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 26, 2011 22:26:04 GMT -5
Oh hey, there's another zombie jet flying toward Swoop. He ignores it. It'll just land and start clawing at him like all the others and then he'll smash it. He's therefore not really paying any attention to Lyzack until he hears the sound of her Jet Attack. His eyes go wide and he dives for cover, though not quite quickly enough because 1) he wasn't paying attention and 2) Dinobots do not take cover.
He gets hit by a fair bit of fire, screeching his outrage to the heavens and transforming to pursue Lyzack on the wing. A foot crosses her pretty, shiny contrail, much to Swoop's displeasure, and is quickly pulled up. He flaps hard, trying to keep pace with the jet, and spitting out a stream of napalm ahead of himself.
He's so intent on Lyzack that if Slingshot hadn't warned him, he would have completely missed the giant hand trying to swat him out of the air.
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Tarantulas
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Post by Tarantulas on Dec 26, 2011 22:32:25 GMT -5
"Get back here and face me!" Tarantulas orders the retreating pterosaur, clinging tightly to the giant zombie's shoulder as it rocks from its near-miss on the Autobot and its continued shuffling forward.
He takes aim on the pteranodon's tail and fires a volley of rockets from his shoulders. Hopefully it'll slow him down a little?
//Lyzack, how long does your laser trail last?// he transmits, already thinking of the tactical possibilities.
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Lyzack
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Post by Lyzack on Dec 27, 2011 21:41:26 GMT -5
So, know how those light-cycles in Tron leave light traces behind them that cut/explode anything that runs into them?
What Lyzack can do in jet mode is sort of like that.
While a F-14 is much, much faster than a pteranodon, due to the laws of Implausible Movie Physics, his fire catches up with her, and the fire surges backwards through her afterburners, which is not the direction that combustion is supposed to go, and both of her engines flame out. Lyzack is now falling like a rock.
Her body is good enough to recover from this dive without trouble. Her mind is, however... insufficient.
Lyzack screams incoherently, both vocally and over the radio at Tarantulas. He will need to wait for later for a real answer.
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Post by Slingshot on Dec 30, 2011 20:00:43 GMT -5
Slingshot lines up a headshot on the really big zombie, despite the smaller number of little zombies trying to (and somewhat succeeding in) tear him to pieces. He squeezes the trigger.
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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 31, 2011 20:27:51 GMT -5
The killer zombie jet is crashing! Swoop can totally keep pace with that. Falling is easy. He angles his flight downward, trying to intercept Lyzack as she falls. Not to catch her mind you, but to peck at her. Squawking may also be involved.
The pterodactyl hears Tarantulas's missiles coming up behind him as he dives, and rolls over onto his back to get a look at them. They seem laughably tiny, but for all he knows they're some kind of super-missile, so he folds his wings and drops like a stone (or like a multi-ton robot). Most of the missiles can't compensate for the sudden change in direction, but a couple were traveling on arcs such that they follow him down, impacting on his hindquarters and dealing severe damage to his dignity.
Luckily, a zombie F-4 breaks his fall.
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Tarantulas
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Post by Tarantulas on Dec 31, 2011 22:24:11 GMT -5
One Autobot down for the moment, more or less. Close enough is good enough. Tarantulas's idiot accomplice is proving about as useful as Waspinator, sadly. Best to focus on the remaining Autobot.
The spider notices Slingshot firing just in time. Shouting "Oh no!" and leaping off the zombie's shoulder as its head explodes in spectacular fashion. Of course, being a spider, Tarantulas doesn't jump without a safety line, so the only injury he suffers from the fall is a pulled ball joint in his arm from suddenly reaching the end of the webline he shot out from his blaster. The zombie, fortunately, is still standing. They function perfectly well headless.
Tarantulas will climb down soon, but for the moment he dangles in mid-air.
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Lyzack
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Post by Lyzack on Jan 1, 2012 22:28:00 GMT -5
Lyzack gets pecked hard and does the only reasonable thing in this situation. She transforms and flings an angry lioness at Swoop.
Wait, this is not the reasonable thing at all. Lyzack doesn't have anti-gravs.
//...apologies, Doctor. I am unsure how long the laser contrail lasts,// Lyzack reports meekly, as the ground comes up quickly at her.
Lionessbreast tries to sink her jaws and claws into Swoop.
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Post by Slingshot on Jan 2, 2012 18:19:10 GMT -5
A zombie tears out Slingshot's cockpit display. He yelps, optic-band going dark for a long moment. Then he forces it back on and sights on the big zombie again.
He doesn't have too many shots in him before the zombies tearing him apart, well, tear him too much apart. One, maybe two. He has to make it count.
He aims at the dangling spider-
- as he squeezes the trigger, one of the zombies yanks on the strut in his arms, sending his shot wild!
//Air Ra-- Swoop!//
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Swoop
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Post by Swoop on Jan 3, 2012 17:33:51 GMT -5
Swoop has an angry lioness flung at him! Lionessbreast latches on to his chest about the same time as he impacts the ground.
The Dinobot shrieks and tries to tear the cat off with his beak and claws, but to no avail. Breathing fire at himself isn't the brightest idea, but he's probably more flameproof than Lionessbreast is, so he lets loose a blast of napalm at the cat on his chest.
Swoop attempts to scramble awkwardly to his feet and transform when he hears Slingshot's distress call, regardless of whether he's still in kitty combat.
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Tarantulas
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Post by Tarantulas on Jan 3, 2012 17:38:58 GMT -5
So this is how it ends. Blasted into atoms in a foreign universe while dangling from his own web. Disgusting. What a way to- "Ahahahaha!" Tarantulas cackles as Slingshot misses. Truly, zombies are the solution to all of life's little problems.
The spider transmits an order for the giant zombie to pick him up and lower him to the ground, and it complies. Once he's down there, he falls into his Transmetal mode and rolls toward the area Slingshot is hovering over. Hopefully the Autobot won't be able to spot him among the reanimated horde. Also, Tarantulas will have a front-row seat to watch him get messily torn apart by zombies.
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Lyzack
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Post by Lyzack on Jan 3, 2012 22:38:15 GMT -5
Lionnessbreast manages to jump off of Swoop to avoid the napalm. Then she tries to circle around him and jump onto his back for more mauling action. She's really like to get up to his long, tempting neck if she can.
Lyzack does not avoid impact with the ground, however. She cries out in pain and tries to get something to prop herself up. She ends up pulling out something that looks like a long two-headed spear, and she tries to prop herself up with it, wobbly.
The weapon doesn't look like it has even been used.
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Post by Slingshot on Jan 4, 2012 19:53:20 GMT -5
Okay, that is enough! Slingshot flails, getting his rifle up among the zombies trying to tear him apart. A few bursts get rid of some of them, and then he slams the butt of his rifle into another's face. It just kind of groans and digs its fingers in deeper. He's steadily losing altitude, fortunately. Unfortunately, he's also pretty much a mess. He's going to need medical attention before he flies again.
If he survives.
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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 Jan 5, 2012 21:04:08 GMT -5
Swoop wishes he could have thumbs and wings at the same time. Life would be so much simpler.
Lionessbreast can try and maul him, but Swoop is running away from her, flail in hand, beating his way through zombies to try and reach Slingshot. Ignoring the angry cat-bot is probably not the best idea, but she's smaller than he is, and therefore not a major threat, by Dinobot logic. (This logic may come back to bite him in the aft, or the long, tempting neck.)
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Tarantulas
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Post by Tarantulas on Jan 5, 2012 21:10:53 GMT -5
Tarantulas has lost track of Lyzack. Whatever, she's a big girl, she can take care of herself, and Tarantulas has a zombie army to keep him safe. It's tempting to take a pot shot or two at Slingshot . . . but then the Autobot might focus his fire on him. Better to watch and wait for now.
Let the zombies do the work. Then the real fun starts. The webbed-to-a-wall kind. The spider clacks his claws together and chuckles in anticipation.
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Lyzack
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Post by Lyzack on Jan 5, 2012 22:18:38 GMT -5
Lyzack just clings to her double-headed spear, trying to stop her body from shaking. She's in pain, and she's scared. Also, it is dark, there are zombies, there is an angry archosaur, and there is an Autobot jet who can blow up city blocks. After a moment, her legs give out, and she sits down on the dry, hard ground, pouting and clutching her spear as if it was a security blanket.
Lionessbreast has no such concerns. There is a huge bird here, and she is going to make the big birdie A Food. She bounds after Swoop and tries to latch onto his ankle for a good, old-fashioned ham-stringing.
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