Tarantulas
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Post by Tarantulas on Nov 28, 2011 18:58:59 GMT -5
Tarantulas watches impassively as the Autobots start destroying his zombie army. And they are destroying it. Slingshot's mortar shells blow them to pieces, and Swoop's flamethrower incinerates them handily. The point of zombies isn't that they're particularly hard to kill. It's that there's lots of them.
"Autobots! But there's only two of them? Knock them out of the sky!" Tarantulas orders, clenching a fist.
The various reanimated aircraft comply, heading toward the Aerialbot and the Dinobot. They aren't flying fancy or fast, nor are they shooting. In fact, if they keep flying the way they are, they'll simply collide with the Autobots.
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Lyzack
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Post by Lyzack on Dec 2, 2011 23:07:40 GMT -5
//Also a... pteranodon,// Lyzack radios Tarantulas.
She's supposed to knock them out of the sky? Or that an order solely for the zombies? Lyzack is sure that her brother wouldn't have a problem with this, but he wouldn't answering to a tiny little spider, anyway.
So... how does she want to do this? Maybe go after the pteranodon? Dinoforce was really stupid. Maybe this Autobot is stupid, too. That, and he seems a lot slower than the jet.
...though flaming.
The zombie-painted F-14 unleashes some generic laser-y things at Swoop, but she is mostly likely going to miss, because she doesn't know how to lead her shots in aerial combat.
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Post by Slingshot on Dec 3, 2011 17:33:19 GMT -5
//I can't go that much slower or I'll fall out of the sky!//
Zombies explode, burn, get chewed up by blasts. Planes and bits of planes fall out of the sky in a steady rain. But there are many more zombies in the air, and there are only two Autobots.
//Slag!// Slingshot jinks as the first zombie attempts to ram him, dives under several more, rolls to avoid getting rammed by another- and its wingtip vortices foul him, and he scrapes a wing against another as he tries to recover. //Slag, slag, slag! Smelt the fraggers!//
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Swoop
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Knight of the Obsolete Aircraft
It's always the quiet ones.
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Post by Swoop on Dec 7, 2011 22:34:30 GMT -5
Some of the zombies are trying to ram Slingshot and Swoop. Others, however, are transforming and trying to grab them. One skeletal hand grabs the pterodactyl's foot, another pair grabs a wing, an arm goes around his neck in a choke hold, and suddenly the whole pile is plummeting toward the ground, Swoop shrieking and spitting flame in all directions. When zombies dogpile on you enough, even the babysitter can shoot you.
More zombies are heading for Slingshot, greedy hands eager to feast on his robo-brains.
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Tarantulas
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Post by Tarantulas on Dec 7, 2011 22:39:03 GMT -5
Tarantulas's first thought when Lyzack tells him there's a Pteranodon is that Terrorsaur showed up on the Autobots' ship and defected, because that's just the sort of thing that sleaze-bag would do if you stuck a gun in his face. He should have scanned a weasel for his beast mode.
Terrorsaur never breathed fire, though. //One of the Dinobots. Can you get close enough to ID the plane?// the spider asks, ordering his zombie mount closer to the fight.
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Lyzack
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Post by Lyzack on Dec 12, 2011 23:01:43 GMT -5
Lyzack overshoots the whole scene, just flying straight for a long, stunned moment. She just... shot someone. And, okay, he was being dogpiled by zombies. But she shot someone.
Lyzack isn't sure how she feels about that. But she feels something.
Then immediately, she is berating herself again,. In the span of seconds, she is klicks away from the firefight, and now she needs to turn, and she is just so stupid.
//An... an attempt will be made, Doctor,// Lyzack replies, though it will take her a while to get back and go check out the jetboy to try to figure out who he is.
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Post by Slingshot on Dec 14, 2011 13:05:54 GMT -5
No matter how much Slingshot fires, there are still more zombies. He hears Swoop's shriek as the zombies drag him down, then the zombies are upon him.
Dead metal hands clutch at intakes and wings, dead metal fingers scrabble at cockpit canopy and wing-flaps.
Slingshot yells and corkscrews, trying to shake some of them off. One unlucky zombie's arm comes off-
-and goes through the Aerialbot's intake, ripping through turbines and internal machinery. Slingshot screams.
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Swoop
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Knight of the Obsolete Aircraft
It's always the quiet ones.
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Post by Swoop on Dec 16, 2011 14:24:51 GMT -5
Swoop's entire world is zombies. He has zombies obscuring his vision, the stench of zombies in his chemoreceptors, and zombies touching him all over. It's horrifying and unpleasant and makes him uncomfortable and angry in frightening new ways.
Even though the zombie jets are pressing in on him from all sides, there's just enough room to transform, which means Swoop now has zombie bits in his transformation joints. He also has a flaming mace on a chain, however, and he proceeds to hit zombies with it.
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Tarantulas
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Post by Tarantulas on Dec 16, 2011 14:30:04 GMT -5
Tarantulas laughs and rubs his hands together when Lyzack shoots the Dinobot and then . . . flies away? //Where are you going?! Get back here, you coward!// he transmits. He stops berating her once she turns around, but he's still puzzled by what exactly she's doing.
Zombies continue to close in on the two Autobots, with the thickest concentration of the wretched undead between the two of them, to prevent them from reaching each other.
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Lyzack
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Post by Lyzack on Dec 17, 2011 22:23:33 GMT -5
The Cyb... Autobot jet is screaming. Leozack would say that is a good sound. Lyzack tells herself it is a beautiful sound.
The Cyb... Autobot pteranodon is setting zombies on fire. That is not so good.
Sheepishly, she excuses to Tarantulas, //Oversteering.//
Lyzack lines up a for a wobbling strafing run on Slingshot and timidly pulls the trigger for a short laser burst. She calls out, "Cybertron! What is your name? So that..." ...uh, shoot... "...the box containing your pieces will be properly labelled."
Ugh, that is such a weak battle cry. Leozack would just send the Cybertrons to Hell!
...are these Cybertrons? No, these are probably Autobots. Shoot.
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Post by Slingshot on Dec 20, 2011 9:19:13 GMT -5
Dead hands punch through thin armor, and Slingshot forces himself to transform. Dead bits of metal get caught in transformation joints and ground together. Dead wings are the only thing holding him aloft.
The gun in his hand is his neutron rifle, not his pistol. A short burst from it can level a city block.
Right now, there's only one person here he doesn't want to shoot. The biggest clump of zombies is between him and Slingshot, too.
There are still zombies tearing at him. So many targets. So little time. He hardly has room to raise his rifle, but he tilts the barrel up and pulls the trigger.
This is about to get messy.
"My name is Slingshot," he snarls, optic-band flashing.
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Swoop
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It's always the quiet ones.
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Post by Swoop on Dec 20, 2011 22:18:27 GMT -5
The basic dichotomy of a chain weapon is that it gives the wielder a lot of extra power to their swing, but is extremely hard to control. Most of mastering a chain weapon is learning not to hit yourself with it.
Of course, if you got given the weapon and the programming to use it properly as part of a take-over-the-world scheme perpetrated by Megatron's head, this isn't as much of a problem. Then you become a whirling engine of flaming destruction for any zombie that comes within reach.
Also, a bunch of zombies just disintegrated, Swoop guesses? He squints his eyes into the flash of light and decides this is worth burning through a bit of his alloted quota of words for the day. "That you, plane-bot?!" he shouts, shading his eyes with one hand while casually correcting a zombie that thought it was getting back up with the other.
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Tarantulas
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Post by Tarantulas on Dec 21, 2011 17:26:22 GMT -5
Life is so unfair. Just when Tarantulas is finally having some fun, really relaxing, spawning a zombie army to conquer the world, the Autobots have to come and mess everything up. And not just any Autobots. They have to send one with a gun that annihilates lots of zombies at once.
The spider looks around from his lofty perch, assessing the situation. The nanites are still spreading through the Boneyard, but sooner or later they're going to run out of salvageable aircraft to zombify. And at the rate they're being destroyed . . .
Better kill the Autobots now. He orders his giant zombie mount into the fray. He'll step on the Dinobot first, since it's closer, then the Aerialbot. It's a pity he's not going to have time to savor this.
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Lyzack
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Post by Lyzack on Dec 24, 2011 22:32:35 GMT -5
//Slingshot is his name,// Lyzack reports to Tarantulas.
...and wow, that is some seriously impressive firepower he's packing. Lyzack is afraid and...
Head in the fight. No more oversteering. She can think about how guns that blow up city blocks make her feel later. Besides, she has guns! Lyzack fumbles through her internal manual, trying to figure out how she does this 'dogfighting' thing. Okay, there's this 'Jet Attack' thing she's supposed to be able to do, how does that work...
Lyzack unleashes a hail of ammunition downward, in the vague general direction of Swoop, and then she leaves a laser-beam contrail in her wake. The F-14 screams, because this whole thing is ridiculously confusing, and she's pretty much terrified now.
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Post by Slingshot on Dec 26, 2011 21:44:57 GMT -5
Slingshot can't shoot all the zombies holding him. Both because he can't reach them all, and because if he does, he's going to fall out of the sky. Dead fingers punch through his armor, dig into wires and relays.
-- and a really frakking big zombie has started lumbering towards them.
//Swoop, big zombie heading your way!//
His face is tight with pain as he aims his rifle at Tarantulas's mount. The zombies still trying to tear him open are- are doing a good job of it.
Man, robot-mode flight would be so cool right now.
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