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Post by Slingshot on Jan 7, 2012 22:58:30 GMT -5
Slingshot smashes his rifle into the zombie's face again and again, until it just crunches entirely. Unfortunately, this isn't always fatal to even live Transformers, much less zombies.
He hits the ground at a bad angle, cracking his ankle. "SLAGGIT!"
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Swoop
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Post by Swoop on Jan 8, 2012 19:56:50 GMT -5
If anyone's watching from orbit, perhaps via spy satellite, the Boneyard is currently a most peculiar sight. Towards the edges of the facility, there's an expanding wave of motion as old aircraft animate, but the wave is slowing down as it runs out of fuel. Within the expanding wave, the ground seems to be a roiling mass, so thick is it with the wretched undead.
Against this background, two things stand out. One is a circle of unmoving terrain, sticking out against the motion like a sore thumb. Another is a faintly glowing line that's extending inexorably toward the ring.
The circle is the zone of deanimated zombies around Slingshot. The line is the trail of deanimated/flaming zombies Swoop is leaving behind as he trudges toward Slingshot. He's dragging one foot because Lionessbreast is still attached to his ankle.
Finally, the line intersects the circle. Swoop, battered and beaten, drags himself over to Slingshot, and extends a hand to help him up. "You plane-bot look awful. Why you let them beat you up?"
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Post by Tarantulas on Jan 8, 2012 20:09:38 GMT -5
A (relatively) tiny figure with legs on its shoulders emerges from the shuffling horde. Overconfident? Perhaps. But what true Predacon can resist gloating over a defeated foe? "What a touching scene. Brothers in arms reunited on the battlefield to stand back-to-back against impossible odds and die heroically. Not that anyone's going to be dying. I'm going to keep you both more or less alive for a long, long time," Tarantulas taunts as the zombies begin to close in.
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Post by Lyzack on Jan 9, 2012 22:01:07 GMT -5
Lyzack thinks about what Leozack would think. He would think this is completely disgraceful. A warrior does not sit down and sulk and let zombies and a tiny spider claim all the glory. A warrior would be pink with the shed fuel of his enemies and glorying in the slaughter. She shoves herself up to her feet, which hurts. Then she reflects on the fact that her gun is currently busy trying to eat a Dinobot. Lyzack is sure that Misfire never has problems with Aimless trying to eat Dinobots. She may need to rethink her plan. Lyzack bites her lip and looks at her two-headed spear, pondering.
Lionessbreast tries to climb Swoop's back to bite him on the neck, because she's a lioness. Neck biting is sort of a thing for lions. Of course, Swoop might not notice any of this.
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Post by Slingshot on Jan 10, 2012 17:59:03 GMT -5
"Can't fly in robot-mode," Slingshot grumbles as he takes Swoop's hand and hauls himself to his feet. "Fighting fliers from the ground sucks."
There's a cat chewing on Swoop's neck. "... You want me to get that?"
Then the spider says his piece, and- look, tonight has been a bad night. Slingshot's engines growl, the broken set of turbines adding an eerie, broken rasp. Then he raises his rifles and sprays a burst in the spider's general direction.
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Post by Swoop on Jan 11, 2012 21:34:36 GMT -5
Swoop can't fly in robot mode either and you don't hear him complaining. Then again, he is a mechanism of few words.
The Dinobot is bending down so Slingshot can pull Lionessbreast off his neck- (it's actually starting to hurt, his neck is ridiculously fragile as compared with the rest of him and her teeth have ripped away his armor and are starting to get into his support structures) -when Tarantulas appears.
The spider's flowery language sails right over his crested head, but the general tone of condescending gloating is obvious. Swoop follows up Slingshot's volley of rifle-fire by tossing his flail at Tarantulas. He knows that is not what it is for, but any other object he chose to toss would not be on fire.
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Post by Tarantulas on Jan 11, 2012 22:02:29 GMT -5
Apparently the Autobot is crazy enough to use his really big gun at close range. Tarantulas dives for cover at the same time as zombies move to cover him. The shockwave still hits him, bowling him off his feet and propelling him into the air, screaming. The world goes white for a while and there's a rushing of wind before the spider's sensory systems reboot.
He made a soft landing, in the cushioned pilot's chair in the chest of a zombie F-16. He's currently slumped in it, missing the lower half of a leg, most of his fingers, and several armor plates, as well as his dignity. Certain pieces of his spider-leg kibble will be discovered miles away and auctioned online as pieces of a crashed UFO. The F-16's cockpit glass is cracked and broken, both from Tarantulas passing through it, and the giant smoldering sphere with the chain dangling from it that is embedded in it. Tarantulas mutters something unprintable, then passes out.
The nanites animating the zombies, no longer being radio-controlled by Tarantulas, assume their default behavior of shuffling around randomly and searching for victims. The Autobots are still surrounded by zombies, but they'll no longer be nearly as dangerous.
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Lyzack
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Post by Lyzack on Jan 11, 2012 22:56:05 GMT -5
Lyzack quietly suggests, "Lionessbreast, to me?"
Her gun ignores her.
She tries a little louder, "Lionessbreast, to me."
Look, this Dinobot is delicious.
Lyzack does not quite raise her voice, but she comes close, "Lionessbreast, to me!"
Finally, the lioness leaps off of Swoop and transforms into a gun, landing in Lyzack's outstretched hand. Fantastic, now she has a spear she can't use and a gun she can't use. Also, at least one of her legs is probably broken, and she has numerous other injuries. Lyzack is set.
So she transforms, takes to the air, and tries to nab Tarantulas with her tailhook to get him the heck out of here.
Lyzack can try out the whole 'fierce warrior' thing another day. Even Leozack had days where he had to retreat, right?
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Post by Slingshot on Jan 12, 2012 23:26:32 GMT -5
Slingshot looks around at the randomly milling zombies. "- so, have you ever been dynamite fishing?"
OOC: And the flyboys dun blowed up zombies but good?
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Post by Swoop on Jan 13, 2012 23:01:11 GMT -5
Swoop shakes his head in the negative. He has only been beak and talon fishing. The pterodactyl looks at the ranks of milling zombies and wonders how difficult they'll be to wade through in order to get his flail back.
OOC: The zombies are still a threat and will defend themselves if attacked, but are no longer specifically targeting the flyboys. It's safe to assume they can be defeated, though it will be tedious and grueling work. Oh, and Tarantulas is skippable due to being unconscious.
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Lyzack
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Post by Lyzack on Jan 14, 2012 22:35:57 GMT -5
Lyzack does indeed nab Tarantulas, and she proceeds to fly away... fairly slowly, wings out, because she's concerned about dropping Tarantulas on his head. Being dropped on his head can't be good for him!
Though, considering this whole zombie plot, maybe that already happened to him at some point.
OOC: Out of thread unless stopped. Also, nabbing of Tarantulas done with permission.
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