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Into the Black, Part IIIb: Team Delta

Mar 03, 2007 03:10

Looking to the right, the hallway goes quite a ways down. There are several doors along the way, but also an open space at the far end that looks like it might be a stairwell.

Unfortunately, it's immediately clear that these hallways aren't going to provide any cover whatsoever.

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Too many copies bring_a_sponge March 4 2007, 06:35:49 UTC

The flying things slow down for a moment at the sight of Team Delta coming up the stairs. Whatever they are, they are ugly. And their faces are covered with a slowly dripping black ooze that could only be the Oil.

Sure enough, they don't seem to be noticing Steph up in the rafters.

But they sure as hell have seen her teammates, as they suddenly drop to divebomb the Deltas, cackling loudly all the way as their metallic tentacles slash through the air.

Re: Too many copies maxwellsdemon02 March 4 2007, 06:50:17 UTC

"Cover me!" he calls to Goldy, ducking down low.

He raises Zed on the comm. "Boss man! We just found flying things with metal tentacles. Shoot to kill?"

Re: Too many copies 3rdtimelucky March 4 2007, 06:57:42 UTC

Goldy obliges the request quickly, not that she actually needed an excuse to open fire. Lifting her primary weapon, she sprays a scorching arc of flame towards the approaching bots.

"There's oil on them," she points out over the roar.

"Whatever they used to be, they're no friend of ours now!"

Re: Too many copies bring_a_sponge March 4 2007, 06:58:49 UTC

Zed comes on the comm, the sound of intense gun- and alien weaponfire in the background.

"Maxwell! What the--? Metal tentacles? Flying around?"

"It's Hailley! Shoot to kill? Shoot to blast that son-of-a-bitch into a million pieces and then you stomp those pieces to bits!!!"

"That clear enough for ya!?"

Re: Too many copies i_spoiled_it March 4 2007, 07:08:48 UTC

Steph doesn't shoot to kill. That would be breaking The Rule.

But surely shoot to vaporise their stinkin' metal tentacles is close enough?

At any rate, that's what she's doing, until she realises Goldy and her dangerously wide arc of flame is doing a better job of that.

Okay. Better plan. Taser-rangs. If she can get electric charges into their metal sections from here, it'll give Duo a chance to sneak past, right?

Re: Too many copies bring_a_sponge March 4 2007, 07:17:14 UTC

Goldy blasts one of the Hailleys full-on, and it streaks like a flaming comet smack into a wall with a tremendous BANG. But before she can feel triumphant about that, another Hailley grabs her in its tentacles and hoists her right into the air, making a sharp turn to head straight for Zed's old office in the center of the Hall. Get set for ramming speed.

The third Hailley dives for Duo, trying to wrap two of its tentacles around him while the rest try to smack him around.

Which leaves two Hailleys making a pass at Shulkie--they aren't even trying to lift her, but they're doing their best to pummel her into the ground.

Good luck with that.

Re: Too many copies 3rdtimelucky March 4 2007, 07:50:33 UTC

Goldy yelps as she goes airborne, and reflexively drops the wand in order to try and grapple herself free from the tentacles. It falls to dangle from the fuel pack that's strapped behind her. Her efforts at detachment are in vain, and she contines to be carried towards the transparent wall of the hub room.

With another maniacal cackle, the offending clone releases the Fable seconds before impact and veers away. Goldy continues unwittingly on her flightpath and collides heavily with the perspex-like surface.

She barely has time to grunt before she starts to fall away from the elevated office. There's another crump! as she hits the floor below, followed by a muffled groan as she collects herself.

Re: Too many copies i_spoiled_it March 4 2007, 07:56:04 UTC

Steph is too late to catch her; that doesn't stop her hurtling out of the rafters anyway, a streak of black trailing fury and determination. When she realises she's too late, she throws another cable, changing her direction enough that she can drop both, use the wall as a jumping-point and land square on the oblivious Hailley's little metal platform, where she wraps an arm around its neck and tries to yank it physically out of the chair.

The bastard hurt Goldy. It's going down.

Re: Too many copies bring_a_sponge March 4 2007, 08:04:41 UTC

The Hailley's tentacles flail wildly! Something just leapt onto its platform, but it can't see what it is.

But it can pull an Immelmann Turn to hurl whoever-it-is right off again.

And that's just what it does.

Re: Too many copies 3rdtimelucky March 4 2007, 08:18:34 UTC

"Okay you ugly little fucker!" Goldy snarls, scrambling up again when she sees Steph flipped from the platform. She doesn't look to be injured. She does look extremely pissed off though, and scarily fierce.

"You're overdue for cosmetic surgery."

In a flash her Beretta is drawn from the holster at the small of her back, and one instinctively aimed shot later, there's a laughing clone-bot sporting an attractive 9mm bullet hole in its forehead.

It may not be an effective way to neutralize the foe, but it sure makes Goldy feel better.

Re: Too many copies i_spoiled_it March 4 2007, 08:24:35 UTC

The Hailley doesn't even change expression. Or speed. Or course. Right up until it hits the wall and goes up in a satisfactorily violent explosion, all cracking black smoke and fiery red heat.

Steph, who's managed to turn her fall into a dive and land on one of the Hailleys attacking Shulkie, turns her face away from the heat and gives Goldie a rather impressed sort of thumbs up.

The clone makes a metallic squawk, but she shuts that up with a solid uppercut, and jumps free before it tumbles.

Re: Too many copies maxwellsdemon02 March 5 2007, 01:28:18 UTC

Meanwhile, Duo calmly draws a bead on the one attacking him, squeezing off a shot that makes it reel to one side. Then he runs and leaps at it, hanging off a tentacle to stick something on the bottom of its platform.

Re: Too many copies bring_a_sponge March 5 2007, 01:51:34 UTC

The Hailley shrieks in rage as it feels the weight of whatever Duo just stuck on. The tentacles flail around, snapping at Duo and trying to reach under the platform to get whatever it is off before--.

Re: Too many copies maxwellsdemon02 March 5 2007, 01:59:00 UTC

"Ack!" Duo is swung madly from side to side, ducking tentacles left and right. One hits him solidly in the ribs, and he lets go.

Turning the fall into a roll, he takes cover behind an overturned desk and hits the switch concealed in his hand.

Re: Too many copies bring_a_sponge March 5 2007, 02:02:38 UTC

BOOM!! goes the C4, as the scattered wreckage of the platform fly in an expanding ring across the Hall. What remains of the Hailley flies up in the air and then tumbles to the floor with a crunch.

Re: Too many copies maxwellsdemon02 March 5 2007, 02:08:58 UTC

"Ha! Eat that." He groans a little as he clambers to his knees to peer over the desk to see how Jen is doing with her opponents.

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