I13: Test 00003 - NOTHING TO FEAR HERE

by **Haley Crusek** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 9:35 am

Haley reached her mind out towards the pounding, to see if she could see who was doing it. Hopefully it was a "who" and not a "what."

by **Narrator** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 2:30 pm

It was a who! It was the X-Teams (da da da da!)

"Step away from the wall. Now."

by **Brigid Plunder** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 2:43 pm

"Yeah, how about 'No' on that?"

Brigid lifted two choice pieces of machinery they'd pried from the wall and jammed them at a precise location.

by **Haley Crusek** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 2:55 pm

"Guys, they came for us! They're on the other side of the wall!"

She reached out to the friendly minds. We're in here! We're in here!

Haley reached out her hands in front of her as if she were grabbing a hold of the wall from a distance, narrowed her eyes in concentration and pulled, trying to help her roommate along.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 8:20 pm

Alex took his cue from Brigid... he knew that she probably had a better idea of where to hit, but he could put more power behind it. So, using his power to form his extra metal into vaguely the same shapes she was using, he started pounding along with her.

by **Calvin Strong** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 8:21 pm

Wait, what? It can't be that easy. "Who's there?" he asked Haley, moving over to the dead body to look at what cybernetics it had. Something's off here...

by **Haley Crusek** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 8:26 pm

It's the big lizard guy and the stone chick married to Mr. Stanton," she said, still tearing at the wall with her TK.

by **Calvin Strong** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 10:36 pm

Cal, lacking anything he could do to help, knelt down by the body. He began taking visual records and checking its systems for similarities to his own, additional (useful) technologies... but most of all, he just wanted to figure it out. There was a nagging something about it that gave him the willies.

by **Narrator** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 10:47 pm

The body was not someone Cal recognized right away, but the circuitry and equipment seemed analogous to his own--like the next generation version.

Code: Select all: "You see something you like, Calvin? It could all be yours..."

by **Calvin Strong** » Sat Feb 01, 2014 11:38 pm

Code: Select all: And a fat lot of good it did him. I know what you do to your toys.

by **Narrator** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 12:50 am

Code: Select all: "Some toys we prefer to keep in the box."

by **Calvin Strong** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 1:18 am

Code: Select all: Yeah. My body's metal content tells me I'm not one of those.

by **Narrator** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 1:32 am

Code: Select all: "Yet you're intrigued. You'll never find anything close to this if you leave."

by **Narrator** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 2:28 pm

The wall collapsed as the Haley, Brigid, and Alex smashed at it. About 50 meters away from that, another wall collapsed, as John and Sara smashed through, a torrent of water coming behind them from the room, filling up behind it.

The water flowed towards the kids, but was stopped by some sort of force barrier before it could reach them--there was still some sort of barricade, this one invisible, between the kids and the X-Team.

The gap wasn't fully empty, though.

On the other side of that barricade, John, Sara, Niles, and Izzy would find themselves facing a hideous beast, a walking collection of fangs and claws.

Code: Select all: "You can stop this Calvin. They can all go free. All you have to do is come back to us."

by **John Hino** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 3:01 pm

"Oh come on. A Rancor? It's like an evil genius Kevin is behind this," John groaned.

by **Haley Crusek** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 3:45 pm

Haley smashed even harder against the forcefield, her face bright red and sweat dripping down her face.

by **Narrator** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 4:04 pm

This forcefield, however, was holding up stronger than the wall beforehand.

The beast--whatever it may be, copyright infringement or not--lunged at John with a powerful swipe of it's claws.

by **Sara Stanton** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 4:07 pm

"There they are! Nash, Isabel, find a way to get through that forcefield!" Sara yells as she shifts her arm into a stone-blade and faces the Totally-Not-A-Rancor.

by **John Hino** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 4:14 pm

John ducked under the swipe and charged the monster with a slash of his own claws.

by **Nash Riley** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 6:31 pm

Nash looked to find the source of the force field and see if he could get to it.

by **Isabel Galen** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 9:22 pm

"I can break its leg if I can get in close enough."

by **Calvin Strong** » Sun Feb 02, 2014 9:25 pm

Code: Select all: Fuck you. You want to see what I can do? Congratulations. See if your sensors can actually record this, bitch.

The air around Cal began to crackle with electricity... it probably wouldn't keep being very pleasant to be close to him. "Guys," he said through gritted teeth as he focused, "Get behind me. Fast."

Wavelength analysers on, give me a spectral reading on this thing's energy signature.

by **Narrator** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 1:16 am

The rancor shrugged off John's attack, and kicked Sara really, really hard. Like, super hard.

Cal's sensors would note that the electrical force-field was operating on a pseudo-random rotation of frequencies, preventing most people from overloading it.

Most people who had never encountered this before, that is. Most people who hadn't spent time in one of Doctor Tomorrow's fiendish mazes, forced to survive by his wits alone.

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 2:12 am

Sara goes flying and slams into the wall with a truly impressive *clang* before falling to the ground. It takes her a couple second to shake of the daze and pull herself up again.

by **John Hino** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:18 am

John pressed the attack, breathing his frost at the beast and following with a punch.

by **Calvin Strong** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:05 pm

Once his classmates were out of the way, Cal threw his hand out at the forcefield and let it have it with everything he had. Lightning coursed into the forcefield, blindingly intense, as he pulsed it in time with the seemingly random frequency pattern. I... am not... staying here... anymore... and you aren't... getting... THEM!

by **Narrator** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:20 pm

The effort would drain Cal quite notably, tapping into all his reserves, as the world seemed to blur out in his vision...

...but, with a spark and a burst of energy, the barrier shorted itself out, opening up a path to the rescuing X-Team and freedom.

Still an issue of the rancor, but John was attempting to go toe-to-toe with it. The frost breath seemed to be fairly effective, but it shrugged off the follow-up punch, and tried to slam John down into the ground.

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:26 pm

While John is keeping the Rancor busy Sara pulls herself back together and dashes forward to try and stab the thing into it's ankle.

by **Calvin Strong** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:31 pm

And Cal, feeling that energy 'pop', slumped down to the ground, barely feeling like he had enough left to keep his systems going.

by **Haley Crusek** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:31 pm

The force field down, Haley narrowed her eyes in focus and tried to freeze the beast in place so it could be turned into a punching bag for the X-men.

by **Narrator** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 4:02 pm

The rancor lifted a foot up to try to stomp Sara--but did so much slower than normal, perhaps thanks to some TK assist, allowing Sara to perform a forward stabbing motion, injuring the Rancor.

THEN it slammed it's foot down.

by **Alex Carpenter** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 4:05 pm

Alex looked at the Rancor, then went to charge at it. This is it... finally something I can do...

Which was when he was rather explicitly reminded that he was shackled to Mariuset, as the sudden jerk sent him falling flat on his face.

by **John Hino** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 4:13 pm

John was slammed down hard enough to crack the concrete. Then... he bit the monster with enough force to put a Nile crocodile to shame.

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 4:21 pm

Sara has the wind knock out of her as the thing's foot comes down on top of her, cracks forming in her frame. Then she merges into the floor, trying to take the Rancor's foot down with her and shackle it in place.

by **Steve Jones** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 4:27 pm

Steve caught Cal and tried to steady him, or at least keep him from hurting something as he fell.

"Stay with us Cal."

by **Narrator** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 4:54 pm

The rancor howled as John's bite sank into it's flesh, and Sara stuck it's foot in the ground. It was set up for a crushing blow!

by **John Hino** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:07 pm

This better be worth it.

John tore at the flesh in his jaws.

by **Nash Riley** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 8:52 pm

With the forcefield down Nash looked back to the rancor. He then reached for a device on his belt. It looked as if it had been made from a handheld bar-code scanner, but had some other device attached to the top along with the label TM91. He made a few adjustments on the key pad then aimed it at the beasts face.

With a loud crack the device let out an intense flash of light that was directed right towards the monsters eyes.

by **Narrator** » Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:34 pm

It's super effective! With a flash, the monster is down and dazed--they could just run past it at this point, most likely.

by **Mariuset** » Tue Feb 04, 2014 12:16 am

"I think we can make our escape."

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