Re: Mission 5: Amaya's Gate
@YSS Miharu:
"Right!" Hinoto acknowledged Yukari.
Mara, though, quickly countered with "Hold on!" the next moment, when Takumi used a graviton projector to again snag Miharu in its grasp before starting to drag the ship out from under the pylon's shadow to be exposed to the raker domes.
"I see it!" Hinoto returned and used one of her graviton projectors back on the Takumi to force them into a deadlock before the ship could be tugged into the allowable firing arc of Takumi's weaponry, no matter how much the other ship maneuvered.
That done, she opened up with one of the turreted particle beams, slagging the offending graviton projector itself before she then telepathically said: "Purging port dorsal and port ventral magnetic-containment anti-matter storage."
What served as 'ammunition' for the disabled port turrets were both expelled into space, and Hinoto was prompt to grab one of them to then conveniently chuck it at the starboard exhaust port of Takumi's ion sublight engine. Counting on the momentum to guide her first projectile to its target, she then used the same graviton beam to catch the second anti-matter container and also throw it - this time calculated for faster momentum so that both projectiles would hit their targets simultaneously - at the central ion engine.
The explosions that resulted did not disappoint. The containers did not survive contact with the exhaust port of the ion engines and burst into destructive explosions that were almost as potent as the AS-7 Anti-matter warhead. Both of the intended targets were savaged beyond repair.
Unfortunately, with Miharu being under five kilometers, those explosions also proved harmful to the smaller experimental vessels. The shockwave sent the vessel reeling in a dizzying spin as Yukari lost control, which was accompagnied shortly afterwards by what felt to Yukari like part of the ship being brutally wrenched open...
The explosion had taken the atmospheric retention field keeping together the breached port crew compartment failed. That caused the entire section to suffer explosive decompression, entirely blowing open to space.
"The Taisa!" Hinoto realized in horror. The proximity of the anti-matter explosion might have harmed Kotori!
"Still here, just a little shaken," Kotori's prompt telepathic voice quickly dispelled that fear. "I'm glad Amaya splurged on the shields of these Akumas."
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@Miharu, Subdeck:
The explosive decompression was like a giant hammer striking Miharu, and Tom was too close of it for comfort.
He wasn't sure how exactly it had happened, but he had been shoved and thrown down to the floor. It took effort to force breath into his lung, and armored gauntlets were tugging at his arm, trying to get him back up. His helmet's Heads-Up-Display showed the passageway they were in being filled with gaseous mist.
Behind him was a scene of ruin: the corridor leading to the breached wing pod compartment was now littered with broken support girders, sparking power cables and the ruptured ends of twisted plumbing. Underneath those was the inert form of Junko's Daisy, leaking fluids like a broken eggshell.
Oh, he vaguely remembered now. Something had happened. It felt like the ship had a seizure and Junko had yelled something, shoving hard into his back. Hard enough to get him clear before the section crunched to a collapse, the ship's broken bones scything through her power armor as if it was made of flypaper.
"Juni! Juni! Freeman-Juni, get up!" Ichigo yelled at him.
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@Miharu, Hoshi's port landing bay:
Nyton was actually just under the section that explosively decompressed. fortunately for him, Hoshi's hull armor was between him and the doomed crew compartment, keeping him relatively safe in comparison to Tom.
That didn't stop him from being surprised, losing his footing and smacking himself dizzy into one of the mechanized loading arms before falling back on the bay's tiled floor.
As Nyton - head ringing - was blinking away stars, he saw the still-helmetless Nimura bending over him, looking at him with what he imagined was a 'why aren't you getting up already?' look.
Then again, that look could also be 'why didn't you use antigrav to control your tumble?' because the sprite looked quite unscathed. Or maybe she was just trying to determine if he needed to be dragged to the medlab for treatment; it was always hard to tell with her.
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@Miharu, medlab:
The people arrayed around the medlab were still in a structurally sound section of the ship... but that didn't stop the detonating anti-matter and the following explosive decompression from letting them experience the novelty of being inside a giant saltshaker.
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@Kyou:
Kyou appeared in a vast rounded chamber, with its center crowned with what looked like a massive mechanized pivot point for the raker beam dome she had teleported in.
Maintenance catwalks ran around the miniature weapon complex, providing access to power cabling, monitoring consoles. Cold misty air wafted downward from ventilation systems which were attached to the assembly of heatsinks and coolant lines positioned over the ceiling, under the inner-workings of the inner-pivot points of the raker beam emitters were.
Dozens of nekovalkyrja technicians were scurrying around, all too aware of the invasion of a hostile power armor, with resounding cries of "Imperial invaders!" echoing as Kyou took her bearings. Before they could do much in Kyou's regard, a tremendous impact shook the ship. The techs were clearly rattled by it, some slamming themselves painfully against the guardrails. A power converter exploded in a shower of sparks which electrocuted another sprite, instantly roasting her flesh before she fell down on the catwalk - quite dead.
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@Asher:
The scene that met Asher was altogether not too different from Kyou's, though he had actually teleported under the other raker dome.
What was different was that the shockwave of his arrival seemed to knock to the floor a duo of nekovalkyrja nurses whom had been holding a stretcher under which they were bearing another severely burned nekovalkyrja. There were another ten or so neko techs around whom also noted his arrival with the usual epithets.
The shattering boom of the anti-matter explosions outside the ship shook up the techs and the nurses. The badly-burned neko was tossed around and cried out, clearly in a lot of pain. One of the nurses froze up in fear and was just giving him the terrified doe look. The other nurse went to actually crawl over to her patient and protected the burnt neko's body with her own.
