1X-5 space station (Town Plot)

[Durp]

As they breach the something-sphere, Thy will see a gigantic hunk of metal floating in orbit. Thousands of ships swirl around it, and it appears to be a few miles in diameter. The pilot mumbles something into his headset, and they speed towards it. They approach a landing bay.

Chex emerges from Thy's coat, looking out the window. Who knew?

[Beans]

Thryza checks the ship for any stuff she might need, like a breathything or a spaceything or chapstick.

[Durp]

There's a cool remote thingy, and a spacesuit. And ****ing TONS of chapstick.

[Beans]

Take and take.
She sighs, looking at her ring.

[Durp]

It sparks slightly. It doesn't glow as it usually does.
You might wanna put on that suit before your head explodes. Oh, and put your hairy friend somewhere.
It's fur, dammit.
Chex's voice is in her head. HOWD THAT HAPPEN?!?!?!?

[Beans]

She dons le suit, putting Chex... in it... too...
... You can do that still?

[Durp]

You humans and your adorable little minds. ooh, comfy!
A door is opened, and they're sucked out into space, near the dock.

[Beans]

She goes to, like, place.
Her mind doesn't taste good.
That's not good.

[Durp]

She floats to a dock, and climbs in the airlock, along with the soldiers. The airlock decompresses, and they are let into a large chamber, with a ceiling higher than one could see. It's a market. Aliens of all different races, as well as humans, barter and haggle in the giant market. Odd animals are sold, along with weapons, clothing, and everything else one could thing of.
(( Gotta mow lawn. Back in ten minutes. ))

[Beans]

She un-helmets to look around.

[Durp]

This way.
They walk in the general direction of forward. Chex looks around. Any shops she wants to check out?

[Beans]

Weppinz and cluthing.

[Durp]

One merchant with six arms waves a large gun around, screaming in an alien language. BEhind him are racks of rifle, pistols, and machine guns, ranging from DRs to projectile weapons. He also appears to be selling decorative clothing, as well as a few suits of techna armor and some badass longcoats. And a top hat. I like top hats.

[Beans]

I love hats.
She observes the various ladass bongcoats, as well as hats.
Why?
Because she knows she'll need lots of Cool to rescue Chris from Chris.

[Durp]

speaking of which, she'll see a familiar high tech prosthetic arm on the table. Oooh! Shiny!

[Beans]

I thought Chris had left his arm at home.
She intends to purchase it.

[Durp]

I did too, but the voices told me otherwise.
The merchant gives it to her, snorting with his pig face, and kermit eyes.
C'mon, we goin' or not?

[Beans]

She also gets a coat and hat that I will get images for.
She comes with the dudes.

[Durp]

Suddenly, a large explosion, followed by screams, is heard. The market erupts into chaos, as Thy spots a hooded figure running away from the explosion.
((Deadtime.))

[Beans]

She runs like hell.
This coat. (http://www.abbyshot.com/products/photos/new/foxh/1L.jpg)
This hat. (http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~ulrich/19cdress/glosspix/black_homburg.jpg)

[Durp]

It darts around a corner, dashing through a crowd of panicked humans and aliens.

[Beans]

... Hi.
She sprints like hell after it.

[Durp]

Hallo. Sorry, i had to do a bunch of planning for the relay for life. (Cancer thingy.)
It jumps onto a roof, then onto another, heading for a big ol' oxygen duct.

[Beans]

Thryza snarls, heading after it.

[Durp]

It trips over its long robe and faceplants. It starts to scramble to get up.

[Beans]

She darts forward to haul it up and look it in the face.

In her badass longcoat and nice hat (a Homburg, I think) and utterly rage-filled expression, she's scaaaaaaaaaaary.

[Durp]

As she hauls the figure over, she will discover a heavily scarred blue chick. She is close to soiling herself at Thy's expression.

[Beans]

Let me tell you about yourself.
You're not going to die now because you're going to be a good little girl and tell the strange scary lady everything she asks you.
Am I right?

[Durp]

She struggles, but eventually realizes she is pinned.
I... Um... Please let me be go?
She doesn't speak english that well.
(( Hmm, AIM's being weird... ))

[Beans]

Not yet.
Have you seen... description of Chris... anywhere lately?
I can tell if you're lying, so answer honestly and don't get dead.

[Durp]

She shakes her head. She's hiding something, but it doesn't relate directly to Chris.

[Beans]

... Hm.
Anything... interesting lately?

[Durp]

being me in a position of you on top i am? This is good talk place?

[Beans]

Yes, dearie, I know I'm holding you down.
... Any new disturbances not caused by me---oh, hell, do you speak anything besides broken English?
... Zhprekh tu Iqh?

[Durp]

She nods. She indicates in iquaqian (I THINK that's how you spell it. ) that there have been several terrorist attacks against the station in the past week or so.

[Beans]

Iquaquan, but I can't blame you for not spelling my stupid crap anyway, haha.

She asks if bluegirl can tell her anything about the nature or whatever of these attacks, the attacker, anything.

[Durp]

Heh. The only thing she can take from said attacks is that the attacks were made against a certain species of alien, one with a VERY high status in the galaxy. People don't usually screw with them.

[Beans]

I see.
Thank you, dearie, now run off and pray to the mad ocelot god or put on too many belts or whatever.
She lets her up.

[Durp]

I LOVE OCELOTS SO MUCH OHMYGODSDGASDKUYG.
She scampers off, and another explosion is heard, with high pitched screams heard all 'round.

[Beans]

Thryza sighs, then heads off in search of plot.

[Durp]

There's a large fire in the direction of the S.P.I.R.E soldiers, from here on referred to as S.P.I.R.E.

[Beans]

She heads thataway!

[Durp]

Bodies are everywhere, mostly one elfish looking species of alien. A few are trying to put out a fire. With buckets.

[Beans]

Thryza sighs and rar, she's a living chemical fire-extinguisher now.

[Durp]

If she sighs anymore, she'll pass out. The fires are out, and the aliens turn to her.
What do you want, Human?
You're welcome.
The aliens speak with an upperclass british accent. BASTARDS.
(( DAMNIT DAMNIT DAMNIT Deadtime! I WILL BE HERE TOMORROW, I PROMISE WITH MY BLOOD. ))

[Beans]

Hear you've been having trouble with a certain terrorist.

[Durp]

Your keen sense of deduction has me reeling. What is it you can contribute to our search for this particular terrorist?

[Beans]

I used to be somewhat of a terrorist myself. Arsonist, mostly. Punched prostitutes too.

And I may have met this terrorist before.

[Durp]

Human, you're not exactly helping your case by telling me this. Anyway, who is it?

[Beans]

Not quite sure.
I don't ask for people's names when they shoot at me.
Not true, but she's not gonna go IT'S MAH HUBBY.

[Durp]

Any help you could provide would be... valuable, i suppose.

[Beans]

Welcome.
She tips her hat, waiting for plot to happen.

[Durp]

The alien motions for her to follow, and her small convoy starts to walk.

[Beans]

She follows, eyes darting.

[Durp]

They walk into a large police station-like thingy. Alien officers look towards them.
What do you want?

[Beans]

Leads on the recent terrorist activity, if you please.

[Durp]

Why not?
He throws a few pictures onto the desk in front of them, as well as a few reports. IT's apparently more than one guy. Many shadowed figures are seen in the picture, some running from the scene, some holding weapons.

[Beans]

Wondrous in every way.
Le reading.

[Durp]

New attack on west market area
Today, the new terrorist group attacked again, removing dozens of scenolopoids from their homes, and killing even more. There is an unknown reason for these attacks.

[Beans]

She frownyfrowns.

[Durp]

The chief leans over and plops a report of where their current hideout may be on the desk. The slums.

[Beans]

To the slums!
Danananananananananana THRYZA!
Biff! Sock! Pow!

[Durp]

ZAK!
alleys branch to a dark, dank slummish area, with hobos and such. If Thryza's observant enough, she'll see a flash of movement to her left.

[Beans]

Flash! AAA-AAAAAAAAAAAH.

She runs after it!

[Durp]

She'll see a glimpse of a shadowy figure, then nothing.

[Beans]

She curses, wishing she could make leaps of logic like Batman.

[Durp]

IT MUST BE A BOMB!!!!!!!
Ahem.
If she keeps walking, she'll seem ore and more out of place. There seem to be a hundred sets of eyes watching her at once, yet she can never spot them. HMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

[Beans]

God dammot, anon, stop stalking me. What am I, Boxxy?

[Durp]

(( Hey, that was low. ))
A man walks up to her.
You lost, baby?
(( ... I hate this speech color. *Sniff.* ))

[Beans]

No.
Also, if you call me baby, I might just turn you inside out and wear you like a trendy jacket.

[Durp]

He pulls a switchblade.
Feisty.
(( Deadtime. ))

[Beans]

She extends her wristblade.
Heh. My vaguely phallic metal object is bigger than yours.

[Durp]

He backs off, grumbling to himself.
Jeez, all he wanted to do was rape you. You didn't have to scare him like that.
They continue to walk until they see another flash. Before this one can get away, one of the soldiers shoots it with a net. It tumbles to the ground.
(( Oh hai. ))

[Beans]

She bolts toward the netted thingy.

[Durp]

She'll see some kind of crude robot with a video camera taped to its head struggling against the steel net cable. It beeps frantically.

[Beans]

She tries to grab its head and look into the camera.
I want to see the owner of this toaster.
Hear that, person watching this?

[Durp]

It suddenly shuts down, and scrambling is heard from the EAST.

[Beans]

She runs like hell eastward.

[Durp]

She'll see a man in a white labcoat sprinting away from her. Damn, he's fast.

[Beans]

Damn, so is she.
She runs like 40 ounces of hell after him.
Just stop running, damn you!

[Durp]

The man runs up a wall, onto a broken down hovercar repair shop.

[Beans]

Thryza's played Sands of Time enough to follow him. Oh, and she's badass too.

[Durp]

Heh. Once she gets up there, she'll realize that the guy has nowhere to go. He's trapped on the roof.

[Beans]

Well, well, well.
This is where you turn around and I see if you're my husband or not... either way, you'll get an asskicking of some sort.

[Durp]

He turns around. He's a robot. A really advanced one. It appears to have a recorded message.
Honey, I told you not to follow me. i suggest you get off this space station soon, before you get hurt.
MESSAGETRON WILL SELF DESTRUCT IN 5...4...3...

[Beans]

She goes to boot it over the side and get away.
She shakes quietly.

[Durp]

It explodes. One of the soldiers gets a call.
... 'Kay. Thryza, we're wanted in the upper governmental district.

[Beans]

She makes a small, harsh sound; it's a sort of compressed whimper that masquerades as a cough.

She wordlessly heads for the upper district.

[Durp]

They take a hovercar. They arrive in a large, important-looking building. A man greets them.
Gentlemen, please come inside. We have many things to discuss.

[Beans]

Gentlemen?! *stuffs cigarettes in mouth*
Heh, Thryza's a gentleman?
She gets in.
I see.

[Durp]

I'd say gentlewoman, but then again she's really neither.
They walk into a large room with several chairs. In one of them, is Dad.
Hi there.

[Beans]

... Knew it.
She sighs.

[Durp]

I'm everywhere.
Gentlemen,
GENTLEMEN
Meet the supervisor of this space station.
I don't need an introduction, lawrence. They know me. Anyway. Kids, Chex, i need you guys to do something for me. Something really important.

[Beans]

... Which is?

[Durp]

I need you to go somewhere, and get off of this space station.
He hands her some coordinates for somewhere on earth.
I have a feeling this station isn't gonna exist a while longer, as i'm pretty sure our little scientist got what he needed.

[Beans]

Alrighty...
She sighs.
C'mon, boys, we're going back to notspace.

[Durp]

Woo!
ROCKET SHIP

[Beans]

She goes back to le raquet chip unless not.

[Durp]

They do. As they do, they hear an alarm and a few explosions.
Hold on tight.
They speed off as the station explodes. Whoop de doodle.

[Beans]

Unsurprising.

[Durp]

Do you really think he wouldnt blow stuff up if given the chance?
They start to descend through the atmosphere.

[Beans]

I know how it feels... Yay, descent!

[Durp]

They land near the coordinates. It's the ruins of MSU. A harley is parked outside of it, along with a few humvees.

[Beans]

She looks for anyone living.

[Durp]

None living. A few skeletons, and some more fresh bodies. They look like bandits of a sort.

[Beans]

She observes those more closely, then looks at the vehicles.

[Durp]

Random bandits. Each one is literally torn limb from limb. Footprints lead into the ruined university.

[Beans]

She follows! Yay!

[Durp]

She walks through a trashed chem lab. Into the courtyard. Skeletons and decaying bodies are everywhere. Old indestructible spandex suits and labcoats drape over the shoulders of bleached skeletons. It's a disturbing scene.

[Beans]

She sighs, shaking, continuing.

[Durp]

She'll reach a dormitory, and she'll see Chris rummaging through his old footlocker, mumbling to himself. He still misses his arm, and he wears regular street clothes.

[Beans]

Need some help with that?

[Durp]

... You can't just do one thing i tell you, hmm?

He finds what he was looking for, and sticks it in his coat.

[Beans]

No.
No I can't.
By the way, whatever you were smoking when you thought you could just disappear, leave a note, and have me just sit and twiddle my thumbs? Yeah, whatever that stuff was, it musta been damn good.

[Durp]

Thryza, i do not want you involved in what i am going to do. I do not want anybody to trace anything back to you.
He walks over to his workbench and picks up a metal arm. Unlike his other one, however, this one is red metal with black highlights, with spikes all over it. He attaches it to his stump.
If you keep following me, sweetie, I will have to take measures to keep you from doing so.
He opens up a cabinet and pulls out a moth eaten red labcoat, takes off his jacket, and throws the labcoat over his black tank top. He puts on a pair of Red goggle-shades.
I still love you, and i will come back someday. But for now, i am not Christopher Wogal.
He grabs a long, automatic death ray from above his bed, as well as two magnums.
I'm the Scourge, and i'm about to get my Mother back.
He starts to walk past her.

[Beans]

She sits down and clenches her fist.
Gods dammit gods dammit gods dammit gods dammit gods dammit gods dammit gods---
...
...
... I'm...

[Durp]

You better get outta here soon. A bunch of people are looking for me.

[Beans]

She walks silently out without a glance back.

[Durp]

An airship rises out of the ground. A big one. It flies off to the west.

[Beans]

She heads back to the ship thingy.

[Durp]

Where to?
ASDFGHJK

[Beans]

Follow that ship.
She goes to wherever one can change one's clothes.

[Durp]

They do so. The ship is heading for over an ocean.

[Beans]

Thryza emerges in this suit. (http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/20090303/293.depp.johnny.publicenemiesposter.lc.030309.jpg) No hat.
She watches their progress silently.

[Durp]

Nice coat.
They zoom over the sea, following the airship. They approach an island.

[Beans]

She goes back to don a facey-thing and a hatty thing...

[Durp]

IT's a large island, with vast cities spread across it, and people milling about. Scourge's ship lands somewhere in the midst of it.

[Beans]

Because I need to do The Reveal, I won't say what her hat and mask look like, but the effect is creepy as all hell.
She will exit and head for Scourge when they land.

[Durp]

A crowd gathers around his ship. He steps out, holding his death ray.
Anybody got a spare soul i could borrow?
He looks around at all the people.
Just a soul, any soul... No? Well, i suppose you folks wouldn't have souls, huh?
He pumps his death ray.
Meh.
He opens fire on the crowd, and pulls out a device that glows every time another person dies.

[Beans]

From a building... the figure in that suit I mentioned, as well as this hat (http://uponamidnightdreary.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/dochat.jpg) and this mask (http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksqv1u3PQe1qzq8eto1_500.jpg)...

It's clapping.
Dear lord, that horrid Plague Doctor thing is APPLAUDING HIM.

[Durp]

My friend has one of those masks.
He continues shooting until the area around his ship is wiped out. He pulls a battery pack out of his gun and drops it, loading a new one in and pumping it. He looks at the Plague doctor mask and shudders, but keeps walking, gunning down random civvvies.

[Beans]

Il Dottore follows, helpfully picking up the spent power pack and depositing it in a trashcan.

[Durp]

Police show up, and are exterminated. Scourge missed his line of work.
BACK UP! I NEED BACK UP!! I swear to god i thought he was dead! I'm in zone 22-1 five, fifth avenu-
The panicked police officer falls and gurgles slightly.
Suddenly, he turns around and looks at il dottore.
... There something you want?

[Beans]

Il Dottore is in possession of a rather fetching handbag, which swings at its side.
Nothing is said, just a silent little head-shake.
It kicks gently at a body.

[Durp]

Why are you following me?

[Beans]

A little shrug.
It finds a gift card in a dead person's pocket and takes it.

[Durp]

The Scourge raises an eyebrow, but turns around and continues his work. Suddenly, something he dreaded happens. A superhero shows up. Sonic boom arrives, his cape waving proudly in the wind.
I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE, STRANGER, BUT I'M GONNA PROTECT THIS TOWN FROM YOUR EVIL PLAN!
... You must be new at this. You're generally supposed to show up before i kill half the town, not after. Did you start yesterday or something? I've been around since '03.

[Beans]

Il Dottore tilts its head to the side as it looks at Boom, then slowly walks forward, handbag swinging like a lady's hand bag would normally.

Whatever this is, it's creepy as all hell.

[Durp]

Uhh...
Boom starts to sweat a little as il Dottore gets closer. HE backs up a bit.
P-prepare to be defeated!
He claps his hands together, and a wave of energy rushes towards Dottore and Scourge.

[Beans]

Il Dottore sidesteps neatly, bumping him with the handbag as he passes.

[Durp]

He flinches.
H-Hey!
He throws another boom at Dottore, ignoring Scourge completely. HE sits back and watches, intrigued.

[Beans]

Dottore skips schoolgirlishly outta the way.

[Durp]

He continues firing, growing frustrated and panicked.
TALK, damnit!
Onlookers stare blankly.

[Beans]

The longcoated, beak-masked thing just keeps dodging and skipping and sidestepping and... oh gods... oh gods, the only sound is the light swoosh, and the clack of the shoes, and the brush of the handbag against the coat...

[Durp]

Boom screams, and crumples up on the ground, broken.
Noob.

[Beans]

Il Dottore looks at Scourge, head tilted and handbag swinging gently.

[Durp]

... Fine, you can come, Doc.
He begins walking again, his little device glowing and fluctuating.

[Beans]

The Doc follows---not right behind him, but at about 10 feet of distance.

[Durp]

He eventually gets to the mayor's house, after shooting hundreds of civvies, and killing a few upstart superheroes. In the front of the house, in all his annoying as hell glory, is General Sledge.
And here i thought you quit.
And here i thought i killed you.

[Beans]

The Doc tilts its head at Sledge to one side, then the other.

[Durp]

Sledge looks quite a bit different now. there are scars literally everywhere on his body, now, making him look quite a bit like Frankenstein, after the way Bubble and Chris killed him. (( Froze him and shattered him. )) He wears a suit of archaic armor without the helmet nowadays, modified to fit his massive stature. His Power-Hammer glows with an eerie blue light. He has it slung across his shoulder. He glances at Dottore.
Huh. Didn't know you were capable of having a friend you didn't shoot.
Scourge's voice slips momentarily.
Eat a d[or]k.
The Scourge raises his death ray.

[Beans]

Il Dottore twiddles its gloved fingers, staring at Sledge with a tilted (slightly) head.

[Durp]

The fight begins. The Scourge's death ray warms up, after having a knob turned, and fires fully automatic bursts of D100,000 plasma blasts at Sledge, destroying architecture behind him, and gooifying one or two national guard trucks as Sledge sprints towards Il Dottore. His Powerhammer charges, a kinetic field surrounding it, and he takes a diagonal swing at Her.

[Beans]

Il Dottore does a sidestep. It shouldn't have worked. She should have at least been clipped by the edge.
Spacetime was just quietly warped.
Something wet may hit the back of Sledge's head.

[Durp]

It hit the small of his back. He reaches back to feel what it is.

[Beans]

His neck, if he can feel anything, will hurt there.
So will his fingertips.
Il Dottore gets out of the way.

[Durp]

Realizing it's acid, he snarls and rips it off, throwing it to the ground. He sprints toward Dottore, swinging his hammer again.

[Beans]

Il Dottore sidesteps, but not before throwing a splash to the ground that brings up a swoosh of steam.

It acids at him again.

[Durp]

He dodges, and Scourge leaps toward him with a chainsword. The Scourge is punched in the throat, and gurgles a bit. Losing patience, Sledge pulls out a double barreled shotgun and fires at Il Dottore.

[Beans]

The Doc ducks, but pellets tear across her back.
For the first time so far, The Doc makes a noise.
A little snarling "rrrghhkk!" of pain.
She hurls something worse than acid at him... and if it connects, you'll see what it is.

[Durp]

It is deflected by the kinetic field of Sledge's hammer. He is then slashed across the bicep by Scourge's Chainsword. Scourge gets a hammer-smack in the ribs. Ow.
MOTHER-

[Beans]

Something like this (http://www.sci-fire.com/old%20site/LewisGun_Right.jpg) is drawn from the Doc's coat and fired at Sledge.

[Durp]

The blast rakes across his left arm, but only about half of it gets through his thick armor. He snarls and rushes forward, making a swing for her chest.

[Beans]

She dodges, but is clipped and flies backwards with a screech of rage, not pain.
Her arm shakes as she tries to lift the thing to fire again.

[Durp]

He is shot again in the arm, screaming in about as much rage As Il Dottore. His left arm is pretty much raw hamburger by now. He's about to raise his shotgun to fire, but is tackled by Scourge. Scourge gives him quite a few spiked punches in the jaw with a mechanical arm, but is then thrown off. Sledge gets up, and raises his hammer to execute the supervillian.

[Beans]

The barrel of the gun shoots off. Yes, that huge metal thing shoots off, right at the hammer. Probably setting the hero off balance.
The stock drops off to reveal the core of that huge gun... the Ion cannon. (http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/9/96/Jawa_ion_pistol.jpg)

The Doc stands and fires brutally at Sledge, breathing hissing through the mask.

[Durp]

Sledge is fried, the burnt wiring of the Power-Hammer clattering to the ground. He'd better not come back from that. Scourge exhales, and stares over at "Il Dottore".
... Hi, honey.

[Beans]

The mask is pulled down to hang around her neck.
Am I good enough, Chris?
Am I good enough now?
Her eyes are wet.
Red-rimmed.
Her eyes have probably been leaking tears for a while.

[Durp]

Chris gets up from the ground, pulling off his red goggles. He walks over to her, and grabs her coat lapel. He lifts her off the ground, up to his level, and presses his lips against hers.
You weren't the bad one.

[Beans]

She hugs him tightly, reciprocating.
Awww.
Ready to go home?

[Durp]

... No. I've got to get her back, Honey. I've got to.
He takes out his soul device, it now glowing green after the death of Sledge.
We need to get to The Anchor.

[Beans]

She rubs the Ion Cannon's barrel.
Mom...
... Let's go.

[Durp]

Redna and the soldiers fly over, and Chris steps in.
Take me to the anchor.
Yes sir.

[Beans]

She follows closely.

[Durp]

They speed across the world, and land outside of the desert cave that hides a teleporter to the dead planet. Chris walks out of the ship, and into the cave.

[Beans]

Thryza walks right beside him, rubbing the IC.

[Durp]

They walk into the teleporter, and arrive at the dead planet. The colossal obelisk that is the Wogal gravestone stands before them, a few more names etched into it. They walk past, approaching Mom's bedroom.

[Beans]

She's still wearing the suit, coat, and hat, and the mask is at her belt.
She swallows hard.

[Durp]

Chris opens the door, and sees his mother sleeping in the queen sized bed. He walks over, and gently taps her on the shoulder.
... Mom?
She rolls over to face them.
I heard you were coming back here.

[Beans]

Thryza nods silently.

[Durp]

She smiles, and throws the covers off, stretching. She gets up, and looks between Thy and Chris.
Well?
Sorry. Let's go.
They walk out of the room, and walk over to a large man in a black trenchcoat, and fedora. Chris hands him the device.
i just got you 100,000 more souls for The Collection. This concludes the debt i owe you. You now are obligated to let me have my Mom back.
The man looks at the device, and stuffs it in his coat. He nods, and points to the teleporter. They start to walk to it. A single tear of happiness rolls down Chris' cheek.
17 years...

[Beans]

Thryza smiles at her mother-in-law and her husband, not saying anything to ruin the moment.

[Durp]

They walk to the teleporter. They begin to walk through, when something happens. Sledge grabs Chris' leg as they all walk through. Chris' eyes widen, and Sledge is pulled through with them.

[Beans]

Thryza screeches in rage.
DAMN YOU! CAN'T YOU STAY DOWN?!
She fires narrow blasts from the IC at his head and arm frantically.

[Durp]

He sidesteps. Chris pulls out his death ray to shoot Sledge, but it's snatched. Time seems to slow down as the famed superhero pulls the trigger, riddling Betty with plasma blasts, and frying Chris' lower leg. Chris lets out an unnatural shreik as they both fall. Sledge backs through the teleporter, and drops the gun.

[Beans]

Thryza fires madly through the portal in reflex.
Nononononononononononono... no... no, no, this... no... m-mom... no...

[Durp]

Chris screams a scream that none should hear and none should emit. He rolls over to his mother and buries his face in her shoulder. With her last energy, she smiles warmly at both of them.
It's okay. Just... Be better than your father.
Blood trickles out of her mouth, and her eyes roll back. Chris' body racks with uncontrollable, painful sobs. Blood streams from his lack of leg.
Mommy...

[Beans]

Thryza falls to her knees, laying the gun down.
She crawls over to hold her husband, trigger finger still spasming.

[Durp]

Several soldiers sprint in, hearing the gunshots. A tear rolls down Redna's cheek, and he grabs Chris under the shoulders and starts to drag him to the ship. Several Techna-armored soldiers try to grab Thryza and pull her away towards the ship as well. A few more place Bette's body on a blanketed stretcher.

[Beans]

She grabs the IC on the way.
Don't worry, mom.
I'll make it right again.

[Durp]

The ship warms up, and starts to speed off towards the newly renewed S.P.I.R.E headquarters, for emergency surgery.
(( Deadtime. ))

[Beans]

She holds Chris's hand as they deadtime.
I promise I'll fix everything.