Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-13488655-20160327210255/@comment-26104528-20160908063227

Loretta dashed to the open cargo door of the Inua, her fist glowing Green and Purple. With a single swing, she let off a blast of kinetic energy that tore away the mess of wires that were in Arthur's way.

Leading into another fluid motion, she generated another super-singularity on the tail of the Inua, expending her gravity dust reserves to 50%. Both the Inua and Swordsman were pulled toward each other. Being the lighter of the two, Arthur now found himself dangling behind the vessel. With a mighty heave for someone of her size, the Crocodile dissapated the singularity and pulled him to safety.

"*pant* *pant*...Everbody gets one. " With that, Loretta set CATSAI to head for the Hatch that Osiris and Rainier would burst out of in six, five, four...


 * BOOOOM!!!*

A flak shell knocked the Inua off-course and into what was nearly a deathspin. Loretta pulled herself into the pilot's seat and pulled back on the control stick for dear life. She honestly had no idea how to actually fly one of these things, only what she'd seen Rainier and other pilots do countless times. Loretta could only watch in vain as they fell further and further from thier allies...

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So, this fate of this mission now falls on one woman's lucky guess...

"...Apology accepted." Lucina grinned.

"CATSAI, deactivate cloak. Divert all power to engines and prediction algorithms. " she ordered. Just as a pair of missiles were about to take out her Microwave Cannons, the Adjutant's wings rotated into vertical position, causing the missiles to overshoot right into the firing arcs of her forward lasers.

Out of the explosion, the de-cloaked Adjutant erupted from the smoke. With the lack of droids firing upon her, Lucina could now put all of her focus on evading missile and cannon fire.

A massive cluster of missiles was met with a burst from her ECM systems, and she feinted out of the follow-up flak burst. Even after someone locked onto her with a set of burst lasers, the Banshee simply cut her engines and revolved her wings, taking only a glancing blow.

"Alert: Flagg-pattern IFFs detected." the Adjutant's CATSAI alerted through the chaos. Lucina's focus slipped, back to the time she first stole the Adjutant...

One misplaced mortar shot...that was it took to get half our pilots slaughtered...

There are some things you'll never live down; you can only live with. Shaking herself back into focus. "Well, I guess I owe them an apology..." Lucina pulled the aircraft vertically, evading another flak burst. Again, she stopped in midair and let the Adjutant fall upside-down, cloaking in the process. Throwing the control levers once more, the Adjutant's fuselage rotated back to right-side up and the curvature of the wings adjusted accordingly.

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"I have as much-" Rainier programmed final orders into the Kraken now that it was infected with CATSAI's viral assault. "-a clue as you do, Arthur!" A barely audible ping from his scroll and he sprinted off towards the exit. CATSAI was now forcing the Kraken's tertiary engines to push whatever was left of the ship toward's the final dreadnought. Given the multiple reactor warnings, coding in a final detonation would be superfluous.

"Which is to say-" he channeled three kinesis runes into his fist and punched a door hard enough to send it flying down the hall, clearing another path for him.

"-NONE!!"

The archer, along with Osiris now found themselves on the side of a dying airship with thier own ride nowhere to be found. Further explosions continued to compromise the vessel's integrity, nearly knocking the two off balance.

"Fuck me.." Rainier mumbled under his breath. His aura alerted him to an incoming piece of debris from right behind. Acting quickly, he dropped on his back and jammed an arrow into the Kraken's hull, simultaneously pushing Osiris down as well.

Just as the vessel they were standing on was about to fall out from under thier own feet, a single fast-rope dangled above them, hanging from the dimly-lit cargo hold of an invisble vessel.