Another (awesome²)² Chappie!

Yes, I suppouse that does even it out. 0.001/0 great chappie ;p.

I am lost.

*clings to CT*

*also clings to CT*

*just pretends 4I and Radium not on this plane right now*

We're on a plane? Oh no, who's driving?!

Ooo, we're on a plane! YaY! Are we going to Hawaii? That way, California and Alaska can come and avoid nuclear warfare with us. Yay! ^^

Planes? Ooo I hate flying.
*clings to Rad and 4I*
I hate not getting on on Sundays. I miss so much ...

I don't mind flying. It's like driving but higher.

I prolly wouldn't mind it if it hadn't been like a rollercoaster last time ... the turbulence over Whitehorse was something else. Gah. Anyway.
I forgive N0 for not being here, too =)

At least there's less things to crash into while flying a plane. Excluding, of course, the possibility of a bird flying into the engine causing the plane and all it's passengers to go careening to their fiery doom - but don't worry; there's less than a thirty percent chance of that.

I think I might try getting a pilot's license before I get my driver's license. Actually, I think I'm old enough right now to get a sailplaneing license...

We. Need. To. Get. Back. On. Topic. NOW.

Story. Story is good. Copper is writing story. Radium, 4I, and Acid are reading story. Nobody ran away. The story can't continue because there's nobody we can't find, so someone has to get lost. Luckily, nobody already did. How much sense does that make? *)< to pronoun-named people*

>( You forgot Defalcon.

I also forgot Kaz but I don't see you complaining about him.

I'm still trying to decide whether to be mad or happy about him claiming the 10th page.

Originally Posted by Coppertop

>( You forgot Defalcon.

Too right. *whacks Radium*

Darn topic got back onto the story before I could make a wisecrack >(

Owweh. Never drop handweights on the tips of your fingers. Very detrimental to the typing.

@Kaz: Decided against mad. DARNIT, RAD, YOU FORGOT KAZ!!!!11one

*sigh* Defalcon, Kaz, and probably an unregistered user or two too. There.

... meant a plane of reality >_>;;

Kaz owns the page, Kaz owns the page... lalalala... =\. I'll gloat over it later, things to do.

Continue please CT!!

And d00m493 to planes becuase of birds is horrible!

The Darkblades were a seamless pair, moving in concert and dispatching the Shellians and shockbots easily. They were matchless, Shuriken drawing - and evading - enemy fire, and Sai literally ripping them to shreds as they were distracted by his sister.
And so it was that Sai, not even really looking, ran directly into a rabbit.
Startled, he stopped; after all, their allies were rabbits. In the second that he paused, the rabbit coolly drew a heavy blaster and proceeded to fire it point-blank at the hapless ferret. As he did so, Shuri slammed full force into the mercenary's back, knocking him forward, and the shot merely clipped the side of Sai's neck.
Sai reacted instantly to weapon, threat, and pain. His attack did not miss.
Leaving the lifeless mercenary behind, the pair moved on. "Did you see that?" Sai complained to his elder sister, gingerly examining his "injury".
"Yep," Shuri said. "Why'd you stop?"
"How was I to kow that he wasn't on our side?"
"True," Shuri admitted. "But there's a trick to it. The guys on our side wear badges."

Tiger blinked, tracking Basta as the enraged maroon rabbit chased a frightened Shellian in ever-tightening circles. A vaguely confused shockbot, unable to focus on Basta, was making bizarre shots that were hitting absolutely nothing. Tiger elimiated the befuddled bot, and turned his sights back to the outskirts of the fight.

Copper blocked the Bloodflame's blow, twisted, and heaved, dumping the startled mercenary inelegantly onto Claw's waiting weaponry. With a grimace of distaste, her friend dropped the limp rabbit and glared at her.
"Will you stop doing that?"
"Doing what?" she asked innocently, parrying another stray blade. Claw growled with exasperation as she sent another Shellian wheeling his way.
"That!"
She grinned. "Why?"
"I have my own victims to deal with, thank you very much!"
"Ah. Makes sense, he does."
She dropped another Shellian, and glanced up to find herself and Claw ringed by encroaching shockbots.
"Ooooh ..."
"Now what do we do?"
"Think we should make a run for it?"
Claw looked past the shockbots and noticed an Imbara chasing some poor rabbit towards them.
"We'd be going out of the frying pan, into the fire, if we go that way."
"No good news this way, either. Just a blank wall."
"Have to destroy them, then."
"Looks that way."
A shot exploded into the chest of the shockbot closest to the Imbara, courtesy of Tiger. The machinery fell, showering sparks and smoke.
As it hit the ground, the third member of their group came flying over it into the circle, hit the ground rolling, and came up facing the way he had come. The Imbara that had been chasing him loomed up behind the shockbots, momentarily distracted by Tiger's sniping.
"What'd I miss," Shinyso said as he surveyed the undecided shockbots.
"Nothing much," Copper said. "The two of us were just about to be pulverized. Now that you're here, you can join us."
"Thanks, but I'd rather not," he said, sending a serrated disc spinning through the nearest shockbot's neck joint. He produced another disc from somewhere as the robot's head fell off. It would have been funny had there not been ten other shockbots who were still in possession of their heads, all aiming at the trio.
"Nice," Copper said approvingly. "Now we can get pulverized."
"Y'think?" Claw asked, surveying the situation. "Nice going, ace."
"I try," Shinyso said with a shrug. "Now what?"
"Uh ..."
"I'll give you a chance," a Bloodflame entered the circle. "Rather than dying here, join the Bloodflames and you'll probably survive."
"What, is old Kallion on a recruiting spree? Or did Rambarath finally get rid of him?" Copper's blade flashed as she lowered it.
"You knew Kallion?" The Bloodflame sounded surprised.
"Yeah. I take it from the past tense that he's not the leader any more."
"Naw, Jheran took him down years ago. Without Tephro's help, despite what they say."
"Ah, Charne's still around?"
"Yeah, and as wild as ever. So, will you take my offer?"
"Sure," Copper said, stepping back; sunlight flashed on metal again. A moment later, the Bloodflame became just another of Tiger's victims.
"... over my dead body," Copper finished. Shinyso grimaced.
"Darnit, I was hoping to see my old friend Tephro again," he said dryly. Copper shook her head and peered inquisitively at the fallen Bloodflame.
"I think," she mused, "that if she'd known who we were, she'd've just shot us on sight."
"I'm counting on Tephro to do that," Shinyso said. "He and I go back a long way. I think."
"Whaddaya mean, you think? Either you do or you don - whoa."
The half-forgotten Imbara loomed over them, a definite threat. Claw, Copper, even the shockbots backpedalled as the behemoth advanced slowly on them.
Shinyso stood his ground, dwarfed against the huge Imbara, sword drawn. The Imbara focused on him immediately, and moved fast.
"Hey, it's no worse than that Katarvin Captain," Shinyso called back ot hem as he nimbly dodged the quick swipe. Copper grinned.
"I think we can leave him to it. Let's escape while we can, shall we?"

YaY, more fighting. Defal, you get beaten up a bit in the next chappie. Sorry.

YAy, chappeh!

*hugs Copper*

You have no idea how hard that was to type with two fingers taped together.

It should be off in a coupla days.
And I use all eight fingers and both thumbs

I'd just use the other two fingers to cover what they're neighbor couldn't.

yay, pasts coming to haunt and destroy!

Yay! *is lost*

Who's Tephro again?

Yes.

A lurvely fight between Shinyso, Defal and an Imbara. Enjoy

Shinyso ducked between the Imbara's armored legs, slashing at the nearest one and wincing mentally as his blade struck sparks from the armor. He hoped he hadn't chipped the blade. The Imbara swayed away, graceful and quick. If it weren't for the wires, Shinyso could have believed it was organic.
It reared back from him, pulling up and scuttling around to the side. The blade-tipped tail whipped around, and Shinyso ducked and rolled under it. It turned to face him again, and he realized that his current weaponry would do nothing from the ground unless he anticipated three moves ahead.
Producing a handful of discs from somewhere, he sent one spinning at the Imbara's vulnerable "eye". It should see it and move instantly, hopefully into the path of the second one he had thrown.
It ducked its head, deflecting the first, swayed away from the second, and turned directly into the path of the third. The protective glass shattered, and the disc sheared through the photoreceptor, lodging itself deeply. The red glow went out as the Imbara reared back and screamed, a sound like tearing metal and breaking glass. Shinyso winced away.
... maybe I shouldn't have done that ...?
Abruptly it quieted and its head came around, seeking Shinyso vindictively with its one good eye. It advanced dangerously towards him. Shinyso backpedalled, wondering if he had any more discs.
Something blue was thrown violently under the Imbara's feet. Defalcon staggered to his feet, clutching his stomach, as a big, brawny schwartzenguard advanced towards him. Heedless of the danger he was in, Defalcon clung to the leg of the Imbara, which looked surprisingly taken aback.
The turtle didn't even notice the Imbara, and thew his flailerang. Defalcon chose that moment to double over, and the flailerang wrapped tightly arund the Imbara's leg.
The Imbara looked down at the flailerang, up at the schwartzenguard who had suddenly frozen, and back down at the flailerang. It reached a decision; the bladed, curved forearm lashed out suddenly, ending the schwartzenguard's career - and life - then and there.
Allies did not attack allies. Thus the schwartzenguard was an enemy. Thus Defalcon, who had been the original victim, was not the enemy.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Thus, it ignored him.
During this interesting series of events, Shinyso had not been idle. He had retrieved two of his serrated discs, and was merely waiting. When it turned back to him, he was ready.
Unfortunately, so was it.
Once again he missed. The Imbara threw back its head in alarm as Shinyso noticed Defalcon concentrating his fire on the right foreleg. That was the Imbara's blind side.
The warbot didn't even pause to register this apparent betrayal - by its reasoning, anything attacking it was immediately designated "enemy", no questions asked. It gave Defalcon its version of a backhand and missed by a hair - too close, by Shinyso's reckoning, for a robot who was supposed to be blind on that side.
It danced back from them, sidling around so it could see both Defalcon and Shinyso. Defalcon fired at the Imbara's eye, and was attacked for his trouble. He ducked between the Imbara's legs again, and the robot snapped at him, lowering its head enough that Shinyso had his chance.
He came up on the Imbara's blind side, grabbed hold of the jagged-edged eye socket (somehow retrieving his third disc on the way up) and leapt onto the Imbara, clinging onto the topmost neck segment.
The Imbara went wild. It thrashed madly, violently throwing its head back and rearing up like a startled horse. Shinyso struggled to stay on - the armor was slick, and if he inadvertantly got a finger or toe in between the segments they could easily be crushed.
Defalcon had drawn both swords and activated them. Shinyso's ordinary blade couldn't cut that armor, so he sent a telepathic request at the blue rabbit.
Can I borrow a sword for a moment?
A definite feeling of assent. Defalcon tossed Nightfire up to the precariously perched Shinyso, who caught it and gestured at his fellow warrior to do something - do anything!
Defalcon spun and smashed Nightwind into the Imbara's lowest leg joing, on the leg he had previously been blasting away at.
The Imbara moved faster than Shinyso had believed possible; it immediately took a giant step backwards, transferring its weight off of the damaged leg. Then it paused, waiting for Defalcon, the immediate threat, to make the next move. It was ignoring Shinyso for the moment.
It shouldn't have. As he found his balance and his unlikely steed stopped moving,he ventured to stand up, Defalcon's blue-glowing swrod in hand, his own slung across his back. Gripping Nightfire with both hands, Shinyso drove the bade into the space between segment and head.
The Imbara threw its head back in simulated agony, and Shinyso promptly lost his balance. He managed to turn the rather undignified fall into a dive for safety, landing painfully and rolling to his feet. The Imbara thrashed and swayed, and Shinyso put out its other eye. Now completely blind, the Imbara was almost defenseless.
Defalcon straightened - that schwartzenguard had gotten him good - and went in for the kill. Nightwind slashed through the metal backbone of the Imbara, and sent a spiderweb of cracks through the previously impervious armor of the lowest neck segment.
The Imbara's severed head fell to the ground, the still-attached segmented neck still writhing and whipping around. The decapitated body swayed violently, automatically compensating. The damaged leg buckled; the warbot went down heavily, limbs and tail thrashing wildly around.
Defalcon made his way over to the head, which still writhed feebly at his approach. He withdrew Nightfire, which was still glowing and in perfect shape. The glow died down as Defalcon sheathed it, pain on his face.
The pair of warriors left the dying Imbara where it was, and went to find the rest of their friends.

Jheran watched breathlessly as the two rabbits felled the Imbara. Their teamwork and skill was impressive, despite the fact that the blue one was clearly injured from hi run-in with the schwartzenguard.
"That's three down," Tephro said from beside him. "There's only seven Imbaras left, and they're all that's keeping this excuse for an army alive. Irinn can't sustain many more losses."
"How many Bloodflames have we lost?"
"Only a handful, mostly due to that sniper and the Shockflyer. We lost Chimelle to the mercenaries."
"You have no idea how strange that sounds, Teph."
"What?"
"'Mercenaries'. Not a term we usually apply to others. Well, we're falling back. Irinn wants to commit suicide, he can do it alone."
"Right. Tama?"
"Already calling the retreat, guys. Looks like Hariam's doing the same."

Irinn was. "Pull back!" he snapped, and Justiar transmitted the order.
They weren't even on the battlefield, unlike Jheran and Tephro. Justiar couldn't say that the pair of Bloodflames were cowards.
"No!" Irinn hissed as another Imbara went down, losing its battle with the rogue Shockflyer and the CCSF.
The look of rage in his eyes was unmistakable - as was the fact that the battle was lost.

Oop, didn't see your reply 4I =P

Tephro is Jheran Rambarath's second in command, best friend, and an elite Bloodflame mercenary. He apparently has a past with Shinyso, too. You can find his profile here.

Nice battle. Descriptive.

*hugs*

Wow. Those must be some well made robots.

Awesome.

*considers entrusting one of his characters with either a Ripper or a Razorjack after reading the chapter a few times*

Well done with the bot logic... sort of. It's sort of an outstanding weakness.

They seem to be good at countering even the best executed attacks, but are easy to fool if you know how.

Ha, I didn't know you were reading this. Yeah, the Imbaras are supposed to be tough (I drew a picture of one, I'd post it here if I could), but not the smartest things in the galaxy.

Yaychappie^_^

Whee, I see Phish's new toy is doing some damage of its own.

Originally Posted by RSPSS FR

They seem to be good at countering even the best executed attacks, but are easy to fool if you know how.

The second statement applies to everyone. Period.

Not really. You can fool people by accident if you are lucky.

EDIT- And also, it is possible that someone can only be fooled by something you can't do easily.

*Kaz ruined this post*

Radium cheated ><! This page belongs to meh!!