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Post by Vocado on Dec 13, 2018 4:43:28 GMT -6
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The darkness of Destron was no stranger to a Saiyan. Its poison had permeated parts of Vegeta for years, being one of many reasons why the planet was near-impossible to cultivate life on. Namekians had used their magic to create small patches of life near their capital city of Maestropolis, but without near-constant care the fields would wither and die. It was a blessing, one might suppose, that the Namekian people who'd migrated to Vegeta were so invested in horticulture. Had they been war-loving, then surely the gears of war would have turned for too long.
Prince Vocado, the Once-King of the Saiyan people, leaped from a dilapidated building, landing in a valley coated in thick smog. His face was covered by a mask. Thick and pointed, the breathing machine looked like something an evil space-dictator might employ. The heavy-duty helmet filtered the poison out effortlessly, converting what was once a death trap into a land ripe for exploration.
These masks, though expensive to make, had been developed ages before, and improved since. Though the Saiyan Kingdom had become more insular and peace-appreciative than the Empire it was birthed from, expeditions into the wastes the Tuffles left behind were still few and far between. Surely something could be gained from studying it, but until it became a priority, the bones of a vindictive civilization would still scar the planet.
Maneuvering through the crags were still dangerous though. The Saiyan Prince clicked a button on his mask, and activated a low-light scanner for his scouter. It helped some, but this deep into Tuffle territory, the darkness was enhanced by the overbearing amounts of Destron.
"Surely it must be close..."
Across the valley was another collapsed building. Old and busted, the bones of it looked like some prehistoric beast frozen mid-scream. In all honesty, he wasn't sure what it was he was actually looking for. Myths upon legends upon fantasy was what drove him to leave the capital so early and so secretively. Maybe the stories were true, and he'd get to fulfill his wish without a second trip to Namek.
With a sigh, Vocado walked forward, eyes darting to and fro behind his helmet. He made sure to be cautious; even with his strength, the poison that blotted out the sun could still catch him off-guard. Any manner of beast could be roaming these wastes, after all, and unlike Vocado they'd thrived in this, the thickest of death clouds.
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Post by Queen Kayen on Dec 13, 2018 5:05:30 GMT -6
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Kayen really wished that she had some sort of specific target she was hunting, this sort of environment was just the sort of place she thrived in, it was the perfect sort of place to set up an ambush of some sort considering how much the Destron clouds obscured vision creating a sort of eternal foggy night and on top of that it was a dense urban setting that provided ample opportunity for places to launch an attack from. Most importantly though was the destron itself, this was PURE destron, the sort of awful toxic mess that would leave a fighter’s power crippled if exposed to it for too long, but if the worst happened and she needed a fight here and both she and her opponent were exposed? A truly even unpowered fight was something she was CERTAIN she would win, she possessed a height and reach advantage over the vast majority of potential opponents and that was BEFORE factoring in Fateburn. It truly was a pity that the main reason she was here was not for a hunt, but for exploration. She knew a bit about the Tuffle ruins but it was all second hand, Habana hadn’t left behind anything more than what was recorded historically other than her vague plans for what she would do IF they were fixed. But the big problem was fixing them. Back during her era destron filtration masks were brand new tech, and the years since had done little to drive down build costs for them, any work on the ruins would require far more than just a handful, the one Kayen had now was one snatched from a nearby facility set up to research destron, she had taken one with the promise to return it or failing that when she was Queen she would provide the Zeni to replace it. She wanted a look at this place for herself, most believed it was picked clean of anything of note ages ago but people had believed the same of Earth’s ‘Diablo Desert’ the place she had obtained her Ruby. Perhaps she would get lucky again.. Getting a feel for anything out here with the dense clouds of Destron was difficult, stepping in had been like having a light switch suddenly flipped off on her, all the power she could feel from Cacumber was gone, and so when Kayen DID feel something she took immediate interest, a substantial signature, how strong exactly she did not know due to the destron, but it was strong enough to act like a candle in the dark. “OI” Kayen called as she spotted a figure through the clouds, getting some perspective on this place from what might be an actual researcher or something would be useful, the only other alternative was potentially a Fleet member hiding out due to the return of the Kingdom.
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Post by Vocado on Dec 14, 2018 15:34:35 GMT -6
Vocado sensed the approaching fighter long before they spoke. He'd been getting loads better at detecting Ki; so much so that he could actually recognize the owner of the signature. Kayen's arrival here was curious indeed. Was she looking for the same mythical item that he was? Or perhaps she was just in the mood to get some hands-on experience with such a deadly area.
"Morning, Patchy."
The Once-King gave a dull wave, floating across the crag to land near her. She certainly decided on an intimidating mask. "Nice day, isn't it? Namek would be jealous of such fine weather I say. Honestly, the Tuffles don't know how good a vacation spot they gave us."
Try as he might to keep the conversation casual, he knew it'd be important to be honest with his fellow ruler. If she asked what he was doing, he'd be eager to answer. For now, though, he'd keep his mouth shut. Just because he assumed she'd be okay with his idea did not mean she would actually be. Even a monster has a heart, after all.
"What brings you out this way, hm? Looking for a husband? I hear Destron-folk are quite loving once you get to know them."
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Post by Queen Kayen on Dec 15, 2018 15:03:18 GMT -6
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Kayen groaned just a moment after she called out to the figure, the destron was a bit less dense as she floated closer and was able to get a better read on their signature, she quickly realized it was a familiar one and then just as he spoke up she identified who’s it was. Vocado. Of course even when she abandoned the capital city and went out into a desolate wasteland he would be the one person she actually ran into. It was a frustrating sort of irony that she found herself in the perfect sort of place to launch a sneak attack on the idiot but in doing so she would deprive herself of the only genuine fight available to her here on Vegeta, sure she could train with Ramen or some of the others but there was a distinct difference between that and the battle for the throne. No matter how hard she and Ramen pushed each other in a fight it was unlikely either of them would go for the kill. But with Vocado? There seemed to be a genuine ambiguity between them on if they would push things that far, it created a level of intensity to the fight that would be near impossible to match. “Mmh, it's a true wonder that we have it all to ourselves. I assume we’ve narrowly avoided mid day rush” Kayen floated in closer as she spoke touching down near Vocado and crossing her arms over her chest. “I think I’ll leave them all for you, you can clearly use the help, a good man would do you a lot of good.” Kayen shot back rolling her eye, she DID find herself curious what exactly had drawn him out here, while the ruins were something entirely foreign to her Vocado was born and raised on Vegeta as far as she knew, logically he had to already have some knowledge of what they were about and perhaps had even been here before. So what brought him here now? “What’s actually got you out here? I would have figured growing up here would have made you less interested in these ruins”
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Post by Vocado on Dec 16, 2018 5:00:00 GMT -6
Vocado scoffed at Kayen's snarky comeback, turning to lob a Ki ball into the air. "Please. I'm enough man for me. Why do you think my entire crew lacks a pair of jewels?" As the ball slowly floated down to Earth, it hovered in front of him, shedding some much-needed extra light on the valley. "Jokes aside, the near-absence of men in the higher positions of the Kingdom makes me think we're close to repeating history. Let's hope whichever of us wins doesn't need to graft a mechanical arm to ourselves, eh?"
As Vocado began to march towards the building across from them, Kayen posed the question he was almost dreading. He could lie, he supposed. Simply tell her he wanted to find some power source or training material and she'd certainly believe. But no. He couldn't fib today. Someone else needed to know his plan.
"You've read up on Saiyan lore, yes? Read about the battles of old? I used to be a big fan of those stories. My grandmother used to tell them to me before I could read; the daring tales of Zucceta the Ruthless!" He threw a mock punch at the air, dispersing some gas. "She was a powerful woman. Personally, she was my favorite of the Queens. Vennel was fine, and Habana had her moments, but Zucceta? She had a knack for war that nobody could ever replicate."
Listening to Vocado speak so highly of the Solar Empire's rulers might have been a tad odd to Kayen. He clearly seemed adverse to their ideals, so then why was it that he nearly fawned over Zucceta? The discrepancy was almost impossible to miss, and it might have clued the Pirate Queen in to a missing link in the young prince's life. Could he, perhaps, have been pretending to prefer the peaceful path?
"There was something that always bothered me though." The Once-King leaped over a small opening in the crag, landing on the other side with a grunt. "She had something powerful near the end of her reign. Something chaotic in nature, that if cultivated properly, could be the piece of the puzzle we've been missing all along. The one component we really need to ascend to greater heights."
He turned to her, and though she could not see it, he grinned nearly from ear-to-ear.
"I'm talking of course, about the Tree of Might."
Vocado waited. He let the words sink in and really simmer in Kayen's mind. Maybe she already knew what his plan was.
"The problem is we never knew where she got it. Some say a demon gave it to her, others say she found it in the deepest reaches of space. My personal theory is that it might lie here. Such a destructive object is bound to be growing somewhere so deadly, right?"
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Post by Queen Kayen on Dec 21, 2018 0:59:40 GMT -6
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Kayen smirked beneath her mask at Vocado’s retort, if nothing else she did actually rather enjoy throwing insults back and forth with the former King, he did however raise an interesting idea though, one that Kayen had paid little actual mind to. The top end of the Kingdom WAS mostly female at this point, the sort-of ‘inner circle’ that had formed after the first crown challenge consisted of three women and just Vocado. Sure there were a few resonably powerful male Saiyans outside their group but none of them seemed to have the same sort of drive to rise up that Vocado did, really the only one Kayen could really think of that even came close was the brat and he was only sort-of affiliated with the Kingdom itself. Instead of a direct answer to her question, at least at first, Vocado responded with a question of his own asking if she had read up on the lore of their people though it was framed more like a rhetorical question she assumed considering that from all their interactions both had made it fairly clear they had studied the history of the Saiyans quite thoroughly, the opening to their first fight had even sort of in some ways been the two of them testing each other on how well they knew their history. Vocado apparently held a lot of admiration for Zucceta, but not the Zucceta that had been apart of the changes made to the Empire that lead to it becoming the Kingdom, no he admired her time as Queen, her vicious wars with the Fleet’s ancestor organization and Earth. Kayen had a lot of admiration for Zucceta as well but held a far greater admiration for her own ancestor, equal parts for her deeds and of course for the direct relation between them. But his talk of Zucceta had not just been an effort to steer the conversation away from his reason for being here, it was context, because Vocado believed that somewhere here was the Seed that could grow a Tree of Might. It was all strangely at odds with the way he had so desperately tried to present himself during their first argument after their fight, it seemed that Vocado had finally dropped the idea that he wanted things to go back to how they had been, she’d seen a glimmer of that in the argument, that he seemed more like he was convincing himself than trying to argue against her. “I had a feeling you were looking into that, your ‘gardening’ threat probably went over a lot of heads but I know enough to pick up your meaning.” Kayen said, she was now a bit glad to have the mask to help keep her expression hidden, this new development with Vocado made thing quite a bit more interesting. “The Tree definetly WOULD be a big shift, especially if used properly” The idea of using the Tree had never really come to her before, it had mostly vanished from history after its last use, there was just as good a chance it had been destroyed as there was that it was hidden “Do you have anything more than a hunch? I was under the impression these ruins had been picked clean” Kayen questioned but for once it was without the usual mocking tone she reserved for the former King.
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Post by Vocado on Dec 21, 2018 18:36:10 GMT -6
"More of a wild theory, I suppose. This place still has mysteries abound, and something that destructive only seemed like a natural fit. Part of me thinks that even if she DID find the seeds here, then surely she grabbed them all. And with nobody interested in cultivating more, the seeds simply died out."
The duo arrived at the entrance to a massive ruin in short order. Seemingly, this building had toppled into this crag and died here. It was crumbled on its side, with many floors caved in, including the front entrance. If anything laid dormant in there, it'd be little besides beasts of the sneaking sort. Cracking his knuckles, he thrust his arm out, blasting one of the last remaining windows out, and hopping inside.
With a soft tap, he landed inside, standing on what was once a wall. Office desks and chairs lay strewn about in large heaps, some of them clearly cut or bitten into. Just what was this place, anyways?
"I have another theory, and this one might be a bit a harder to pull off."
Vocado kicked a desk over, revealing a button on the underside. He clicked it in vain hope, but nothing happened. Whatever mechanism it connected to was long dead. "Damn. At least we know there's some secret here. If it was an alarm system, every desk would have it. This button is under just the one."
Sighing, he stood up, a hand on his hip as he turned to Kayen. "Like I was saying... There's always the Dragon Balls. If they can revive entire planets, then surely it can produce a single seed. The only problem is acquiring them. We got lucky the first time, and unlike the first time, this wish will not go over well with the rest of the crew."
Something skittered in the room, but whatever it was didn't give off a hint of life. A machine, perhaps? Whatever the case, it was clearly watching them, its master long-since dead, leaving it to fend and think for itself.
"Nashua wouldn't agree to it on principle. She'd associate it too closely with the Empire. Xana too. Ramen, though? She's not connected with us like the others. If anyone might agree to it, it'd probably be her. Even still, a split decision is still a hard sell, and that's assuming no new enemies rear their ugly heads in the interim." Another sigh escaped him, and he turned his back to Kayen as he surveyed the room one more time. "A pipe dream is all it is for now. Fate might keep it that way for the rest of our days."
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Post by Queen Kayen on Jan 1, 2019 19:37:13 GMT -6
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Kayen supposed that Vocado’s logic was about as sound as could be in terms of trying to find where the Seeds might be if they still existed, the ruins seemed like the perfect sort of place to hide something like that, and who really knew what sort of strange things the Tuffles had whipped up in their time, the fact they had apparently stood up to the Saiyans of the past meant they were at least somewhat invested in weapons of war and the Tree certainly felt like the pinnacle of war, perhaps even it had been intended as a way for the Tuffles to overcome their weaknesses, as far as history painted the picture the Tuffles were not powerful in the way that Saiyans or Arcosians were, their power relied on their technology. But if they could have that technology AND physical power? That would be something impressive. Kayen followed after Vocado as his search lead into the building and through an office of some sort, he found some ancient and seemingly non-functional system “If you think it’s supposed to lead somewhere then we don’t necessarily need it to activate, we can remove enough of the building itself to reveal whatever passage that button is suppose to lead to.” Kayen suggested, if nothing else exploring some secret Tuffle lab might prove interesting even if it felt unlikely to lead to the prize they sought. “Can Namek’s dragon recreate a planet? The Tree was said to decimate the entire planet it was planted on, in theory if the Dragon is capable of undoing that sort of damage then perhaps it COULD recreate the Seed” Kayen said, more thinking aloud than anything else, she was only vaguely aware of the Dragon’s capabilities, she knew that during the last age Namek had been destroyed, and then was suddenly back again, likely the work of the Dragon Balls, but with Namek destroyed then that had to mean it was Earth’s Dragon Balls. Earth would be far more difficult to deal with in terms of a Dragon Ball hunt, Namek was a blissfully uneventful planet where their only opposition had been the Fleet, the real issue of course was the very one Vocado raised, that it was not just an issue of outside opposition but internal conflict with the wish. “Ramen might be able to see the logic behind it, she liked the idea of using the Dragon to create a weapon to use against the Fleet, the Seed could be seen as that exact sort of weapon” It was still iffy, potentially relying on just how deep Ramen’s distaste for the Fleet ran and as well how little she understood of the Seed’s power. “The simple solution of course would be to just not tell the ones who would oppose the wish” Kayen said with a shrug, Nashua was really her only concern as Xana posed no actual threat and was of no interest to her in the first place, in theory it would be easy enough to handle, just keep Nashua busy with other work, acting in her original role as ambassador or being the designated protector of Vegeta while the hunt was carried out. Kayen heard the rustling in the room but remained still trying to spot whatever it was but only barely catching sight of slight shifts of objects in the room and never what was actually causing it, she turned her attention to Vocado and with just her expression and some very small motions tried to guage if he had noticed it as well.
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Post by Vocado on Jan 20, 2019 5:15:34 GMT -6
"A sound plan. Only problem is the integrity of this place. We haven't a clue how fragile the damn thing is. Hell, just walking around could cause it to collapse if we're not careful. Let's try to be a hair more tactful before either of us burst through any more walls-- or windows in my case."
Vocado listened closely to Kayen's take while he surveyed the room. It seemed it had fallen onto its right side, judging by the light fixtures laying that way. If he were a secretive scientist in a society built on technological advancements, he'd probably hide a secret facility in the deepest pit of the building. To the left seemed the way to go, but finding the way out of this room was another issue entirely.
The exits had all been obscured or blocked off by some irritation or another. Rubble here, tables there, a few massive shards of thick, sharp glass shared between them. It'd take hours to carefully sift through everything, but wasting that much time for no reward at the end would no doubt be infuriating. Maybe a run-and-gun strategy would be safer.
"The history books say the Dragon Balls helped restore Namek from more than one great calamity. I'm unsure how deep a crack it can heal, but surely it can work some magic if returning souls to their bodies is such a simple task. Surely a seed is no tall order."
Another skitter, and some more rustling of things. Something bigger was coming, and yet Vocado still could not sense it. His Scouter was acting odd, too. Some sort of jamming device? "I suppose. I'd prefer they not try to oppose us mid-gardening, though. Hiding the Tree of Might once its fully grown isn't possible." He fiddled with his mask some more, but nothing came up. Perhaps the machines watching them had a sort of cloaking device.
"Part of me wonders what the universe might look like if that thing had stuck around. Clearly it sucked more than a few planets dry. Think Vegeta would have gotten the same treatment one day?"
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Post by Queen Kayen on Jan 30, 2019 12:07:27 GMT -6
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“Mmh… true I suppose, giving it a more careful look to see if any leads present themselves is probably for the best. But if nothing can be found while being careful” Kayen shrugged “then really it might be best to take a more… direct… route to searching for any hidden labs, even if it runs the risk of causing some damage it’s better than possibly just NOT finding anything at all and wasting a bunch of time” Kayen said still trying to figure out what was making the strange skittering noises. The fact that the Dragon Balls could actually be their own answer to the ‘how to regain the Seed’ question also made it all the easier for Kayen to decide it might be worthwhile to just carve into the building until they exposed any secrets it had. “Once the seed actually exists again it should be a bit easier to handle, it becomes a piece of a bigger plan and their concerns can be handled during the planning” Kayen said with a shrug, and at worst if someone such as Nashua seemed likely to take major issue with it then it would be easy enough to arrange things so that she or anyone else would be busy elsewhere. “I don’t know, I suppose if they had never stopped using it eventually the Empire would have HAD to move on to the other quadrents, as for Vegeta itself.. I’m not sure, I suppose it’s possible, it really all depends on just how much Zucceta liked the planet, I could see Knutts being converted into some sort of Mega-Ship to transport the Empire” Kayen said letting her imagination run a bit wild as she grinned beneath her mask. It was certainly a rather… bleak idea but still quite interesting.
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Post by Vocado on Apr 12, 2019 18:16:55 GMT -6
”Hmm. Just imagine it. A quadrant left vacant like that? The Kais only know what horrors could have been birthed from such intense swathes of destruction. Would they have intervened?”
He was starting to wonder if maybe that would have been a better ending to the Saiyan-Mazoku War. All the peace had left him and his people without access to so much power they once had. Maybe he was thinking about things too straightforwardly. Surely if the Solar Empire’s power continued to balloon, it’d only become susceptible to being popped.
In the moment of calm, thought was taken off the rails as a great explosion occurred behind them. From the upper levels of the felled office building came a veritable army of robotic defenders. Spider-like monsters of varying size and armament. They looked ready to kill far quicker than they’d subdue.
”Suppose we found our skittering friends. Perhaps they’re blocking the way to our prize.”
He didn’t wait for Kayen’s quip. Instead, he blazed forward, launching himself into the swarm and beginning his onslaught. Each swing of his fists rended one machine or another, followed shortly by one of its allies. Try as they might to defend themselves or even retaliate, he was much too fast. His and Kayen’s battle point far outstripped their foes, it seemed.
”Haha! Childs play! I suppose the Tuffle’s never prepared for our caliber!”
With a hearty laugh, Vocado opened his palms to release twin waves of Ki, their violet energy tearing through two of the larger opponents in their way. Within seconds the swarm had already lost the bulk of its forces.
”Come on in,” Vocado shouted invitingly to Kayen, ”The oil’s just fine!”
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Post by Queen Kayen on May 15, 2019 15:50:53 GMT -6
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“I doubt there’s much the Kais could have done if the Empire HAD decided to press on with using the Tree. I don’t really know how strong they are supposed to be but if they had the means and interest to prevent continued use of the Tree surely they would have intervened the first time it was used, or perhaps the second when it became clear it would continue to be used. But they never did” Kayen said with a shrug, she didn’t think particularly much of the Kais as a threat either to the previous Empire or even to just herself and the Kingdom at large. If the Kais were content to sit up in the Otherworld they likely either lacked the means to do anything about them in their current state or the will. Kayen was shaken from her thoughts as an explosion rocked the building and into the room swarmed a mass of metal limbs, an uncountable number of machines rushed the room trying to take the two of them off guard their weapons primed for action as their spider like bodies skittered around to make room for more and more of them to flood in. “The Tuffle’s were not prepared for OOZARU, even you would pose more than enough of a challenge for them alone” Kayen said smirking behind her mask as she took a light verbal jab at the former King “I’m curious what it was actually like back then, if the two of us would be enough alone to take on the entire Tuffle army” and perhaps the Saiyans aswell, assuming they simply dropped in out of thin air, might as well take on their ancient counterparts to see how they measured up. In short order Vocado vaporized much of the swarm but just as quickly as they were vaporized more and more began to flood in trying their best to fill the gaps left by all those who Vocado had destroyed, the laser guns atop the spider robots began taking aim and powering up to fire on Vocado only for another swathe of them to be torn to shreds as Kayen rushed past Vocado and took wise swing with Fateburn, cleaving through all of the robots right in front of her with the first swing and then unleashing a wave of energy with her second to clear out more. Those who had not been torn apart by her attack took fire pelting Kayen with a rapid series of blasts and earning an annoyed growl from the Pirate as she raised one arm to protect her face.
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Post by Vocado on May 22, 2019 16:17:58 GMT -6
As fiercely opposed as they were, Kayen and Vocado made a wonderful duo. In another time, another place, they would have been unbested. If only Vocado wasn’t so stubborn.
The second wave of spider-like machines was cut to ribbons in short order, but the third was more fortunate. Setting themselves up across the room, they pelted Kayen, who was able to block their annoying attacks like it was nothing more than a handful of bugbites. Vocado couldn’t help but laught as he tossed one machine into another, the both of them rupturing from the collision.
”I think they’d sooner bow down than try to take us on! Even our ancestors, as stubborn as they were, knew their place. It’s a shame you haven’t figured yours out yet!”
Leaping over the battlefield, Vocado cocked his arms back, lobbing two large energy balls into the crowd. The firing squad was destroyed in short order, freeing Kayen up to slice and dice to her hearts content.
Vocado landed with a somersault, eyes darting this way and that as a trio of spider-bots closed in. These ones were different, though. Speedier and smaller, they seemed to be looking to grab him rather than cut into him. He backflipped away, kicking one across the room in the process.
”You’d think they’d have come up with at least one more type of machine, no? For geniuses they’re quite simple-minded!”
Landing on his feet once more, Vocado was surprised to find a machine leaping at his back. He spun on a heel, opening his mouth to release a wave of Ki, which vaporized the device in short order. In the time it took him to take the monster down, however, a handful more monsters made their way to him.
One latched onto his shoulder, than another to his chest. He shook them off, but a third had wormed its way around his leg and onto the back of his scalp. He wrestled with it intensely, but this one had an iron grip.
”Y’know if I wanted a scalp massage I’d have paid for it!”
Pull and tug as he might, it was no use. The thing was unmoving. Something in the machine clicked, and a sharp needle distended from the bottom of its chassis. Vocado couldn’t see the machine well, but it heard a liquid draining into the device. Was it going to inject Destron directly into his bloodstream?!
”Ey! Use that damn sword of yours over here!”
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Post by Queen Kayen on May 23, 2019 22:38:52 GMT -6
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Kayen let out a groan of frustration as the wave she cleared only seemed to last for just a few moments before being filled once more, how exactly these Tuffle buildings and machinery were still operating to a level that they could produce THIS much was beyond her, perhaps once she kicked in Vocado’s head she’d have to set about having some serious investigations into what the hell was going on down here. How power was still being provided to all of this after thousands of years of neglect. “Oh don’t worry Vocado, I’ve had ‘my place’ figured out for a LONG time” Kayen deeply regretted the fact that the very nature of the Tuffle Ruins and all the Destron around required her to wear a mask that hid away the smirk she wore because it meant Vocado could not see it, she was however quite sure her tone got across the message quite clearly. “I’d guess these are the front line, shock troops to tire and overwhelm lesser foes. That or this is all that CAN be made after all this time” Kayen offered with a shrug, it DID seem a bit odd that these machines were so perfectly similar, Kayen kicked and stomped a few that got too close to easily be cut down but twisted as she saw the swarm take a sharp turn to focus on Vocado. And then suddenly they were upon him, he did a good job of shaking them off like a dog trying to free itself of fleas, he was not completely successful, a single robot was firmly latched onto his head and rather than attacking immediately it appeared to be preparing… something… whatever it was Kayen was certain it was unpleasant. And as Vocado called for aid… Kayen had just a moment of debate It would be very easy to just let it happen, let the machine inject him with poison or destron or whatever that needle was full of, then as he lay dying give him the mercy of a swift death. Quick and admittedly dirty, but it would get the job done of putting her at the helm of the Kingdom. Though… she couldn't imagine Ramen would take ‘a wierd robot stabbed him and he died’ even if the injection DID kill him without her aid. And beyond that it meant the loss of a potentially… decent… fight and a weakening of her position as Queen, she’d learned early on in her career as a pirate that it was best when people KNEW you did the deed but even better when they SAW. And so Kayen stepped to the side and lunged forward driving Fateburn forward like a rapier rather than the massive butcher-like blade it was to cut down the offending robot, sure there was a chance her attack would cut Vocado’s arm but she was quite sure he would be fine losing an arm if it meant surviving this chaos.
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Post by Vocado on Jun 18, 2019 21:52:39 GMT -6
A quick slash and it was done. Kayen had turned the machine on Vocado's head into minced bolts, but also left a nasty nick on his arm. Such bad aim! Vocado scoffed as the machine fizzled and whined helplessly, before shutting off entirely. "You missed, you know," he said coyly as he knelt next to the corpse. "My neck's a few inches to the left."
Most of their impromptu crowd had died by now, with most of their robotic assailants skittering away in fear more than anything else. Had it been any other type of creature Vocado would pursue them, but the Tuffle ruins were so vast that it was near-impossible that these little spiders were important. Surely Kayen knew the same.
"Thanks, though. Guess you want the crown the honorable way... You sure you're a pirate?"
He put his quips aside for now, continuing his investigation. Something about this machine seemed off. The liquid in its vial was strange. Having shattered across the concrete, the silver material almost seemed to writhe around like a living being. "The hell is this, anyway... Some kind of parasite?" He clicked his tongue in frustration. "The one class I didn't pay attention in was Tuffle history. Who the hell needs to know about an extinct race, anyways?"
Before he could poke or prod the thing, it suddenly began moving! The long-snakelike puddle of liquid shot up before suddenly darting into the ground, slithering through the cracks with ease. Vocado tried to wrap his hand around it, but it was to no avail. "Damn!"
With an annoyed sigh, Vocado stood. The building around them was in worse shape now than it'd ever been. If there was a lab here, it was surely close to falling in on itself. "So, you think those spiders ran away from the lab that made them, or scurried straight back to it? My zeni's on the latter."
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