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Post by FreezeFrame on Aug 8, 2009 13:39:14 GMT -5
"Hey, alright- yeah, O.K. that looks pretty good." Chase looked at Frostbite then and he saw her attention to detail as she moved her hands over the ice to smooth it out and made it just as requested, crystal clear, He could hear Allure doing her thing over the communicator and hoped the other aliens had their ears on.
"Lian, we need you to do your thing like NOW. Glitch can't hold his breath for ever. Move your ass, follow my voice ya squinty-eyed, flat chested, MOOOVE IT!" Chase snapped his fingers as he held onto Dante. The ice looked really heavy on top of what he was already wearing.
"Dude, hold on!" he said loudly to Glitch so he could hear through the ice. "You only have to take a quick peek, then pull your head back and we'll get you out of this." He had a hand up under his team-mate's arm holding on, it was so cold his skin felt like it was burning, but he didn't want to leave him to hold up the added weigh alone. "Just check and see if there's anything out there, or anyone. O.K. the Kree have blue skin, yea, I think."
He looked at Loralei for confirmation. "Right? You pay attention in class," he looked her up and down "all good little Acolytes do. The Kree have blue skin don't they?" He shot her a look of expecting an answer. "Hey when we pull him back you can get the ice off right?" He thought it might evaporate in the vacuum out there, if there was still a vacuum, but he didn't know. Chase wasn't into science too much but he thought he remembered ice evaporating in a movie he saw, or maybe it was a cartoon.
He wanted to yell at Ripple again but he saw she was finally moving. He hoped she wasn't going to just get up and pick at her wedgie or something. Lately he noticed she was not bouncing and shaking her cute little bun-buns like usual and she was so damn cranky. He didn't make the connection that she was having her 'month long visit from Aunt Bloody' or whatever it was the ladies like to call it.
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Ripple
Paragons
Lian Au-Yong
don't hate me cuz i'm beautiful, hate me cuz i'm a bitch
Posts: 233
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Post by Ripple on Aug 8, 2009 14:53:03 GMT -5
"Alright alright already sheesh," she replied to Chase. He was really getting on her nerves, but it wasn't any more than usual. She just wasn't the most easy going person when Aunt Flow came to visit, and Sky knew that all too well. Seeing what was going on, Lian got herself ready. "I closed the freakin' doors and they should be fine," she said bitterly after pressing the same button she did before that opened the doors. "But I'll do it. We gotta get outta this freakin' mess.
Taking a deep breath, Lian started concentrating. It was something different from what she was use to doing. She was rearranging the molecules, just so and to make it even harder she had to wait and do it only as Dante pressed his head to the hatch to look out in the hallway. She couldn't do it any larger than the immediate shape of Dante's ice covered helmet, and she could not do it too soon. She had to be precise otherwise she would allow for the escaping of not only the oxygen, but everyone inside the pressurized bridge, to get sucked out into the pressureless hallway. Even though she shut the garbage hatch the air had already been evacuated.
She rushed to the wall seeing how Glitch was not getting any air, and if she was going to land that big mohawked man she didn't want to be doing a corpse. She didn't like that Chase was pretending to be something other than the screw up he was and she wanted him to just shut up. "Chase, why don't you go and buy yourself a big bag full of dicks and go suck em." She hoped he choked on them as her bitterness almost made her quit right then and there, however she had the determination to both prove herself and prove to her teammates that she could do more that was asked of her. "Ok i'm ready when you are freakers," she said firmly.
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Glitch
Paragons
Dante Sloan
Posts: 83
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Post by Glitch on Aug 8, 2009 21:21:24 GMT -5
Head encased in the cold sealed up helmet, Dante nodded, calmly holding his breath, letting out very small breaths and inhaling minimally. He pushed his head to the wall and felt it open up around him, looking around the ruined hall. His eyes went wide at the sight he was met with. It was unlike anything he had ever seen before. Creatures that looked like gigantic bugs that were ripping the remains of the fallen Shi'ar were strewn everywhere in a way that no horror movie had ever replicated as gruesome.
What the f#*k are those things? Some of the creatures were still blue and one looked like the Kree that Chase described. The next thing Dante knew, he watched the Kree soldier grow bigger and transforming into one of the bug creatures like the others. The whole thing was so grotesque and gruesome, that he had a hard time taking his eyes off it. Air finally became a problem and he waved his hand so Ripple could bring his head back in.
When he was back in the bridge, he motioned for Frostbite to get the cold ice away from him. It was getting too cold and too little air for his comfort, even though the cold contained oxygen better than heat. "Uh, can the Kree turn into giant bug like things that look like they escaped from the set of 'Aliens'?" Dante asked taking deep breaths for air.
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Decay
Paragons
Skylar Walker
Posts: 136
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Post by Decay on Aug 8, 2009 23:30:10 GMT -5
Manning the guns was a task that Skywas meat to do. She played video games her entire life and ever since she got a Wii, her aim was uncanny. Not to mention that she was having the time of her life shooting ships and experimenting with all the controls that the Quartermaster showed her. "AHAHHA Take that! And that!" She yelled as she shot off the enemy ships from the air. The only ones she left were the Kree ship attached to theirs, which she didn't want to touch for fear of it effecting their own ship.
"Take that motherf@&kers! Feel the wrath of Dread Pirate Sky Cash!" She yelled and shot the gun off on exploding mode into the one ship standing within her vision. This mission was confusing as hell right now, but as long as she had her guns, then she was happy. "Ahoy Kat, ye scurvy dog, turn this ship round so we may take down the others!" Sky yelled and got her guns ready.
"Whoa whoa whoa, hold the f@#k up." Her head whipped around to look at the others. "Are you talking about the Brood? Oh god damnit we're f@#king screwed!" She said and threw her hands up in the air. "That's it. C'mon Kat we're blasting these asswipes," Sky said turning back to her guns, biting her binky nervously.
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Hemlock
Paragons
Kris Binchy
Posts: 92
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Post by Hemlock on Aug 9, 2009 0:01:16 GMT -5
Kris stood in front of the engineering screen, trying to remember back to lessons when they'd learned about the broods, not really paying much attention to the screen. Oh my, that was a while back the Broods thing... though... I think I remember... "Oh! The Broods! Yes! I remember, I remember! Well, they're sadistic, evil wee things, and they enjoy all the suffering and terror they cause. Makes 'em all happy. " Kris gulped, shivering slightly as he spoke
"Hmm... Oh! Brood have endoskeletons as well as exoskeletons! And uh... oh yeah, they have this hierarchy system thing, where the firstborn are on the top and the drones are on the bottom. They're all brown." Kris rolled his eyes, continuing to think. "The queens can give out paralyzing liquid from their mouths! SO NO GOING NEAR MOUTHS! And uh... uh... OH the firstborn brood? - they can teleport too... oh no! WHY NIGHTCRAWLER WHY?! I hope none teleport into our... ship!"
He decided to switch his walking-pacing to a skipping-pacing instead. It just felt so much more comfortable like that. "Uhh... and... well, their tails can sting you and kill you.." Kris stopped skipping and folded his arms across his chest, "Um yeah thats about all I can remember." He sighed, before he jumped up, "OH JESUS! I JUST REMEMBERED! THEIR EGGS! THE QUEENS - BE CAREFUL! THEY CAN LAY EGGS INTO YOU AND KILL YOU BUT THEN TAKE ON YOUR APPEARANCE AND YOUR POWERS!" he yelled, blinking furiously. Jeeezusss. Keep away from the Queens. Though... I don't think Nightcrawler would let some Queenie Insect do that to us... but still...
Kris moved again, leaning close to the control pannel. "Oh! I just hope they listen to Allure and turn around! I don't think they have any mental defenses or any such thing... no, I don't remember reading anything about that or it being mentioned in any lessons... " Kris sighed, as he looked up for the first time during his informative-speech, and spotted the engineering screen, "OH JESUS CHRIST! OH JESUS! THE SCREEN! IT SAYS THE ENGINE'S GETTING DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO OVERLOAD! OH SH*T! F@#!K! JESUS! WHAT DO WE DO NOW!? ANYONE A MECHANIC HERE?! OH WHY DID EMBER HAVE TO LEAVE US!?"
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Post by ~ N.P.C. ~ on Aug 9, 2009 1:28:05 GMT -5
Hemlock's concern over the Brood being in their ship was a bit late, since Glitch had only moments before told them all that they were in fact right outside the door to the bridge. They had been an enemy of the Shi'ar as well as the Kree and countless other species for many many generations and the Kree had been hosts to this small hive mind, an advanced scouting and raiding party of Brood, who came to conquer the Shi'ar Empire this time. They were on a mission to claim Shi'ar and the ships of the Empire, so as to more easily slip undetected into the vast Aerie...the known area of space also called the Shi'ar Empire. 'This time' being the historic incident that set so many intergalactic events into motion. The next time they would come, they would be allied with the Shi'ar Queen Lilandra Neramani's sister Deathbird, this time however The Dagger was the only hope of the Empire. This was the test -the no win scenario- and they all must have realized it as the Acanti, a giant space whale used as a transport by the Brood, came swimming out of hyperspace to pull up nearby The Dagger. The Acanti were used as a tool by the Brood and this one looked all but dead as the bubbled domes of synthetic Brood made and stolen technology, "borrowed" from countless races across space and throughout a Milena of conquest, showed poking through it's flesh. Being of a hive mind they were unaffected by almost all forms of mental manipulation, save for but a few. Those few being powerful beyond belief and it was as if Veronika's words had never even been spoken for them. Certainly they heard her and her beautiful melodious and enticing voice, but the telepathic control of their own Queen, the ruler of this particular hive mind was all to overpowering. Especially now as she had arrived in the Acanti to witness the capture of this unassuming vessel. Outside the hatch to the bridge the Brood drones bathed in blood were intent to capture as many more Shi'ar as they could. The decompression of the ship having caused the Shi'ar they held in the hallway, held in waiting for their Queen to implant with her embryo's, to burst. The hatch began to echo then with the pounding of the mighty skulls, thickly boned with the distinctive battle-ax markings, of what sounded like several blood drenched Brood.
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Post by FreezeFrame on Aug 9, 2009 10:27:56 GMT -5
"Ah-chi-wa-wa-wow." Chase looked at the viewscreen and saw the bigass giant blowfishy looking space whale swimming around a little. "Lookit that thing." *SHWeeeww* He whistled and then he choked on his whistling as it hit him and he coughed out. "The Brood? Oh SHIT! I remember that class. Oh hell, we are toast guys."
He grabbed Dante and shook him slightly, "Dude, are you sure!?! Are you sure you saw things right out there??? They were like big and had like huge shovel heads?" The sound of the Brood banging in the hatch started then and he answered his own question "Heads big enough to make THAT sound. OHHhhh shit. Oh SHIIIT! OK I'm fresh outta ideas. Anybody wanna brainstorm? Lets's hear it Paragons, who has some ideas?"
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Allure
Paragons
Veronika Kudinov
Truly Irresistable
Posts: 184
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Post by Allure on Aug 9, 2009 14:34:10 GMT -5
Casual as ever, Veronika crossed her legs and ran her fingers through her styled tousled curls an unconcerned look on her face. "The Brood? Well that is just unfortunate. The most vial race I have ever heard of, don't you think?" she asked the Quartermaster fluttering her eyes slightly. Her parents taught her well, and she was not worried in the least bit. Her family had a knack for getting out of sticky situations. Veronika's situation wasn't as bad as most. She had the Shi'ar guards that would protect her, along with Kris and just about everyone else on the team.
"Now let us think back to our lessons shall we?" She said with a sweet smile as she hopped down from the chair while holding on to the Quartermaster's hand as any well bred and well mannered young lady. "The Brood are known to live in a tropical climate, with a high oxygen content. Now they are out there in the Space atmosphere that's main oxygen comes from the stars and all that. So then..." Veronika walked around, her slightly heeled shoes hitting the chrome floor.
"We have with us now, someone who can create ice," She looked over at Frostbite briefly and gave the guard that held her up an enchanting smile. "If you want even a chance of winning this, we need to use her somehow, to give the Brood a taste of the cold. They are built like giant insects as those of you who pay attention in class know, so the cold is their enemy. Their bodies cannot handle the cold. If Frostbite was to freeze enough of them, Ripple could make them fall through the floor. The only problem with that is we need a way to get out there without dying," Veronika pointed out, moving over to Dante to delicately tap his helmet with her small slim finger.
"Or..." She glanced around at the others in the bridge. "We find away to escape safely. This is a spaceship after all, and we are in the Captain's quarters. In any ship whether it be a space ship or a cruise ship, there is always an escape pod right in the Bridge. And if that is the case, it will most likely be our best bet." Veronika walked over to the Quartermaster and gave him a dazzling smile. "Tell me good Sir, is your ship upgraded with the latest technology to give us a way out of here?" she purred, swiping her finger under his chin and dazzling him once again to her will.
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Post by ~ N.P.C. ~ on Aug 9, 2009 22:02:37 GMT -5
"You all must be The Queen's Own special security testing force. With powers and abilities like the Imperial guard itself." The once Quartermaster remarked. "As well," his eyes met with Veronika's "so utterly fearless you are miss, the others... not so much. Yet, your demeanor, and the way you carry yourself, sets you apart... denotes you as royalty." At that he did take a moment to bow his head slightly.
"You do the people of your home-world an honor by your service to our Queen. As I am certain, as royalty, you could chose to serve not in such a capacity. But we must not tarry now." He looked around the bridge seeing how many were there, and, knowing the size of the Captain's pod realized... not all would fit. "To answer your question Lady Red, YES! The Captain's escape pod holds but a dozen souls, and launching it would doom the rest to an awful demise as it would leave them exposed to the ravages of space."
He seemed not at all to be a being concerned for others and in truth it was his concern for himself that prompted his words. "Surely I would not be left behind, but who would be chosen to go along? And we must ask ourselves what are the chances of an escape pod evading the Brood." He took pause for just a moment then to consider the circumstances. "It might be small enough, yes...yes it might at that, and this nearby world.." he keyed a button on the control screen next to him showing which planet he was referring to on the large view-screen as his heart tried to convince his mind that there was a chance "...here, is capable of sustaining life. It is harsh but survivable if we make it." He knew there was no hope but he wished it.
He hit the button again returning the view on the massive screen to the one of the huge Acanti Whale, as it sat 'treading the waters of space' patiently, a scant few thousand meters or so away. In the cavities of it's body dwelt tens of thousands of Brood waiting, like so many locusts of some divine and unforgiving plague, to consume the Shi'ar Empire. Then a thought crossed his mind and without censor he voiced it "But what of Her Majesty's Empire?"
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Decay
Paragons
Skylar Walker
Posts: 136
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Post by Decay on Aug 9, 2009 22:57:46 GMT -5
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold your eggs there Featherhead," Sky said moving away from the guns and her binky falling from her mouth. "Are you F@%#ing telling me that we can either stand here and die because of those overgrown cockroaches out there coming in to turn us into their egg sacks, or we go into the escape pod that comes right next to that giant whale thing where the rest of them are and f@%#in' die anyways?" she said with a look of disbelief. "Well ain't that just the god damn cherry on top!" Sky was actually pissed off now. It usually took a lot to piss her off, since she was so damn mellow all the time.
This whole mission though had been ridiculous, she took a good couple of hits from the guard, she was forced to play babysitter to some guy that abandoned their team cause he needed his mommy to kiss his boo boo, and now she was facing sudden death because of a swarm of overgrown cockroaches decided they would just come on in and use whoever they can find to harvest their disgusting eggs in them. And now she was just fed up.
Sky took the Shi'ar scarf out of her hair and threw it on the floor. "F@#K THIS BULLSHIT! I hate bugs! Especially overgrown bugs and I will be damned if I let them be the reason that I die. If anyone's gonna choose how I die, it's gonna be me," she said and hands in fists and looked around at her team. "If we're gonna go down anyways, we're taking those DISGUSTING SLIMY motherf@ers down with us." Sky pointed out the window to the Acani. "How many of you want to say that you died because of a god damn mutated cockroach? I know I got more self-respect than that," she said looking at all of them. "Who's with me?"
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Post by FreezeFrame on Aug 9, 2009 23:32:41 GMT -5
"Hold up Sky this guy said we can make it!" Chase rushed over to the Captain, smacking him in his chest as he checked his girl to keep her on point. "He said we'd be small enough to slip by, he said that that planet's able to support life. What are you saying? You saying you don't believe him?"
He walked over to look her in the eyes as the sound of the Aliens banging their head on the door shook the place. He took both of his best friend's hands as he said "I don't know about you but I don't really wanna die, not yet." The fact that they were in the Danger Room had been lost as so many of his senses registered it as real.
"So Ok, maybe it's a slim chance, but it's a chance right?" he whispered to her "Look it's not our Kingdom or whatever, you just wanna take em out? Go down with the ship? Isn't that what Kat should be saying?" He wondered "Hey isn't that going against the pirate code? Or what?" He wasn't saying what he wanted to do, but he sure was 100% against dying, no matter what the reason.
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Glitch
Paragons
Dante Sloan
Posts: 83
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Post by Glitch on Aug 9, 2009 23:40:43 GMT -5
The options were grim, but Sky had a point, and a big one. Dante was starting to like this girl more and more, especially with her way of thinking. He knew that way of thinking well, it was the way of the streets. If the fuzz came to bust up a gang fight before they had a get away, half the time the whole bunch of crews were taken down together.
"You know what, if we go in that damn pod and we happen to not slip by... well I ain't no punk, and it's gonna be one screwed up day when I let myself take a chance on being defeated by a giant bug thing. Think about that, 'Hey how did you die?' 'Oh I got ripped apart by a cockroach.' How pathetic is that man?" Dante said and went to stand by Sky. "I'm with you on this, I ain't dying a punk."
He didn't know if he would really die or not, but Sky had a point. The chance was too great and he was just as ready to get them back. Either way, it was way better than prison, and he liked these people.
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Decay
Paragons
Skylar Walker
Posts: 136
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Post by Decay on Aug 9, 2009 23:56:08 GMT -5
Sky blew a strand of her short hair out of her face and looked at Chase with a defiant look on her face. "You really wanna take that slim ass chance? I ain't no punk Chase, and you aren't either. Dante over there has a point, we're better than that. When we die man, it's gonna be by one hell of an ass kicking way. We may be gone, but guess what? So will all the motherf@%#in' Brood," she said pointing out to the acanti in front of them.
"We said one day that if we ever choose the way to go, it's the one that kicks the most ass. That's what this god damn team is known for, we kick the most ass in the most badass way that no one can beat, and we're not gonna make punks outta ourselves because of some giant bugs. You were never a punk, don't start being one now." Sky wrapped her arms around his neck and brought his face down in a heated kiss. It was one of those hard forceful kisses that made a point. She put her hands into either side of his face and leaned her forehead against his, keeping her eyes on him. "My best friend was never a punk, he was one of the biggest assholes in the school. Stay that way."
Holding his hand tight, she pulled him to her and looked at the control panel. "Kat, find us a self destruct button and ram this baby with the little power we got left into those mother freakers. You gotta time it just right, but aye, I trust ya matey," she said with a wink. At this point she even forgot that it was a mission, it felt too real. Either way she was still ready to go with a bang.
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Frostbite
Paragons
Lorelai Kavanagh
Can you handle the cold?
Posts: 563
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Post by Frostbite on Aug 10, 2009 0:00:40 GMT -5
Lorelai looked at the others as they spoke, glancing out the windows as she thought about the option Sky had suggested. Going down with the ship was a good idea, in a way. It ended everything, which was what she wanted, but it would mean that they all died. It was something to think about, and there were ups and downs to it at the same time. What Dante had said made sense, and she always thought, if she were to die somehow, she'd want to go out with some sort of bang, or some way that didn't seem like a stupid reason. Dying by having cockroach eggs being put into her sounded pretty stupid, and more gross than being blown up by having crashed into another ship.
Though she figured the others may not have wanted to hear her opinion, she gave it anyway. "He's got a point. I think...I'm with you too. If we're gonna die, which it seems will happen either way, I rather it not be by giant bugs. We can do better than that, and if we all go down together then at least we'll have ended on something of a good note, and we won't be the only ones to go down," she said, including herself as part of the team even though she still didn't feel like she was. Yes, she had done a couple things for them here, but she still felt like she wasn't, and she felt pretty sure she wasn't anywhere close to being accepted. She had gone through all of this with broken ribs with all of them, but she doubted it'd be enough for even just a little acceptance.
She watched Sky with Chase, a little smirk on her face before looking to Kat at the wheel. It was fake, but it was really going to happen, and though she felt little twinges in her stomach of nervousness, she repressed them like she had been for the past days. It was getting easier, and it was somewhat of a comfort to feel ready enough to die. At least the pain would end, as would everything else. A corner of her mouth tipped up a little into a half smile at her before she said, "I trust you too. Go on and do it," she said, happy in a way so that the chaos would be finished and no one would have to die by bugs.
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Tempest
Paragons
Tia Glaze
-Silence before the Tempest-
Posts: 117
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Post by Tempest on Aug 10, 2009 0:18:23 GMT -5
Tia looked away from the light, her eyes skimming over to Sky. The girl knew what she was talking about, and Tia sure as hell agreed. Seriously, killed by a cockroach? Uh, no. I'm not dying like that. "I agree with you." she stated simply, "I don't think any of us want to be killed by over-sized cockroaches. Plus, I love my power. I'm not having a random cockroach lay an egg in me and steal it." she rolled her eyes and turned around to look vaguely at the light, before a small smile broke across her lips. Perfect timing.
"I hope you guys mean it, when you say you're okay dying." Tia said, loud enough to have everyone near her hear. She turned around and moved to the side, indicating her head towards the light. "I still don't know what the light's for, but if the Shi'ar guard's right, we're all gonna die." Tia stared at the orange light for a second longer, her heartbeat increasing, wondering how long it would be until the light turned red. "I think it's turning red... it's going slightly darker..." Tia commented, looking from the light, over to her team-mates.
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