Metatrooper

Diddly Do

@Hokum

Ignoring the food and beverage in front of him, Meta replies to Palin:

Meta: Other galactic factions share your thoughts, ever since the appearance of Hany's Ribbon, people all over started delving into temporal technology themselves. Suffice to say, no one knows where any of them are now.

He says all of this with a straight voice, devoid of any emotion whatsoever.

Meta then listens to Palin's offer, his steel gaze meeting Palin's own, but in actuality, his helmet's sensors were gathering data of the surrounding area. However, the room had some kind of jammer that obscured much of the area, and thus he could only get basic visual and auditory readings.

As the First Gamma continues speaking, Meta already starts thinking about his possible options and his demands. He knows he has no choice but to accept the mission, and instead thinks heavily on how he would complete it. In this new world devoid of intel, he needs to get as much as he can.

Meta: Of course I'll accept your contract First Gamma, although if you're smart enough you should know that I'm more useful alive than dead.

He pauses for a moment before speaking again.

Meta: My first request is not to interfere, you can track my location but that's it, no more, no less. After all, good relationships are built on trust, so I think that both parties should observe it.

Meta: Second, Take me to your databanks and allow me access, I want to know everything that I can about him before starting the mission.

Meta: Third, finish repairing my ship and do nothing else.

He then rises from his seat and regains his composure, before reaching his right hand out towards Palin and asking:

Meta: Do we have a deal Palin?

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The droid pauses for a moment, processing what Rufus had just said before its protocols kick in.

// UNKNOWN PERSONNEL //
// UNKNOWN MOTIVATIONS //
// ADVISED ACTION: DETAINMENT UNTIL COMMAND ARRIVES //

The ASP replied once again in its artificial voice:

ASP: Follow me.

The lead droid then turns around and starts hovering towards a doorway, while the second follows behind Rufus to help usher him in.

Diddly Do

@Zyngard @Eviledd1984

The trooper looked up at Memoriae, a little bit unnerved, before walking around him and stopping beside the sniper. He could see Colt down below with three troopers from his squad and one strange-looking infected moving towards them. As the sniper fired at the boomer, killing it, the trooper felt more relieved, and would stay there for a minute or two before walking back to the main area of the rooftop.

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While the squad below were moving towards the abandoned building, they could see one of the infected slowly lumbering towards them. Before they could fire their weapons however, something struck it from above as it collapsed down onto the ground, unmoving. The squad looked up at the building to see the sniper with his rifle aimed towards the corpse of the boomer, indicating that he had been the one who had shot it. They then sprinted into the abandoned building, which was actually a command center of sorts, with a communications tower and a very powerful scanner at its disposal.

Diddly Do

@Hokum

Meta stood there, unmoving, with his arms crossed. His helmet's void black T-shaped visor showed no movement, no emotion, no feeling. That was part of the reason he chose that design, both because he liked the design, it masked his own expressions, and that it could unnerve other people if he stared long enough. His attention then snapped to the size as a new being materialized into the ship, which looked like a mostly normal human male, but Meta knew better than that. His instincts told him to reach for his gun, but he forced himself not to due to the current situation, instead silently observing and analyzing both the newcomer and the Quatis droid, who seemed more human than most droids he encountered. He ignored the newcomer's comment and waited to see how the engineer would react, and was intrigued by the panicked state of the engineer. He allowed the droid to grab him, not resisting, as they teleported out of the Tempest.

Soon after, two other ASPs hovered into the scene. One of them stopped in front of Rufus and said in a monotone robotic voice:

ASP: Halt, identify yourself.

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Meta soon found himself in a room at an unknown location. Guessing that this was the interior of the large ship he saw earlier, he looked around, analyzing the surroundings. The first thing he saw was the man in the uniform, which he could identify as a general of some sort. The second thing that he noticed was a picture of an unknown starship. The figure then stepped forward and asked him about his personal information, with no other choice he answered.

Meta: Meta, bounty hunter, mercenary, TKR system M414K045, escape from Hany's Ribbon, and I don't know anything about that ship, first time I've seen it.

Defenders of Cinix (A fun crossover) [Accepting]

@Raptra @eemmtt

As Abathur and his swarm emerged from the portal, he imme began taking in information. Abathur first saw the hooded figure, he mostly focused on the figure's biology rather than his speech and soon he was making predictions and thinking of what biological potential he could gather.

Unknown lifeform. Humanoid but not Terran, strange energy. Too weak to face him, will take samples later.

He then faced Skitterback and his work, examining them from a distance.

Unknown lifeform, mammal-like, inferior but still superior to Terran, must obtain sample for swarm. Large energy emminating, cannot fight, will return later with better swarm.

Abathur turned back to the hooded figure, fortunately, he still heard what it had said. He simply stared at it, not moving until the figure left. He then ordered the drones to carry the large emblem with them as they disappeared through one of the paths of the sewer.

After travelling a fair distance, the swarm found a suitable place to start a base. Abathur instructed one drone to morph into a hatchery, the heart of a Zerg base that could spawn larvae, which could then morph into Zerg creatures



He instructed the other to morph into an evolution chamber, which served as Abathur's workplace and where he could make new strains of zerg and improve on existing ones.



The rest of the drones were sent to forage for food, while the zerglings were split between escorting the drones and protecting the base.

Trios

@Zyngard @Dartbored Fairy

Kaldalis does not even move as the girl collides with him, his armor absorbing the miniscule impact. He quickly reached the girl with his right arm and pulled her up.

Kaldalis: My apologies madam, I did not avoid you in time. Are you alright?

He then looks back to Kura as the woman claimed that she knew her, and waited for Kura's reply.

Diddly Do

@Zyngard @Eviledd1984

One of the troopers stationed on the roof, a squad leader by the looks of him, said to the fortune teller:

Assault Trooper Sergeant: Negative, command told you to stay put, so that's what you'll have to do.

The rest of the troops on the rooftop, were either patrolling the area, manning the plasma repeaters, on lookout duty, or establishing coms with the PATGs and the Endurance. One of them saw the sniper moving towards the edge of the building and equip his rifle, seemingly aiming downwards. The trooper then switched from the TKR private com channel to his helmet's external voice speakers and asked.

Assault Trooper: You there, what are you doing with that rifle?

The trooper then readied his own rifle, not raising it, but ready to shoot, just in case.

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Down below, Colt and his team were greeted by a few skitterers immediately upon exiting.

So much for stealth...

Colt was the first to raise his rifle at an alarming speed, followed quickly by his squad, which opened fire on the creatures. Blue bolts of plasma quickly zipped forward and dispatched the skitterers. The power of the weapons, combined with the troopers' intense training and skills, reduced the creatures to little more than roasted corpses. Realizing that their cover's been blown, Colt quickly leads his squad to a nearby abandoned building, in hopes of hiding their presence.

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Meanwhile, the HAMs were having quite an uneventful run, the only things they've seen where city debris and the occasional mob of infected, no survivors could be found, and they were nearing the end of their course.

Diddly Do

After hearing a few words from them, Meta had already concluded that these guys were assholes. Well he'd just deal with it, after all, what kind of galaxy doesn't have at least a hundred assholes in it? He stayed silent at their remarks and watched as the Tempest's engines and reactor were seemingly magically repaired, he was awed by what he saw, since no other galactic faction he knew of had this kind of tech, even the TKR. Although he was amazed, he was careful not to show it, instead replying with a simple:

Meta: Impressive.

He sends Niner back to his housing unit, which also connects to the rest of the ship's systems, in order to run diagnostics and confirm repairs. The lead engineer asked him once more as to what needed repairing as the rest of his party dematerialzed. As they teleported back to the Quatis ship, Meta could hear their arrogant scoffing and chuckling, now very audible. If given the chance, he would be very happy to be able to put a plasma round between their eyes. As the rest dissapeared, the last engineer told him about large amounts of energy emminating from his ship, and how that same energy was found when their planet was destroyed. That would seem impossible, as the Tempest was very well just a heap of floating metal waiting to be blasted for the past several hours. It took him but a few seconds to deduce what had happened, everything he had just witnessed pointed to it being the answer.

It was Fanny May.

Of course a divine being like herself could destroy a planet without much trouble, he then wondered if this is how she would "cleanse" the universe and start over, wiping out each planet and each life form one by one. He then notices the engineer's green, seemingly mechanical eyes and sees him pull out his gun, aiming it at Meta.

So even their droids are pompous assholes... of course.

He does not seem to react to the gun being aimed at him at all, instead he says in a calm and cold voice, staring at the engineer through the void black visor of his helmet:

Meta: You can put that thing down, I don't know anything about a large energy signature or have any allies here so to speak of. Nevertheless, I can see that your faction is currently in control here, so I will comply. I've told you what I know about the energy signature, what other demands do you have?

Diddly Do

@Zyngard @Eviledd1984

The troopers slowly lowered their weapons but still kept vigilant in case they might be hostile. Colt then replied to both of them.

Colt: You'll both have to wait here for the transports. They won't be coming until we finish the recon op.

He then told them to move to the side of the rooftop, near one of the barricades, and await the transports there. Colt then tapped into his squad coms, ordering three Assault Troopers and a Medic to accompany him on his recon op while the rest wait here and guard the refugees and protect the rendezvous point from any further attacks. As the troopers moved behind Colt and into formation, they jogged towards the doorway and proceeded to descend from the stairs all the way to the ground floor. As they arrived on the ground floor of the building, Colt gave a hand signal as the rest of his squad raised their weapons along with him, slowly moving towards the doors and exiting the building.

Diddly Do

@Hokum

Meta ignored Fanny's comments, mostly looking at the floor and back to her as she talked. He slowly loses consciousness as he falls to the ground, the last thing he could hear was Fanny talking to a captain of sorts. It was there where he received his vision, seemingly bombarded by sights and sounds from everywhere in the universe before focusing on a certain aspect. It was then he understood truly what Fanny was and what her goals were.

When he woke up, he was facing a group of what seemed to be human individuals, with the beer can in his hand and Fanny gone. He deduced that these people must be from the ship that he contacted, and from what he could see they looked like engineers of sorts. After the officer finished his statement, he replied.

Meta: Of course, follow me.

He walked past them and motioned for them to follow him as he walked out of the bridge and down a hallway leading to the reactor and engine room. While he walked he tapped on the coms and asked Niner.

Meta: Niner, you still there?

Niner: Affirmative sir, we have brought another ASP unit online.

Meta: Good, there are a bunch of people that'll come by and repair the ship, help them out and keep an eye on them.

Niner: Affirmative, shall I activate Instigator unit 002 as well?

Meta: Yes, but just keep him ready, don't let the people see him otherwise they'll think we're hostile.

Niner: As you wish sir.

Meta closed the coms and continued walking down the hallway, he moved his hand to his waist area to confirm that his sidearm was still in his holster and was ready to draw it and fire, just in case these were sent in to kill him, you could never be too sure.

As they arrived at the engine room, they could see several of the few remaining repair droids that hovered around the main reactor. It was in a heavily damaged state, especially after the overload as sparks flew out from the structure and the lights shifted from bright to dim. Several other large structures could also be seen, these were the engines, and were in the same state of disarray as the reactor. Meta turned to face the Quatis envoy and addressed them.

Meta: This is the main reactor and engine room, most of the ship's damage is located here. This is the lead droid, Niner.

One of the ASPs hovers towards the group, eventually descending to the level of the group. It was distinguished by two streaks of white paint that run along the main photoreceptor, and was equipped with additional arms as well.

Meta: He, along with his comrades will assist you in repairs, don't hesitate to ask him any questions you might have.

Defenders of Cinix (A fun crossover) [Accepting]

Meta Knight listened to the agent's words and removed the emblem from his mask, he stared at it for a few moments before tapping it using his gloved hand. He fumbled with it some more before he accidentally activated a switch.

Suddenly, a small portal appeared below Meta Knight and sucked him in, dissapearing right after. He soon found himself on the bridge of the Halberd surrounded by his subordinates, where they claimed a portal had dropped him in there suddenly. He sighed in relief as he was back in his home dimension, able to protect it from harm once again.