Push and Pull, Give or Take (COMPLETED)

Brank

Walking through the corridors, Aileas began to cautiously looking around, brandishing his sword-arm and the hardlight-gun arm as he checked corners.

"Azel, you likely understand this technology far greater than I do," he said, walking up to the consoles, "but I may be able to get you in a bit easier. Let me hook up to the computers and provide the external power for overrides, while you try and access and get this tank open."

He placed his hand on one of the many consoles, and snaking hardlight noodle-like appendages began to stream out of his fingers and into the circuitry of the machine.

He waited for azel, and prepared to deliver energy from his core.

Gose

Brank
You invade into this bizarre production space, moving silently through the large hallway of white machinery, reaching the consoles quickly. Closer now to the vat, you see the shape is humanoid, like the others along the tunnels that bore diagonally downwards, but likely of special importance. A plaque at the base of the vat reads, in BESOL's language, "Chromatic".

"Damnit, alright. Keep the connection stable, I will see what I can do, their computation has architecture that I'm not too familiar with." - Azel says, then, she moves onto the consoles together with Aileas. The rest of the human group scatters around the place, trying to find ways to keep them both secure.

The BioMechanical micromachinery deconstructs the scapel and infiltrates the bloodstream, its action is minute enough so that the nervous system doesn't detect small quantities. That is why, when one of the humans peers over the diagonal tunnels, the soot that's built atop his head from the single droplet percolates into the outside of his brain, sending him into shock. He convulses, his torso flung forwards, loosing his grip onto the ground he falls obliquely within the hole in a loud clang, dissapearing within the darkness.

Azel turns around, almost immediately noticing the missing group member and looking at the diagonal abyss. One of the others scurries over and looks downwards. she shouts: "Was that Nereas? Shit, we gotta see if -- She is cut short as two loud noises like gunfire explode from the abyss, the man that peered over the hole vanishes from where he stands, now finding himself dead and pinned to the ceiling by two large orange metallic spears with symbols at the ends. The room is submerged in a deep red, and the cacophony of an alarm rings out.

Brank

Gose

"LIGHTSPAWN!" cries out Aileas, pulling away from the console. With a swift motion, he tucks his standard arms against his body, giving his sword and hardlight-cannon arms full mobility.

Two of Azel's soldiers dead. One killed in a sudden, convulsive way- based on Aileas' basic understanding of human biology, something probably happened to his brain or muscles. The other, pinned by copper-coloured spears. Whatever threw them was about to have a bad day, he thought to himself, and called out to Azel over the screaming alarm.

"FOCUS TO GET THE TARGET EXTRACTED! I SHALL FIGHT WHATEVEVER BEAST COMES OUR WAY!"

He began to creep around the ledge, keeping his distance and pacing in a half-circle motion. He began nodding towards the two remaining soldiers to get their attention." Get away from the ledge, and be ready for something to appear," he firmly stated- no, commanded, and kept an eye steeled upon the pit, while his other glowing mass of light he calls an eye began to dart around the room, trying to make sure nothing was flanking them.

"...bring it on..." he whispered to himself, gritting his hardlight teeth.

Gose

Brank

Azel is distracted by the speed at which her men fall. She looks at the console, full of what could almost be described as gibberish to her. She looks at her group, now reduced to six members, showing orders:

"YOU TWO! Come help me open this thing. The rest WORK WITH AILEAS!".
She bolts from the console, disconnecting her equipment, as she realises that there's little chance of hacking the thing open before more enemies show up. Two of the mercenaries dash towards Azel, and the three gather around the large tube, they inspect the sides and soon find connections, taking their weaponry to the joints, they start prying the tube open, the green liquid leaks through the small gaps.

Meanwhile, the other four gather around Aileas, turned towards the hole. Two of them mustered small sideweapons, while the other two acquired larger weaponry from within their backpacks and suitcases, some kind of advanced heavy assault rifle, brought in the case of a situation just like this.
The other holes, and this one too, started to close, large white slabs ran across, meeting at the center with metallic jaws. The spears atop, nailed to the ceiling, moved, and darted towards the closing hole, pulled in by forces unseeing. A loud boom echoes from within, again like gunfire, and the spears are caught midair by a moving shape, which perches hanging upside down at the ceiling.
Their foe presented, it moves side-to-side, almost like a spider, clicking the members that jut from its head, and observing the group with a multitude of small red eyes. It holds the spears within four large arms, which twitch from target to target on the group.

Brank

Gose

"It seems the beast has revealed itself," he spoke firmly and quietly, brandishing his sword arm. He 'exhaled' a cloud of yellowish heat and locked his glowing orbs of heat and light that served as eyes onto the thing. He nodded to the soldiers beside him, and spoke quietly.

"Keep moving, spread out. Give it no parse, no chance to strike, and show no mercy, for it will not give us that courtesy. Go!"

He zipped forwards in a flash of light as his jump drive fired up, appearing him half as far as he was before to the side of the creature, where he then charged the rest of the half on foot. A shard of hardlight careened from the gunlike shape on his arm, and he raised his arm up, ready to swing the impossibly sharp blade towards the creature.

Gose

Brank
The readies one of its arm, pulling it back as if ratcheting it, and as soon as it is about to be thrown, a loud thud echoes from underneath, its arm flings wildly and the spear goes amiss into the ground.
The second arm targets the perpetrator, one of the men on the ground readied a large energy weapon, he aims again to fire it again before Aileas barely manages to cut its other arm off at the tip. The spear flies off and hits the man in a glancing blow.

The creature jumps back with surprising speed again, leaving Aileas behind.

Meanwhile, Azel strains again the plexiglass of the vat, with a final combined push, it flies off the slanted surface and the thick liquid pours from it into the ground.
The figure inside is humanoid but severely reduced, a tangle of strands of organic-like matter makes its rough sillouette. Azel does not think twice, the men that helped her charge towards the wall and plant a large breaching charge, before she musters up bizarre injector gun and shoves into the humanoid figure.
The gun extracts a small ammount of material and stores it, the charges go off and thread a hole into the thick wall of the room, revealing the path of escape.

"FALL BACK, WE HAVE TO HEAD TO EXTRACTION" She yells before bolting for the hole, only stopping to shoot the large bug-like guard that Aileas fights, the subcalibre rounds inneffective.

Brank

Gose

Aileas grunted and silently acknowledged Azel. He jumped back with his drivepack, and fired off another pair of shots towards the thing. Then, he sprinted towards the opening in the wall. Hot air and hardlight dust was pouring out of his eyes and vents on his back at this point, the heat produced by two subsequent jumps overflowing. He needed to exude more heat from his core soon, but it'd have to wait till they escaped. Aileas made sure he was the last one in the hole, and made sure the thing wasnt following them.

Gose

Brank
The group quickly scuttled towards the still smoldering hole in the wall, jumping into it with haste. The being scuttled across the ceiling menacingly as it did before, hurling the orange metal spears towards the group. As Aileas too gets in, the creature jumps towards the hole, its speed is like that of a bullet, but misses the hardlight swordsman narrowly.

The hole is a narrow tube not much unlike the one that you got in from, thick cables form the walls, rushing along, the tunnel quickly gives way from the rugged tubes to white clean streaks of the semi-organic metal, and red pulsating synthetic matter underneath. You almost lose your footing as the gravity slowly fades away from the location, the epicenter of the phenomena being a precipice of red strains of muscle-like threads, and thin multicolor beams shooting upwards as far as the eye can see.

The group does not miss the beat, in a hurry you adapt yourself to the low gravity environment and propel upwards, leaving behind any force that chased you through the tight maintenance corridors. You reach a specific point pointed out by Azel, and together pull of a cover from the wall, revealing another maintenence corridor. You sprint across it and the floor starts shaking, a faint hum is heard across the walls, until you finally reach the designated extraction room.

Seemingly, just a common room home to a few machinery of unknown function, one of the walls lay torn apart, with a large white cone protuding from within, the almost unbearably loud noise of the torrential rain outside can be heard slipping through the gap between the object and the wall, as it hisses a thick plume of white vapor and opens the frontal top bit of the cone, revealing an interior that you miss no time to enter. The craft closes hermetically behind you, and you are shoved backwards by an intense acceleration.

...

After considerably less time than the initial journey, you feel the craft slow down and be pulled upwards. You are greeted then to a large atrium, biomechanical arms surround the craft suspended above a puddle of material being blasted with high-powered lasers. Azel and her group hand over the case with the syringe they extracted, and a few other homonculi of mishapen features hand the group and Aileas their payment, allowing them to leave the living block.

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