4-gotten: Weapon
Once Qwark stopped trying to puzzle out the insult, the group continued making their way through the city. As they progressed, they encountered nothing new in terms of enemies or obstacles, only in how they were put together to create new challenges. However, despite the best efforts of the Minion bots to delay them, the group of four was able to deal with each combination as it presented itself to them.
At the top of an elevator, however, something far more interesting awaited them: a sixth secret lab entrance. "EEEEE!" Twilight squealed happily as she saw they had collected enough Critters to access it. "Yes yes yes yes yes!" She raced up to the warp pad, and the rest of the group followed with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
As expected, the lab contained yet another puzzle test for guiding a critter through tubes to the end, this one the longest and most complex of them all. However, working together, the group was able to get the critter safely to the end. At that point, the completed mecha was displayed, and Dr. Croid's voice could be heard. "Congratulations, volunteers. You've passed the final test. You are just the kind of candidates I've been waiting for. As a reward for your steadfast participation in our program, I would like to offer you a field test of my latest weapon. The original design was sold to me by a weapons magnate, but I managed to make a few...improvements."
The actual mechs appeared, awaiting their pilots, as the voice continued. "I present to you the RYNO 6 Protosuit. High velocity arm cannon, trillium shell, and a hacked Grummel-net smartchip that allows it to multiply its power exponentially when other Protosuits are in use. With this weapon, Nevo and his collectors won't stand a chance."
Twilight bounced up and down eagerly as the long awaited weapon approached. "This is going to be so exciting!"
The lab then shifted, placing the group in a simulated area to allow them to test out the RYNO Protosuits, the auto-canons devastating the Minion bots sent in to be tested on. The hacked smartchip created an FTF effect that unleashed a devastating wave of electrical energy similar to the effect of the Rynocerator, except that it destroyed any lower level hostile.
Within the sim lab, the Protosuits had infinite ammo. However, once out of the lab, Qwark discovered something somewhat unpleasant. "Wait...only 12 shots? That's less than three seconds of auto-fire!"
"With how frequently we encounter those ammo replenish points," Nefarious pointed out, gesturing to the nearest such one, "I think we'll be fine. It's not like we don't have even more weapons to fill in the gaps."
"But...absolute devastation!" Qwark whimpered pathetically. "It's so much fun!"
Nefarious gave him the fish eye. "Are you sure you're a hero?"
"I'll see about tweaking these in a bit," Twilight offered. "For right now, let's keep going."
"Actually, the ammo limit might not be that big a deal," Alister pointed out. "The Protosuit's also equipped for melee combat, and can do an impressive amount of damage by punching. The maneuverability is impressive as well, with the secondary jump jets."
"Definitely plenty to play with..." Twilight purred before putting her Protosuit away.
Before long, the group reached a wide square platform made up of smaller square platforms. Once they reached it, the bridge to it pulled back. "Here come the waves," Alister groaned as the predicted waves of Minion bots attacked. As the waves continued, however, the smaller platforms began to crumble, decreasing the space the group had to fight on.
"That's...worrisome," Twilight murmured, her wings fluttering nervously.
"A stronger word might be appropriate for those of us without wings," Alister pointed out firmly.
Thankfully, the last of the enemies was destroyed long before the platform fully crumbled, at which point a sequence of rail platforms began to race by at the opposite side. "Launch over!" Twilight called out.
With quick acting, the Vac-U's were used to launch the group across to the same platform together, at which point the platforms stopped moving, letting the group make their way to the one in front, where a Spin target awaited them. Once launched, they reached the edge of the city...and in the distance, Ephemeris was visible.
"There it is," Twilight murmured softly as she stared at it. "Ephemeris. Which means this is Vilerog Plateau."
"We're finally here..." Qwark murmured softly.
"This nonsense is almost over and done with," Nefarious grumbled under his breath, eager to finish up so he could start making preparations for Friday.
Alister narrowed his eyes, seeing three figures in the distance. "...isn't that Susie?" he gasped out in shock.
"What?" Twilight yelped, quickly rushing forward.
As Alister had deduced, Susie waited at the edge of the cliff above the Plateau, planning an assault on Ephemeris with her two friends. "What are you doing here?" Qwark demanded in surprise.
"Leading an assault!" Susie proclaimed proudly.
The four glanced at each other, trying to figure out the best way to approach this. None of them wanted to see this little girl charging into danger, but none of them wanted to crush her emotionally either. Finally, Alister stepped forward.
"Susie," he spoke up softly. "I know well the pain of losing someone central to your life...and I know how it can lead you into doing reckless things, trying to do anything you think might make some of the pain go away. But that's not the way to handle it."
Susie lowered her head, not sure what to do now.
Alister rubbed his chin for a time. "But you wouldn't want them to be disappointed in you, would you?" he mused. "How about you three guard this spot for us? Make sure nothing gets out?"
"You mean guard the perimeter?" Susie gasped out.
"Exactly," Alister confirmed. "Don't move from your post until the mission is complete. Understood?"
"Sir yes sir!" Susie proclaimed, saluting. Her friends saluted as well.
Alister retruned the salute before leading the group towards the Plateau, the three kids staying where they were left.
"You're surprisingly good with kids," Twilight mused, making Alister rub the back of his head, flustered.
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awwwwww
Alister is going to be a wonderful (edit: great) granduncle one day.
Edit: Messed up the generation math there.
I just realized and I know it's a long shot, but are the collectors a reference to mass effect or are they actually in the game?
7552437
In the game.
Should we be concerned about Twilight getting that RYNO Suit? We've seen what she did with the RYNO before...
Auto-cannon should have two 'n's. Other than that, great chapter.
7552437 I believe this game came out before the first Mass Effect, by a year. The Collectors weren't a thing until the second ME. I actually went and looked through the first ME's entire codex just to confirm that.
7552501 Silly Ausbrony, we don't need to be scared, we need to bust out the popcorn!
7552501 Considering that she invented the original RYNO... yes, yes we should.
That was fun, may I have another? Looking forward to more.
Keep up the good work. Deus tecum.
The response to Twilight finding the lab was adorable...and then we all realize it because she's gotten ahold of some power armor...
Hmmm... The only thing I can think of to make this even more ridiculous is making the ryno shoot swords... That split into more swords... That also explode
I know this is Ratchet and Clank, but the protosuits make me think of Kirby: Planet Robobot.
7552410 Great Grunkle Alister.
7552717
I have not played the Ratchet and Clank games, and have only seen the first game let's played, so I didn't know if they were actual enemies or if Tats made them up specifically for this arc of the story.
This is why games should give you the special mode where it's just an endless swarm of enemies and you your choice of any weapon with infinite ammo so you can use it to your heart's content.
Yay, mecha suits!!! Hmmmm, besides Nefarious are there any old villains left who could crash a celebration party for this adventure and get introduced to the new mecha suits?????
7552796 Yes.
7553319 For me; that's my custom Fire Fight games on Halo: Reach.
7552838 No, even better, SORDS.
Erm... in this usage, it's magnate, not magnet.
7552838 There's actually a shotgun in Borderlands 2 that does that.
Here the wiki>>>Gun name:SWORDSPLOSION!!!
7554016 Best...shotgun...ever... of all time...no matter what Screw Attack and WatchMojo say.
7554273 I'd have to slightly disagree.
I'm quite fond of the Butcher, from the same game.
Fully automatic shotgun that has a chance to put ammo into your magazine.
7556430 That one doesn't have an element, though.
That makes it less effective against armored/shielded enemies.
hehehe, the following is just a little something to pop into my head upon Twilight and friends getting their RyonoSuits.
Tirek had been planning for years his break out of Tartarus, and subsequent revenge against the princesses, and the first thing on his list had been to acquire all the magic he deemed should be his, which was ALL of it. The first part of his plan had been simple distract Cerberus and leave. The Second part was also easy as he began to steal as much magic as he could. It was while he was in Ponyville when he learned that his plan might be totally screwed. From a shadowy alcove he listened as a purple Alicorn conversed with the ponies of the little town, giving demonstrations of all kinds of very dangerous looking weapons. The ones that made him shudder the most were one that summoned a tentacle monster, and all the ones with the word "Ryono" in their names. After watching for about a half an hour Tirek had seen enough, and shaking his head moved to leave town quickly making his way back to Tartarus. "Screw this, I am going back to hell, it is much safer there" the Centaur commented
7552838 NOBODY DISSES THE SWORDSPLOSION!
7570767
That sounds cool.
7554016
*sniff* It's beautiful.
7560511
I likey!!!!
I kinda wonder what would happen if Alister had managed to find Ratchet shortly after the Lombaxes left the dimension. The story would certainly be different, I'm just not entirely sure how.