<> <> <> "... what's your plan?" <<(Go!)>> * Katherine blinks, and smiles weakly, joking, "I--" she swallows. "I was hopinng you had one. How do three people stop a goddamn gang war?" * Katherine subvocalizes, ~I... one threat down, Roch, but... ~ ~It's too even, Kat. It's- they're- they're coming.~ * Rochelle 's voice strengthens. ~I take that back. We keep fighting.~ (I wish we were ALL suited.) (We could use the damn ion curtain.) (Or if I were a heavy scientist.) * Katherine looks Neko in the eyes as she subs, ~Roch, is there any way we can stop this thing? Damn, I wish we had more of those rings... ~ <> "Took you long enough to hold still. Don't look yet, give me a second to get everyone through." <> * Katherine looks to Neko and says, "Oh... hell. Don't panic, Nuriko, I think something weird's gonna happen." * Rochelle says, matter of factly, ~Told you they were coming.~ ~... 'they' is too damn ambiguous, Roch. ~ ~You didn't say so.~ <> ~I didn't have TIME to... aw, fuckin' forget it.~ * Katherine says, "Are there all of you yet so I can move?" <> "Yup." * Katherine turns around to face Lu. "Thank christ. Please tell me you have the world's largst goddamn stasis field." * Rochelle turns in the air and waves at the crew. <> "Your boys in that deep lab whipped something up they said would work." * Katherine mutters, "Oh god. We're doomed." * Katherine gestures back at Nuriko. "Neko, Anders and his friends. Anders and his friends, Neko. Lay it on 'em, man." * Katherine adds in a mutter, open and chatline, "And let's hope they don't all turn into monkeys." <> <> * Katherine blinks, looks over, and goes, ~Hell. Go non-lethal, people, try to keep them from their new objective!~ Then she yells at the Anders team, "Don't fucking kill too many, you jackasses!" THEN she looks over to Neko. "Hand to hand here? Keep 'em off the machine." * Katherine moves over to do that whether Neko moves with her or not. * Rochelle flies over the gangers and Anders' crew, watching but not doing anything. What's she going to do, anyway? Paint her nails at them? <> * Threnody (lina@cpe-24-59-251-39.twcny.res.rr.com) has joined #atc2too (*wave*) (I like to watch. *purr*) (Heya!) * Katherine is using hand to hand with a mental curse to her goddamn mother for never having fucking nonlethal on her suits. * Rochelle flies over towards Victor, looking down. <> "CATCH!" <> (And Nuriko?) "Take it someplace high!" (...Nuriko.) * Rochelle does catch it and holds it there, blinking. She examines the ring for a moment, then nods and zips straight upwards. <> <> * Katherine just tries to hold the line, force field on and hands moving as fast as the suit can make them move. <> * Rochelle keeps flying up, and she angles herself so she's above the center of the fighting. (Whoo SS. c.c;) -sourdough.sandwich.net:@#atc2too- Chamelaeon invited Dicesuke into channel #atc2too. * Dicesuke (dice@ip68-13-166-245.om.om.cox.net) has joined #atc2too <> * Katherine yells, "Not gonna work, fuckers!" as she glances back to check the shout. <> * Katherine yellls, "Fucking Sig-Asp!" and turns back to the purples. <> <> (Fucking Sig-Asp. It's a mantra.) <> * Rochelle is right about where she wants to be, so she stops there, hovering and hoping her rockets don't give out. Given how beaten her suit is, they just might. * Rochelle watches the ring and its glow. * Katherine continues holding her line. "Come on, Vernon, do something fucking right." <> (AAAAH SAME FOUR BARS OVER AND OVER AGAIN) (*explodes*) (There, there. Go kill Dorian.) (I know how to play the Entertainer!) <> * Katherine grits her teeth and watches... then just sorta stands there, saying with a tone of disbelief in her voice. ~Roch?~ * Rochelle replies after a pause, ~Yeah?~ ~ ... what's it look like? ~ <> ~Bright. But they're not moving.~ * Katherine sends wide to all her forces, ~In case you didn't put it together, people, you can stop hitting them now.~ She cuts that and chuckles to herself slightly. <> * Katherine rubs her temples. "... jesus christ. Please tell me that they're not weak to rickety old... whatever the hell music that was." <> "No, that was just the carrier wave to transmit the pulses." Uhf. 'Course. Vernon couldn't pick anything modern. * Rochelle starts floating down to the ground, ring in hand. Carefully. * Katherine looks over to Neko with a faint grin. "Well, _I_ didn't stop it, but... it's still stopped." <> "This can't be everything there was to it." <> "The real battles are happening south of here-" <> "-and towards the city hall. You must head there - we remain to guard the device, and work to increase its range." * Rochelle looks at the explosion, then lands on the ground and turns to Anders. "Maybe you should go with them. You're better at this than I am." * Katherine winces and says, "Shit, they're actually pinned down in there? Wonderful." She looks to Roch for a moment, then Neko. "Your exo got any speed to it?" <> "Something about the area prevents my talent from working. Vernon mentioned something about dimensionality." * Rochelle looks vaguely surprised. "But-" She stops herself, then just shrugs. "Okay." <> "Exo's designed for hard shred, not flick." (Oh no, emotion!) * Rochelle walks off to see how Zak's doing. (ROCH HAS BEEN TAKEN OVER BY A PURPLE.) (KILL HER.) * Katherine smiles a little. "Yeah." She snickers to herself. "Think you weigh more than about ten-kay kilos?" <> ("So what's the permanent cure for this?" "Seven hundred iterations of 'Back Home Again In Indiana'." "... oh god.") (You sick fuck.) * Rochelle stops by Zak for a moment, then asks, "You okay?" <> "Hey, sis, that was way schway, you taggin' my bacon like that. Yeah, I'm good." (...tag. Bacon.) * Rochelle smiles. A little. "Had to do something." (Did she shoot him? Tranq him? What? God damned Spacers! ) <> "Ten kay? Yeah, I think so." * Katherine snorts. "Damn. Don't think this thing can pull more than that." A glance to Luanne. "Your powers stop working in there too, Luanne?" "Don't think so. My powers don't stop like ever." * Katherine laughs and says, "Great. Mind if we hitch a ride on the Luanne train?" A pause, then she suitcomms, ~Zak? You still alive?~ <> ~Yeah, I'm here with Roch.~ ~Good. In lieu of Hettie and I, you're in charge. Congratulations. Neko, Roch, and I got to get to city center.~ <> "Really, sis?" * Rochelle shrugs. "I guess. You woulda died if I didn't." <> "'ppreciate it. You gonna go do this thing with Kat?" Yeah. Don't die, okay? * Katherine is looking at Lu for her response. "I'll watch my back this time." <> ~Rog, Kat. Schway.~ (Luanne is ignoring Kat! D:<) (Bitch!) (*ahem*) <> "I know a place close by." * Rochelle nods and goes back to Kat and Neko without even giving her brother a hug. So much for sibling love. (You brainhugged.) * Katherine nods to Lu and Zak at the same time! ~Schway. Final idea here: Try to pull purples into the field if you can. Every purple in the field is one less crazy out there. G'luck. ~ ~Ditto. Stay safe.~ * Katherine nods and looks to Neko with a grin. "C'mon, Neko, time for the real revenge today." <> "All aboard." * Rochelle takes Luanne's hand. Express time! * Katherine extends a clawed hand to Neko first. "Well?" <> "No clue how this is gonna work, but whatever." Yeah, like anyone knows how the hell this works. * Katherine reaches over and grabs onto Roch to complete the chain. "Take us in, Lu." (Pause for a while in here) (Heh.) (*checksup on logs* Your side was more interesting than ours. ;_;) (Hey, you just flipped the interesting quotient 180 when Thren went Id-mode.) (And sadly, he's not that interesting. He will be once he has a chance to take a good look at Vera, though!) (Oh dear.) (Vera making a mind roll. Oh, how doomed we are.) (...*gets absolutely FUN idea*) (Bwahaahahaa. Oh, if I can make it work, this should be FUNNY.) (... we are doomed.) (Bean Damage!) (I cannot imagine what that must be like for him. I doubt it's pretty.) (Have you ever been to an Omnimax or Imax? Imagine Nullspace combined with the Bozo the Clown show piped through that, with a soundtrack of Elton John layered over Any Rand books on tape layered over The Best of REO Speedwagon.) Yes. (Though I suppose that should have been paranthetical.) (We're about to ... gasp ... MERGE.) (Wondertwin powers, ACTIVATE!) (Shock of shocks. ) <> <>