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Post by aguy on Aug 12, 2011 10:49:17 GMT -5
Trigger nodded and silently followed Roll. In his mind he knew she seemed unusual but he dismissed it as merely from overwork.
((I'm back...Let's continue.))
((OOC: Hey i JUST NOW(jul/18-6pm) saw Mikey's second post...so i eidtted this as needed.))
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Post by Dashe on Aug 12, 2011 20:58:36 GMT -5
As Tron walked off with the lizard, Teisel glanced at the police officer, who was diligently scribbling in his notepad. He hoped the reward was going to be in cash, since Tron had their entire savings with her. If not, he'd be able to make some chump change sending Bon into the ruins--enough to get off the island, at the very least.
He didn't want to say it out loud, but he really didn't trust Echo at all. Terra had its share of anomalies, but usually whenever he met up with someone even the slightest bit inhuman, he wound up in some form of mortal peril. Including Lex Loath. The man was a scumbag through and through. He couldn't possibly be human. The fact that there was an anthropomorphic lizard freely roaming a planet in which anthropomorphic lizards don't typically show face in public--and weren't supposed to exist in the first place--set off a major red flag in his mind.
Tron could take care of herself, he knew. Leaving the refractor with the lizard was what primarily concerned him. He'd have to take care of that later.
"So, erm, officer..." he cleared his throat. "Should we stop by the police station? You wouldn't mind giving us directions, would you?"
"Just one moment," The man said to his notepad. "I need to take down the lot number. If you want to go ahead, the police station is over on the west side of town. You can't miss it."
"Thanks," Teisel grinned jovially as he sauntered off in the direction he thought was west, Bon following contentedly behind him.
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Post by Loken on Aug 12, 2011 21:47:40 GMT -5
"Hurry up! This is very important!" Gramps exclaimed gravely as the two were climbing the latter. "My old friend Bluecher has asked me if we can help defend the island of Orana, and I said we would. I hate to drag you into this Megaman, but it's not too far from us right now and they really need our help fending the reaverbots swarming the island. We just need to hold out until Bluecher gets there. We've got to go right now, there's no time to waste! I hope you've already bought our supplies, Roll! Let's get a move on! said Barrel charismatically, he only hoped the boy could handle this.
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Post by aguy on Aug 12, 2011 21:56:17 GMT -5
Trigger looked at Roll and then back at Barrel, "No Problem, Gramps! Happy to Help, as always."
((I'm gonna begin to add Data in as well, with how it seems we're heading, Data is likely gonna be handy I'll take over Data myself, due to Trigger being able to speak to Data))
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Post by Mikéy on Aug 13, 2011 17:58:23 GMT -5
Roll didn't have to be told twice. The only problem is that the engines weren't upgraded yet, so she would have to be extremely careful when getting them there, as there was no way she was going to risk pulling another Kattelox. Although... She did finely tune the engine in the time on Kattelox, so their speed wouldn't be too bad. They could, in theory, leave right away...
Then Roll looked down at her clipboard, and winced yet again.
"I'll have to order the chemicals I need before we leave so they'll be ready by the time we're finished with the invasion at Orana. It shouldn't take too long!" she exclaimed, running across the hall into the pilot's room. Roll booted up the computer and proceeded to order the chemicals. Although the island was seemingly under attack, she had hoped that the order would still go through, if they were to manage to fend off the reaverbots.
Looks like I won't get to sell his weapons anytime soon... Roll thought. She would definitely have to think of some elaborate scheme later if she was ever going to upgrade the Flutter's engine.
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Post by aguy on Aug 14, 2011 8:31:39 GMT -5
"I'll go talk to Data, and let him know what's going on." Trigger said in his usual voice. He turned and headed towards his room. Once inside he saw Data standing on his bed.
"Hey Data, We're going off to another island..."Trigger said kneeling to be eye-level. Data smiled and asked "But what about the supplies, Megaman?" Trigger straightened up and put on an uncertain face, he knew Roll was acting strange, he looked back at Data and rubbed his head as he spoke "I'm sure Roll's got it covered Data, she always does!"
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Post by Mikéy on Aug 18, 2011 0:47:47 GMT -5
The order was placed about 10 minutes ago. But, Roll was also working on something else while she was at it.
Roll was busy with a little side-project on "Z-bay". Each offer for each piece of "merchandise" as well as photography were all ready on her screen. Each piece had a name, a photo, but lacked a minimum bid. She couldn't do that to him just yet... especially since they were about to head straight into the heart of an invasion.
Roll sighed and swapped users over to the login screen so that the Z-bay window would be hidden. Getting back into the swing of air-sailing would cheer her right up!
She wore a smile as she flipped a few switches as she stepped in front of the steering wheel and listened to the engine warm up, and began lifting the Flutter wistfully into the sky.
"Lift Off!" Roll turned the wheel to the left and to the right until they were at just the right angle, then she let the boosters give the Flutter a smooth thrust forward, and the journey was on!
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Post by Chaotic Chao on Aug 18, 2011 17:10:53 GMT -5
Tron silently thought to herself her whole plan again. She didn't wholeheartedly trust the lizard she was with, even if he did potentially save her from ever having to go to that horrible place they called a desert again. And not bringing Gustaff with her ended being a slightly bad idea. Getting Ezo to do what she wanted ended up being the only quick and easy way to follow Megaman, wherever he was going. Also, if this guy was really as gullible as Tron hoped, she might even get him to get some money out the island's city where Megaman was going. If he was going to a city, that is. Plus, once she finally confronted Megaman, she would have the perfect reptilian persuasion if he refused. She just had to get this guy on her good side and nothing could go wrong.
Tron had sat and waited anxiously the entire time for Megaman's ship to fly and whispered a small "Yes!" when it finally did.
"His ship! It's leaving! Follow them, now! Hurry!" Tron blurted out. Tron said it so fast that Ezo couldn't understand any of it, but he was sure she wanted him to follow the ship that just ascended. Ezo quickly set up everything in his mech and took off while flying behind and slightly under the Flutter. "This is perfect. Nothing can go wrong..." Tron thought aloud. "What?" Ezo said. He was still hiding that he knew that Tron was a pirate. Anything to keep the fun in whatever he was getting into. "What? Oh, nothing!" Tron replied, still happy. She noticed the mini TV in the mech and turned it on out of happy curiosity. "This is breaking news. An island by the name of Orana has been under attack by a swarm of reav-" Ezo changed the channel, only half listening to the reporter. Tron didn't mind, either, until she saw the map on the wall of the mech. "Hey, didn't that reporter say Orana?" Tron asked. "Yeah? What about it?" Ezo responded. "Well, look at where we're headed!" Ezo just noticed that they were headed towards an island called Orana. "Yeah...what did that reporter say again...?" Ezo asked. "Weren't you listening at all!?" Ezo nonchalantly shook his head. "She said that Orana was under attack! And she sounded like she was going to say by reaverbots!" Ezo tried to hold back a mischievous smile. This was the action he wanted. Things were finally about to get interesting! "Hey, you said yourself. Megaman might be going to his secret base, and we should follow him. Right?" Tron looked annoyed, but nodded.
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Post by aguy on Aug 20, 2011 23:27:43 GMT -5
Trigger took a deep breath and straightened up, for the duration of the lift-off and the flight so far, he had been fiddling with his buster components to make sure they were armed and readied.
Data jumped up near him and spoke, "Hey Megaman, shouldn't you check on Roll?" Trigger smiled and replied "I'd rather not bother her, she's got a lot to worry about just getting us there, Data. But I'm worried, she seemed a bit unusual." Data nodded and continued, "So you're worried, then why not go check on her and make sure she's okay?"
Trigger sat there silently for about a minute and said, "We need supplies, but we didn't make very much profit from Kattleox. I'm sure that's a reason she this way, if not, then it's one of the reasons for sure. I'll just have to bring back more Refractors & money this time."
After those words an eerie silence befell the two, Trigger thought back to his last battle on Kattleox, and pondered the words his enemy said about him...
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Post by Loken on Aug 20, 2011 23:58:45 GMT -5
Barrel wandered back to his room, the kids knew what to do. They had been doing everything without him for a long time. It made him proud to see how well he had taught the boy, but he began to feel useless. Very rarly did either of the two have anything important to ask him, or need any advice. Working with Amelia on Kattelox to get to the bottom of the 'Great Disaster' was the most use he had felt in ages. Barrel fiddled with his old radio, trying to pick up Bluechers ship. After some time and some static he found the signal. "Bluecher, Werner, are you there?" Said Barrel with a kind of desperation. "Barrel, Yes? Is something wrong? How long until you lift off?" "No, everythings fine Werner, we took off minutes ago." "Fantastic, they really need your boy's help out there!" "What am I, chopped mirumijee?" Bluecher gave a hearty laugh, "Thanks for the update Barrel, was there anything else on your mind?" "I can't lose these kids Bluecher, they're too important." "Of course Barrel, I love them too, and I wouldn't ask this of them if it wasn't gravely important." "You've never been a humanitarian before Werner, I don't want my kids hurt for your fortune." "Barrel I don't have time to argue, I know you want to help these people. I've got to get everything prepared, get back to me when you land. You're my best friend Barrel, I want you to know that."
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Post by Dashe on Aug 21, 2011 1:49:39 GMT -5
Teisel sighed. After walking around Scaffold for a good twenty minutes, he came to the conclusion that the police officer's directions were completely useless. "'It's over on the west side of town, you can't miss it!' Can't miss it my foot!" The pirate shouted out in town, grumbling under his breath as everyone within range of his insanely loud voice glanced at him like he had a few screws loose. "This no-good, dirty rotten good-for-nothing...this had better be west, or I'm gonna..."
"Babuuuu." Bon playfully gurgled as he stomped down the road behind Teisel.
"No, I'm not going to ask for directions." Teisel quipped. "I know which way west is. We must have just made a wrong turn back at the junk store."
"Baaaaabuuuuuuu..." Bon replied back with a hint of a snicker in his voice.
"Bon, what are you..." Teisel did an about-face to see what his brother thought was so funny.
He heaved a sigh as he realized that he'd spent at least fifteen minutes walking in circles around the police compound, which took up an entire block and looked oddly like a walled adobe apartment complex. Talk about hard to miss. "Well." Teisel mustered up a grin. "Looks like we made it. After you."
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Post by Mikéy on Aug 25, 2011 0:03:36 GMT -5
Roll was humming to herself. A familiar old tune that signified the Flutter which she knew well, and kept close to her heart. But her humming faded into a sigh, and she began daydreaming a bit. Now with Orana only a few miles away, she let her thoughts wander back to the “fun” times on Kattelox, and even brought herself to think about The Tower Incident.
Now, it all seemed to be just a little joke between the three of them: herself, Megaman, and Gramps, but all three of them were scared at the time; no question about it. She was so wrapped up in thought that she didn’t hear the radar beeping ever so slightly faster, signaling a non-hostile target following close behind.
It was only when she let the Flutter drift a little too close to the island that she was shaken awake by a speed bump. A speed bump? Heck no, it was the reaverbots shooting at them! With sharp reflexes, she turned the Flutter higher into the air before their barrage of shots could continue. The reaverbots were about a mile away from the city, which already had a fair amount of reaverbots trying to break down the city walls. Some were familiar, and others she had never seen before. Megaman encountered THOSE underground?
She directed the ship over and into the safety of the city, and landed on a landing pad; light as a feather. She then took a deep breath and headed into the hallway.
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Post by Chaotic Chao on Aug 25, 2011 18:49:52 GMT -5
The shooting and the jerking of the large ship in front of them woke up Ezo from his daydream. Once the ship they were following landed, the reaverbots below began shooting at them. Ezo quickly strafed the ship to the right, while heading towards land. "OK, now...let's activate those homing lasers!" Ezo said. Ezo held down a button and a small, heat seeking laser locked on to the reaverbots. Once he locked on to the ones on the coast, he let go of the button, and a wide array of plasma lasers fired out of the front of the mech, making contact with all the reaverbots. The weaker ones were destroyed instantaneously, but the larger ones took more than just a lock on laser. "OK, land over there!" Tron yelled, while fighting back a yawn. she pointed at a spot right behind Megaman's ship. "Once we land, switch places with me. If Megaman sees me, he won't put his guard up!" Tron said, still lying about Megaman. "I don't think it would be that hard to see me. The only thing standing between someone seeing me would be the transparent glass," Ezo explained. "I suppose, but If I tell them I'm here to help fight the reaverbots, they're gonna have to believe me!" Tron said confidently. "I'm not so sure about that..." Ezo mumbled. Tron pretended not to hear it. Ezo descended and placed his mech right behind the Flutter, and proceeded to switch places with Tron. The seat was kind of large for her, but it would do. She then decided to spontaneously exit the mech and walk around to the side of the Flutter and waited to see who'd come out first, ignoring the large reaverbots still by the coast.
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Post by aguy on Aug 28, 2011 6:44:52 GMT -5
Trigger had felt the shudder of the Flutter when it was hit. He knew if a shock like that was possible that there was something big firing at them.
He rushed into the hallway and spotted roll, "Hey Roll, what's it like out there, do you know?" he asked calmly.
((OOC: we mustn't forget: Derix is must-visit island and is like a sub-urb of Orana))
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Post by Dashe on Aug 31, 2011 22:24:36 GMT -5
After clunking into the doorframe a few times, Bon finally turned sideways and carefully stepped into the police station, with Teisel following closely behind. The elder brother quickly took the lead and corralled Bon to the front desk.
"Hi, we're here to pick up the reward for unmasking that foul crook down in the market." Teisel flashed the receptionist a grin that he hoped made him look heroic. It really just made him look like a moron.
"I don't know what you're talking about." The lady behind the desk flatly stated.
"You know, the reward." Teisel deadpanned and lowered his voice a few decibles. "You did get a notification from the officers patrolling the marketplace, right?" After abandoning his sister and nearly every zenny they owned, and allowing Tron to tail that dubious lizard to wherever it was that they were going, there had to be something worthwhile to nab from the police station, right?
"Oh. Right. You're going to want to go down the hall to your left." The receptionist replied with a spaced-out look in her eyes. Apparently this one wasn't the brightest refractor shard in the pile.
"Babu!" Bon gurgled his appreciation as he followed his brother down the aforementioned hall.
Thankfully, they didn't have to go far. They immediately found themselves in a small waiting room with a vending machine. Bon took the opportunity to clink his helmet against the machine and use his palm to hit all of the buttons at once to see if he could get a free snack.
Teisel frowned. "Bon, don't mess with that," he hissed under his breath. "Remember where you are! You don't want to get in trouble in the police station! Now I've got a little bit of change left...did you want anything in particular, or should I just hold onto it for later?"
"Babu! Baaabuuuu!" Bon squealed.
"Right. Sugar Clumpkins. I should've guessed." Teisel rolled his eyes to the best of his ability. "I don't know, Bon, those things tend to make you hyperactive, and I don't want anything getting destroyed."
"Baaaaaaaabuuuuuuuuuu..." Bon whined.
"Fine, fine!" Teisel grumbled. "You're not getting any until we're well off this island, though. I don't want to take any chances while we're still indoors." He slid the refractor shards into the slot. They all dropped into the machine with a satisfying clink. Teisel keyed in the code for Sugar Clumpkins and watched as the spiral holding the packages in place rotated slowly, inching the pack of candy ever closer to the edge...and stopped short a fraction of an inch, leaving the candy hanging over the edge by a corner.
"AAAAUUUUGGGHHHHH!!" Teisel shouted as he grabbed the sides of the machine and violently shook it. "GET! OUT! OF! THERE! YOU! LITTLE..."
"May I help you?" Someone said from the doorway. Teisel froze and craned his head around to see the Scaffold chief of police standing there. He could tell this man was the chief from the chief's badge pinned to his police cap.
"H-hi there," Teisel squeaked nervously, dropping the machine, which had been tilted forward at the moment, back down. The Sugar Clumpkins finally jolted free and clattered to the bottom, prompting Bon to all but dive toward the machine trying hopelessly to fit his giant hands into the slot and claim his prize. "Sorry for the...er...we're here to claim a reward."
"Riiiiiight." The chief pulled out a clipboard. "That particular criminal had a bounty of 5000 zenny on his head. I'm tempted to dock a small fraction of it since you've been trying to steal our candy--"
"It got stuck, I swear!" Teisel cut him off.
The chief frowned. "Right. Anyway, we'll give you the full 5,000 and this official Scaffold Island Arukoitan Bobble Head." He pulled out a tacky bobble head from his pocket. It was the kind of thing nobody in their right minds would be caught dead with sitting on the dashboard of their cars.
Teisel's eyes lit up at the sight of it. It was as if the police chief knew exactly the kind of thing he was into. "WE'LL TAKE IT!" He shouted, forgetting for a moment that 5,000 Zenny wasn't that much money, and almost forgetting to take that money at all. "Finally, my own Reaverbot bobble head! I never even knew they made these!"
"...You're welcome." The chief curtly replied. "Try not to break anything on your way out." He then did an about-face and headed back to his office.
Bon, meanwhile, had managed to get the pack of candy between his fingers. However, he also managed to get his hand stuck in the vending machine. "Babuuuu..." He cooed as Teisel giddily poked the Arukoitan's head.
Teisel glanced up. "Oh." His face fell. "Did you try pulling it?"
"Babuuuu!"
Teisel sighed, set the tacky desk ornament down, and, bracing himself against the machine with his foot, grabbed a hold of Bon's waist and tugged hard. Bon's hand popped off completely in a shower of sparks and circuitry, causing the toddler to scream at the top of his lungs.
"Shhhh! You don't want them to take our bobble head away, do you?" Teisel scolded as he yanked the rest of his brother and the candy out of the receptacle. "I'll radio Tron once we get back to the boat and get you repaired as soon as possible." He retrieved the candy Bon had wanted, opened the package for him, and handed it over, tucking Bon's detached hand under his arm like a football. "Let's get out of here."
"Babu," Bon whimpered as he followed Teisel back out into the city.
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