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WAAPT@tropi.us Legacy → WAAPT: In-Universe → PEFE-B: The Part Where He Kills Us
Basket: Not again!
Tangent: Help!
Rufus: If I survive... I'm remembering this trick!
Lua: Loading Chapter 9 titles...
Cornn: "YOU'VE PROBABLY FIGURED IT OUT BY NOW, BUT I DON'T NEED YOU ALL ANYMORE. I FOUND TWO LITTLE ROBOTS BACK HERE, BUILT SPECIFICALLY FOR TESTIN'!"
PEFeDOS: "THAT'S THE COOPERATIVE TESTING INITIATIVE! I CAME UP WITH THAT TO PHASE OUT TESTING ON LIVE SUBJECTS!"
Cornn: "I'M SURE I'LL PUT IT TO GOOD USE."
-We pass by a row of faith plates, which activate and launch us down a corridor over a bottomless pit...-
<All: "AAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!>
-And onto a platform held up by a metal arm in front of a bank of screens with a certain personality core on it... And a semicircular arrangement of spiked metal plates-
<Cleo: "Well. This is the part where he kills us!">
PEFeDOS: "THIS IS THE PART WHERE HE KILLS YOU."
Cornn: "HELLO! THIS IS THE PART WHERE I KILL YOU!"
[spoiler]The part where he kills us. That part.
Cornn: "HAD A BIT OF A BRAIN WAVE. THERE I WAS, SMASHING SOME STEEL PLATES TOGETHER, AND I THOUGHT 'YES, IT'S DEADLY. BUT WHAT'S MISSING? WHAT'S MISSING?' AND I THOUGHT LOTS OF SHARP BITS WELDED ONTO THE FLAT BITS."
-Some conversion gel happens to be dripping along a slanted portion of the wall in the background, under a catwalk and below the plates. Another behind the catwalk in question is also portalable-
!
-Shoots a portal at the gel and another behind the catwalk-
-A glob of conversion gel falls through the portal under the plates... Shoots out the portal by the catwalk... Onto the one that we are standing on-
Cornn: "NO NO NO! DON'T DO THAT! STAND RIGHT THERE! START THE MACHINE, START THE MACHINE, START THE MACHINE..."
Rufus: I'm out! -jumps into the portal-
Basket: GO!
Tangent: -takes flight with Basket and Rosary while Cephas rolls into the portal-
Pica: -Jumps into the portal- Nope, still pretty dumb.
Let's get out of here!
-Everyone jumps or flies into the portal-
-My team, Human!Ammy, Lake, and respective company do likewise as the plates slam in onto the platform-
-Overshooting the catwalk slightly-
<"AAAAAAAAAAAAH!">
-And is pulled back to it by a certain Meganium-
<Pepper: *pant pant* "Are you alright? (I didn't know that I could jump that far...)">
<"Yeah, I'm fine and we're- Wait- Where's Teala?!">
-Calling from behind-
<Teala: "I'm right here!">
-And waves-
<Teala: "I wasn't expecting you all to jump like that, though!">
-And points at a portal on the platform where we once were... And a second one on the spot dripping conversion gel-
[spoiler]Okay, so that's technically not how it works in-game. But eh. Divergence! o3o
<Styx: "Let's get out of here already!">
Igneous also overshoots the platform... but is saved by a certain Flygon.
Igneous: <Oof... Thanks, Spectrum.>
Spectrum: <Jets! Now!>
Igneous: <Right, sorry.>
He fires up his jets, making him light enough for Spectrum to pull him up toward the platform.
-Merle feels as though important things are happening, but isn't at all sure as to what. She decides to make herself a bit hidden in case PE Fe DOS gets bored or angry-
Stratus: <Well, that confirms it. Now we have two malevolent A.I's trying to kill us. Perfect, just perfect!>
Lake: <I know. Talk about being caught between a Rock-type and a hard place.>
The Feraligatr sighs as he begins to follow everymon else with Stratus.
<It's just made things that much more tougher...>
Igneous: <Well, we only know one is trying to kill us. The other might be trying to kill us.>
Lake: <Er...might?>
Stratus: <Are we even talking about the same A.I here?>
Igneous: <Remember in the last test chamber, PEFeDOS was willing to try and help us? Or at least, she said she was.>
-A turret is preparing to fire at some unseen figures-
Turret: "TARGET ACQUIR-"
-And is toppled over by a flying club and sprays bullets wildly-
Turret: "OWOWOWOW! CRITICAL ERROR."
-And shuts down-
-Coming out from behind cover-
<Polaris: "Mmph. Not too tough for enemies. The frailest mon in our tribe could at least get back up after being knocked down!">
<Gene: "Well hey, I'm not complaining here! (Though they do seem a bit easy compared to those ones in the place with the green hills...)">
Cornn: "WHERE'D YOU GO?! COME BACK, COME BACK!"
-We start to run down the catwalk-
Cornn: "SERIOUSLY, DO COME BACK, PLEASE. I'M NOT GOING TO KILL YOU, IF YOU COME BACK."
-It is at this request that a certain Pidove and Relicanth turn back for the pit with the spike plates-
-Rushing back with group after the two-
<"What are you two doing?!">
<Riana: "He said 'please', though!">
<Cleo: "And this is the part where you get to hear hidden dialogue!">
Cornn: "OH! YOU CAME BACK. UM... HANG ON... OK, SOLUTION! CAN YOU JUST JUMP DOWN INTO THAT PIT THERE, THAT DEADLY PIT?"
Lake: <Yeah...do you really think I'm going to trust her just because she says she's going to help us? For all we know, she could be waiting to back-stab us at the first opportunity she gets!>
Stratus nods in agreement, before checking over his shoulder to see if she literally was going to back-stab him.
Stratus: <Yeah, she's sorta' set a precede- HEY!>
The two catch sight of Riana and Cleo heading back towards the part where Cornn tried to kill them.
Lake: <Riana! Cleo! GET BACK, IT'S NOT SAFE!>
Pica: -Watching Riana and Cleo head back- ...You have got to be kidding me.
No, not them. Maekrite and Silentran♂ are more or less safe. They are heading with a small group of armored mons towards the conflict area, hoping to make their way back into the PEFE infrastructure.
Maekrite -frowns: <Why can't we ask Gene to… did whatever the hraka he did to the Universe to take us back inside?>
Silentran♂: <Because he is busy, for one. Besides what are you complaining about?> -- pokes the Nidorino -- <You'd rather go in fighting than take the back door.>
Maekrite blushes a bit, nods and continues plotwards.
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<Teala: "RIANA! CLEO! DON'T-">
Cornn: "WHY JUMP INTO THAT PIT, YOU ASK? OH... WELL... WHY... OH! YOU KNOW WHO'S DOWN THERE? YOURSELVES! YOU DIDN'T DIE OF OLD AGE HERE AFTER ALL! I SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED THAT.
SO JUMP ON DOWN AND REUNITE WITH YOURSELVES."
<All: "...">
<"... What?">
Cornn: "AND... THERE'S ALSO AN ESCAPE PLANE! DOWN THERE, IN THE PIT, WITH YOUR CLONES...
FORGOT THAT TOO. SO YOURSELVES, AN ESCAPE PLANE, ALL DOWN THERE... WAITING FOR YOU... PROBABLY COLLECTING DUST NOW... BETTER HURRY!"
<All: "...">
Cornn: "WHAT ELSE... OH! A TRENDY NEW SET OF SCARVES. ONLY THE LATEST STYLES, SURE TO BE THE ENVY OF WHEREVER YOU GO.
PURE MAREEP WOOL, DESTATICED, EXACTLY YOUR SIZES.
AND IF THEY ARE THE WRONG SIZE, THERE'S A LEAVANNY THERE WHO CAN ADJUST THEM!"
<Lardna: "(He seriously thinks that we're going to fall for this?)">
Cornn: "AND... OOH, A SPIFFY BACKPACK, WITH... TWICE-INFINITE SPACE IN IT... AND AN IPHOKEX 9001 GS...
A DE-POKEMONIZER BOMB, AND... THE THREE-PORTAL GUN! IT'S ALL THERE!"
<Toothless: "(... Why are we still here again?)">
<Pepper: "(I'd run now, but the sheer idiocy of this is strangely enrapturing.)">
Cornn: "AN AIRSHIP, AND... FANS! LOADS OF FANS, DOWN THERE! PERHAPS AN ASCENDED FANBOY. WHO'S TO TELL AT THIS STAGE? AND... A GROUP OF FANARTISTS! ALL OF THEM VERY REASONABLE, HAVEN'T GOTTEN INTO A SHIPPING WAR IN YEARS.
THEY DON'T CARE IF YOU'VE GOT A LITTLE BRAIN DAMAGE EITHER, THEY ARE VERY UNDERSTANDING."
PEFeDOS: "YOU ALL REALLY DO HAVE BRAIN DAMAGE, DON'T YOU? I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT YOU CAME BACK!"
Cornn: "JUST JUMP DOWN, WOULD YOU?
... I WASN'T GOING TO TELL YOU THIS... BUT THERE'S AN ACHIEVEMENT! FOR JUMPING! INTO THE PIT!"
<Cleo: "OH! Okay~!">
-And prepares to toss herself off the catwalk but is latched onto by a certain Druddigon-
-Attempting to wriggle free-
<Cleo: "HEY!">
<Teala: "Stay STILL!">
<"Alright, we're going now!">
-And we flee once again-
<Cleo: "Aww... But my Achievement...">
Lake: <...Did he really expect any of us to fall for that?>
Lake sighs.
<He really is a moron...>
Stratus: <I'll admit...I would have liked some of the stuff he said he had. Like a scarf...>
Lake: <You'd take a scarf over the de-Pokémoniser bomb?>
Stratus: <Well, that's hardly going to help now!>
Pica: -To Cleo- I wonder who's dumber, you, or that AI.
-Annoyed-
Be nice.
-To myself more than anyone else-
An iPhokex like that would be pretty sweet...
Merle: -hidden away in a corner- Okay, it's more focused on...whatever's going on. You're not important just now. Just stay that way. Don't draw attention. It was easy enough back in Celadon, it shouldn't be a problem now...
As everymon makes haste to get away from the now murderous Corrn, they come across a catwalk spanning a large chasm just over a set of rails...with a module sliding across it towards it.
Corrn: "DON'T MIND ME! JUST CONTINUE ESCAPING!"
Lake and Stratus watch as the module slides along, breaking through the catwalk...and continuing into the side of another module, it's metal paneling buckling as the two crash against each other, much to everyone's bemusement.
Stratus: <I'm beginning to seriously wonder if we should be worrying so much about this...>
-As the catwalk sags and settles-
<All: "AUGH!">
PEFeDOS: "OKAY, SO IT'S A TRAP. BUT IT'S THE ONLY WAY THROUGH. SO JUST DO IT."
-Noticing a portalable surface through a grate along with a surface right along the module's rails-
<Teala: "(Here goes nothing...)">
-And shoots a set of portals at the two places and passes through into the center of a room surrounded by pneumatic tubes with openings-
Cornn: "HA! DEATH TRAP!"
-And a number of misshapen turrets with missing body panels are sent through-
Defective Turret #1: "WE'RE BACK!"
Defective Turret #2: "HI, THERE!"
Defective Turret #3: "WHY, HELLO, STRANGER!"
Cornn: "ARE THEY KILLING YOU? THEY ARE KILLING YOU, AREN'T THEY?"
<"... (Looks like it's safe.)">
-And we proceed through the portal after Teala, with the audible clicks of turrets without ammunition being heard faintly-
Cornn: "SILENTLY KILLING YOU. PROBABLY. IF I HAD TO GUESS."
-A group of mons are ducking behind a ledge as bullets whiz overhead-
<Nadia: "Did Silent and Maekrite make it through?!">
<Rookery!Sealeo: "WHAT?!">
<Nadia: "The-">
-Zing-
<Nadia: "Nidos! Did they make it through?!">
<Rookery!Sealeo: "If they didn't! I can't see their corpses!">
Eskay and Psyche are walking in a less-repaired portion of the facility, when they see a turret with both of its firing mechanisms torn off.
Broken!Turret: [Her name was Caroline...]
Eskay immediately glances toward Psyche
Psyche: <~...What? I wouldn't do something so cruel. Especially to something this cute.~>
Eskay: <~I know. It's just an unusual coincidence.~>
Broken!Turret: [Before I came here, they were GLaDOS and Wheatley...]
Eskay: <~...I'm getting the feeling its weapons weren't the only thing that got damaged...~>
Broken!Turret: [If calibrated correctly, a portal gun can even cross between universes!]
Eskay and Psyche walk back toward the rest of the group, feeling slightly sorry for the little machine.
Broken!Turret: [I don't blame you...]
Lake and Stratus follow, the Feraligatr a little shaken.
Lake: <Oh mon, it was like that firing range all over again! Thank goodness they were defective, I wouldn't have had the time to make a large enough bubble to protect all of us...>
Exiting the module, everyone drops down onto the catwalk and through a door, attracting the attention of a certain A.I.
Cornn: "HA! WAS THAT YOUR BULLET RIDDLED BODIES, FLYING OUT OF THE ROOM? IT WAS- AWW, THOSE WERE THE CRAP TURRETS, WEREN'T THEY? YEAH..."
Entering the next room, a row of panels on a module slides down to reveal more turrets. Working ones, this time.
Lake: <Oh, Muk. spoke too soon...>
Cornn: "WELL, NO MATTER. BECAUSE I'M STILL HOLDING ALL THE CARDS, AND GUESS WHAT: THEY'RE ALL FULL HOUSES! I'VE NEVER ACTUALLY PLAYED CARDS. MEANING TO LEARN."
Stratus pauses, noticing a portal-able wall behind the turrets, as well as a Tractor Beam just above them flowing into a portal-able panel.
Stratus: <Hmm...>
Cornn: "ANYWAY, NEW TURRETS. NOT DEFECTIVE. ACE OF FOURS. THE BEST HAND. UNBEATABLE, I IMAGINE."
Lake: <Oh, come on...>
Stratus: <Hey! Mind if I borrow the Portal Gun for a second?>
Lake: <Huh?>
Taking the gun from whoever has it, Stratus places a portal at the end of the tractor beam, then another behind one of the turrets, the beam extending through it and picking up one of the turrets. Flailing wildly and spraying bullets everywhere, the turret is carried our of the module, and over a pit.
At the right moment, Stratus moves the portal to behind the other two turrets, dropping the first one into the chasm below as the other two are caught in the beam, the Dragonite doing the same to drop them in after them.
Stratus: <Too easy!>
Lake: <...Whoa. That was slick.>
Stratus: <I know, right? Now, follow me!>
Recasting the portal, the Dragonite jumps into the tractor beam, Lake and the others following as they're carried over a pit towards a door on the other side.
Cornn: "AH, I SEE. CLEVER. VERRRRRY CLEVER. AND FOOLISH! NO WAY OUT. AT MY MERCY. AND I DON'T HAVE ANY. YOU ARE AT MY NOTHING."
A panel on the wall at the end of the beam opens, revealing a pair of rotating saws.
"SPINNY BLADE-WALL! MACHIAVELLIAN."
Stratus: <Yikes!>
Lake: <Alright! Everymon off!>
The two jump out of the beam, landing safely next to the door.
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