NPF Avatars IV, Chapter V: Beyond the Wall of Teeth

[PhoenixFlame]

"DOOM CANNON!!!"

The voice was familiar. Too familiar. Phoenix whirled around and raised her plasma rifle, pressing her eye agaisnt the starlight scope's rear sight as the crosshairs fell over the newcomers's head. She didn't remember deploying Phoenixbot here!

"Vzwrr!" The rifle automatically hummed, like any science fiction weapon did when leveled at someone. On second thought, Phoenix mused, that seemed a bit threatening.

"R... Rei?" Phoenix asked, her right eye peaking over the weapon's scope as she noted the difference in facial style between her own creation and... Her own creation made for Pedro. "What are you doing here... And why do you have classified weapons that I didn't give you!?" The technomage asked the first question with a friendly tone, but the second was distinctly less so.

[POS Industries]

"R... Rei? What are you doing here... And why do you have classified weapons that I didn't give you!?"

"Classified weapons are classified," Rei, in her usual cheerful tone, replied to her addresser as she released the near-dead Mauve into this new incarnation of Pyros' custody, "Oh, hi there, Madame Phoenix! Pe-chan thought now would be a good time to join in on the fun! Also, I've got some--"

Rei suddenly found herself the target of a glomping, though the force of said glomp was not enough to budge the android.

"Rei!"

"Captain Arhra!" Rei exclaimed upon her recognition of the person clinging to her.

Arhra released and stepped back slightly, shaking her head, "Oh, I'm not a captain right now."

"Oh... Okay, Admiral!" Rei shrugged, suddenly turning her attention to the metallic briefcase, locked with only the most advanced of POS Industries security technology, that had been sitting at her feet this whole time, "By the way, Pe-chan wanted me to--"

"It certainly is very persistent for a boulder."

Rei turned to see Pyros drawing his sword, eyes focused intently on the debris from the boulder, which appeared to be reforming in the most magically delicious sort of way.

"Er, maybe we should get out of here," Arhra stated with little affect, "That boulder seems to think its some kind of killer robot from the future."

"Ooh, okeedokee!" Rei grinned excitedly, handing the briefcase off to Arhra, who was already beginning to resume her fleeing. Turning her attention back to the swiftly reassembling mass of stone, a low humming began to emit from the android as she slowly raised an inch or two of the ground, energy crackling all about her and that mischievious grin still plastered across her face. "Well, let's see how mean ol' Mr. Boulder-Robot-From-The-Future does against some of today's killer robot technology!"

[PhoenixFlame]

Phoenix ran up beside Rei, and leveled her plasma rifle at the rapidly-reforming boulder. It only seemed fitting to give the thing a proper send-off. With fire.

"May as well. After all, I've been wanting to make a flowstone armature recently." She chuckled, "Alright! All units focus on the boulder and open fire!"

*Vwzzr!* The rifle crackled to life once more, and Phoenix began squeesing off rapid short bursts of plasma bolts toward the downed boulder, the azure balls of energy slamming into the molten flowstone and vaporizing parts of it that it touched.

[Toastburner B]

"Dood...I guess I'm the only one who doesn't know who this person is." TB squeaked, still dangling upside down in P9's grasp.

Noticing the boulder, TB opened his pouch. Gravity took over, and a seemingly impossible amount of bombs began to fall from it. With a speed surprising for a undead pengiun, Toastburner grabbed the bombs as they fell, and threw them at the reforming boulder, hoping to destroy the boulder, or, at least, delay its reformation.

[Tarrin]

Treamors and vibrations sped down the hallway Tarrin was lost in, Obviously those treamors could come from just one source....NPFers, Either that or some horribly unspeakable doom in which Tarrin would be lost forever, Weighing the options He decided to travel towards the disturbance.

The vibrations became noises"...Explosions" Tarrins smile returned to his lips, The NPFers had to be behind that, Rounding a corner he looked across an opening to the assembled group, THe small undead penguin that was TB furiously threw bombs at a pile of rubble, No not rubble....A reforming boulder, Wow now that looked like fun to Tarrin, However sofar the maze had been not his friend so he decided on dicresion and walked towards the rest of the fourimites.

[mauve]

"Dood...I guess I'm the only one who doesn't know who this person is."

"Oh, that's right," Mauve realized aloud. "Somebody decided they were too busy to join the last Save The World mission, so they never met Rei."

She waved a hand airily between the upside-down Toastburner and the weapon-encrusted Rei.

"Toasty, meet Rei; POS Industries' computer embodied. Rei, POS Industries' computer embodied, meet Toastburner, resident teamkill victim and current bomb-throwing maniac."

Mauve's hand closed into a fist and an aura of white-blue magic formed around it.

"Now that we're all chummy, let's destroy and/or escape this latest bouldery problem." she said cheerfully. She made a motion as though throwing a baseball, and the white-blue light left her fist and impacted with the flowing rock, freezing a chunk of it. For a moment it seemed to anchor the selected area to the ground, but it soon broke free and just became another chunk of something to squish the NPF with.

"Hmm," Mauve said. "Running sounds good."

And so she ran.

[Flarecobra]

Due to the exploding boulder, and my covering a good part of it, caused bits of slimegirl to go everywhere in the tunnel. I myself was hurt pretty badly, having lost some of my material, as I slowly began to reform lyself behind the boulder. "OWWWW!!!! WHOEVER FUCKING SHOT THAT IS DEAD!" I screamed out as soon as I was able to.

[Bailey]

Syttulg, still unconscious and tumbling down the hallway, rolled through a portion of Flare which was on the ground and kept going, only to finally slow and come to a rest a couple of turns down.

[Fenris]

How did Fenris help them destroy the boulder?

Simple, with his hammer. He stayed back, and threw his hammer at the largest rock, breaking it into smaller pieces. The people with genuine ranged attacks could then break them down further, while Fenris waited for his hammer to return to his hand. When it did, he found the largest one, and threw his hammer at it.

(OOC: I would make this post better. I really would. Except I just got up and I can barely post a sentence in coherent English.)

[Dragonsbane]

It would have been perfectly easy to let the others defeat the boulder on their own, or else get squished flatter than a pancake. Yet...here he was, walking down the hallway in the direction the boulder had taken. He rationalized that they made useful pawns and meat shields, but perhaps he wasn't half as jaded as he thought he was.

He moved swiftly enough to see the boulder explode, and saw some of his hypotheses confirmed by the boulder's amoebalike efforts to reform itself. He pondered the chances of it being, in fact, some sort of Ooze or Slime...a Rock Slime? The idea, while interesting, was not currently important.

Judging the rate of the thing's reformation and the sudden presence of the non-Ayanami Rei, he determined that now was the right time to act. Activating the enchantment in his cloak and transforming the stylish garment into a pair of black draconic wings, he leapt into the air, beat his wings twice, and flew upside-down along the upper curve of the ceiling with his hands and feet scrambling along the roof to provide more momentum. In a few minutes he landed beside the others, brushed himself off, and inquired nonchalantly, "Have I missed anything of import?"