Ultimate Paradise

When an arena is simply too small for you...

This is meant for larger scale battles, taking place above ground, mainly for everyone's newly bought weapons of mass destruction. enjoy!

Misspell of mass. >v>

Hawk stands on a platform of steel, looking around him and running commands through the holographic keyboards and displays projected around him.

Mass, Main... who care... It's intended!

...

...

Ok, I tried to cover it, but no, it won't work.
Tyrenion: "Ahem..."
I forgot to stop the mic, right?
Tyrenion: "Uh huh."
Whatever. Everyone is ready?
All (Except Adynos): "YES!!!" Adynos: "Grrmbl..."
The plasma thrusters are propulsing the Destructor slowly, as it start it's first manoeuver: turning it's flank toward the opponent, all cannons directed toward it except the main gun.

Hawk grinned happily and summoned a full spacesuit, before igniting a powerful jetpack and heading directly upwards to a twinkling light far above, at escape velocity.

Rallgar: "Our opponent is moving toward what seems his base."
Perfect! He accepts the fight. Jack, prepare the missiles! We have something to bring down in about twelve seconds.
Jack: "As you wish, sir."
The plasma stream is now more intense. The Destructor follows Hawk toward their unlimited arena.

Heading for his satellite, he sends a few commands to it, and watches as all his backup sat's converge on it and attach to it, and also as the insides reconfigure. The new ship shimmers behind the Grid, an antimatter forcefield, and he drops through a minute gap in the shielding before it closes behind him.

(Moment of awesomeness: as I clicked reply started on my randomly generated playlist the final air battle music in Skies or Arcadia)

*Missiles are fired from behind the command control center and aim at the shield, with obviously no effect whatsoever*
Nik, show me.
Nikoleis: "No problem!"
*New missiles, but this time, something hit these, from a magitech amplifier*

The OSP hums, some of it's new abilities gaining power, and it puts some extra defense layers in, and vanishes completely, but visible as a pure black ellipsoid in space.

*The missiles ignores any barriers*
Nikoleis: "Eh! I knew opening a portal in front of these would be convenient!"
And fun part, these are set to explode soon after losing contact with us, so they won't simply fly through their target!
Nikoleis: "High five, boss!"
... A voice doesn't have a hand...

*Watches from LawnChair*

This is gonna be a hell of a thing.

None of the missiles detonate at all. In fact, no trace of them can be seen, or is seen ever again.

(Cookie to whoever works out what happened to them.)

Gaffit: We're here live today at what can only be described properly as the first ever CoS Inter-Galactic Airshow! Joining me in this one of a kind event today is Drake Kin. Beautiful day isn't Drake?

Drake: What the Hell am I doing here? I don't know the first thing about spaceships.

Gaffit: Yeah, but I need someone to banter with, and you were the only member of Team Gamma not currently on a mission. This is what you get for slacking.

Snorlax ate them Give me the damn cookie.

I had better expectation from this plan!
Nikoleis: "Hey! It WAS brillant!"
Grumble...
Tyrenion: "We've begun the analysis of what sent the missiles back when crossing the barrier."
Rallgar: "Expect us to tell you what lies behind this wall of darkness soon."
MAJ: "Capting rogue transmissions, asking permission to fire at will!"
Looks like some others one know about space battle...

(Shoot down, EMPed, sent into another dimension, timestopped by Void if you're really, REALLY mean.)

(If anyone, Gaffit could have the most educated guess. <v<)

The black ellipsoid parts briefly at the front, and four Hell beams rake the Destroyer.

(I ALREADY TOLD YOU, SNORLAX EATED DEM!)

A quick manoeuver allows the ship to avoid most of the attack, while the shield took the rest.
Piezzo: "Woo, dad is the best!"
*More missiles are fired, this time in different intervals to try to hit while the ellipsoid disappears*

(Let's hear his guess... but later for me. 1AM is early enough. Night!)

(Night!)

The black ship turns and the missiles vanish into the blackness again.

Gaffit: I still want you to use that Kinetic Barrier aggressively. It has the potential to be so amazingly cheap.

(>v> Oh, I'm using it at the moment. It's what's keeping mah ship intact.)

(Oh, that's pretty smart then...

But wouldn't it eventually crush your ship if it takes too much damage, and the structural integrity can't withstand the force of kinetic shielding?)

(Oh, no, the kinetic barrier is protecting mah ship from the Black Stuff.)

(Ah! I thought you were just saving a bundle on not having to use any nuts and bolts or something!)

(Nope.)

Rallgar: "Analysis complete, it's a wall made of darkness."
Nikoleis: "This mean I'm on it!"
*Nikoleis draw his solar blade and then fire a light beam with the magitech amplifier*

It hits the wall and vanishes. (Black=/=Dark. I have no powers over that.)

Hmm... either it's pure void...
Tyrenion: "... Or a stasis field..."
Nikoleis: "Easy to know: I'm writing an override matrix for dimensional, gravitational and density modifications. Just close in so it enters my control range."
Piezzo: "Then we're closing it? Ok!"

(In (fragmented >v>) english, please?)

(He's making the field a solid, i believe. Then again, i'm am idiot)

(It's Nik's reality matrix ability. If your shield uses one of these parameters to work, then it's going to disappear because it will cancel any changes from its normal value.)

The black field vanishes, revealing the Grid energy field around the ship.

Every weapons, fire at will now!
*Does so, sending all plasma round, laser shot and missiles boom possible*
Piezzzo: "Preparing to move before the counter attack!"

The missiles, the shots and everything is intercepted by the antimatter Grid.

Fired back are nuclear missiles by the mass, Hell lasers and two or three experimental Grey Goo warheads.

*Hell shots, being the fastest, does hit the shield. Anti missiles lasers took care of the others threats.*
Tyrenion: "Shield down to 61%"
Yeah, yeah, that was to be expected... But Nik? Why didn't you shoot?
Nikoleis: "That's called trying to maintain a stabler Universe!"
... So let's see how long the grid will endure this... turn over and position yourself to shoot the Apocalypse cannon!
Piezzo: "Roger!"

The gridded ship splits into it's component parts.

Apocalypse cannon! Fiiiiiiirrrrreeeee!!!!
Jack: "... On what?"
Just fire already, ask question again!
*A shell made of pure energy goes throught the Grid*

(>v< Ooh... *That* ain't going to be pretty.)

*BOOM* The energy hits the Grid.

Did we hit? DID WE HIT?
Rallgar: "Our sensors are recovering from the energy drain... just a moment."

Most of the satellites recombine, and some flickering in the Grid tells that that trick won't work twice. The Conglomerate takes it's return shot, firing a black Hell beam at it, a Gravity beam, a linear black hole.

Nikoleis: "*Mumming a FF style victory fanfare*"
Rallgar: "Can you stop monopolizing the generator?"
Nikoleis: "... Say that again?"
*Looking at how his matrix is responding to the attack and see that the attack is overcoming its reality control pattern*
Nikoleis: "... Everyone, grab anything you can, it will hurt, badly..."
*The matrix breaks, and the shield is unable to stop even the weakened attack, damaging the hull*

Conglomerate takes advantage of this and splits, encircling the Destroyer, every capable satellite firing nukes and Hells at it, with the Rods from God installations laying mines around it. Conglomerate then re-merges behind the Destroyer.

*Automatics systems stops some attacks, but others are hitting, making large breachs in multiple exterior systems. The ship's core and the vitals sections are however better walled behind countermeasures and are not harmed much*
Tyrenion: "Secondary systems almost all blacking out. Primary systems under repairs!"
Rallgar: "Drones released, MAJ is piloting a squadron herself and takes on the mine field."
Nikoleis: "The amplifier is surcharged, it will takes time to fix, but I'm on it!"
Sundy: "... Adynos, are you wounded?"
Adynos: "Only my self image... can't you blow up at another time for the next one? The toilets emptied on me..."

Conglomerate turns so it's front end is pointing at the Destroyer, and fires all it's beams at Nik's engines.

We're... we're not moving!
Piezzo: "We've lost out engine, Captain..."
Tyrenion: "The chain reaction is that many systems are overenergized, our derivation system being dependant of these as evacuating mean."
Jack: "May I shoot back at it with our energetic weapons to resolve this issue, sir?"
Yes, fire at will. Rallgar, I want you to find a way to move... Rallgar?... HEY! The main computer room hasn't been hit! What happened?

Also, stop the verbal butchering: It's Destructor, not Destroyer! <- RPed, do not take it personnally ^_^

Conglomerate holds position, engines shutting down.

*Plasma is shot from the rear turrets still in activity, drones are now guarding all the remaining key systems.*
Nikoleis: "This is almost rep-hey, Adynos, what are you doing here? I didn't call for breakfast!"
Adynos: "Just shut up and activate your piece of junk so I can do what I should have been doing from the beginning!"
Nikoleis: "Oh... that why you took Rallgar... that's heroic!"
Adynos: "I have better odds there than here, dumbass."
Nikoleis: "It's full and ready to go."
*Adynos takes the metaverse warper and set coordinates with Rallgar's help to the Conglomerate control room.*
Adynos: "Bye, losers!"
*Warping*

The gravity generator tries to paste them the instant they're on board.

*Adynos is flatened*

... This was to be expected... Hey! Is that me or are we moving?
MAJ: "We found out a way..."
*Drones are pushing the ship*
PERFECT! All weapons avairable, open fire on this pathetic excuse for a spaceship and blow it away from space!
*As the ship is turning all base weapons fires.*
Tyrenion: "We still have energy issues..."
Then start loading the Apocalypse cannon already and line up that clay pigeon!

THe Conglomerate spilts again, each Gridded satellite destroying incoming fire.

Nikoleis: "... And that's fixed!"
MAJ: "Can we?"
Nikoleis: "Uh, sure, but I don't see..."
*The three fused girls approaches the amplifier and releases a humongus magic beam from it toward the Conglomerate.*
Nikoleis: "*Jaws broken* Ahhhhh......"

(Conglomerate has split, what (part of it) are you firing at?)

(Oh, yeah... The one most in front of the Destructor's (former) engine.)

(Most in front of it's engine?)

(The one at my back, if you prefer.)

The beam takes out two Hell relay satellites.

Conglomerate runs up the Chrysanthemum laser array, and each satellite does it's best to wipe the Destroyer's fighters.

*The girls unfuses*
MAJ: "My toys! My lovely, obedient toys!"
MAJ: "Sorry for you... now it's scrap."
Nikoleis: "Scrap you say? ... Eh, it may work, after all..."
Hey! Why are you running like that?
Nikoleis: "I'm going to show you my latest weapon idea! Try to repair the shield while I'm out!"
Jack: "Apocalypse cannon ready to fire again."
Then fire at anything, gain time for him.

Conglomerate spreads out, a complete sphere around the ship.

(Sadlygrove is the english translation. <v<)

(That's why I use that one. Tristepin wouldn't make much sense to you.)

(In space, protected by a kinetc sphere holding enough air for him, the tachi in hand)
Nikoleis: "Spreading? Perfect!"
*At first, anything metallic freely floating around is grabbed by a magnetic sphere, then a large solenoid is formed with virtualized matter... and he point out the weapon toward the highest energy nod sensors could transmit him the coordinate.*
Nikoleis: "Hyper railgun, FIRE!!!"
*He fires by putting his tachi into the structure, causing an intense magnetic field to send out all the grabbed metal at high velocity toward this structure. The ship is giving him a support fire*

(I mean, you spelt it wrong. <v<)

An intense magnetic flux is created around Conglomerate as a whole, countering Nik's flux.

Nikoleis: "^_^"
*A small matrix, and the magnetic field is reversed in polarity... which should be fun against the grid, made of plasma, polarised by definition. Also, going to shut down the Destructor's generator since it's based on plasma too.*

The Grid, made of antimatter, holds fine, Hawk's own magnetic field increasing until the Destructor is contained in a plasma bottle. Hell beams streak in from all sides, as he kick-starts the fusion reactor Conglomerate has created, with the Destructor as it's fuel source.

(Not plasma? Damn, should reread profiles sometimes... )

My ship! My glorious ship! Do something before I annihilate you!
Nikoleis: "Will a super nova do the trick?"
*Put sunglasses* Go ahead... not like we could win now anyway...
*Nikoleis throws some instability in the fusion core, and send it every Joule of energy avairable in the surrounding.*
Nikoleis: "Better be ready to jump away... damn, where is the Metaverse warper again? Oh, yeah, with Adynos... Well, it was fun while it lasted..."

Conglomerate's field arrays strengthen thousandfold.

Nikoleis: "... hate to rely on these kind of trick, but..."
*Throws an antimatter magitech blade in the mix*
*Put a shield between him and the expected explosion, not even hoping for it to allow him to survive*

The last thing the Conglomerate does is to throw up it's black hole shielding.

*Explosion of galactic magnitude*
*Nikoleis is divided by zero*

Conglomerate is mostly safe behind it's shielding, but a few more sats are breached irrecoverably.

Conglomerate is alone in space, everything was destroyed.

(^v^ *dances*)

Conglomerate disperses, and Hawk descends back to the earth, tosses his helmet aside, and walks off.

(And now start the hell of AP distribution...)

(How's it work, then?)

(If we go as Dmax suggested, I would earn 4x your AP total, which would be unfair, right? What I suggest is everyone get 3 AP. You only used Hawk so he should get the 3 of these, I would divide these between my chars, depending of their useulness. Why 3? Because you're worth so much and I was outnumbering you so it seems fair for me.)

(Fair enough. ^v^)

*Dark clouds billow overhead, despite the fact that this is space*

*The clouds thicken and spread, eventually encompassing the entire field of vision*

*In the middle of a darkened room, Rief sits in a central chair, his leg propped on top of the other and a big grin on his face*

Rief: Status report.

Lotus: We appear to be in top shape.

Rief: "We appear to be in top shape, Captain"

Lotus: The day I call you captain is the day you choke on your internal organs.

Rief: Daw, I love you too Lotus!

Lotus: **** monkey...

Beta: All secondary systems are go!

W.A.R.: Weapons and Defensive systems are online and functioning to their maximum capacity.

Drake: Our enemy appears to be dead ahead Captain!

Rief: See? He called me "Captain", how hard is that? Good work greenie. Lotus, kill the cover, W.A.R., prepare us for combat, Drake, you... monitor something... let's begin our maiden voyage.

*As the clouds disperse, a massive mech the size of the moon stands before all who oppose it*

Standing before them is Hawk, on a small metal platform, giving them the finger.

Drake: Well that's not very sportsmanlike...

Rief: W.A.R., open fire.

*W.A.R. links to the weapons systems and accesses the Gamma Cannons, raining 20-meter wide Gamma Rays at Hawk*

He laughs and ascends into the OSP's gun barrel as it shields him from the gamma with powerful magnetic containment shields. Around them are the composite parts of Conglomerate.

(Conglomerate is your ship right?)

Rief: No need to speed things up too fast men... and plant. Fill the Razer Laser Turrets and Gamma Cannons with Weaken-U, first and foremost, we need to get through Hawk's defense systems. That's gonna be the hard part.

*Hundreds of potioned Gamma Beams and Razer Lasers, each 20-meters wide fly into the fleet*

(Yup. You like?)

They respond to the potions by combining, amping their defenses up massively.

(Haha, very appropriate. Of course I like it)

Drake: They're combining!

Rief: Damn, I was hoping we'd be able to weaken their shields before they fortified them...

Lotus: That's the least of our worries at the moment, might I point out what happens to their firepower when they merge.

Rief: *Cracks his knuckles* Alright I get ya, time to be serious. Beta, activate the Captain's Chair. Lotus, assist the ship with the changes. We're going in.

Beta: Aye aye!

*The chair Rief's sitting in suddenly forms a grid around Rief, scanning him completely*

Computer: Scan complete.

Conglomerate blasts hundreds of boarding pods at them arcing twisting turning and dodging. They are designed for clamping onto a ship, cutting in and disgorging lots and lots of marines.

(Damn, now I can't think of a name for my ship)

*As the pods try to land on the ship, they seem to disintegrate on contact, atomized by a thin layer of Razer Lasers that covers every molecule the ship is made of*

*Rief steps up from the Chair, suddenly the mech responding accordingly*

*Rief reaches for his back and grabs one of his RLWP's, which suddenly appears in the mech's massive hands as well. The RLWP forms into a huge katana, it's blade roughly 2/3 the size of the mech*

Rief: Beta, back me up here. Some of the pods might've made it. Wake up Alpha if you have to.

Beta: Aye!

*Beta steps into a massive pod located behind Rief which closes around him*

Rief: Lotus, back him up. W.A.R. and I will try to take care of Conglomerate.

Lotus: Okay! *Lotus takes a plug from the computer console and plugs it into her forearm, entering a deep concentration*

Drake: Yeah... I'll stay here... at the sensors then...

There's a second wave of pods, and something about them tells him Conglomerate's fabricators have made sure these ones'll get through.

It's main gun begins to glow, as it is warmed up to operating temperature and it's power grid is brought up to full power. There is a corresponding peak on Drake's sensors, so large they offscale.

Drake: Wave 2 incoming!

Rief: Too late. Beta, wake up Alpha! We're throwing our cards down early.

*The Ability Merger Pod fills with fluid as Beta's Alpha Transformation ability is copied by the ship, a firestorm of destructive crimson energy begins surrounding the Mech tearing everything that comes in range to ribbons, as well as boosting the Mech's strength, defense and agility*

Rief: Atta boy Alpha!

Alpha: Just make sure we win.

Drake: Uh... guys... there's a red thing on the screen... and it's uh... getting big, towards the blue thing... and I think we're the blue thing...

Rief: Alright! Let's see what this thing's got! Alpha! Multiply by 1,000!

Alpha: Hah! You got it!

*The Mech Slashes towards Conglomerate with it's RLWP, while Alpha's ability multiplies the strength of the slash a thousand fold and sends the energy flying into Hawk's ship*

*Rief takes out his Tonfa, the Mech doing the same*

Conglomerate splits neatly down the middle, power arcing between parted conduits.

Rief: Well, that was easy... Alpha, would you be so kind?

Alpha: What? You want this fight to be over that quickly? Fine with me I guess.

*Alpha forces the blade of energy to explode as it reaches the middle of the Conglomerate units, sending shredding crimson energy in all directions*

Rief: They're separated, let's finish this quickly while they're individual!

*Rief draws his lightning shotgun with his free hand, the mech following suit. Rief pulls the trigger*

*The Mech's shotgun sends thousands of potioned lightning rounds into scattered into the Conglomerate units*

*W.A.R. provides additional fire, with Gamma Rays and Razer Lasers, and potioned shells*

Rief: Lotus! Launch 'em now!

*Hundreds of drones detach and fly with lightning speeds towards the units*

Conglomerate is reduced to dust.

Drake: We did it!

Rief: Bullshit, it's not that easy.

*Rief's bionic eye scans the fields, the mech's bionic eye responding by scanning the surrounding area for anything out of the ordinary, as both tonfas come out of the Mech's forearm*

Rief: Lotus, use your uplink with the computer to look for any signs of life.

*Lotus searches the area for Hawk's life signature*

No traces of anything but drifting dust.

Rief: Alpha, unmerge your ability with the ship.

Alpha: Are you retarded or something? My crimson energy is the only shield this thing has.

Rief: Do it.

Alpha: Your call. *Alpha unmerges with the machine, causing the tank to spit out Beta*

Rief: Lotus, activate the cloak.

Lotus: Right, preparing to exit space-time.

Rief: It's not going around us.

Lotus:... Okay...

*Rief stands the mech down, with his arms crossed across his chest, waiting for something*

(So, am I just paranoid or what?)

(Oh, no. You have a good reason. I said Conglomerate has fabricators. If you were Hawk, how would your ship defend against a sword?)

In about ten seconds worth of time, Conglomerate has reforged from nanites behind the mech, and Conglomerate's main cannon fires at where the mech was.

Rief: Thought I told you. I'm not using the cloak on ourselves. Lotus, decloak the drones.

*The drones launched earlier decloak around the reassembled Conglomerate before exploding, creating massive electrical surges and EMP bursts that fill the area*

*Rief quickly activates both his Dark Tonfa Engines, the Mech mirroring his movements as he raises the spinning Tonfas in front of the beam, the Dark Energy from the tonfas consuming vast majority of the shot*

The Conglomerate takes the power from the drones and ramps it up massively, firing it back at the Mech, upscaling the size and power of it's main gun.

*The EMP fizzles harmlessly over the Mech*

Rief: We ain't running on electricity in here, except for our Telsa Coil guns... You probably took those out... Are our Tesla Coil Guns working W.A.R.

W.A.R.: Negative.

Rief: Yeah... that kinda sucks. Drake, hop in the Merger would you?

Drake: Yes Captain!

*Drake enters the Merger Capsule as Beta returns to his station*

*The Mech Pulls out it's shotgun and opens fire another hail of lightning rounds on the Conglomerate*

Missiles are launched from all points on the Conglomerate towards the mech as the lightning does nothing but recharge the power cells.

Rief: Remember when I said we ain't using normal electricity on this boat? Same goes for that round. What you just absorbed was a complicated fusion of Razer Laser Energy, Gamma Radiation, and Positronic Energy that's in a constant state of flux at a frequency that only our ship itself knows, so only our ship can handle it. The thing about that combination is, a Razer Laser is infinitely sharp. The longer you're exposed to it, the sharper it gets til only something that's unbreakable can stop it. Now, when you mix that sucker with the degenerative effects of Gamma Radiation, which breaks down whatever it's in contact with, you get something that is going to be sliced to itty bits very very quickly. Now I cannot wait to see what happens to your ship with that egg in the gas tank.

Rief: Drake, merge with it would ya?

Drake: Yes captain!

*The Ability Merger absorbs Drake's Dragoon Armor, which increases the Mech's defenses exponentially as it soaks in the missiles*

Conglomerate spits the energy back at the Mech.

The missiles are nukes, and powerful at that.

*Whatever damage there was has already been done to Conglomerate's power cells, the mech swiping away the backfire*

*The nukes punch into the mech, putting a couple holes in the Dragoon Armor and causing red lights throughout the bridge*

Lotus: As fun as this arm's race between you two boys is, it's not exactly effective!

Rief: Let's see you do better!

Lotus: I will!

Rief: O-okay then!

*Lotus steps up to the Captain's Chair, which gives her a complete scan*

Computer: New Captain Registered.

Lotus: Now watch this...

*Lotus raises her arms, the Mech imitating her as two massive tornadoes appear in space to the left and right of Conglomerate*

Conglomerate battens down and seals all areas, making itself completely smooth.

*The Mech fills the Space Tornados with debris and converges them on Conglomerate, sending the debris slamming into Conglomerate*

Lotus: Drake, switch places with Beta.

Beta: Vhat? Again?

*Drake exits the pod, the Dragoon Armor disappearing from the Mech as Beta steps into the Ability Merger Pod*

The Conglomerate vanishes behind it's pitch black shields.

Lotus: Perfect. Beta, merge the belt. W.A.R. I want a continuous beam of Gamma Radiation on that ship.

W.A.R.: Affirmative.

*Beta's belt is uploaded to the ship through the merger as beams of Gamma Radiation smash into Conglomerate's shields*

(It wouldn't have any effect, would it? Just get sucked into nothing.)

(The Gamma Streams? Wouldn't expect them to)

(So... What are you doing?) Conglomerate's shielding expands, trying to crush the mech in it's gravwell.

Lotus: Beta, do it.

Beta: Roger!

*The gravity belt Beta merged appears on the Mech as the Mech begins not only countering the effects of the gravity well through the gamma streams, but trying to tear down Conglomerate's Gravity shields altogether*

Lotus: Patching secondary priority energy through the gravity belt, W.A.R., hook up and give the Gravity Belt as much juice as you need to bring down that shield.

W.A.R.: Affirmative.

(Gravity through a Gammma beam? How in the hell are you doing that?)

(The Gravity Belt alters the gravity of anything touching it. So the mech is making that contact through the beam I've done it before with Beta's energy strings.)

(>v< Feck.)

The black hole shield fails, Conglomerate pouring every scrap of power into a one-off gravity pulse inside the Mech, hoping to crush or splatter the crew.

*The Gravity Belt, plus the damage to Conglomerate's power cells help the Mech sustain some of the damage, enough to function at least*

Lotus: We're not finished yet! CALL OF GAIA!

*A massive white hole appears next to Conglomerate*

Lotus: You're Black Hole Shielding had to have an output somewhere, a white hole connected to it where all the attacks sucked into it came out! Well I just finished finding it!

*Every attack that has been absorbed into Hawk's black hole generator slams into Conglomerate as the white hole bursts due to the black hole generator failing*

Conglomerate is unharmed as nothing emerges from the hole. It peters out and dies, though the ship is visibly in trouble. (Wrong. >v> THat's not how they work. I just call 'em black hole shields so people get what they do.)

Conglomerate splits, surrounding the Mech, a matrix of beams connecting the satellites together, the Grids around each merging into one massive antimatter grid around the mech.

Lotus: I thought I was being smart too. Beta, the gloves if you will. I'll prepare our backup.

*Lotus begins concentrating intensly*

*Beta's Belt disappear from the Mech as his gloves suddenly appear on them*

Beta: Just so you know, I'm not entirely convinced zhat zhis vill not simply kill us all. Atom destroying energy hitting anti-matter is an entirely theoretical field!

Rief: Just do it man! We don't have a choice!

W.A.R.: Making the necessary adjustments to Gloves... success. Gloves should affect anti-matter. Running simulation... simulation error. Conclusion unknown.

*The entire Mech begins crackling with red energy from the gloves*

Beta: Very vell! Gentlemen, let us make science! Atomic BOOM!

*A field of Atomic energy surrounds the Mech, before shooting outwards in a massive sphere of destructive energy, before violently hitting the anti-matter grid*

The Grid, even before they fired off a counter shockwave, imploded towards the mech, trying to slice it to bits with gridfire. When the shockwave hit it... Everything went white.

(So... Draw?)

(I've got a way out if you've got one.  <_<     >_>)

(Ditto.)

*The explosion tears away the Mech, which is revealed to be a hollow shell, as if the outermost layer of it's skin*

*The Mech appears a good distance away from the explosion, Lotus having painfully moved it to another point in space through de-summoning then re-summoning*

Rief: For the love of God, never ever do that again!

*Beta throws up on the deck from the experience, the vomit disappearing thanks to the self-cleaning ship*

Lotus: I told you I'd prepare our back-up. Would you rather be dead right now?

Rief, Drake, and Beta: YES!

W.A.R.: I'm scanning the area for Conglomerate now...

Conglomerate is still where it was, it's kinetic shields having stopped the explosion.

Lotus: Status report.

W.A.R.: Mech has sustained rough damage. Still fully functioning.

Drake: Looks like we've taken down both his gravity shields and his grid shielding. I think his only defenses left are his kinetic barriers, then we should finally be able to attack this guy.

Lotus: Good.

...

Anyone know how to take down his kinetic barriers? My plans only went as far as his grid.

*Complete silence*

****.

(Evil laugh.)

Conglomerate slowly turns so that the gun end is pointed at them.

Lotus: Alright, I think it's time we played our trump card. Beta. Take over.

Beta: Certainly.

*Beta steps up to the Captain's Chair, which fully scans him*

Computer: New Captain Recognized.

*The Mech begins responding to Beta's Movement*

Beta: Zhis **** just got real!

*Rief jumps into the ability merger pod*

Conglomerate fires one massive railgun shell at the speed of light at the Mech.

*The Mech quickly raises a blue energy shield around itself, powered by Beta, the force of the bullet forcing the Mech flying backwards a ways, but ultimately not doing much harm*

Beta: Do you not know who I am? I am zhe group Barrier Warrior!

*Beta creates a box of blue energy around Conglomerate and closes it in around the ship.

(What is the energy?)

(Basically a blue Green Lantern's Ring)

(Uhm...)

(I should probably name it shouldn't I... Betanium?)

THe Conglomerate's own fields fight back.

Dr. Beta: Your kinetic fields right?

*Suddenly, Beta's energy field lets up, giving off the force of a snail. The energy shields suddenly worming their way through the kinetic barrier*

It hits Conglomerate's final shield layer.

Beta: Final Shield layer? I vas told zhere vere only three!

Rief: Don't look at me. I was of the same impression.

W.A.R.: Scanning structure of final field layer....

Bubble shield, resistant to energy attacks.

Beta: Damn! We have to pierce the Kinetic Shield if we want to get through that Bubble Shield.

Lotus: Not quite.

Beta: Vhat do you have in mind?

*Lotus switches places with Rief in the Ability Merger and merges her plant control*

*The space around Conglomerate becomes thick with extremely potent acid, the acid passively passing through the kinetic shield*

(...*thinks* Uhm... Crap?)

(Call it in? I had a special attack that I was gonna use (Big explosion), but the bubble layer took care of that.  :()

(You win. Congrats.)

Hot damn that was a tough fight! Your shields are the devil's work Hawk...

...

How does AP work for this?

*grins* I know. They're great.

Uhm. I'm not sure. Technically that was a 1 v (4-5)... Nik said the lower AP value of a team +1 to both teams...

The Mech was designed for close combat, but there was no way to get close enough that I couldn't ensure I wouldn't get shot to hell while trying laughably to get through those bastards. Damn good job fighting a Fort that you didn't know the powers of.

What do you mean by lower value of AP?

Thanks. It's a pity the Gridfire crosscut didn't work. That's the most powerful thing Conglomerate has... <v< So far.

I dunno. We need rules for this. One person v one person in a fort is laughably unfair. Fort v fort is unfair when someone has more fighters in theirs. WE need AP rules. I'd love to fight a fort as Hawk. >v>

I'm not sure many people intend to use forts in normal fights.

I dunno, how'd you and Nik split AP?

HE said my ap +1 to both teams.

To both of us? Yeah, maybe we should work something out.

Yup. >v>