Stevie Barton (hot_rod) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2011-04-03 19:41:00

Entry tags:

inactive - hot rod, inactive - lysi, plot-"player vs player"

Welcome to the Grid
The next thing Stevie knew, she was on a bike. But it wasn't like any one she could remember having been on before. The design and feel of it was entirely different, maybe a little like something her mother or not-the-mama would have come up with if they'd been into designing motorcycles instead of suits of armor.

And everything else, well, it kinda looked like that movie with Jeff Bridges, come to think of it.

"What the heck?"

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	thunderstruck 2011-04-03 09:23 pm UTC (link)
	Lysi has never even heard of Tron, much less seen it. She has done the world jumping thing though, which may help explain a little why only one thought comes immediately to mind, quickly voiced across her communicator. "Awwww yeah. Sweet wheels!" (Reply to this)(Thread)

	hot_rod 2011-04-03 09:40 pm UTC (link)
	One world jump, why not two? It made as little sense as anything else. "You're here too?" she asked of Lysi. Stevie tried for her communicator. "MC? James? Anyone?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thunderstruck 2011-04-03 09:56 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm only seeing one light on the little comm station, don't think anyone else can hear us.... wait... you hear that? Something's moving? Correction, at least three... four... at least five somethings. Coming fast." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hot_rod 2011-04-03 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	Stevie nodded slightly. "Yeah. Pretty fast by the sound of it. More bikes like these, maybe?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thunderstruck 2011-04-03 10:42 pm UTC (link)
	High tech vehicles are not new. Lysi figures out the controls and readouts fairly quickly. "We'll know in a sec, on your six and coming fast." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hot_rod 2011-04-03 11:15 pm UTC (link)
	If it has wheels, Stevie's pretty good at figuring out how to make it go. She almost grinned. "Let 'em come." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thunderstruck 2011-04-03 11:26 pm UTC (link)
	"That's what I like to hear. Terrain looks like its laid out for a fight too. You go high, I'll hit that low road?" she calls, gunning the engine, starting to discover the light trail behind her. Huh. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hot_rod 2011-04-03 11:59 pm UTC (link)
	"Good plan!" Stevie gunned the engine and took the high path, trailing light behind her. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thunderstruck 2011-04-04 12:05 am UTC (link)
	Oh, this is fun. Lysi guns the engine more, getting an idea what's on her tail, zigging and zagging around columns and blocks to assess her mobility and theirs, waiting for opportunities. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hot_rod 2011-04-04 12:48 am UTC (link)
	Okay, so the bike was very responsive, that was good. And fast too. Good. Stevie was used to high speeds. She risked a glance in the rear-view. Whatever they were, they were gaining. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thunderstruck 2011-04-04 12:51 am UTC (link)
	"Hey whatever your name is... their bikes are faster than ours, more maneuverable too. Someone set us up. We're going to need to outthink them. They're avoiding these weird trails we're leaving though... dangerous maybe?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hot_rod 2011-04-04 12:59 am UTC (link)
	"It's Stevie," she said. No sense in trying the secret ID stuff at a time like this. Besides, it was just a first name. "Looks like it. Maybe some kind of particle field..." Damn. Looks like some of that sciency stuff had rubbed off. "We need to box 'em in." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thunderstruck 2011-04-04 01:13 am UTC (link)
	"Lysi." she offers first. "I've got a ramp coming up on my two, and one closing in on my tail. If I hit the top and bank hard left, think you can cut him off? I'll try and peel the guy off your ass." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hot_rod 2011-04-04 01:23 am UTC (link)
	Stevie grinned. "Oh yeah. I got it." She started a mental countdown as they got closer. "On three... one... two... three!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thunderstruck 2011-04-04 01:24 am UTC (link)
	Lysi hits the top of the ramp and banks, coming to a skid, then righting herself, trusting Stevie to wall off the guy stuck coming up the ramp while Lysi heads back to play chicken with the guy pursuing Stevie. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hot_rod 2011-04-04 01:38 am UTC (link)
	Stevie banked herself to the right, swerving and dropping in front of the guy on the ramp, the wall of light snapping into place at the last second. "Waaahoooo!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

thunderstruck
2011-04-04 02:04 am UTC (link)

Lysi's nerve holds out longer than the other guy's. He banks out of her path, which, were this pure lightcycles, would just set them back to maneuvering.

Perfectly willing to cheat, Lysi swings her chain about, catching his rear wheel and setting him rolling, and eventually exploding.

Lysi turns about, working on getting back up to Stevie.

"Two down, three left."

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	hot_rod 2011-04-04 02:49 am UTC (link)
	Not too bad so far. Stevie decelerated just a little, to let Lysi catch up. No sense in getting separated. "Nice moves." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

thunderstruck
2011-04-04 02:52 am UTC (link)

"Between cycles, hover-things and dragonites, I've been piloting since I was six. I'd hope I'd have a move or two by now... what do you think? These next two are trying to herd us in... how do you want to handle it? They look like they actually know some teamwork." she explained, as she caught up, and pulled alongside.

"And that last one... he's hanging back, assessing us. He's the leader... and a damn good driver."

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	hot_rod 2011-04-04 05:45 pm UTC (link)
	Stevie tried to give this as quick a thought as she could muster. She wasn't a planner. Like her father and like her "brother" she supposed, she was a creature primarily of her impulses. "We do what they don't expect. They want us to run? We turn right back around at them." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thunderstruck 2011-04-04 05:50 pm UTC (link)
	"I like the way you think. They're going to try and box us in... set a trap, try and use that ramp there like a jump and go over their trails when they think they have us?" It'd be close, but that's half the fun of it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hot_rod 2011-04-04 09:25 pm UTC (link)
	"Let's do it," Stevie said. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	thunderstruck 2011-04-04 11:00 pm UTC (link)
	Lysi turns about, trying to be the more aggressive one and draw attention, trusting in Stevie to lay the trap and cut off avenues of escape while she heads right at them, hitting the jets for all this cycle is worth, whirling her chain overhead. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hot_rod 2011-04-04 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	Gunning it for all she's worth, Steve laid down a wall in front of all the avenues of escape. The baddies would have no where to go. She spun around, heading for them herself. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	redheadspy 2011-06-06 01:28 pm UTC (link)
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