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Post by Zero on Jan 8, 2009 0:04:13 GMT -4
An alarm goes off. A computer screen flickers. A door opens above, letting in a single beam of light.
The light shines onto XJ-0 in stasis. As he awakens, the cables on his chest bolt disconnect. He heads to the computer. The cables move about, as though looking at him, and then coil into their place.
ZERO: Confirm.
COMPUTER: Scanning... Complete... Class X asteroid on collision course with Earth.
ZERO: Here we go.
Zero flies out his forest base and in seconds is out of earths orbit.
As he speed through space he spot several renegade asteroids.
ZERO: The computer didn't pick that up...
He plows through them.
ZERO: The rest will burn up in the atmosphere.
As he passes the asteroid belt he is over shadowed. The Class X asteroid appears to be 20 miles across.
Zero hits it with his optic beams. Little damage is done.
ZERO: Looks like I'll have to do it the hard way...
Zero begins to build momentum for a collision, but the asteroid rumbles and reveals an opening. A cannon is hidden beneath the surface, and it fires.
Zero is hit directly.
ZERO: AAAAAAAARRRRRRRGHHH!!!
Zero loses consciousness and is blasted back at high speed.
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Post by Hunter on Jan 8, 2009 12:01:31 GMT -4
CANNONBALL'D!
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Post by Zero on Jan 18, 2009 13:33:26 GMT -4
Zero spirals back into Earth's atmosphere.
In Tremorton's Central Park, Amanda is sitting on a grassy hilltop. She is writing, and by the blushing on her cheeks, it's obviously a love note.
She hears a whistling sound that keeps gtting closer. Zero lands several feet behind her, making a crater.
Amanda looks into the crater.
AMANDA: Uh, Hello?
Zero regains concousness.
ZERO: Ugh... Oh, hey Amanda...(knocks his head*the sound of nuts and bolts clinking*).
He looks up to get a better view and spot the letter in her hand.
ZERO: What's that?
She hides it behind her back quickly.
AMANDA: Nothing! Uh... Where did you fall from?
ZERO: Somewhere around Jupiter... Whatever it was it sure packed a punch to send me back to Earth so quickly.
AMANDA: What?
ZERO: Sorry, my Global Response System detected a Class X asteroid. A big one. I was gonna try to break it apart, but I didn't expect it to fight back.
AMANDA: Oooooookay.
ZERO: You're never gonna get anywhere if you just keep hiding your love notes.
AMANDA: (Shocked and cherry red) WHAT?! How'd you...?
ZERO: Blushed face and an attempted distraction.
AMANDA: You could tell all that.
ZERO: With the help of some x-ray vision too.
AMANDA:(Now annoyed) NOT cool dude. HMPH!
ZERO: Heh, sorry.
He looks to the sky.
ZERO: It's in the asteroid belt now.
AMANDA: Telescopic vision now?
* * *
In the Belt, the asteroid rumbles once more. At the top of it's peak next to the cannon, more rocks crumble revealing six ports. Out of them extends arms made of a green solid light.
The arms grab hold of several Class D asteroids and hurl them towards Earth.
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ZERO: Oh man... BIG problem. We have six doomsday rocks headig our way.
AMANDA:(Looking up) You can just stop them right?
ZERO: Yeah, easily, but they'e coming in fast. And the big one will be on us in hours.
He thinks for a moment.
ZERO: That blast seemed familiar. This may be too big for me to handle.
He climbs out the crater.
ZERO: I need you to do me a favor.
AMANDA: Yes?
ZERO: I'm gonna stop those asteroids, but I'll need help with the big one. You need to find Tachyon. He has some rather uncoventional methods, but can be effective.
AMANDA: I'll get on it!
ZERO: Thanks. Here we go!
Zero zooms back to space.
Amanda heads out to the city.
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Post by CartoonDork on Jan 18, 2009 14:58:46 GMT -4
Great story so far! (Heh, sounded like Amanda too....XD)
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Post by Jakob on Jan 18, 2009 15:01:42 GMT -4
Hm. This must be the story you mentioned in the Vacation thread. Interesting.
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Post by Zero on Feb 1, 2009 15:10:57 GMT -4
*removed for editing*
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Post by Jakob on Feb 1, 2009 18:12:04 GMT -4
Okay, that doesn't sound like me... Rofl.
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Post by Zero on Feb 1, 2009 18:47:56 GMT -4
I'll just have to try again. How WOULD Jakob talk?
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Post by Jakob on Feb 1, 2009 19:39:38 GMT -4
He'd be indifferent. He doesn't love, nor hate. He also doesn't talk like a stereotypical action hero-in-hiding.
... Yeah.
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Post by Zero on Feb 5, 2009 17:06:40 GMT -4
2 hours later, Amanda is still looking around the city.
AMANDA: (Annoyed)"Find Tachyon" he says. "Unusual" he says. Yeah, him and about every other super hero who crash into this city!
As she passes a brick building, it blows up. She get snatched up by a robot clad in black just before the building collapses.
AMANDA: Yeah, just like that...
After he puts her down, she gives him a look up and down.
AMANDA: And who are you? The Steel Shadow?
JAKOB: "Jakob", little girl. You ought to watch where your going... not that I care.
Amanda rolls her eyes.
From under his trenchcoat, Jakob pulls out a sawed shotgun and fires it into an oncoming barrage of fighting robots.
In space, Zero reaches one of the D Class asteroids. He fires his optic beams directly into the center and collides into it. Zero grabs two large pieces of the debri and uses them like fighting gloves to desperse the remaining fragments. He keep flying to stop the other asteroids, missing a few fragments that keep heading to Earth.
In Tremorton, the robot riot is stopped. Jakob blow the smoke from his shotgun through his metal mask.
JAKOB: Not a chance.
AMANDA: Well, that was fun to watch.
Jakob's ears points back hearing her comment.
JAKOB: Whatever.
A rumbling sound is heard in the air. Everyone looks up to see meteors falling to the city. Panic ensues. Amanda is however, unphased.
AMANDA: Doesn't anybody look up in the sky these days?
All around the city, super powered teens take to the skies, or bear arms and swords, and begin to take out the meteors.
JAKOB: Target practice.
Jakob pulls out his handguns and starts firing into the air.
AMANDA: Aren't you at least gonna go on a roof for a clearer shot?
JAKOB: Don't need to.
He keeps firing, while Amanda can now see small barely can be seen meteors explode from existence.
AMANDA: WOW! You're a sharpshooter!
JAKOB: Whatever.
Now thoroughly annoyed by Jakob's noncaring attitude, Amanda is about to chastise him, but the sound of a motorcycle distracts her. Down the street comes Tachyon.
TACHYON: EPIC WIN!
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