//------------------------------// // The Saboteur: AWAY MISSION!! // Story: Rogue Chaos // by FrostTheWolf //------------------------------// Rogue Chaos- The Saboteur: AWAY MISSION!!         Shortly after getting breakfast and rounding out the team that was needed for today’s mission, Discord and Shayne were dropped off at a landing platform for the energy refinery on Tempest that they needed to be infiltrated. Along with the two of them, Toby and Sweetie Bot were on the mission too and before they could start with the mission, there were two things they needed to do. First things first was rendevous with the fifth team member that was already on site and waiting on them. The second was to take Nova to the vulnerable terminal not far from their location and have her infiltrate the refinery’s network. Which of course, made the AI really excited because out of all the times that she had assisted the group, she had never been outside the actual ship. Meaning that right now, she was finally able to have a small dose of the best thing in the world to her… Freedom.         “A vulnerable terminal can be found not far from your location,” She informed the group as the ship dropping them off began to depart. “Bring me to it and I can kick the door in… literally speaking… you know, since I don’t have any legs… and I’m a Magnus… Anyways, go or whatever!”         “You heard her, let’s get going.” Shayne spoke up as the group began to fight off the first group of thrall that they encountered before splitting into two groups of two Battleborn each. The building that had the Terminal had two standard points of entry. One main entrance and a conveyor belt that led to the large opening inside. It was mostly used to guide any starshard clusters that the Jennerit got their hands on to the grinders that would tear them apart, but it right now served as a perfect opportunity to have the team attack the guards inside on two fronts.         With Sweetie Bot and Toby being one group and Discord being with Shayne and Aurox, the group began to proceed. As they were beginning to climb up, Kleese asked what he thought of as an… honest question. “Is it really an away mission if you aren’t technically outside?”         “Wow… Kleese… That’s real nice.” Mellka shot back at him.         “Honest question…”         “I have yet to feel the grass through my feet and the wind in my hair… but I guess this will be nice too.” Nova commented in response to the both of them as Deande had told the group to work on capturing the station so they could put Nova in the network.         “And why isn't she in the R-Dash 5000!?” Discord demanded. “We brought it in due to the nostalgia of the Pony. MOV series, and it's still functional. Come on authors! Let Nova Pew-Pew everywhere! Stop teasing the readers like EVERY superhero film nowadays.”         “That may be true to some degree, but for her to be in the network, she must be uploaded and installed into the terminal. She can’t do that while inside a walking death machine.”         “Yeah, because I’M the one with the walking death machine!” Toby snapped, setting out a forcefield before he amplified his railgun shots by firing through it to hit an arc mine he set out next to some unaware guards while Discord took out a black revolver with a star on it and aimed it at some other foes as it started to unleash a barrage of bullet sized rockets.         “EXPLOSION NOISE!!” Discord cried out in a rampage. All of them soon thought that they cleared out the room… until one of them lunged at the Draconequus from behind.         “Discord-!” Shayne cried out. However, just as he turned around, they all heard the sound of something slashing through the back of the Jennerit’s body as the thrall fell to the ground and someone else faded into view.         “Cheer up mate,” The creature, which was snake like by appearance. “You’ve been assassinated by the best.” Thats when he turned to look at the others to greet them. “Why hello there comrades, the name’s Pendles. Head assassin and the founder of Executive Executions at your service.”         “...... This guy is the one Reyna sent us to meet?” Shayne questioned.         “Ooh! DLC character!” Discord shouted, pulling out a magnifying and observed, giving himself Pendles’ accent “And with an Australian accent? How peculiar. But sorry, there's already one snake-character in this fic, and that's me!” The fluff at the end of his tail snapped like a hand, conjuring up a newspaper, to which He rolled it with his paw and whacked the head of the snake. “Now get out! Bad Snake! Bad! You’re copyrighted!... Ooh! A link to a Jontron clip!” Shayne lifted the Draconequis away from Pendles, though took a deep breath from how heavy Discord now was.         “Oof! You need to lay off that chocolate milk!” She said.         “Pfft! I’ll only do that when I get… oh, really? You want me to say that!? No! I’m not saying that, but rather… ahem… Let’s drop in on a Grommet!”         “Technically speaking Discord, you almost resemble a dragon…” Kleese spoke up over the madness. “In fact, despite the differences, Oscar Mike and Whiskey Foxtrot are almost similar. Just with different equipment and a different psych profile.”         “HEY!! I don’t like being compared to that ass**** Mike!”         “Yeah, what he said!” Oscar Mike proclaimed after Whiskey’s loud outburst. “Wait, did I just insult myself?”         “Foxtrot: 1… Mike: 0.” Whiskey was heard snickering over the mic before someone else on the ground spoke up. That someone being Toby.         “Hey… uh, should I be worried that your second Kama has a skull on it. Matter of fact, why does it look similar to Benedict?”         “Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time… However, I think now isn’t the appropriate time for stories.” Pendles advised them, pointing to the terminal that they needed to upload Nova into.         “Thank you for clearing out those guards… Now please, get me in that terminal. Now! Do it, now! Why haven’t you done it yet? Do it, now!!”         “I agree with Nova on that. Besides, the authors would want to focus on the backstory and dialogue when we aren’t doing something… I don’t know… important.” Discord reminded them as he dismissed the weapon he was previously using. Shayne rolled her eyes as she walked up to the terminal and held up a storage device she was using to hold onto Nova so they could upload her inside.         “Stand by, we’re about to upload the Magnus into the refinery network.” Deande told them shortly before Nova interjected. “WOO!!! AWAY MISSION!! ……… Say, aren’t those hostiles?”         “Roll credits!” Discord spoke.         “Oh come on! Give me a break already!!” Shayne snapped.         “What would you like broken, Missy?”         “I was BEING SARCASTIC!”         “Defend the Terminal while we upload the magnus!” Deande then hollered over the sound of everyone’s bickering before Nova interjected again. “Yeah, because if I die, all of you are screwed.”         “Let’s lock and load everyone!” Toby yelled, just as Disord reappeared on top of his Mech.         “We’re goin’ in hard! Strap in!” He spoke, putting on a golden helmet, followed by him pulling out a tiny gun. It fired rapidly, though there was no aim, and he began spewing random things. Luckily, the bullets were ricocheting off of nearby surfaces as they hit their mark on the incoming hostiles, which was helpful for when Pendles needed to keep himself invisible with a smoke bomb and attack enemies from behind. Sweetie Bot and Toby were working together to team up and defend the terminal while Shayne & Aurox, Pendles, and Discord spread out as they got what they thought were the last of them… until they heard Kleese speak up.         “We’re halfway through the upload, but get ready… You got more jerks inbound.”         “Well, at least that’s progress.” Shayne sighed, before Aurox tapped her on the head. “What is is, big guy?” Her question was answered once he pointed at Discord, who now had a mask similar to the one on the head of the Tiny Tina girl from the simulation. Just with a makeshift buzzsaw axe and saying the weirdest… and craziest of sayings as he began to savagely attack the incoming thrall and enjoy the carnage.         “I AM THE CONDUCTOR OF THE POOP TRAIN!!!”         “…… I think he’s been spending too much time with Orendi.”         “What was your first guess?” Aurox sarcastically grunted, before noticing the doors at the other end of the room open up and a different thrall with a weird backpack like contraption on it’s back. “Oh hey, that guy looks important.”         “BOSS FIGHT TIME!!!” Discord chanted, ditching the axe and mask for an assault rifle Oscar Mike would use. “Who's the boss this time?”         “Looks to be the supervisor for this part of the facility,” Kleese said just as that thrall threw out what was on it’s back as it turned into a flying contraption that was setting out mines. “That thing is crapping out mines all over the place. Someone should… I don’t know, do something about it… DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!” An anvil fell onto its head.         “... That was easy.” Discord spoke.         “That was the mine bot, Discord. Quite goofing off! That guy can easily bring out another one if-.” Kleese’s rambling was interrupted when the sounds of a piano soon dropped on the Thrall supervisor’s head. “...... I stand corrected.”         “Cartoon logic is fun! Now we just need a dancing frog with a top hat!”         All that got was a facesmack from Toby across his beak as he focused on more… important priorities. “H-how are you doing in there Ms. Nova? Are you okay?”         “I’m more than okay Toby… I am free…” She said. “I’m flying through the netspace WITH THE WINGS OF FREEDOM!!! I’m also playing solitaire… doing pretty good too. So to summarize, I’m all up in this system fellas!”         “Riiiight,” Mellka droned for a moment before the Eldrid spoke to the group. “Now that we have Nova in the network, you guys can head to the core and trigger the meltdown of the facility together.”         “Like a team! Doing teamwork!!” Nova cheered… until Kleese interrupted her.         “You do realize this technically qualifies as terrorism, don’t you?”         “Hmmmhmmhmm… Teamwork…” Nova deadpanned as the team made their way up the elevator and continued to press on. However, just as Discord reached the main door that led to the core of the refinery, the doors slammed shut right in his face as they heard a new voice on the loudspeaker.         “Unauthorized access detected. Security breach! Security breach!”         “My fault,” Nova immediately proclaimed, causing Aurox to facepalm himself while Shayne and Discord groaned. “Turns out ‘password’ wasn’t really the password… wait, I know!! …… Password12345. Damn! These guys are good!”         “Hey! They took that from Spaceballs!” Discord yelled “Let John Candy rest in peace!”         “Damn it… This place is locked down tight… How are we going to get to the core now?” Mellka then asked.         “We hit the manual override… there should be a control console nearby to activate it. Nova, can you meet them there?”         “Well, I was really enjoying spending my time exploring the digital frontier but… ehh fine.” Nova said, sounding not amused by the sudden change of plans as the group cut through the guards and made it outside to the jump pads.         “Up, up and away!!” Discord cheered… However, some of the others weren’t so fond of the leap of fate.         “Oh BLOODY HELL-!!”         “Stop enjoying this, Aurox!!”         “Please stick the landing!!!” Fortunately enough, all of them were able to shrug it off with minor injuries… If you consider those injuries being to ones confidence or self esteem… But around now was when the group got a new welcoming committee… In the form of Varelsi. Something Nova seemed to be completely oblivious too.         “That vulnerable terminal inside can help me initiate the override sequence. Prepare yourselves and watch as I attempt to HACK THE PLANET!!”         “ …… Should I be worried about this?” Shayne then asked, only to hear Toby snap.         “Aww FREAKING LOCKED DOORS!!! Oh uhh… L-let’s just find the power source and blow it up right guys… Hehe, guys?” Before anyone could say anything, Discord pulled out a detonator.         “Or, to get this chapter over quickly, we do it my way.” He suggested.         “Your way isn’t quite always the best way… plus, we would need the shards to power up any gear we have equipped… or if you want to build any turrets or drones.”         “And now you sound like a tutorial…” Discord groaned at what Kleese said. “Give me one good reason why we should do it this way instead of mine?”         “Umm… maintain dramatic tension?”         “……… Ehh, what the heck? Whatever works.”