Cyber Elf Discovery

[Sabata]

[Continued from Neo Arcadian Tower: Top Floor]

Sabata gets up, somewhat daized he looks around for the others.

[X]

X appeared right beside Sabata who seemed to be dazed. Clearly this was his first time to be teleported. Teleportation had improved over the years, and X had been one who can testify to this. At least Sabata was still conscious.

X looked around the forest. It had been awhile since he had seen nature at its best, but he knew that it would only be a matter of time before this area would be destroyed as well. The 'Cyber Elves' were no where to be seen, but X felt a little stronger in the area. Obviously, these creatures existed and would be of great aid to Neo Arcadia. He looked at Gate, a key player in finding and analyzing the elves, for directions on where to go.

"Lead the way."

[Gate]

Gate appeared when X was speaking and walked in front of X. "Right this way." Gate said as he walked closer to the crash site.

[Sabata]

Sabata was on guard his gun ready for any mavericks. He was a bit jumpy and skittish since this was his mission and X was coming along.

[Ashram]

Koji coughed a little as his body re-materialized after the transfer, his stomach just a little sick. After regaining his equilibrium, he placed his hand on the large beam saber hilt on his back, to make sure it was still there.

He looked around and took in the natural beauty... hard to believe that nature was coming back to this place, after the Space Colony Eurasia had crash here not that long ago. Koji then realized that he was being left behind, and ran to catch up with the rest of the party.

[Sabata]

Sabata jumps at the foot steps and nearly shoots Koji, fortunately his guns battery was dead.

[X]

X looked over at the paranoid Sabata. He seemed way too jumpy and very on edge, but X couldn't blame him. He had worked undercover for awhile, so he knew how Mavericks thought and operated. Still...

As they followed Gate closer and closer to the middle of the colony wreckage, X began to see the creatures Gate described. They were flying around pieces of the colony that were covered up by the plants in the forest, and seemed to almost hover around him and Gate. Clearly these things were attracted to any form of machinery. X reached out to grab an elf, but was unable to keep up with its speed. They were not that fast, but they were tricky to snatch. Surely Gate had thought of a way to capture these things.

[Sabata]

Sabata stares in wonder at the beings, then noticed his gun was charging. "Mavericks!" he shouts ready for any coming.

[Gate]

Gate kept walking, stopping and looking around just to be sure they were going the right way. Gate saw X trying to catch a cyber elf and saw that he failed to do so. "It looks like these creatures are tricky." Gate thought to himself as he busied himself with a plan when he heard Sabata. Gate could only sigh, he didn't expect someone to do be this paranoid. "Relax, there aren't any mavericks near here, and if there was, we'll be safe, since X is with us." Gate said as he went back to thinking.

After wondering around for some time, Gate stopped right in front of what he called the Mother Elf. "Here it is, the Mother Elf and her babies." Gate said as he stretched out his right arm and aimed it at the Mother Elf.

[Sabata]

Sabata starts looking around and sees nothing. "If there aren't any mavericks, how did my gun charge?" Sabata asks puzzled.

[Ashram]

(Guys, I suggest we try enacting a post order after this post, because I'm getting tired of Sabata posting every other post and it'll help promote some regularity. It should go in this order: Sabata, X, Gate, and then me.)

Koji looked around at the small, fairy-like beings flittering everywhere; never having seen something like this in his life. He never knew that there could be such entities in a place like this. His eyes scanned them over, and they were clearly mechanically-based, and yet they were living in the last bastion of pure, uncorrupted nature on Earth.

Koji broke his gaze for a moment and turned to Sabata.

"You honestly need to put that gun down, Sabata. Had the d**n thing been charged, you would have shot me with it."

[Sabata]

"Well now its charged, and no mavericks in sight." Sabata says quite confused. "Do you think it's the cyber elves?"

[X]

(OOC: Agreed. That'll definitely help this progress smoother. Thanks for the advice)

As the Mother Elf came into view, X was quite surprised. This thing was much bigger than what he thought it would be, looking to be about a meter high (How big IS the Mother Elf anyway?). He began to approach it, still staring at the peculiar object. His strength was beginning to increase the closer he got to it. Clearly these things gave off alot of energy of which only machines like reploids could harness.

Upon realizing this, Lumine's words echoed through his mind. "...We must...evolve..." X hated that word, "evolution," but he could not deny it when seeing these creatures. X would never dare to harm a human being, but the idea of having a world where reploids rule...that didn't seem so impractical. When X was reminded of Lumine's words, what Spartan had told him also came to mind. "The Hunters see you as a pillar of strength and hope." Why had such thoughts of evolution occurred to him? Spartan was right. The Hunters, the very ones who fight for the humans, looked up to him. He couldn't let them or the humans down. Besides, this was the humans world, not theirs.

Koji's voice dragged him back to reality. X turned toward Sabata and Koji who were debating over Sabata's gun charging. He had heard that the gun only charges around Mavericks, so it was pretty much a warning sign that one was around. X knew what was causing it.

"No need to worry. There's a Maverick not too far from here that I've sent Spartan and Zero to go snatch. No body knows about this place or these creatures, so the odds of him showing up are slim to none."

X prepared his buster, just in case...

[Gate]

Gate looked at X when he heard Sabata speak about his gun going off and there were no mavericks in sight. "And if the maverick came over here, we would be prepared to attack him, since there's four of us and probably only one of him." Gate added to X's words as he turned to the Mother Elf. "Now back to our mission: capturing the cyber elves," Gate said as he put both of his arms behind his back. "and I have a plan to capture them too." Gate finished as he turned around and looked at everyone.

"But we'll need to move back some, just in case if the cyber elves can hear what we say." Gate said as he walked to the direction they came from. "Follow me, and we'll discuss the plan." Gate added as he continued to walk, not looking back.

After walking a few meters, Gate stopped and turned to the rest. "Now for the plan." Gate said as he motioned them to circle around him. "This is what we're going to do," Gate said as he crouched down and started to draw while he was talking. "I've noticed that these creatures are attracted to reploids, but I don't know about humans." Gate said as he drew a big M representing the Mother Elf and two smaller Bs representing the Baby elves. "So we're going to use Sabata and Koji to 'scare' the Mother Elf and her babies to us." Gate said as he drew a G and a X some distance away from the M and two Bs, and drew a S and a K near the M and Bs. "If the plan fails, we meet back here to come up with another plan." Gate said as he stood up. " Before we being, any questions?" Gate asked.

[Ashram]

A rather smug look crossed Koji's face as he listened to Gate's plan. It was amazingly simplistic for a scientist... but he was the brains.

"Sounds good. Is there any way you'd like us to scare it? With noises, or do you want weapons free?"