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Topic Started: Nov 26 2010, 09:02 PM (26,987 Views)
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The Crazy One

[Crashed Airship]

The blond man was a bit taken aback by Kanna's reaction. This woman was... scary.

“My apologies. I did not mean to ruin your corset... I am not trained in medicine, and truth be told, this was the first time I've had to sew wounds shut on someone besides myself.”

That was a somewhat... eerie... statement to make. The man shrugged it off, and extended a hand to Jason.

“... You can call me Red.”

[…]

“Aw, it's not like you to be so negative!” Sama teased his friend, though it was also uncommon for most people to remain optimistic when they were trapped in the desert.

The desert... the land beyond the wall... it was legendary to the people of Hydron. The rumors about what happened to people in the desert were horrible, and a few of the soldiers who had ventured outside the wall would always swear the reality was ten times worse than rumor.

“I won't let anything bad happen to you, I promise.” Sama gave her a thumbs up.

[…]

“Ah... hello.”

Tony Stark had found his way to the engine room, finding Jimi, Galv and Melanie. He rubbed his neck, having not expected to find kids in here. “Is everyone alright? I... uh... need to borrow the engine.”
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-Crashed Airship-

“There are a lot of engineers here,” Ethan said, “We might be able to make some kind of vehicle to transport everyone, instead of going by foot...Cannibalize some parts from the engine, other parts...”

Samuel frowned. He was worried about Galv, who, as far as he knew, was back in the city, all alone.



“We...we'll get back home sis, don't worry!” Hammah said, trying to comfort his sister, “I'll do whatever I need to in order to make sure we get back...and I'm sure Jimi is okay! We'll find him, have a laugh, and all be together again...”



Jimi narrowed his eyes at Stark as he appeared.

“We just crashed, and you're trying to take parts?” Jimi frowned, “What are you going to use them for? Hmmmm?”

Galv paused, glancing to Melanie. He didn't know who Stark was.
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Rica's eyes lit up (behind his glasses) and he laughed, clapping his BFF on the back.

“You're a genius, Ethan! We could build some sort of smaller... sandship, using the hull and some simple propulsion systems. It wouldn't be too difficult, and considering Gallic and Stark are both here too, we should have more than enough brilliant minds to put together.”

[…]

Stark flashed a grin to Jimi, and held up his hands.

“Whoa, hold on now. I'm no threat kid. Unless you're an attractive woman and even then, I'm only really a 'threat' in the sense I'm a bit of a perv.”

He's blunt, too.

“My name is Anthony Stark, I'm the President and CEO for Stark Industries. I build airships like this for a living. Right now, we're stuck outside the wall of Hydron. This was a luxury airship... it's only a matter of time until we're attacked by bandits. They'll steal everything of value, kidnap the rich, and kill the rest of us... if we're lucky.”

Stark shuddered. “I have an idea. Something I've wanted to try for a while now... I need the correct parts, and I think I can build something that will help us get home, and fight off the bandits.”
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Didymus watched and listened warily as the aristocrats started offering their services, then their own ideas.

Great...they'll build some device that will get them all back, and/or suffer casualties doing it...they'll get the credit for getting what of themselves they could back alive, and any casualties and the fact that this even occured in the first place will be placed at the feet of your team..of course, when they learn about Samuel, they'll excuse him and use him for good or ill, and Alice will be shielded by her father...which means any blame for what's gone wrong and will go wrong will be laid squarely at MY feet...

He shook his head. Those thoughts...came too easily to him these days.

"Alright. Malvin, do we have a schematic of the airship somewhere? I don't know what the aristocrats plan on building, but if it's a transport of some kind I imagine we will have the easier task of holding the line here while they work, but we should try to plan the best defense, maybe gather the survivors to the most easily-defended rooms or something..."

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Alice nodded and pounded one fist into the other palm. “That's a great idea! If we have a schematic, we can find the most easily defended rooms, and give the engineers a better idea of what they have to work with! We need to find one...”

“... Sorry, but that will be hard.” One of the crew of the airship approached. “... The schematics were all in the captain's quarters... and from what I heard, most of the captain's quarters were destroyed in the wreck. We could shuffle through the rubble, but it could take hours to find anything...”

Then, suddenly, a single shot rang out! Alice drew her sword, and instantly many of the aristocrats panicked – again.

“Alright you! All of you just hold still and nobody gets hurt!”

A mysterious girl jumped down from a nearby sand dune, aiming a machine gun at the group!
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The Airship was trashed. Upon impact, everything inside was thrown upside down, and much of the entire superstructure was destroyed during the crash landing. Without any heat from the boilers, no hot air kept the ship in the air. With additional damage to the outer shell, it went down.

Hard.

Riley, who had jumped out at the last moment to try and do some patch work, realized a bit too late that there was absolutely nothing he could do. To a mechanic, that was one of the worst things to realize - the thought that having no time to save lives was horrifying to the boy.

Then came the lurch, and Riley, unsupported and not holding onto anything, went head-first into the buster boiler, smashing against the interior steel layer and knocking him out like a light as more metallic rubble buried him under.

And it was only now that the boy was groggily waking up.

He hurt all over, but that wasn't surprising. What was surprising was that he couldn't move very well. Pain wasn't new to the boy, living in the slums taught him all to early that fighting with bigger boys tended to end up in broken bones on both sides. But not being able to move brought him to full alert in seconds.

He was trapped, but luckily the large amount of steel piping and mechanical gears and pieces were not pressing directly onto his chest. A lot of it actually created a support for itself.

That still meant the boy was trapped though... And he had a headache like no one would believe! Something kept playing around him, some sort of repetitive music like if one opened a small music box, but he just couldn't grasp WHERE it was coming from.

"Ugh... Ow... Hello? Anybody there? Heeeelp?"
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Let them Label me! Let them swear and curse at me as I tug humanity like a bucking bull into the darkness of the unknown, revealing its secrets to the sane and driving them MAD! In ages long past, I shall be looked upon as a tyrant and a savior! As a savant and as a fool! My work shall advance humanity long past its time, throw it into the unknown future and force it to grow strong or FALL! Years from now, when I will inevitably be removed, my work shall continue to progress, because these things cannot be denied! Governments will publicly criticize my work, but privately conduct research that advances it! I shall imprint myself into the annals of history, among the stars that shine as brightly as Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Dmitri Mendeleev, Nikola Tesla, and countless others! My work will shine as brightly as any star, and I AM ITS CREATOR!!!
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Didymus grunted in annoyance as the crewman delivered his report. Couldn't ANYTHING be going right?

Another shot rang out, and Didymus' mind was once again focused, and he brought his own weapon around.

“Alright you! All of you just hold still and nobody gets hurt!”

"Good gosh." Didyums said, out loud. "Are we the ONLY ones on this whole blasted ship who think it would be a good idea to keep a watch?!"

He now had his own weapon out, and regarded the newcomer.

"...why don't you just go back down the way you came? You're in over your head here. So what if you shoot one, two of us? The rest of us will get you. So if you just turn around and leave us be, then indeed, nobody gets hurt. Otherwise, you're just trading your life for one or two or three of ours-is that REALLY worth it to you?"
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Samuel frowned, staring at the girl with the machine gun. He could just charge her, but the ricochet might hurt someone else...

“Lady, you're the one who shouldn't move,” Ethan glared, “There are several people here who could take you down before you got a shot off. I would put the gun down and walk away...”

He cracked his knuckles, ready to charge himself.

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Jimi still frowned at Stark. He didn't trust most of the companies...Not after his parents died in the accident five years ago. He always thought one or more of the companies had a hand in it.

“Alright. I'm going to make sure these two kids get to the adults...Then I'm coming back, got it?” Jimi asked, glaring at the taller man.

“Somebody help!”

Jimi paused, distracted as a white haired girl was trying to shift debris.

“Riley, I'm coming!” Aiden yelled, still trying to rescue her friend.
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Riley was in quite a jam.

While most of the stuff that fell on him was loose metallic bots that didn't have much of an impact, the main thing that kept him trapped was a support beam from one of the boilers.

Which in itself resembled an enormous steel girder. Due to both its weight and size, it was almost impossible to get it off of the large pile that buried Riley under it, especially with only Aiden and Riley trying to do something about it.

And Riley was in no place to have access to his backpack at the moment.

"Hello? Aiden? Whew, thank goodness you're alright! Listen, I'm not going to be able to get out of here without some heavy-duty help. There's a piece of framework that's keeping all this stuff in place and I can't lift it, it seems to be attached to the framework."
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~ Desty Nova, Karmatron Theory

Let them Label me! Let them swear and curse at me as I tug humanity like a bucking bull into the darkness of the unknown, revealing its secrets to the sane and driving them MAD! In ages long past, I shall be looked upon as a tyrant and a savior! As a savant and as a fool! My work shall advance humanity long past its time, throw it into the unknown future and force it to grow strong or FALL! Years from now, when I will inevitably be removed, my work shall continue to progress, because these things cannot be denied! Governments will publicly criticize my work, but privately conduct research that advances it! I shall imprint myself into the annals of history, among the stars that shine as brightly as Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Dmitri Mendeleev, Nikola Tesla, and countless others! My work will shine as brightly as any star, and I AM ITS CREATOR!!!
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[Engineering]

Stark nodded to Jimi.

“Certainly. You're welcome to do whatever you'd like. Saving children is a good way to spend your time. I'll just be here, tinkering.”

Stark flashed a grin, and then headed towards one of the engines. If this was going to work he would need a power source... and he would need to get together enough scrap metal to build something in a hurry...

[Ballroom]

Rikku chuckled.

“Hahah! You guys are a riot, you know that? I don't think you get just how bad a situation you're really in, fellas! All it would take is a little shaky shaky and you guys would be on the floor! But I'm not big on killing people, you know?”

She grinned, and seemed fairly confident for someone who was outnumbered in a very big way.

“See.... I noticed you guys pretty quick... so I set up some stuff for ya!” Rikku grinned, and she held up a detonator in her opposite hand as the gun. “See that big ridge behind us? It's totally loaded with TNT! If you guys don't stand down, I'll blow the ridge and send a rock slide tumbling down!”

Was she serious? Who knows! But she has a machine gun and a bomb, so she felt she was entitled to be in charge.
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“Hahah! You guys are a riot, you know that? I don't think you get just how bad a situation you're really in, fellas! All it would take is a little shaky shaky and you guys would be on the floor! But I'm not big on killing people, you know?”


NO. Didymus thought. Like heck I'm letting someone like THIS hold us up.

"Again, several of us standing in different locations-myself included-have ready weapons which are either out or could be out in a moment, and between us I'm confident that you WOULD be hit. So you're threatening us with a rockslide? That, too, will result in your death-if the rockslide which would then be careening towards us all didn't get you, one of us would."

He paused, again doubting that logic would work on this person.

"So as it stands, the fact is that YOU are the one who's being held up here. You've bitten off more than you can chew one way or another-so why don't you just spit it out before it chokes you and be on your way quietly?"

He wondered what this girl even wanted, but kept his own weapon trained on her.

He had half a mind to just try blowing her away, but resisted that impulse, at least for now...

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"Oh for the love of god, get out of our sights"

It seemed as if Kanna was back up, even though she had just been sewn back together of few moments ago. She looked especially pissed, and was now focusing all of her tension on this dumb girl with a machine gun.

She looked back at Ethan "Step aside, I'll rip out this girl's spine an beat her with it...." she grinned "You don't mind do you darling?"

Kanna was....Scary. But hot. But scary.

[...]

Colette sniffled a bit, rubbing her wet eyes and watching her big brother "You sure?" she asked, sounding at least a little hopeful "I wanna go home...This was a bad idea...."

[...]

Melanie wasn't sure how she felt about some random guy coming in and tinkering with the destroyed engine (or maybe stealing it, she wasn't sure) but who was she to say anything against it. Instead she stayed beside Galv, looking over at Tony and Jimi curiously.

Suddenly Melanie remembered that Stark had been the one her mother had been talking with earlier. The girl frowned a bit and looked over at him.

"Excuse me mister...Ummm you haven't seen my mother around have you?" Melanie asked quietly, looking a bit anxious.

“Aw, it's not like you to be so negative!”

"But it's totally like you to be so horribly optimistic" Crystal managed with a small grin. She then gave a slight shrug "Fine, i'm gonna put my full trust in the fact that you can get us out of here Sama, don't fail me okay?"
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Rikku hesitated. The girl had a machine gun, some well-placed TNT and... and that was about all, aside from her 'special weapon'. On the other hand, she had found a group of angry, cranky aristocrats who had wanted a ball and instead crash landed in the desert.

“Oooh, you think your tough, huh soldier boy?” She didn't seem particularly intimidated by Didymus' reasoned logic. Though it did make sense that she had no chance in successfully robbing them, something about logic just didn't connect in her mind.

Then Kanna said some lovely things, and Rikku flinched.

“... No idea who that woman is, but I like the way she thinks.” Rica muttered to Ethan. Because it's Lulz.

Rikku took a few cautious steps back, and suddenly started to think of a plan B.

“I'm telling you... if you don't give up right now I'm going to have to go all out on you!” Rikku warned them in her scariest voice. (Which is only slightly scarier than Melanie's most intimidating voice.)

[…]

Stark was busy trying to disassemble the vital engine components when he heard a young girl's voice asking him about her mom. The last time that had happened, he had been slapped with a paternity suit. It took Tony a moment to realize this was nothing like that.

“Oh... you're Kanna's kid, aren't you? Yeah, your mom's outside. She's... fine. A few scratches.”

Tony didn't want to tell Melanie her mom had been shot. And he wasn't going to mention that he was trying to bow chicka wow wow her either, out of respect.

[…]

Sama chuckled and nodded, giving a thumbs up.

“You got it! I promise we'll be fine. Now... first thing's first, we need a way to get outside... hmm... Ah! I've got it!”

Sama decided to use his head... sorta... and punch the wall with his automail fist! Of course, the wall crumbled – revealing the room beneath the pilot's room... the engineering room, where Stark, Jimi, Melanie and Galv were.

“Hey, people!”
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Kanna didn't seem intimidated in the least, instead the woman continued forward flexing her hand a bit.

"Poor girl, you sound so scared, how about you stand down before you have your heart ripped out and fed to you....I know you would rather live...right?"

Ahhh Kanna....She's soooo....Kanna.

"Or we can fight...I'd like to take my annoyances out on someone."

She cracked her knuckles and grinned.

[...]

Melanie let out a tiny breath, relieved her mother was seemingly fine. Of course she only had a moment to relax before the wall broke through on Sama's side-successfully scaring the bejeebers out of the poor little girl.

With a jump and a little noise Melanie clung to Galv's arm.

Crystal followed Sama through the whole..."Uhhhh hello there"
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Didymus sighed.


“Oooh, you think your tough, huh soldier boy?”


He had tried being speaking rationally and professionally, and between this, the standoff with the thugs earlier, Alice's sisters, and more, he felt as though something was about to snap inside him. Kanna was annoyed, that much is clear, but Didymus had a fair deal of frustration inside him currently building up...but no. He HAD to stay focused.



"...I..."

I can fly off the handle at Malvin or something later. he thought, trying to calm himself with a bit of humor.

“I'm telling you... if you don't give up right now I'm going to have to go all out on you!”

"You make ONE move to threaten us and I'll unload my entire clip into that pretty face of yours, then another after you're down for good measure. And that's to say nothing of what everyone ELSE will do. ...but no one wants that. So PLEASE, I'm begging you, put down your weapon and leave us alone...or I, and if not me, someone or any number of the rest of us, WILL kill you. Simple as that."

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