[x] Deal with Imperial ambitions.
[x] Yes. (Distracts from noticing other things.)
Nazis were nasty?
You rolled the idea around in your thoughts as you headed across the bay towards the fires and, supposedly, towards where this "Empire 88" were entering the area. There was a blank spot where the meaning of the term "Nazi" should have been, but that didn't real bother you.
(Not that the lack of bother would prevent you from waxing lyrical on the matter once you'd come up with a proper couplet using rhyme for "Nazi".)
Even as part of your mind mused on the matter you didn't neglect the task at hand. With a mental twist you heard first a hiss then a surge of noise as you turned on your internal radio receiver. To your surprise the loud pulses of radar that should have been there were missing and, instead, there was babble of voices and music.
There was no radar? Nothing to warn them of your approach?
Your smile widen in anticipation, teeth bared at the world, and you could feel in your veins the pulsing of your engines as you coaxed their output higher. What had been a steady progress across the bay quickened as you poured on the power.
You were going to hit them like... like... like...?
A snippet of music on the airwaves registered, matching what you wanted your mood to be, and you tuned into that channel.
"
Thunder." You stated in time with the music as you continued to accelerate. "
I shall hit them like thunder."
(A very small part of your mind tried to protest that thunder was merely a side effect of lighting, but you were used to smothering such uncool thoughts before they could impinge on your monologue.)
Spray whipped by as you surged forwards, pushing your limits in a way that you couldn't remembering doing before.
The harbour was large enough to accommodate freighters, but in was in no way large enough to handle you for long if you weren't merely ambling about. The edge of the bay was fast approaching, but you didn't plan on slowing down.
"
And I knew there was no turning back." You sang along with the song as though you'd always known the lyrics, your eyes fix on edge closest to the gates.
"
Sound of the drums
Beating in my heart
The thunder of guns"
You sang loudly, letting you voice carry on the air and the airwaves through your radio, and you pushed yourself to go faster as the sound of shooting became audible almost in a response. Slowing down never came to your mind as there was a slipway in your sights and screeching voice in your ears egging you on.
"
Tore me apart"
When you hit the concrete slipway, a ramp from the waters to the dry land, you had a brief to regret trying this stunt as the transition tore at you. The pain from that didn't register for long though as your feet went out from under you, sending you into an out of control forward tumble.
Ouch
What did register though was a brief glimpse of a cargo container between you and the gates, seen for a moment before your momentum carried you into it. Such containers were not small things. Made of solid metal and weighing in at perhaps five thousand pounds they were made to tolerate a degree of abuse.
You had been going at over twenty knots and, on one level, your weight might best measured in thousands of tons.
That didn't mean that going through it didn't hurt though.
Ouch!
The uncontrolled tumble came to an end, after a few more collisions with things you didn't have a chance to recognise, with you in an untidy heap on the ground some distance away from the water.
Vaguely you realised that meat people were nearby and staring at you in shock, but the only thing that came to your dazed mind was to speak the words that were still ringing in your ears:
"You've been
Thunderstruck!"
Someone snickered.
Something inside of you snapped as the sound and you clicked off your radio as your mood instantly soured.
You were the night.
You were that which was born from darkness.
You were all the hurty things from their worstest dreams!
You were not mortified at how you had horribly botched that attempt at a really cool and dramatic entrance. And you definitely weren't fighting to hold off a sniffle at how sore you were even as you blinked back tears.
"Are you okay, Miss... Thunderstruck?" A vaguely bemused voice vaguely penetrated your misery, "I am unsure what your intentions are, but I believe you have quite thoroughly dealt with that car and the fence."
Trying to struggle out of the metal mesh that had somehow got caught on you during your mishap, you looked up to try and source the voice.
The man who had apparently addressed you was standing about twenty yards away and almost instantly you forgave him for having been a witness to your ignominious entrance attempt. He had a nice voice, seemed concerned, but most of all he had the coolest imitation of rigging ever on. It was all pointy metal bits and sharp edges and he even had a circlet on his head which looked to be made of swords!
(That didn't mean that you wouldn't kill him if need be, but he had a Nice Hat and you wouldn't insult him by lying to yourself about that.)
"Oh, I'm here to kill some Nazis." You told him even as you tried to subtly disentangle a bit of the wreckage wrapped around you which was pressing uncomfortably into your thigh. "Do you know where I can find them? I got told they have this sort of pointy symbol."
You had felt safe enough asking that. After all the symbol emblazoned on his clock (He had a
cloak! Oh, his rigging just got cooler the more you noticed about it!) was an E with two eights rather than any sort of swastika.
A glowing young woman next to him seemed to want to say something (and you approved of the all white colour scheme she had even if a little black and blood red could have livened it up), but he put his hand on her arm and she fell silent.
Giving up on trying to get free without being noticed you reached down and just ripped the entangling metal mesh away. Under your hands it tore as though made of tinfoil, letting you brush away the less pieces like chaff, and you only winced a few times as your hands touched your newly acquired scrapes and bruises.
It was when you were distracted that something hit you in the eye.
You yelped then pressed a hand to your face, covering your abused eye. Rubbing it carefully you tried to deal with the cause of your pain, but when you finally managed to you just stared at the small bullet.
Someone had shot you.
In the eye.
With a pistol?
You stared at the meat people behind the man with the rigging for a moment, their presence finally registering as you tryied to figure out who did that, and wondered if that was some sort of insult or just an attempt to gain your attention.
It was a
pistol.
Then something clicked as you spotted a familiar symbol on the arms of a few of the meat people and you turned your gaze accusingly to the man with the rigging.
"You're Nazis, aren't you!"
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Out of the Fog
A (Not So) Safe Harbor 1.4
oOo
Congratulations, you've found Nazis to fight!
You have minor injuries.
UPDATE : The trait "Heavy Metal" has been revealed.
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Who will you attack first?
(Vote indicates intention, but plans may not survive contact with enemy.
No write-ins.)
[ ] A differently dressed teenager boy who is hanging back.
[ ] Clear away the trash minions first.
[ ] Get rid of the glowing girl who is hurting your eyes.
[ ] Rigging = Dangerous. Kill the man.