A pleasant afternoon. [OPEN]

[thiswaydaddy]

who ; Cindy and You~
what ; Cindy has been running/spidermanning around the station breaking things and getting stabbed. She's annoyed and curious in equal parts. She meets you? Spots you? You spot her? She decides that you look like little siblings and starts snatchin' people up?
where ; A wide variety of locations, I'm sure.
when ; After killing

Comments

[notsoloyal]

The faint sound of screeching and something heavy dropping onto some kind of structure wasn't exactly something he heard every day when he walked from home to the store. It wasn't a common sound in general, unless some kind of attack was going on, or a war. Neither of those were happening - at least he was certain the station wasn't being overrun by holograms again.

He certainly hoped it wasn't.

The sound was enough to cause the scientist to pause, look around, and seem somewhat confused when he didn't spot anything.

Then again, there was the sound. This time a bit clearer. Shockwave took a few minutes before he finally spotted the source; someone jumping from building to building.

Interesting.

Forgetting about making his trip to the store, he began following. Likely too curious for his own good.

[thiswaydaddy]

Cindy hooked on to the exterior of a high-rise lobby and let out a low, loud metallic whine as she regarded the obstacle before her. The buildings parted here, followed the outline of a plaza, and she was incapable of vaulting across the distance. She would have to travel on the ground.

Fine.

Cindy dropped down onto the street level, her boots resounding against the asphalt with a heavy clang, blissfully unaware that she was being followed.

[notsoloyal]

Keeping up was simple enough, as long as he knew which building the creature was on. As long as he did not loose sight. It would have been even easier if he allowed himself to use his abilities, but he had promised to attempt to keep up his human disguise. And normal humans could not fly. Unfortunate, and useful, depending on which way it was looked at.

As Cindy dropped to the ground, Shockwave skidded to a halt, almost tripping over his own feet. How kind of the creature, to come down to the ground like that and make it simple to keep and eye on where it was headed. Of course there was one other way to keep an eye on it.

Another option...

"Greetings!" he called out.

[thiswaydaddy]

She reacted to the sound as quickly as most creatures managed to process having heard something. Her head snapped around, the cracked window of her helmet locking on the shape of Shockwave behind her. Her head was fixed, even as her body turned to match it. The difficulty the plaza posed was quickly forgotten.

Cindy's hands clenched at her sides and unclenched again. Her plasmid arm was ready, the hand smoldering already as she regarded him. Was he a splicer? Why was he calling to her? Was this a trap? Splicers tried, every so often, to take down Big Sisters, but this place was empty.

Cindy let out a sharp warning screech. The tone warbled slightly with her frustration. She was hungry and if he wasn't a splicer, she didn't want to waste the time to kill him.

I'M SORRY DID YOU SAY TROLL? I HEARD TROLL.

[mcfussyfangs]

Kanaya doesn't like cities, she doesn't hate them either and knows that here at least, they serve some purpose. There's something strange going on in this one though, or at least this section. Occasionally, she would just barely hear noises, like something moving quick and fast. She can almost hear metal bending under the strain of whatever is out there.

Kanaya sees no problem with this, no reason to be afraid. She fought imps and basilisks, Giclopes and Denizens. She had even been instrumental in helping destroy the Black King. Besides, even when she was back on Alternia, she was never afraid of things that made suspicious colliding noises during the nocturnal cycle.

NO, I'M PRETTY SURE I SAID SKREEEEEEEEEEEE.

[thiswaydaddy]

What was this?

Everything was so empty, so void of movement that even shifts, walking figures, registered as something of note. Cindy dropped down a story, clawed along the wall of the high rise and crept closer. Jack had broken out the glass in her helmet, without it, it was easy to see the small movements, the shadows as they shifted, and the color of Kanaya's skin.

The grey was alarming, enough that Cindy paused in her descent. She had met a metal daddy, had she found a sister? Cindy stalked her for another few yards before she dropped to the street to creep after her on foot.

[mcfussyfangs]

Kanaya listens carefully for more sounds, making the occasional glance at a shop window that contains something interesting behind its glass walls. Sometimes she looks around, watching and waiting for whatever is following to make its move. She's pulled her lipstick out discretely enough, clutching, it tight in one hand just in case. On glancing in another shop window, she sees something reflected in the glass and turns around quickly.

[thiswaydaddy]

She was almost too old to be a sister, or else she was outside of her suit.

It was strange and Cindy couldn't figure it out. Many of the older sisters didn't really need the suits, but she so rarely dealt with others that it was strange to come into contact with one who didn't have it. The horns were new, but nothing special. She was a sister, though, and the way she whipped around, clutching her hands tight, sealed it. Without the suit, that meant she needed protection.

Cindy clicked metallically, some strange inhuman sound that tumbled out of her helmet. The sisters scared easy, but there were dangerous splicers around, and she was without a daddy.

this can only end in tears

[he_shrugged]

Atlas had taken to the streets, strange for him but these were strange times they were living in, by God. Spacemen and martians- hell if he didn't have a few tricks up his own sleeve though. Even space cities had an ebb and flow, all you had to do was figure them out.

Though this was different. He poured over the photos Jack had sent him, going over every possibility until very few logical ones remained. Whatever it was it had the looks of a Big Daddy, only fast and mean. Meaner.

If it was some defunct Big Daddy prototype (the hell did Ryan do when Fontaine died?) it'd be after one thing: little sisters. There weren't any here, but there were plenty of little grey alien girls with orange eyes running around. If it went after one of them he'd at least have some answers.

... Now to find one of them, tricky little bastards.

Tears of joy, you mean. Calling all trolls?

[thiswaydaddy]

There were singing vending machines about, and every so often Cindy would trigger one and come to a hard halt in the middle of her travels. Whether it was to investigate or to stab, even she wasn't sure, but she would stop nevertheless. So, when Cindy triggered the motion sensor on a fancy beverage vending machine, it was no surprise that she dropped down to street level in order to investigate.

Well, no surprise for her or us.

It might have been a surprise for Atlas because, unbeknownst to her, he was less than a block behind her when her boots hit asphalt.

/TROLLJACKS

[legislacerator]

Sancrosanct was huge, and though Terezi had been on the station for about a month now, she'd made very little headway on exploring any of the main residential zones. Doctorow was fun to visit, but perhaps it was time to branch out a little.

Terezi had just come out of a store she'd been checking out, an automatic bell ringing quietly behind her, when she suddenly caught the sharp tang of metal land on the ground across the street from her. Did... did someone in armor just drop down from the rooftops to check out a vending machine? Really? She sniffed the air again, not quite believing her nose. The faint smell of peach came to her from off to the side this time -- is that a human? -- and it occurred to her that this was probably more people who'd randomly crossed paths in this place in a long time.

Whatever. Diplomatic interspecies relations were a go. Time to figure out why metal people were falling from the sky. "Hello!" Terezi called out, leaning forward on her cane, her grin Cheshire Cat wide. "What are you doing?"

Why hullo there. I hope Atlas is getting this on camera.

[thiswaydaddy]

Cindy twisted and went very still for a few seconds. It was another sister. Was this near Olympus? There were so many of them here.

She turned, twisted around in a smooth motion that shouldn't have been possible for an awkward seven foot creature in a dive suit, and tilted her head as she studied the girl. The other had hacked at her arms, but this one only had a stick.

Cindy let out a shrill keen and flexed her hand as she shifted her feet. The sisters here didn't recognize her, might attack or run, she would have to grab this one quickly.

FRUITY RUMPUS TOWN ASSHOLE RESCUE PARTY

[thiswaydaddy]

The locker slammed closed with a strange note of finality and Cindy stepped back. She had already filled two lockers, and she had no idea how many other sisters were on the station. These two had fought with her, but they would be safe here until she could find a daddy.

The effort of coming back, though, had tired her out and she shouldn't leave them alone without staying a while. The little sisters were sensitive, and prone to scare easily. She would wait a while and then go back and find a daddy.

Hopefully not a stupid one.

Cindy screeched comfortingly at them and moved to search the rest of the building for hiding splicers.

[timeturntable]

Be the Knight.

When Dave had heard Terezi's call for aid, he hadn't really stopped to think. He'd simply ran, heading straight out towards the pinged location without bothering to switch out his shirt and jeans for a decent suit or even warn Bro. As it turned out, he'd already responded, so it was probably for the best that he hadn't wasted time anyways.

There was a time to prepare in situations like this, and a time to act. Dave, being an expert on time in general, knew that the immediate present fell more under the latter category.

Reaching the pinpointed building faster than any average human (Strider DNA - it was in his blood), Dave halted outside the entrance. Alright, time to review the situation. Crazy psychic robot thing. Large needle to watch out for. Possibly a setup for a bad porn or horror movie.

Taking a deep breath, Dave retrieved the shattered remains of Caledfwlch and strode on in.

[heterochromiia]

Sollux had set out immediately on hearing of Terezi's distress as well. That he was tired from working all day on the weather regulators or that he was sweating from accidentally triggering a heat wave on the last one didn't matter; his friend was in danger, and that was what was important.

Terezi had always come through for him. When he was mourning Aradia she had been the one to orchestrate revenge on Vriska. When he needed someone to guide the other team she'd been the first he went to. The idea that he wouldn't come through for her too was just...alien. Incomprehensible. It never crossed his mind. She was his friend, she needed him, that was that. Who cared whatever he was up again?

As he landed at the coordinates he sensed a human nearby, bright red in his psionic sight. There. The Dave human? Well, he and Terezi had sure had a thing, so. He caught up, touching the human's shoulder.

"Hey. You here for Pyrope too?"

Maybe they could help each other. Then again, if he just stayed out of Sollux's way that would work too.

[timeturntable]

Footsteps, a few feet behind him. Dave tightened his grip on the legendary broken, ready to slash at a moment's notice-

Oh. He couldn't say that the voice was familiar in any way, but the person seemed to know the others. Probably one of the other trolls, then. A quick glance behind him confirmed this idea - a troll for sure, four horns and bicolored glasses. Now, all that left was the question of who "Pyrope" was. Probably Terezi - if any of the other trolls had been watching his timeline(s), they'd know that she was the only one he'd kept in contact with.

"Yeah. Guess you could say that." Shrugging off the question (and likely the hand in the process), Dave took a quick look around the area. Good - no signs of dangerous inhabitants yet.

"So, which one are you?"