[IC] Fantastical and Exciting Adventures in SPAAAACE!: THE ADVENTURE

[CitrusArms]

"Something like Space Weed usually isn't worth the trouble of hiding it inside of a toy bunny. I'd have to look at you weird and call you super paranoid if you did that. The secret compartment would be acceptable simply because it's cool." Aah, was it not illegal here? Asking her to sample it right in his store... Well, it wasn't surprising. The presence of the Syndicate here must provide a strong influence toward its legalization. "Here? Well, if you're alright with it, I suppose."

The woman smiles warmly and reaches into the box, pulling off a small piece and holding it up. Her eyes begin to glow softly as she shapes energy, forming two separate, small barriers to grind up the plant matter. She then merges the barriers together and sparks it with her power. Heat enough to ignite plant matter wasn't hard, especially when it burns so easily. She seems to be concentrating a bit to filter air through her barrier but nothing else. She inhales and holds, considering the product before nodding. It was satisfactory. A moment passes, and she exhales. "I'll take a half. And, uh... how much could you get me? I'd like more sent to my ship, if you could."

[Professor_Wyvern]

The Shopkeeper nodded, "Give me the co-ordinates to your ship, and I shall send some to you in a timely fashion. As for how much." He began rubbing his chin with his right hand. "I can easily give you three crates of it." He kept holding the box with his tendril as he walked over towards the altar, with the transaction terminus. "A half, yes. Come, come to the altar for transaction." He waved to Serenity with his left hand, "Anything else hm, yes that you wish to buy? Or simply the Space Weed?" he said, while he was heading towards the front of the store. He placed the box down on the ground just behind the altar. He maneuvered his tendril to waft the scent of the candles into his nose. "Mmyess... A fine scent, a fine scent."

[IncredibleBee]

"I don't know why you keep up attacking me!" Akira shouted, doing an action roll and yanking his trident back. "It's like going in CIRCLES!"

The cyber samurai gave a shit-eating grin as he spun the polearm around him in wild spirals.

[Professor_Wyvern]

Booger yelped out in agony, as Akira ripped the polearm out of his torso. Booger was bleeding more severely now, as he lunged towards Akira, and was struck in the right side by the spinning polearm as he howled out, he tried rushing down Akira at his lower legs. Virus was still running around in circles around Akira, while Tony decided to back off, as Akira spun the trident around in a circle. But that didn't mean Tony wasn't going to attack. Tony began hacking and making a strange series of coughing sounds.

The announcer boldly exclaimed, "Is Tony going to do it!? OH!" Tony spat out a large ball of a strange purple goo, which seemed to be emitting heat and a faint bubbling noise. "HE IS!" The ball headed towards Akira's torso. Virus continued running in a circle around Akira, just making sure to secure the area.

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Senator Vicaver was pulling at his hair with both of his hands. "NO! NO! NO! Being unbroken was bad enough, but PUNS!? I am going to make sure he is slowly tortured for sometime for that! I HATE PUNS!" Senator Vicaver began stomping wildly on the floor, "Come on Wildstone Pack just get him already! STOP BEING HURT AND ENCOURAGING HIS NAUGHTY BEHAVIOR!" Senator Vicaver felt his arms quivering a bit. "Must regain composure... It is undignified." He quickly reached for his bell. "Slave, bring me a fine drink. Do hurry, do not make me angry. I've been angry too much today, and I am sure you have seen what happens to slaves when I am upset."

[IncredibleBee]

"A slime blast? Just like in my sentai shows!" Akira exclaimed, placing the trident over his shoulder.

He grabbed the weapon with both hands, and swung it in a mighty arc. "BATTER UP!"

[Professor_Wyvern]

Unfortunately for Akira, the slime ball corroded the Trident -Perhaps it was the lethality of the attack, or maybe it was just a cheaply made trident-, as the end of it fell to the ground, and a decent sized chunk of it headed towards his torso. But, the good news is that Akira did hit the slime ball, and a bit of it splashed towards Booger's front right claw. He jumped back and yelped, as he began quickly rubbing his claw in the dirt, trying to get rid of the slime before it injured his claw anymore. As for the rest of the ball, it landed straight on Tony's face. Tony gurgled for a bit, as he got a full blast of his own attack. Tony quickly crumbled to the ground with a few whimpering noises.

Virus paused in his running as he stared at Tony, with a sad glimmer in his eye. He turned towards Akira and began growling.

[CitrusArms]

"Ah, mnn... no. I'll put you in touch with my ship's AI, instead. You understand. Even if it's legal here, I..." Serenity shakes her head, shuffling her shoulders slightly. "I'm just used to a more cautious procedure. As for the amount..." Crates? Goodness, she wasn't a distributor. She moves with the Shopkeeper to the altar. "Two pounds will suffice, in addition to the half ounce I'll be taking with me. Now, how able that information?" The business woman slips a finger under the hem of the chest piece of her dress, through a little window in the center showing off her cleavage, and she produces a card for payment. "What's in the drum, and what's with your cloak? You don't see runes everyday... Let's see." She starts to look a little more closely at the runes, seeing if she can pinpoint what kind of runes they are. She is a huge nerd, after all.

[IncredibleBee]

"Guess it's just you..." Akira said, twirling around the staff. It was weighted a little oddly, but he'd be able to use it similar to a sword, and the corroded end seemed pointed enough to thrust with.

He posed with the weapon straight above his head. "Don't be a stick in the mud; come on!"

[Lindow Amamiya]

Mika dives hard to the right as soon as the idiot starts aiming at her, pulling out a laser pistol of her own as she moves. She just narrowly manages to avoid getting shot - apparently the improved reflexes and combat skill from that place you weren't supposed to talk were starting to pay off. Likewise, she doesn't hesitate in bringing her weapon up, ready to counterattack--

And then her target explodes. Mika stands there for a couple seconds, blinking. Once she's gotten over the surprise, she looks around to find out what happened. Her eyes soon settle on a robot wielding two stylish solid projectile guns. This does little to make her less confused.

[Professor_Wyvern]

The Reptilian still on the oil-slick looked at the Robot. "... You, just... Ripper! You!" The Reptilian began cackling, "I -told- Ripper he should be careful and buy less stuff. Guess the bastard learned eh? Well, he won't be getting up too soon. Say, now can you let me depart now?" The Reptilian tilted his head as he asked the Robot his question. He nervously eyed the oil slick, "Oh also please don't shoot me. I just want to clarify that up again."

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Virus lunged at full speed towards Akira "GGRRRRRRRRAUUUUWOOOOOOO!" he howled out as he jumped up attempting to slam his claws down on Akira's head and shoulders. Booger whimpered a bit, as he moved on his three legs, as his front claw was burned quite a bit, but that did not stop Booger from going after Akira at a slower speed, and attempting to chomp down on his lower legs.

Vicaver nodded to a slave, who knelt down and gave Vicaver a large mug filled to the brim with a dark purple froth. Vicaver smiled, "You may leave slave." The slave, quivvering quickly dashed out of the room as Vicaver placed his right leg over his left as he took a swig from the mug, as he looked down at the crowd, where he saw that Tony was dead, due to his own slime attack. Vicaver's brow furrowed as he began swirling the liquid in his mouth. He proceeded to swirl it around for a few moments, before swallowing it. "... I WILL GET YOU SLAVE!" Vicaver bellowed out as he gripped harder onto the mug, now drinking a large quaff of it.

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The Shop-keeper stared at Serenity as she pulled out the card from her clevage, it appeared he was uninterested in the method of how it was taken out. "Yes, yes a pound you say? Provide me the info to your Ship's AI, and I will send the pound there yes." He manuevered the box onto the altar, as he took out half an ounce, and held it in place with his tendril, as he used his left claw to reach under the altar, as he pulled out a plain parchment and placed it on the altar. He then placed the Telandi Space Weed on the parchment as he used his tendril to wrap it up. "Ah yes, the drum and the cloak, certainly." He took the credit card with his right hand and scanned it at the terminus before handing it back. "Hm, would you care to learn about the cloak first or the contents of the drum?"

[Lindow Amamiya]

Mika looks from the robot, to the downed 'Ripper', to the reptilian. She winces when she sees the innocent hit by the explosion, but chooses not to comment. That she couldn't have prevented, and unfortunately she had no abilities related to healing wounds. "I don't know why he did that, but if you're not going to raid Tokugawa, then I don't have any problem with you."

[Professor_Wyvern]

The Reptilian eagerly nodded his head at the girl, "Yes I need to tell Johnson the deal is off. It isn't profitable at this point, and I would expect tons of collateral damage if for some stupid reason I decided to go. Thank you, thank you, you paragon of mercy. Uh, do you own this droid?" He glanced at Mika as he pointed with his left claw at the Robot, "GAH! Err, I didn't mean anything threatening with the pointing. Please don't shoot me." He glanced back at Mika, "But yes, you have my word. Not going to do that raid upon Tokugawa, Corporate Agent... Your droid, at least I assume it is yours, made it very clear."

[Zero Hex]

Wildmax ducked when the shrapnel flew out, a fragment narrowly missing his hat. He kept his gun trailed on the lizard at all times, obviously. "Well...that was definitely unexpected" he muttered under his breath as he rose, looking to the side where some guy was lying unconscious, a fragment of sharp metal embedded in his forehead. How was he supposed to know the guy was going to explode from a shot to the knee? That definitely wasn't normal. At all. The girl he'd been trying to help approached while the lizard was pleading, talking about letting him go since he was going to call the raid off.

"Yeah, nah, I'm an independent worker. Name's Wildmax. And you aaaaaare..." he trailed off as he pulled out a data slate, still aiming one of his guns at the reptilian. You can never be too safe. "...Slizardo? Really? Anyway you're wanted for a variety of crimes, nothing major compared to your partner over there". He nodded his head towards what remained of Ripper, who'd apparently been the more violent of the duo. "But still enough to net you some time locked up and me some money. If you make things nice and non-violent I can put in a good word and maybe get you into whatever lockup you prefer. Cold sleep, sensory deprivation, just a regular but nicer prison, rehabilitation programs, your choice".

[Professor_Wyvern]

Slizardo glanced at Wildmax and mumbled a bit, "... It's not my fault my parents named me after a Monster Tank they saw on the feed." Slizardo glanced at Wildmax with his eyes in terror, "Oh please can'tcha let me go!?" As soon as he was making this plea, a robot with an incredibly large square torso with two large continuous tracks rolled up on the scene. It focused it's visual receptor onto the deceased gentleman as it opened up it's lengthy claw hands as it picked up the body, and opened up it's torso revealing jets of blue flames. -Disposing of carcass in process.- It hummed, as it quickly placed the body inside, and had the torso shut with a loud clang. Two smaller versions of this robot rolled onto the scene, which were primarily different for instead of having movable claws each having a right hand as a broom and the left as a dust pin. They began collecting the vast amount of shrapnel pieces in the area.

Behind Wildmax another robot appeared. It appeared relatively humanoid and its chassis was painted to look like it was wearing a three piece suit. The robot's head was bright white and looked like a wolf skull. It focused its red visual receptors on Wildmax, then onto the Reptilian. "Scanning." The robot focused its visual receptors on the Reptilian and paused for a very brief moment. It chimed up again "Target confirmed as Slizardo." It paused for a few moments, as it hummed a bit. The robot's head twisted towards Wildmax, "One Designated Wildmax, I am White Nova Security Unit X45-31, bounty will be awarded for Slizardo. You are delivering his bounty to White Nova Syndicate correct?"

[Zero Hex]

Wildmax looked around as the robots cleaned up the street, they were obviously automated but even his home planet had non-sentient machines relegated to tasks deemed too minor for even the lowliest of classes, so it didn't bother him much to see robots used in such a way. "I didn't like my old name either, have you considered changing it to something radical instead?" he replied to Slizardo, ignoring his pleas, when he was approached by a butlerbot, here to collect. Well dang, that was quick. Bit freaky, truth be told. With a quick flourish, he returned his pistol to a holster in his leg. Yes, in, a panel slid open to receive the gun then closed back up. Wildmax turned to the girl "Sorry about the whole explosion thing, that doesn't usually happen. I'm new and town and just wanted a quick buck, what's gonna happen to Sliz here if I turn him in to this Syndicate?"

[Lindow Amamiya]

Mika replaces her laser pistol back in in the pocket she was storing it, looking between Silzardo and Wildmax. "Well, I haven't been here that long myself, but from what I can tell? Nothing pleasant. Personally, I'd just let him go. I doubt he's going to be causing any more trouble right now, and he wasn't really the violent one here." She does stop to eye the results of the blast. "I've been closer to worse, don't worry about me..." If anything, the one she felt bad for was the person caught in the blast. But that couldn't be helped nor was it her fault - and there was no reason to dwell on things like that right now. Spending more time than necessary thinking about these kind of things was not going to do wonders for her mental state. And for now, she needed to focus.

Exhaling to banish the train of thought, Mika continues: "Might well have triggered the same thing myself, after all." It's a pretty odd statement coming from someone her age. Especially when combined with the fact that she'd just been about to have a gunfight with some criminals...

[Zero Hex]

"That true?" he turned to the butler robot, "If I turn him in you're gonna torture the poor fella? Well that just ain't right. Not even the big one deserved something like that". Wildmax was a bounty hunter, yes, but he had some principles which clashed with his chosen profession. "So, I think I'll keep Slizardo here handy until I find someplace that'll treat him right. Even crooks deserve some consideration, after all". Wildmax couldn't help but think he was making a mistake, but he didn't quite care. He wasn't about to knowingly had over a man to get tortured, that wasn't what he signed up as a bounty hunter for.

"So, moving on, why were you being shot at? And what's your name?" he inquired of the young human girl, seemingly paying no heed to the butler robot.

[Professor_Wyvern]

Unit X45-31 focused his visual receptors onto Wildmax, "Bounty is not being turned in. Slizardo is being kept with you." Unit X45-31 hummed for a moment, before turning his head to focus on the other cleaning droids. "Area is now free of shrapnel remains, oil slick remains. Unit X45-31 shall clean that up." Unit X45-31 glanced at the larger disposal droid, which focused it's single visual receptor on Unit X45-31.
-You do not need to do that Unit X45-31- the Disposal Droid chimed towards Unit X45-31.

"I insist Unit 87RT. You have that date with Unit 6O-KYR." Unit X45-31 said as he nodded his head.
-I hope it goes well. I just mustered up the courage to ask him on it.- Unit 87RT responded to Unit X45-31
"Friends do that for friends." said Unit X45-31.
With that the larger disposal droid quickly rolled out of the area. -Thank you.-

After the conversation Unit X45-31 held out his left hand, as a nozzle emerged from his palm which extended onto the oil. "Cleaning excess oil spill." The oil was quickly and efficiently vacuumed into the robot. Unit X45-31 vacuumed it up for a little longer, before emitting a sweet sounding chime. "Process complete. Area is secure and free of debris. Sending additional information regarding the event." The robot hummed for a moment, before trudging off. The two smaller ones quickly rolled away after the Butler-bot.

[Lindow Amamiya]

"Well... 'Ripper' over there was openly plotting a raid on a corporation I have a stake in. I couldn't really just let that go, and I didn't think he'd be stupid enough to just open fire." She pauses for a moment, before adding: "Not really used to this whole... Well. Everything, here, really. I'm actually just here because I'm looking for someone..." Yeah, that was probably the best way to put it. Looking for someone. "Also, I'm Mika. What about you?" Probably best to leave off the last name, given the situation.

[Professor_Wyvern]

Slizardo glanced at Mika, "It was the Johnson who wanted us to go. He offered a fantastic deal, plenty of credits! ... Plus he had some incriminating stuff on us, I think he may have even planted some stuff. So we really needed to get the info he wanted! As for Ripper, I, well he's an idiot who loves just murdering things. He did a good job at it, and that's why he stayed. Though we made sure he didn't go completely bloodthirsty I assure you!" Slizardo glanced towards Wildmax and then again to Mika. "T-thank you Paragons of Mercy! I really, really owe you. Oh and I probably should tell the rest of the crew that Ripper is dead, earlier I messed with a small comm, just warning them in general things went down the drain. I hope they didn't have the ship fixed and decided to jet without me..."