Log:Moonsault, Part 3

2019/11/01 Reactor Breach Spirit Voyager Paragon Tik Tak Old Man Griffin Defeat 1

When we last left our heroes...

Rangel was happily pelting OMG with big blunt arrows.

Spirit was zapping OMG with big, pewpewy lasers.

Paragon was punching Defeat...'s shield.

Reactor was momentarily threatened by Tik and Tak, who were then wrapped up by Sapphire's Sapphire Stuff.

Breach was cursing about how breathing has apparent become outdated by the current generation.

Tik and Tak burst into purple and pink light, temporarily overloading the eyeballs of some, who see lots of little pink stars.

Rangel launches more arrows. Tired of getting blasted about, OMG dives out of the way. With Paragon punches possibly perplexed by pink pinpoints, Defeat konks the frighteningly accurate stick-flinging Rangel with a flung energy shield.

Breach continues curse the way breathing has become passe for this generation of heroes and villains. Next thing you know, there'll be a bunch of other insomniac immortals that are on a permanent intermittent fast. With a grunt, Breach takes a look around at his surroundings while that purple and pink light washes over his form.

"This is tedious," grouses Breach as he lifts his freshly reloaded Rocket Revolver. When in doubt, Breach supposes, put a freeze on everyone. Thumbing the hammer back, Breach sights up with a section of the facility where he can catch the most number of villains and the least number of heroes in a single go. Growling angrily, Breach commands, "FREEZE!"

OMG, Defeat, one side of the central console and the ground in between become iced, it stopping just adjacent to Paragon (with Defeat).

Tik and Kat both begin to glow again in their respective colors. It isn't as bright, and suffuses their entire forms. They then both ...sink down through the floor. Tik re-emerges next to Breach, glow draining from her body to concentrate in her hands. Tak does something similar, but she re-emerges at the exposed console.

Tik is set to 'SUCK,' reaching for Breach's tasty (if salty) life-force.

Tak is set to 'BLOW' and just dumps a bunch of raw energy into the terminal. They've run out of time for subtle... so: when in doubt, blow sh!t up.

Voyager enters from Starguard - Reception Area.

The overly energized console shorts out. The light flicker madly as emergency generators kick over. They may be primarily to power the now suddenly flashing garish red lights, blaring klaxons, and the surprising polite synthesized voice that announces:

Core integrity failing. Breach imminent. You now have TWO minutes to reach minimum safe distance.

Paragon feels some of the spots starting to fade, her eyelights expanding slightly. Her head pans towards the sound.

Reactor is now able to see once more and looks for TAK and if his visor could show anything it would be irritation as Reactor spots what she appears to be about to do, He levels another blast at TAK in hopes of knocking her out before she can do harm to the facility--TOO LATE!!!

As the life force is wrenched out of him by Tik, Breach's head lolls to one side. He points, loosely, with his free hand at a nearby speaker.

"Hear that? I'm imminent," raggedly wheezes Breach.

Telepathic message from Paragon to Porter: << Sweetie, situation critical. Core integrity's failing. Two minutes to reach minimum safe distance. If the ship's still here, get Allison to it and go with her! >>

Tak yelps as she's blasted into the console she just zapped and is bounced to the ground.

Paragon hear Porter's voice inside your head: << Hey, Sweetie.. WHAT?! Two minutes?! There's like a bazillion more people that just landed up here, and the shuttles went back for more. It's gonna take them longer than that to get back here! >>

Telepathic message from Paragon to Porter: << You've got to warn them. No idea what minimum distance is. We'll try to see if there's a way to avert this. >>

Paragon's eyes fully illuminate again. "What have you done?" she says with mechanical calm despite rising panic. She moves to the consoles to see what she can do to give them more time.

The VoyagerSIM had its body shipped to Tranquility Base with a number of crucial parts for the efforts. This means it was able to be sent at high velocities beyond what most biological entities can sustain- especially when packed tightly.

The Base's automated ranged reception systems accepts the package sent from Earth and is processed.

A few minutes later the Model 9 Prototype is extruded into the hangar.

It is enacting specific repair protocols when it sees various systems fall offline in one area.

The area where the others are engaged in violent combat. The device hunts for the source of the damaged systems.

Telepathic message from Paragon to Porter: << "Sweetie, make sure you're suit's up and tell the others to prepare. If this goes, we may lose a good portion of the station and lose atmosphere." Panic levels rising. "I may be able to give more time for evac. We're going to lose some non-critical systems." >>

Reactor moves over to the console even As KAT is being secured and looks at the reading and suggests ways to aid both Paragon, as well as Spirit in keeping containment field in tact, or shutting it down before it goes critical

Paragon examines the console and starts working on trying to make it somewhat operational so they can buy time. "Situation critical," she says as she starts peeling open undamaged panels on the console. "We're going to lose a sizeable portion of the station. Probability of atmospheric breach at top levels high," she warns quickly as she starts pulling damaged circuits and swapping them with functioning ones from less critical systems.

Paragon hears Porter's voice inside her head: << The worry in his thoughts is evident as is the sense that he's a little out of breath. "I'm telling everyone I can! There's just alot of them!" >>

Breach wrests himself away from Tik's enervating touch. His flesh seems momentarily withered from the contact, though it's already starting to repair itself as Breach weaves backward.

"Can't believe I'm doing this again," mutters Breach as his free hand comes down to rest upon the butt of yet another handgun.

This gun is, mercifully, not oversized. He barely brushes his fingers across its holster before his fingers wrap around the grip and he spins in place, bringing up his sidearm as the Rocket Revolver is thrust outward and behind his body. Breach stops and points the handgun at Tik.

"Say good night, Gracie."

Tik looks terrified for a moment... and then Breach fires. Her eyes open with a blink after a moment, then look down at the round stuck in the decolletage of her form-fitting suit. Her eyes lift back up to Breach. "Really? That's it? I didn't even feel you."

The Android steps around the corner & into the room and reevaluates the situation once more upon entering. It sees Paragon attempting repairs and Breach engaging non-verified personnel. It rushes into the fray- pausing only a moment to ensure it is not inadvertently struck by Breach's missile before scanning the room again.

It examines the state of things as it gets closer but sees that things are being stabilized.

"This Unit is here to assist. I detected cascading failures originating on this deck. This Unit can see why. Explosive ordnance is not recommended within Tranquility Base." It says to Rick as it turns and mechanically twists towards Tik.

Voyager lines up its target and with a whirling noise the machine lashes out- aiming to strike a critical junction on this agent engaging Earth's protectors.

With Reactor's in-depth knowledge of the (now runaway) process, he's able to direct Paragon on the most critical circuits to focus on. Alas, the surge also affected components INSIDE the sealed reactor vessel. By some further miraculous convergence of events (not that anyone would blame THAT on Porter), Spirit not only has the ability to phase through the material, but also innately survive the interior long enough to make necessary adjustments.

With a full 50 seconds remaining, the runaway is averted and the reactor stabilizes. Lights stabilize; klaxons silence; garish red light stop flashing; the automated voice offers an update and wishes everyone a nice day.

Also in that, Voyage rabbit(robot?) punches Tik across part of the room to slam into the console between Reactor and Paragon and fall into a heap next to her sister.

Breach looks at the crumpled form of Tik on the floor. He looks over at Voyager for a few seconds.

"For something that you didn't even feel, it sure looks like it had stopping power," growls Breach to Tik's unconscious body.

Paragon stares at the console for a few moments after the confirmation that the blowup was averted. Even though she's undead, she takes a breath for the sake of sighing it out. "One crisis averted."

Reactor looks from Paragon, to Spirit and sighs. "Glad you two had the technical expertise to put my knowledge to use.. " as he sounds releived. "Wasn't sure we'd make it in time. "

"That was some good teamwork," Paragon says with praise as she closes the panel she was working on and straightens up. "Failure would have been catastrophic."

Telepathic message from Paragon to Porter: << System stabilized. It's going to be okay, Sweetie. >>

Paragon hears Porter's voice inside her head: << Whew. I hoped that's what all the red lights and sirens stopping meant. Was worried I touched something. You Ok? >>

Telepathic message from Paragon to Porter: << All in one piece, Hero. >>

The Model 9 Prototype turns towards Breach and its iris shifts subtly as it rights itself from the crouched position its strike ended in.

Its acuity systems are powered down to normal operating levels to avoid burnout of critical sensory systems.

"This Unit is impressed with your ability to work together. With the rate of failure detected I feared there was nothing this Unit could have done alone." It reports.

Paragon looks towards the sealed reactor. "I hope Spirit is alright. It seems he was successful on his end."

Holstering his sidearm again, Breach looks to Voyager and tilts his head.

"With the rate of failure I detected, I was getting worried I was going to have to watch the end of the world in front row seats," replies Breach. He snaps open the cylinder of the Rocket Revolver and reloads again. Looking up at Voyager again, Breach adds, "Thanks for the assist. I wasn't sure how I was going to explain shooting that idiot again to her sister."

With the mild distraction of imminent evaporation of the immediate area and potential destruction of Transquility averted, there are now the temporarily indisposed villains to deal with.

Spirit phases back out of the reactor slowly, "It seems like we're in good shape?"

Paragon walks over to pick up the whole ice block containing Defeat, then reaches down and scoops up Tik as well. "Perhaps there are still functional maximum security cells we can place these villains in before we move on to the next objective." She looks over to Spirit and smiles behind your faceplate. "I was beginning to worry. Whatever you did averted disaster, Spirit. We should contain these villains for now until we can prevent the alternative Porter's plans for the moon."

Spirit nods. "I wish I knew how much of his forces this is. If we get them to a cell, they might be able to be contained and not teleported away, like the cells planetside."

"This Unit is happy to be of service." It says after chiming cheerfully to Breach before turning to watch Paragon gather the villains up with ease & listen to Spirit's suggestion. "This seems like a logical suggestion." It says in agreement with the Commander.

"I'd recommend maximum containment cells, then," Paragon says, in agreement with Spirit's assessment. "I'm uncertain of the percentage. I was unaware of any of these agents. Do you know where the maximum containment cells are, Spirit?"

Spirit indicates around the bend. "That direction from here, I think. It would have been the other direction when we came out of the elevator, but we can just continue around to them."

Paragon nods and starts carrying her villains as directed. The weight isn't an issue, but she only has so many hands.

Voyager stops to pick up other villians iwth its two hands as long as they don't weigh more than a motorcycle or two.

Spirit picks up Tak with a band of light from his hand, since that's stronger than his physical strength. "Let's get going. I think we likely have a limited time to get them secured." He flies around the bend, but not so fast as to make it difficult to keep from hitting a wall.

Paragon leaps after Spirit in a hurry with her cargo of three. "With you, Spirit," she confirms.

The temporary prisoners are readily given a more permanent status without incident. One drawback to their attacking an ultramax prison: specialty cells are rather prevalent in the immediate vicinity.

The VoyagerSIM compels the Model 9 Prototype tofollow the others. It keeps it self on high alert to make sur eit can keep its allies safe.

Spirit double checks that communications are still down. "Damn. I had hoped to get an update from planetside. Next step would likely be to attack alt-Porter proper. We know where he is. Or have a outline."

"There's a device jamming the antennae outside of Tranquility. It was defended by these two," Paragon points to Tak and Old Man Griffin. "Unless there are more forces, we should be able to reclaim it and remove the jamming technology."

Spirit nods. "That shoudl be the next target then, as long as we can do it quickly. Then hit the main target."

Paragon nods to Spirit. "With this team? I think we can secure it," Paragon responds positively.

The Model 9 Prototype watches impassively. "This Unit is with you all regardless of what our next step is." It reports with a cheerful ring/

Wrapup:

The Moonsault was successful! Due to valiant efforts by the front line assault teams, a beachhead was rapidly secured on Tranquility. Combined SG, UEMS, hero (and even rumors of known criminal) forces pushed forward as more landed behind them to secure critical systems and evacuate current prisoners. A facility-threatening reactor meltdown was averted and enemy forces were defeated and detained.

Communications were restored to Tranquility base when enemy jamming equipment, which was making use of the facility's own antenna arrays was removed. Prior to the equipment removal, however, a few enterprising heroes focused its high-powered EM transmissions at a point in nearby moonspace. What was only noticed by a few as a large energy 'shadow' was revealed to be a monstrous ship, whose systems were (and still are) manipulating the moon ever closer to collision. Now it's time to stop THAT Porter once and for all!