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No-one takes this well, the Blobfather is outraged,Hava nearly turns red,Yellow Jacket buzzes in shock Orchid Noir wilts in dismay, Medica gulps and the Ronnzo mutters. “Dude,we all nearly died against that guy. Why do you want us to do it and what’s the reward?”
“Your reward is a slate wiped clean of your criminal records and freedom.” “I’m part of a family business, so capish.” You are all teleported to the Penitant’s med-bay as the Harpoon states. “My real name is Harmas Zalgar. I already know yours. Do you have any information about the attack?”
Everyone else seems really worried as Orchid a Noir hands over the plans from Doctor Nefarious’s base on Daxx. “We found these plans for an upgraded bio-obliterator on Daxx. Could your intelligence agents figure something out?” Harmas looks visibly surprised, but adds. “Huh, never thought a phantom thief would assist authority. We’re going to check that later. Surprised you noticed that.” Hava adds. “I helped her find the information.” You can tell she is struggling to lose her temper over something.
Medica is keen to make a name for herself, so she takes a chance.
“So, you want us to take out Nefarious, and steal the bio-obliterator? Or prevent its creation?”
“Prevent the creation of one which could create small scale devastation from the flick of a wrist. Geese, guess he’s recycled an old scheme.” The Harppon sighs as he puts the hologram up. “Your mission should you choose to accept it is to enter his secret base,destroy the bio-obliteration plans and stop,his plot at the source. This mission is covert, so no flashy powers.” Well how do you all react to this?
I tilt my neck at the Harpoon, before nodding my head. “I can’t say I’ll make any promises, but I’ll try.” The Ronnzo holds Have back from me as he mutters. “Look, I don’t like this either,but we got our butts saved by this guy.” “Okay? You think I’m happy about knowing my price for failure will be certain death at Megacorp!?!?”
The Blobfather cuts in at her rant. “That might be true, but this could be useful.”
“No flashy superpowers? But that’s all I’ve got! Without my superpowers you would be better with a trained soldier. Or traffic warden.”
“Well,you could try using them creatively. Anything goes I guess. Here take these keys and good luck.”He hands your group at least one key involving the Penitent’s systems and leaves. You do as he says and follow the robot mad scientist to his space station, as his space station blare into alert at the sight of your spaceship!
Medica sits on the ship, as she watches.
Robot micro-guards are launched from Nefarious’s ship.
They close in and firing upon us from all angles.
It is all hands on deck - literally - as we try to fight them off.
Medica does not really feel like a fighter pilot, but manages to pick a couple off with an ion cannon.
Some of the little bug-like gizmos seem to be using psionic attacks which doesn’t sit well with her.
Then she notices one of the additional weapons systems is a reflect-and-reply system: it fires back attacks in a concentrated form.
She tries it out - it works! The psionic attacks are reflected at the critters, and it destroys them.
She has an idea.
By tweaking the parameters, she can deflect the attack at Nefarious’s ship.
A concentrated beam of psionic energy strikes his defences, and sends them into over-drive, melting the system.
Well you park the ship and hide as Doctor Nefarious is still licking his humiliation from when you tried to stop him. Lawrence is noticing you though, as if he is sorting through time..
All right, they were in an Orchid Noir quickly shook past the security sensors the robot butler had set up. But there was a scar on her upper arm from the fight and a few robots nearly spotted her.
Medica started to prime her systems to heal the scar.
Shaky Glitch quickly took the stolen data from Dr Nefarious’s data banks and fled shortly before nearly being disintegrated by said angry mad scientist.
So as you enter into the final area after destroying the plans, Dr Nefarious teleports into the room. “You six again?! I will make you pay for your insolence! Swear this is deja vu. Fine then,I’ll do this myself.” He knocks out the comlinks and summons a dark energy blade at the group!
Orchid Noir watched as the others entered and exited their pods. She had been waiting for them to arrive, but when she got her confirmation that they were indeed in this world it all fell away from her mind with a sudden clarity of purpose.
She stood up straight at once while waving back at the holographic man who appeared out of nowhere behind one wall - no need to be so subtle! She made sure to make herself invisible as he began flanking each member before finally leaving the pod after Doctor Nefarious’ defeat.
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It was a hard fight.
Everyone played their part, taking out whatever Nefarious threw at them, and making sure the data for the super-weapon was removed from his systems and could never be recovered.
But it was the dark energy blade that did for him.
Medica frowned as it was unleashed.
But dark energy revolves around gravity.
And Medica has control over some aspects of gravity energy.
Simply ramping up the gravity energy, increasing the charge… enough to make the blade implode on itself, and reach out like a tongue towards Nefarious, forcing him to flee, smouldering - with even the prospect that he may not be seen again…
You all quickly flee as the space station nearly shuts down and off to freedom and a fresh start. Unfortunately a certain robot hand regenerates as Dr Nefarious snarls. “Oh,those so called Harm’s Harriers are going to definitely pay,once I get my revenge on them!”
To Be Continued….
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