[IC] HCL 2: Twisted tinkers' triumph

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

kalus leads them into a briefing room where he elaborates on the agreement and accepts questions before bringing up a system map and pointing out a few border planets that were on the sergal-geo border where the clones would be stationed and cared for as a part of the sergal people rather than allies due to their current position in terms of might, kalus having explained why vassaledge under the sergals would be the better choice for current which would leave them their own people with their own customs but under the sergals, with shepard being expressly told that it would be a temporary state until they had the ability to stand on their own. After the debriefing, the clones are loaded onto transport vessels which is guarded by shepard's new toy and deposited at a forest planet with an area already cleared out for a city, supplies for a sergal style city already in the cargo holds of the various ship with equipment to dig out the subterranean sections and commence mining operations to begin composite vessel construction, the clones having been given everything needed to make themselves a sergal-style colony on the planet and since they were vassals of the sergals, it was highly encouraged to do so for efficiency's sake.

[thewizardguy]

@Teoinsanity
To Stein, there was no such thing as surprise. The souls of those around him were open books, dictating plans and intentions, hopes and dreams, ready to be broken at a moment's notice. The moment Saeid decided to fight, Stein already knew. The moment Teo had reached for his lab coat, Stein already knew what he was planning. And, as was often the case with him, he already knew how to deal with it. He was Stein, killer of heroes, torturer of Gods.

He was not to be fucked with.

Teo shot forward, only to find that Stein had turned into a blurry vision, the world seeming to twist and warp before his eyes. He tried to throw the sticky grenades, but they stuck to his hands, tiny white wires binding them to him. A string woven from the fabric of his own soul, intertwined with his weapon. Stein simply smiled, as Teo felt the blade shoot towards him, and he was only barely able to dodge aside, the metal scraping past his ribs, as it missed the target it had been going for. Stein was a blur, his exact location impossible to pinpoint, a hazy silhouette, dripping with blood.

For one whom's sanity is clouded to fight Stein was a fool's errand, for it was on insanity he thrived, and insanity he promoted. And once they fell to their insanity, they would be little more than his pawns, turned against everything they believed in. For most elegantly, and most cruelly, Stein turned everyone into puppets.

"Your weakness is your arrogance. You have already been defeated."

Saeid flew through the air, like a rocket of flesh and blood. And yet, Stein had always known he was there, and he had known all about the attack. He grabbed Saeid's foot, and simply swung around, using the force of the attack against him. He smashed Saeid into the ground, creating a small crater where the warrior landed.

"Soul Purge"

White lightning crackled, as Saeid twisted and writhed on the floor. Blood spurted from his mouth, as his internal organs were ravaged by the Soular Energy passing through his body. He twisted on the floor, screaming, even after Stein had let go, grabbing and tearing at his own flesh, the pain unbearable. For Darkside had nearly destroyed his soul, using the dark side of the Force. And while Saeid was slightly more stable than his former self, the damage remained. For one with such severe damage to face an expert in Soular Combat, also, was the act of a fool.

"Now, both of you are still alive because I wish you to be. Because both of you are useful to me. You're going to come along to my laboratory, and you're going to help me out with a pet project of mine. If you agree to this now, I will have the girl released, together with the..... the robot bear." Stein almost sighs as he's forced to name something so ridiculous, and yet subtly awesome. "If wish to continue your loss, then the girl will become Mia's toy."
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As Brown charged, Mia turned to face him, smiling as the metal claws raked over her face. But all they cut was skin, as blood harder than steel blocked the attacks piece by piece. A vector arrow appeared next to Brown, as he was unexpectedly launched forward. At the same time, a similar yet opposite arrow appeared on Mia's arm, as it shot forward as well. Her own immense physical strength, enhanced by the vector arrow, resulted in a supersonic punch.

With a bang, her punch smashed through Brown's metal chest, deep into the circuitry beneath, electricity flowing through Mia as she giggled, shaking the robotic bear off of her arm.

"Sorry dad, I think I broke it. The girl's fine though!"

[thewizardguy]

@Tyki
As the fleet leaves, Matt raises an eyebrow. "I do hope you do not take me for a fool. If you wish to perform a scan of my planet, then I can accept that. But an army of that size is not acceptable. If you move in, I will be forced to reduce it to a more acceptable number of ships." Matt finishes his glass of mysterious substance, and leans back, as he signals for his recon fleet to pack it up and come home, leaving the Sergal planets in peace. "Furthermore, you will not be allowed further into my realm. The planet Haxagon-001 is my first bastion in this universe, and it is acceptable that you might wish to scan it, but the rest of my empire is of no concern to you. Any ships that enter where they are not wanted will be destroyed without hesitation."

As the ships near the forbidden territory, they spot a number of sattelite-like objects moving through them, scanning the solar system for any intruders. Unknown to them, even now Epsilon, the AI tasked with protecting this planet, is lining up it's shot. [Prepare launch of Blink Missiles. Prepare launch of Breath of God. Prepare activation of Solar Flare.]

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
A large city is quickly built, the architecture a mix of clone and sergal building styles.
Soon, the numbers of the clones swell immensely, as they prepare themselves for a war of sorts.....

[supertinyking]

@thewizardguy
Saeid slowly stands, blood running down his chin. With a sword in hand, he grins, as he pressed it to his own throat.
"...You can have me...but they all go.....The..wacko...the crystal girl..the bear...they all leave, and you take me. If not, I take off my own head, and my soul is lost to the deepest pits of hell...." He says, blood coating the dusty sword, but a sharp blade it was. It would take but a moment for Saeid to take his own head off, and with how much evil he'd committed, Stine could see how many hells would vie for such a sin soaked soul.
"......So, what's it gonna be stine? Me, or him? Cause you can only get one..." Saeid chuckles.

[Tyki]

@thewizardguy

"this is merely a scouting force. if you wish, i could call in all ships at my disposal? captain, what was the last head count?... thought so. the total would be a fair bit over two hundred as of last cencus taken for this system. Also, you're not one to talk about moving into unwanted territory with too many ships Mr. 'send in the carriers'. i will at least send them to their proper locations though" the sergeant replies dryly, giving him the same treatment he'd given them (even if it was rather exaggerated) as the ships plot a course for Haxagon, entering orbit before launching every scan odin can think of and then more, explaining why so many ships were sent; it was simply faster due to the amount of simultaneous scans that could be run, though epsilon seems to be detected and it's sub routines read, the mention of blink missiles causing the frigates' shields to take on an odd property preventing targeting of that particular weaponry battery type. [disengage hostile intent. we are here on peaceful terms and are merely scanning. if you refuse then we shall begin eradication of all hostiles]

@supertinyking

once the clones are prepared troop wise, their raids having most likely earned them a small fleet of their own with specialty carrier ships and upgrades to existing ships using new tech which appeared similar to geo tech but was thoroughly sergal, showing that the wreckage they'd sold had gone to good use in the R&D department.

[kishin asura]

@supertinyking

"Yeah, death's always boring." Asura says

Theta leaps through the portal

@kishin asura

((Repost))

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
Geo tech would seem extremely forgine to the sergals, to the point of them not being able to figure out how it works...and a lot of it self destructs before they can get to it, making a difficult feat, impossible. Soon, one day, the clone colony goes entirely silent, no warnings going out. No blip on the sergal's radar..but when the first ships find their way there, they find a massacre. The only survivor is Shepard, nailed to a cross, barely alive. As the party would begin to try to help him, clone corpses would rise from the ground, and begin to attack the sergals....none of the first scouting party would survive, and their corpses would vanish. Shepard would be stuck there, a baited trap to any who would dare try to save him......

[supertinyking]

@kishin asura
"I know, I've died a lot..." she says, before drifting off to explore her new home.

She finds me, and what looks like a viking beating the living crap out of each other. We gladly hack and slash each other, as if the pain was non-existent. Soon, we both manage to cripple each other for the moment, and laugh.
"That was fun!" I say, and the viking laughs. "I agree! We should kill each other more!" He says.

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

considering the scouting party would be equiped with scanners and not be complete retards from some b movie horror flick, they bombard the dead from orbit, not touching that shit with a ten foot pole after what happened last time, leaving only shepard to be teleported onto the ship in a confinement pod before being questioned and diagnostics run. "what happened to your people shepard?" the captain asks evenly, the planet's warp signatures scanned and traced, any and all portals or teleportations found, traced, tracked, and catalouged, leaving nothing hidden while the entire planet is subjected to a rapid degredation process, completely removing any remaining corpses or biological matter at all before being re-terra formed.

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
"......I...don't know...I just awoke, and a man...he wore...brown robes.....He nailed me to the cross....killed my people.....one man! ONE MAN!" He says, before something forces him into cardiac arrest, killing him..

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

the captain sighs before plugging shepard's brain into a neural uplink, downloading his short term memories, the particularly traumatising ones being unable to be wiped, leaving the captain with a movie to enjoy with her wine and seal jerky of the slaughter.

[supertinyking]

@Tyki
She.....gets nothing. In fact, while she's eating afterwards, she tastes something off in her food...something slightly acidic.......Soon after that, she begins to feel short of breath, as a panic would slowly take hold. After a few more moment, she'd be suffocating, as several large maggots forces their way out of her mouth.....after a moment or two, she'd be dead. Or, at least would of been, if the maggots hadn't of created some sort of portal to take her somewhere else...onto an operating table....

[Tyki]

@supertinyking

the maggots rather suddenly find themselves teleported away to a completely sealed box of incredibly thick, acid proof glass, their bio-signatures catalouged and traced back to their source.

[supertinyking]

the maggots rather suddenly find themselves teleported away to a completely sealed box of incredibly thick, acid proof glass, their bio-signatures catalouged and traced back to their source.

@Tyki

They'd find that hard, as the maggots would keep themselves pinned to their current spot. The teleport would go though as per normal, and the captain would find herself on the cutting board.

[supertinyking]

All of the geos, sith, and whatnot of mine near the sergals vanish, leaving them to deal with matt, and leaving me not needing to deal with them. The end of allllll those stories. All their tech is gone, even the stuff the sergals have. ALL of it is gone, no more, donezo, bye bye.

[supertinyking]

All of my characters randomly drop dead.

[kishin asura]

@supertinyking

"I've died too y'know." Asura says with a chuckle "nearly wound up in hell but then somehow I..." asura pauses. Normally his memories of his experience in the afterlife were far too foggy for him to remember. So why....

Theta just chuckles and watches

((Edit: wtf tiny?))

[supertinyking]

After an immense wave of rage passes over the land, all of my characters in unison rise from their graves.
"....The fuck was that?" They all ask in unison.

[kishin asura]

@supertinyking

"The fuck indeed...." asura and Theta say. Unknowingly in unision