Ellen Park, the Lone Wanderer

"I got lead," Red says, moving towards the front of the group.

He can meet the ants head on without being worried about recieving too much damage, and it gives him more room to work. If the others are behind him and he starts throwing ants or heavy things he'll know which way to toss.

Plus, he just likes being in front.

Edited Date: 2009-02-26 03:25 am (UTC)

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"I can take rear or follow him." Spoon says with a point at the big guy, "Doesn't matter much to me. Prefer to be fighting."

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alertcommando

"I need a line of sight to fire. If you two don't mind bullets zooming by close..." Tanya shrugs. "Will not hit any of you."

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"No." Spoon says, "No, you do not fuckin' shoot projectiles around me. It isn't good."

He has Issues.

Some of them involve being shot on a daily basis.

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alertcommando

Tanya raises brows at Spoon, but shrugs; her assault rifle is safety-locked and slung over her shoulder again.

No shooting anywhere near him, check.

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"All right," says Ellen, a little startled. It's no great loss to her; her laser pistol is faster and more precise than the Magnum, anyway. "Spoon and Hellboy in front. Tanya, Val, can you guard our rear? If the Metro tunnels are anything like the Vault there's going to be all kinds of places these things can sneak up on us from behind."

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magic_ferret

"That would leave Ellen and I in the middle," says Yuuno, "I can tangle up the ants. Stop them and let you take a good shot at them. If I don't see one, call out and I'll try to catch it."

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He has no problems with being shot at, as long as he isn't hit, but he'll try to remember not to use the Samaritan. If they're going to be fighting in close quarters that's not his first choice anyways so it should be fine.

"Call out if things get hairy back here."

With that he starts moving, counting on Ellen to direct them if he and Spoon start going the wrong way.

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time_dancer

"Okay," Val replies. "If the tunnels are tall enough I can make a pedestal for you to shot from Tanya. I'll give you warning before I do it though. In fact I'll try to yell out for any fields I make."

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"Thank you, Val," says Ellen. "Okay, let's get started."

The tunnel Yuuno saw the ants moving into and out of during his survey is the mouth of a Metro station, the MARIGOLD STATION sign faded with the long years of no maintenance or care. Escalators long since rusted into immobile staircases lead down to the remains of a chicken-wire barricade, melted or torn apart by ants- it's hard to say which. Beyond is mostly darkness, lit here and there by phosphorescent fungi clustered on tile walls and along ceiling fixtures. Ellen touches a button on her Pip-Boy, and the built-in flashlight illumines a wider area: the shaken, slowly disintegrating ruins of a ticket-seller's booth, the long-useless turnstiles, even an ancient Nuka-Cola machine leaning against one wall.

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magic_ferret

Yuuno's remarkably OK with glowing fungus for light. He'll be off the ground some, mostly to get better sight lines past Spoon and Hellboy, with a bind ready to throw.

"Were they trying to keep the ants out, or in?"

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"I'm not sure," says Ellen. "But if these tunnels go deep enough-" She nods towards the downsloping floor up ahead; it leads to a balcony with rusted elevators and stairs on either side, feeding down to another level. Those who come from urban environments will recognize the level below as being the actual train platform, with tunnels stretching off in either direction, and the bulk of dead metro cars looming in the shadows. "-then people might've tried to hide from the bombs here... so I'm guessing keeping them out?"

An effort which didn't work very well, one might note. Up ahead, on the other side of the crumbling information booth with its map of the Metro system, there's the skittering sound of ant legs.

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"Ants ahead." Spoon calls, declining to explain why he has projectile issues. Some things you just don't spread around.

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And sure enough, from the other side of the info booth, a mandibled form emerges, its antennae twitching angrily.

Oh, and it's not alone. The other one is just a little further back, that's all.

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time_dancer

Val steps off to the side to get a line of fire, looking around for any other places the ants can come from as she does so. She's got her gauntlets charged and ready but she's not going to fire quite yet, Spoon is still between her and the ants.

"You okay with energy blasts if I keep a meter or so away?"

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"It's bullets I have problems with." Spoon informs her quietly.

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"Got him," Red says, already moving forward towards the first ant.

As the bug lifts its head to start spewing flames Hellboy slugs it in the face.

"Keep it to yourself, Zippo."

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One good punch from the stone fist is enough to send the ant staggering backward, head crippled; it won't be breathing fire any time soon, and it's as likely to wander off the platform edge as it is to manage a straight line. As for the other ant, it skitters sideways, trying to avoid the chemical signals of its wounded companion.

(Which puts it well to one side of Spoon.)

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Spoon quickly and efficiently puts two plasma blasts into his ant's head, eyes half-lidded and lips stretched in a grin under his mask.

It's probably best not to ask about the quiet giggling.

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time_dancer

Val adds a blast of plasma to Spoon's pair to make a three-of-a-kind and, after a moments thought, sends another blast toward the ant Red has wounded. Don't want it struggling back home to warn the nest after all.

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magic_ferret

Struggling back home would be for ants that aren't wrapped in glowing green magic chains.

There seems to be a shortage in the immediate area.

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alertcommando

Tanya can easily recognize overkill: this is it.

For now, she is just keeping an eye on the rest of the area in case the fighting attracts more bugs.

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It's a very bad day to be a killer fire-breathing ant, yes. There'll be lasers shortly for any ants that haven't already been killed; Ellen does love that pistol of hers...

When the smoke and the plasma clears there are three dead ants up on the platform and another dead on the rusted escalator leading down. (Yuuno did a grand job of immobilizing an incoming attacker.) As far as other ants go the only sign of anything moving is down the one side tunnel that's not completely blocked by rockfall. Partially blocked by train car, yes- but only partially.

"Red?" says Ellen warily, prodding one of the dead ants with her toe. "Can you move that at all, or are we going to need to use other means?"

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Stepping back from the dead ant he tilts his head at the train and nods.

"No problem."

Moving to the blocked tunnel he finds a good place to brace his legs, sets both hands against the side of the train and pushes.

It's an effort but with a lot of grunting and shoving he gets it moving. When the metal buckles underneath his hands he switches tactics and starts swinging, beating the wreck back the rest of the way until their path is cleared.

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