for taking the life of one that looked so beautiful and pure. Zi'Zuku wasn't one to do that. he picked up his caduceus, swinging it a few times before looking at the hunter... then at his position... he was closer to the hospital door, and rushed inside. Casting a gifoie before snaking through the hospital, he hoped that it would slow the hunter down fir a bit.

Whisking down the hallways, Zi'Zuku came across Nasca's room. It was the only one a certain racaseal was looking into desperately. Zi'Zuku slowed down, and silently approached her.

"*gasp!* GET AWAY FRO-"

"Gibarta."

The powerful snowstorm pushed Galatea up against the wall freezing her there. She begged in agony as Zi'Zuku opened the door to his room. She looked away as he slowly brought the Caduceus into her masters face.

...

yet after a bit, she looked back in curiosity. there was no sickening sound of flesh being torn through by metal. the fake ice the mental power of the newman was no longer concentrated on her, and thus it dissapeared, releasing her from the wall. She cautiously, yet curiously moved towards the door, her hand trembling as it moved towards the 'open' switch. She couldn't do it she couldn't look at the unfortold mutany that took place just then. she didn't have to, as the door opened before her, Zi'Zuku stepping out. it had happened so quickly, that she had gotten a look at her master. even more to her surprise, she noticed to fatal wounds... anywhere! however, she noticed multiple new cuts on his face. stepping inside the room to examine them closer, she noticed them form a symbol: the japanese symbol for 'demon'. she tearfully looked at Zi'Zuku, still standing at the door. though it was a minute movement, she noticed his hands trembling as he clenched them, grudgingly holding back his extreme desire to end Nasca's life.

"Tell him when he wakes up..." Zi'Zuku started.

"That i'm not quite finished with him..."

He stood there, facing away from Nasca for a bit, before hurrying out the door. Shortly afterwards, Galatea saw a hunter run into the room.

"Is everything alright!?" he demanded.

Galatea paused for a bit.

"Yes... yes, everythings fine..."

The hunter looked at her for a bit before leaving. She turned to her master, and stared at the symbol Zi'Zuku made.

"Every yin has a yang" she smiled.
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just had to get that out of my system ^_^

[WraithVerge]

hehe nice Z http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

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Before the droids returned from their mission, the monsters began to appear in large numbers. Everyone faught valiantly, and eventually the wave of beasts subsided. As the droids returned with the prize, the wave of monsters began to subside. Blood of all sorts of colors mixed with the fuel and oil of droids, creating a surreal yet slippery ground. Everyone except for the doctors received some type of terrible injury.

Voshay's leg was penetrated by a Delsaber blade. Kryoden was thrown from his mount and sent crashing into a wall near the doctors, where he still lay unconscious. Shi and his outfit, receiving many cuts and bruises, were fatigued, but still had enough fight left in them. Logical had a dislocated shoulder from dodging a Belra arm blast while Jerheroc suffered a broken ankle. Yaski, aside from protruding wires, had lost one of her hands, but apparantly she had re-attached the thing and it seemed to work like normal. Ratchet had sustained a large gash along his head, and apart from wobbling occasionally, he still seemed to be capable. The rest were out of commission from lack of vision, unconsciousness, or broken limb.

Nonetheless, everyone was in high spirits. Retrieving the anti-virus against all odds just bolstered the chance that they would all survive, and so would Pioneer 2. Those that were awake congratulated each other and went about aiding the injured.

Voshay lifted Kryoden from the ground and steadied him. Kryoden looked at Voshay's face and smiled. Voshay smiled back and turned to head back to the doctors when he halted in mid-stride. Voshay looked past the doctors and noticed a small group enter from the door on the other side of the room. Voshay squinted his eyes and increased his vision x4 and scanned the group. One black suited officer followed by ten heavily armed soldiers wearing black suits with gold bands on the shoulders strode in casually. One of the golden soldiers had a weapon that looked vaguely like a frozen shoo.....

The soldier raised the rifle and fired. "LOOK OUT!" Voshay screamed a bit too late. Malice had just suggested an idea when out of no where a ball of ice struck next to his foot, freezing his whole lower body, his arms, and all the way up to his neck. BOC and Matilda were also caught within the blast, and their legs and waist were frozen solid as well. They still had use of their hands, but neither had a weapon in their hands. Similar blasts erupted around the room, freezing limbs or completely encasing people in ice with whatever expression was on their face.

Voshay watched in horror as the event unfolded before his eyes. Too distracted to notice, an ice blast sped directly toward his chest. Voshay noticed the blast too late and closed his eyes, accepting his fate. The blast missed... well, it had missed Voshay. Kryoden, who was still hanging onto Voshay's shoulder, shoved his brother out of the path of the ice blast and took the hit square in the chest, encasing him in a solid sheet of ice. Voshay landed hard, sending fresh jolts of pain up his mostly healed leg.

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Smiling from ear to ear, Colonol Ortega couldn't have been more pleased. Gold team had executed their assault with deadly efficiently. Ortega could easily order the soldiers to wipe them all out, but he did not. He was intrigued by this group, especially since they had come this far and accomplished so much. Ortega had decided to offer them a deal. It was a simple deal. Join the military under his command. Ortega chuckled to himself, for if any DID accept his offer, they would be brainwashed before joining. If any refused, then death would be dealt swiftly to those who did. Oh what a grand day it was indeed!

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Unbeknownst to Ortega, two hunters had not been hit with a frozen blast. Jerheroc instantly recognized Ortega and his eyes brightened. He wanted to shout out to the other soldiers, but refrained from doing so. He didn't want to abandon this group he had become associated with since they had saved his life on numerous occasions. Torn between emotions, Jerheroc silently pondered his options.

Ridley had been with the doctors while they studied the anti-virus's effect on her when the ice blast hit them. The blast froze both doctors completely, but their bodies shielded Ridley from the ice. She crouched behind the two frozen statues, peering between their legs at the soldiers across the room as they began to move toward the frozen party. What should I do?

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Bah I keep posting long stories....... I dunno why!

I have an idea to set up a duel between Ortega and Voshay: There's a bet involved, and whoever wins gets to decide the group's fate; however, neither Voshay nor Ortega wins. Ortega ends up ordering his soldiers to attack as well and the hunters somehow break free from their ice prisons and attack as well.

This is just a story I'd like to see, but its up to everyone else, really http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

I'd also appreciate it if yall don't kill Ortega. If possible, leave some Gold team members alive. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif


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[Zzzzzz]

I had to do something. Fast. I couldn't hid behind my friends forever. Colonel(sp?) Ortega was the person who "taught" Sargeant Gihaldien. At least that what he said. The sargeant said there was someone else he was under the command of, but the records never said anything about him.

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Gihaldien stood there in his room, impainiently. "Would his commanding officer do what his rookie couldn't?" he thought. "That imbicle left the com. on while Voshay told him everything."
He started pacing back and forth. Voshay was his first commanding officer, but discharged Gihaldien for his brutal tactics. It wasn't until a year later that Ortega brought him back into the military somehow.
He only asked two things of his commanding officer. Voshay, if that was him, dead and Logical's eyes, so his "master" could take control once again.

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I came up to Ortega.
"Soldier Jerheroc reporting for duty, sir!"
I could hear some sounds of words that sounded like "Traitor!" in the background. Ortega put his hand on my shoulder. "It's nice to know they havn't brainwashed you with their lies."
I grined."But they did teach me one thing, sir."
"Oh. And what is that?"
"This."
I punched him in the face, and turned around. I then raised my knee to one of the soldier's gut. When I turned a second time, however, all of their guns were pointed at me. I looked down and saw Ortega on the floor with other soldier.
"Put your hands where we can see them!"
I tossed one of them a little device with a button on it. he dropped it then picked it up and pressed the button.
"NO, YOU FOOL! DON'T-"
It was too late. I could hear ice shatter in the background as Logical and Elenor became free.

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Sorry for the lack of detail. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif Me rushed.

[KaFKa]

Hugh struggled to get free from the ice that had encapsulated him. The only thing that wasnt coveres in a sheet of ice was his sword hand. He slowly chipped away at the frost clinging to his body. He gritted his teeth through the biting cold, trying to free himself.

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Colonel Ortega looked at Yoshay and smiled sardinocally. He opened his mouth to speak, but was interrupted by the sounds of another military team in the area.

"Go find out if thats silver or bronze team. Go!" He motioned for a team of four gold team membersto go.

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Hikande walked for what seemed like an hour, until she happened upon a dead FOmarl. Unlike most of the dead people she had seen, this one seemed to be in perfect condition. no broken bones, no obvious wounds, no swelling. Hikande wondered why she was dead.

"Hopefully you dont die a second time" Hikande said, taking out a moon atomizer.

The FOmarl sat up, gasping for air, and grabbing Hikande around the neck. Hikande grabbed the FOmarl's hands, prying them away from her neck. As the FOmarl came back to reality, she stopped trying to choke Hikande. She drooped back, breathing heavily.

"Who did this to you?" Hikande softly asked.

"A FOnewm, with a cadecus." The FOmarl said, before breaking down into a soft cry, burying her head into Hikande's shoulder. Hikande nodded her head and patted the FOmarl on the back, looking around.

A dark FOnewm slinked out of the hospital that was a good hundred meters away. Hikande wasnt sure, but she had a hunch that it was a particular FOnewm that she had met before...
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You really think i can let you go on a killing spree when Hikande is still around, -Z? http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif

[BOC]

well this was just typical. one obsticle after the next. Boc struggled to free his legs from their frozen state. normally this wouldn't be a problem to the bullet magnet, but he had just stored his frickin gun in his inventory, and now that part of his system was acting up. Boc looked around at his companions. most where completely or totally frozen in ice, with the exception of hugh who was trying to chip away at the ice and jerheroc who seemed to be turning his back on them.

"you traitor!!!" Boc yelled. frankly he was disappointed that the kid had betrayed them after all they had been through, and all the lies had been revealed.

The colonel had just dispatched four of his mean looking troops for some reason that boc didn't quite catch. he was just hoping that it wasn't involving reinforcements.

just then, Jerheroc proved his loyalty to the hapless heros, by double crossing ortega and freeing logical and elenor, the two of them had already sprung into action before been fully thawed.

on que, ridley sprang from her hiding place behind the iced docs, blasting troopers with her yasminkov.

"nice going kid! just give me a chance to thaw out and i'll help!!" Boc yelled.

"Boc we can help! we just need weapons!" matilda shouted to the dented droid.

How the hell was he supposed to get his hands on some weap.... ah. thats how. Boc watched as one of the gold team members raised a pair of mechguns firing at jerheroc who was dodging bullets a la max payne style.

Boc raised his right arm, firing off his trusty grapple hook once more, the hook sticking into the trooper.

Boc yanked on the metallic cable, pulling the screaming trooper over, taking hold of him. Boc grapped his head between his huge paws, jerking it quickily, hearing his neck snap. "oh, i love that sound!" he said, tossing on of the mechguns the soldier had clutched to matilda. Boc claimed the other mechgun for himself, firing with one hand, using his other to hold the dead soldier up as a human shield.

"oh i wanna to get a hook installed too!" matilda announced, raising her gun to fire.

Boc and matilda began firing into the crowd of troops, drawing some fire away from their pals. "logical! Ridley! try and find some way to thaw out the others!!!" Boc yelled, spraying a few helpless troops with photon.

for a half-functioning droid who was partially blinded and frozen to the spot, he was mowing down the gold team troops pretty well.

[mr_rubbish]

Colonel Ortega dropped to one knee and in one smooth motion, unholstered his Suppresed Gun and pointed it at the biggest threat: Boc.

The Android had already taken out 3 men and was spraying bullets far too indesciminately. From the looks of the damage that he was able to survive, Ortega reasoned that Boc's CPU core was protected in a smiliar fashion to the Bererker line of attack 'droids.
Nothing short of a close-range launcher hit could stop him, thought Ortega, but perhaps...

He fired with perfect aim, taking out the mechguns Boc held and his grappling hook mechanism. Ortega could see the rest of the hunters freeing themselves and knew that the odds were not in his favour. He grabbed the closest of his injured men.

"Fall back!"

He glaced at Voshay who was reaching for a weapon.

"We'll finish this later!"

The soldiers disappeared through the doorway followed by a hail of gunfire.

[-Z]

Zi'Zuku cursed to himself. The thought kept looming oer him. 'You should have killed him' he thought to himself. He knew that Nasca would try to hinder him in some way, and that he would probably regret letting him live some time in the future. In fact, if he really wanted to, he could go back and kill his rival right now.

...

But he just couldn't. In a mere fit of frustration, he threw a random rafoie to his side, the exploding embers hopefully taking some stress away. He began to wonder to himself as to why he didn't kill Nasca. He killed other people... in fact, his proffesion is to kill people! He even killed a pure souled fomarl back there, and he didn't care a bit. He derived to the thought that he wasn't getting soft...

"... he just deserves a fair fight..." he muttered to nobody in particular.

"A jerk like you with an honor code? Thats a good laugh."

Zi'Zuku's heart sunk. he payed closer attention to reality... was he just walking in the middle of the street this whole time!? In his frustration, he forgot his own golden rule: stealth is always key. he turned around to see a Hunewearl, and a familiar Fomarl. With one intimidating look, she cowered back a bit; she knew what he could do to her. Fortunately for the fomarl, her hunewearl friend wouldn't be frightened so easily.

"Don't worry, i wouldn't like him in your shoes either..." Hikande whispered to her.

" but don't let him scare you, miss...?"

"I'm Karen."

"I'm Hikande... now that we're doing formalities, i like to know the names of the jerks like you i'm gonna smack down!"

Zi'Zuku raised an eyebrow.

"Please refrain from using the term 'jerk'. I am an assassin."

"yeah, yeah, you're all jerks to me. who are you?"

"I'm what goes 'bump' in the night." Zi'Zuku said, twirling his caduceus into an offensive stance.
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I'd go on to do one of my big and long fight scenes now, but i forgot/ don't know Hikande's fighting style. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

...

and Karen's a good name to come up with in 2 seconds!
^_^

[mr_rubbish]

Why is it that everytime I picture Antitank in my head I see her as Garanz's avatar pic but with an appropriatly coloured Elenor head? Wierd...
Garanz are you still reading this? Where's the next chapter of IHTIF?

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General Killemoff was starting to sweat under the collar. Installing the shield generators was starting to run behind schedule. To make things worse, one of the artillery units had not reported in on time. They would need every tank available to anchor the generators to and to power them.

"Dispatch a special forces unit to investigate." He commanded a nearby officer.

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Antitank and MonkeyKing had tracked around to the side of one of the nearby warehouses and scaled the ladders and walkways to end up on the roof. From their position they could see no obvious guards posted ahead. They crept forward keeping as low as possible.

"Watch out, the floor's weak over there." MonkeyKing cautioned the android.

"I-I-I MUS- I-I MUST-ST-ST I-I-I..." Antitank stammered.

She hit the side of her head with her palm.

*Clang*

"I think I have a faulty vocaliser."

"Well lets hope that doesn't happen when they can hear us!" Said the concerned MK.

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I wonder what ALpha 360's scrap value is....

[KaFKa]

Hugh had freed himself. getting rid of what was left of the ice, he watched the remainder of the 'gold' team run away as the same RAcast that started the battle had ended it just as quickly. The sounds of gunfire, however, had not stopped. He got himself ice free, and listened as the gold unit was being torn apart by something. probably more of tose D-cell organisms...

Looking at the group, which had gone to tending their wounds, he approached. He was almost within conversation distance when he got a BEE message.

"Hugh, this is Dr. Ripoff, Durga is repaired and ready for rebooting. Just send me your coordinates and i'll sned him down." He smiled, sending the coordinates to the doctor. Waiting about ten seconds, he heard the sound of his friend being teleported in.

A short, red HUcast wielding a victor axe appeared, looking around.

"Hugh! Y' shouldv' left somethin fur me!" Durga bellowed in a scottish accent.

"Durga, its your own fault for not being here." Hugh said jokingly, patting the HUcast on the shoulder.

Hugh continued on, walking twoards the group, Durga in tow.

"Well, hello there." Montague said, getting up from tending to clank.

"Greetings" Hugh said, nodding his head slightly.

"Greetin's pointy-ear!" Durga bellowed, pushing past Hugh, who just sighed and lowered his head. "Put 'er there!" Durga put his large hand forward, offering to shake hands with Montague.

"Excuse me?" Montague said confused.

"And you are?" Yaski interjected, self-reapiring her wrist.

"Th' names Durga, lass." He said boisterously.

"And you?" Looking at Hugh.

"My name, is Hugh." He said making a slight bow.

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jsut so you guys know Durga, just think Gimli from LoTR

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[WraithVerge]

Roger that, laddie! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif
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Things just kept getting better and better. Voshay took his sweet time getting up, for he did not wish to draw attention to himself if he wasn't already spotted. "You traitor!!!" BOC yelled out.
Watching Jerheroc move toward the soldiers from behind Kryoden's frozen body, Voshay nearly put a photon in the Jerheroc's head when teh guy planted a right hook into the official's face, then slammed a knee into another nearby soldier. Voshay would have grinned, but some hunters broke free and Ridley began opening fire.

Voshay reholstered his weapon, seeing no point in participating in this battle for he knew the hunters would win. The moment he went to work freeing Kryoden, something in his mind clicked. He recognized the black suited official across the room. Ortega! Voshay pulled his Varista out once again, but was unable to fire at the retreating officer. "We'll finish this later!" Ortega screamed as he and his men retreated.

Voshay aided his companions as they freed who the could from the ice prisons. When the job was nearly complete he asked, "What's the plan now?"

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Gihaldein watched the skirmish and retreat from one of the soldier's helmet cam. Frustrated, he began pulling out his hair when a messanger ran in. "Sir! We've got good news!"
Gihaldein sighed and snatched the document out of the messanger's extended hand. His eyes lit up in amazement. "Are you serious?" he asked incredulously.
The messanger only grinned. Gilhaldein returned the grin and keyed the comm link to Ortega.

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Col. Ortega's wrist began to blink red. Angered and distracted at the same time, Ortega opened the comm channel to see a small figure of his subordinate appear. "WHAT is it!?" he growled through his teeth.
Gihaldein didn't flinch. "I've got a special gift for you, as well as a few more soldiers to aid you."
As Gihaldein read the note to Ortega, the Colonol's eyes brightened and a smile spread across his fast. "Splendid!" he managed to say.
Suddenly, a pipe appeared near Gold team. Seven black soldiers with Gold bands entered the pipe followed by a large green-and-orange machine with two large multi-missile launchers on its back. Staring in awe at the metal behemoth, Ortega muttered to himself, "How the military managed to aquire this I have no idea, but I'm damn well pleased!" He chuckled to himself and headed over to greet the new Gold members.

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Uh oh.... bringin' out the big guns!

[DarkRadiance]

Voshay had not been able to do much with Kryoden's frozen casket before going after Ortega.
Incased in ice, Kryoden was in a state of Semi-consiousness. The sickness had passed for the moment, but he knew it was still there. The virus was continuing to destroy him from the inside.

He began to feel heat breach the cold of the ice casing as his newfound power melted it. Darkfire erupted on the surface of the ice, melting the freezing casket instantaniously. Kryoden opened his eyes. His entire body was alight with dark-blue and purple flames. He quickly stifled them, hoping no one saw them, and wanting to save his energy so as not to become sick again.

Kryoden stood just as the Gold Team were running for their lives. Kryoden stumbled, his leg almost giving way under his wieght. He decided it was worth the risk and knelt down.

"Resta," Kryoden whispered.

His leg felt better immediately, but a new wave of dizziness overtook him. Afraid that he would vomit again, Kryoden sat cross legged on the ground and closed his eyes.

He began to glow with a dark aura again. His eyes suddenly snapped open. Kryoden stood and ran headlong toward Boc.

"YOU HURT MY BROTHER YOU SON OF A BITCH!" He screamed insanely. With that, Kryoden slammed his fist against Boc's chestplate, sending the huge RAcast flying into the wall. Everyone looked at Kryoden with a mixture of surprise and horror.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" Boc screamed, standing back up.

At that moment, Kryoden regained sanity.

"What have i done?" He said, falling to his knees.

"You all right, Bro?" asked Voshay, overcoming his surprise, and kneeling beside Kryoden.

Kryoden said nothing. His eyes were closed. Kryoden could feel a telepipe opening. Suddenly, His eyes snapped back open.

"Voshay!" Kryoden yelled to his brother, "We got company!"



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