#(( some fool gets BLASTED and everyone looks in C's direction and she just.
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can i ask for a number 248. “A mistletoe? Really?” bkdk of course ! (also yes i know it’s august and it’s not even close to december or the winter season at all but something jolly won’t hurt ;3)
C, first of all, sorry for taking so long, I didn't read your ask until today because I didn't want spoilers from the leaks so I ran away.
Second, it's never to early for Christmas fics! You just need Christmas spirit, which I have plenty, so here's a mix of Christmas shenanigans, possessive Deku, little shit Bakugou and dumbass Kaminari, which I love plenty! Enjoy, dearest, thank you for your art and all the light you bring into the Bakudeku fandom!
“A mistletoe? Really?” Katsuki regarded the Christmas hat Kaminari was offering him. In previous years their hats were customized depending on the one wearing it, but this year his was pointy and had mistletoe hanging from some sort of antenna. “I can give you 30 seconds to run as much as you can before I kick your ass.”
“Listen, this is going to be so funny!“ As usual, Kaminari’s lack of survival instinct was a bother to Katsuki.
“You’re wasting valuable seconds, Dunce Face,” Katsuki interrupted him, palm smoking in warning.
“Kacchan, quit it! Look,” Kaminari pacified him by putting the hat in his back pocket. “This is for the greater good.”
“Hah?” He was concerned enough to pause before blasting his dumb face.
“Okay, so, you’re dating Midoriya, right?”
“There’s no fooling you, is it?” Despite his expression barely changing, Katsuki felt pride filling him with the statement.
Katsuki was dating Deku.
Deku was dating him.
They were dating.
He was such a whipped loser, but nobody would ever know. Well, maybe just the nerd.
“I made a bet with Mina,” Kaminari explained, gesturing wildly. “She says you’re more territorial of him than Midoriya is of you, but I know better,” he winked, and Katsuki frowned.
“The fuck you’re talking about?”
“Come on, I’ve seen the flashes of green when I call you Kacchan.”
“Then fucking stop before Deku punches your lights out,” Katsuki crossed his arms and leaned against the doorframe.
“Midoriya would never hurt me,” Kaminari exclaimed, offended. “I just want to see how he’s going to react, I promise, just harmless teasing!”
Katsuki pondered his proposal; on one hand, he made his life mission not to agree to anything Dunce Face suggested. On the other, he was curious how his possessive little shit was going to react. Deku had been clinging to him for years, even before fixing their friendship, and becoming a couple. Sure, the nerd got flustered around attractive people, but he had stated some sort of claim over Katsuki since they were kids, and that unshakable admiration had helped them grow into what they were to this day. Playing with that side of him promised to be a fun development for the party.
“I want half of whatever you betted with Raccoon Eyes,” Katsuki said, extending his hand. “Now, give me the stupid hat.” Kaminari didn’t wait a second before slapping the item on his hand.
“Wait, half?!” he seemed to register the words and made a face. “Can we negotiate?”
“Half, or this shit goes up in flames,” he threatened, squishing the hat, and Kaminari caved.
“Fine, half.”
Katsuki smirked, stepping back into his room, and slammed the door on his face.
“We could at least hang out!” Kaminari yelled from outside.
“That’s what we just did, Dunce Face! Now go away!”
He studied the hat. This could be fun.
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Upon entering the common room, Katsuki scanned the faces until he located the familiar mess of green curls, partly hidden by the pointy red hat, standing with his regular crew. His didn’t have mistletoe, but a small bone hanging from the tip, most likely a dumb reference to their first months at UA and his lack of control.
When Deku saw him, he smiled softly, eyes warm, and Katsuki did his best to smirk, instead of giving him a moony and dumb smile. He saw the exact moment the nerd realized what was hanging from his hat. He only gave him a baffled expression, and he grinned in disbelief, then Glasses said something and Deku turned to look at him.
That was it? Huh, how boring.
Katsuki searched for Kaminari, saw him standing with Sero and Mina, and shrugged when he glanced at him. Kaminari looked from Deku to him, yellow eyes calculating. He suddenly broke from his group and strode confidently to him. Katsuki was prepared to kick him or blast him away if he got too close, but he didn't need to worry.
Kaminari froze as dark tendrils wrapped around Katsuki’s middle, and yanked him in another direction. He stumbled into a pair of arms he knew better than his own, and met Deku’s gaze, wide eyes full of fake innocence.
“Hey, Uraraka wanted to ask you something,” he said in lieu of an explanation.
“I did?” Round Face said, sharing a look with the Frog chick.
Katsuki tried to face her, testing how far the nerd was willing to go, and Deku didn’t disappoint. He jumped in front of him, taking his wrists and wrapping himself in a hug. They weren’t big on PDA, but they held hands and hugged without caring who was in the room. However, this was different; Deku was short of shielding Katsuki from everyone. Nobody could stand under the mistletoe as long as he stood under his chin.
“Are you for real?” he whispered in his ear.
“What do you mean, Kacchan?” Deku glanced up, and Katsuki huffed, kissing the spot behind his ear.
“Suit yourself, loser.” If the nerd refused to admit what he was doing, Katsuki was going to make him break a sweat before the night was over.
Katsuki broke from his hold, and went to flop down on the couch. He got a lap full of nerd the minute Sero sat by his side. He let Deku be, sliding his arms around his waist to support him, listening to the conversation around them.
He got hungry, so he pushed his boyfriend off him and went to get some foot. Sato passed him a plate, crouching down to his level and offering a turkey leg like he tended to do. Normally Katsuki just took a bite right out of his hand, mostly because he hated getting grease on his hands, but Deku appeared out of nowhere and grabbed the plate, muttering about taking care of it himself.
The night turned into a game; how much Katsuki could stretch his nerd’s patience before he snapped and stuck to him like glue.
Katsuki laughed until he cried when IcyHot leaned close with a confused expression, studying the mistletoe, and Deku accidentally head butted him in the chin in his haste to get between them. He apologized profusely with a flaming face while Todoroki blinked away the white spots in his vision, rubbing his jaw and backing off, and Katsuki lost it.
His favorite was when Kirishima tried to give him a hug. For whatever reason, Deku had been more territorial of him when it came to Shitty Hair since first year, and Katsuki ended up floating to the Christmas tree with his boyfriend grabbing him firmly by the hips, under the pretense of showing him the star adorning the top.
“Are you kidding me?” Katsuki said, smirking and flicking the ornament closer to the tip of the tree.
Deku didn’t reply, just hugged him tighter. Katsuki saw him smile out of the corner of his eye, delighted by the little game. His boyfriend was ridiculous, completely bat shit crazy, and Katsuki loved him so much he wanted to scream.
They left the party when Deku started to nod off on his shoulder, still clinging to him like a koala. Katsuki yelled a general goodbye, and more or less, dragged his boyfriend to his room, accepting the fate of sleeping in the tacky All Might room tonight over the prospect of hauling the many pounds of muscle all the way to his room.
“I’m beat,” the nerd mumbled, resting his face on the doorframe, but not getting in.
“I would say,” Katsuki scoffed, pinching his cheek. “That was some impressive quirk training, idiot.”
“You did that to rile me up,” he accused him, batting the mistletoe away.
“It was Dunce Face’s idea,” Katsuki defended himself.
“He’s a menace,” Deku said, freeing his cheek of his grip, but not letting go. “But so are you,” he turned his head to the side, and nuzzled into the palm of his hand. “Do I get a kiss before bed?” He glanced up, green eyes shining. How he could manage to give him such an earnest and sweet look, then turn around and kick someone in the face without remorse, would forever puzzle and amaze Katsuki.
“I guess you earned it,” he cupped his face, and lowered his mouth to his.
As he sunk his fingers in the green curls, tipping his face up and deepening the kiss, Katsuki ripped the hat from his head, and blasted a small explosion to get rid of the mistletoe. They didn’t need it.
Katsuki didn’t want to kiss anyone else but him.
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Thank you for this, C, I've been writing some angst and this fluff was so good for me! Hope you enjoy it!
#its all about the possessive Deku ✨💚#bakudeku#bkdk#bakugou katsuki#midoriya izuku#katsudeku#decchan#dkbk#im cheesy and corny and unstopable
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episode 210 here we go
awww seb doing the intro
congratulations to milky white and her baby chocolate milk😌
seb is so funny
but seriously, clean up that milk fast or else it will smell so bad in there....
was that Lauryn just randomly doing cartwheels? idk any theatre kids irl but that seems like it's a common thing...
is it just me or has ms Jenn been getting more harsh to Ricky and Seb mainly-
like what did they do to her
no because I actually snorted with laughter at the "you came back" WHAT IS THAT VOICE-
AND THE MASK OMG
yeah so my throat hurts now
I'm dying over here
KOURTNEY'S FACE
SAME GIRL SAME
Ricky's fake death got the whole place in tears /s
he looks like an asthmatic walrus
Seb's on piano, I love
we all know if he was the beast we'd all actually be crying✋
ok but I listen to Julia's version of home on Spotify when I want to cry-
right so gimme a second
is Ricky scratching his face.....while he's dying?
"belle i-" *flop*
round of applause to Ashlyn for trying to make Ricky's earthworm seizure look less.... yknow
Kourtney's just dying there
WAIT IS THAT NATALIE
did she really just disappear for 9 episodes just to come back and stare dramatically into the camera
WAIT SCRATCH THAT SHES HERE TO MURDER ASHLYN AND RICKY
oh so Ricky's wearing a gay shirt now too
so that's the real reason why Rini broke up, see y'all next season when Gini and caswen become canon /j
wait that was a long intro scene-
what was that look Carlos-
TALK TO MY BOY OR ELSE
carlos' run is so funny to me
therapist Ashlyn to the rescue
"that is...super" son you good?
ms Jenn call Benjamin, he would willingly put his loved ones on a rocket and blast them into Venus for you....
maybe
"I don't want you kids to be disappointed" girl you do realise you're the one that's most invested in this?
"a smooth opening night" wasn't there just 1 show though-
like their opening night was closing night too
"I think I was Troy at one point" PLEASE THATS THE MOST ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE SEASON 1 FINALE
me Jenn looks like a serial killer during that clap and I'm lowkey scared for zacky
"I have notes"
oo if you're taking suggestions, lemme get my list
"mother is freaking out" uhhhhhh
right....'mother"
"is everyone sitting down?"
*looks around awkwardly*
*big red slowly sits*
"no..."
please seb was the only one sitting-
does that mean Carlos looked at Seb as soon as he walked in and assumed that everyone else was sitting too or am I a seblos clown🤡
"is this about the transformation"
WOW MAYBE OT IS RICKY
WOW HES A DETECTIVE FOR FIGURING THAT OUT SO QUICK🤩
YO WHY IS NATALIE HERE-
she just shows up when it's convenient? is she gonna be at the sleepover too?
Seb's heavy swallow after Carlos shouts at him makes me so sad
"I never learned how to lie but I figure if I keep my mouth closed, I can't tell the truth" *nods and smiles at Nini when she asks*
why are they casually standing up all over the pizza shop, just sit at a big table and talk instead of blocking passageways and blocking off at least 6 tables-
"how about I invite myself" WHY DO PEOPLE ALWAYS FEEL THE NEED TO INVITE THEMSELVES TO ASHLYN'S HOUSE-
YOU CAN ASK BUT JUST FORCE YOUR WAY IN?
so Cash Caswell has a bigger house than... Dennis Caswell.... who would've thought
ah yes there's the good old EJ 1.0
Nini: "boys vs girls"
Gina: *looks devastated and glances longingly at EJ*
way to be inconspicuous
"but north high should be" *cracks her knuckles in the most uncomfortable way*
good for Ashlyn for getting more confident though
oo bossy big red
"i get bossy around the power tools"
is that why Ashlyn was holding up the drill in episode 8 orrrr 🤠
oh
Lily, leave him alone please
she's literally not blinking, is that what makes her creepy?
the diss at big red and his face afterwards is priceless
isn't that similar to what Gina's mom said to her in season 1? hmmmm
but seriously please don't try to redeem lily, let us have a character to hate, or to love because they're evil.
not everyone's a good guy.
"im not liked here and I don't know what to do"
let antoine finish his salad and it'll fix everything
"hug emoji" *gags*
y'all realize Lily's literally 14?
why is she calling a 16/17 year old from another school for personal advice-
"he gets weird around tools"
I shouldn't be laughing so hard
"deja vu maybe?" awkward silence
I'm dying here I love EJ so so so so much
"where's seb"
*cuts to seb being held hostage hoping that they'd notice he's missing and go look for him*
"don't ask"
"oh ok"
"100% real faux fur" as you should queen
sponsored by target
Kourtney is singlehandedly saving the entire show.
Seb making finger guns make me happier than it should
why is this kinda making me want to have a co-ed sleepover with my non-existent theatre friends
YES YOU DO NEED TO TALK/SING TO SEB CARLOS THANK YOU FOR KNOWING THAT
wait what-
you haven't talked to him all WEEK-
Carlos are you stupid /hj
Benjamin is so adorable I can't
he turned around to come back for her instead of going home. you're "what do you want Jenn🙄X act isn't fooling anyone Benjamin 🙃
10101
1+4+16= 21st?
they placed 21st?
or do I just not remember how to convert to base ten
GIRL DON'T BE RUDE TO HIM, HE'S GONNA SAVE YALL
no ms Jenn, the kids are not eccentric 35 year olds.
aww sebby
is he thinking that Carlos is only with him cuz he's the only other openly gay guy at school-
son you are a perfect little bean don't put yourself down
yes they all ship portwell as they should.
they'll be throwing risotto at the wedding.
not the chocolates. stop there are no chocolates. please stop I'm dying.
Gina you don't have to explain yourself to her
it was a misunderstanding and it's in the past
why is Ashlyn still laughing-
exactly it wasn't a big deal please just move on Nini
Kourtney really be out here saving everything
WHY IS ASHLYN STILL LAUGHING
why do I feel like when Gina finally told Ash about it, she didn't think it was that funny but wanted to feel included in the inside joke so now she brings it up randomly to show that she's in on it....I totally don't do that...
"idk, the farmer type" oh son...
Ashlyn and big red are just spilling the secrets back and forth huh?
OOO EJ AND GINA SITTING IN A TREE K-I-S-S-I-
cmon guys don't look at me like that-
"she is the best" and "we're buddies" don't sound right together
"pretty boy" "sweet boy" best ways to describe EJ
I love him.
and aw he's scared of rejection so he'll hold back just to keep her happy and not awkward how sweet
is Ricky wondering if letting her go(literally his song from last episode) was the best thing he did for Nini because he doesn't feel like it now? hmmm this is getting good
why is everyone so invested in Kourtney and Howie's relationship
PACK UP THE LAZY RICKY THING
oh yes Benji, that's exactly what she's doing
she couldn't follow her dream or whatever so now she's using the kids to gain some of the success she craves. why else would she have that massive hsm poster with her name on it in huge letters in her office.
just casually grab his hand with both your hands and stare at him creepily 🥰
ship jennzzara y'all
the first bump was a missed opportunity to do the baymax "falalala" as a reference to the fact that they watched big hero six while committing arson✋
wait so big red and EJ just left Ricky in the basement and now Ricky invited Carlos when they're supposed to be at the stage?
help no Ricky looks like he's about to tell Carlos he likes him (I know it's about writing the song for seb but still, look at his body language and tell me it doesn't look like that)
Ricky is so mature about this, he really just wants Nini to be happy even though he's hurting-
baby you deserve love, maybe Nini isn't the one for you but don't say you don't deserve it
why does he keep adding bro to the end like he doesn't know how to address Carlos
PLEASE CARLOS HAVING TO ADDRESS THE BRO THING
"let's write a song when we have like 45 minutes to get to the place and help our friends possibly win $50000 at the show in 2 weeks"
"can you hit a high C?"
"that's like the bottom of my range"
why am I laughing
this is so cool to see friendship interactions that we don't normally get to see
Nini why are you being like this-
Gina did nothing wrong??
I saw that, EJ and Gina being the only ones going in the same direction👀
right so obviously Kourtney's waiting until after the menkies to get back with Howie just in case he really is just using her as a way in to east high... obviously... right?
CARLOS
OK ITS COMING GET READY YALL
Why is portwell so awkward all of a sudden
OMG EJ
OMG GINA SAY YES or not, do what you want.
the way she doubts that EJ would genuinely ask so she has to make sure it's not Ashlyn behind it
OH
THE "NOT THAT I KNOW OF"
LIKE WHAT GINA SAID TO JACK ABOUT EJ BEING HER BOYFRIEND
GUYS THEY'RE SOULMATES
I want risotto now please
THEY'RE SO SWEET AND ADORABLY AWKWARD ITS LIKEEK LITTLE KIDS
OOOOOOO what is this place that seblos is in, looks fancy....and secluded
oh wait no Ricky's just standing there
wait is it the bomb shelter
it looks so good what
HSKAGSJAGAJAGWISGSKAUASBWKSVAIWBAISBQKSHIQBWOABWOABDOQBZIQBAIAQBSIWBQISVQKSIANSGOQBSAISBKASBKWBAIABQOSBBSJAHAJAVAJSBAJHSKAHSJAHAJAJAAJAHHHHHHHH
@youranxiousnerd ARE YOU OK?
CUZ IM NOT OK
LOOK AT SEBBY'S FACE
LOOK AT HOW ADORABLE IT IS
THE LYRICS ARE KILLING ME
SEBLOS IS KILLING ME
I AM DEAD
PLEASE SEND HELP
I like to imagine that Frankie and Joe practiced this in their apartment and just had a blast with it.
or maybe that Frankie practiced in secret like what Joe did for the climb
OH THE SUITS
THATS WHERE THAT CLIP IN THE PROMO WAS FROM
AWWW SEBBY'S SO CUTE
HE'S A LITTLE MARSHMALLOW
they're still so awkward with the dance I cant
let's appreciate Frankie's voice though
this episode really was made just for the seblos and portwell stans and you gotta love it
BIG RED GET OUT
WHY DOES HE ALWAYS DO THIS
Seb's little "yeah" IS ADORABLE
you can't tell me that wouldn't have been the best time for them to say I love you....IF FREAKIN BIG RED WASN'T THERE
ok but wait Ricky needs more hugs like that, look at his face
the boy needs love
"bro" please don't let Ricky and Carlos go back to not talking because their friendship is amazing
EJ laughing at Ricky sounding like a cat coughing up a furball is so funny to me
RICKY'S FLOP GETS ME EVERYTIME
I knew it was too good to be true
ok so Ricky's dead, next in line please
this episode was so short but I love it so much. this is what I signed up for for season 2✋
#hsmtmts#hsmtmts s2#hsmtmts season 2#ej caswell#ricky bowen#gina porter#hsmtmts spoilers#seblos#seb mathew smith#carlos rodriguez#big red#ashlyn caswell#kourtney greene#lily hsmtmts#ms jenn#mr mazzara#natalie bagley#guac's episode text blocks :)
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ten duel commandments
pairing: shoto todoroki x reader
a/n: listening to 10 duel commandments of hamilton gives me strong angst vibes so yeah. and idk is this is angst or just drama but it’s kinda inspired in the actual manga arc of this huge battle bc i’m in pain. reader’s quirk is basically earth bending like atla jajajaja. also might do a part two. idk
there are ten things you need to know.
number one.
the challenge, demand satisfaction. but not for you clearly, the temperature dropped. the alert rang in al school, another villain attack. this time it was real, this time you know there’s no thing such as flukes or surrender.
hands are shaking, barely managing to put your hero costume in the right way. the clock is ticking, you feel your classmates heavy breath. momo, mina, kota, ojiro.
him.
you make your way back to shoto. his shoulders relax at the sight of you. he holds your hands, the shiver stops. he attracts them to his chest. a kiss is stolen. you’ll make it, you are heroes. well somehow you are.
number two.
“we don’t have time to think!” kaminari snaps, he is not wrong. your professors are fighting, the plan was simple, but still the league was strong. only a fool would never admit that.
“we can’t go out there and just fight like pro heroes” momo talks back, her voice is cracked and the fear tears threaten to sneak out.
“let’s split in groups” you suggest. hope, that’s what you all need. you came to fight for a better world. for peace. “we can beat them, some of us should remain here to figure something out, while others... we’ll try to gain you guys some time”
you search for your boyfriend’s eyes. todoroki can’t stop looking at you. no, not you.
“(y/n) don’t even...”
“midoriya, you and some others are perceptive and logical, if we don’t do this we don’t have a chance”
“she’s right, and we have to do it now!” bakugou agrees, not quite liking the idea of splitting but it was the best option.
he knows they are right. but he didn’t want to let go your hand yet. you are very capable of protecting yourself, but still if something happened to you..
jirou places a hand on your shoulder and smiles to todoroki.
“we will have each other’s back” she assures your boyfriend, quite knowing how he feels. in fact no one wanted their friends and classmates to risk his life if they were not able to be there and help.
number three.
his heart doesn’t stop beating. each beat feels harder and quicker than before.
your eyes, those (y/e/c) dazzling eyes.
a hug, a passionate kiss, the clock stopping for a moment.
“please, just... stay together”
number four.
he lets your hand go, the explosions and screams, you hear them closer. the wind is cold, but blood is warm.
take a deep breath. take a huge step.
and so, you and your friends start running to the battle. there’s no way back.
but there is someone waiting for you at the end of the line.
just breathe.
have your seconds, meet face to face.
five.
his pulse increases. he searches for your hand. you are not there.
“midoriya are you sure that’s the only way?” yaoyorozu asked midoriya while quick standing up, they have no time to go through the plan all over again, but todoroki knows that she is just asking because the plan meant a huge risk for everyone.
she cared, and so did everyone.
“as the nerd said, the only thing those bastards have is time!” bakugou says while he starts running. “they know being surrounded by pros is going to be hard so they’ll try to be quick, so we’ll be faster”
“and so, that’s why we have to do it, if everything goes well, they’ll be gone in a moment” todoroki assures.
or at least he tries to trust.
because this needed to work, they currently can’t have the luxury of second chances.
and so they hurry.
number six.
he lefts a sigh of relief out when he divides you in the second line of cavalry.
blood and dirt on your face, your hands were moving as well as every inch of your body. your tired groans, your death glares to the villains. your ethereal posture.
angelic, he thinks while running to your group, he needed to explain the plan to as many people as he could.
you take a glance towards him, a sentiment of family runs through his head. a sentiment of comfort.
no, majestic. he corrects himself catching your glance.
a huge wall of ice is made between you and the horrific villain who tried to kills you, he takes care of him too, freezing his whole body.
a wall of opportunity was made.
he holds you like he’s never done before. that movement gave you a few seconds to breathe again. as well as to jirou, tsuyu and shoji. also the pros that were in charge of you.
your head on his shoulder, his heart on your palm.
a whisper, and a chance.
“i love you too”
seven!
“everyone got it?” todorki asks to the crowd. a few people reunited there.
four hero groups. a villain army. a cliff and one single opportunity.
they all nod, and so the time out is gone. momo creating cannons in the west along with heroes like gang orca and cementos. midoriya and eraser head in the north, with bunch of people two. bakugou at the south, flying with explosion with present mic and so many others behind him. and todoroki sliding with ice and you by his side. with so others at his side.
just hold a few more minutes, all you had to do is push and drop.
the crash happens, the heroes and the villains meet once again. you just have to keep pushing them back. you had to direct them to the corner of the cliff.
then you along with every other emitting quirk holder will just blast your full potential to break the cliff and let the villains fall for their destiny.
you can do it.
and you have to do it.
number eight.
confess your sins. the moment of truth, villains are despicable, ruin, and sometimes psychotic. but also, clever.
you take a step back, dabi is in front of you. you vaguely reincorporated when a huge wall of flames split you apart from todoroki.
“let’s dance, darling” he says, chaotically calm.
“believe me” your feet stuck to the ground, you clean the blood from your mouth with your sleeve “there is no better dancer than me”
you lift a earth barrier, he blows it away with fire. a big foot step and the ground shakes, causing him to unbalance. you push him a few meters away.
you wait.
you search.
you made it.
once you realize that you had push the villains to the place you exactly wanted them to be, you don’t wait. when present mic’s voice was heard all over the battlefield.
todoroki steps back leaving you and all the other heroes to do your thing.
but he doesn’t rest.
his on guard ready to react to anything that might put anyone in danger. that might put you in danger.
he concentrates himself, he is not going to lose.
he doesn’t see the huge villain going to his back, while transforming his hand to a gun.
you do.
you were holding the ground, a terrified look comes across your eyes.
and the time stops again, or at least it slows down.
a look to the cliff you were holding.
a gaze to your boyfriend. and the villain who is ready to kill him.
you can do it.
10 seconds, maybe.
you keep one hand in the ground holding it until the final sign shows up. the sign that meant “let the villains fall now”
and the other one, you quickly raise it to shouto’s direction.
your body hurts.
the villain with the gun is thrown away by a massive piece of soil that you created.
todoroki turns around. he freezes the villain.
you hold, just a little bit longer.
the cue is shouted.
and you feel how something pierces your stomach.
nine.
a heartrending scream.
todoroki’s throat hurts, everyone heard his scream.
a heart breaks.
and you still feel a cold metallic knife in you.
the energy you had starts fading away, you look around and see toga with a huge smile in her face.
the time still is slowed down.
you feel your feet part from the ground. you were now floating, small pieces of soil surrounded you.
you see todoroki, he is slowly getting far from you.
it’s breaks your heart now, his eyes, those beautiful heterochromatic eyes are desperate.
at least he is safe now.
you can go now.
an arm suddenly surrounds your waist, it hurts even more than before. you don’t know why, maybe they wanted to take you away so that your classmates suffer your loss.
dying is one thing.
but dying and being lost is something completely different.
and with the few energy that your body has, you search for your aggressor.
dabi smirks, evil. he is also holding toga with his free arm. your body enrages knowing they will escape.
villains are smart, but those two were brilliant.
you look around and see hundreds of other villains falling from the cliff.
your heartbeats slow down too.
just one more time.
you still divise him, now some feet away and higher from you.
black, everything is turning black.
‘shouto todoroki, my love’ you think ‘thank you’
‘thank you for letting me see you one last time’
and number ten.
he starts counting, everyone does.
he doesn’t care, he’ll jump.
he sees your figure, falling down from the cliff.
you body, having a knife through it.
your arm, stretched out trying to reach his. your arms calling out for someone to go your way and hold it.
you eyes, widened, terrified.
4 seconds.
his feet don’t stop, he has to reach you. his breathless, but he has to become your hero now. you were waiting for him.
he is tired, his body doesn’t seem to respond. he no longer has ice, or fire. he tries, but nothing happens.
in the limit of the cliff he still tries to jump.
someone grabs him by the collar of his suit.
11 seconds.
he watches you, being held by him. and her laughing at what she’s done to you.
todoroki’s body is shaking.
todoroki’s body is clueless.
he sees your eyes, one last time before all the dust covers you and your kidnappers.
his head hurts.
and all of that because he sees your eyes, fighting.
his soul leaves his body.
14 seconds.
because the last thing he sees of you is your eyes closing.
his heart stops.
and he knows he is not there to see them opening again.
“please... just”
hand to his chest, holding back the tears.
“STAY ALIVE” he shouts into the void of the cliff bottom.
one phrase.
one scream.
one echoed broken voice.
one tired hero army.
only 21 seconds.
and one heartbroken teenager was all the battle left.
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A raven and a lion were seen sneaking out of an unused classroom on the third floor ... His hair was a mess and her shirt was off by a button or two
Spotted: R and C sneaking out of an empty third-floor corridor classroom, hair and tie askew. Sparks were certainly flying, but the question on everyone's mind: will it be a threeway or d-day?
~xoxo, Gossip Witch
Cho skimmed over the blast in her hand and shook her head. She knew better than to get involved with another Quidditch player, especially the bloody chaser for a rival team. But, after everything that had happened in the Gryffindor/Slytherin, she wasn't surprised at all by the announcement from Madam Hooch that all outstanding games for the season would be postponed until they could get to the bottom of what happened between Draco and Harry. Of course, she was disappointed that she wouldn't play, but it meant she had time to deal with this blast.
Cho shoved the piece of parchment into her pocket and made her way out of the Ravenclaw common room and down to the Quidditch Pitch. That was where she and Ron had agreed to meet after their argument when Cho found out about his fling with Lavender and got interrupted by some first years who were looking for trouble. She wasn't one for making a scene, but she didn't appreciate someone making a fool out of her.
As Cho neared the pitch, she could see a familiar redhead pacing the length of the patch of grass in front of the goalposts. He looked upset and embarrassed, which suited him well and brought a smile to her face. She usually hated seeing people upset, but after everything Ron had put her through and knowing that his best friend was still lying in the infirmary unconscious, he deserved to be suffering a little bit. She took a deep breath as she crossed the field to join him. They were in for a long conversation that would most likely end in the demise of their relationship. As much as that thought broke Cho's heart, she deserved to be treated better than Ron had been treating her. Lavender deserved better too.
"Cho," Ron called, his face lighting up at the sight of her. He made his way over to her quickly, arms open. "I'm so glad you came."
Cho held her arms up, stopping him in his path, and shook her head. "I didn't have much of a choice," she replied, slipping a hand into her pocket and pulling out the piece of parchment from Gossip Witch. "Someone reported our little spat to the head witch in charge."
"Oh," Ron said, carding a hand through his hair as he looked at the piece of parchment in her hand. "Did it mention anything about…"
"Lavender?" Cho interjected, crossing her arms over her chest. "Not explicitly, but the impression that a third person was involved was heavily implied."
"Sorry," Ron said, shrugging his shoulders as he shoved his hands into his pockets. He kicked at the grass at his feet for a few moments before directing his attention to Cho's face. "You wanted to continue our discussion from earlier?"
"Was it something I did?" Cho asked, looking Ron up and down with distaste.
"What do you mean?" Ron replied, furrowing his brow.
"Did I do something that you didn't like that sent you into the arms of another witch?" Cho said, dragging her teeth along her bottom lip as she waited for an answer. She knew whatever he told her was going to sting, so taking a deep breath, Cho braced herself for whatever Ron was about to say.
"Cho," Ron said, stepping forward to place a gentle hand on her shoulder. He smiled when she didn't pull away. "You didn't do anything to send me into Lavender's arms. I went on my own stupidity and choice. I was horny, and she was there."
Cho scoffed, pulling her arm away from his hand and turned away from him as she took a few deep breaths. She couldn't stand to look at him right now. A lapse of judgment and the quick thought of his penis was enough to throw away the relationship they were supposed to be building together. Cho chastised herself at the thought and shook her head, inhaling sharply as she turned back to face him.
"So because you wanted to get your rocks off and Lavender just so happened to be nearby, you decided to throw your feelings for me to the wind and enjoy a quick night," Cho shouted, narrowing her gaze at him as she closed the space between them.
Ron opened his mouth to reply but closed it quickly. Anything he could possibly say now would only make the situation much, much worse. The last thing he had wanted to do was hurt Cho, but now he had managed to hurt both Cho and Lavender. Only Lavender still refused to talk to him.
"Silence," Cho sighed, shaking her head. "That tells me all I needed to know. It wasn't just one night. Goodbye, Ron. Don't speak to me again."
Cho turned on her heels and left him alone on the pitch, fighting back the tears she felt welling up in the corners of her eyes. The last thing she wanted to show him was that she was upset by only now finding out the truth. She could cry herself to sleep later.
~xoxo, Gossip Witch ~
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Let’s Play Transformers War for Cybertron, Chapter 2 Transcript
Episode
[This can also be found on AO3!]
[Intro Music]
O: Hi guys! Welcome back to our Let's Play of War for Cybertron. We're gonna be doing Chapter 2 today, and playing as the Jets. I’m gonna take Starscream cuz he's got a sniper rifle. (This is literally the only reason.)
S: [snickers]
O: If you remember, last time, uh, Megatron went full crackhead on us and was trying to get Dark Energon to snort- I mean to take over Cybertron. And was basically arguing with a giant holographic [hologram] Starscream the entire time, and then at the end Starscream's like, [screechy voice] “Teach me how to control Dark Energon it'll work for you!” [normal voice] Um, so now we're being Megatron's bitch.
S: Pretty much.
O: Does that pretty much sum it up?
S: Yeah… yeah.
C: I mean, speak for yourself, uhhh…
O: [laughs]
C: Yes, master.
O: You’re just like, Skywarp- Skywarp, is nobody's bitch, thank you! [laugh] Um, Specs is gonna be doing Thundercracker and Chezni is gonna be doing Skywarp, sooo…
C: That sounds like a drug.
O: [laughs] Uh, yeah, so Chezni's gonna be doing the Bojack?
A: [laugh]
O: I can’t remember what the chapter’s called... we are in Chapter 2, Fuel of War. Uh, so, we ready to start then?
C: Oh yeah.
S: Sure.
[OS: Character selection screen. Characters are assigned as follows:
Chezni - Skywarp
Specspectacle - Thundercracker
Twilight-Owls - Starscream]
O: The cool thing about the jets is we can fly! This is the only good thing I have to say about this.
[OS: Owls selects “Start Game.”]
C: Now it really sounds like a drug.
O: [laughs] With Thundercracker, you too can fly!
C: [laughs]
[The game starts and the volume jumps for the players.]
O: [muted] Oh, dammit, I know it’s coming!
[A cinematic opens with a text crawl being narrated by Steve Blum.
Narrator: Anxious to prove themselves worthy of the Decepticon name, Starscream and his minions fly to Cybertron.
The screen flickers slightly.]
C: Woah.
[Narrator: There, they must reconnect the energon bridge that will enable Megatron to manufacture more Dark Energon and conquer the Autobots once and for all.]
O: Space crack. And conquer Optimus Prime once and for all- got it, got it, got it, I’m tracking.
[OS: The game swaps to gameplay and the volume spikes again.]
O: [muted] Noooo, dammit.
[(COM) Megatron: Your orders are clear Starscream! Infiltrate the Cybertron underground and reactivate the Energon Bridge. I want that power online!
OS: All three seekers fly down into an enclosed area, and shoot missiles at a giant fan to gain access to another underground area on Cybertron. The area they enter has various metal platforms rising out of what looks to be a sea of blue energon in the bottom of the area.
The screen reads, “New Objective: Find the Hidden Underground Entrance.”
Starscream: Megatron, Thundercracker has detected several Autobots up ahead. Jetfire must have warned Zeta Prime and moved to intercept us already!
(COM) Megatron: Enough of your whining! If the Autobots try to stop you, crush them! Report back to me when you have found the Bridge. Megatron out!]
S: Oh. Yay. I get to fly, don’t I?
[SS: Thundercracker rocks slightly back and forth in jet mode.]
O: Yup!
C: Yeahhhh.
O: Don’t- don’t uh, touch that blue stuff, you will explode if I remember properly?
[Starscream: That imbecile thinks I’m expendable. ME!? He’ll soon learn to never underestimate Starscream!
OS: Starscream looks down at the blue energon visible on the floor of the level, and then uses his thrusters to continue on ahead.]
S: Blue stuff, uhhh?
O: On the bottom there.
C: The ocean below us.
O: Maybe I’m wrong.
S: Ahh. Okie dokie.
C: Maybe- maybe she's wrong Thundercracker, go try it!
S: [laughs] No, thank you!
C: [high pitched voice] Come on Thundercracker!
[CS: Thundercracker and Skywarp are still back at the beginning of the level, flying around slowly trying to get their bearings.]
O: So- my damn headphones cut out again.
S: Ohh.
C: Are they not working?
O: I can hear you guys it's just it's really, really annoying cuz it's only in one ear.
C: Okay. Well, if we ever need to solve puzzles using stereo we'll let you know.
O: [laughs] Hey, I didn't say we needed it for recording, I said it's annoying. Now catch up with me, will you?
C: I don't know how to do this!
O: You’re just a jet!
[SS: Thundercracker continues moving slowly forward. Starscream turns around and comes towards the other players before using his thrusters to speed off again.]
S: How do you go fast?
O: Well, um-
C: If you hold right- right-click, you move super fast.
S: OH.
[SS: Starscream disappears off into the distance, Skywarp activates his thrusters and proceeds to fly around erratically, and Thundercracker follows shortly afterwards.]
C: Yeah, I know, I wish I would have known that when we were doing Escalation [game mode].
S: I’m good at-
O: [quietly] Oh, this is not the right way.
[OS: Starscream flies into a dead end and turns around to go back the direction he came.]
S: Where are we supposed to go?
O: Over here.
[OS: Starscream heads towards a doorway, transforming and landing on the platform. Some sort of round machine detaches itself from the wall up ahead.
Skywarp: What is THAT?
Thundercracker: An Autobot probe. We should avoid it to prevent detection.]
C: Can I shoot it?
[Starscream: Like that puny probe could stop me. Blast them and get on with it!
CS: Skywarp flies forward in jet mode and shoots the probe, destroying it.]
C: Ha! What do they mean, ‘avoid it’?
S: Ahh!
[CS: Thundercracker flies by, bouncing off the floor.]
C: You can just blow it up!
S: -up!
O: Sorry guys, once sec. [Owls makes another attempt to get her headphones working.]
C: Sure, let’s take a quick pause.
[SS: All the jets stop, and Thundercracker begins looking around at their surroundings.]
O: You like, cut in.
C: Let's have storytime! Thundercracker, tell Skywarp a story!
O & S: [laugh]
S: Life is short, and then you die!
C: Holy crap!
A: [laugh]
O: Okay-
C: But we're late millions of years old, built from naturally-occurring gears and levers!
O & S: [laugh]
O: And naturally-occurring thrusters, apparently. Anyway, let's go, I'm just gonna have to live with this. That’s annoying.
[SS: Everyone begins moving forward again.]
C: And naturally occur- occurring combustible fuel sources.
S: Ah!
[OS: Starscream flies ahead, and a drone begins draining his health with a blue beam. Shortly after, it is destroyed by Thundercracker.]
O: Thank you. Far more polite than Starscream would ever be, but that's fine.
[CS: Skywarp is being targeted by another drone.]
C: Ah! Ah! This one’s draining my brain!
O: Where are you?
[Thundercracker: I have never traveled this deeply into Cybertron’s interior before.
Skywarp: [groans] You are as boring as ever, Thundercracker.]
C: Half dead.
[SS: Thundercracker moves slowly ahead leaving the other two behind. The location marker for their next objective is ticking done off to the right of the screen.]
S: Oh, I think we’re supposed- I think we’re working on a timer?
O: Uh, I don’t think so.
[OS: Starscream takes out the last of the drones.]
S: Ohh~
O: That’s not a timer, that's how close we are to a thing.
S: Oh.
[OS: Starscream flies towards the opening the other two Seekers have disappeared through but transforms before he actually reaches the platform, falling down.]
O: Oh no! Okay, that was dumb.
[OS: Starscream lands on some convenient pipes and transforms back into jet mode.]
S: Shit, was I not supposed to do the thing I did?
O: I don't know, I'm not there yet!
[SS: Skywarp is standing on a platform off to the left shooting at some moving pods on the other side of the large room he and Thundercracker are in. The pods are being moved up a wall and into a large door that is opening and closing.]
C: Huh.
S: Or are we supposed to go in there?
C: I have no clue. Let's do it!
S: [laughs]
[CS: Skywarp jumps up and transforms, attempting to enter while the door is open, but is stopped by an invisible wall.
Skywarp: Hey! I don’t make a habit out of blowing you up!]
C: Oh nope, apparently that's bad.
[OS: Starscream flies upwards in a jerky motion.]
C: It really bothers me that there's not just like a, ‘fly up’ button.
Note: There is- we just didn’t realize it. It’s a bit more obvious in Fall of Cybertron, but it is the same button in both games.
O: Right? It's very annoying.
[OS: Starscream transforms and lands in a hallway, walking over to the nearby door panel and activating it.]
S: Yeah.
S: I'm just gonna be a plane.
A: [laughs]
[SS: The door opens, revealing an Autobot who fires on the party.
Autobot: Decepticons!
The Autobot runs off camera, leaving the Seekers in front of some sort of laser grid that is keeping them from advancing.
Starscream: What is this? Some kind of Autobot trap?
Thundercracker: It’s an enemy detection barrier.
Skywarp: So it’s a trap!]
O: [snorts]
[CS: Starscream moves back and forth in front of the barrier and Skywarp and Thundercracker fire on the edges of the barrier.]
O: [quietly] Alright… how do we get around this?
[Thundercracker: The power conduits along the floors should direct us to its power source.]
O: I got stuck here last time and then felt like a dummy.
[OS: Skywarp transforms and shoots a glowing spot on the wall the power conduit was leading to, deactivating the barrier.
Starscream: Stupid Autobots. To think their measly tricks could ever fool Starscream.]
S: Oh, how did you…?
O: He shot something.
C: I just shot- I just shot where the power conduit went.
O: Yeah.
S: Oh.
C: It was this big thing with all-
O: You know, the smart thing.
[SS: Skywarp walks over to the destroyed power conduit, and as he walks away Thundercracker shoots at it.]
C: [laughs]
[Thundercracker: The power core has to be somewhere in this room.]
C: Alright Starscream, what's our mission?
O: Ugh, to kill my headphones with a greasy spoon.
[OS: Starscream walks up to another barrier and uses the scope of his Null Ray to get a better view at the room on the other side.]
O: Uh… we need to kill the power conduit.
S: Oh-
C: Do more power conduit stuff-
[OS: Skywarp shoots at the doorframe in jet mode and Starscream walks away, seeing an open area off to the right that Thundercracker is floating in front of.]
S: Uh…
O: Or maybe we go over here? Can’t remember.
[OS: Starscream transforms and flies through a narrow hallway, over the same blue energon substance as before.]
C: I don’t know.
[OS: Starscream navigates the narrower hallway and lands on in front of another barrier on the platform at the end. He transforms and shoots the power conduit visible on the other side, deactivating the barrier.]
O: Aha!
[Starscream: Pathetic machinery.]
O: [snorts]
[SS: Thundercracker follows behind a running Starscream, while still in jet mode.]
O: [laughs] I'm sorry, I just love you guys following along as jets, it's hilarious.
S: [laughs]
[SS: The group exits the hallway into a small room with a health box and an ammo box off to the left.]
O: Uh, who needs health?
S: Uh, I need ammo?
O: Go ahead and take it.
C: I have two things of health.
S: Oh-
C: I’m gonna grab it.
S: Someone take health.
[CS: Thundercracker takes the ammo, and Skywarp grabs the ammo. They both move over to the ledge Starscream is standing on. Below, there is a group of 4 Autobots standing next to each other with their backs to the party, listening to a large Zeta Prime hologram in the middle of the room.
Zeta Prime: Autobots, this is Zeta Prime. Be on high alert! The Decepticons are planning to re-activate the Energon Bridge. This would grant them access to an unstable energy source powerful enough to jeopardize the entire planet. Any Decepticons activity must be reported immediately, and all Decepticons are to be shot on sight! Zeta Prime out!
OS: Starscream watches the Autobots through his scope until Zeta Prime finishes speaking and then he immediately destroys a few of them before backing away from the ledge to reload his gun.
Starscream: How boring! I’ve read more entertaining maintenance reports.
Autobot 1: Alert! Alert!
SS: Thundercracker is shot by the remaining Autobots.]
S: [distressed noises]
[Autobot 2: Focus your fire on that Decepticon!
Starscream: None can resist us!]
C: I guess there are missiles?
[SS: Skywarp and Thundercracker take out the last Autobot. Skywarp and Starscream begin flying around the room exploring and Skywarp shoots the remaining explosive canisters on the ground. The hallway leading out of the room is blocked by another barrier.
Skywarp: That was easy!
Thundercracker: The others will likely be tougher. I suggest we proceed with caution.]
O: Who was actually suggesting caution there?
[Skywarp: My neural circuitry is stinging. Getting past this thing is impossible!
Starscream: Keep looking you fool. The answer is here somewhere!]
O: [snorts]
[CS: Skywarp finds a door up near the top of the room that is being held shut by some clamps. He shoots the clamps and enters the room, where another power conduit is visible on the wall.]
C: So, I guess there’s a door up above? And I found a conduit.
[CS: Skywarp shoots the conduit and exits the way he came.]
O: Sweet.
S: And I just shot the door that the Autobots were in front of or something? Or someone just did? I don’t know.
[OS: Starscream and Thundercracker enter the hallway that was previously blocked.]
C: Well, it is polite to knock.
O: What? [laughs]
C: It's- she shot the door. So she was knocking. That's how Transformers knock, right? With their gun?
[OS: The party enters a room that is divided in half by a drop across the center of the room. On the other side of the crevice, several Autobots run into view.
Autobot: [shouting]
Skywarp: Rockets!
Starscream: Quickly, get to cover!]
O: I mean, that sounds right. I don't know why that wouldn't be right.
[OS: Starscream takes several shoots at the opposing Autobots using the Scatter Blaster (shotgun), which isn’t very effective at his current range.
Thundercracker: My scans indicate that door should lead us to the next canyon.]
O: Oh my god, why?
[SS: The group takes out most of the Autobots visible on the other ledge.
Starscream: They fall so easily!
SS: Everyone flies over the gap to reach the other side, where Skywarp and Thundercracker take down the remaining Autobot from the group prior.
Starscream: Let all that see Starscream tremble in fear!]
S: Mmm.
C: The best part about being a jet is infinite ammo.
S: Mmm.
O: I forgot about that, that is pretty nice, right?
C: [laughs]
S: What do you mean infinite- OH!
C & O: [laugh]
C: That was the best! [laughs]
[SS: The group takes out another group of Autobots around the corner. Thundercracker staying in jet mode to take advantage of the infinite ammo.]
S: That's nice. I appreciate that. Ohh~
C: Yeah, somehow I'm still getting hit though. I'm still down to half health.
[OS: The groups another corner to find a third group of Autobots. The group fires on them.
Autobot: Launching rockets!
Skywarp: I got another one!]
C: I think it's cuz the missiles come after you if you're in jet mode.
S: [distressed noises]
O: Down here? Or do we go the other way?
S: Um-
[OS: Starscream flies over to what looks like a hole in the floor and looks at it before turning around and spying some ammo.]
O: No, that’s not the right- BULLETS!
[OS: Starscream runs through the ammo, but doesn’t pick it up.]
O: Maybe? Why can't I pick it up!?!
C: They aren't flak bullets, are they?
[SS: Activates a console opening the nearby door.]
S: I just opened a door?
[SS: An Autobot charges forward from a small group, activating a glowy blue shield on their frame.
Autobot: DIE!]
S: Oh, whoops, sorry.
C: This is what happens when you don't knock! People get very angry.
[Autobot: Decepticons! Seal the door!
CS: The rest of the Autobots run out a doorway behind them and seal the door. The party takes out the lone Autobot.
Skywarp: Those punks locked us out!
Starscream: Stop whining and find another way in!]
C: So wait, what are we doing here, exactly?
O: Uh, we're trying to turn the space crack bridge back on.
[OS: Starscream walks over to an opening in the floor and jumps down.
Thundercracker: My scans show an energon deposit beneath us.]
C: The space crack bridge?
O: The space crack bridge.
[Starscream: Perfect! There may be a cave below!]
C: Okay. Because-
S: It's cave time! I don’t like caves.
[Skywarp: Where are we?
Starscream: We’re NOT where we NEED to be, Skywarp--so keep moving!
SS: Thundercracker and Skywarp follow Starscream down through the floor and into another underground room in their jet modes. The underground room is crisscrossed by pipes and flowing energon. The energeron is significantly closer to the party than in previous rooms because the ceilings are lower.
C: Because we need to get our new Lord and Savior, Megatron, his fix.
S: [laughs]
[Thundercracker: Crude energon is highly volatile, and flying this close to it is very dangerous. We should proceed with caution.
OS: Starscream transforms and the group flies forward]
O: No, no, no, no, no, not Lord and Savior, Starscream's new squeeze.
C: Right.
O: [laughs]
[Skywarp: Tighten your logic circuits, would you Thundercracker? It can’t be THAT bad.]
C: This is-
S: His new boy toy.
C: -just one big, complicated booty call for Starscream?
O & S: [laugh]
O: YUP! The last level was a drug run, this is a booty call!
A: [laughs]
[SS: The party reaches an area where they can go up. Starscream activates his thrusters and bumps into the ceiling before maneuvering his way out. Skywarp zips past flying erratically, as Thundercracker brings up the rear flying slowly.]
C: Oh my gosh, I’m flying drunk!
O: [laughs] So you’re Skywarp, got it.
C: It’s hard to fly when you move fast!
[CS: Skywarp continues to fly erratically.]
S: [laughs]
O: That’s why you do it in little bursts!
C: I'm sure there's an innuendo in there somewhere.
[CS: Starscream flies past, USING HIS THRUSTERS CORRECTLY.]
O: [screechy voice] “Some of us know how to use our thrusters, Skywarp!”
C: [laughs]
S: I-
O: Sound about right?
[OS: Thundercracker bumps into Starscream.]
C: I'm sorry, boss! [laughs] Oh no. Boss, Thundercracker is lost.
O: [laughs]
[SS: Thundercracker is flying in the middle of a room, turning around slowly. Skywarp zooms over.]
S: [laughs] Yes, I am where- shoot
C: Things got too steamy for ‘em.
[OS: Starscream is in a different location than the other two, shooting at a bunch of turrets and Autobots.]
S: Where are you- where the fuck are we supposed to be going?
C: Through the-
O: Uh, just through the cave, that’s all I got.
C: Through the waterfall.
S: Oh.
[SS: Thundercracker moves down lower and enters a cave behind the waterfall. Skywarp flies ahead of him.]
C: You, no, you wanna go down. There you go.
S: Yes, I- I did see that but it- when you guys are going- when I can see your names through the walls it's not very... cohesive for me, okay?
[OS: Starscream is continuing to shoot Autobots and turrets.]
C: Makes sense.
S: Sorry, I am NOT drunk flying.
[CS: Skywarp activates his thrusters and catches up with Starscream, turning to shoot at the remaining turrets.]
C: [laughs] Sure, sure.
[Skywarp: No hard feelings, right?
SS: Thundercracker catches up with the other two and joins in the fray.]
S: Ah, fuck.
[OS: With the Autobots vanquished, Starscream lands and transforms.]
O: Oh, I desperately want ammo, I'm like completely out [of non-jet ammo]. [laughs] I can't shoot worth shit as a jet, apparently.
O: Also, I need health.
S: There's ammo here, and heals.
[OS: Starscream runs over to a health chest, destroying it and grabbing the health.]
O: Okay, where’s the am-
[OS: Starscream turns and sees the ammo box, running over and destroying it as well.]
O: Oh, there’s the ammo. Oh sweet god, I have sharp- uh, I have a sniper rifle shit again, okay.
[Starscream: We’re getting close! The next entrance is just on the far side of this canyon.
A cinematic starts, as the party enters a large empty area, and a large ship with a whole bunch of Autobots inside drops down from above.]
S: Oh, goody.
C: How does Starscream know that?
O: Scans. Bullshit. It's a very complicated booty call, honey.
S: I don't know, he worked here?
C: [laughs]
O: I don’t think he did…
C: It’s like his old office?
[The large ship generates some sort of barrier to keep the party from advancing, and then begins firing mortars from several large cannons on it’s topside.]
O: [laughs before continuing in a screechy voice] “This’ll show them for kicking me out! Sleeping with the boss, HA!”
C: “Should have installed a coffee machine!”
[OS: The screen reads, “New Objective: Destroy the shield generator.
Thundercracker: The Autobot ship is generating an energy shield over the entrance!
Starscream: I can see that for myself, Thundercracker. Enough babbling--destroy it!
Thundercracker: Target the mortars first!
CS: Skywarp flies over to the drop ship and transforms, hitting the mortars with his physical attack before swapping to his guns.]
S: [sighs]
[Skywarp: This thing is as crazy as I am!]
O: [snorts]
[Starscream: Just blast it! It breaks, like everything else!
SS: Thundercracker is shooting at the mortars, swapping targets as they are destroyed.]
C: I think I did this in Super Star Wars once.
O: [laughs] I mean, probably?
[OS: Starscream is shooting at the mortars. Autobots are seen flying in close proximity in the background as well as the remaining mortar guns shooting rounds up into the air that disperse and rain down.]
C: What is shooting at us!?
O: Uh, probably the Autobots.
S: Yeah.
[SS: Thundercracker destroys another mortar.]
S: The ship?
O: I tried to take out the motors- the mortars I could see.
[Starscream: Excellent! Now, target the Aerialbots!
Skywarp: I’ll show them some REAL flying!
CS: Skywarp flies into a group of enemy Autobots, destroying a target, but his health dropping below 1 bar, before he flies out of range.]
S: Ah. Oh, sorry.
[OS: Starscream is destroying enemy Autobots, when the downed ally icon appears off to his right.]
C: Oh no, I'm down.
[Skywarp: Here comes another wave!
OS: Starscream transforms into bot mode and begins to fall before transforming back into vehicle mode.]
O: Oh shit! Why did I do that!?
S: Oh, hold on. Uh…
[SS: Thundercracker flies over to Skywarp and begins to revive him. Several Autobots are hovering around above Skywarp, and Thundercracker begins to take fire.]
S: I'm holding ‘E’ to revive!
C: Thank you. I'm very bad at staying alive in the air.
[OS: Skywarp is revived and the whole party resumes firing on the Autobots.]
S: So am I?
[OS: Starscream takes heavy damage.]
O: Oh my god!!!
[SS: Thundercracker goes down.]
S: Sorry, I'm out.
C: Alright, I'll come get you.
[CS: Skywarp flies towards Thundercracker but overshoots and has to stop and turn around.]
C: Oh no, there’s too many of them!
[CS: Skywarp is still trying to maneuver his way over to Thundercracker, but several Autobots are firing on him at the same time.]
C: There’s too many, I can’t revive you!
[CS: Another downed ally icon appears to Skywarp’s left.]
O: I’m dead too.
C: No, no, why!?
S: [snickers]
C: THERE’S TOO MANY!
[OS: The Mission Failed screen appears.]
O: Goodbye cruel world. [sighs]
S: Well, hopefully, it's not gonna toss us too far back from where we were?
[OS: Owls selects, “Restart from Last Checkpoint”.]
O: I think we spawn right before there, because I kept dying there, uh, on- when on my one player playthrough.
[OS: The screen reads, “New Objective: Find the Hidden Underground Entrance.”
Starscream: We’re getting close! The next entrance is just on the far side of this canyon.
The same cinematic from before starts, with the drop ship dropping down into the canyon from above, generating the shield, attacking the party with mortar rounds, and releasing Aerialbots to attack the Seekers.]
C: This part is hard!
O: Yeah! I know, it sucks!
C: Like, there’s no negotiating.
O: And you have to be in the air, because like, landing on the plane does not- or wha- landing on the ship doesn't make things ton easier for ya.
C: I think we're gonna have to focus on taking out the little guys.
O: Well, we need to take out the cannons [mortars] too - otherwise you'll really get fucked over.
C: Is there a finite amount of guys though?
O: I think so? But I don't remember.
[OS: The screen reads, “New Objective: Destroy the shield generator.]
C: Alright, well I guess we'll rush the cannons then.
[Thundercracker: The Autobot ship is generating an energy shield over the entrance!
Starscream: I can see that for myself, Thundercracker. Enough babbling--destroy it!
OS: The party moves forward and begins shooting at the mortars.]
O: Either that, or if you guys want to focus on the little ones I’ll focus on the cannons? Either works.
[Thundercracker: Target the mortars first!]
Skywarp: This thing is as crazy as I am!
C: Alright, I'm gonna swap over to just focusing on the little guys now.
[CS: Skywarp zips off towards the back of the ship.]
C: There they are, they're coming out of the back of the ship.
[Starscream: Excellent! Now, target the Aerialbots!
Skywarp: I’ll show them some REAL flying!]
Skywarp: Here comes another wave!
OS: Starscream continues shooting the mortars. A downed ally icon appears to his left.]
S: Ah, well, I’m out.
[OS: Starscream transforms into robot mode, dropping down before transforming back into vehicle mode and zipping towards Thundercracker.]
C: Oh crap.
S: Sorry.
C: I can't find you.
S: I am towards the rear of the ship.
[OS: Starscream overshoots Thundercracker and has to turn around, while taking heavy fire from the multiple Autobots hovering over Thundercracker.]
O: Oh dammit!
S: You’re out too?
O: No, not yet yet.
O: Ugh, I’m try-
C: I- there- there you are.
O: Now I am.
C: Nooo!
[CS: Skywarp is downed and the Mission Failed screen displays briefly, before loading at the checkpoint again.]
O: Try to stay more towards the middle, because it's really, really hard when like, everybody's spread out everywhere?
[CS: The screen reads, “New Objective: Find the Hidden Underground Entrance.”
Starscream: We’re getting close! The next entrance is just on the far side of this canyon.]
C: Um, they spawn in at the rear of the ship and they're sitting ducks while they run out. So I'm still going to stay in the rear.
O: That's fine.
[CS: The same cinematic from before starts, but is skipped. The screen reads, “New Objective: Destroy the shield generator.”]
O: Yes, can we-? There we go. [laughs] I was like, do we need to watch this again? The answer is no.
C: But it’s so pretty!
[Thundercracker: The Autobot ship is generating an energy shield over the entrance!
Starscream: I can see that for myself, Thundercracker. Enough babbling--destroy it!
Skywarp: Target the mortars first!
CS: The party flies in and all target the mortars, taking out three of them in rapid succession.
Skywarp: This thing is as crazy as I am!
Starscream: Just blast it! It breaks, like everything else!
OS: Starscream and Thundercracker continue to attack the mortars. Starscream is fired on by Aerialbots and his health drops to under 1 bar before he flies out of range.]
O: [quietly] Godammit.
[Starscream: Excellent! Now, target the Aerialbots!
CS: Skywarp is at the rear of the ship shooting Aerialbots as they run out of the ship, before they’re able to transform into vehicle mode.
Skywarp: I’ll show them some REAL flying!
OS: Starscream transforms and lands on the ship, taking out one of the Aerialbots with his Null Ray. He’s then fired on and transforms and flies off.
Thundercracker: Here comes another wave!]
O: Oh, dammit!
[Starscream: The blast doors are open! Quickly!]
S: Uh…
[SS: Thundercracker hovers around the front of the dropship looking around.]
S: So, I’m-
[Skywarp: Watch out for those rocket snipers!
SS: A downed ally icon appears in the distance.]
O: Dammit! Dammit! I’m down.
S: Oh shit.
C: Alright.
[Starscream: Enough of this nonsense! We'll bring this annoyance down from the INSIDE. Fly in and target its power core!
CS: Skywarp and Starscream take out an Aerialbot and Skywarp flies over to the downed Starscream.]
C: You can shoot while you’re down, so try and cover for me.
O: [quietly] If I can find them…
[CS: Starscream sort of scoots away from Thundercracker and Skywarp while firing on some of the Aerialbots still on the drop ship.]
C: Hey! No, don't move away from us!
[OS: Skywarp revives Starscream.]
C: There we go.
O: [screechy voice] I LIVE!
[OS: The down ally icon appears on the left side of the screen.]
S: I'm out. Shit.
[CS: Skywarp turns around and flies back over to where Starscream is reviving Thundercracker.
Starscream: None can resist us! For glory!]
C: [laughs] For glory!
O: For getting my ass kicked.
S: [laughs]
[CS: Skywarp flies over to the opened portion of the drop ship and continues shooting at the Autobots inside.]
O: Okay, there we go.
S: Thank you. Oh! Apparently I was not by the rear of the ship, I was by the front!
C: I think the ship just opened up.
O: Yeah.
[SS: Thundercracker enters the ship behind Skywarp as they both transform into robot mode. Thundercracker picks up some health while Skywarp fires on Autobots.]
C: Alright, there’s health on my right, or my left, rather.
O: There's some on each, I'm gonna take this one.
C: I have two bars so I'm probably good for now.
[Autobot: Close the blast doors, and seal the ship! We’ll trap them inside!]
Skywarp: Trap us?
Thundercracker: Orders, Starscream?
Starscream: Hahahaha! Those idiots locked in here with their power core! Plant a detpack on it!
OS: Starscream runs around shooting at Autobots before going down.]
O: Ugh! I'm down, help.
S: Oh shi- shoot.
[CS: Thundercracker is off to the side reviving Starscream. Skywarp chases down Autobots with a combination of gunfire and melee attacks, before going down as well.]
C: Ah, I'm down as well.
S: Uh, where are you? Oh.
O: ARGH!
S: How am I not-
[SS: Thundercracker walks over to Skywarp and begins to revive him. Another downed ally icon appears on the right hand side of the screen.]
O: I’m down again.
[SS: Thundercracker continues to try and revive Skywarp but also goes down when an Autobot walks up and shoots him at point blank range.]
S: Well damn it, so am I.
O: At least we start from here [after the ship has opened up].
S: Well, I mean we’re…
O: Oh fucking rockets!
S: Oh, the audio seems like it’s gone for me?
C: Oh, you lost audio?
S: I don’t know why, but I can’t hear the game anymore-
O: Did you accidentally turn it down?
S: -or you guys.
[Autobot: Close the blast doors, and seal the ship! We’ll trap them inside!]
C: We can’t get into the ship anymore!
S: All my stuff is...uh, muted? Why is my stuff muted?
[The video disappears and some white text is visible on a black background.]
Note (from sound editor, which is also Chezni):
Unfortunately at this point, we had a SNAFU with Specs' audio and had to restart the game.
Due to the restart, Specs' audio and footage became unusable due to a spike in her game volume that she corrects in about 16 minutes.
Don't worry! You can still see and hear her in Owls' and Chezni's footage until the correction, which will be used until then.
Sorry for the interruption!
[OS: The game loads back at the checkpoint before the battle with the drop ship started. The screen reads, “New Objective: Find the Hidden Underground Entrance.” On the lower left the text, “Chezni has joined the game,” and “Specspectacle has joined the game,” is visible.]
O: [singing] Dada dat dat dat dada da da.
S: If we don’t- mm.
C: Ah, hey, we’re back!
[Starscream: We’re getting close! The next entrance is just on the far side of this canyon.
The same cinematic from before starts, but is skipped. The screen reads, “New Objective: Destroy the shield generator.”]
C: Oh no! We gotta do this again.
S: Ah, pfft.
[Thundercracker: The Autobot ship is generating an energy shield over the entrance!
Starscream: I can see that for myself, Thundercracker. Enough babbling--destroy it!
Thundercracker: Target the mortars first!
OS: The screen reads, “New Objective: Destroy the shield generator. The party flies forward and attacks the mortars.]
Skywarp: This thing is as crazy as I am!
Starscream: Just blast it! It breaks, like everything else!]
S: Oh.
[Starscream: Excellent! Now, target the Aerialbots!
Skywarp: I’ll show them some REAL flying!
CS: Skywarp continues to fly around and shoot the mortars before swapping to the Aerialbots. A downed ally icon appears on the lower left of the screen.]
S: Oh. Sorry, I’m out guys.
C: No worries. I’m always amazed at the fact that while you’re flying, at like, light speed the enemies still hit you.
[Skywarp: Here comes another wave!]
S: Uh…
C: I’m sorry, I can’t, there was too much fire power.
O: Oh!
[OS: Starscream flies over to Thundercracker but is taken out along with Skywarp and the Mission Failed screen appears.]
O: I’m dead too.
S: So am I.
O: Oh my god, I hate this checkpoint!
[OS: Owls selects, “Restart from Last Checkpoint”.]
O: I hate this level, I hate this-
C: Shake off the rust.
[The screen reads, “New Objective: Find the hidden underground entrance.”]
O: Uh, no, there is no rust! This part just sucks, it sucked it one player!
C: Shake off the rust!
[Starscream: We’re getting close! The next entrance is just on the far side of this canyon.]
O: OH MY GOD, you’re a jerk.
C: The space rust. What's the super rust called?
[OS: The same cinematic from before starts, but is skipped. The screen reads, “New Objective: Destroy the shield generator.”]
O: Cosmic rust, dear?
C: Yeah, shake off the cosmic rust!
O: [screechy voice] “Only if you're Megatron!”
[CS: The party flies forward and attacks the mortars.
Thundercracker: The Autobot ship is generating an energy shield over the entrance!
Starscream: I can see that for myself, Thundercracker. Enough babbling--destroy it!
Skywarp: Target the mortars first!]
C: Cosmic rust, it's coarse, and rough...
O: And gets everywhere.
C & O: [laugh]
[Skywarp: This thing is as crazy as I am!
Starscream: Just blast it! It breaks, like everything else!
CS: Skywarp swaps over to attacking the Aerialbots.]
O: Oh my god! Go away!
[Starscream: Excellent! Now, target the Aerialbots!
Skywarp: I’ll show them some REAL flying!]
C: Oh my gosh, I'm definitely gonna die here.
[OS: Starscream continues to shoot at Aerialbots.]
S: Oh, I'm out, sorry guys. I’m in the worst spot.
[OS: Starscream transforms into bot mode, dropping down and grabbing some energon before transforming back into vehicle mode and flying over to Thundercracker… who is awkwardly hanging in the air nose first into the drop ship. The area is slanted, so it’s more difficult to maneuver around, but Starscream manages to get underneath him and revives him, while taking fire from nearby Aerialbots.]
C: That is a pretty bad spot!
S: [laughs]
C: I don't think I can…
S: [continues laughing even harder]
C: Like, those guys are just right there.
S: Oh.
O: Oh my god!
[Thundercracker: More reinforcements?
OS: Starscream flies off to get out of firing range of the Aerialbots, but another downed ally icon appears behind him and he turns around midair.]
O: I can't get everyone!
S: [laughs]
C: Well, you've got 700 seconds for me.
[OS: Starscream flies over to Skywarp and revives him. Yet another downed ally icon appears to the left.]
O: Oh my god, GUYS!!
S: [continues to laugh harder]
[OS: Starscream zips over to Thundercracker and revives him, while already on low health and taking even more fire from Aerialbots.]
O: I need you to not! I’m gonna die!
[Starscream: The blast doors are open! Quickly!
Skywarp: Watch out for those rocket snipers!]
C: We did it! We did it!
[Starscream: Enough of this nonsense! We'll bring this annoyance down from the INSIDE. Fly in and target its power core!]
S: Mm-mm.
[CS: Skywarp flies into the drop ship, transforming into robot mode and shooting at the Autobots inside.]
C: Oh my goodness.
S: Shit, shit!
[Autobot: Close the blast doors, and seal the ship! We’ll trap them inside!]
O: I am inside, I cannot help.
S: Um.
[Skywarp: Trap us?
Thundercracker: Orders, Starscream?
CS: Thundercracker returns to jet mode.]
S: Shi- uh.
O: Where are you?
C: Where are you are you, Specs?
[CS: Skywarp turns around and sees that the door he and Starscream had entered through is no longer open.
Starscream: Hahahaha! Those idiots locked in here with their power core! Plant a detpack on it!]
S: [laughs]
O: If you're outside, we can't help, we’re stuck inside!
S: I’m outside!
C: Oh my god.
O: Of course you are!
S: [laughs] I’m sorry!
O: Oh well, at least we got the stupid door open, right?
C: That’s true.
S: Uh.
C: You're good- don't worry Skywarp- er, Thundercracker, you're completely safe out there!
O & S: [laugh]
C: No harm will come to you!
S: [laughs]
[CS: Starscream and Skywarp continue to maneuver around inside the ship taking out Autobots. Skywarp goes down, while at the same time another downed ally icon appears offscreen to his left.]
C: Oh gosh, I’m down.
S: So am I, sorry.
O: Oh my god.
S: [laughs]
[CS: Skywarp takes out an Autobot while downed, and Starscream runs over and begins to revive him.]
C: Please save your poor little jet.
S: [laughs]
[CS: Skywarp is revived, he then transforms and follows Starscream into another section of the ship.]
O: You're so tiny and adorable.
[CS: Skywarp fires on yet more Autobots.]
O: [laughs] Seriously, you’re like a little itty bitty little jet when I’m in uh, robot mode, it’s great.
S: I blew up.
[CS: Skywarp is in a fire fight with an Autobot when the screen suddenly goes dark and the Mission Failed screen appears.]
C: Wait, what!?!
O: Well, she was outside! She was outside and she was- and we couldn't get to her.
[OS: Owls selects, “Restart from Last Checkpoint”.]
S: [laughs]
Note: Apparently, there was lone Decepticon still outside that killed poor Thundercracker in cold blood, unfortunately, Specs footage was still unusable at this point, hence no visual.
[OS: The screen reads, “New Objective: Destroy the shield generator.”]
S: Sorry.
[Starscream: The blast doors are open! Quickly!
Skywarp: Watch out for those rocket snipers!]
C: But how!? What hurt you?
White text is overlaid on top of the screen: *Specs makes weird noises because her ears are starting to hurt…*
[Starscream: Enough of this nonsense! We'll bring this annoyance down from the INSIDE. Fly in and target its power core!]]
S: Mm.
C: Alright I got-
S: I’m inside now!
C: Hooray!
[Autobot: Close the blast doors, and seal the ship! We’ll trap them inside!
OS: Starscream has entered the ship and transformed, taking out an Autobot with the Null Ray. A down ally icon appears to his left.]
S: But I’m also dead!
C: Uh, un-hooray.
[OS: Starscream makes his way over to Thundercracker.
Skywarp: Trap us?
Thundercracker: Orders, Starscream?
Starscream: Hahahaha! Those idiots locked in here with their power core! Plant a detpack on it!
CS: Skywarp walks over to the power core and plants an explosive on it.]
S: Ah shoot. Gosh darnit, who am I supposed to- gah! I don’t like you.
[Autobot Ship: Warning! Warning! Warning!
The dropship begins to come to pieces around the party.
The screen reads, “New Objective: Escape the Autobot Dropship.]
S: I’m down.
[CS: Skywarp walks over to the downed Thundercracker.]
C: I got ya.
[Starscream: Unbelievable! These Autobots are dumber than Skywarp!]
S: Thank you.
[Thundercracker: Perhaps, Starscream, but have you considered an escape route for US?]
S: Ah.
[Starscream: Try the upper deck! Hurry!
OS: Thundercracker is revived, and Starscream transforms into jet mode and flies up to the second level of the drop ship.]
S: Uh.
C: I think we need to- yeah, go up.
[OS: The doorway in front of the party is sealed.
Skywarp: They sealed it off!]
S: Yeah, yeah, I kind of figured.
[OS: The front part of the ship falls away, and the part transforms into jet mode to make their exit.
Starscream: Now’s our chance! Fly through the hole!]
O: [snorts]
C: No comment.
O: [laughs]
C: No comment.
[Skywarp: Dumber than Skywarp? I’ll show YOU dumb, Starscream!
Starscream: You always do.
The screen reads, “New Objective: Continue your search for the underground.”
OS: The party flies forward, transforming and landing on the platform the shield generator was blocking. Starscream runs forward and smashes an ammo chest before turning around and seeing some grenades in the corner.]
O: Okay, we've got ammo, grenades…
S: Uh…
O: Where's- where's- there's a Chezni.
[CS: Skywarp flies up and lands on the platform Starscream and Thundercracker are already on.]
O: You're always lagging behind Skywarp.
C: You know what?!
O: [laughs]
C: You know what?!
[CS: Skywarp starts running away from Starscream.]
C: ...I don’t know what.
[OS: Starscream chases after Skywarp.]
O: What are you- what are you gonna do? You gonna run away? We are the only two that will have you, and you know it!
C: [laughs]
O: Get back here Skywarp!
[CS: The party runs into a hallway, a shield chest is visible off to their right.]
O: [laughs] Does anyone need heal-
S: Uh, is that heals?
O: Yes.
S: Cuz I could use-
O: Go ahead.
C: It’s a shield not heals.
O: Well, it’ll still help.
S: Thank you.
O: I also thought it fully healed you, but perhaps I’m wrong.
[CS: A cinematic plays of the Seekers running into a room where a creepy looking Autobot is standing, before it jumps off the platform, disappearing in a flash of electricity.]
S: Oh!
O: What is that? Oh right, I remember this.
C: That's not a real transformer.
[Skywarp: Did you see that?
Thundercracker: You mean that creepy looking that that just jumped over the side?
Skywarp: Yah.
Thundercracker: Nope. I didn’t see anything.
Starscream: I should’ve left you two on the station.]
O: Uh, I’m gonna take this unless you guys want something- want it.
[OS: Starscream walks over to a Plasma Cannon (Charge) and swaps out his Scattershot for it.]
O: I dunno if I’ll like it, but we’ll see.
[Skywarp: Now this is some serious bang for our buck!]
S: Are we jumping?
C: What is- oh, nothing.
O: Yup.
[OS: Starscream walks over to the ledge and jumps down.]
C: We’re jets! Jets don't jump, St- Thundercracker, they fly!
O: They fall with style! [laughs]
[OS: Starscream walks into a dark room, and the screen shakes.]
S: Wahh!
C: With- yeah, we don’t fall, we fly with style!
[OS: Starscream and Thundercracker are looking around the room.
Skywarp: I think I saw something.
Thundercracker: You think you saw what?
Starscream: SILENCE! It could be an Autobot cloaker--keep your optics sharp!
CS: Skywarp walks over to an ammo chest before transforming and zipping over to a health chest and running into the energon inside..]
C: There's some ammo over here if anyone needs it.
O: There's a scatter blaster over here?
S: Uh…
C: I already have a scatter blaster. It's horrible.
[OS: Starscream and Thundercracker are attempting to target one of the cloakers as it becoming visible when charging it’s attack. Starscream tries to use the Plasma Cannon and charges it up, but the Cloaker disappears again.]
O: Where are they?
[OS: The Plasma Cannon goes off automatically, not hitting anything.]
O: Ugh.
S: Ohh~
[OS: A cloaker shoots Starscream from above.]
O: What the fuck!? Right…
S: There's-
[CS: Skywarp flies around the room in jet mode, finally seeing one of the cloakers charge up an attack and shoot.]
C: Oh, it's invisible!
S: Yes, it's invisible, man! Thank you.
C: You got to look for the shimmers.
O: Yeah, I need- oh, where was that other gun? I need it. [snorts] This is bad.
[CS: Skywarp continues flying around, targeting cloakers with his jet mode’s machine guns when he spots them. Starscream and Thundercracker are running around on the ground.]
S: Um.
[CS: Skywarp tries to shoot a cloaker but it runs away from him and disappears.]
C: Ah man, they're fast!
O: Ugh.
[OS: Starscream runs around the room trying to shoot things with the Scatter Blaster, with limited success.]
S: God, it’s a fast sucker!
O: It really is.
[OS: Starscream turns into vehicle mode briefly to destroy a cloaker with his machine guns before returning to bot mode.
Starscream: I’m ready to lead!
OS: A downed ally icon appears to the right.]
S: I'm out, sorry! God, there’s so many of them!
C: Yeah, there's like, a ton all of a sudden.
[OS: Skywarp attempts to revive Thundercracker but is unable because Thundercracker is in vehicle mode and awkwardly angled away from a platform behind him. Starscream transforms into jet mode and is able to begin reviving Thundercracker.]
O: I got her.
S: Thank you.
[OS: Skywarp runs out from underneath Thundercracker. The party continues fighting the cloaked Autobots.]
C: I can't move. I was like, stuck underneath her.
S: Mm.
C: When they- when they attack they charge up a ball of light.
O: Yeah, that's how I've been aiming at ‘em.
[OS: The party takes out the last of the cloakers.
Starscream: Hahaha! Feel the power of my wrath! Now, get the power back online so we can move on!]
S: Uh.
O: I didn't realize I could swap weapons [in vehicle mode]. I mean, I kind of figured it out earlier but thank god, I hate machine guns.
[Starscream: Get moving, Decepticons. We must be getting close.]
S: Is there like-
O: Any health or ammo left in here?
C: I didn’t see any.
[CS: Skywarp flies around the room a bit before zipping through a door into the next room over. The room is narrow with two openings to a larger area that is swarming with Autobots on a platform in the middle of the area. There is a gun on the ground in front of the party.
Thundercracker: There it is. The entrance to the underground.
Starscream: Another shield generator?! These Autobots are getting on my nerves.]
O: I don’t need- there we go.
S: There’s a Null Ray scope?
O: Oh, I already have one, I can’t pick up another one.
[The screen reads, “New Objective: Deactivate the forcefield.”
Starscream: Bring down those shields!]
C: Uh, I’ll take the Null Ray scope.
[CS: Skywarp walks over and picked up the Null Ray, dropping his Scatter Blaster.]
O: It a sniper rifle.
S: Oh. Um. Well, nuts, I’m out!
[OS: Starscream is sniping Autobots when the downed ally icon appears to his right.]
S: Sorry, I’m down.
C: It’s fine, uh, I’ll cover.
[OS: Starscream walks over to Thundercracker and revives him. Lines coming from the Autobots across the gap show that a large number of them are equipped with sniper rifles, explaining why Thundercracker died so quickly.]
S: Okay, mmm.
[OS: Starscream gets back behind cover and Thundercracker transforms and flies out of the small room the party is in, before being taken out almost immediately.]
S: Mmm, I'm out again.
[OS: Starscream transforms and flies over to Thundercracker to try and revive him.]
O: You need to not fly in here! [laughs]
[OS: Starscream also begins taking heavy fire from the enemy snipers.]
O: Dammit.
C: Shoot.
[OS: Starscream goes down and Thundercracker explodes.]
S: Sorry.
C: No, it's a fine.
[CS: The mission failed screen comes up briefly before restarting at the checkpoint in the room with the Null Ray. The screen reads, “New Objective: Deactivate the forcefield,” upon loading.
Thundercracker: There it is. The entrance to the underground.
C: Skywarp suddenly became Italian, “It's a fine!”
[Starscream: Another shield generator?! These Autobots are getting on my nerves. Bring down those shields!
CS: Skywarp transforms and enters the large room, flying around the edges, but inevitably takes heavy fire from the enemy snipers.]
S: Umm…oh, jesus- ugh.
[CS: Skywarp is down to 1 bar of health. The down ally icon appears in the distance.]
S: Shit. Well, I'm dead again.
[CS: Skywarp lands on a platform and transforms, heading towards a health chest.]
O: Chezni, do you have her?
C: Ah- I’m- um, no. [laughs]
[CS: Skywarp turns away from the chest and transforms, flying over to where Thundercracker is floating.]
O: Uhh…
S: Well, I’m-
C: I’ve got her now, but I’m probably gonna die.
[CS: Skywarp begins reviving Thundercracker but he quickly goes down too.]
C: Yeah, I died trying to do it.
[CS: Thundercracker explodes, and the “Mission Failed,” screen appears.]
S: Sorry.
C: Ah, that's alright. So that part is probably better if we all stay in that enclosed area.
S: Okay, and then just snipe?
O: YES.
C: Ah, more or less.
[OS: Owls selects, “Restart From Last Checkpoint.” The screen reads, “New Objective: Deactivate the forcefield,” upon loading.
Thundercracker: There it is. The entrance to the underground.
Starscream: Another shield generator?! These Autobots are getting on my nerves. Bring down those shields!
OS: Starscream snipes 4 Autobots before ducking behind cover to reload.
Starscream: Ahahaha! For glory!
CS: Skywarp snipes 3 Autobots before looking around at the lessened quantity of Autobots...]
C: I think we're good. Maybe.
[CS: ...And is then shot at by yet more Autobots.]
C: Ah, I spoke too soon!
[OS: Starscream takes out two targets but the next two are shot by Skywarp. He then tries to shoot another Autobot higher up on the middle area but misses, needing to reload again.]
O: [quietly] Come on.
S: Ohh~
C: Is that all of them?
O: Almost.
[OS: Starscream takes out the Autobot he previously missed.]
S: Mmm.
[CS: Skywarp transforms and flys over to the middle platform, taking out another Autobot.]
O: At the very least I think it’s most of them.
[OS: Starscream transforms in midair, and uses his energon mace on the enemy below as he’s falling, but doesn’t kill the Autobot. The Autobot backs up and begins firing on Starscream, dropping him to 1 bar of health]
O: Dammit!
[OS: Starscream attempts to shoot the Autobot with his Null Ray but misses. He then transforms into vehicle mode and takes him out with his machine gun.]
C: Ah, I’m down.
[OS: Starscream flies over to Skywarp, transforming and beginning to revive him.]
O: I am NOT gonna live through this.
S: Mmm.
[CS: Skywarp is revived and he hops back up.]
C: Thank you.
O: There you go.
S: Mmm.
O: Uhh, you okay?
Note: Keep in mind that Specs can barely hear us, or quite frankly herself, because her game volume is so loud at this point.
C: [Nasally voice] Starscream you're my hero.
[CS: Skywarp dodges fire from an enemy Autobot before running over and taking him out with his physical attack.]
O: [laughs] Now THAT seems like how they- the ways they would tease each other.
[CS: Skywarp uses one of his special moves that allows him to begin spinning the upper potion of his body around in a circle while holding his energon mace and takes out an Autobot.]
S: Mmm.
O: Specs, what’s wrong?
[OS: Starscream takes out an Autobot with the Null Ray, and when he exits the scope mode, Thundercracker is right next to him in vehicle mode.]
C: Yeah, I- where is Specs, actually?
O: She’s with me.
S: I'm right here.
C: Ohh, gosh darn-!
[OS: Starscream continues to snipe Autobots. Skywarp goes down in front of him.]
C: I’m down again.
S: Mmm.
[OS: Starscream runs over and revives Skywarp.]
S: Ahh.
[Skywarp: The battery casing is opening.]
S: Ahh, okay...
C: This is quite chaotic!
O: A little bit, yeah.
S: No duh!
[OS: Starscream is running low on Null Ray ammo, and not seeing any immediate Autobots runs out from underneath the platform he was under, getting fired on from above immediately.]
O: Oh come on!
C: Come on Decepticons!
[Thundercracker: The shield batteries are exposed. If we destroy them, we can lower the shield.
OS: Starscream is still under the platform, having swapped over to his Scatter Blaster and trying to take out some nearby Aerialbots (it’s not working terribly well).]
C: Are you... mice bots or are you car bots?!
[OS: The screen reads, “New Objective: Destroy the armor plating.”]
S: We’re fighting planes!
O: Uh, we’re jets? [laughs] We’re fighting jets!
S: I'm out of- shit.
[CS: The party continues fighting the Aerialbots.]
S: Mmm. Mm. Mmm.
O: [laughs] I’m sorry! You're making very, very, many noises though.
[CS: The party takes out the remaining Autobots. Skywarp flies over to the platform the other two Seekers are on/nearby and heals himself with a nearby health chest.
Starscream: Look out for those sentries, you bumbling idiots!]
C: These are- these are Specs’ concentrating noises.
S: [laughs]
O: [laughs] Is that what we’re calling it?
C: These are Specs’ magic words, do not steal them!
O: [laughs]
[OS: The party is able to destroy the plating on the giant door that was blocked by the shield generator.]
S: I can’t hear you guys very well!
O: [laughs] These are Specs’ magic words, do not steal them!
[OS: The screen reads, “New Objective: Re-route power to the energon bridge.”
The large round door in front of the party opens up and bridge forms from the main platform over to the door. Starscream flies through the door, and the party enters was looks like a dilapidated tunnel with a bunch of piping and equipment scattered throughout.
Starscream: Move, Decepticons. Into the tunnels! We have a Bridge to activate!]
C: Well, whatever they were, seemed like it worked.
S: What? I can barely hear you guys.
C: Really?
Skywarp: This place gives me the creeps.
Starscream: These tunnels were decommissioned long ago. We’ll have to activate the power terminals to get the station back online.]
S: Yeah, the game is overpowering everything for me.
C: Did you- is it-
S: OHH! Because it [the volume] went up to like 50 and I didn't realize it.
C & O: [laugh]
O: All we-
C: That would explain SO MUCH RIGHT NOW!
S: [laughs]
O: We just kept hearing you make noises and I kept asking you what was wrong, and I wasn’t getting a response, and I was like, “Okay…”
A: [laugh]
C: Like, we kept- we kept commenting, we were being like, “Oh hey Specs, how are you?” Like- like no response.
S: [laughs]
[SS: The party moves forward, further into the tunnels.
Skywarp: Incoming! Take cover! Wait?! That’s not Autobot weaponry?!
Thundercracker: Interesting. I’ve never seen these life forms before.]
C: That’s hilarious.
S: [laughs harder]
[Starscream: Who cares--if they get in my way, BLAST THEM!]
S: But I got things done! It got- I was helpful, I was useful.
O: Yes! Yes!
C: True, you died fewer times than I did.
O: Chezni died twice.
C: That’s pretty awesome.
O: If anyone should be ashamed of themselves it should be Chezni.
C: Yup.
O: I don't know what blowing these up does?
[CS: Starscream shoots an object that explodes near Skywarp.]
S: Oh~
C: You're a Decepticon, you love blowing things up, right?
[CS: Some strange mechanical tentacle things pop out of the walls and fly towards the party, but Skywarp destroys them.]
O: [screechy voice] Excuse me, I'm Starscream, I don't waste my ammo on something so trivial.
C: You have people do that for you.
O: [screechy voice] Uh, yes, those people are you.
C: [laughs]
S: Like, I think my performance in the last round is not uh, like, par for the course, probably.
[Starscream: There, just as I told you! The Energon Bridge Terminal. Find a way inside and activate it!
OS: The party continues onwards, before arriving in a large room with a large oblong structure in the center.]
S: Egh!
[Skywarp: I thought this place was deserted!
OS: Thundercracker and Starscream fly to the right side of the structure and begin shooting at the nearby sentries. Multiple probes are also deployed and attack them both.]
C: Well, you thought wrong!
[Starscream: We must’ve tripped the station’s automated defenses. Open fire!]
S: Uh…
O: Uh, help!
[OS: Thundercracker goes down.]
S: Nuts, sorry, I’m dead.
[OS: Starscream goes down.]
O: Ah, crap! We're both dead, honey.
C: Yes, so am I.
[OS: The, “Mission Failed,” screen appears.]
O: We're all dead, honey. [laughs]
[OS: Owls selects, “Restart From Last Checkpoint.”]
C: I’m not sure what killed us?
O: Uh, I think it was things that came out of the middle there. That better be a damn checkpoint.
[OS: The party starts in the same room they previously died in. The screen reads, “New Objective: Re-route power to the energon bridge.”
Starscream: There, just as I told you! The Energon Bridge Terminal. Find a way inside and activate it!]
S: Sentries.
[OS: The party moves towards the door in the right side of the oblong object, shooting at the probes and sentries.
Skywarp: I thought this place was deserted!
Starscream: We must’ve tripped the station’s automated defenses. Open fire!]
S: It’s sentry time!
[SS: Thundercracker destroys several sentry guns.]
S: Oh, there’s... thingies.
[Skywarp: More cloakers? These guys creep me out!]
O: What the fuck is shooting at me?
[Thundercracker: What’s the matter, Skywarp--afraid?]
C: They're- they're like inside this big room.
[Skywarp: At least I’m not ugly.
Thundercracker: Ugly? You and I look the SAME!]
S: I’m dead.
[SS: Thundercracker is killed by the last remaining sentry gun.]
O: I’ll try to get over there, I need to kill that thing first though.
S: Mmm.
[CS: Skywarp is inside the oblong structure exploring it, swapping back and forth between his robot and his vehicle modes.
Skywarp: Okay, let’s take off!]
S: Ah.
[CS: Skywarp is still flying around by himself in the structure. He destroys two probes that move in front of him.]
S: Thank you- WAAAA! Screw you!
O: Crap!
S: Oh shoot, are you behind me?
O: Yes I'm trying to- there, I killed it.
S: Oh, thank you.
C: Did anyone’s screen go dark, or is that just me?
[OS: Thundercracker and Starscream have finally entered the structure as well. Overall, it is darker inside but everything’s still visible.]
O: It is a lot darker, yes.
C: Okay.
S: Yeah, it is.
C: I was a little confused.
O: Oh my god, I would kill for some damn health.
S: Same.
C: Last-
S: I mean, there's guns.
C: There's a plasma cannon.
[OS: The group walks over to some guns on the floor. Starscream is at one bar of health.
Starscream: I still require medical attention!]
O: I did not like the plasma cannon at all.
C: Specs, you want it?
[SS: Starscream and Skywarp are running around in their bot modes, but Thundercracker is still in his vehicle mode. He approaches the Plasma Cannon, but the prompt to pick it up doesn’t appear.]
S: Uh, mm, I can’t interact with it.
C: [laughs] You’re just scooting around as a jet.
S: [laughs]
C: You need to stop being a jet. Stop being a jet, right now! [laughs]
S: I’m out of ammo. Alright, okay, fine, I can pick that up.
[SS: Thundercracker transforms into bot mode and picks up the Plasma Cannon.]
C: Alright.
O: Okay…
S: Where are we supposed to go?
O: We should go down here, maybe?
[OS: Starscream is walking around when an energy blast charges in midair and is shot at him.]
O: Oh cripes, there are more of those invisible guys.
S: Oh.
C: Ah, so that’s what it is.
S: Where are you guys?
O: Ugh!
C: I’m on the bottom floor.
O: I am too, and I do not have a lot of health... so, help?
S: Ah.
C: I’m trying!
[CS: Skywarp chases around a clocker trying to shoot it before finally taking it out with a physical attack.]
S: I didn't realize there was a bottom floor, uh.
[CS: The party is near each other, all shooting at cloakers.]
S: Sorry, I am utilizing the spray-and-pray method of..
C: Hey, with infinite bullets you’re totally allowed to do that.
O: You can pray and spray as much as you want.
[SS: Thundercracker is assisting the rest of the party while in vehicle mode and spamming his machine guns. He shoots something in the distance, causing an explosion.]
O: That was an explosion.
C: I think we got ‘em.
[SS: Starscream walks over to a console and activates it. The lights come on and prompt to look at the ‘Ambush’ appears on the screen.]
O: We got ambushed?
[Thundercracker: Detecting Autobot energy signatures!]
O: [groans]
C: Nice to have lights again.
[Starscream: More fools rush to their death. Destroy them!]
O: I can only destroy them when I have ammo, dipshit!
C: The melee button is a wonderful thing.
[Megatron (COM): Starscream, report!
Starscream: Megatron! We are encountering significant Autobot resistance but…
SS: Thundercracker shoots a barrel of explosives and takes damage, he then shoots the other closer barrel and dies.]
S: I'm down.
[Megatron (COM): I will not suffer excuses. Do not fail me!]
S: I am also not entirely sure how, unless I was too close to the explosion?
[CS: Skywarp engages some Autobots in combat but takes damage and goes down.]
C: I am also down.
[CS: Skywarp begins to slowly move through a nearby doorway. In the distance Starscream can be seen reviving Thundercracker.
Skywarp: You really told him, Starscream.
Starscream: Silence! Soon the Decepticons will be mine to control and Megatron will serve me!]
C: I'm trying to scoot to safety.
[OS: Starscream transforms and flies over to Skywarp. He begins to revive him.]
O: [laughs] Scoot to safety?
C: [laughs]
O: You're so cute, and yet you keep dying.
S: We all need the heals.
C: I don't know who's killing- ow! What the-?
[SS: Thundercracker continues to shoot at Autobots while in vehicle mode. A downed ally icon appears to Thundercracker’s right.]
O: Just gonna start singing, ‘You're Welcome,’ from Moana, in- here in a minute I swear to god.
[SS: The downed ally icon disappears.]
C: I don't remember the lyrics.
O: [singing] You’re welcome! [laughs]
C: Yeah, that’s the only part I can remember.
C: Oh by the way I’m down again, no wait…
O: I remember it being the Rock and being awesome.
[CS: The party is running/flying around continuing to take out Autobots.]
C: I’m not down, I thought I was.
S: No you’re not.
O: [laughs] “No you’re not.”
S: [laughs]
C: You almost sounded like- angry like, how dare you tell me you were dead!?!
S: [laughs]
[CS: Skywarp uses his spinning ability in and empty room, steadily heading towards where Starscream and Thundercracker are.]
O: Thundercracker got hopeful, you can’t do that to him!
S: [continues laughing]
C: Oh, wait, I can turn invisible, right?
[CS: Skywarp uses his other ability and turns invisible.]
O: Yeah.
S: Yes?
C: Oh my goodness! I should have been using this.
S: Well, yeah.
[OS: The party has moved up to the upper floor and are fighting more Autobots.]
S: [sighs]
O: Are you gonna-
[Skywarp: Watch where you point that thing!]
O: [snorts]
[SS: Thundercracker and Skywarp take out the last Autobot, and the objective icon appears above a nearby console.
S: Okay, we gotta do a thing with this, so…
[SS: Starscream walks over to the panel, activating it. A shield blocking a large tunnel in front of the party drops. The party runs/flies on ahead.
Starscream: My wounds remain unrepaired!]
O: Seriously, is there health anywhere? Because I think we all need health.
C: I haven’t seen any.
S: Yeah.
[Thundercracker: The station is only showing power levels at 50%. There must be another terminal deeper underground.
OS: The tunnel is full of robotic arms and big lasers that appears to be running automatically.]
S: Ack!
O: Oh, christ…
S: Um.
[CS: Skywarp pulls ahead of Starscream, and another tentacled thing flies into the tunnel before being taken out by Skywarp and Starscream.]
C: Oh, there's more sentries.
[Thundercracker: I’m reading Autobot energy signatures up ahead.]
S: Yes, you guys are rather in front of me.
[CS: Thundercracker comes to a bend in the tunnel, where he finds a lone Autobot standing on a raised platform.]
C: Ah, there’s missiles!
[CS: Skywarp takes out the Autobot.
Skywarp: I do enjoy sniping!
Starscream: Afraid to take them head on, Skywarp?]
S: Uh, I don't know where you guys are. I think I’m lost.
C: It’s- it’s a-
[SS: Thundercracker flies down the tunnel arriving at the end and turning to his left, when he sees Starscream and Skywarp shooting at Autobots.]
S: Oh.
[SS: Skywarp turns around.]
C: You’re right behind us.
S: Okay.
[Skywarp: I’m the fastest thing on two wings!
SS: Thundercracker takes heavy damage from the enemy snipers.]
S: Aw, nuts.
[OS: Starscream is standing on a platform shooting at the Autobots on the far side of the room with a Thermal Rocket Launcher.]
O: Somebody said I needed a rocket launcher, and I got one.
S: Oh!
[OS: Starscream transforms and flies over to another platform inside the large room where the Autobots have been attacking them from. Thundercracker hovers over an energon cube.]
O: You should grab that.
[OS: Thundercracker grabs the health and flies off while Starscream ducks behind cover to avoid enemy fire.]
S: Thank you, health is helpful.
[Starscream: The destruction can begin!]
S: Oh.
[CS: An invisible Skywarp comes up behind an Autobot hiding behind a shield and hits him multiple times with his physical move, taking him down.]
S: Ahhhh! I don’t like this!
C: [laughs]
S: [laughs] But when do I like-
[SS: Thundercracker flies forward towards the remaining Autobots on the far side of the room, but is downed at a nearby Autobot.]
C: You sounded like Monsters Inc.
S: [laughs]
C: [singing] Take that thing back where it came from-
C & O: [singing] Or so help me!
C: [singing] So help me!
S: S- s- sorry-
O: AMMO! Sweet fucking god, ammo!
S: Sor- sorry, I’m dead.
C: I'm gonna try to get to you, I don't know if I can with all that firing going on.
[OS: Starscream takes out two of the nearby Aerialbots in rapid succession with his Null Ray.]
C: I could turn invisible and resurrect you, and they don't shoot me!
[OS: The downed ally icon disappears and Thundercracker and Skywarp fly on ahead, Starscream transforming into jet mode to follow them.]
S: Nice! That is-
O: Well, I did kill them too, but sure.
C: No, but I mean they don't shoot at me while I'm going in for the rescue.
S: Well, yeah.
C: Sorry, this is rev- this is a revelation for me!
O: There’s ammo back there, by the way, if anybody needed it.
[OS: Thundercracker flies over to the platform indicated by Starscream and retrieves ammo.]
C: I don’t need it.
O: It’s over here.
C: I've been punching things to death.
S: [laughs]
O: Good to know.
C: It's an effective-
[OS: Starscream flies straight ahead through a waterfall, arriving in a small cubby with an Autobot symbol flanked by two shield chests.]
C: Oh! There's an Autobot symbol and two shields back here!
[OS: Starscream runs forward, using a physical attack on the Autobot symbol before taking one of the shields for himself.]
O: I’ll take that, and THAT!
C: There was an Autobot symbol, and there was two shields!
S: [laughs]
C: Now there’s one shield.
O: But- but ah, Specs, you can have the other shield.
C: Yeah.
S: Okay, I’m just not entirely sure where you guys are?
[SS: Thundercracker is slowly flying towards a door the objective icon is indicating.]
O: I have my sniper rifle-!
C: Behind the-
O: Behind the waterfall.
S: Um.
O: I have my sniper rifle back, I’m so happy!
[SS: Thundercracker lands in front the door where a console is sitting.]
S: Oh, I found a thing to interact with, do you want me to interact with it?
C: Wait- wait- wait- wait, if you're not gonna take the shield I will. Alright, interact-
S: Well-
C: Interact away!
[SS: Thundercracker looks to his left, and runs over and picks up some nearby health.]
S: Well, actually I'm gonna- there's health, do you guys need health?
C: No, cuz I got a shield.
[Thundercracker: That’s much better.]
S: Okay, there’s also ammo, and then interaction time. I think I'm opening a door.
[SS: Thundercracker runs back to the console activating it. The door opens on another large room, where an Autobot is standing directly in front of Thundercracker with his back to him.]
S: Oh shit.
[Autobot: Alert! Alert!]
S: Ohhh!
[CS: Skywarp turns invisible and him and Thundercracker rush into the room and begin engaging with Autobots.]
O: Shit, where- what happened?
S: It opened-
O: I like, teleported or something.
S: Sorry.
C: Yeah, you were too far behind.
[CS: Skywarp walks up behind an Autobot while invisible and takes him down with his Energon mace.]
S: Alright, shoot, what is… there- there is a point here somewhere, but I'm not sure what it is?
C: It is to murder all of the Autobots scum.
[OS: While Thundercracker and Skywarp continue to run around the room, Starscream stays behind cover, sniping various Autobots, including the ones at the two turrets.]
C: Look what you've done to me, Specs and Owls.
S: [laughs]
O: What?
C: Turned me into a Decepticon!
[OS: Starscream takes several shoots at an Autobot chasing Thundercracker but misses.]
O: Yeah, you're playing with me. I don't know what you expected here, sweetie.
[SS: Thundercracker continues to fight with the Autobot chasing him, dropping below one bar health. Starscream runs over and shoots him before running back to cover.]
S: Oh sorry, I think I am... oh no, I'm not dead. I am just... damaged? Ohh~
[SS: Thundercracker sees one of the explosive items and walks backwards trying to shoot it, but doesn’t realize he’s using one of the healing guns so it does nothing.]
C: You know, the phrase, “What's your damage?” takes on a whole new meaning-
[SS: A downed ally icon appears, and Starscream flies through the nearby door in jet mode.]
C: Oh, I'm down.
S: I don’t know what this thing does…?
C: Uh, game’s gonna get it ended-
O: Um, where are you?
C: I went into some weird room, and the door closed behind me.
[CS: Skywarp is down, and the timer continues to tick down...]
S: [laughs]
[OS: The Mission Failed screen appears.]
O: [groans]
S: Well, I’m dead. Chezni, was dead-
O: No, that was Chezni, that was all Chezni’s fault.
[OS: Owls selects, “Restart from Last Checkpoint.”]
C: Yeah.
O: I was still alive!
[OS: The party restarts right outside the closed door Thundercracker had previously opened, the screen reads, “New Objective: Re-route power to the energon bridge.” Starscream walks forward and activates the console, opening the door.]
C: I didn’t know the door was gonna close behind me!
Note: There was no door, he just got lost lol ~O
C: I was just flying around minding my own business.
[Autobot: Watch out! Decepticons!
OS: Starscream walks over to his right and picks up some ammo. A Neutron Assault Rifle is right next to it.]
O: Oh guns! Hello ammo.
C: There's some health here.
[OS: Starscream runs back over to the door and takes cover, aiming at the Autobots inside the room.]
O: I'm actually good.
[SS: Thundercracker runs forward trying to attack an Autobot. The Autobot is destroyed by Starscream but Thundercracker hits an explosive barrel with his physical attack and goes down.]
O: Headshot, motherfucker, headshot.
S: I'm dead.
C: There's a turret up here!
[OS: Starscream takes out two Autobots near the fallen Thundercracker, then transforms and flies over, transforming back to revive him.]
S: Ohh~
[OS: Thundercracker is revived.]
S: Thank you.
O: You're welcome!
[OS: Starscream transforms back into vehicle mode and flies back to the boxes he’s been taking cover behind.]
S: Oh~
C: I'm definitely taking this turret with me.
[CS: Skywarp rips off a turret, jumps down from the platform he’s on and immediately shoots the two Autobots he’s landed in front of.]
S: Oh~
[SS: Thundercracker is in jet mode, shooting at some Autobots with sheilds at close range, but is shot and goes down.]
S: Oh. I'm dead. I found... a thing, that I guess is a- one of the things we're supposed to interact with but I'm also dead, and yeah, Autobots.
O: If I can find you.
[SS: Thundercracker blows up.]
S: Nope, I blew up. That was me.
[OS: The Mission Failed screen appears and Owls selects, “Restart from Last Checkpoint.”]
O: [sighs] Everybody just wants to blow up today and obviously I'm not cool because I don't understand why people find it fun.
[OS: The party spawns back in the same room as before. The screen reads, “New Objective: Re-route power to the energon bridge.” Starscream walks over to the console and opens the door.]
S: I did not want to blow up!
[Autobot: Alert! Alert!
CS/OS/SS: The party runs in and begins to fight with the various Autobots. Starscream remains behind cover sniping, while Skywarp and Thundercracker get more up close and personal with the enemy.]
S: Oh, it's a plasma cannon. Oh, I'm out.
[CS: Skywarp is fighting with two Autobots with shields. A downed ally icon appears to his right, before Skywarp goes down as well. Skywarp begins to slowly float towards an opening to get back into the main room where the other Seekers are.]
C: Shoot, so am I.
[OS: Starscream is in the middle reviving Thundercracker.]
O: You two are killing me.
S: Sorry!
[OS: Starscream transforms and flies up to Skywarp to begin reviving him.]
S: Ah, nuts to you Autobot.
C: I'm trying to fly down.
[OS: Starscream’s thinking “Help me, don’t help me!” as Skywarp flies past him while he’s trying to revive him. But Skywarp is successfully revived.]
O: You’re lucky I still have a shield left.
C: [laughs]
O: Are you alive?
C: Yep.
[CS: Skywarp continues to fight Autobots.]
O: Okay! Everybody's still alive!
[SS: Thundercracker is fighting two shield Autobots and goes down.]
S: Sorry, I'm dead.
C & S: [laugh]
O: You’ve gotta be kidding me!
[CS: The Mission Failed screen appears and Owls selects, “Restart from Last Checkpoint.”]
C: Ah, so… I need to stop dying
O: I'm doing nothing wrong, got it?
[CS: The party starts at the checkpoint.]
C: [laughs]
O: I'm doing nothing wrong, that's what I thought! Also, I'm taking this fucking ammo, okay?
[CS: Starscream runs past Skywarp and picks up some ammo.]
C: Okay!
[CS: Starscream opens the door.
Autobot: Alert! Alert!]
O: [laughs] We're just gonna call this in the chapter were Specs did nothing wrong. Not a single thing! [Nothing like saying the wrong name for MYSELF, I meant Owls here ~O]
[CS: Skywarp immediately shoots the Autobot on the other side of the door before he can even turn around.]
C & S: [laugh]
[OS: Starscream shoots at an Autobot at one of the turrets, missing the first shot but getting him on the second.]
O: Oh my god, I'm hitting you, fucker!
[OS: Starscream continues to shoot at Autobots with his Null Ray from behind cover.]
S: Oh.
[CS: Skywarp rips off one of the turrets.
Skywarp: If Skywarp wants it, Skywarp takes it!
CS: He destroys multiple Autobots using the turret.]
C: Oh my goodness, are we alive?
[OS: Starscream continues to shoot at Autobots, heading into some of the narrower hallways connected to the main room they’ve been fighting in, following Thundercracker.]
S: Yes... somewhat, sort of.
O: Do you need that health?
[SS: Thundercracker walks past an energon cube.]
S: I've got three bars.
O: Take it because I still have a shield.
S: Um.
[CS: Skywarp is fighting several Autobots with shields, taking damage from various grenades that are being lobbed around the room. He runs over to take out one of the Autobots with his physical attack, but goes down after killing them.]
C: Oh, ah, man I fell. I'm on the left top room.
[SS: Starscream runs past Thundercracker and over to Skywarp and revives him. Thundercracker walks over to a console.]
S: Oh. It looks like, uh, do you want me to interact with this thing?
O: Uh, just wanted to make sure there wasn't anything in here, then yes.
C: I want this turret first.
O: Okay, let him take the turret. Skywarp wants a souvenir turret!
[SS: Skywarp runs over to a turret and rips it off, while the other two Seekers stay near the console.]
S: [laughs]
O: That’s what I’m calling it, okay.
C: All right, this is my new toy.
O: Okay, now that everybody's happy-
[CS: Thundercracker activates the console, opening the door right in front of them. Skywarp runs over and the party begins to shoot at the Autobots on the other side of the door. Thundercracker is using a gun that shoots blue energy out of it, and it doesn’t seem to be affecting the enemies.]
S: Ahh! Hi, Autobots!
C: [laughs] I don’t know why, but the way you said that was funny.
[Starscream: Nothing will stop me! Blast those locks!
OS: The party continues shooting Autobots, as well as some locks on a door to the left.]
O: Did you pick up a healing gun!?!
C: What?
S: Me? No?
O: I saw it healing things! I don’t know where it was coming from, maybe it was an Autobot…
S: Uh, it's some sort of plasma thing?
O: Huh.
[SS: Thundercracker walks up to a closed door, it starts to open and he backs up.]
S: Uhhh!
[SS: The door opens, revealing no Autobots inside.]
S: Ohh!~
O: Health, thank you.
[SS: Thundercracker shoots the blue ray again and Skywarp walks up beside him..]
C: Actually, yeah, Specs has some kind of weird... I don't know what it is?
S: I don’t know, it’s a plasma gun, I don’t know.
O: Can you show-
[SS: Thundercracker swaps his gun from an Energon Repair Ray to a Plasma Cannon.]
S: Well, that’s a plasma-
O: Yeah, that one.
[SS: Thundercracker swaps back to the Energon Repair Ray, and backs away from Starscream and Skywarp.]
S: Oh, I've got an Energon Repair Ray, oh.
O: Yeah! You’ve got a healing gun.
S: Okay, you’re- Owls you’re fully healed. Lemme-
[SS: Starscream backs away from where Skywarp is standing.]
O: I’m fully healed.
S: When the hell did I get that?
O: I don't know.
[SS: Thundercracker heals Skywarp not quite to full health before swapping to his Plasma Cannon, which has no ammo left.
Skywarp: Now we’re talking!]
S: Sorry, but I'm all out of ammo, so I need to be a plane.
[SS: Thundercracker transforms into vehicle mode.]
C: [laughs]
[Starscream: All right… this station seems to funnel power directly to the Energon Bridge.
Thundercracker: Those are the Energon Bridge’s power control panels.
SS: The door closes in front of Thundercracker, locking him out of the room Starscream and Skywarp have walked into.]
S: Oh, um, I'm sorry, I'm on the wrong side of the door.
C: It’ll probably-
O: Hopefully, you’ll teleport?
C: -yeah.
[OS: An in-game cinematic starts, with the three Seekers walking around a large room full of various boxes, equipment, and tubes. A door opens in front of Starscream, revealing a console, in front of some pod-like machine things behind glass.
Skywarp: Wow, Starscream--that WAS impressive.
Starscream: Silence, fool! We need to supply these side terminals with their energon power cells.]
S: Oh yeah, good.
[OS: Starscream activates the console, but nothing moves. Two red targets appear on either side of the glass panel.
Thundercracker: Looks like the Autobots have locked these power cells down.
Starscream: Quickly--destroy the locks!]
S: Uh..
C: Destroy the locks? Alright.
[CS: The party shoots at the locks, destroying them.]
C: Welp, we destroyed the locks! Now what, fearless leader?
O: [screechy voice] Oh, don't ‘fearless leader’ me!
[CS: An in-game cinematic starts, and the three pod things behind glass move downwards, under the floor before getting destroyed.
Skywarp: What happened now!
Starscream: The Autobots have booby trapped this room. Fools!
Skywarp: Wait--are you calling US fools, or the Autobots fools?]
O: [laughs]
[Skywarp: Because--I’m not getting the sense that you respect me!]
C & O: [laugh]
[Starscream: Silence! Fool!
Skywarp: That’s EXACTLY what I’m talking about!]
O: [snorts and then laughs] I mean...
C: “Starscream! I’m getting the distinct impression you don't respect me!”
[Starscream: This is almost too easy. Quickly, find the other power terminals.
SS: Thundercracker flies around the outskirts of the room, but doesn’t see anything unusual.]
S: [laughs] Okay-
O: [screechy voice] Respect? What is that? Some sort of Earth TERM?
C: ...Yes.
S: Umm, I'm not entirely sure what I should be doing?
C: Nah, I’m pretty lost too.
O: Uh, there's probably a power cell that we need to destroy- er, I destroyed one of them.
[Skywarp: Now we’re talkin’!]
O: Maybe? ...Maybe not. Maybe they just want to fuck with us.
[OS: Starscream is flying around near the floor, attempting to follow a glowing red conduit.]
O: Is that-
C: Oh, there's- no, we’ve got to follow the conduit.
S: Oh, the-
C: So follow the red glowy thing that's running along the floor.
S: Okay.
C: And then it goes up?
O: Cuz like, I killed one of them…
[CS: Skywarp continues to fly around the room.]
O: Hmm, no.
[CS: Skywarp follows a conduit that loops behind some of the boxes and other piping and finds one of the power cells.]
C: Oh, it's up here, hang on.
[CS: Skywarp destroys the power cell.
Starscream: Excellent, now keep looking--there should be just one more.
SS: Thundercracker shoots the last power cell.
Thundercracker: Energy barriers are 100% offline.
Starscream: Perfect! Now--get these power cells into position!]
C: Wait a minute! Can something not be a hundred percent offline? I mean, it’s- it's either on or off, you can't be in the middle.
O: [screechy voice] Shut up Skywarp!
C: [laughs]
O: [laughs] I'm sorry I can't resist.
C: Oh, I love it.
S: Alright, er-
O: Cool, where do we go now, dum-dums?
[OS: Starscream is walking around on the bottom of the room looking around for another console or something to activate.]
C: Right- right!?
O: [screechy voice] Fools! Which way do we go!?
C: I don’t know what to do!
[OS: Starscream transforms and begins to slowly fly around the room looking for what they’re supposed to activate.
Thundercracker: The side terminals are showing power levels at maximum.]
S: I don’t know. I mean, this looks like a door but...
[Starscream: Hahahaha! We are but one click away from activating the full power of the Energon bridge!]
O: Cool. How?
[OS: Starscream transforms, landing next to the now visible console, activating it.]
O: There we go, this one. [mutters something unintelligible]
[CS: The equipment in the room lights up, and begins transmitting energy.]
C: WOAH! What the- ?
[Starscream: I did it! Look at all that power flowing! Onward, Decepticons!]
S: To where?
O: Space crack. We have sup- supplied or booty call with space crack.
S: [laughs] Ah. Okay, yes, out the door.
[CS: Activating the console has opened a door to a tunnel leading downwards. The party enters.
Thundercracker: I am detecting an unknown energy signature nearby. Off the scale…
Starscream: Then we are close - the Energon Bridge must be nearby.
OS: The party arrives in a large circular room. A machine stands in the center, with flooring that is a mixture of metal frames and glass radiating from the center. Above the machine there appears to be another glass platform of some kind going around the edge of the room.
Starscream: The device must be inside that machine. Plant a Dark Energon Det-Pack on its power cable to activate it.
Thundercracker: My scans indicate that--]
S: Uh…
[Starscream: I’ve had enough of your readings! Use Dark Energon and corrupt the machine!
OS: Starscream flies forward and transforms, landing in front of the device indicated by the UI, and plants a detpack on it.]
C: [laughs] Your READINGS!
S: Uh, I got locked out again.
[OS: The detpack explodes, and, “New Objective: Destroy the Energon Bridge Guardian,” pops up.
An in-game cinematic starts, the machine activates, with the upper portion lifting up and firing its guns at the party.
Skywarp: Whoa… what’s happening?!]
S: Okay, yay, it teleported me.
[Thundercracker: Precisely what I was afraid of. Cybertron is trying to purge itself of contamination.]
C: Wait. We're on Cybertron?
O: Yeah.
S: I guess.
[Skywarp: What contamination?
Starscream: He means US, you idiot!
OS: The Seekers all dodge a blast from device’s guns. The camera focuses on Starscream as he flips into the air, transforming into jet mode.]
C: [laughs]
[Starscream: Quit blabbing and destroy this nuisance!]
S: Mm.
[SS: The upper portion of the device begins to rotate as it continues shooting. Thundercracker hovers, shooting the machine.]
S: Alright, by- ? Okay? What am I supposed to be shooting?
[CS: Skywarp is shooting at the devices guns.]
C: Uh, if your reticle turns red it means you're hitting something. I think it's the big- the big red circles is what you want to be aiming for on the machine, but not-
S: Um.
C: Oddly enough, not the big one in the center.
[CS: The device stops shooting and drops its guns, but other portions of the machine open up and begin generating wide pink laser beams that begin rotating. There is an upper beam and lower beam, they are currently rotating in opposite directions to each other.
Thundercracker: Evade those beams!
Skywarp: Move! Move! Move!]
S: Oh.
C: I know that doesn't make a lot of sense but…
S: Sorry, I'm not entirely sure…?
[OS: Starscream and Thundercracker are flying around trying to avoid the beams.]
C: Well, right now we just need to be dodging the beam.
S: I'm... doing very badly at that!
C: Now shoot the small red circles.
[OS: The machine stops and the center opens up revealing a power core.]
O: Oh, no, shoot the Power Core!
[Starscream: The machine is vulnerable! Focus your fire on the core!]
C: Yeah, now we need to shoot the power core.
S: Oh.
[OS: The party shoots the power core, and then the machine closes up, raising it’s guns and beginning to shoot again.]
S: Well, nuts.
C: Now go back to shooting the red- the red lights on the guns.
[CS: Skywarp circles around the machine, shooting at the guns.
Skywarp: Are we even hurting this thing?
Starscream: Not with your pathetic aim! Focus fire on those guns!]
S: Oh sorry, I’m dead.
C: Uh, where are ya?
[CS: A downed ally icon appears on the other side of the room. Skywarp begins flying around the machine to get to the other side.]
O: I see ya.
[CS: Another downed ally icon appears next to the first.]
O: I am also dead.
C: No!
O: Help?
C: I'm coming!
[CS: Skywarp zips towards Starscream and Thundercracker but overshoots.]
C: Shoot.
[CS: Thundercracker explodes as Skywarp turns around.]
S: Sorry, I'm dead. Possibly we're all dead?
[SS: The game over screen displays.]
C: Well the show can't carry on without Skywarp!
S: [laughs]
[SS: The party spawns in the boss room. “New Objective: Activate the Energon Bridge,” appears in the right hand corner.]
O: You mean Thunderacker!
C: Or Thundercracker, which one are you?
S: [laughs]
[Thundercracker: My scans indicate that--
Starscream: I’ve had enough of your readings! Use Dark Energon and corrupt the machine!]
C: Jet A and Jet B.
O: I'm gonna make you build one of my model kits so that you'll remember which one- like, which one we're talking about.
[OS: New Objective, “Destroy the energon bridge guardian,” displays in the bottom right corner of the screen.]
C: They're both the same!
[OS: The same cinematic of the device activating from before plays.
Skywarp: Whoa… what’s happening?!]
O: [gruff voice] You're ugly! [normal voice] WE LOOK THE SAME! [laughs]
[Thundercracker: Precisely what I was afraid of. Cybertron is trying to purge itself of contamination.]
C: And then there's red whiny jet, but at least I remember him.
S: [laughs]
[Skywarp: What contamination?
Starscream: He means US, you idiot!]
O: [screechy voice] Excuse me! I'm white, and red, and blue. If you're going to insult me, at least have the decency to do it right.
[Starscream: Quit blabbing and destroy this nuisance!]
S: Mm.
C: Yeah, I'll let Megatron take care of that.
O: Shut up. [laughs]
C: [laughs]
[CS/OS: The party targets the device’s guns, until it drops it’s guns and activates it’s beams.
Thundercracker: Evade those beams!
Skywarp: Move! Move! Move!
SS: Thundercracker gets hit by one of the beams, taking away an significant portion of his health. He attempts to fly higher, to where the upper glass platform is clearly visible, but is stopped by an invisible barrier.]
S: Uh, shit.
[SS: The machine stops and the center opens up revealing a power core. The party shoots at it.
Starscream: The machine is vulnerable! Focus your fire on the core!]
S: Why would they design it like that?
C: [laughs]
O: It has to cool off, I don't know.
[OS: The machine closes up, raising it’s guns and beginning to shoot again. The party targets the guns.
Skywarp: Are we even hurting this thing?
Starscream: Not with your pathetic aim! Focus fire on those guns!]
C: [laughs] That’s a perfectly valid question!
S: It's a shitty ass design!
C: It would be like if you created a giant weapon, but like, every two minutes it had to open up and expose its weakness.
S: [laughs]
[Skywarp: Ha! He’s not so tough!
SS: The device stops and drops it’s guns, preparing to generating the beams.]
O: What? That's like, what video games do, isn't it?
C: Yeah, yeah, video games.
[SS: Thundercracker banks to the right to get away from the part of the machine that will generate the beams.]
S: Oh shit, woop.
O: Uh, you okay?
S: Yeah. Okay, it’s just now it's time to fly.
[Megatron (COM): Starscream! What is taking so long!
Starscream: Just a slight delay…
SS: The spinning beams start up again. Thundercracker again tries to pull upwards but is still blocked by the invisible wall. He is hit by a beam, but not destroyed.]
C: Oh no, I got cut in half.
S: Same…
[SS: The game over screen displays.]
A: [laugh]
O: Woooow.
A: [continue to laugh]
O: I just-
C: That’s unfortunate.
[SS: The party spawns in the boss room. “New Objective: Activate the Energon Bridge,” appears in the right hand corner.]
O: You’re, like, required, when you edit this, honey, to like, go back and forth between me being a badass... and you two.
C & S: [laugh]
[Thundercracker: My scans indicate that--
Starscream: I’ve had enough of your readings! Use Dark Energon and corrupt the machine!]
S: Look-
O: I mean that is the most loving way possible.
S: Look, I've been useful, sometimes!
O: [laughs]
[SS: The same cinematic of the device activating from before plays.
Skywarp: Whoa… what’s happening?!]
C: “I’ve been useful!”
O: [laughs]
C: “...sometimes!”
[Thundercracker: Precisely what I was afraid of. Cybertron is trying to purge itself of contamination.]
O & S: [laugh]
O: I’m just saying, it’s very funny when it’s like, um-
[Skywarp: What contamination?
Starscream: He means US, you idiot! Quit blabbing and destroy this nuisance!
CS: The party fires on the guns.]
O: Oh, I got cut in half and here I am flying like a badass, and I’m like, “Cut in half!?”
[SS: The device drops it’s guns and activates it’s beams.]
S: Ugh..
[Thundercracker: Evade those beams!
Skywarp: Move! Move! Move!]
S: Oh, shit. Shit.
[SS: Thundercracker is flying around trying to avoid the beams, but nicks them several times before running into the center of the machine, which apparently is an insta-death.]
S: I hate... these pink things!
[SS: The game over screen displays.]
A: [laugh]
[Starscream: The device must be inside that machine. Plant a Dark Energon Det-Pack on its power cable to activate it.
SS: The party spawns in the boss room. “New Objective, activate the energon bridge,” displays in the right hand corner for disappearing.]
O: Death! Pink horrible death!
S: [laughs]
[Thundercracker: My scans indicate that--
Starscream: I’ve had enough of your readings! Use Dark Energon and corrupt the machine!
OS: Starscream flies forward, transforming and planting the detpak.]
C: Your ‘readings!’
O: [screechy voice] Your ‘readings’!
[OS: The same cinematic of the device activating from before plays. New Objective, “Destroy the energon bridge guardian,” displays in the bottom right corner of the screen.
Skywarp: Whoa… what’s happening?!
Thundercracker: Precisely what I was afraid of. Cybertron is trying to purge itself of contamination.
Skywarp: What contamination?
Starscream: He means US, you idiot! Quit blabbing and destroy this nuisance!]
S: I got to be Sky- Thundercracker... the scientist. For some reason.
[OS: The party target the guns.]
O: I mean, honestly, I think- I think I love it? Skywarp’s [Thundercracker’s] the one that's like, “Oh my god, I fucking told you so, asshole!”
S: [laughs]
[SS: Thundercracker has destroyed the front portion of the guns directly in front of him, beams are no longer shooting from that part.]
S: Ohh~ That was… helpful.
[CS: The guns drop.]
C: Okay, so I would recommend if you have trouble avoiding the blades-
[CS: Skywarp attempts to fly up to the secondary glass platform, but is also blocked by an invisible wall. The machine activates the laserbeams.]
S: Yeah.
C: Oh, they won't let you. They don't let you fly up!
[CS: The party dodges the laserbeams.]
S: Yes, I'm trying to fly up!
C: That's ridiculous!
O: Just fly in the same direction as one of them. Whether it’s the top or the bottom.
[CS: The game over screen displays.]
S: I know. I had tried that and they kept catching up to me.
O: You've got to speed up.
C: Oh yeah-
S: I’m using the thrusters!
C: You are?
O: Okay, if you stay more near the middle you have to travel less distance.
[CS: The party spawns in the boss room. “New Objective, activate the energon bridge,” displays in the right hand corner for disappearing.]
C: Yeah.
O: Don't go all the way out.
[Thundercracker: My scans indicate that--
Starscream: I’ve had enough of your readings! Use Dark Energon and corrupt the machine!
CS: Skywarp flies up to the glass platform that’s inaccessible during the fight.]
C: But yeah, look! I'm totally up here! You can fly up here before the boss battle starts, but then when it starts it won't let you fly out, that's ridiculous.
[CS: Skywarp flies over to the device in the center of the room and lands on top of it.]
C: Look, I'm on its head!
[CS: New Objective, “Destroy the energon bridge guardian,” displays in the bottom right corner of the screen. The same cinematic of the device activating from before plays.
Skywarp: Whoa… what’s happening?!
S: [laughs]
C: I was!
[Thundercracker: Precisely what I was afraid of. Cybertron is trying to purge itself of contamination.
Skywarp: What contamination?
Starscream: He means US, you idiot!]
S: I saw that.
C: And then it's like, oh no, you're fighting it you can't do the smart thing and you know fly away!
O: Even though we're fucking jets.
C: Right!
[Starscream: Quit blabbing and destroy this nuisance!
SS: The party targets the guns.]
S: [sighs]
[SS: The device drops it’s guns, and begins generating the laserbeams.
Thundercracker: Evade those beams!
Skywarp: Move! Move! Move!
SS: Thundercracker hangs close to the middle, but accidentally touches the center of he device, dying instantly. The game over screen displays.]
S: Okay, I don't know what the hell killed me, but I died.
C: We're gonna have to figure this out.
S: I guess I was too close to it? I touched it, I didn't touch the pink stuff.
[OS: Owls selects, “Continue from Last Checkpoint.”]
O: Yeah, don’t touch it. Don’t touch it.
[Starscream: The device must be inside that machine. Plant a Dark Energon Det-Pack on its power cable to activate it.
OS: The party spawns in the boss room. “New Objective, activate the energon bridge,” displays in the right hand corner for disappearing. Starscream flies forward and transforms, dropping to the platform below, and planting a detpack on it.]
C: So how much health do you have coming into this fight?
S: Full hel- full health.
C: Okay
[Thundercracker: My scans indicate that--
Starscream: I’ve had enough of your readings! Use Dark Energon and corrupt the machine!]
C: When- when we activate- when it activates the blades one of us needs to find Specs and guide her.
S: [laughs]
[OS: New Objective, “Destroy the energon bridge guardian,” displays in the bottom right corner of the screen. The same cinematic of the device activating from before plays.
Skywarp: Whoa… what’s happening?!
O: Or- just maybe follow Chezni, and see if that helps?
S: Uhh… I’ll try.
[Thundercracker: Precisely what I was afraid of. Cybertron is trying to purge itself of contamination.
Skywarp: What contamination?
Starscream: He means US, you idiot! Quit blabbing and destroy this nuisance!
CS: The party targets the guns.]
C: All right, I'll try and keep an eye on you.
[CS: Skywarp looks to his left and sees Thundercracker off in the distance.]
C: All right, there you are.
[CS: The machine drops its guns and Skywarp flies over next to Thundercracker.]
C: All right, Specs, come down here!
S: I'm following you.
C: All right. Now we're just gonna fly in this direction.
[SS: Skywarp takes off as the beams start, Thundercracker stalls and gets hit by one of them before angling himself upwards and hitting one of the upper beams.]
S: Well, shit.
[SS: Thundercracker drops to the lower level and begins flying in the same direction as the pink laserbeam.]
S: Yes I'm flying in the direction of the pink…
[SS: The beams deactivate.]
S: [quietly] Shit, god.
C: That worked!
S: Thank you. Ugh.
[SS: Thundercracker flies over to a glass cage thing with multiple energon cubes visible inside. He destroys the cage and picks up some health.]
S: Oh, there's health.
[Starscream: The machine is vulnerable! Focus your fire on the core!]
O: By all means take it.
C: Yeah, I don't need it.
[OS: Starscream and Skywarp take aim at the device’s power core. Once the health drops a bit, the machine closes back up and raises its guns. The party targets the guns.
Skywarp: Are we even hurting this thing?
Starscream: Not with your pathetic aim! Focus fire on those guns!]
S: Hmmm.
[Skywarp: Ha! He’s not so tough!
S: Ugh.
[OS: The machine drops it’s guns and activates it’s laserbeams. The party flies around to avoid them.
Megatron (COM): Starscream! What is taking so long!]
O: [snorts]
[Starscream: Just a slight delay...]
O: [laughs]
[Megatron (COM): I’m beginning to question your ability to deliver, Starscream. Do not disappoint me!]
S: The booty call.
O: The booty call is being a jerk! [laughs]
C: “Just freshening up, boss!”
[OS: The machine drops the laserbeams and exposes its power core and the party shoots it.]
O: [laughs, before continuing on in a screechy voice] I'm TRYING to not be cut in two right now!
C: Okay, one more round! One more round, right!?
[CS: The machine closes off the core.]
O: I do not have a ton of health left right now.
S: Um.
[Skywarp: What is it doing NOW?
Starscream: Who cares? Just be ready for it!
CS: Lava is visible rising through the glass floor portions of the room. Everything takes on an orangey-red glow.]
O: Oh dear.
[Thundercracker: Evasive maneuvers!]
S: Uh, shit. I don’t know what’s happening.
[SS: The glass floor panels begin to explode.]
C: Lava. Lava is happening.
S: Oh, goody.
[SS: The entire floor is covered with lava, except for a slightly raised ring around the base of the device.]
C: And missiles.
[SS: Fireballs come up out of the lava and target the party.]
S: Whilst I fly randomly, because I don't know what the hell I'm…
O: I mean, look, that's pretty much what we're doing.
C: Yeah, to be honest, I think that's to your benefit.
S: [laughs]
[OS: The machine generates the laserbeams again, but this time, both the upper and lower portions are stacked on top of each other and there’s easy way to move past them.]
S: Ah!
C: You’re kidding me.
S: Crap.
O: No, no-
[OS: Starscream hovers in place and is downed by fireballs.]
O: Oh damn it!
C: Are you down?
O: Uh, I’m down, I'm down.
C: All right, I…
[OS: The laserbeams begin moving and hit Starscream, cutting him in half. The game over screen displays.]
O: And then I got cut in half. Cool beans.
C: [laughs]
S: Okay.
O: I hope there was a checkpoint in the middle!
[SS: The party spawns in at the point of the fight where the lava starts to rise through the floor.]
C: [sarcastically] “I did nothing wrong!”
O: Uh-huh, up until that point I had not!
[SS: Thundercracker points towards the glass cages filled with energon.]
S: So- so- so you see the things that are down at the bottom? Those all have health in them.
[Skywarp: What is it doing NOW?
Starscream: Who cares? Just be ready for it!
Thundercracker: Evasive maneuvers!]
S: Those cages, with cubes.
C: Gotcha.
S: There's cages with cubes!
[SS: The lava begins rising.]
C & S: [laugh]
[CS: Skywarp stops flying and turns towards the cages.]
C: Oh, those things! I see, she's right there totally health in them. That’s a lot of health!
[CS: The glass floor panels begin to explode.]
O: I plan on- yeah.
[OS: The party flies around, trying to avoid the fireballs.]
S: I don't know what I'm supposed to do right now?
C: Just fly away.
S: [laugh]
C: We're waiting for the machine to open up.
C: Essentially we're just dodging the fireball missiles. Cuz, you know, Cybertron decided (logically speaking) the best way to purge viruses from its core-
[SS: The machine generates the double laserbeams, Thundercracker flies right though the center and takes damage but doesn’t immediately die. But then he accidently transforms and falls into the lava.]
S: Goddammit! [laughs]
C: -was to have fireball missiles!
[SS: The Mission Failed screen appears.]
S: I- I’m sorry. [laughs] That was me.
[SS: The party spawns at the battle midpoint.]
O: Hey, at least- at least we have a checkpoint, okay. At least we have a checkpoint.
[CS: Skywarp shoots some of the energon cages and picks up some health.
Skywarp: Now I’m all shiny again!]
C: [laughs] I’m all shiny again.
[Skywarp: What is it doing NOW?
Starscream: Who cares? Just be ready for it!
CS: The lava rises and the glass panels begin to break.
Thundercracker: Evasive maneuvers!
CS/OS/SS: The party flies around the machine, avoiding fireballs.]
C: Evasive maneuvers, otherwise known as flying around in a circle.
S: [laughs]
C: These are top-tier strategies right here.
S: Yeah, just fly randomly and- [laughs]
C: [laughs]
O: Pray.
C: It’s genius!
S: [laughs]
C: Wait, who are we praying to?
O: [attempting to imitate Skywarp] “Hey, boss! I’m a genius!”
[OS: The laserbeams activate.]
C: Uh, isn’t- who is it, Drift? Is Drift a god?
S: No…
O: No, Primus- Rung is, dear.
C: Rung, yeah.
[OS: The laserbeams begin to rotate.
Megatron (COM): Starscream! What is taking so long!
Starscream: Just a slight delay…
OS: Thundercracker is visible in the distance running into one of the laserbeams and getting cut in half.]
S: Oh, shit. Shit, AHHH!
[OS: The game over screen displays.]
S: I got cut in half.
O: [laughs] I saw that.
A: [laugh]
[OS: Owls selects, “Restart From Last Checkpoint,” and the party spawns at the previous checkpoint.]
C: Okay, so Specs, I'm sure you know this but just to go over it strategically.
S: [laughs]
[Skywarp: What is it doing NOW?
Starscream: Who cares? Just be ready for it!
CS: The lava rises and the explosions start happening. The party flies around avoiding fireballs.
Thundercracker: Evasive maneuvers!]
C: You're doing great dodging the fireballs, but eventually when those blades come out they start very slowly. You need to-
S: [still laughing] I knoooow!
C: Okay.
O: “I knoooow!”
C & S: [laughs]
O: What I’m getting from this is that Thundercracker is like, the worst flyer out of these three?
C: [laughs]
S: [laughs] Thundercracker is a scientist!
O: [laughs] So is Starscream, supposedly! Apparently, his flight is affected by how much he wants a booty call.
O & S: [laugh]
C: I mean-
S: Granted, you know, probably part of my issue is that my mouse is, you know, a rollerball one.
[SS: The laserbeams come up just as Thundercracker is flying, and he manages to fly through the middle, only taking minor damage. He stops once on the other side of the beam.]
C: Oh right, she's playing with that crazy rollerball- rollerball mouse. That would be pretty hard.
[SS: The dual laserbeams begin moving.
Megatron (COM): Starscream! What is taking so long!
Starscream: Just a slight delay...]
C: All right, now they're gonna start moving you need to slowly-
S: Yes! I am- I am zooming! [laughs]
O: I think you mean, “NYRMING”.
[Megatron (COM): I’m beginning to question your ability to deliver, Starscream. Do not disappoint me!
O: Oh shit!
[OS: The laserbeams stop, and Starscream goes through the middle of them.]
S: Oh shit! I can’t turn around!
[OS: The laserbeams begin moving in the opposite direction from before. Starscream turns around but off in the distance Thundercracker goes through them.]
S: Oh, it didn’t kill me. Shit!
[CS: Skywarp is attempting to get health from one of the energon cages but one of the laserbeams hits him and kills him.]
C: Are you kidding me?
[CS: The game over screen displays.]
O: ARGH! Which of us died!?
C: That was me.
O: Oh my god it was you!
C: Yup.
O: I blame you!
[CS: The party restarts at the checkpoint.]
O: I went through the middle of them and didn't die, earlier!
C: Yup.
O: I was so proud of myself and this is what I have to deal with!
C: [sighs] I am so sorry.
[Skywarp: What is it doing NOW?
Starscream: Who cares? Just be ready for it!]
S: And be aware that there is, in fact, Energon, or heal.
[OS: The lava begins to rise and blow up the glass panels below. The party flies around avoiding fireballs.
Thundercracker: Evasive maneuvers!]
C: Yeah, no, that’s actually what got me killed.
O: That doesn’t help when you just get cut in half.
C: Um, I went in for the Energon and then, uh...
S: Then you died.
C: Yep.
S: [laughs] That happened to me. That was like, not the most recent death but…
O: I did not need to get hit by the fireballs, thank you!
S: Good-bye, fireballs! [laughs]
C: [laughs]
S: [laughs] Sorry, for some reason I always find it really amusing when- when I die.
[SS: The laserbeams come up and Thundercracker isn’t able to stop in time and goes through them and then turns around and goes through them again, dropping his health below one bar.]
S: Ahhh! Shhhit.
[SS: The laserbeams start moving as Thundercracker shoots one of the cages and grabs some energon.
Megatron (COM): Starscream! What is taking so long!]
C: Okay, so they're gonna go clockwise and then when they turn off they go counterclockwise.
[SS: One of the laserbeams hits Thundercracker, but then stop. Thundercracker turns around and starts heading the other direction.
Starscream: Just a slight delay...]
Megatron (COM): I’m beginning to question your ability to deliver, Starscream. Do not disappoint me!]
S: Oh, okay, that happened.
C: Now turn around and go the other way.
[CS: The laserbeams begin moving in the opposite direction.]
C: And I don't know what they're gonna do after this you're on your own.
S: I’m gonna follow- ah!
[CS: Thundercracker runs into Skywarp. The two turn around and begin to head the other direction.]
C: This isn’t bumper jets!
[OS: The beams split up again, with the top and bottom moving in different directions. The two halves line up when they stop, Starscream tries to bank but accidentally transforms instead, falling into the lava.]
O: Oh shit- ARGHHH!
[OS: The game over screen displays.]
O: Dammit.
C: WELL-
O: Wait-
[OS: Owls selects Load from last checkpoint.]
C: Look who died!
O: Shut up.
S: [laughs]
O: Just shut up.
[OS: The party restarts at the checkpoint.]
C: Ahh, this is fun, isn’t this fun?
O: Shut up.
C: It is fun, I’m gla- I’m glad to be a part of this!
O: Shut up! [laughs]
[OS: New Objective, “Destroy the energon bridge guardian,” displays in the bottom right corner of the screen.
Skywarp: What is it doing NOW?
Starscream: Who cares? Just be ready for it!]
S: I’m-
C: [laughs]
S: Pre-destroying shit now.
[Thundercracker: Evasive maneuvers!
SS: The lava rises and begins to destroy the glass panels. The party flies around, avoiding fireballs.]
C: You gotta admit though, if these three guys were just normal scientists who decided to wake up one day and do all this, that's pretty badass.
S: Decide to just be evil.
O: Oh no!
[OS: Starscream is flying around near the lava with very little health. He shoots an energon cage and picks up some health.]
C: No, well, that and fly down here and do all this crazy stuff.
S: Yeah.
[OS: The dual laserbeams appear.]
S: Oh! Shhhit.
C: Oh crap!
C: I flew right into those blades.
S: Uh, shit.
[Megatron (COM): Starscream! What is taking so long!
S: Okie dokie.
[OS: The beams begin moving.
Starscream: Just a slight delay...]
O: [snorts]
Megatron (COM): I’m beginning to question your ability to deliver, Starscream. Do not disappoint me!
OS: The blades reverse direction.]
O: [snorts] I'm sorry, I don't know why I find that funny, but I do. [laughs]
S: Egh!
[SS: The top and bottom blades begin moving in opposite directions.]
S: It's like, I must now move!
[SS: Thundercracker boosts forward as the blades stop, narrowly missing them.]
S: But not too fast! Shit!
[SS: The blades disappear and the machine exposes it’s core.]
C: We did it! We did it! Shoot that core!
[Starscream: The machine is vulnerable! Focus your fire on the core!
OS: The core is destroyed.]
O: Oh thank freakin’ god!
S: Phew. Fuck!
[OS: The machine folds in on itself and a black claw like mechanical things come out of the middle, seemingly infecting the lava with dark energon. One of the arms goes up through the ceiling creating a hole.
Skywarp: Wait! Something’s happening!
Starscream: YES! It’s crumbling before the MIGHT of STARSCREAM!]
O: Is that what we're calling this?
[Starscream: To the surface, Decepticons!
OS: New Objective, “Escape to the surface,” displays in the bottom right corner of the screen.]
S: Uh, I guess we're supposed to go up there?
[OS: Starscream enters the tunnel from the created hole. Dark energon appears to be causing black spikey structures to grow up through the tunnel as the party flies upwards.]
S: Uh, okay.
[Skywarp: The machine is out of control!
Thundercracker: It must be a side effect of the Dark Energon!]
C: Great shot kid, that was one in a million.
O: [snorts]
C: [laughs]
C: I can’t remember any of the other lines.
[OS: The party continues to fly upwards.]
S: Sorry, I only- I only sorta know where I’m-
O: Where you’re going?
C: Just fly up. It's the Death Star, we're getting out of this thing.
[OS: An in-game cinematic plays, as the 3 Seekers exit to the surface of Cybertron, the black growths continue to grow into a platform below. A large machine on 4 spider like legs begins to move.
Skywarp: We’ve done it! The Energon Bridge is activating!]
S: It’s elephant toothpaste.
C: What!?
S: [laughs]
[Note: If you are as confused as we were this is elephant toothpaste. ~O]
[OS: The Seekers transform, landing on a nearby platform.
Thundercracker: Incredible. The Energon Bridge is active once more.]
C: That's a bridge!? That looks like a giant spider!
S: Kind of.
[Starscream: Quiet! You’re ruining my moment of Glory! Soon, my Orbital Station will be at full power!]
O: [screechy voice] Shut up twos! A ten is talking! [laughs]
C: [laughs]
[Megatron: YOUR orbital station, Starscream? Surely you mean MINE.
O: [snorts]
[Megatron: I see you have finally succeeded in the simple task I gave you. Perhaps you’re not as worthless as I thought. Report back to base--at once!
OS: The spider device activates, bringing energon up from below and sending it upwards towards the orbital station. The three Seekers take to the air flying back to base.]
O: [volume has been reduced] Oww!
[A cinematic plays - the beam of energon bounces around between what appears to be multiple satellites before reaching the orbital station from the first chapter. Soundwave gestures to the now online machinery.
Soundwave: All systems online. Dark Energon manufacturing at optimal efficiency.]
S: Okay, so is that the end of that map?
O: I think so, but…
[Megatron walks up beside Soundwave.
Megatron: Now I can introduce Dark Energon into the planet’s core...and as it spreads throughout Cybertron, my power shall travel with it!
Soundwave: Entrance to the planet core is heavily shielded behind the Omega Gate.
Megatron: I will acquire the key. We launch a full scale assault of Iacon IMMEDIATELY. And wipe Zeta Prime and his pathetic Autobots off the face of the planet.
Megatron takes a holographic Cybertron in his hands and then crushes it.
The chapter ends, bringing everyone back to the main menu.]
C: I don't want to be a jet anymore!
O: Well, you don't have to be that's the only chapter with jets in it.
[Note: Except the Autobot chapter later, whoops. ~O]
C: Okay, good, I like my feet on the ground.
O: Um, I-I think probably after this you'll be Soundwave.
C: Wait, I'll be Soundwave and not you?
O: Uh, no, because uh, Soundwave’s the healer. Do you want me healing? The answer is no. I want my fusion cannon. [laughs]
C: Oh, right, right, right.
O: [laughs] I want my fusion cannon, hello! Which is funny, because I actually prefer Soundwave in this game. Like, character wise, to Megatron.
C: I make a good healer. [indignantly] I'm a- I'm a good healer!
O: [snorts] I didn't say you weren't, I said I was a bad one! [laughs] So, to summarize thus far: We've had a crack addict take over a space station to get to space crack. We have had the crack addict’s new booty er, you know, boyfriend uh, arm candy? I don’t know. Uh, going into the planet’s core for a booty call in order to get that space crack running through the entire planet. Does that sum it up? [laughs]
[Note: The Seekers were underground but not truly in Cybetron’s core. ~O]
C: I believe it does.
S: Scientist wants to impress his new booty call, so off he went with his two most dearly detested buddies. Or something.
O: Apparently? Co-workers, that were apparently down for this? I don't know.
A: [laugh]
C: They’re his literal- eh, hold on- wa- wa- wait, no. They’re his wing-men? Aha!
O: ARGH! I’m gonna go in the bedroom and throw something at you!
C: [laughs]
O: Okay, well, um, I think that rather nicely summarizes it. Uh, next time we’ll do chapter 3: Iacon Destroyed. Till next time, I'm Owls.
S: I'm Specs.
C: I'm Chezni.
O: And thanks for watching, bye!
S: Bye!
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Their Hero Academia – Chapter 33: The Sports Festival Part 6: Round Two—FIGHT!
Presenting the next raw and unedited chapter of my on-going, next-gen, My Hero Academia fic, Their Hero Academia!
Earlier chapters can be found here
Toshi’s first fight was still a few matches away and for the moment, all of Class 1-A except for Haimawari (whose fight was up after the next one) were seated in the stands. The fights so far had been amazing and intense and even though he wasn’t quite as fascinated by Quirks as his dad… he’d made sure to take plenty of notes so they could talk about all of it later. He wasn’t so drawn into his own little world though, that he didn’t notice that Katsumi and Izumi weren’t sitting together. Which was very unusual. They’d been getting along fine as recently as before lunch.
Unfortunately, he suspected he knew the answer. The two of them were going to be matched up against each other in the Tournament. And while Izumi probably had no problems fighting Katsumi, he wasn’t so sure it worked in the other direction. He thought Katsumi had worked everything out after her talk with Izumi, but… maybe not. And while he may not have had the strongest sense of self-preservation in the universe, even he knew better than to poke that hornet’s nest.
On the other hand, there was a lot to think about from the fights so far. Koharu Kocho, the moth-girl from the General Studies Course, had definitely done a number of Monoma. Her Quirk had a lot of utility, which made him wonder how she’d missed out on making it into the Hero Course. The classes were normally sixteen strong, but it wasn’t a hard and fast rule. If there were more qualified applicants, then they just expanded the classes. So what had gone wrong there? He could ask her that later, if he had the opportunity. He’d watched the Sports Festival for years with his dad and between the two of them, they’d gotten pretty good at figuring out which General Studies kids were going to make it into the Hero Course. He had a good feeling about her.
Of course, that meant there was a chance he’d be fighting her later. He’d have to remember to hold his breath as much as he could. His gravity-jumps could probably keep up against her flying, but that sticky stuff of hers was going to be a problem too…
Ojiro’s fight againt Fukidashi had been hard to follow and it really made him want to know more about how exactly Fukidashi’s Quirk worked or what exactly it even was. She’d demonstrated transformation, weapons generation, even some kind of solid air blast. Add in the fact that she seemed to be some kind of living cartoon and he didn’t know where to start. But Ojiro had managed to overcome all of that, which was impressive too. She was a good martial artist and the invisibility thing made for perfect stealth. If he fought her, he’d have to be careful.
And then there was Mineta’s fight against Kan. He was pretty sure he wouldn’t fall for any of her tricks like that… but really, when it came to Mineta, no one could say what she would do. The important thing was not to underestimate her. She acted the fool, but she was definitely smarter than she let on.
Down on the field, the next fight was starting.
“And now for our next round!” Present Mic announced. “From Class 1-C comes the wheeled-wonder, Yui Aoki! From Class 1-B, the top traffic cop, Kimiko Dashi! Keep your eyes peeled, everyone, because I think this one’s going to be quick!”
Aoki was a red-haired girl and looked normal from the waist up. Below, though, her legs merged together around a large wheel. She’d been one of the front-runners during the obstacle course, nearly as fast as Haimawari. Dashi had striped hair of red, yellow, and blue, and wore what looked like a traffic signal over her right arm. If he remembered right, she could project similarly colored beams from it and speed things up or slow them down.
Yeah, Present Mic was right. This was definitely going to go quickly.
After Hawkeye gave them the signal to begin the fight, Aoki revved back and then shot forward. But just as quickly, Dashi fired a beam of red light from her hand. The beam struck Aoki and immediately froze her in place.
“Do you think there is a time limit?” Sora, who was sitting to his left, asked. “The energy requirements to complete halt kinetic energy would have to be significant.”
“Probably,” Toshi agreed. “I saw her doing it a few times during the Obstacle Course and Quirkball too. It didn’t seem to last too long any time. Just enough to be useful.”
“Wow!” Shota, who was to his right, said. “Look at them! She just stopped her flat! Can you imagine the Villains she could catch?!”
“Great Quirk,” he said, leaning slightly forward to keep watching.
Dashi quickly stepped out of the way, then hit Aoki with a blue-colored beam of energy. This time, it appeared to super-charge Aoki’s speed, propelling her far faster than she’d be on her own and sending her right out of the ring.
“Aoki is out of bounds!” Hawkeye announced. “Dashi wins!”
“I told you that was going to be a fast one, folks!” Present Mic announced. “But another one bites the dust and we continue on!”
“All right!” Shota shouted. “Haimawari’s up next!”
“Just remember not to cheer too loud,” Toshi said. “We don’t want you bringing down the stands or anything.”
“Aw,” Shota said, looking down, “that only happened one time!”
***
“Next up is Isamu Haimawari of Class 1-A! You saw him come in first during the Obstacle Course, but now he’s up against Sasuke Kido of Class 1-B! Unstoppable force meets immoveable object! A clash of opposites, right before our eyes! ARRRE YOU READY, Eraser?!”
“Yes. Yes, I am.”
“Could you sound less enthusiastic?”
“I’m willing to try.”
Isamu stepped into the ring and gulped hard. Kido was shorter than him but a few inches, but more muscular. He had red hair and was shimmering slightly in the sunlight, an orangish-glow surrounding him. His force field. That was going to be hard to get past. But he’d knocked bigger over. He just needed to get enough speed up first. The ring wasn’t big, but if he could keep moving…
“Both of you ready?” Hawkeye asked. When they both nodded, she stepped back and yelled, “FIGHT!”
Kido took a step forward, but didn’t seem inclined to make the first move. He didn’t have to, not really. His Quirk required a lot less mobility than Isamu’s did. So it was up to him. Of course. Isamu took a deep breath, dropped to all fours, and launched himself towards Kido.
Kido’s reaction time was good though, forming his force field into a staff and swinging it in a wide arc as Isamu got closer. Fortunately, his own reaction time was just as good and he fired a blast of reverse thrust, propelling himself just out of range of the swing.
Then, he gave himself another forward push, ready to shoulder check Kido. Kido, though, switched back to a force field and he bounced off, thrown back a few feet. “You’re going to have to do better than that,” Kido said, following up with an attack, his force field formed into a mace. He swung again and Isamu pushed to the side, dodging subsequent blows by moving to the left or right with his Quirk. He could “push” himself in any direction, reacting with incredible speed. Kido was strong and those force field constructs looked like they would hurt if they connected, but right now, Kido couldn’t connect.
Granted, it didn’t give him a lot of space to attack either. And if he shifted to guarding rather than attacking again…
Isamu saw an opening and applied a careful stream of force, just from his left hand. With his other limbs in neutral, it set him spinning and he brought his legs around, slamming his legs into Kido’s. The blow took the force-field wielder by surprise and knocked him down, but left them both tangled. Before Isamu could get away, Kido moved, getting up and grabbing at his uniform as he did.
“Got you now,” Kido said, drawing back a fist, his whole body glowing with his force field.
“Oh, no you don’t!” Isamu yelled. He took a desperate gamble and planted his feet and his left hand on Kido’s force field. With a grunt, he ignited his Quirk and pushed off. His Quirk treated the force field like a contiguous solid object and he went up and over… and since Kido was holding onto him, he got dragged along, flipped and slammed hard on his back on the ground. Unfortunately, he still had his force field up, so while Kido was rattled, he wasn’t knocked out. He was back on his feet in a flash.
Isamu propelled himself backwards out of fist range, circling around. They were both tiring, but neither was giving up. Between his speed and Kido’s guard, all it would take would be someone getting lucky once, taking an opening the other didn’t see. They were still close enough to the middle of the ring for his next idea to work though. Kido’s force field was protective, but the fact that he’d been able to flip him and trip him up suggested it was purely that, lacking any anchoring capabilities…
He applied more speed, carefully modulating his output with quick bursts of power from different hands and feet. Faster and faster he went, circling Kido again and again until he was nothing but a blur. Only his goggles allowed him to see well enough here, even with the reflexes and enhanced perceptions that came with a speed Quirk, he needed that little boost against the wind he was kicking up. Kido was struggling to try and follow him, occasionally striking out with a punch, but always where he had been, not where he was.
Finally, when he’d disoriented his opponent enough, Isamu rushed forward. Kido didn’t even bother to get out of the way, putting up his force field as a strong guard. As he got closer to Kido, Isamu threw out his other arm and slapped a palm against Kido’s force field. And then he extended his repulsive field out all his limps at once. The pulse pushed him backwards, hard… but it was also a powerful enough kick to send Kido sailing back to, lacking any anchoring to go with his force field.
Maybe too powerful a kick! Isamu very nearly went out of the ring, but he was able to apply his Quirk’s adhesive powers, clinging to the concrete of the ring just before he went out. Kido wasn’t so lucky. Isamu’s push had been strong enough knock him just outside the ring. Not much. But enough.
“And Kido is out of bounds!’ Hawkeye announced. “Haimawari wins!”
“GO HAIMAWARI!” Shinso’s voice, probably empowered by his Quirk, somehow cut through the roar of the crowd. It cut itself off pretty quickly, so Midoriya or Tokoyami probably reigned him in.
So he’d come in “first” in the Obstacle Course, survived Quirkball, and won his first match in the Tournament Round. He was definitely still in a “set on fire” induced coma and still back in the medical wing.
“YOW! That was one fast-paced fighting frenzy! Talk about your high-speed action!”
“Sound strategy on Haimawari’s part. And do try to control yourself, Shinso.”
***
“Next up is a rivalry for the ages! Izumi Todoroki and Katsumi Kirishima-Bakugo! If their father’s rivalry is anything to go by, this should be one heck of a match! Two classmates, locked in battle! Fire and ice against explosions! It’s gonna get hot down there!”
“I’m hoping these two have more sense myself.”
“Aw, where’s the fun in that?”
Katsumi stepped into the ring and watched Izzy do the same on the other end. Hawkeye was about to give them the signal to fight when she raised a hand. “Nope, nope, nope,” she said. “Not gonna fight Izzy. I’ll just go ahead and withdraw and save everybody the trouble.”
Katsumi would have sworn that the air suddenly got several degrees colder. Then again, with Izzy, it probably had. She looked over at her friend and actually took a step back. She had never seen Izzy look that angry before. Hell, she wasn’t entirely sure she’d ever seen Izzy look angry before. Not at anyone and especially not at her. But right now, if looks could kill, she’d be dead. She was honestly a little impressed. Katsumi had thought she’d corned the market on angry glares.
“Fight me!” Izzy demanded, fists tightly clenched.
“Izz, I can’t…” Katsumi began, her heart pounding in her chest.
“Fight me!” Izzy insisted again. “Would you fight Toshi?”
“Of course, I would!” Katsumi shot back. “I’ve been scrapping with him all my life!”
“And what about Kana? Would you fight her?”
Katsumi frowned, not liking where this was headed at all. “Damn right, I would.”
“Then why will you not fight me?” Izzy growled. The temperature dropped another few degrees.
“Ladies…” Hawkeye began. “Are we going to be fighting today?”
Izzy pointed at her and it felt like a knife in her heart. “I am not some fragile china doll in need of constant protection! I will not shatter in the wind if you fight me! If you are truly my friend, if you truly respect me… then fight me, dammit!”
In spite of it all, Katsumi found herself laughing, nearly bending over double as the laughter broke the tension like a rubber band snapping. “Damn, Izz. Where’d you learn to talk like that?”
“I learned it by watching you.”
That got another laugh from Katsumi. But Izzy was right. Maybe her head wasn’t still screwed on right when it came to her. You didn’t fall out of love with a person that fast or that easy. But she’d always thought of Izzy as someone who needed her, someone who needed protection. Soft and fragile Izzy, who’d she’d always looked out for and who she would try and move mountains for.
Izzy, who she’d never actually asked if she needed or wanted the protection. Izzy, who always excelled in her training, even when Katsumi wasn’t there to watch over her. Izzy, who pushed beyond her limits, even when her limits might be more than that of others.
Izzy, who she claimed to love and respect more than almost anyone else in the world… and whose wants she hadn’t even thought of. Would she have been happy being handed a victory like this? Never. Then she owed her friend the same respect.
“Fine then,” Katsumi said. She dropped into a fighting stance and brought one hand up, palm up, bringing her fingers in. “You wanna fight? I’ll fight you, Izz.”
“Wonderful,” Hawkeye said. “Now that that’s settled… FIGHT!”
Katsumi was expecting ice. She was prepared for ice. It was Izzy’s go-to move; she preferred to rely on her ice to contain or restrain when possible, only using her fire when necessary. She got the heat for her fire by creating ice anyway, but now, Katsumi noticed the bands of Izzy’s regulator rig were blinking bright orange. She must have made some ice beforehand, storing up heat for the fight.
That gave her a split-second’s advantage when Izzy unleashed a powerful blast of flame. She slid under it, grabbing a small chunk of rubble with her left hand and using her Quirk on it. As she came up, she gave it a toss to that it landed at Izzy’s feet, where it exploded with more bang than bomb, just enough to get Izzy to shriek and get moving.
But Izzy stayed on the offensive, pointing, and Katsumi felt the temperature around her feet drop a half-second before the ice started to form. She let out a growl and jumped, landing next to Izzy and coming out swinging.
It put Izzy on the defensive, letting out a small gasp, but she put up a wall of ice between them and Katsumi let out a cry of pain at her knuckles impacted the cold wall. But she also passed her Quirk on to it, giving it another strike that let it explode, sending chunks of ice flying. One of those struck Izzy as she was darting away, hitting her in the back and sending her down to her knees.
No! Part of her brain rebelled. It wanted her to rush to Izzy’s side, to make sure she was okay. Another part of her brain argued against it, telling her not to embarrass Izzy in front of everyone like that, that this fight was what she wanted.
Izzy settled the problem for her, scrambling back to her feet. Katsumi felt the sudden temperature change that more ice was incoming, but the form of it, combined with her distraction, took her by surprise. A pillar of ice formed under her feet, rapidly rocketing her upward. Then, Izzy followed up with a blast of flame, slicing right through the pillar and sending Katsumi tumbling down to Earth.
She really needed to figure out better uses of her Quirk, she realized, maybe even some kind of support equipment. Dad could use his to fly, attack at a greater distance, all kinds of things. She had to touch something to make it blow up and her range was only as far as she could throw it. And that was it.
Not nearly the kind of utility she needed against Izzy going all out.
She had never really realized just how powerful Izzy was before. And to think, I was protecting her…
She rolled when she hit the ground, trying to distribute some of the kinetic energy involved. It still hurt like hell, but she was still fighting. She hit the ground with a palm again, forcing her Quirk out and into it. Seconds later, a column of explosions shot towards Izzy, knocking her off her feet.
Katsumi got unsteadily to hers, grabbing a chunk of ice and readying herself to use her Quirk on it as she approached Izzy. “Izz…” she started. Was she breathing? Was she out cold? What if she’d really hurt her? What if she’d killed her?
Dammit, she was hesitating again. Izzy got to her feet just as unsteadily as Katsumi had. They’d been knocking each other around pretty hard. She was definitely going to be sore tomorrow, that was for sure.
“No regrets?” she asked Izzy.
“No… none,” Izzy said. She’d lost her ponytail at some point, her head framed by a halo of white hair that went red further down and she sported a nasty looking bruise on her pale cheek. She had done that. She’d done that. She’d done that to Izzy. She probably looked quite the sight herself, though that bothered her considerably less.
“Good,” Katsumi said, with a confidence she did not entirely feel. She tossed the ice block with all her might.
Izzy was just as quick on the draw, shooting a rapidly expanding stream of ice from her hand. The icicle struck out, hitting Katsumi in the head and knocking her down again, while she saw the bombified chunk of ice she’d thrown at Izzy explode, knocking her down again as well.
Katsumi tried to get up. Oh, how she tried. But right now, the ring was spinning and her legs didn’t seem to want to support her. She tried to turn her head and focus. Was Izzy okay…?
It looked like Izzy was on one knee, trying to get back up. Well, that was a little better than Katsumi was doing…
Maybe she just needed to lie down for a little while? Katsumi tried to get back up again and slumped down. Yeah, staying here sounded really good…
“Kirishima-Bakugo is unable to continue!” Hawkeye announced. “Todoroki wins!”
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Izzy unleashing another blast of flame skyward, all the bands on her regulartor rig bright red. And then she saw Izzy collapse too…! She tried to get up again, but had no power in her limbs…
“Well, those two certainly pushed themselves to their limits and beyond! We’ll take a brief break to get them off the field and then be back for more action!”
“Irresponsible and overly dramatic… I don’t know why I was expecting anything different.”
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In Chrysalis (Part 9)
Their invasion is more or less full scale. There is no subtlety. No sneaking around. Acxa had said that an attack of this sort is best done directly. Keith agreed that she had another good point; they wouldn’t be able to maintain the manpower they needed for the mission and sneak around at the same time. It was either creep about with wit and intellect or numbers and brute strength. The last time they had gone for stealth, it had almost ended poorly. The last few times, in fact. So, this time, they will utilize a new strategy. This time they will take the Galra approach to fighting.
Keith’s heart pounds as they near the compound. If things went well, if they managed to breech the laboratory, a few of them would sneak off to a stealthier mission. Preferably Acxa and Pidge would be the ones for that. They are the smallest, and this side mission is mostly for the sake of Acxa anyways.
“Do you really think we can take her down already?” Hunk asks. “I don’t think that I’m ready for this.”
“You are ready, Hunk. We’ve fought Haggar before, we beat Zarkon, we beat Lotor, and we survived a weblum. We can infiltrate a lab and beat Haggar again.” Keith replies, he has to keep Hunk’s morale and sense of courage up. They can’t afford a lapse in either of those things today. “We’re a team Hunk, and if we can remember that, we’ll be fine.”
The laboratory looms ever closer.
They will be there within the hour.
.oOo.
Acxa knows that a lot is at stake. Her shot at being half-Galra again—or at least the ability to choose. Ezor and Zethrid’s freedom—their lives, perhaps. The lives of the other prisoners, both Galra and human alike.
She is not used to having so many people depending on her actions. It is daunting. Intimidating to the point were a teeny fragment of her mind wishes that she was on the other side of the war again. The side where she was only one solider and her actions had less consequence. She wishes that she didn’t have the moral code that she did. But at the same time, she can’t fathom herself without it. She isn’t the most secure in body, but she is confident in her soul.
She readies her weapons. If nothing else, she will save Ezor and Zethrid. And if her life is what she must give to do so, then she will fall trying. A noble, wholly Galra death.
“Wow, you look pissed.” Lance comments.
“Hmmm…” Veronica trails off, “I’d say it’s more like grim. She looks grim.”
“What’s wrong?” Lance asks.
“I’m thinking about my death.”
“Oh…wow.” Nadia comments. “You have a way with words.”
Acxa’s face flushes. She still forgets that humans are not quite as blunt as her people. “I mean, I am thinking of who I am willing to die for if I have to.”
Veronica squeezes her hand. “You’re not going to die. We won’t let that happen.”
But they don’t realize that she will die for them if she has to. She hasn’t known them terribly long, but they have shown her more compassion and acceptance in that small window than anyone has afforded her in her lifetime. She will not let them die for her.
.oOo.
When they touch down, Keith is overpowered by a nauseating smell. It is the scent of death and corrosion with an unbearable acidic tang. He wonders how Haggar can tolerate it. He wonders how Acxa had dealt with it. He spares her a look, and he can see it on her that she is uncomfortable. He hates dragging her so close to terrible memories, but he knows that she’d have fought him if he hadn’t.
He hugs her close before the latch opens.
Shiro faces the laboratory with hard eyes. As soon as the loading dock hits the ground with its rebounding metallic bang he calls for them to attack. They surge forward with a fury and a purpose.
Keith looks to Acxa. “Stay close to Pidge and I, if you can. Once we make it into the lab we’ll go for Haggar’s research notes.”
“We’ll go for the prisoners.” Acxa argues. “The notes are secondary.”
“If things go as planned, there will be enough fuss for the prisoners to free themselves and fight with us.”
“What about the ones who are in the middle of being experimented on?” Pidge questions.
“That’s where Lance, Allura and Veronica come in.” Keith reminds her.
“Right.”
“And if they need back up, “Hunk, Shiro, and Coran will step in.” Keith adds. “Everyone else will be fighting Haggar’s army.”
“Coran’s in this battle.” Acxa looks completely befuddled.
“Every man we got is on the field today.” Keith replies.
“He’s more competent than he makes himself out to be, he’ll be okay.” Pidge notes. “Look out!”
Just on time, Keith ducks under a Galra blade. He draws his own weapon and brings it down on his opponent. A swift and sturdy kick to the man’s kneecaps had him toppling. Keith dashes forward, he can’t waste all of his time. “Pidge, Acxa, don’t spend too much time on one person. Stun and run.”
Hunk chuckles next to him. “Stun ‘n run. I like it.”
Keith rolls his eyes, at least they’ll remember it. He notices though, that Acxa is already a few leagues ahead of them. She weaves her way in and out of the soldiers. What she now lacks in physical strength, she makes up for in speed.
“Damn.” He hisses, she might just be getting too far ahead. “Okay Pidge, forget stun. Just run.” He tries to mimic the way Acxa moves. Pidge imitates her nearly flawlessly. He is having trouble, he’s not short enough to go unnoticed nor to doge blades and shots like they do. He speaks into his communication device. “Once you make it inside, find a spot to wait for me, I’ll be there as soon as I can.” He huffs as he ducks under a deadly looking beam.
.oOo.
Acxa throws herself behind a pillar. She hadn’t exactly meant to get so far ahead of the group. She hadn’t expected to have the capability still. She readies her gun as a figure appears. It raises its hands, “don’t shoot.”
Acxa lowers the gun. “How far back is Keith?”
“Pretty far.” Pidge frowns.
“We’ll break into the laboratory.” Acxa says. “It will be easier for him to find us in there.”
She peeks her head around the pillar and motions for Pidge to follow. All of the enemy forces had surged forward, leaving an unguarded gap between themselves and the door.
“Wow, that’s convenient.”
“For now. It’ll be heavily guarded when we get inside.”
“We could plant a bomb, that’ll get the doors open and maybe take down some of the guards.” Pidge suggested.
“That will work. It should anyways.”
Pidge pulls a few mines from her arsenal and syncs them up with her detonator. “Think you can plant them?”
Acxa nods.
.oOo.
He is panting and sore but he has almost caught up. He can see them lingering at the door to the laboratory and wonders why they haven’t just went in. He rams his elbow into the stomach of a Galra and watches him drop. He is so close to being in the clear. He is caught in a tangle of limbs, mostly Galra and struggles to fight his way out of it.
By the time he wiggles his way out of their grasp he is even shorter of breath and frighteningly low on stamina. He catches sight of Allura in a midair twirl, she lands elegantly behind her foe and lands a hard kick on the Galra woman’s head.
An explosion rocks the battlefield.
The door to the laboratory has been blasted open and the dots connect.
He pushes himself onward and throws himself into the tumult within the lab. It is smoky and flames still lick the entry room. It is hard to find Acxa and Pidge amid the chaos. “Where are you guys?” He askes into his communication device.
Their connection is staticy but he can hear Acxa mutter some directions. He requests repetition. Instead, she pings him her location and he hurries towards the dot pulsing on his hologram map. She and Pidge are huddled under a desk, he knows that the sneaky part of their battle has begun. He watches Acxa run her eyes over her own map. She purses her lips in concentration and finally speaks. “Third floor, to the right. That’s where the prisoners human prisoners are being held. The Galra prisoners are to the left. While group B frees those, have group C check floor four, that’s where the UV rooms are.”
“Alright so Allura’s group to floor three and Hunk’s to group to floor four.” He bit his lip, so far things weren’t going according to plan. He was a fool to not consider that one group—in this case, his—would make it to the lab before everyone else. As quietly as possible he relays the new plan. “Groups B and C, this is Keith from Group A…”
“We know who you are.” Lance cuts him off.
He scowls to himself but he doesn’t have time for petty arguments. “This is group A, reporting that we’ve breeched the lab so there will be a slight change in plans. Group A will proceed with finding the research notes. The first group to make it in, B or C will be in charge of freeing the prisoners who aren’t in the UV rooms on floor…”
“Three.” Acxa repeats herself.
“On floor three. The remaining group will free those who are being experimented on. According to Acxa there are multiple UV rooms in this lab.”
“If you lose your sense of direction just follow the tubes of quintessence, they go into the UV rooms.” Acxa adds.
“Confirm?”
“We got it Keith.” Hunk says.
“We understand too.” Veronica states.
“The rest of us hold our ground on the battlefield?” Kinkade asks.
“Correct.” Keith replies. “You and everyone else will stick to the original plan.”
.oOo.
She doesn’t vocalize it, but she wants to abandon her post and make her way to floor three. She wants nothing more than to find Ezor and Zethrid.
“What floor will the notes be on.”
Acxa frowns. “They will probably be with Haggar herself. Either her sleeping quarters or an office of sorts.” She peers at the map. “The top floor.”
“Great.” Pidge grumbles. “Of course they’re on the top floor.”
“That won’t be a problem if we can swipe some uniforms, preferably the ones with helmets.”
“Way a head of you.” Keith smirks, dumping a pile of clothes in front of them. “Pidge is the smallest so she’ll take that one.” He hands it to the girl. “This one is probably going to be a bit big on you.”
“It doesn’t matter as long as I won’t be tripping over it.” Frankly she just wants to get things moving. She slips into the enemy uniform and pulls the helmet over her head. It doesn’t fit too poorly, but it isn’t exactly ideal after having been spoiled with custom fit uniforms.
They try to exude an air of confidence as if they are supposed to be there as they climb a few flights of stairs.
“Ya know, elevators were invented for a reason.” Keith remarks to no one in particular.
“The last thing we need is to get stuck in an elevator, Keith. This is the most fool proof way.” Pidge counters.
“I guess.”
They make it to floor four and Acxa fights the feeling of dread that washes over her as the soft buzzing meets her ears. She tries to block it out and ascends the staircase that much faster. At last they reach the seventh and final floor. That is when the commotion begins a few floors down. The sound of an alarm lets her know that either group B or group C had successfully opened the holding cells. She curses softly to herself, “we have to hide.”
“But we’re in uniform.” Keith frowns.
“Something tells me that only Haggar and maybe a few specific soldiers are allowed on this floor.” Pidge agrees.
Acxa watches as Pidge punches a few numbers into her stolen uniform’s digital operating system. “Help me out with this.” She whispers to Acxa. “What do these symbols mean.”
“They are command prompts.” Acxa replies.
“Do any of them control the power.”
Acxa points at one and Pidge hits it. She hits the red symbol and the power cuts. They conceal themselves in the shadowed areas behind a row of file cabinets. Now it is a matter of waiting out the sound of footsteps.
“You fools.” The voice sends chills down Acxa’s spine. “There are more of you than there are them. So how is it that they’ve managed to free the prisoners and kill our power supply?”
Acxa’s heart thunders but she knows what she has to do. “Cover me.” She whispers and before Keith can protest, she leaps from her hiding spot and lands a kick on one of Haggar’s six guards. He topples as a cussing Keith charges for another. Pidge takes down another.
Acxa has the witch by the throat.
This time she gives a raspy chuckle. “Do you really think I’m going to let you do that again.” In a twinkling flash of quintessence, the woman is no longer in her grasp. She feels a burst of energy erupt against her back and she stumbles forward and to the ground.
“Acxa!”
“Focus on your battle, there are still three guards left.” Acxa scolds.
“Make that two.” Pidge comments.
Acxa throws herself to the side as another burst of energy is thrown towards her. She pulls her gun and fires a few rounds. Only one hits the witch, but she remains unfazed.
Another guard drops and then the last.
“Oh now, this isn’t a very fair fight is it.” Haggar’s grin is taunting. She materializes behind Keith. “How about you call off your army. Return my prisoners and I’ll let him live.”
Acxa swallows.
“Not so nice is it?” Haggar’s smirk widens. “Being on the other side of this.”
“Don’t call them off.” Keith winces as she squeezes him tighter.
“You know, it’s a shame.” Haggar mutters. “You could have been an honorable solider. You could have ruled the galaxy with me.” She drums her fingertips on Keith’s head. “I was going to make you a full-blood Galra, you know. But I worried about your loyalties.”
“You were right to worry.” Acxa confirms.
Haggar sighs, “yes, a shame.” She repeats. “You could have been powerful.” She claws at Keith’s hair line until a thin trail of blood trickles forth. “You still can be, I can’t give you full Galra blood. All you have to do is let the boy…and that girl, die.”
To be a full Galra…
Acxa clenches her fists. It would be so nice to have that. It would take away the insecurities she harbored. It would take them away without her having to throw away her Galra advantages. She would have a chance to be something.
“You can be a full Galra and you could marry my son.”
Her heart flutters at the mention.
“I can’t imagine him turning you down then.”
It surprises her how much she truly misses Lotor. The kind Lotor who had saved her from the streets and from being completely outcasted. The Lotor she cherished before the quintessence had taken over.
“Think of it as a second chance. A grand rebirth.”
.oOo.
Keith says nothing. He says nothing because he knows that she is smarter than that. He says nothing until she locks eyes with the witch and asks, “can you really make that happen?”
Her soft voice is dribbled with sincerity and a heat rises to Keith’s cheeks. “Are you really going to hear her out?”
To his surprise, Haggar doesn’t punish him. She doesn’t even silence him.
“He doesn’t understand.” The witch continues. And he realizes what she is doing. She hadn’t hurt him because that would have brought some reality back to Acxa. “I’ll make you an offer. You come with me now, and I’ll make the boy a full Galra too.” She strokes his hair. “He’s already halfway there.”
“You’ll make Keith a Galra too?” Acxa repeats.
Haggar nods. “And then you can choose. You can have my son’s hand in marriage or his. Hell, you can have both if that’s what you really want. All it takes is returning my prisoners and one last trip to the UV room, how about it?”
“Okay.”
“You really do like to flop sides, don’t you!?” Pidge exclaims.
“You don’t understand.” The look in Acxa’s eyes is so terrifying foreign. It is a perplexing mixture of longing and sorrow and of victory and relief. “This is my only chance.”
“You had a chance with me.” Keith says, his voice hitches.
She smiles softly, “I still do, when we’re both Galra.”
Haggar motions for her fully recovered guards to take hold of him and seize Pidge. “Come on then.” She sets a falsely tentative hand on Acxa’s shoulder. He is forced to follow them down the hall. To his horror, there is a UV room at its end. His final plan, to use the commotion below, is obliterated.
“I’m sorry, Keith.”
Keith turns is head, he won’t look at her if he can help it.
“I do care about you.”
He almost gives it a bitter laugh.
.oOo.
Acxa lets Haggar lead her into the room. Her head dips and her heart is heavy because she knows that he hates her. He hates everything she is, was, and would become. He hates her with everything in him. But that is fine by her, because he would love again her in the end.
This UV room is different from the one she had been in. A dome of quintessence pulses so brightly in front of her. A tear makes its way down her cheek. She waits for Haggar to lock the door before smashing the thing to pieces.
Her world is lost in a bright magenta burst and the sound of shattering glass.
With any luck, it will burn the witch away too.
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YAY UR ASK BOX IS OPEN!A scenario in which bakugou's s/o has a quirk where she can transfer someone's illness or disability to another person or delete the illness if she wants, and when they are fighting a wave of villains while protecting civilians his s/o takes notice of a villain that killed her parents and she transfers a very deadly illness to the villain which causes the villain to have a gruesome reaction to it and bakugou has to stop her from taking it too far. O.O
Literally I love this request so much and I hope my writing has lived up to it’s greatness, tha n k yOU :’)
The mission was supposed to be fairly easy, all the pros heard was that there was a few villains causing problems downtown, nothing too extreme.
And in the beginning, it was that simple… but things took a turn south too fast.
“Pfft, they really needed five of us to come down for this?” Kaminari scoffed, watching as his prior high school classmates took out what seemed to be the last of the drones surrounding the city.
Watching from beside Kaminari you chuckled as you watched your boyfriend light up what you could only assume was the last robot.
“I’m just curious as to where the actual villain is.” You commented, meeting up with Bakugou, Kirishima, and Sero who had just finished attacking all of the drones.
When the five of you arrived it seemed like something out of some weird movie, small drones flying all over the place wreaking havoc amongst the civilians downtown. Nothing extreme as to killing anyone, just scaring off the people of Japan and causing damage to the city.
“Well that was a nice little workout, let’s head back to the agency and report what happened to see if we can locate the villain causing this mess.” Kirishima said with a grin, the five of you seeming to nod in agreement until a sharp scream was heard behind you.
Whipping your head back you saw yet again another drone cornering a woman into a corner, your eyes scanning the streets as more of these mystery robots seemed to appear everywhere.
“Oi oi, where the fuck are these tin cans comin from?!” Bakugou hissed angrily, quickly blasting his way to the woman before blasting the metal head off the robot.
Running after the four boys who began to destroy the robots once more you bit your lip, looking for some sort of villain to be causing this mayham before letting out a sigh.
“Since my quirk isn’t exactly good with quick combat, I’m gonna go look for the villain causing this mess so we can put an end to this.” You called out to the four boys, all seeming to nod in agreement with your plan before going back to destroying the robots.
You couldn’t help but laugh softly when you heard your boyfriend call out a warning to be careful even though it sounded more like a threat as you ran around the corner and walked down the empty street.
It only made sense for the villain to be hiding nearby right? After all everyone had abandoned the area by now so it was the perfect hiding spot for the villain to be controlling his drones.
Letting out a bored sigh you began walking down each ally you passed, your (h/c) locks swinging behind you while you impatiently explored the empty side of town.
Sometimes you wished you had a quirk like your friends, of course your quirk had a great reward to it but it also made it more difficult for you to go into combat. All you really had to do was transfer your power to someone and they were out in seconds, no real fun to it.
It wasn’t that you were asking to get beat up or anything, but you wished to have more hand to hand battles that didn’t make you win in two seconds.
Pushing that thought aside you focused on the mission ahead of you, admitting in this moment your quirk would be of good use to knock the villain out fast and easy. You had just healed someone a few days ago from being paralyzed to the waist down, that would be the perfect disability to pass down to a villain so that he couldn’t move.
After all you knew your parents would be proud of you, they had such high hopes for you knowing you dreamed to be a pro ever since you were a little girl. How you wish they could be here with you, telling you how proud they were of the power you had received. Whenever you got annoyed with your quirk you just thought of them, remembering how they blessed you with such a rewarding quirk.
Once reaching the final alleyway of the block you eventually gave up, wherever this villain was had to be far away, there was no living creature in sight.
Pouting your lips out slightly in annoyance, you turned around and made your way back to the sound of explosions going off and metal being torn apart. The boys seemed to be having too much fun taking down the robots, especially since they knew they wouldn’t have to hold back since they weren’t living.
Just about to turn the corner your movements stopped when a low chuckle echoed around you, your body quickly whipping around only to see an empty street.
Maybe it was just your imagination? Your mind always did like to play tricks on you, especially when you were alone. Shrugging it off, you continued to walk forward until an actual voice spoke up.
“My my my, you’ve grown into quite the mature young lady haven’t you?”
The sound of the voice sent chills up your spine, your brain sending off some sort of warning signals in your head. Something about this voice just seemed all too.. familiar.
Ignoring your screaming conscience in your head you gripped your (s/c) fists and looked all around you with narrowed eyes, “Reveal yourself villain, and maybe then I’ll go easy on you!”
The dark chuckling sound filled your head again, sending another wave of chills throughout your body as you began to breath heavier, looking around rapidly.
“Ahh and you have his cocky attitude too, I knew you were daddy’s little girl”
Freezing for a moment you didn’t bother looking the direction of the voice, rather letting the gears in your brain begin to move. What was this man saying, what did he know about your father or even yourself? It must be some sort of trick.
“You know nothing of my father stop fooling around!” You yelled in a clearly annoyed tone, your head whipping around while you clenched for fists, “Reveal yourself now you coward!”
Shuffling was heard from behind you, for some reason you were slow to move awaiting to hear the man’s voice once more, “Oh I don’t know of your father now? I think I know more about your parents then you do yourself child.”
Once your eyes fell on the villain it felt as if you had been hit by a train, your brain going foggy as you observed the sickly looking man.
The man was tall yet fairly lean, you would have assumed he was weak if you hadn’t taken notice of the robotic arms he had, probably giving him his strength. Those drones must be correlated to him as well. Something about him was painfully familiar but it was as if your brain was screaming at you to run, to move, to do something.
His dark chuckle seemed to snap you from your thoughts, the villain taking notice of your confused expression, “What you don’t reconize me? You think you would remember who slaughtered your beloved parents, don’t you agree?”
That was it. The sudden alarms in your brain were gone, the only thing your body could do was let your mouth drop in horror. Of course that’s who this man was. How could you forget his smug expression from the night he took your parent’s lives. The gut twisting sound of his chuckle as he mocked your very existence.
“Y..You’re Sinister Blade…” You whispered out, more to yourself than to the villain himself but he still chuckled at your shell shock, walking around you with an amused grin.
The bastard enjoyed this, he had been planning this for years probably. Just to make you miserable, to taunt you.
“Ah yes the girl finally gets it,” The villain sneered narrowing his eyes down to you, “It appears you didn’t get your mother’s brains did you?”
A twisted feeling in your gut formed upon his teasing words, knowing he was referring to your mom’s quirk to detect any disease on a human being just by touching them. You hated how much he knew about your parents, and how much he probably knew about you.
“Y..You… you monster!” You screamed while tears flowed down your cheeks, not even realizing the warm liquid had been building in your eyes this whole time, “How dare you show your face, I..I’ll kill you!”
Your sudden outburst of a threat did shock the villain at first before that smug expression returned to his features, “Oh you came to kill me now little one hm? A shame because I was actually here to kill you! I’m sure you’ve noticed my little toy drones out there to distract your pathetic friends, I’m surprised some of the top pro-heroes in the world could be distracted with those tin cans.
Anways… I did promise your parents I would kill off your family blood line before I murdered them of course, and I must admit… I’m not one to break promises.”
The amount of rage that began to flow through your veins was overwhelming, how dare he speak of your parents like this. They were the best heroes you had ever known and he was talking as if they were some pathetic humans!
“I wonder if killing you will be as easy as killing them, my the way they left themselves so open they almost deserved to die!”
That was the final straw, you weren’t going to stand for this sick bastard to trash your family name any longer. It was time to show him why the (L/n) family was still alive and running…
“You shut up!” You screamed angrily, your hands beginning to glow a sickly green color while you narrowed your (e/c) eyes to him with pure hatred, “I’m going to wipe that shit eating grin right off your disgusting face!”
The sight of your hand glowing seemed to send a surge of excitement through the man, his eyes lighting up while he clenched his own metal fists, “My goodness I just adore your feistiness! It’s almost a shame I have to kill you, you seem much more interesting then your creators. And what’s that little quirk of yours I see? Tell me, did you get mommy or daddy’s quirk?”
“You’re going to wish I got their quirks.” You growled between grit teeth before running toward the man as fast as you could. Logically running toward a half cyborg man with a quirk of yours wasn’t very smart, but you already had a plan of how to take this asshole down.
The villain had his fist out, ready to punch you as you neared him before you slid down in between his legs behind him, causing him to spin around in a distracted manner just as you planned.
Without second thought, you leaped up and used your arms to push off his shoulders to launch yourself up in order to wrap your legs around his neck.
“W..What the, what the hell is your quirk damnit?!” The villain muttered in an annoyed tone, his robotic hand beginning to glow ready to fire at your form on top of him until you pressed both hands down against his forehead, the green magic that swirled around your hands now hovering around his face.
At first the man froze beneath you, confused as to what your quirk was. Nothing was hurting but for some reason he felt dizzy… as if he were getting weaker.
Then in just mere seconds his body collapsed to the ground, sharp cries escaping his lips while you gripped onto his head with such intensity you were surprised it didn’t just explode.
“You will pay for what you did…” You hissed angrily through gritted teeth, working your quirk to the extremes.
———-
“I..I think that’s about it.” Sero called out, bending over his knees while heavily breathing.
It’s not that fighting all of the drones was hard, it was just the fact that there were so many magically appearing out of thin air. Between trying to protect the remaining civilians and actually destroying them before appeared, it was safe to say the four boys were exhausted.
“Nope, there’s still more of these fuckers.” Bakugou growled while wiping sweat from his brow, the three boys groaning in unison when more of the drones showed up.
Surprisingly they hadn’t heard anything from you, whether that was a good or bad sign they could only hope you had found the villain and were working to shut these things down.
“Well all we can do is take em down till (L/n) comes back.” Kirishima said with a sigh, his arms re-hardening while he got in a fighting stance, “Just try and get them all down so we can go look for-”
Suddenly the red haired hero was silenced when all of the incoming drones dropped to the ground, a chorus of heavy clinks being heard along the street.
“Uh…” Sero muttered, scratching his bright blond locks while the rest of the boys looked around with confused expressions.
Not that any of the boys were complaining that the restless drones had stopped coming for them, it was just odd how they fell without any reason as to why.
“(L/n) must have stopped the villain!” Kaminari said with a grin, looking back to his friends while getting ready to head down the street you disappeared to until a loud scream echoed through the streets.
All eyes looked toward the sound, a surge of fear running through Bakugou until he realized that scream couldn’t have come from you… it was too masculine.
“That must be the villain, let’s go.” Bakugou said bluntly before running off down the street, the rest of the heroes following behind him.
After running past a few blocks and hearing the sharp cries grow louder, the four finally found the source of the screaming, the scene displayed before them rather disturbing.
The villain beneath you none of the heroes had recongized, but whoever he was looked horrifying. His face was broken out into a fevered sweat while his body was covered in a nasty looking rash, a look of fear painted over his eyes.
Above the cyborg like man was your own form, your hands gripping onto his head firmly while you glared down to him with blotchy eyes, your teeth clearly grit as your quirk spread around his entire body.
“(S/o) what the fuck are you doing?!” Bakugou shouted, wondering if he should interfere since he wasn’t quite sure what was happening or why you looked so full of rage and sadness.
Without breaking your ice cold glare with the villain you growled in response to your boyfriend’s question, “I’m giving this bastard what he deserves!”
The four boys watched as the man began to shake now, his body shriveling up while he began to cough viciously.
“I know she healed that paralyzed man this morning, but that wouldn’t be causing the villain to get this rash would it?” Kirishima asked Bakugou, the ash blond himself observing the man with narrowed crimson eyes until it clicked.
Just two weeks ago you healed a dying man with a severe case of meningitis. The man was on the verge of death but you just barely saved him in time, he only assumed you deleted the illness but if this villain looked this terrible, could you be…
The villain’s desperate cries interrupted Bakugou’s thoughts, his once deep voice now high pitched and terrified as he looked at the four pro-heroes, “P..Please help me!”
“She’s gonna kill him…” Bakugou whispered in realization before his crimson eyes widened and he looked to his friends, “She’s going to kill him stop her!”
The four were quick to move, Sero and Kaminari dragging the villain away from your grasp while Bakugou and Kirishima grabbed at your arms, yanking you away from the man.
“(S/o) stop it, you’re going to fucking kill him!” Bakugou shouted, grabbing your waist firmly now while avoiding your flailing arms and legs as he dragged you away.
The villain seemed beyond thankfully to be dragged away from you, the sound of ambulance sirens music to his ears as he shriveled up, feeling as if his body was being torn up from the inside.
Meanwhile you kicked and screamed in Bakugou and Kirishima’s arms, desperately crawling at them to try and get back to the villain before your boyfriend stood before you with intense yet fearful eyes, “(S/o) what’s gotten into you, calm down!”
“N..No, he killed my parents!” You screamed, tears rolling down your face causing Bakugou to freeze. Of course that’s why you looked so angry.. this was the man who took your only family away.
Taking advantage of the ash blond being distracted, you attempted to leap after the man only for Kirishima to grab you by the waist now and hold you back as the villain tried his best to crawl away from you, the paramedics now taking care of his crippling form.
All you could do his cry and scream desperately, watching as the man who savagely took your family away get carted away. Any sort of empathy had been sucked out of you, leaving you with only rage and forgotten memories of your parents.
Kirishima looked over to his friend that stared down to you with guilty eyes, the ash blond nodding to his friend before Kirishima handed you over to your boyfriend.
Your (e/c) orbs looked up into Bakugou’s crimson ones, the look of fury and sadness in your eyes sending chills down the ash blond’s spine. The quick seconds of your silence were short lived before you broke out into cries again, gripping onto your boyfriend’s uniform while you sobbed into his chest.
“D..Don’t let him get away with this Katsuki! He took away my family!” You cried into his chest, leaving the ash blond to pull you closer against him while grabbing a fist full of your (h/c) hair into his hands.
Bakugou knew what it was like to feel rage for a certain villain, hell he wished he could blast the whole League of Villains to begin with. But as a hero he couldn’t just let you do this, knowing you would regret it in the future. All he could do was show you empathy in this very moment, hoping to coax you out of this current state of rage you were in.
“(S/o) you can’t murder someone that’s against the law,” Bakugou said as calmly as he could manage into your ear, his hand running up and down your back, “We won’t let him get away with this, his sorry ass will rot in jail forever. But you can’t stoop down to his own level by trying to kill him… that makes you just as bad as him.”
Letting out small hiccups into his chest you looked up slowly with blotchy eyes to see Bakugou looking down to you with deep crimson ones, “Your parents wouldn’t want you to kill him (S/o), they would want you to do the right thing.”
Never had the ash blond spoke wiser words to you, all the rage you had pent up inside seemed to fade away as you nodded slowly. As much as you didn’t want to admit it, he was right… killing that villain only would have made you the villain.
“Y..You’re right…” You mumbled, wiping your face before looking up to him, your lip quivering as more tears threatened to spill, “I just miss them so much, I couldn’t save them then and I thought if I could kill that guy now…”
The ash blond cut your words off by pressing you back against his chest, his calloused hand running through your locks while he let out a sigh, “Your parents would be so proud of you right now, you’re doing the right thing.”
The amount of love you felt for your boyfriend exceeded any other moment you’d had with him. The ash blond was never one for being compassionate and calm but in this very moment, even with so much chaos happening behind him he brought this vulnerable side out just for you. Just to make you happy.
Sniffling quietly you looked up to him with a half-hearted smile that made his heart skip a beat, “T..Thank you Katsuki, I love you so much.”
Bakugou looked down to you as you placed your head back down on his chest, the extreme use of your quirk no doubt exhausting your body. Even with the loud sirens in the back and the screaming officials directing the trapped civilians to safety the ash blond was able to hold you close and drown out the noise. And when and only when your eyes were closed and hidden in his chest…
A small smile creeped upon the ash blond’s lips, matching the one you pressed against his heart.
#katsuki bakugou#bnha bakugou#bakugou#bakugou x reader#my hero academia#boku no hero academia#angst?#i'm into that sappy shit#hope you enjoy!!
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What happened in Hawaii
What happened in Hawaii is a prequel that was on my mind when I wrote ‘’Torcon 2018′’
Summary: Your friend Jess and you are travelling in Hawaii a couple months after you found out your, now ex-boyfriend, was cheating on you. Little did you know that you would encounter an actor from your favorite show, Supernatural.
Warnings: Language
Eventually pairing Misha x Reader
Word count: 2050
You threw your head from side to side as you let your hips get carried away by the beat of the blasting music of the dancefloor.
''I'm going get another drink, want anything?'' your friend Jess tries to ask you but you couldn't hear anything she said.
''What?!..'' you scream but your voice can barely be heard.
Jess gestures as if she was drinking something and you understood straight away what she meant. You stop dancing for a sec and approached her ''Bring me another (your favorite drink) pleeease!!''
Your friend nods and flashes you a broad drunk grin before leaving the dancefloor. You resume swaying your hips from side to side, enjoying the feeling of the alcohol flowing into your veins and the feeling of freedom. It was the first night you actually partied since you both arrived at the resort. Jess has been begging you to hit the clubs as soon as you landed in Hawaii but you convinced her that you needed to relax more than anything else first. You just experimented the worst break up of your entire life not even 2 months ago.
Life can be a bitch sometimes, but thank God, she didn't kick you in the guts while you were down, this time. As a matter of fact, life had been ridiculously ironic. You found out your boyfriend were cheating on you with a colleague from your office, the same day you learnt that you had won an all-inclusive trip to Honolulu for two. It broke you into pieces, but you had the best friends who stood by your side and helped you to get over it. You moved out from your apartment to live with your close friend Jess. One day, she went through your purse looking for your favorite matte lipstick and found out the tickets to Hawaii. It's no secret how she threw a fit at you when you told her you weren't going.
But here you are, dancing wildly by yourself in the middle of a crowd, having a fucking blast in Hawaii. Maybe you had drank 2 or 3 cocktails too many but you couldn't care less. Your Y/H/C hair whipping from side to side as you shake your ass from left to right. Your drunken mind slowly realize that someone is standing behind you, in fact, a little too much rubbing himself against you. You tried to subtly peer upon your shoulder what the perv was looking like.
''Hey babe, you make me so hard.'' he whispers in your ear, his putrid breath almost making you hurl. His head was waaaaaay to close to yours. You turn around and shove him aside with your shoulder, hoping he would get the message and scram.
''Playing hard to get, huh?'' the rather beefy man grabs your waist and forcefully pulls you into him. He was so insistent and something told you he was attacking under the influence of alcohol.
''Fuck off.'' You growl back to him as you try to escape from his grip. You feel the bulge in his pants kneading into your back and you suddenly felt a fierceful ball of rage growing inside your abdomen. He lets go one of his hand to explore the curves of your body and you took your chance.
''I said : FUCK OFF'' you shout as you spinned yourself around to face him and kneed him in the crotch with all the strength you could gather. He instantly let go on his hold on you and bent down, howling in pain.
Everyone around you seem to have noticed the scene as they stopped dancing and glanced at you. ''You, stupid CUNT!'' the man successfully points a finger at you while remaining on the floor. You stood still, totally paralysed by what just happened and the dozen pair of eyes glued to you.
''Excuse me. Excuse me. Let me pass, it's my friend over there!'' you gather yourself together as you hear Jess' voice through the crowd, realizing the music died at some point but you were too engulfed into your emotions to register it before.
A group of people that looked like his friends, surrounded him and helped him get back on his feet as they tried to convince him that he had drink enough and that it was time to leave, some of them glanced at you and smiled apologetically.
''Hey are you okay, hun?'' Jess embraces you as soon as she gets near you. ''I hope that jerk didn't break your mood. Come, let's go sit in the lobby, Y/N/N''.
''Nahhh. Don't worry Jessie. I'm good.'' you reassure her as you both walk to the entrance of the hotel, her arm surrounding your shoulders. Jess scolds you with a worried look. You rolled your eyes in annoyance, she was so over-protective of you since you moved in with her.
''Hey! What about my drink?'' you jokefully reproached her as you try to lift up her mood.
You both sat down on the stools directly in front of the main bar of the lobby and ordered a couple drinks, enjoying the relaxing melody of the ukulele. ''What a knee in the nuts, you're my hero, Y/N/N. Where did you even learn to do that?!''
''Well, let's say that my self-defense classes finally paid off.'' you praise yourself humoristically. '' I can't believe how rude this pig was. ''
If you'd scratch that incident with the perv, your night was pretty amazing. You had finally been able to enjoy your life as a single woman without fearing of feeling lonely. It was good to feel unattached and to be utterly honest you thought of staying single for the rest of your life. The drinks kept coming as Jess and you discussed about everything and nothing, you weren't drunk but you both had a pretty strong buzz going on and that's what made the night so perfect.
Until....
''Hey Y/N! Y/N!'' Jess suddenly hops on her seat like an excited child, her eyes round like an howl.
''What? What?'' you mimicked her while exaggerating her excitement.
'' What's the name of that show you can't stop blabbing about? You know... the one with the pretty boys in it?''
''Huh... Supernatural?'' you question her as you peer at her with raised eyebrows, not sure where she was going into with that.
''Oh yeah yeah! Supernatural. Well, don't shit your pants yet...'' Jess motions with one of her hand to stay calm. ''But that guy sitting in the sofa next to the piano looks exactly like one of the guys from the show...'' she puckers her lips and motions with her eyes in the direction behind you.
''What!? No way!'' you laugh it off while thinking it was another one of Jess's machivious plan to find you a rebound guy. ''Jess stop trying so hard, I'm not sleeping with anyone tonight.''
''I'm being serious, Y/N! Oh, shit. Don't look now, he's coming this way.'' Jess immediately shifts in her seat and brings her glass to her lips, ignoring your answer.
''Pffft Jess! C'mon now. Who d'you think you're fooling? As if-''
''Uhm, hello. Hi. Sorry to interrupt.'' a man voice's cuts you off and startles you. You glance at Jess who was greeting with a smile the man standing behind you.
You spinned your stool around so you could finally see who's standing behind but your knees hit his leg before you could face him entirely. '' Hey bud, mind stepping back a b-'' you hiss but when your eyes met his ocean blue ones, you suddenly lost your words.
That guy wasn't just some look-a-like as Jess told you. He was the real deal.
Misha Collins.
Misha fucking Collins was in front of you. Your heart stammered with strength against your ribcage as you peer into his mesmeric eyes, speechless.
''I've heard about what happened earlier'' he pauses and you could note how bad he felt just by his facial expressions. ''And since he’s part of my group, I felt like I owned you an apology for his behavior.''
Jess glances at you, you were obviously incapable to answer him properly and she quickly decided to take the wheel for you while you regain your composure.
''Part of your group?'' Jess inquires and for the first time yet, Misha takes off his eyes from yours.
''Yeah, uh.. See, these people won a scavenger hunt that I've been hosting for a couple years now, you might have heard of it. It's called Gishwhes and uh....''
While Misha explains to the both of you in what consists the scavenger hunt with passion, Jess subtly kicks your ankle, a silent language that meant : wake the fuck up, girl. You don't know if it was the alcohol or a sudden wave of assurance but you finally manage to fight off the shyness.
But it was too late...
'' Alright, I don't wanna bother you even more, ladies. Have a good night and I hope he didn't ruin it.'' Misha who has been leaning against the bar pushes himself up as he was getting ready to go. Your heart aches as you gaze at him, you couldn't let him go when you did not even say a single word to him.
As he turns around to leave, the impulses that were writhing inside of you finally overflowed and allow you to blurt out something. ''Make sure he puts some ice on it by the way, I may or may not have calculated the strength of my strike.'' you joke, finally. Misha looks back at you and his face lit up as you finally dare to speak. He flashes you a broad smile which wrinkles his nose in an adorable way. Thank God you were already sat down because your knees would've crumbled.
''I've heard, yeah. Pretty impressive...'' he laughs '' Hey, don't hit me in the nuts but uhm... Not that I apologize what he did but...'' Misha scratches the back of his head frantically as he searches for the right words. '' I can see why he had the hots for you.'' he chuckles, his dark blue eyes darted on yours.
You can feel the blood spreading all over your face when your brain finally managed to decipher what he had just said.
''Misha!!'' a girl calls for him from where he was sat previously and he cranes his neck to peer back at the group of people who were probably all waiting for him to come back.
''Well, it's been a pleasure....'' he looks between Jess and you waiting for the two of you to present yourselves.
''I'm Jessica.''
''Nice to meet you, Jessica.'' he smiles politely at your friend and he quickly casts his eyes back on you.
''Y/N'' you declare as you try your best not to stare at his mouth as he dampens his lower lip with his tongue.
''Y/N... The nutcracker, I like it!'' he snickers ''Well once again, goodnight and sorry for the troubles.''
Both you and Jess wave him goodbyes as he steps toward his friends, all sat at a table near the piano.
''Did Misha Collins really just say I was hot? Cause at this point, I can't tell if I'm dreaming or not!'' you giggle as your nervousness slowly disappears.
'' He did Y/N/N! And I think he's coming back!'' you cough frantically as the sip you just drank goes down through the wrong pipe.
''He's.. what now?!'' you manage to ask between short intakes of air. '' Jess, don't mess with me!'' you peer above your shoulder just to see she was saying the truth as you saw the Misha coming closer to you, a killer grin stuck on his face.
''Oh hey, sorry to disturb you again but uh... We're going on a hike tomorrow at Lulumahu Falls and you're welcome to join us if you guys feel like it!''
''Ouh, Y/N and I were actually hoping to go hike!'' Jess declares excited '' What d'you think Y/N/N?''
''Uhhh we were?'' her eyes darkens as you questioned her. '' I mean, yes. That could be a great idea, thanks for the invite!''
You swear you could capture Misha's soul through his smile.
'' Perfect! Join us here in the lobby around 10 AM!''
#misha collins#misha x reader#misha collins x reader#misha x y/n#misha collins x you#supernatural fanfiction
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Elsword PvP Stereotypes: 2nd Edition
Alright. It’s been a year and a half. Let’s do this again, sure.
Unlike last time, where people salting at me during the match contributed to a large portion of the character stereotype, I only have their gameplay to work off of this season. Mostly. Rage whispers have gone down significantly which honestly is a change that's good for everyone. {Nod nod.}
{Additional commentary by @demos-cloud will be in braces}, and my responses to her commentary will be italicized, since I’ve ah. Ranted to her about a lot of these before, and asked her to help proofread.
Elsword: Bullheaded, stubborn, and does not think very far ahead.
This is mostly thanks to the amount that they've built up Elsword's defensive options lately. The changes to Autoguard mean that Knight Emperor doesn't really have to worry even if he gets caught (I've had more games turned around thanks to that than I care to admit). Infinity Stoic is still a thing, not in the least helped by the large number of quick, stoic approaches and normals he has. Melee Elsword gameplay basically rewards LEEROY JENKINS. Rune Masters are surprisingly rare.
Aisha: Still Bullies.
This has always been the case. Though lately I've come to the realization that Aisha, and Void Princess' line in particular, usually stays out of PvP unless she has access to something dangerously close to hacking. Meditate+Trans slot cooldown drops are always popular, but Oz Sorcerer lives and dies depending on whether she can pretend-hack or not (looking at you, Angkor Millions and Shadow Body). Metamorphy's population likewise dropped drastically as soon as they nerfed the stoic on her >>X(Z). {Her damage output was also hit hard by the Impact Zone nerf in PvE.}
Rena: Slime.
There's been a lot of complaining about the changes to the NF system, though honestly it's probably better for PvP-health in the long term. Now, instead of basically being guaranteed to eat 3 cancelled Violent Attacks to the face in the middle of every single combo, you probably only have to worry about it happening once or twice per game. They're still really slippery, thanks in large part to physics bending over backwards around her and >>Z being so fast, though their PvP numbers have taken a drastic drop since the nerf.
Raven:
Basically only the oldest Raven mains are left, a corps of elite veterans who know their character and yours inside and- oh and I guess you have the bandwagon RH horde. {Man the bias is practically dripping out of your mouth here Ketsu.} The majority of my Raven matches are against players who I recognize on sight, though. The canon Raven has certainly been getting spoiled, comparatively speaking, though the fact that KoG nerfed M.Maximum Drive almost immediately is a good sign. RH is still probably the most consequence-free Raven at the moment; he doesn't really have to worry about taking combos because it's extremely likely he'll be able to mash a Spread out and revenge-catch you if there's even the tiniest delay or mistake.
{PvE is full of old, rich, Ravens as well. BMs/FBs especially are the oldest and most funded. Yeah they know their class in and out, but they’re also not above shelling out $200 to +11 that glorious Void weapon. VCs are dead.}
Eve: Nasod Bitch. Runs on money. {はい、はい。}
Eve on the whole is very confrontation-adverse, and all three of her classes avoid direct combat. Good thing for her, too; aside from the Exotic line Eve's combo game is so poor she can barely hold anyone in place on her own. All three Eves have very strong utilities kits which are supposed to come with a weak damage-per-hit ratio, but Eve players are already very strongly conditioned to spoil her rotten. Nobody's ever been accused of spending too little on her, after all. Codes 4v1 and Sariel both just dunk on melee-centric characters, and Ultimate has enough unsafe-cancels and core synergy that you'll be spending more time eating lasers than spears. {Like I’ve been saying for the past four years, Eve’s Core Release system was built for CN. Of course she has the best Core synergy out of all Eves.} Illusion Thorns' debuff field really should not trigger core. Raven's lingering skill effects (grenade fires and smoke clouds) have NEVER triggered his core, and those at least deal damage, but I guess even KoG isn't tired of spoiling Eve just yet. {Maybe it’s because Illusion Thorns’ debuff area only lasts a measly two seconds compared to Raven’s lingering AoEs (dead laugh).} Raven’s lingering AoEs also only last for a couple seconds, too, though. {oh.}
Chung: HERE I GO. {HERE I GO!!}
Hoo boy. Okay. After the absolute Chung dominance in the 1v1 tournament, there's been a significant rise in Chung PvP populations. Sure, Base Chung has Heavy Stance to mitigate being slow and getting caught, but these three basically never have to deal with such puny things as "consequences" and Heavy Stance itself has actually been vanishingly rare. {DC really should not have so many Heavy Stance/stoic opportunities, given that his whole backstory is based around being faster and thus, being less defensive. IP’s ridiculously high attack speed is abnormal and needs to die. Even back in S1 it was a pain to deal with…} Back Blast and Reload are core skills not because of utility or reload, but because they're such hard to deal with panic buttons when strung together. Cannonball management is a total farce. Super spoiled, getting amazing tools and mod skills with each update. A few significant differences between them:
Comet: Basically indestructible. Will not die. A rocket powered turtle who can strike you from anywhere in the map and always has an advantageous position. The new goddess of PvP, stripping Yama Raja of the title. You could just tell that a couple of the tournament finalists were screwing around and winning anyway, and that flagrant disregard for consequences has been adopted by the bandwagoners. {I feel like having one of the IP semifinalists intentionally handicap himself of the class’ best skills, fool around, and still manage a strong victory.. Really says a lot about the class’ current standing.}
Phantom: Homing Ruthless attacks for days. Mod Shooting Star caused a lot of passive ruthless to get stripped, but I guess there was enough of a Chung tantrum that they got it back on base Shooting Star AND in M.Burning Punisher. Could probably win a game blindfolded thanks to all the high-damage homing at his disposal. A non-berserk awakening is so rare you honestly think it's a glitch. {Remember when it was only like a 25% activation chance. lmao.}
Centurret: After a long and arduous process of moderately intelligent cockroaches bashing on keyboards tested every possible configuration, tactics have been finely reduced to "if your dog craps on enough lawns, someone is going to step in it." Instant-hit Grav Shots are far more than any character deserves, especially when they have practically no vertical limit, and whoever approved of this as an Siege mode option should be spaghettified.
Ara:
Lately, the number of Aras who fully depend on the X or ^X loop has gone down. Devi is still incredibly oppressive, able to basically slam their face on the skill bar whenever they're in trouble to turn it around with any one of their many, many incredible utility actives (with skill storage). Shakti populations have been on the rise in comparison, though as a Shakti main myself I can't really comment on any other trends without being... more biased than usual. {Dead in PvE, though very willing to shell out money. More-so than other Ara classes, I find (even Devis, yes!)} Apsaras generally rely way too much on Kite or Suppression and barely have two brain cells to rub together, having godawful combo maintenance outside of the aforementioned X loop, despite Ara's strong kit. {They changed how ZZXX works how else am I supposed to do fancy combos nowwwww} It feels like if they did have any more to work with they would've job changed to Devi by now.
Elesis:
Population is in decline, but still powerful. Empire Sword still has some of the most safe combo maintenance in the game, and it's exceedingly rare for her to make anything remotely resembling a mistake. {The fact that she has such a high DPS ratio in PvP really hurts, what gives.} INJECTION finally got the nerf it deserved and is starting to sound like a word again. Fire Wallsis is still horrifically oppressive if it goes off, however, and reduces many games against her to "play perfectly or die."
Add:
Doom Bringers are vanishingly rare. Dominators basically all spontaneously ceased to exist once Charged Impulsar got nerfed and they realized they'd actually have to try in PvP again. Paradox is, once again, the most popular PvP Add, and for some reason still has an infinite. Purple is the color of bullies, it turns out. {Death to purples.}
Lu: Almost as Leeroy Jenkins as Elsword, but not a large sample to work with.
If the dive that magnetically homes in on targets wasn't enough of a giveaway, Lu's ability to zero in on a target is still very high. Diangelion's switch-attacks have the same bizarre hitboxes and gravity as ever. Lu in general seems to be about throwing giant hitboxes around the map and hoping they hit something, and her combo game is so safe that there really isn't need for precision there, either. {If she can’t hit you with a command normal or a skill, she’ll lag you out with her FPS-killing abilities. Surprisingly not very high up on the whale list, and even lower on the whales-for-fashion list.}
Ciel mains still don't exist. {Nobu would be sad to hear this.}
Rose: Rich, but shallow.
You're basically not even a Rose main if you don't have an 11+, the same way you're basically not a Chung main if you can't get 4+ X-drops in a single launch. {I am apparently no longer a Rose/F. Gunner main. Okay.} Their gameplay shows no personality to speak of, and you'll be fighting the same kind of Rose tactics at Rank C that you will at Star. Despite being the only non-Chung in the 1v1 Finals, Minerva has actually seen something of a population decrease lately. I imagine a lot of players disliked the fact that the player got to finals by using a Freeze Grenade infinite.
{POs seem like one of the most funded Rose classes, despite being lowtier in both PvP and PvE. About 20% of them have an elitist complex, and another 40% only play her because “OMG MECHA WAIFU”. I’ve only encountered like two POs who acknowledge that she feels and plays nothing like her DFO counterpart, and the fact that I had to argue with a super stubborn NA forumer about this is flat-out stupid. Ah, also. TBs are dead now. Unsurprisingly.}
PvP Rose is actually mostly TB thanks to her pseudo-meditate.
Ain: I was horribly, terribly, no-good very bad wrong about the prediction last time.
PvP Ain is as homogenous across all three paths as Rena: {はい、はい。} Base Ain normals are so strong that the only ones his other classes really use are dives. Otherwise, you can treat all Ains the same. Watch out for airdashes, stomps, Xes, and basically a full kit of backwards melee hitboxes (we got rid of that on the Polar Bear suit for a reason, right? Right??) which are all so strong that, even though the bug has been patched out, Schwert Platzen is still a core PvP skill for all Ains. Bluhen is very rare in PvP, due mostly to the fact that he doesn't have a dive combo. Richter basically plays "The floor is lava" the entire game. The stomp noise is as annoying and stuck in my head as Aisha's "HYA" voice clip now and is a standout among Ain's generally obnoxious sound design. {Maybe if KoG gave us more combo options my fellow Richters wouldn’t have to sink this low.}
his german is off but i appreciate the effort.
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Coronation Of A Flame Part 7
part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 NSFW part 4 edited part 5 part 6
Fandom: The Royal Romance
Pairings: Hana X MC
Authors Notes: Here’s chapter seven of Coronation Of A Flame.
This will probably be the last chapter with an epilogue to follow. I wanted to make this chapter longer but I think all my real life stuff is killing my creative brain cells lol. Anyway I hope everyone likes it!
Warnings: IDK? There’s fighting..
Enjoy ~PSG
Rating: 16+
Publish Date: 2/19/18
Chap 7: Lythikos Under Seige
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters.
Days turn into weeks as you split your time practicing fire magics with Mr Rhuka, training with Drake, and practicing Ta i Chi with Hana. You sigh into your arms as you lay face down with your arms crossed and your chin laying on top of them.
Hana smiles brightly as she works her fingers into your sore muscles.
“I can't decide what relaxes me more..” You sigh.
“Oh?” Hana asks her fingers expertly kneading into your tight back.
“mmm, Ta i Chi or...this...” you words trail off as Hana works a knew knot out of the space between your shoulders.
“Hmm...” Hana humms. “I thought you found something else relaxing.” she continues and you can practically hear the smirk as her warm breath tickles your ear. Your eyes pop open and you swing her around straddling her hips with either hand on the sides of her head. She squeaks in surprise but goes still and serious when looking up into your eyes. “Oh..I...do..” you murmur a breath away from her lips as you move your hips slightly against hers.
She whimpers and digs her finger tips into your shoulder blades as you brush your lips feather light against hers. You run your fingertips over her cheek and study her eyes intensely.
“You're beautiful..” You whisper reverently and she blushes. You lean down and press your lips firmly against hers and she wraps her arms around your waist.
~~~~
You smile brightly as you realize you absorb the remainder of the flames into your body and sigh with satisfaction.
Mr Rhuka stands beside you quietly stroking his long white beard and you bite your lip suddenly unsure of yourself. When he breaks into a small smile and nods his approval. You’re smiling back when you phone buzzes and you check the messages. You mouth falls open, and you apologize to Mr Rhuka as you run back to the village.
"Drake! We've got to go!" you shout as you run toward your group of friends. They turn to you startled.
"Where are we going?" Drake inquires.
"Olivia's in trouble."
"We'll get our stuff." Maxwell adds but you shake your head. "No you and Hana stay here ok?"
"But I can help." Maxwell protests you glance at Hana. "Please Maxwell? If anything.. I need someone I trust with her. If I don't make it." you stop when you hear Hana choke back a sob. Giving Maxwell one last look,he nods.
You turn taking both of Hana s hands in yours and her lips tremble. You kiss her forehead then her lips gently. "I love you."
"I love you too." she chokes out. "Please come back to me?"
You smile softly at her then step back morphing into the dragon.
Drake leaps onto your back and you take off sparing one last glance at Hana now just a small dot on the ground.
As you near Lythikos you can hear the shouting combined with what sounds like helicopters.
Flying next to one Drake leaps from your back into the helicopter. Tossing several assassins out before turning his sights on the pilot. He furrows his brow punching him several times in the face then tossing him out. He nods at you and turns the chopper to face the others.
You rawr and begin to rain fire on the ones on the left while he shoots to the right. Helicopters try to flank you from behind and you flick your tail knocking one helicopter into the other and they burst into flame.
“THE CASTLE!” Drake shouts as you look down noticing soldiers currently trying to knock the door in on the Duchy. You nod and swoop down taking some soldiers out with your tail and enveloping more with flames. Drake descends in the helicopter and jumps out to join you as you morph back into your human form.
“Lets dance.” you smile wildly and Drake winks at you. Together you fight in unison taking out the rest of the soldiers that were there. You swing the door open and bolt in shouting for Olivia. Just then a sword swings at you. “AH!” You leap out of the way and blast the sword with a fireball. A stunned but unharmed guard blinks at you. “Don't DO that!” you warn.
He starts to protest but everyone turns at the sound of commotion coming from down the hall. All three of you bolt in that direction skidding to a halt as you see a woman towering over Olivia who sits helplessly staring up at her.
“Incompetent dolt!” The woman sneers and raises her hand at Olivia.
“STOP THAT!” you shout before you can stop yourself and the woman whirls on you.
“Really Olivia? Keeping company with commoners now?” She sneers, the takes in your appearance. “The commoner that beat you for the King's hand, I see?” she drums her fingers thoughtfully on the table and smirks.
“No matter. The throne will be mine one way or another. Guess its on to plan C.”
“P-plan C?” Olivia quarries quietly.
“Why yes dear. The assassination didn't work. You getting the Prince's hand didn't work..” She trails off.
“You?” Olivia snarls and stands to advance on the woman. The woman promptly spins back handing Olivia back into her seat.
“My dear niece..” she clicks her tongue disappointingly.
“But my parents?” Olivia glares.
“That was unfortunate.. Not like its any great loss though. I tried to convince them, but no they supported the royal family even though it was our families birth right to claim the throne,” she snorts distastefully “The fools even tried to sneak into the castle and warn the king..” she scowls then raises her arms as if to strike at Olivia again and before you can stop yourself you are flinging a fireball in her direction.
She stumbles back. “Not only a commoner but a fire freak too?” she shakes her head disappointed. “Honestly Olivia, I thought you would've made better decisions on the company you kept.”
“They are my friends!” Olivia says defiantly but quickly shrinks back and studies you and Drake awkwardly.
“I will have the throne, one way or another!” She shouts
You nod at Drake and he nods back as you slowly start inching closer to the two women. While Olivia's aunt looms over her menacingly. You reach Olivia as her aunt looks up and swings a knife in her direction. You grab her and spin as the knife comes down across your bicep and you cringe. Drake leaps over the table and tackles the woman wrestling the knife away from her.
As the royal guards drag Olivia's aunt away you reach over and press your fingertips around the edge's of your wound wincing slightly. You clench and unclench your fist.
“I guess we better go.” you remark and see Olivia slump slightly. “You coming?” you look at her questioningly.
“Well I uh...”Olivia looks startled for a moment then scoffs. “I guess since I have no guards and you charred my home.” she frowns but you can see the glint in her eye and you walk outside.
She starts to climb into the helicopter Drake was manning earlier and you stop her.
“Oh we're not taking that.”
“But then how..?” she starts and you morph back into a dragon.
“You can't honestly expect me to..” she scoffs again.
“But it's such a rush!” Drake comments enthusiastically.
“Oh very well.” she strides over and clumisly climbs onto your back. You ascend and begin to slowly make your way back to Fydelia.
Upon landing you see Hana and Maxwell rushing towards you but they stop short when they see Olivia attempting to slide off your back.
“Well that was...something..” Olivia comments as she dusts herself off and tries to fix her windswept hair. You morph back into your human form and smile at her. “Oh you enjoyed it.” you say with a laugh and she scoffs. “If you say so.” she attempts a scowl but can't surpress the grin that over takes her.
Hana wraps her arms around you. You return the hug one armed and try not to wince. She looks at you concerned and her eyes fall on the blood running down your arm.
“You're...hurt...”
“I'll live thanks..” Olivia quips and you all turn to look at her as she wipes at some dry blood on her face.
“Yeah, someone's gotta teach Abel not to catch knives with her bicep.” Drake cuts in with a smirk, and you all glare at him then smile.
“Are you ok though, Olivia?” you question worriedly.
“I'll be fine. Thanks to you all.” She frowns slightly. “And my..my parents.” She add as her bottom lip trembles slightly
“Innocent after all..” you add as you frown at Hana examining your wound.
“Wait.. what?!” Maxwell exclaims.
“Long story..” you start and Hana starts dragging you away. “Maybe Drake can explain.” you call out and disappear into the tent.
“Well, I knew you'd be excited to see me but couldn't wait to get me alone huh?” you smirk and Hana just frown and tuts at you.
“I uhh...” you start dejectedly then slump on the pillows.
Her brows furrow as she cleans and bandages your wound. “I don't think it needs stitches.” She remarks thoughtfully and you glance down at your arm as her fingers press delicately against the bandage securing it to your skin.
~~~
“Is Bertrand here with the limo yet?” you ask as you look around from the back of your group.
“A limo?” Olivia asks incredulously.
“Well yeah..” you say with a small shrug.
As if on cue the limo pulls up and Bertrand climbs out seemingly taken aback by seeing Olivia there. She rolls her eyes and squeezes past him to climb into the limo, sighing as she slumps into the soft leather interior.
~~~
Later that night after you all arrive back at the castle you find yourself unable to sleep and start wondering the grounds. You see a familiar figure slumped on a bench looking out into the gardens.
“Liam..” you call softly
He raises his head and looks your direction smiling slightly but it doesn't reach his eyes. You sit beside him and stare out into the distance. “Some day huh?”
“hmm” he mumbles then glances at you. “Riley I..”
You turn slightly to face him and study his features when he doesn't continue on you decide to speak. “I'm really sorry about..err.. everything I guess?”
He studies your face. “I can't help feeling like it was a game to you? I mean I thought I made it clear how I felt and you just kept going along with it.” He stops and chews on the pad of his thumb.
“I did.. I mean I thought I did.. I do care for you Liam. I tried to tell you so many times.. but I guess I never thought it'd work with Hana and you made me so happy. Then one night it just happened, and I realized I could never put any of us through it, yet somehow I couldn't stand the look on your face when I broke your heart.”
He laughs but its humourless. “But you did..”
“I think I'm saying this all wrong..” you mumble and look at the ground between your feet. “You are like one of my best friends. I have fun with you. You make me smile. I do love you, just not..” you stop unsure how to finish that sentence and just stare at your hands.
He clasps one of his hands over your two and you look up at him with tears in your eyes.
“I just wanted you to be happy, Riley. I thought I was making you happy but I guess not.” He sighs then drops his hand.
“I hope you find someone who loves you as much as you can love them.” you offer and smile at him. He bumps his shoulder into yours and smiles at you.
“Maybe one day.. But for now when's your wedding and what can I do to help?”
Your eyes sparkle. “I'm glad you ask that!”
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If at first you don’t succeed...Chapter 4
Read it on AO3 here.
Warning: suicide.
San Francisco, Chinatown. Carla walks through the busy street, leaving the ornate arch behind. The Highwayman is parked under it, hood open as Vic, merchant and repairman, does some routine checks on the engine. Lenny is rummaging through the trunk and pulling out spare weapons and ammunition to sell.
The Brotherhood outpost is manned by only one man: Matthew. He fidgets under the hot midday sun, but stands to attention at her approach.
“Who are you?” he demands.
“My name is Carla. Luke at the NCR outpost recommended me to come here. He mentioned something about needing help finding something?” Carla has perfected her opening speech the last two times she’s been here. Polite and knowledgeable, but not too all-knowing. It also allows her to skip Matthew’s long explanation of the Brotherhood’s activities.
“Yes,” he seems surprised, but no longer suspicious. Excellent. “I – There’s an Enclave base to the north. Here,” he reaches for her Pip-Boy. Carla allows him to input the coordinates on her map. “The Brotherhood is in dire need of plans for a Vertibird. Navarro, the base, should have a set. If you accept this mission, I can offer you exclusive use of Brotherhood equipment.”
“Alright, then.” Carla smiles. “I accept.”
Carla never realized how lucky she was during the first cycle. Not until she tried to go back to Navarro. First, the mostly-underground base was extremely difficult to find even if she had the right coordinates. Second, hostile Enclave patrols were constantly surveying the surrounding region. Third, any area that didn’t have Enclave soldiers was chock-full of monsters. Deathclaws, Wanamingos, giant fire geckos.
She shifts her heavy backpack higher on her shoulders. She’d left the Highwayman, Vic, and Lenny back in San Francisco. Now, clad in a set of leather armor and equipped with a brand-new powerfist, she’s almost to her destination.
“Halt! What are you doing here?” The gas station attendant has a pistol in his hand, tense and at the ready.
Carla sheepishly smiles. Time to play the fool. “Uh, have you ever heard of the Enclave? I-I’m sorry,” she scuffs her boot against the ground. “I was told to report to Navarro, but I got a little lost. Is this it?”
The man relaxes. “A new recruit, eh? Well, you’d better get down there right away. Head straight behind this building,” he points to a forest, “and you’ll be right there. The password is ‘Sheephead’.”
“Thank you,” Carla nods and heads in that direction. This is way easier than trying to sneak through that minefield in the forest. I can’t believe that actually worked the first time. The guards accept the password, and one advises her to get to the armory and suit up before talking to the drill sergeant.
Power armor is strange and constricting, but liberating in all the right ways. Carla steps into the suit and feels it close around her. For a second, there’s a flash of claustrophobia, a flicker of the same crushing feeling every time she dies, but it passes and she breathes easily again.
Navarro is a small base. Aboveground, there are several hangars and crew quarters. In the bunker are labs, the Base Commander’s office, and the armory. But the other time she’s visited, the very first time, she’d beelined for the Commander’s office to get the FOB. It was early July then; the FOB was the last piece she needed to power up the tanker. Now, in early April, this is more of a scouting mission in preparation for future visits.
Carla takes her time exploring the bunker this time. In power armor, no one bothers her.
There’s a small door labelled ‘Reactor – KEEP OUT’.
She glances down the empty hallway, then nudges the door open and slips inside. This room is devoid of personnel, lights dimmed. A large nuclear reactor sits in the middle of the room, a terminal in front of it.
This is the thirty-fifth cycle. Five cycles ago, she had made the hardest decision, one that she’s still unsure of, to give up on trying to prevent the Enclave from attacking Arroyo. But this – this is the chance to strike them where it hurts. Maybe, just maybe, she could really do something right. Carla takes a small cube of plastic explosives from her bag. This could work.
Carla gives herself twenty minutes. She gets the FOB, shoves the vertibird plans in her bag, and sneaks out the back door. Once she’s clear of the minefield in the forest, she starts running, counting down in her head.
Five, four, three, two, one…
She’s far enough away from the explosion, out of the blast range, but a ripple of fiery heat still hits her back. She turns and looks back at the base in the distance, now a cloud of fire and smoke. A few more explosions follow, presumably from vertibird engines.
For the first time in years, Carla allows herself to feel hopeful.
The morning of May 4th, she’s leaving Klamath behind and heading west, as she’s done countless times. Lenny sits in the front seat, Vic in the back with a mangy mutt named Dogmeat they’d picked up in the wasteland. Her power armor- the Brotherhood of Steel set, not the Enclave one – is neatly packed in the trunk.
Carla squints at the horizon. Is there more smoke this time? Right on cue, Lenny perks up and points at the hazy cloud.
“W-what’s that?” he sounds worried, as always. Vic leans over to look at it, and frowns. Carla sighs. I guess even blowing up their brand-new base didn’t stop them.
There is more smoke than usual.
There are more corpses than usual, too.
She’s seen this scene dozens of times. She can list every dead family member, every childhood friend lying in a pool of their own blood. Normally, there’s only a handful. A few warriors, a couple sick elders. Hakunin.
Now, she sees her mother, the village Elder, cradling her youngest cousin, their necks twisted at an unnatural angle. Her nephew, his wife, her aunts, lie in a heap. No, they made it. I rescued them. They’re not supposed to die here. The rope bridge isn’t broken. She barely waits to test its safety before sprinting across to the other side.
Lenny and Vic stay silent on the other side, watching her as she forces her trembling legs to move.
“Mom,” Carla kneels at her side, tears dripping onto the blood-soaked sand. “I thought I was doing good.” She bows her head, then stands and walks in a daze amongst the bodies and crushed tents. Hakunin’s tent is the only one still standing. Inside, he’s lying face-down on the dirt. Carefully, she rolls him over.
“Hakunin?” her voice cracks. She shakes him, but he doesn’t wake. “No!” she screams. “Wake up!” She shakes his limp body. “Tell me what to do!” He’s supposed to tell me where the Enclave took everyone. But if they didn’t leave anyone alive to take…
“C-Carla,” Lenny has crossed the bridge to join her, putting a light hand on her shoulder. “I’m s-so sorry.” She shrugs him off and says nothing, closing the shaman’s eyes and standing up.
I did this. She takes her 10mm pistol from its holster. And now there’s nothing left for me. She flicks off the safety and holds it to her head. Time to start over. Again. Carla shuts her eyes and curls her finger.
“Whoa, no!” Vic grabs her arm and tugs her arm away. “Stop, boss!”
“No!” She shouts, trying to pull her elbow away. “Let me do this!”
Lenny is sobbing, his fingers curled around hers, attempting to pull the pistol from her grasp. “C-Carla, please. I know this is aw-awful, but please, d-don’t do this.”
Somehow, this breaks her heart more than everything else combined. They never could understand, never could know that everything was going to be okay. This was always going to be her fight, and hers alone. She shakes her head and smiles. In any other situation, they would be right. They would be doing good. Well, she had tried to do good too. And look at where that got me.
“C-Carla, Carla,” Lenny is softly repeating her name over and over again, prying her fingers away from the trigger one by one. Vic relaxes his grip on her elbow for just a second, but it’s all she needs. Her left hand shoots out and shoves Lenny away. Then she wrenches her arm out of Vic’s grasp and kicks him away.
“I’m sorry.” She doesn’t let herself hesitate, raising her pistol and firing. Vic, the ever-loyal repairman, collapses with a bullet between his eyes.
“W-what?” Lenny recoils, eyes wide. He tears his eyes from the corpse to stare at her. “What are you d-doing?” He asks, voice high and shaking. He takes one step back, then another, away from the gun barrel pointed right at him. “No, C-Carla, d-don’t-” His body lands with a thud next to Vic’s, glassy eyes still staring into nothing.
“I’m so sorry,” she raises the gun to her own head, too numb to do more than gaze at her friends, slain by her own hand.
“It’ll be alright now. I promise.”
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