MISSION: GET TO ZE CHOPPA

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Date & Time: August 23rd, 2753 (OOCly forward-dated to the 1st)
Location: Uruguay National Defense HQ
Characters: All transports!
Summary: All transports are sent back to Uruguay to download a self-aware AI before it gets bombed out of existence by an early incarnation of the UE. Time distortion effects will be set right either on the way there or on the way back, according to player choice.
Warnings: violence, action movie tension, 3 terabytes of foot fetish porn.

The Transporter drops the entire transport population into what will quickly be established as Home Base, a mile from the vast, sprawling facility that is Uruguay's National Defense HQ. The low roar of helidrones moving above is pervasive, but the black ships can only be glimpsed here and there through the thick cover of trees overhead. If you keep calm and quiet, it's likely you won't be spotted. It's the UND HQ their attention is on, after all.

The population is quickly sorted by attending Initiate employees according to who volunteers to fight and who volunteers to protect, along with those with enough skill to access the computers, and those with enough skill to get them there. The fighters move out first, off to intercept the early UE's ships and ground troops, and to draw the automated defense systems of the facility alike. They'll be in a crossfire, and neither side will be happy to see them there.

The techies and their escorts are sent out far more quietly, in groups of three. Their task is to sneak past the front lines and into the facility itself. There might be alarms and automated defense drones, so those escorts may well be called on to earn their keep. The Initiative can't give any information about which building will house the AI's mainframe, that information was long since lost to history. All they can do is send out enough people to hope that one of them manages to find it.

And remember — as soon as the UE troops withdraw, there will only be minutes until the bomb drops. Everyone would do well to work fast.



[[ Mission information is here, and the techie/escort teams, along with their hacking results, are here. Each techie/escort group will have their own established thread, but Team Distraction and Team We'll Stay Here, Thanks are welcome to thread where ever and however they like! The newbie log that goes up on the 1st will also encompass the arrival back in Exsilium, if you'd like to play that out as well. ]]

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[Don't worry Kougyoku, this is but a severe case of Wuss. Thanks to her fishing him from the shallows, he soon finds his feet upon realising it's possible, face reddening as he snatches his drifting hat from the tide because clearly that's of utmost importance.]

Yeah, I'm— Don't worry 'bout me, we gotta get outta here! There's a fucking tsunami or something coming!

[Or that's what it looked like, anyway. He just doesn't know it's hers!]

[peachbaths]

[ Ah. So he really can't swim. Kazu, she thought you were cool, but now even Ikki's cooler than you. That's saying a lot. She lets go as soon as she's sure he can stand. ]

Hm? Tsuna... [ kazu are you high ] Oh! That was me! It was really cool, wasn't it?

[ Kazu's right, but it's heading the other direction - toward the enemy ships. ]

It's not everyday I can freely use my Extreme Magic like this. Ah, I have to thank the Initiative...

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[He can feel her judging. Through some obscure, instinctive sense honed by years and years of being judged for this, he can feel it.]

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Extreme magic?

[Stumbling around to look and—OH GOD, it's a scene right out of a disaster film. Did you know it's hard to talk when your jaw's about to hit your collarbone.]

D'you just—take a spell and multiply it by hardcore!?

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I think that's what they call it, yeah. [ Is he amazed? Wow, she's flattered. ] Ehehe, pretty, um... awesome, right?

[ who cares about your jaw kazu SHE WAS PRAISED... ]

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Think what people usually say to this's help...

[So, yes, colour him impressed, princess.]

That why you were glowing and sh— stuff?

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[ She wonders what he was going to say before stuff but she doesn't question it. She just looks at him curiously. ]

Yeah! I don't get to use it a lot since it can flood entire cities. The cost of reparations would be terrible! But it does leave me open to attacks...

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[Just some PG-13 cursing, don't mind him.]

...Reparations're the important part, huh. You gotta watch your back here! That thing's called a missile, they're like a thousand times worse than getting shot.

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So United Earth has that sort of weapon... [ She might have underestimated this science thing. ] Um, well, that's fine! Because I'm fighting alongside my friends now. We have nothing to fear if we're together. [ puffs her chest out in pride! ]

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[Oh right, she didn't use to have any—ALSO CAREFULLY NOT ACKNOWLEDGING HER CHEST, or any other part of her djinn equip.]

S'always safer to have back-up along... You used to fighting alone?

[He'll tear his eyes from the devastation as well and start wading for shore. These people are all going to die one way or another, he reminds himself; they already have in the past.]

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[ She follows him, dragging her sword along. She seems to have no problem with the number of casualties just now. ]

I had Ka Koubun, but he can only heal me. [ And he's not her friend. ] There were also the imperial warriors, but... they only fight for me because they have to. I've never fought with anyone truly by my side.

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...fighting on a team'll [ or alongside anyone you're not accustomed to working with and around, really ] probably take some getting used to, but you've got us now.

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Tell me if you're gonna do the extreme stuff again! I'll cover you.

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Okay! [ Yay friends. ]

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[ Once they're at shore and feel the hot sand, Kougyoku remembers how Ikki and Kazu's A-T's won't work on this terrain. It reminds her of their last mission. Didn't Kazu help her in this way, too? But this time was different. Firepower that huge could have gotten him killed if he wasn't fast enough! She already knows why... so Kougyoku wants to know how! ]

Hey, Kazu. What happened back there? That - missile, was it? - it could have killed you and I. But that speed was - inhuman! I can't believe that A-T's can do something like that. Your world doesn't even have magic. Am I wrong? So how? How did you avoid something like that?

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[He's propped awkwardly on one leg and sort of—shaking the other, like that'd dry out his treks faster. Water can ruin them, but like hell he was going to pick them over her.]

Agh, stupid fuckinsdkjfh [ No cursing. ] ...S'kinda a long story, but it's all science too!

[Raking wet bangs from his eyes, he leans down to tap the wheels on his raised foot. They give a light whirring hum upon contact, audible if slightly watered down.]

Tech in here lets you jump higher, run faster, that sorta thing, and you can take it further with the right moves. Everyone ends up using 'em different when they find their Roads—uh, I guess that'd be something like your personal riding style? Mine's the Flame Road, speed's kind of a big thing.

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[ Kougyoku nods. She kind of gets it now. Kind of. It explains the zombies. ]

So you're another fire user. It must be through the Rukh's guidance that I keep encountering you lot. [ Adell, Natsu, and now Kazu. She doesn't know it, but Alibaba's one, too. ] Oh, if you don't mind-- [ With her sword raised in the air, most of the water on Kazu's person gathers around it and is tossed back into the ocean. His hair, clothes and A-Ts should be dry now! ]

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Kinda. It's not magic though, just friction and a bunch of weird ass shit I can't explain—but it's probably science.

[Ladies and gentlemen, Air Gear.

His eyes follow the rising arc of her sword, still abashed by her outfit but also not exactly in a hurry to look the other way, 'cause seriously, that is a giant fucking sword.

Which he abruptly cares a lot less about when he's insta-dried.]

—whoa! It works that way!?