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

Ow!
*At the sight of the bad fashion, Lil staggers sideways and falls, still holding the wired nanogun. The shigawire slices through metal like a hot knife through butter, bisecting a large console. There is a spectacular series of sharp bangs and flashes as wires and other components are cut in half. Fire and smoke billow out of the console in best Star Trek visual effect fashion*

*fortunately, her fall causes the blaster's force to miss her*

Dang! *cuts the wire dangling from the gun's nozzle*
We need to get out of here. These people are unresonable.
*dodges behind another stanchion, closer to the exit*

*Zakkry jumps past that, and stands directly in front of the door out, effectively blocking the exit*

Zakkry-I don't think you really mean that. We're perfectly reasonable. Put down your weapons, and the fighting ends. Considering that we've gained control of virtually every aspect of security in this section of the prison, I don't think that you'll get very far with any of this behavior.

*The Althian Bounty Hunter throws an Althian Telekinetic Crib at Lil from behind*

[Treble dodges and starts racing towards Kudos for some reason.]

*Avast, the Crib begins its pursuit of Treble. Arr*

The preceding post was brought to you by National Talk Like a Pirate Day. We now return to our regular programing.


*Witty continues to take cover behind the scientists.*

[Treble swerves close to a 90-degree angle and starts running in a different direction.]

The one time that I might have talked like a pirate was to the mayor of Capitan, a former LAPD officer, and I chickened out.


*desperately, Lil sets her nanogun to WEBJELLO and fires at the crib*

I shall be away for a week, please assume that I'm tagging along, weapons invariabily missing the target, but carrying a plentiful supply of biscuits and tea making facilities.

*Ducks down lower while deciding that the time has come to enter the fray. Squeezes marker pen.

Nothing happens.

Jiggles marker pen and squeezes again.

Nothing happens.

Tests marker pen on arm, where it draws a beautifully clear line*

Oh.

*Puts marker pen away, and rumages for an actual weapon.*

*Ducks down lower while deciding that the time has come to enter the fray. Squeezes marker pen.

Nothing happens.

Jiggles marker pen and squeezes again.

Nothing happens.

Tests marker pen on arm, where it draws a beautifully clear line*

Oh.

*Puts marker pen away, and rumages for an actual weapon.*

*Treble's Crib cut the ninety-degree turn short, thus gaining even more*

*Lil's crib, meanwhile, dodged the Webjello, and continues its course. One side of the transparent cube has now turned itself off in order to trap Lil*

*Kudos keeps trying to fight off the cribs, though they're so thick that he can't see them very well, and certainly can't see what else is going on in the area.*

*as a last resort, sets nanogun to WALL: a perspex surface shoots out to either side and up and down, between her and the crib*

Don't do this to me! I have claustrophobia!

Lil, if that hadn't been so cool I would accuse you of cheating as badly as I am.


*The wall certainly does block the Crib, but it does seem to have put Lil into a tight fix for herself*


I don't know if you're close enough to a door to make a break for it, or if you're just trapped there. But if it did, the other Salonistas might have difficulty getting to the door as well. Hmmm....

How conditional!


*makes a break for the door*
*turns at the door, sets the nanogun to SERIOUS BIRDSHOT and shoots the wall to pieces, then turns and escapes down the corridor*


You didn't say I couldn't...

[Bass gets bored and waves to Treble, who teleports next to him.]

[Bass] Let's blow this joint.

[He tries out Flash Man's timestopper on the cribs.]

*Lil makes it out into the hallway, but forcefields errect themselves in every possible direction aside from back into the teleportation station. On another cheery note, the destruction of the wall has allowed the ATC to see Lil again and come barrelling towards her. Al this is watched by a camera just outside of one of the force fields*


I never met Flashman during my jaunts into the MegaMan Universe, but would I be right in assuming that it's not unlike the Centaur's attack from MegaMan 6? If so, then....


*The ATC that was heading for Treble simply stops in midair, while all of the others seem uneffected. The others have practically ensnared Kudos at this point; quite frankly, it's hard to tell what's stopping them from doing so. Maybe because they all want to capture Kudos and can't work out a strategy for sharing, I don't know....*

Uh ... [hurriedly brings up MM6 and tries it out] ... pretty much, yeah.


[Bass smirks, gives the thumbs up, and heads over towards Lil (followed by Treble).]

[Bass] Need a little help?

*Zakkry jumps in front of Bass before he can make it close enough to aid Lil, making sure that his outfit is clearly visible and that his boringly average ray gun is set to disintegrate*

Zakkry-Sorry, but I'm afraid that I can't allow that. That is, assuming that the boys upstairs aren't already enacting the anti-chronoe-dilusion fields.

*Shoots at Bass*

*The Althian Bounty Hunter seems to tire of casually tossing cribs around, and leaps fifteen feet through the air, tentacles flailing, in Caer's direction, ready for some action*

Caer is away for the week and will be horrified to fund herself under attack, even though this seems to be an attack situation.


*Lil tries to fire another wall, but the nanogun is within its replenish time and flashes a message instead*

TRY SOMETHING ELSE

*flattens herself on the floor and grabs hold of a cleat set low in the wall*