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Post by B. B. Wolf on Mar 17, 2008 14:22:06 GMT -6
BB grins and pats Phay on the back.
"You'll be fine, thugs tend to be looked down upon here, mostly high class criminal activity. So alls you have to do is what you say you will."
He flips a switch and the hatch steams open, a small rush of air coming into the ship. BB breathes deeply and sighs. Gotta love the smell of fresh air on a new planet. Then he gets a sudden idea.
"You know, you might even be able to find a couple of new attachments for your suit. That'll really give ya somethin' to work on," he says. He grabs his pistol and makes sure his knife is handy before heading outside.
The snapping of the branch sounded like a gunshot and BB ducked behind a tree for cover, trusting in Phays abilities to fend for himself.
"Think we should check that out or leave it be?" he asks.
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Post by lonemanslayer on Mar 17, 2008 15:11:57 GMT -6
Phay narrowed his eyes at B.B.’s comments about the people they would be dealing with. He wasn’t thrilled to be dealing with criminals, be them high class or not.
But the second his friend mentioned something about acquiring new parts for his mech he perked up. If he had a weakness it had to be obsessing about mecha, fixing, upgrading and piloting them he loved it. This wasn’t to say that he enjoyed fighting or anything but there was nothing like strapping your self into a human avatar war titan and go blazing across the stars. So Phay shrugged and decided that he would go along with it.
As the ramp descended he breathed in the air, he hadn’t realized how long it had been sense he had breathed in natural stuff. He closed his eyes for a second and took in the scents in the air and the sounds of the environment. As he steeped down the ramp onto the ground he began to check his gear as well making sourer his weapon was loaded and he had his supplies.
Just then he heard the noise as well and dove for cover behind a fallen tree. He looked around but couldn’t see anything. He turned back to B.B. “…..ya maybe we should go check that out…don’t feel like getting shot in the back today had to planed for later”
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Post by Kagome on Mar 31, 2008 11:50:00 GMT -6
Ariana had just bent down to collect a sample of an odd looking fungus growing at the base of a tree when she heard the crack and crash of a tree branch breaking and falling, at the noise her whole group whipped out their weapons and spun around to the source of the crash and thats when they saw the boy.
After a moment of silence Ariana glanced around at her shocked crew and took a step toward the boy her weapon still in her hand. She couldn't believe they had found someone so quickly!! Excited, scared, and cautious, she approached him with her team at her back.
Garhen, meanwhile was at Ariana's heels, he knew she had a penchant for getting herself into trouble and wanted to stay close, but something about this boy was digging at the back of his mind... As he looked closer he saw that the boy hadn't really been hurt by the fall just shaken up, and his clothing seemed a bit advanced for such a pristine world...then he saw his ankle and that he was bleeding, kinda...
As Ariana approached the boy she slide her gun back into her holster hoping he wouldn't think of her as a threat and run, she wanted to make sure he wasn't hurt and to get to know him and if he really was a resident of this planet she wanted to know more about the society and lives of the occupants of the planet. As she got within five feet of him she stopped and squatted down on his level, and asked in a calm voice,
"Are you alright?"
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Post by phoenixrising on Mar 31, 2008 19:20:24 GMT -6
Lyndis kept his eyes fixed on Ariana, only moving his gaze to quickly glance at Garhen and the rest of the crew before returning to the much closer threat at hand. His breathing picked up a bit, nervousness starting to prick at his heart. His more mature mentality struggled to squash his anxiety down, and think of a plan. There was no way they knew where he'd come from. To them he was just some young child they'd happened upon... on an alien planet... that was supposed to be uninhabited.
"Y-... yes," he mumbled, putting on the most puppy-eyed expression he could muster without wanting to gag. He inched back from the woman ever so slowly, wary as predator and taught as a deer about to bolt.
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Post by B. B. Wolf on Apr 1, 2008 10:31:41 GMT -6
BB nods his head and motions first toward where the noise came from, then that he was gonna circle around from behind... And above. He holsters his gun and, using his claws and abnormal strength, silently pulls himself up the tree he's hiding behind. Then, making sure to stick to the thicker branches, he makes his way towards the sound. Jumping, crawling, and even swinging once. Silent as a shadow he moves. When he's a good distance away, he pulls his gun out again, cocks it, and then spies on the group from above.
He immediately recognized Ariana and her crew. And the boy looked familiar too, but for some reason, he couldn't quite place it...
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Post by Kagome on Jul 3, 2008 17:16:50 GMT -6
Ariana smiled as the boy scooted away from her, glad he was ok, and kinda doubting her earlier assumptions that he was from this planet. Still smiling, she nodded at the boy before saying,
"Well, it's good to see you are alright..."
After a quick glance over her shoulder at her wary crew she turned back to the boy...Not really expecting an answer she asked,
"Might we know your name?"
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Post by phoenixrising on Jul 3, 2008 22:01:01 GMT -6
Lyndis looked at her carefully, sure for the time that she wasn't going to go touching him quite yet. She seemed the naive sort, smart, but naive. It was people like her that tried to do some good in the world, and then got shot for all their innocent intentions. She was also the type he had the least, and the most, to fear from. On one hand all she wanted to do was help him. On the other, she had no idea what kind of danger she was getting into. Still she wasn't part of the company, so he supposed it wouldn't hurt. Besides, he'd be shocked if the company knew by anything other than his project name.
"It's Lyndis, um . . ." He looked behind the captain at the crew and decided that for now the sweet innocenct kid act was the best way to go. "Could you maybe get your friends to put their guns away. I really don't want to add bullet wounds to my list of injuries today."
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Post by Kagome on Sept 12, 2008 11:36:08 GMT -6
Ariana looked back over her shoulder at the comment about her crew and nodding slightly to Garhen she said,
"Come on guys put them away,"
Then catching the suspicious look on everyone' face she added...
"Just for now..."
There as a tense moment as everyone slowly lowered their weapons one at a time, Seglin being the last. Each of them still cast untrusting glances at the boy. They would do whatever it took to keep their captian safe, even if that meant....
Ariana smiled at her crew, proud of thier restraint, then turning back to the boy she asked,
"So why are you out all alone in the middle of this forest?"
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Post by valhallanknight on Sept 13, 2008 2:17:31 GMT -6
"Good as new," cheered the first voice A-LX heard as his system booted up. He shuddered as the gaping hole in his chest sparked and he was alerted to the obvious fact that he was low on power and in need of repair. "Well," continued the voice. "Good enough."
A-LX heard typing and his eyes turned on, though he would have rather they'd remained off. He found himself in a cage with bars he was in no condition to bend, with his left hand shackled on the other side of the bars and the USB port in his palm was housing a cable that ran into the laptop. The man typing on the laptop ignored the robot's stare and nodded his head in satisfaction at the system diagnostics check.
"I'd only give a few hundred dollars off," he assured the only other man in the room.
A-LX sluggishly slid his eyes to the side, taking in everything he could see. The room was large and filled with everything from computers to mech parts- all looking brand new but still somehow missing any vin numbers or ownership tags. There were other robots, though they were far less advanced, and even one full suit of mech armor that looked like a squat, long-armed figure with tank wheels instead of legs, and two heavy rocket launchers on the round head that made up both the head and torso of the suit.
A-LX the two men in the room could not have been the only one's present in the building. Now with this much equipment. A-LX gave up on converting energy towards movement and let his head droop at the man with the laptop stood and placed the computer on the chair he'd been sitting in.
"Quit being a bitch," he warned his companion. "We've got the best mercenaries money can buy at our disposal, the bugs can't breech the inner sanctum, and our retirement package isn't going anywhere."
The man was correct of course, A-LX could not move. What he could do, however, was convert power from non-vital processes and use it to power a GPS and a radio. He scanned the frequencies quickly, hoping to find one that wasn't being used by the smugglers but did show at least some sign of being live.
"Wipe its memory, okay?" said the second voice. "We don't want it trying to return to its owner."
"You're an idiot. These bots actually learn. They start out with very little programming and have to learn different processes. If I wipe his memory we decrease his value by millions. I'm just going to re-write a few things once his new owner comes to claim him and we've been handsomely paid."
The desperation A-LX felt was a strange programming response, but excellent security. The mere thought of losing all memory of home was enough to make him suffer the closest thing a robot can get to a pure uninhibited panic attack. His terror grew with each passing moment until he thought he would burst. Then, like a light in the darkness, he found an active channel. Unfortunately, he was in no condition to approach the situation delicately.
"HELP!" he screamed over the radio channel, though the smugglers did not hear a single word of it. He rushed through the coordinated being shown on his GPS and gave the brief explanation that he was in need of immediate assistance and being held by smugglers. He continued to repeat that information with wavering desperation over and over.
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Post by phoenixrising on Sept 13, 2008 9:37:07 GMT -6
"Well. . ."
Shit now he was in a spot. He knew from looking at their records that these people were here for exploration, the glory of finding new planets and meeting new people than no one else had ever seen before. There was no way he could try and pass as a local, he knew nothing about this planet or about who, if anyone, lived here. Well, he'd admit the stowaway part if he had to. For now Ariana had only asked him what he was doing in the forest. That could be answered honestly enough.
"I was looking for a stream I heard nearby. I was hoping to find some fish or something. I haven't eaten much for a while." His comment could pass as true. If they took him for human they could blame his abnormally pale skin on sickness or hunger, which meant a few less suspicions sent in his direction.
At least the guns were gone, which meant that he could relax a little bit, but something was still making the hair on the back of his neck rise up. There was another smell in the group, a new person was around here and he couldn't pinpoint their position, not without taking his eyes away from Ariana. He still couldn't let her touch himself.
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Post by lonemanslayer on Sept 15, 2008 10:16:08 GMT -6
Phay slowly crept throught the undrebrush, he was trying his best to remember all of the land based training he had way back in the day. and such skills dont get much use in the craped confines of a space ship.
Phay noticed as he was crawling that a receving light was flashing on his com box. he had it squelched so it whouldnet rendomy rodcast a incoming message like it was trying to do.....odd though looks like it was a all channel broadcast like a SOS signal. but not much he can do with it right now, and it might be a trap..."wonderful now I am becoming paranoid.." he wisperd to himself.
after a bit of work he crawled on his belly under a large bush close where he heard the noise. from his posishion he chould see a person standing onver a child. he also noted a few other peple standing near the first, he could not make them out to well becouse the bush although giveing good cover restricted his vishion and he had to squint a little to see better nad to keep the leaves from poking out his eyes.
*well shit....B.B. headed this way...but the moron never said what to do* phay thought to himself.
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Post by B. B. Wolf on Sept 15, 2008 17:46:27 GMT -6
BB was spying on the group from above, trying to find out what they might be up to (i.e. if they were going to cause him any trouble), when he received the broadcast from A-LX. Unfortunately he neither had it so that a nifty little light was all that came on, nor did he have it turned down. So when he suddenly had a teenage voice SCREAMING for help directly into his ear, his first reaction was to grab his afflicted ear and yell: "SON OF A BITCH!"
He ripped the ear piece from his ear and jumped back into the trees, not even bothering to see if he'd been spotted. He punched a few buttons on his communications gear and radioed to Phay.
"I blew cover, but I've got their attention so see if you can slip out of there. Also, try and home in on that signal, I'm gonna find that kid and if whoever is already there hasn't killed him, I will!"
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Post by phoenixrising on Sept 17, 2008 10:20:51 GMT -6
Lyndis jerked his head up into the trees at the sudden swearing. He knew it was a male, from the voice, and what direction they were heading in. Jumping to his feet, Lyndis climbed up a nearby tree, using every bit of speed his small frame was capable of.
Once there he could see the quickly retreating figure of the spy. His brain ran through all possible routes and strategies as he ran after the other, careful of rotten branches this time. He didn't want to fall through again- wait a second. A smile curled upon his lips at the thought. If a rotten branch couldn't support even his slight weight, there was no way it could support the hulking mass of the man ahead of him.
The black smoke that radiated off his body stretched far beyond his own reach and then grabbed the branch that the man had just landed on. The effect was instantaneous. The wood darkened and became brittle, cracking and turning a dull grey color as it rotted.
"Who are you?" he demanded of the spy, in voice that sounded much older than than his young countenance suggested.
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Post by B. B. Wolf on Sept 17, 2008 18:50:48 GMT -6
BB cursed again as the branch beneath him suddenly rotted and broke. Immediately his arm shot out, and the clawed tips of his fingers dug into the tree, slowing his decent. He caught sight of the the kid from the clearing still approaching.
Where the hell have I seen him before?...
BB touched down gently and wrenched his claws from the tree before pulling the collar of his vest up to hide his face. Just because he wanted to recognize the boy didn't mean he wanted to be recognized. Lowering the pitch of his voice then, and growling out his words so they couldn't match his voice, he spoke.
"Leave now kid, you're way out of your league."
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Post by phoenixrising on Sept 17, 2008 19:16:40 GMT -6
Lyndis dropped down into his best attempt at a fighting stance. This man didn't scare him, or at least he didn't feel scared. He took note of the claws, glancing quickly to see the deep gashes they made in the tree before focusing back on the spy. He noted that close combat was not advisable, but would still have to be followed through given what he had to work with.
"I asked who you were. Why were you spying on us?" the implication of course was, 'why were you spying on me?' He knew this guy had been watching him, and he was going to be uncomfortable and edgy until he knew why.
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