by Doc 42 » Mon Jan 13, 2014 11:13 pm
OOC: The text between asterisks is just flavor text, and is safe to ignore if you're just interested in the action.
"Good effect on target!" Cheers broke out on Titan's bridge, the main display split in half, showing a visibly light image along with the mass sensor view. Smoke and dust clouded the area but they could see the fiery glow given off by the monsters body illuminating the gloom.
The monster's retaliatory attack struck before anyone could call it out, the bridge shuddering once more and listing to one side by the off center attack.
The fireball smashed into Titan's under arm, jarring it and setting portions of it ablaze, but only caused superficial damage to it's actual structure. Titan's left arm, hand and gamma cannon mounted on it had made it through the fight with Spinnerax relatively intact, so it's outer hull was still entirely composed of space titanium and was able to withstand the pressure exerted by the blast.
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Gun operator Drex'tol B hung grogily onto a safety rail, shaking his head, disorientated. Numerous Dantan's lay around the gun operation compartment, sprawled out over the 'ground'. In an environment like the arm, the ground was wherever gravity decided it was. There was a warning light flashing on the wall, the wall behind which the cannon itself was located. Someone was shouting into the radio in his ear. He suddenly came to, realising what had happened. They'd been hit, the impact had jarred them so much it had given him a concussion and either killed or knocked unconscious the rest of the gun crew. The warning light indicated an obstruction in the gun barrel, the 'prepare for firing' light was also flashing on the alert panel. He realised he was the only one currently active, and they were preparing the Gamma cannon for another shut with the barrel still obstructed. He cursed and immediately double tapped his radio call button, instantly cutting off any other chatter on it for a priority message, before alerting the gun command as to what was going on, calling for reinforcements, and informing them as to the state of the rest of the operators.
He didn't bother to check the others for vital signs, there wasn't enough time. He could hear actuators moving somewhere else inside the mech, presumably they were preparing for another attack before attempting to fire the cannon again, that would give him some time.
He grabbed a power cleaner and quickly opened the gun hatch, climbing in and shutting it behind himself. The air inside the cannon felt like a volcano. He glanced towards the muzzle, seeing the streets below through the smoke, they had the cap open to let it cool faster. The gun had been fired a lot during the battle with the humans, hence why it was causing obstructions now, it needed time to cool and recover.
A glance in the other direction showed him the plasma chamber, the main vent leading to the reactor was sealed. A quick search revealed the obstruction, molten metal clinging to a pair of accelerator rails along the barrel. He let himself drop a few meters, catching onto another rail to get a better angle and then readied his power cleaner, aiming and blasting the molten metal with it's jet of air, sending it spattering away from the rails. The metal cooled as it fell away, causing it to rattle down the rest of the barrel and out the muzzle. An obstruction like this was serious, it would short circuit the rails, making it impossible to fire properly. A siren sounded throughout the cannon complex, he glanced over his shoulder to see a huge cylindrical plate of tungsten sliding into the barrel and sealing off the plasma chamber. That was the slug was the ammo the cannon fired. Crap. He frantically finished the last of the cleaning and made his way back towards the hatch. He heard the frame around the slug begin to warp and shift under the increasing pressure of the plasma being pumped into the chamber.
When firing, the plasma fuel would detonate, annihilating the tungsten plate, and then the plasma/tungsten mixture would be accelerated out the barrel by the rails. All it meant to Drex was that the Gamma Cannon barrel was currently a very bad place to be. He reached the hatch and threw himself back in, quickly closing the door behind him.
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The captain continued to direct operations on the bridge cooly;
"Spin up the gravity gun, extend field actuators. Lock onto the building it's in."
Looking on at the inferno with Arandar at it's heart, Titan raised it's right arm exposing it's palm. The circular dial of it's exposed gravity gun suddenly flashed with intensity, the superfluid inside spinning rapidly, twisting under magnetic forces. The entire arm vibrated visibly with inertia of the movement. The field manipulators along Titan's fingers lit up, extending the field produced by the gun outwards, taking hold of the building Arandar lay below.
The captain roared out above the din of the bridge; "now, BURY it!"
Titan's fist closed mechanically. The ruined building's remaining supports suddenly cracked, crushing themselves, the building's whole top half seemingly pulled towards titan, the structure beginning to collapse fully onto the monster below
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**** off TT"-Doc 42
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