DB Sommer wrote:
BR wrote:
Sailor Pluto -- Interview with G.N.N. on July 27th, Old Terran Year 2003.
I'd drop this since you have it in part one
They only show up on the FFML posts. On the website, it's all one
piece, with the quote only showing up once. It should show up that way
on the RAAC versions, too, once I finalize the earlier chapters for posting.
"No time!" Yosho said, running full-tilt towards the edge of the
deck. "You can do things with water, correct?
Ami: Well, I can blow bubbles.
Yosho: No, seriously, what useful things can you do?
he would be forced to swim. "And soon," he concluded, wondering if
he could move quickly enough to run across the water.
Yosho's that quick?
No, but being able to do something, and trying to do something are
two very different things. ;)
"Masaki-san, do you take to grabbing sleeping girls and running
around with them often?"
Yosho: Used to do it with my wife all the time and she certainly never
complained.
Ami: Which wife?
Sparing no time for thought, Ryouga seized Ryu about the waist,
wrenching the other boy away from the reaver's spray of blood,
umbrella raised above his head and spinning madly. The descending
gouts of ichor were halted by the umbrella, which quickly liquefied.
I thought it was already a liquid. Do you mean it oxidized or something?
The umbrella liquefied. I'll clarify that.
"I have one!" the girl in the orange skirt exclaimed.
She carries tire chains with her?
Not... quite.
"Oh. Well, okay, then." The girl paused, gathering her focus for a
moment, and pronounced, carefully and deliberately, "Venus love-me
chain!"
Oh, that kind of chain.
Right.
Not waiting to listen to her further speech, and ignoring the 'heart'
motif, Mousse grabbed the chain, charging towards the reaver.
"Someone hit it with something big,"
So Ryoga picked up Ryu and hit the reaver with him.
Heh!
Zeroing in on the reaver with alarming speed, a fiery orb of
destruction tore along the deck, plowing up and devastating the
metal plating. A ring of flame circled the ball, until it impacted
with the trapped reaver, slamming it completely off of
can drop 'of'
'of' fed to reaver.
A moment later, the screw flew out to the side of the ship, wholly
severed, and skipped along the waves before slamming loudly into
another freighter, which pealed like a struck bell.
Odd. I thought the reaver would eat it instead of using it as a weapon.
It wasn't intentionally using it in such a manner, the reaver just
attacked a moving part, and broke it off. Everything after that was just
happenstance.
slowly. Once the hide was pierced, Yosho drew the blade viciously
upwards, cleaving deep into the creature and laying a massive gash open.
That will go a long way to solving matters.
One could hope.
When he judged that the wound would be lethal, he stepped back,
releasing his blade, and turning
and turned (I think)
Ack! That's an embarassing error. >_<
The reaver was instantly enveloped within a seething miasma of
swirling lights and flashing colors, sharply pointed fragments all
suddenly tightening into the reaver and slowly compressing the
creature. It stopped resisting suddenly, and exploded messily with a
sickeningly moist 'pop'.
One more down. They keep at it, and they'll run out of reavers.
That's the plan.
face that he could feel the wind of their passage. "Well, that
sucked," the man said, absently flinging the gun overboard and
marching past him. "Can't risk Tou-Chou here,
Eh?
Indeed.
Yosho could only stare, shocked, as the man yanked back his arm,
severed below the wrist, and laughed maniacally. "Take that, you
god-damned worthless bug! You can't kill a Wu!"
Oh. the 3X3 eyes bit. Yakamo, I do believe.
Of course!
Yosho nodded, frowning. "I suppose it's not suicidal if you can't
actually die..."
"Heh. My boss in the yakuza said the exact same thing."
Heh
Thanks. :p
Norris stared at the girl for a moment, and nodded his head. "Okay,"
he said evenly. "Regardless, we now have to revise our plans. I
cannot imagine that anything other than a trap will be waiting for
us in Shanghai."
True. They should try a different island.
Island? Shanghai's on the mainland.
"Of course, that's it!" she continued. "Ranma said that the first
time he fought a reaver, he attacked it with a bolt of his 'ki'
while it was phasing through something, and it got stuck! A reaver
can't handle the imprint of a quantum signature, so anything
carrying enough of that force to imbue them will affect their
abilities. They wouldn't be able to phase due to their own lack of a
quantum signature -- it's so obvious now!
Interesting, and very useful.
Indeed.
"Excellent," Cologne said, nodding. "That should mean that my
spear-sisters should be able to provide substantial aid to us.
And... should Ranma somehow curry his favor, Herb."
Oh, since it's genocide we're talking about, I'm sure Herb will be happy to
help.
HAH!
"I can probably have it set up in two or three hours," Washuu
answered. "It's about ten meters wide, so people will be able to go
through fairly quickly, but it will probably take several more hours
for everyone who's leaving to walk through. There are, after all,
millions of people here."
Oh, they managed to transport millions? Didn't think it was that many.
Eleven million, minus casualties.
The refugees were kept far enough that they couldn't see her working,
nor could she see them. She didn't blame Norris for making that
decision -- the pressure would have been even more stressful than
the existing situation was. A short distance away, still not
activated, sat the beacon. Once the final refugee was through the
Gate, and the beacon was loaded up in a vehicle of some sort, it
would be switched on. Until then, it remained ready, but deactivated.
Might want to use it now if they reavers will follow it.
Trying to get the refugees through, first.
Nuku stood to Washuu's side, carrying Ran-oh-ki and keeping him out
of trouble -- which was the task Washuu had charged her with. "Is
Ran-oh-ki Nuku-Nuku's little brother?" she asked curiously.
You think the rat would tip them off to reavers coming as well.
He generally does, if they get close enough.
Stumbling, Yakumo dropped his rifle, clutching the wound in agony.
"Shit!" he swore, as the reaver's claw dipped beneath the paved
surface once more. "How the hell are we supposed to get this thing?"
Reaver: You're not. That's the idea.
Heh!
Yosho raised his shield, ducking and expanding it, as the monster
refused to open its mouth, actually backing away from the explosive
bearing madman. The grenade detonated, tearing Yakumo's body apart,
and having no discernable effect on the reaver.
Heh. They do learn.
Yep.
"Yes," Haruka said quietly, raising her head to meet Yosho's gaze.
"But not in time."
If there were still some people left alive, then it was in time.
They hold themselves to pretty high standards.
And cruelest of all: "You're not any better than them!"
Actually, I doubt if most people, despite being panicked, would turn on
those that had obviously saved them from certain death.
Most of them, no, but a few, and that's really all it takes.
difference, but it was becoming increasingly apparent that he wasn't
good enough -- all he could do was chip it's
its
Whoops.
In the dim, far corner, quickly and efficiently, another reaver was
destroying the support columns for the building. Ryu swore softly.
Ah ha. He figured it out.
Yup.
Moving more quickly, the reaver ran directly through the fourth
column without disrupting it in the slightest. "Ahh... crap," Ryu swore.
Heh. Still, the building might give out anyway. Most of its support is gone.
It could.
The boy raised his head, managed a wan smile, and collapsed. The
Chinese boy with the chains barked a command to Ray, and he
reflexively raised his rifle, centering the damaged hide in his
sights and pulling the trigger. The beam of power again lanced
forth, this time holing the struggling creature entirely, and
sending a wash of its blood down into the crater.
And another one bites the dust.
Yep. We got the running tally once you catch up. :p
Not waiting for a signal, Ray leveled his rifle and fired at the
limb, maintaining a steady bead on it until the appendage was
severed completely, spurting ichor across the wooden beams and
concrete chunks pinning the monster down. Commodore Norris had
mentioned that some of the defenders had a way to keep the monsters
>from passing through solid objects. The green hell-fire must have
been the attack he had meant. Shrugging, Ray made the most of it;
since the reaver was pinned for the moment, it was essentially at
his mercy.
Assuming it can't phase.
Nope. Ryouga basically flooded the entire area with ki.
The heavy foliage that hid Washuu from the refugees, and the refugees
>from her, erupted with the forms of a multitude of reavers. Norris
barked a quick order, and the Marines lining the plaza whirled,
attempting to lay down suppressing fire with their rifles, which had
no effect. Dashing to positions around the Gate that they had sworn
to defend, six more Marines bearing positronic laser rifles opened
fire on the reavers.
That should work.
Generally, but not _quite_ well enough.
And in that moment, as the reavers surged forward like a tide of
doom, a gate opened.
And in that moment, there was a whirring noise, and a resonating
'snicker-snack'.
Eh?
Awww....
And in a loud, confident voice that touched Washuu's heart in a way
she hadn't thought possible, he declared to the creatures who had
halted their charge to face him, "I am Higurashi Ranma. And today is
the day that you die."
Bit melodramatic. I'd just have him stand there with the sword
threateningly, but its your call.
Eh, I had fun with it. ;)
Nice work and things are picking up. Excellent chapter as events slowly
reach for an end.
Thanks (as always) for the C&C, and I hope you liked it.
D.B. Sommer