( open ) our ag wing's back and you're gonna be in trouble (hey now! hey now! our ag wing's back)

[initiates]

Date & Time: October 31st, 3313, 11:59PM - November 3rd, 3313, ????
Location: Agriculture Wing, Moon Base to start. Cafeteria, warehouse, docking bay, VR rooms, Transport Pad, or Observatory later on.
Characters: Any & all!
Summary: Space Zombies are allowed out of the Agriculture Wing, slowly revving up their systems to try and infect and absorb as many of the Transports (or 12 Initiative Members) as possible.
Warnings: Log will be locked for potentially graphic violence. Please warn in threads should the violence or gore become graphic.
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Everything is a success at first, from the cool rush of air out of the Agriculture Wing once the doors are fully unlocked, to the heady sense of accomplishment for finally moving forward on something good for the long-term usability of the Moon Base. It's intended to remain a resource, after all, but not be a permanent home. Fraying tempers and the sense of cabin fever descending on Transports continues to showcase how important it is to get back down on Earth to regain some breathing room.

There's little enough dust between all the unmoving, unlit structures, many even supporting the barest dried husks of what once grew there. Upon the lightest touch, they disintegrate, turning into a dust that falls to the ground. The silent rows will be reclaimed and turned into functioning units, based on Transport efforts, and Transport time invested in the project.

There's just one problem. Something stirs in the reclaimed wing, among tangles of hosing and wiring. Skitterings and movements that make no sense for a long abandoned Moon Base. The further in Transports go, relying on magic or technology to generate light past the bare minimum maintained by the base, the more disturbing sights they may run into.

Of course, the most disturbing of all might be lying just around the far corner -- but don't worry, it's only a flesh wound. Try not to get surprised in the machinery, caught suffering from not looking up or caught making out with anything unsavory this holiday season, Transports. We need all of you to stay alive!

We can't bring you back right now!

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[anklets]

[Round of bracket-applause, to start off with, because Spike certainly knows how to make a flashy entrance, and his ego has probably gone without a stroking for far, far too long.

Entrances of the snarling drug-out variety are fairly standard fare amongst her ranks, but there's a certain kneejerk reaction which comes with them: namely, Lenalee's knee jerked hard and fast for the back of his skull, then blessedly pulled at the very

last

possible inch--

these things have shown no interest in their ilk, making this gore-drenched figure a dubious ally, maybe. For how long, she wishes she didn't think.]

Don't touch it!

[Her skin crawls, but she attributes it to the rot in the air.]

[heroxide]

[He doesn't notice the near-collision of her leg and his skull, so he doesn't exhibit even the tiniest amount of bother when he looks up at her, questioning, grinning. He doesn't seem to be paying much attention to the zombie under him either, even as he sets a rhythm of boneshaking punches. It sounds gruesome.

After a few more blows, the soft framework of the thing splits and gives way, insides pouring out, and he stands up to finally reply:]

Don't touch what?

[Idiot.]

[anklets]

[Recoils, springheeled. Vampires is a term she has already seen thrown around, doesn't do anything to keep her heart from double-beating right up into her mouth.]

[heroxide]

[He raises an eyebrow at her shock, folding his arms and looking around to make sure it's actually him she's looking at.

...Is it! Hey, that's pretty cool.

But still.]

Not gonna eat you.

[anklets]

[Werewolves, vampires, zombies, oh my! Hardly soothed by comments like I won't eat you in particular, she takes little stock in height differences and does what comes instinctive to her-- for example, punching him in the face.]

You've got to be kidding me!

[heroxide]

[He fails to dodge, and it knocks him back a step or two.

Rising with a growl, indignant, livid, scowling—]

Oi! Back off! I'm helping! [Debatable.]

[anklets]

[--withdrawing her hand with a hiss, it smarts, but if there's one thing Lenalee can do, it's roll with the punches (ha), and she is one hundred percent prepared to throw a second.

Putting the whole creature of the night bit aside for a moment,] Don't just come leaping out of nowhere looking like that, then!

[heroxide]

Don't be so judgmental. I'm on your side, alright? How about you focus on the things trying to gnaw your face off, instead?

[He sends her a glower that makes it clear he won't mind retaliating if she decides to throw in a second punch.]

1/2

[anklets]

[Oh. So you mean, like what vampires do. Her shoulders ripple as she drives a heel into the floor, balling her tension into fists even as they lower to her sides.]

You aren't making great steps to distinguish yourself from all the rest, you realise--

[anklets]

[But he makes a point, and this hallway is certainly not devoid of resource material. Something-- it isn't quite a face-- peeks about the far corner, retreats just as quickly (sentient?), and Lenalee very quickly swallows her blackness.]

More!

[heroxide]

More? Oh, are you sure you want help from someone as rude as me? Won't I just get in your way, with my big awful fangs and my not distinguishing myself?

[Idle words. No sooner are they out than he turns to seek out whatever retreated behind the corner. Whoops.]

[anklets]

[Having a bit of a split-focus issue here... Electing to keep behind him (and one eye, at least, on him), because she's still not so sure about the whole friendly-vampire thing.]

It went to the left.

[We're gonna ignore your snark, for the time being.]

[heroxide]

[The "friendly" part is certainly questionable.

He moves— sprints, really— towards where she indicates with a roar, almost joyful.]

[anklets]

[SHOULD SHE REALLY BE FOLLOWING THIS PATH...

Something cold slips into her stomach as she follows after. There's nothing around the corner--

not on the floor.

On the ceiling.]

[heroxide]

[...Vamps can jump high, but not THAT high.]

Can you get it down?

[anklets]

[ oh, can she ]

Mm. Get out of the way.

[heroxide]

[Huffs and glowers at the direct command, but he obliges and watches to see what'll happen. Okay, maybe he's interested.]

[anklets]

[Lenalee puts herself airborne, not too high, this is no open sky, they're well above that, and wishes she didn't have to look it up close but cannot risk a tornado in these close quarters.

Undercutting how it swipes at her, sickly gleaming claws, but it opts for the one who can't fly, drops to the floor and rushes Spike instead, as she twists 'round after it.]

[heroxide]

[He greets the sight of it dropping from the ceiling with a hectic, glad laugh, rushing to meet it. A swift uppercut, though he's only tenuously sure of the importance of its head, is the next move. A mundane shot, but he makes the most of it and the surface of its skin (if it can be called that) buckles and splits.]

Thanks for the delivery!

[anklets]

[The sound it makes is like ice beneath her tongue. She watches it struggle to counterbalance his blow, only to be crushed back down beneath her toes. This place has made her more delicate than she would opt to be: the walls only rattle a little.]