Log:Overlord - Tranquility, Scene 2

Overlord's Arrival 2018/05/08 Indira Bluejay Mechanic Emi Harbinger Sapphire

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Ambassador Indira and The Mechanic had gone to speak, or at least listen to, the Harbinger. The alien being was being held on Tranquility, as it was the most secure prison facility available. The being's mind was read, giving Indira some clues as to the Overlord himself...but nothing concrete other than what was effectively the Harbinger's origin. Meanwhile, some of the Overlord's drones started to attack the outer shell of the prison, tearing holes in it. There are likely a couple of the drones inside the outer layer of hte prison, but not quite in the sealed areas. They've effectively gotten through the first layer of the exterior wall, but not the inner layer.

Emissary and Bluejay both arrived moments before Indira and Mechanic teleported outside the prison.

Bluejay closes on the drones, moving 15m closer. It's long range but she fires a neutron pulse at the nearest, positioning herself so if she hits the drone and knocks it back it will impact either on the moon's surface or the thick reinforced wall of the meta prison.

The drone that's hit careens off the outer shell of the prison and then off the moon's surface. It bounces again and slowly starts to recover. It's not out yet.

Emissary thinks. o O (Crapcrapcrap. I've never been a real super fight before. Um, I need to keep some flight speed active, so, uh, 33% power to flight, and 67% power to Tachyon Beam? Is that too weak? Full Bioenhancement is stronger, but I'd need to get right on top of them, and uh, I'm not a tank. Um, 67% Tachyon Beam it is, I guess.) She flies a little closer and fires a pale blue beam of energy from her right eye, aiming for the Drone Bluejay shot. "Focus fire, one by one, don't scatter damage around unless you have an AOE attack."

The drone is hit by the beam, which dents it and sends it spinning for another 10m or so. It's well away from its friends at this point.

Indira realizes the dangers of having the inner walls breached. Villains could escape. Or die in the vacuum along with their caretakers. She starts leap-running in low gravity towards one of the breaches in the outer walls, her suit's small thrusters taking over at the apex of her seconds leap. She flies towards the nearest breach in the wall. Her form swells somewhat, her suit stretching to accomodate her bulkier protective growth.

The Mechanic analyzes the state of things. The vacuum of space is the biggest threat to the moon base. He lifts off the ground and flies towards the drones along the outer wall, radioing to all who can here. <<If you could so kindly deposit the drones through this gate, I'll give them a proper send off." He focuses on opening a stabilized spatial interstice, aiming it between one of the drones drilling, and the outer wall. The gate opens to a random location in empty space, some 1000 lightyears away.

The drones continue their work...for the most part not paying attention to the heroes yet. The sole exception is the one drone that's been hit. It rights itself and starts to fly back toward its work site...but not before obvious beam weapons extend from its chassis.

The Mechanic illustrates his plan as he flies towards the drone. His form begins to grow denser and darker as he gets near, increasing his density so he can give a significant "push" to the drone with what looks like a tap.

The drone is struck and while it's not destroyed, it does fly through the open gate to a location 1000ly away. Though it may not stay over there, if given enough time.

"Sapphire here. Working to delay the cutting drones." Sapphire says over her comm. She surges closer (14m) and aims before firing off a pulse of blue energy that flies forward like a blue ball before exploding with energy and trying to reach out to grab all of the drones on the wall.

Emissary mutters over her radio link. "A real DPS showed up."

It's a delaying action, and Sapphire's blue tendrils reach out. Three aimed at each of the drones. Unfortunatley, only one manages to grasp each. Each is enveloped, and Sapphire scowls at the result. She eyes the sapphire in her hand and says, "Hope you work better than this." in a mutter.

Bluejay closes the distance again getting just 10m from the nearest drone. She angles her approach to line the gate up behind the drone and fires off another slightly defocused neutron beam at the drone, overloading the projector for maximum power.

Bluejay sends over the radio, "Shut the gate down before they can come back."

The drone is hit again...and flies through the gate, colliding with the first one, causing both to ricochet away.

Emissary takes stock of the situation. . o O (My Tachyon Beam isn't all that impressive, and so far these things don't seem too dangerous, so maybe it's better if I get down to the dome and fight there?) A blue glow surrounds her as she prepares to teleport.

Indira keeps flying for the whole in the outer wall, her form bulked up in preparating for parts of her to potentially get cut away. She gets through and looks around for the other drones the Mechanic mentally warned her about.

Inside, there are two drones working on the interior of hte wall. One is cutting some kind of wires. The other is drilling through the interior portion of the exterior wall. Once it is through, that portion of the hallway will decompress.

The two drones on the far side of the gate right themselves again and start to move toward the gate. The two that are working inside, continue to do so. And finally, the last two try to break free of Sapphire's grasp.

Both of the drones break free easily...and open fire with energy projectors at Sapphire. Not the best tactical decision, but...they're drones. Programmed to act in a certain way.

Mechanic snaps his fingers to close the gateway he's opened. He spins his mental celestial wheel and flies towards Sapphire so her ensnared drone can be slam dunked 497 light years away in the middle of a nebula.

As he nears, another sphere of blackness that stands out only due to the stark grey landscape appears near Sapphire. It stretches ad warps until another ring is formed and inside a wormhole to that nebula just as the drones break free.

The Quantum Mechanic's holographic avatar smiles to Sapphire as he says dryly over comms, .o0(I believe this is where one of you heroic types makes a comment about taking out the trash- or... perhaps a Plan B is in order.)

He feels he spoke too soon after she is struck by the Drone's dual-blasts.

As intended, Sapphire provided a new target as opposed to having them continue trying to cut their way inside. Her armor deflects the majority of the force of the incoming attacks, and she floats back a couple meters.. she retains control of herself and shakes her head like a punch drunk boxer. "Thank you." she says softly.

Surging forward once more, much closer to the drones, Sapphire angles off to one side on her way in. As she does that, she points a hand forward and does her best to enclose the two in more strands of energy. Hundreds of strands. Her intent is to grab hold of them so that she is ready to push them through the gate next time she gets a chance.

The two drones are held in place. The robots' outer structures creak a little, but that's all.

Bluejay activates her neutrino scan to locate the drones that have broken through into the structure and heads for the closest. Sflies to the wall. Stops. Shifts out of phase and tries to pass through the wall. Because this is a meta maximum security prison and she wouldn't be surprised if the walls were designed to stop exactly what she is trying to do.

Indira deflates a little as her excess mass is drawn back in and metabolized. She says across her mind link to the Mechanic. o O (They're almost through the inner walls. I can try to delay them, but I'm not sure how long I can.) She taps a button on her suit's bracer console and stretches her hand out towards the wall that's at risk of causing decompression. She draws an outline for her suit's systems to read the gestures, and an orange, glowing hexagonal field forms.

Emissary vanishes and reappears in a flash of blue light inside the cut in the outer wall. . o O (Pleasepleasepleasedon'tattackme!!!!!)

Mechanic responds to Indira with genuine concern, (Alright, old friend. Be careful. I'll be there to back you up as soon as possible.)

The Mechanic's gateway opens up revealing the orange and blue hues at the heart of this nebula. It is beautiful and something he likely wouldn't want to do on Earth for fear of irradiating everything for miles around. But here- he doesn't have to worry about whats on the other side of his gateway. Extreme proximity to black holes and stars are his only concern and with the world being threatened, if he thought it could help and not make things worse, he'd consider that too.

Instead, he flies straight at the encased drones in hopes of pushing one (or more if they're bundled togheter) through the gateway he just finished opening.

The two drones remaining inside the wall continue to work. One attacks the barrier that's been erected.

The laser drill it's using does get through the barrier, but not far beyond it. Meanwhile, the second drone continues to cut wires and the like.

The Quantum Mechanic charges his hyperdense body at the energy-encased drones- hitting them with enough force and at the right angle to get them sail through his gateway into the nebula beyond.

Now all he has to do is shut the gate down before they can break free and make it back through the gate. They (his gateways) weren't inteneded for this use so they aren't particularly combat ready. But when the world is on the line you use every tool you have.@emit The Quantum Mechanic charges his hyperdense body at the energy-encased drones- hitting them with enough force and at the right angle to get them sail through his gateway into the nebula beyond.

Now all he has to do is shut the gate down before they can break free and make it back through the gate. They (his gateways) weren't inteneded for this use so they aren't particularly combat ready. But when the world is on the line you use every tool you have.