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 Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:25 am
"So we storm the control room!" Isaac said. "We were on our way there as it was. Will you be joining us, sir?"
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:26 am
"More like will you be joining me," Dremmeur replied with a cocky grin. "Wouldn't have it any other way. Follow me."
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:28 am
"I seem to recall that I rescued you," Isaac shot back. Feeling confident by his awesome victory just before, he took up a position beside Dremmeur and sheathed his swords.
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:59 am
"Fair 'nough, mate, fair 'nough," Dremmeur replied with a hearty laugh. He advanced to a door and pulled his arm back. The light around his hand seemed to bend for a moment and he slammed it forward, blowing the door away. Dremmeur rushed through the door, a torrent of fire pouring from his mouth. Ignited guards ran for their lives as Dremmeur Sai headbutted a power-armor, throwing it to the floor, wrenched its gun from its grasp, and unloaded the clip into its faceplate. "Your guns suck, mate," he confided to the power armor before stomping on it, his foot crushing the plate. He pulled his bloodstained boot out.
"Now, to the bridge."
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:01 am
"Now why can't we do that?" Isaac asked no one in particular as he followed quickly behind Sai.
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:18 am
"Cassandra?" Ty asked, bounding over to her. "What's wro- oh!" He stopped in his tracks when he saw her, ethical debate suddenly bursting within him. She's a girl. You can't laugh at a girl. That's terrific, though. And the red complements her skin. And her reaction was really funny. But she's a girl, and you can't laugh at a girl. Dang it.
Half-listening to the conversation with Sai, he knelt beside the woman. He kept himself free of blood, although after Isaac had somewhat unexpectedly opened the way for his weaponry, a good amount of blood has splashed up on his hands and shirt. He wiped his hands and gun on the cleanest piece of Tyrgani clothing he could find (it wasn't very clean).
Try as he might, he couldn't help but grin at Cassandra. Even so, his words were sincere. "Hey. It could have been worse. You should probably swap shirts with someone as soon as you can, but after all that action-packed awesome you just pulled, I don't think you have to worry about other people's opinions."
He watched Sai and his incredible strength from where he was, and barely suppressed a round of applause. "Cool!" he whispered. "Wonder if he'll stick with us?"
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 3:25 pm
Cassandra shook Ty off. "Agh, agh, I have never seen this much blood on one place this is utterly disgusting," she muttered, getting to her feet and trying to pretend like she wasn't soaked in human blood. She wasn't doing a very good job of it. "Is there like something loose and cloth I could use to at least get it off my arms and neck?" she asked Ty. In her hair, in her cloths, on her skin - it smelt terrible, and it made her nauseous, even if it wasn't her own. Dammit! She had known it was going to be bad, but not this much so.
She didn't participate in the discussion, and wasn't even listening; she simply decided to reload and follow after as necessary, still shaking her arms to get the blood off before it dried.
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:36 am
Ty suppressed a giggle as she stalked off. He almost offered her his shirt, but something told him he didn't want to be wandering around with absolutely no chest protection, even though a cloth shirt wasn't much. His animal instinct had always fought his aesthetic instincts when it came to clothing. "Sorry. Maybe one of those guys that just went down can help." He followed close after her, reloading when she did.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:06 pm
The intrepid Coven forces followed Dremmeur Sai, who did pretty much all of their work for them, as they were led to the bridge.
"Final one..." Dremmeur Sai muttered, cocking his arm back.
Bam!
"Well, let's try that again," Dremmeur complained, shaking his hand and looking at the dented - but sturdy - door. He pulled back and slammed his arm through, sending it off its hinges.
"Nice of you to join us, Sai," a voice intoned. This voice sounded vaguely of eldritch horrors, screaming children, imminent doom, and the like.
"Run. Now." What Dremmeur Sai said was a command - one the Hunters were all too prepared to obey. For though they could not identify the being on the bridge who appeared to be a tear in the very fabric of reality, like a hole punched in the material of the universe, every Coven child grew up hearing horror stories of Abaddon's avatars, particularly his newest - Madison Grey.
They fled. Oh, yes, they fled. They broke the Tyrgani lines from the back at a staircase and began a strategic retreat on the captain's command, recalling to the top level where the Shadow mages began shuttling people up the drop pad bay while others held the line, Dremmeur Sai being taken with them.
Captain Camille Erikson was waiting for them.
"That was troublesome," she addressed her crew. "But you did HOLY s**t DREMMEUR SAI!" She threw two fireballs at him as a CL_Triton drew a phase blade and rushed at him.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:11 pm
"******** ******** STOP ******** ******** STOP STOP," Cassandra shouted at the robot, somehow deftly slipping between Dremmeur and it, despite the fact that that was almost a guaranteed fatality if they met. "HE IS WITH US YOU DO NOT HAVE TO KILL HIM HE WAS HELPING US STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT." Being soaked in blood sort of lent an air of seriousness to everything she said.
Also an air of sickly iron.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:36 pm
CL_Triton ignored her, jumping off her shoulder (throwing her to the ground in the process) and bringing himself in a downward drop on top of Sai.
Sai proceeded to sidestep the swing, grab Triton's arm, and use his body to block the fireballs.
"She's tellin' the truth, y'know," Dremmeur Sai commented, grabbing both of CL_Triton's arms in one hand.
"Why... is this man... on our ship?" Rose asked slowly, stepping through a door to the side. Dremmeur Sai turned to look at her heavily scarred face.
"Rose? I..." he paused. "I'm sorry to hear about Cyrus, I-"
"Shut the ******** up," Rose snapped, throwing her hand out at him. Dremmeur Sai was thrown against a wall. Dremmeur Sai's mouth opened and Rose cut him off: "Not. A. Word. About. Cyrus."
"... Take him to the brig, we're heading to the Xanadu gateway. Magus-General Joe is going to want to have a word with us about Sai. And about who was running that ship," Camille ordered.
"If you swear that I'm turned over to the Savior of Beijing and not the Angels, I'll agree to confinement."
"Deal," Rose replied.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:46 pm
Collapsed on the ground, Cassandra had little else to say. "Sorry," she muttered to Dremmeur as he was carried away.
That was a shame; he had been such a help, and he was just going to be treated as a prisoner. At least hopefully he would be doing well.
She stood up. "Are we permitted to leave yet?" she asked Camille. Her back was essentially a giant scab, and it was only a matter of time before the taste of bile in her mouth grew a lot stronger.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:49 pm
"What did he do?" Isaac asked of any of the commanders that would listen.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:52 pm
"Everyone, shower up, meet in the briefing room in thirty," Camille called out.
"We'll explain at the debriefing," Rose whispered to Isaac.
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