Lang watches the unusual bird formation. That is very strange, I wonder what it means
then the final shape of an "S" I know that has a meaning? Lang goes and sits by the small fire the others had made. wondering what the birds were saying, Maybe they miss me, but they will see me in the morning, I wasn't gone that long.
Lang has a bite to eat still wondering what the message means.
"huh, oh, no not unless you have a way of tracking objects falling in from orbit,"
he then turns back to jimmy and relays all that carl said.
Mel smiles kind of like when I tracked Tryko'Sam when his ship crashed and I had to determine impact point?
Hermes does repairs on some of the more minor things.
"I have found myself able to repair small amounts of damage to these objects. I did not know that I was capable of this."
"you did that? good good, then yeah, have at it wait who is Tryko?"
just another boy...had a lot to show me when we first met... she has a michivious grin at that thought... he works with me in the Sim rooms now
Mel gets close to Arthur Hey Carl, buddy? you hear me? need some data can you link it to Arthur here?
"Oh. . . ."
He seems. . . . . Disappointed? Maybe. You aren't quite sure he can be disappointed.
The wildly tumbling object sheds fire as it heats on re-entry. Once the fire clears, it is clear to see that it is a very small craft; likely a life pod. Its erratic flight coupled with its stealth shielding makes it impossible to detect presence or absence of life inside.
DESCENT UNSTABLE
DEPLOY CONTROL SURFACES
Without warning, several flaps snap open, functioning as air brakes. The wild tumbling and its great speed rip the panels off seconds after opening. Its flight has stabilized somewhat, but it is still too erratic to scan its interior. Mithros is able, however, to get a clear image of the outside of the craft. Its design is clearly Imperial. The external identification indicates that this is a life pod from the ship that was destroyed earlier.
DESCENT UNSTABLE
NO CONTROL SURFACES REMAIN
NO FUEL REMAINS
CRASH IMMINENT
BRACE FOR IMPACT
"here let me put you on speakerphone" he says as he lowers the helmet.
"wha, hermes? yeah, I upgraded your self repair protocols to a maintenance subroutine, it was like two weeks ago...refresh memory bank of upgrade dash seven zero three niner."
ahh hello, Carl, I nned all the data you got on the object trajectory, intial coordinates, speed, acceleration rate, and as many subsequent coordinates after initial contact.
Mel has her datapad out ready for the calculations.
as Carl feeds the information Mel appears to be entering data almost faster than he is relaying it.
The wildly tumbling object sheds fire as it heats on re-entry. Once the fire clears, it is clear to see that it is a very small craft; likely a life pod. Its erratic flight coupled with its stealth shielding makes it impossible to detect presence or absence of life inside.
DESCENT UNSTABLE
DEPLOY CONTROL SURFACES
Without warning, several flaps snap open, functioning as air brakes. The wild tumbling and its great speed rip the panels off seconds after opening. Its flight has stabilized somewhat, but it is still too erratic to scan its interior. Mithros is able, however, to get a clear image of the outside of the craft. Its design is clearly Imperial. The external identification indicates that this is a life pod from the ship that was destroyed earlier.
DESCENT UNSTABLE
NO CONTROL SURFACES REMAIN
NO FUEL REMAINS
CRASH IMMINENT
BRACE FOR IMPACT
"Boss, Sunbeam. TacNet identified UFO as Life pod: Imperial origin. Moving to capture..."
He targets the lifepod as he heads toward it, and arms his 60mm head cannons...just in case of shenannigans...
"Boss, Sunbeam. TacNet identified UFO as Life pod: Imperial origin. Moving to capture..."
He targets the lifepod as he heads toward it, and arms his 60mm head cannons...just in case of shenannigans...
Bradley sat, afraid to move. Not only did he not want to cause more trouble when the healers were already stretched thin, he didn't want to move away from the beautiful girl who was pressed against him in the most intriguing way. He was pretty sure she'd find someone better in no time, and wanted to enjoy this unusual (and pretty dang awesome) experience for now. And she was...wow....yeah every time he tried to think of words his brain stopped working.
"H-h-h-have you b-b-b-been at the school long?" he stammered, pretty sure she couldn't have been or he would have noticed.
"Only a few days really." she says, her eyes closing as she strokes his arms slowly, clearly enjoying every moment. Skin felt so much more sensitive than feathers. She could feel every little hair on Bradley's arm, every little bump and inperfection. Skin was so fantastic!
Bradley may notice something he has almost never experienced before - people around him are look at him with envy. Mostly men, but a few girls here and there, are looking at him wishing they could have the angelic girl all over them instead.
"I came here with my life long friend, who's now the Conjuration professor. He's over there. His name is Vare, and he is wonderful. Would you like to meet him?"
"Well, obviously it's not less dangerous here," she said waving at the chaos around them. "Besides he always says how important it is that firebirds learn to help each other. I'm going," she says in a stubborn tone that indicated she wasn't taking no for an answer now.
Ardiente grinned happily at that. Despite all that had gone wrong, despite the fact that the two of them were standing in what was essentially an emergency hospital/morgue, he just couldn't help himself. "Alright then, but if your Dad asks, I did try to stop you. Let's just not tell him that I wasn't very insistent about it, alright? I think we'll make a good team."
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"Capture if possible, Sunbeam, and try to stop it from crashing anyplace with people if you can't catch it."
"Here," he said to Mel, here's more data for the analysis...we've got visual as well as tracking. He touched the corner of her datapad and the rest of the data appeared on it. "I need you to help calculate where all of the debris will land. We can't take chances with that stuff. We need to recover all of it."
"Only a few days really." she says, her eyes closing as she strokes his arms slowly, clearly enjoying every moment. Skin felt so much more sensitive than feathers. She could feel every little hair on Bradley's arm, every little bump and inperfection. Skin was so fantastic!Bradley may notice something he has almost never experienced before - people around him are look at him with envy. Mostly men, but a few girls here and there, are looking at him wishing they could have the angelic girl all over them instead.
"I came here with my life long friend, who's now the Conjuration professor. He's over there. His name is Vare, and he is wonderful. Would you like to meet him?"
His first thought was wondering how he'd managed to miss her if she'd already been there a few days. Perhaps he'd been spending a bit too much time with the pigeons...or in the infirmary...he really did spend a lot of time in those places.... and the way she was caressing his arm was really distracting.
"Uh....sure.....uh.....but....you're not a teacher too are you? Y-y-you said you were a student?"
"W-w-wait...conjuration professor? I think I met him before. His name is Vare right? The one who is friends with Ana?"
Mel looks at all the data we need to go 3D on this one. lets just hope that feature I added still works
she sets the data pad on the floor and hits a button and there is a spark from the pad and a small wiff of smoke Damn,
Mel pulls out her sonic device and with a wave the datapad is projecting the incoming in a 3D hologram.
Mel is quickly entering data and performing calculations. she soon has three separate projected trajectories.
Does anyone have a map? apparently that part got wiped in the EMP blast. but I have the impact regional coordinates.
Ardiente grinned happily at that. Despite all that had gone wrong, despite the fact that the two of them were standing in what was essentially an emergency hospital/morgue, he just couldn't help himself. "Alright then, but if your Dad asks, I did try to stop you. Let's just not tell him that I wasn't very insistent about it, alright? I think we'll make a good team."
"Of course we make a good team," she said, smiling back. She was a bit relieved to have something to focus on other than her own confusing emotions. She wasn't sure whether she liked him as a friend or as more than that and trying to figure it out was driving her a little nuts. "I just need to grab a couple things from my room. Like a sweater. I loaned mine to someone who needed it more. I can meet you at the teleportation room if you like...but if you leave without me I swear you will never hear the end of it."
Mel gets close to Arthur Hey Carl, buddy? you hear me? need some data can you link it to Arthur here?
"Arr the wee lass again, Ill send it now, just ta let ya know its pinging as an Imperial life pod, stealth class, that's not good means an Imperial ship someplace close"
Carl loads some punch cards into a slot
Seeming to have gotten control over whatever turmoil was going on in her mind, Anahita stands there with Vare's hand on her shoulder, easily unburdened by it's weight.
"I was approached and requested to champion life, which I am in essence, already aligned to do-- it is my driving purpose, so to speak, due to the embodiment of the Green Way I adhere too. As such, while this individual seemed ... I cannot truthfully say off, it was more, intriguing, though that part is new to me, the desire to study and analyze, I can say that there was a hint of desire and ... destiny?" She looks up at Vare at this, doubt on her mind, or something worse, a fear never really seen before, "So, when it came down to a simple yes or no, as she put it, by all accounts, I knew 'yes' to be the proper and only choice."
She stood there, looking at him, though one hand came up to touch his nearby wrist to grip, though not crushing like, for an ...well, new sort of mannerism that she did not display before, with all this public company and what not.
Her eyes did scan his face, searching for something, seeking something, the scrutiny quite different now, compared to Dreamscapes before.
Vare blinks a few moments, and his mind conjures forth for him an image of three young children - children which, on his first day here at the school, had told him that they were the Champion of Dreams. Literally dreams itself. They had offered him the chance to alternate his view between the Dream and the Waking. He had told them he wasn't sure, and that had been that, as they say. He couldn't help but shake the nagging sensation that when Anahita spoke of Championing Life, it was a similar prospect.
"I thought... perhaps I am mistaken, but I thought you did not believe in destiny, Anahita? You always had a choice, yes? You have shaped this event more than anything else. Even if you felt destined to this, you have shaped coming to it by what has come before."
When Anahita's hand gripped his wrist, his other free hand - non-gripped - came to greet it instinctively, seeking to offer her comfort through the sharing of touch. He was intensely glad that she was not the type to bear a grudge for his withholding of information earlier. She gets a sense of fondness from his expression, though it is overlaid with thoughtfulness as he sorts through his mind. Anahita gets the sense that he would probably have returned a hand to that clean-shaven chin of his if they had both not been taken up in holding her own.
"I... believe I may have heard of something similar here at the school before. Three children... they came to me, telling me that they were the Champion of Dreams. I believe they sensed my seeing into their realm. Perhaps this is similar? Maybe you could seek out this children? Though... they were very young, and their guardians spoke that they did not truly understand what they were."
Fei looks up from the wounded student he finished bandaging and nods.
"Indeed. And she may have new abilities that may be a boon to the remaining wounded. Though I believe she is trying to treat that professor at the moment," he adds as he surveys the triage. He then spies Michael and Ehos hunched over somebody nearby.
"Perhaps you should speak with her, Vai. I should check and see if Michael is alright."
"Alright. I'll go talk to her then. Uh... her name started with an A. I'm pretty sure anyway. I remember she introduced herself at the orientation." Vai says, a little unsure, glancing down at the incomplete checklist Fei had given her... still, this was more important.
The demure young woman who shines with Light to Anahita's eyes makes her way over to the young woman, picking delicately through the myriad wounded and their loved ones bent over them.
Eventually she does reach her though, but it could take a little time. And the shy girl doesn't seem super keen on butting in, especially with the way her and the Professor were holding hands... well. Kinda anyway.
Mithros goes to full burn to try to catch the pod and is closing on it. As it clears the horizon and is visible as a smoking meteor from Avalon, a TacNet operator comes over the channel with a bit of panic in her voice. "Sunbeam, you have got to try to divert that thing. Its course will land it within fifty meters of the factory at Kuros. With the kinetic energy it is carrying it will devastate the city. Do not shoot it down unless you can guarantee a complete kill; the debris will still mostly hit Kuros. Can you divert it short? The highest probability of an intact capture is if you bring it down between Avalon and Kuros."
she doesn't question it, and just moves on. She takes you around the infermary, as not to disrupt what is happening there, and takes you to midori.
"Here's your friend."
There had been something of a merry chase as Midori was following the arrows, but Reviarti had been leading them a different way. So they went through a few circles before Midori had spotted Hew just rounding a bend ahead of her. After all, as Ephebe's spell began to wane in power, her emotions - and the strong sense of panic - had slowly been returning, driving her pace faster and faster.
"Hew-kun!" she cries, sprinting after him and practically diving at him her arms spread wide, happy as she was to see him.
Ace does whatever he must to teleport to wherever Headmaster Ryo is. If he appears busy, the young man will politely interrupt him, explaining he has urgent news. Once able to talk to the Headmaster, Ace tells him of his findings. "I used a psionic power to sort of trace the teleportation signature of evil Vai. I didn't get much, other than a sort of vague sense of direction, but I went to Tyrrin's observatory and entered what I could into her telescope. From what I was able to gather, its very likely she went to Imperial controlled territory.
Other than a broken arm that needs set, Anthony just has minor cuts and bruises. He's unconscious at the moment, which probably makes healing him easier.Making his way around the cafeteria cum infirmary, Phaezeriel stops next to Michael and Anthony. ::Hey Michael.:: He kneels next to Anthony and places a hand on his forehead and a silvery glow emanates from it.
::He will be fine. No serious injuries. In just a moment he will be right as rain.:: The light intensifies and Anthony's cuts and bruises fade, and his broken limb straightens.
::There. That should do it.:: Phaezeriel looks up at Michael and smiles.
::Thank you, Phaeze.:: Ehos intones silently though the telepathic bond, his voice heard only in the demon's mind. ::Anthony is always so happy... he doesn't deserve this.::
Ace does whatever he must to teleport to wherever Headmaster Ryo is. If he appears busy, the young man will politely interrupt him, explaining he has urgent news. Once able to talk to the Headmaster, Ace tells him of his findings. "I used a psionic power to sort of trace the teleportation signature of evil Vai. I didn't get much, other than a sort of vague sense of direction, but I went to Tyrrin's observatory and entered what I could into her telescope. From what I was able to gather, its very likely she went to Imperial controlled territory.
His first thought was wondering how he'd managed to miss her if she'd already been there a few days. Perhaps he'd been spending a bit too much time with the pigeons...or in the infirmary...he really did spend a lot of time in those places.... and the way she was caressing his arm was really distracting.
"Uh....sure.....uh.....but....you're not a teacher too are you? Y-y-you said you were a student?"
"W-w-wait...conjuration professor? I think I met him before. His name is Vare right? The one who is friends with Ana?"
"I think they may be more than just friends, Bradley." Rena makes a motion towards where Vare and Anahita were, before standing and moving behind him, to hug him from behind. Probably a little too touchy-feely, this girl. Especially with her bosom pressed into Bradley's back as it was, and her eyes closed once again, enjoying the sensation. A few cat-calls go out from the students around them. Bradley barely catches the word "...slut..." from a female voice somewhere nearby. Rena doesn't seem to notice though.
"I'm not really a student either, Bradley, though I would like to be. I still have to speak to the Headmaster about that."
"Of course we make a good team," she said, smiling back. She was a bit relieved to have something to focus on other than her own confusing emotions. She wasn't sure whether she liked him as a friend or as more than that and trying to figure it out was driving her a little nuts. "I just need to grab a couple things from my room. Like a sweater. I loaned mine to someone who needed it more. I can meet you at the teleportation room if you like...but if you leave without me I swear you will never hear the end of it."
"I swear, on my honour and the graves of my parents, that I won't leave without you." Ardiente says sincerely, left hand (the arm that had been tattoo'd for his Oaths) on his heart. "Why should I want to anyway? I would miss out on such a capable partner. Meet there in ten minutes?"
::Thank you, Phaezerial. I apreciate not having to set his arm.::
::Thank you, Phaezerial. I apreciate not having to set his arm.::
My pleasure. Seriously. This is one of the best parts of being at Avalon; people let me help them. Before, people mostly just screamed a lot and tried to kill me.::
"woah maze spell, nasty buisness," he casts demensional anchor on each of them, "now then, I shall go first, follow me"
"hermes please pull up aerial map"
he turns to melody "these images are just extrapolations from when we flew in here, cross referenced from our landing data sent in to us from the orbital station, but they should do fine for quick work"
Mel quickly uses her calculations and the maps provided and pretty much confirms what the TacNet operator said.
possible impact location is here. indicating the area within fifty meters of the factory at Kuros.
::I will let him know you helped him when he wakes up. If you need help, ask and I'll do my best.::
::I will let him know you helped him when he wakes up. If you need help, ask and I'll do my best.::
Phaezeriel nods, stands up, and moves towards the next patient, ::Thank you, Michael. It is what friends are for; helping each other. If you need any help, do not hesitate to call on me.::
Mel quickly uses her calculations and the maps provided and pretty much confirms what the TacNet operator said.
possible impact location is here. indicating the area within fifty meters of the factory at Kuros.
Carl comes over Arthur's head speaker,
"If ya worried about debris I think can deal with that but ya have to keep every one away from me wile i'm doing it, dealing with mass objects and such is, well, the one thing I can do well. Send me the landing location ill go there now"
When Mel sends it, Carl feeds it into his Teleport system, and stands on the pad. A moment later his some 2000' up in the air, he looks up to see high above the incoming Smoke trail of the object and what looks to be the biggest robot hes ever seen.
"Smeg me that's big robot"
Looking around hes sees below what must be the Kuros factory then back up to see now a number of objects coming away from the UFO and heading his way.
"Right, best get this over with, Now Armbands you know what I am going to try and do, I have no idea if I can, but I need your help, close me off if I get to big, I know what that means but I have to risk it, ya hear that ya Rat-snots, Mel says if them objects hit at that speed, there is going to be a lot a deaths and I can't sit and see that happen, ya understand, so its up to you, let me do this and Ill never call ya a names again."
he then flicks on his Radio to all Channels .
"Here Bloody big Robot over head, this is Carl Ironfist below you above the impact site so Jiminy and Mel says, If you can get that big bit and any others, good but if not, I'm going to act as your last line of defiance all right, Ill try and pull them in to me, what every ya do don't come to near me or you will get sucked in to. I'm hoping Ill get all the bits that get past you, have at it then and good luck"
Then to Jiminy, Mel, Arthur and TinMan.
"Arthur, TinMan if I don't see you again, just wanted to say 'get stuffed ya wet Kimp buttocks, haha, see ya in the next life"
Carl keeps the radio on.
"Well no point waiting"
He Rages,
The light around Carl shifts bending warping into him, then with deep whooopf! sound he seems to imploded, now a constant screaming sound as the atmosphere is sucked into where he was, and where he was now is the event horizon of a gravitational blackhole, moving slowly up to meet the falling objects. Waves of force can be seen moving around it seeking to suck any thing that gets close.
..."I thought... perhaps I am mistaken, but I thought you did not believe in destiny, Anahita? You always had a choice, yes? You have shaped this event more than anything else. Even if you felt destined to this, you have shaped coming to it by what has come before."...
Pausing in replying, as she keeps her eyes peering around, Anahita isn't paying attention to what her hands are doing, only keeping the one on Vare's wrist while staying alert.
She noted as Vai started walking over towards here, though replying before her arrival.
"I do not believe we are forced to only do as destiny dictates, but, it is our choice in existence that determines it-- so, no. I do not believe in destiny, in principle. Believing in that removes any responsibility from the individual, which is not how I choose to live. That is the path of someone who is afraid of each and every choice they make-- putting their choices into the hands of another. That is not me. This ... this is not destiny, but, there was something she said-- practically built for this. I-- I am over analyzing. Someone is approaching." She falls quiet as Vai walks up.
It would be obvious that Anahita is /staring/ at Vai when she approaches, her one hand still cupped or caressed by Vare, though she is still, apparently, gripping his wrist with her hand as if he provided her with some manner of solid foundation.
Depending on perceptions, Anahita does furrow and un-furrow her brow a moment as Vai steps up, as if 'hearing' something just prior to her arrival. With a shutting of her eyes only a moment, she opens them again and imposes a smile on her face saying, "Greetings. We probably have matters to discuss, if not mistaken?"
Anahita's native tongue isn't the open spoken, obviously, but she does come off as diplomatic, warm and polite. It'd be fairly apparent that something else is plaguing her thoughts, however, depending on perceptions as always.
"Yeah, definitely a native. I'm a firebird. And we don't really have princes and princesses. We were ruled by a Council. My grandfather was on it before it was disbanded. There's all this rhetoric about how we aren't supposed to be involved with the other races, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And no, my parents really don't care about me. They hate each other and I'm just a thing to them. They come by to inspect me once a year to make sure I'm still alive and that's about it. This is what generations of arranged marriages for political power will get you. Well, that and...I have almost no magical power at all. I can barely conjure up any flame and when I do it's extra weak. That's why they think my only value is as marriage bait. For yet more political power. And now that the council has been disbanded their special little club of hate will probably go off on its own and I'll still be a prisoner. And I'll bet once they break away they'll repeal the law...
Tryko'Sam winced at her comments and such and then added, "Okay, that's pretty jacked up-- no offense. I'd call you more a bargaining chip. So, got it, you ran off. I'll keep your escaping or whatever a secret, or is that what you came here for? Asylum? I think the school's good for that."
While walking along he points out to her a few of the essentials, the walls with arrows and such, while guiding her to the Headmaster.
"I think, unless there's some kind of insane reason you cannot be here independent of your parents, there's quite a few other firebirds here, I believe. Maybe some of them have a similar story too, that'd be handy, right? Commonality with your peers?"
He was trying to talk smart, there was something about the whole racial angle that nagged him, but there were still some gaping holes in his memories, and he knew this wasn't -- oddly enough, completely how he normally talked, so it was causing him a bit of frustration which he didn't display.
"Listen, if nothing else-- you've got yourself a friend here, through myself, I'd be happy to make sure no one grabs you and drags you back or whatever... just in case. So, keep that in mind, okay, Asha? Least I can promise there, happy to help. Just focus on the future though-- maybe you can find a nice guy to hang out with, fall in love and all that, and voila, it'll all sort out."
He flashed her a charming smile and all that, as they were nearly halfway to the Headmaster's. "I think he's just up the hallways this way... you want me to hang out with you until you're done? I've no idea if they'll appoint someone to be your buddy or what not, I didn't get one, but, in case. Happy to do that. I'd hate to just be dumped off alone somewhere without a contact."
It might seem odd, but his personality did appear to fluctuate between some 'mature' person and the earlier met 'younger guy'. It was rather seamless when it happens. Perhaps he didn't even notice.
Seeing Phaezeriel already helping Michael (and Anthony, more specifically), Fei finally stops for a moment and looks over the list he gave to Vai. He notifies some of the other nurses that he is going to check the Materials and Supplies building for any medical equipment and restock that might have been overlooked.
The young monk exits the Cafeteria and quickly jogs the distance to the Materials and Supplies building.
"Yeah, I think they want the healer types to stay here and help...Looks like there are others who have been bringing in students who needed treatment....I can go and check on Mel for you while you're doing that if it would help, just to ease your mind, melnestae."
Dom slides his hand to her cheek. "No. I think would rather you stay near by. I don't think mind can take any more worrying about you. Once things calm down I will feel better, Hopfully." He smiles to her his heart racing with joy.
As he gazed at her, he didn't notice Ginni till she said something. "Oh I was? Sorry about that. So Mel's helping with repairs. Good then she's safe. Well just let her know I'm fine. And thanks for letting me know, it means alot to me." Dom steps back "well I guess I should start helping the healers. Now that I know everyones safe I can concentrate on healing."
she doesn't question it, and just moves on. She takes you around the infermary, as not to disrupt what is happening there, and takes you to midori.
"Here's your friend."There had been something of a merry chase as Midori was following the arrows, but Reviarti had been leading them a different way. So they went through a few circles before Midori had spotted Hew just rounding a bend ahead of her. After all, as Ephebe's spell began to wane in power, her emotions - and the strong sense of panic - had slowly been returning, driving her pace faster and faster.
"Hew-kun!" she cries, sprinting after him and practically diving at him her arms spread wide, happy as she was to see him.
Hew smiled wide as he saw Midori. In his weakened state however when she dove he couldn't stay standing. "Umpf. Hey there. I'm happy to see your alright." He says while wrapping his arms around her.
Zilla smiled as she saw the two hugging. Slowly she bent over and picked up Hew's staff. "Sorry we didn't find you sooner."
With the assessment that the newcomer wasn't a threat Renkai releases the eye and returns to the infirmary
Telling Nala of the safe students Renkai smiles and returns to melody's side
Hew smiled wide as he saw Midori. In his weakened state however when she dove he couldn't stay standing. "Umpf. Hey there. I'm happy to see your alright." He says while wrapping his arms around her.Zilla smiled as she saw the two hugging. Slowly she bent over and picked up Hew's staff. "Sorry we didn't find you sooner."
The two hit the ground with Midori on top, straddling Hew and hugging him tightly.
There's a strangled cry from Midori as as Zilla's bending down to pick up the staff she gets jerked down into the now-group hug by Midori. "Zilla-chan, Hew-kun! You're both safe! When I saw the infirmary... I was so scared."
Tears run down the golden-skinned aasimar's face, but they're happy tears, and she smiling with great relief.
meanwhile, three shadows circle the children.
Mithros goes to full burn to try to catch the pod and is closing on it. As it clears the horizon and is visible as a smoking meteor from Avalon, a TacNet operator comes over the channel with a bit of panic in her voice. "Sunbeam, you have got to try to divert that thing. Its course will land it within fifty meters of the factory at Kuros. With the kinetic energy it is carrying it will devastate the city. Do not shoot it down unless you can guarantee a complete kill; the debris will still mostly hit Kuros. Can you divert it short? The highest probability of an intact capture is if you bring it down between Avalon and Kuros."
"Roger that."
It was moving too fast to stop, without turning BB into a billion coin lawn dart. He alters his path slightly to hit it, plotting an intercept point to bump and divert the path of the lifepod away from Avalon and Kuros. He ignores the impact warning as he nudges, then pushes the pod appropriately, and breaks contact. He takes a long loop around slowing his speed, then flys back to where it will hit, and to avoid the gravity anomoly that his senors are warning him of."Uhh Hammer guy, this is 'Bloody Big Robot'... I've diverted the "biggun" as you called it...all you should catch is debris, over."
Anahita intense and directed gaze makes Vai a little uncomfortable as she closes the gap to meet up with the Champion of Life.
"Hey. Yeah. Um... I'm Vai by the way. Vai Sunwake." A shallow, perfunctory curtsy accompanies the reintroduction, and Vai will give Anahita time to respond likewise before continuing on. "I know we met earlier, but it's been a crazy week. So." Vai does seem particularly shy, especially considering that Anahita may remember that she is a Blue Dragon - or at least that is what Ehos had said. Her shyness magnifies if Anahita keeps her intense gaze on her. She doesn't maintain eye contact too long, though she /is/ trying to be friendly, despite her apparent meekness.
"Um... How much did your patron tell you? " She tries, without any other preamble.