Mr Zoat
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Sunday evening
We're under attack
Fuck yeah!
Lunge! And grab, and pull-!
I'm not the Flash-fast, but I'm strong and I've got basically endless stamina. When I run around a city, I have to use the roads or I get stuck in crowds. Took everyone a while to get used to seeing me jumping over intersections because I'm not a car and the rules of the road don't apply to me-.
The guy who's arm I grabbed hit the far wall with-. Okay, he's going to the hospital, but that was in defence of a team mate.
"You alright?"
**I am uninjured. But I am concerned.**
I look at the ramp. "Yeah, if the instructions for closing that are in a manual, you're reading it-." Er. "You can read English, right?"
**Yes. The only reason I cannot speak it is that my larynx is the wrong shape.** He knuckle-walks towards the first guy I knocked over, who's just getting up. **I am concerned because I cannot read his mind.**
"Okay?" Alright, two guys, and this one doesn't even have a baton-.
He draws a knife. Wait, is this it? Did they think that the place was empty or something?
Okay, right, I should probably say something.
"That's not going to do anything. Why don't you save yourself some broken bones and-?"
He stabs at N-madi as the gorilla gets closer, and N-dami slaps his knife-arm away hard enough that I can hear it break.
I mean, it's not like I care, but this Justice League thing is my ticket to the next level. I don't know exactly what they're okay with and I don't really want to get in shit if Nando goes ape-.
Nando grabs the guy- "AAAAAOH!" -and-. Rips him in half-?!
Shit.
I know I… Could rip a guy in half. I tried it on a dead deer one time, just to see if I could. Messy as Hell. But he just-.
Wait. Where's the blood?
Nando picks up part of the guy and… Sniffs him, before ripping off his hoodie…
That's a-. Robot. I mean, there's some sort of fake skin on the face and hands, like on the fake hand Old Man Roberts had back at the trailer park-. Wait, could be a cyborg.
"Does he have a-" Nando crushes its head, bits of circuit and plastic crumbling in his hands. "-brain-?"
**No**
Gorilla not playing. Alright, I'm down with that. Yeah! I dash over to the one I smashed into the wall and pull off his hoodie too-. Yep, same story. I toss him up and roundhouse!
The robot explodes, scattering little bits of whatever it's made of across the training room. Fuck yeah! I look up the ramp, wondering if there are any more coming.
I wonder if the Justice League got any kind of Star Trek scanner…
Nando's called up the base computer-. And the hatch is closing.
"What if they've got friends up there?"
**I cannot feel machine minds, and you do not have enhanced senses. We would not find them if they hid.**
"I guess Orange Lantern can do that-." Huh. I walk closer to the computer. "Can you talk to people on that?"
**No. But I can type, and you can talk to people.**
"Okay. Call 'em up."
**Call who?**
"Green Arrow? He's supposed to be running this, right?"
**Yes, but Orange Lantern was just here. And his ring could scan for further attackers.**
"Kobra muta-whatever sounds important. But… Sure, I guess."
Nando presses some buttons, and-. Hey, an Orange Lantern icon, neat. He presses the buttons with his gorilla-fingers, and it starts blinking.
"Orange Lantern, go ahead."
Oh, it's me… Uh… "Hey, Orange Lantern. Risk here, with Nan-. Madi."
"What, you want a lift home?"
"No, no-. We're still in the Mountain. Got attacked by a couple of robots."
"Are you hurt?"
"No? They weren't that strong."
"Is the Mountain secure?"
I look at where the hatch has closed. "Kind of? The ramp they came in through is shut, but I don't know how they opened it."
"And the other entrances?"
"Other entrances?"
"The water entrance and the zeta tubes."
"Er… Dunno?" Shit, that sounds lame. "I thought telling you took priority."
"It does, but I'm tied up here. Can you handle a top-to-bottom sweep?"
"Yeah, we can do that. Pchh, no problem."
I mean, if that's all they can do, I could take them by myself. Fuck, looked like Nando could too.
"Other than Nnamdi, is anyone else there with you?"
"I don't-." I glance at Nando, hoping he can bail me out. No such luck. "I don't know."
"Alright, check for that as well. Contact me again if anything happens."
"You got it." I poke the Orange Lantern symbol on the hologram keyboard, but nothing happens. Nando touches it-. Oh, like that, right. He shuts it down. "Check the kitchens?"
**Why would robots go to the kitchen?**
"'cause it's closest? And…" Right! "It leads to the hangar, and more robots could have come in through the water entrance."
**Very well.** We head towards the corridor leading to the kitchen. **But gorillas do not swim well.**
"I don't have swimming powers, but there's probably some way to block the entrance. Do you know if these belts work under water?"
**I do not.**
"Okay, well, I can come in after you and throw you out if you fall in-. Can you feel anyone else here?"
**I cannot.**
"Alright. No hostages. Let's go smash some robots."
We're under attack
Fuck yeah!
Lunge! And grab, and pull-!
I'm not the Flash-fast, but I'm strong and I've got basically endless stamina. When I run around a city, I have to use the roads or I get stuck in crowds. Took everyone a while to get used to seeing me jumping over intersections because I'm not a car and the rules of the road don't apply to me-.
The guy who's arm I grabbed hit the far wall with-. Okay, he's going to the hospital, but that was in defence of a team mate.
"You alright?"
**I am uninjured. But I am concerned.**
I look at the ramp. "Yeah, if the instructions for closing that are in a manual, you're reading it-." Er. "You can read English, right?"
**Yes. The only reason I cannot speak it is that my larynx is the wrong shape.** He knuckle-walks towards the first guy I knocked over, who's just getting up. **I am concerned because I cannot read his mind.**
"Okay?" Alright, two guys, and this one doesn't even have a baton-.
He draws a knife. Wait, is this it? Did they think that the place was empty or something?
Okay, right, I should probably say something.
"That's not going to do anything. Why don't you save yourself some broken bones and-?"
He stabs at N-madi as the gorilla gets closer, and N-dami slaps his knife-arm away hard enough that I can hear it break.
I mean, it's not like I care, but this Justice League thing is my ticket to the next level. I don't know exactly what they're okay with and I don't really want to get in shit if Nando goes ape-.
Nando grabs the guy- "AAAAAOH!" -and-. Rips him in half-?!
Shit.
I know I… Could rip a guy in half. I tried it on a dead deer one time, just to see if I could. Messy as Hell. But he just-.
Wait. Where's the blood?
Nando picks up part of the guy and… Sniffs him, before ripping off his hoodie…
That's a-. Robot. I mean, there's some sort of fake skin on the face and hands, like on the fake hand Old Man Roberts had back at the trailer park-. Wait, could be a cyborg.
"Does he have a-" Nando crushes its head, bits of circuit and plastic crumbling in his hands. "-brain-?"
**No**
Gorilla not playing. Alright, I'm down with that. Yeah! I dash over to the one I smashed into the wall and pull off his hoodie too-. Yep, same story. I toss him up and roundhouse!
The robot explodes, scattering little bits of whatever it's made of across the training room. Fuck yeah! I look up the ramp, wondering if there are any more coming.
I wonder if the Justice League got any kind of Star Trek scanner…
Nando's called up the base computer-. And the hatch is closing.
"What if they've got friends up there?"
**I cannot feel machine minds, and you do not have enhanced senses. We would not find them if they hid.**
"I guess Orange Lantern can do that-." Huh. I walk closer to the computer. "Can you talk to people on that?"
**No. But I can type, and you can talk to people.**
"Okay. Call 'em up."
**Call who?**
"Green Arrow? He's supposed to be running this, right?"
**Yes, but Orange Lantern was just here. And his ring could scan for further attackers.**
"Kobra muta-whatever sounds important. But… Sure, I guess."
Nando presses some buttons, and-. Hey, an Orange Lantern icon, neat. He presses the buttons with his gorilla-fingers, and it starts blinking.
"Orange Lantern, go ahead."
Oh, it's me… Uh… "Hey, Orange Lantern. Risk here, with Nan-. Madi."
"What, you want a lift home?"
"No, no-. We're still in the Mountain. Got attacked by a couple of robots."
"Are you hurt?"
"No? They weren't that strong."
"Is the Mountain secure?"
I look at where the hatch has closed. "Kind of? The ramp they came in through is shut, but I don't know how they opened it."
"And the other entrances?"
"Other entrances?"
"The water entrance and the zeta tubes."
"Er… Dunno?" Shit, that sounds lame. "I thought telling you took priority."
"It does, but I'm tied up here. Can you handle a top-to-bottom sweep?"
"Yeah, we can do that. Pchh, no problem."
I mean, if that's all they can do, I could take them by myself. Fuck, looked like Nando could too.
"Other than Nnamdi, is anyone else there with you?"
"I don't-." I glance at Nando, hoping he can bail me out. No such luck. "I don't know."
"Alright, check for that as well. Contact me again if anything happens."
"You got it." I poke the Orange Lantern symbol on the hologram keyboard, but nothing happens. Nando touches it-. Oh, like that, right. He shuts it down. "Check the kitchens?"
**Why would robots go to the kitchen?**
"'cause it's closest? And…" Right! "It leads to the hangar, and more robots could have come in through the water entrance."
**Very well.** We head towards the corridor leading to the kitchen. **But gorillas do not swim well.**
"I don't have swimming powers, but there's probably some way to block the entrance. Do you know if these belts work under water?"
**I do not.**
"Okay, well, I can come in after you and throw you out if you fall in-. Can you feel anyone else here?"
**I cannot.**
"Alright. No hostages. Let's go smash some robots."
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