Angel Island Beach

[Tatsuhiro]

He raised a brow towards Gail and Chaddin, looking thoroughly unimpressed. “And what are you going to do? Shoot me? Have better luck by trying to ram a stake through me.”

He lowered himself getting in a position to possible charge to make the gap between the shorter. He also brought his hands up to be ready to start tearing things up.

“There’s no point in knowing who I am; you should be more concerned with who I work for!”

He darted to the side, attempting to block them from going inside the forest. From experience, most people had a tendency to back up instead of move forward when a danger came his way.

[Gerald Robotnik]

Oh, was this guy brooding. Gerald did back up of course, after all, he wasn’t sure if he wanted to be around that guy. But as an upside, he did try to hit him with the Artificial Chaos; though how much damage it would do, he didn’t know.

“I think he’s with Robtonik….” Gerald replied nervously.


[“You THINK. Well that’s new!”]

He looked around. Where did that women’s voice come from? He didn’t see anyone else around.

[“Hey, Lizard guy!”] the voice exclaimed, [“The Doctor says to kill everyone- EXCEPT the moron over there with the blonde hair.”]

“-H-hey!!” He exclaimed defensively.

[Jijeka-Te]

(Okay, the posting order's got in a bit of a tangle, but I'm pretty sure I should post now...)

Ji and Anu took the armor pieces Gail offered them and put them on. They were lighter than they looked. The pharaoh was right about to thank him when Tatsu distracted the party.

(Ji) "...Well, there's someone with trouble written all over him. Let's get closer."

Ji's frills shot open. The air was relatively calm, so she had to take a running start to get off the ground. Anu followed.

[Gail Strafer]

Gail made a small smirk, and lowered the revolver, holstering it. This he replaced with a cigarette to his lips and a lighter.

So...he wants to try hiding in the bushes. Let's burn him out then.

"Anyone got anything flammable?"

Gail didn't bother to conceal his plan from Tatsu. Either way it would encourage him to come out into the open of the beach, where they'd stand a better chance of surrounding him and taking him down. But he blinked a few times when that strange girl voice made that announcement. The wolf glanced at Gerald, before caling out.

"Hey! Why is he interested in you but not us?"

[Chadin]

"Don't tempt me, ugly." The instant Tatsu dropped down and moved, I tracked my shot and fired. I wasn't some amateur marksmen, after all. I know how to shoot and I can shoot well. I followed his motion, aiming right for a body shot now that he had moved and fired as soon as he stopped moving.

Oh great, I think they must know who he is... I groaned in my head. Mind you, I don't know anything about Gerald other than he's quite brilliant, if a little schizophrenic at times. But these guys wanted to capture him and kill the rest of us. There was no mistaking the voice I heard; probably someone speaking to him via radio.

But if they want Gerald, I could only think of one good reason why; because of his brilliance. I could only take a wild guess as to what they wanted him for, but there was no way in heck I'm going to let them take him away. I've been there, I have no intention of letting ANYONE go through what I did after being captured by Robotnik.

"Who cares Gail, take 'em down, NOW!!!" I shouted as I reloaded and readied myself for a heavy fight.

[Tatsuhiro]

Chadin’s first shot grazed his forward as he felt a sting from the cut. He could feel a little bit of blood trickle down the side of his face, but he ignored it. Chadin’s second bolt hit him square in the chest, but it bounced off like an arrow that hit metal. He soon stopped in front of the bushes and then proceeded to get hit by Gerald’s attack, which caught him in the shoulder and made him stumble back some. When he regained his balance he took a few steps forward again and looked down.


Both Gerald’s and Chadin’s shot had went through his clothing. Chadin’s only made a small hole, but Gerald’s attack managed to make a fairly big one in his left shoulder. They could now see the scales that covered him shine; and gleamed like a cd, rainbow colors and all. He looked back towards the group and growled lowly under his shirt. He stepped more out into the open.

“….You ruined my uniform…”

He soon perked his head up, as he heard the girl’s voice again. He gave a questionable look, before looking back towards the group.

“ Right.” he answered back to the girl simply, before running straight into the group. He knew most of them used long-range attacks, so he was going to have to close the gap between them.

[Gerald Robotnik]

Gerald gave a look of horror at him.

“Umm…Am I the only one scared here?” he said nervously with an equally nervous smile on his face. He began to rub the back of his head.

' Wrote:"Hey! Why is he interested in you but not us?"

"Who cares Gail, take 'em down, NOW!!!"

[“Oh, I don’t know, it probably has something to do with him being -the- PROFESSOR GERALD ROBOTNIK!”]

Gerald forgot about the impending doom of Tatsuhiro to look angrily upward where he thought he heard the girl. He put both fists in the air in anger as he shouted.

“Why does everyone keep on calling me that!!!” He shouted angrily. “How many times must I say that I’m not a professor, or a doctor- hell; all I have is a bacholar’s degree! So why do people keep on insisting that I’m a professor!!!!!!”

The girl’s voice seemed to pause.

[“…So you -are- Gerald Robotnik….”]

A shocked look dawned on his face. Opps. In his annoyance of people giving him a title he was not, he had undoutbly confirmed his identity. ‘No, no there was still a chance’, he thought, that he could change that.

“What!? No-Nnnnoooo-” He began sounding frantic; a nervous smile on his face. “ I’m not Gerald Robotnik I’m Gerald Ives. There’s a difference, see?”

There was another pause. “…Well I can now safely know that the Doctor did –not- get his lying ability from you…”

Nope. His inability to lie had only-wait. What did she mean? He ended up just standing there looking like a deer in the headlights.

[Jijeka-Te]

(*under breath* Gail, Chadin, Tatsu, Gerald, me. Gail, Chadin, Tatsu, Gerald, me. Gail, Chadin, Tatsu...)

Jijeka-Te barely had any idea what was going on at this point, but she was sure of one thing: that dragonlike thing over there was a foe, and a foe that needed to be taken down.

Mentally estimating her trajectory against her target's speed, she brought out her royal crook as she got closer to Tatsuhiro. Then she dove, aiming the straight end at his forehead, hoping to stun him if nothing else.

She tried not to get too low as she did this, lest she get in the way of her allies.

Anu hung back.

[Gail Strafer]

Gail grinned as Tatsu charged straight out onto the beach right into the center of the group. The wolf cracked his knuckles for a moment. Finally, an opponent he could take on up close and personal. Instead of running in terror like Tatsu probably wanted them all to, Gail charged headlong at the demon guy.

It was time to put those long years of boxing and wrestling to the test. Since he observed Ji flying overhead and preparing to come in for a divebomb attack, he held back for a second. After she would make or miss her hit, he'd come running straight towards Tatsu with his arm stretched out and clenched, like he was in a wrestling ring.

Gail hoped that Tatsu's head/upper body area would collide right with the arm, sending the demon flying off its feet and landing in the sand.

[Chadin]

“Umm…Am I the only one scared here?”

Petrified. I silently replied. I just hit this guy with a shot that would have burned clean through a Swat-bot's chest armour and he's still standing, let alone not even bleeding!!! My crossbow is by far my most effective weapon, but suddenly it was all but useless. If that didn't send a shiver down my spine I don't know what would.

I panicked as I saw him charge; firing three shots at Tatsu with far less accuracy than I normally would have. At that moment it was the only thing I could do to stave off running with my white tail flared up in terror.

Of course, in that panicked state, I didn't notice the lightning-shaped scars across my body starting to glow, either. That glowing was mirrored by the emerald shard safely hidden within my pack.

- -

Meanwhile, Jii might notice as she is sailing through the air the sight of an incoming Swat-bot drop-ship. It would reach the beach in moments.

[Tatsu, you can take control of the Swat-bots from here if you like, or I can keep control of them in place of Rampage. Which ever you prefer.]