[I go home after fighting Plasma Harrier...]
You enter the Medical Support - Skull Fortress.
Medical Support - Skull Fortress
Between such resident medics as Dust Man and Junk Man, this room is as much a scrap heap as a medical facility, and as much a warzone as a scrap heap. Towards the front are three fully equipped repair tables and an automatic repair chamber, and the room is ringed by cabinets and storage units, if you can get to them through the piles of defunct drones and spare parts. The latest generation of Master medical assistant drones has been specially designed for this environment, with a radar positioning system and an additional pair of drill arms. One wall features three giant diagnostics displays. These can be used to call up known information on both friends and foes.
Contents: Contents:
Cold Man's Chamber Dynamo Man's Charger
The Dust Heap <TDH> Repair Chamber
Hydraulic Doors <NE>: Vehicle Docking - Skull Fortress
Reinforced Doors <NW>: Teleporters - Skull Fortress
North <N>: Lift Landing - Skull Fortress
Gyfu> And as Jet enters, the Falconis ramps up in speed quickly, leaving the area as fast as it came. Mission complete.
The repair chamber hisses open, revealing a fully restored Bass.
Bass has arrived.
Repair Chamber drops Bass.
Dr. Wily sends you a tightbeam radio transmission: "Success in dealing with that irritating Repliforcer?"
Bass changes into his Bass armor.
[Radio] You send Dr. Wily a direct message: "*exhales* I MISSED. But I don't think he'll FORGET ME... *pause* Sorry, Dad... I'm just..angry."
Dr. Wily sends you a tightbeam radio transmission: "Perfectly understandable, Tengu. If you wish and aren't badly damaged, join myself and your brothers in Moscow. A little relaxation may do you good."
[Radio] You send Dr. Wily a direct message: "Okay, Dad...I need a little patchin' up, but I'll come afterwards... *pause* Do you want us in disguise?"
Gyfu> Repliforce Dropship <Falconis> enters the Sky Above Nile Region.
Gyfu> Repliforce Dropship <Falconis> has left.
Dr. Wily sends you a tightbeam radio transmission: "Some of your brothers are disguised, others are not. I guess that leaves it up to you."
[Radio] You send Dr. Wily a direct message: "Okay. See you there, Dad. Have fun."
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Message: 12/43 Posted Author
AAR: Operation Bulls**t Sun Oct 20 Bass
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< Omnious Bass Spinny: audio only >
"Congratulations to my target practice victims today. You didn't e-ring. Good work. You can have an extra helping of dessert at dinner."
"I beat up the guy who was able to figure out the whole thing was a ruse so badly that I don't think anything he'll say about that day will hold much water. And I beat the b&*(# down who kicked Treble with a lead pipe. You can see what I did to them afterward on the news."
"Commendations now. Sword Man has earned his place as Theta commander. I will consider this next time he needs a favor. Tengu Man has similarly done well by giving me adequate cover fire during the fight. He is elevated to Level 2 Master, replacing the pathetic Astro Man as Theta advisor."
"Oh, and the stealth transport's been shot all to hell again. I've got crews working on it. It'll be a while before it can be used again."
"That is all."
< Transmission ends. >
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[Bass fiddles with things, for about a minute I am Theta XO, according to the roster. :) I just have to share this, though...check the titles in our squad. ^<^]
============================== Roster for Theta ==============================
Name Rank/Title Function Last On
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@ Sword Man 4/White Knight Blade Assault <Connected>
# Clown Man 3/Krusty the K Psychological Warfare Oct 17, 2002
Tengu Man 2/Pinocchio Aerial Assault <Connected>
Grenade Man 1/ Demolitions Sep 08, 2002
Frost Man 1/Popsicle Cryo Assault Dec 31, 1969
Aqua Man 1/Fireman Fire Control Dec 31, 1969
Search Man 1/ Search and Destroy Dec 31, 1969
Astro Man 1/Stellar Body Orbital Defense Dec 31, 1969
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@ - Squad CO # - Squad XO
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__/ Robot Master: Aqua Man \__________________________________________________
Code Name: Big Gay Aqua
Real Name: Aqua Man
SN: DWN 064
Primary Specialty: Fire Control
Secondary Specialty: Being Handsome, 'Kay?
IC Email: (In-Character E-Mail address.)
Rank: 1/Fireman
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Short Note: Designed to help stop lab fires, was retrofit and armed with a new aquatic weapons technology. Childish, vain, and flamboyant in nature, he spends more time on himself than fighting. Loves attention. Employs various attacks involving "heavy water," including his "Water Balloon," which can flatten even the sturdy metal. Can run dry during critical moments.
Education/Skills: Really good at doing stuff with water. Has atrocious fashion sense. A little, you know, /funny/.
Command Note: Punk sez: "Don't even get me started.."
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Primary Weapon: Water Balloon Weapon Type: WATER
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[I am fixed. Not completely, but enough that auto-heal will take care of it. I go for waffles!]
You enter the Moscow - Commercial District.
Moscow - Commercial District
This is home to dozens and dozens of corporate headquarters and offices, as well as the Moscow Stock Exchange. Skyscrapers and Stratoscrapers, adorned with the logos of the companies, dominate over the city, connected via transport walkways. Limos, taxis, and various other forms of transportation zip through the spaces between the massive buildings, trying to get their occupants to their destination as fast as possible. Traffic tie-ups are common around rush hour, but usually everything gets back to normal soon enough.
Contents: Contents:
Kalinka [Formal] [MH] Gemini Man [Human] [RM]
Enker [Disguise] [RM] Metal Man [Armor] [RM]
Sword Man [Mysterious] [RM] Dr. Wily [Wily] [RM]
Wood Man [Olddesc] [RM]
South <S>: Moscow - Production District
East <E>: Teleportation Area--Moscow
West <W>: Moscow - Northern Downtown
Your desc has been changed to 'No_Mask'.
Wood Man smirks and slaps Sword Man on the back, not enough to hurt, "Oh, you'll like it. If you're really that worried, you can order the 'fillet mingnon', where they get the steak from 3 doors down. That's alright, but a little plain." Log grins, as if this is natural fare, and orders to the waitress when she arrives. "Anyways, I'll have a shot to start, and my usual."
Gemini Man sits in a booth on the outer edge of the group. He seems...unusually quiet, especially for him. He watches Wily for a moment...doesn't notice Kalinka yet. Probably lucky for her.
The Moscow Wafflehouse is the unholy union of the tradition Red Square meeting IHOP in a backstreet corner with the scuffling, cries, and three types of syrup. As such, the tables are the kind of laminate-impregnated wood with various trinkets of russia embedded in. Most of it was actually intentional, and not shrapnel.
The scenery is homey, along with the menu. The first third is waffles, the second fourth is vodka, and the last half is vodka and waffles. The printing is haphazard and demented, the true sign of the designer trying the product while working.(Repeat)
Dr. Wily smiles amiably at the waitress. "I'll have a double shot and the Rooti Tooti Fresh and Ridiculously Named Alcohol Platter. Oh, and could you throw in an extra order of 400 proof grits? Just a small bowl." He grins at her, then turns to look at the Masters. "Don't you love these places?" He gives a laugh at Wood and Sword. "Filet Mignon? An interesting idea." To Metal, he merely smiles. "Well, it wouldn't have been fair to deprive you of the joys of eating. Besides, who would I go to dinner with?" Snickering, he doesn't notice Kalinka come in just yet, though he does note the Gem's more subdued mood.
Kalinka sits all by her lonesome...ironically, not too far from the large party in the establishment. However, at the moment, she's too preoccupied about the strange and disturbing weather patterns than she is about people sitting around her. (Moscow is not supposed to be getting heat, humidity, and pouring rain in the autumn months!), she thinks.
Sword Man sighs. "Very well...I shall take the Filet Mignon, as well as a glass of tea..." Sword's never been much for alcohol...aside from wine and stuff. He peers about the restaurant edgily. He doesn't see 'Linka come in, but he does happen to notice a strange couple necking in the corner, which merely causes Sword to turn his head back forward, not wanting to intrude, or even know why they chose such a place to neck.
Gemini Man blinks at the Doctor. Well, good he's feeling better at least. He picks up, and looks at, a menu, reading it as if it's interesting him more than a menu ought to.
Tengu Man enters soon after, strolling in in his normal aloof fashion, having popped fresh out of the repair chamber. Nothing like waffles to finish off a hard day of impersonating a Maverick bigwig, beating up UNers and then an RFer... The strange thing about it is Tengu's notable lack of a mask... Yep. He's got a face on today. Glee! Not one of the cuter ones, but still. His wingblades are retracted, so he won't skewer a random civilian. Nope. He's too lazy to clean it up if he does... He walks into the center of the room, looking around, a bemused smirk on his face. Ooh. Brothers and Dad... ooh. Other corner. Slightly more interesting! Sai-Tengu is a little more dominant, with Akuma-Tengu sulking in the annals of his mind after utterly failing to annihilate that Repliforcer... that, and it's interesting what being called a 'bucket of KFC' will do to you. "Hey guys," he greets, waving cheerfully as he heads over to the table.
Gemini Man does look up in time to notice Tengu walking in, and, from there, follows his gaze over to the corner. Gemini blinks. Oh. For a moment, he considers just yelling out a "No-no," but, he just shrugs and looks to Wily. Let him sort it out, after all. Might be amusing, and anything amusing would lift his spirits considerably.
Kalinka leans her head down into the palms of her hands, and with her thumbs she rubs her temples...trying to ward off a fear and stress-induced migraine.
Dr. Wily hands you a cookie for a job well done!
Wood Man raises his hand and waves to Tengu in the distance, before paying attention again to the entree and vodka that starts off Wood Man's usual. (Player's AFK for a bit)
Dr. Wily is looking right at Gemini Man when the Master glances at the corner. Wily's gaze turns that way too, and he sees Kalinka. Stiffening suddenly in his chair, his mind races. oO(What is SHE doing here?)Oo. Looking away quickly, he makes a show out of studying the menu. Tengu provides a welcome distratcion and Wily waves to the Master. "Good of you to join us, Tengu." He grins, then leans back as the waitress sets his food in front of him. The Doctor inhales deeply and sighs. "Smells good. Now lets see how it tastes." Grabbing a fork and knife, he digs into his meal...
Sword Man has disconnected.
Tengu Man joins his brothers at the table, probably making one or the other scoot over to make room. He smiles at his father, making full use of actually having a visible face. "Mm...that smells good...what is it?" The urge to look behind him is oh, so strong...but no! He can't, or shouldn't... (...ugh...can't...grr.)o. <Dooooo iiiit, dooo it, do it! Hahahahaha...> (Aw, shaddup, you big bucket of fried chicken. You're just trying to get /me/ in trouble...)o. <Us. Get /us/ in trouble.> Tengu rests his head in a hand as he picks up a menu, studying the contents. "So what's good, guys?"
Kalinka blinks a few times. She heard the word 'Tengu'. And it was uttered from somewhere nearby, she's sure of it now. Glancing over without turning her head, she tries to see who exactly is sitting over at the nearby table without drawing any attention to herself...because she's beginning to realize just what's worse than sitting in an IHOP that serves vodka, with the weather threatening to turn apocolyptic.
Gemini Man is there. Making room for Tengu Man. "Well," he says, kind of grouchily. "I think maybe we'll be ordering..the waffles?" He then hands the menu to Tengu...and looks up at him. Oh. He KNOWS that look. "Something you're not telling us?"
o/~ Nerp nerp! o/~ Singing, in the same style that the Jawa parodies in Spaceballs are, Woodsy's minions enter, single file, like demented dwarf drones from a mine. They're coming in from the horrid weather outside, the cute droid conga line led by Mister Tom, with his full paint job back, leading them towards Log. Kalinka can react how she pleases.
Dr. Wily glances up from his food at the signing and snickers. "I imagine everything is good Tengu, as long as you have the stomach for vodka. He chortles and takes his shot, then waves to the waitress for another. "Don't look now, but I think we know one of fellow diners." He cocks his head slightly in the direction of Kalinka.
"Waffles, huh?" asks Tengu of Gem, then puzzles over the menu... "Huh? 'Course not," he answers almost on reflex, suddenly becoming very interested in the menu. So as to /not/ look at Gem... "Vodka? ...eh. As long as it doesn't have chicken in it, I'll eat it." ...go figure? He blinks, face still hidden behind the menu. Oh. He knows her, alright...
Gemini Man nods to Tengu. "Yes. Waffles. We know that look. That's the look of someone arguing with himself. You can't put that past us, Tengu."
"Yeah...we know her." Another cloned Gemini, still in civvies, but standing along the edge of Wily's table. He laughs a little. "Did the standing orders on her ever change?" oO(She'd be fun to kill, as long as you did it right.)Oo
Kalinka finally raises her head a little bit, and very...slowly...turns and gives the occupants of the adjacent table an absolutely SCATHING look. It's the same defiant, hate and venom-filled look one might expect a prisoner of war would give captors before their imminent torture and death. It's the same look that says... I'm not afraid of you. I'm too angry to care anymore. Of course, she says nothing. Doesn't even make any threatening gestures. She simply sits there and glares.
Dr. Wily catches Kalinka's gaze out of the corner of his eye. "I don't think I ever changed them. THen again, we wouldn't want to cause to much of a scene until we finish our food." Turning his head slowly and deliberately, Wily meets Kalinka's gaze and....smiles. He holds her gaze for a few seconds then looks back to his newly arrived shot. Downing it in a sip, he comments to the others. "I wonder if she will have the nerve to openly address us or just sit there in fear."
Tengu watches his father's own gaze, and follows it...yep, he was expecting it. At Gem's comment he inwardly cringes. "It's nothing," Tengu answers softly, before turning around to blatantly look back at Kalinka, smiling broadly with a face that doesn't really belong there... He meets her stare with that same grin, an almost genial look in his eyes. Whether or not she's built up the courage to address them, he makes a point of making the first move. And, quite possibly, signing his own death warrant.
"Konbanwa, bishoujo." <Evening, pretty girl.>
Wood Man looks over to the angry young woman, and waves, almost as if he's very happy and chipper. He delightfully chirps, "Didn't your mother tell you it's not polite to stare? Come on over here. I'll pay. Mister Tom wanted to say hi!" The metool nerps.
Gemini Man still leans on the table, at least in his holoform. "She said some VERY insulting things about us the other night," he muses. He starts to chew on his bottom lip a bit.
The seated Gemini gives Tengu a...VERY shocked look. He blinks multiple times. ...The hell?
[OOC] Gemini Man was just considering placing his forehead against yours and stapling your brains to the wall with a spike of light. That's what 'chewing on my lip' means. :)
Kalinka gives no particular indication she's about to break her stony, fierce facade anytime soon. Sometimes, she just doesn't know what gives her that inner strength, sometimes. "What is it you want," she asks simply, taking a quick drink from her glass of water.
Dr. Wily eyes Kalinka. "Well, manners certainly aren't your strong suit." He chuckles. "I want nothing from you, my dear. We're just here having a quiet meal, just like you." He waves a hand at his companions. "No need to be so hostile. I won't hurt you." Thats not to say he might not have somebody hurt her, but why split hairs?
Tengu ignores the shocked looks of his comrades, as he's turned around and can't see them. His arm is slung over the back of the seat, and he's turned all the way around. Smiling. Only /somewhat/ fiendishly. "Ohhh, nothin', sweet'eart. You don't look too happy. How're those waffles, huh?" Grin. Is he...toying with her? Being sincere? The question's on everyone's mind: just what the hell is Tengu doing? <...emotional sap. Sentimental FRUIT. BLEEDING-HEART.> (Eh. At least I feel /something/...)o.
(Somebody hurt Kalinka? Please can we do it?) The Geminis look to each other with great hope and anticipation. Then they look at Tengu. "Hey...Tengu... don't tell me THAT was your 'girlfriend...'" says the seated one.
Kalinka gives Tengu a strange look...it's still the same look of contempt that she has for the group in general, but she's also confused, somewhat...about what isn't certain. Suddenly, something occurs to her. As much as she hates them...as much pain as they've caused her over the years, and as much as she blames ALL of society's failures on the miseries they've inflicted upon countless millions...she's actually beginning to -doubt- that Wily's behind the strange weather patterns. Sipping her water again, she says in her curt Moscovite tone: "I came here to get out of the weather."
"It is supposed to be snowing, this time of year. Yet, it is too warm for snow."
Wood Man blinks, dropping the deadly sappy expression to honestly look out the window. He could have sworn he saw Dorothy being blown by, and her little dog too. It's too himself as well as to Kalinka. "Yeah. That is wierd. Maybe everyone leaving their oven on has finally caught up, hunh?"
Dr. Wily cocks his head at Kalinka's statement about the wather and peers out the window. Come to think of it, shes right. Well, he's not behind it, and if someone is, they're going to pay for thinking of it before Wily! He starts to comment further, then notes the interesting tact Tengu is taking and decides to sit back and watch for a moment. A glance at Gem and his clone tells Wily that the Master is ready to do something about Kalinka. Catching the Master's gaze, he shakes his head almost imperceptibly.
Plant Man arrives from the Teleportation Area--Moscow.
Plant Man has arrived.
The standing Gemini Man sighs visibly. "But...a kill would improve our mood..." He knows this isn't an effective argument, but it's good to let Kalinka hear these things.
Tengu Man notes Kalinka's confused look, and is...immediately curious. So she's worried about the weather, is she? He wonders if she realizes that Tengu could maybe have been the culprit? The Tengu weren't just docile little bird-demons...they were the progeny of the God of the Storm. "Yep... Personally, it makes no difference to me. I hate snow. I hate cold weather." Gemini's comment about his 'girlfriend' causes him to twitch, barely imperceptibly. (Spelling?) "Of course not," he asides to Gemini. "What do you think I am, an idiot?" The mention of killing her causes another almost imperceptible twitch. It reminds him...of what lies within. A part of him has wanted to kill her from the beginning...
Wood Man turns to Gemini, having to agree about the joys of slaughter. He shrugs, "Well, afterwards, I'll let you ride the Leaf Shuttle. Mister Jake flies into a flock of birds, you shoot them down, and Zangief gets a meal. Works for everyone!" Log pauses, "Well, as long as you don't count the bird." He consumes more of his alcohol and carbohydrate fuel.
Tengu Man twitches again at the mention of birds. "If /any/ of them belong to me, I'll have your heads. Just remember that." Twitch... somebody's a leeetle overprotective...
Gemini Man's clone shrugs at the both of them. "Birds don't scream."
The seated Gemini eyes Kalkinka, without speaking.
Wood Man rolls his eyes, "Fine, fine. And this is always on the way back to base. It's all free-range targets."
Kalinka finally, FINALLY, averts that dreadful gaze, to look back down at the countertop. It isn't a glance down out of fear...it's more that she can't maintain that level of rage her father seems to have in endless quantities. If he were here, they would all be dead by now. And as much as she wants that, too, her initial anger seems to ebb to a degree. There's a greater danger at work, and it may take some...unconventional cooperation to uncover the secrets of what might be going on, with the strange happenings of recent days. "You know, it should concern you also," she remarks. "Even though your concerns are quite different. It is no small matter. It takes...great energy, to make such changes to whole -planet-. Incredible energy."
Tengu Man blinks. Slowly. "Yes they do, Gemini." He quickly eyes Gemini himself... Being forced to send one of his own 'flock' at King to keep up the illusion that he was Storm Eagle does not make Tengu a happy bird...
[I had to leave. *whine*]