ArchivedLogs Talk:Eye of Sauron
Retcon accidental party-killing:
"Shit." Daken growls at the new arrival. He scurries away to take cover, long enough to tug one more grenade out. Then he's scurrying towards the shack, "Hijack a new Sentinel! Everyone else hit cover, now!" he barks, the pin is pulled and the grenade is tossed into the bag with the rest of the explosives and the sack is bag is tossed between up between the Mark IV and Lia, though he catches a bullet to the knee and doesn't quite make it slamming into the ground instead. "Fuck!"
The Mark IV thuds down beside the now-open stairwell door with a /whump/. If anything, its grin seems to get brighter at the sparks of electricity coming from Lia's robot-hands. It doesn't actually wait for her to attack with them; just /sucks/ the electricity into itself, discharging it back in a sudden lightning-blast that shoots out over the robot body and Jax and his bubble both. One of its gleaming metal arms reaches to /bat/ at the bag of explosives when it flies through the air, knocking it farther away from itself. More towards the open stairwell behind them, just before it explodes into a storm of fire and shrapnel.
Amidst the flare, the screaming noise has not faded.
"Y -- wh -- there /is/ no cover what are you --" Jax's shield drops; he takes a half-step back towards the (cover-less) (door-less) stairwell. A half-step towards the screaming maw of the Mark IV. There is a sudden pallor to his expression -- a look of terror that, a moment later, is replaced with calm. His hand lifts to cross himself again. As the roar of explosion starts to fill the air it is joined by a brighter flare. Harsher, bigger, hotter, burning with all the added strength Matt's mutation is lending him in one sudden /surge/ that pushes through to add an extra burst of force to blast the Mark IV.
Possibly there is some of his own screaming added to it -- but not for long. By the time the light has faded there is only a lot of scorch marks and rubble peppering the inside of the stairwell, and quite a lot of burned-black blood crisped and seared onto the concrete where Jax (considerably more torn full of holes than before) has crumpled.
"Oh no! Oh no, oh no, exploding /everywhere/ is a terrible plan!" With the failure of the Shocking Grasp manouevre, Lia abandons her current bot-body to the mercies of the Mark IV. She pops back up in the last Lia-bot where it is slumped against the wall. New mission objective: get Jax /out/ of there. What's left of him. In case it's /enough/. She rushes at the Mark IV again to be A Giant Distraction. Maybe it will try to eat her, who knows? "FAELAN! Can you get Jax back to where we came in?"
