Log:Assault on the Cannon II

Out Numbered 2013/07/17 	 Aoi American Dream Fox Ragnarok Spirit Star Girl Ten

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The wind whistles past you as you descend. Fragments of the three missile blown up by Aoi spray away like embers against the night sky.

Aoi diverts additional power to the recharging of her weapons. She knows from the previous encounter that the interceptors have at least one more missile each.

Ten stays on guard, ready to deflect another volley.

American Dream's almost-yellow glow still envelops her body, and still reaches out to those people she's carrying with her powers, and keeps herself and her passengers descending as quickly as she can, letting those who are able worry about defense.

Star Girl raises her hands and takes aim on one of the Interceptors. Blue-white energy flares from her hands. ZAM!

The Ai drone veers slightly, throwing off Star Girl's aim.

"Shoot." Star Girl mutters to herself as her blast misses the target.

Ten decides the drones seem slow enough to chance a pot shot with her staff.

The three drones continue to circle, keeping the range as they disgorge their other missile, once again trying to shoot down American Dream!

Aoi isn't quite ready when the interceptors fire again but she's got sufficient power in the weapon systems to blast the incoming missiles, she hopes.

Aoi fires a kinetic pulse at each of the missiles and impacts all three shattering the missiles before they arrive on target.

Ten takes another crack at one of the drones, wishing they were a bit closer.

The drone is slightly damaged by the shot.

Spirit closes the distance toward the other drone...the one that hasn't been hit yet. He then reaches out with his hand, and tendrils of light lash out, attempting to ensnare the drone.

Star Girl fires at the drone that Ten hit, this time opting for a series of smaller blasts.

Star Girl's blasts miss.

American Dream keeps losing altitude, keeping an eye out in case one of the drones tries to take yet another potshot in her direction.

The three drones close on Spirit 30m and open fire with their energy projectors!

Spirit brings up his energy shields to try to deflect the incoming fire...

Spirit's energy shields flicker into being in succession just in time to cause the energy headed his way to deflect away harmlessly.

Star Girl continues firing her blasts at the same drone.

The drone begins trailing smoke, but it's thrusters keep if from being hurled back.

"Yes!" Star Girl says, as at least one of her blasts connect. Her joy is short-lived, though, as the drone fails to go down. o O ( Damn.. what does it take to drop one of these things... )

Aoi stays ready to counter any additional interceptors of other incoming fire.

The three drones continue to close on Spirit, firing again. (range: 37m to him, 60m to others)

Spirit raises a brow as the drones seem to focus entirely on him now. "Well, this is odd." He keeps bringing up energy shields to try to deflect the bolts of energy.

Before the blast can strike Spirit, Aoi's shot fends it off.

Ten takes another shot, this time forgoing some accuracy for force.

Aoi says, "Holy moly, I hit it!"

Aoi adds somewhat more truthfully, "Well, my targeting system did."

Ten says, "DArn - I'm going to have to practice shooting at range..."

Star Girl continues her barrage, this time trying to target the drone's thrusters.

Aoi holds ready but otherwise simply continues her descent alongside American Dream.

The drones sweep closer to Spirit, closing to 7m and opening fire!

Spirit grimaces as the drones close in, and he keeps bringing up shields, "Fly faster! Get to the ground!"

Aoi says, "Next time I'll stay at home and let the suit come out and play."

At Spirit's urging, American Dream stops 'being careful' and simply points herself straight down and... zips away in that direction, taking her passengers with herself.

Star Girl keeps firing, trying to lead her target enough to hit this time.

The drone bursts into flames and shatters into thousands of crystals shards that fall off into the night.

Ten fires off two shots in rapid succession at the ever more distant drones.

Ten misses with both, however.

The remaining two drones veer away suddenly and move at full speed away.

Bifrost leaves TransMat RRP1 and enters Universal TransMat.

No further drones attack during the descent.

Spirit turns and arcs downward, "We're going to have company shortly. That SDPA ship is on its way here."

Ten says, "SDFA?"

Spirit says, "SDPA. You know...Grissom's ship?"

Ten says, "RIght."

Star Girl sighs. "I guess our diversion didn't work out."

Mount Erebus. The Caldera.

The portable tracker Q lent you leads to a concealed entrance inside the crater.

As she dives, American Dream... stops using her own power to fly, letting gravity pull her downwards. She does lift one arm, and watch the altimeter that's strapped to her forearm -- one part of the HALO gear she /did/ pick up and keep with herself. It's not until she (and her passengers, which she keeps with her via telekinesis) is within about a hundred and fifty meters from the ground that she starts flying under her own power, so as to bring herself and those she's carrying to a gentle and safe landing.

As the others start, then, speaking of Grissom's ship, she frowns. "Well, damn... we're gonna hafta blow the thing up and then high-tail it outta here, or something", she says, as she follows along to the hidden base.

It's cold. Very, very cold. With 100km/hr wind gusts. And then, it's hot, very very hot, inside the caldera

Ten doesn't seem to be much bothered by this, the wind excepted.

"And -- hurgk*" Star Girl grunts as her stomach leap up into her throat as she starts to freefall, courtesy of Dream. "Ugh... a little warning next time, ok?"

Ten says, "Don't forgrt, we can't break the ctystal, so we need to fetch that at least."

As the heroes gather around the entrance, it starts to become cold again, as the lava begins to soldify.

Spirit lands, "I think...we need to get control of the weapon, and threaten to use it on Grissom, I think. Then we'll have time to decide what to do with it. First things first...we have to deal with the Numbers. Let's get this door open."

Fox seems to find the cold bearable, though visibly sweats with the heat. Still, it doesn't appear to really bother her.

Aoi activates her scanning system and tries to look *through* the door to see what kind of reception party is inside, if any.

The door opens easily, metal concealed under ice.

"Holy hell in a handbasket...!", gripes American Dream at the sudden change of temperature... and starts stripping off the cold-weather gear she's wearing, right there in front of the door. Only when she's no longer bundled up against the cold does she step forward into the door, once it's opened... though she does take a moment to bring her cold-weather gear inside with her, leaving it on the floor near the door just in case it's later needed.

Ten stays ready for trouble. "Too easy, right?"

Spirit isn't apparently bothered by either the cold...or the heat. "Yeah, too easy. But we don't have time to think about it. Not with Grissom closing in."

The intense heat begins to fade, as the caldera begins to freeze solid behind the heroes. A figure in a dress is slowly walking across the now-solid lava toward the heroes.

Star Girl nods. She asks Spirit, "Want me to cloak and scout ahead?" Her suit shimmers as is adjusts to the fluctuating temperatures.

Ten says, "And what's with the variable-heat volcano?"

Fox stares at the person who seems to be approaching, wary, crouched slightly.

"Oh, shit... it's that Ragnabot bitch", American Dream quips.

Ten says, "Is she tough, this one?"

Spirit nods. "Likely, yeah. I suggest we keep moving. We can turn it into a three way fight if we just keep going."

Mist curls around Rangnarok's feet as she walks -- CO2 liquifying out of the air.

Ten says, "You're the boss."

Spirit says, "Better than expending resources fighting one and then the other. They won't work together."

"Fimblewinter," Star Girl comments. She turns to Spirit. "Right behind you, boss." She prepares to move.

Spirit heads down the tunnel, flying slow enough to make corners as best he can.

Aoi asks Spirit, "Collapse the tunnel after we get inside. Try to slow her down a little?"

Ten keeps pace with Spirit.

Aoi follows Spirit also

Fox is the followiest there is!

American Dream follows along, in the same manner... though, with Ragnarok's appearance, she's bringing along her cold-weather gear via telekinesis, too. No sense in leaving it behind, now, when it might be needed again in short notice.

Spirit nods to Aoi, "Might as well give it a try. It'll just slow her down, though. She could teleport to her ship, and back down.

A few blasts choke the tunnel with several meters of debris.

The heroes head down enountering... no resistence. No drones. No Numbers. But the detector indicates that the Bifrost Cannon core is here, a little ways further.

Aoi says, "This is too easy."

Spirit shakes his heads, "Something's wrong, for sure. But no choice but to keep going, I think. I'd have wondered if the detector was working...if the drones hadn't attacked us."

Star Girl keeps running.

American Dream tsks. "Don't you guys ever watch TV or movies? The more often you say that, the harder it's gonna be in the end... quit trying to jinx us and just keep moving, okay?"

The group gets to a central area. A large, reinforced door between you and the Core.

Spirit keeps flying, maintaining a pretty good pace.

Ten says, "No, it's when you just say it's easy there's trouble. *Too* easy is fine."

Aoi says, "Tries to use her neutrino scann to see what's on the other side of the large door."

Star Girl stifles a giggle, and clasps her fingers over her mouth. "Sorry," she comments. o O ( Weird... something tickles. )

American Dream studies the door for a bit... then walks over to simply push at it, to see if it'll be that easy to open up. Maybe it's not locked?

It's locked

Aoi says, "Guys, there's a woman with the jewel in her hands on the other side of the room beyond the door. If I had to guess, I'd say she was pointing it at the doorway."

Ten says, "Hm. Anyone with a way to get us in not going through the doorway?"

Spirit nods. "So...intending to use it as a weapon directly."

"Hmph... locked", says American Dream, stepping back from the door... then, at Aoi's words, hopping off to one side, as if trying to get herself out of the 'line of fire'.

Aoi says, "Maybe. There's a discontinuity in there. She's behind the... I think it's a rift, maybe some kind of portal or gate?"

Ten says, "And anyone know what this weapon is? Is this a case of I-go-in-first or would that be bad?"

Star Girl says, "It might be an interdimensional weapon. And it's probably partly magic. Not a good combination."

Star Girl tries putting her hand on the blank metal plate.

Ten says, "Hm, no, I don't want to be sent to other dimension. Especially not partly."

Odd runes form, like ones you've seen on Pleiades' smart phone. Nothing happens.