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The Legion [Mods] ([personal profile] letsgolegion) wrote in [community profile] legionmissions2017-08-09 05:25 pm

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE - [modplot/log catchall]

Who| Everyone who signed up
What| "Resistance is Futile" plot catchall
Where| All over the place, but mostly Colu
When| After the network briefings and deployment.
Warnings/Notes| cw: zombies, body transformation (probably). If your subthread has something triggery pop up, put it in a subject of the one of the comments.



The entire planet Colu is a sprawling urban mess, one of the worst environments to fight zombies. Yes, the cities are clean and impressive and yes they're meticulously planned, but they're planned for elegance, efficiency, and ease of transportation -- not defense. While Colu had suffered under the yoke of various oppressors in the past, that was over a millenia ago, and they've grown complacent, thinking their world untouchable due to their technological superiority.

Now they're paying for it. Robo-zombies swarm through the various mega-cities, spreading their disease by touching or wounding their prey. Due to the many walkways, hover-lift tubes, maintenance tunnels, and sewer systems, there seems to be no way of stopping them.

When the Legion first arrives, it seems hopeless. The Coluan Home Defense Forces aren't used to combat and are struggling to set up defensive zones. But then something unexpected happens.

Pods drop in all over Colu from orbit. The CHDF regard them with suspicion and disdain, but they have their orders, and the civilians regard them with fear, despite word starting to spread about who's come to help.

Kid Q's voice comes over the comms and while it's hard to hear it through the crackling, she sounds absolutely delighted.

"Look alive, folks, we just got a miracle. It took some negotiating with the CHDF, but they finally relented on accepting some help from others beyond us."

The pods all burst open and Robotican combat mechs start rolling and marching out, spreading out over all of Colu.

"The Roboticans haven't been able to translate it to a cure because the virus was meant to interact with them differently than organics, but due to their disaster preparedness, they were able to develop a block to the Brainiacs' virus and only suffered a few casualties. Robotican leadership says they're eager to have their chance to make reparations to organics by defending them from this threat -- and that they're honored to stand with the Legion."

It's not a magic fix. It'll still be a deadly struggle. But at least they've got more than the inexperienced CHDF at their backs.

"Let's make the most of it, Legionnaires."

[ooc: This will be used as a plot catchall, but you can make your own log posts in Legion Missions set in the plot if you like. All major plot parts on Colu will be set up here, with "The Reject Pile" part set in the Legion World comm (with an accompanying network post). That said, if you'd like to set individual plot threads on Legion World, you can also start your own Legion World posts in [community profile] legionworld.]
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[personal profile] captainbuzzkill 2017-08-30 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
He moves like some kind of dying animal and it just makes Dipper feel hollow to watch it. There's a part of him that wonders if maybe he should do what Wash did. And just...end it for good, but -

But it's a different here. Wash had done that because it was the only way they could get away from Pi - from what Pidge had turned into, especially with Dipper reeling and nearly senseless so that Wash'd had to defend him. They still don't know if a cure will be found, and if one is, if it turns out there's a way to cure him and he killed him...

No, he has to capture him. He has to try.

Dipper closes his eyes as Thad approaches, tendrils of teke threading through the room in tiny little threads, like the tentacles of a jellyfish. He uses those to "see." Umbra's been having him practice more finite control, practice using his teke less like a bludgeon and more like another sense.

When Thad charges towards him, he can feel it faster than he would've been able to see it. Since the teke is tied directly to his mind, he can feel it right away, instead of having to wait for images or sounds to travel through his ocular or auditory nerves. He can feel him getting entangled in the threads, and with a flick of his hand, tendrils of teke start reaching up from the floor, tangling around Thad's legs in grasping tentacles.

There's no way he can be as fast as Thad, even with his altered state leaving him at less than his full capabilities, but he can slow him down, by filling the room with things to get tangled in, with obstacles. A speedster can only be fast if they've got solid ground to run on, so the room becomes his enemy, grabbing, tripping, hitting...

"I'm sorry about this, man. I know you were just trying to help find a cure."

It's even worse, knowing that, knowing that this happened because he was trying to help, because he was taking on the risk of messing with the nanovirus itself.
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[personal profile] mirror_soldier 2017-09-21 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
His ankle slips from the grasp of those first tendrils. As fast as the strands of manifested thought are, they're still not quite fast enough to get a good hold. They miss again on the second, third, fourth attempts to stop him, until he's nearly in arms reach of Dipper, but the force that hurtles at his gut is impossible to maneuver around and he's pushed back as it smashes into him.

It doesn't take long to recover however and within seconds he's attempting another charge at Dipper but finds he can't get far. Those few seconds are enough for Dippers teke to wrap around his leg and they send him crashing to the ground with a hard crack the moment he tries to stumble forward.

Still within only a few feet of the other Legionnaire, he tries in vain to wildly swipe at him, only managing to claw at the ground, gouging marks into it. Furious the possessed speedster shrikes, voice altered into a piercing inhuman sound as his uncontrolled molecular vibrations increase violently, speedforce energy crackling off of him. Shallow cracks start to form in the floor underneath him, some of the material even peeling away in thin frayed strips under the stress of his contact with it.