RE: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] *Actionette* - \"Jay\'s weakness\"

Jay stood there, staring back at Mk.10.
The scutter held in his arms the two people on board the Blue Dwarf he cared more about than anything else. 
On one hand, his girlfriend, he and Katrina had been together almost a year now, after she'd saved his life on New Russia. He loved her, and he wasn't prepared to see her get any more hurt than she already was.
In the other hand, MK.10 had a grip on Vanessa Chrysler, the eldest of his two younger sisters and the only family member he had aboard. He'd lost her before, once when she was killed at the hands of their brother, shot in the chest at point blank range with a shotgun. The second, when her holo-file became corrupted. It had been three years before the damage could be repaired, but at least as a hologram, Mk.10 would have no way of harming her. That was if she were still a hologram, but her boyfriend, Rufus, had managed to resurrect her using the same cloning method that brought back his father years before. She was as vulnerable as anyone, and he wasn't going to lose her a third time.
 
But Jay also knew he couldn't let Mk.10 get away, to hurt anyone else. He had to end it here and now. 
"What's the matter Chrysler?" Mk.10 taunted, "Can't decide? How about I get the ball rolling?" He kicked Katrina hard in her broken leg, causing her to scream out in pain and drop to her knees. Mk.10 dragged her back up by the hair, tears running down her cheeks.
 
"ALRIGHT!" Jay said, barely managing to control the anger "Let them both go..."
"Why would I do that?"
"I'll stand down. Step aside"
"JAY NO!" Vanessa yelled, Mk.10 silenced her by striking her hard across the face. 
"HOSTAGES SHOULD BE SEEN AND NOT HEARD!" the malfunctioning machine snapped, angrily. "I want the battle-suit as well Chrysler. I could have a lot of fun with that under my control. Lower the firewall and step out of the suit and I'll let these two go, YOU however I will kill personally."
Jay nodded, prepared to die to save those he loved. He tapped a code into the EVE-1's control panel and the cockpit glass opened with a hiss. 
Jay climbed out, and stepped aside. 
"Move over there, and stay there" Mk.10 said, gesturing toward an area where he could keep his eye on the pilot.
Jay obeyed, his hands held over his head, Mk.10 moved toward the battlesuit, his gun trained on Jay the whole time. 
"And you're end of the bargain?" Jay said "Let them go."
Mk.10 nodded, and shoved the two women toward Jay, Vanessa helping Katrina to stand, they ran over to Jay and threw their arms around him. 
Mk.10 moved closer still to the Battlesuit, and began to interface with it. "With this..." he said, smugly, "Nothing will stop me!"
"Except maybe....this.." Jay said, and tapped a button on a watch he was wearing on his wrist.
The EVE, rose up, and it's right arm delivered a powerful backhand into Mk.10, sending him hurtling across the promenade where he collided with a wall, then fell into a large rubbish skip.
Jay darted across the promenade and clambered back into the battlesuit.
"GET OUT OF HERE, NOW!" he yelled back to his sister and girlfriend, then turned to where Mk.10 had landed, as the cockpit glass lowered and sealed itself around Jay. Mk.10 was emerging from a pile of pizza boxes and drinks cartons.
"Remote link" Jay explained "Didn't think I'd really give you a weapon capable of wiping out most of the people on the ship did you?"
Mk.10 stared back, his single red eye glowing evilly.
 
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-----Original Message-----From: JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com [mailto:JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of OnionSent: 01 June 2007 20:26To: JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.comSubject: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] *Actionette* - "Jay's weakness"

OOC- This was intended to be a full action, with ideas to giveeveryone, but it got a bit long so have demoted it to mere actionette!I have a few good ideas for parallel subplots which i'll email peoplewith separately - ta!-----------------------------Who: Jay and Mk10Where: Shuttle bay/Corridor<snip>The dust cleared on the security monitor, and all Mk.10 now saw wasthe suit, standing amongst a pile of now derelict spacecraft. "That was fun" Jay said, turning to face the camera "Now it's yourturn..."<end snip>Mk10 realised he was in trouble, Jay was putting up a greater fightthan he thought. He was still not yet worried, he merely realised heneeded to act fast to take the high ground.Making a strategic retreat, the small robot sprinted down thecorridor, nodding to a squad of 8 skutters that were currently takingcover behind some sand bags. The skutters nodded back inunderstanding, and spread themselves across the entire corridor toblock access.Mk10 knew that they wouldn't have a hope of stopping Jay, but all heneeded was a little time.----------------------------------------------------Who: Shakespeare, Keto, Tara, Vanessa and KatrinaWhere: Temporary medibay<snip>Shakespeare watched the anomaly grow smaller, and smaller, untileventually it vanished in a tiny twinkle of blue light.He whimpered.<end snip>The distraction had come at the worst possible time. The door burstopen, one of Mk10's crack teams of Peewee robots stood there. Thefirst one held the biggest gun Keto had ever seen, which looked odd asPeewee robots were less than two foot tall. The second was extremelytall for a Peewee, it apparently had a complex about being so small sohad extended it's legs by welding metal pipes on the end of them,making it look like a clown robot on stilts.Behind were the rest of the team, who instantly aimed their rifles atpeople in the room.Tara had just finished stitching a nasty cut on Katrina's leg. Herfirst instinct was to kick the small robots, but her patient was inthe way. She reluctantly put her hands up when a robot beckoned her todo so.The smallest Peewee walked in. He had a loose joint in his legs,allowing him to swagger confidently, like Jed walking into a stripjoint.Be pointed to the other robots who wasted no time in throwing ropesaround Vanessa and Katrina, helped by some other robots lookingthrough the ventilation grill on the ceiling. Vanessa and Katrina weredragged kicking and screaming towards the door."Hey wait!" Said Keto, before he got a laser rifle pushed up his noseby the tall Peewee on stilts, and one almost pushed up somewhere elseby the smaller Peewee closer to the floor.Keto put his hands up and sighed. The door closed, rifles aimed directly at everyone in the room forevery second.A moment of silence followed."They've got Katrina and Vanessa!" Tara shouted."I know that. We all know that, we just saw it happen!" Keto shot back."Then why didn't you do something?""What could we do? If any of us moved we'd be a corpse more uselessthan that bloody tree over there."The tree sagged."Well lets go get them back." Said Tara, fists in the air and up for afight."Wait a second… we need a plan…" Said Keto as everyone rushed towardsthe door.Suddenly, Keto's nose caught a sniff of something. "What's that… oh."A spark traced the outline of the door. Keto pulled on the handle."Well…it… appears…. we've been welded in."----------------------------------Who: JayWhere: Shuttle bay/CorridorJay in the EVE clambered into the corridor, pushing his way pastdebris that the smaller mk10 could easily walk around. A battle hadbeen fought here, there was a mixture of blood and oil on the floor,and partly splattered up the walls.It was either complacency or a one-track mind searching for Mk10 thatmade him not see the skutters until they started firing on him. It wasalways such a bizarre sight to see the small weak-looking robotsholding firearms and firing wildly and furiously.Jay wasted no time, he kneeled and opened fire, hitting three in thefirst volley, they exploded into shards of harmless plastic and metal.The rest were hiding behind the sandbags, so he ran at them andleaped. He picked up the first, the sudden movement caused the smallrobot to drop its weapon and dangle freely from Jay's arm until heswung it around and dashed a second to pieces. The next skutter hadretreated a few metres, so Jay hurled robot he clenched towards it.Both crunched together to make a disappointing cheap "clack" thatbroken metal and plastic makes.All this time, the third two had retreated back to a furthersandbagged area, where they had positioned a machinegun. They had beenspraying bullets at jay and he hadn't even noticed. He looked down athis robotic shell, it was pocked and dented by bullets bouncing offhim. He angrily stormed towards them, mainly angry at himself forgiving them the opportunity to take so many shots at him.The skutters continued to fire as Jay struggled against the incomingbullets, it was like fighting against a powerful hosepipe.Jay raised an arm and swung it left and right like a pendulum,striking the small robots and smashing them until they broke.Jay felt powerful as he killed them, stronger, better than them. Hegot a primal rush. After they all lay destroyed, it was all he coulddo to prevent himself from roaring with delight. But them he stopped and looked around. All he had done was destroy afew tiny robots and he felt so invincible inside his metal body. Hemade a mental note to not get too cocky; the EVE had its limitations.-----------------------------Who: Mk10Where: The PromenadeA small metal boot kicked a ventilation shaft and abseiled down to thefirst floor balcony. Mk10 looked around, he noticed the Starbucks wasstill open, despite only a few scared looking customers who hadbravely risked all odds for a coffee. The McDonalds was empty,obviously nobody had risked their life for that, however Parrotts waspacked.Mk10 jumped from the balcony to the floor, a distance that should havesprained a person's ankle, but he fell firm. He looked around at thepeople. Without his file "aussiecool.bat" he realised he hated themall, people who had not saved him when he had died not once, nottwice, but three times for this ship. He wanted to kill them, each of them. But there was no time. Jaysmashed through the wall on the balcony above in his large metalprotective suit. Mk10 wanted to kill him most of all, but right nowthe suit made it too hard to kill him physically. He had to insteadkill him inside.A robot tapped him on the shoulder. "Finally!" Mk10 said to his lacky,who threw Vanessa and Katrina to the ground. They were both tied uppretty well and could barely move.He saw Jay on the balcony flinch as he realised who they were."That's right jay, I've got your girlfriend and your sister here." Hesaid with a crazed cracked voice. He saw Jay about to move, so pulledboth hostages closer to him so they acted like a shield, then put agun to both of their heads simultaneously."Now Jay, you already know how it feels to have a loved one and yoursister killed. Can you handle it a second time?"In the EVE, Jay now felt weak. He was too far away to push them out ofthe way, and both hostages were in the way to have a clear shot. "Youdon't want to do this Mk10, just leave them alone."Mk10 laughed. "Just choose Jay. Who dies first, your girlfriend oryour sister?"<Tag!>