The gremlins glanced at Aralon, but said nothing, only shaking their heads. They took a battery of physical measurements for both Aralon and Serah, weight, height, width, limb size, and such like. When they finished, they hefted Serah onto a stretcher and took her out, leaving Aralon alone.
One of the straps that held Aralon down was slightly frayed.
There was a vent in a corner of the room.
Gremlins were talking just outside the door.
Aralon digs her nails into this break, and yanks with her right arm the bonds...
...until it breaks! Carefully, Aralon grabs hold of the solid buckle and sets it aside. She then turns a bit to wiggle out of her other bond, when she feels something sharp at her elbow. Her left elbow.
She'd rather not see, so she looks away. After all, she has no armor to cover herself up now...
With teeth into lip, Aralon struggles, but finally does get out of the table, before looking around her a weapon.
Anesthetic syringes?
Good, good. Aralon, with a variety of nodes attached to her, crouches down by the doorway, and waits with needles in hand.
Chael eyes quickly rolled to the side.
Its Mundy's.. Magnus.
He glanced more closely, and quickly realized the bullet next to it.
He need.. the gun
The bomber crawled slowly for it. And as he moved, more blood leaked out. However that did not stop him. With a grit of a teeth, he continues to crawl for it... and grabed it. Chael quickly loaded the gun, and threw it to Mundy. A burst of joy filled his thought as the Magnus landed on the valkryie's leg.
Nice!
A red dot popped in the sky. A health capsule. Famous for instant healing, it is a knight's best freind they said. "Ok.. First I need to remove this spike..." Chael grunted as he rolled to his back. The two blood covered hand of the knight grabed for the spike. He inhaled deep, and putted all his remaining strength to his palms.
1.. 2.. 3-
His brain stopped procesing for a moment as a searing paint covered his shoulder. Blood is puring like a fountain, and he almost loss conciusness. Almost. Chael quickly snatched the capsule and glupped it down in a swoop. The miracle healing kicks in just in time. He saw his wounds closing up in superhuman speed. So fast that in 3 seccond he is as good as new.
Grabing a firecracker and a flaming vaporizer, he prepared the same inferno combo.
Sitting next to the door, Aralon was able to make out what the gremlins were saying. More or less.
"...on No. 4 looks promising, but with our escaped test subjects, the work environment isn't exactly safe."
"Who's gonna watch No. 5 while we search?"
"Grackle! You're up. We're going after No. 2. That blasted jelly isn't gonna get away this time."
"Watch it. No. 2 went with No. 3."
"Scrap...okay, get your hammers everyone. This is gonna get messy."
Grackle opened the door to Aralon's room with a hammer in hand. He spotted the empty operating table, but not fast enough to avoid non-surgical anesthesia administered by his patient.
"Good one!" something whispered behind Aralon.
A pair of bright violet orbs set like eyes in a purple jelly head stared innocently at her. Humanoid and inlaid with wires and nodes, it was quite unusual for a jelly. It gave her a thumbs-up with a hand-like appendage.
Skyla entered through the door, as if she were calmly walking to her post... And then quickly shot at one gremlin's head, while dervishing the blade to the next gremlin.
Shortly after dropping the Health Cap. for Chael, Mundy felt something on his foot. His Magnus was right below him, and visibly loaded. Must be Chael's doing. Mundy picked up the Magnus with a smile and took sight towards the slimy brute's round, smooth looking as-
As he was taking aim, two more of the slime monsters appeared from the bushes. Taking aim at them now and backpeddaling towards the meteorite, Vakarian couldnt help but think that this was a slime family, both of the newcomers were also covered in spikes, however they had an orange tone to them, instead of blood red. Family or not-family, they were appraching fast, and with that sight in mind Mundy wished his gun could carry more than 1 shot in it. Turning his head around in response to some noise he heard, the gunslinger smirked as he saw Chael allready up, with a now classic combo of Vaporizer and Firecracker in hands.
Good thing I have a mad demolitionist with me.
Vakarian leaped to the meteorite's cover and braced for the explosion.
He ducked before a warning. Nice!
He took a deep breath and threw the bombs. After traveling in the air, they both sank inside the gellatious body of the towering slime. That however —not even in the slighest— prevented them to blow up. An orb of flames erupted inside the crimson giant, blowing it off to peice as jelly parts and flames splurted out of it. His two freinds got slammed by the sheer radius of the explosion, knocking them back and setting them on an imnense fire. At least for a seccond.
The two slimes aproached each other.. And combined! It turned red and the amount of orb inside it's body incearced. Chael took a few steps back, not only it has extinguished the fire instaneously, but also manages to turn the tide of the battle. In the back of the newborn slime, a pair of omnius looking butterfly appeared, both showing a blue radience. Giving the insect company, two wolf like creature popped out of the ground.
"This might get a little hairy !" Chael drawed a pair of bomb, this time, a flaming vaporizer and a bunch of poison vaporizer.
While, on most cases, Aralon would have fled and grabbed Serah, she did realize she was on another world. If it wasn't already killing her, then it was probably against the OpFor.
Another problem was the fact that Grackle might've gone with another gremlin. She had to be quick about this.
Hammer = weapon = weapon : check.
Ambush 3 seconds ago = no element of surprise.
Anesthetics still working? A little. No pain...yet. At least, not in her back. Her left arm was blasted.
She didn't have this one in the bag quite yet, but it was better to have something evened out than face three problems at once (her arm, back, and no element of surprise). Aralon grabbed the handle of the hammer, and attempted to lift the thing when she suddenly careened forward.
Right...she was wearing only the one-piece suit for rescue work. She couldn't get any extra mechanical power that the Knights' suits usually provided...
Alright, alright...
Aralon darted back to the wall, and looked for a switch to turn the light off. There, maybe three switched, and only one raised for the overhead light. Turn that...off.
THOOOOooooom...
The deep, barely audible hum was gone, and she and the slime were in complete darkness. At least, in the room.
"...gotta go find Serah...um..."
Aralon then eyed the slimey thing.
"...hey, you...do you know where they took the other one? The one like me, but...um...very burned?"
With the comms abuzz with noise the Swordsmen kept on his path, undeterred by the sounds of discovery and adversary. It was clear from the get-go of this crash that the planet side wasn't going to be friendly, let alone getting in contact with some one after everything went south.
Note to self; next time, if there is one, jump with a buddy.
Coming to a rather tall tree Amaria sighed as he quickly climbed it to get a better view and survey the land for any activity. Thankfully that long sleep didn't effect his muscles too much he was able to still climb, albeit the exercise did prove to be a little harder then normal. Once ontop he started speaking in the open channels.
Swordsmen Amaria reporting, who is active and whats your location. Repeat...
Great, they can fuse. So, another brute, two alien dogs and two.... butterflies? And what are they doing with that blue glow...oh..
As the modest wounds that could stilll be seen from the explosion were healed away from the new brute's back, he realized what those insects were doing.
"H-healers... right. Like if abundant life wasn't enough, this planet also wants to play an RPG. On top of ours skins."
Before Mundy could complain any more, one of the wolver dogs bored a hole trough the ground in a split-second. What crazy speed is this? Vakarian scanned the ground ahead of him for a crack, wondering if maybe wolver was picking something from underne--
"ACK!!"
Vakarian turned around to find the missing wolver with its teeth sinked on his heel. Muttering angrily, he knuckled the dog with his gun and fired at point blank. The wolver bounced off the ground with a yelp and landed on its back, a rather large bleeding hole bored in its yellow fur abdomen. Some time later I'm gonna have to check if this thing was rigged to be a sniper rifle or a shotgun... he tought to himself. Quickly reloading, he turned back to the other mobs and resumed sight.
"......AHA!"
Mundy pushed Chael aside as the other wolver nearly bit his leg. He was about to fire, then noticed a rumbling underneath him. Looking down on the ground and seeing a crack the size of a mole, the knight rolled backwards immediately. He saw enough sci-fi movies to know what was coming.
*CRACK!!!*
A giant spike rushed up from where Mundy was just standing, dark red just like the ones adourning the jelly brute. A moment later it rushed back down into the ground. Barely recovering from that, the gunslinger had to use his rifle as a shield as the second wolver jumped on top of him. Two seconds later, a cry-like howl could be heard as the beast was trown into a gap going out of the isles and into the abyss.
Now shooting down one of the butterfly-like mobs, Mundy finnaly said something.
"Put away the incendiary *pant*. Stick with the toxins *pant*. Show them our own biology!"
Not bothering to reload the magnus again, he switched back to his blaster, now looking more at the ground and less at the enemy.
Suddently, a transmission hits both Mundy's and Chael's comm units.
"Swordsman Amaria reporting, who is active and what's your location? Repeat, who is active and what's your location?"
" Chael here, sorry Amaria but I haven't checked the map, and I kinda can't do it right now!" Chael noded at Mundy's order, and throwed five green vaporizers. The poison spread in an instant, poisoning everything in a 20 meter radius. Good thing the poison is non-toxic to knights - At least when they are in armour - or the two would also feel its effect.
Then something odd happened. The butterflies aren't healing their allies now, it is damaging it! "Mundy! I don't know if you know it will turn out like this, but you're a genius!" Chael throwed the fused flaming vaporizer as far away before it exploded in the sky. The wolves seems to be a bit pale and flimsy too, this might just work! Chael drawed his own punch gun, and activated his visor, don't tell this to anyone but he can't fire a gun without aiming assistance. "The slime's weakness seems to be on those tiny orbs inside their body, for the wolf you just need to do the usual headshots. The butterfly entire body seems to be weak, so that's that." He charged the gun. It can break down doors, why not use it on a gigantic sentient food?
"I missed day like this, but I also fear it would come again. Where we have to fight for our race sake.." Chael's could feel a gnawing sadness biting on his soul. His squad lastword keeps ringing on his ear. "Nevermind, let's just finish this." He focused his sight againt. If he want's a seccond shot at live, he needs to survive for it.
THWACK!
Ragnir brought down his Iceberg Hammer, crushing the bones of the last zombie. "Ha! Ya think because you're dead that I'll go easy on you?!"
"So, did you get scratched?"
"Few times. Something in their claws is pretty nasty." Ragnir didn't know what made the zombies. Was it disease, or... something worse? Regardless, if they were to scratch someone with those claws, it'd hurt. Ragnir had been scraped once in the side on his first swing and it was still stinging. But his vitals were otherwise fine. "I should be good, though. Hey, looks like they dropped some money!"
Ragnir gathered up a small pile of bronze coins and fireballs, along with a small drop of eerie green goo. "Bet the lab boys could do wonders with this stuff! Now, which way is the nearest elevator..."
Skyla's map had loaded on Ragnir's comlink. Using this, Rega easily located an elevator near Ragnir's location. "Be careful. They might try to get you right off the elevator."
"All right. How are things on your end?"
"A-OK! No hostiles for miles."
"Understood." Ragnir pulled up the elevator. "Can you patch into Serah's map, sis?"
"I'll try. What's the link address?"
Ragnir manually sent the address to Serah's comlink to Rega. "All right. Patching in... hold on, something's screwy with it. I've got the location..."
The elevator began going down. "Watch out. I see a few red dots around that comlink."
"All right, I'll be careful." Ragnir sheathed his Hammer and hoisted the Dragon of Timber, in case anything tried to launch an attack on the elevator...
...Nope, going down wasn't a problem. In fact, it was fairly empty.
"Right. I think I've got a course set!" Ragnir wondered if he should give Serah a call. It'd have to be quiet- if hostiles were around, any noise over the comlink would give away her position. So Ragnir, keeping an eye open for any incoming hostiles, opened communication with Serah, or at least her comlink.
"It's Ragnir," Ragnir whispered into the mic. "Need me to crack some skulls?"
"Roger. When the enemy has been rendered silent open comms once more."
Keeping his eyes on the horizon the Swordsmen stood atop his tree, taking in the sights as well as the strange abnormalities of the planet. From the abyss like gaps which seemed to have a very thin crust layer of the surface he could assume the planet was hollow, but that made little to no since. Could a planet really be manufactured like a home, then again it wasn't so strange considering the locals and the weapons they banished. It did in come to his attention to see such weaponry being carried around, as if they where both the defenders and the caretakers of this planet.
Reaching for his thermos the Amaria lifted the cap off as well as lifted his own helm a little to have a sip.
If this is indeed correct it means that there is either something bellow they don't want to leave, or want outsiders to find. If down is the only way out then I suppose that also means down is the only option there is, considering the ship was sent to ribbons.
Placing the cap on the thermos and closing the helm the Swordsmen waited in content silence, listening the sound of nature, as well as the comlink to know when a response came back.
As Den was being led away, he couldn't resist voicing his curiosity.
"How did you find me?" he whispered.
Am I too late to join this RP? I have a Knight O.C. all ready just for this RP.
Mundy sidestepped in surprise as his partner was riddled with spikes. To his further surprise, the poor soul survived that. "There! Shoot!" Chael said while poiting at the spikes' source. Whithout hesiation, Vakarian stepped out of the meteorite's cover and locked his sight with the big crimson-red shape he saw at the center of the mist.
Charging.
It's not moving....
Charging
Still not moving...
Fire.
*SPLAT*
It hit. Reloadi--
*CRASH!!*
The gelatinous brute charged out of the mist and straight into the meteorite, causing a shockwave that trew Mundy in the ground, along with his Magnus and its un-loaded bullet which both fell by Chael's side.
Getting up from the ram, Vakarian glanced at Chael for a split second before skirting around the rock, leaving him alone with the monster as it approached and attacked. Almost.
A carpet of flames lit up on the creature's back as a Fire Vial shattered in it's gelatinous skin, and now Mundy could be seen behind it holding a charged shot with his Blaster. The slime exposed it's spikeless rear-side for Chael as it rotated to Mundy, burbling with rage. Literaly.
"I can see you like fire better, uh?!"
The knight fired and rolled sideways as the creature charged again(despite the recoil it recieved from the shot) and hit one of those cubic stones. The slime brute tried turning around for another ram, but one of it's bigger spikes got stuck in the rock. Meanwhile, Chael's agony caught Mundy's attention again, but then he noticed his partner hadnt been injured criticaly, as the spikes only pierced the edge of his shoulder and lightly punctured a leg. Definitely not as damaging as a metal bar.
Not daring to put his gaze away from the beast, Mundy trew a red and white pill-like object at Chael. A Health Capsule.