h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

[Yar uses his saber to deflect the ray towards the Arithmancer's weapon, then leaps up into the air.]

[Yar] Well, /I've/ got issues with /you/.


[Vegeta] [as Yar] "Issues 13 through 231 of Spider-Man, in fact!"

Correction: meant to say he leaps into the air and starts hovering.

*Fortunately, while this room's technology is Force proof, the energy from the light sabre seems to still be capable of deflecting ray blasts. The Arithmancer's weapons seems to notice the incoming beam and homes in on it. There is a quick, nearly blinding flash of light as the chalkboard finishes sketching the incoming ray, and the Arithmancer blinks*

Arithmancer-Curses! Taking the limit of concentrated light doesn't seem to be that visually appealing. Better take precautions....

*The Arithmancer pulls out a pair of sunglasses, the other three scientists following his lead*

*Meanwhile, the flying dinosaur(*) collides with Dr. Harvey's kick. Dr. Harvey seems to continue on his trajectory, only concerned with the fact that he missed WM, not with the giant flying reptile he just slammed into. The giant flying reptile in question seems to have been hurled into a far wall, now smashed beyond any semblance of existance*

Greg-Harvey! My mutant!

Harvey-Eh? Oh, sorry. You know how Full Newtonian Reversals work.

*The four mad scientists seem to reverse tactics, each now going after the person who was there previously. Dr. Harvey's battle suit unfolds to reveal a pair of wings, permitting him to fly up to YK's level in preparation for a flying roundhouse kick, while Greg creates what looks like a winged-monkey with an ant's mandibles that flies up as well. The Arithmancer now aims at Witty and begins taking the slow sketch, while Greklas shoots in her direction*

*GL, currently being overlooked by the villians, takes a deep breath and spits out his enormous wad of PAG. The gooey, sticky mass streaks towards Greklas at supersonic speed. GL ducks behind a box, out of sight.*

*Sees the huge wad of PAG go flying by and breathes a sigh of relief knowing that the Salonistas' odds have just improved somewhat.*

*Pulls a compact out of her clutch and pops it open. She places the mirror between her and the Arithmancer's contraption, hoping that it reflects any image but her own back at the weapon.*

*Greklas notices the gum just a second too late, and has his arm now fairly well plastered to the wall. He slowly begins adjusting the blaster to a lower setting in an attempt to cut the gum off*

*Dr. Harvey stops his flight towards YK, and waves Greg's mutant onward to battle. His aerial vantage point allows him to locate GL fairly quickly, and he lands behind GL*

Harvey-Nice supersuit there, stranger. Looks like it can dish out a lot of damage.

*Harvey spins the dial on his armor all the way up to 100%*

Harvey-But tell me, can it take in its own damage and then some?

*Harvey enters a standard martial arts stance, and once again attempts to deliver a roundhouse kick to GL's armor*

Sorry, Witty. Symlpost syndrome again.


*The Arithmancer doesn't seem to notice Witty's mirror until too late, as the chalkboard switched to sketching the mirror and the mirror's reflection. He checks the chalkboard just in time to realize what's happening, but can't stop the mirror and his Limit Laser from vanishing*

Arithmancer-Curses! The limit laser took its own limit! Compared itself to all the different its in an infinite number of realities, effectively making it zero!

*The Arithmancer grumbles, reaches into one of his many pockets, and pulls out what looks like a modified version of CLI's Calcu-Gator. He activates it, and throws the robotic number-cruncher in Witty's direction as it begins to chomp its sharp teeth*

*Snaps her now empty fingers.*

Darn, that was my favorite compact.

*Witty reaches once again into her clutch and pulls out the cuisinart blade she kept from a previous adventure. She whips it frisbee style at the Calcu-gator.*

[Yar grins widely. ]


[Vegeta] [as Yar opens his mouth, so it looks like Yar is saying:] HIII!!!!


[He throws two chi blasts at the mutant.]

*The mutant dodges the first one pretty well, but has its left wing clipped off by the second one (it's strange to see a fireball clip something, but that's effectively how it worked for some strange reason). The mutant lands on its feet as Greg runs up to it with some form of vial*

*The Calcu-Gator, meanwhile, has contacted with the cuisinart blade. A fierce grinding sound can be heard as it attempts to ingest it, an ultimate failure. It falls to the ground, spits the blade out of its mouth, and heads towards Witty. It is very, very slow now, and obviously on its last legs. The Arithmancer doesn't seem to notice this, and is currently trying to upload a strange program onto the main computer*

Arithmancer-Load, darn you, LOAD!

*Dr. Greklas has, by this time, freed himself and set the blaster back up to its original setting. He fires at YK, a fairly easy to notice target in the air*

[Yar throws one chi blast at Greg and another at the mutant, then uses his lightsaber to deflect Dr. Greklas's shot towards the main computer.]

[Mog, meanwhile, comes up behind Dr. Greklas and glows green for a moment, while the word "Sleep" appears at the top of the screen in white letters against a blue message box.]


[Vegeta] .....


[Mog] Sleeeeeeeep!

[He points at Dr. Greklas. If this spell is successful, a pinkish aura will surround the bad doctor.]

[... as well, of course, as the doctor falling asleep. ]

IM EXPERIENCING IRL TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES AND HAVE ONLY A SEGA DREAMCAST TO USE TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET WITH ANDI NEVER BOUGHT A KEYBOAORD FOR ONE SO MY TYPING MAY BE BAD FOR A WHILE


/dr. greklas doesn't often sleep due to his alien physiology, but he does seem to look fairly groggy. he attempts to shoot at yk again, but misfires and shoots the returning blast. the mutant, meanwhile, receives the blast full force, just as greg getsto it and begins administering thecontents of the vial. the computer is hit but must have been sprayed with dr. harvey's full newtonian reversal spray, thus causing the blast to bounce back to yk. arithmancer is allmost done w/his program. /

*Witty hesitates slightly, assessing the comparable risk between the calcu-gator and Artimancer's computer thingy. She aims her nano-gun at the computer console and fires a million watt mega-magneto pulse at it, hoping to short it out.*

*Dr. Harvey's roundhouse kick catches GL in the shoulder, causing him to stagger sideways a couple of steps. GL looks down at his shoulder with raised eyebrows.*

Cool! I didn't feel a thing, except a little unexpected push. The suit absorbed the ... Ooooo, what's this?

*GL's eyes appear to be focused on something in the mid-distance. Actually, his eyes are focused on a pop-up display that has just, er, popped-up in front of him. He quickly reads the information.*

So, Dr. Harvey, you have a super suit too! That kick delivered a substantial force - nearly 85% of what MY suit...

*GL launches his own roundhouse kick at Dr. Harvey*

...is capable of.

Returning blast?


[Yar deflects the blast again, this time at Greklas.]


[Bulma] Shades of Phantom Ganon!


[He then flies across the room towards the computer, throwing one chi blast at the Arithmancer and another at Greg.]

*greklas doesn't even see the approaching danger,but his drowsy staggerring permits him to dodge perfectly,causing mog to be the new target. The arithmancer hears the incoming attck and jumps to the side causing yk and wm's attacks to hit the computer, bounce off, and reflect back at the respective shooters. greg, however, is so busy with his mutant, and is knocked unconcious by the blast. meanwhile, the program has loaded and launched, and the arithmancer begins to glow just when the calcugator dies. harvey simply stands and smiles at gl's kick. when it connects, the total sum of thekick rebounds back, effectively making gl kick himself.*

harvey=i recognize you now, mr. lupus. you're the coowner of cli, the place that thinks i'm not good enough for their brand of science. well, here's an exampleof my work. newton said that every action has an opposite reaction. however, my newtonian revetsal spray makes the reaction reverse back to the action. in other worda, i'm rubber, you're glue,....you know the rest. HOW'S THAT FOR SCIENCE??? HUH??? i know that you weren't the one to interview me, but i think that i'm more than qualified. while you can't hurt me at all, garius, i can simply wear you down.

*so saying, he throws a fairly strong punch*

*Witty sets the nano-gun for SEP and fires at the million watt mega-magneto pulse, effecting lobbing it back at the arithmancer.*

[Mog gets knocked over, and he lies there, stars revolving around his head.]

[As the reflected chi blast heads for him, Yar readies another one. He catches the deflected one.]

[Yar] Thanks!


[Vegeta] [as Yar] "Now let's keep playing catch!"


[Yar throws the combined chi blasts at the Arithmancer as a beam, i.e. instantaneously crossing the distance. Or as instantaneous as light gets.]


[Vegeta] [as Yar/Black Mage] "HADOUKEN!"

*The punch smacks into GL's suit with no noticeable effect, other than GL's initial wince, followed by a look of surprise, followed by a look of smugness.*

Man, this suit is cool!

So, Dr. Harvey, what you are saying is that any force applied to you is reflected back instead of actually being applied to you. That would mean that both action and reaction are directed back to the originator. Verrrrrry interesting.

Let's follow that more closely. Say I punch Greg over there. The force of my punch would be applied to Greg, and by Newton's Law, the reaction is applied to me - an equal force that is absorbed by my muscles, transfered to my feet and negated by friction with the ground. Now, say I punch you. Both the force of the punch and the reaction must follow that route to the ground. Okay, so far so good. Now, say you punch me. The force of the punch applies to me. However, the reaction must apply to you! But your suit redirects all forces that are applied to you back to the originator - and YOU were the originator. Thus, there is a feedback loop set up where the reaction to your punch is multiplied like the screech of a microphone too near a speaker. Thus, if my calculations are correct, any minute now, you should be overwhelmed by the amplified reactions from your kick and punch.

*Peers intently at Dr. Harvey, waiting for him to be knocked off his feet.*