#fuck u krieg

[yapirate]

so why the FUCK krieg hit sanji. ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

also on the subject of "whoops the main character got written out of the story," if luffy isn't there, then there's nobody to go after arlong and stomp him immediately after he has the marines seize nami's savings, meaning she's just stuck in that situation where she's just been crushed and also everyone she's been trying to save has now decided to go throw themselves on arlong's crew's blades.

so maybe after that happens, she does manage to talk the cocoyasi residents into waiting a little bit longer, but only until, like, the very next time she returns. so when she goes out again with zoro (who i guess at this point is in the know about her situation), they're like, ok, fuck, we gotta pick up the pace. we can't just keep scraping up pennies anymore, we gotta go Big. what's the biggest most lucrative thing we can go after rn. ...so maybe they wind up pursuing the krieg pirates to the baratie

[gastlives]

dont think those are getting fixed anytime soon now

jesus thats tall

i think if he was as tall as a kaiju then the world rly wouldve been over

oh no hes smooving

schmooving

well

deaths already starting krieg was from the nazi group if i remember but not dead

oh an interlude

is this lisa?

damn shes so vulgar here

or hostile i suppose

man..

woa..

damn closer than u are?

ooo the way her power comes thru the narration is neat

get hired

wooa secret ?

thats crazy

never huh

gdi

shit

yea…

and idk how taylor will save U guys unless she uses… water bugs? idk

fuck!

damn alec

yea how hard

this is more deaths than u mentioned legend

omg pseudo harrow (the locked tomb)

NO

oh my god even vic's boyfriend died?? or is this losses… like unconciossuss… right?

god… she was falling….

man!

man!!

damn!!!!

[lavend-ler]

3, 8, 13, 18

HIIIII SPOK <333

3. screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

MY BAD TAKES COLLECTION

like let's be real in blands fandom, we see bad takes every day but honestly I have never seen a compelling argument against Rhysothy like,,, they're all wrong. like ppl saying that they would hate each other, that shipping characters that never met is Bad and just,,, any argument against Rhysothy for me falls flat

also takes abt how Jack was actually Good and esp a good dad and Lilith and Moxxi were Wrong and they are bitches

idk but that hc that Krieg is Tina's dad like what the fuck

Im censoring this one but just Dear God

also special shout out to that one person who said u cant ship Normaler cause they have the word "normal" in their shipname and Dr Seuss wouldn't want that. I would literally kill to have a screenshot of this

8. common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

Tales characters being a found family. literally these ppl don't know each other and they aren't close to one another and I don't think they rly grew to like one another. they don't feel particularly close to each other, ure only TOLD they should be friends. but they aren't. also Vaughn being a good friend is just the worst, like No, He's Not

13. worst blorboficiation

whatever the hell is happening with Katagawa Jr. like I genuinely have never seen him portrayed well (cause he's a terrible character) but what ppl do with him in fandom is just MAN. u either get fetishization or literally just making OC out of him, ignoring all the horrible things he's done. u can't have anything with such terrible character ig

18. it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

u know what? I'm gonna be incredibly specific here. cause everyone loves to hc Fiona as a future Vault Hunter and trust me, me too but I love to go a step further. I think Fiona joining Sanctuary would be just absolutely perfect

I love thinking abt her learning to be a Vault Hunter from the best aka Lilith, Mordecai and Brick. I love her being a part of the squad and going on adventures with them. I ship Lilith/Fiona so I love seeing them come together and see how their relationship could develop. I love seeing Fiona at Moxxi's, or repairing cars with Ellie, or begrudgingly going to Zed's, or scamming Marcus. in my ideal future, Fiona would find her place in Sanctuary and become a part of the squad

[beeben]

In the fucked up universe where krieg and majima would somehow be able to meet i actually am unsure if they would get along or not. I think majima would like him but i literally have no clue the other way around like what would the read be. Kriegs so judgy like fr.... First impression type guy like he deadass thought lilith hated him for no reason for fucking years like what do u think.... Puzzling.

[x-heesy]

𝗠𝝝𝝝𝗗 𝗕𝝝𝝠𝗥𝗗

𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗟 𝗬 𝝠𝗦𝗦

𝗜 𝝠𝗠 𝝠 𝗗𝝠𝗡𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗦𝝠𝗡𝗗𝗪𝗜𝗖𝗛 🎧💃🏽🕺🏼🪩🚀💥

𝗚 𝝝 𝗗 𝗜 𝗦 𝝠 𝗗 𝗝

ΓЯДCҜФFΓHΞDДУ

#panicdynamicpandemic #trackoftheday #gifattack #gifmania #moody #edm #electronicmusic #shakewhatyamamagaveya #raaaaven #electroshockboogie @shadowanndeath @kattywompuss @boanerges20 @derflaneur @badbavarian 🎧💃🏽🕺🏼🪩🚀💥#dancemfdance #partymusic #lostinmusic #thankslordfortechno

U-boat war in East Berlin

I take your hand and stand still

They invade Friedrichshain

So dominant, so strong and beautiful

like you

U-boat war in East Berlin

We pull your cocaine on the roof

The bomb comes - the light goes on

So atomic, so cool and feminine

like you

like you

love me in the basement

love me forever

love me in the basement

love me forever

love me in the basement

U-Boot-Krieg in Ost-Berlin by And One ☝️

[oloreaa]

Freunde ich hab das unglaubliche Privileg einen Ohrwurm von Fick Mich Finch zu haben🥰

[transmechanicus]

*Applies for one(1) job*

Brain: This is an appropriate time to request death yes?

[sparring-spirals]

quick ‘n rough liveblog for TLOVM ep 2!

- this beginning portion is mostly making me think about the post talking about Orym as a guard and how it puts a face to the characters that are often cannon fodder in fantasy. hmm.

- Grog not knowing the meaning of doom in a very “that sign cant stop me because i cant read!” kind of way and i approve of it.

- TRINKET RECIEVING CUDDLES FROM THE GUARDS. As he deserves :’) same, guards. same.

- actually its a good thing trinket isnt allowed in the palace bc i cannot focus on anyone else when he’s in the scene. whose a good boy looking for pets. whose a good boy :’D

- gilmore!!!!!!! pike just caught in the middle. had to see tusk love. rough day huh pike.

- vax u disaster bi, FOCUS, although i get it, gilmore, yes.

- okay but- i fucking adore scanlan and grog shenanigans?? this is so good??

- i have 0 ground to stand on about dialogue preferences when some of my favorite jokes are grog being mildly perplexed by common phrases.

- you know.... despite my extreme lack of trying to avoid spoilers... i somehow didnt know the general krieg twist was going to happen? This was great. excellent. wonderful.

- vex being a little shit about vax and keyleth? :) codependence flaring up? :) yes. yesssss.

- vex briefly losing control of the VM braincell at the sight of gold only to belatedly realize they’re in a dragons horde? excellent.

- i adore keyleth, i really do. you’re doing great keyleth. u didnt fuck up keyleth. :)

- okay this battle sequence? exquisite. Genuinely fantastic- in composition, in flow, showing off how the characters interact as well as their capabilities, gripping, fantastic, etc. like. hell yeah. hell yeah!!!

- i might come back with more productive commentary later but i just really really enjoyed that. 

- vex running out with gold in her arms. love that for her. 

- vAX WHY WOULD YOU STOP IN THE COLLAPSING CAVERN. I UNDERSTAND THE SYMBOLISM YADDA YADDA BUT YOU COULD HAVE BEEN CRUSHED COULD YOU NOT DO THAT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PORTAL

- we have a home, sister. .... i’m ruining a moment, arent i. maybe but its okay!! vax finds it endearing and vex- vex WILL find it endearing. err. eventually.

- oh no theyre hot

overall thoughts:

- this episode felt much smoother! both in terms of dialogue, and pacing, and Vibes(tm). Pilots are always a little tricky, but its a relief anyway. The gore is still a liiiittle jarring sometimes but that might just be me not watching very many gorey cartoons/anime, and it felt much more in place this ep.

- the fight? in this episode? fucking incredible, beautifully done. like- hell yeah. 

- the little character interactions-that’s what im here for and they are DELIVERING. The little one liners between them, the arguments, poking each other in the background. yes. yeeessssssss.

- i get why multiple ancient dragons is bad for VM but i like the dragon animations so im thrilled :)

- someone on the team really didn’t like the existence of ribcages, huh? lotta peoples midriffs getting punctured/runthrough/hand stuck through them, etc.

[charkyzombicorn]

Okay but what if luffy got his devil fruit a bit younger? Like he was 4ish when shanks brought it. Garp gets pissy earlier and decides to tie some balloons to his grandson and let the sky handle him while he makes arrangements with dadan.

But then it's a particularly bad day for luffy, and a strong wind carried him away from his island, he ends up falling right into one of the newer slave trader's ships and well fuck. He tried to fight them off but one of them has a collar with sea stone that the big boss person gives to every ship, even the smaller ones. So now luffy's fucked.

Since he's got a devil fruit, he's taken to the big boss child slave distributor asshole (put that on a business card) and then eventually gets taken to judge, because of course that dickhead would buy superpowered children. Judge gets him purely because rubber boy can take a hell of a walloping and also is stronger than the average four year old.

The vinsmoke brats and Sanji end up being pitted against Luffy and luffy does not win, but he doesnt die either so that's a plus. Sanji hates beating up a four year old, his brothers seem to love being able to punch something as much as they want without them being taken away or dying.

Luffy ends up learning how to fight by force, and eventually he's dubbed Sanji's fighting partner since they're both the weakest, which sucks because if sanji loses he gets locked up and if luffy loses then judge gives the other three brothers sharp objects and free time with luffy

Eventually luffy befriends sanji because of course he does, and loving food as much as he does he becomes the taste tester for sanji's cooking endeavors, and sometimes luffy manages to limp away to talk to sanji when he's in his cell.

When they escape, they escape together, and sanji becomes a bus boy and luffy just carries shit because he cant really do anything else but he could deadlift a ship at 10 so hey

When the attack happens, sanji's trying to save luffy, but zeff has to save him. Sanji sits on that rock almost certain that luffy's dead.

Luffy didn't die tho, because no, and he got saved, idk how, this is a writing prompt u figure it out, and they end up growing up apart for a bit after that. Luffy doesn't find his island again, but he does a bit of bounty hunting to get by and ends up making a name for himself because apparently his 'training' with the vinsmokes was a little more brutal than he thought.

Sanji works hard, he feels he owes a debt to both zeff and luffy, both of which helped him in some of his worse moments, and ends up a bit more edgy than in canon because he thinks his only friend is dead (push him to the edge🎶)

But then luffy gets blamed for something that was only really half his fault and half the random bandit he was fighting's fault, and he ends up with a bounty. It isn't a big one, just about 10000 berri, he kinda destroyed a bit more marine property than is recommended. But then sanji sees the bounty in the paper and he doesnt know if he should be glad his friend is alive or angry that luffy let him think he was dead.

But then luffy comes to the baratie when hes about 15-16, and then he sees sanji again and now he's super fuckin happy because how would luffy know sanji was alive?? They both came to the conclusion of mutual misunderstanding and lack of information after a bit of angst, because its sanji and luffy. But they get over it because they were both on the bottom end of the vinsmoke hellhole and does it really matter when they're reunited?

Zeff let's luffy steal sanji because it's been over a decade but luffy still wants to be the motherfuckin king, okay? And sanji's gonna be the cook for the pirate king and find the all blue because

Sanji becomes luffy's first mate and then start a sailing. Luffy attracts friends like a magnet, they get usopp next, and luffy kills kuro because luffy isn't as not-killerish as he is in canon because tragic backstory and if you leave a kid alone to be a bounty hunter long enough with only their own brain to make the morals, what do you expect will happen? Usopp joins because 'UwU piwate' is his opinion on the matter

They get nami, and sanji's a bit more chill than in canon because growing up with a guy that was also nice along with his sister and mother had a bit of an impact. He's still a bit if a french goth and treats nami better than other people but he isn't being a douche about a lady fighting or making faces quite as stupid.

Zoro joins but Does Not like sanji, which is mutual but luffy likes him so sanji must deal. They make their way toward the grand line, going back to the baratie, or what's left of it.

Sanji gets another thick layer of angst learning that while he was gone, don krieg destroyed the ship trying to steal it, and then they go to find don krieg, postponing grand line for a hot second because luffy wont leave until he gets to personally kick the ass of whoever made his cook so extra angsty, and sanji seconds that.

They find don krieg in Cocoyashi island, after crashing there with his broke ass ship. They fight him, the ruckus brings out arlong before Nami can attempt to lie to save them.

Sanji gets off one angst and gets it replaced with another when he can barely do shit because he was cooking all this time and is no longer as strong as luffy, who was only really working on fighting. Luffy almost dies because he has to fight both those shitheads back to back, but he wins.

Sanji starts getting more aggressive with zoro, and zoro only stays because he saw the fight and respects his captain, but that's a bit of a loose thing, ready to snap with a wrong move. Or maybe zoro leaves because he needed that fight with mihawk to realise this was serious and he was a pirate now, to each their own.

They stay in the east blue a little longer because luffy nearly died and they dont have a doctor, but he's fine. Sanji gets more guilt tho because that's how he is, and starts treating luffy nicer, which leads to luffy instigating a fight between the two of them because luffy wont swallow that shit. It helps things because violence is sometimes the answer

They head to the grand line, up reverse mountain, meet the whale, the whole shebang. Sanji might catch feels by this point because honestly who wouldn't?

Nami gets sick, and luffy doesn't know how to deal with that because back when he was being carted around with a sea stone collar and 30 other starving children, they just shot the ones that got sick. Ptsd time and guess who gets to help because zoro isn't first mate/here? Sanji! Which definitely puts things into perspective because for as long as he'd known him, luffy's tried his hardest to make sanji smile, and keep him company, even though after being bought luffy's only purpose was to be a stepping stone in sanji's development. So sanji finally being smacked across the face with the brunt of bottled up traumatized child luffy, he needs a fuckin smoke.

They find drum island and then same shit as canon, except it hits a bit harder with luffy carrying a dying nami and a heavily injured sanji up sheer rock because that's the only person that luffy had when shit got rough that he's holding between his teeth.

When sanji wakes up he probably notices how injured luffy is and can estimate the ringer he's been through because Sanji had to personally find out how luffy's healing factor worked because he was a good fraction of the reason luffy needed to heal so much.

They acquire a chopper :3

This is getting long and it's pretty much the end of my idea, sorry for the long informal post.

[cruddyborderlandstheories]

Also Nekrotefeyo was criminally underused for the legendary Eridian homeworld like I was expecting like a big abandoned city or a completely decimated apocalyptic place, not a dried up ocean bed (Are they maybe more crustaceans instead (?) of bugs???) with like 2 Eridian buildings on it and also Maliwan for... Some... Reason. Seriously. Dark Maliwan was so clearly cut content and I wanna know wtf that was all about. Also we got Promethea so it isn't like they weren't capable of making a big city area, like the restrictions of the engine wouldn't allow it, they just didn't... Feel like it? Maybe didn't have time to flesh it out given how late nekro is in the game? Seriously it feels empty as fuck, I love exploring the planets, but even as a certified lore lover I just can't bring myself to explore that place more than I have to for quests. It's really empty and boring

Also, I am bet that the big glowing thing we see coming out of the planet as it fragments is related either to the Machine and the souls sacrificed to make it work, or the Guardian soul main storage thingie. Mainly because ghosts and such are real in the bl universe and they're all that same glowing green sort of deal. It also reminds me of Krieg's mind planet projection thing which does add credence to that. That is potentially why Minos Prime 'hatched', it could have been a storage place for other, maybe reject(?) Guardian souls and that's where all the Eridian and Guardian stuff randomly came from that Tannis keeps goddamn repeating every time u play the takedown. FE Minos Prime was a testing site for prototype Guardians and the souls (I don't want to call them mind cores because the mind core we got from the Vault of the Destroyer was solid and not green and don't even get me STARTED on that whole situation because there was cut Overseer dialogue from when you take that thing out of the Vault and why WAS it even in the VAULT OF THE DESTROYER and Hhhhh) were stored in Minos Prime until whoops they got out. And I'm guessing they sacrificed the people of Minos Prime to the Machine (we literally left nobody guarding it sooo) bc Tannis says they just vanished without a trace. Which ALSO adds bonus points to my theory that the Eridians aren't dead and are just chilling elsewhere laughing at us right now.

I still think Lilith brought Elpis to the Eridian Rift on the map Typhon and Leda wrote all over and she's vibing there, too. Maybe it's a sort of stasis place where time doesn't pass so the people of Elpis don't die. Idk how Lilith would know about that but then again given the chest in her room I would honestly not bet against my whole 'Lilith had help from the Watcher and/or the Eridians during/before Bl3 and refused to tell us' which is why she just vanishes at the end of the game and takes Elpis with her.

And also why Sanctuary-III randomly exists when we have never heard of the company that made it before (seriously what is supamax mfg), it's somehow in good enough condition that Moxxi and Ellie could fix it up with their scarce resources, and they found it before any other people did (can probably chalk this one up to Tannis if there were cameras or it was hooked up to the ECHOnet of Pandora, but the other two points stand). I would've been okay with it if it were an Atlas ship Rhys sent over or smth, if it were an old Hyperion ship, if the branding of supamax mfg was Moxxi and Ellie's team effort of making a spaceship company in honor of Scooter- literally if any of these things were explained in-game, but they're NOT. So I am left to go 'what the hell where did this come from what is Supamax MFG' and like, a random company we've never heard of existing is totally fine, we're introduced to the Obsidian Black Block and Hephestus United as well, but it just feels weird that this random supply (?) ship just happened to go to Pandora for some reason and then also crash or was abandoned for some reason. If we could just get a scrap of info on Supamax MFG and why this ship was on Pandora I'd be happy. Their branding is Ships Made Quick so clearly they build ships which is fine.

Did Lilith contact them? If so, cool, could we get an ECHO log of that? Where did she get the money after Sanctuary-II blew tf up? Did she or Moxxi or Ellie have connections that allowed them to get the ship made for cheap or free? Why did they decide to make the ship out in the open when they knew about the rising CoV threat?? Was the ship stolen? Did the Crimson Raiders just kill a bunch of people to get their hands on it? I doubt it, but this shit isn't explained! So yeah when I write theories like 'Hm well maybe this ship was planted here by the Watcher' its not because I'm driven insane by the Eridians it is because we literally have no other reason to go 'maybe not' and with what little information we do get during the game, it could be fuckin possible!!!

Lilith apparently knew more than she was letting on, she was contacted personally by the Watcher during the end of TPS (brick specially had to ASK what the Watcher said to Lilith), so yeah fuck it the ship and everything that wasn't explicitly explained was given to Lilith by the Watcher to help her in her quest for whatever the Big One is in bl4. Bc you KNOW that Bl3 was just the lead up to get the Destroyer to slip out of its chains thru Tyreen's meddling (literally in nyriads log right before the final boss and its not like ty absorbed an entire planet sized monster and was the size of, like, a shortish tree so you know the Destroyer is still in there as it's further confirmed by Scourge when he says shit like you don't even know what you just did blah blah shut up loser- the only thing pointing to the Destroyer ACTUALLY being dead is that the Vault (????) of the Destroyer (???????????????) opened after Tyreen died but then we can make the Vault of the Architects argument that maybe it considered her part of the Destroyer and her dying confused the Vault into opened, iunno. I don't even know why that Vault was there in the first place wtf was its purpose I thought the Vault of the Destroyer was either the other Pandora one (emergency human feeding port to a monster that doesn't need sustenance) or literally Pandora itself in which case killing Tyreen should have destroyed the whole planet by opening it soooooo I guess that Vault exists to circumvent that extremely specific problem only the Eridians would have guessed could happen idk) and to set the Guardians up as villains cuz fuck them that's why (>:( please gearbox don't, make the Eridians the bad guys if someone has to be evil pretty please the Guardians aren't the bad guys they are literally gaining sentience right now give them a chance they gotta figure themselves out and the Eridians fit the whole 'corporations exploiting their workers' vibe with the Guardians being forced to work even after the Eridians are gone so don't let those parallels slip away with shortsighted storytelling) but then it hurts even worse cuz the story could've been so much simpler and just... Sweeter and better than what we got if that's all they had to do was set those two things up. Bro I hate how every time I go to ask questions abt the game it leads me back here. Because it's true!! And it hurts I just wanna sit down with the lore manager of the game and ask them all these questions because I'm genuinely curious, but I'm afraid of the answers or non-answers I'll get. Again, I get the whole 'things have to happen for plot, not everything should be questioned, give the writers some slack to write a story' argument but when EVERYTHING falls under that category and the story didn't even end up being that great, it gets really frustrating because HONESTLY? if we had gotten good lore and explanations to things and actual world building and details and all that? I wouldn't have minded the main story so much. But unfortunately we got neither good lore (I wanna tell Nyriad she was lied to very badly because it's either the Eridians are evil and liars about a lot, or nobody thought twice the implications of giving the Destroyer a feeding port that explicitly calls humans to it) nor good main story (you know.) and it just. Is annoying. That's all.

[kriegkisser]

Hope u kno ur responsible for me impulse buying krieg figure literally the day after Christmas

FUCK YEAAAAAAH!!!! THATS MY POWER!!!!!!

I hope I enjoy ur Krieg hes like the best object I’ve ever owned fr

[necromorph-slayinglovemachine]

everyone so sad abt maya 'dying'... like... smh, there was a new u station Right There... just cause she became a monk doesn't mean she got rid if her phat stacks... smh... she just respawned and yeeted herself to pandora while no one was paying attention

“Maya what the fuck we thought you were dead where have you been”

Maya: *wiping psycho nut off her face in full view of Sanctuary III’s vid feed* “just thought I should go get Krieg is all”

[hardwaytoperfection]

Unentschlossen

                                                                                               16. 11. 2016

Manchmal bin ich überheblich  Ich denke vielen geht es ähnlich  Doch selten ist man überheblich genug sich über sich selbst zu heben  Und anderen eine faire Chance zu geben. 

Manchmal bin ich ängstlich  Ein schlauer Mann sagte mal "Angst ist unvollständiges Wissen" Ich würde gerne vieles wissen Nicht nur so umrissen Sondern mit dem Herz und dem Verstand.

 Manchmal bin ich zwiegespalten  Zwischen zu ihm gehen und Abstand halten  Zwischen anlächeln und fuck u zeigen    Denn manchmal bin ich unentschlossen   und kann mich nicht entscheiden  zwischen dem was ich will und was ich wollen sollte.

Manchmal bin ich einsam  Es wär so schön wären wir gemeinsam  Hier in meiner kleinen kuscheligen Welt  Wo alle Macht und alles Geld der Welt nicht zählt. Manchmal da mach ich mir zu viele Gedanken  Ohne auf den Punkt zu kommen.

Manchmal versuche ich meine Gedanken zu formen Und nieder zu schrieben doch ich merke wie sie mir entgleiten.  Und dort sind sie nun irgendwo in den Tiefen meiner Selbst  Wo selbst ich sie manchmal nicht zu fassen kriege  Also sitze ich da und versuche fest zu halten  Wie ich manchmal bin. 

by #hardwaytoperfection

[crushedbyhyperbole]

Moondrops - Chapter Fifteen

Warnings:  Canon-typical violence and gun violence, pain and suffering, a good deal of desperation. Handsome Jack is an arsehole.

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Lost & Found

The rusted old metal of the busted-up shield grinder complained against the turning gears and crushers within.  The triple explosion had ripped through the platform, spreading chunks of smouldering metal right across the town square.  The nearest house had been shredded, its window-box garden now a smoking mess worn by the roof of its neighbour property.  Only the grinder still stood.

Maya scanned the wreckage frantically for signs of life.  Anything.  Some small movement that would tell her Krieg was alive.  She listened hard, her brain focusing past the noises of the approaching loaders and the crunching of the recycler.  A moan or a groan, just something she could recognise as his voice.

Please!

Tears welled up in her eyes right before her anger spiked.  He hadn’t even raged-out to save himself.

The beacon was in ruins. That was something.  But moonshots were incoming and about to break atmosphere.

“We have to get to that recycler.”  Maya tugged Kitty away from the loaders who were trying to pen them in again.

They were only five stood against many, soon to be many more.  Six people if you included Krieg, but she didn’t know if he’d made it.  Maybe he was reconstructing.  She thought maybe she’d seen a New U nearby.

Scanning around as they moved she saw the New U was in ruins.  The blasts that had taken out the beacon had wrecked that too.

The first of the reinforcements landed at the bottom of the sloping approach to the town, cutting off their retreat once more.  They landed as a cluster and immediately begun unpacking.  The second group landed in the town square ahead of the marching EXP loaders, splitting their flow like a boulder in a river.  And through the cacophony of unpacking robots, grinder crunching and shrieking, and her pulse pounding in her ears, Maya heard the sonic booms of more moonshots entering the atmosphere.

“We’re done for.” Sohpis whimpered as he crouched against the broken remains of the beacon platform.  “We must surrender.”

“And what’s that going to do?”  Maya hissed at him.  She heaved at a huge piece of metal, hoping to find a living, breathing psycho beneath. “You’re as good as dead regardless. You’ll be walking to your death. We have to fight!”

The slab of metal would not budge.

“KRIEG!”  She called out to him, hoping beyond hope.  There were no body parts that looked like his, and very little by way of organic mess considering.

“Jack, can you hear me?” Sophis tapped at his echo, breathing heavily.  His unsteady hands fumbling with the buttons.  “You win, we surrender.”

“You shut your goddamn mouth!”  Maya swung her fist and smacked her old guardian in the side of the head, sending him sideways into the debris pile.  “You don’t get to make any more bargains or have any say in what happens to us.” Her eyes shone cold and bright, she could feel her power begin to flow.  Biting down her rage she feigned to strike him again, making him flinch. “If you want to surrender, go hug one of those exploders and get the fuck out of my sight.”

“Now, now, now…”  The arrogance of that voice was palpable.  Jack.  Smarm incarnate.  “She’s got a point, you know.  I never had any intention of letting you live.”

“But we had a deal.” Horror contorted Sophis’s face like he’d only just come to the realisation that there was no reasoning with a man like Jack, no hope for him to escape with his life by any means.

Jack was laughing, genuinely laughing.  Maya could picture tears of mirth in the megalomaniac’s eyes.

“Your face!”  Jack howled with laughter before gathered himself somewhat.  “Almost makes it all worthwhile.  Almost.  But…  I’m still gonna kill you, and take what I want.”

“I’ll die before you take me!”  Kitty screamed into the air.

“Oh pumpkin, I didn’t do all this for you.  You’re just an unexpected extra.  I’ll take you both but if you prove to be more trouble than you’re worth then I’ll kill you myself.”

Maya could sense Kitty’s hatred growing.  Pretty soon the girl would lash out and do something that would get them all killed.

“Ignore him.”  She took the girl’s hand and guided her down to where she crouched among the rubble.  “Help me find my friend.  If he survived the blast then we might have a chance.”

The two remaining monks of The Order joined in, sifting for signs of life.  They had precious little time and nowhere to run except over the cliff to their deaths or into the mechanic arms of Hyperion, and loathsome Jack.

Sophis liberated a serviceable machine gun arm from a dismantled SGT loader.  “We can use this.”  He said with a placatory look on his face.

“We’ll use anything we can find.  And we need ammo!”  Maya offered a dry smile of forgiveness.  It was the best she could muster in the circumstances.

Another 2 moonshots made landfall.  Maya didn’t bother to look where.  Time was almost up.  She found 1 grenade in the rubble and Krieg’s old shield.  He’d kept it since the train, as a kind of keep sake.  That and he loved the mess it made when it depleted. A weak shield was better than no shield, and Sophis had dumped all of her gear.

Krieg’s shotgun was there under the edge of a huge pile of debris.  One of the monks pulled it free and was gripped fiercely by a huge bloody hand. The first hand was followed by a second and soon the monk was choking, gripped by the psycho as he emerged from the junk.

Elated, she barely registered that the monk was dying.  Krieg was here.  He was alive. He was inflicting pain.  He was her hope, rekindled.  And just as quickly as it had flared, her relief was extinguished unceremoniously by the pain of the restraint collar shocking her into submission.  Her eyes rolled in her head as she sought out Sophis.

That traitor!

His back was turned, and he was aiming the salvaged gun arm at the wave of loaders that were waiting patiently.

Something had changed. Her vision swam and all sound became muffled even as she fought against the pain.  Kitty was wide-eyed and confused.  Sophis was oblivious.  Krieg had dropped the monk and was stood gawking at her, watching as she succumbed.

In the centre of the plateau, as if in slow motion, a blue dome of energy sprung to life.

“That’s right kiddos!  Daddy’s home!”

[var-stan]

what. nope. this guy is just fucking with us right?!. Kriegs, maybe. but Moe… nah. if Jill takes both of them fine (both great players), but if that happens shes shooting herself in the foot a bit right?!?!. ……… it just proves that all the people that questioned her roster and game selections for the past year (all supposedly made in prep for this WC roster) were right to doubt her. it proves that this ‘direction’ and ‘process’ that she has been talking about is rubbish. she had enough time and opportunity to experiment with whomever she wanted. and she essentially dropped kreigs and moe. she didnt need to but she did. and now she wants them back…? massive gamble. 

at the last minute, dropping the players u have had in recent camp for players you already dropped months ago ….. to me that just says that Jill is not confident at all. yikes for the USA.

i’ll believe it (with great surprise) tomorrow when the roster comes out but until then …nah…