Welsh Halfwit wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 2:28 pm
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You could be right, Predator," Corp said, letting the Captain deal with Hivemind, "
but we should still find out. Nothing else is built like you that I can see and someone was controlling that blocking signal."
"Are you suggesting what I think you are suggesting?" Predator asked over comms while he flew out of the drop zone.
Welsh Halfwit wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 2:28 pm
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Might have to call you 'Lucky', Pred. Lucky for the people still alive that you landed here, eh?"
"That might actually be appropriate, as copying a luck-based power was how I became sentient..."
Legotron123 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 5:49 pm
"We weren't saying that you wanted us to abandon them, just that the risk of... nevermind." Liz said, before turning up the dropships thrusters and flying out of the drop zone.
"The semantics aren't worth it."
Less than a minute after the Ibis was clear, the sky seemed to turn orange. Looking up, one would see hundreds of burning fireballs streaking through the sky towards the town as drop pods fell through the atmosphere. The pods beat the ground like a drum as they landed, smashing and burning the creatures left and right. The pods burst open, and droids of all kinds poured out. Fast moving androids with heavy metal fists burst forth, punching and beating the creatures, knocking them back and controlling their movements. Heavy androids carrying massive shields with ease marched out of their pods, stepping in line to surround the town. Some of the pods released swarms of small, insect-like robots that filled the sky and homed in on the monstrosities.
"Hopefully that will keep them occupied." Hivemind said over the Ibis comms.
"Get down there and get any survivors out of this place. I'll cover you."
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Welsh Halfwit wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 2:28 pm
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Tell her,"> Dragere warned, <"
that, if she doesn't co-operate, you'll hand her back to us. There are a few people who'd like words. Locals will cut off vehicular routes to the town. Can't do much about wandering hunters.>"
"She knows very well that I can't do that." Hivemind replied.
"Besides, if she doesn't co-operate I can temporarily paralyze her and extract the information from her memory by force. It's a rather painful process, which I have been sure to tell her."
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Welsh Halfwit wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 2:28 pm
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A lot of things for them to learn," Jenevive admitted as Corvis sideswiped Jaken into the wall buffers. "
I'll have enough trouble just teaching Math!"
"What grade do you teach, by the way?" The Lycan asked, curious.
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Welsh Halfwit wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 2:28 pm
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Ha," Hannabelle chuckled. "
You win the soppy line award. We near them shops yet?"
Gear snickered at Hannabelle's assessment of his flirting.
"Seems we did a big loop." He said, pointing forward to the same fork in the road that they took a left at before.
"We taking a right this time?"
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Welsh Halfwit wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 2:28 pm
Cherry nodded to Hive. "
That'd...<choo!> be great... Still got that <choo!>...hankie, love?" She asked Colorado.
"Do you perhaps need some medicine?" Hivemind asked.
Hlaoroo wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:49 am
"Told ya." Cailean whispers to Sarah.
"What dae most people dae fer a livin' aroond here then?" Conall asks, curious.
"As tae th' Champions... Can ye tell us more aboot them? It seemed like they dae a lot o' fightin', frae what we saw on TV. Ah dinnae ken if we'd like tha'."
"Well, most people work for private businesses, particularly in the arts." Hivemind said.
"If you're looking for computer work, you'll find plenty of game developers, animation studios, and digital media companies looking for people. You could also find some phone and private computer companies, and pretty much every company has a website they need to make and maintain. Other companies do most of their work with robots, which need programming and maintenance. So there is work out there. As for explosives, the knowledge of chemistry could be helpful in certain fields..."
Hivemind continued, answering the next question.
"Champions certainly do a lot of fighting. However, they are a hero group. They aren't cops. Their job is to save lives, not fight crime. Champions evacuate civilians from disaster zones. They provide medical aid to the sick and food to the hungry. Their job is to give people hope."
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SeanWolf wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 3:18 pm
*Hawk Incoherently yelling at Hivemind*
"I'm not done yet." Hivemind said with an exhausted sigh.
"You keep saying that I labeled you as cocky because you were a bounty hunter. You say that I singled you out and didn't even try giving you a fair chance. You think that I singled you out. Did you forget that you weren't the only one I put against Titan? You had a partner in that fight. You think he was a bounty hunter too? He wasn't. One of you was a bounty hunter. One of you was pretty much a civilian. Yet I put both of you against the strongest Champion I had available, a champion who breaks reality through sheer strength alone. What did you two have in common? When the two of you signed up, you were both confident in your abilities. Too confident. You both were acting like you believed yourselves to be the biggest sharks in the ocean. I gave you warning that the fight was going to be against someone stronger, and neither of you seemed to take it to heart until Titan thoroughly thrashed you both. I told you it was going to be a fight against someone stronger than you, but you still fought them recklessly like you intended to overpower them with force alone. You believed you were stronger. So did your partner. You didn't fail training because you lost the fight. You failed because you didn't learn. You demonstrated overconfidence in the fight, and you still demonstrate it now by refusing to undergo further training. You are so confident that your experience is enough that you are refusing to undergo a process that even our most experienced veterans go through. You are so confident in your own gut and your own instinct, an instinct that didn't exactly help you in that fight, that you are willing to break our most important rule and defy orders the moment your instinct tells you I'm wrong." Hivemind paused for a moment, apparently calming down.
"I'm not calling you cocky because you're a bounty hunter. I'm not going after you for what you used to do. We have plenty of reformed people in the champions. I'm calling you cocky because you have demonstrated overconfidence at every turn, and you refuse to acknowledge it. You want to reform? You need to recognize your own weaknesses. Not just your opponents' weaknesses, yours."
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Deske wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 2:04 pm
"He doesn't respond to calls inside if living areas, so we'll probably have to head outside,” Chris said, guiding them outside.
"Hive?" he said to no one in particular.
A nearby hive droid, sure enough, heard the call and walked up to them, waving.
"Hello, Chris. Hello, MT. Can I help you?"
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Neon Icy Wings wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 11:25 pm
Tatiana shrugged lightly, not caring for whatever debris from the brawl that flew her way.
"I have higher hopes for this compared to anything back at the Rim." She said, shaking the drink lightly.
"And I have seen a few other liquiforms partake in such drinks before, but again, not exactly a typical liquiform meself." Pausing for a moment Tatiana turned to Recon.
"I don't even know how much of a metabolism I have."
"Well- Oh!" Recon started, but one of the brawlers, a rather skinny looking human, stumbled into her.
"Ah! A Champion! U-uh... Maybe I should-" he stammered.
"Don't be silly! You're doing great!" Recon stood the man back up and pushed him back into the fight.
"Wha- wait! Ah!" he said before he vanished into the incoherent chaos of the brawl.
"He'll be fine." Recon waved dismissively, then picked up her drink.
"Whelp! Bottoms up!"
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Legotron123 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 5:49 pm
Kolt gave a little smile as he put his hand back towards his side.
"That sounds like a great idea. Eira's always seemed like she'd be an interesting sparring partner." He said, giving a little wave goodbye as he walked away. As he headed down the hall towards where he was
pretty sure the gym was, he hummed the tune to a song he had overheard the other day.
As he reached the gym, Kolt would hear the sounds of a scuffle, shortly before the door to the gym exploded open. A large alien, skin of stone and easily eight feet tall, flew out head first, apparently having been launched into the door. The massive alien sailed across the hall and was embedded headfirst into the wall opposite of the door.
"Oops." Eira, who was standing in the middle of a boxing ring situated in the center of the gym, stepped over the broken ring ropes and jogged over to the stone alien.
"Come on, man! You were supposed to keep your hands up!"
The alien said something, but what it was was muffled due to his face currently being buried in a wall. Eira helped dislodge him, and he staggered to his feet, stumbled, and held his head in his hand.
"I did... urgh... I think I need a medic..."
Eira sighed.
"Alright... Infirmary is down the hall. Guess I'll just have to find a new training part-" Eira turned and noticed Kolt standing there as the alien staggered towards the infirmary. Eira blinked once or twice.
Suddenly she took Kolt by the arm and pulled him into the gym.
"You'll do!" she said with a wag of her tail.