DRAFT LOG #2: The Battle Game!
Who: Everyone on the draft
What: Fighting bad guys!
When: Today (after 12PM) to the 19th, in the evening
Where: The Mining Facility
Summary: It's an underground mine! And the Malnosso want you to kill and capture all the bad guys! Oh, but don't let the rocks fall on you. That could hurt.
Rating: B for BLOOD. Seriously. People are going to die. ( Read more... )
What: Fighting bad guys!
When: Today (after 12PM) to the 19th, in the evening
Where: The Mining Facility
Summary: It's an underground mine! And the Malnosso want you to kill and capture all the bad guys! Oh, but don't let the rocks fall on you. That could hurt.
Rating: B for BLOOD. Seriously. People are going to die. ( Read more... )
J/K, J/K, I'm around giving back-up. No biggie. Well, it's not a biggie until there's an explosion right behind us. You know what that is? That's a group of Third Party members using dynamite to cut off our easiest route back to camp.
Shucks, that's just swell.
Suffice to say, we're surrounded by winged soldiers. Grumpy ones. Kotetsu starts up his power without a second thought, surrounded.]
Oi, oi, do all of you have to be so hostile all the time?
[:|a it's totally a genuine question to ask]
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barnaby's suit flares with light as he activates his powers, quickly turning to keep his back to kotetsu's, covering him. the adrenaline is rushing, and barnaby isn't afraid; he's had enough experience with these winged weirdos by now to understand just how to tackle them, and how to exploit their weak points. he doesn't move, but instead stands his ground - it's safer to fight this way. let the third party come at them, thinking they're cornered and easy to exterminate; it's better that they stay together and cover each other's backs.
.. he's just gonna hope that kotetsu catches that drift. ]
I don't think they care to answer you.
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He draws out the... tagger thing. He's not sure what it does, but he knows somehow, someway, it efficiently captures these guys at the end of the fighting. Which he'll take over killing them only for them to come back to life.
FFFF-aaand another tries to spear him, but the end sort of just. Breaks off against his shoulder plate. Lovely.
ELBOW TO THE CHIN FOR YOU. >:^[]
Wait your turn, huh?! Don't you got any manners??
[...
Shut up, Bunny, he's just making Small Talk with Bad Guys.]
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speaking of endearing. it's been .. awhile since they've fought together like this, hasn't it? even as he's delivering a savage kick to the gut of the first winged soldier to charge him, barnaby can't help but feel overwhelmed with nostalgia and camaraderie. and to think, a year ago he'd balked at the idea. ]
Kotetsu, to your left--
[ he turns on a dime, driving his knee into a second soldier's chest and taking hold of the spear he's wielding with his right hand, snapping it clean in half. ]
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--to your right--!
[He blocks, getting shoved back a few feet by two who are deciding that double-teaming is a better course of action.]
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This way!
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Suddenly there's a boom near them--explosion, most-likely the Third Party. He skids to the side, arms up instinctively to block rocks flying at them. At least they blew the thing too soon to catch them in it. Not that he was too worried about getting maimed, since these suits were made for such explosions.]
Tch!!
[He catches a large rock in both hands, turning and rolling it right into the line-up of soldiers following after them. It knocked them down for... uh, a good few seconds.]
Maaa, talk about persistent--who the heck trains these guys?!
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but it's no use complaining over it. swiveling lightly on his heel to face them again, barnaby plants his feet firmly. now it's they who are cornered, trapped between the rockfall and the heroes. and their numbers are severely crippled, thanks to their earlier efforts.
rather than waste time talking, barnaby shoots down the tunnel, using the giant rolling rock to his advantage. those who climb back to their feet are set upon almost instantly, and with this troop now in almost complete disarray, picking them off one by one is rather easy. ]
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Oh, that's a rock jutting off the ground. The rock he goes tripping on and stumbling backwards from. The Third Party sees they've got a stumbler on their hands and are more than content to knock him right into a--
... a minecart? There're tracks down here? Kotetsu totally blanked on that--]
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... That soldier has his hand on a lever.
You guys can't be serious-]
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There goes your partner, Barnaby, flying down the dark scary tunnel, out of sight.]
Dammmmmmiiiiiiiit--!!!!
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welp, as much as he'd like to kick all of these asses and secure them all, the partner comes first. so barnaby curses under his breath and takes off after the cart so fast that a whirling dust trail is left in his wake - he's nothing but a red and ping blur of flashing LED lights, bounding down the track QUICK AS A BUNNY
good thing kotetsu's green glow gives him away in the dark. ]
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That he's. Heading toward. Right now.]
WAITWAITWAIT--
[Yes, Kotetsu, because the cart will listen to you.]
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barnaby knows that something is truly wrong with him when he realizes that this doesn't bother him. in fact, he hardly gives it a second thought. but maybe that's because his partner is, you know, hurtling toward certain death. barnaby pushes himself, careening down the tunnel like a bolt of lightning, and every muscle is burning but he hardly feels it.
he's catching up. and just in time, too. barnaby snags the kotetsu's forearm in one hand, and the end of the cart in the other and pulls, digging in his heels, but it's heavy and moving fast, and his hundred power isn't as strong as it once was. sparks shoot from the heels of his boots, old, rotten wood snaps and flies, dirt and dust clouding the air as barnaby is dragged behind the cart, struggling to stop it. and it's slowing, slowing, slowing, but still closing in on that edge, falling over it. he lets go of the cart, and for a moment all he can see is black oblivion ( ... )
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Oi, let go of it now!
[He calls it out, anticipating the precise moment his partner does, already reeling them through the air right over that rocky chasm. He feels the wire giving off heat as they bridge that distance effortlessly and flop into the dirt, safe at the very least.
Kotetsu back-first, skidding to a stop.
Lifts his head. Pauses. And drops it.]
Ugh.
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and there's that awful, gut-crushing feeling of being suspended in midair, and plummeting down to certain death. barnaby throws his free arm out to grasp kotetsu's forearm to keep a better grip and uses his booster packs to keep them on course. and then they're tumbling onto dirt and rock again, and barnaby's mouth tastes like dust and his shoulder is on fire and they're still alive. he sits up, rolling his shoulder back and forth, casting kotetsu a fleeting glance. ]
Too much for you, old man?
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