[RPG] The Big-Oh! RP — An Archive of Storytelling

I need to get in contact with Roger. Snake thought. This might be a Megaduce-induced traffic jam. I know...

Snake pulled out a phone and called Roger, "Roger, it's Snake. There may be a situation. You may want to be ready to leave..."



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"Gaspard!"

He heard it even from his perch atop this tall building, Vera's faraway cry. It seemed things were looking up after all.

Alan had left that dingy little bar after Angel-- most disappointingly-- didn't rise to his provocations. She'd vanished from the Speakeasy with her little party in tow a few minutes ago, and Alan stayed behind a few minutes more scanning the place for some new sort of amusement. But his search was futile, for he had become bent on Angel much in the way that a hungry housecat becomes bent on a specific treat after a single taste. Nothing else would do.

...It was really very rude of her to just up and leave like that, he thought, grinning distantly at the cloud of dust and debris that floated up into the air-- what was left of the military police now, no doubt. He supposed he should probably make his debut momentarily. Honestly, Vera was so madcap when she was excited...

A few hundred feet more and he leapt down to lean against an alley wall, sidestepping a flaming ball of wreckage as it flew perilously close by his head. He smirked at the triumphant woman's back.

"Launching him a little early, aren't we?"

There was that vicious glimmer in her eyes that she always got when she'd done something nefarious.

"You finally decided to show? A wise decision. Where is Agent 340?"

Ooh.

"She's off playing with a canary and two sparrows," he replied, bowing in greeting. "Do you want me to find her?"

Oh... he could only hope.

(OOC: to smith; Im going to need you to speak back. then ill reply once more and have norman inform us of the incident.)

Dastun sits down with his drink. "I'll save you some of your trip. Today we got reports of a person from another country entering Paradigm City. Shortly after that there was an incident with two giant robots, possibly megaduces only it looked like it had been scrapped for parts or something and the other one looked like the usual black megaduce only there were red scars all over it and it only used lasers. The scarred one fought the scrapped one and the scrapped one was pummeled. Before the scarred one finished it off the usual black megaduce came onto the scene. We held our fire until we could establish what was about to happen. Then they both left the scene, leaving the usual mess behind."

Dastun stops to take a swig of his drink.

"We are trying to learn what we can about the incident and the foreigner and usually when things like this go down, and I hate to say it, you always seem to know things before we do. So do you know anything about these incidents?"

Oh god. I can see it. It is a Megaduce. Not now. God, not now...


Snake saw what seemed to be a Megaduce-induced wreck. "Please stay here," He said to everyone, "I am going to see what is causing this traffic jam."

With that, Snake bolted out of his car and in the direction that they were headed. When he was sure that they weren't following him, and he couldn't see his car, he turned off to an alley.

Snake brought his ring close to his mouth, "Big Soh!! Time to play..."



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OOC: I'll go on with this after Vera does something (hint to big finale..)

Snake was in the front seat, tapping the steering wheel impatiently, when a loud noise came from up ahead where the traffic was jammed. It sounded like an explosion, or like something had collapsed.. typical sounds of a Megadeus attack.

A Megadeus.. surely not Gaspard? Surely not. It would be too early! Angel's heart thumped so hard it hurt. It would be just like Vera not to stick to the schedule.

"Please stay here," Snake said to everyone, "I am going to see what is causing this traffic jam." With that, he bolted out of the car, heading towards the backed up cars.

Beck, who had seen his share of Megadeus battles, was out of the car not long after Snake, yelling frantically, "Is he nuts?! I'm not going to stay put while whatever's going on up there is going on! It sounded like a Megadeus. I am NOT going to be killed right here." He crossed his arms, as if he were waiting for Angel and Emilia to agree with him.

Angel undid her seatbelt. "For once, I do agree with you, Jason." She opened her door, stepped out, bent over to peer back in. "Coming, Emilia?"

Emilia turned a questioning gaze on Angel. "Where are we going? What about Snake?"

Beck was running a pocket comb through his hair. "Yeah, what about him? We can't wait all night for him to come back if there's a Megadeus running around."

Angel frowned. She was thinking back to her conversation with Snake in the Speakeasy, when they'd met just a few hours ago.

"Ms. Lovejoy, are the rumors I heard about Megaduce activity in this city true?" Snake asked. Then, quieter, almost so Angel couldn't hear it, "I didn't think there were that many left."

So that's where he's gone, Angel thought. She looked Emilia in the eyes. "If Snake has gone where I think he's gone, we won't see him again for a while. The best thing to do would be for the three of us to get out of here, find somewhere low to lay, and wait until it's safe to find Snake again." And hopefully avoid Vera.

She squinted over the traffic jam, trying to see if she could make anything out in the darkness. The ground was starting to rumble more now, and the people in the cars were quickly dispersing.

Roger will be here soon, no doubt.. I hope he'll be okay. If that IS Gaspard, he may.. no, surely he can handle it.

"Ladies! Whatever we're going to do, we'd better do it NOW!" Beck snapped irritably.

"Yes, that would be lovely." Vera replied, folding her arms across her chest. "Agent 340 needs to learn that we act as a whole. We work together to find the true memories." Her eyes narrowed. "I'm trusting you to bring her back at least partially intact."

She closed her eyes as the sound of the agents singing began to fill the air, ringing throughout the entire block. She knew that they were far away from Gaspard, a nessacery precaution to keep the lapdogs of Alex Rosewater unaware of the large foreign prescene in his city. Even Alex himself, the pompous fool, didn't know.

"Gaspard!! Destroy this worthless city!"

The megadeus stomped forward, it's footsteps echoing in her ears. It raised the claw mounted on it's left hand, opening it and taking hold of an average-sized apartment's rooftop corner. With a mighty pull that seemed to be no effort at all, the foreign robot ripped the entire top two-thirds off, dropping rubble down onto the ground.

Gaspard reared back and hurled the chunk of building away, sending it flying towards the backed up traffic on the highway. Vera looked on as he continued his rampant destruction, tearing apart the structures as if they were little more than building blocks. She vaguely remembered, a long time ago, how her little Angel had loved them so much, loved to create her own cities and pretend that she was their supreme power. Scowling as she realized that she had drifted off and given way to pointless sentiment, she shook herself awake.

"...Hmmph."

He looks to Dastun...and raises an eyebrow.

" Funnily enough, I DID happen to 'talk' today with one of the pilots of those megadeuce's. "

Roger took a brief sip of the whiskey, and looked slightly uncomfortable.

" For his own anomynimity, I won't reveal the name of the guy, but we DID have an interesting talk pertaining to his 'Big'. Suffice to say, however...he IS of the belief that his Megadeuce is a brother unit to the Black Megadeuce. Make of that what you will. "

At that point, the wrist communicator went off, and Snake's image appeared relaying his brief message, he looked back to Dastun and sighed.

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....live on, Mercenary of Hell.


The Black and Red scarred Megaduce showed up in front of Gaspard.

"This Megaduce.....I've seen it..............NO!!!!! IT CAN'T BE!!!!! GASPARD!!!!" Snake was shocked. "I thought it was destroyed in the lab. How can this be? Dammit, where is Roger? It may take both Big-O andBig Soh to defeat this monster. Big Soh, mobilize!!!"

Snake approached Gaspard, and fired one, single, and small beam, hitting the shell-like armor. "That's what I thought. It has the shell armor. This may not be easy..."


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Near Snake, a disused building burst apart, as Big O's laser cut through it from behind, and getting through to the Gaspard...

Inside, Roger Smith adjusted his tie and opened a communications channel to Snake's 'Big Soh'.

" Sorry I'm late, but Colonal Dastun dropped by for a chat...now, let's say we show this guy what's what in Paradigm. "

Roger used the control sticks to move Big O over to beside Snake's Big.

" I have NO intention of letting it get through...you can count on THAT!"

With that, Roger and Big O were both ready for battle...once again.

TBC

The lasers merely bounced off Gaspard's surface, spiraling away and blowing the sides out of a building. The foreign robot didn't react for a second, but only a second, before reaching out and tearing another apartment out of it's roots.

This one was not abandoned, a fact to which Gaspard paid no heed as he furiously hurled it at Big Soh. Jumping off to a running start as it flew at the scarred megadeus, he broke course only moment before it hit, swinging it's claw around and grabbing Big O's head.

The sheer weight and speed of Gaspard's appendage grasping him threw Big O nearly to the ground, kept only standing by the fact that it's head was still being held. Gaspard began to squeeze down on Big O, twisting and flinging it's arm back and forth as it tried to rip the megadeuse's head from it's body.

"Gaspard, not on my watch!!" Snake said as Big Soh grabbed the thinnist part of the claw and fired a lazerpunch, breaking the hold on Big-O. "Bring it!!!" He said, and followed it up with numerous punches (non-lazer) connecting with the body and head of Gasper.

"Roger," Snake said, "you alright? When we get the chance, we need some sort of Barage from both Megaduces to bring it down. But we can't do that until this thing can no longer attack."

Suddenly, Snake felt something. He felt..... like a Schizo-fighter: ruthless in destruction of any and all enemies.

"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" Snake screamed as the Megaduce suddenly accellerated beyond any Big's capabilities, thrashing as it went....




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Dastun was lead out of the mansion and as he went to his car, he saw a ruckus towards the bridge. He quickly got into his car and got on the radio.

"This is colonel Dastun. What the hell is going on?"

"Sir, there is a fight on the bridge involving three megaduces."

"WHAAAT!? IM ON MY WAY!!"

Dastun speeds to the bridge and over to the blockade, where the military police had set up their tanks and howitzers. Dastun recognized two of the megaduces; the black one and the new one that had fought the oddity before. The new one looked rather sinister and unfamiliar compared to any of the other ones he'd seen. He saw it try to grab hold of the black megaduce only to be hit back by the scarred one.

"All right men. As soon as you get a clear shot, I want a full barrage on the third one. We're going to try and take it out before the three of them trash the whole area."

The scarred one was laying on a barrage of his own, and it seemed to be going even faster.

"Get out of the way! I can't fire until you give me a shot!"
(Damn it, I'll protect this city. I won't let these things get all the glory."

Roger blinked in disbelief, as he witnesses this extraordinary event...

" I've never seen anything like that... " He muttered. " Maybe there IS something to Snake's 'Schizo-fighter' thing after all. "

Deciding to allow Big Soh the chance to engage, Roger observed the moment, trying to develop some kind of strategy for his own part to play in this battle of the titans.

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"I would gather that you are interested in it. Would you like to see...
...
...
Big Duo?"

"Big...Duo..." she repeated slowly, letting the name sink in again. A megadues that had no dominus...except for Michael, and even then...Big Duo wasn't sure that was the man he wanted. Big Duo, like everything else was just a puppet, just a toy to this man, this man who wanted to so badly be God.

But how could he accomplish being God when the Truth of forty years ago cannot not be covered? Sure he can fabricate and lie long enough that people will think its the truth, but one day, one stupid day, the Truth will rear its head and state that 'I am here, you cannot avert your eyes any longer.'

The Truth is coming and the Truth will not hide any longer. She could almost hear Michael stating those words.

"Big Duo. The megadues I assume you pilot? If not, then I assume you are repairing it. I did not have as much of an interest in it as my husband had, but it might be nice to see it again," Emela told him as she thought of the times she stood and just looked at the megadues from her childhood, hiding in the hanger on the edge of the world. She could not remember how she was able to find him or how she even ended up seeing him. Maybe her father had known...

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" Snake screamed as he was thrashing on Gaspard. Suddenly, Big Soh slowed down, and Snake returned to normal. Gaspard had been badly damaged by the thrashing, but the shell armor kept it well protected. "Damn. I don't remember the shell armor being that strong..."


Snake opened a channel with Roger, "This Megaduce, Gaspard, has a special kind of shell armor. It is quite difficult to penetrate. May I reccommend that you use your chains? My Big doesn't have any chains on it yet. I haven't found any that fit. Try them on the shell armor, it might work. By the way, where can I find Datsun most of the time? I heard something about him wanting to talk to me."



I hate Gaspard.... Snake thought.....



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Vera
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Or, at least, it looked like Gaspard had been damaged. It slowly ccame out of it's defensive position, lowering it's arms. There were very few scratches on the megadeus, if anything else.

"The Big Soh?" Vera muttered, finally getting a good look at it after dodging the shower of rubble. "The Mercenary of Hell? He lives?" She shielded her eyes as the battle raged on. "Why is he here, of all the places to be?"

Gaspard lashed out, backhanding Big Soh across the face violently. As it fell, Gaspard swung it's claw around. It snapped open and several missles fired out, streaking towards Big O. It's eyes glowed suddenly, a bright green, before fading back away.

Alex
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Alex nodded knowingly, beckoning them to come along. Emilia and Freddy followed, walking with him as they weaved in and out of groups of people walking about. Once or twice a person came up to Alex, greeting him with "Mr. President" and going on about something, but each time Alex waved them off with his hand and continued walking. Finally the little group came to one of the psuedo-subway cars. Alex stopped, allowing them to enter first and then got in and sat down himself. The car began to slowly slide upwards on it's tracks.

"You'll forgive the delay." Alex said gently, resting his chin on his hand. "But Big Duo's location is only accessible from my office." Even though the tone of his voice had been almost fatherly, it was still abundantly clear that this was anything but a request. Freddy shuffled in his seat. The car came to a stop and the doors slid open. Alex once again allowed his companions to exit first, although once they had, he was quickly back at the front. After another minute of walking, they entered his office. Emilia began to gaze around, but before she could get interested in anything, Rosewater had moved over to his desk and pressed a hidden button. A disguised elevator rose up out of the floor, opeing as it was revealed.

The elevator doors opened and the three stepped out onto the catwalk.

"Mr. President" said one man, walking up to them. He stopped short when he caught sight of Emilia and Freddy. Alex quickly gave him a glare that silenced whatever he had been thinking cold. Turning back to them, Alex spoke simply, gesturing out toward Big Duo, who towered above them, almost totally repaired.

"Well?"

As the scarred megaduce fell, Dastun saw his opening.

"Stop those missles and hit it with everything you got! Stop that monster!"

the men fired the machince guns towards the missle barrage and the howitzers began a full assault on the megadce. clouds of smoke from the massive onslaught conceal the amount of damage dealt and the missiles if there were any left.

"Hold your fire! Did we get it? i can't see."

Snake saw that there was little damage to Gaspard. "I hate Gaspard." He said. "I hate that armor......LAZERBARAGE!!!!"

Suddenly, every lazer found one point, based on the shell armor by the torso, and fired, leaving a massive hole in the armor, but not Gaspard.

"Roger, try the chains!!!!"



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