Nova Chasers (A space Western role-play)

((OOC: lol yeah tell me about it. I think its because were on the 14th page ppl are losing interest. I think once we finish this mission and more ppl join its gonna get much more productive. Oh and all the team members are with us now right?))

As we meet up with the rest of the team in the empty corridor, I raced down the hall. There were shadows coming towards us from the left of the hall, a lot of shadows, "Guys, we have company!"

A group of twenty men with guns, sword, and the works suddenly stood in front of us, "Piece of cake right?" I snorted as two men ambushed me.

One man attempted to knock me out from the back and I ducked swiftly, letting his fist punch the other man who was standing in front of me. I took two knives and stabbed them in the crotches as I was squatted down. They both screamed in agony. I snapped their necks as they were bawling in pain. I looked to see that there were only five men left standing. The princess stood quietly in the corner waiting for her moment. I wanted to make sure that moment never came. Out the corner of my eye I see a man with a spear run toward the princess. My instincts took over and I jumped in front of her. The spear went straight through my shoulder almost grazing the princess behind me. Bohr then slits the mans throat.

I stood there in shock as my shoulder bled out and I fell to the floor. Harris ran to me and took out a cloth. He wrapped my wounded shoulder tightly stopping the bleeding for the most part. I started to fade in and out and Harris administered a shot to me. My adrenaline doubled and I was back on my feet, "I'm fine guys, lets keep going."

((Sorry, I didn't know anyone had posted at all. What you guys call the middle of the day, is the middle of the night for me.))

Everyone was moving really fast, trying to get to the Engine room of the Dreadnaught. I was limping, still aware that if I strained to much I could possible lose my leg, behind everyone as they made their way through the ship, leaving no one alive. As I enter through the door to the corridor, I see Teal get stabbed by a spear. I run up to the guy and slice his throat, where he immediately dropped his spear and tried to hold the blood in and his neck. Since Teal had been temporarily incapacitated, I head to the front of the corridor and deal with the oncoming men. The men in the front immediately charge me, wielding spears and swords. I easily parry the spear attacks and block the sword attacks. As they got ready to attack again, I cut the spears in half, rendering them useless, and turn the parry some of the swords aimed at me again. I slice the arm off of one of the Anarchists, and just let him sit there, bleeding to death. I turn to the remaining two people in the corridor who still had swords. They drop their swords and run, after they saw what happened to the other people.

That didn't mean that the hallway was empty though. I see a line of ten people marching down on us, each holding a gun.

"Everyone, find cover! They're bringing guns down on us, hot and heavy!, I say while finding cover in a near by corridor.

((OOC: Get that momentum back people! I want something as exciting as Booker DeWitt taking out a blimp from up close in Bioshock: Infinite, you hear?!))

"Outta the way, outta the way, outta the way!"

Rick blasts through his teammates, and finds a quick cover spot near the gunners pinning them down. He swiftly loads a huge grenade-like shell into a secondary slot of his gun, cocks it up, and without even turning to look back at the opposition, blindfires one huge blast at their general direction. The fiery burst that came out of his gun dashed straight through the group, literally burning most of them alive, while severely injuring or catching of guard the few it missed.

"Are they gone? Ah, whatever, a few more won't hurt us."

He jumps out of cover and walks to the remaining wounded, taking aim and shooting each one in the head to finish the job. With the hallway now devoid of resistance, he shouts back to his teammates.

"Let's move! The front engine room is just up ahead. Hopefully, we'll find the warp drive there too."

((OOC: And yeah, sorry about my own inactivity. Bogged with homework this week, and I didn't really know when was the best time to jump in. I promise, I'll write more often. Let's not give up now, folks!))

Harris, after witnessing Teal being stabbed by an Anarchist spearman, rushed to her aid. Reaching into his med-pack, he took out a roll of bandages, a safety pin and an adrenaline shot. Harris wrapped the bandages over her shoulder tightly and used the safety pin to keep it together, Teal was spacing out due to minor bloodloss and Harris injected her with an adrenaline shot. Harris helped her up and, after Bohr had warned us of another group apparentaly armed with much bigger weaponry, Harris grabbed both Teal and the princess and took cover behind a nearby pillar.

Rick had rushed past the team and blindly fired an explosive round that penetrated through most of the group with a few still alive, mortally wounded from the shot. Rick executed those who were still alive and signalled us to move up.

Harris walked ahead, asking Teal to keep back a bit with the princess. He walked aside Bohr, who had just walked out from behind his cover, and the two caught up with Rick. "So, Captain, the engine room is just ahead of us, right?"

((OOC: Let's keep this going, please))

((OOC: My internet is a piece of shit and Comcast is a shit man.))

As the gunners approached, Harris pulled us behind a pillar. I covered the princess’ body with mine as a load boom rang through my ear. I looked up to see complete smoke and dust. Richard’s voice reassured me that we were all alive. I grabbed the princess’ hand and followed the crew toward the engine room as fast as I could. Her hand slipped out of mine and she ran past me toward them. I clenched my shoulder and jogged half willingly to the engine room.

I lost sight of the group as a fog grew thick around me. A man’s hand gripped my mouth and started to pull me back. I slowly reached for a knife from out of my pouch. My hand quietly gripped it and silently pulled it out. I didn’t restrain from his hold as the man pulled me back further. Suddenly my hand raised high above me and stabbed him in the head. I grabbed his body and flipped him over me, sharply pulling the knife back out of his skull, “I don’t have time for this, you piece of shit.”
I stepped on his dead body and ran straight ahead of me and through the remaining fog. I saw the members of Infinity working away at destroying the ship from the inside out.
((we need to hurry up and finish this mission. Almost there yay…wait…I think lmao.))

((OOC: I don't think we were up to destroying the engine but alright, let's go from there))

Harris and the rest of the Infinity began planting special explosives, made by the Professor that would be able to destroy the whole ship from the inside out, on support areas in the engine room as well as critical points in the engines themselves. Harris, planting the last explosive inside the engine's condensor, gave a thumbs up to the rest of the crew, signaling that he was all done. When he turned over to them, he saw that Rick and Bohr were standing over a suprisingly small warp drive and talking to each other
((OOC: If you guys had anything planned just PM me whenever you're online or whatever and I'll edit this to fit with it))

((OOC: No, it's OK. Might as well get the bomb planting over with in the engines. However, I just thought of something that could use Bohr's help. And where's your colour, Cammi?))

As the rest of the crew planted the bombs on key parts of and near the engine room, Rick was frantically searching in the room, hoping to find something. Finally, he stopped in front of a wall and his eyes gleamed.

"Hey, Bohr. I found the warp drive, but I just got a plan. Get over here!"

Bohr walks over to Rick sees what he's pointing at. For such a large ship, the drive was comparatively...small. It almost looked like an upgrade to a machine instead.

"Help me take this thing out instead of destroying it. And make it quick, I think I heard them whistling for us."

((OOC: Kei, you may want to edit your post just a little, to make sense of this new predicament.))

I walked over to see what the Captain was pointing at. It was their warp drive, the piece of shit that they could get together.

"That's their warp drive?", I say pointing at the piece of shit, and giving a little chuckle.

"You didn't hear that.", I say immediately after chuckling. "So, what's your plan Rick. We going to be taking this as planned?"

"Well, you tell me? It may be a piece of shit in your eyes, but will stealing this for our own ship actually make it faster, after you probably tinker around with it a little?"

Rick looks around his shoulder for a second, and looks back at Bohr.

"And you might wanna answer faster. More troops could be on the way, and I wanna hit the detonator as fast as possible. You know what? Either start working on this, or run back to the ship. I'll take either one as your answer."

((OOC: And I really mean it, too. Your call now, Zan.))

"Well, I only call it a piece of shit because of how they put it all together. If I tinkered around with it, I bet I can make this thing more powerful than even the one the Brass stole from me. And that is saying something.", I say as I reach for it. "Help me get this onto the ship.", as I start trying to get it unlatched from the ship's floor.

((OOC: We're almost done, people! :D))

"Heave ho time!"

Rick then helps Bohr take the drive out and carries it with him out of the room.

"Harris! Teal! Tell Ave to start prepping the ship! We're busting this joint, pronto!"

Suddenly, more shots started coming from the opposite direction. Reinforcements were on their way, and Bohr and Rick were in no condition to fight back.

"Damnit! Bohr, you're gonna have to carry a little more than I do!"

Rick then frees his left hand, letting his right hand and Bohr do all of the work, and gets out his shotgun, cocking up one grenade round while running back to the ship. He aims with difficulty, and fires the blast, causing him and Bohr to fall over from the recoil. Unfortunately, his aim was a little off, so the most it did was just stop the attack for a while. Thankfully, a while was all they needed to pick the drive back up, and make one last mad dash to the Infinity, now in the their sights and prepping its engines.

"Almost there. Professor, take it on your own now! I'll cover you in the home stretch!"

With that, he leaves the drive to Bohr and starts to cover him from the back, fending off the Anarchist grunts one by one.

"Start lifting off!"

As the Infinity began to levitate, Rick quickly holstered his weapon and jumped onto the closing gates in the nick of time, safely landing inside the entry bay beside Bohr. He took out the detonator and pressed it.

"Hasta la vista, baby."

With the Infinity zooming out of the hangar and entering back into warp to escape the blast zone, the bombs went off, blowing the whole front engine of the dreadnought. It wasn't enough to destroy the whole thing, but with its warp drive now stolen, it was now literally stranded in space.

Rick then slowly got up and, from out of nowhere, pointed his gun at Bohr's head, without even looking at him. He pulled the trigger.

*CLICK*

Empty...

"You're a part of my crew now, got it? Remember where your loyalties lie, otherwise, I'm gonna make sure I reload after every shot."

He then puts the gun back and walks off.

"Ave! Set course for New Britannia. Those bastards won't be bother us anytime soon now. Let's drop the Princess off and get this over with."

((OOC: I'm very annoyed today btw. Also, idt you guys had to absolutely start destroying the engine, i was gone for a good couple of minutes, cudda wrote about what happened during that time, you know what I mean? and i edited the color thing art.))

I grabbed the princess' hand and Harris grabbed me as we all ran to back toward the ship. Harris informed Avery on the mission and to prepare for lift off. I sat on a chair next to the princess. I stretched my shoulder, grimacing a bit at the pain. Nina laid her hand on my head and smile, "Thank you, you saved my life there."

I blushed a bit and nodded. The ship started to leave and I got worried that Richard and Bohr wouldn't make it. Swiftly, I half jogged to the bay door, witnessing Richard pull the trigger on Bohr. I closed my eyes but then opened them again to see that he was bluffing. I sighed and walked back to the meeting room, "They made it on board."

((If this part doesn't make sense you can always request me to edit this...in the morning. night))

((OOC: Not bothered writing a lot, so I'm gonna start off where Cammi left instead of writing what I had been doing from my last post))

Harris gave a small applaud to Teal's good news and got out of his chair. He walked over to Teal, giving an intent stare at her for a while before walking past her, stopping for a moment and turning back to her. "Your wound doesn't seem to be serious but come by the med-bay later, I'll need to stitch the wound up." Harris said before he walked over to where Rick and Bohr was.

Harris gave a small nod and a polite "Captain" before taking a look at the professor's wound on his leg and his arm. After examining it for a while, Harris stood up. "You should be fine, the cut on your leg narrowly missed one of your femoral artery. As for your arm, nothing serious, just needs to be stitched back together. Here," Harris said as he offered his hand to help the professor up. "I'll take you to the med-bay now, if you want. And. . . don't mind what happened in there earlier." Harris gave a slight look over to his side as if thinking back to something.

While everyone else had been busy shooting at and being shot at, Avery risked life and limb...to cut out the bit of crane that had smashed through the cockpit and weld a metal plate over the glass pane that had been shattered when they crash landed. He'd run into almost no one when he stepped outside to strip a good piece of the floor off to use for a patch.

While he had been doing that, someone had decided to throw caution to the wind and jump ship, using Inifnity as a getaway. Avery actually saw her run onto the ship, and went back to work because if she could figure out how to turn the ship on without him being there, then she probably deserved to keep her. So he finished up his business with the floor, walked back onto the ship and promptly stabbed her through the forhead. It was too bad really, she looked pretty cute.

"My ship."

It was by the time that Avery had finished welding his metal patch to cover the hole that out came the merry company. Not so merry he thought, since most were covered in blood, some of it their own.

So after a hasty exit from the dreadnought, and the course for New Britannia set, Avery carried the woman down to lay with the other dead bodies that had found themselves privy to Harris's hospitality. He was actually walking up with the professor as he was setting her down.

"Well I won't say I'm sorry I killed her first, but what you do with dead bodies don't really concern me. I figured you'd want something else to occupy your time."

He tugged the knife out of her head and wiped it off on a bit of dirty cloth that was hanging from the sink, and left the doctor to his work. Instead of going back to the cockpit, he went to the cargo bay to grab a drink from his crate. He picked a random bottle and took it up to the meeting room to drink off the nerves. He was still a bit shaky from almost having his head skewered.

Harris gave a smirk and slapped Avery on the back before he left the Med-bay. He chuckled lightly as he placed Bohr gently onto the operating table which was stained with an. . . fair amount of blood. "'Kay then, Professor, just sit back and relax there for a while, I'm just grabbing something to drink." Harris said as he searched through a small refrigerator that was filled with stacks of petri dishes containing small colonies of bacteria growing on agar jelly. Looking through the stacks, he spots a small drinking bottle labeled "Doctor's Special Tonic" and reaches for it.

Opening the lid of it and grabbing a straw, the smell of sulfur, ammonia and iron. Harris took a sip of it and gave a small sigh of satisfaction before closing the lid and placing the drink back into the fridge. Harris got distracted by the new test subject Avery had dropped off and started examining her. Specifically the large gaping hole in her forehead, he grabbed a black marker and began drawing a small, horizontal line on her forehead, marking where he was about to cut with his surgical saw which he had grabbed as soon as he had finished drawing.

I tapped the princess on the shoulder and she turned to look at me. I blushed a bit, "No offense princess, but you look terrible. There's no way we can allow you to go to Britannia looking like that."

I lent out my hand and she grabbed it, "It's ok, I just to change, I have clothing in my bag in my room."

We walked into her room, which was very bloody. I opened her closet and found the bag. I hulled the bag over my shoulder and went to my room to get toiletries, "You need a bath too, I'll help you."

As we went to the bathroom, I looked at her, "You don't mind showering together right? it's what I did back with the girls that I lived with."

"Not at all, I have my maid bathe me as well, you know royalty and all." She gave a small chuckle and I laughed with her.

We both stripped and disposed of the disgusting clothes. I turned on the shower pipes and both got it, washing the blood and muck out of hairs. After cleaning off the dirt and other things, I washed down the bath tube. Then, I filled it to take a bath. The princess sat in front of me and I sat on edge behind her. I poured shampoo on our heads and started scrubbing. I took a bath cloth and rubbed down her back, "Wasn't this an adventure of a life time?"

I was puzzled momentarily but replied anyway, "Of course! It was amazing, I'm glad that you didn't get harmed too."


I unwrapped the cloth that was on my shoulder and washed it gently. The princess too another cloth and washed her shoulder as well, "The spear did cut me." She turned to show me a very shallow cut on her shoulder.

"Does it hurt? You'll be fine just need a band aid or something."


She nodded and we washed off the soap. I helped her get into a nice, presentable gown. I dressed in jeans and a white tee.

I headed toward Harris, hoping to dear God that he was not mutilating anyone. I pulled down my sleeve, showing Harris my wound and pulled down the princess' sleeve exposing her dainty cut. He administered an alcohol pad and a band aid and then went to work on my shoulder.

((OOC: This is of course after you took care of Bohr.))

((Man, I have some catching up to do. Which, I will do later today when I have free time. I just came to see how much of the story had progressed.))

I set the warp device outside of the med-bay as Harris took me inside. My mind was racing, purely from adrenaline that had not ceased since the whole attack had started. My mind was utterly distracted while Harris attempted to clean a spot off of the bloody operation table for me to lie down on. I didn't care. I could have been shot. Well, more than shot. I could have died, if Rick didn't know how many bullets he had left. While still thinking, I didn't even feel hydrogen peroxide spill over my wounds, or the stitching needle weave itself through my skin, helping to hold the skin together to help heal. As Harris applied clean bandages and wrap, my mind wouldn't stop thinking.

I said, "Thank you.", to Harris absentmindedly as I started to exit the door.

I didn't notice the princess and Teal walk up to the Med-bay. I just picked up the warp device I had left outside the door, and walked to the Engine room, where I set it down. I didn't even start tinkering with it. I was set on automatic, while my mind was stuck in that moment Rick aimed his gun at my head. I didn't even notice that I had started to clean up all of the mess made by the blood of the Anarchists, starting with the princess and Teal's room.

((OOC: Kay then, Zan can write about what he did while he was getting treated when he has time))

Harris turned to the door, after sending Bohr off, to see Teal and the princess. Teal came over and showed him the wound from the spear and showed that the princess also got wounded. For some reason, Harris felt a bit satisfied, seeing the princess had gotten her own battle scar, he examined it for a while. "It's no big deal, just a small graze from the blade. At worst, you'll have an unoticeable scar after you recover." Harris explained as he administered an alcohol pad on the cut and wrapped it with a bandage. Harris gave her a. . . reluctant pat on the shoulder before asking her to wait by the door while Harris worked on Teal's wound.

Harris took the thread and needle he had used on Bohr from the tray filled with disinfectant agent. "'Kay then, this'll take just a moment, to entertain yourself try to learn some stuff from the posters I have stuck on the wall." Harris said as he pointed to one of many posters showing a detailed diagram of human anatomy and also pointing to the Periodic table of Elements next to it.

After a few minutes of stitching, Harris gave a quick wipe with an alcohol pad and properly bandaged the wound area. "'Kay then, you're all set, just don't try to over exert that arm or else the wound might open up again." Harris said as he walked over to a closet and pulled out a black leather jacket with wool lining inside. "It can get pretty cold inside the ship, the empty vacuums of space don't really provide much heat. Here, this should help keep you warm," Harris said as he offered the jacket to Teal.

Rick walked into the cockpit to assess the damage. He cringed at the sight of the bits and pieces of metal that managed to break through. He even noticed that Avery didn't look back at him, obviously still shaken up by the crash.

"Ouch. That hit really did a number on this place. Hey, Fi, remind us to get some better protection for the cockpit. Might be able to get something in New Britannia."

Rick then stepped out of the cockpit, but suddenly flinched in pain. He instinctively moved his left hand to his right side, clutching it. He glanced over and noticed the blood slowly seeping out.

"Well, guess that means the adrenaline's gone. Hope I don't pass out by the time I get to the med-bay. Thankfully, it's not too much longer till we reach NB."

He slowly walked over to med-bay, where he saw Teal and Nina standing by the doorway. He greeted them as he walked past and into the room.

"Princess. Kitten. Hey, Harris. I need a patch-up here, stat. I'm starting to feel a little light-headed too, but not to worry. I've had drinks that were worse."

Harris, who was sorting out a bunch of medicines, noticed he was being called out. Turning around, he see's Rick at the door with a wound on his right side, Harris takes a look at it from where he was standing and asks Rick to sit on the operating table. Harris observed the wound more closely. "Yeah, that looks like a bullet wound, I'm gonna have to check to see if the bullet is still in there." Harris said as he grabbed a small scanner from a drawer and scanned around Rick. Reading the results, Harris gave a bad expression and put back the scanner. "The bullet is still lodged in there, it doesn't seem to have opened up or fragmented inside, though" Harris explained, grabbing a few bandages, gauze dressing pads and a surgical kit. Harris asked Rick to lie down on the table.

Harris injected Rick with an anaesthestic and began working on his bullet wound. 10 or so minutes later, Harris takes out a small .45 ACP bullet out from Rick's wound, "Got it, okay, I'll start to patch you up then." Harris said, putting away the bullet and grabbing his sterilized needle and thread. Harris stitched up Rick's wound and surgical cut Harris had made when he was extracting the bullet, wiping off the blood from the newly stitched wound, Harris placed a gauze pad over it and wrapped bandages around Rick.

"Okay then, all set, you're good to go. Just be careful of moving around too much or you might reopen the wound." Harris said as he injected Rick with a stimulant to help with wearing out the anaesthetic.