Mission 162: Operation Mars

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Session Start (overmanzs1:!aol://2719:10-4-srwugamission162): Sat Mar 16 18:15:40 2013 -0500
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Jockey (SRW): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFCU68Gim3o&list=UUwBcCb022ktK_hB2h59gfug&index=1
Jockey (SRW): Everyone. Today is a big day.
Jockey (SRW): Today you take the fight to the Neuroi.
Jockey (SRW): No more waiting around for them to fly into the airspace of countries.
Jockey (SRW): You strike at a hive. And Wipe them out at the source
Jockey (SRW): A large fleet of ships is being prepped for the battle.
Jockey (SRW): Among them is the Yamato - the ultimate weapon against the Neuroi.
Zs1: As eager as Mio is to get this done, she's... not LOOKing eager. She's looking rather somber over the situation.
Camiu (SRW): Setsuna's looking over the 00 right now to make sure everything is ready for this battle
Paul M Robles: Yoshika: quite concerned, but busy training. She hasn't eaten since the previous night
Johnny (SRW): Richard is waiting nearby alongside the major, and even extends to her a bottle of water. "Remember, don't push yourself too hard. We don't need to lose you when we're this close."
Jockey (SRW): And why wouldn't she? Even after what the brass said, there's a chance the particularly insane plan they use could backfire. And if the plan is a failure...
JayDee (SRW): Flight Sergeant Lynette Bishop remains hidden on the deck of the ship, keeping her sights over the core. Her breathing is calm, regulated, synchronizing them with the pulse over her Boys' Rifle. Strangely enough? She is calm. Because after everything she saw, everything she did, she would finally safeguard her country... And return home.
Zs1: Richard earns himself a glare but... he has that unfortunate point.
Jockey (SRW): Romagna will be lost. The 501st permanently disbanded... probably blacklisted from service...
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini's trying her best not to look as scared as she feels, after all they fail it's her homeland that pays the price.
JayDee (SRW): She remains in position, clinginging around her rifle. Dishonorable discharge or not, she is in a zen state of mind. She broke many battles while aboard the Chalice. But now? She was rebuilt stronger.
Kami (SRW): Laura's in her combat armour, checking over the rather large gun she pulled out of stores for this and making sure she remembers how to shoot. It's been a while, but against the numbers they're expecting, bullets are cheaper than Sophium.
JayDee (SRW): "How are you feeling, Laura?" She asks while lifting her head from her sights, but doesn't remove her eyes from the hive.
Jockey (SRW): Dan: "Alright guys all aboard who's going aboard! The Yamato's gonna set sail now!"
Kami (SRW): She takes a deep breath. "Nervous. The last time I went out it... didn't end well."
Johnny (SRW): Richard raises his head at the announcement, just adjusting his uniform in response. "Looks like we're off."
Jockey (SRW): Ayame: "Just so we're clear here. The protection of the Yamato's the primary objective here. Don't go running off half-cocked. The last thing we need is for our reputation to involve losing whole chunks of continents."
Zs1: Mio's on board, for sure. She has to be. But that doesn't exclude her from her rather uncharastic expression. She seems more lost in thought than she is worried about the combat upcoming
Paul M Robles: Yoshika was strangely silent, eyeing the hive while gripping her weapon tightly. She wasn't going to lose anyone on this mission...!
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini: I'm here as a soldier for Rominga this time. Not for the Chalice.
JayDee (SRW): "It's going to end well, now." Whichever way it does. She looks around to the rest of the crew with the announcement. She checks her pockets for extra cartridges of 14.3mm rounds.
Jockey (SRW): The Yamato and the fleet set off.
Kami (SRW): Laura gives her a smile. It doesn't even look forced. "I know."
Jockey (SRW): Even from the distance you are at, you can see the massive spiralling stormcloud that is thed Neuroi Hive.
Jockey (SRW): arcs of thunder. The massive core at the eye of the storm.
Jockey (SRW): It'll be a while before you reach the estimated combat area.
Jockey (SRW): What are you all doing?
JayDee (SRW): Lynette returns her eyes back to the crosshairs of her weapon, in preparation. If her rounds wouldn't hurt the core, she would still be in charge of covering the rest and taking out priority targets.
JayDee (SRW): "Get ready."
Johnny (SRW): Richard: Don't suppose you have any words of advice? This'll be the first time I've seen the Neuroi in person, let alone fight them...
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini's fighting the urge to zip ahead to scout for the hive. She's doing this one by the book.
Kami (SRW): Laura: "Expect a lot of beams."
Camiu (SRW): Setsuna: Aim for the core to destroy them
Kami (SRW): Laura: "If you can't avoid them, be sure to guard your vital areas."
Zs1: Mio finally chimes in. "To any of you who have yet to fight a Neuroi, the object is to expose and destroy the core. It'll be hidden beneath the surface, but anything as simple as a machine gun can tear away at the body.
JayDee (SRW): "The core is the heart of every Neuori. If you only fire at anything, the Neuroi will still resist and regenerate anything you toss at it." She mutters. "When the core is destroyed, the Neuroi dies."
Zs1: Mio: "Be quick, because they will regenerate."
Paul M Robles: Yoshika was readying her weapon, eyes not moving one bit from the rapidly approaching hive
Kami (SRW): While she speaks, she's summoing The Great Pretender over her combat armour, picking up the aircraft gun with one hand once she's done.
Johnny (SRW): Richard: ...Sounds like a good Solar Punch will do then. I'l watch your backs out there.
Jockey (SRW): Suddenly....
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini: "This feels so weird without Shirley as my wing man." She steadies her gun.
Jockey (SRW): One of the lead ships of the fleet is bombarded with lasers! For a single moment it's covered in a multitude of glowling pockmarks before it detonates in a spectacular gout of flame and water!
Johnny (SRW): Richard: Looks like its time to go!
Jockey (SRW): Alarms sound off across the fleet! Everyone to battle stations!
Jockey (SRW): Enemy Count: Neuroi Hive x1 (Unattackable), UFO-Type Neuroi x ????
Jockey (SRW): Initiative: Mio, Yoshika, Lynne, Richard, Laura, Lucchini, Setsuna
Jockey (SRW): (Mio, Yoshika, Lynne)
Paul M Robles: *Yoshika's off to her Striker Unit, leaping inside with ears and tail appearing while just waiting for the okay from Sakamoto+
Jockey (SRW): Everyone. Multiple UFO types are converging on the Yamato. There's a barrage of laser fire being thrown towards it! (React)
JayDee (SRW): *Lynette puts the lock on her rifle, then sets herself in her Spitfire IX Strike unit. Before Mio gives the order, she keeps her weapon tucked to her chest -- when she sees the beams coming in. She has to move fast! She rises her shields to try to block the rest of her team down low. "Major! Give us the order!"+
Zs1: Mio takes her time getting into her Striker. She's actually a bit concerned that she can't even get it started, and doesn't want to worry the others. Dliberately hesitating, she opens fire with her machine gun as if to cover for everyone else taking off. So what if she's last! Pew pew pew +
Johnny (SRW): Richard: IDEIGI! *is replaced by the giant robot on the Yamato's deck, as inconvenient as it might be. At least he can use its bulk and shield to try and block the lasers though!+
Zs1: Mio: "Everyone! Defend the Yamato! No restrictions!"
Paul M Robles: * "Yes, ma'am!" Okay, no time to wait - she immediately takes off, shield appearing to deflect and send the laser beams back, or at least send them in the air+
Camiu (SRW): *Setsuna deploys the GN Field boosted by the GN Buster Sword to block the attack where he can!+
Nicky (SRW): * Lucchini's up in the air as soon as she gets clearance. She's bouncing beams off her shields as she heads towards the closest Neuroi her gun blazing as she searches for the core. staying close enough to the Yamato to bounce beams away with her sheilds. +
Jockey (SRW): Witches! Setsuna! The sheer amount of Barriers has prevented ANY lasers from getting through
Jockey (SRW): Richard. Ideigi is saved from being laser shot.
Kami (SRW): *Laura... can't defend a target the size of the Yamato, so she opts for offence! She infuses her gun with Sophium, firing dead centre at as many of the incoming Neuroi as she can effectively aim at, covering herself with a small Sophium shield as she rises off the deck!+
Jockey (SRW): (Lynne, take your action. After that. Richard & Laura take your actions)
Jockey (SRW): Laura! Mio! Your shots break open a few Neuroi! With the second volley shredding their cores to pieces!
Jockey (SRW): But from that hive you see several bright red specks as MORE Neuroi come swarming out of the hive!
Jockey (SRW): This is going to be a hell of a fight
Zs1: Mio: Don't get discouraged! This is a Hive, so expect a few hundred more!
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini: It's not that many we've fought worse right?
JayDee (SRW): *With it, Lynette Bishop finally sees an open chance. "Launching!" As soon as she takes off, she follow the rest of her companions. For now moving beside her wingwoman, she tries keeping her eyes on the hive... many more targets. She remembers an adage of gun safety: Assume everything behind your target will be destroyed as well, whcih is what she tries, stacking up a pair of kills. Just as well, Lynette thinks about something she heard once: Just fire! You'll hit something!+
Kami (SRW): Laura: "Mr. Chevalier! Hit a group of them with a blast, I'll shoot the cores while they're off balance!"
Paul M Robles: Yoshika: Eheh, if you count the General's own mecha becoming a Neuroi 'worse...'
Jockey (SRW): Lynne! That thing you heard? Was absolutely right. Target rich environment is the best way to descibe this situation.
Jockey (SRW): Multiple Neuroi are downed
Johnny (SRW): Richard: Right! *carefully, without moving Ideigi's feet too much, he shifts the arm, which begins to glow...* SOLAR PUNCH! *And then the energy fist flies towards the enemy!+
Kami (SRW): *She's as good as her word, waiting for Ideigi to disrupt some of the Neuroi, then quickly targeting all of those whose cores are exposed with Sophium-guided bullets!
Jockey (SRW): And additionally, the fleets cannons are adding to the combatant's weaponsfire! The methodical crack of cannonfire ringing in the air.
Jockey (SRW): Richard! Laura! The Solar Punch sends several of the UFO Shaped Neroi spinning like coins in the air before they are struck down! However, several more unleash a massive barrage of lasers at the both of you AND the ship you are on! React!
Jockey (SRW): (Setsuna, Lucchini. Go)
Johnny (SRW): Richard: *moves the shield back before him, trying to defend the ship+
Jockey (SRW): Also Mio. Given Yoshika's comment.... is there something you would like to tell the others?
Kami (SRW): Laura: "Damn it!"
Camiu (SRW): *GN Sword Long is out, Setsuna ups the particle output on the GN Drives as he fires into the horde!+
Zs1: Mio: "It' get worse... But it has to to get better." Vague comment is vague
Kami (SRW): *She can try to dodge, but their priority is defending the Yamato... instead, she flies to right behind Ideigi's shield, pressing her own to it - and in to it, reinforcing it! Sophium fog seeps out of the far side facing the enemy, acting like anti-beam gas!+
Nicky (SRW): *Lucchini is weaving in and out of the mass of neuroi as she blasts away at cores that are opened up by the gunfire from the ships as well as her own.+
Tengu (SRWmod): # Laura & Richard
Jockey (SRW): (approved)
Tengu (SRWmod): Werter (radio): "Laura!"
Kami (SRW): Laura: "Werter?!"
Tengu (SRWmod): * Suddenly, something glistens high up in the sky, from the sun's direction... And at that moment a huge beam of condensed energy shoots from high above, flying towards the cluster of ufo-shaped Neuroi attacking the ship! +
Tengu (SRWmod): Werter (radio): "I know you're in the middle of a battle right now, but this is urgent!"
Jockey (SRW): They Detonate! The most damage that is done is that Ideigi's shield gets a mild scorching!
Tengu (SRWmod): Werter (radio): "The Pepen received a transmission, and Prometheus deciphered it."
Kami (SRW): Laura: "!"
Tengu (SRWmod): Werter: "The transmission consists of only one word..."
Tengu (SRWmod): After the beam ends, you can see that the one who shot it... was not Prometheus.
Jockey (SRW): Setsuna, Lucchini! The Neuroi are blasted apart! Dust scattering to the winds! But the both of you now have to deal with a literal web of lasers!
Tengu (SRWmod): It's a tiny, one-person ship, floating in the air. With a humanoid figure standing atop of it. A winged figure.
Tengu (SRWmod): Werter: "Success."
Tengu (SRWmod): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XpfdAHQFzE
Zs1: Mio: "Laura, what's he on about, we're busy!"
Johnny (SRW): Richard: ...I-Is that...?
Tengu (SRWmod): ???: "Laura~!"
Zs1: Mio: "Get to the po--"
Camiu (SRW): Setsuna: It's her-!
Tengu (SRWmod): The figure jumps off the tiny ship and slowly descends towards the rest of the battle.
Tengu (SRWmod): http://i819.photobucket.com/albums/zz111/TehCubey/Cosmic%20Break%20Enemies/theta.png
Nicky (SRW): *Lucchini's on the move. "Really this is going to piss me off!" She zips away from the Yamato though, planning on trying to see if they'll shoot their own.+
Kami (SRW): Laura: "LILY!"
Jockey (SRW): Luchinni! Good news is that you avoid the lasers. The bad news is that they AREN'T hitting each other. A group of them are now swarming around you - circling like a flock of jet-pack wearing vultures!
Tengu (SRWmod): Lily spreads her arms wide open and smiles gently as she descends. "You waited..."
JayDee (SRW): # Lucchini?
Jockey (SRW): (Approved)
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini: "Well, at least they're not swarming around the Yamato."
Camiu (SRW): *Setsuna is making good use of the GN Barrier and GN Buster Sword.+
Tengu (SRWmod): Lily: "I'm so sorry it took so long. But I am back now."
Jockey (SRW): (Revised Initiative: Mio, Yoshika, Lynne, Richard, Lily, Laura, Lucchini, Setsuna)
Kami (SRW): *It's a good thing Lily took care of the incoming Neuroi, because Laura kicks free of Ideigi's shield and makes a beeline right for her!+
JayDee (SRW): *Lynette immediately watches Lucchini evade them -- and knowing she didn't want to see anyone else die because of everything that has happened, she lowers her rifle to bold towards Lucchini, and raise her shields.+
Jockey (SRW): Setsuna! Your GN Barrier is tested to the limit! Something gets hit and there's a shallow gash of glowing metal on the Gundam!
Jockey (SRW): (Mio, Yoshika!)
Camiu (SRW): Setsuna: Something got through? Particle output must be dropping...
Jockey (SRW): Lynne! Your Shield Charge sends several Neuroi spinning into the blue sky!
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini: Thanks Lynnette!
Paul M Robles: *Yoshika's already making a path toward Lynne and Lucchini, firing at any approaching Neuroi while raising her shields once getting close+
Tengu (SRWmod): Lily embraces Laura warmly, seemingly not paying attention to the explosions taking place all around her.
Zs1: Mio's action is finally boarding her Striker. But, just to get the focus to even take off, she ditches the gun and only has her katana. After much struggling, she finally gets the damn thing off the deck of the Yamato...&
Kami (SRW): Laura: "I knew you'd be back, but... but I'm so glad to see you."
JayDee (SRW): Lynette smiles. She holds her rifle with one hand to give Lucchini a brief hug, before raising it again... and noticing Mio has delayed. "What is going on? Why is the Major still out there?"
Johnny (SRW): Richard: ...You two remember there's a battle going on, right?
Paul M Robles: Yoshika: Ehh? She's not in the air with us?
Camiu (SRW): Setsuna notices something...
Tengu (SRWmod): Lily: "So am I, Laura... So am I..."
Camiu (SRW): Setsuna: Yoshika miyafuji, Major Sakamoto just took off, but she left her gun on the deck of the Yamato!
Paul M Robles: Yoshika: (she's not into spit-takes but she does a quick turn-around in surprise) Ehhh?! She what?
Jockey (SRW): Mio! A Neuroi has spotted you straggling from the ship and is on an intercept course! (React)
Paul M Robles: #(Sakamoto)
Nicky (SRW): #(Mio)
Kami (SRW): Laura: "...! We need to focus! Are you at full strength?"
Jockey (SRW): (Denied)
Zs1: *Finally in the air, she's not going to let some damn piddly UFO fuck take her down! Tiny ass little thing! You, and your friends have some magic sword! "REPPUZAN!" Wasting no time, she draws her katana and swings, putting all her magic into it! +
Tengu (SRWmod): Lily: "I'm stronger than ever, Laura. Because of the upgrades I received on Cosmic Ark... And because I'm with you."
Jockey (SRW): Mio! Your blade screams through the air to SMITE and CLEAVE the Neuroi! ALL YOUR MAGIC! ALL YOUR STRENGTH!
Jockey (SRW): -Ding-
Jockey (SRW): Nope.
Jockey (SRW): Nothing
JayDee (SRW): "Major!?"
Camiu (SRW): Setsuna: -! It did nothing!?
Paul M Robles: "Sakamoto!"
Jockey (SRW): Well. Not really! The amount of force you put into the blade has it rebound right out of your hands and into the deck of the Yamato!
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini: MAJOR!
Zs1: Literally, an IC O.O comes of this
Kami (SRW): Laura: "Major!"
Tengu (SRWmod): Lily: "...She needs our help. Let's go."
Zs1: Mio just stares at the Neuroi in horror, or her hands. They are in the same direction. How she's managing to keep aloft at this point is a mystery of nature.
Jockey (SRW): Also Mio, As if to mock you. The Neuroi just moves past you towards the Yamato.
Jockey (SRW): Someone may wish to take care of it post haste before it puts a laser into the ship.
Zs1: This confirms she's staring at her empty hands.
Camiu (SRW): #YAMATO
Jockey (SRW): (approved)
Jockey (SRW): Yoshika, You've regrouped with Lynne and downed multiple Neuroi, their lasers straining your barriers. But its nothing you can't handle.... the Major though...
Camiu (SRW): *GN Katars are deployed, the last weapons he had yet to test, and are stabbed into the Neuroi approaching the Yamato after Setsuna's supercharged them with GN Particles to heat the blades up!+
Jockey (SRW): (Lynne, Richard)
Jockey (SRW): Setsuna. You stabbed the Neuroi. It explodes into dust, obscuring your vision for just a moment.... for two more Neuroi to fill your screen and SLAM into the 00!
Camiu (SRW): Setsuna: What the-!?
Nicky (SRW): # (Setsuna)
Johnny (SRW): #Setsuna
JayDee (SRW): *She stands baffled for a moment, not believing the situation, until she sees the monster move past her... Lynette doesn't know if she can afford risking more of her shields. She loads a cartridge and shoots against the approaching Neuroi, moving in closer to get their attention.+
Jockey (SRW): Lynne! You certainly got their attention! The shots take one down, but just knocks the other off course! It stabilizes and is moving full speed ahead at you! React.
Jockey (SRW): Addtionally...
Jockey (SRW): Everyone. You're getting a transmission from the Aircraft Carrier Amagi!
Paul M Robles: # (Lynne)
Jockey (SRW): "Clear the Area around the Yamato! Quickly! We need to activate the core!"
Jockey (SRW): (Approved)
Johnny (SRW): Richard: Someone get the Major back to the ship! *Richard unleashes another Solar Punch with his usual cry, trying to clear the skies a little+
Kami (SRW): Laura: "Lily, cover me! I'll get the Major!"
Tengu (SRWmod): Lily: "Alright!"
Paul M Robles: *"LYNNE!" Yoshika quickly moves to put herself in between her wingwoman and the approaching Neuroi, shields up and firing repeatedly at it+
Jockey (SRW): Yoshika! Shields are at MAXIMUM! Nothing gets through and the Neuroi is reduced to dust!
Jockey (SRW): Richard! The Solar Punch Devastates multiple Neuroi! Damaging some greatly and outright destroying others! Core and all!
Jockey (SRW): (Battle Couple)
Zs1: Mio's too shaken up to move, though she recognizes that, yes, it's time to clear away from the Yamato. The plan is being set into action.
Jockey (SRW): (And by that I mean Lily and Laura)
Jockey (SRW): (also Setsuna support denied(
Nicky (SRW): (Figured since no response)
Tengu (SRWmod): * Lily: "I am Lily Rain EVE Theta. Let me show you my reborn power... Trance Bit!" Her eyes suddenly light up with a bright blue glow, and four additional wings/funnels appear around her, for a total of ten! She extends her arm in a commanding gesture and those new four funnels fly towards the Neuroi, spinning like deadly saws and ripping into their flesh! Whenever she uncovers a Core, the remaining six wings fire Psiguns at it. Her focus are the Neuroi around and on the way to Mio.+
Johnny (SRW): Richard: *with his success, and his superior's orders to consider, Richard jumps ship. Literally. Yamato might even shake a bit as the fifty metre tall robot just leaps into the ocean in front of it*
Jockey (SRW): Lily! Your Firepower is impressive. You literally carve open a corridor towards Mio!
Kami (SRW): *Laura's flying in to catch Mio before she's hit - or just falls! On the way she's taking potshots at any Neuroi that present themselves, but for the most part she's leaving covering fire to Lily, focusing on defending herself and - when she reaches her - Mio.+
Jockey (SRW): Laura! You didn't have to take that many shots thanks to space-waifu and you reach Mio without incident....
Jockey (SRW): and...
Jockey (SRW): The Yamato..
Jockey (SRW): something is happening to it...
Jockey (SRW): You could swear water had displaced. And not just because of Richard's ship hop.
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini: "Huh wait... he said Core didn't he?" way to pay attention panther girl.
Jockey (SRW): There's a massive crack-THUMP ringing in the air as parts of the ship turn completely black - darker than scorched earth. Blood red lines can be seen against a hexagonal pattern that forms with every time the discoloration spreads!
Jockey (SRW): Until.
Jockey (SRW): Its complete. The Bridge of the Yamato flares red as the light from the rest of the ship dies down.
Jockey (SRW): The Yamato is Neuroi.
Jockey (SRW): And.
Jockey (SRW): its on your side.
Camiu (SRW): Setsuna: How did they-?
Zs1: Mio doesn't say anything much in response. "That's why we were defending the Yamato."
Jockey (SRW): A gigantic barrage of Laser Fire tears at the Neuroi forces! Decimating them at a speed faster than your team has achieved! The volume of weaponsfire was INSANE!
JayDee (SRW): Lynette unconsciously keeps the butt of her weapon over her shoulder, preparing to rise it. Neuroi are neuroi. Ally or not.
Tengu (SRWmod): Lily: "Human technology can still be really surprising..."
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini doesn't lower hers at all. "It's neuroi, they can... I mean..."
Jockey (SRW): "This is the Amagi. All forces cover the rear of the Yamato as it takes off and mop up any Neuroi left from its path. Leave the rest to it."
Jockey (SRW): Wait...
Jockey (SRW): take off?
Johnny (SRW): Richard: I can't see anything down here! Whats going on?!
Zs1: Mio still looks kind of shamed. "It was that or... we disband."
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini: "The Yamato's Neuroi." yes Mio she's glaring at you.
Jockey (SRW): Richard! You find yourself dragged back to the surface of the water by a MASSIVE displacement.
Jockey (SRW): What was it?
Jockey (SRW): The Yamato was lifting itself out of the water.
Camiu (SRW): Setsuna: Major Sakamoto. Was this worth it?
Jockey (SRW): Rising towards the Neuroi hive and moving towards it, all guns blazing.
Jockey (SRW): Someone may wish to grab Richard and Ideigi before they sink again/
JayDee (SRW): Lynette turns to the Major. For the first time in months, her expression is hurt. "Major...? Using the neuroi?"
Johnny (SRW): Richard: W-w-w-what the...?!
Camiu (SRW): *Setsuna's moving to do just that and place it on the deck of some other warship
Zs1: "So that the rest of us can stay together.... We'll son see...."
Jockey (SRW): You are all indeed seeing. The Neuoimato is literally UNSTOPPABLE! The UFO Neuroi are swarming it and blasting holes into the thing en masse - but none of the damage sticks! It's just endlessly regenerating!
Johnny (SRW): Richard: Well, the top brass are certainly going to be pleased with this thing's results...
Jockey (SRW): Setsuna, Richard. Now some other ship is loaded down by large amounts of Super.
Kami (SRW): Laura: "This is quite a risk..."
Johnny (SRW): Richard: *for once manages to will the robot out of existence on his own terms, landing on the deck, tired, but awake for freaking once*
Jockey (SRW): It isn't long before the Hive's Core is in Range of the Yamato's main guns
Jockey (SRW): and-
Jockey (SRW): ...
Jockey (SRW): no
Jockey (SRW): nothing
Jockey (SRW): no earth shattering kaboom
Tengu (SRWmod): Lily: "Why isn't it firing?"
Jockey (SRW): the guns are silent
Jockey (SRW): In fact the crew of the Amagi are panicking.
Johnny (SRW): Richard: ...S-Shouldn't it be shooting? *he looks up towards the Gundam, as if expecting an answer from Setsuna of all people*
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini: Can we now ask them to triple our pay before saving their butts?
Jockey (SRW): "The Magic Dynamo stopped working"
Kami (SRW): Laura: "They didn't put a bomb aboard...?"
Jockey (SRW): "The Yamato is silent! I repeat! The Yamato is silent!"
JayDee (SRW): Lynette raises her rifle. "It's an enemy, now."
Jockey (SRW): The Neuroi are taking advantage of this
Jockey (SRW): They're bombarding the Yamato
Kami (SRW): Laura: "God damn it - do we have a drill!?"
Jockey (SRW): Taking it apart surgically
Zs1: Mio is quietly staring. She' sstill in her strikers, and it's not as if she's been working hard the last few minutes. "I'm going..."
Kami (SRW): Laura: "Major?"
Jockey (SRW): "This is the Amagi! The mission is a failure! FULL RETREAT!"
JayDee (SRW): "What!?"
JayDee (SRW): "N-No! We can't retreat now! We're so close!"
Jockey (SRW): "The Yamato is lost! Unless the Magic Dynamo is working again there's no chance we can eliminate the hive!"
Tengu (SRWmod): Lily: "Is there a way to reactivate it?"
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini: "Not alone Major. The mission fails and Rominga, Shirley... I Can't let that happen."
Zs1: "If the dynamo's stopped working, I'll just start it again!
Johnny (SRW): Richard: *works himself up onto his feet, and begins waving up at the Gundam, or anyone who might see him* Give me a lift! Quick!
Jockey (SRW): "Major! I gave an order! Don't you dare disobey it-"
Camiu (SRW): *Setsuna does just that! You have a ride, Richard, what do?+
Zs1: Mio, for the sake of everyone else and a whole damn country, takes off, foregoing objections and orders. She's off, as fast as she can, which is pretty wobbly and stopable by anyone on field.
Johnny (SRW): Richard: This'll sound crazy, but... Can you get above the hive?
Jockey (SRW): (Setsuna, Lucchini. Go)
Jockey (SRW): Mio! There are severan Neuroi getting in your way! React!
Camiu (SRW): Setsuna: ... I can try!
Camiu (SRW): *Setsuna goes off towards the sky, trying to get above the storm&
JayDee (SRW): # Mio
Zs1: *Mio reacts by... FUCK YOU NEUROI, dodging! Even if she has to Touhou her way through and graze every bullet and spell card! +
Jockey (SRW): Mio! Despite your failing Magic, you at most get a few scorched hairs and several close calls! The Yamato is within your reach!
Nicky (SRW): * Lucchini heads for the Yamato ignoring the chatter. She's searching for a way in to get to the core.
Jockey (SRW): Lucchini! Try as you might, you've got several Neuroi on your tail! And several in front of you! React!
Jockey (SRW): Setsuna...seriously? Seriously?
Nicky (SRW): She opens fire at them glad to have something to destroy for a moment.
Zs1: And Mio makes her way inside the Yamato, and into the chamber with the dynamo. Strikers are useless at this point, so she just slips out of them
Jockey (SRW): Trying to get above the Storm with Richard is extremely difficult, you can spot massive amounts of lightning cracking through the swirling storm... and several neurou screaming from the clouds at the both of you.
Jockey (SRW): You now have several lasers incoming. React.
Jockey (SRW): Lucchini. There's a LOT of them. You damage several and kill just as many - but they're trying to overwhelm you with sheer numbers.
Jockey (SRW): Mio. The Dynamo's in front of you. Clearly inactive.
Jockey (SRW): Do you have enough magic to power the cannons?
Zs1: Well, let's make it active then! Be damned if she doesn't though because she's going to try and channel ALL her magic into it.

All of it?

Yes, all of it!
Jockey (SRW): Mio. The Dynamo's crackling with energy. Despite your failure to carve a Neuroi into several pieces....
Jockey (SRW): The Dynamo's reactivating! It's back to full power-....
Jockey (SRW): no
Zs1: And she keeps pushing it, hoping to get the damn thing started again! "COME ON!"
Jockey (SRW): It's beyond full power.
Jockey (SRW): The Various gauges on the Dynamo are rattling, hitting the red repeatedly before just BREAKING APART.
Jockey (SRW): The Yamato is back online!
Jockey (SRW): and the cannons
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini is sorry if Mio's jostled around as she screams for the hull of the Yamato to try to dodge some of them. The dark haired pilot is doing her best to just try to keep the Neuroi in a close mass.
Jockey (SRW): Lucchini
Jockey (SRW): you may wish to pull away
Jockey (SRW): because the cannons fired
Jockey (SRW): and then some.
Zs1: *It's not like she's in the control room or anything but, this is magic we're talking about! "FIRE!" Using all her magic, she COMMANDS the canon to fire +
Camiu (SRW): *Setsuna doesn't have time for your shenanigans Neuroi! He's Dropping the Ideigi onto one of the ones below him so he can jump the rest of his way up before pirouetting and spinning and generally swinging out of range by being an acrobatic son of a gun!+
Jockey (SRW): The Yamato - having literally slammed its prow into the Hive Core is blasted by the backwash!
Jockey (SRW): EXPLOSIONS
Jockey (SRW): MASSIVE
Nicky (SRW): when the canons fire she just drops, easier than flying out of the way
Jockey (SRW): FUCKING
Jockey (SRW): EXPLOSIONS
Jockey (SRW): The Hive itself detonates with the Yamato!
Jockey (SRW): In one gigantic second sun!
Jockey (SRW): Setsuna... You're a bit of an asshole you know that? While you dodge, Ideigi proceeds to crash into several Neuroi on its way down
Jockey (SRW): Nice job.
Johnny (SRW): Richard: Ideigi! *he summons the mecha as he's dropped, and just in time to witness the fiery explosion beneath him as the mecha falls*
Jockey (SRW): Its quiet
Jockey (SRW): the Stormclouds from the Neuroi hive are clearing...
Jockey (SRW): its....
Jockey (SRW): over?
Jockey (SRW): Mission Comple-
Jockey (SRW): wait
Kami (SRW): Laura: "The Major!"
Jockey (SRW): no.
Tengu (SRWmod): Lily: "Please don't tell me that she..."
Jockey (SRW): Something's still in the fading smoke from the explosion and the neuroi-snow
Jockey (SRW): http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b253/Zappa_Slave/UnderwaterStrikeWitches2-12720p98CEAF13mkv_snapshot_0753_20130311_164319_zps6c0adf10.jpg
Jockey (SRW): The Yamato was still there...
Jockey (SRW): and crushed against a massive geometrical Neuroi
Jockey (SRW): and
JayDee (SRW): Lynette's eyes widen. "The Major...?"
Jockey (SRW): it wasn't alone
Jockey (SRW): multiple pitch black and smaller versions of it orbit around the massive 'core'
Jockey (SRW): and the Major...
Jockey (SRW): http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b253/Zappa_Slave/UnderwaterStrikeWitches2-12720p98CEAF13mkv_snapshot_0814_20130311_164517_zpsfdeac7e6.jpg
Jockey (SRW): ...
Jockey (SRW): this wasn't good.
Zs1: Mio: "..." She's not conscious
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini's glad her drop had her hovering just above water.... "What the..."
Camiu (SRW): Setsuna: The Major-!
Tengu (SRWmod): Lily: "We need to get her out...!"
Jockey (SRW): (Revised Initiative: Yoshika, Lynne, Richard, Lily, Laura, Lucchini, Setsuna)
Kami (SRW): Laura: "...And we need to destroy that core, or it'll all reform."
Jockey (SRW): (Yoshika, Lynne! Go!)
Tengu (SRWmod): (enemy list?)
Jockey (SRW): (Neuroi Core w. Mio & Yamato x 1, x6 Pentahedron Neuroi)
JayDee (SRW): "... Yoshika. We have to get the Major out of there." She tries to think. So many bad things are happening, she tries to keep focus. "Maybe if we get close to it and shoot the sides beside the Major, but..."
JayDee (SRW): * "... I'll cover you. I've used a lot of my shields in the battle. If I get up close I could be an unnecessary casualty. If you move in to try to free her, I can give you the best cover fire you'll get from anyone present.*
Jockey (SRW): Everyone!
Jockey (SRW): The Neuroi have begun to attack! The Pentahedron-Types fired lasers that converged into one another - into one huge sweeping beam!
Jockey (SRW): Multiple ships in the escort fleet are WIPED OUT
Jockey (SRW): React before you join them!
Camiu (SRW): *Setsuna's getting the fuck out of range in a forward diagonal towards the Pentahedron-types+
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini turns watching a moment, her grip on her machine gun tightens as she zips up to help Mio. Being under the Yamato and the target the size of a gnat has advantages ya know
Camiu (SRW): (And retracting reaction)
Tengu (SRWmod): * "Ack! We need to take care of them before they do that again...!" Lily zips around the battlefield, trying to outrun the beam and spinning out of its way when it's close. Having ten wings gives her pretty damn impressive speed, even in comparison to how she was before! +
Jockey (SRW): Lucchini. Several smaller Pentahedron types form in front of you.
Jockey (SRW): They essentially do the same as their larger bretheren and chase you with a laser pointer of death!
Jockey (SRW): React!
Nicky (SRW): She fires at them with her gun. "Just die already!"
Camiu (SRW): Setsuna: If we can take out just one we'll be hurting their attack potential.
Jockey (SRW): Lily! The beam does nothing if it can't hit anyone!
Kami (SRW): *Laura follows suit, burning Sophium from her shield to enhance her speed - avoiding being hit is more important than defending against the beam right now! While she's doing that, she also tries to move closer to the Neuroi, where the beam can't track her as quickly - and where she'll be able to counterattack once she has a second!+
Kami (SRW): Laura: "Yoshika, Lynne - tell us what you need!"
Jockey (SRW): Laura! The beam sweeps by, a little too close for comfort but nil!
Jockey (SRW): (Richard, Lily, Laura)
Johnny (SRW): Richard: I'm enroute! *Actually, he's falling, having leapt from the Neuroi, but thats beside the point. With a great yell of 'Paladin Blade!' a massive sword appears in Ideigi's hand, and is pointed straight down as it falls to the bigass shape+
Tengu (SRWmod): * "Let me take care of the smaller ones... Eve, lend me your strength!" Lily tries to take the best position on the battlefield for firing before she summons her huge arm-cannon. She aims, floating in air in one place and letting the blue energy charge up to its limit, and then fires a huge beam, trying to catch as many of the pentahedrons in it as possible! +
Jockey (SRW): Richard! You are the Sword that Cleaves evil!.... well. Not really. But still. You cut the Neuroi you're aiming at pretty good.
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Kami (SRW): *Laura follows hot on the heels of Lily's beam! She lets go of her gun, leaving it to hang from its strap, and condenses most of her Sophium cloud into a blade twice her height - one she'll aim to slice right through the core of the nearest pentahedral Neuroi that Lily's attack exposes, and continue on to the next if she can!+
Jockey (SRW): Lily! You slay many mini-hedrons and damage a big one! They've taken notice of you and retaliate in kind. How? A beam war of course! React or be pushed back!
Tengu (SRWmod): * Six of Lily's wings move to in front of her, spreading out widely and creating an energy barrier between their tips, wide enough to cover her completely - except for a part of the right arm, because at the same time she still fires her own beam, trying to overpower the incoming one. (not the end of action)
Tengu (SRWmod): * "My bonds have brought me this far... I will not let you break them! Charge Mode!" Blue fire bursts from Lily's eyes with increased focus, and her beam grows in size and intensity! +
Tengu (SRWmod): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCAyWuJ-RLU
Tengu (SRWmod): Lily: "Laura, everyone! Save your friend!"
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Jockey (SRW): (Luchinni, Setsuna, Richard. YOUR TIME IS NOW)
Jockey (SRW): Lily! The Beams are evenly matched! Its gotten to the point the smaller Neuroi are joining the beam war - taking you as the greatest threat!
Johnny (SRW): Richard: We've got an opening!
Nicky (SRW): * "Hey, someone throw me at it. I need more speed." She's managed to dodge ger followers and is coming level with the core.
Kami (SRW): #Lily?
Jockey (SRW): Laura! You pick off the Neuroi one by one... but the moment a shot almost hit a Neuroi close to the core...
Jockey (SRW): A WITCH SHIELD SPRANG UP!
Jockey (SRW): Neuroi red
Kami (SRW): Laura: "!"
Johnny (SRW): Richard: Get over here then!
Jockey (SRW): It stopped that bullet in its tracks!
Jockey (SRW): It seems that the Neuroi is using Witch Magic! Courtesy of the Major in its clutches!
Camiu (SRW): @Laura
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini missed seeing the bullet stopped moving to Richard's side
Jockey (SRW): *blade. Not boolit
Kami (SRW): Laura: "They - I think they can use the Major's magic!"
Johnny (SRW): Richard: *With a blade firmly stabbed into the Neuroi below him as a deterrent, one of Ideigi's hands frees itself to grab Lucchini.* Then all the more reason to SEND THEM TO HELL! You ready?!
Jockey (SRW): Richard! You are riding on the back of one of the Neuroi that is contributing to the beamspam against Lily. In fact. Its faltering and slowly losing altitude!
Zs1: Oh, her magic... she kind of stirs a bit. "Nnnnnh"
Kami (SRW): *She'll kick off against that shield to launch herself at Lily's assailants instead (assuming that # comes through)+
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini: "More than!" She's got the most evil little grin on that almost angelic face of hers.
Jockey (SRW): (Approved)
Jockey (SRW): Laura! You're a missile on the way to the enemy! Several smaller Neuroi broke off from their contribution against Lily and are firing a barrage of lasers your way!
Johnny (SRW): Richard: Ideigi... SHOOT! *The name is unnecessary, but Richard does NOT care as he proceeds to throw the girl full face at the enemy, before punching his own sword deeper into the Neuroi. There had to be a core in there somewhere!+
Kami (SRW): *En route, her blade reshapes, taking the form of a double-ended axe - which she throws on an impossibly curving arc out and through the smaller Neuroi from the side! It might not destroy them, but it should take the heat off Lily... meanwhile, as soon as the weapon leaves her hands she forms a small shield with what's left of her Sophium cloud and tucks herself in tight behind it, dodging for her life!+
Camiu (SRW): *Setsuna will be drawing the Buster Sword, and while the other Neuroi are distracted, he shouts out "TRANS-AM!" and speeds forward to one of the larger Neuroi to try and cleave it in twain with the giant blade, assisted by the power of TRANS-AM!+
Jockey (SRW): Richard! The Core is jammed into! You're freefalling again as the neuroi explodes into dust!
Nicky (SRW): *Lucchini forces most of her magic to her shields forming a drill. She's hoping the trajectory's right because error with this might get her and Mio killed. She puts a little more speed on wuith her strikers.
Johnny (SRW): Richard: This had better be worth it!
Jockey (SRW): Laura! Impossible curve it may be! The Getter Team is proud of your double-tomahawk toss as it carves up the enemy in clusters! So much that the incoming barrage batters harmlessly at your shield and merely makes you lose velocity!
Jockey (SRW): Setsuna! You stabbed a Neuroi! That's good. What's bad is that you carved it at a bad angle and its turning its laser against you! React!
Jockey (SRW): Lucchini! DRILL! DRILL! DRILL! You SLAM against the Neuroi's stolen shield! Pushing against it!
Jockey (SRW): YOU MUST DIG DEEPER! (You may continue)
Nicky (SRW): *Pushing the rest of her magic into her strikers she tries to force her way through the core. "Come on... work!" +
Jockey (SRW): The Shield breaks! The Neuroi is slammed into and cracks! You've punched through it!
Camiu (SRW): *The fun part of TRANS-AM is when you GOTTA GO FASTER YOU GO REALLY FAST. By the time the laser turns Setsuna is out of the way and carving into it again!+
Jockey (SRW): Setsuna. Lasers are pretty fast too. Thankfully you only got half your V-Fin scorched off before you took out the Beamy Death Alien.
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Paul M Robles: (Sorry-lost connection twice and couldn't get back into chat)
Jockey (SRW): (Its okay. Its all you and JD now)
JayDee (SRW): (Alright!)
Jockey (SRW): (Yoshika. Lynne. FINISH THIS)
Zs1: Mio finally comes to, and stares at her situation. She's trapped, but, it's just a much a relief that everyone's fighting to get her out. It's her own failt she's in there but... They're all fighting for her, and, for the world
Paul M Robles: *Yoshika concentrated as much energy as she could, and her shield reappeared for a moment or two before it seemed to collapse on itself: in reality? It literally turned into a GIGANTIC BLUE BEAM OF DESTRUCTION AIMED AT THE NEUROI!+
JayDee (SRW): *Lynette Bishop holds on to Yoshika. "We destroy the core, and end the Neuroi." She smiles. "Let's do this." And shoots herself into range, her mind entering a state of clarity. For the seconds that pass, her shots are accurate - pinpoint - as they clear a path. Almost computer-like. Lucchini had cracked it, they all hade done their effort. Now? It dies. And Britannia will finally be free of the Neuroi.+
Zs1: That's one way to surprise Mio! Giant beam of doom?!
Jockey (SRW): Said Neuroi ate beam to the face! You can hear a low groaning noise, as well as the sound of glass breaking over and over again!
Jockey (SRW): Lynnette's own shots broke the Neuroi apart even more. Mio. The Neuroi around your arms and legs is cracking!
Zs1: Mio gives a good damn struggle to pull her way out of the Neuroi! Can she do it yet?+
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini's still working her way through, there might be a mumble about earning her nap now over the com, just to let the others know she's still there.
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Jockey (SRW): Mio! Good news! You got your arms free! And from the looks of things Lucchini is closing in on you!
Zs1: Mio: "LUCCHINI!"
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini: "Yes Major?" Oh there's probably gunfire heard, muted and behind her but hey, she's being carefil not to aim at Mio
Zs1: Mio: "Get me out of this!"
Nicky (SRW): * Lucchini grins as the core explodes around them. She gives a sigh of relief because that was hard work, then remembers Mio's falling. "Oops!" She dives for the Major.
Zs1: Oh, well, that was a bit unexpected! Breaking so soon! Mio throws her hand out, expecting the youngeset witch to come calling
Jockey (SRW): The Major WAS falling. Because the moment Lucchini got far enough, a section of Neuroi broke apart and she fell out! Thankfully. Lucchini has good timing.
Jockey (SRW): As for the Neuroi itself...
Jockey (SRW): The Entire Core breaks apart!
Jockey (SRW): For a moment the shards hang in the air
Jockey (SRW): then.. they burst.... it looks like its winter
Jockey (SRW): in the middle of the ocean
Jockey (SRW): The Yamato de-Neuroifies as it falls - no longer attatched to anything. Hitting the water with a massive splash!
Jockey (SRW): That's it...
Jockey (SRW): the Hive is gone...
Paul M Robles: Yoshika: ...We did it...!
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini's strikers sputter, looks like they're still going into the water, but at least not a fast fall
Tengu (SRWmod): Lily lowers her gun and sighs in relief. She's almost out of energy at this point, so it's good that beam tug-of-war didn't take any longer than it did.
JayDee (SRW): Lynette lowers her weapon, staring in disbelief... Then immediately recovers, and flies straight towards Lucchini to grab her. "Lucchini! It's over!"
Zs1: Mio: "We've won... " Mio's eyepatch falls off. Anyone care to notice the lack of magical heterochroma?
Kami (SRW): Laura: "Lily, help!" She goes after Lucchini and the Major, waving Lily towards the other Witches in case they're low on magic too.
Paul M Robles: Yoshika: "Sakamoto!" She goes to help her mentor/fellow Fuso Witch out. And yes, she blinks at seeing her eyes up close
Tengu (SRWmod): Lily: "Ah! I, I'm coming...!" So much for being composed and dignified! She hurries to catch whoever needs catching - luckily she's way stronger than most humans.
Kami (SRW): Although it seems all the Witches are helping each other for now - so Laura hangs back and looks around to make sure there are no more Neuroi left.
Jockey (SRW): Nope. Not one at all....
Jockey (SRW): All of them are gone.
Johnny (SRW): Richard: ...They forgot, didn't they...? *he wonders, floating in the ocean... and then the Yamato's splash comes towards him* Oh god wh-!
Jockey (SRW): Clear skies as far as the eye can see.
Nicky (SRW): lucchini: "I'm serious about them tripling the pay for this one." She's grateful Lynn caught here though.
Jockey (SRW): Oh. And Richard is launched into the air from the wave.
Jockey (SRW): Someone catch him please.
Tengu (SRWmod): That'll be Lily, if she didn't find anyone else to catch first.
Zs1: Mio: "You could probably retire with that payment, Lucchini. I think... maybe we all should... For a while." Smiles
Jockey (SRW): One threat down. Many more to go...
Jockey (SRW): but nobody important had to die.
Jockey (SRW): MISSION
Nicky (SRW): Lucchini: I was going to give it to Perrine.
Jockey (SRW): COMPLETE!
Paul M Robles: Yoshika: (giggles, blink, blink) "Sakamoto? Your eye..."
Zs1: Mio: "I know... I... I don't have any magic left."
Paul M Robles: Yoshika: "...I'm sorry...!" (she wonders if that's what her sword did -did it eat away what little magic she had left?)
Nicky (SRW): And Lucchini's gunna just fall asleep now okay?
Zs1: No sleeping while in the air, little kitty
JayDee (SRW): Lynette gently lets Lucchini's head rest over her shoulder as she carries her. "We get to go home, now."
Paul M Robles: Yoshika: (She does smile excitedly at that while holding Sakamoto) "Mmn! And I'll finally get to make some time to visit Britannia."
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