Super Smash Quest - Story - Chapter 366: Planet Destroying Temper Tantrums

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Date: 6:11:18 PM, December 18th to 11:58:38 PM, December 18th, 2006.

Metal Man (GM): THIRTY-SEVEN EIGHTY FIFTY TWENTY EIGHT SIXTY FIFTY
The Questers are at HQ. Needless to say, there's a whole setup of diagrams just for Iggy's castle.
Metal Man looks over them, slowly and carefully.

Dragoshi: "...?"

Scott Gibson: "We're not going back to that weird ass time shit-hole are we?"

Julian Sawyer's in his usual seat, feet up "What's the word, Mets?"

Metal Man: "No, today we are adventuring into Iggy's castle... a very, very deadly place."

Fizban sits quietly in his chair, gently puffing on his pipe.

Metal Man displays an image of a futuristic castle floating atop a massive volcano.

Darkdata: "Fun, fun fun."

Dragoshi: "...Quite."

Fizban: "Ah, but we always venture into deadly places. I do not believe that the IIF castle was not such."

Metal Man: "...It has been there since the very beginning of our Quests, and has withstood everything to follow."

Alexia: "So?"

Metal Man: "It is apparently known to be 'unbreakable', as Kuja's own men apparently tried to break in... and never returned."

Julian Sawyer: "It ain't had me run through it."

Dragoshi: "...Huh."

Metal Man: "...Partial scans indicate extensive trapped layouts, a large network of locked doors, defense turrets, and unseen technological defenses."

Scott Gibson sits on Roxy leaning forward a bit. He's got his guitars slung, as usual, and is in his old attire.

Metal Man: "It's flanked by inventions of the demented Iggy Koopa and doors which just won't open for anyone."

Fizban: "Then how are we to defeat this Iggy Koopa?"

Metal Man: "The Questers seem to break through anything. It just might take a while."

Scott Gibson: "Very carefully?"

Julian Sawyer: "Decapitation."

Alexia: *Coolly* "Any weaknesses?"

Scott Gibson plays the opening lick of "Cat Scratch Fever" by Ted Nugent as a joke to that.
He waits to see if anyone actually got that joke.

Metal Man: "Weaknesses? No such thing has been heard of. Even Kuja's space ships failed to destroy it."

Scott Gibson: .oO(I'll take that as a 'No'.)

Metal Man: "Just to get inside, we're going to have to crash our own ship into it, to deactivate its invisibility field for a... split second."

Alexia: *Sarcastically* "But nothing drastic, right?"

Metal Man: "During which you will be beamed in through the baseball-sized hole in its force field that will create."

Dragoshi: "...Okay."

Scott Gibson: "Sounds like basic N.O. theory to me."

Alexia opens an eye to reveal a glowing neon-green iris. Dammit.

Darkdata: "Compressed body cells, more fun."

Alexia: "Anything to do once we get in?"

Scott Gibson: "Try pulling a live person through a fist sized hole in your head. Trippy shit, man. I know... I had to do it for my GSPB training." *Cringes a bit* "I made a point to use mine as LITTLE as possible."

Fizban: "...yes... well, is there anything else that we need to know, Man of Metal?"

Alexia: "...You're a weird guy, you know that?"

Scott Gibson: "I get that a lot. Chicks dig it though."

Dragoshi: "...Eh. Could be weirder."

Julian Sawyer: "Don't one-up him."

Dragoshi: "...I'm NOT. Just saying. Sheesh."

Metal Man: "Well, there are a number of force field and invisibility field generators inside."

Julian Sawyer: "You were gonna, an' I don't wanna hear whatever crazy shit you done during your past lives or whatever."

Metal Man: "Destroy them all and the place is without power, leaving most doors open."

Dragoshi: .oO(People and their assumptions... Sheesh.)

Metal Man: "Destroy all of one kind and that field will be gone, allowing whatever uses it to be more easily defeated."

Scott Gibson: "So that stuff takes priority one. Gotcha."

Alexia: "An exact number'd be nice."

Julian Sawyer: "Jus' blow EVRYTHIN' up."

Scott Gibson: "Doesn't get much simpler than that."

Metal Man: "We can't even tell one from another, let alone count them."

Julian Sawyer: "If it looks like it belong to Iggy, blow the fuck outta it."

Scott Gibson laughs a bit.

Darkdata: "So wonder if this Iggy fellow was stupid enough to install a self destruct switch?"

Editor's Note: Of course, it could be a smart move, if it can be used to prevent it from falling into enemy hands.

Julian Sawyer: "...Also, who's the fruit?" *Nods towards Darkdata.*

Scott Gibson: .oO(One can hope. But without Gibby around that seems a bit unlikely.)

Metal Man: "Some guy who joined us earlier." *He hrms.* "Anyway, this place is a mess, so... uh... try not to die."

Scott Gibson: "He's a newbie."

Fizban: "Well, I suppose we should be off, unless there is anything else."

Metal Man: "Nothing else. Uh. It may be a bit rough on you when you warp in. The warp is ready, though."

Darkdata: *Walk's over and hits Julian on the head and returns to his seat.*

Dragoshi: "..." .oO(Try being the operative word.)

Scott Gibson shrugs then drives Roxy into the warp.

Julian Sawyer: *Darkdata would feel a hand wrap around his neck as he walks away from Julian* "...Don't tell me you did what you just did."

Alexia enters the warp.

Dragoshi walks over to the warp.

Darkdata: *Just walks away and then to the warp.*

Julian Sawyer: *Kinda hard to walk away when you've got an angry black man with a death-grip on your neck, pally.*

Metal Man picks up Julian and Darkdata, and drops them in the warp. "Have fun!"
He then falls over. "Ow... my old muscles..."

Metal Man (GM): *Warp WARP* *WARP* *WARP* You feel as if you've been crushed into the size of a tennis ball before collapsing on the outer edge of the fortress.

Alexia: "...Ow..."

Metal Man (GM): The ship flies away, having dented (and damaged) this front door portion... but the front door is locked, and protected by a force field.

Fizban: "...curious... yet painful."

Dragoshi mutters some incomprehensible curse words.
"...fuckin' ow."

Scott Gibson is thrown face first onto the ground and skids on his face slightly. "Good Queens of the Stone Age... that was worse than the hangover I had last week."

Metal Man (GM): The entire area is made of metal, and plated with more alloys to boot. You'll have a hard time getting in.

Roxy hovers slightly above him trying to recoup from that.

Alexia gets up from the ground and dusts herself off.

Metal Man (GM): You notice Darkdata outside... appears he bounced off the warp and fell into the volcano instead.

Alexia: *With an odd voice* "Eh. Try being immortal and dead."

Editor's Note: Kind of a paradox though, unless the immortal is also some sort of zombie or ghost. Maybe they are?

Metal Man (GM): After getting a good-natured singing from the volcano, though, he's warped back to HQ.

Scott Gibson gets up and sees that.
"Ouch."

Dragoshi gets up, and shakes self off.

Julian Sawyer lands prone from being thrown into the warp... and notices that Darkdata's neck is no longer in his now-curled right hand. He angrily slams said fist into the ground in frustration, and stands up. "Gonna have to jump him later."

Metal Man (GM): Anyway, uh, the front door is shielded and locked and not looking happy to see you.

Alexia: "It's damn BORING, having nothing to do but sit and stare at nothing... but that's for later."

Metal Man (GM): It's a titanium frame covered with plexiglass.

Julian Sawyer: "Hey, Alexia's imaginary friend, talk about your troubles on your OWN time."

Scott Gibson: "Oi, looks cozy."

Julian Sawyer: "Right now we gotta get past this."

Metal Man (GM): With a bunch of wire wrapped around it to keep it together... and no air vents anywhere!
The outside has spikes all over it. Flames shoot out of various parts of the castle for no reason.
These spikes are too small to climb on, but large enough to destroy anything which tries to crawl on the walls.

Scott Gibson: "Talk about Heavy Metal. Ozzy would love this place."

Julian Sawyer: "Who?"

Metal Man (GM): No welcome mat. Only boilerplate reinforced with titanium and aluminum.

Scott Gibson: "Ozzy Osbourne, You couldn't have lived in the late twentieth century without hearing about that nutball."

Fizban: "...well... I suppose we're going to need to look for another way in. We cannot climb, we cannot go through the front door... perhaps a back door?"

Metal Man (GM): A big ol' sign made of fire says 'Iggy's Fortress'

Julian Sawyer: "Try me. WHAT backdoor?"

Scott Gibson sighs. .oO(Lunkhead...)

Metal Man (GM): You can't walk around the castle, either; this is a small platform in the front of the castle, normally used to reach the volcano, but that bridge isn't in existence right now...

Alexia: "...There has to be some way of getting in. Iggy wouldn't be dumb enough to not build a failsafe if the fields locked him out."

Fizban: "...curious... perhaps there is some secret passage..."

Metal Man (GM): One must find a way in through the force field, it appears, but how?

Fizban does a quick look over of the area in front of the castle, mainly along the ground.

Julian Sawyer: "...Drag, don't that machine gun do extra damage to forcefields?"

Metal Man (GM): The small, 10 x 10 feet platform allows you little room to move, and it has massive titainium fences that are electrified on the walls... search check anyway.

Alexia: "I doubt that popgun'd do much damage to this."

Dragoshi: "Aye. And I think I know where you're goin' with this..." *Pulls out his machinegun, and aims at the barrier.*

Alexia: "And it'd probably raise a few alarms, too."

Julian Sawyer: "You got a better idea, Alexia's imaginary friend?"

Metal Man (GM): Garrick: Oooh... shiny floor...

Alexia: "Hey, I'm just keeping you from turning half of the planet into a smoldering crater."

Fizban: "...hm."

Julian Sawyer: "Like I said, you got any better ideas?"

Dragoshi: "...Right. Anyway, if anyone has an objection that'd actually be WORTH a damn..."

Metal Man (GM): You can easily fire on the barrier, although it looks insanely powerful.

Alexia: "Nope. Continue."

Scott Gibson: "If Kuja's ships couldn't break this thing down do you really think that you will?"

Julian Sawyer: "Good. So shut yo' goddamn mouth."

Fizban: "...there MUST be another way to enter the castle..."

Scott Gibson: "Cartoony trap door beneath our feet?"

Fizban proceeds to walk up to the door as close as he can before he looks it over.

Metal Man (GM): You look at it extremely close. It's heavily reinforced, and a shimmering yet invisible barrier keeps you from even touching it.
The door is clearly made only for opening by authorized personnel... extremely authorized personnel.

Fizban: "...hm."

Dragoshi: "..." *Waits for anyone in the way to move out of the way, before he fires an Indignation out of the machinegun at the barrier.*

Metal Man (GM): The barrier shimmers and the attack dissipates for a few moments after sticking to the barrier.
It appears to have had no effect.

Scott Gibson: "Next idea?"

Fizban: "...I could try my Art..."
*He decides to do so, seeing if he can perhaps recall the spell Knock and get the door open.*

Metal Man (GM): A bolt of energy from the door surges outwards and strikes Fizban in the head, continually zapping him... and it doesn't seem to be stopping.
Hm... this door does NOT like spells.

Fizban: "Oh de--" *ZAPZAPZAPZAPZAPZAPZAP.*

Julian Sawyer: "...Yeah, I ain't touchin' it."

Dragoshi: *Tries to think of something in order to get past this phrackin' barrier* (What kind of check would be necessary for this?)

Metal Man (GM): The other Questers don't seem to do anything, as Fizban lights up like a Christmas tree.
Dragoshi: Luck check.

Fizban: *Zapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzap.*

Metal Man (GM): You think you need to think more.

Julian Sawyer goes into deep thought... Luck Check!

Metal Man (GM): And/or pull Fizban away from the door.
He's smokin'. For real.

Fizban: *Zapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzap.*

Metal Man (GM): Julian thinks the same thing.

Julian Sawyer follows his own advice.

Dragoshi: *...Will continue to do the thinking.* >_>

Fizban: *...Zapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzapzap.*

Alexia grabs the chain from her pack and snaps the end around Fizban, yanking him away.

Scott Gibson: "Anyone going to pull him out before he's extra crispy? Oh, wait, thank you."

Metal Man (GM): Fizban is yanked away... it burnt off his eyebrows and made his hair stand on end. Also, he's smoking.

Fizban: "...oohhhhhh..."

Scott Gibson: "Nice Einstein look. You gonna live?"

Alexia: "...Geez." *Mends Fizban, just in case.*

Metal Man (GM): Dragoshi, Julian: You both get headaches from attempting to dice-think it.
No amount of mending can fix cosmetic damage.

Julian Sawyer: "I got nothin'..."

Dragoshi: "Same..."

Fizban grumbles and uses a bit of Prestidigitation to make himself look... well, himself again.

Julian Sawyer: "Anyone got some water?"

Fizban: "...you two are quite heartless." *Stares at Julian and Dragoshi.*

Metal Man (GM): You do so, but you lack extra eyebrows.

Scott Gibson: "Here a C.O. of mine gave me these in case my eyebrows got burned off." *Scott slaps a couple of enormous black rectangles to Fizban's eyebrow ridges.*

Alexia: "...Scott, is that electrical tape?"

Fizban: "...thank you, Master Scott..."

Scott Gibson: "No, they're sushi wrap."

Julian Sawyer: "Drag, try firin' off a Tidal Wave or whatever."

Alexia looks around for something that might be generating the force field.

Dragoshi: "...Okay." *Uses his machinegun o dewm to fire off a few Tidal Blasts at it.*

Fizban: "..." *Walks over to Julian and clunks him in the back of the head with his staff.*

Metal Man (GM): The water splatters off of the door like it hit a wall.

Scott Gibson: "Hey, what if we all fire off something at the same time?"

Metal Man (GM): It also splashes all around the door area, and onto everyone in the platform too.

Julian Sawyer: *Fizban finds Julian's hand wrapped tight around his wrist* "You SURE you wanna try an' get on my bad side, old man?"

Scott Gibson brings his Moderne into a playing position and leaves his SG slung.

Metal Man (GM): You notice some water dripping off of... thin air.

Alexia: "..."

Metal Man (GM): Thin air to the right of the box.
Erm. Right of the door.

Alexia lashes the chain at the invisible thing, if it'll reach.

Scott Gibson kicks into a solo and creates a couple of screamin' skull shaped fireballs and sends em' at the door.

Metal Man (GM): It bounces off of the invisible thing, which appears to be made of metal.
The fireballs hit the door and dissipate into it.

Scott Gibson: "Well that didn't work."

Julian Sawyer: "I already got one person lined up for a beatin' but I can easily move you to the top a' the list."

Editor's Note: I can already see this being foremost in the minds of the players when, in SSQ^2, they saw Julian suffering and decided to act just like he did towards Fizban -- to let him burn. And yet unlike Fizban there, he failed to be a good sport about it and ragequit a game. My, how the tables turned. Sadly, for now, you'll have to suffer through Julian being a crybully for a few more logs.

Alexia: "Hey, if you're all done arguing, there's something over here."

Dragoshi walks over to the invisible thing.

Fizban: *Glowers and pulls himself from Julian's grip, and if not that, would proceed to jolt him* "You have NO compassion to your fellow man. Now, stop being a fool and pay attention! Alexia seems to have found something."

Metal Man (GM): The invisible thing is a box of some kind.
It may or may not have a use. You can't... see it.
What do you do? (Other than make quips)

Julian Sawyer: "I got plenty'a compassion for my fellow man. What I DON'T got compassion for is people who hit me for no goddamn REASON."

Alexia swaps the chain for her gun and squeezes off a Psy Shot at the box.

Julian Sawyer: "Guess what category you fall under?"

Fizban: "While you were standing there staring, I was being shocked to no end by that door!"

Julian Sawyer: "An' that's my fault how?"

Metal Man (GM): It bounces off of the box.

Scott Gibson: "For the love of Hendrix will you two cut it out! Especially you Julian. Jeeze."

Fizban: "You proceed to astound me with your innate stupidity."

Metal Man (GM): The box appears to be indestructible. Perhaps it has a use.

Alexia: "...Hmm..."

Dragoshi tries to feel around for a button on the box before someone does something stupid.

Julian Sawyer: "That's it." *Julian yanks Fizban forward, and proceeds to throw him into the forcefield.*

Dragoshi: *Without, yanno, pushing the button.*

Alexia looks above the box thoughtfully for a second
"...Dragoshi, I have a hunch here. Fire a tidal wave above the invisible thing."

Metal Man (GM): He bounces off of the force field, which feels like a wall of water, almost. *Sploosh.*

Scott Gibson: "We don't need our wizard all Quiznos toasted."

Dragoshi: "...I'm not even gonna correct th-...Hmmm" *Does so.*

Scott Gibson helps Fiz up. whispers to Fiz "He's a barbarian, don't let it get to you."

Editor's Note: Thankfully, Fizban prevailed in outlasting Julian, thus he got the last laugh, but it is still quite frustrating that past me even let it get this bad.

Metal Man (GM): The water continues dripping off of the invisible object.

Julian Sawyer then walks over to the box group, waits until Drag fires the water, then walks up to it and simply knocks on it.

Metal Man (GM): The water allows you to notice it has some sort of indentations in it. Barely.

Fizban: "Oof..." *Slowly gets to his feet with Scott's help* "He may show his strength and stupidity all he wants, he may hurt me all he wants, it still will not cure the fact that he is foolish."

Metal Man (GM): It makes a hollow, metallic sounding noise.

Alexia: "...Maybe it's not a generator or anything."

Scott Gibson: "Amen to that."

Alexia: "Maybe it's a step."

Dragoshi tries to read the indentations...

Julian Sawyer: "Sounds like a way in."

Scott Gibson: "Might as well try."
*He tries to step on it.*

Metal Man (GM): It doesn't seem very solid, at least, not very well anchored. Your knock sounds almost like---
*RIP* Scott falls on his butt and it flies off the wall, revealing a mess of wires.

Scott Gibson: "Eh?"

Dragoshi: "...Nice one."

Scott Gibson: "Ow."

Metal Man (GM): It was a metallic receiver for some sort of remote control until Scott fell over it. But... bare wires must have some use!

Alexia grabs Scott's hand and helps him up.

Scott Gibson: "Remind me to fall on my ass more often. We seem to figure shit out more often that way."
*He accepts Alexia's help.* "Thanks."

Dragoshi: "...Right."

Alexia: "Hey, whatever works."

Julian Sawyer looks over the wires... "Anyone opposed to rippin' the hell outta 'em?"

Scott Gibson: "Have at em."

Dragoshi: "...Eh. I have no objections."

Metal Man (GM): There's about twenty different wires, and they don't look sensical, at least, not without some sort of Computer use check (Hardware)

Fizban: "...Invisibility... and... permanency?"

Dragoshi: "But, let me check first, yanno... Just in case."

Fizban hrms softly, looking over the box...

Metal Man (GM): The box itself is now visible. It says 'Dooratron 3000 (Patent Pending)'
It has a receiver for some sort of infrared signal, like the front of a TV.

Dragoshi: *Checks to see what kind o' wires they are or somethin'.* (Doing a Computer Use (Hardware) check)

Alexia takes out her Dex.

Metal Man (GM): Jelly Doughnut wires! Mmmmm!

Alexia: "I have another idea."
*She scans the receiver.*

Dragoshi: *Shakes head* "...Okay. And yours is..."

Metal Man (GM): The shield suddenly turns off.

Julian Sawyer: "..."

Alexia: "That."

Smash Dex: "Unknown infrared detector has been set off by the dex."

Dragoshi: "..."

Scott Gibson: "Ba-zing."

Metal Man (GM): It must be like a garage door opener.

Fizban: "...infrared?"

Metal Man (GM): The front door is still locked, though.

Scott Gibson: "Yep. Long story, man."

Alexia: "Thank you, thank you. No applause needed."

Fizban: "Ah. You should tell me later, please. Nicely done, Lady Alexia... now, the door... If you will allow me to do one thing, however..."

Scott Gibson heads to the now deactivated shield and claps Alexia on the shoulder.

Julian Sawyer: "Whatev. The door's still down... but I can fix that." *Julian whips out Vendetta II, lights it up, and proceeds to cut the wires.*

Metal Man (GM): Julian is electrocuted by high-voltage electricity.

Fizban: "...as I said, foolish."

Metal Man (GM): 100 electric damage. Also, Vendetta II is shorted out.
Also the door thing is... broken, and needs to be repaired.

Scott Gibson: .oO(Heh, guess that makes up for throwing Fiz into the shield.)

Alexia: *Dryly* "Brilliant. What next, dislocating your own head?"

Julian Sawyer's shot backwards, landing on the ground. "A'ight, minor setback..."

Metal Man (GM): It's just one wire, though. A nasty high-voltage wire... oh. And Julian has an afro now.

Scott Gibson: "Try a block of C4 or something."

Dragoshi: "...Yea. Pretty much."

Julian Sawyer: "Whoa whoa whoa. I already ASKED if anyone had any objections to that. I didn't hear a damn thing."

Fizban: *He moves over to the door and hrms softly, gently tapping it with his knuckles. He reaches into his robes and pulls a long, thin piece of wood.*

Metal Man (GM): You could just tape it back together and try using it like before.

Scott Gibson: "We didn't have any objections to seeing you get knocked on your ass."

Alexia: "...Fiz, what's that?"

Fizban: *Meanwhile, gently taps the door* "Mellon...."

Scott Gibson: "Melon?"

Metal Man (GM): The door is unimpressed.
Iggy musta been an evil genius 'cause no doors have been able to hold up this long.

Alexia: "Anybody got anything that can blast through a foot of metal?"

Scott Gibson: "Sounds like a job for the A-Team."

Alexia: "...A-Team?"

Dragoshi: "..." *Facepalm.*

Alexia: "Copyright infringement! I say we sue!"

Fizban hrms softly and replaces the piece of wood into his robes.
"Well, that's odd..."

Dragoshi: "...?"

Alexia looks at the door. Does it split open at the middle or is it just a regular hinged door?

Fizban: "The use of magic in this castle will be difficult." *Will make a quick test, however, firing a string of Magic Missiles into the ground near the castle.*

Metal Man (GM): It's neither. It's a massive slab of reinforced titainium.
They hit the ground with a resounding 'thud', but don't do any damage.

Fizban: "Ah, good."

Metal Man (GM): You'll need to look at it closer to see how it works.

Fizban: "Now..." *First looks for any seams, holes, locks, hinges, and so forth. He does get closer, by the way.*

Scott Gibson: "Uh... So the point behind that was?"

Alexia: "C-4 wouldn't even make a dent in this thing... we need some heavy-duty drills."

Editor's Note: This would be an ideal time for a crossover with the Payday universe...

Metal Man (GM): There is a seam at the top of the door. But only there. And it's insanely tiny.
Under 1/10th of an inch thick.

Fizban: "The wand was for detecting traps on the door itself, but there are measures on this castle that protect it from such scanning. The missiles were to see if I can still cast attack spells, and thus, be useful to you in this place. What have we here... hrm..." *Reaches into his robes and pulls out a very thin piece of silver wire, running it along the seam.*

Scott Gibson: "Ok."

Alexia: "Thanks for the testing. Now does anybody have a way to enter this tin can?"

Metal Man (GM): It goes through, but there appear to be two supports inside the door on left and right sides.

Scott Gibson: "I once heard that a battleship on Earth could blow a hole in a reinforced steel block ten feet thick. Of course the damn thing was decommissioned and isn't much use now."

Fizban: "Ah ha..."

Smash Dex: "This is thicker and made of titanium."

Scott Gibson: "Especially since that was... back around my time."

Fizban: "Master Dex..."

Metal Man (GM): You seem to have gotten on to something... but how do you use that knowledge?

Scott Gibson lightly smacks his dex. "Shut it. I'll ask your opinion when I need it."

Fizban taps his Dex.

Smash Dex: "Insert question. Obtain answer."

Julian Sawyer: *Are the walls on the side of the door as thick as the door?*

Metal Man (GM): Yes. thicker, even.
Knocking on it, and the walls, makes a dull thud. A very, very dull thud.

Fizban: "Yes, can you please try to scan beyond this door? The other side, to be specific?"

Alexia frustratedly leans against a wall.

Smash Dex: "Wall is too thick. Door is too thick. Seams are too thin. Nothing can get in or out without some sort of opening."

Scott Gibson: "As usual the dex is a load of help."

Fizban: "Can you perhaps send a signal through this strand of wire?"

Julian Sawyer: *What's the condition of the Big Box O' Wires again?*

Smash Dex: "Too thin."

Metal Man (GM): It has one cut wire. You can reconnect it and play with it again.

Fizban: "Ah, well, thank you anyway... let us see..."

Alexia: "Y'know, Julian, if that saber's working again, we could just slice through the door."

Julian Sawyer: *Where's the covering that was on it?*

Metal Man (GM): On the ground, slightly bent.

Julian Sawyer reaches into his back pocket, pulls out a roll of electrical tape, and carefully tapes the wire back together.

Metal Man (GM): It is taped back together. The sensor on it reactivates.

Fizban: "There are supports beyond this door... now, to loosen them... does anyone have a type of liquid or other such thing?"

Alexia: "I've got a can of Saturn Coffee, if that'll help."

Fizban: "...coffee from Saturn?"

Dragoshi: *Pulls out a Recov vial* "Will one of these work?"

Fizban: "I did not know they made coffee on Saturn... curious..."

Metal Man (GM): You can try scanning it again.

Dragoshi: "...No, no, no. Not coffee from the planet Saturn. Coffee made by a race of beings CALLED Saturns."

Julian Sawyer gets out of range of any type of shield attack or whatever, then scans the sensor again. If it turns the shield back on, Julian quickly scans it back off.

Alexia hands the can to Fizban.

Fizban: "...curious... well, lets see it..." *Takes the can.*

Alexia: "Just, uh, don't drink it."

Metal Man (GM): The door slides open.

Dragoshi: "Yea. Seriously."

Julian Sawyer: "Bam."

Fizban: "...ah! Well, look at this!"

Scott Gibson: "Save yourself that trouble."

Dragoshi: "But, anyway..."

Alexia: "Nice."

Fizban: "I suppose it just took the device to activate after a moment." *He hands the coffee back to Alexia, then moves through the door, looking about.*

Metal Man (GM): Inside is a square-shaped lobby, with metallic chairs. A door to the north, East, and West. All three are locked, and similar to the door you just entered, only they don't seem to have any sensor boxes.

Alexia puts the coffee back in her pack
"Well, if all else fails, we can always put a chair through the doors."

Julian Sawyer: "...What, Alexia scans the damn thing and gets a parade, but I do it an' I don't even get a pat on the back? Fuckin' double standards..." *Julian heads through the doorway.*

Editor's Note: Approval from others is a sliding scale. If you go deep into the red doing things people dislike, then do a single positive thing, you've begun to pay back your debt, but in no way are you going to get the same approval that you would have had you not committed that series of faux pas earlier. (Put another way: Imagine how much happier everyone would have been had Julian just done this and left out bullying Fizban entirely!)

Dragoshi: .oO(Oh, that'll NEVER work...)

Fizban: "...curious..." *Looks for that same seam.*

Metal Man (GM): Fiz: You see the bottom of the door that just opened. It moved upwards.

Julian Sawyer: *Anything else in the lobby?*

Metal Man (GM): Nope. Sparse. Oh, and the doors have labels.

Julian Sawyer: *Oh boy, labels. Why not read them.*

Metal Man (GM): Left one says 'Sector A', the right one says 'Sector B', and the one dead ahead says 'Sector 1'
All being locked, of course, you're going to need to find a common locking mechanism of some sort.

Alexia checks the chairs. Hey, it could happen.

Scott Gibson: "Hm. Bet there's a key-hole somewhere on there." *Steps up to door marked Sector 1 then looks for anything like he described.*

Metal Man (GM): You find no holes in the door.

Alexia continues checking the chairs.

Metal Man (GM): Chairs are metallic benches with no real hidden things near them.

Scott Gibson tries a much broader search and looks for any kind of infrared port or any kind of unconformity.

Alexia: "Hrm..."

Metal Man (GM): You find complete symmetrical design in this room. All of the doors match, save for labels.

Alexia: "...Er, may I take a look at something?"

Scott Gibson: "Go for it." *Steps back.*

Alexia peels the label off of the Sector 1 door
"If Iggy needed to hide it so bad, why not put it in plain sight where nobody'd think to look?"
"Say, under a door label."

Dragoshi: "..." .oO(...As if that'll work.)

Metal Man (GM): It's... paint.
You hurt your fingernails on it.
You also hear a hollow noise.

Julian Sawyer knocks on each side of each door...

Alexia swears a bit.

Metal Man (GM): The edges are solid... the centers are not... except for the Sector A door, which is solid completely.
In fact, the Sector A door behaves much like a wall.

Alexia: "Found something."

Dragoshi: "...And, that is..."

Alexia taps a finger against the center of the Sector 1 door, making a series of hollow taps
"No centers."

Scott Gibson: "So?"

Dragoshi: "Huh."

Alexia: "So these doors'll be a cakewalk to break through."

Fizban: "...then, we may simply break one down. Master Sawyer, Master Gibson, I believe this is your area of expertise."

Alexia steps back.

Scott Gibson: "Yeah, I guess."

Julian Sawyer just plants two C4s on each hollow door, steps back, and sets them off.

Metal Man (GM): They explode. The doors stand tall.
Evil tough doors.

Scott Gibson: "...Looks like that didn't work. Doubt I'll do much better."

Metal Man (GM): They aren't weak to explosions, apparently.

Alexia: "How about a good stab?"

Scott Gibson walks up and gives it a try. He slings his Moderne and brings his SG to bear. He grabs it with both hands and swings with a strong homerun swing.

Metal Man (GM): Which door?
You smash a small semi-hollow area of it open... some sort of electrical regulator!
*BZZZZAAAAAPPPP*
You break it... but it zaps you for 80 electrical damage before the door uncontrollably opens upwards.

Dragoshi: "...Yeesh" *Facepalm.*

Scott Gibson flies back and lands on the deckplate, smoldering.

Alexia mends Scott. 14 damage healed, as if that'll matter.

Julian Sawyer: "Looks like the shoe's on the other foot." *Continues on.*

Dragoshi: *Follows.*

Alexia helps Scott up. Again.

Scott Gibson gets up with Alexia's help. "Ow... thanks."

Metal Man (GM): In the next room are... 3 generators, and... e gads... you've never seen robots like THIS! Oh, wait, you can't see it.
A single mostly-invisible humanoid thing clanking around.
Also, 3 more doors.

Fizban: *Also heals Scott over the course of a good few rounds of TP, healing him to full.*

Alexia heads into the next room.

Metal Man (GM): One dead ahead which is open....

Scott Gibson: "Thanks, Gramps."

Alexia: "...Trapped."

Metal Man (GM): Two locked ones, one to the left, and one to the right; the one on the left says 'Sector 13', the one on the right says 'Sector 2'
You see an outline. And it hears out walking towards the room. It's moving towards you.
What do you do?

Scott Gibson attempts to hide with Roxy.

Dragoshi: *Drag attempts to Conceal himself by turning into a shadow of sorts*

Metal Man (GM): Conceal check, Hide check
Dragoshi turns invisible by hiding in a corner.

Julian Sawyer looks for something he can throw or burn in order to make the rest of the robot visible as he hides.

Alexia creates a pair of duplicates, just in case things get ugly.

Metal Man (GM): Search check, hide check, as Scott only partially hides.

Fizban: *Immediately moves to hide as well, as best as possible.*

Metal Man (GM): Fiz hides, Julian finds nothing on his person, but thinks any sort of dust or liquid he could throw would reveal more of it
Alexia: The HP duplicates cost as usual; make sure to deduct those.

Alexia ducks over to Julian
"Got any ideas?"

Metal Man (GM): The robot is distracted by the duplicates.

Julian Sawyer: "You sure do change yo' mind quickly. Gimme a minute." *Julian quickly Text-Dexes Dragoshi this message: "Hose It Down."*

Metal Man (GM): It decloaks to attack, revealing a stout, roundish barrel-like body with long arms. It appears an improved version of an E-100 series robot.
And it has... the machineguns of the E-123. One pities the duplicates...
15 damage per hit. 19-20 crit.
It threatens both duplicates.

Dragoshi: *And, Drag watches the massacre of dewm, then winces.*

Metal Man (GM): It shreds the duplicates into dust, and then recloaks, looking around for more targets.

Scott Gibson: .oO(Jeeze, thankfully those weren't any of us.)

Metal Man (GM): It does not see anyone.

Julian Sawyer then switches to text-only mode and scans the damn thing.

Metal Man (GM): It nearly trips over Scott, but misses.

Alexia crouches down into a corner.

Dex: 'Unable to scan; unknown interference.'

Metal Man (GM): It walks over and begins circling the generators, patrolling them.

Julian Sawyer: "..." *Text-dex to everyone: 'New Plan: Who's got grenades?'*

Scott Gibson: *Txt* 'Yo.'

Alexia: *Text-dex* 'I do.'

Dragoshi: *Return text* 'What kind. 'Cause I got both.'

Scott Gibson: *Txt* '4 EMP, 5 reg.'

Alexia: *Text-dex* '...Which gives me another idea.'

Julian Sawyer: *Text* 'Both'll do. I'm thinkin' artillery strike on the gens.'

Scott Gibson: *Txt* 'Sounds like a plan.'

Alexia takes out an EMP grenade and rolls it towards the generators and robot, then QUICKLY sneaks to another corner.

Metal Man (GM): It rolls on over and explodes. The robot walks right through the explosion with impunity.

Julian Sawyer: "..." *Text* 'This is ALL on Alexia's head.'

Metal Man (GM): It continues patrolling like nothing happened; considering the EMP doesn't make a real explosion, it was sorta 'meh.

Alexia: *Text* 'Hey, at least it didn't do anything.'

Dragoshi: .oO(...I'm just gonna keep total neutrality, ...Yeah)

Scott Gibson: *Txt* 'Guess we can save our EMP nades.'

Dragoshi: *Text* 'Pretty much, yea.'

Julian Sawyer: *Text* 'Blow the damn thing to Kingdom Come on 3.'

Dragoshi: .oO(On three? That's simple enough...)

Scott Gibson takes a grenade out of his pocket and gets set to pull, flip, and throw.

Julian Sawyer: *Text* 'One.'

Alexia: *Text* 'No frags, so I'll sit this one out.'

Julian Sawyer: *Text* 'Two.' *Hands Alexia two Grenades.*

Dragoshi readies a pair of grenades...

Alexia: *Text* 'Awesome.' *Readies them.*

Julian Sawyer gets out two grenades himself, readies them... 'THREE!' *Then lobs them towards the generators, following them up shortly with three more.*

Scott Gibson pulls the pins, flips the levers off, and finally chucks his pair of grenades toward the generators.

Alexia flings the grenades she has.

Dragoshi lobs his grenades as well.

Scott Gibson readies another just in case.

Metal Man (GM): How many, Alexia? You only have two hands.
Oh, two, right.
The robot is hit by them all simultaneously... then the generators... explode too. Fake ones, apparently, as they're... boxes of TNT inside metal cylinders!
*BLAMMMMMMM.*

Alexia: "OH SH--"

Scott Gibson: "FUC---"

Metal Man (GM): Mass evade checks.

Julian Sawyer: "GO-" *DODGE! LUCK.*

Dragoshi: "SONU-" *DODGE ATTEMPT.*

Metal Man (GM): Yes! Waste your luckies! Ha ha ha haaaa!
Rolls under 20: 150 explosion damage
Rolls under 25: 75 explosion damage
rolls under 30: 25 explosion damage
Rolls over 30: No damage

Dragoshi takes 75 then.

Alexia: *75! Yeow!*

Julian Sawyer Lives!

Metal Man (GM): However, the room -is- clear, after... the smoke and burns go away.

Alexia: *AND SHE MAKES IT!*

Scott Gibson gets thrown by the blast then lands again on his bum. "Sunnova mother-fuckin-BITCH!"

Metal Man (GM): Fiz is especially fast at moving, he only gets singed for the 25.

Julian Sawyer: *So does Julian* >_>

Metal Man (GM): Now: You can try any of the doors.

Julian Sawyer: "...That kinda worked." *Julian states as he gets out of his cover and looks at the doors.*

Metal Man (GM): The door dead ahead is open.

Dragoshi: "...Yeaaa."

Metal Man (GM): The door to the left says 'Sector 13'
The door to the right says 'Sector 2'

Scott Gibson heads to the door all nice and flame broiled.
"Experience tells me that 13 is always bad luck."

Julian Sawyer: *Follow the sequence of numbers to Sector 2*

Scott Gibson follows.

Metal Man (GM): Sector 2's door is locked.

Julian Sawyer: *Door ahead, whatthefuckever.*

Scott Gibson is thus forced into the quoted 'open' door.

Dragoshi follows ether way.

Metal Man (GM): You go through the door ahead...
There's another robot there, cloaked, too.
There's a door in the southeast corner of the room, locked, that says 'Sector 2', and one dead ahead, locked, which says 'Sector I'
As in the roman numeral
The robot patrols in a circle in the middle of the room.

Julian Sawyer: "..." *Whisper* "Drag, spray 'em."

Dragoshi: *Mutters* "...Fine." *Quickdraws machinegun, then sprays whatever's supposed to be sprayed with Tidal Blast.*

Metal Man (GM): The robot can be seen, like before. It turns to Dragoshi and mercilessly opens fire on him.
15 damage per hit, 19-20 crit.

Dragoshi: *Ow, ow, doge, dodge, dodge, ow, ow, dodge, dodge.*

Metal Man (GM): It then begins reloading and marching towards him.

Scott Gibson: "Any better ideas, Captain Kamikaze?"

Julian Sawyer: "Get 'em?"

Scott Gibson: "Greeeeat. Your strategy knows no bounds."

Azure ummm warps in.

Metal Man (GM): BATTEL FUNTASTIQUE

Julian Sawyer: "Unless you people start SPEAKIN' UP wit' yo' BRILLIANT suggestions, what I say is what's gonna happen if there's no OPPOSITION."

Metal Man (GM): Roll turn order check

Julian Sawyer: "You can't complain if you don't say NOTHIN'."

Robot: "Targets acquire. Action: Kill with extreme prejudice."

Scott Gibson: "Kinda hard to complain when you rip our throats out if we do."

Robot: "Kill. Crush. Destroy. Atomize. Unmake. Destroy Creators. Kill Creator of Creators. Kill for Iggy."

Julian Sawyer: "Now you jus' making assumptions."

Metal Man (GM): Order: Julian, Dragoshi, el Roboto, Scott, Azure

Scott Gibson: "For fucksake... Kill now, ask questions later."

Dragoshi: .oO(And, that... Has death on the mind. To the extreme.)

Julian Sawyer: "Hey, you the one that brought it up! Not me!"

Azure: .oO(What have I come into this time...)

Robot: "Negative. Questers now. Kill later. State your favorite colors for archival reasons."

Julian Sawyer starts off by launching a Hat Trick at the robot. He's not getting near it until he knows what it does.

Metal Man (GM): Hit.

Robot: "Julian favorite color: Pain."

Metal Man (GM): Nope.

Julian Sawyer , seeing that El Roboto doesn't have any kind of special HAHAHA YOU CAN'T TOUCH ME forcefield on it, rushes it and tries to get it in a grapple!

Metal Man (GM): Behold! An actual use of grab resistance!
Failure!
Order: Julian, Dragoshi, el Roboto, Scott, Azure, Fizban

Julian Sawyer wails on its face with 6 quick punches, then backs up and tries to land an uppercut on it to finish a Clutch Punch Combo!

Metal Man (GM): Hit!

Julian Sawyer knocks it into the air for a total of 15 damage! Julian then jumps up, then tries to stomp it into the ground as it comes down!

Metal Man (GM): Hit.

Julian Sawyer: *KA-RUNCH! THUD! He drives the robot into the ground with his feet, then jumps off it as it lands and heads back to the group, EoT.*

Dragoshi: *Anyway, Drag starts off the turn by firing a small Tidal Blast barrage from his machinegun.*

Metal Man (GM): CRIT hit hit hit hit hit

Dragoshi: *And, Drag finishes this off by calling... An amethyst shard. Yeesh. Not what I need right now.* @_@

Metal Man (GM): Miss

Dragoshi: *Oh, sod you too dice. EoT.* @_@

Metal Man (GM): It assesses the situation.

Robot: "Outnumbered. Outgunned. Defenses low. Activate failsafe."

Fizban: "...that cannot be good..."

Scott Gibson: "Greeeeat."

Metal Man (GM): It flips open a panel on its arm, breaks some glass, and presses a button.

Azure: *doesn't look to please by that comment.*

Scott Gibson: "Hit the deck!"

Metal Man (GM): You hear a loud 'SHOOM', and then large laser machineguns appear.
In its hands.
Also, a force field appears around it.

Scott Gibson: "Shit, shit, shit, shit!"

Julian Sawyer: "...You GOTTA be kiddin' me."

Metal Man (GM): It transforms mildly, becoming taller, and out of its belly comes out several more arms, which also pack guns. Eight in total.

Dragoshi: "...Ahhhh... Damn."

Julian Sawyer: "...A'ight, this was a learnin' experience not to take these things head-on."

Metal Man (GM): Its eyes glow, and it scans all of you.

Robot: "All Questers targeted. All systems go. Destroy. Destroy. Destroy."

Julian Sawyer: *We got any of those bugs left?*

Metal Man (GM): It flips the guns into firing mode and begins spraying the entire side of the room you are on with blue, Moonraker-esque lasers, and yes.
Mass evade checks--and this won't be pretty.
Below 10: Insta-death. Below 15: 200 damage. Below 20: 150 damage. Below 25: 75 damage. Below 30: 37 damage. Below 35: 18 damage. Above 35: Avoidance.
But... it now has to cool down the guns, which are very close to simply exploding.

Julian Sawyer ... LIIIIIIIIIIVES.

Scott Gibson ... DIIIIIIIIIIES.

Metal Man (GM): It begins cooling them with some built-in fans.

Dragoshi: *And, Drag as flat out blasted.*

Metal Man (GM): Azure: Alive or not?
Fizban: Alive or not?
The walls behind you smoke, full of laser-holes. Holes through the TITANIUM.
Iggy might have left a few flaws in his... 'fortress'... but not his robots. Well. Not his robots in attack mode.
*fwoosh.*
Julian is the only one standing, maybe Dragoshi too.
The robot taunts him.

Robot: "Do you really want a piece of me? I am the ultimate killing machine."

Julian Sawyer tries to shut the robot up with a foreign weapon
*SLEEEEEEEEEDGEHAMMER!*
"Hold that thought." *Julian quickly tosses a bug onto the Robot to try and take out its shield...*

Metal Man (GM): It bounces off the shield. The robot crushes it with a titanium foot.

Robot: "I am more powerful than any IIF machine. Ha ha ha ha."

Julian Sawyer: "Says you." *Julian then takes the Sledgehammer to the Robot's shield.*

Omnos: "I am one of many Omnos, destroyer of Kuja's men and vile fools."

Metal Man (GM): It bounces off.
In fact, it breaks on the shield.

Omnos: "A sledgehammer is hardly a killing machine."

Julian Sawyer: "A sledgehammer took out Sephiroth. Among other things." *Julian finishes up by activating Shield Badge and hoping.*

Metal Man (GM): The robot begins laughing at your shield.

Omnos: "My grandmother had a better shield. I shall pity you by not attacking." *He resumes cooling off his guns.*

Julian Sawyer: *Well fuck, there goes the shield then.*

Azure waves his hand and puts a barrier up around himself. 32 hp barrier. EOT.

Scott Gibson gets back onto his feet and looks out to the enemy bot. "Ok, that hurt. I already hate robots but you're especially going to get it now. Get set for me to rip you a new exhaust port, asshole!"
He kicks into one of his trademark solos sending sparks flying as the static electricity builds until he has enough collected power and creates a string of four balls of electricity and lanuches them at the monstrosity.

Omnos: "I cannot hear you; you are not powerful enough to be heard by me. I am the almighty Omnos, destroyer of intruders."

Metal Man (GM): *Plink* *Plink* *Plong* *Bzonk* They bounce off the field like ping-pong balls. Evil dice.

Scott Gibson flips the robot off as he finishes his attack. EoT.

Metal Man (GM): Azure's second, full turn
The guns are beginning to cool down. However it will be a short while before he can open fire again,.
This is your chance to attempt to defuse his shield.

Azure places his hands then slams them forward sending out a wave of water that quickly warps into a dragon. He takes a harsh step forward and does the process again a dragon of lightning following his first attack. Water Dragon Fang/ Lightning Dragon Fang EoT.

Fizban shakes the cobwebs as he returns to the land of the living, firing off a fireball aggressively and nothing but that.

Julian Sawyer's taking off the kids gloves! He charges the damn thing, then tries to knock it down and take its stuff! Mug!
He quickly cancels into a running Big Boot!

Metal Man (GM): Missssss hit
Lesseee...
The shield explodes.

Dragoshi: *And, Drag revives, looking highly agitated* "..." *And, he doesn't even bother saying anything, summoning... A Black Dog! And, it attempts to knock down the robot like a church door!*

Metal Man (GM): Hit.

Dragoshi: *EoT.*

Metal Man (GM): The robot is nearly complete, beginning to power up for another laser attack. Also, the shield regens and is back up.

Scott Gibson decides to stave off his attack and defend. Not a hell of a lot he can do! EoT.

Azure rushes in now that the shields down and delivers a flurry of blows his hands becoming rapid and constant with an elegant manner behind it. -Asuran Fists-

Metal Man (GM): Miss, miss.

Azure jumps back then strikes forward with a knife edged strike. His hand becomes laced in spirit energy. Azure briefly alters that energy to electricity before his strike. -Gentle Edge-

Metal Man (GM): CRIT

Azure: *30 Damage -stun -1 TP. He goes back on the defensive EOT.*

Metal Man (GM): The guns are red-hot. It almost looks ready to fire.
It returned, yes.

Fizban: *Throws up a shield of his own and braces for attack, defending* *EoT.*

Metal Man (GM): The robot is about to continue the battle, when a rough, scratchy voice is heard over the PA.

???: "Cease attack pattern. We shall... kill them."

Omnos: "This is unprofessional. They must die by my lasers!"

Dragoshi: "...From bad to worse, I SWEAR."

???: "Cease and desist, or we may... disarm you."

Scott Gibson: "Fuck..."

Omnos: "..." *It walks off to the side and shuts off, as a door ahead... opens up for you.*

Metal Man (GM): It's the main room of the fortress. The very center.

Dragoshi: *SWEAR*

Julian Sawyer: "...Christ." *Julian, semi-lucky enough to have not lost his first life, heals himself back to full health via items.*

???: "Enter the room. Omnos won't stand there forever... and your little friend won't live too much either." *Sound of a gun being cocked.*

Scott Gibson walks toward the door stopping long enough to flip the robot off before getting into the room out of shot range.

Dragoshi: "...Not gonna ask..." *Follows.*

Scott Gibson: "Great, a hostage situation. For the love of Hendrix... could this get any better?"

Alexia heads into the next room.

Julian Sawyer, fully healed, heads into the next room.

Metal Man (GM): Walking inside, you see what should be Iggy's throne room. However, it's been jury-rigged with new devices. Garrick is, inexplicably, there, with... Doopliss pointing Ricky's old pistol at his head. Sitting atop the throne is Bowser. And a walking, talking, 10-foot tall Eggman-esque robot blitzing with electricity stands by, as well as a red SIMBER... and Meta Knight. Meta Knight's there too.
You step a few feet into the room. Bowser raises a paw.

Bowser: "That's close enough, punks!"

Julian Sawyer: "...How the FU-" *Stops.*

Alexia: "...Oh, joy."
*She stops.*

Fizban: "...curious."

Dragoshi: "What the-" *STOPS.*

Scott Gibson: "How in the hell?!"

Bowser: "Oh... you didn't think me intelligent enough to pull this together, did you?"

Garrick Fy`aar: "...hey guys. Sorry about this."

Bowser: "Well... I'll show you... you've got a couple things to learn... hah hah hah hah."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Superweapon at 150%. 3. 2. 1. Fire."

Metal Man (GM): A monitor shows an image of outer space... the Second Moon.

Scott Gibson: "YOU'VE GOT A SHITLOAD OF NERVE TO KIDNAP MY DRUMMER YOU SCALY FUCK-WAD!"

Metal Man (GM): A massive red beam suddenly hits it, launching it into the first moon ..It takes out Gunicard in the process.

Editor's Note: Finally, someone cleaning up all these annoying plot points for us!

Alexia: "...no..."

Metal Man (GM): Then that mess flies out into Mars and crashes into the Asteroid belt.

Editor's Note: Wow, he's also taking out the plot remnants of Neo-Earth!

Scott Gibson grits his teeth watching the station get blasted.

Julian Sawyer: "...I dunno whether to cheer or to cry."

Dragoshi: "..." .oO(Good sweet merciful GOD.)

Bowser: "Who did you just call a bad name, again? You don't want more than a drummer to die tonight, do you?"

Scott Gibson: .oO(By the powers of Rock protect us...)

Bowser: "The Magellean Military takes no quarter."

Scott Gibson: "..."

Bowser: "One more insult and Mr. Techno gets it."

Garrick Fy`aar: "...yea... guys, it seems that these guys are the real Magellean Mi--I thought I told you to stop calling me that, turtle!"

Scott Gibson: "You want a hostage then why not me? I'm the frontman for the band."

Doopliss: *Gleefully has his hand on the trigger* "You may not be Aribar, but you'll do it for me just fine."

Bowser: "Oh. I can take more hostages."

Julian Sawyer: "Think they want more than a drummer, Scotty..."

Garrick Fy`aar: "Stupid flippin' bedsheet..."

Scott Gibson: "I gathered that."

F.A.Y.T.H. grabs Scott from behind and sticks a freaky gun to his head and stands next to Doopliss.

Bowser: "Anyone else want to be a hostage today?"

Scott Gibson: "Me an' my big mouth..."

Bowser: "I have... business... to do."

Alexia whirls around to see Scott being grabbed, her eyes flashing back to their normal purple.

Bowser: "Now, I know you punks won't gimme the universe, or even your dumb planet. But... there's a big ol' ship, you know. That Kuja one."

Julian Sawyer facepalms and shakes his head.

Scott Gibson: "Y'know I think you're outta luck."

Meta Knight: "Give it to us or your friends die, as well as your headquarters."

Dragoshi: "..." .oO(...This is getting ridiculous)

Scott Gibson: "That Kuja piece of shit? Fuckin' take it. It's nothing like Third Stage."

Bowser: "And to show we're not kidding..."

Metal Man (GM): The camera shows Eisnaught.

Scott Gibson: "Save the display. We get it."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Fire 2! 100%!"

Metal Man (GM): A huge red laser blasts out the tallest skyscraper, then nicks Quester HQ, knocking out its shields.

Bowser: "One more and they BOTH get it. Hyuck hyuck hyuck!"

Dragoshi: .oO(Eugh.)

Alexia swallows as she watches her only home nearly be destroyed.

Scott Gibson: "Save it. We GET THE POINT!"

Bowser: "So. Massive death-ship, or death to these dudes and your other friends, too. I won't ask again, either."

Alexia: *Shakily* "You are sick and twisted, do you know that?"

Doopliss: "Come on! Pull a Questers thing. I wanna try this gun out!"

Bowser: "Yes. Now deliver the ship."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Sir, we are--"

Bowser: "SILENCE!"

Scott Gibson nudges Garrick slightly.

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Whatever."

Garrick Fy`aar glances to Scott.

Doopliss narrows eyes.

Scott Gibson twitches an eyebrow to the left away from Doopliss.

Julian Sawyer: "Man, this is too much..."

Doopliss doesn't notice... seems not to trust Garrick anyway.

Dragoshi: "..." *Just nods.*

Garrick Fy`aar gives a barely there nod.

Scott Gibson purses his lips and gives a whistle. Suddenly a red scooter barrels out of nowhere and slams her rear tire into Doopliss' face to send him flying back.

Bowser: "You call that an attack? This, I call an attack!"

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Fire 3!"

Metal Man (GM): *BZEEEERRR.*

Scott Gibson: "No, a distraction-"

Metal Man (GM): Eisnaught explodes.

Editor's Note: Wow, blowing up every piece of plot that doesn't need to be there. It's Spring Cleaning for Annoying Plot Leftovers Day! Er, I mean, horrible. Absolutely horrible. The city that barely had any signs of any actual sentient beings living in it suddenly exploding was a total tragedy.

Scott Gibson: "Fuck!"

Metal Man (GM): The ray then takes out a huge chunk of HQ.

Alexia: "NO!"

Garrick Fy`aar grumbles and doesn't move...

Dragoshi: "...I presume it's okay to slam my head into the wall without repercussions or any-...Oh, dammit."

Bowser: "Do that again and we destroy what remains."

Scott Gibson stares with mouth agape... his plan to try and save his friend goes up in smoke with Eisnaught.

Bowser: "Also. Neither of you are allowed to be conscious."

Doopliss: *Pistol-whips Garrick violently.*

Scott Gibson suddenly sits there, blood boiling.

Julian Sawyer: "DAMN! I was gonna open up a branch there..."

F.A.Y.T.H. chucks Scott into the wall.

Scott Gibson: "Uah!" *Thud.*

Bowser: "Now. This is your last chance. Gimme the ship, and only Eisnaught will be... uh... in burning ashes."

Garrick Fy`aar wonders at all if the armor took that blow. You know, the heavy as hell armor.

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Sir! The---"

Bowser: "SHUD UP YOU DINGUS!"

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "..."

Alexia continues silently staring at the results of the laser, tears forming in her eyes.

Metal Man (GM): Garrick: You're on the floor, although it only hurt, rather than a complete KO.

Scott Gibson: "You bastards... You blow a whole city because of that!?"

Dragoshi: "..." .oO(GOD. You'd think they-Hold that thought) *Looks at Alexia, then sighs.*

Bowser: "You calling my bluff? I'll destroy more than that! Aim for Toad Town. Fire!"

Scott Gibson: "Did I say that? No."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Fire 4."

Scott Gibson: "STOP!"

Metal Man (GM): Toad Town explodes violently.

Bowser: "I want my command ship, and I want it NOW!" *Begins typing into some controls.*

Alexia: "..."

Dragoshi: "..." .oO(And, no one listens. Frickin' wonderful.)

Scott Gibson collapses...

Alexia silently bows her head and shuts her eyes.

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Sir."

Garrick Fy`aar: *Holds his grumbles back, knowing he has no choice* "...how about a better one than a Kuja ship..."
*Slowly gets to his feet, groaning at the sharp pain in his back.*

Bowser: "What is it--- only if it comes with the ship. I need that... drive... for personal reasons. And if you pull my leg, I'll have both of yours removed."

Scott Gibson: "I offered you a ship that'd blow the hell out of any Kuja ship in nothin' flat and you didn't listen..."

Garrick Fy`aar: "...I've been working on a ship. One that's... kinda been secret to the others."

Metal Man (GM): Eisnaught, FYI, isn't entirely blown apart, but mostly burnt up. (Enough remnants that those who hid from the first volley survived)
However, yes, many, many people died.

Editor's Note: This would matter more, if we saw any further consequences, but this being SSQ 1... odds are it'll be papered over like nothing happened. See: The Many Explosions of Toad Town. (Including one in this very session, where apparently, Toads aren't considered 'people' to worry about for exploding! Geez!)

Bowser: "Whatever. Just give me all your ships. You have dexes. Call 'em up now."

Garrick Fy`aar: "No. Leave the Questers out of this."

Bowser: "I'm giving you 15 seconds. And I don't know how to count very well."

Scott Gibson: "Mine is somewhat unreachable."

Garrick Fy`aar: "I'll give you a ship that'll knock your socks off. I just need a place to finish it."

Bowser: "Fifteen, eighteeen, two, eight--then give me the location, dummy!-- ten... nine... eight..."

Julian Sawyer washes his hands of the entire matter, and goes to stand far back.

Doopliss: "This is getting nowhere, Bowser. Let's just destroy the world."

Garrick Fy`aar: "...Mark."

Mark: "Yes?"

Bowser: "...That's a pretty good idea, now that you said it." *Begins typing in.*

Garrick Fy`aar: "...bring up Alpha Tw--NO!"

Scott Gibson just sits there against the wall he got tossed at muttering to himself.

Garrick Fy`aar: "I'll give you your ship, Bowser! Just back off!"

Bowser: "Bring it up, then. I'm tired of waiting; the last time I waited, I got KOed by Kuja."

Metal Man (GM): His hand hovers over a threatening looking button.

Garrick Fy`aar: "I'm TRYING, god... Mark, bring up program Alpha Two Niner. Systematic warp."

Bowser: "Send it to coordinates 29-0-55."

Metal Man (GM): He seems to hold off pressing the button once hearing about the ship, although he's impatient.

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "...The noodle is on fire."

Bowser: "Sweet Aunt Kammy! That----err... means imminent victory! Wa ha ha haaa!"

Dragoshi: "..." *Sweatdrop* .oO(Noodle? Aunt Kammy? Man, that is some odd code.)

Alexia: "..."

Metal Man (GM): Julian: Omnos sees you.

Julian Sawyer isn't standing THAT far back.

Omnos: "...Hey, you. Inferior carbon-based lifeform. Do you, perhaps, like to give people... money?"

Garrick Fy`aar (GM): *WARP* *Warping in rather heavily, there sits a ship. Oh boy, what a ship. It's the Dauntless, but it looks vastly different. It looks small compared to Kuja's ship, but still much larger than it was previously. Planted on the top and bottom of the ship was two rather large guns, more like gun barrels than anything. It looks nasty and powerful and fast all rolled into one. All of this appears on the screen infront of Bowser.*

Bowser: "Woohoo! That's one ship! Now... gimme the Kuja ship!"

Garrick Fy`aar: "You wanted a ship. You got a ship. ONE ship."

Scott Gibson sits there against that wall with guitars in each hand. His hair draped over his face as his head hangs there. He's muttering a lot of what sounds like incoherent drivel but he's actually speaking more to himself. Two drops of water pat on the floor.

Bowser: "No deal. Prepare to destroy Quester HQ."

Garrick Fy`aar: "WAIT!"

Scott Gibson jumps up. "STOP IT!"

Garrick Fy`aar: "...I'll go too."

Bowser: "Do you know how to build an intergalactic teleportation engine, Mr. Techno?"

Dragoshi: "..." .oO(...Huh. Where DO we keep that thing anyway? In the HQ? Elsewhere?)

Scott Gibson grits his teeth.

Bowser: "Because if you don't..." *He playfully goes to press the button, swatting it away with another claw.*

Garrick Fy`aar: "Everything that Doctor Light knows... I know."

Editor's Note: Objectively not true, given Doctor Light made Megaman and also X and Garrick hasn't even made a single sentient robot on his own.

Scott Gibson: "..."

Garrick Fy`aar: "That INCLUDES intergalactic teleportation theory."

Editor's Note: On the other hand, I don't think Dr. Light knows this intergalactic teleportation theory. I guess though, when bluffing to Bowser, a person who knows little science, it doesn't matter.

Bowser: "Huh. Well then, you other kiddies are fine to go." *Doopliss chucks a weird orb at Garrick, making him vanish, then holds up his pistol at the others.*

Doopliss: "That's enough, now. Iggy would like his fortress back. And don't even think about fighting us--we have that gun ready to take on ANYTHING."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Sir."

Bowser: "Tell me on the way back in our new ride!"

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "...That will do, then." *Warps out.*

Scott Gibson: "You'll pay for that shit... I'll be damn sure that next time I'll rip all of you a new asshole before you head to hell."

Bowser: "I said no more insults!"

Scott Gibson: "Fine."
*He crosses his arms.*

Bowser: "Now... get the heck offa my floaty-fortress OF DOOM!"

Alexia looks up with sheer murder in her eyes.

Scott Gibson: .oO(It was more a threat.)

Metal Man (GM): He hurls an orb on the ground, and a warp back appears.

Alexia: "Remember. The tens of thousands you killed will haunt you."

Metal Man (GM): His finger hovers over the button.

Scott Gibson: "FUCK IT! IT'S A LITTLE LATE!"

Dragoshi: "..." .oO(...That was just overused)

Alexia lowers her head again and enters the warp.

Julian Sawyer: "That threat never stopped nobody, Alexia..."

Doopliss: "I'm a ghost; I can deal with any spirits involved. Besides, Kuja killed more in a single sitting."
"We're merely liberating the planet of dictators."

Scott Gibson heads to the warp with Roxy behind him slowly.

Dragoshi: "...Let's just exit before this degenerates into something Worse."

Bowser: "Yeah. I like my lasers hot and my revenge stone-cold. Hyuck hyuck hyuck!"

Julian Sawyer: "This kinda shit always happens..." *Julian heads into the warp.*

Dragoshi: "..." *Puts his hands into his pockets, and heads towards the warp, muttering.*

Metal Man (GM): You leave; however, a cinematic continues while you are gone.

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "...Sir... the laser area is under attack by a combined IIF-Eisnaught-Neo-Earthian offense. The laser nearly exploded from that fourth firing, and only managed to set things on fire."
"The earlier firings ensured only that the Second Moon got knocked around. A big chunk flew out, but not much else, unlike what you wanted."
"Eisnaught did become rather crispy, though."

Bowser: "Dang. We're gonna need that crazy Mr. Techno to give us all the power to destroy it next time! Now... we must go back to our lair. Mr. Techno's ship will save us!"
"All aboard!" *Warp.*

Metal Man (GM): Garrick n' co are now on the bridge of the nearly complete... ??? now complete! Dauntless.
Bowser sits in the bridge; Bob and Fayth stand by him. Garrick is nearby, under watch by Doopliss.

Bowser: "Now, Mr. Techno, we need the biggest gun you've got, or we ALL die! There's these punks blowin' up our HQ, and we're sort of heading towards them..."
"We needed that thar Kuja ship to kill 'em all, but now we have you." *Points* "And if you fail, then at least you'll die with us."

Garrick Fy`aar: "...you've already got it..."

Bowser: "Okay. Tell me which gun to fire. If a second or third-biggest one can do the job, that's good too."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "I also require the master password to access it."

Garrick Fy`aar: "...second console on the right, third button from the top. The password is..."
*He hesitates, shaking slightly.*

Metal Man (GM): Bowser mindlessly presses the button.

Bowser: "Hyuck! Die intruders! Dieeee!!!!"

Garrick Fy`aar (GM): *Nothing will happen.*

Bowser: "...Ya know, most buttons I press kill thousands of people." *Turns to Garrick* "Are you sure this isn't a fake button?"

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "We are under fire."

Metal Man (GM): *BLAM* The ship shakes.

Garrick Fy`aar: "It's because I haven't finished the damn--god... fine. Computer!"

Garrick Fy`aar (GM): *A voice sounds...*

Computer: "Ready for commands."

Nova 2.0: "Yes, Captain?"

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Unfinished. Hmph. I can fix that with the password."

Bowser: "We GOT some of the biggest laser guns in this galaxy, but we can only do this without your help."

Metal Man (GM): He snaps some fingers, and some hulkin' huge rayguns appear. Alongside two boxes.

Garrick Fy`aar: "Fire up the converts and main power supply. Systematically run it to the weapons system. Heat up...*Sigh*...heat up the MAC guns."

Bowser: "Invisibility field, force field, assorted and various deathrays."

Metal Man (GM): Your targets are as following: Five Neo-Earthian battlecruisers, An Eisnaught Carrier with 10 fighters, and 3000 foot-soldiers.

Bowser: "We gotta kill 'em all! And our big gun can only fire at things 15 miles or further away!"

Garrick Fy`aar: "Bring missiles bays A through F online. Target the attackers... and fire."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "These weapons appear advanced beyond simple laser guns. I am making notes of their firing procedures."

Garrick Fy`aar: "...fine! Computer, status on the MAC guns?"

Nova 2.0: "MAC guns are hot, captain."

Garrick Fy`aar: "Firing solution... target the battlecruisers... and fire."

Garrick Fy`aar (GM): *Garrick would stand tall while the others would shake and fall over from the rattling of the ship. Two huge... HUGE sets of trio blasts fire from the cannons on the upper and under side of the ship, sending six massive high density shots into all five battlecruisers and one carrier. All six of them would easily be ripped steam to stern, cleaved into two.*

Metal Man (GM): The Eisnaught cruiser blows apart, but the Neo-Earthian things boggle the mind.
They put up a strange field and teleport around the shots.

Bowser: "What the heck? Those guys are cheaters!"

Metal Man (GM): You get a comms from an elderly man at the bridge of one of the Neo-Earthian cruisers.

???: "Surrender or be killed by lightning. ...Forget that. Die."

Metal Man (GM): The comms close, and clouds of lightning are fired at the Dauntless.

Garrick Fy`aar: "...portable warp fields... nice... alright. We're going to have to play hard ball. Nova, raise deflector shields and bring the engines online!"

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "This is unbelievable. They're firing enough electricity to destroy the moon three times over."

Nova 2.0: "Aye." *The ship crackles to life and suddenly kicks HARD straight to the right.*

Metal Man (GM): You dodge a good deal of them, though a stray bolt causes sparks to fly everywhere inside.
The ships turn around to face you and begin charging up some other super-weapon.

Bowser: "Bah! Ain't nothing we can't counter... somehow. Can anything hit stuff that moves like that?"

Garrick Fy`aar: *Throws himself into a the helm, bringing weapon control and shield status to his station. He throws up new charges for the MAC guns* "You fail to realize just how good this ship is. Sit down, all of you. And shut up."

Metal Man (GM): He nods and sits down. They watch as the enemy cruisers fire magnetic beams at you, attempting to pull the ship (or its fields) into two pieces.

???: "You are outgunned. We have the power of a thousand suns."

Garrick Fy`aar kicks the ship into high gear, the vessel shinning once as a HUGE barrier forms a good half mile in front of it, taking the shot. It's ripped to pieces though, and the Extended Barrier system sets to recharge. He drops the handle, the ship streaking STRAIGHT AT THEM.

???: "A kamikaze will only increase your pain."

Garrick Fy`aar: "Bowser."

Bowser: "Yes?"

Garrick Fy`aar: "When I tell you to, hit that blue button on your left."

Bowser: "Whatever you say!"

Metal Man (GM): A portal forms between two ships dead ahead of you, opening up a massive black hole. One which begins hurling an endless cloud of static-y tiles and extradimensional gibberish at you.

Garrick Fy`aar: *Gives his knuckles a crack as he watches cautiously, his hands dancing on the panel as the ship barrel rolls and spins out of the way of the shots. It continues to streak forward, covering distance at an alarming pace before... they pass right under the battlecruisers* "NOW!"

Metal Man (GM): Bowser hits the button quickly.

Garrick Fy`aar (GM): *A small click is heard and a thunking sound. The ship suddenly pulls straight up and around on the other side of the cruisers.*

Garrick Fy`aar: "Fire MAC guns!"

Metal Man (GM): The guns fire. The cruisers are actually hit... and you see a MASSIVE force field come up, making a threatening 'ZOWZOWZOWZOWZOWZOWZOW' sound as it deflects stuff shot at it.

Garrick Fy`aar (GM): *BOOOM*

Metal Man (GM): The mine explodes, and they are thrown upwards into the air. The shields make an even louder noise as they attempt to keep up with it.

???: "Impressive. But you will never defeat us."

Metal Man (GM): The ships steady themselves and come at you again, the shields sparking erratically. You hear a roaring noise, and realize asteroids from space have suddenly begun to fly at you.
They also appear to be nearing mach 5 as they go to collide into you.

Bowser: "Argh! They don't stop coming! What sort of freaks are these guys?!?!"

Garrick Fy`aar: "Damn! Target the asteroids! Fire missiles G through V!"

Garrick Fy`aar (GM): thousands of missiles pour out, slamming into the astroids in an attempt to take them out before they got close.

Metal Man (GM): The asteroids are taken out. Probably because of something else you didn't expect appearing on the radar. It's a small blip... no... it's a mildly longer blip.

Metal Man:
*Comms* "Hmph. You start a party and forget me? Nobody blows up my headquarters but me!"
*Comms* "DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!."

Garrick Fy`aar: "Metal!"

Bowser: "It's that freak! Kill him! With lasers!"

Garrick Fy`aar: "I'm not taking out my own boss! I told you to keep your mouth SHUT, Bowser!"

Bowser: "...We're all gonna die, then. That thing's loaded with more weapons than those other guys."

Metal Man (GM): The other ships fly away, apparently out of ammo after that fight.

???: "We will be back--and it will be personal."

Garrick Fy`aar cranks the engines, speeding in a wide arch to settle down on the ship that Metal is piloting...

Metal Man: *Comms* "Surrender the ship and I won't launch the atomic frog at you."

Garrick Fy`aar: *Comms* "Metal! Call off your attack!"

Doopliss: "Surrender the ship and I'll ensure you die from this." *Points his pistol at Garrick.*

Bowser: "Heck, I don't know anything about this, but this looks like an excellent time to attack!" *Presses random buttons and pulls random levers.*

Garrick Fy`aar: "...you can't outgun us, Metal! I say again, pull back immediately."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Bowser, while that may actually attack him, it has a high chance of causing the ship to explode."

Metal Man: *Comms* "Hah. You, outgun me? I'd rather die than have a second person outdo me at my job!"

Garrick Fy`aar: *Comms* "DAMN it, Metal! Listen to me, for once in our lives, and TRUST ME. PULL. BACK."

Metal Man: *Comms* "Nope."
You see the CAC open up, revealing a fearsome array of Lighttech branded things.
...And three pseudo-cube bazookas. Gold-plated.
They open fire like machineguns--which is bad.

Garrick Fy`aar: "...Nova... how is the SS system faring?"

Metal Man (GM): Remember: One projectile killed Metal Sonic instantly.

Editor's Note: I would be impressed except black holes as well as 1000 suns were mentioned as well as destroying the moon 3 times over. The Neo-Earthians already broke believability with their insane power scaling and this is more like a pea shooter by comparison. Only thing this has is GM fiat -- rather than the raw numbers the others had.

Nova 2.0: "...one use of it will blow it out and require a new one. The use of it would also likely destroy the surrounding area."

Bowser: "Not my base! Anything but my deadly super-base! Even if the shields ARE low from all those... low-down footsoldiers we haven't been killing..."

Garrick Fy`aar: "We have bigger things to worry about!!"

Metal Man (GM): The CAC pulls up and chases you. Everything the Dauntless has, it has something nearly and/or more powerful. Dr. Light and Professor Oak put a LOT of work into this, apparently due to Metal's habit of paying them millions of coins for personal amusement.
It's also got phat bling. All that gold hanging from the mirror menaces you.

Garrick Fy`aar: "Charge MAC guns, load missiles R through BB... if we can't outgun him, then will outthink him..."

Metal Man (GM): Metal drinks coffee made from one of two diamond-encrusted coffee makers while listening to Bach and chasing you.

Doopliss: "...I've never seen such an outlandish waste of money in my life."

Metal Man: *Comms* "Lessee. If you move too fast for instant death, I'll have to try something else." The hood opens up, revealing a harpoon launcher.
It aims and fires a massive harpoon at the shields.

Garrick Fy`aar reaches into his jacket pocket and pulls out a cigar, lighting it with a flick of his Zippo after biting off the end and spitting it out to the side. He takes a deep breath, clears up some system situations... and then barrel rolls clean right and streaks to the side.

Metal Man (GM): The harpoon misses; the car turns around quickly and follows you; it's a lot smaller, and thus, more maneuverable. And only a smidgen slower, due to the gold-plating and length of it.

Garrick Fy`aar: "...how much do you like Nintendus, Bowser?"

Metal Man (GM): Although it does have its weak points, it recovers the harpoon and fires it again at you.

Garrick Fy`aar: "JACK LEFT!" *BOOM.*

Bowser: "It has its good points----we could blow it up too."

Garrick Fy`aar: "...that's good enough for me. Nova, charge SS system. Tell me when it's full. For now... we play keep away." *Jukes straight left away from the harpoon.*

Metal Man (GM): The harpoon misses. Metal shakes a fist and presses another button, as the harpoons reveal laser guns... which begin rapid-fire lasers at the Dauntless. The real kind, which go the speed of light. Though they're not horrendously powerful, they'd remove an arm if they hit somebody.

Garrick Fy`aar growls and presses the deflectors to full, juking and barrel rolling to get away from as many as he can. He slams a fresh button and another high yield low range nuke blasts toward Metal.
*Also makes it go off infront of him, rather than on him.*

Metal Man (GM): The car spins like a crazy spinning gyro, and they bounce off, ala Star Fox. He must have stolen that technology.

Nova: "SS system ready."

Metal Man: *Comms* "Woahwoahwoah---you can't caaatch meee... I'm gonna be sick tonight!"

Nova: "We are pushing the engines to 210%...overheating..."

Garrick Fy`aar: "Vent main coolant and pump in secondary tanks. Direct the cloud at Metal."

Metal Man: *Comms* "Hmmm... I'mma need some more help. Let's see about THIS."
Your sensors would detect... oh god.
It's the main Kuja ship.
And it's heading directly at you, firing its planet-destroying lasers at you.

Garrick Fy`aar: "...oh no..."

Metal Man (GM): The sun is blocked by its mass.

SIMBER: *Comms* "Puny, small target detected. Annihilate with Kuja-Destructor cannon."

Garrick Fy`aar: "...SS systems ready, Nova?"

Nova: "Aye, captain..."

Bowser: "...This is why I wanted that ship. Nothing can kill those 'cept Questers! ...Bad idea, actually... yeah... I know."

Garrick Fy`aar: "...alright, gentlemen... say goodbye to Nintendus for a while..."
*He slams the ship toward the Kuja ship, then arches straight upwards again, heading out of the atmosphere and even higher...*

SIMBER: *Comms* "Resistance is futile. You will be annihilated."

Metal Man (GM): *PSEEEW* *PSEW PSEW PSEW* Lasers chase you left and right.

Garrick Fy`aar: "...Nova... activate SS system..."

Nova: "Slipstream system online. Engines charging... plotting course for exit of the system... established."

Bowser: "Hm..."

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: *Nods.*

Garrick Fy`aar: "...later, guys." *VeeeeeeeeEEEEE-KAPOW!!*

Garrick Fy`aar (GM): *The ship turns into a straight streak of light... and then is gone, leaving in a shockwave of energy and force....*

Metal Man (GM): Garrick's ship flies out of the system, and the Magellean Military people warp back to their HQ at the last moment!

SIMBER: *Comms* "Target lost. Proceed to destroy enemy headquarters." *Turns around.*

Metal Man: *Comms* "...Uh... okay."

Metal Man (GM) Outside the system.
Garrick is now far outside of the Nintendus system... and realizes they bailed.

Garrick Fy`aar: "...oh, perfect..."

Metal Man (GM): Even worse, all that combat was sure to blow something up.
However, there's laser guns and invisibility generators and shield generators on your main deck.
They made sure you were paid for your work.

Garrick Fy`aar sighs and powers down the ship, putting into standby mode. He stands and stretches, snuffing on his cigar. He glances around...
"...Nova."

Nova: "Yes, captain?"

Metal Man (GM): ...Now you just have to make your way back.

Garrick Fy`aar: "Start full repairs of the SS system. Get on repairing the engines as well. I've got some work to do."
*He takes his jacket and drapes it over the helm chair, gathering up the materials and moving toward his personal lab. He was going to get back to the Questers, with gifts... before he left for good... he was an enemy now. He sighed as he rode the lift down, moved to his lab, and started at it... he would leave, yes... but not without leaving those damnded Military asses a present or two.*

Garrick Fy`aar (GM): *Fade out.*

Metal Man (GM): Magellean Military base
They appear at their same main room... which is shaking from all the hits on the force field.

Bowser: "All right... that was delayed success, right there. The ship we wanted caused Mr. Techno to fly away! We gotta patch these holes up. Doopliss, you're promoted to Mr. Techno's position."

Doopliss: "...He had one?"

Bowser: "Shut up! We're a military organization! Our ranks make no sense!"

Doopliss: "Yes sir."

Bowser: "Now, to fix our exploding problem. I thought my speech would galvanize him, but it turned him into a stainless steel CHICKEN. I wanted him to kill Metal, but instead he made a quantum quack and fled!"

Doopliss: "Is that supposed to make any sense either?"

Bowser: "NO!"

Doopliss: "...Yes sir."

Bowser: "Now... Bob... what did you get off his systems?"

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "..." *Begins snickering.*

Bowser: "A ray of laughter? Pathetic!"

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "...No, that's what's required to laugh at your jokes."

Metal Man (GM): *rimshot.*

Bowser: "Hey!" *Shoots the drummer.*

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "...Now, now, Mr. Fire weapons and ask questions later..."

Bowser: "I'm durn proud of it, too! Let's blow up Toad Town again!"

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "...Urgh... we stole most of his technology. Fayth managed to scan it while he was sitting there hesitating."
"And I stole some of the parts using a remote droid."
"Also, I covered the interior with bugs. The minute he comes into our system again, we can lase him before he knows what hit him."
"Also, if he survives that, Trevor will infect his systems."
"And those parts I gave him are rigged to explode."
"...I also coated your hands with plastic explosives, Bowser, so that you covered the controls with them."

Bowser: "So that's what this tasty white putty is!"

Metal Man (GM): *rimshot.*

Bowser: "...Oh, right, even our drummer has a force field!"

Bob, Lord of Electric Death: "Anyway, Mr. Explosives Eater, we need to get a new location. This one is being hit with lasers. From outer space."

Bowser: "No prob. I'll just call up Iggy."
*He picks up the phone.*

Metal Man (GM): Iggy appears on a monitor.

Iggy: "What is it, King Dad?"

Bowser: "Our headquarters is on fire. Gimme yours!"

Iggy: "What? No."

Bowser: "Give it to me or you won't inherit the burnt wreck of mine!"

Iggy: "And I would want that why?"

Bowser: "...Curses. Uh... what if I paid you a million Koopa Bucks?"

Iggy: "Those are worth the same as dust clods, only more plentiful."

Bowser: "I knew I shoulda made an economy! But no, I neeeded my big screen!"

Iggy: "..."

Bowser: "Okay, I'll tell you what. Warp us to that messed up place down under, we'll do the rest."

Iggy: "...Fine. But this better be the last time, King Dad. I don't have enough power to fix ALL of your mistakes."

Bowser: "...Right."

Metal Man (GM): They all warp out, and the base explodes promptly after that.
One last thing before we go to downtime (in the 3/4 undestroyed Quester HQ)
Oh, yes, also
Mission Completed
+10,000 coins
+5000 EXP to all
Now, we go to the burnt-up, toastified Eisnaught, where a certain being is walking down sidewalks.
Ok.
Downtime it is; HQ is mostly okay, but a big hole is in the arena's ceiling.
Metal lands his car outside. He takes out his gun and shoots violently at the air.

Metal Man: "Curses! One hit and I could have killed the entire Magellean Military at once!"

Metal Man (GM): The Questers are at HQ, as normal.

Metal Man calms down after a little bit, then goes to his office and sits down as normal.

Scott Gibson having just arrived at HQ he storms through the building. He let's out a loud yell and slams his guitar through a wall.

Dragoshi: *And, Drag is walking around, and decides to look around to see how much damage was done.*

Metal Man (GM): A hole in the ceiling of the arena.

Scott Gibson goes around and looks for someone. He's enraged and his last nerve has long since snapped.

Metal Man (GM): A buncha burnt up trees outside.
And a beautiful--no, horrible--view of a burning Eisnaught/Toad Town.

Scott Gibson: "METAAAAL!"

Dragoshi: "..." *Takes a REALLY deep sigh, then slams his head into the nearest wall. A LOT.*

Metal Man peaks out of the hole. "SCOTTIEEEEE!!!!"

Scott Gibson puts his dex away momentarily having seen the action in space on it.

Metal Man: "...I know it isn't Yell Like a Maniac day, but I had to get some practice in."

Scott Gibson storms up to Metal with a crazed psychotic grin on his face. "Enlighten me as to why you had to shoot at my bandmate and one of the FEW friends I have around here!"

Dragoshi: *...And, he then stops* .oO(...This ain't good)

Metal Man: "One shot woulda taken out all the Magellean Military at once."

Scott Gibson: "AND GARRICK!"

Metal Man: "Garrick, naturally, would revive, being a Quester, and having three lives. They... don't have three lives... on the other hand."

Scott Gibson: "He resigned his Quester rank awhile back if I remember."

Metal Man: "...The protection remains, though, because most staff have it anyway. Not like I'd want Mario to suddenly die, after all. And we can't replace Dr. Oak if he tripped and fell into a vat of acid."
"Whereas Bowser is free to explode."

Dragoshi: "...Has this kind of thing happened before?" *Points at the mess.*

Metal Man: "Uh..."
*He takes out a massive book.*

Scott Gibson: "THAT'S BULLSHIT! I don't give a damn if he's in-fuckin-vincible! You really got balls shooting at a comrade."

Metal Man: "Of course I do. Nobody else has attempted to defeat Julian as much as I have."
*He rubs his gun on his shoulder.* "And I would have saved you a lot of footwork had I succeeded, too. Possibly prevented your friend from escaping and becoming possibly lost in another solar system."

Scott Gibson is put off by that comment... his eyes flare and the muscles in his face start to convulse.

Dragoshi: *Looks at Scott* "...Uhhh... Think you should run Metal? Or will you be okay...?"

Roxy pulls up behind Scott slowly.

Metal Man shrugs. "I made Klumsy himself mad; he threatened to steal all my coins too... can't say he ever succeeded at that."

Scott Gibson takes his dex out of his pocket and SLAMS it into Metal's faceplate with a CR-ACK!. He then turns around with his SG in hand and slams out a wall and jumps out. Roxy speeds out and catches him as he jets off into the horizon toward Eisnaught or Toad Town to go help anyone who may still be alive.

Dragoshi: "..." *Slinks against the wall, then sighs* "Does this usually happen after multiple places get flat-out annihilated?"

Scott Gibson: *The Dex lands with the LCD side up. It's cracked but across it are the letters, * "All band activity for SIDE QUEST is on hold until further notice " *Mass send* *Julian, Dragoshi, Digifanatic, Garrick.*

Metal Man takes the mangled dex out of his face. "The entire planet exploded once too. Some people get angrier than others."

Dragoshi: "...ALL of it? How''d that happen?" *While looking at the mangled dex.*

Metal Man: "Grodus II and Smithy blew it up with The Ark in a now alternate reality."

The Wraith: "HUZZAH!" *POW!* *The ghost appears in the room, looking rather flustered, to say the least.*

Metal Man (GM): *Sees John* "Ah. Thank god you're here. The usual places are on fire again."

The Wraith: *He shakes his head to shoo the birdies away, then looks to Metal.* "On fire...?" *He then looks out through the new... 'window'.* "...Oh, LOVELY. Disappear for a week and cities burn. Can't leave you guys unattended, can I?"

Scott Gibson flies off into the horizon. Nothing matters to him at this moment. He's on the hunt. "I don't care... I DON FUCKIN CARE ANYMORE! I'll hunt down those bastards from here to Kingdom come!"

Dragoshi: "...Should I get some stuff to help repair this mess?"

The Wraith: *He narrows his eyes.* "...And is that Scott riding toward town?"

Dragoshi: "...Yep."

Metal Man: "It's good PR, though."
*He tunes into the news.*

Reporter: "Eisnaught is on fire--and a crazed man on a vespa is flying in to save the day!"

Dragoshi: "..." *Falls over to the side, then gets up*
"...I see... GOD. This is just one headache after another" *@_!*

Scott Gibson rummages through the rubble and grabs a massive chunk of concrete trapping a family. He hefts it then with his guitar bats it over the horizon and harmlessly into an unoccupied grassy field.
*The family runs out all 'Thank God for you Questers!' crap. Though he's the one that CAUSED the place to get razed.*
*After finishing with some tireless rescue work Scott finally drags into HQ. He practically kicks down the front door and marches up to his room.*
"This whole situation got massively blown out of the water..."
"Me an' my stupid ass temper."

The Wraith: *He watches Scott go by, then looks to Metal.* "...Okay, so... What's the casualties?"

Metal Man: "Not quite as big as it would seem; the warning shot caused millions to go into shelters."

Scott Gibson: "Now Garrick's out half-way across the galaxy... Two cities are blown up... Tens of thousands are dead... aaaaand it's all my fault..."

Metal Man: "SIMBER also says they lost power exponentially between shots, and wasted their big one on space, where it sorta... sucked."

The Wraith: "...What'd they hit out there?"

Metal Man: "They shoved the Second Moon and first one into Mars, and into the asteroid belt."

Dragoshi: "...That's SURE to mess around with SOMETHING."

Metal Man: "Diolize contacted us saying he'd take a while to pilot his moon back, but that it mostly caused damage to... well. Uninhabited planets."

Scott Gibson: *To self* "I have to fix this thing. I screwed it up so I've gotta make good and get off my ass. But I need something first... Something I'd have to make a bit of a side trip for..."

Metal Man: "Not too much, they're ultimately small in this massive universe."

The Wraith: "Huh... Anyone from our lot hit?"

Scott Gibson: *To self* "Hm... Who's got a dimensional transporter I can hijack?"

Metal Man: "Garrick took a trip into the Twilight Zone with that big reality-damaging ship he built... ...Nobody else harmed."
"Anyway, about ten thousand people died from the total blast. A lot, yes, but that super-weapon couldn't be predicted."

The Wraith: "I see... Did we take any major enemies out?"

Dragoshi: "..." .oO(I bet not...)

Metal Man: "...It is possible Garrick warped them with him, but I doubt it. We blew up their mega-cannon, though... but they may have more."

Scott Gibson walks by the room where the talking is going on. His guitars are slung and Roxy is following him everywhere he goes as quiet as possible. He pauses next to the room long enough for them to notice and to cast a nasty glance.

Metal Man: "Iggy's castle definately isn't a problem anymore either; the Questers screwed it up, somewhat."

The Wraith: "Hrm, hrm... Tons of fun, this... Oh, found Iggy, did we? Good..."

Metal Man: "We haven't crushed him yet, but our ship can always nerf his little castle into the sun if he says anything bad. It certainly blew up the MM HQ."

The Wraith: "What's stopping him from rebuilding? And... That's one of the things I was talking about. Didn't know the MM got blasted."

Scott Gibson: .oO(Tch...)

Metal Man: "He can rebuild; but we can re-destroy."

Scott Gibson finally mans up and walks into Metal's office where (I presume) all the speech is happening.

Metal Man: "Hello again."

Dragoshi: "...'Ello"

Scott Gibson sighs slightly. "Yeah, again... Look I know I screwed up. My damn temper flared again."
He holds up a hand to stop any comments until he's finished...

Dragoshi nods, then listens.

Scott Gibson: "Thing is that I've never been in a situation where I ever had a chance of losing friends or comrades. It's been a switch since I dropped in here..."

Metal Man: "I can understand." *He looks down* "All my friends are dead."

Scott Gibson: "I've never acted insubordinate ever in my career with the GSPB. And just today I dex-punched Metal in the face. Yeah, that was stupid."

Metal Man: "...Well. John IS here, but he still counts as dead." *Nods soberly.*

The Wraith: *He waves.*

Scott Gibson: "Thing is that I have three major problems..."

Dragoshi: "...?"

Scott Gibson: "My temper. Fierce loyalty to my friends and comrades. And, lastly, I'm alone. I've never been without anything that reminded me of home. Now I can't hardly function." *Scott raises a hand flatly. It shakes violently.*
"It's becoming clear that we're outnumbered and outgunned ninety percent of the time."
"Though we seem to pull victory out or our asses."

Metal Man: "You did give us some good PR there, Scott. I didn't think of helping some people until minutes after you left."

Dragoshi: *Nods.*

Metal Man: "I also may have attacked with a little too much gusto; but that ship could have killed thousands more than I would have blowing it up."

Scott Gibson manages to slightly give a half-hearted laugh. "Anyway... all the bullshit aside..."
"I need to make a trip. Things are clear that this is more than I can handle in my present state."

Metal Man: "We have visas to almost every area in the world."

Scott Gibson: "I'm not going anywhere on Nintendus."

Dragoshi: "...Then, where?"

Scott Gibson: "When I say I need to go on a trip... I mean I'm making a quick trip home. I need to speak with Master Hendrix."

Metal Man: "May take a while to get a warp there... after the Nobody fiasco, we've kept interdimensional stuff down."

Dragoshi: "...Nobody fiasco?"

Scott Gibson: "I'm not going to be there long. But I do want something from you."

Metal Man: "...The Void created many fake people, who then attacked us, because we broke interdimensional boundaries."

Dragoshi: "...I see. It all sounds like one big cosmic mess, really."

Scott Gibson: "I need proof. Proof that can prove beyond a shadow of a doubt where I've been. If I go back now I'll have been MIA for a long time."

Metal Man: "Videos of everything you've done here ring a bell?"

Scott Gibson: "That and I'll be immediately on the chopping block, so to speak. They're going to pump every last ounce of my brain onto a silver platter for examination. Again a figure of speech."

Metal Man takes out DVDs and displays them, card style.

Scott Gibson: "Perfect."

Metal Man: "I... have videos of all missions."

Scott Gibson: "I'll need everything from the time I arrived to now."

Metal Man: "Here, take the one of yours, I'll run myself another copy." *Hands one marked 'Scott' to Scott. He looks over another one. It was marked 'Trigger', but now says 'Comedy'* "I like to watch this one."

Scott Gibson takes it and slips it into a CD case.

Metal Man: "I AM THE MASTER OF THE NINTENDO TEMPLE!!!!" *Mimes running into a wall.*

Dragoshi tries to hold back some laughter.

Scott Gibson: "The reason I ask all this is that I need to figure out a few things and get some stuff straight back on the homefront. However... I'm not doing this just for me."
"With this stuff I can prove what I've been doing. With that I can straighten out a few things and speak with Master Hendrix. With his help and the proof I'll be able to bring back some reinforcements too. Seeing us kick robot ass will instill us in the GSPB's circle of gratitude."

Dragoshi: "...Sounds good."

Metal Man: "Well, we can make a mission of getting you to there... Diolize's big base and the moon its attached to needs to be put back into place, and if we do that, he may repay us with a warp to your planet. Besides, I owe it to you for nearly blowing up Garrick, even if it woulda been a quick solution to the MM problem."

Scott Gibson: "..." *Scott growls a bit.* "Watch it. I'm still a little sore over that one."

Dragoshi: "..." .oO(That might've been a bad thing to mention...)

Scott Gibson: "You set it up and I'll do it. I have to make this trip. But I also need a way back. For myself and a few ships probably."

Metal Man: "...A few ships? We don't really have that sort of warp. The last warp to allow that much through, Mr. Kuja came in and killed everyone but me and three other people."
"And there's more people out there who'd love to kill people for laughs. We nearly were attacked by an evil clown who knew fire magic."

Scott Gibson: "I've browsed the library. I know what happened... roughly."

Dragoshi: "...Right"."

Scott Gibson: "If not a few ships then maybe one. I used to be on one before I got my independent action privileges from HQ. I was a helmsman on the Boston cruiser 'Higher Power'."

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