Re: Intense Struggle Season 2! (Round 1: Training Facility ONX)
07-19-2010, 10:09 PM
Originally posted on MSPA by MalkyTop.
The hallway was long and uninteresting. Mostly because there were no strangely evolved monsters to jump out at them, so it was probably a good thing, but not even the eerie atmosphere could jolt the boredom out of this hall. Yes, the scratch marks and scorch marks and whatever-marks were creepy before, but now they were just boring. Yawn. No, Mega-Yawn. That's how boring they were. Lillian might have been a little scared if there were some strange noises, but nope. The hall seemed abandoned completely of any sort of scampering or creepy-crawling critters.
All the same, the girl felt much better sticking close to Sarika.
At the door at the end of the hallway, Sarika stopped suddenly. Lillian looked up curiously, seeing nothing really wrong. Did she see something that she didn't notice? Lillian had always heard about animals being able to sense some things better than people. Did Sarika have those same senses? She wasn't sure if she should ask. Instead, she settled for a simple, "What's wrong?"
Usually, Sarika would have just walked through the door. She was just the confident type: sure that whatever was coming at her, she could figure out how to take it. But this time she wasn't alone. Lillian was with her. And she was feeling a little nervous about being reckless.
Peering into the future, she was glad she had paused. She watched her future-self go through the door and through the opening, watched as some strange robot rose up from the floor, wielding many weapons of which a young girl like Lillian shouldn't be around. And then she couldn't watch much else as the door closed again.
Back to the present. Lillian was tugging on her arm looking a little worried. "We're going to stay here for a while," she announced, thus changing the future slightly.
As Sarika leaned against a wall to wait, she couldn't help but notice that Lillian didn't seem to happy with that idea. Maybe because she wanted something to do and waiting for no apparent reason meant, well, doing nothing. "Why?"
"Don't worry, we probably won't be waiting long," Sarika replied. Lillian couldn't help noticing how she avoided the question. Man, adults were always like that! Always not answering questions! Lillian pouted a little and paced a bit to pass the time.
"Can you tell me now?"
"You'll see," Sarika replied distractedly. Lillian pouted some more.
And then sounds of violence and tearing metal and swinging blades erupted from the other side.
Lillian recoiled from the noise but Sarika jumped up and started towards the door. There was a pause as the door seemed to hesitate before opening and another pause as she actually saw the robotic monstrosity. Waving arms and weapons everywhere. More appendages than was comfortable. Moving with uncomfortable speed.
Despite having chased many a crook during her time at home, they were all human. They certainly didn't look like a metal octopus and often held no more than a gun. And their arms usually didn't whirl around with enough speed to chop her spine in half.
As she thought, there were two more contestants trying to fight off the thing. "Stay here," she barked over to Lillian before rushing in. She had absolutely no idea what she would be able to do. But she'd have to help, right?
Dodge a saw, bat away a cattle prod...yup, it looked like she was useless. She couldn't even break an arm with her staff. When a blade came right at her, she sidestepped and attempted to direct it over to another arm. A chainsaw arm was thus rendered useless, but then she was picked up and held danging above the ground. When several other arms went to attack her prone figure, she tried letting go and landed right on top of the robot.
Marcus had shot at the three arms that had encircled Sarika and even the blade-arm that tried to hold her up high, so the bird-woman actually hadn't been in too much trouble. He immediately noticed that the newcomer was in the perfect position to directly attack the robot and thus stop it and shouted towards her, "Smash it!" before continuing to attempt to cover her.
Sarika had heard the advice and honesty had no idea what she was supposed to smash the robot with. As the other two tore off or blasted any arms that came worryingly close, she attempted to smack it with her staff. As she thought, metal was a bit resistant to being smacked by wood. There wasn't even much of a dent. She struggled to think of something else and was actually contemplating using her necklace when someone called, "Watch out!" and she looked up to see some other sort of arm coming at her, apparenty having gotten past Marcus and Dekowin. Quickly, she leapt out of the way in time and the overly-armed robot clubbed itself instead. It made a much bigger dent than Sarika's staff did.
When Sarika landed again, the robot shuddered, sparking a little, before what seemed like hundreds of arms came out of hundreds of panels, all jittery and twitchy. All those arms grouped so close together would have looked a little funny if they weren't completely dangerous. It was a marvel that they hadn't even tangled up yet.
The hallway was long and uninteresting. Mostly because there were no strangely evolved monsters to jump out at them, so it was probably a good thing, but not even the eerie atmosphere could jolt the boredom out of this hall. Yes, the scratch marks and scorch marks and whatever-marks were creepy before, but now they were just boring. Yawn. No, Mega-Yawn. That's how boring they were. Lillian might have been a little scared if there were some strange noises, but nope. The hall seemed abandoned completely of any sort of scampering or creepy-crawling critters.
All the same, the girl felt much better sticking close to Sarika.
At the door at the end of the hallway, Sarika stopped suddenly. Lillian looked up curiously, seeing nothing really wrong. Did she see something that she didn't notice? Lillian had always heard about animals being able to sense some things better than people. Did Sarika have those same senses? She wasn't sure if she should ask. Instead, she settled for a simple, "What's wrong?"
Usually, Sarika would have just walked through the door. She was just the confident type: sure that whatever was coming at her, she could figure out how to take it. But this time she wasn't alone. Lillian was with her. And she was feeling a little nervous about being reckless.
Peering into the future, she was glad she had paused. She watched her future-self go through the door and through the opening, watched as some strange robot rose up from the floor, wielding many weapons of which a young girl like Lillian shouldn't be around. And then she couldn't watch much else as the door closed again.
Back to the present. Lillian was tugging on her arm looking a little worried. "We're going to stay here for a while," she announced, thus changing the future slightly.
As Sarika leaned against a wall to wait, she couldn't help but notice that Lillian didn't seem to happy with that idea. Maybe because she wanted something to do and waiting for no apparent reason meant, well, doing nothing. "Why?"
"Don't worry, we probably won't be waiting long," Sarika replied. Lillian couldn't help noticing how she avoided the question. Man, adults were always like that! Always not answering questions! Lillian pouted a little and paced a bit to pass the time.
"Can you tell me now?"
"You'll see," Sarika replied distractedly. Lillian pouted some more.
And then sounds of violence and tearing metal and swinging blades erupted from the other side.
Lillian recoiled from the noise but Sarika jumped up and started towards the door. There was a pause as the door seemed to hesitate before opening and another pause as she actually saw the robotic monstrosity. Waving arms and weapons everywhere. More appendages than was comfortable. Moving with uncomfortable speed.
Despite having chased many a crook during her time at home, they were all human. They certainly didn't look like a metal octopus and often held no more than a gun. And their arms usually didn't whirl around with enough speed to chop her spine in half.
As she thought, there were two more contestants trying to fight off the thing. "Stay here," she barked over to Lillian before rushing in. She had absolutely no idea what she would be able to do. But she'd have to help, right?
Dodge a saw, bat away a cattle prod...yup, it looked like she was useless. She couldn't even break an arm with her staff. When a blade came right at her, she sidestepped and attempted to direct it over to another arm. A chainsaw arm was thus rendered useless, but then she was picked up and held danging above the ground. When several other arms went to attack her prone figure, she tried letting go and landed right on top of the robot.
Marcus had shot at the three arms that had encircled Sarika and even the blade-arm that tried to hold her up high, so the bird-woman actually hadn't been in too much trouble. He immediately noticed that the newcomer was in the perfect position to directly attack the robot and thus stop it and shouted towards her, "Smash it!" before continuing to attempt to cover her.
Sarika had heard the advice and honesty had no idea what she was supposed to smash the robot with. As the other two tore off or blasted any arms that came worryingly close, she attempted to smack it with her staff. As she thought, metal was a bit resistant to being smacked by wood. There wasn't even much of a dent. She struggled to think of something else and was actually contemplating using her necklace when someone called, "Watch out!" and she looked up to see some other sort of arm coming at her, apparenty having gotten past Marcus and Dekowin. Quickly, she leapt out of the way in time and the overly-armed robot clubbed itself instead. It made a much bigger dent than Sarika's staff did.
When Sarika landed again, the robot shuddered, sparking a little, before what seemed like hundreds of arms came out of hundreds of panels, all jittery and twitchy. All those arms grouped so close together would have looked a little funny if they weren't completely dangerous. It was a marvel that they hadn't even tangled up yet.