The Alien Wars 6: Da Capo

Session 544

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<DeathStar> *As Katrina has been shot in the heart, the bullet having pierced right through by either luck or skill, she no longer responds and John seems to no longer be focused on the fighting as he holds her in her hands in the cramped shuttle, his apartment burning above them, pieces of it raining down on the streets below* (cont)
<DeathStar> *the people who have been firing the rockets and sniping them have suffered some losses by Kane and Cheryl, who is in mech form and flying about, a rocket now flying at them (you will have a limited time to react to this after all this is posted). And there seems to be 3 more rockets left on the various buildings with 3 more snipers (cont)
<DeathStar> *being the middle of the day and this having gone on, panic has gripped the streets and people are running around screaming, causing attention to be brought to them and with the comms down, it seems now is the perfect time for a giant holovid board down the street to begin talking, a cloaked figure talking to everyone (Which causes more chaos) (cont)
<DeathStar> *he informs them that a nuclear bomb has been placed in the city and if his demands are not met, it will go off by 6:00 PM - and begins to list demands such as nonsensical demands as the government getting rid of Dias as President and rising Stacey, and his vote just drones on and on. The strange masked V.6 figures aim their rifles and begin to try to take down the rockets as well, while a few move to try to take out the broadcast. (end)
<DeathStar> Date: 10-642.10.2 1:00 PM
<DeathStar> *John shakes Katrina*
<Seraphna> **Angela forms a shield around Cheryl and steers them out of the way** Too many for a lock on.
<Alicia> <Terra> "She needs a doctor, and fast."
<DeathStar> *The rocket knocks the mech and sends it back*
<DeathStar> <Michiru> She's not even breathing
<XanTop> * Kane tries to focus, though he glances back at John and Katrina and re-focuses, trying to focus fire and keep bigger shots like rockets and missiles off of them.
<DeathStar> *one of the rocketeers aims at the shuttle*
<XanTop> <Kane> Do we have a teleporter with us? *he calls out, aiming to fire at the rocketeers*
<Alicia> <Michiru> "I can try, at least. Not sure if I have the range, though."
<Seraphna> **Angela corrects their flight path, sending Montana at one of the remaining enemies**
<DeathStar> *Warren gets the shuttle up a bit*
<DeathStar> <Warren> Got it going
<XanTop> <Kane> She has minutes. She needs teleported into an ER, if they can't revive her within that time she will be brain dead. You have to go now.
<XanTop> <Kane> ...she needs the pax.
<DeathStar> *John seems quiet, peering at Michiru*
<Seraphna> **Angela flues to the shuttle to guard it**
<Seraphna> Angela> Everyone alright in there? **she comms**
<DeathStar> *Kane takes out the one aiming at the shuttle*
<DeathStar> <Warren> *flies them out of there*
<Alicia> * Michiru takes Katrina, and teleports to PAX as best she can with her
<XanTop> <Kane> *comm* Katrina's down, Michiru is trying to teleport her to the PAX. It's...not good.
<DeathStar> *the jamming is still acting up* <Warren> We need to send people out to find those jammers
<Seraphna> Angela> Damnit… Cheryl I need to get in there.
<DeathStar> *Michiru vanishes - will she make it to the PAX?*I
<Alicia> <Lunar Girl> "What do they look like?"
<XanTop> * Kane tchs and nods to Warren, moving back to the ramp he hangs into the rung and tries to scream out at MechGela
<XanTop> <Kane> KATRINA IS DOWN. WE NEED TO FIND THE JAMMERS.
<XanTop> <KANE> MICHIRU TELEPORTED HER TO THE PAX
<DeathStar> *Cheryl drops out and gets them close to the shuttle*
<Seraphna> Angela> Got it. **she frowns and grabs to get them on the Hangar**
<DeathStar> *Warren muses* It depends on the model being used
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<Seraphna> Angela> **focuses, seeing if she can reach her betas outside the city**
<XanTop> * Kane would try to help Angela and Cheryl back on board if they've de-meched*
<DeathStar> *Cheryl rolls into the shuttle and hangso nto Kane. Chii paces angerile*
<DeathStar> <Warren> Here. *he brings up a model of a older looking jammer* Assuming they're using models like this, lets go with them looking like this. Let me try to run a scan for them.
<Seraphna> Angela> I can’t heal Kat of she’s teleported away but I can help get those jammers. **she says after landing with them**
<DeathStar> *Angela seems unable to reach her betas*
<XanTop> <Kane> I wasn't sure how long the fight was going to last. It was a chest wound and her breathing stopped, we had to act immediately.
<DeathStar> *John just leans on the wall, not saying much*
<Seraphna> Angela> The jamming field is blocking me from reaching Epsilon.
<Alicia> <Terra> "She's better off on the PAX anyway... though... even in the best case, she'll be out for a while."
<XanTop> * Kane kneels to the side to check his supply of drones, if he has any left after they intercepted all those sniper shots last time.
<DeathStar> <Warren> Here. I'm heading toa location that most likely has a jammer.
<Seraphna> Angela> If she reached it she’ll have the best surgeons in the Galaxy working on her. For now let’s punch back.
<DeathStar> <Warren> I'll drop off a few of you
<DeathStar> *Warren flies the shuttle* Did you manage to catch the transmission in all that chaos?
<Seraphna> **Angela nods. She checks on Cheryl** Guess I have the next transformation.
<DeathStar> <Cheryl> .... *waves hand* <Chii> You know I'm here too. *shows teeth*
<XanTop> <Kane> The broadcast said something about a nuke.
<DeathStar> <Warren> We have less than 5 hours.
<Seraphna> Angela> Anyone else getting major deja vu here?
<Alicia> <Terra> "Like we haven't got enough to worry about already."
<DeathStar> *Warren drops them off at the a high rise and kicks Erica and Cassandra out the back, where indeed a jammer is located*
<XanTop> <Kane> I have 1 drone and with these jammers up I can't remotely control it. Otherwise I'd have it up there scouting and scanning for us. I can set it up on an AI routine if we have a set goal, maybe I can send it to find and disable one jammer?
<Seraphna> Angela> **frowns and scans it**
<XanTop> <Kane> Before that, we need locations. How are you seeking them out Warren, deadzones?
<Jackieness> <Cassandra> *would get to work trying to take out the jammer*
<DeathStar> *it seems to be an older model EarthGov jammer that connects to others to form a blanket around the city*
<DeathStar> <Warren> I figured high points.
<Seraphna> Angela> Here Chris, sending you the frequency.
<Alicia> * Lunar Girl teleports over to look at it, then looks around for others.
<Seraphna> Angela> To form a net they have to have a similar wavelength.
<Jackieness> <Cassandra> "Warren, its an old mesh type model.. You cna eaisy triangulate all of them form just the one."
<DeathStar> *John stps out, since Lunar Girl is dealing with it* I'll call us in a shuttle.
<XanTop> * Kane nods and begins typing on his datapad before moving over to the ship console, sitting down to hook the datapad up to the console.
<XanTop> <Kane> Scanning for jammers now.
<Alicia> <Terra> "Teleporters sure are handy."
<DeathStar> <Warren> I'm more worried about the nuke.
<DeathStar> <Warren> We need to locate where they're at.
<Seraphna> Angela> So you need something to sus out radiation.
<XanTop> <Kane> If we got the jammers down we could do satellite scans of the area.
<XanTop> (took)
<Seraphna> **Angela pauses and reaches into her subspace, pulling out a large looking rail gun** How about this?
<DeathStar> <Warren> Maybe. For now. I got a location I want us to go. Give your information to the group here
<DeathStar> <Chii> Field trip
<Seraphna> Angela> Sure. Haven’t used this baby in ages.
<DeathStar> *Cheryl leans forward in her seat*
<XanTop> *Kane nods and checks the data, then pulls out a chip and copies the coordinates of the closest jammers and then moves to the back to give the chip to Cassandra and Chris.
<Seraphna> **Angela starts making sure the old device works**
<DeathStar> *as they disable the jammer, John pats Lunar's head. Chris nods to them as Warren leaves them behind on the building, waiting on their ride*
<DeathStar> -SCENE SHIFT-
<DeathStar> Location: Tony's Pizza
<DeathStar> *The pizza shop is closed due to nuke*
<Seraphna> **Thena nibbles pizza**
<XanTop> <Logan> ....what's that and why did it close down the food place?
<Seraphna> Thena> A Nuke is a big bomb.
<DeathStar> <Selena> Nicolette and I will try to find these Earth military people. *she eyes the people in the street being upset after the cloaked man 20 minutes ago*
<DeathStar> <Selena> Maybe the information we have will help them.
<Seraphna> Luci> Like our spirit.
<DeathStar> <Celes> You think the nuke is the spirit
<Seraphna> Luci> I don’t believe in a coincidence.
<XanTop> <Logan> OH the spirit. That's smart Luci.
<Jackieness> <Lana> "Then maybe w emight have better luck finding her than the locals. They ar elikely looking for a bomb, not a spirit."
<DeathStar> <Celes> It is why we're here. That and with the locations of their bases
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "I wouldn't be surprised."
<XanTop> <Logan> So Nicolette takes those location to the earth people and we hang out and eat pizza or we gonna go hunting for a spirit? One of you magic people can track them right?
<DeathStar> *Selena and Nicolette have set off for now. Celes muses* Thena, you are the expertise here. Where should we take this information to? Your leader of this planet?
<Seraphna> Thena> With this jamming in effect I will need to be careful teleporting. I suggest we use a more classical means only commuting our info.
<DeathStar> *Selena and Nico are no doubt joined by Chelsea and Liana*
<Seraphna> **Thena let’s herself into the pizza shop and grabs… THE PHONE!**
<Jackieness> <Lana> "Luci, I don't have the spirit chops here to find the spirit."
<Seraphna> Luci> None of us really do. Except Simon.
<XanTop> <BIX> Simon = Geyze.
<Jackieness> <Lana> *looks at Simon* "...soooooo?"
<Jackieness> <Lana> "...he's not here..."
<Jackieness> <Lana> *looks back* "I need a spiritualist."
<Seraphna> **Thena starts by trying to call Lemon**
<XanTop> <BIX> Go get! BIX = Help People. * He looks ready to run off *
<XanTop> * Logan isn't here, Simon is and I'm a doofus. Simon puts a hand on BIX's shoulder to calm him and then nods to Lana. *
<DeathStar> (Logan = Simon)
<XanTop> <Simon> I will begin attempting the tracking spells. Earth and Magick isn't quite the same so it may take time.
<DeathStar> *people have begun to stare at the group, evne in thier panic*
<XanTop> * Simon begins writing out runes into the air that hand for a moment and fade as he begins forming the spell. *
<DeathStar> *since they've been standing there for minuts now, acting weird*
<Seraphna> **Thena keeps trying calls. Lemon then Warren**
<XanTop> <BIX> WARNING. WARNING. EVACUATE. * He starts ushering people to move on *
<Jackieness> <Lana> "Simon, my own tech spells might be helpful here. We can connect to the local networks and have the entire city pinging with your spell in a quickie."
<Alicia> * Ceilidh doesn't seem to notice the stares, or maybe she's just not bothered.
<DeathStar> *Lemon answers the comm, the line staticy*
<DeathStar> <Lemon> Yes?
<XanTop> * Simon nods and moves over to show Lana how his spell works so they can combine it with her tech.
<Seraphna> Thena> Lemon, we are tracking a Nuclear Spirit that was taken from Geyze. We also have a list of active bases.
<DeathStar> <Lemon> What?
<Jackieness> <Lana> *bring sup her spell consoles and connects to the local network landlines to bypass the jammers*
<Seraphna> Thena> VI bases. We have lists.
<DeathStar> *Celes peers down the street as police vehicles begin to pull up at the pizza shop*
<DeathStar> <Celes> Are these people friendly?
<Seraphna> **Thena pulls out the data and starts rattling them off**
<DeathStar> <Lemon on comm> And where are you?
<Seraphna> Thena> Yes. Do not fight them. Tony’s Pizza. Broke in.
<Seraphna> **Luci sighs abs pulls out her Peacekeepers badge**
<DeathStar> *The police officers just stare blankly, eye the store* Are you lahpers? Look, we hav a crisis here and people heard you mention nukes. *one takes the badge and studies it, scanning it*
<XanTop> * BIX ushers civilians away and walks back over to the group, tilting his head at Lana and Simon then looking over at the Police. He waves and smiles. *
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "Why did you break into the pizza place?"
<DeathStar> <Lemon> I'll try to send someone over there.
<Seraphna> Thena> The people behind this are a McCabe and Hodges. ***still on phone**
<DeathStar> <Lemon> Hodges is dead. *static*
<XanTop> <BIX> Seeking Nuke. To Stop.
<Seraphna> Thena> Posdibly a child then?
<DeathStar> <Lemon> He does have a grand-----*Static*
<DeathStar> *the spell begins to slowly bring information up*
<Seraphna> Luci> She ironically tripped an alarm to talk to the authorities. That’s a Suisen officer in there. **she nods to the shop**
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "Oh, that makes sense."
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<Jackieness> <Lana> "Simon, its working..."
<Seraphna> **Thena frowns** Signal is bad on this end.
<DeathStar> *Cops hmph, and return the badge*
<DeathStar> <Cop> How can we help you?
<DeathStar> *Lemon begins to be unable to be heard*
<DeathStar> <Celes> That does not sound good.
<Seraphna> Luci> We have information involving a terrorist threat on this city.
<XanTop> <Simon> Impressive, this is far faster than if I did it on my own.
<Seraphna> **Thena sighs and hangs up**
<DeathStar> *a sector of the city begins to come up, zooming in, zooming in, it's still a large sector.... when suddenly a bullet hits the cop standing there and he falls over - it was clearly meant for Lana*
<DeathStar> *another fires and the next cop goes down*
<DeathStar> <Celes> Down!
<Seraphna> **Luci frowns and raises a shield to protect the rest**
<Jackieness> <Lana> "Defenses! I almost have it!"
<DeathStar> *Celes takes cover behind a cop car*
<Alicia> * Ceilidh ducks behind the nearest cover almost instantly
<Jackieness> <Lana> "I cna't move!"
<Seraphna> **Thena stops at the door and takes cover**
<DeathStar> *the bullets hit the shields*
<Seraphna> Luci> Fuck, can anyone see them?
<DeathStar> *one hits where Lana is at directly, but the shield stops it*
<XanTop> * BIX whips around, trying to see if he can get a sight of the shooters.
<DeathStar> *and the next hits a civilian*
<DeathStar> *they seem to be far away across the street*
<Seraphna> Luci> Maniacs…
<DeathStar> *probably hastily set up*
<XanTop> * BIX looks angry and takes off running straight for them.
<DeathStar> *a bullt pierces the shield and tries to hit the device*
<DeathStar> *which has zoomed in more in the middle of the city*
<Seraphna> **Thena tracks the shots, and Luci burns energy to reinforce the shield**
<XanTop> * Simon attempts to put up additional ice walls up around him and Lana.
<Jackieness> <Lana> "I almost have the location! Buy me time!"
<DeathStar> *Bix has closed the distance, the sniper eyeing Bix, and holds his ground, firing again*
<DeathStar> *hitting the ice wall*
<XanTop> * BIX reaches out to rip a sign loose and javelin it towards the sniper.
<DeathStar> *They aim and fire a bullet that explodes the ice right as it's javelined*
<Alicia> * Ceilidh tries to locate the snipers, and launch a magical attack back at them
<DeathStar> *the ice manages to damage Lana's device*
<DeathStar> *Ceilidh takes them out completely*
<Seraphna> **Thena focuses and TKs the injured behind cover**
<XanTop> <Simon> TCH, damnit. How close were we?
<XanTop> * Simon does a little healing mist for both himself and Lana since there was some blowback.
<DeathStar> *Celes peers out* How damaged is it?
<Jackieness> <Lana> "We narrowed it down to a few blocks. Still alot of ground to cover for a small group though."
<Jackieness> <Lana> "I could recover the spell and get an exact fix, but that will justa dd time again."
<XanTop> * BIX looks to see if there's any guns he can take from the sniper. Pistols or Snipers or whatever.
<DeathStar> <Celes> Should we wait for this strangely named person?
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "Even that's a lot of help."
<Seraphna> **Luci muses** A spirit that powerful won’t be able to hide from other spirits that close.
<DeathStar> *she looks around for more attackers*
<Jackieness> <Lana> "And we probably need to move before they try movign the spirit."
<DeathStar> <Celes> I agree
<DeathStar> *Celes opens the cop car*
<Seraphna> Thena> If it’s who I think it is they should be here any moment.
<DeathStar> <Celes> Let us use this
<XanTop> * BIX runs back over to the group with the weapons(if any) he found since he's still a prototype body boy.
<Jackieness> <Lana> *looks around* "ITs is going to be a seriously tight fit."
<DeathStar> *Bix would find the sniper rifle with explosive rounds and normal rounds*
<XanTop> <Simon> BIX will have to ride on top of his carriage.
<DeathStar> <Celes> Thena - they managed to find us here - who knows if your "Friend" isn't compromised
<DeathStar> <Celes> We should move.
<Seraphna> **Thena floats the injured into the other cop car and then clicks the radio a few times. A possible code for police to track the car**
<Alicia> <Ceilidh> "You're right."
<XanTop> *BIX salutes and straps the sniper over his back, and puts the ammo in the car with the others then hops on top.
<Jackieness> <Lana> *climbs into the car* "Let's go before something else happens."
<Alicia> * Ceilidh gets into the car and watches out for anyone odd.
<XanTop> * Simon drops some healing mist on the injured, his player forgetting that civilians were hit, hopefully it'll stabilize them and then he gets in the cop car as well.
<DeathStar> *Celes clumsily puts the car into gear and once everyone is in, begins to drive them out*
<Seraphna> Thena> Fine, one moment. **her finger glows and she writes strange symbols into the wall by Tony’s door then gets in**
<DeathStar> <Celes> This is a bit more difficult than I thought. One momeeeeent. *she hits a hydrant on her way out*
<Jackieness> <Lana> "You don't know how to drive...?"
<DeathStar> <Celes> Flying Carriages. This is quite fuuuun~
<DeathStar> -SCENE SHIFT-
<DeathStar> Location: PAX
<XanTop> <Simon> This wheel looks different than carriage reins
<DeathStar> *Lenneth eyes the reports on Katrina after Michiru arrived nearly 50 minutes ago*
<DeathStar> *Then throws it down*
<Alicia> <Michiru> "...how is she doing?"
<DeathStar> <Lenneth> ... *She just pats Michiru a bit, turning to Xanatos* It looks like things on Earth are going a little crazy. Stacey said she lost contact with Mega City and there is a theory about older people like mom and Dad being in danger
<XanTop> <Xan> Should we bunker down or send a team to help?
<DeathStar> <Lenneth> I just don't know who I should send down there... *alarms begin to go off* <CHIP> We have a Code S emergency
<XanTop> <Xan> Code S?
<DeathStar> <Lenneth> Spectral Emegency
<DeathStar> *she brings up the screen and on the residental levels and main shops, a fog has set in and ghosts are appearing*
<DeathStar> <Lenneth> What in the world?
<Seraphna> Leyaeh> Not like this is our first ghost attack.
<XanTop> <Xan> ....is it not!?
<Seraphna> Leyaeh> Nope.
<XanTop> <Xan> What's the plan then? Do we have anti-spectral weapons for our security forces?
<Seraphna> **Leyeah taps her comms** Boys get out the Kitsune Udon boxes.
<DeathStar> <Erevis> Let us assume nothing is a first. *She clicks her tongue* I will go down there with the Emerald Sword and try to erase the ghosts
<DeathStar> *she moves to go*
<Seraphna> Leyaeh> Miyuki gave us boxes of ghost fighting toolsZ
<DeathStar> <Lenneth> Right, Udon tools.
<XanTop> <Xan> Cool. I'll go uh, punch at them and miss. *He jogs after Erevis*
<DeathStar> <Lenneth> Make it so.
<Seraphna> Leyaeh> They know they are the targets right?
<DeathStar> *Erevis motions for Jikuu to join her*
<DeathStar> <Erevis> Come
<DeathStar> <Lenneth> It would be hard to stop them together, right?
<Seraphna> Leyaeh> Let’s hope so.
<Alicia> * Jikuu heads after, nodding to Michiru as she leaves
<DeathStar> *Erevis hands the Emerald Sword to Jikuu, showing her how to use the sword to banish the ghosts*
<Seraphna> **PAX security fights with salt shotguns and darts dipped in holy water**
<DeathStar> *in the fog and ghosts, a figure moves behind Xanatos with a dagger, going right for the back to stab him in the back as Erevis shows Jikuu how to swing*
<DeathStar> -TBC-
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Session Close: Sun Mar 13 20:31:24 2022