Cybaster
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Post by Cybaster on Aug 5, 2005 9:23:15 GMT -5
As beam shots and rifle rounds intersected at a common point on Raidou's 'body', he stopped and merely stood there, waiting for the rounds to finish blowing holes in his chest and torso. He paused. And then grinned.
The wounds began healing and closing.
"I was just wondering, Yumi Sonchiro, how much Souffle Reeds actually meant to you for you to use those peashooters in combat." Raidou sneered. "You'll need considerably more firepower than that to take me down."
Then, as Yumi and Winnie raised their rifles to fire again, Raidou punched out his arms --- and they extended as sinew, muscle and bone stretched with supernatural speed, two suddenly very long arms going for Yumi and Winnie's necks to throw them aside.
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Post by Mega Raptor on Aug 5, 2005 13:02:59 GMT -5
Kyte's eye slowly began to twitch more rapidly each time one of the triplets uttered the phrase. On the occasions when all three said it at once, he could feel his neck doing the same.
Just ignore them, just ignore them. If you respond at all, they'll just get worse...
Grumbling under his breath, he continued the flight towards his battle with Murdoch.
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Dai did her best to keep Mel calm and relaxed, "Funny you should ask that. You're the one who came to me. Your friend over there brought you," she nodded in Ai's direction.
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As Raidou's arms extended, he was momentarily surprised by the appearance of a long blade sticking through his chest. The others in the room could quickly identify the source, as being the Spiegel armor of a certain trooper who was still continuing to keep an eye on them.
She pulled the blade out through his right side and jumped back, "Left your back wide open, buddy. Not a good idea when a kunoichi is around."
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Post by Airmaster on Aug 5, 2005 15:09:20 GMT -5
Mel Sat up or well tried to she was in more pain then she could ever remembering being in before, But the pain she was feeling inside was far worse then anything that had been down to her body in any way. "Dai...." She looked at Dai with tears in her eyes Her was able to at least speak now though her head had cleared a bit and although the pain was strong she sat there and stared at Dai.
"It's all your fault this happened..." Mel grabbed at her chest<but pushed Die away when she tried to help her. " You gave me back my humanity and then go and die on me, you leave me alone and scared for all that time only to come back like you are now..." Mel looked back up and stared Dai right in the eyes. "Your no longer the woman I love!! Your a copy! Why'd you have to save me.... Why could you have left me die back then?!" Mel was opening crying now and flopped back on the bed in pain. "Your promised me eveything would turn out fine, you promised you'd be by my side forever but you lied!! YOU LIED TO ME!!" Mel screamed and forced herself to sit up again through the pain she was feeling. "You say you love me as you are now but you know it can' never be the same... YOU CAN NEVER BE THE WOMAN I ONCE LOVED!! I HATE YOU DAI!!! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!!!! WHY DO YOU WANT TO TOY WITH ME LIKE THIS?! I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU!!!! I HATE YOU!!" Mel Just started to cry after that the room was silent and Mel curled up into a ball on the bed.
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Post by Aegis on Aug 5, 2005 17:29:55 GMT -5
"Good to see you're still around," Yumi choked, still recovering from Raidou's last attack. Winnie herself started to recover, and took the opportunity to scan the creature while he was distracted. Her face grew a shade more pale.
"You have got to be kidding..." Winnie whispered.
"What?"
"Just take cover!"
Before Yumi could inquire, Winnie opened up one of the missile pods, and fired a pair of missiles at the Creature.
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Cybaster
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Post by Cybaster on Aug 5, 2005 17:44:30 GMT -5
(Aegis, AM, if you both are in agreement and ready, I'll metaphorically throw the other end of the stick at you. ) Raidou shook his head. It can't kill him, but having a plasma blade go through him like that still hurt considerably. The scientist supposed it can't be helped, though. " Attacked from front and rear. Interesting." Raidou snarled as the missiles flew at him --- his reflexes immediately kicked in, and the nanocorpse stood there, waiting for the missiles, and then punched out with blinding speed once they were within grasp range. To everyone's surprise and the shuddering of Raidou's hands from the force, the nanocorpse had managed to catch both missiles by their sides. " But let's see you shrug this off, kunoichi!" It was obvious what Raidou did with the missiles next; the one in his left hand he threw back at Winnie, and no sooner had he let go did he turn around, towards Otomi, and virtually stab the head of the second missile right towards her torso.
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Post by Mega Raptor on Aug 5, 2005 20:02:15 GMT -5
Dai just stood there for a moment, completely still other than a slight tremble in her shoulders, "E-Ekitai... what-"
"Just go away!" she interrupted, sobbing in her pained state.
Dai suddenly felt a lot of things running through her. Pain, fury, loss and many others mingling together until she simply didn't feel at all.
She closed her eyes, stood up and, with a surprising amount of composure, calmly walked through the ajoining door to her own room. She stood there for a moment, leaning against the door before turning and walking out into the parking lot in a slight daze, not caring where she was going and just needing to be alone.
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Otomi was caught off guard, to say the least. While a normal person would have been able to do nothing and just take the blast, her training allowed her to twist down and to the left, away from the warhead. Of course, that alone wouldn't be enough to prevent Raidou from using it against her, so she jumped into a slightly modified backflip, bringing one of her arm mounted blades up through the missile and severing the activated warhead from the main chassis, letting it fall tip down at the creature's feet as she dodged away.
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Post by Cybaster on Aug 5, 2005 20:34:16 GMT -5
Meanwhile, as the first visitor to Christopher Riley in all of ever during his 'stay' in the Sierra Depot, Kally was not exactly the most pleasant of sights in her Billbine armor. But she didn't care at this point. After a lot of demanding and some coercing, she finally convinced the base officers that her interrogation --- and prisoner transfer order --- came from General Bryan Murdoch himself; Hence, she also convinced the base personnel to not only lead Kally to him, but also to let her leave with the prisoner.
Kally just hoped the guards were too intimidated to think about checking in. If Khall halted Kally, she was going to have to fight her way out...and she wasn't sure she wanted to do just that in Billbine. Dunbine she knew she could control; Billbine was out for the first time in its lifespan...
As she stopped in front of Riley's cell, she glared at him for the first time in a month. Then, she shook her head mirthlessly.
"Back unto the breach again, hmm?" Kally sighed. "Christopher Riley, by order of General Bryan Murdoch of the Alliance, you are hereby placed under protective custody and will be transferred to a secondary location where you will be 'interrogated' more thoroughly. Don't gamble your life away again."
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"Magnificent reaction time!"
Before Otomi could retract her arm blade, Raidou's other hand swung up, grabbed onto her sword arm firmly, and raised itself to lift Otomi off her feet and hanging in mid-air. Some of the forearm armor cracked and buckled under the pressure of Raidou Reeds' grip even as his right leg then came up, swung with martial arts-precision, and tried to kick Otomi at her waist followed by a sidekick intended to throw her back towards Yumi and Winnie, in order to push them all to one side of the battlefield.
Then the severed warhead finally exploded, sending Raidou flying to one side of the now-mangled living room, away from his enemies. When it seemed he would at least go down for awhile, however, Raidou only served to immediately pick himself up and begin bold, deliberate strides towards Souffle again, who had been frozen to the ground in an odd panic.
"You cannot protect her forever. How much pain can the three of you combined withstand?"
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Post by Airmaster on Aug 5, 2005 21:06:34 GMT -5
AI stared and looked at Mel. "That was uncalled for.." But was cut off. "You don't know what I know! You don't know the living hells I've gone through all for her..." She finished without speaking it. "And all this to protect her for the coming events and trouble that always follows me and what I know is coming for me..." Ai looked at her having lost a a bit of respect for the woman. She turned and went after Dai.
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Post by dragonclaw15 on Aug 6, 2005 14:29:31 GMT -5
"Well, well, well." Drake sat back against the wall and rested Dracaena's head in his lap. He pulled a pack of cigarettes out of his pocket and lit one of the cylinders in his mouth, deeply inhaling the smoke. "I won't pretend to know what's going on, but this looks to me like something I shouldn't butt into."
The bioweapon in Drake's lap stirred slightly. "Looks like our princess is awake," he remarked. He took the cigarette out of his mouth and slid it gently into Dracaena's.
She breathed in and coughed sharply, ejecting the cigarette. "What's going on?" she asked between coughs.
"No idea," said Drake in a very matter-of-fact tone. Dracaena got up and picked up the cigarette again. She took a long drag and coughed again, less fiercely this time. "I'm gonna take this outside," she mumbled, still in a tranquilizer haze.
Drake motioned his brother over. "That other Claw," he began, "we should figure him out."
"He's not in any of our records," said Judas, handing a small handheld computer to Drake. "I don't have any idea who he is."
"Then we'd better find out. If what happened at that base is any indication, he could be a big problem for all of us if he's not friendly."
"Chances are," said Judas, "he's not."
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DC00 laughed. Free! The exhilarating freedom of being able to kill and destroy! Yes, this was what he had been missing. Years of being a guinea pig? Ha! This was what he was created for! This was what his wasted potential was for!
Oh yes, oh yes. A weapon for an obsolete purpose is still a weapon.
And what a weapon does is kill.
The armored figure loled again and swung his blade at the burning building one last time, destroying the last support holding it up. The remains of the once-proud Alliance base crumbled to the ground, burying the surviving soldiers and the ruined machinery underneath hundreds of tons of rubble.
Time to find a new playground.
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Post by Mega Raptor on Aug 6, 2005 14:37:07 GMT -5
Ai walked into Dai's room only to see the bioweapon was already gone. Her bags and armor were still piled in the far corner, so it was obvious she intended to come back.
In fact, she was just about to round the corner out of the parking lot when Dracaena walked outside and saw her wandering off on her own.
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Riley was, for lack of a better word, still quite hungover when Kally arrived. As such, he nodded very slightly before mumbling, "Mind not talking so loud? My ears are ringing..."
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Otomi's right gauntlet was sparking as she hit the ground rolling, getting back to her feet after the blast had thrown both her and Raidou. She assumed a basic battle posture, and waited to see just what Yumi and Winnie would do next.
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Post by dragonclaw15 on Aug 6, 2005 14:45:08 GMT -5
"Dai!" Dracaena began to walk towards the other bioweapon, the cigarette still clutched in her hand. "Dai! Wait!"
The other bioweapon disappeared around the corner, and by the time Dracaena reached it, she was already gone. Dracaena wandered the streets for a couple minutes, searching for a sign of Dai, but failed to see the red bioweapon. After a few more minutes of wandering, she heard a loud crash from an abandoned building nearby. She discarded the remnants of her cigarette and stepped inside. "Dai?"
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Post by Mega Raptor on Aug 6, 2005 15:00:08 GMT -5
<cue music: Outlaw Star OST - Loneliness >
Dai wasn't entirely sure how she'd found herself in the abandoned warehouse, but it didn't matter. It looked like no one had done any sort of legitimate business there for years anyway. Rust covered just about every inch of the metal walls, and the roof was full of holes. Even so, old boxes sat in neat rows, likely left there since before the War of Ages ended.
After a few moments, her emotions got the better of her, and she slammed her artificial right arm into the nearest metal case with a loud clang, sending it and the stack of similar containers on top of it to the ground.
Snarling under her breath, doing her best to keep from crying, she continued to smash the boxes to pieces, moving on from row to row as she left more and more destruction behind her. She didn't even hear Dracaena enter the building, or call out to her.
She took no notice of the dragon girl at all, and after a few more minutes of random violence against the inanimate metal, fell to her knees in one of the few remaining clear pieces of ground and began to sob.
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Post by dragonclaw15 on Aug 6, 2005 15:23:26 GMT -5
Dracaena walked over to Dai and put her arms around the sobbing bioweapon, not knowing what else to do. "Dai, what's wrong? Tell me what's going on."
Dai looked up, finally realizing she wasn't by herself. She quickly reached up to wipe the tears from her face and, for a moment, she was tempted to try and cover for herself, but she knew Dracaena would never buy it, "R-remember what I told you before? About how I was looking for someone important to me?"
Dracaena sat down next to Dai. "So that was her? What happened?"
Dai shook her head, "I... I honestly don't know. I mean, I've thought about what would happen when I found her over and over again, I've spent three years looking for her and..." she sighed, pulling her arms close around her and looking at the ground, "I never thought something like this would ever happen."
Dracaena leaned over and kissed the other bioweapon on the cheek. "Come on, let's go back. We left Drake alone in that room with her."
Dai was surprised, to say the least, but at the moment was too emotionally drained to give any visible reaction, "You go ahead... I'll be there in a bit, need some time to think..."
Dracaena nodded and got up. "Well, hurry back. I don't think we'll be staying for much longer," she said as she began to leave the warehouse.
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Post by Aegis on Aug 6, 2005 15:42:36 GMT -5
It was obvious what Raidou did with the missiles next; the one in his left hand he threw back at Winnie, and no sooner had he let go did he turn around, towards Otomi, and virtually stab the head of the second missile right towards her torso. Neither Winnie nor Yumi was expecting something like this to happen, but no sooner did he throw the missile that the two women took cover, Yumi pulling Souffle down with her. The warhead exploded, they felt the force of impact blow... yet surprisingly, the missile never reached them. Confused, Yumi and Winnie looked up to see what had happened. "Delilah?" Yumi gasped. Standing in front of the women, the Nephtis trooper, with ring shield held defiantly, blocked the incoming missile. The impact from the throw was surprisingly strong, having pushed the Nephtis trooper back in spite of the armour's own resilience, yet Delilah remained resolute. Shaking off the blow, Delilah retracted the fin shield to her back, and stood low 'like a cat' ready to pounce. "Delilah, wait!" Yumi called out, now on her knees with beam saber ready. The catgirl perked her ears, still in her catlike stance, but waited as she was told. The Hi Nu Girl turned to the Excalibur girl, and gave her a quiet look, gesturing with her eyes. Winnie, seemingly understanding what she's implying, nodded slowly in agreement. Yumi then quietly turned to both Delilah and Souffle. "Just be careful," she said, and with that, the Hi Nu Girl made her charge, with Delilah following suit.
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Cybaster
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Post by Cybaster on Aug 6, 2005 16:40:56 GMT -5
Kally snorted derisively in response.
"You'll have plenty of time to recover on the way, Lieutenant." Kally simply said, and gestured for the guards to open the cell with a look that said open the cell now or I'll do so for you. "But let's move. Now."
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This was ridiculous. Now outnumbered five-to-one, Raidou knew that unless he could get to Souffle soon and extract the data from her into his own nanostructure, he was going to be overwhelmed. All five were experts with considerable firepower, and Raidou only had his talons without a single ranged weapon to his advantage --- not a good combination. It was time to get serious.
As Yumi and Delilah charged, Raidou charged likewise as well, and when the two were about to collide with each other, Raidou suddenly leapt, somersaulted over Yumi, and kicked downwards at the tip of one of her Fin Funnels to further propel himself behind her. He stepped on the tip and pushed, sending Yumi sprawling forward in his momentum while moving him past Delilah as well, until he was directly above Winnie and only a meter away from Souffle.
But instead of clashing with Winnie over to his target, Raidou's left arm raised, shooting towards the ceiling and his talons breaking through the cement to cling himself there, and as he suddenly hung in mid-air his right arm shot out --- towards a very surprised and still panicked Souffle Reeds.
Souffle wasn't in time to summon a Funnel Missile attack before Raidou's right hand finally found its mark on her throat --- and with another thought, the right arm quickly pulled her into the air, right in front of Raidou, and as he heard Yumi and Otomi fire something behind him, he swung himself forward and let go of the ceiling, his nimble form eventually landing in front of everyone else, and with his quarry in hand Raidou turned towards them while still grasping Souffle's neck tightly to put the girl between her defenders.
Raidou grinned.
Souffle suddenly seemed to gasp for breath as something welled into her mind, extracting something from her, even though he wasn't even strangling her neck tightly. She tried to struggle, but she found herself paralyzed; she gave a cry, but the feeling wouldn't fade. It began to hurt. Raidou's eye gleamed with madness. Souffle couldn't help in that instant but feel that Raidou was taking something from her that she didn't know she had, and she didn't want it at all...
Even in front of the women, Raidou's extraction had a very, very visible effect. First, as he held Souffle upwards above the ground by her head and chest, Souffle was turning pale for no known reason at all. And secondly, more importantly, he was himself changing with the extraction as long-lost nanodata filled his mind and adjusted his cells; it was as if, right there and then, Raidou Reeds was actually patching himself together. Underneath where tattery flesh and bone used to stand visibly, organs began forming, then a layer of sinew and muscle quickly covered wherever Raidou didn't have them before. Flesh began forming over those new muscle layers, hair growing in the other half of his head where a skull used to be visible; even Raidou's clothes, the same one he had worn when he died the first time, were forming quickly as well.
Gradually, eventually and with Raidou still using Souffle's stunned form as cover, Raidou was becoming complete again.
Raidou began to laugh. This was it! The first half of Souffle Reeds' nanodata---
"---What!?"
That suddenly surprised cry --- and the fact that Raidou suddenly seemed eager to push Souffle away from him --- kept the defenders in pause, and Raidou in shock. Souffle suddenly gave one loud scream of pain as something else awakened in her at the extraction; whatever Raidou was extracting from her was suddenly being resisted very, very forcefully, two forces pulling at each other inside her nerves. Raidou sneered, now labored somewhat. This was not at all what he had expected to be in Souffle, and whatever it was, it was fighting anything Raidou could do to her. It was as if...
And unless Yumi's vision was failing her, Souffle's Xi Gundam armor was now also melting in front of their eyes.
"What is this!? This cannot be! How could Souffle---"
Raidou didn't question otherwise; having had gathered all the data she had for him hidden in her mind, his only resolve then was to throw Souffle away as quickly as possible before whatever was awakening in her consumed his own nanocells as well, and he did just that, reeling back, letting go and lobbing Souffle's stunned form towards Delilah and the others fighting for her.
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