DRAMABALLS: THE LOG

[stay_classy_cat]

Who: YOU AND YOU
What: Eggman and Seth's evil plans have been revealed, and this is the catch-all fight log.
Where: around campus/in FDC/AROUND
When: Monday, August 26th
Warnings: heartache and tragedy within
Reference links: plotting post, network post

Perhaps you watched it happen before your very eyes, perhaps word makes it to you via phone, or a friend pulls you over to watch the feed play back. One way or another, you realize a huge drama bomb has been dropped into your laps, Smash Academy:

Eggman's robots are mobilizing.

Seth is some huge, psychotic asshole drug lord hellbent on subverting everyone with clones.

And they're fighting it out on top of a building in FDC and it's being televised.

(What the hell.)

...Or perhaps you are unfortunate enough to not realize any of that until it's too late, and you have been captured and robotsized by Eggman. Perhaps it's less noticeable and you feel like you bumped your head against something and blacked out just for a second. Weird, but you feel totally fine and nothing seems wrong.

Not yet.

Comments

[princessninja]

The cameras proved to be the easy part--what was harder were the small-ish robots patrolling the hallways that didn't seem to like a mysterious ninja boy magically appearing in puffs of smoke and disabling the security cameras.

Sheik would just have to dispatch them, too.

Oh well.

After clearing a modest chunk of hallway ahead of the group, Sheik returned just in time to find Apple Kid offering everyone fruit juice.

"You brought...juice."

[notstevejobs]

"Yes, I did," replied Apple Kid. "Would you like some?" he said, offering the secret princess ninja the box, as if she could make it work. It was more likely a gesture meant to convey that he would work the box to get her a bottle of juice.

Probably.

[monotreme_101]

"I'd like some, sure." Knuckles said.

Well. He loved fruit juice. There wasn't much more to it than that.

So far, there had been no turrets opening up - no attacks on the deck of any kind. So as they approached the door, Knuckles couldn't help but think it had been too easy - had the Bad Doctor really not expected anyone to try this? Had he really not turned on the defenses? Weird.

[princessninja]

Of course there was juice. Of course there was.

Sheik was content to let Knuckles and Apple Kid partake in the fruit punch, albeit a bit begrudgingly. Someone had to keep an eye out, and soon enough, she was glad she did, because there was a patrol of Badniks making their way down the hall, as if on cue.

"I hate to cut this short," she said cooly, "but we're about to have company."

[notstevejobs]

Apple Kid looked up from his juice party with Knuckles.

"Oh," he said. He put his hand down his overalls again (seriously, this is getting absurd) and brought out a rubber chicken with some wires duct-taped to it (patently absurd).

He held it out to Sheik. "It's dangerous to go alone. Take this," he instructed. "And throw it at them," he added. "It's a pacifism bomb."

[trustycrowbar]

Gobsmacked by Apple Kid's non-sequitor tech for the third time, Gordon decides he best course of action is to ignore all of this nonsense and focus. He files ahead next to Sheik, shotgun ready, but he can't help but eye the weapon of mass distraction in his hand.

"If a rubber chicken can take down a horde of these robots, then I'll eat my suit. Come on, if we stick around, they'll corner us and wear us down."

Finally he gets moving, following the trail that the ninja boy had blazed for them and staying close to the walls and inside corners.

[princessninja]

Sheik, on the other hand, didn't really see anything to lose, and accepted Apple Kid's gift of pacifism, doing as instructed and tossing it into the group of robots just before going to town with the chain whip.

BUT WHAT, DEAR READERS, WOULD THIS PACIFISM BOMB POSSIBLY DO!??

[notstevejobs]

The same thing that happened the last time Apple Kid pulled this invention out.

Apple Kid walked up to a robot as it tried to punch him in the face. Apple Kid giggled as the soft caress of a bunny touched his cheek.

He hit the 'off' switch on the back of it, with all the expertise of a group of jazz-funk musicians.

"You've got 53.2 seconds; I recommend you use them."

[mohawk_tomahawk]

You say that as Connor just was about ready to silently off some more these robots. He'd been keeping to himself about it, watching his back and from the back of their group. Ready to shout what needed to be done next to keep it all afloat.







And then he said nothing. What was happening? WHAT WAS HAPPENING?

Who IS this child? He kept asking that.

"...The machines...are not attacking."

[trustycrowbar]

Gordon had just punctured open a robot with the hook of his crowbar, yanking it end over end behind him, when he feels a wave of sunshine and fluffy little kittens hit him from behind and is visibly staggered by it.

"Connor, you heard 'im! Let's move!" He finally shouts to the back, kicking the prone robot out of the way and hurrying through the radioactive miasma of glitter and bubbles.

He hopes Apple Kid doesn't keep him to his word on his eating-hit-suit thing. Knowing him he'll have a ray that can transform it into orange jello or something...

[princessninja]

Sheik didn't need to be told twice to get down to business, sprinting ahead of the group and using her chain whip and needles to land some CHOICE STRIKES on the PACIFIED ROBOTS.

Sparks flew and there were explosions and sparkly pacifism and it looked a lot like an episode of Samurai Jack.

She stuck a landing and continued around the corner, finding more robots not under the spell of Apple Kid's bomb. At the very least, the increased presence of enemies let her know that they were probably getting close.

[notstevejobs]

Apple Kid, meanwhile, was taking the time to put little magnetic boxes on the backs of the robots on any of them that had just been turned off, instead of smashed.

This was probably his patented (patent pending) Battery Drainer: A Drain for Batteries, just in case they were turned back on. Good, forward thinking, Apple Kid. You let everyone else ahead of you smash the actively-going-to-destroy-you robots. You've done your part.

[mohawk_tomahawk]

Connor felt foolish that he stopped for even a second. He then started downing the robots that weren't attacking now. Sparks were added to all the other sparks.

Sparks.

We are warriors here.