Log:Starguard Adventures, Scene 4

Starguard Adventures 2013/10/13 	 Chen Jolt Orion Pleiades Phillippa Sagittarius Ten Ursa

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Orion, whose club has just been damaged by Jolt's attack. Steps forward to engage Chen in hand-to-hand. He tries to grab her by the wrist and slam her to the ground.

Chen simply slims down her wrists, drawing the morphing flesh back to her forearm, and once free, regrowing her hand outside of Orion's grasp.

Ten decides to try to get the attention of the vilains on her. She braces one end of it against the ground and extends it rapidly toward Orion.

"Hah!" Orion says, as he sidesteps and simultaneously lets Ten's staff glance off his defensively held forearms.

Ursa tries to grab Pleiades once more.

Ten grins. "Worried about being hit by sticks? This should be easy," she taunts.

Ursa grasps Pleias in a crushing bear hug and starts to wring the life out of the hero!

Chen switches back to brick mode and unleases a fast strike at Orion, stretching her arm to direct the impact downwards so Orion will hopefully be knocked down rather than away.

Orion ducks and raises his forearms, getting them between himself and Chen's overhand strike.

Sagittarius takes aim and tries to fire past Orion to hit Ten.

Ten is knocked back by the arrow but lands on her feet.

Ten, seeing Pleiades in trouble, tries once again to strike Ursa, harder this time, hoping this will finally put her out of the fight.

Ten's blow is enough to knock Ursa off balance. A pair of crewman shout in panic as Ursa crashes down into the table they've been hiding behind.

Ursa manages to maintain her hold on Pleiades.

Ursa turns towards Ten angrily. "Wait one second..." She then hurls Pleiades towards the wall of the cabin, with terrible force.

Fwam! Pleiades crashes through the wall of the ship and drops into the water outside.

Ursa says to Ten. "Ok. Now, I'm ready for you!"

Chen says, "stays in brick mode and fires out a fist at Ursa, striking with all the force she can muster and concentrating on hitting even at the expense of leaving herself a little open against Orion. "

Wham. Chen's push connects with Ursa, who wobbles and then drops to one knee.

Orion retreats 20m to where Sagittarius is. He throws a flash grenade at Chen.

Chen blinks from the flash but doesn't really care. She's been trained to fight in pitch darkness using her Wolfguard quality hearing.

Sagittarius knocks three arrows and fires them at Chen.

Phillippa comes into the doorway behind Ten and Chen, wielding some kind of energy pistols. "Get off my ship, you freaks!" She takes a shot at Orion.

The blast strike Orion and lifts him off his feet. With an acrobatic flip, he's able to get his feet back beneath him again, however.

Ten attempts to thwack Ursa again, making sure she can't recover!

Ursa barely budges from Ten's staff strike.

Chen homes in on the sound of Ten's staff hitting something in the rough direction that Ursa was located. But there's continuing sound of motion, so she assumes Ursa is still active. A state of affairs she tries to correct.

Ursa finally drops to the ground, unconscious.

Chen asks, "Is she out?"

Ten says, "Yes - finally!"

Orion says, "She's out. Fall back." He closes and seals the door between the rew quarters and the hanger. Before the door shuts, Sagitarrius can be seen backing up and setting up ato watch the doorway.

The crew member start to leave the quarters, now that the bad guys are finally out of site, flooding down to engineering and up to the bridge.

Thunk. From the other side of the door, Sagitarrius fires an arrow. It slams heavily into the portal and explodes into a shower of adhesive goop that reinforces the doorway and obscures the porthole window in the door.

Chen blinks as she tries to clear her eyes of the after effects of the flash, "What's the situation?" she asks, "And should someone fish Pleiades out of the water?"

Ten says, "Bad guys gone out the door - and reinforced it, I think...."

Jolt rubs her head as she gets back to her feet and asks "Alright... is there another way out from there? Either way if you guys can handle them I can pop the door with the can opener but I need to take a breather" she smirks at the thought (Hold for responses)

Chen says, "I'm still blind. Won't stop me fighting but I'll not be able to know what is happening. Can you give me a couple of seconds to recover?""

Jolt realizes there is not a whole lot of time and trusting Ten can at least delay or distract them figures Chen will have enough time to deal with any blindness "Ok you're going in first Ten... Hold on" and with that sparks fly literally as she charges up for a rather explosive blast of electricity as she blasts the door with a full blast of electricity sending the door flying off it's hinges, regardless of whatever reinforcement the badguys put in place "You might as well just give up right now and save yourself the asskicking you're about to get!" she shouts into the room at the retreating badguys.

On the other side of the door, Orion and Sagitarrius are taking guard over Dr. Furmano, who has a panel of the extradimensional open and seems to be in the middle of trying to remove something from the device. As the door is blasted open, Furmano turns. "This ship is engineless, and not close enough to the Triangle to complete my experiment. It seems as though this battle goes to you, Starguard..." And with that Furmano blinks out of sight, teleporting away somewhere. Orion and Sagittarius soon follow. Ursa and Vertigo are teleported away as well.

Ten says, "Huh. Guess we won."

Chen says, "What happened?"

Ten says, "Bad guys teleported out. Unconscious ones too,unfortunately."

Chen sighs, "No souvenirs then?" she quips.

Jolt grumbles a bit and rolls her eyes "Knew it... we should have fried the thinggymbob since he used it to escape. Oh well at least we secured the ship and saved all the crew and scientists"

Ten says, "Sadly not - oh, Pleiades!"

Phillippa rushes through the blasted-open portal to check on the machine. "I... don't think he had a chance to take anything..."

Ten swings out over the side of the ship to rescue Pleiades, if needed.

The SG pilot in the flying van says, "Don't worry, we have Agent Pleiades."

Ten breathes a sigh of relief and lands back on the ship.

Jolt is certainly not the choice of personnel to fish people out of water "Well hopefully that is good news... Because bad news is... I melted something in your engine room to stop the ship" she replies to Phillippa "But there should be a tug already on the way to tow you to dock"

Phillippa says to Jolt, "Don't worry about that. The ship can be repaired. But this?..." She says nodding towards the device. She sighs. "We'll need to step up security. Maybe hire some metas to work with us."

Chen rubs her eyes as her vision returns, "An interesting little diversion, Reminded me of being on the SERAF team."

Phillippa says to Chen. "You're not Starguard, are you?"

Chen says, "Nope. Happy to help out, but I'm not currently a member of any of the hero teams. Although, actually, apart from Starguard I don't think there are any others right now."

Phillippa asks, "How would you like a job?"

Chen grins, "Depends on the job."

"It would be security for my company," Phillippa says. "Preventing things like this from happening again. Actually, I think a bunch of companies would pay for meta security help."

Jolt nods a bit and smiles "Well usually the damage I do is Collateral, not Intentional" which was what the engine killing was as a strategic decision "Yeah might be good to hire some metas. I mean I'm sure whoever your compeition is" she points at the well everything in the direction the guy just disappeared from the ship in "has some working for them"

Ten thinks. o O (Maybe I should look for that sort of thing - but probably not practical while I'm studying.)

Chen laughs, "Thanks for the offer but actually I can't think of anything more boring than being a security guard. Especially if it stops things like this happening. But when something happens, by all means call me in then."

Phillippa frowns slightly. She's not used to being turned down. "Well what sort of work do you do now?" she asks Chen, folding her arms.

Chen says, "Courier. Moving pacels from A to B when there's a good chance someone wants the parcel to go to C. I get to travel and see enough action to keep me happy."

Phil says, "That's not much different than today. We're a global company, so you'd get to travel. Plus I can compensate you generously."

Chen shrugs, "Compensation really doesn't matter to me. How many enemies do you have? For instance, how ofter does this kind," She waves at the damaged door as an example, "of thing happen?"

Jolt smirks a bit at the door "Well to be fair, I was the one that did that. Only happens when I need in some place fast. Most of the time I'll just pick the lock or fry the security panel" maybe not the best example but she's just trying to be a bit humorous

Phil says, "Not that often. This is the first time." In Phillippa's book, the rarity is a good thing. "Hopefully our branch into this new technology won't draw this kind of attack regularly."

Chen says, "That's the point I was trying to make. I'd go crazy just waiting for someone to come along and attack. It just wouldn't work for me."

Ten says, "But do call us if you need us," and swing back to the transport.

Phil says to Chen. "Take some time to think about it, alright?"

Chen says, "Sure."