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Post by Kage Chaos on Jul 15, 2007 6:52:12 GMT -5
Here we go, I'll start of course. (More plot description can be found in the #3 redo plot & characters thread)
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Nova sat at him computer console, looking over coded messages of the enemy just as he always did. Coordinates that never seemed relevant or significant in any way. Sometimes the enemy even made jokes over the communications systems.
But today was different.
For the first time since he'd been stationed on Phalla, the third moon of Sendorr, he saw a different set of coordinates in the enemy's messages. A set of coordinates that actually meant something to him. They were going to attack his base!
"Commander!!" Nova yelled and stood up out of his chair, "The enemy has plans to attack our base! They may already be in position!"
No sooner had he gotten up then the entire base shook with a force that was obviously an explosion of some sort.
"Call the Midas Sinen for reinforcements!" someone yelled just as a few dozen Krystazians came bursting into the base, blaster rifles firing wildly.
Nova jumped over his console and hid behind it, pulling out his own blaster pistol, and began returning fire.
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There, that should be a good intro!
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Renos
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Post by Renos on Jul 15, 2007 15:42:55 GMT -5
"Call the Midas Sinen for reinforcements!" Wolfkin grinned as she walked into the room, here golden eye flashing with amusement. "We're already here....or I am at least" her voice was calm assured, she drew her pistol diving for cover, stoping next to someone and immideatly returning fire. "Well this sucks" she muttered to herself.
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Post by Kage Chaos on Jul 15, 2007 17:31:50 GMT -5
"Well this sucks."
Nova heard a Midas Sinen woman say as she dived behind one of the nearby consoles and began firing at the Krystazians.
"Yes it does," he replied, not really sure if she'd hear him.
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Post by Foxee on Jul 15, 2007 21:39:56 GMT -5
As the firefight erupted in the command center, the on-base hydroponics lab rocked with the force of the blast. It almost knocked Aeve Morrison off of her feet.
She clutched the suspended plants as their tubes swung to and fro. A rack skittered away and she nearly fell on her behind. Red lights began to blink all around the perimeter of the room and an alarm began to sound.
“High alert code three. All hands to battle stations.” The recorded feminine voice was cool. Panic was optional.
Code three …Aeve couldn’t remember what that one was but it couldn’t be good. This was wartime after all.
She hurried to the locker to the left of the door and grabbed her bag, slinging it over her shoulder.
Drawing a slender black ion displacement pistol from her deep lab coat pocket, she hit Test. The blue charge display only lit half-way.
It would just have to do.
You are not combatants, she remembered her trainer’s words, you are biologists. If at all possible elude an enemy. Run away or hide.
Aeve hadn’t been entirely sure that the enemy would accept her status as a noncombatant. Now she slid the selector all the way to the top.
No stunning enemies today, it was every botanical engineer for herself.
Now to get to a ship, hopefully a pilot would have had the same idea, and haul ass out of here.
Aeve listened at the door. Nothing. She slid it aside, pistol ready, and stepped into the empty corridor.
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Post by twilightblade on Jul 16, 2007 1:21:43 GMT -5
Shimei Altanis was just leaving the exercise room when the explosions rocked the station. She flipped back to her feet and raced down the corridor, one hand drawing her ion blaster while the other fumbled for her room key. The ion blaster wouldn't be worth much with its present lack of charge, as she'd just finished using it for target practice. She grimaced and skidded around a corner, shoving off the wall for a faster start.
Ahead she caught a glimpse of blue... A man? Whoever he was, he was standing in the middle of the corridor, waving a blaster and shouting at the Krystazians who were attacking.
"Idiot!" She dropped to one knee and carefully aimed her ion blaster. If he was a leader, it might be better to try to take him prisoner rather than kill him. Her shot sang through the air, the violet light drawing a hard line through the melee.
"Perfect..." she muttered, watching the light target the man's legs. Then it splattered. "What...? How...?"
The answer became clear as crystal flared red for an instant. "He's...Krystazian?!" she gasped, then flung herself to the side as a crystalline net crashed down in the spot where she'd just been.
"Depths of space!" Her breath hissed through her teeth as she slammed forward into a roll. She couldn't fight Krystazians with an ion blaster! She leapt back to her feet and jumped for the next hallway, stun blasts spackling the walls around her with their green beams. A long wire hissed out past her legs and she bounded into the air to avoid it, but like a live being, the metal swept back and tangled around her legs.
"Depths...of...SPACE!" she grunted as her body hit the floor and the air rushed out of her. She twisted around on the metal of the deck, reaching for the wire...
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Renos
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Post by Renos on Jul 16, 2007 5:49:59 GMT -5
"Yes it does,"
"heh" was all wolfkin replied as she let off another couple of shot, "This isn't working, we need something more effective..." Wolfkin grinned as she looked around in her mind the best option was to just blow this place sky high, that'd fix the bastards for sure.
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Post by blossom on Jul 16, 2007 9:45:29 GMT -5
At first, lying under an airship on a hoverboard, earplugs in to prevent any damage when she yelled to her assistant to test the engine, Lilia was unaware of anything wrong in the base. Then the hangar rocked with the force of the explosion and the hoverboard shot out from under the ship, smashing into a hangar wall and taking Lilia with it.
"What the --?" Lilia began, one oil stained gloved pressed to the back of her skull and blackness dancing before her vision. Then, as her vision focused she realised people were running, screaming, and shooting.
"High code alert three," a pleasant, electronic voice announced, "All hands to battle stations."
Lilia was instantly on her feet, pushing her goggles up into her fair brown, grease slicked hair and scanning the room. Diving to one side she rolled back under the ship, narrowly avoiding a burst of blue light that would have turned her into a human kebab. She glanced out to the other side of the ship, trying to see if it was safe to emerge, and saw, with stomach clenching sickness, her young assistant lying prone, blood pooling around him.
If she could just get on board the ship ...
Silence had fallen in the hangar. Good or bad, she couldn't tell. Slowly, carefully, she withdrew an ion blaster from her belt. The blue light showed her in was fully charged; she'd never had any cause to put it to use.
Footsteps sounded. Body tense, alert, Lilia peered out from under the ship, trying to see who was coming. All she could see was a pair of boots, steadily walking closer.
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Post by twilightblade on Jul 16, 2007 12:51:41 GMT -5
The Krystazian assigned to lead the assault on the ship hanger, Broken Glass, glanced around at the neutralized humans, glittered off a quick light message to the others, then approached the boat. It thought it had seen another human dive away from the assault and take refuge under the ship. As all the other humans that could repair human ships were dead, it would do well to take this one alive if possible. And Shatter Ice would be unamused if he did not get at least one human mechanic.
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Shatter Ice gave a human yell of excitement as his wire throw tripped up the human woman that had shot him.
"Ruin my beautiful colors, will you?!"
He yanked at the wire, pulling it tight again just as the woman was about to get away.
"Shoot at me, will you?!"
He gave her a human-style grin, all of his pointed teeth showing.
"I don't think so!"
He slowly lowered his stun blaster into position.
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Post by Foxee on Jul 16, 2007 16:09:21 GMT -5
Aeve didn’t get very far.
She walked as quietly as possible down the hallway, worried lest the tapping of her boots draw attention. Not that she’d seen or heard anyone yet. The corridor bent around the outside of the domed wall of the gardens, creating a blind curve in either direction.
A dancing flash on the wall ahead alerted her before she even heard the tramp of feet. Either someone had a flashlight swinging back and forth – no, that wasn’t right, it was more like the sparkle of sun from a rippling trout stream.
She turned, the same dancing flash was appearing from the opposite direction.
Krystaze. She’d never seen one before but Brian, her medical officer and sometime boyfriend had told her about them. It seemed likely that she’d see not one but many of them, much too close and very soon.
Aeve sprinted for the closest door to the gardens she hurled herself against it, slapping her palm onto the security pad just as a detachment of Krystaze came into view. The panel opened and she half-fell through it, smacking the button to manually close it rather than letting it take time to close on its own
She shoved the pistol back into her pocket. It was of little use to her now.
It was a good bet they’d seen her. She quickly popped the cover open for the emergency doors panel and placed her palm on it. The emergency doors also required a key code and she panicked, wracking her brain and keying it in wrong.
Did she hear boots outside the door? The quiet unnerved her. She typed in the code again and every emergency door around the perimeter of the gardens hissed down, thudding shut.
“Gardens are sealed.” The electronic voice had a knack for pointing out the obvious, Aeve thought.
A booming sound followed by the sizzle of frying metal announced the demolition of the outer door as she ran for the center of the dome. She hoped the emergency doors were stronger than the outer ones.
The environmental control booth was a lovely spiraling affair of white-painted metal. Aeve’s fingers flew over the controls.
Nothing seemed to happen, and then the booming sound came again. She smiled grimly. The emergency door was stronger but it was only a matter of time.
Aeve slipped from the control booth and she hurried into some dense foliage as vapor began to flow across the floor.
She crouched, listening, hidden in a thick patch of asparagus fern. Would the fog build up fast enough? It roiled, building, twisting on itself like a live thing. Now the dense white cloud covered her as long as she didn’t stand up.
Not good enough.
The booming sound was followed by the sizzle this time.
“Emergency door number five has been breached.” The announcement made Aeve jump.
The Krystaze seemed to hesitate before boots echoed on the decking of the floor. Aeve smiled grimly. They hadn’t expected low visibility. She could see the flashes of their communication again, like a lightning storm trapped in a thundercloud.
She figured the fog would reach up to her shoulder if she stood now. So she rose to a half-crouch, keeping her head down, and hurried, quietly as possible, toward the other side of the dome.
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Post by blossom on Jul 17, 2007 11:35:02 GMT -5
Lilia saw the glitter of the light message and for an instant forgot how to breathe. A Krystazian. Her heart thumped loudly in her ears, but the blood being pumped through her veins seemed to be pure ice.
Slowly, Lilia slipped her ion blaster back into its holder; it would be of little use against a Krystazian. Had it seen her? If it had then she would likely be killed, just like the rest of her comrades in the hangar. She could still see the blood pooling around her assistant's feet.
On the other hand, if she hadn't been seen the Krystazian might leave to join the rest of its kind and she could make her escape.
"Emergency door number five has been breached."
The electronic report echoed around the silent hangar. Under the ship Lilia flinched, trying not to jump, but still cracked her head of the metal. Biting down hard on her tongue to stop herself swearing, she peered out at the Krystazian to see its reaction.
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Post by twilightblade on Jul 18, 2007 21:16:43 GMT -5
The Krystazian paused at the announcement from the communcations system but only flashed off another message to a subordinate to check out the message as the vibration of something striking metal shivered through it. The human had reacted. It continued to the human ship and bent over to place the pictures of 'eyes' on its 'head' below the level of the ship so that the human would understand that it had been seen. It also kept its stun blaster carefully in place and keyed its voice synthesizer.
"Human mechanic. If you give up without struggle, you will not be killed."
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Post by Renos on Jul 19, 2007 0:51:09 GMT -5
Wolfkin slipped her blaster back into it's holster, drawing a twin set of blades. Standing up she dived over the console, cutting down the nearest Krystazian and began to advance on another, "your not going to live through this you dumbass"
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Post by blossom on Jul 19, 2007 12:42:37 GMT -5
Lilia considered her options, then reluctantly slid out from under the ship, gazing warily up at the Krystazian. It said it wouldn't kill her, but there was nothing to stop it from going back on its word.
Rubbing her nose - and in the process spreading a small smugde of oil into a large smudge - Lilia got to her feet and threw her ion blaster down on the floor. It wasn't much use anyway; ion blasts didn't affect Krystazian.
She waited, silent, wondering if these were her last moments after all.
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Post by twilightblade on Jul 19, 2007 19:17:16 GMT -5
The Krystazian paused, uncertain for a moment, then ponderously removed a set of human wrist restraints from a belt pack and gestured at the human woman.
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Shimei just barely dodge the stun beam of the idiot Krystazian, who hadn't even had the sense (fortunately for her) to keep a tight hold on the wire while aiming his blaster. For now she was ok, and...with a last jerk, she freed her legs and jumped back to her feet. The Krystazian flickered with bursts of red light, then charged her as she spun and began to race for her room once more.
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Post by Foxee on Jul 21, 2007 13:16:52 GMT -5
Banana tree fronds dangled into Aeve’s hair, dripping, and she pushed past them. She could stand and walk now, the fog had reached to well over her head. It was thick as she could have hoped for, leaving the Krystazians somewhere behind her, hopefully in a muddle.
Unfortunately, she couldn’t see more than a few feet ahead and water droplets had condensed on the slats underfoot, making them slippery.
She mentally cursed whoever had the bright idea for labyrinthine gardens and walked as quickly as she could, pausing often to listen for any sounds of pursuit, scanning the way she’d come for flashes of Krystazian communication.
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Post by Kage Chaos on Jul 21, 2007 14:24:19 GMT -5
As the force of the Krystazians became far too much to handle, Nova reached to his belt and grabbed his smoke grenade, pulling the pin and tossing it a dozen or so feet ahead of him, then turned and ran to the doors.
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Post by blossom on Jul 22, 2007 7:52:52 GMT -5
Lilia flicked her gaze from the handcuffs to the Krystazian, then sighed and held out her arms, wrists together. She wondered if anyone else had survived; were they being taken alive, like her? Or killed?
Why was she being taken alive, anyway? What use was a human mechanic to the Krystazians?
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Post by twilightblade on Jul 24, 2007 17:45:38 GMT -5
lol. Nice one Renos. Just was wondering...are the blades titanium or something? She's basically hacking at rock with them, so unless she hit a crucial stress point, it's not going to cut/break. Still, that's cool.
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The Krystazian put the metal on the wrists of the woman and gestured her out of the ship bay and back toward the main force.
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The Krystazian's advance was slowed by the smoke as they had to resort to using their voice synthesizers to communicate. When they reached the fallen Krystazian, a shrill whistling went up along with a flashing lightshow. They carefully picked up the pieces and handed them back along the line, all of them putting their blasters up a notch to hard stun.
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The Krystazians in the hydroponics section stopped in confusion, then concentrated on sensing vibrations. Slowly, they began to move out in a widening line, the occasional light flash bouncing through the mist and going nowhere.
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The Krystazian was moving with surprising speed for one of its race, and Shimei found that she was having to hurry a bit to keep ahead of it. But her room was just ahead...if she could only...
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Post by Renos on Jul 25, 2007 3:20:00 GMT -5
yeah that's about right, they can't be broken
AS the smoke filled the room, Wolfkin coughed and bolted towards the door.
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Post by Foxee on Jul 25, 2007 14:21:53 GMT -5
Aeve tried to step quietly. Even the smallest sound seemed too loud before the gardens swallowed it up.
She stopped in a grove of bushy Manganiea trees, the purplish-red fruits weighing down the branches, nearly ripe. Weak light filtered down through the fog from somewhere at the top of the dome.
Scanning the direction that she had come, she saw the thick haze light up now and again from different directions. The Krystazians had spread out and she had no idea how much. Holding her breath, she listened.
Nothing.
She fought to hear over the pounding of her pulse in her ears. Then she heard the swish through the foliage and the creak of a board. The sounds were some distance off, she judged. Still, they were close enough for her to hear them and that was too close.
Keep going for the doors? Or hide in the Manganiea grove? How far away were the doors, anyway? She’d lost track. Getting caught hiding had no appeal.
The scuffle-thud came again, certainly closer this time. She’d confused the Krystazians visually for the moment but what other senses did they have? Her knowledge of them didn’t stretch that far.
Aeve stepped off of the raised wooden planking and onto the beauty bark under the trees. It was like stepping onto a sponge. The trees were just far enough apart for a small person to walk between them without brushing too many fronds if she were careful.
Then she kept going, one arm stretched out in the gloom to feel for obstacles as she hurried. It was a good thing or she would have run straight into the gray-green dome wall.
Huddled against the wall, she peeped out of the trees. The fog was thinner here. The door was about eight feet away to her right, a triangular affair like the others, the keypad under its humped cover on the far side.
She’d have to cross a lot of noisy decking to get there. And there wasn’t so much as a twig to hide behind at the keypad.
Suddenly hiding sounded good.
Aeve scanned the entire visible area carefully and listened. Nothing.
Before the Krystazians could get any closer or she lost her nerve, Aeve darted out of the Mangenieas and ran for the keypad.
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Post by twilightblade on Jul 25, 2007 17:47:33 GMT -5
The Krystazians felt the hard, thudding vibrations of the floor, and all converged on the focal point, moving up to their top speed and crashing through whatever was in their way.
The mist thinned, and those in the lead spotted the human woman near one of the doors, crouched over the keypad.
A complex series of vibrations were sent out to alert the others, and several stun blasters began to fire at once.
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Post by Foxee on Jul 26, 2007 10:41:21 GMT -5
Aeve had covered half of the distance to the keypad thinking that this might be easy after all. An urgent thrashing in the gardens proved her wrong.
She made it to the keypad, flipped up the cover and glanced over her shoulder. The cracking of branches and the thumping of feet heralded the approaching Krystazians.
The IdentiPad flashed ‘Access Approved.’ She began to key in the code and turned quickly as the crashing sounds seemed to come down right on top of her.
Three bulking figures burst into view, shedding leaves from their gleaming surfaces, weapons training on her. Red fruits bounced away, splattering.
Aeve screamed and crouched low. She heard the zip of blaster beams and a very unhealthy sound from the IdentiPad. A silent vibration shook the air and she rolled into a ball, her arms covering her head.
“Oh God…” It was either a prayer or a groan of despair. Just before the blaster beams hit her full-on Aeve remembered she hadn’t called her mother in over two weeks.
Then the lights went out in her brain.
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Post by blossom on Jul 26, 2007 16:28:08 GMT -5
Lilia was marched along by the Krystazian, the too-tight handcuffs chafing her wrists. She could hear the sound of stun blasters going off, and her stomach clenched uneasily at the thought of what might have happened to her comrades.
The sound of her large, heavy boots striking the floor echoed ominously through the hangar. Alone.
Being captured, Lilia discovered, gave you plenty of time to sink into depressing and despondant thoughts - as opposed to running way where the only thought was getting the hell away from whatever was chasing you. Right now, the mechanic was absored with gloomy idea that she might never see any of her friends or family again.
Glancing around the hangar as she walked Lilia saw the spread-eagled bodies of many of her friends: Ash ... Dirth ... Myra ... Eryk ... Iliana ...
All of them, dead. Just as she might be if the Krystazians decided she was of no use to them.
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Post by twilightblade on Jul 28, 2007 16:22:40 GMT -5
Broken Glass escorted the human mechanic along one of the curving walkways toward the hydroponics section. The Krystazian assigned there had let him know that a human scientist had been taken as ordered and would be delivered to him.
They met up with the other Krystazians just outside a blasted door, and as he carefully took the unconscious human woman from the other Krystazian, he looked back at the mechanic. After a moment, he gestured to one of his subordinates to pick her up as well. It wouldn't do if the humans were harmed, and they were headed toward the melee at the command center.
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Post by blossom on Aug 5, 2007 10:21:02 GMT -5
Lilia recognised one of the biologists with a jolt of shock. They weren't particularly acquainted, but at the moment that no longer mattered. She took a step forward, but was held back and then, after a gesture, swung up into one of the Krystazians' arms.
A cry of surprise and protest briefly escaped her lips, but she quickly clamped down on it, knowing it was futile to struggle when she was handcuffed and weaponless. She found it bizarre and somewhat disconcerting that the Krystazians seemed intent on taking the humans and alive and preventing them from coming to any harm. Where others might have been relieved, Lilia had a deep sense of foreboding; the Krystazians were planning something, something involving them - and that could not be good at all.
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