Episode 4: Blast from the Past! Venture City Invasion!

[omegamods]

On a sunny Saturday morning, it's finally visible - high above Venture City, the descending asteroid. However, it's doing something no real asteroid would do - it's slowing down.

As the space rock comes to a halt, looking like a second moon over the city, several holographic screens emerge from it, all showing the same face.



"Greetings, Earth mammals! A new order is at hand!"

"Sixty six million years ago, a meteor fell, ending the age of my people on this planet. However, not all of us were lost! Thanks to mysterious alien technology found by my ancestors, we were able to escape from Earth before the disaster heralded the rise of your pitiful kind. At long last, with the help of the human Devious, we have found the lost homeworld once more! And so we strike against those that replaced us - we, the true masters of Earth, have returned! And I, Baron Von Tyrannosaur, shall be your new ruler!"

With that, smaller pods start to break off from the dinosaur mothership. As they hit ground (or in some cases, before then), they break open, revealing their cargo - dinosaurs! Some right out of the history books, some of them robots, and some of them somewhere in between!

As Protector watches from deep within the Omegabase, he gives the order. Venture City is under attack. Our time is now.

Calling all Omegafriends!

[[OOC: There will be three dedicated threads for the meteor team: Launch, Breach, and Showdown with Baron Von Tyrannosaur. Once these stubs are up, anyone going on the mission is free to post in them (maximum 8 heroes), and anyone else can reply directly to this post with their actions throughout the city - fighting dinosaurs, rescuing civilians, or even taking advantage of the confusion to commit a few crimes.

Most of the dinosaurs are non-intelligent, aside from the Baron and his immediate underlings. If you want us to NPC some dinosaurs, for a thread other than the last one, drop us a line. Good luck!]]

Comments

[redscared]

To the west... [Giroro glances over, switching on his flight pack and zooming upward.] It appears that our Anti-Barrier still affects these ancient Pekoponians, so an ambush should go well. I'll support you with long-range artillery as you cut through to the enemy leader.

Let's move out!

[His first real invasion assignment on Pekopon... Giroro's heart was racing with excitement and glee! He's really an invader now!]

[zerotodoro]

Huh!

Of course, Corporal Giroro-Dono!

[He leaps from the pushes and onto a lamppost, before pushing off again - springing from lamp post to building sides, keeping pace with the Sergeant before teleporting ahead. Once within sight of the horde, Dororo prepares for the opening attack]

[redscared]

[Speeding along towards the hoards of dinosaurs, Giroro summons a large RPG into his hands, waiting for Dororo to get into position. Once the assassin was far enough ahead to strike, he shouted out] Incoming, Dororo!

[Firing off 6 rockets from a shoulder-mounted launcher, he waits for them to detonate into the crowd of dinos before discarding it back into the alternate dimension, taking two plasma guns in hand and flying over the crowd to start picking off any dinos that got too close to Dororo's back.] I'll scan for enemy leader from up here, report from the ground!

[zerotodoro]

[As he leaps up, he held out his hand, materializing a giant shuriken made entirely out of light]

Nine Star Shuriken!

[When it expanded to the size of a tractor tire, he lets go, sending it flying into the pack...? murder...? What do you call a collection of hostile robo-dinosaurs anyways?]

[redscared]

[A collective? A circuit?]

[Giroro speeds ahead as Dororo made an opening in the robo-pack (dino collective?), plasma machine-gun firing volleys of bullets to eliminate more of them from their way.] Up ahead... I think I see a back-lines, there ought to be a commander there of some sort. Someone we can get more information out of. I'll cover you while you search for him!

[He lands on the ground, back to back with Dororo, and reloads his plasma-guns, steeling his brow in the face of more impending crowds of dinosaurs.]

[(BACK TO BAAACK! DEATH COMES RIDING ON A MIDNIGHT TRAAAIN-- wait wrong series)]

[zerotodoro]

[Maybe a Ram or a Shred of Robo-dinosaurs? It's going to bother him all day]

Their leader might be leading the... pack?

Be careful - they might have a hidden arsenal in them.

Toya!

[And he teleports]

[redscared]

Tch! Like I'll let some machines overpower me. [Wowee, he's such a badass! Look at him now, big brother!]

[Giroro cocks his guns, staring down the mechanical maws, full of sharp steel teeth, and lets out a manly Rambo yell as he starts mowing down the hordes! ...Packs? Schools?] Just try me!

[omegamods]

[Finally, a single voice called out. One of Baron Von Tyrannosaur's lieutenants - an angry-looking velociraptor.]

Pathetic. Get out of our way, little red bug!

[And then, the source of the voice was suddenly in front of Giroro, viciously kicking at him!]

[zerotodoro]

[Dororo spotted the Velociraptor approaching his comrade and turned around, landing on a nearby post, shurikens out and sent flying, aimed to buzz the Dinosaur to get his attention]

Are you certain you wish to fight us as well as the Pekoponjins who call this planet home?

[redscared]

Gyaaaaaagh! [When you're kicked by a foot whose toes are your size, that's gonna hurt. Giroro is sent hurtling through the crowd of robosaurs, crashing and burning for a moment before Dororo arrived to back him up. He picks himself back up slowly, regripping his guns and pointing them at the Baron.]

Gh... We don't care about your quarrel with Pekopon's current inhabitants, but this planet is to be Keron's! Do you think the Keron Empire will just let you come in and take it from under us?

[omegamods]

[The Shuriken struck the creature, turning his attention towards Dororo for a second.]

Your 'empire' is as pathetic as you. Give up, for this world is ours!

[And then the beast swiped at Dororo with a paw.]

[zerotodoro]

[In a flash of light, the keronian unsheathed his blade, blocking the strike. The light-post groaned ominously from the force of impact and the tiny alien shook heavily from the impact - but somehow, he managed to stay on]

Hee-yah!

Ngh - I think the Planet belong to the Pekoponjins as much as it belonged to you, had your people tried to contact this world before jumping straight to invading?

[redscared]

You won't be saying that once the Keron Star arrives!

[And Giroro fires a volley of plasma bullets towards the dino from the other side as Dororo parried his blow. Moving closer but keeping the Baron in his sights, he discards one pistol to summon a larger rifle and train it on him, still wary of the other robodinos around them.] Shall I send a message to our HQ so you can tell them you intend to declare war yourself?

[omegamods]

I'm just a raptor with orders, and you are just - ARGH! - in the way of my completing them!

[The shots and block are clearly hurting the beast, and slowing his advancement.]

Cursed THINGS! GET THEM!

[That calls in a fair number of various robotic dinosauroids, all coming in in a chaotic mess to try and stop the frogs. Somehow, they don't seem like they're going to do a good job...]

[zerotodoro]

[If the Raptor had hit harder, he would've been thrown off his perch - Dororo sheathed his weapon]

If that so - Might I suggest withdrawing and inform your superiors about this development?

[As one of the Dinosauroids goes to rip down the pole to get at him, he leaped down onto it's back, and immediately teleports as another one tried to take an attack of opportunity before reappearing above it to deliver a downward kick]

[redscared]

So there's someone else in charge? Fine then...

[Giroro faces the crowd of charging dinobots, picking them off with sharpshots as he takes to the air again with his flightpack.] Then when we repel you from Pekopon, you can give them this message for us! That Keron isn't going to stand by idly while our prize is taken from under us!

[omegamods]

Grr... RETREAT!

You'll PAY for this, you foolish frogs!

[Aaaand the robot dinosaur is fleeing as Dororo and Giroro's strikes land home on some of his minions. Needless to say, he looks enraged.]