Kakei
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Post by Kakei on Nov 20, 2016 23:35:36 GMT -4
I draw my pistol and flank the thing, drawing my cloak up to block the flames. "What is this thing?"
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Post by Jakob on Nov 20, 2016 23:39:19 GMT -4
"Wildlife," Jakob replied, "This level of chemical generation, and the application... I must have been gone for a long time."
A loud metallic snap rang across the city as the structure began to give out. Jakob's sensors picked up the closest window... well, "window". There was no glass to speak of. "Quickly!" He barked as he burst into as quick a sprint as he could, directly towards the nearest opening.
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Post by Kakei on Nov 20, 2016 23:40:29 GMT -4
I wait for him outside the window. "Well, I'm waiting on you. Hurry it up!"
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Post by Jakob on Nov 20, 2016 23:52:28 GMT -4
"Alright," Jakob replied as the skyscraper collapsed, kicking up red dust and splashing water as it did behind him. He shifted the pistol back into the void and continued wading through the water. "Seems like a lot more happened around here than a simple battle gone wrong," he noted as he continued scanning the ruins of Tremorton. The water now rippled and peaked in response to the collapsed skyscraper. No-doubt this sudden loud change would pique the interest of anyone within the Tremorton area, since sound travels quite far over water.
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Post by Kakei on Nov 20, 2016 23:53:21 GMT -4
"Well, I did hear rumours that the ice they used had life within it, and from what S says, it evolved rapidly."
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Post by Jakob on Nov 20, 2016 23:58:25 GMT -4
Ice...?
Jakob rolled the word through his mind for a nanosecond- which was a long time for him. He considered thousands of different options as to why ice would be a large factor in how this ruined state was reached. "What year is it?" Granted, it was the question he should have started with, but Jakob recalled the year his systems last registered before he went into stasis. "In Earth cycles, I mean."
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Post by Kakei on Nov 21, 2016 0:02:55 GMT -4
"How should I know? I just got here." I think for a moment. "Around the late twenty first to early twenty second century, I believe. If I'm remembering correctly..."
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Post by Jakob on Nov 21, 2016 0:08:22 GMT -4
"I've been gone for... decades..." Jakob was given pause. He had suspicions, absolutely, but a confirmation was nice to have. Everyone he had known... Given the scale of destruction in this city, they were likely dead. "Welp..." He continued wading, scanning, searching. All things were worth reclaiming. XJ-0 believed it, Gene believed it, even the Good Doctor believed it, because it was true. "You just got here, eh?" Jakob asked, "Are the reasons classified or is it also a salvage job?"
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Post by Kakei on Nov 21, 2016 0:12:11 GMT -4
"More classified than not. S told me to check up on the place. And, it's pretty bad if I were to say." I look up into the sky. It's beginning to get dark.
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Post by Jakob on Nov 21, 2016 0:48:58 GMT -4
"Hurm..." Jakob nodded as he approached the Tremorton Library... or whatever was left of it. The masonry had long since been contaminated with salt water, held only in place by dead ocean plant life. Most would come to the assumption that nothing could've possibly survived...
... But the recipe survived... barely... Jakob stepped out of the water up the elevated, shockingly still-solid marble steps. The marble slab surfaces had certainly seen better days, but give a guy a shovel and a polishing stone and the steps would look as good as new, at least. "Well... I get the feeling that it used to be worse," he indicated the coral that was far above the water level.
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Post by Kakei on Nov 21, 2016 0:56:10 GMT -4
"Perhaps. I wouldn't know." I silently follow. "You said something about a scavenging mission?"
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Post by Jakob on Nov 21, 2016 1:55:36 GMT -4
"Of course, salvaging things lost to time," Jakob replied as he approached the doors. He didn't quite trust this stranger, so he opted not to mention that he was specifically looking for a power source. Between the Earth's terrible shape and the lack of concern for reclamation on the woman's part, Jakob had only reason to reply with a perfectly satisfactory answer.
The signature hum of a dropship began to fill the otherwise still air. The noise was almost masked by the new splashing of waves along the sides of buildings, but Jakob's sensors picked up on it.
A Scavenger party? Jakob's long-range tracker caught wind of the ship as it lowered itself closer to the planet's surface. Alien scavengers? They seemed to miss the two of them entirely as they lowered out of sight, on the other end of the collapsed skyscraper. They appeared to be investigating the thermal signal that the mutated creature had flashed. Perhaps on their own scanners, it would have looked like some sort of grenade.
If they did, then they would have also spotted the two of them... What were they planning?
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Post by Kakei on Nov 21, 2016 10:06:39 GMT -4
I draw my pistol. "Go and hide. I got this." Like a shadow I dart towards the ship, silent though I'm still running through water. I dart inside the building blocking the ship, and out of sight.
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Post by Jakob on Nov 21, 2016 13:56:10 GMT -4
"Alright, I appreciate the help." Jakob didn't see the scavenger party as a threat anyway. He didn't catch anything to be reclaimed in the ruined skyscraper besides scrap. He entered the library ruins and began his search for reclaimable knowledge. Many books were ruined beyond recognition, but as the android leafed through the pages, he uncovered several legible books. For each one he found, he immediately stored them in a void vein he unveiled along his arm- since his hand wasn't big enough to hold a void surface large enough for said books.
The scavengers were space pirates who were indeed looking for scrap. They had caught the thermal spike on their sensors, as well as the movement of two individuals, but it was thanks to the thermal spike that they detected this goldmine. Steel as far as the eye can see. Rusted steel, granted, but the lizard-like scavengers had smelters that could separate the impurities. A team of alien lizards rode out of the gunship loading bay on hoverbikes hitched to a large heavy-duty trailer. If anything was capable of carrying several tonnes of heavy metal, it was this setup here.
"Jackpot!" One shouted in a harsh voice, "I told you it was weird for a flare to suddenly appear in the middle of the ocean! But keep an eye out for movement."
They were packing plasma rifles, they appeared to be military in origin, and utilized ammunition standard to most spacefaring militaries. The shells of the firearms, however, were heavily customized.
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Kakei
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Post by Kakei on Nov 21, 2016 14:40:56 GMT -4
<Reminds me of the Zethura Lizards> I skirt along the boarder of their visual range, staying silent. Lizards...sensitive to light. Tough skin, but not impenartrable. I dive silently into the waters, which are starting to turn black from darkness. I swim under the surface to take a closer look. Silent, undetectably.
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