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Simulation 45y was failing.

Angry red lights were going off everywhere. Along with claxons. Too many claxons. Zin were running around, trying to shut off one claxon after another.

There was a lot of yelling.

And pods kept opening.

That was inconvenient.

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The Pods

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Across the ship, there are pods in various places. Some close together, some far apart, all in their own room. These big round pods have big round glass doors, which open automatically when the creature within regains consciousness.

Most of them are opening now. Oops.

Re: The Pods

[suitably_heroic]

The alarms were ringing around this particular pod, all right. Two Zin soldiers approached it warily.

"When it starts to open, you shoot," one muttered to the other.

"If it opens."

"If it op--"

Glass shattered with incredible force, blasting outward and smashing them right in the face.

"Where's the exit?" Atton growled, stepping out of the pod.

Re: The Pods

[myownface]

Sparkle's first thought when he regained consciousness was, 'Oh, shit. I'm naked.'

Which followed shortly after by, 'That was one hell of a party.'

Which, a few moments later, was joined by the slightly more important, 'Where the fuck am I?'

And that was punctuated by the glass door of his pod opening in front of him.

"Oh, this is fucked up."

So yeah. That would be Sparkle, deciding to make a streak for it. He wasn't a speedster with super-destructive jumps out here, after all. Running until it looked like hiding was the better option seemed like a much more sensible plan of attack than trying to face these goons down head-on.

Re: The Pods

[not_every_mage]

One second, Anders was letting out his destructive urges by jumping as high as he could and stomping holes in Zin tanks and ships. (It was something special to feel the ground shake when he landed -- almost like being invincible.)

The next, he was gasping for breath as a glass door opened in front of him. He took in the scene, cursed, and scrambled his way out, ready to fight.

Re: The Pods

[thegc161kid.livejournal.com]

Alex woke with a start and for a few moments was confused as she tried to figure out what was going on and then noticing the glass door opening, she decided that she wasn't going to hang around and decided to make a break for it while she could.

Re: The Pods

[furnaceface]

Jonothon came into consciousness on the ship with a mind's eye full of voices and alarms blaring around him. He took a moment to orient himself, to cling to that lightswitch moment where it seemed as though he'd gone from death to living in a world full of voices again.

And then his fire sparked dangerously, and his eyes narrowed and went red.

The pod door didn't have much chance to open on its own, considering the swath of red-hot flame that practically reduced it to slag. And if the one Zin guard in the room who hadn't just been incinerated happened to wet himself and run in the opposite direction, well... that was possibly the first good choice one of them had made since Jono had become aware of the things, wasn't it?

Re: The Pods

[boneyard_girl]

The pod door didn't open quite fast enough, and for a moment, Ada thought she was in a tank and water was around her.

She screamed in terror, beating her arms and fists against the pod door until it opened fully, panic not subsiding until she was spilled out on the floor, breathing heavily.

She was naked. Fine, whatever. That made the next part easier. Ada's fingers flew over her body: small of her back, behind her ears, soft folds of her elbows and knees, upper thighs... her scales were back, all of them, none of them bigger than before. Bits and pieces accounted for, she was able to calm down enough to take stock of her situation.

No more powers, so that kinda sucked, which meant it was time for sneaking.

Re: The Pods

[sharp_as_knives]

Hannibal's pod hadn't opened yet, but that was all right - he was perfectly happy flying, causing dangerous rain, and breathing fire to cause more chaos in the sim.

Re: The Pods

[wrongkindofsith]

Shoving at the glass door because it just wasn't opening quickly enough, Cara slipped out as soon as the gap was wide enough.

And promptly fell flat on her face as she hadn't used any of those muscles in over half a week. Pushing herself back up on shaky arms, she grinned savagely as she heard a guard moving outside the door.

Re: The Pods

[nookiepowered]

Bo's immediate thought on stumbling out of her pod -- and into an 8-foot alien -- wasn't Oh shit, naked. It was Oh shit, why is a pile of fish not falling on this asshole's spiky head?

Look, she'd got used to the fish powers. She liked the fish powers. She was aiming for like, marlin or grouper or something else huge enough to squish the monster flat. (Sadly, she hadn't had any luck with sharks, which come on was the first thing she tried after she'd gotten a handle on the herring.) "What, not even a guppy?"

It was when he hesitated before swinging his rifle around to bear on her that the naked part kicked in. Because of the staring. And the OH HELLO ALIEN CHI, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE?

This was real. Real alien, real body, real powers, real slowly dawning grin on Bo's face.

Real big slowly dawning grin. "Is that a humongous gun you're about to hand over before you find me some clothes and a way back where I came from, or are you just happy to see me?"

Re: The Pods

[vdistinctive]

Eliot took approximately half a second to look around and take in his surroundings when he woke, before smashing the door to his pod -- which was already opening but whatever -- and flinging himself out.

It felt like he hadn't moved in a week. Which he supposed was true.

Oddly enough, this was a reasonably familiar feeling to him, and he compensated automatically, quickly enough that he was able to get the drop on the alien that came rushing into the room. The thing was clearly unprepared for one of its captives to just snatch the gun from its hand and use the butt of it to pound its head in.

Eliot would normally check the thing over for supplies -- or at least a pair of shorts, he hated fighting naked -- but the room only had the one pod in it and that meant that Hardison and Parker weren't right there.

He could worry about pants after he found his partners, thank you.

RE: The Pods

[geniuswithasmartphone]

Hardison was still blissfully unconscious in his pod. In the sim he was a speedster with the ability to breathe fire at people. WHO WANTED TO WAKE UP FROM THAT?!

He remained suspended in his pod, a slight smile on his face while in his brain he was Hardiman, protector of the innocent, and ass-kicker of all things alien.

Re: The Pods

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy was more than a little freaked out to find herself naked upon waking up in her pod. It was like every nightmare she'd ever had rolled up into one. For a moment, she half expected her teeth to fall out, while a teacher came to tell her she'd flunked every class.

But even while her discomfort lingered (she was naked! On a space ship!), she was dashing out of the pod as soon as she noticed the doors were open. There weren't any clothes to be found in here, dammit. "As soon as I find one of the cocksuckers who put me in here, I'm gonna skin it and wear it's pelt as a fucking toga!" she snarled.

Looks like Deadwood had left a fucking mark on her psyche.

Throughout The Ship

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The inside of the Zin ship is a maze of corridors and stairs (http://cdn.cheatcc.com/guide_screens/saints_row_4/KinzieGambit4.jpg), patrolled by various Zin guards.

Too bad for them they're not really expecting a break-out.

Re: Throughout The Ship

[suitably_heroic]

Genuinely too bad, as an angry Jedi burst out of one of the pod rooms. Atton'd fried the door panel's circuits right after hacking into the ship's alarm systems to send a message to his T3-unit - pure pazaak.

He threw the first Zin soldier to come at him back violently with the Force, leaving a sizable dent in the bulkhead on the other side of the hallway. He took off with blazing speed, slipping through the gaps in the blaster fire by instinct, the Force back in his head. He grabbed the second Zin by the head and broke his neck, then threw the gun at the third one to come at him. Pushed off and slammed his foot into the face of the fourth, then hit the corridor to his left with a quick blast of Force lightning.

"By all means, keep coming!" he snapped, tearing into the next hallway. "If any of you schuttas thinks they can stop me, it's their funeral!"

Literally. He slammed one Zin's blaster repeatedly into his head, then slammed the next two to the wall with a wave of his arm.

He wasn't usually into blatant displays of power. The opposite, actually. But these schuttas had sliced into his head. They deserved everything they had coming to them. He ripped a pipe off the wall and slugged one with it, then jabbed it straight through his torso.

"Where is the exit? It is not a difficult question!"

"Left!" screeched a Zin, and then ran off at top speed. As was probably smart, when confronted with an angry, naked, blood-splattered Jedi demanding things of you. Atton let out a grunt and let him, though he sure was tempted. Ah, well. The next bunch was rushing into the hallway already anyway.

Re: Throughout The Ship

[myownface]

Okay, so the 'run' plan didn't last as long as it could, what with all of the Zin that were out on patrol. Sparkle was not going to call this a disaster. He wasn't. He was going to just... amend his 'run' plan to 'sneak,' and do a whole lot of that instead.

He was looking for a way off the ship. But, you know, he'd settle for some fucking pants, too.

Re: Throughout The Ship

[not_every_mage]

Anders hadn't realized he had his powers back yet until he got lost in a corridor, ended up being cornered by a Zin guard and tried to cast fire at him out of seer instinct.

It was a good thing the guard didn't have eyebrows, because they would have burned off with the rest of his face. Anders almost felt guilty for a second before he rubbed his hands together and went after the next one. He shouted out of exultation as he did. Maker, it felt good to be free and in the right body again.

"Destructive forces of nature, coming up!"

Re: Throughout The Ship

[furnaceface]

There was a very angry man stalking down the halls of the ship right then. A very angry man who didn't much care to find dead-ends, and who had a few very specific goals in mind, and woe betide anybody who tried to prevent him from reaching those goals.

If a few walls happened to go down in a gout of white-hot flame as that very angry man made his way in a straight line for his partner's mental signature, and if there happened to be a few Zin in the way as that happened, Jono really wasn't terribly inclined to care.

That they were shooting at him as he went mostly just served to get them killed that much faster. He'd worry about the blaster burns later. He might even consider worrying about the guilt that generally came from cutting down so many lives without giving them a second thought.

Might. Right now there was a sort of grim satisfaction in the fact that, as a telepath, he could feel them die.

Re: Throughout The Ship

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So Alex had been mostly able to use her morphing powers to make her way through the corridors and bypass the guards but there was only so much navigating she could do with her powers as she wasn't familiar enough with the ship so at one point she had to stop and remorph.

Luckily she had been able to find a cardboard box so that she could at least try to cover up as much as she could, which made it slightly awkward to move around but she was doing the best that she could in the circumstances. She was just relieved that she could still use her telekinesis and zapping powers when she would occasionally come across a guard.

Re: Throughout The Ship

[wrongkindofsith]

Finding clothing was very, very low on Cara's list of priorities as she stalked through the ship. Any Zin she came across were lucky that getting weapons or some of her own back were also lower on the list than finding a way out, as it meant that some of them might survive. The smart ones who got out of her way, mostly.

Re: Throughout The Ship

[so_hawkward]

Clint may not have had any cool powers anymore, but he missed his dogs and he missed his bow and he missed Kitty and every Zin that got in his way was paying for it. He wasn't mad enough to kill them, but they were going to be hurting for quite a while.

He'd be hurting too since he wasn't exactly avoiding them, and all he had to fight with was his own body, but a few laser-graze marks would be worth the trouble if he could find a way out. As for the nakedness... well, he'd been naked in weirder places, and he didn't have anything to be ashamed of.

Re: Throughout The Ship

[vdistinctive]

So it seemed that these guys were even less used to someone just stalking up and yanking their guns out of their hands than most human thugs were. They certainly didn't seem ready for a fist fight. One of them managed to get a lucky shot in across the top of Eliot's bicep when he stopped to check a pod room, but that really just made Eliot angrier.

Which was impressive, really. Eliot was already extremely pissed off.

ESCAPE!

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There are several teleporter rooms all across the ship. Find them and hit a few buttons until they display Fandom - then you can go out.

Or find some other way to break out. Maybe you have friends on the outside?

Re: ESCAPE!

[suitably_heroic]

The Ebon Hawk had deftly dodged incoming fire on its way up to the ship. The T3-unit steered it well, scanning the area until it found an exit hatch that wasn't located near any of the main guns. The ship hovered outside of it for a few long moments; then the ramp lowered in mid-air.

The hatch opened a second later.

T3 let out a long string of high-pitched bells and whistles.

"Doing exactly what I told you to doesn't make you a hero, you self-involved trash compactor!" Atton yelled.

On The Outside

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There seems to be actual commotion on the ship; some of the lights on the outside keep blinking on and off.

Want to head up there and pick up some of your newly-escaped islandmates? Just want to shoot at the ship and see if it dinges anything? Go go!

OOC

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Feel free to find each other in the halls, or just kick the crap out of whatever Zin you run across. Woo!

Re: OOC

[not_every_mage]

Do abductees with powers have their powers back at this point?