For The Casual Roleplayer (Part 6)
 

OOC: At last... I begin a Casual RP thread...

Inside the fallen Ghostalker, Danae lay on her back, head lolling about nervelessly. The plasma shell had hit her in the auxillary power unit, destroying it and rendering the powersuit inoperable. The whiplash had caused her head to collide with the interior of the suit hard enough to knock her out. Strangely enough, though, she was still conscious, though not enough to move.

Damn... Virg- Venedict must have reactivated his augmentations... So fast... haven't fought anyone like that for a long time now...

YOU WILL KILL VENEDICT.

Then again... I was always better in enhanced combat...

Her eyes flicked open, like an oiled switchblade, and she reached her hand into the pocket of her jumpsuit with the discs. Danae pressed one of them into her palm, and a system diagnostic readout flashed across her field of vision, superimposed onto her cornea via retina microprojectors.

Gilgamesh Augmentation Firmware v1.1 active.

Restore augmentation functionality via external power source?

Yes.

Processing....... Bioelectric reserves at 100%.

Initialize microfibral muscle, extremity ion rotor and targeting vision augmentation.

Processing... Augs Microfibral Muscle, Combat Strength, Targeting active. Current bioelectric reserves are 94%. Estimated lifespan is 2 hours.

Good enough.

The front plate of the Ghostalker blasted off its hinges as Danae gave it a vicious kick. Taking her twin heavy blasters she rose from the wreckage of the powersuit, like an avenging angel, eyes blazing with crimson fire.

"I'm coming for you, Venedict. Coming for your head!"

She stalked out of the building.

"Damnit... That man should have just come down here himself and look for it... It's not like I know this place very well, especially with half of it blown away now."

She continued shuffling around the debris in an irritated manner, quickly coming to a stop as she heard the front plate burst off. She literally jumped a feet off the ground as she turned and looked at it, a woman climbing out and beginning to head out into the street.

"Danae.."

At least she didn't notice me.... but if she's still alive then..

Stephanie eased over to the opening in the wall, peering out just slightly to watch her. "Virgil's still in danger..."

"Woman! Hurry up with that First Aid Kit already!" Kai yelled from the upper story of the building.

Startled, Stephanie jumped back into the building a bit, covering her mouth as she let out a small scream. Frowning, she walked back a little bit and yelled back up at him. "I'm sorry if I'm having trouble finding it in all this mess down here, especially when I had no idea where it was in the first place!"

Scott crouched behind a dumpster in an alley, taking out the pistols he stole from a clanner earlyer. He took off the safety and cocked them. Well, these babies are ready for a fight. Question is, am I?

Scott peered around the dumpster and saw woman toting heavy blasters. She had the same crimson hue around her that Virgil had. Crap! Is this Danae? She looks like she's going to tear somebody in two! He then remembered Virgil. If she's the one after irgil, I think she'll be in for quite a fight. He's no pushover... Scott readied himself for a qick dive out of cover, across the alley to another dumpster. ...but I'm sure I can help out here.

Scott was about to get moving, when an explosion ripped apart part of the roof above him. Scott looked up in time to see a small chunk of the bulding come down and hit him square in the face, knocking him out cold.
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Scott quickly woke up in a dark room. He could see himself fine, but everything else was as black as moonless night. "Where am I?" he thought aloud.

YOU ARE IN YOUR OWN SUBCONSIOUS

"Who was that?" Scott exclaimed in surprise as an old scientist in a labcoat appeared out of nowhere. "Who the heck are you?"

"I am the professor that 'made' you, Scott. As you have deduced, you are a part of the second generation of Project: Gilgamesh. You are not like the origionals, Virgil and Danae." Long lost memories started flooding into Scott's mind as the old man talked. "You were our first attempt in trying to recreate the first Gilgamesh supersoldiers."

"So it is true..." Scott mumbled in disbelief. "I am like Virgil...but how did you get in my head?"

Hearing this, the professor chuckled and said "I implanted part of myself into your mind, in case this happened. You see, what happened was when we completed your rigerous training which spanned the first 19 years of your life, we decided you were finished, and on your 20th birthday, we set you out into the clanner homeworld."

"But if I am a supersoldier, aren't I suppoesed to be in the military, or something like that?"

"No. My colleagues and I knew about Danae's destructive potential, and that she would do anything to destroy Virgil. Willing enough to kill any and all people in her way..."

Scott inturrupted, curiously (and furiously) asking "So, what exactly is my so-called 'programming?' "

"...well, I was about to get to that. When we realeased you, we implanted some artificial memories about that girl...what was her name?"

Scott growled. "Maria..."

"Ah, yes, Maria. We implanted those memories into you, and made you forget all else, so you would have some motivation to find trust in others. Others that would eventually lead you to the original Gilgamesh supersoldiers."

Scott said "So my purpose is..."

The professor put on a grim face, saying: "...to protect the innocent from Danae's rampage. You were created to help others, and hopefully assist Virgil in taking Danae out. Unlike Danae, you have morals, dignity, honor, and most important of all, peole who depend on you, whether you know it or not. However, if you'd like, you can turn down this whole thing, and live a normal life..."

Scott clenched his fist and stared through his sunglasses at the elderly man. "I will protect those that need me."

Then a great white flash came.
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Scott awoke, with a splitting headache. The doctor was right. I have innocents to protect. Dropping the pistols, Scott dashed back to the house, ignoring the confrontation behind him.

"This is star captain Crewger, I am seeing some unusual activity in the market district, should i investigate?"

"Neg, mantain your position. Adder pilots, investigate the market district, but use caution, they still have elementals on the loose and who knows what else."

++Enemy Mech Detected++

A Ghoststalker jumpjeted into view after firing on one of the outer embassy buildings. Without need for words, Gerek and the two Kit Foxes opened fire. One of Gerek’s Large lasers caught the Ghoststalker dead center and the Kit Foxes seared at it’s armor with their Medium Lasers. Upon it’s decent arc Gerek activated the turret Clan Large Pulse Laser, and the computer calculated the Ghoststalker’s trajectory and opened fire. The Ghoststalker was pierced by several bursts of emerald fury.

“Kit Foxes form up on me. We are heading down the avenue, watch out for those Cougars and elementals, they might attempt to ambush us. Hold you fire until my signal or you are until you are fired upon. We want to make sure we are getting the enemys.”

[ooc]
gonna be away untill tomorrow. And dante, isn't there a rule that says that those with girfriends can't be called nerd?

OOC: Read Sluggy Freelance... you'll know why... it isn't personal...

"Aha! Found the damned thing!" She picked up the first aid kit triumphantly, turning around to make her way back to the upper level, seeing Scott running back in. "Huh? You're back? But I thought that you were going to help fight?" She raised an eyebrow curiously, then shook her head.

"Nevermind, let's just get this back up to Kai and Ryan." She started back up into the upper level.

OOC: Finally... the thread is resurrected...

Piotr was having a hard time keeping Virgil in his scope. The latter was moving incredibly fast, even with a PIG on his shoulder, and he and Yang had to sidestep plasma shells all the time.

"Dammit! Miki! You and Reika flank him! I don't believe he can take on four power suits at once, even if he is augmented!"

And then, in seeming defiance of Piotr'sradioed remark, Virgil scaled a nearby building and put a plasma shell through Reika's Elemental, which was attempting to ambush Virgil from the side. Of course, the minute Virgil landed Yang's launchers turned the spot into a smoking crater, but Virgil was already long gone. Panicked, Miki looked around, turning her Elemental, trying to ctach sight of him. No luck.

"Piotr! Yang! Where is he!"

"Not here. Maybe he's - what the?"

Virgil had landed directly on top of Miki's Elemental, directly on the blind spot of the Elemental.

"MIKI! HE'S RIGHT ON TOP OF-"

Too late. With a grin, Virgil leapt off and fired his PIG in mid-air. The Elemental's destruction was as brief as it was spectacular.

Virgil landed in a nearby alley, only to come face to face with a team of Miki's soldiers, who ahd been waiting in supposrt. Both sides being equally surprised at the other's presence, they were still fo a few moments before Virgil had the presence of mind to drop his PIG and draw his pistols.

He didn't get a chance to shoot, however. Twelve automatic weapons pointed his way opened fire in a withering burst of ammunition, forcing him to retreat...

... and land smack in front of Danae.

[OOC]

Teehee ^^ It just needed a little recessitation for a bit.... Sadly though... I'm brain dead... and need sleep... so I'll try to post more later after I have something more to work with. *passes out onto teh couch*

OOC: No! LWM! Don't leave us! Cross over! Cross over into the light! NoooO!

(On a side note I'm pretty damn tired myself. I'll be turning in after a vicious little spam-fest.)