Best Gadget Buddies [Open]

[morphitudinous]

There was only one destination in mind when the war started: work. Billy had dashed down to the transportation tubes, arriving on the first floor when he'd hit a snag: a robot swarm already assaulting the Med Bay and Special Weapons. But that wouldn't stop him: his coworkers and friends could be there, and the lab could easily hold the key to

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Entering Special Weapons [Open]

[zouichi]

While Special Weapons was certainly one of the more important areas on the ship to lock down in terms of not letting their enemies get hold of valuable weaponry, it was the sound of distant weapons fire that hastened Zouichi forward. The bike made quick work of the distance, but it looked like actually getting into the place would be a tad more difficult. The robot assault on Special Weapons was already well underway; he couldn't discern from here exactly who was inside.

As his bike pulled up, he punched a stray robot BECAUSE HE COULD, sending it flying backward. He was weakened, but not powerless.

[conductyourself]

An exploding robot announced the presence of Clef, who was not quite awesome enough to ride in on a motorcycle punching robots but may have been attracted by the noise. He ducked back behind a corner to reload his weapon, which looked something like a crossbow, before taking another shot.

[hit_girl_mindy]

And here entered three new people into the fray, one of which was perched on the back of another. She was no less dangerous however, aiming with precision, trying to make a path for the three of them to get through. She also seemed to betray no emotion about being injured, though it was obvious she wasn't happy about it.

"Ruffnut, Hana? You ok?"

[ruffntumblenut]

Ruffnut grunted and called up, "Still alive."

She was bracing her charge with a shield and holding a spear in the other hand while acting as a beast of burden carrying Mindy on her shoulders. Their moving was less then graceful, but their being of one mind and spirit made things easier.

[moms_temperment]

Hana was focused on covering their backs, due to their arrangement making it difficult for either of them to turn around.

His grinning face popped into view and he nodded. "I'm good." Before slipping behind them both once again.

[zouichi]

Zouichi was a little surprised to see Hana there... but there was no point dwelling on that now. "Fuyu."

In response, the front-mounted coil gun on his bike flared into life, sending a bolt of blazing energy into the mass of robots crowding at Special Weapons. That should soften them up a little. He thought he could hear someone's voice -- Billy's? -- but abandoned trying to listen any further above the din of the attacking droids as he drove his axe into one of their central processing units.

[hit_girl_mindy]

Hit Girl was glad to see they weren't the only ones in the mix: it looked like Zouichi was here too, and that was good: she had never met anyone quite like him, and figured he would be someone you wanted to have your back.

She wasn't going to stop to talk to anyone though: so long as those robots had the ability to shoot at them, she wasn't going to give them any chance to break through, and Ruffnut was still the only one with an actual piercing weapon. The glock full up, she was back to taking out the guns the robots sported, letting the guys have the chance to take them out.

Hit Girl would start on directly shooting the robots soon enough.

[ruffntumblenut]

Ruffnut leaned into a wall and shrugged off Mindy trying to be careful as she put her back on the ground. "Sorry. Even I'm not good enough to fight with you up there."

And then she was off, rushing headfirst like the damned fool she was into the fray roaring like a monster shield out in front of her ready to bash the first machine off it's feet, and shove her spear directly into the chest of the next.

Her planted foot would shove the lower level mechanized man back to pull her spear free so she could shield bash, stab and repeat on whoever was closest after that.

Either she had a death wish, or she really really wanted to win. But the look in her eyes was wild unbridled lust for battle.

[moms_temperment]

Smashing robotic heads open was not what Hana's weapon was intended for, but it seemed to be taking the role switch very well.

"Hi, Zouichi!" Hana grinned, smacking into the side of a robot to knock it over, then bringing his stone sword down with a hearty smack to coat the floor with scattered chips.

"Bye, Zouichi!" He pulled himself up and went charging into a group of more mechanical men.

[zouichi]

Reckless as ever. Zouichi dismounted, allowing Fuyu to get to a safe distance with the backup fire. He fired the gravity gun point-blank into the crowd with one hand -- the other he reserved for wielding the axe and cleaving metallic limbs from robot bodies as he waded his way into the mob.

Intermittently, he'd switch off with the coil rifle, using it as crowd control when the bodies became too thick. Plenty of dakka to go around.

[hit_girl_mindy]

God, but it was annoying having to deal with this injury! She couldn't move like she wanted even though she was much faster than Ruffnut, and though she had her bow, it was still really annoying, having to stay in just so much space. So that meant she had to rely on her guns for the moment, and JUST her regular guns. No Zetta gun or the one she had from Negi, wherever he was.

She focused instead on taking out the robots in front of them, particularly where Ruffnut was fighting, so she could take them out easily. If she was able to spare a moment, she did the same for the guys.

[ruffntumblenut]

Bullets were flying, metal was twisting and screeching and Ruffnut was laughing in that dangerous psychotic way. This was the world she was born for! Chaos, pain. Her body jerked forward and a burniing sensation in her shoulder became overwhelming. She tried to whirl about on the offending attacker but her left arm was numb and not rising. She could smell burning flesh and melted steel but couldn't see the injury.

With her shield hanging uselessly at her side she swung her spear arm harder knocking the head off of the robot who had shot her. Tears stinging in the corners of her eyes she simply grit her teeth harder and continued the fight.

[moms_temperment]

Hana was in the middle of pulling his weapon from the broken chest of an enemy when he narrowly avoided a shot from his left that made him realize he was surrounded.

Scowling, he ran towards one of the robots, scaling it in a few powerful strides and kicking off it to escape the circle before doubling back to begin smashing his attackers.

[zouichi]

Zouichi spared several blasts from his rifle to cover the others, but when he saw Lash's robot wading into the mob, he changed course to follow her. He'd be best suited to drawing weapons fire if he could get to a higher location.

[hit_girl_mindy]

She saw where Zouichi was headed, and she wanted in to help, but she was also just as mindful to Ruffnut's injury. She decimated what was remaining of the robot and hopped off Ruffnut now, knowing full well that if she didn't, Ruffnut would be hard pressed to take out more robots on her own.

Hit girl was just going to have to punch her way through, and get her leg attended to. After that, she would be back in action.

[ruffntumblenut]

"Why won't you stay down?!" Ruff roared at a particularly stubborn group of bots who kept trying to get back onto their feet. Finally Ruffnut began knocking the heads with her spear trying to take them clean off, or failing that bring her heavy shield down ontop of them. But with her injury the spear was getting harder to swing each time. Her muscles already burned begging her for rest.

But she fought on, regardless of the price.