Blame the Metroids for the faulty spelling!
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Ranma/Metroid
'Ill Gain'
"The Space Hunter has touched down planetside?" The third chancellor of the Council enquired.
"That is correct, and has shut off outside communications, as is this one's usual operation proceedure." The blue verticle standing wormlike creature replied, "Do you think the Space Hunter designate 'Gemini' will succeed in eradicating Mother Brain and her band of Space Pirates for good?"
"We don't even know if it's Mother Brain still exists," The barely opaque orange chancellor replied in his raspy voice, "but the threat of her followers still exists."
"Very well, do you think it was wise to send only one Space Hunter to deal with this seemingly overwhelming threat? Not that I disagree with your judgement, it just seems well high a risk for such a critical situation," the first chancellor added in.
"I have faith in 'Gemini. That one has never failed us before in the forty-two cycles of servitude to the Galactic Federation. Any more would be but a hinderance to the more qualified Hunter."
"I see your reasoning behind that soundly. We shall wait for the designated Space Hunter to return from a successful venture." The wormlike creature replied.
"Successful is correct. There is no room for failure in this instance. For if Mother Brain is still alive, and intending to reproduce the deadly metroids, once again a galactic crisis may loom over us on the horizon.
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Kasumi looked up towards the writhing pillar of mechanical tenticles that stood the length of one and a half football fields with her rocket cannon ready. She didn't have to look back behind her to know the door had been sealed, and the only means of escape was through this monstrosity in front of her.
"What... is that?" Kasumi breathed in nervousness.
"[From the design of the technology, it's from the old civilization. I would presume if it's hostile that it's a security measure of some sort.]"
"Then what am I supposed to do to it?"
"[...]"
"Never mind, I didn't expect you to answer," the Space Hunter sighed, and began studying it for any weakness. Something in on the ceiling caught her eye. A purple and gray mechanical spider construct was perched on the cieling of the massive room, and turned it's massive orb that was centered on it's back towards her. The eye started to glow a dull lavender as its iris centered on her, and suddenly, it dashed for the column of woven tendrils. Once it reached its goal, the spider squeezed its way through the tenticles; and with that, the thrashing of the tendrils became more violent.
The opening attack came, as one of the tendrils pulled away from the mass with a glowing white tip, and stabbed towards Kasumi. The hunter easily dodged to the side almost precariously, but then was forced to dodge another one that imbedded itself into the wall, sending sparks flying from its discharge upon connection.
"It's aggressive," the Space Hunter supplied into her comm. unit dryly. Nabiki didn't give a reply.
Kasumi pulled her shoulder out of the way of one tendril that tried to impale her on her left side, and then raised her left leg to avoid it getting skewered off, "It's starting to get more hostile, I need a clue on how to beat this thing."
"[I suggest looking for one.]"
Kasumi mentally rolled her eyes, as the stabbing barrage became faster. She wasn't at all being pushed, but the boredomn factor was starting to kick in.
That was until one of them almost managed to catch her.
"WHAT?" The Space Hunter exclaimed in surprise, "It... it anticipated my move! WHOA!" Kasumi spun out of the way of another tendril, then was forced to back flip past another one, then duck a third one. She started to feel the anxiety set in, and randomly fired a few rockets into the main column. Not much effect was made.
"How do you defeat this thing? Does it have a weakness?"
"[I would suppose it does.]"
"Nabiki, if you're not going to be... *yelp*... helpful, shut up, please." A cursory glance caught Kasumi's eye to something out of the uniform of tendrils in the column, a glowing lavender orb staring down at her from the top of the pillar. She quickly turned while dodging another impaling, and fired a missile after it. The orb retreated into the mass before the projectile could reach it.
Kasumi gave a sigh of relief when the tendrils died down in their activity, and then growled in fustration when they started attacking her again.
"[That 'eye', it's its weakness.]"
"Right," Kasumi did a visual sweep over the pillar, while evading it's attacks. She found it again, a little lower in position and off to the side than before, and fired another rocket at it. Once again, it vanished into the pillar before her missile could hit it. Kasumi found herself waiting a bit longer this time for the pillar to return to hostile activity, and her foot was on a tenticle right before the mass came back to life, signaling that the eye was watching her again. A quick sweep found the eye near the base this time, looking at her in an almost baleful glare. This time, Kasumi moved in closer, weaving and flipping through the writhing tenticles, and fired. This time, the rocket connected before it could vanish, causing the whole pillar to shudder as if in pain. The eye started to glance around wildly, as the tendrils flailed about, frantically searching for a target and to protect itself. Finally, it dissappeared back into the pillar.
Kasumi waited a good time before the eye made it's appearance near the top. The Space Hunter smirked to herself, and pulled out of the way of a stabbing tendril. Once it imbedded into the wall, she leapt onto it, and used it as a springboard. While in the air, she twisted out of the way of a few more tendrils, and hand planted onto the last one, pushing off in a handstand. Kasumi reverted herself, took quick aim, and fired.
The Space Hunter committed an arial dance all the way back to the ground, as she evaded the tendril's attacks down. Kasumi continued to kneel after landing, waiting for activity to come again. She didn't have to wait long, as the eye once again appeared at the top of the pillar. Kasumi gritted her teeth, as she leapt onto a writhing tendril, and then onto another one. With a heavy chi enforced leap, Kasumi bounded off the third mechanical tenticle like a missile, and fired her rocket. The eye almost escaped again, but was caught before it was fully enveloped.
"AH!" Kasumi cried out; one of the tendrils managed to strike her as they flailed about, sending her crashing into a wall. Almost before she could recover, a tendril stabbed forward. She kicked her legs up from the wall, turning herself upside down, as the spear pierced into where her torso had just been. She flipped onto the tendril, and fired almost as soon as she saw the eye.
She was on the ground before activity started again, but this time it was seemingly a few strikes, then inactivity. The Space Hunter growled in fustration, as she wasn't being given enough time to scout out where the eye was before it would disappear. She started to estimate where it would appear, since it was reappearing quickly. After a general sweep of any area facing her about where she presumed the eye would reappear, she scored a hit.
Suddenly, it went quiet after the eye vanished again, almost leading Kasumi to believe that she had defeated it. Unfortunatly, that wasn't the case, as the eye reappeared, and sent a cluster of tendrils in her general vicinity at once. The Space Hunter leapt out of the way hastefully, but didn't see the eye until another cluster of tendrils were sent after her.
Kasumi found herself in a desperate situation; she knew where the eye would generally appear, but her rockets wouldn't have time to reach it before it would vanish again, and she was running too low on rockets to chance a rocket sweep and hope to hit it. Plus the tendrils were generally blocking her shots after hand, and forcing her to keep moving lest she be skewered. On top of that, it seemed to be moving from position to position at a *much* faster rate than before.
"Nabiki, I can't get a clear shot, I..."
"[On my mark, fire from your current position seventy-two degrees verticle and twenty six horizontal... now]"
Kasumi fired, as her sister told her, and evaded the barrage. The Space Hunter eyed her rocket the whole time, as it sailed to the top; twisting like a screw through the air as it made its way. Kasumi almost despaired when the rocket almost collided with the pillar, but before the point of impact, the eye reappeared.
The whole pillar shook as it hadn't before, the woven mass started to grow thinner and thinner, as the tendrils peeled away like strands of husk from corn. The mechanical construct that had been the Hunter's target, fell from the mass, and crashed to the ground, still moving. Kasumi fired upon it, not caring if it felt misery at all.
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"[The Hunter must be stopped, and impeding its progress has not been successful.]"
"Do not worry. It is now entering our layers, where the most dangerous of the traps await. We had many particularly tailor-made to deal with the Metroid Hunter."
"[They better deal with it, be are almost to fruitation in our latest experaments. I will brook no interferance.]"
"The Hunter is sanctioned. You have my word on that."
"[Your words are not sufficient enough. I want the deed, not your hollow promises.]"
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Ranma/Metroid
'Ill Gain'
"The Space Hunter has touched down planetside?" The third chancellor of the Council enquired.
"That is correct, and has shut off outside communications, as is this one's usual operation proceedure." The blue verticle standing wormlike creature replied, "Do you think the Space Hunter designate 'Gemini' will succeed in eradicating Mother Brain and her band of Space Pirates for good?"
"We don't even know if it's Mother Brain still exists," The barely opaque orange chancellor replied in his raspy voice, "but the threat of her followers still exists."
"Very well, do you think it was wise to send only one Space Hunter to deal with this seemingly overwhelming threat? Not that I disagree with your judgement, it just seems well high a risk for such a critical situation," the first chancellor added in.
"I have faith in 'Gemini. That one has never failed us before in the forty-two cycles of servitude to the Galactic Federation. Any more would be but a hinderance to the more qualified Hunter."
"I see your reasoning behind that soundly. We shall wait for the designated Space Hunter to return from a successful venture." The wormlike creature replied.
"Successful is correct. There is no room for failure in this instance. For if Mother Brain is still alive, and intending to reproduce the deadly metroids, once again a galactic crisis may loom over us on the horizon.
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Kasumi looked up towards the writhing pillar of mechanical tenticles that stood the length of one and a half football fields with her rocket cannon ready. She didn't have to look back behind her to know the door had been sealed, and the only means of escape was through this monstrosity in front of her.
"What... is that?" Kasumi breathed in nervousness.
"[From the design of the technology, it's from the old civilization. I would presume if it's hostile that it's a security measure of some sort.]"
"Then what am I supposed to do to it?"
"[...]"
"Never mind, I didn't expect you to answer," the Space Hunter sighed, and began studying it for any weakness. Something in on the ceiling caught her eye. A purple and gray mechanical spider construct was perched on the cieling of the massive room, and turned it's massive orb that was centered on it's back towards her. The eye started to glow a dull lavender as its iris centered on her, and suddenly, it dashed for the column of woven tendrils. Once it reached its goal, the spider squeezed its way through the tenticles; and with that, the thrashing of the tendrils became more violent.
The opening attack came, as one of the tendrils pulled away from the mass with a glowing white tip, and stabbed towards Kasumi. The hunter easily dodged to the side almost precariously, but then was forced to dodge another one that imbedded itself into the wall, sending sparks flying from its discharge upon connection.
"It's aggressive," the Space Hunter supplied into her comm. unit dryly. Nabiki didn't give a reply.
Kasumi pulled her shoulder out of the way of one tendril that tried to impale her on her left side, and then raised her left leg to avoid it getting skewered off, "It's starting to get more hostile, I need a clue on how to beat this thing."
"[I suggest looking for one.]"
Kasumi mentally rolled her eyes, as the stabbing barrage became faster. She wasn't at all being pushed, but the boredomn factor was starting to kick in.
That was until one of them almost managed to catch her.
"WHAT?" The Space Hunter exclaimed in surprise, "It... it anticipated my move! WHOA!" Kasumi spun out of the way of another tendril, then was forced to back flip past another one, then duck a third one. She started to feel the anxiety set in, and randomly fired a few rockets into the main column. Not much effect was made.
"How do you defeat this thing? Does it have a weakness?"
"[I would suppose it does.]"
"Nabiki, if you're not going to be... *yelp*... helpful, shut up, please." A cursory glance caught Kasumi's eye to something out of the uniform of tendrils in the column, a glowing lavender orb staring down at her from the top of the pillar. She quickly turned while dodging another impaling, and fired a missile after it. The orb retreated into the mass before the projectile could reach it.
Kasumi gave a sigh of relief when the tendrils died down in their activity, and then growled in fustration when they started attacking her again.
"[That 'eye', it's its weakness.]"
"Right," Kasumi did a visual sweep over the pillar, while evading it's attacks. She found it again, a little lower in position and off to the side than before, and fired another rocket at it. Once again, it vanished into the pillar before her missile could hit it. Kasumi found herself waiting a bit longer this time for the pillar to return to hostile activity, and her foot was on a tenticle right before the mass came back to life, signaling that the eye was watching her again. A quick sweep found the eye near the base this time, looking at her in an almost baleful glare. This time, Kasumi moved in closer, weaving and flipping through the writhing tenticles, and fired. This time, the rocket connected before it could vanish, causing the whole pillar to shudder as if in pain. The eye started to glance around wildly, as the tendrils flailed about, frantically searching for a target and to protect itself. Finally, it dissappeared back into the pillar.
Kasumi waited a good time before the eye made it's appearance near the top. The Space Hunter smirked to herself, and pulled out of the way of a stabbing tendril. Once it imbedded into the wall, she leapt onto it, and used it as a springboard. While in the air, she twisted out of the way of a few more tendrils, and hand planted onto the last one, pushing off in a handstand. Kasumi reverted herself, took quick aim, and fired.
The Space Hunter committed an arial dance all the way back to the ground, as she evaded the tendril's attacks down. Kasumi continued to kneel after landing, waiting for activity to come again. She didn't have to wait long, as the eye once again appeared at the top of the pillar. Kasumi gritted her teeth, as she leapt onto a writhing tendril, and then onto another one. With a heavy chi enforced leap, Kasumi bounded off the third mechanical tenticle like a missile, and fired her rocket. The eye almost escaped again, but was caught before it was fully enveloped.
"AH!" Kasumi cried out; one of the tendrils managed to strike her as they flailed about, sending her crashing into a wall. Almost before she could recover, a tendril stabbed forward. She kicked her legs up from the wall, turning herself upside down, as the spear pierced into where her torso had just been. She flipped onto the tendril, and fired almost as soon as she saw the eye.
She was on the ground before activity started again, but this time it was seemingly a few strikes, then inactivity. The Space Hunter growled in fustration, as she wasn't being given enough time to scout out where the eye was before it would disappear. She started to estimate where it would appear, since it was reappearing quickly. After a general sweep of any area facing her about where she presumed the eye would reappear, she scored a hit.
Suddenly, it went quiet after the eye vanished again, almost leading Kasumi to believe that she had defeated it. Unfortunatly, that wasn't the case, as the eye reappeared, and sent a cluster of tendrils in her general vicinity at once. The Space Hunter leapt out of the way hastefully, but didn't see the eye until another cluster of tendrils were sent after her.
Kasumi found herself in a desperate situation; she knew where the eye would generally appear, but her rockets wouldn't have time to reach it before it would vanish again, and she was running too low on rockets to chance a rocket sweep and hope to hit it. Plus the tendrils were generally blocking her shots after hand, and forcing her to keep moving lest she be skewered. On top of that, it seemed to be moving from position to position at a *much* faster rate than before.
"Nabiki, I can't get a clear shot, I..."
"[On my mark, fire from your current position seventy-two degrees verticle and twenty six horizontal... now]"
Kasumi fired, as her sister told her, and evaded the barrage. The Space Hunter eyed her rocket the whole time, as it sailed to the top; twisting like a screw through the air as it made its way. Kasumi almost despaired when the rocket almost collided with the pillar, but before the point of impact, the eye reappeared.
The whole pillar shook as it hadn't before, the woven mass started to grow thinner and thinner, as the tendrils peeled away like strands of husk from corn. The mechanical construct that had been the Hunter's target, fell from the mass, and crashed to the ground, still moving. Kasumi fired upon it, not caring if it felt misery at all.
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"[The Hunter must be stopped, and impeding its progress has not been successful.]"
"Do not worry. It is now entering our layers, where the most dangerous of the traps await. We had many particularly tailor-made to deal with the Metroid Hunter."
"[They better deal with it, be are almost to fruitation in our latest experaments. I will brook no interferance.]"
"The Hunter is sanctioned. You have my word on that."
"[Your words are not sufficient enough. I want the deed, not your hollow promises.]"
