Assualt On The Citadel: EC vs The Guardians

[addman]

As Brawn rolled over to a position where he could get up, Addman quickly leaped up and scrambled onto the beat's back once more, his scaley hide providing enough grip for him to do so. Brawn appeared to be waiting for a command, so Addman obliged him.

"Continue slowly"

They had nearly rounded the corner to the front gate. Addman knew that there were landmines around there, but judging from the recent communications, it seemed that a lot of them had been stood on by the penguins. Nevertheless, there were still gate defences to take out.

The muppet took the plasma cartridge out of his rifle, enjoying the hiss the mechanism made as it released the ammunition cartridge into his lap. Reaching behind him, he retrieved a similar cartridge that displayed crackling electric bolts zipping from one side of the glass to the other. He pushed it in, and waited for the indicative click to tell him it was installed correctly.

"We have taken two hostages. If you do not want them harmed, retreat to a position no closer than three hundred yard, cease all aggression and stop using whatever you've been using to hypnotize and compel our personnel"

"Heh, right!" Said the muppet arrogantly. If they had really captured a couple of EC comrades, he was sure they could handle themselves. "Continue the assault!" he shouted into his communicator over the high speed winds that caused him to grip onto Brawn a little tighter as it buffetted him slightly. Also, a couple of casualties wasn't exactly enough for an evil organisation to stop it's assault now was it?

((I don't know if anyone will recieve my broadcast as Shine stated that something is trying to block our communications. Either way, Addman and Brawn will be continuing the assault))

[Netdroid9]

((Addman's post made me go back and re-read the last few posts. Sorry I missed your post the first time, Shine, although Net's probably too far away to hear you anyway .

Also:

[Shine]

((I don't know enough of the science to explain it all, but I am sure that the Guardians would have communications jamming equipment that would interfer with all communications systems that would be in use by most of the large scale operations in the Dojo-lands. They would know and be able to deal with basic state-of-the-art stuff.

However, I would only expect that it's coverage to be limited to the Citadel, interfering with comunications in or out, but not communications between players who are outside of the building.))

[Dr Tanner]

[Chronos]

Ensichrys, Mortracta, and the Guivre made for a comical picture. The three had exactly the same expression (minus the facial ones for Mortracta) and pose. An odd look was plastered on their faces. The Penguins simply dropped what they were doing and left. This was just fine from Ensichrys' perspective. However, he felt rather stupid standing motionless and stupefied as war unfolded around him.

"Umm, what's happening," Ensichrys asked into his feather-like communicator, but found he was talking to noise. Evidently, the Guardians weren't stupid as he would have liked to think.

This was the most difficult part of battle: not knowing what to do next. There was literally no danger for the three, with the possible exception of plasma cannons aimed at them. Luckily, however, the plasma erupting from the cannons was slower than electricity. Ensichrys charged his talons completely. If anything with a substantial electric charge came anywhere near them, it would be neutralized in- quite literally- a flash.

Then, sure as the times, not one but three blasts came, targeting all three individuals. One blast to the Guivre was met by Ensichrys' electric stream and the two charges annihilated. Then one came flying toward Mortracta and Ensichrys eliminated that blast too. The third was unexpected and hit the earth directly between Ensichrys' feet. Up, up he went into the air to come crashing down on slush. The broken ice separated a few scales and Ensichrys' underside was singed painfully. The impact seemed to have knocked him unconscious temporarily. He would wake up in seconds.

The Guivre and Mortracta knew this, but could not hide their embarrassment of their current inactivity. The Guivre thought back to his muffins and prayed that nobody had found them. These muffins needed to be a surprise. Finally, the EC would look to the Guivre with gratitude and not as a mere pet. They would say "Thank you, Guivre," or whatever it was in English that meant te ago, they would enjoy themselves, and they would all think of what a nice thing that snake did for us.

[Furnace]

Furnaces fiery eyes had Tetsu-ko in their sights, he was sure his tail spikes would at least slash her skin, but then she jumped towards him. His tail missed, slicing nothing but the cold air and the snowflakes that melted then evaporated after touching his skin.

The large dragons narrow muzzle fell open with surprise, that was the last thing he'd expected from another dragon. He was so stunned by this manouvre that he didn't even move out of the path of Tetsu-kos kick, her feet connected cleanly with his diamond hard scales. The momentum she carried caused her kicks to push some of the Dark Fire Dragons scales closer together and cause him to stumble slightly to the side, but as far as he was concerned that was nothing more than a glancing blow, despite the boiling blood that started to ooze out of gaps made larger than normal.

Furnace pulled his lips back over his jaw and bared his fangs at the smaller dragon, but as he was about to speak and mock her he saw her damage one of the Guardians own machines, apparently talking to someone who wasn't there. What in frozen hell was going on?

He didn't have much time to think about this though, as a blast of plasma from one of the turrets hit uncomfortably close to his tail and churned up the ground. It was possible he was too close to the wall for them to aim properly at him, but even so he'd be far more comfortable elsewhere. He'd heard that plasma was able to hurt creatures of fire since it was different in some way, and he happened to be one of those creatures.

He couldn't go up, thanks to his aching head his balance would be way off and he wouldn't be able to dodge any more blasts, and he couldn't go down since it would take too long. Instead, Furnace turned his narrow head in the direction he judged the blast to have come from and sent an answering stream of hot enough to melt rock fireballs at it.

[Shine]

A fair ways back behind the Citadel area, in a deep drift of windblown snow, there are a pair of black cleated flexible boots, on the end of two legs clad in black quilted pants that are sticking out of the snowdrift. The are wiggling and bending, trying to get the rest of the body loose and out of the snow. If you listen closely, through the howling of the near blizzard strength wind, you will hear singing:

"Loose, footloose
Kick off your Sunday shoes
Please, Louise
Pull me offa my knees
Jack, get back
C'mon before we crack
Lose your blues
Everybody cut FOOTLOOSE"

and with that the Cajun, Dancing, Ninja Security Penguin, with a final big wiggle and a lurch, sprang and flipped out of the snow,
-landed in a move inspired by Kevin Bacon, except
-he slipped on some ice and smashed his head fairly hard.

"Ooouooweee! now dat hurts!" he said as he searched and retrieved his equipment, and headed in the direction of the Citadel.

[Cloud]

((So, got through that door yet 3kul? ))

[Shine]

The black, ninja clad figure, alone in the wilderness trecked on....

He had taken out his camoflage chalk and done a sort of snowy tundra gray and white pattern on his clothing. He was walking in a very determined way, with a sort of "jive strut" look to his gait, he seemed to be singing under his breath:

"Well you can tell by the way I use my walk
I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk
Music loud and women warm,
I’ve been kicked around since I was born."

The day was moving toward's night and he could see the security lights of the Citadel Fortress, which had just come one, casting the building in a golden glow in the still early twilight.


"Whether you’re a mother, or whether you’re a brother
You are stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive
Feel the city breakin’ & everybody shakin’
and you are stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive
ah ah ah ah, stayin' alive......."

Even while singing and strutting on the outside, on the inside, this lone figure is brooding:
"I'm a gonna get that muppet, that joyless soul cain't dance and he's a skerd dot I'm a gona show him up, heh! I'll dance daat evil puppet into his grave, and then I'll dance on his coffin, rid the world of one more evil soul."

You really don't want to become the compulsive focus of a mildly Osessive Compulsive individual, especially not a Cajun Dancing, Ninja Security Penguin.

"Got the wings of heaven on my shoes
I’m, a dancin’ man, & I just can lose
You know it’s all right, that’s ok
I will live to see another day
We can try to understand
The Arctic Tundra's effect on man.
ah ah ah ah stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive
ah ah ah ah stayin’ aliiiiiiiiiive ............"

and on, the high plains drifter walked,

towards the yet distant Citadel

[3kul]

EDIT: Please ignore this post, it is incorrect due to confusion in regards to my location. It has been replaced by this post.

[s:097c0ec608]With a sudden loud clang, HollowEyes realized that he was through the door. And not a moment too soon either, as seconds later his GORON console began to emit a loud crackling sound followed by a puff of smoke and it's beam sword fizzled away to nothing. Not one to waste his equipment, HollowEyes put it back into a storage charm (he's also not knowing too much about machinery, and is most likely hoping that it may either fix itself or be rebooted or something).

HollowEyes didn't understand why, but Whiteoak was obviously very distracted with something as he had forgotten all about the Parasitian Second-in-Command and Cloud. Not that anybody was complaining about that, it just seemed a bit bizarre...

"<Everybody into the Citadel! Bring Cloud's body!>"

HollowEyes, the swarm of Locust Fiends and Cloud's body all poured through the hole in the door and into the Citadel, HollowEyes assuming that Cloud was following after them. Now that they were inside, HollowEyes had no idea where they were, but he did know that they needed to cause as much chaos as possible, if only to allow his fellow EC members the opportunity to get inside too.

"<Eat everything that can be eaten!>"

He screamed out to his locust minions, who shrieked in joy at such a delicious order. HollowEyes suddenly realized his mistake and added "<no EC members!>", causing the fiends to drop Cloud's body where it was and leave it to find something that they were allowed to eat.

HollowEyes wandered back to pick up his fellow Councilman's torso, which had collapsed in a rather undignified position, and checked back at the hole in the door to see what the hold up was.

"Cloud, are you coming or not?"

He had intended to report his progress to the rest of the Council now that they'd entered the Citadel, but his communications device emitted nothing but white noise, no doubt due to Guardian interference of some sort.

((I have entered the Guardian Citadel. May I know the details of the room that I am now standing in?))[/s:097c0ec608]

[Shine]

((I just want to be clear about just which door you think you are through? If you cut through the door Whiteoak and Lnagon went through, you find yourself in a landing at the bottome of a narrow stair well. If you go up the stairs there is a cross over landing so you could go over to either tower. The first set of stair continues up. On the other side of the landing is the other stair well, up or down. These stairs go up to either of the front two Gunnery Turrets, and from there possibly out onto the roof for maintenance. If you went through a different door, tell us what wall it might be in.))

[Cloud]

((As far as I know it was the door that Whiteoak opened for Lunagon))

Realising that no weapons fire was upon the pair, and also realising that HollowEyes was through the door, Cloud focused his attention on the outer wall of the Citadel and released his magics that was being stored within him. If he didn't do this the magic he had collected so far would have consumed him.

A staircase of solid ice slowly began forming on one of the outer walls of the Citadel, starting from the bottom and working its way up. It was two metres in width and thick enough to withstand a fair amount of fire power until it would eventually become useless. Without warning the spirit form of Cloud shot straight back into his corporeal counterpart. Standing up he looked at HollowEyes and said, "Sorry, had to release my stored magic. I may have given the rest of the EC access to the inside of this place, unless of course the Guardians see my creation first."

Something was amiss and Cloud was suddenly aware of it. Feeling inside his hood to check he exclaimed, "What's happened to my ear! Damn your Locust Fiends and your inability to control them properly."

[Furnace]

((*Is still waiting to see if his fireballs hit anything...*))

[Shine]

The fireballs hit the gun turret very near the gun that had fired at Furnace.

The titanium alloy that composes the walls is reinforced by re-bar of carbon-resin ash, and it extremely heat resistant. The guns themselves however are not so protected. Furnace had successfully taken that gun out. So the computer targeting system eliminated that gun from the pattern and assigned its targets to remaining guns,
and the one by one, specific targeting, goes on for another round each for the EC, new arrivals included.

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Whiteoak had Holloweyes in his sights, he could have killed him, maybe he should have killed him, he would expect Holloweyes to kill him were the positions reversed, but he hesitated. Holloweyes is a living life form, this would be murder.

The Penguin at the door was pounding again.

Whiteoak yelled back:
"WHAT!! CAN'T IT WAIT, I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ETHICAL DEBATE HERE."

"But Hollweyes is evil, I mean really evil." he continued to himself, remembering the various times he had run across the parasitian and the horrible things he was rumored to have been a part of. Remembering the destruction of Forumopolis, remembering the Jaws of Despair..

"MISTER WHITEOAK SIR, LET ME IN, I HAVE A VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO GIVE YOU."

"WAIT I SAID, CAN'T YOU HEAR ME??"

He took his eyes off of the monitor for a moment, and when he looked back Holloweyes was pushing through the stairwell door. He fired the plasma rifle, and it smashed into the doorframe just missing the vanishing parasitian several floors below him.

"NOW LOOK WHAT YOU DID, YOU MADE ME MISS!!" said the perturbed norn as he walked over to the door, checked the security cam and opened the latch.
But as soon as the latch was loose the security penguin forced himself in, and fired at Whiteoak. Whiteoak had been too close to the door, and he got knocked when the door flew open and he was falling as the shot went off, and it just grazed him.

He raised his right hand and shot an energy burst at the penguin, who flew backwards into the landing at the top of the stairwell. Whiteoak jumped up and slammed the door shut securing the lock. He activated the maximum level of security against intruders for the Gunnery Turrets; causing additional layers of hardened titanium to slide into place on either side of the standard security doors. At the same time, a console turned outward to reveal a single use, oneway, escape slide.

He spoke to Lunagon over the communicator system.
"Lunagon, We have intruders in the stairwell, so I activated the extra levels of security. You are now locked in, but you should see the escape hatch opening. Continue to target and shoot as long as you can, but if the time comes to fall back, turn control over to the Central Command System, and I'll meet you there, ok? And don’t open the door for penguins, some of them are under their control, and remember, you have a camera and a security rifle aimed at the outside of your door, be careful.”




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[Chronos]

Ensichrys opened his eyes and rose, looking much the worse for wear. He finally stood only to see the Plasma Cannons taking aim once more. "You've got to be kidding me."

Ensichrys charged his talons completely once more, this time with intent in his eyes. One shot fired and one shot was neutralized. Another shared a similar fate. The last one took aim at Ensichrys, who anticipated the shot and flutter jumped nine feet straight up in the air as the plasma blast hit the ground beneath him. Ensichrys was then lost to view within a great snow cloud. Soon enough, however, Ensichrys was revealed with no further damage done to him standing in a slushy crater.

He looked at the other two. "Sum gelidus." ((I'm cold.))