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| Author: | NPC [ Tue Feb 14, 2012 6:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Never had to knock on wood (Ch. 4 Ending) [Mako] |
The command center looked like a warzone. A big section of floor was charred, warped and sagging, as if partially turned to slag. Smoke was billowing up through the glowing, yellow, cylinder-shaped isolation field, which flickered occasionally, but dutifully hummed along, doing its job for at least a little while longer. Ugly as it was, living bodies rained off the tower-like command center platform, propelled out of the isolation field by the blast. They plummeted to the distant metal floor below. Seven's bomb in that comparatively small area was overkill, no question. The power was so much that even his own cover didn't protect him fully; the black-clad troublemaker lay under a bent, shredded, fully-blown-out computer terminal, which appeared to have been torn out of the floor and knocked over atop him, partially pinning him down. Seven sat up tenderly, clutching at an arm, grimacing, and looking entirely worse for wear in every possible way. He nonetheless lifted the console enough to pull his leg out from under it, rolled over face-down, and pushed himself up onto his knees with considerable effort. He appeared to be experiencing some mix of pain and satisfaction, and coughed every time he started to laugh, and winced behind his grins. "... Biometric analysis interface ready," said the computer's voice. The system was somehow still operable. A probe-like structure with a single, glassy-looking lens on the underside extended from the distant ceiling above, and began projecting a circle of blue, grid-lined light that encompassed the command chair and a space of twenty-five feet around it on all sides. "Please approach the center of the platform." Across the platform, by providence, or simply more of the torment of fate, was the only other remaining individual to not be blown straight off the tower: Mako. His unfortunate sharky body had been dart-boarded straight into a big, hanging LCD screen, which now swayed limply (as if held only by a wire), shattered, spitting sparks, and dangling a fish. Sadly, given the various surfaces he could have collided with, this was the the softest among them. searchindextag chapter4search |
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| Author: | Kazz [ Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: (Ch. 4 Ending) [Mako] |
"My freakin' life," Mako muttered to nobody in particular, dangling from the precariously-hanging remains of the screen. He winced as he slowly worked himself back to standing the platform proper. The entire fight down below up to the explosion and being thrown at high speed into a screen was taking its toll on his sharky being. However, it was only once his shoes hit the floor did he take a look around... that he realized that he was, after the explosion, alone on the platform. With the exception of Seven. "..." The three bang-like fins on his forehead drooped with dismay. "Aw, buckets." Mako took at least some heart from two things: that he hadn't been sent careening into the abyss like everybody else; and that Seven looked even worse for the wear than he, himself, did ... he still wasn't taking his chances. Maybe Seven had more explosives strapped to his underpants or something. The thought thereof made a sort of nervous smile find its way to the shark's face, but it was short lived. The computer-y voice had said something about approaching the center of the platform, right? And personally, he'd rather Seven didn't get the chance first. With a clumsy, shambling gait -- the sort that comes about when trying to run when injured and sore and tired -- the fish made his way as quickly as he could manage towards the blue-lit area, keeping a wary, tired eye on Seven as he did so. |
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| Author: | NPC [ Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: (Ch. 4 Ending) [Mako] |
"N-nuh uh!" shouted Seven as he lunged to his feet, only to fall to one knee first, scramble, and then start limping after the shark. One hand clutched across his abdomen while the other drew the machinepistol hanging from his thigh holster and leveled it at Mako's back. "This is my opportunity!" he shouted and squeezed the trigger. The front end of the gun blew up magnificently, its barrel clogged with debris following the previous explosion. Seven winced and staggered as the weapon flew out of his hand, and let out a shrill sounding yell of frustration, before racing at Mako's back as fast as he could stand to run. |
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| Author: | Kazz [ Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: (Ch. 4 Ending) [Mako] |
"MOTHER OF GOD" Mako took off towards the command chair and its vicinity at a full sprint the second Seven drew his weapon, quite possibly faster than he had ever been pushed to running before. Fear lends the feet wings, as they say. There may have been screaming (not that he would admit to it later if asked... as if anyone would question whether or not he had once more let out that sharky banshee wail-- it was a given). He probably would have just kept running, straight through the lit area and out the other side, if given the chance. However. Mako, being who he was, couldn't keep up this run, at this pace, in his condition, for long, and stumbled the moment before he entered the circle of the center. To his credit, he didn't fall on his face -- merely faltered in his step, enough inertia to keep him going just a few more feet forward-- and it was from exhaustion and injury, not clumsiness. For once. Whatever the reason, he came to that clumsy stop and couldn't muster a start again. He braced himself for imminent destruction of his person. |
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| Author: | NPC [ Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: (Ch. 4 Ending) [Mako] |
Seven tripped and nearly fell, but he continued sprinting. The computer scanned, lights whirling. Seven leaped for the circle. "Biometric analysis complete," said the computer as the boy tackled the shark with a roaring (but still high-pitched) scream of frustration. He promptly began trying to strangle the fish, though he only had one good arm to work with. |
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| Author: | Kazz [ Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: (Ch. 4 Ending) [Mako] |
Mako had just enough time to turn to face his assailant before he was tackled. The shark said something, but it was reduced into a string of guttural semi-syllables by the circumstances (read: being strangled). He bared gritted teeth, and made an unrefined attempt at trying to struggle his way away from Seven. Or get Seven off him. ... or, in any way, to no longer be in contact with Seven. A second after his struggling began, he jammed one knee, as hard as he could muster, into whatever part of Seven he could reach. |
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| Author: | NPC [ Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: (Ch. 4 Ending) [Mako] |
*Tudd.* Seven recoiled with a "hurk" noise through gritted teeth as the knee jammed in his ribs. It was enough to make him lose his grip, but he soon started wailing back at the shark with sloppy punches from that same hand. It was really just... getting ugly and messy and sad, like watching a playground fight. |
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| Author: | Kazz [ Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: (Ch. 4 Ending) [Mako] |
Mako wasn't trying to throw any punches of his own back-- he was just continuing his vague attempts to get away from Seven. After a number of the clumsy hits connected, the fish struck out with his knee again-- and whether it hit anything or not, he proceeded to wrench himself to the side in an escape attempt. Whether it worked or not: "What is your freakin' problem?!" Mako spluttered, his tone something between incredulous and a strange kind of pitying. |
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| Author: | NPC [ Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: (Ch. 4 Ending) [Mako] |
And again with the knee. Seven rolled off to the side with a grunt, snarl, and growl, but still clutched at Mako as he did. Chances were he and the fish were going to roll a whole revolution sideways, still struggling. "You took it!" he wailed bitterly. "This was my plan!!" He started trying to shake the poor guy's head at the floor, but with only one hand working right and no collar on Mako to speak of, his wrath wasn't being terribly well conveyed. |
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| Author: | Kazz [ Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: (Ch. 4 Ending) [Mako] |
The shark spat a bit of blood out of his mouth so he could speak. "Yeahhhhh, about that." Still with Seven bearing down on him, Mako forced his head up and just began trying to push Seven off with a mighty jerk. In fact, if Seven didn't move his head, he'd probably end up on the receiving end of an accidental headbutt. "You're kind of out of your mind." It was becoming more and more obvious from his tone that, maybe, Mako actually kind of outright pitied the psychopath whose path he had crossed entirely too many times. Go figure. |
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| Author: | NPC [ Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: (Ch. 4 Ending) [Mako] |
Seven got nailed smack in the face by Mako's head. "Nghah!" He tilted back long enough for the shark to easily be able to finally get him off. He flopped onto the floor on his shoulder, but soon lunged up to his feet again and staggered back a few steps, heaving deep breaths. "Out of my mind? You wanna see crazy," he panted as he drew a gleaming combat knife, "you got it." |
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| Author: | Sheff [ Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:12 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: (Ch. 4 Ending) [Mako] |
And then there was Geoff. ...wait, where had he come from? He surely wasn't there to swing in and assist his aquatic acquaintance — the isolation barrier was making sure of that — but he still could be seen peering in from the top of the staircase. That still left the question of how he was even there so quickly. Instead of falling the dozen plus stories required to become closely reunited with the floor, the hedgehog, in fact, had been welcomed by none other than the stairs themselves. The combination of his own body weight and crystal had provided some resistance from the forces pushed upon him by the explosion, but only enough to where he'd just slipped right off the tower. One story later... crunch. Now he stared through the two foot thick film of yellow that separated him from the command center, a weakened look of frustration in his eyes as he watched the (almost) saddening struggle between boy and shark, grimacing lightly at the sight of the new weapon drawn. Such irritation didn't stay dormant for long. "Mako, how 'bout you show some competence instead of letting him beat you into a piece of sushi?" he barked like some sort of drill captain. "Kick his ass!" |
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| Author: | Kazz [ Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: (Ch. 4 Ending) [Mako] |
Mako shuffled to his feet right in time to see Seven's new weapon. His pupils contracted, and a sort of nervous smile pulled the corner of his lip up. "Great. I'm trapped on a tower with a raging socio," the shark mumbled to himself, but the sound was lost under the to-him unexpected yell from outside the ring. "I'm working on it, Sparkles!" he called over to the hedgehog, though he kept his eye trained very carefully on Seven. Despite his tone, he was at least a little grateful for the hedgehog's appearance. A friendly face couldn't hurt, even if he couldn't get inside the battlezone... Mako breathed out heavily, barely daring to blink. "Yeah," the shark said said slowly, and actually took a few steps back as he spoke, trying to maximize the distance between him and the boy, "because you know this'll accomplish so much." He was still edging away, tensed, but not ready to strike. Everything about his body language, if not his tone of voice, was a great big flashing neon sign, reading I don't want to fight you, dude. |
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| Author: | NPC [ Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: (Ch. 4 Ending) [Mako] |
"Please say a command," requested the computer quietly in the background, with all the politeness and simplicity of a dash-top GPS. "It will," spat Seven as he staggered closer, brandishing his blade and pointing it threateningly at the shark as he at least attempted to close the gap. "If I can't have it, I definitely won't let a peon like you have it. And the only way to change that now?" Swish-swish, he swung the knife illustratively with a crazy, bitter look. |
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| Author: | Kazz [ Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: (Ch. 4 Ending) [Mako] |
Mako stumbled backward again. His eye flitted to the side as the computer prompted for a command, but... ... now was not the time. He looked back to the, ah, battle at hand, and gave Seven a sort of exasperated look. "Dude," he said sadly, his entire body drooping visibly just as his tone of voice fell at the end of the word. There was about to be a new 'stupid move' on the fish's list of his most impressive stupid moves. He took a deep inward breath, and closed his eyes just momentarily. He straightened up, and breathed out through his nose. When the shark's eyes opened again... there was no change of expression. It was clear he wasn't going to have a big hero moment. His face clearly said, I'd rather be doing anything that isn't this. Well, here went... ... a whole damn lot. And for the third time in total, the second time today, the second time with Seven, he resorted to the battle tactic of full-body tackle. This time, at a dangerously insane boy with a knife in his hand, who unlike either of the previous two, had expressed some genuine intent to harm him specifically. |
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