revivalproject | Ghostriders In the Sky [Catch-All Event Log]

"So something really big and really strong. Great."

He's still doing his awkward little crab steps, watching for anything moving.

"But I mean, is it an alien? A robot? Something magic? Some secret fourth thing?"

He doesn't know which of those things Donnie's tech can catch, and which he can't.

"Potentially," Donnie adds, even as he tries to crawl along after Leo.

"That's just it... I wasn't even picking up anything on the infrared or nightvision. It could be robotic in nature but even robots need to give off some sort of power reading. And you know I can pick up magical energy with this thing."

Which left some 'secret fourth thing', which he's not sure he likes.

Hey, he's just trying to come up with options! And so far it's not sounding good...

"Mystery prize then. Great, I looove surprises."

The sarcasm in his tone is totally mean this time. Leo makes it back to the hallway, sneaking a peek out and-

"Gah!"

Something - a tiny pinprick of light - zips past the place Leo's head had just been. It pings into the opposite wall with the hiss of something melting the metal.

"What was that!?"

"...I think that might have been a laser."

As Donnie turns his head towards the sound, the lights on his helmet pick up the end result, and while facts are normally easier to digest, it's hard to keep that flicker of panic from surfacing as he realizes how close that had been to hitting his brother's head.

He drifts closer, goggles lowered again. "Ugh, wish I had time to just make some kind of overlay, these things were not meant for wear within-ow- helmets..!" he grumbles as they clonk against the inside of his headgear.

"Oh. Cool."

Leo's voice is a bit uncharacteristically flat, given that in any other situation he would think the laser is cool. Not so much when it almost vaporized his head, though. He'd rather be on the other side of the laser.

Donnie wrestles with his headgear, and for once Leo's urge to laugh at his misfortune is muted. He peeks back in the hallway, trying to think about what is going on here, and who is attacking them. If this were a movie, then maybe...

A pause, and then Leo looks over at Donnie.

"Do you think this ship is boobytrapped?" he asks.

"Boobytrapped..?" Donnie chews on his lower lip, clearly not having considered the thought, and now that it's there, he doesn't like it one bit.

"...something clearly happened here. A lot of what we saw of the place from our ships can't have just been from falling into a state of disrepair, so maybe there was some sort of malfunction that forced them to abandon the station..?"

Okay, that sounds even worse now that he's said it.

"-wait, I thought I saw something."

He just has to not turn his head too sharply or his goggles will hit the inside of his helmet again.

"Oh, it's the power readings from earlier. Weird, it's gone down someho- no wait, picking up heat signatures."

"....several actua- AAH LASERS DUCK!"

Nothing he's saying dissuades Leo from his boobytrapped idea, and he's about to say as much, when suddenly Donnie is yelling.

Leo ducks again, flattening himself out as much as he can against the floor - which isn't much, with his shell, but he's just going to have to hope it can tank any potential laser blasts.

"Can you turn it off!?" he shouts, even though, out here in space, the lasers are not that loud.

"Not from here!" Donnie yelps, keeping his head down as several shots go flying past them, but at least they don't seem terribly well-aimed.

"I'm not even sure what's firing at us! But I think they might be automated. Turning them off might mean having to get closer, and I don't think they're going to give us much of a chance."

But maybe he can shut them down permanently. "How about fighting lasers with lasers? -cover me, I may be making myself a big target but unfortunately I didn't think to bring the Harpoon Ray," he says, his ninpō flaring brightly in the dark hall as he forms a laser rifle like the one equipped in his tech-bō.

Cover him!? Yeah, okay.

Leo doesn't know how he's supposed to cover Donnie from lasers, exactly, but he moves to crouch over him anyway, eyes scanning the dark hall for any threats.

"Dude, you should always bring the Harpoon Ray!" he scolds. They're on a space adventure, after all!

But Donnie's mystic tech can make anything he knows how to put together, so Leo tells himself it's all about to be fine - even as he has to duck his head in his shell to avoid another laser blast.

"I didn't want to get it scuffed!" Typical.

At least the weapon is something he knows, and it doesn't take too long for the final pieces to slot into place. Which is probably good because those lasers are starting to get a little closer with each shot.

Donnie takes aim and fires immediately after another goes off, rewarded with the muffled sound of a small explosion and a brief flare as it impacts with something down the hall. He squeezes off another with similar results, but it seems there's at least one more thing still capable of firing at them as another shot goes flying in retaliation.

Auuugh, he hates that it's a solid argument. Getting it scuffed would lower its value as a collectible!!

He watches as Donnie takes out two, but the lasers are still coming. He cringes as he narrowly avoids another one, then growls and pulls out his sword.

"Eat your own laser!" he snaps, before opening a portal in front of them - another opening just beside it but pointing the opposite direction.

Whether it had been the intent or not, Leo's glowing portal draws the attention of whatever's firing in their direction, and it does not seem to consider that maybe aiming at the glow will end with its demise.

The first return shot flies just past it, giving the briefest glimpse of some kind of spider-legged, mechanical silhouette before the next shot it fires flies right back at it.

"Bravo, Leo!" Donnie grins, holding a fist up towards his brother. "I think that's all of them, or at least I'm not picking up anything else around there for now."

Leo knocks his fist against Donnie's, then finally rises out of his crouch. He gives a showman's bow, hands outspread as he dips at the waist.

"Thank you, I know, I'm amazing." He turns to peer back down the hallway. "That was some sharp shooting too, Tex. This ship should know better than to mess with us!"

He yells that last part down the hallway - possibly ill-advised.

Donnie smirks, in full agreement there. "Why thank you," he says as he gets up from the floor, pretending to blow off the end of his rifle.

There's a strange hum that sounds from behind them, the lights in the hallway flickering on briefly from that point before slowly cycling past their section, leaving them in darkness again as the light continues to move down each segment. It reveals the twitching mechanical bodies of several spider-legged robots before continuing on down until a point further, darkness once again filling the halls.

"Uh... That was weird..." Donnie frowns, trying not to sound anxious as he peers through his goggles. "It looked like...whatever power was available here was being pulled down the hall-

"...oh no."

His goggles pick up the energy spike just before more glowing red spheres come alive in the darkness, metal clicking against metal as multiple legs begin their approach.

Oh, of course there's more. What kind of space adventure would this be without that reveal?

"Uh, so... Do you have any kind of game plan for these guys?" Leo asks, readying his swords again.

"We're at a disadvantage without any cover," Donnie observes as he monitors the approach. "I'm thinking their feet might be magnetized or something... Hey, can you pop some portals open over there?"

Leo only half-listens to that explanation, but he does clue in on the request. He nods, turning his swords on the area Donnie indicates.

"Portals coming right up," he says, before they pop where he was told.

Donnie grins, glad Leo's picked up on the idea. He looks back down the hall as the familiar blooms of Leo's ninpō appear in his goggles overlay, and as he switches modes he can better see as the...drones? start falling into them and popping out to find themselves free-floating. Their legs twitch around but they don't seem to be built for dealing with being away from a solid surface.

Some of the drones pick up on the light as movement of a potential target and turn to fire at them, their shots picking off some of their own number. The lasers that don't hit them still seem to come from an unknown origin, triggering more of them to fire at the portals and consequently, each other.

"Whoa, look at that light show!" Leo cheers, watching the lasers go. The plan was not bad, not bad at all!

He'll watch to see if there are any stragglers left, when it's all said and done...

"Oh, that worked out even better than I thought it would," Donnie laughs, watching appreciatively as most of the drones take themselves out.

There's a couple still attached to a surface, having switched to defensive mode as lasers flew around them. One's missing a leg from said laserfire but it drags itself along, the other following suit to try finding their original target through the floating parts of their associates.

"You want to take these or should I?"

“Why don’t we split the difference?” Leo suggests. But he doesn’t wait for an answer before he launches himself toward the one that seems confused - more slowly than normal, thanks to the lowered gravity.

Leo's already charging- as best as one can- ahead, but Donnie can only grin as he moves slightly to the side, lifting his mystic-tech weapon.

The mostly functional drone spies the movement between floating fragments and attempts to fire, though it only manages to hit those pieces and inert bodies for the most part, other shots going a bit wide only to hit the sides of the hall.

The limping drone is put on the alert with the other's shooting, head turning this way and that almost frantically as it tries to sight what it's supposed to shoot. Donnie's shot takes it right through the laser eye.

"Yeah! Touchdown! Or something."

Touchdown...? Okay, fine, close enough.

Meanwhile, Leo manages to dodge any of those wild shots, swinging his sword around in a wide arc around his body as he bashes into the other bot, hitting it with enough force that it finally gets rocked off its magnetic hold, spinning away into the wall and splintering into several disembodied robot parts.

"And that's a scrap!" he calls, propping his katana over his shoulder.

Donnie grins, pushing off to float his way down the hall to join Leo.

"Looks like we're clear," he reports after having a look around. He grabs one of the drifting drones before inspecting the walls, pointing at several open panels just a ways further down.

"Seems like they came from those. I think somehow whatever power was left in this hallway was rerouted here to power the security drones."

"So the ship is boobytrapped!" Leo sounds smug, like he really solved a mystery here. "Can you reroute the power back to the, uh... main console thingy?"

He gestures back the way they came.

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