Log:Overlord - Colonial Bay, Scene 4

Overlord's Arrival 2018/05/04 	 Chen Executor Donle Defender Griffin Copycat Pleiades Spirit Natasha

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Long, largely straight roads, often in poor condition, stretch across the low-lying farmland, interrupted by lines of tree delimiting fields and acting as windbreakers. Traffic is thin, most long-distance traffic preferring the major highways to the south and east. Small villages and isolated farmhouses hold the human population, while fields and hedgerows have the animals.

The alien controller had been convinced to give the basic controls for the Overlord pylon, and the kyber-drill was shut down. The only question was...what to do now? Spirit decided he would use the other control and launch the pylon into space...and hopefully cause power feedback to destroy it once it was off the planet. That process has started...and the pylon is just starting its acceleration. Meanwhile, the heroes went outside to engage the incoming Executor...and hopefully defeat him. Or at least delay him.

Sadly, the heroes didn't fare well. Initially, they were fine, but then the Executor hit them with a cosmic wave and all of the heroes were dropped simultaneously, albeit temporarily. Most of the heroes are now recovering from that strike. Pleiades has just left the pylon, getting outside. And Spirit is still in the pylon's control room.

Executor Donle nods in satisfaction at the fallen heroes and then commences flying toward the drone bay once again...directly toward Pleiades. He says something in his own language, though it isn't understandable. Best guess is something like 'Move or get run over.'

Pleiades frowns. "You're not getting past me. Blitzraeder! Eagle Road." A shimmering ribbon of light as she skates through the sky towards the Executor. "Panzerfaust! Load zaubermunition!" The chamber on the back of the her gauntlet racks and ejects a smoking brass cartridge, and the bands around her wrist accelerate with a sound like a revving car engine. A triangle of runes appear beneath her feet as she punches forward with her gauntleted fist and massive shockwave blasts toward the alien! "CANNON BURSTER!"

The Executor doesn't look overly hurt, but he's still flung backward nearly forty meters. He growls and tries to right himself.

Pleiades grins. "Good job, Panzerfaust." Her gauntlet primly replies, in German. ""

Spirit has mapped out the power conduits, more or less. Now it's just a matter of waiting. And hoping hte heroes can keep the alien from interfering. The pylon continues accelerating...getting another 15m up. It hasn't cleared the ground yet, but it's just a matter of time.

The dust settles from the crater created by Griffin's impact in an attempt to save Copycat. As those particles clear away, Griffin is revealed on his back, with Copycat in his arms and curled up on top of him. Her eyes blink open slowly and she cranes her head to look at Griffin to see if he's okay. With a sigh of relief, she asks weakly, "Did we...give Spirit enough time...?"

Executor Donle growls again and rights himself. He considers flying toward the pylon again, but thinks better of it. Instead, he brings his energy flail around and unleashes a blast of energy at Pleiades while shouting again.

Pleiades sees the blast coming at her and raises her gauntlet defensives, a hexgaon of shimmering light appearing front of her as a circle of runes appears beneath her skates. "Panzer Shield!" Her gauntlet echoes her request. "". The blast strikes her hastily raised guard and deflects harmlessly away.

Chen says, "Grows her wings larger and flies to burst her heart up toward the hatch with all her might and effort."

Chen makes a final powerful sweep of her wings to reach the hatch and grabs on with all six limbs. And then morphs to fill the hatch. "Spirit, If Earth survives come find me. That alien can't stop what you're doing if he can't get inside."

Spirit can't quite hear Chen's statement...and it didn't come in over a radio frequency. Instead he just waits as the pylong continues upward.

Natasha flies in toward the Executor, at such and angle she makes sure she can be seen out the corner of its eye, and, with a giant roar, exhales raw magic, which, as it gets close, expands into a huge, white-hot fireball.

Executor says somethign to himself as he notices the giant fireball. He brings up a large energy shield, which the fire splashes off of. There's enough force behind it that he still believes it was real.

Chen silently applauds Pleiades and Natasha as they delay and impede the alien. Firming up her shape she digs in six sets of claws into the entranceway of the hatch and sets herself for a bumpy ride.

Natasha flies in closer and tries another trick with illusory fire - this time rather more concentrated. She aims a brilliant fiery light at the Executor's eyes.

Again the Executor is affected by a heroe's power...but not as strongly as a normal person might be. He shouts one more time, showing his frustration.

Pleiades skates towards the Executor on her solid ribbon of light. As she does, she punches at it with her gauntlet, firing a focused shockwave at it. "Panzerfaust! Cannon Shot!"

Long, largely straight roads, often in poor condition, stretch across the low-lying farmland, interrupted by lines of tree delimiting fields and acting as windbreakers. Traffic is thin, most long-distance traffic preferring the major highways to the south and east. Small villages and isolated farmhouses hold the human population, while fields and hedgerows have the animals.

Pleiades frowns as her shot goes wide. "I wish Sagittarius was here, I'm not that good at long range combat."

Defender finally manages to pull himself together mentally, coming to with his shoulder buried deep in the earth and his glowing weapon lying on the ground beside him. Shifting his helmet slightly, the silver knight bigs his left fist into the soil and pushes down sharply, tearing himself free in a spray of loose dirt. Swaying a little on hands and knees, he shakes his helmeted head, glowing slits noticing the weapon lying beside him.

Reaching over, Defender reclaims his crackling Arc Lance, gauntleted fingers closing around the shaft, and plants the butt before him, using it to help lever himself unsteadily to his feet. Once he is up, however, he seems to grow firmer, glancing up toward the battle still raging overhead.

"I'm up, but grounded. Still shaking off whatever that was he did to us." Defender reports, voice crackling electronically over a broad range of local radio waves. "I can't get to him while he's up there, if you want to join the fight, bigger dragon girl, I'll head for the door and take guard duty."

Report given, the knight lifts his lance and ignites his back boosters, launching himself toward the open door of the Pylon on a stream of raging flame.

Spirit continues waiting, though he finds the appropriate controls to cause the necessary power surge.

Copycat looks at the Executor, then down at Griffin. She's weakened and shaky, but the world is at stake. "I'm sorry," she tells him, and he knows exactly why. She's going to push herself. She starts to glow and suddenly rockets towards the Executor. Digging deep, she starts to glow with green energy, slower than usual, before firing off a blast at it.

The Executor is buffeted again, knocked a little further from the pylon. He's not really hurt by hte attack, but he is disoriented.

The Pylon continues to accelerate, moving another 60m up. The hatch is now 155m up, and the bottom of the pylon is clear of the ground, leaving a large hole in the ground.

The Executor pauses, seeing if his eyes will clear at all. He hasn't really been hurt much by the Terrans, so there doesn't seem to be much to fear.

Chen should consider getting a part time job as a hatch. Because she's getting practice in being one. The pylon is moving up faster but she has no idea how fast the Executor can fly. So she's committed herself to take this wild ride all the way up. Hopefully Earth will survive and she'll be rescued... sometime.

Natasha takes the opportunity to attack the Executor properly. Flying in, she bites the alien with the force of a dragon jaw channelled through needle-sharp dragon teeth.

The strike is a glancing one, and while it does rip some metal from the armor, it doesn't strike the wearer.

Natasha spits out the armour fragment, annoyed at not having bitten deep enough.

Pleiades skates in closer on her solid ribbon of light and launches another focuses shockwave at it. "Cannon Shot!"

And once again, he's knocked about. That attack actually elicited a grunt from him, so he must have felt it. His frustration is almost palpable.

Copycat keeps flying after the Executor, trying to harass him to give the pylon time to continue off their planet. She throws her fist forward and sends another blast at him.

The Executor's response is similar to when he was hit by Pleiades. A grunt and more disorientation as he tumbles away. He clearly felt it, but it's hard to tell how much it actually hurt him.

Defender seems to notice the Pylon escaping into orbit a bit late, skidding to a halt on the ground as it shakes and quakes beneath the sudden launching of the enormous structure. With the hatch inside rising higher and higher out of reach, the knight turns about and lifts his Lance into a ready position, focusing on the distant form of the Executor battling high over his head.

"Pretty sure I can hit him hard enough to make him feel it, especially once I'm fully online again." Defender informs everyone with radios, voice calm and composed despite the chaos all around him. "Need him closer to the ground though. Can you work on knocking him down instead of back? Get over him?"

While the knight talks he ignites his boosters, hurtling up and forward into the air on a trail of fire. At the height of his arc he aims his crackling silver lance toward the tumbling figure and fires off a brilliant beam of whitish blue lightning, before beginning to fall out of the sky toward his landing point.

The Executor definitely felt it, as his back arches that time. Then...his sight clears.

The Executor sees the pylon accelerating upward...and realizes he can't catch it. He shouts again at the group of heroes, but then he goes to disengage, flying eastward on a path that will take him well north of the city.//Half move to right himself, then Flight 25m (a half move)

The pylon continues upward...another 75m. It's just about getting to its maximum speed without the main host vessel.

Spirit waits until the pylon is well up at a safe distance before triggering a power surge. The power systems on the pylon start to feed back, and he makes his way out toward the drone bay. That's when he comes across Chen. He shakes his head...quite sure that he told people to get out. But time is of the essence, and speaking isn't really possible, as the air is thin at best. Closer to non-existent. He grabs Chen with an energy lash and pulls her along as he flies back down toward the planet.

Moments later, the pylon heats up...and explodes, sending shrapnel in all directions. ...and taking out a small satellite.

Chen lets Spirit grab her, and forms herself into a shield covering Spirit when the pylon goes BOOM!

The Executor is long gone by the time he gets back down to the ground with Chen in tow. Spirit lands and sets her down on the ground lightly. "Nice work, all."

Natasha returns to the site, exhausted, after her hopeless chase of the alien.

Chen gives Spirit a grateful hug is he allows, "Thanks for the ride home. I half expected I was on a one way trip."

Spirit lets Chen hug him. "You should have stayed here. I appreciate the desire to protect the vessel as it left, but I was fine inside." Little does he know...that if the alien's main attack had hit him, he'd be in a world of hurt.

Copycat wobbles to begin to chase the Executor, but in a golden flash, Griffin interposes himself between her and her target, grabbing her by her soldiers. "Not so fast. You're not in any condition to take that thing on," he says firmly. Sometimes Copycat needs common sense dictated to her. She's still a rookie, unless she's copying someone else's expertise.

Defender approaches Spirit and Chen at a walk, Arc Lance braced over one shoulder and baring stoic. The expressionless slits of his visor glow blue as he looks around at all the other heroes, voice emerging in a harsh, static crackle, "Any idea where the big guy was running off to? If we play our cards right we might be able to track him. Would be unfortunate if he was going to fight heroes on another one of those things."

Pleiades salutes Spirit. "No problem, Commander Perrault. Glad to be of service!" She peers up at the sky. "I just hope a SDPA Patrol Cruiser arrives before the Overlord gets here in person."

Natasha seems not so cheerful on her return. She supposes that was a victory, but she's not happy that her quarry got away.

Spirit changes back to his normal more mundane looking self in a flash of light.

Dorian(#2348POeACF?)

This man stands about five and a half feet tall, and is moderately good looking. He has blue eyes...brown hair cut into a crew cut, and a goatee.

He's currently wearing a standard regulation navy blue Starguard Gamma uniform with a grey inset stripe down the left side of the torso and a Starguard logo on the upper right side. The rank on the shoulder identifies him as a Commander. It's a far cry from his normal relatively casual mode of dress.

Chen asks, "How are the others doing. Are we winning?"

Dorian nods slowly, "There are dozens of these things around the globe. He probably is rendezvousing with other minions of this Overlord. I have no idea how we're doing, honestly. I need to check in."

Chen holds out an arm for Natasha to perch on if she wishes.

Copycat is about to protest, but Grififn silences her with the worried look in his eye. It works better than scolding ever would. She closes her mouth and nods. Slipping his arm around her shoulder carefully, Griffin flies her over to the others.

Natasha hops onto Chen's arm the moment it's offered.

Dorian places a quick call to Starguard, and gets a response back. He resports to the others. "Mixed results so far. We've managed to stop several of these things, but not all. But...SG has made some calculations. We think we have a fix on where the energy was going to be routed."

Natasha tilts her head toward Dorian.

Defender just listens for the time being, the only sound coming from the knight being the quiet zapping hum of his lance.

Dorian continues, "Apparently the energy was going to be collected in Antartica. Where resistance has been low up to this point. Unsurprisingly. It's not like we have many metas there."

Chen nods, "Dorian, I'm not really space capable. Can you arrange fast transport to another pylon landing site for me and anyone else who wants to go?"

Chen has that speech lines up but looks surprised at Dorian's report. "Somewhere on the ground. What are we waiting for?"

Natasha strikes a heroic pose, still perched on Chen's arm.

Dorian nods to Chen, "I can send you to another pylon...but I'm thinking we should strike the epicenter. That location might be where the Overlord himself is."

Chen nods, "Yeah. I assumed the enrgy was being send into space. But if the centre is on the ground... let's go!"

Copycat gulps. "Do you think the main invasion force has been in Antartica?" She goes wide-eyed at the mention of the Overlord potentially being there, when his minions are tough as is.