6363/Viral Outbreak

Viral Outbreak
Date of Scene:	06 February 2019
Location:	The System - Locus
Synopsis:	Charta puts out a call for aid.
Cast of Characters:	1103, Staren, Sarracenia, 6384, Deelel

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Theurgus (1103) has posed:
    Those who arrive via the System Bus into Locus are greeted by LDF troopers, and ushered into an airship to head directly for the outbreak zone. The airship swoops down over a large island on the far side of the Drive, that is literally swarming with blue blobs of slime with canine features. Poochooze.

    Within the swarm dances a young woman with chrome armour and rainbow eyes. Her sword singing in the air and slashing through dozens of the little monsters with each swing, but there seems to be no end of them. She's not making and progress, and seems to be getting pushed back, as some of the Viruses latch onto her briefly before getting smacked away. "Charta, I cannot hold them off alone!" she says into the open air.

    <Please be careful Lady Diamond Sister. Help is on the way.> chimes in Charta herself, voice echoing over the airship's comm as well.

Staren has posed:
    Staren hasn't been to this world much. It just... confuses him. He needs to be better about that. But fighting viruses? That's a thing he's done!

    He wasn't expecting so MANY, though! Staren looks over the edge of the airship, wide-eyed, then his expression returns to neutral. This is unexpected, but not unprepared for.

    Staren reaches into his bag, pulls out what appears to be a large-bore rifle, and starts firing tiny missiles down at the mass of slimes, missiles which explode in fireballs of intense heat. <"We've got your back."> He comments, after the announcement.

Sarracenia has posed:
     Sarracenia has to admit, this airship is quite amazing. Of course, her airships are made of wood so...

     She blinks as she hears the voice on the comm, then looks out the door at the woman down below. As soon as they are close enough, Sarracenia leaps off the airship and quickly brings her hammer down and stands on the head. She rides it down, leaving a sort of comet trail in her wake and causing a wavefront to form below her. She crashes into the ground near the woman, sending out a shockwave that should send several of the almost cute little oozes flying.

     Sarracenia twirls slowly around the upturned handle of her hammer after the landing. "That is always so satisfying~" she says, then leaps and pulls the hammer free in one motion before bringing it down again on the nearest slime, working her way toward the surrounded woman. "Fear not! Princess Sarracenia has come to your rescue!"

Orchid (6384) has posed:
     Honestly, this world makes a degree of sense to Orchid's mind. But she's along to help out, and has brought a number of her more combat capable drones with her. She descends from the airship, riding her rocket surfboard, flanked by over 20 bat-type combat drones. She's directing them in clearing a landing zone, as she also takes a look around the battlefield itself. <"If these are the only sort, then if you feel overwhelmed, flying should suffice,"> she notes. She doesn't expect that to stay the case, but it might help...

Deelel has posed:
So a call for help had gone out from the neighbouring system as it were, and Deelel was fairly quick to arrive. The first thing those on site would hear is the sound of a light cycle engine as Deelel comes in and she'll move to try and side swipe the swam with her bike before it vanishe into a flash of light, deelel catches the baton slaps it to her leg and summons her Keyblade diving into the enemy's ranks.

"This will be fun!"

Theurgus (1103) has posed:
    Arcana lifts up into the air as the airship arrives. The Poochooze do a good job of forming a living ladder to try and reach her, but are blown about by Sarracenia's entrance. Those that aren't, are purged in plasma fire from Staren's micromissiles, while the bat-drones and Deelel's unorthodox entry manage to clear out a good portion of the swarm. The Poochooze make some kind of dumb sound as they regroup and start approaching the group once more, while they're joined by a much larger specimen as it lands from a smaller landmass floating above this larger floating island.

    "I knew it... a Giant Poochooze, no way these things would be this coordinated if one of them wasn't around." says Arcana, lifting her sword and beginning to chant.

    The Poochooze leap at the responders, their tiny bodies are squishy and easy to damage, but they're slimes, and that goop is really acidic, catalysing most materialize it comes into contact with.

Sarracenia has posed:
     Sarracenia smirks as the little slimes are blown away by her attack. "See? Told you." she says to Arcana, only to blink as the giant Poochooze appears. And suddenly she is surrounded! She uses her hammer to keep most of the slimes away, but at least one still manages to pounce on her and she yelps at the burning sensation while small holes start to appear all over her battle dress. "Ugh. I have to find a more durable material somewhere..." she mutters.

     Still trying to fend off smaller poochoozes, Sarra can only manage to spare one small bob-omb for the horde. She leaps upward and throws it down at them.

Staren has posed:
    <"That stacking behavior is concerning..."> Staren fries them before they can reach the airship, fortunately.

    Unfortunately, there's now a... Giant Slime. And it's able to fling some of them up at the airship! They graze Staren, corroding his armor! He fries them with the beam saber, then looks over the edge again.

    <"So... if we take out the big one, the others will become less of a threat?"> He turns his focus to it, trying to heat it up. It might take awhile, but eventually, maybe he'll be able to get it to boil later?

Deelel has posed:
The Battle is joined an Deelel has made quite the entry here, she's done some damage on her entry to the Poochooze, however they seem to be up to omething this time. She will find that thhe's getting pounced and it hits her hand very hard she'd almost aovided it but not quite. She hits the gorund an rolls way moving to get back to her feet.

"Well then you have some game do you?"

With that she has her Keyblade out and is moving in on the Giant Poochoze to give severl swift wacks with the weapon.

Orchid (6384) has posed:
     Orchid lands in the middle of the cleared area, and while she herself avoids the poochooze, her bat-drones aren't as lucky, several brought down. But there are more things in Orchid's bag of drones, and she sets up more, starting with a trio of turrets that begin firing at the smaller blobs. She's building up to something... She's also sending Sarracenia some tips about where the jellies are most vulnerable to a good hammer-swing.

Theurgus (1103) has posed:
    Staren seems to have the right idea, as the missiles impacting against the giant Poochooze staggers it, and visibly the entire swarm seems to 'stagger' with it. It recovers after a moment, and with another "Duuurrrrrbuuuur!" its eyes begin to glow red, then emit a beam laser at the scientist catman.

    Sarracenia's bob-omb scatters the Poochooze again, giving her a little space to land once more, but she better not stay isolated or things might get bad.

    Deelel's getting up close and personal with the Giant Poochooze. As she whacks at it with her Keyblade, it groans, then coils up like a spring, thenh unwinds in a sweeping round-house attack, using its flexible body to try and knock the Program away.

    Orchid's managing to keep an area safe from the smaller slimes, but the Giant Poochooze lobs some over the turret cover, absorbing them from around itself, and hurling them like some kind of mortar into the middle of that turret formation!

Staren has posed:
    <"Alright! Target the big one!"> Staren calls out.

    And then it gets mad!

    Oh, red eyes don't mean mad, they mean EYE BEAMS! Staren's caught off-guard, but the beam is another graze, scorching his armor on one shoulder. He turns on his forcefield and dives for cover, but even the brief contact is enough to burn through a significant portion of the field; the transparent sphere glowing an opaque white before the outer layers crack and shatter!

    When he stands back up, he levels TWO guns over the railing -- his laser rifle in addition to the missile one! Lasers, beams, and fireball missiles all rain down at the big Poochooze! It's a pretty big target, after all!

Orchid (6384) has posed:
     Well, the slime bombs come in, blasting away Orchid's turrets as she darts away. She pulls something out from a compartment. It doesn't look like much, and as she dashes Orchid gives it a quick wrap in... something. Finally, she loads the device into an arm cannon, and shoots it at the Giant Poochooze.

     It's not much, with about twice the kinetic energy of a fastball pitch.

     It just happens to be the sort of navigation beacon that will make the Poochooze a VERY easy target.

Deelel has posed:
Deel gets smacked agian pretty good there's no cracking yet on her body so it's not life threating but clearly she's been hit good. This is wherre she'll mix it up afte sh recogers form getting knockjed away she holds the keyblad mutter something and send powerful guests of wind at the thing trying to keep it pinned down for hte rest of the party to be able to just kick it's ass.

Sarracenia has posed:
     Sarracenia lands after her bomb toss..only to still be surrounded. She sighs, then looks toward the giant ooze. "Oh wonderful. Let me just activate the homing function of...my hammer." she says in a flat tone at Orchid's use of the beacon.

     But, after a moment of thought, Sarracenia realizes she -does- have a weapon that might be able to make use of the beacon. She plants her hammer in the ground head first, then reaches into her satchel and pulls out...is that a portable rocket pod?! It is nearly as long as her hammer, with 8 burly pods.

     She princess grins a bit maniacally as she takes aim, and one can probably hear the 'beep beep beep' of target aquisition. "Here you go, big guy!" she calls out, then laughs just as maniacally as her grin as the weapon starts firing. One after another in rapid succession she launches all 8 aircraft-sized missiles, each one black and with a shark face just like her Bullet Bills, and each one unleashes a devastating explosion on the Giant Poochooze!

Theurgus (1103) has posed:
    The swarm is being whittled down, and the big Giant Poochooze is looking ragged. It's slumped down in a half-melted pile, the expression on its 'face' unchanged. Like it's a static texture or something. Staren's assault ablates away some of the things outer layer, and Orchid's beacon manages to sink in through one of these holes, the protective wrapping letting it survive the harsh environment within the Poochooze's body.

     Deelel's assault with the Wind-type magic blasts clear the last few Poochooze that were surrounding their 'boss', leaving the door proverbially open.

    And Sarracenia makes the most of it, using those missiles to blast the Giant Poochooze into fragmented code that evaporates after a few moments.

    Arcana finishes chanting then, and with a kiai, sends sword beams out to clear the rest of the island of the now disorganized Poochooze. She lands, and releases her transformation once the island is clear. "Thank you all for coming... I do not know what I would have done without your aid." she says, bowing formally to each in turn.

Sarracenia has posed:
     Sarracenia watches with sparkly eyes as her beloved explosives do their job perfectly against the big slime, then she giggles delightedly when the smoke clears and so does the creature's data. She looks at the now spent pod and tosses it away. Apparently it is a one use weapon.

     Arcana finishes off the remaining small slimes and Sarracenia finally gets a good look at her. And those sparkly eyes return. "Oh my goodness! You are adorable!" the princess gushes before making her way over quickly and giving Arcana the hug one gets when one is just too cute. "It was a pleasure to help. Especially one so adorable and well-mannered!"

     Still hugging Arcana against her with one arm, Sarracenia waves to the others. "Well done everyone! Especially you, little android! It seems I was able to capitalize on your assistance after all!"

Orchid (6384) has posed:
     Orchid lets out a deep sigh of relief as the Poochooze is defeated. She takes a deep bow as Sarracenia calls to her. "A pleasure to help; teamwork is always a winning combination," she calls back. "And you can call me Orchid. I'm just glad we were able to finish it quickly."

     Around her, her drones sort through the remains, looking for salvageable parts.

Deelel has posed:
Deelel lowers her weapon as the enemy either is down and Arcana clears out the rest of them. Her keyblade vanishes now in a poof of light. She also has to admit she's impressed at the explosive power of the Princess and tells her so over the comm.

"It was a team effort right?" She looks about for a moment then pauses.

"Does anyone require healing?"

"I also have to agree that is a cute outfit you have Arcana!"

Theurgus (1103) has posed:
    Arcana lets out a confused squeak when she's so suddenly hugged. Green eyes go owlishly wide at Sarracenia and she tries to extract herself from the embrace. She doesn't seem all that outgoing, fidgeting with her fingers once she's released. "U-uhm... th-thank you?" She then self consciously adjusts her outfit as it's commented on, cheeks flushing embarrassedly.

Staren has posed:
    The enemy is defeated. And the others are busy calling eachother cute and stuff... nothing much more to do here. Staren waits for the airship to head back to the gate. Not like he's 'just' waiting when he has a computer in his head, after all!

Sarracenia has posed:
     Sarracenia blinks when Arcana pulls away, then giggles a bit. "You are welcome. And I apologize if I embarrassed you." she says, then waits for the airship to pick them up so she can head back to her world. "If you ever need anything, do not be afraid to ask~" she calls out to Arcana before she leaves. "And...forgive me, what was your name?" she says, smiling to Deelel. "We must arrange to discuss expanding our art portfolios to include images of me at a later date."

Orchid (6384) has posed:
     Orchid chuckles a little. Not at anyone in particular. But she gathers what she can, and boards the airship.

Deelel has posed:
Deelel turns her head to Sarracenia. "The ID is Deelel!" With that she will catch a lift out of here. "You know h ow to get ahold of me and that would be interesting!"