(open) crash into me

[whatsupcroc]

Date & Time: Mid-afternoon Sunday, May 5th
Location: The Hold and Housing Complex
Characters: All who wish to be in the vicinity!
Summary: The Initiative asked for the Housing Complex to be evacuated starting early morning on 5/5, in preparation for the expected landing of the spaceship stolen from the United Earth. The landing goes horribly wrong when an undiscovered bomb detonates onboard the ship, causing partial engine failure. The ship proceeds to be crash landed into the Housing Complex; no lives, however, are lost.

Warnings: Spaceship crash landings it's all horrible!
Notes: Respond in action tags or prose, as you please!

The ship breaks cloud-cover as a spot of light in the dreary skies, leaving behind the beauty of sunlight above the broken cloud layer as it continues to descend. With the Initiative having instigated an evacuation of the area ahead of time, just in case, those watching in the light drizzle may find it an interesting sight to behold.

Doubtlessly, the United Earth, from its great distance, may have also found it interesting.

The first sign of something going wrong is an explosion visible from the ground. People who hear it might startle; the ship itself goes from a smooth, controlled flight path to one wobbly and filled with dark, flaming smoke. The whine of its remaining engine is slower to reach the ground, though the ship itself seems to pick up a spiraling speed, still controlled to those familiar with watching things that fly come crashing down to the ground.

The Initiative members on the ground are calling for people to get back and take cover. Inside the main Hold, one man at the transport pads hears his radio blast to life and swallows past his own fear, glancing at the active pad waiting to pull in another unlucky soul.

When the ship hits the Housing Complex, it demolishes the upper levels, though the force with which it hits doesn't seem to be the same as what it should be. Combined telekinetic buffering and excellent piloting from a former Guardian of the Universe Galaxy keeps damage to a catastrophic minimum.

Welcome to the fallout. What will you do from here?

Comments

[goinbust]

"Right. Just if I get a spike on my armor, we're goin a different way. This thing can't block it no one is alive there."

With that Jim follows and starts to barrel through the rubble, the destruction of it almost seeming gleeful to him.

[obliterating]

He nods, standing back a bit as Jim runs through the rubble, and he lets out a cold chuckle.

"You seem like you're used to this."

He tries to focus, walking down a hall and pausing in front of the doors. Nope, no one here.

[goinbust]

"Back home we were wagin war on a rather unpleasant government. When you've been labeled pirates but still do the right thing just to stick it to them you do a lot of low budget rescues."

He continues down the hall too, paying attention to his scanner, and occasionally choosing to go through a wall instead of a pile of rubble if it looks like that's got a lesser chance of bringing the building down.

[obliterating]

The wreckage doesn't bother him too badly, and he nods slightly.

"Pirates, huh?" Judging by the suit, probably some sort of weird future pirate thing. He's not too good with this sort of stuff. Give him a sword and a horse over engineered contraptions any day.

"Well, I don't sense anyone here." He nodded. "Just a bunch of rubble."

[goinbust]

"One man's ranger is the next's raider. All depends on what side controls the media. I ain't scannin anyone either, hopefully the stairs ain't far off."