Operation: Underground Railroad (mod please)

[Tenshu]

Screams from down the tunnel were not a good sign. Without Serge as their guide, no telling what terrible things could happen to the few remaining slave survivors. Tido recognized this, standing and helping Mint to her feet the way she spoke sounded nearly...robotic. Was she playing with him? This was hardly a time for jokes, but if she had time to joke around she was obviously alright.

"Serge, We'll meet you on the other side!"

He said turning back towards the sound of the caravan a ways down. The thought of leaving Serge alone with this saiyan was an uneasy one to say the least. He would have been more comfortable staying and fighting himself, but the survivors had to come first. Serge knew what he was getting himself into. Looking back at Mint he knew the choice had to be her's. She had fought bravely, and survived for some time.

"I'm going to go check on the caravan. If you want you can follow behind...or..."

Taking a quick glance back at the Serge fight it was clear the man was strong, but lacked the endurance to keep it up for long. He would likely lose without assistance.

"Stay and finish what you started here. It's your choice"

He said, hearing yet another scream. He couldn't wait any longer. With a quick dash Tido made his way back towards the caravan.

MINT HAS THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS
A. Follow Tido to the Caravan
B. Stay and help Serge defeat the Saiyan

[Mint]

(B. Stay and help Serge defeat the Saiyan)

The couple of ki blasts Mint had fired came nowhere near hitting the Saiyan. He just gave the two of them the same arrogant grin the mechanical young woman had come to expect from him and slowly drew closer while speaking. Normally the sight would have intimidated Mint quite a bit. However, like most of her programmed emotions, it had no place in her combat protocol. She just stoically stood there, a bit lopsided due to her damaged leg, and weighed her options on how to avoid the next attack he was brewing up. Unlike before, there was another factor to add in this time. Would her new ally be enough to actually beat this guy?

Right before the Saiyan could launch an attack at the two of them, however, a being with a rather familiar voice latched onto the back of him. It was Serge! The Saiyan retaliated with a few ki blasts of his own, but the most they did was ruin Serge’s shirt. This fight was actually beginning to turn itself around. There was actually fear in the Saiyan’s eyes replacing the cockiness that Mint had only seen thus far.

As Mint and their unnamed ally were about to move in, screams from the surviving refugees were heard. Now that Serge was here, there was nobody to protect them. It just went to show that no matter how safe you thought you were out here, there was no such thing as a safe haven out here in the middle of the wasteland.

The guy that had saved Mint turned to her and offered her a choice to stay and help Serge or to go with him to check on the refugees. It only took a few seconds for Mint to give her response. ”Hostile has not been dealt with. I stay,“ she said without emotion. She was about to dive back into combat, but she hesitated. The android looked back to her unnamed ally and spoke again. ”If my frame is found among the wreckage… please return it to Grandma in the Ghettien Settlement. She should know what to do,“ Mint finished. Her voice was still flat for the most part, but her voice was just barely tinged with a combination of sadness and acceptance. Were her systems so damaged that her regular personality was leaking into her combat protocol? It was hard to say since the android had no more words to speak.

Serge had the Saiyan backing away from him in fear. Now was Mint’s chance. If she was going to do any sort of damage to this guy, there most likely wasn’t going to be another shot like this one. She was going to give it all that she had left in her. Using her good leg to push herself off from a slab of concrete, she dashed to the Saiyan and attempted to land a punch on his now armor-less back. If she managed to hit him, it would be with enough force at the right angle to snap off her already damaged wrist. If not, she would proceed to do the same thing to the concrete below and snap it off herself.

The android then moved to wrap her good leg around the Saiyan’s neck and try to hold herself there as tightly as she could muster with the last of her strength. With her right hand now gone, there was nothing left to obstruct her Gatling Shot. Mint pointed her hollowed out arm so that it was point blank against the Saiyan’s ear and completely let loose with her barrage of ki blasts. She was fully intending on this being her last action in this fight, so there was no point in not completely using up just about everything she had left. If it worked, she would hopefully do some significant damage to her opponent. If not, it should have provided a good enough distraction for Serge to get in there and possibly finish the job.

[Aice]

The Saiyan backed away slowly from Serege, never before had he encountered such a powerful enemy in all his years of work. It wasn't very Saiyan like but all of the opponents he had ever met couldn't break his armor with a mere tap let alone stand agasint a full barrage of Ki blasts at close range. Heart pounded in his chest he almost didn't hear Mint approach from behind him, but before he could react from her on coming strikes it was too late for him. Slamming her fist in to his back the Saiyan yelled from the sudden shot of pain his spine, with the element of the armor now removed the Saiyan had almost no protect, like a crab without a shell.

with the new found pain in his back the Saiyan was powerful to stop the continuing assault that Mint was laying into him. However, due to the current state of Mint's damaged arm the supports where not able to keep it together, with the impact it caused part of the limb to detach from her. With part of her arm missing the barrel of her gun was now full exposed, ready to start blowing away some targets or just one Saiyan in particular.

Swinging her leg Mint was able to lock her leg around the Saiyan's neck, recovering from the quick jab from before the Saiyan gripped at Mint's leg trying to rip her away from his wind pipe.

"Get- off me!" He gasped.

Even though he was afraid he wasn't opposed to fighting and still had the brute strength to pull Mint off, she had to act fast as she could hear the metal in her bones being to crackle. With the now charged up shot Mint placed the barrel of her arm against the side of the Saiyan's head and let shot after shot rip into the man's skull. Each blast the smell of brunt flesh could be smelt drifting through out the wastes, making Serge crinkle his nose slightly as the odor of it. The Saiyan's arms flailed wildly at Mint leg trying to free himself from the brace she had on him, as chunk's of flesh and bone being to fly off the arm movements became less frequent until the Saiyan fell to his knees. A smoke cloud appeared around the two from the burning of the man's flesh or from the heat of the barrel it couldn't be said.  Shot after Mint didn't seem to want to stop, as if she was going to keep firing until she was out of power. Eventually, Sereg walked over and place a hand on Mint's shoulder,

"Princess, I think your done here."

Sure enough the only thing that now remained of the Saiyan was the still smoking fractured skull, along with small pieces of charred flesh.

"Even will all his strength without his armor he was not much better off than Mint herself, and in the end the armor turned out to be his true weakness."

Pulling Mint off the burnt body of the Saiyan it immediately slumped over landed skull first with a loud clunk, placing one arm under her good leg and the other behind her back Serge walked away from the gory scene.

"Well I think that's enough physical activity for one day, lets see about finding your hand and meeting back up with Tido, hows that sound princess?" Serge grinned, taking a drag on his smoke.

[Tenshu]

Tido nodded, making a quick exit from the scene and down the tunnel's passage. It would only be a few moments later that he heard the Saiyan's final screams before death. Mint had obviously done well, ending her fight and aiding Serge.

Tido arrived at the caravan to find that the screams were because of bats and nothing more. Had mint gone with it would have been for nothing. Tido would escort them further, his mind still wrapped around the girl. She had a story that he wanted to know. He would find this Grandma and inquire further.

(Last post for Mint and Aice and then I will grade it)

[Mint]

Time seemed to flash by in an instant the moment the barrel of Mint’s arm cannon was lined up for her shot. One second she was about to fire. When she blinked, all of a sudden Serge’s hand was upon her shoulder and her emotionless gaze was already resting on the Saiyan’s charred remains. After a long pause, she finally spoke up as Serge pulled her off of the corpse. ”All hostiles have been eliminated,” came her emotionless voice, as if she were giving a status report to the man who had witnessed the event first hand.

The mechanical young woman closed her eyes. When she opened them again, they had returned to the state they were when Serge and Mint had first met. She gave her usual cheery smile to the man in front of her before carefully climbing out of his arms and looking down at herself to inspect the damage. Mint hadn’t even realized that before the Saiayan had been dealt with, he had caused some pretty significant damage to what was her only good leg at the time. She hadn’t come out of that fight with a single part of her intact aside from her head. It’s a good thing her combat protocol hadn’t turned the pain receptors back on before retreating into the recesses of Mint’s programming. Nevertheless, Grandma was going to give her the scolding of her life!

”Eh heh heh,” Mint laughed sheepishly while scratching the back of her head with her exposed arm cannon. She walked over to her discarded hand and placed it in her pocket. ”You mentioned earlier that it would be a shame if I got hurt out here. With the state I’ve got myself into, you must be awfully ashamed.” It wasn’t a very good attempt at humor, but she still felt the need to try to lighten the mood. She felt awfully weak from all of the energy she had used up during the fight, as if she could just fall over at any moment and take a nap. However, that wasn’t going to fix the damage to her frame or see the surviving refugees back to the Ghettien Settlement, so now wasn’t the time.

”Tido? Is that the name of the guy who showed up earlier?” she asked, moving back over to Serge while being mindful of the damage to her legs. ”I think that would be a great idea. If he hadn't popped up when he did, I might have been squished like a pancake.” Once again, she finished her sentence with nervous laughter. Grandma was going to be absolutely livid. That is, if the state of her creation didn’t give her a heart attack first...

[Aice]

"Well when you put it like that I guess I am a little ashmed I let you get hurt so bad...my apologizes princess." Serge bowed slightly at mint, looking back up at her he had a grin on his face.

The truth of matter is that he really wanted to see what Mint was made of during the fight, Serge had watched most of the combat between the two from a far. It wasn't that he was being curel but more of that if she was going to be helping the rebels out Serge had to know what she was capable of doing in a tight situation, so he could assess her skills as a fighter. If it had really come down Serge would have intervened before her life was in impending doom, from what he saw she was a great fighter for her skill level. However there would come a time when she would face stronger combatants and she would need more training if she ever hoped to defeat them alone.

"Yes, Tido... is old friend of mine, we go back quite away's.... But enough about that." Bending over Serge picked up Mint's missing arm.

"I believe this belong to you?" Serge gave the limb to Mint.

Continuing through the busted concrete slabs and rebar pipes the two made their way slowly through the debir field, helping to conserve power Serge carried her back to the few survivor's that remained and Tido. Rounding the corner of some old ruins Mint could see the two remain survivors, though a bit dusty and worn out they seemed relived at the site of the two.

"You always have the knack of showing up where ever there's a damsel in distress don't you Tido?" Serge grinned.

Placing Mint gently on to a slab of rock Serge walked up too Tido as they shook hands and got the pleasantries over with. After talking for a few minutes about various things going on around the city, Serge turned back to face Mint.

"And this here is Princess, or as she likes to be called Mint. She helped me guide these people through the wastes. She may not look like much but she's got a lot going on under the hood...literally."

[Tenshu]

Mission Complete!

2 Rebel Fame Points

+1 Endurance
+1 User's Choice

+2 Senzu Beans

Great Quest!