CoLC crossover RP, main thread

Jack, Cinema

Okay, they were both completely clueless. That boded well for Jack's immediate future, but he couldn't get too excited yet. Ben said something about "alternate universe" - probably not the craziest thing the body double was put through - but even then they might have been mistaken. Some Hyperion goon could have been around, just waiting to take note of his "boss" right in the middle of some backwater dump where Coca-Cola was still a mainstream drink.

"Okay, okay, see, it's very important because... I'd much rather have nothing to do with my world for a while? Twenty years or so." Having taken a moment to munch on the acquired popcorn, the body double rolled his shoulders idly. "I'll ask around yet, but if it's really somewhere outside of Hyperion Corp's influence, boy, I might just live with the whole evil god thing." If it was true.

"Oh right, sorry, didn't introduce myself." Jack offered a smile befitting a classic, lantern-jawed and broad-shouldered hero which mixed interestingly with his "dashing rogue" physique instead. "Name's Jack, troopers. Well, I'm legally obligated to call myself Jack, anyway."

Approaching Library

"Reinhardt, NO!" Caboose yelled out when he saw those grenades go off near him. He hadn't yet forgotten what explosions had done to Two. Still, he seemed fine. Reassured, the soldier kept on firing upon the horde.

They were really starting to make him upset. If any chrysallids managed to get within melee range of him they'd be facing an enraged blow from Caboose.

"Yeah, yeah, look-" interjected Morty, who was not looking particularly pleased at the fact that they were having to go over the same song and dance in the middle of what was and would probably soon be again an active extraterrestrial war zone. "-can't we- like give him the cliffnotes version as we walk? Rick?"

Rick was squinting at the wires he'd salvaged but grunted vaguely in Morty's direction. "look, long story short: bored omnidimensional... god... writer... thing... mass kidnapping.... city changes every day.... aliens are everywhere now. Right now we gotta get to the library so I can build a, uh..." Rick looked as though he was grasping vaguely for the right words, "... alien... killing... device! Wubba-lubba-dub-dub!" he brayed after a moment's thought.

Morty looked at his grandfather, lips pursed in concern at the fact that Rick was being even less useful than usual. "Look, uh, Jack, i-i-it's nice to meet you and all but maybe we should just keep moving before the people here who don't have superpowers or giant guns get- get shot or eaten or something."

edited 19th Nov '17 7:40:50 PM by Locoman

Ben sighed, nodding. "Morty is right. We've gotta get moving. There are people in danger. You guys are heroes, right? Come with me. We'll save anyone we can and get them to the library. It's the only safe place today." Ben ate the last of his popcorn and then started heading out the door. Before he stepped outside, he glanced back at the group.

"Oh, and if we wanna stick together, don't get out of eyesight! This city's weird, we'll end up in different places cause the city's always moving places around. The library's at the middle of the city, let's get a move on!" Ben shouted, waiting for the group to exit the library while also shuffling a bit impatiently.

edited 19th Nov '17 7:47:46 PM by AllHailThrall

Charging in proved much more effective than Rex expected and he was taken by surprise when he saw the phantom ship exploding. He retreated to avoid the flames and realized that the swarm had accidentally fired into said ship. Finally some breathing room.

"Aww yeah! That's my kind of close encounter!"

Filled with hormones, bravado, and plain adrenaline, Rex proceeded to fly after the Covenant cruiser, wanting to take another shot at piercing through it.

"I'm sorry, had to take a detour. Where were we?" he said, flying close to the bottom hull again.

edited 19th Nov '17 8:34:06 PM by DeisTheAlcano

Squigly - Library

Leviathan snickered a little at the mention of "big chests", earning an elbow to the face by Squigly. "Duly noted. Now, let's see...I don't know any good stories, I think. How about you, Leviathan? You must know plenty of stories."

"Oh, yes, quite a few," he said, clearing his throat. "Did I ever tell you the one about your great-great-great grandfather and the porcelain Trinity statue?"

"You did not."

"Yes, well, he was ill in bed, and he asked your great-great-great grandmother to fetch him a bottle of whiskey to soothe his nerves. When she did, he stole the bottle from her hands and downed the entire thing in under a minute! He demanded he be brought another, and then another, and by then your grandmother thought him an alcoholic and refused to supply him with any more. Well, your grandfather jumped from his bed and made a mad dash straight for the cabinet with unbelievable speed! He reached for another bottle, but in his drunken stupor, he grabbed a statue of the Trinity and ripped their heads clean off!" He chuckled, and Squigly hid a grin with her sleeve. "To this day, the alcohol and the religious figures in the Contiello household stay far, far away from each other. Just as it should be, eh, milady?"

"Sounds like a plan really, we'll be able to take people who need protection to the one safe place and also save anyone in trouble on our way!" Rather pleased with that plan of action, the girl then blinked as Ben extended the invitation once more before nodding her head decisively. "Well, sure! I can do this while I'm staying in the City!"

Though even as she continued walking and talking rather cheerily, there was always a furtive glance around her surroundings as the eyes swept the landscape in order to try to find heads and tails of the missing Miss Qing, the slightest clenching of the hand all that displayed her worry.

"I don't- think it's in-" Phillip said, taking sharp breaths. "Exit wound- there-" he added, cringing in pain and motioning at his arm where it was indeed bleeding on both sides, since the shrapnel went through it. Clenching his teeth and cringing, Phillip raised his other arm to fire a few more phaser shots at the few remaining chryssalids.

Of the said alien bugs, only the ones that were directly set on fire thought it might be in their better interests to rout and run away; otherwise they were seemingly fearless and dead set on their suicidal charge, even as they got totally and completely cut down. Soon enough there was no direct threat left on the street; though as a building's roof exploded nearby from a strafing shot of one of the many, many saucers above, it was clear that it was still far from safe here. Or anywhere besides inside the library, for that matter.

"Come on, go!" Phillip yelled once he was healed, his tone fierce though his voice was clearly somewhat weakened. "Get inside the library!" he told everyone as he moved towards it himself at a run.

Thomas and Louie stayed just outside the revolving doors, looking to be on guard there until everyone else was in. Thomas kept his wand pointed outwards while Louie had a pokeball in each hand, eyes looking out in a determined gaze, just waiting and practically threatening anything to come out at them.

The saucers continued trying to hit Rex as he flew, though now the stray shots were just hitting against the cruiser's shields; still causing some blasts due to the force they carried, though not the explosive destruction that had happened with the phantom.

"The weather outside is hostile with a slight chance of fog-of-war" the medivac commented in a calm tone as Rex approached the same spot he'd assaulted earlier; where he'd managed to slice through a small hole, but not yet something he could fit through himself. "Here's your stop. Walk it off!" the little toy-like dropship added, its tone getting sharper with the second part. And it once again tried to fly out of Rex's grip, seemingly angling for the hole he'd made in the cruiser.

Seirwuosuhr stared at Leviathan, her eyes wide and attentive, but she didn't seem amused by the story; rather, just curious. "... How did he jump out of bed and dash to the cabinet if he was ill? And what's 'the Trinity'?" Seirwuosuhr asked.

edited 19th Nov '17 10:09:07 PM by FirockFinion

Outside Library

After making sure there was nothing metal left in Phillip's arm, Makoto healed his injury over while the other insects were being taken care of. The tide of aliens seemed to finally end, though the flying saucers were still a hazard as they fired down at random.

She tucked her empty pistol back in its holster and drove towards the library doors along with the rest of the crowd, though she parked again by the doors near Thomas and Louie to help make sure no one was caught outside. Once she got in, she was going to have to ask for a pack of extra bullets too now that she'd wasted them all. Having only 6 per transformation just wasn't enough. She definitely needed a replacement bag with some other supplies and maybe a more effective armor piercing weapon in case she couldn't use her Persona at all.

Jack, Heroes Assemble!

Oh yeah, fair enough. Honestly, Jack kept forgetting these two were still here. For that matter, the one with crazy hair gave him a pretty similar story like the one from Ben, much to his worry. "Aliens, huh? Last time I heard "aliens", things took a turn for the worse. Almost like walking on a kraggon during its mating season..." The last part he couldn't help but mumble to himself.

"Time's-a-wastin', pumpkins. Let us show those aliens some proper human heroism, aight?" Getting back into character, the body double joined Ben at the entrance, but then something seemed to have stopped him. Turning back around, he looked at Morty and then drew his pistol - a sleek, yellow model together with a couple of mags - and walked back, handing them over. "And here's one on the house, just in case. The more you shoot it, the more accurate it gets, by the way. Because nothing kills a bad guy better than Hyperion." Blink. "Sorry, force of habit."

"Now let's get back to hero things!"

His plan had worked out but not quite as he expected. Armor toughness nor total mass could counteract the raw force of two grenades going off, which caused Reinhardt to be launched up a bit and back a few inches. Still on his feet though, he felt a rush of explosion related shock in him. Explosions, guns going off, screams of pain, non-human combatants.

"I'm fine Caboose. Nothing hurt....." said Rein to Caboose, loud enough that he should have heard it but also in a oddly shocked, befuddled way. Currently he was shaking his head as he looked between the woman he smacked against a wall and the surrounding city, one eye switching view back and forth. One moment it was the bomber he took out and the damaged but foreign city he was in, the next it was one of his dead troopers and the German architecture of Eichenwalde. None the less, he made his way into the Library, only one hand loosely holding his hammer with him as he had a hand pressed onto his head.

edited 20th Nov '17 12:11:46 AM by LightToAll

The particular one I dived at metaphorically crapped itself at being hit by me, the guy with all the fire. I guess flame-retardant armor was too good for these kinds of guys or something. Consequently it opted to try and hightail it out. I, in my excitement to reduce it to extraterrestrial salsa, bolted after it at first, but then realized it was a fast motherfucker and I wouldn't catch it. Reluctantly, I stopped.

I mention reluctance because for the short moment I had been attacking it, some mental frustration valve had started to loosen, and I'd been gearing to vent that before it got away. Not that going off on my own would have been much better, though that wasn't super loud in my mind. I swept behind me, dispelling the fiery barriers on seeing that the creatures they'd been meant to block all had died or fled.

I turned toward the door...oh, her again. In response to that, I wasn't hasty toward heading back to the door as the Phillip guy I was starting to recognize by voice instructed the crowd to do. Though I did still cut some time by going over most of said crowd, and landed on the opposite side of the door to the Makoto chick, leaning against the wall and watching for anything that might pop out.

Entering Library

Caboose followed everyone inside as quickly as he could, the sound of fighting filling the air around him. As soon as he got in he started skulking on a couch while hugging Freckles tightly.

Ben's brow furrowed when he saw Jack pull out a fancy gun and start handing it to Morty. He glared and stomped his foot a bit.

"What are you doing?!" Ben asked impetuously. "Heroes don't—" he started to say, then thought a moment and sighed, sounding and visibly looking upset. "Sorry. I just... I don't like guns okay?" he muttered. He glanced around, hearing a bizarre scuttling noise. "Did you hear that?"

A loud screech erupted from a nearby alleyway as what looked like a giant alien centipede lunged from the alley towards the closest thing to it— Ben.

Ben gasped and tried to duck out of the way, but the creature pounced on him. It tried to lunge its savage-looking jaws towards him, hissing menacingly as it did so. Ben ducked out of the way of one bite. As it did, acidic slobber dropped onto the concrete floor, and the concrete floor started to be eaten away in a foam of acid. Ben started to slam his arms against the creature to try and escape. As he bumped the Taxxon with his left arm, it nudged against the alien creature with his watch.

"Let go of me, you big icky worm!" he shouted.

There was a beep and the Omnitrix flashed yellow, but Ben didn't seem to notice as he was too busy trying not to get eaten by what Ben could only think of as something that Clancy and Dr. Animo would come up with one night while really bored.

edited 20th Nov '17 10:10:22 AM by AllHailThrall

Rex noticed the aliens were more than capable of harming each other, as evidenced by the saucers mindlessly trying to shoot him through the cruiser. Apparently mastering space travel didn't mean they had much in the way of strategy or common sense. As Rex got closer to the hole he had created in the hull, the toy ship talked about the weather in a way that implied it was trying to tell a joke.

"You know, you may be a little weird but I think you are cool"

He let go of it—as he needed both hands free right now—and flew up against the weak spot of the cruiser. And right when he was about to crash, he built his mechanical hands, made them spin like drills and tried to punch his way in.

Outside Library Doors

Reinhardt and Caboose entered the library, both of them looking shaken up by that last fight. Well as long as they weren't dying... She finally noticed the ghost from earlier, "Lewis", putting the wall of flames out and floating back over to the library as well. That explained the supernatural fire at least.

Makoto glanced at him as he landed on the other side of the doors, and then looked away again, expecting another comment. When he didn't say anything, it just left her feeling uneasy and on edge. Looking for something to do that'd be a little less awkward, she looked back at Louie and Thomas.

"Hey, you two are in Ben's group, right? I haven't seen him at all since this morning. Do you know where he is?" she asked them. With his watch or not, one person wandering around by themselves was in serious danger of being overrun by an alien mob.

Jack, Outside the Cinema - Heroics Time!

It seemed Ben had an issue with guns. Easy for him to say if he's the one wielding some weird alien superweapon. "We've got nothing else on Elpis but guns and lasers." Jack replied with a slight shrug, but there was some apology in his tone. "People get by with whatever they can, pumpkin, aight? If I had a watch like that, I'm sure I wouldn't fancy guns either."

And then a giant bug showed up and tried to eat his new... friend? Let's call it friend. Ben proved faster than expected, but the bug still had him in its designs. Jack's virtual helpers were still cooling down after the fight with the robojaws, leaving him to fend for himself. Figures. It was a good thing that his time spent on Elpis let him help with his reflexes.

He pulled up his SMG and fired three quick bursts at Taxxon's presumed eyes, hoping the pain would be enough to pry the thing off Ben.

She knew Ben? Why was I surprised, everyone seemed to know everyone around here who wasn't new. It did bring up something I was wondering, though.

I didn't make eye contact. "Yeah. What'd you split for. Something happen?"

I looked at the crowd, trying to gauge how much longer it'd be before they were all inside. There looked to be a lot fewer outside than there was earlier when they got here. "We should go soon. 2-1 for not splitting up."

Squigly - Library

Leviathan frowned when she didn't understand. "That's what makes it funny," he explained. "Alcohol does strange things to a person. And the Trinity are a trio of goddesses that we worship in our world."

"Alright, thanks for the gun and- hooooAAAAUGH!" Morty screamed wildly as what could only be described as a gigantic, bloated centipede slobbered its way into the melee; his body acting more on instinct than anything else, he fired several more rounds at the thing until it hopefully stopped moving.

"You see?!" he said a little more self-righteously than he had hoped. "Not - not all of us have magic powers or alien technology or - or - super abilities to help us when the world is going to hell. Y-you've been around - back me up on this, Rick."

Silence.

"Rick?"

"I'm over here, Morty!" Rick had somehow managed to survive the run-in entirely unscathed; if anything he looked slightly more confident than he had a moment ago, stepping out from behind a nearby wall. "I survived, Morty! I survived the - the giant worm thing! I'm Survivor Rick!" he yelled, which struck Morty as a completely inappropriate reaction to the current situation.

"Yeah, w-we all did," grumbled, Morty, shooting daggers at his grandfather. "And what, you- you couldn't be bothered to help us? Couldn't - couldn't like, rig up a laser death ray from broken cinema parts?"

"No. Shut up."

"Couldn't fix your portal gun in time to portal us away?"

Stop pestering me with your dumb Morty questions, Morty, and let's just - look, while you guys were fighting a giant... grub thing.... I found a clear route to the library. If we hurry, w-we can probably make it in time! And while we're - while we're on our way we can break into a bombed out McDonald's or something and see if they have any of that Szechuan sauce, Morty! Because that's what this is all about! The - t-t-the Szechaun sauce, Morty!" Rick's eyes rolled gleefully in his head as he rambled.

"W-what?"

Rick's expression abruptly changed as he jabbed a thumb at a nearby street that just shifted into position. "J-j-just - let's pack up and go already."

edited 20th Nov '17 4:57:45 PM by Locoman

Gon, nope he's stuck on the ground

Gon checked the ship from the ground to see if he can find a way to get up there.

His train of thought was interrupted by a weird man who tried to clobber him from the side.

"Oh no you don't!" Gon ducked below when it tried to whack him on the head. He used the beam rifle's butt to smack it by the stomach and kicked it in the face. When it was lying down, the assassin double tapped him on the chest.

As the people got inside, the Miss Tairee who was watching the kids had already preemptively formed the healing device on her arm again, and was going ahead and firing the green,healing onto people as soon as they walked in, rather than wait for them to ask. As always, any physical ailments they were dealing with were cured right away; though anything that was purely mental would remain.

Miss Tairee only paused after healing Reinhardt, to which she raised an eyebrow in slight surprise. "Reinhardt?" Miss Tairee asked rhetorically, her mild surprise suggesting familiarity.

"Oh, you know the librarian already then?" Phillip asked to Reinhardt, then glanced to Miss Tairee. "I'm gonna need some things by the way. Mainly ammo. I'll go ahead and write a quick list" he told her, and motioned to the central desks as he moved that way.

"Oh, not exactly I suppose. It was an alternate continuity version of him" Miss Tairee explained with a mild shrug. "We went on a few dates" she added idly.

"WHA?!-" Phillip exclaimed as he tripped and fell on the floor.

Meanwhile, only a few feet from that Miss Tairee, Seirwuosuhr blinked and scrunched up her face a bit in thought. "Oh... The adventurers at the inn like to drink a lot. They drink before they go into Monmoth. Usually they're really happy and loud, but sometimes they're sad and quiet" Seirwuosuhr said, looking ahead at nothing in particular with a clear expression of, 'I don't really understand it'. "Mommy says they do it before going to prepare themselves... And that they do it because it might be the last chance they have to" the little demon girl went on.

Back near one of the revolving doors, Louie glanced at Thomas with an uneasy expression and then looked away. Thomas sighed and looked to Lewis and Makoto. "Ben died earlier-" Thomas started.

"We don't know that he died!" Louie snapped.

"Louie, please, now is not the time for temper. And he followed every pattern that everyone else who dies here does" Thomas responded, shaking his head in disapproval. "Anyway, that's why we were hoping and waiting for him to come here" the young wizard explained.

The medivac quickly zipped into the previous hole once Rex let go; it was lucky for the medivac that it had additional boosters for extra speed to use, since that allowed it to get through and out of the way before Rex's sudden and literally boring entrance would've destroyed the medivac in the crossfire otherwise.

Once Rex was inside, he'd find himself in a hallway of sleek and curving lines style design, plus lots of various shades of purple. Just to the right, was a squad of squat aliens that probably seemed smaller than they really were due to their posture,◊ which all seemed to collectively jump in surprise and alarm once Rex busted in. "Run a-way!" one of them yelled, and they turned tail and fled.

"Uh, why you boys all wearing red shirts anyway?" the medivac commented.

There was a deeper voiced comment in some alien tongue from around the corner where the grunts fled, and then what looked a whole lot like Rega◊ stepped around into view, and let out an indignant roar towards Rex before opening fire with the plasma rifle.

"Oh hell!" the medivac exclaimed as it turned and flew the other way down the curving hall. "Be sure to wipe your feet at the door" it added as it approached a locked door.

edited 20th Nov '17 9:52:06 PM by FirockFinion

Outside Library Doors

She was not expecting Lewis to completely ignore her, but that was honestly better than yelling, so she'd take it without complaint.

"Oh..." she said quietly, looking concerned. Makoto didn't want to think about the events that led up to Ben's re-spawn considering how bad the last person who died had looked, but the fact that he was separated and without any extra supplies in the middle of the invasion wasn't comforting. "Well... that's not great." He might be stuck somewhere for all anyone else knew. "I'll be going out again in a few minutes once I restock, but I'll keep an eye out for Ben."

Maybe she should get another radio to give to him. Taking her chance to exit the conversation, her motorcycle disappeared into blue smoke as she stood up, and she went to push her way through the revolving doors.

edited 20th Nov '17 8:48:18 PM by ScorpioRat

Rex was inside the ship now. The new scenery was a nice change of pace and Rex proceeded to dust himself off. It wasn't polite to get the ship he was visiting dirty. While doing so, he spotted a bunch of short aliens

"Sup! I'm Rex" he waved at them "Take me to your leader" The aliens simply fled after seeing him without even responding.

"Stage fright. Happens to the best of us" Rex told the medivac.

Since the ship didn't seem to have much in the way of internal defenses, Rex figured it was a good time to get the militia up to speed.

"Hey guys, do you copy? I'm inside one of the big purple ships but the guys here are super small so, I guess that's it for the news right now" there was someone speaking in an alien language that sounded pissed "Nevermind, I think I just found something"

The alien was heavily armored and was from the same species as Rega. Hopefully, he wouldn't be as dumb.

"Hey, you look like someone I know. He played second fiddle to Seiga, can you believe that?" the alien roared and opened fire at him "Oh, I guess we are done talking then"

Rex built his oversized nunchucks and proceeded to cover himself with one while spinning the other to attack the sangheili.

edited 21st Nov '17 6:24:46 AM by DeisTheAlcano

Squigly - Library

The duo looked at each other uncertainly, as if trying to figure out how much they should say. "And these adventurers that leave...do they ever come back?" Squigly asked.