Rocket's in a spot right now, Whippoorwill thinks as she launches herself into the air. She flies up and out away from the group, then with a spinning pirouette she flings a quill across the silo.
A cloud of smoke fills the area, covering Rocket, Shadowcat, and the arrow holding Kestrel. Ace, being up 5", is below the smoke.
A second later, Kestrel steps out of the smoke, using the handrail on the platform to guide her out of the smoke.
With a grin, she pulls an arrow and fires at Violet!
Violet aborts to put up her forcefield, as the arrow slams into the forcefield directly over her forehead!
Violet's head snaps back as the arrow slams into her forehead, making her head rock violently and making her see stars.
Transducer's form suddenly completely turns into energy, and fires across the room! Pulse winces at the sudden crackling on the radio waves, from microwave to infrared.
The woman lands, looking off balance, and then a pulse of energy slams out from her slamming into everyone within 6" of her (everyone but Rocket).
Hotaru instinctively raises her barrier as the woman pwiffs into existence nearby, and it's a good thing, too. The energy the woman pulses out hits her like a brick, the electromagnetic field shifting to bright white as it tries to handle the energy from the attack, before dispersing portions of it. As Transducer continues to give off electromagnetic waves, Hotaru's shield pulses and sparks in time.
As expected, Hotaru does not explode, nor implode from the attack, but the energy does wrack her body, as the energy of the attack plays merry havoc with her nervous system... and everything that happens to be attached to it. She grits her teeth against the onslaught... and is surprised to have weathered the storm as well as she did.
Seeing Violet go down on one knee in pain, Ace chooses to use his held action. He looks at Whippoorwill, and then grins, and changes his focus to Aegis.
As the energy washes over Aegis, she sees Pulse as Transducer!
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Goo watches the melee unfold and the tide turning against them, So the lesson begins, he thinks. With determination he moves forward stretches his arms and smashes his fists into the ground and looks and yells at Kestrel, "Drop your bow and I'll be ge
Goo leaps forward and yells at the enemies. Three are without a bow, and receive a +5 bonus against the attack.
The person with the bow hesitates, but seems to be unaffected otherwise.
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Aegis barely manages to shake off Ace's attempt to confuse her but once she's back to normal she doesn't waste any time launching an attack on Transducer.
Aegis steps over, and drives her fist into Transducer's back, sending the woman skipping over the ground, leaving her in a pile 12 meters away.
Rocket yelps "Whoa!" when--while stabilizing himself after Cat's block and whizzing toward Kestrel--the lights suddenly go out.
He manages to stabilize without stumbling but when he emerges from the smoke he's not able swerve in time to ram the archer. Instead he runs past, slowing himself, and returns to try out a different trick: as he stops in front of her his arms go into a blur of rapidfire punches.
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Rocket get's one hit on the arm, and then misses the other two punches, as the archer swivels and arches, almost as if she can see his punches before he can throw them!
Ace, seeing that Violet is still down, flies up and forward again.
Then concentrates on Rocket.
Rocket see's Kestrel suddenly slump to the ground, unconscious. He also sees that Violet is down on the ground, and Transducer is on one knee, ready to fire at the downed Violet!
Violet groans, and recovers from being con-stunned.
Whippoorwill had opened her mouth to direct Rocket toward Kestrel when it became apparent he had the same idea. Unfortunately, she proved rather deft at avoiding his attacks.
This is going south, fast, she can't help but think as Ace floats higher. She keeps her wings beating forcefully, ascending several meters while closing the distance between them.
Maybe this'll wipe that grin off your face, she thinks hard at him, sending a quill his way that he'd referenced, but she'd never tried using.
The acid quill shatters an inch from his body, but some of the fluid manages to splash through the defenses, burning through his clothes, and leaving the smell of burning flesh in the air. Ace gasps in pain.
Shimmer tenses, but Ace manages to shake his head through gritted teeth, and turns his attention to Whippoorwill.
Everyone in the silo glances up at Ace at the same time, and several nod.
Kestrel holds an action.
Transducer recovers from being stunned.
Hotaru moves to interpose herself between Violet and the archer... so she hopefully can't do that arrow thing again... especially with Vi's shields down. She thinks, briefly, of grabbing Violet, but remembers her being very adamant about Hotaru not doing that. So, instead, she takes a chance. She spins on her heel and flings a ball of coalescing electromagnetic energy at Transducer... hoping to put her down or out of the fight before she can continue breaking the team.
As the energy arcs between them, it thrums in time with Hotaru's barrier, though it only happens in such a way that a Rocket could truly appreciate. Sadly, that makes it look as though (to Rocket, at least) Hotaru just threw one of her starbursts at Violet... and is actively shielding Transducer. Whose side is she on, anyway!?
Pulse targets Transducer with her burst, and it detonates on the woman's body. She cries out.
"Sorry!" Hotaru calls to her.
Something feels briefly wrong...and then a second later Rocket can't imagine what it could have been: he's just knocked Kestrel out with one punch--but Oh! Transducer is about to blast Violet while she's down! I've got to--
His thoughts are interrupted by the horrible sight of Pulse attacking Violet too! "Holy crap! What are you doing Pulse? Violet's on our side! Whip, Vi, Goo, Ace must've mind controlled Pulse--we've gotta take him down fast! I can't reach him but I'll handle Transducer."
...and with that he charges at Violet Transducer. He achieves terrifying speed, but the slippery 'Transducer' seems to somehow dodge aside from his charge.
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As Rocket shoots down, Hotaru has a moment of elation as she realizes they're about to take down Transducer, probably!
But then he keeps going. In a blur of movement he hurtles towards the apparently defenseless, and barely recovering Violet. Realizing what's about to happen, Hotaru dives in the way... or would, if he weren't so much faster than her. As he shoots past, she travels just behind him, landing on the ground with a growl.
He regains his full DCV (and Placed Shot modifiers return to normal), but he still cannot act until his next Phase — recovering from being Stunned is all he can do that Phase. However, after recovering from being Stunned, a character may, if he wishes, Abort to a defensive Action (even in the same Segment in which he recovers from being Stunned).
Violet groans, and recovers from being con-stunned.
Retcon : Pulse attempts to block and fails.
RetConRetCon : Pulse realizes Violet is up and not likely to be hit, and doesn't abort action. :)
Rocket was supposed to take out Ace, What is he doing? Goo asks himself. He moves forward and stretches upward thrusting his fist at Ace.
Aegis runs after Transducer and tries knock her out with a final punch pulling her punches if she thinks Transducer has taken too much damage.