Gentlemanvaultboy

Omniverse: Brink of Annihilation

Name(s): The Sundown Kid
Appearance:

My Hider

Faction: The Lost Worlds Alliance

Abilities: Far and away the greatest gunslinger that ever lived on his world, with a working knowledge of how to put down a surprising variety of things with just a few bullets. Good with horses and asymmetrical warfare.

Equipment: .44 Magnum revolver, a sheriffs star, and a dark horse that can ride across dimensions.

Personality: A taciturn and polite man who prefers, if at all possible, to speak with his actions. His world being torn apart by the annihilation fleet seems to have revived his unfortunate death seeking tendencies, though even now he would prefer to die putting his considerable skill to use protecting the weak. Stoic in the face of unimaginable odds and doesn't think highly of glory seeking.

Short Bio: A Butch and Sundance style last stand against Annihilation Fleet ended with the closest man the Kid had to a friend dead and the Kid himself riding away on that mans horse. Since then he's wandered, looking for a place to die or convince him to keep on living. Has placed a bounty on his own head again, though this time it's in the hope that someone he knows will find it.

Universe of Origin: Live A Live

Omniverse: Brink of Annihilation

Name(s): The Sundown Kid
Appearance:

My Hider

Faction: The Lost Worlds Alliance

Abilities: Far and away the greatest gunslinger that ever lived on his world, with a working knowledge of how to put down a surprising variety of things with just a few bullets. Good with horses and asymmetrical warfare.

Equipment: .44 Magnum revolver, a sheriffs star, and a dark horse that can ride across dimensions.

Personality: A taciturn and polite man who prefers, if at all possible, to speak with his actions. His world being torn apart by the annihilation fleet seems to have revived his unfortunate death seeking tendencies, though even now he would prefer to die putting his considerable skill to use protecting the weak. Stoic in the face of unimaginable odds and doesn't think highly of glory seeking.

Short Bio: A Butch and Sundance style last stand against Annihilation Fleet ended with the closest man the Kid had to a friend dead and the Kid himself riding away on that mans horse. Since then he's wandered, looking for a place to die or convince him to keep on living. Has placed a bounty on his own head again, though this time it's in the hope that someone he knows will find it.

Universe of Origin: Live A Live

Omniverse: Brink of Annihilation

Popping in to show my interest, but I'm not going to be able to do anything serious for at least a few days.

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@dirty slime

Ridley and Shinnok separated.

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@Lmpkio
Richard hopped out of his cockpit, throwing on the suit jacket that he kept hanging in there while he was fighting. People were pouring in through the portal network on the other side of the room, dispersing into groups before settling down to take a short rest before heading out into the base proper. Around them ported in those that had been lucky enough to be granted emergency beacons and unlucky enough to be forced to use them. These troops quickly moved, making way for any other poor unfortunate soul that was forced to use that method. The air was full of chatter punctured by the occasional cry of someone searching for a friend or comrade. Along one side, through the heavy duty portal, extended a line of robots, monsters, and fellows to large for ordinary transport to handle. He almost smiled when he saw a familiar looking clump of green machines about to pass through the service doors into the main hanger.

"Take this." he called up to the two Zaku boys, thumbing at his own mech. "I've got to meet someone. I'll treat you later."

His order was met with a thumbs up, and one of the Zaku's bent down and picked his machine up like it was an action figure. Then the two began to carefully navigate through the throng of bodies toward their giant brethren in what counted as a delicate manner for giant robots. Taking advantage of the opening left in their wake, Richard strode confidently into the throng, fiddling with his com. "Hello?" he said, "Test. Test, test, test. Witch girl, hellllllooooooo?"

No response. The line was dead.

That wasn't good.

The creeping sensation that he may have been stood up like a girl on prom night was suddenly interrupted as a wave went through the room. Richard looked up to see people all facing the same direction, saluting. That could only mean the big cheese was in the room. This was confirmed when he saw something big and purple take off and started flying over head. He decided his search could wait a minute.

"Riiiiiiiidly." Richard called as the space dragon drew near, positively tasting the name as it came off his tongue. "Your boys just couldn't help wiring the planet, huh? BOOM!" He said jovially. "They've always been a species after my own heart. I'm wondering if that was the plan, though. Seemed to me like some last minute improvisation."

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I'd post, but I don't think I have the right to establish the Reign headquarters.

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No one has to worry about dropships. It says in the first post that just aligning with one of the major factions gets you an emergency out.

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*ALERT* *ALERT* *SELF-DESTRUCT SEQUENCE INITIATED. PLANET CATASTROPHE IN T-MINUS TEN MINUTES*

That priority alert flashing on his sensors seemed to kill the fighting in front of Richard. There were still shots, but they were shots fired hastily over the shoulder as the combatants beat feet. The men who had so suddenly set upon Richard were doing the same, pulling an orderly retreat. Richard considered pursuit, he had nine minutes to kill, but then lowered his weapon. No point in wasting the time.

"I don't get it." Ovid said. "If we're retreating why not just blow up the base? Is there something worth blowing up on this planet? Is this some sort of conspiracy!? What aren't they telling us!?"

"Ridly is here." Richard said.

"Oh, that explains everything." Ovid replied, instantly calming down.

"Come on boys." Richard said, fiddling with his tie again. "We'll find your squad once we get home." The he pulled on the knot sharply. The home beacon hidden in the tie flared to life, summoning up a towering pillar of blue light in front of them. "Get my guns." With that Richard walked into the light, disappearing with the sound of rapid dissolution. The two men quickly bend down, scooped up the weapons in handfuls of sand, and made their way into the light.

The pillar lingered for five more seconds, then collapsed in on itself and winked out.

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Richard and his honor guard made their way across the desert in a wide half-circle around the main thrust of the fighting, the same route that Ovid and Grand had taken to get to reach him, to get back behind their own lines and hook up with the unit that his two would be rescuers had left to come save his bacon. With the explosions that continued to rock the air you'd think there would be some tension in the air, but Richard actually found it very relaxing.

He was riding up on one of the Zakus shoulders. Ovid had insisted that it would be faster this way with their robots longer strides and Richard was no stranger to being carried into battle. In the meantime and amused himself watching the fighting through the scope of his gun. It wasn't a great view. It was nothing compared to the panorama you got from above. He could hardly see the sides through the dust, least of all what he assumed was the main event still presumable happening near the enemy dropships.

He would have had to be blind, however, to miss something like a mass retreat.

It started when he heard the air battle suddenly intensify, then just as suddenly die down again. Then he started seeing the ground troops start behaving...oddly. It was hard to notice, but the density of fire coming from their side noticeably decreased. Then he saw the pods shooting up into the air and the lines he could see started collapsing.

Then he got deadly confirmation from Ovid. "Sir, I'm hearing a lot of chatter! The men are confused, but from what it sounds like the Imperials just cut and run." He said, his voice stained with sudden stress.

This was bad. The Imperials fought together, so if they were retreating then there were now huge rips in their defense. He could picture the resistance rushing through, pouring around the sides and sweeping their lines aside like a wave. The Reign troops obviously didn't know what was happening. Was this a full retreat? If not, is anyone else running? Should we try and stop them? Why are they doing this? Why aren't we the ones running? Is this part of the plan? Some thought or another like this was now swirling in the head of all but the most zealous of Reign fighters, combined with the natural urge to run when you see another man running.

This was all the makings of a rout. He'd read enough military history to know that routs were when the killing happened. He'd personally seen enough military history to know that.

He wasn't able to linger on the thought for long, because Grand shouted "Incoming!" and three fighters streaked over their heads in a strafing run. Richard jumped off his perch, hiding behind his comrades as their sturdy armor was peppered with fire. Richard watched as they vanished off toward the base along with several other squadrons he could see. They were using the weakened air support as an opportunity to attack the fortress itself, the explosions that peppered the artillery and anti-air batteries was testament to that.

Then fire started coming from another direction, drawing Richards attention back to the ground. In just the time it had taken him to look up the Reign troops near them had been overrun, and now a detachment of Resistance was making it's way toward them. He swung around and raised his rifle. The rest of his weapons clattered to the ground next to him as the Zakus turned to bring up their own guns.

If something wasn't done about this then Reign resistance would break completely. Then it would be every man fir himself.

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Superman is good.