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>>27903978
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>>27903978
> previous thread
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>>27904015
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>>27904015
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>>27904015
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>realize I forgot to post old thread with previous post
http://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/27846035
>Year: 1501 AE
>Metro Line Rail System
Last time on TimeQuest, Honey had went out on her own to investigate the Blasters' situation, while Onyxia lead the rest of the party downwards towards the rail-way system underneath Dome C-545 to look into the Danger Dogs they had met before to see if they knew anything. Due to a falling out between Luke and Onyxia, Luke was sent on a different train with the bats heading on towards Dome E-220 while Onyxia and Southern boarded one bound for Everfree City
>>27904033
After Luke was sent screaming down the rail-line metro with his muzzle sewed shut, another train had arrived promptly at Onyxia's behest of the controls, the sleek and silvery rail-cart riddled with scorch marks and damages made to it. Boarding it with Steel and Onyxia, you hear it's cheery sing-song voice say:
>"Welcome back to Metro Line! We're surprised to see you visiting again after your previous visit, but we're welcome to have you experience the release of death with us again. Please remain seated while the train is in motion. This line is headed for Everfree City, non-stop."
>>27903987
Steel looks down at Onxyia as she shouts back at him, following her within the Metro Line cart as the cheery voice sings up again.
Steel looks around, "This is a very strange time..." before turning back to Onyxia. "I'm sorry, Onyxia. I know you're only seeking to help me return my original form... but I cannot let what Sight has done go unaccounted for. And I cannot do it alone." As you toss up his cape and throw it back at him, revealing your increased weight, he resets it upon his back. "...If it helps at all, I thought you look better without it. I love seeing you as you are." He turns towards the tunnel as the train moves on ahead, screaming into the dark. "At this rate you'll-..." he asks, hoping you'll finish your sentence for him.
>>27904179
>>27904059
The bats barely crawl over the side of it as they give a few huffs, stretching their wings out. "W-well Onyxia said that you guys already went through this before and knocked out all the scary stuff s-so isn't that good!?" Screech shouts.
Boo looks over the outside of the window as you guys work your ways through the tunnels, landing in front of another metro-station, this one with out any robots in the front as it pulls to a stop. "I hate the future already..."
The abandoned metro-station echoes in front of you as you arrive: before when you came here, you remember there were Uni-Bots that boarded your train and employed you and Ug, but there are none here this time.
>>27904029
>A few miles outside of the Blaster's compound
Crumple unleashes a salvo of projectiles at the on-coming missiles, blasting out 4 out of five of them one at a time as they make their way towards you. But the last one impacts, and causes a massive explosion, damaging Crumple's systems severely as the engines sputter out and begin to fail. They've definitely acquired some upgrades to their missiles' payload.
>0/6, falling helpless
As you shout at them on the horn, Lead Head at first persists
>"Damnit Crumple, you're a good customer, and ya helped us out before, but this is serious! Some of our most precious tech got stolen right from under us, and three of our best soldiers were killed, we can't afford trust right now, not to anyone. E-even you..."
As you give the speech at the end, warning them of what comes their way if they continue to shoot their guns, you hear nothing for a long while, unsure if Lead Head put out the word.
>>27904189
>>27904017
>Year: 1018 AE
>Crystal Empire Palace
Discord chuckles, "I can't believe it..."
Twilight looks angry, her wings flapping up, "Seriously! WHAT is with the pencil?! Is this a thing?"
"Oh, do not worry your pretty little head, Princess. You'll get it. Or not." He chuckles as he stores the pencil on top of his ear, turning down to Nero, "And don't worry about YOUR pretty little head Emperor. I would never part with such a meaningful and well thought out gift. Do say hello to the Missus for me, I'll be over for tea." He gives his fingers yet another snap, and you are blinded by a bright light.
You reappear in the throne room of the Crystal Empire, two guards standing besides the throne giving a massive shout of surprise as you suddenly pop in from nowhere, Twilight shaking her head from the disorientation as they ready their spears at the sight of you two, unable to see your faces from behind as you face the opposite direction. "By the gods! How did you get in here?!"
>>27904189
>>27904029
apologies to Honey, last bit of the post got cut off
Eventually, you hear another click.
>"All long range, cease fire, scuttle all artillery salvos, hold your fire!"
>>27904189
As Crumple descends from the explosion, it tries to right itself while Honey also does her thing to do the same.
>rolling both instant recoveries so as to not post three-four times.
>Crumple: [1d10]
>Honey: [1d10]
>More to come...
>>27904179
Onyxia huffs and turns her head to look out the train window, still very much upset. Her coat, while still dull and dark, looks a slight tone brighter after Steel's words.
"Nothing, I said to forget it."
She says grumpily.
>>27904179
She follows Onyxia, wherever she might go, figuring that the most level-headed of the group would have a good sense of where to go.
>>27904189
>>27904216
>>27904217
As Crumple gets righted, Honey has it makes its way towards the Blaster's stronghold at top speed to get there nice and quick.
"Smart choice. See you all in a few."
With that little bit of time in between, Honey spends it by getting Gonzo's flail wired back up to Crumple's weapon systems. She had to admit: she was missing firing giant-sized projectiles right about now.
>Magitech Gonzo Flail cleave effect back on MAsterwork weapon
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>>27904189
"That fucking double crossing two-timing steel rutting crystal chucking snow zigger equinoid thorax licking.." Luke continues and continues as walks out the tram until he fizzes out of rage "Aaahh! fuck her. You get it! Fuuuuuuuck heeeeeer. What the hell makes her think she can just play with my life like I'm one of her beta orbiters. Guaaaah! Fuck! My headache" The rage and spiked blood pressure coalesces in Luke's head panging his hangover like a hammer strikes anvil.
>Jean watches Luke's tantrum with starstruck fanaticism in her eyes.
Luke digresses before he pops something "...You guys think thats not cool, right? I'm not just being a tool? Right? Right?" He asks the bats for validation
Luke saunters through the metro-station, not knowing he's going and only relying on a vague sense of his whereabouts from last time. Luke thinks he could remember something if he had a drink.
He strikes metallic objects methodically with his bat as he meanders. "Yo! Robocorns! I'm here for my unemployment check!" Luke calls out.
>>27904196
Nero grimaces at Discord's annoying tendencies and threats of a visit, before the light overtakes Him.
"Calm yourselves. It is only I." Nero says turning to look at them.
"The creature Discord teleported Me here. Where is Empress Isha?"
>>27904243
Steel lowers his head, nodding slowly in contentment. "I understand... but speak to me if you wish to continue your train of thought."
>>27904247
>>27904243
For the next several minutes, the damaged, dim-lit metro train screams along its electric rails towards its destination, the sights of a couple stops such as under-ground restaurants or other metro stations like the one you boarded at sliding by as the train-cart passes through a large tunnel, opening up into a large segment of tracks that come out of the wall of a mountainous cavern, riding along the sides of the mountain on ascended tracks as it gives you a picturesque view of its destination.
Within the massive cavern, about a third of it is taken up by a large, murky lake (Onyxia recognizes this as the one she first emerged from after her first trip back in time), and the other 2/3's of it covered with a sprawling metropolis, decrepit and decaying buildings reaching up high as bits of them crumble to the ground from on high. Onyxia, having been here once before, notices that the buildings are vastly different though: far less gothic looking and more bright in aesthetic, hopeful (despite its crumpling architecture).
The train takes another tunnel from this on-high view and goes through it until you feel it arriving at another stop several minutes later,
>"ARRIVING AT EVERFREE CITY STATION. Disembark uncarefully..."
The voice speaks out as you arrive, the doors opening to show a lone robotic pony, rusted all over, standing at the far end of this metro stop, looking stalwartly away from you all out towards the entrance, still as a statue.
>>27904578
>>27904270
Crumple's rapid descent into the ground is halted by its pilot, and as you begin to climb again into the air again Lead Head responds
>"Yeah... hope it was. Just a forewarning though, I got 'em to stand down for now, but the Elder's not going to be looking forward to it. We'll have every missile, bomb, and military-grade laser cannon we have trained on you, so no funny business."
As you fly in the rest of the journey, you successfully implement Gonzo's flail to the weapon systems. As you approach the Blaster's compound, you see a massive military base nestled up against the very edge of the Shade: the bright, orange rays of the sun beaming down just behind it noticeably affecting your temperature gauge and almost blinding you from the sight of it. The military compound has a Dome situated less than a mile away you can see from the front view, and as you begin to approach you see they kept true to their word, every cannon on the base focused on Crumple.
>"You're cleared for landing, Crumple, Strip C coming by SW position, roger."
>>27904384
The two guards look at you turning around, both of them gasping and standing to attention, slightly redder in the face at their faux pas "E-emperor Nero! And Princess Twilight, forgive us." They say with a snap of their spears' butts to the ground, "We didn't see it was you, and, you just happened to appear so suddenly."
The other guard nods his head, looking to Nero with a grin, "Welcome home, emperor. I heard some nasty stories about Discord, I hope you are unharmed." He looks up through the cieling, pointing up, "Empress Isha, and the vizier Princess Cadence, are both upstairs, my lord, seeing to some business with the tower's reconstruction since the Sons' attack. Things are going smoothly, by the way, just needing her approval on some aspects of it.
>>27904599
>>27904350
As you rage through the betrayal of being sent on the metroline in another direction, Boo cringes, holding up his hooves in an attempt to calm you down, "Woah, woah, easy dude. Deep breathes. You're gonna pop a vein doing that."
As you ask if it was cool or not, Screech rubs behind his neck, "Weeell... nah, I don't think it was cool to send you on another rail like that, but, she did seem pretty mad. Figure she wouldn't have done if it you let up just a little, you know?"
As you strike around the metro-station, you hear a scraping of metal coming from the far side of the metro, and you see a shadow quickly dart from one pew to another closer to where the power turns off. Both bats jump at this, and Screech shouts, "W-wait, it said you were never even at orientation, how do you get a check?!"
>>27904612
> Figure she wouldn't have done if it you let up just a little, you know?"
"Gah! Who needs her. I just need booze."
Upon Screech criticizing Luke's impeccable welfare strategy he idly retorts under his breath "Shut the fuck up Screech you're gonna screw up my mojo."
At the sight of something moving in the shadows Luke pops out his rifle and promptly lets out a shot with expert speed. He shoots at whatever's watching them just for kicks.
[1d10]
a blast of Dust and rubble prevents Luke from seeing if he made the shot or not. He takes that moment to take out his walkie-talkie and talk to Crumple
>>27904270
>Calling over Radio
"Yo, bunches of oats. I'm bored what are you up to?"
>>27904599
correction to this post:
>seeing to some business with the tower's reconstruction since the Sons' attack
change to
>seeing to the temple of the gods and its construction.
>>27904599
With the work done, Honey heads back into the cockpit just in time to hear about the precautions they are taking. Crumple only laughs.
"Yeah, roger that."
Crumple touches down gently, as to not spook the heavily armed, and very paranoid, ponies right now.
"Well this feels nice and fucking familiar," Crumple says, looking to one side at the ponies there, "what? You look like you've never seen a bot get an upgrade before."
Crumple begins walking to the usual spot Honey knows the Elder to usually be.
"Let's just get this over with. I've got a tight as fuck deadline and a bunch of guns that want to kill some fucking griffon bastard."
>>27904754
All Luke gets in response is a bunch of static and other radio noises. Seems like either Crumple is too far away, or perhaps too busy, to pick up the phone.
>>27904782
Luke is patient for a response before saying "I took a whiz on your robot once when you were sleeping."
>>27904836
Still no response. Not even an answering machine! The nerve!
>>27904578
She exits the tram and has a look toward whatever the robopone is looking at.
>>27904599
"Its fine. If you did not react that way when somepony appeared unannounced in My throne room, that is when I would be concerned."
The King says, walking with the guards upstairs.
"Of course I am. I ordered him to send Me here."
When they arrive in the hallway outside where they say Isha and Cadence are, Nero stops, setting down the time machine, and taking Nau from Twilight, turning to the guards, then Twilight.
"You two can return to your posts. Twilight, let Me walk in first, then follow in after." He says, taking Nau onto His shoulders, before walking into the room, addressing the two ponies going over papers at a table.
"Hi." he says, Nau's head looking over His.
>>27904862
"Yah! well!..." Luke is steaming "I can bitch about Onyxia all by myself anyhow."
>>27904578
Onyxia just grumbles back.
>>27904578
Her head turns to the door as the train stops, getting off the train quickly. The ruined city, first place she saw after that portal, and the start of this adventure. The changed buildings might give her some pause, but those first initial memories only make her mood worse, being stuck in this path since then.
"Those Danger Dogs should be around here somewhere. We first met them here and they showed us this train system to get to the dome before. Look out for anything that looks like a Diamond Dog or a trail of shiny things."
Onyxia says flatly to Steel and Southern before walking out to the city and looking herself.
>Search [1d10]
>>27904754
>posting thsi first since Verb needs to go pronto
"Right, cause booze solves' all life's problems. Look, I'm just saying it wouldn't hurt to try a lighter approach..."
Before Screech can respond to the welfare, he jumps up as Boo ducks down and covers his head, the blaster shot from your laser rifle going through the pew you saw the shadow dip into and you hear a successful blast impact, a short, "GAAAH!" of a mare's voice screaming before you see a large splash of liquefied material splatter behind the pew, coating it in a gooey, yellow-y substance.
Boo shouts, "Woah! W-what the hell was that?!"
>>27905209
>"Right, cause booze solves' all life's problems. Look, I'm just saying it wouldn't hurt to try a lighter approach..."
"What do you think I need the booze for Screechy."
>"Woah! W-what the hell was that?!"
"SHH!" Luke shushes Boo and gestures with his hoof raised "It's a mexicoltan gasping Roach. I've tangled we've these sort once before." Luke says in a crazed and goofy manner. Its unclear whether he's joking or not.
Luke approaches the pew and crouches down to the yellow substance. Picking it up on his hooves, sniffing it, examining the ichor closely before tasting it.
[1d10] I'm rolling just in case I should.
>>27905293
Also don't worry guys I'll be back soon.
>>27904761
You make touch down at the air-strip with the gun-towers still trained on Crumple's current position, and as you touch down you make contact with a squadron of over a dozen ponies, all races and manners of scars among them. Each one wields a massive rocket-launcher over their shoulders, poised at you, their light gray jumpsuits shimmering in the light of the sun's rays beyond the shade. One of them, an older looking stallion with half his muzzle fused, glares at your newly upgraded body after you touch down. "Don't give two shits about the upgrade, Crumple. It's real purdy," he says with a slight speech impediment due to his fused mouth, "but we woulda shot your ass out of the sky even if you were back in gray."
"Ah, pops, don't make this any more awkward than it needs to be.." you hear the familiar, gruff voice from the radio, and a female unicorn, sporting a large green mohawk and a thick leather jacket, comes striding towards you. You recognize this as Lead Head, who smiles and looks up at you, "Figure Crumple's used to the 'shoot first ask questions never' hospitality of the Blasters by now. Welcome back... and don't make me regret this Crumple, Elder's ready to knock me off perimeter and down into the recycling plant if this goes south." She and the other dozen Blasters you meet at the bottom begin escorting you towards the Elder's, many of the Blasters you recognize but still holding their hooves on the triggers as they walk along towards the central tower of the base. "Like I said on the radio, last visitors fucked us over real good. What's this you know about a griffon though, one of those overgrown pigeons screw you over too?"
>>27905326
>>27905004
>>27904918
As the two mares and Steel exit the tram station, they move on over towards the exit of the metro, a series of stairs going upwards guarded by the aforementioned robo-pone. Steel looks at the robotic, rusted pony, who turns and gives a few clicking whirls of his head, turning to look at the three of you, a pair of gattling guns seemingly trying to get out of his back but are stuck by rusted panels. "A moment, civilians, I can see to you shortly... I appear to be having some slight difficulties with my deployment system" he says in an upbeat, gentlemanly robotic tone as Steel shakes his head at the odd machine.
Passing by into the city proper after ascending the stairs, you can see the lights in the streets are barely flickering on and off, giving the massive decaying city a slight luminescence as you look into the streets. As Onyxia speaks of the shiny trail, Steel looks ahead of the stairs after coming out, pointing out at a long chain of metallic objects littering the street in a single line. "Well... we won't have to look far."
>The trail of shiny objects is extraordinarily long, stretching off beyond the street in two directions. To your right you can see it leading off into a distant tunnel on the edge of the massive cavern, and towards the far left you see it going into a building. As Onyxia takes to the city streets, the decaying metropolis constantly making odd noises or casting shadows from its flickering power-sources, she hears a clatter going on from a nearby office building, the sounds of objects breaking and screaming.
Eventually, a kitchen sink is tossed out of the upper floors, falling down to the ground and shattering in front of the group. Steel asks, "You didn't tell me about these dogs yet. Are they scrappers?"
>>27905337
>>27904966
The guards give a salute as you tell them to return to their posts, smiling that you were at least pleased with their reaction. As you tell Twilight to come in behind him, she smiles, handing off Nau quickly, "Of course... I'll be right behind you."
As you walk through the door, you see Isha and Cadence appear to be busy talking with each other about matters concerning the temple. Their heads shoot up however at the sound of your voice, and they both turn in your direction. Isha says as she turns around,
"Beloved? You are already back, I had figured..." the silvery mare stops mid-sentence as she looks at you, and the foal upon your shoulders begins cooing and laughing, holding her hooves towards her. Isha's eyes open wide, her breath seemingly taken away, and Cadence looks on as she holds a hoof over her muzzle, shocked.
"Is...is that?"
Isha pushes gently passed Cadence, walkly slowly at first towards you and your child before picking up the pace, her hooves quickly reaching up around your neck. She pulls Nau off your shoulders, and then grabs you both in a warm embrace, nuzzling the happy foal in her hooves again as she smiles,
"How? Where?"
>>27905347
"Oof!" Nero says, leaning forward as Isha takes His daughter, and pulls them both into an embrace. He returns the embrace, putting His arms around her back as Nau is held between them.
"It was as I said. The Order of Eon had taken her from My brother. Getting her back was simply a matter of persuasion." he says smiling, looking down at Nau, cradled in His wife's arms.
>>27905326
Crumple walks along with his little escort group, not really giving two fucks about all the heavy weaponry aimed at him.
"Only regrets will be the sorry sack of shit who lets their trigger hoof slip," Crumple replies back to Lead Head, "but yeah, kinda glad this is happening anyway. Been feeling a bit...homesick or some shit."
Crumple begins to look around again. But not at the ponies. More at the weapons and seeing all the other fun 'toys' laying around. However, his attention is brought back to LEad Head and laughs a bit.
"One? I seem to keep making enemies with those fuckers wherever I go. Die all the same though, though one did have a fun toy," Crumple says, letting the spiked-ball flail drop and drag on the ground to make it known which toy he was talking about. It reels itself back in before the next part.
"But this shithead I'm after? Not sure what he looks like, other than he's a feathered and furred prick. Was told he's got a staff he likely fucks himself with. Says a lot fo weird shit, and likely asks just as weird questions. Was probably running around with a posse of clones or some shit. And I'd like to fuck his shit up real good right about now."
"Heard you guys were having some kind of shitfest. Figured he might've swung that stiff 'fuck-himself stick' around here a bit."
Crumple's mouth guard comes down, showing a sharp, metal-teethed grin.
"That, and figured maybe you guys might have something I might want. Maybe a new gun, some new doodad, or maybe some fancy ass device you guys sold to a coughing, old geezer some time ago?"
>>27905337
She sets up a personal-radius trap, then follows Steel and Onyxia.
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>>27905337
A small smile creeps on Onyxia's face as they pass by the old robot and its dysfunctional guns.
"Looks like he's still the same as ever."
She comments as they search deeper into the city.
She takes a surprised step back as the sink is tossed down at them.
"I'm not sure. They talked about a 'shiny trail', maybe they're still looking for stuff to put in it."
She looks to the building with a little apprehension, but since she came to look for the dogs to begin with, she steps inside the building and heads towards the sounds.
"Hello, anypony here?"
>>27905293
Screech gasps, "Ooooooh... I get it. You need some beer to lighten yourself up, gotcha."
As you tell Boo, he flattens his ears, "A mex... what? Is that a thing? I don't think that's a thing."
Screech hides behind one of the pews, "How the fuck would you know, you don't know every insect! You don't even know the classification for insects, you think spiders are!"
You take up some of the yellow substance dotting the pew, and as you get a closer look you see whatever you hit was almost entirely liquefied by your shot, a thick yellow puddle surrounding the pew, next to a few clothes. As you take the substance up onto your mouth to taste, you see a slight ripple in the puddle besides, you, and the sizable piece of the gunk lining your hoof jumps off into your mouth, attempting to choke you by lodging itself in your throat.
>roll to dislodge, instant
>>27905564
Nau laughs and reaches up towards her mother's muzzle, pulling at it as Isha holds both of you tight, but gives special attention to her daughter as she nuzzles her. Cadence seems to have tears in her eyes from the happy reunion, moving out of the way to give you your space as she meets with Twilight who came in behind, hugging her sister-in-law at the happy reunion.
Isha looks into your eyes, "What did they want her for? Did they harm her? Tell me what happened."
>>27905963
>>27905599
The Blasters take a step back as the iron ball drops from Crumple's tail, the big one from earlier lining up his sights before they all collectively calm down, their trigger hooves still itching and waiting for Crumple to do something else as Lead Head laughs nervously, "Well damn, that's one hell of an old fashioned method. Where'd you have that mod installed? It doesn't explode, I don't see much point..."
As you describe what you know, she shakes her head, "Aw, he was a fuckwit, but I don't remember any staff... or clones, either, for that matter. He had like three or four other griffons with him, around a dozen ponies, and the biggest one was..." she pauses, blushing, "Uh, well, figure I ought to let you here this all from the Elder himeslf. But don't count on us selling ya anything, Crumple: shop's closed, until we can secure our product."
She leads you on up into the Control tower, most of the guards staying outside as you head into an express elevator heading on to the top. The big guy from before and Lead Head follow you up, and within the top floor of the control tower you see the Elder of the Blaster's hunched over a control console. You can see the aged, bald, and burnt earth pony decked out in all manners of old-world paraphernalia, old buttons, braceless, and a collection of ancient tourist-trap garbage you think you saw in mass back in the past (now of course ancient and priceless) dotting his vest. His eyes are covered up by a pair of goggles, and he turns towards you with a snuff, and speaks in a low tone
"I want to make this quick, Crumple, so I know whether I'm wasting my ammo, time, or both. What makes you so desperate to see us you risk getting torn out of the damn sky? We've done good business before, tin-head, but we're not the only ones. If you're looking for work, why not go for that, what's his name, that so-called scientist you mentioned before."
>>27905981
>>27905763
>>27905629
As Onyxia comments on the robot, Steel looks back, confused. "It seems dysfunctional. You know it?"
The two mares and Steel begin moving up towards the top of the dark office building, you hear the screams sounding a bit more clear, and Onyxia recognizes the voice of Red, the leader of the Danger Dogs that they met before.
"W-whos that?! Who goes into Danger Dogz things?!" the voice calls from upstairs, before a large growling sound follows and the sound of another figure being thrown across the room follows. "A-ah who cares, HELPZ!" The voice cries out, and you see him quickly running down the stairs towards you. For Southern seeing Red the first time, she sees a completely bald diamond dog, not a track of fur on him, sporting a pair of dark, pointy sun-glasses as he sprints down the stairs on all fours. Behind him runs a large pony (roughly 10 feet tall): this one also does not have any fur on its body, but when it comes down the stairs another horrid sight comes to mind first: its eyes and ears are replaced with long, fleshy tendrils coming out of its head, along with half-a-dozen more out of its sticking out of its back, writhing in search of prey. The grotesque pony screams out in-coherent roars, slime falling from its muzzle, as the monster chases after Red, the desperate dog's leg caught up in one such tendril. "G-Grabber's grabbed Red, Grabber's grabbed Red!"
Steel brandishes his sword, "What in Equestria is THIS?!"
>>27905963
"*Huck*" Luke begins pounding his chest gut and engaging all the frantic gestures that would signal that one is choking "Hack hack eeeckaag! Ack! Ack!"
Jean meows
>"No no, My lord your technique is far too sloppy. You must orientate the muscle along the shape, followed by a series of bobbing. Then roll your throatle with the gurgitate and growl as you do. Like so."
Jean begins coughing up a hairball, with the initial pomp and preparation.
>"*MMPB* *MMPB* *MMPB* *MMPB* *MMPB* *MMPB* *Acck* *Aaaaack*"
Luke heeds the possibility schizophrenic advice and imitates his cat, resulting in very strange scene for whoever is looking on.
[1d10]
>>27905981
"It may cave in skulls instead of blowing them up, but it DOES do something nifty. But I don't think I can show you without this one here getting scared and firing."
Crumple gives a bit of a chuckle.
"Well shit. That's a bit disappointing. Was REALLY itching to get something that makes things go boom."
Crumple gives a slight pause as he eyes the mare up. It wasn't hard to guess who was here from 'big' and seeing a mare blush.
"Let me guess, that second-rate badass Bulldozer was here, wasn't he?"
Crumple enters the room, Honey herself smirking a bit at some of the things she slightly recognizes from Luke's time. All the more to reinforce that her time fucking sucks.
"Good to see you too. And actually, the so-called scientist is why I'm here. He tipped me off you guys were on edge, and got sacked not too long ago."
Crumple walks to the side, looking out the window over the vast, scorched landscape.
"Said you might also have another of a device you guys gave him. Something about portals or some shit. But that's not why I'm mainly here."
Crumple looks back at the Elder.
"I'm looking for a griffon. Tall, dark fucker with a staff most likely, might have little clone fuckers running around. Kinda important I find him and wreck his shit."
"So it's important you tell me every damn thing that happened. Who or what was here, what they took, what they said. All of it."
Crumple walks up to the Elder, while leaving a considerable distance so as to not make it seem like a threatening advance to the other two.
"This griffon I'm after. He's a small shit that's part of a bigger fucking picture. Way bigger than you guys keeping yourselves alive. Hell, maybe even bigger than how badass I am. And we both know how damn big that is, now don't we?"
>>27905997
"Its a robot named Clicky that we met shortly after I first traveled through time. Didn't even know what one was back then, or that it wanted to kill us but it's guns didn't work."
She answers back to Steel, with an oddly upbeat tone as she reminisces.
"Red, is that you?"
Onyxia calls out as they enter the building and hears the voice shout back. She goes to walk upstairs at hearing the outcry, but quickly steps back as he runs own towards them, followed by a beast of a pony. She takes a few steps back in surprise as the tendrils writhe and flow about. She panics for a second at the sight of it, but as it grabs Red, and with a large amount of anger still built up she steps forward.
Both her front hooves flash green as they shift to daggers, not much longer than her hooves were normally. She steps into stance, even with how much she'd love to strike this creature and picture Luke's face on it, she focuses on what Steel taught her. She waits a moment, not wanting to hit Red by mistake. Once she sees a clearing, she jumps forward and swings out both hooves to strike on both sides of the pony-beast, since it won't be able to block from two directions.
>Shapeshift: Dual Blades [Auto]
>Twin Strike: Left-Side [1d10+1]
>Twin Strike: Right Side [1d10+1]
>>27905963
>>27906123
alright then, using my non-instant action. Luke's taking his time with this one.
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>>27905963
"I don't know what they wanted her for, or what they've done to her. You should probably take her to a physician after I depart."
He says, still holding His family to His chest.
"As to what happened, it was a bloodbath. The leader of the Order sent his emissary to try to reason with Me, but offered Me only insults and slavery. I refused diplomacy, and kidnapped somepony important to him in turn. When he sent his servants to retrieve My captive I killed them, until eventually he agreed to a trade. Nau, for his 'past self'."
The king says looking her in the eyes.
>>27905997
She vanishes, then waits.
>Invisible due to multiclass skill, no action this turn cause trap is on recharge
>>27906158
>Hold on, forgot I had Sentry
>Twin Strike: Left-Side [Sentry Auto +1]
>Twin Strike: Right Side [Sentry Auto +1]
>>27906123
>>27906168
As you throw yourself to the ground and begin to replicate Jean's effective purging tactic, you feel the ball of ooze pooling up in your throat, and seizing its way upwards into your mouth successfully, stopping yourself from chocking on it as it fills your mouth instead, ready to spit out the foul substance.
Boo and Screech look on in disgust, holding their throats in reflex as they see the puddle besides you quivering again. Then, like a bullet out of a gun, the slime puddle takes off of its own accord, racing out across the metro station and sliding along broken robot parts as it tries to run away. Boo shouts, "It's making a run for it!" And tries to jump on the sludge that tried to choke you to death.
[1d10]
>>27906177
Nau continues to play with her mother's hair, the mare not minding a bit as she speaks to you, looking up to you as you stare her in the eyes.
"His 'past self'...? I do not understand... but, I am happy to hear that. They deserve no less for taking my Nau." She says, looking back down to reach up a hoof and play with Nau, the foal turning her attention from the muzzle to the hoof, sucking on it. "I'll take her as soon as I can. Cadence, you can handle what's left for the temple."
Cadence nods her head, wiping away a tear. "Of course Empress, I'd be happy to... I'm so glad you found her, Emperor."
Isha looks to you again, "What happens if they try to take her once again?"
>>27906474
>>27906155
As you mention Bulldozer, Lead Head blushes, "Uh... like I said, I think it's best to let you hear it from the Elder. I feel like I'm in a hot enough seat already getting you in here past the perimeter."
As you walk in and speak to the Elder, he moves over to a control-chair turned recliner/throne, and sits down in it, tapping his hooves together as the guards look on, rocket launchers still primed. "Hmmph. We've sold Glitch a lot of crap. I think I know what he's talking about, but we're not trading away any of our goods after what happened."
He turns over a hoof, "Hmph... figure this will get passed as a rumor on the radio eventually. But don't take that as a free-pass to go spreading this around," he leans forward, "About five days ago we let in a group looking to trade. They had good tech, some I hadn't ever seen before. Looked forward to upgrading the perimeter lasers especially. So we let them into our home, fed them, gave them shelter... and then they took off with the shit they gave us AND priceless gear of our own, Crumple." He looks up to you,
"Their leader was a griffon who called himself God, his crew was mostly made up of ponies though. He didn't have a staff though, but tall and dark suits him well." He leans back, "Also, your old acquaintance, the minotaur? He was with 'em. Was the one who killed most of the Blasters who tried to retaliate after we found out we were getting fucked over." He leans forward, glaring as his trinkets jingle. "Hear from him recently?"
>>27906487
>>27906198
>>27906158
Southern's cape successfully shrouds her in the shadows as she moves to stealth, and Steel brandishes his sword against the monster, "That the dog you spoke of?"
Red claws at the ground to get away from the Grabber, but it isn't until Onyxia takes a daring leap forward and slashes at the beast that she finds one of its tentacles cut by her attack, freeing Red as he scampers away, "Y-yes! I ams RED, do I knows you?! You sound familiarz..." he shouts as he runs, and the Grabber backs off from the left/right slice as you cut him. He roars, and charges down the stairs at Onyxia, two tentacles on the sides of his head where his ears should be reaching out to grab the Crystalling
[1d10+2]
[1d10+2]
Steel leaps forward with his sword, charging head on to impale the creature on it, "Well done, just like that!"
[1d10+1]
>hits on DC -1, Crits on 8+
>>27906500
"One of them, their leader."
"Onyxia, the pony that came out of the lake that froze?"
She says to remind Red before focusing back to the creature. One back legs moves to turn and run, but a front hoof slides as it touches the floor, the sharp point not aiding it well for walking on. Her head snaps back up to the pony-beast and the oncoming tentacles. She rears up, holding her dagger fore hooves up. If she can't run, and at the speed its charging she wouldn't be able to jump out of the way, she swings both hooves at it's left side to try and push it off and deflect the charge.
>Twin Strike [1d10+1]
>Twin Strike [1d10+1]
>>27906500
She establishes an area-wide trap.
[1d10+3] Trap
>>27906487
>God
>changing name to Goudeau
>>27906487
"Unless I want someone dead, I'll send them your way to get blown up. Otherwise, this isn't something I'm gonna spread around to every wanna-be me out there."
"'Goudeau' huh? Sounds about as crazy and stupid enough to be a name those fucks would use," Crumple comments out loud. Then came the news about that certain minotaur.
"So I've heard. Haven't heard from the second-rate badass in good number of days. Kinda been out of touch with things as of late."
"And what, exactly, was stolen? I'm already aiming to kill these crazy cocksuckers, and quite honestly, I was kinda in the market for one of your best explosion makers. Can't really get them if you don't have them."
Crumple's eye glows a bit brighter, and obvious indicator that he was getting fucking pissed.
"So here's my deal: I'm gonna shoot those fuckers up, and bring back as much of your stuff as I can. No charge," Crumple lets the Elder, and everyone in the room, let that sink in for a moment, "as long as you can tell me where they went."
>>27906474
"I have told you how time travel allows you to go backwards in time, haven't I? Well, what do you imagine would happen if I went backwards to a year where I still existed? Would I not find Myself, albeit younger, waiting for Me?"
"It was this person I stole from the Order's leader, Eo Naxx Sight."
Nero says, pulling out of the hug, but still standing near Isha.
"The temple is finished. I had Discord complete it with his magic on My way in. Whatever was still needing to be built or worked on, has been."
Nero listens as Isha voices her concerns, turning to Cadence.
"After I'm gone, call Ug and tell him two things. One, if he sees anyone besides Myself or My servants traveling to this era, I want Celestia and yourself informed. Two, I want him to gather all the information he can find on Mercile van Grayscale and send it to Celestia."
He says, turning to Isha.
"If all else fails, and you should see one of the Order's members absconding with her, call on the name of the god Discord. If his powers of divination are anything like Ug's, he should hear your prayer. Do NOT call for him under any other circumstances."
He says seriously, before turning to Cadence.
"She does not bite." he says smiling as she stands off from them.
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>>27906474
Rubbing his throat, Luke finally coughs up the thing. "Get that roach!"
He swings his rifle over his arm again and shoots at the thing. [1d10]
>>27906687
>>27906667
"Pony out of the lakez... Ow! One of the shinies ponies, yes, Red remembers you! Yous come back?!"
Southern sets up her strings from the shadows, but the Grabber's charge pushes it on through the wire-trap, pulling free of the strings before they pull tight as it screams for Onyxia. As her two swords swing at its side, the two tentacles snake around her swords like a pair of coils, grabbing Onyxia's body and strangling around her, holding her tight as she's held in their vice grip.
>0/4, helpless
>Each round spent in helpless will lose a hit coming out of it
As you're coiled up, Steel tries to cut your ensnaring tendril, "Hold on, I've got you!"
>[1d10+1] / [1d10+1]
As two of the back ones attack him
>[1d10+2] / [1d10+2]
>>27906895
The Elder nods, "Hmph. We heard you two had sort of a reputation with each other. Was hoping you'd heard from 'im... but yeah, he was brought in with their crew. Definitely the biggest among them but Goudeau was the one in charge. Must have paid him something nice, considering what they offered for our gear."
As you throw down the chance to take them down for free, The Elder opens his eyes wide, leaning back, "Really...? Not one single bit? Hmmm... pretty much nothing to lose there. Alright, you got a deal. But if we think you're pocketing so much as a single fuel cell we're gonna blast that pretty black paint of your fancy new upgrade around the moon and back." He points a hoof at the remaining guards, "Lead Head and Jet will take you down to where we lost track of them. It's on our compound."
Lead Head chimes in, "We know they didn't escape out through the perimeter. They didn't disable the defenses, and to go out by hoof or air would be suicide with our ordnance... maybe not for Bulldozer, but, then they did make off with over half our jet fuel. That'd give the boom a little extra 'oomph'."
Jet, the gruffer pony from earlier, chimes in. "They also took some of that stuff we've sold to Glitch in the past."
>>27907281
>>27907034
"So you took a younger version of him... and he paid for himself with Nau. I think I understand."
As you mention Discord has already completed the temple, Cadence looks shocked, "What? Really? He's been taking his sweet time on Ur-Lucius alone, what made him fix the temple just like that?"
Twilight grumbles, "A pencil."
Cadence looks at her, "A what.." before you give her the message to pass on to Ug, and she nods her head. "Of course, I'll call him in Manehatten the first moment I get. But, what does a captain of the Wonderbolts have to do with any of this?"
Isha raises her eyebrow, "I've read a good bit about him. Honestly, it sounds exaggerated. You would put that much faith in him?"
As you mention to Cadence that Nau doesn't bite, the princess blushes, steadily approaching as she chuckles, "Oh! I'm sorry, I guessed that, I just didn't want to... interrupt your moment, Nero." She says as Twilight chuckles behind her, approaching the foal as the young pony turns up at the new face, gauging Cadence's pink muzzle and reaching up towards it, curious as the mare chuckles. "Does she like me?"
>>27907034
As you hack up the ball of goop, you shoot at the creature as it slivers around, only to find yourself missing and blasting off the mane of Boo instead, the batpony gulping as he falls flat on the ground nursing his singed mane, "AH! Friendly fire, friendly fire!"
Screech jumps up on a pew as the slime puddle races towards him, tossing broken pieces of the metro station at it, "It's over here, shoot it, shoot it!" He calls out to Luke as the puddle slithers around at great speed.
Luke hears the sound of a mare calling from around him, "No! No! Get away!"
>>27907281
"Sorta. We heard your group was acting up lately."
Onyxia starts to say, until the tendrils zip in. She tries to raise her hooves to block them, but is too slow from her attack to stop.
She struggles against the tendrils, in disgust and age.
"Ngh, l-let me go!"
She cries out as she tries to slip her way free, or cut her way out.
>Recover [1d10]
>>27907289
"Haha sorry Boo, you were in my shot."
Luke realms his sights on the little booger but is thrown off by the mare's voice. "Huh? " Luke looks around for the voice "And why should I? Unless you know you got alcohol or drugs to share."
>>27907281
"Not a single bit? I thought you knew me; I don't give a shit about bits. Weapons and favors; now THAT'S what I go for. But none of those either this time. That how much I wanna see these guys burn. Anyway, good talk. I'll see you around."
Crumple walks over to Lead Head and Jet.
"Let's walk and talk. I've got a shit of shit to find and kill, and not really in the mood to keep standing doing jack all," Crumple says as he keeps walking, but let's the two eventually lead on.
Crumple listens to all this information, feeling like he's got a good idea what went down.
"Alright, first thing's first; get me there and tell me, as much as you fucking can, how they escaped. Like out of thin air through some weird, floating, magic circle shit?"
As Crumple talks, deep within, Honey's mental gears are turning a mile a minute, and prepares Crumple for, what she hopes, is how they escaped...and also how she'll track them down. Mostly done with some wiring and make-shift hardware modding to Crumple's eye laser.
>Honey Special
>Magiteching a Portal Crowbar feature (ability to reopen a portal and travel through it)
>Automatic
>>27907340
>I've got a shitload of shit to find and kill...
>>27907335
"Big reasons for that, trail be almost done! Big loud dome pay soon, VERY soon, we find solutions to Danger Dogz problems!"
The tendrils wrap around tighter as you fail to break through their grasp, continuing to squeeze the life out of you. Steel's blade pierces through the Grabber on the right side, causing it to roar in pain as another tendril wraps around his sword as well, coiling around him. "What... IS this thing?!"
"It calleds a Grabbers! They mutant ponies, grab things, choke things, pop ponies like squishies!" Red shouts, "Get aways Onyxia!"
>>27907339
Boo growls as he feels his singed hair, glaring at you, "Dude, it's not funny! My mane was my thing back in the Shadowbolts."
"No, your eating half your weight a day was your thing in the Shadowbolts..." Screech growled, looking around in shock as the mare's voice springs out.
The little booger slips between one of the pews, and the voice says, "I-I'm looking for medicine, if I find some I'll share it! Just please don't shoot... that hurt!"
>>27907421
>>27907340
You both make it to the express elevator, Lead Head and Jet (the latter having at least lowered his rocket launcher at you), give you a brief explanation as it hits the surface.
"After we found out they were making off with our goods, we chased them towards Silo B. It's an empty silo that used to hold one hell of a bomb back in the day, we're actually trying to re-construct one but I don't think we'll ever get all the parts needed." Lead Head explains, "We thought we had them trapped: all three of the silo's are just dead ends. But when we got down deep in there, they had vanished with everything. We didn't kill a single one of the bastards."
Jet leads on back outside of the tower, on the military compound of the Blasters. "We didn't see HOW they disappeared. And we've checked out the last room in the Silo we saw them in inside and out. It was like it hadn't been touch, save for one piece of scrap they left behind that we can't even recognize anymore. It's melted, practically fused together."
