NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC: if you want to join, you can be a member of the tour group, or your government...or a member of your government in the tour group....or all 3, etc.

IC:
Atlantis Main Genetic Research Base, Posidopolis, Cirrus

The genetic base had just been opened to the public a few days ago because of the sucessful compleation of the Anubis experement. Commander Vega was working with the scentists in the lunch room.
"How soon can we have an army of these things? The government wants 5 million of these Anubites" said Vega.
"Tell the council that it they shall have their army in about 1 month (RT)" said Rathma "We still have som bugs to work out"
"Such as what?"
"Such as their inability to distinguish freind from foe. They will attack and kill anything that moves at this point, regardless of political affiliation"
"And we let civilians in?!" exclamed an alarmed Vega.
"No fear. Our force feilds will keep the Anubites inside" said Rathma. Then there was a power surge, and everything went off-line.
"Now what?" said Vega.
"Now? We run" said Rathma. He ran to the exit of the building. It was locked.
"Gods-damn advanced computer tech" said Rathma "We're stuck"
"And so is every other being in this base. And we're at the mercy of a race of hungry Dog-men" Vega added

Silmesse Tinarviel's eyes adjusted to the dark almost immediately. As a spy, she had been tasked with gathering information on the Anubis. Not much information had been gathered, and this had made matters worse. She pulled out her Orator splinter pistol immediately. It was a fine work of art. Laden with neuro-toxins, the bullets would have the same effect as being bitten by a Terran Black Widow spider. Her Harlequins Kiss was wrapped in her hands, ready to turn anybodies -or anythings - intestines into mush. She knew the facility roughly, she also knew where the Anubis were kept. However, she knew that she musnt jump to conclusions. After all, this could be a routine drill. Or a blackout. Although she doubted it.

The restrooms doors had locked themselves. She fired a magazine into them, even attacked it with toilet seat. But to no avail. She sat down on the toilet and pondered what to do....

Jamie Zanella was washing his hands in the rest room when the power went off, his eyes wouldn't adjust properly to the lack of light, so he reached into his brest pocket and took out a pair of spectacles, things became washed in a strange orange light. Jamie heard odd sounding gun shots, he clicked another button on the frame and the heat of his hands slid into view, he looked around for where there could be gun shots and saw the person attacking the cubical lock.
"Hey! need some help?"

ooc: heh, assuming Unisex bathrooms :P

Silmesse sharply turned around. She assessed the man. Mon-Keigh of course, but he might be able to help her. Although she could do nothing for him. She would try and help him, or hindrance him. Clutching her Harlequin's kiss and aiming her pistol at his throat she slowly started to walk towards him.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?"

"Hey hey hey! I'm Jamie Zanella I work here! Wondering if you needed any help."
Jamie paniced slightly, merely a show he had his plasma pistol tucked firmly in his coat.
"We need to get out of here, now put the bloody pistol down so we can find a way out ok?"

Vega closed his phone.
"I can't get ahold of anyone in here"
"Of course. To keep spies from sending information as they please" said Rathma.

*************

Deep in the base, they began to escape. Sometimes running on two legs, sometimes running on all fours...they ran through the base

She hesitated then put it down, still as suspicious.

"Do you have a better gun? We need to break this door down..." She indicated the restroom exit door.

"We're safe behind this door, right?" asked Vega.
"Not quite. The Anubites can break through solid steel" then both of them heard a scratching sound coming from beyond the door. Within seconds, it changed into a screaching sound. The metal began to bend in the door.

Vega grabbed his phaser pistol. He turned to Rathma "Do you have a weapon?"
Rathma nodded, then took out another pistol out of a nearby drawer.

*******************

More of them left the holding bay. 3 of them wandered casually to a set of bathrooms....

"Shuush!"She whispered. "Something is coming!"

She readied her Harlequins Kiss and Splinter Pistol.....

Jamie froze, he couldn't hear anything, but decided not to put it past the woman, he merely grabbed his plasma pistol instead, and aimed it towards the door.

"Get back!" She said whilst slowly stepping backwards....

Jamie klicked off the safety and took a few shuffles away from the door, his pistol glowed slightly purple at the end.

Brent O'Reilly had just sat down at one of the tables in the far corner and begun to drink his double shot when the power went out. He was here for reasearch from one of Vi2o's top colleges. He always carried a hand phaser behind his belt, which was hidden by his long, black trench coat.

"Now what?" he said to himself at the room got an eerie dark and he herd some fearfull screams. His cybernetic eyes gave a twich, he then got an infra-red view of the room. He was born clinicly blind and now was testing a project that replaced normal human bone, blood, and organs with posatronic ones. This ment he actually needed to recharge every couple of days. Every bone in his body was made of a high dencity metal used in construction of Vi2o ships in critical areas. His bones, some muscles and eyes where the only things cybernetic on his body. He drew his phaser and waited for somethign, anything to happen.

((OOC: I know to some this dude might seem like a total fake, but he does have weaknesses as does every person. Give me a chance.))

The RSF frigate 32-20 Blues touches down on the base's landing pad. Captain Vinn Stills climbs down the ladder to the pad, along with a few engneers.

The ship had been sent to look at the base, and determine just what was happening. Stills, a robot, is dressed in ceremonial uniform, which looks much like a Royal Navy captain's uniform from the Napoleonic period.

"Hey, where is everybody?"

John Baker had been kicking a vending machine when the lights flickered off.

"God-d*mn stupid piece of sh*t, gimme my candy bar. . .stupid. . . even in the future nothing works. . . hey what the heck?"

The lights had gone off, and his candy had dropped into the slot. He heard people banging against the door to the bathroom across the hall. He looked at the inward-openng door, and without hesitation simply walked away. He had seen those two go in and wasn't about to be shot through the door as they tried to blast ther way out. He sat on a nearby bench and ate his candy, calmly checking the batteries on his flashlight.

"Sod it"
Jamie pulled the trigger on his pistol, and the slight whine and whoosh followed by a purple flame thundered across the Bathroom door, turning the door into a pile of melted steaming metal.
"Now then, shall we be off?" He looked at the woman next to him.

"Jesus Christ! You could have told me you had one of those!" She said in anguish.

"Let's explore"

"Look, there's a man!" She pointed the the disgruntled looking man in the corner, mumbling about a candy bar.....

The 3 Anubites saw the bathroom door blast open. Seeing people running off, the followed, howling.

OOC:
BTW, Silmesse is an elf...

Silmesse emptied a magazine into the Anubites instantly, hoping that the neuro-toxins would do their work. She powered up her Harlequins Kiss, whilst still emptying magazines into them......

OOC: May I make a suggestion? Change the title, it sounds like a cheesy 50s sci-fi film.

"SHIT!"
Jamie spun around on the spot, his glasses seeking out the targets, he fired two shots down the corridor at the Anubites, the large flicks of the purple plasma lighting the corridor as they crackled down it.

Captain Stills knocks on the door to the base, and, without a response, has one of the ship's marines blast it open with a shaped charge.

The door falls off its hinges, and they hear it slide down into the depths, clanging to a stop eerily far below.

"Hmmm....looks like a power outage. Let's go have a look."

Stills steps inside, followed by the rest of his entourage, carrying a high-powered flashlight. The rest of the frigate crew who come with stills carry less-powerful, but still quite good flashlights, as well as FN-90P plasma SMGs.

After as he saw the two emerge from the bathroom, John pulled out his submachinegun and opened fire into the Anubites. Then he yelled:
"This way- the exit is over here."

"C'mon!"
Jamie reloded his plasma pistol with a squeak of the cartrige and ran after the guy with the sub machine gun, his boots clattering loudly on the floor, echoing around the pratically dead station.

OOC: May I make a suggestion? Change the title, it sounds like a cheesy 50s sci-fi film.

OOC: Um...no...I like the title.

IC: The 3 beasts where shot down, their bodies littering the hallway. But another pack of Anubites where coming from the other direction. 5 to be exact

Another 2 Anubites saw a flashlight...and hid before they where sighted, not uttering a word.

The door broke down. Vega and Rathma opened fire, taking down 2 of the Anubites in the first shot. Another 3 came up from behind them, ready to strike.

John killed the first anubite in his path, then turned to fire on the second, which was shot by his partners. Soon the hallway was awash with Anubite blood, and the way was clear. He replaced the magazine but didn't follow the other two.

Rasal-Diplomat was not far into the complex when the power had died. Rasal-Diplomat's fur bristled, he glanced at Syet-guard, his bodyguard who already had his Wtsai blade out and ready for glorius battle.

"Brother, do you smell that?" Syet-guard nodded has he stared forward down the hallway. "I smell combat brother.."

"perhaps even a full names..."syet-Guard mused

Rasal-Diplomat's ears adn tail twitched representing laughter as he drew his own Wtsai blade

The frigate crewmen duck down at the sound of gunfire, and slowly continue down the long staircase into the base.

They finally reach the bottom.

"Well, that was quite a climb. Now, where are we?"
"I dunno, sir."
"Ok, let's go straight here."

"How the hell did we all get weapons?" O'Reilly half yelled to himself while running sideways and firing bright blue phaser beams at an Anubite that he thought was chasing him. He then turned, and ran to the nearest human heat source who was also running...sprinting. It was Jamie. He then tried his emergency locator beacon, which would give him direct access to his craft which was orbiting above. It failed to work in the complex.

5 Anubites smelled another smell. The smell of a fellow man-animal. A cat. They turned and followed in the oder's direction.

Vega and Rathma blasted though the remining Anubites, and then ran down the corrador.
'Where to now?" asked Vega.
"The fuse box. If we can get main power back on-line, the collers around the Anubites will go off, releasing a sound only dogs can hear" Rathma replied.
"Well, where is the box?"
"Uh...about 3 levels down from here"
"Looks like we got along way to go..."

bumpage

Rasal-Diplomat and Syet-Guard crepted slowly down teh hallway on all fours there leathery padded hands and feet subdued a noise they made, Their Wtsai Bladed helding tightly between there razor sharp fangs.

Syet-Guard stopped his bottom remained frigid, Monkey's (humans) where close by but so was something else. His raised his muzzle high into the air taking care sniffs of the air.

The air was rank with the scent of alien blood, Monkey fear and his brothers (and his) own excitement.

"I smell monkeys brother, perhaps we should help them" Rasal-Diplomat whispered to his brother. As his title Dictated his job was to make sure the Patriarchy didn't gain any enemies ... or atleast ones that would soon become slave races, he was a warrior second.

"perhaps we should save a few and give them to the Honoured one for him to hunt, maybe give us one of his kzinrret (female Kzinti) each" Syet-Guard replied slowly his voice never rising any higher than it needed, which would still give a human a hard time to hear let alot understand Hero's Tongue.

"you speak truth brother but now is not the time to decide, after the prey is ours we can decide" Rasal-Diplomat retorted coldly as he continued onward "no is not the time for day-dreaming of full names like a cub sleeping with his mother, there is prey for our hunting"

the pair continued forward deeper into the complexes their eyes,ears, and noses taking in every little detail that went on.

The group of Anubites, compleatly consumed by them smell, ran for the cat beings.

(sorry I didn't post more, I'm kinda in a hurry, I gotta go somewhere. I'll post more later)

Stills and the frigate crewmen are soon deep in the base, and shine their flashlights around, looking for any human activity.

"Looks like this is the power station."

Again Stills bangs on the door.

Rasal-Diplomat stopped mid-stride his body visibly tensing, his fur bristling with anticipation of teh inpending battle. Rasal-Diplomat removed his Wtsai Blade from his mouth and held a tight grip of his blade making his claws extuding completely out of the ends of his leathery finger/toe tips.

His brother Syet-Guard did not tense although his fur too bristled in excitment. Instead he stood up on 2 feet his claws jagged out, he slowly removed his Wtsai Blade from his mouth, He paused for a minute before Screamed in human english although it contained a unique accent home only to wunderland.

"You dare attack us?! Oh woe to they who rush blinding into our claws and into the Jaws of The One Fanged God. Go Ch'rowl(mate etc.) your rret (kzinrret meaning female Kzinti, rret meaning Female)" He Thumped his chest fiercely resonating with a resounding "THUMP!" that would make anyone cringe "..sthondat" ('unfit for kzinti consumption'. Sthondats feature in a great many colourful kzinti insults)

Syet-Guard clenched his Wtsai blade tightly as he raised his muzzle taking in the scent of these monkey monstrosities. Rasal-Diplomat did not hesitate to stab his Wtsai Blade up into the ceiling, slwoly crimson made it's way down to the hilt of his blade, he removed the blade from the ceiling a thud following as his victim collasped onto the ceiling titles above his head. a moment later the roof around them exploded as 2 of these beasts came through darting straight at the two brothers.

(Rest edited in)

Syet-Guard tackled the Anubis warrior while it was mid-jump, his claws cut through the creatures flesh as the collided adn fell in a tangled mess as the too clawed and bit at each other, A large howl flowed from the dying Anubis warrior as Syet-Guard ripped the flesh of his throat.

Rasal-Diplomat circled his prey his Wtsai blade rready to spill blood from his foes. His ears were flat against his head, he screamed as he lept at the creature his Wtsai blade in hand. Rasal-Diplomat sent teh warrior sprawling as he pounced on him again batting him around with his hands before finishing him off with his Wtsai blade.

John realized that if his targets ware still here, they would have to be fighting the same enemies as him. Not that that would stop him from completing his mission, just that it would be harder.

Vega and Rathma ran down the flight of stares, heading for the control room. They ran up to a room full of dead bodies.
"Scientists" said Rathma, walking inside. The two entered the room, looking at the carnage. the bodies had been torn up, their blood spewn across the table and floor.
"Ouch" said Vega. Then he stopped. He heared breathing. not normal breathing. more like the one of a dog. A big dog. He slowly raised his pistol, and turned around, looking for the creature. There it was, right in front of him. Holding Rathma's head.
"Oh gods" muttered Vega. So much for his old freind. The Anubite glared at Vega, showing his teeth. The two of them stood, nither making the first move for the longest time.
Finally, Vega aimed his pistol. But before he could fire, the Anubite charged forth and knocked the gun out of his hands. Vega was slammed agesnt the corner of the wall, holding back the Anubite's jaws with his bear hands.
(OOC: Ug, so much for one of my major characters, Rathma)

Near the control room, 3 Anubites neared the party of Robots. Not sensing any natural body heat, the Anubites passed by, not attacking.

One of the Anubites near jhon was still alive. It was bleeding fearcly, but it tried to stand up.

The Anubites attacked by the Cat people howled as they died. Their howls where heard by other Anubites, who began to head for location of the howls.

"Bloody hell!" shouts captain Stills as the Anubites pass by. He jumps back in fright as the animals are cut down by Plasma SMG fire.

Finally one of the engineers manages to get the door to the power station open, and the party enters.

John noticed the movement to his left, and gunned it down. He wasn't taking any chances. He picked up a set of NVGs off a nearby dead guard. Nobody, human, Anubite or anything else was going to get the drop on him. He had been trained for his entire life in combat, and this mission was very important. He kicked open the door to a nearby room and peered in.

Syet-Guard loomed over his kill, his Pelt was a wash of black and orange and blood, mostly the former prey's although his arm was bleeding constantly as the pattern of bite marks wrapped around his upper arm. the His claws ripped away the flesh of the carcass and stuck his muzzle in tearing out his liver.

"Blaugh.." Syet-guard spit the piece of Anubite liver he was chewing on in pure digust "they truely are unfit for eating brother...perhaps we should find more tastier prey to -"

Rasal-Diplomat held his hand up at his brother silencing him, he could smell them and sure enough the slowly crepted out of the darkness at the edge of their vision 3 anubite warriors walked slowly towards them. Syet-Guard turned around his fur raising and his black lips curled abck exposing the bloody fangs. 2 more Anubites had shown up at the oppisite end of the hallway effectively blocking all routes of escape for the two Kzinti warriors. The cieling above them or quite the lack of provided no hiding spots for any other foolish dog beasts to try and sneak attack them.

Syet-Guard leaned against his brothers back flexing his damaged arm experimentally.

"perhaps we should leave one alive for the patriarch to hunt in his hunting grounds?" Rasal-Diplomat asked his eyes staring at the lead dog beast.

"no, Brother the Patriarch would be insulted being sent a gift that tasted so poorly" Syet-Guard replied belittling the dog beasts furiously.

One of the Dog beasts that had snuck around lunged at Syet-Guard , wasting no time Syet-Guard brought up his Wtsai blade up killing the beast in a single blow. The other pounced at the opertunity his fallen comrade had made and tackled Syet-guard to the ground as the beast snapped at Syet-Guard furiously trying to land a fatal hit.

Rasal-Diplomat spun around and slashed the creatures face before pulling the beast of his Brother and sending him hurtling throught eh air just barely missing a Dog beast mid flight. The dog beast landed on Rasal-Diplomat clamping his jaws down in his right shoulder in a vicious deathgrip. Rasal-Diplomat Screamed before plunging his claws into his victims neck forcing the claws to go as deep as they could. The creature clws slowly loosened their grip and he tossed the death dog beast away crumbling on impact of the wall lifelessly. Syet-Guard got to his feet as his brother circled around their last remaining prey. The last dog beast took a step forward then froze, a second later is fell to the floor a Wtsai Blade stuck in his back thrown by Rasal-Diplomat with expert precision.

OOC If somebody would volunteer to be the target of an assasination, I would be very happy. I don't want to have to RP John tracking and killing somebody that doesn't have a chance. Though I would like him to succeed- so don't volunteer your favorite character.

IC John went through the door and saw two Anubites eating a human carcass. He killed them bothe and went to the body. It was a security guard, John took his comm headset, and putting it on, heard:

"quick- get him to the *skssshh* we can set up defences there. It's very important that *skssssshhhhh* survives..." then running footsteps "Aaaargggg one's got my leg... go, get him to safety." followed by shots.

John recognized the voice of as that of his target's chief security guard. So he was still alive, he'd have to fix that. Just then, 2 more Anubites appeared- attracted by the sound of the headset. John blew the first one's head apart, then emptied the remainder of his clip into the second, knocking it to the floor. He placed that clip into the charger and removed a charged one. He loaded his submachinegun and put two rounds into the Anubite's head. He left the headset on the floor and moved on to the next room.

In the power station, Stills and the engineers look around, hoping to find the problem.

They close the door behind them, lest one of the dog-beast things follow them in.

"Ah, I believe this may be the problem."

One of the engineers locates a large, charred spot in one of the generators.

A howling sound schreaked by O'Conners ears. He stopped and checked his six. "Trouble" He mumbled to himself as he looked up and his IR sencors faintly picked out two different heat sources...very close togther. One large, and one humanoid. "Crap!" O'Conner sprinted up the stairs, toward Vega's position. He was being followed. less then a minute later, He entered the control room and saw Vega; Pinned my one of the...things. He quickly raised his phaser as the beast turned his head. He fired. A bright blue phased polaron beam spewed out of the handgun, and the beast gave a yell and fell backward. "No...that was to easy." He thought, and a nano second another beast, the one that had followed him pounced on him. He hit the ground and his cybernetics glitched for a moment. His phaser slid accros the room and stopped before Vega's feet. "Help, damnit!" He yelled under the Anubite's weight which was now sufficating him. The Anubite bit his shoulder "And give me back my phaser when your done!"

((OOC: I cant lose this dude. Hes kinda my favorite...and only...otherwise, I would have already had him killed by the Anubite.))

Vega picked up the phaser and aimed at the Anubite warrior who was about to kill his savior.
"Eat phaser"
He fired the weapon at the beast. It fell over, dead. A hole was now where the weapon had fired; the animal's side.
"Here, I think you'll need this" said Vega. he tossed the weapon back to O'Conner. He picked up his gun. Walking over to Rathma's severed body, he took his old freind's pistol and walked over to O'Conner.
"What's your name?"

"Well, there's currently nothing we can do to fix it, so we should probably report the problem to the station's authorities."

They walk out the door, and run into captain Vega...

O'Conner got to his feet and put his phaser into its holster, which was on his right thigh. "Thanks...Im O'Conner. Im from the ASV." He said, beathing somewhat heavily. "You can just call me Conner, everyone misses the 'O'. Whats yours?" He bagan to quickly tend to his shoulder, then looked at Rathma's body and shuddered a bit. "...a friend?" He said slowly, just before he noticed someone coming through the door. He almost drew his phaser, but only kept his hand near it once he identified them as humanoids.

"I think we found what's wrong with your electricity," says Captain Stills.

"One of your generators overloaded," adds one of the frigate's engineers.

"Vega....and yes...he was" said the Commander, looking at his old buddy. Thats when the LRR guys walked in.
"Well, thats just peachy" said Vega, hearing the problem.

"Well, how in hell do we fix that, or do we haul outta here before they get control of the whole base?" O'Conner frowned and looked around again to make sure nothing was coming. "I think we should set up a parameter, starting with this room. It is crucial that we keep hold of the command room until we kind get a sufficient electricity source. I have got a shuttle craft orbiting overhead, but I cant get through to it in this compound" He tried his locator beacon again, unsuccessfully. "Wait...my phaser...Its got two power cells in it. It is not much, but it could kick start something" He said with a raised eyebrow.

"Well, it looks like a major break. We can't fix it. And unless you keep a spare...I think it's best to get out of here given the current situation, until a spare can be found."

Captain Stills looks around apprehensively, trying to remember which way was out.

Back on the landing pad, the remaining frigate crew play cards while they wait for Stills and his party to return from their adventure into the base. They are totally unaware of what's happening, and assume that Stills is drunk or something, and that's why its taking so long.

A shadow flickered past the door followed by a large thud, A Anubis warrior crumpled to the floor from wall it so "softly" collided with . Rasal-Diplomat limbed out from the shadows helping his Brother's arm around his shoulder and helping him walk. The two brothers were a mess with claw and bite marks all over, their once luxurious fur was now caked in blood and pulled at, although comparatively the trail of dead Anubite warriors looked far worse.

"Phasers won't work. We need a replacement part" said Vega. He looked at Conner. "Look in that closet over there. We need a replacement panel for the generator" the commander pointed at a door in the far corner of the room.

Two of the robot engineers rush over, and rummage through the closet.

"Found it!" exclaims one.

"Over here" said Vega, unplugging the generator's burnt out part "Plug it in here"

The two engineers quickly bring the spare part to Vega, and plug it into the space left unoccupied by the old component. They then check it and dash over to the control banks.

Just as they begin the activation progress, a troupe of Dogbeasts enters the generator room via an unseen door...

"Visitors!" Yells O'Conner as he draws his phaser, sets it to a wide burst and fires at the furry friends who barged in on them. He tries to get a count of how many they are dealing with, so he switches from IR to X-Ray to get a more clear view. "Crap - I see three...no...one more..." He trails off as he focuses on aiming his gun.

The RGF marines aim their heavy plasma rifles, and get into a formation around the engineers and other noncombats. Their infra red systems display the dogs' heat signitures as they move through the power station, preparing to attack. Fortunately, being robots the LRR frigate crewmen have an advantage in that they can't really be bitten or clawed through.

Still, it is quite unnerving to have such animals in such close proximity to themselves. It reminded the marines of that Demon ship they had to capture a while back.

Vega grabbed his gun and opened fire on the Anubite intruders.
"Get that generator working NOW!" he shouted, firing his gun agian. He grabbed his other gun and fired blasts of phaser fire with that too. But the demon dogs just continued to spill into the room.

The engineers work quickly, and connect loose wires, replace blown fuses, and check for short-circuts.

A soldering iron is produced by one of the engineer robots, and he proceeds to rejoin and replace burnt and broken wires, having removed the access panel that led to the electrical circutry. All the while, the marines beat off each successive attack by the dogs, but their numbers quickly become overwhelming.

Then, in the nick of time, the room's lights flicker, and the hum of the big generator begins to grow louder and louder.

O'Conner glances toward the generators as the lights flicker on. "Ok...now what? We got power, but these..." He kills another beast "...they are out of their shields."

"God I hope this is the right button"
Vega ran over to the wall and pushed a small white button.
"This"
The collars on the mutant dogs went off, releasing a high pitched scream only dogs, cats, and other animals could hear. The Anubites squeiled in pain. They fell to the ground, squerming for while. Eventually they stopped moving, and layed motionless on the ground.
"Looks like the project has a long way to go" said Vega.

"Ha!" O'COnenr walks to the nearest motionless fuzzball...and kicks it. "Yeah, that was the right button, Vega."

I wonder if that kid can read minds thought Vega. Either that or just a coincedence.

I wonder if that kid can read minds thought Vega. Either that or just a coincedence.Eh...You didnt state that it was a thought...unless thats what the [i] represents. If so, sorry about that.