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superx_sidekick (superx_sidekick) wrote in madisonvalley,
@ 2023-03-23 23:02:00

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!log, !open, [plot] replicators, ~2023 march, ~~~suzume kimura (yellowtouch), ~~~~ hannah lewis (superx_sidekick)

Who: Hannah Lewis and Open
What: Fighting the Replicators
When: Thursday and Friday
Where: Everywhere
Warnings: None Yet
Status: Incomplete

Ever since she'd acquired G-Girl's powers, Hannah had had to learn to treat the people and objects around her with great care. Sometimes it felt like the world was made of tissue paper. Early on, she'd wrecked a number of doors and appliances and fixtures--mostly her own, fortunately. But she'd mastered it eventually, and was able to throttle back her strength and speed to normal levels most of the time.

It had been a long time since she'd needed to do more. But the replicator invasion--and it was a full-on invasion now--was one that cried out for it. It had started with simply rescuing people being menaced--if not outright attacked--by replicators. But soon she was proactively looking for potential threats and taking the fight to them.

She had pulled out all the stops. She flew over the city, using her vision to watch for threats, and listening for sounds of trouble or calls for help, then traveling to wherever she could help in an instant, and using her powers to deal with the threats as best she could.

She snatched people out of the path of attacking replicators, or pulled them from vehicles being disassembled around them, oh-so-gently placing them somewhere safely away from the threat before rushing back into the fray. She grabbed replicators and crushed them in her grip. She threw them into walls--or into the dome overhead, shattering them. She blew swarms of them away with her breath. She melted them into slag with her heat vision. She smashed through walls the replicators had erected to shield their work from interference and attacked them in their lairs. As hours passed, she destroyed thousands of replicators.

But it seemed futile. For all her power, and she had plenty, it was at best a holding action. The replicators she destroyed reassembled themselves. Even those she reduced to molten metal. The individual robots might be destroyed--no circuitry could survive that--but other replicators simply used the raw materials to create more of their kind.

Hannah felt like one of those performers spinning plates on flexible rods, frantically moving from one to another to give it another push to keep it spinning before it fell and shattered. No matter how many of the replicators she destroyed, they regained their numbers and added to them as they consumed raw materials from the city around them.

She began to despair of stopping them. But she continued fighting. What other choice was there?

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yellowtouch
2023-03-26 10:50 pm UTC (link)

Suzume was running. While she wasn't a robot or anything, it seemed as if the replicators were attracted to her. It probably had something to do with her being a Yellow, but she didn't know for sure. What she did know was she was putting Liam and Ruby in danger and she didn't want to do that, so she was running.

Unfortunately, her abilities didn't come with unlimited stamina and cardio and so she was clearly tiring as the replicators were chasing her down the street.

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superx_sidekick
2023-03-27 03:09 am UTC (link)

From her current observation post on top of a tall building, Hannah spotted a young girl running from replicators. A pre-teen, clearly reaching the end of her endurance, and for some reason wearing a pair of rubber yellow dishwashing gloves. The replicators were gaining on her.

Hannah flashed down to land behind the girl, facing the oncoming tide of robots. She sliced a couple dozen of them in half with her heat vision, leaving bubbling lines of molten asphalt in the streets between the severed robots. She drew a deep breath and blew most of the others away, tumbling down the street, bouncing off of lamp posts, wrecked cars, and other debris.

Madison was rapidly beginning to look like the war zone it had become. Hannah wondered how they would stop the onslaught. Or if.

She turned toward the girl. "Are you all right? Can I take you somewhere?"

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yellowtouch
2023-03-27 03:36 am UTC (link)

Suzume turned around when someone seemingly came from the sky and she watched with wide eyes. Whatever the woman was, she had a lot of powers. She looked like a superhero in one of those comic books. Suzume knew that the replicators wouldn't exactly go away completely, but she was grateful for the temporary reprieve as she stood there breathing heavily.

At the question, Zu looked like she didn't know how to answer it, because she didn't. She eventually nodded - she was alright - but she had no idea where to go, so she ended up doing a palms-up gesture and shrugging her shoulders. No idea.

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superx_sidekick
2023-03-28 05:37 am UTC (link)

The girl didn't speak. Was she mute? Maybe she didn't speak English? No, she responded to Hannah's questions with gestures. Mute, then, or maybe just too traumatized to speak just now. It didn't really matter.

Hannah glanced past the girl. The replicators were swarming in their direction again, a carpet of robots covering the street and sliding toward them like a metallic tide. A couple of more aggressive replicators leaped at them, and Hannah slapped one into a nearby wall. She caught the other and crushed it in her fist before tossing the remains aside.

The other replicators were as unimpressed as always, and never slowed their advance. "Time to be elsewhere," Hannah announced.

She picked up the girl and leaped into the air, hanging a couple dozen feet above the ground. The replicators swarmed beneath them for a moment, then began assembling themselves into a tower, rising fast.

"Oh, come on!" Hannah yelled. "Fine," she said, and flew off. She swooped around the nearest building to break line of sight with the replicator swarm. For all she knew, though, they were all in communication and what one replicator knew, they all knew. But this was all she could do right now.

She rose and then settled onto the roof of one of the taller buildings in downtown Madison, one that showed no sign of replicators. She set the girl gently on her feet again.

"Sorry to getting familiar without asking," Hannah told her. "But you should be fairly safe here for a while."

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yellowtouch
2023-03-29 12:23 am UTC (link)

She'd never known what it was like to fly - like ever - and so being suddenly lifted up into the air was both exhilarating and terrifying at the same time. Zu had held onto the woman for dear life and briefly wondered if she was planning to do something bad - not all adults could be trusted.

Suddenly she found herself on a roof. She blinked, her expression seeming to say 'what just happened' because it was all entirely strange. Zu regarded the woman with a 'what the fuck' expression that didn't have the same fire to it as a teenager might - she was just looking for answers.

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superx_sidekick
2023-03-31 02:34 am UTC (link)

The girl's questioning expression was unmistakable. Hannah shrugged. "It wasn't safe to stay where we were," she said. She paused, listening with her full attention, but the distinctive sound of the replicators scuttling around was absent from this building--for the moment.

"You should be safe enough here on the rooftop for a while," she told the girl. "But, if you need to get down, or want to leave..." She walked over to the blockhouse that sheltered the stairwell. The door was locked, as she'd expected.

Hannah yanked the doorknob off and removed the bolt. Now the door could be pulled open by reaching through the hole. "If you want to leave," Hannah repeated, turning back to the girl, "you can use the stairs."

She looked out over the edge of the rooftop. She could see and hear other people who needed help against the replicators. "I need to go," she said. "Are you going to be okay here on your own?"

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yellowtouch
2023-04-01 04:20 pm UTC (link)

Zu was used to being on her own and surviving, so while it was a strange experience to find herself 'flying' and suddenly being on a roof, she wasn't necessarily "scared".

Zu nodded. She'd find her way around - that much she was confident about.

Normally she'd take out her phone and thank the woman with a text, but the Replicators had eaten hers. Instead, she offered a smile she hoped communicated that.

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	superx_sidekick 2023-04-02 12:50 am UTC (link)
	"I'll take that as a 'yes,'" Hannah said. "Take care of yourself," she added, though she was pretty sure the girl was well able to do so. At least when she wasn't being menaced by replicators. Hannah flew off, planning her next few moves against the replicators, sorting who among those she could see or hear needed the most immediate help. [wrap!] (Reply to this) (Parent)