The under sea bastion (update first page, Dom's challenge!)

[The Last Pedigree]

Xypher began to rapidly swipe out, making circular motions with one hand infront of him, whilst the other swiped behind him and to his right side. He was trying to cover as much of the ocean around him as he could. As he moved he noticed the lack of oxygen, he figured he could hold for maybe a minute longer before he was forced to go to the surface, it was all the movement he was doing. To compensate for the traction in the water he began to roll his wrists as he swiped too, covering even more area...  

[kaiori]

*The shrimp move in formations, as you swing out, they create a hole in their pattern. A few stray creatures are hit, they screech and die. Their black blood spreads out, dangerously in the water. This slashing method doesn’t seem very effective, perhaps something with a wider range of attack?*  

[Jim Hensley]

Prototype model: Dem Dre...ACTIVE

Storm wrought seas churn and twist, high gale winds lapping at the steady thump-thump of the over head chopper's blades. "Deploy! Deploy!" One voice shouted into the mic wound around his head, attatched to a pair of muffled ear cusps that provided feed back audio. The chopper, black as night and equiped with the latest in night time warfare, hung teetering in the air as a box, produced of heavy steel, was all but hurled from the airborn machine as winds ripped it away. The chopper stayed low to the water as it made a mad drive back to saftey, "Package away!" That voice said again as the metalic box struck water.

The turbulant seas errupted with a loud splash as the box was quickly engulfed by the darkened seas. Bubbles cloaked the opening of the box and the deployment of prototype model Dem Dre. A blast of sonar errupted in an expelling radius from the prototype as it's passive sensory systems began turning on, one by one. Sonar, radar (useless underwater), infrared, and siesmic. Passive sensors activating it needed only a few minutes before combat functions began.  

[kaiori]

(( stare I don’t want any stalls in this rp. So we will continue))
*The shrimp turn and swarm upon the new object in their waters. Once again, they’ll merely circle, asking for their opponent to show itself and attack first.*  

[Jim Hensley]

Passive sensors: ...ACTIVE
Combat mode: ...ENGAGED

Blinding lights flashed on, the dull thunk of shutters being opened, and swiveled the reveal the massive swarm of giant shrimplike monsters circling the prototype. Seven feet tall, the twin fin-like extremidies on it's back adding another half a foot, the machine stood in the water. Gleaming a dull white color, gray along the eyes and shoulder fins, Dem Dre revealed his splendor yet more as pads opened up along his armor. Two on his pectorals, and opposite on his shoulder blades. A single pad opened on his abdominal region with two on his lower back to match. His outer theighs and forearms bore these strange pads as well.

"Charge attack: Alpha." The pilot, yet to be seen and thus described, said to Dem Dre's new prototype AI, in a voice suited for a youthful man.

Charge attack: Alpha. In other words the newest model of GW shock pads were about to be tested, not to mention the shock nullification circuit, all in the first minute or two of the test. Joy. Running five hundred kilowatts of electricity around his body, current flowing on a level that would easily kill an elephant, with an experimental suit of resistance to guard him. No matters. It took only a second for the pads to absorbe the energy the required from his hydrogen full cell pack and another half second to discharge said electricity in a dome that engulfed a radius of eight feet wide. Needless to say anything within this radius, and anything boardering those within the radius, of attack were going to make ideal fish sticks in a split second.  

[kaiori]

*The shrimp screech and burst like little bloody bubbles. Their black blood starts to swarm the water, it’s highly acidic.*  

[Jim Hensley]

Dem Dre: ...MALFUNCTION

And of course, with all great weapons, the Dem Dre had some bugs it needed tinkering out. The electrical null shielding system that this latest peice of hardware implimented was perfect in theory but less than in actual. Systems began blacking out one by one, tubes of polyglass - a substance created by rappidly fusing molten glass within tempered glass - turned black as their designs were fragged. Fuses blown, systems shutting down, the Dem Dre no longer had any stabilitizers to call on...and plumited.

"s**t!" Shouted the young man's voice, into a com unit that wasn't working, as the Dem Dre unit began sinking like a massive rock. Into the acid it plunged, the chemically dilluded water etching away at metals designed to withstand HE -High Explosive - impact. At it's current rate of acceleration it'd pass though the acid cloud without sustaining any heavy damage, aside of course from it's primary outer armor which would likely be lost entirely, but unless he could reactivate his stablizers the crushing water pressure of the depths were going to buckle his unit into a ball the size of a fist.  

[kaiori]

1. Defeat the shrimp swarm (completed)

*As you descend you may notice a small black fish circling far down below you.*  

[Jim Hensley]

The small black fish below the Dem Dre unit went unnoticed for a number of reason, a few being that with all optical cameras shut down no video feed was being inputed into the pilots mind. Bypass circutry flicked on an off as the young man aboard the unit attempted to find an alternate route to the stabilizer controls.

Note to self: No not discharge C-A Alpha while submerged under water.
Result: Serious damage to internal structure, weapon circuits; stabilizers; sensory nodes.

Computer working furiously the pressure of the ocean began mounting, already the PSI of the depths climbing to a dangerous level, and, like a rock, the suit continued sinking.

"Come on," The pilot said to the machine as he flipped back to the primary control line and doubled back on the secondary stabilizer jets located under the heels of each boot. "Come on!" No good, a second attempt by rerouting power from the C-A weapondry system into the aeral navigation systems. No good. "Damn it! Work you stupid peice of s**t!" A metalich hand smacked the unit's head and lights began flickering on. Stabilizer units damaged irreperably with the exception of the ones located under each shoulder blade. Useless outside of the current enviroment, but once he could locate a clearing in the storm he could call for immediate evac. In the mean time, while the unit began acending to the surface, he began working on sensory restoration.  

[kaiori]

*The little fish grows larger as it comes towards you. A shark, a robotic shark. Racing through the water it reaches out at you, large metal teeth, snapping out at your feet.*  

[Jim Hensley]

The feet it would get, but, and even despite the modifications to an already deadly aquatic creature, it was highly unlikely that the robo-shark would match up against the giga-steel plating or the titanium exoskeleton the Dem Dre unit boasted as it's primary, and only, defensive measures for pure melee attacks. Giga-steel was a modification to the already impressive strength of durasteel, utilizing artificial molecular bonding to form a plating capable of transmitting energy throughout it's structure to lower the amount of damage taken. In other words this steel spreads the impact across it's entire surface, rather than attempt to absorb it entirely like regularly processed minerals of similar caliber.

Like a comedic rope trip the Dem Dre's feet were jerked out from under it, it's body flailing against the side of the shark's body as the living and mechanical, natural despite the augmentations, torpedo zipped through the water carrying over twelve billion credits worth of equipment in it's mouth.

"God damn it!" The pilot shouted, growing more and more paniced as newer threats assailed him. The unit's test run was suppose to be difficult, but this was beyond comprehension! How was he suppose to field test a model that shut down after it's first attack!? With no sensors to rely on the pilot did the only thing natural to a frenzied human, he attacked without really seeing. Fists capable of dozeing through bunker walls flailed about, fists augmented of course by the Dem Dre's suit, as the pilot attempted some sort of self rescue. Oh damn it why was he alone down here?! Damn it!  

[kaiori]

*The shark wouldn’t clamp down harder or move it’s jowls at all. Three diamond tipped drills were mounted at the roof of the shark’s mouth and now they moved forward to pierce its prey. The flailing would slow the shark and yet its hull took most of the damage without effect. The creature would continue dragging downwards. Where was it again that a shark was most sensitive?*  

[Jim Hensley]

Had the pilot of Dem Dre not been human, capable of reasoning through his fear induced panic, he would have been more tactful of his attacks. Struck at locations more vulnerable to a creature, even modified as such, of this design, but alas. Humans were creatures prone to over reacting, stupidity, and destructive nature. With robo-shark clamped fully and completely down on Dem Dre's armored legs, the diamond tipped bits buzzing slivers of giga-steel from the frame of armor, and his body flailing about against the side Dem Dre had little offensive options remaining. C-A Alpha was still down, and plus the null shockers wouldn't take another charge of that magnitude, and C-A Beta wasn't worth using under water.

Flight or fight was the human's reaction in every situation. One would either flee, flight, or stand and confront, fight, what ever it was that was bothering him or her. With the option of fight now gone the Dem Dre pilot attmpeted flight, activating the only stabilizing units currently in working order. Super heated hydrogen spewed forth, exploding hundreds and thousands of times to produce the same thrust described in most jet fuels, from the stabilizers on the bottoms of it's heels, sending the fire scortching down the aquatic killing machine's throat. Though submerged the hydrogen birthed flames were ideal in this terrain as they actually used the water around the explosions to produce more fuel for the thrust. Bad shark.  

[The Last Pedigree]

((ahh sorry, I've been in germany for a while))

Xypher saw towards the surface of the water, and as he hit it he took a deep breath. He was glad for the other object that had been in the water, it had distracted the shrimp from him. Now he took in the air in deep gulps, trying to recover himself. As he looked down he could see that the shrimp had been reduced to nothing by the second oncomer, but the on comer had also then been taken down by something large. The only thing Xypher could tell about the object was that the light caught it ever so slightly.

He took in a large breath and then began to head back under the water, swimming for the large object and the hopefully friendly other attacker. As he swam the grip he had on his blades tightened.