Kid Kinetic and the Space Knights Issue #3 - Running for Home...

KID KINETIC making a RACKET!

CLANG! BANG! CLATTER! CLANG! CLANG!

Taking up a piece of broken metal pipe and striking it on the walls, pipes, floor, ceiling (where he could reach) the Speedster made enough noise to wake the dead!

After a few moments he paused to listen. It was near pitch dark in places aside from where cracks/breaks in the shell of the damaged spacecraft and the speedster had to watch his step in places. He was durable enough to probably take a hit or two but that Cybiote... that was some order of scary above what he had encountered before! he must be mad trying to attract its atten...

Clang!

Ryan stopped and peered into the darkness.

That wasn't from him!

CRUNCH! RRRRRRIP!

The sound of tearing metal rang out and wasn't that far away!

Then it came again. THUD! THUD! THUDTHUD! THUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUD!

Heavy footsteps! Heading his way!

He peered into the darkness again. He stood in the bowels of the ship, some kind of... storage deck? Whatever had been stored was ruined now by age. Food, maybe? It was big though, and tricky to figure out where those footsteps are coming from. Which direction?

OOC Do you want to stick around to make sure the Cybiote gets on your trail or skedaddle now?

Kid Kinetic would prefer to engage the cybiote out in the open. This tin can could collapse at any moment and pin him in. Or he might not notice something sneaking up on him in the lowlight conditions. Kid Kinetic may be fast but it would do him no good if this thing gets the drop on him.

KID KINETIC

The young hero turns and picks his way carefully through the wrecked spacecraft. Everywhere metal creaked and groaned and now the sounds competed with something else.

CLANG! BANG! CLANG! BANG!

GRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip!

The tearing of metal as something powerful gripped and tore with terrific strength rang through this part of the rusting space hulk!

Then something else. The pounding footsteps. Faster... MUCH faster!

BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!BANG!

Time to go!

Kid Kinetic sprinted clear of the spacecraft as the noise behind him got closer...

The others would need to...

He sped outside and found the others stood about in a group, pointing at the rusting spacecraft and waving at various places where they could hide and strike from behind cover. Mimic Lad (Joe) glanced over. "Oh hey, Ryan, did you find the..."



The weird alien robot/hybrid was fast. Not Kid Kinetic fast but probably quicker than his team mates - and they were out in the open and vulnerable!

It raised an arm which started to glow with bright power!

Ian called out "Hey, is that who we're after? We should..."

BLAAAAAMMMMM!!!!

OOC Kid Kinetic acts first (Superspeed helps) you stand about fifty yards from the wrecked ship in a group with your friends who are about ten yards from cover and this thing looks about to shoot ALL of you with a single blast!

"Uh oh. I often forget not everyone can react as fast as Mr. Better do something."

OOC: Kid Kinetic will attempt to draw the cybiote's fire by flanking it and engaging his full aps of Acrobatics.

"Don't worry about those guys, Robbie the Robot! Try and catch me if you can And I bet you can't (or at least I hope!)"

OOC apologies for the delays. Been unable to sit down for the hour or two I generally need to update for various reasons. Let's see how I get on today...

The Robot/Synthezoid/CYBIOTE had taken aim and was about to fire...

The 'creature' seemed to 'twitch' at the last moment, a new target presenting itself!

It was enough to distract it and the blast went slightly too low, blasting a crater in the dirt, rock and soil about six feet short of where the others were stood!

The 'Cybiote' spun, tracking (or trying to ) Kid Kinetic with the deadly looking blast...

Ian yelled "SCATTER! Find cover!"

Mimic Lad paused "but what about...?"

"RUN!" screamed Ian as he headed for a rocky outcropping, scrambling and stumbling along the way "And be careful! Don't rupture your suit!"

Good advice but Ryan didn't have the opportunity to take full advantage of it at the moment - the thing was tracking him, about to fire!

OOC

AV14 +  2d12+0 7,8+0 = 29 vs
OV11* + 2D Acrobatics + Range 3 + 4d12+0 7,7,8,12+0 = 14 DOUBLE plus 2d12+0 3,2+0 = 19 rolled (33 total) One of the few occasions where the non double result will be better than a double! Will always take the double though *just in case*.

MISSED!

*Feel free to rejig KK's current stats with the symbiote he wears. As a reminder you can swap all Action/Effect points around as you see fit with a minimum of 1 point in each stat.

Reminder:

This alien/symbiote allows you to rejig your Action/Effect values as you see fit up to DOUBLE (in points terms) their normal values by taking a point off one ability and adding it somewhere else.

Every time you 'rejig' these abilities costs a point of Body/Mind or Spirit (your choice) which does not recover quickly with Regeneration, so you need to wait an hour to recover it.

(From the archive Kid Kinetic and the Space Knights! Issue #2 "Ummm where are we?" - Page 2 Kid-Kinetic-powers)

So you can make yourself smarter, more charismatic, more agile, stronger, more willful, stronger personality etc at the cost of a point from another statistic. Minimum you can reduce a score to is 1 point and the most you can boost to is double the values listed. Linked powers remain at their current levels (Linking is a weakness therefore linked abilities only go down, not up, when stats change).

Every time you change (even to revert back to normal) will cost you 1 point from your current totals of Body/Mind or Spirit, your choice.

In the current situation Kid Kinetic could rejig his stats to reduce Will and Aura to 1 giving him 4 points to Strength (up to 9) and then reduce his Body/Mind/Spirit by 1 point to pay for it, for example. He could also drop Intelligence by a point and boost Strength up to 10, the maximum allowed (double existing ability) to be less smart but stronger, for example.

Changes remain until another change takes place (to revert to standard or rejig again for example) and that costs a Body/Mind or Spirit point too.

The blast shot out, scything through the ground and throwing up debris all about!

Kid Kinetic was in no doubt that should the blast land, it would hurt.

A lot!

The team used the time to dash for cover and all ended up in different places. Mimic Lad, though, sped across to where Kid Kinetic was sliding to a halt - just as the 'death ray' swung past and blasted in front of him - where he would have been in a heartbeats'  time!

"Yo! Ryan! What say we take this thing down, show the others how it's done?" he yelled.

OOC you win Initiative (both you and this 'Fury' have Ini 25 but the Superspeed 11 means your effective initiative is 36 so even if you roll minimum and it maximum you go first).

Yes. It was time to take this thing down. Before it killed him and his friends and loved ones. No matter the cost.

Ryan reached out to his symbiote. The symbiote had been a willing passenger every step of this intergalactic journey. It was time to cede control to it. "I am ready. Now."

OOC. Kid Kinetic reduces his Int, Infl, Will and Aura to 1 AP each.. He will boost his Dex to 19 and Strength to 10.

There was no longer a need to hold back. Something told him this thing could take it.

Kid Kinetic leapt into action, literally, and attempted to deliver a viscious karate kick to the Cybiote.