Capital Prime

[Joa-Boo]

-I think the real reason you are upset is because you don’t need me to persuade you. You already want to join my cause. You just want to be able to blame me for you making a bad decision if it comes to that. You are scared. Trust me Tozzar you will win this one at least if you side with me and live long enough to have the things you want. You give this stuff to the UA and you don’t slow me down at all. I might even be able to use it to my advantage. You do however give the Telthisian, your own race, a lower chance of making it out alive.- Troyce slowed his speech as if to join your side now. He was clam and hints of comfort filled his speech. –Tell me Tozzar, what do you think the UA will do with you?- Troyce finally launched his second wave of bait. –Come untie me and we can talk about this in a civilized manor.-

-Son of a b***h! Is that what it really says? Tozzar that is the most disturbing thing I have ever heard. Are you sure that is right? I can imagine someone aspiring to do such a thing but for it to be documented, for something like that to really be happening. - das Berg could barely speak between each gasp. He had to sit back again to take it all in. –Now I don’t know the UA to be much of a building company so I wonder who is making it for them. Does Dowser know about this information? Tozzar…if…if he does...and the UA really are making a massive war machine to destroy the universe then there is no way he is going to keep you alive. You are too much of a threat. Are you sure it is the UA?-

“BLAHHH GIGET get over here!!!” Barney yelled from the back in the engine room. He stumbled around until he heard the clanking sound of stepping on his huge wrench. He lifted her quickly and clambered about the room trying to fix/ stop what was happening. –Tozzar, Das Berg, you guys should get in here. Something bad is happening.- The giant brainic Cor did what he could to reverse the commotion but it was no use. He was able to rewire everything so it would finally stop but most of the fuel was already gone. –Whoever this Simon guy is he is a communication master. He was able to write a program that set the computer to dump all of the fuel once we reached a certain distance from the planet. I don’t know how I didn’t see it. It was disguised so perfectly. Unfortunately my expertises are in engineer, building, and fixing, not programming. We only have enough fuel to maintain life support. We are floating.- Barney shrunk into a corner shivering. The last time he was stuck in space it had been for at least a month. It was his worst fear now. “Hold me Giget!”  

[Dugan195]

After Tozzar had finished talking to Dowser he was on his way to go talk to Troyce in person when Barney got on the com and anouced that the ship had been rigged. When he had finished talking Tozzar started to laugh, "This is perfect, that ******** b***h!" Tozzar shouted through the halls as he redirected himself towards the command room. He strolled along humming a tune laughing like a mad man as he did. Tozzar truely wasn't suprised. He had thought Terra might of been honest as they had made it that far, but deep down he knew it was too good to be true. It didn't bother him that much, he had already anticpated something like this happening. It was to be expected at this point. In fact it would work out in his favor in the end.

As Tozzar walked into the command room he was still laughing madly as he saw Das and Barney gathered to hear him speak, "Alright since they decided to leave us abandoned it is safe to assume that Tauk is on his way to get us as well. This is possibly a bad occurring, but one that I was actually hoping for along. It seems the UA don't want to fight him without a valid reason too and now they will have one. I plan to let Tauk capture us and be taken to his base where the UA will be forced to rescue us and thus cause the attack on Tauk's base that we want. It isn't as nice as just cursing over there and assaulting it from the outside, but what are you going to do? Honestly all of you who are surprised or worried should be slapped, because even a blind man should have saw this one coming. Now thing free Troyce someone, he is useless tied up, though he won't be free long haha." Tozzar said sitting in his command chair. He flipped back on his comm to Dowser.

-Hey Dowser, I got some good news for me, bad news for you. It seems our "friends" back on Sizzile decided to tamper with our ship to leave us stranded as we got to a set point in space. Now we are stuck here, Tauk is most definetly on his way and we will probably be taken back to his base to be tortured until me or Barney gives him the information. This is good for me, cause it means you have to go attack his base now. Though don't take too long, torture is rather painful and I would rather now endure it more then I have to. If we get the chance we will break free and wreck havoc on his base from the inside while you attack the outside, but who knows what will happen at this point-

As Tozzar finished he pulled up the data worlds would burn over and started to encrypt, secure, and otherwise put anything in place that would slow Tauk's men down long enough for the rescue party to arrive. There were already hundreds of layers of defenses, but time provided Tozzar planned to have thousands of programs and traps and viruses in place for when Tauk captured him.  

[Joa-Boo]

-Something tells me Tozzar there was never any way around me attacking the Harvenger company.- Dowser shrugged but he wasn’t all that upset. He didn’t mount up in a battle starship to fly across the universe for nothing. “Shela I need you to scope out everything we got on the Cor company Harvenger inc. I want my squad leaders up to speed on them within 4 hours to prepare the assault. Recon team, deploy drones to get a detailed reading of where we might be fighting. The main goal people is to recover our captured units. Once we have the marked target we disengage and get back to HQ.” Dowser was direct and strict. He had everyone preparing immediately. Skirmishes were the UA’s specialty. –Tozzar you hold off as long as you can. I am hoping to arrive at their HQ before they even schhhhh…… all contact with Dowser was cut off.

“They are here!” Barney yelled. He lifted Giget like a sword and held her high as if he was going to fight them all off. “My calculations suggest there is no way to not get captured. I am only 90% wrong.”

“Tozzar this may work. I am hopping Tauk at least takes us back to the main HQ. Dowser will not be able to find us if we are taken to another location.”

-Attention all who are in this vessel. A Harvenger employ will soon commandeer this vessel and you are to comply with them. I will keep you connected to me undercover. My name is Simon and I know you do not want to hear my voice but it is the only thing that will keep you all together so you will have to trust me.- The voice reeked of the telth you saw Terra speak to about the arrangement with Tauk. Now he was here to play as your instructor. You didn’t like that. -I cannot open up your communication with whoever you were speaking too but it will be alright. I will be your eyes and ears.- Simon instructed.

Just as he cut off from con link a dozen small gunships uncloaked and shinned beams of bright light at your ship. On each of them they bore a dark red first with claws protruding from each finger. Underneath read the words Harvenger in bold thick paint. The ships had you surrounded and without another word shot harpoons into your vessel. A red alarm alerted ahead suggesting that everyone put on masks. Once reeled in the ships turned and began to drag the ship.

“Tozzar, are you thinking of running away from this one somehow.” Troyce spoke just as he moved into the command room after Das Berg untied him. He had this devilish grin that you wanted to smack off him so bad.  

[Dugan195]

As Troyce walked onto the bridge he laughed and turned to him, "No, no, no. No way out of this one. Hell since I found out Tauk was after us on Sizzile, I have been considering this. In fact it will work to our advantage. Dowser and the UA didn't want to risk war with Tauk unless absolutely nesessary. Now we give them that reason. We can finally take this b*****d down, with the help of the UA even. Dowser is rushing with an entire army to the base. Hopefully capturing it before Tauk returns and without him knowing. Tauk could take us somewhere else, but that wouldn't suit a Cor like Tauk's style. He is forward fighter, he wouldn't think to move me from his fortress. That is where he is strongest and will feel his strength. That is good. If we can break out from inside the fortress and harass them while Dowser fights on the outside we should be able to tear down his organization." Tozzar didn't even know if anyone was listening or following his musings. "If he did take us somewhere else, then we will have to rely on Simon and Terra Hearts. I don't think they appreciated my stunt, but all is well they deserved it. Though if we are moved to another of Tauk's base it will be smaller, and easier to escape and destory on our own, plus it will mean the UA destroys their main base while we destroy another of their bases weakening them even further. Either way is good for us. We just need to stay on our feet and keep quick thinking." Tozzar kept rambling to himself as the ship was boarded all the while playing with the data to make it harder and harder to read.  

[Joa-Boo]

“We are dead Tozzar. We are dead. I just know it. Giget I love you. You can get away. You can still make it out an escape hatch. No will ever notice you running away. Go my love. Save yourself. Tauk will not be happy with me. Tozzar I don’t want to die.” Barney yelled while running into the bridge room with all four arms flailing around like a mad man. “I haven’t done the math yet but I am too scared to. I don’t want to die Tozzar.” Barney had now attached himself to you.

-Do not panic you guys. You may have to endure some slight pain but if you hold out and do not show them they are winning we will get you guys out of there in no time.- Simon assured them all with another blurt of information. Simon cut off just as a huge crash shook the whole ship. The entourage had finally reached their satellite base hidden away on a smaller moon of a nearby planet. The ship your crew and you were on was thrown into a cargo hold that sealed off. You could hear the airlock clamp and then the room lit up. The rest of the ships must have docked somewhere else.

“Bring them to me!” A huge cor said from behind a screen. A group of cors, armed and ready, entered the cargo hold to collect. They knocked three times on your ships door and called through a few warning about cooperating.

-Stall as much as you can if you can-

“We are coming in their in ten seconds with force if you do not open that door” One of the cor yelled. His voice was slightly muffled by the strongly armored cargo ship.  

[Joa-Boo]

“Sir we have a target just show up on our radars. It has the marking of the Lunar Angels.” A communication unit spoke up as soon as the red dot appeared. He took as few seconds to look further into the encounter.

“Really, I thought Tozzar said they were being commandeered by this Cor company? Patch us up a communication line for me.” Dowser responded quickly and directly. He moved in his desk chair across the bridge and towards the soldier’s stand.

“It looks like they had one up and running. They were ready to go.”

“Well I will admit Tozzar wasn’t kidding. He had the UA all the way from Prime to retrieve him. I guess the telth is worth every bit he claimed.” Simon turned to Terra with a big sarcastic grin. “This guy is a gold mine and we can make a ton of money off of him.”

“I don’t want to do that Simon. I hate that b***h and want him out of here as soon as possible.” Terra had her own evil grin on her face. “Just get back to the deal.”

“Greetings United Arms, I am the communication representative from the Lunar Angels. We have recently come into contact with an agent apart of your company who agreed to assist us in a small matter of security. However he negated to inform us that he was much more valuable than a messenger and things have gone array. What is now a common foe for us both has taken your agent and his unit. I have a small proposition to correct this situation.” Simon began in his own persuasive way.

“You talk way to much squid. I want my agent and the faster the better. Let’s hear it but cut to the chase would ya!” Dowser groaned. This was not what he wanted to deal with.

“Since you cannot take action against the Harvengers without risking wars against your two companies I am willing to hire you to take them out. The Lunar Angels will pay you to kill off an intergalactic terrorist and acquire your agent. After we p[ay you and you complete the mission you will pay us yearly to maintain this information on a small ‘need to know’ scale.”  

[Dugan195]

Tozzar sat in his command chair as he finished yet another layer of defense on the data. It would take weeks for even Tozzar, who designed every layer, to get through the blocks now. That would be annoying once they were free, but if Tauk got his hands on the data, his usefulness would be gone. Tozzar couldn't have that. "Don't try and fight fellas, we are caught and we must go with them. Refusing will only endanger our lives." Tozzar said as he hit a switch on his console that opened the door to the cargo hold and got on the com system, "Greeting's bastards, you got us. Whoopy. Unless the majority of you are for sale. Then I am willing to pay you double what Tauk is to escort us to the UA. You are all just mercs when it comes down to it. There are plenty of other companies that will hire you aside from the Harvengers, the money should be a tempting offer. Just some food for thought while you all detain us. That is all"  

[Joa-Boo]

“None of you listen to this bug. He is just trying to confuse you all before we get a hold of the data. The same telth that speaks holds the very key we need to become rulers of this universe. Tauk has promised us all a place by his throne if we help him secure this victory.” A larger more healthy cor pushes the group away from the door. He wanted to make sure they were all ready to execute this mission when the time came. If chaos broke while on the ship it could mean the end for all of them.

“Tozzar should I create another bomb, that would get them to back off?”

“How much money we talking bug?” Another cor spoke up with his Bard pistol pointing at the leader. “Tauk promises nothing I believe. This one holds the throne for now.”

“That posses another fine question, what are all of you being paid?” A third cor asked with his large herald rifle.

“Shut up all of you. Come out now or we will unleash brutal force.” The cor said as he fired his heated barrel into the side of the ship causing a loud-alarming bang.  

[Joa-Boo]

“Are you suggesting to blackmail me while standing on my own ship. I understand the politics with which you threaten but what could you really have on the United Arms that would be enough for us to pay your pathetic company?” Dowser had have a mid at this point to draw his pistol and waste these two telth where they stand.

“Our recently detained prisoner we have come to understand is of great value to you. He is an undercover Telthisian with a great deal of information. We know the information he carries is worth more than anything in this universe for it alone holds the fate of this galaxy.” Simon was careful with the words he chose to use. He could sense Dowser’s frustration and he needed the man calm to make a good decision.

“That b*****d! How did you guys find out?”

“Honestly none of that matters. A lunatic terrorist will control that information if you guys don’t do something about it and we are willing to give you the opportunity to take him out.” Terra jumped in before Simon could speak. She was beginning to get impatient. Plus she was excited that someone else would curse towards Tozzar’s name.

“Shela upload a file with the terms these Lunar Angel agents decide and ready my seal.” Dowser was ready to initiate anything. He wanted Tozzar back before he made another mistake and to get that information. Everyone seemed to know about it except him. “Jasmine please brief the men. I want drones in the direction of the Harvenger HQ and enough Intel to plan our course of attack. Send out 2 squads of Space drop troopers and keep them updated so we can get the jump.” Dowser had already transformed into Commander in Chief. Simon and Terra awkwardly stood by with their signed document stating they owned the UA’s services.

“Yes sir, a good idea sir. Shall we mobilize other battle ships or risk the fleet?”

“We are giving them everything. Hell, when is the next time I will get to use these big guns?”

“Yes sir!” Jasmine bowed and then got to work, her smile perking the whole crew near by.  

[Dugan195]

Tozzar smiled and giggled as he heard the confusion and irritation outside the ship. He had planned to just surrender and be a good boy for Tauk, but not he had an opening. "Change of plans men, we must take the advantage. Even if we just get a few, or just distract we might be able to win now." Tozzar got up and grabbed his gun regretfully, if only he had a handful of mercs with him he could not fight. Sitting at a computer hacking the enemy ships to fight each other sounds funner than risking getting a tentacle shot off in a closed quarters gunship....just about anything sounded better than that.....but especially laying Terra Hearts down and teaching her the joy of his small tentacle sounded better. Atlas they had no mercs to send to do the fighting for him. Drawing his pistols he made his way towards the entrance they were planning to breach, "Let's go, I guess we make a stand of it. Barney, anything you can do to neutralize their ships?"  

[Joa-Boo]

“Oh Giget you naughty girl, you are not really thinking we make one of those?” Barney busted into a mad genius cackle as he spun around with his wrench. To anyone that didn’t know Barney they would think he had been crushed under the pressure of being captured. On the contrary he was just as much, if not more dangerous than ever. The hulking cor threw himself into the engine room to tinker with a few of the spare parts. Shortly after, the sprinkler system kicked on with a fire alarm blaring over all of the noise. “Sorry! I will only be a short lived side effect but all is well; I promise.”

“I don’t know what that b*****d is doing but firing a gun in these conditions will be bloody hard. Are we just holding this position or moving to a more defendable spot?” Das Berg was the first out of the ship carrying part of the ships walls as cover and a Reckon machinegun in the other. He fired into the group of cor that had yet decided whether to fight or join sides. Killing some of them made that decision very simple for them. Those that survived Das Berg’s first clip took cover and returned fire. Das Berg was in his element.

“Tozzar you go and get yourself killed if you want. I have unfinished business to take care of. This isn’t goodbye but that is only if you don’t get shot up before I am back.” Troyce’s words were quick and directly into the back of your ear. He kicked past you and was camouflaged before he reached the bottom of the ships ramp. The only clue to which way he went was the sudden dismemberment of a few cor guarding a hanger exit to the left or your ship.

-Tozzar it is confirmed that the UA are on their way to take out the Harvenger HQ. You are not in or near the Harvenger HQ but they will have no support and will be forced to forfeit you once the HQ is ours. We did however just discover that Tauk is not in the HQ. He is possibly on the same station as your crew.- Simon informed you. The thought of an oversized cor ready to interrogate you sent chills down your spine. After popping a few quick shots into the cor holding up, a breath of mortality hit you. This information very well may be your death. At the very least Tauk wouldn’t let you live if all else failed. He was ruthless and determined to prevail.

“GRENADE!” Das Berg yelled as he bent backward to return the heating percussion ball that landed in front of you along the ramp. He was able to extend his robotic arm into flicking it through the air but the explosion was still enough to toss the two of you across the hanger. Your ears were shot, infected with a loud continuous ringing. Fortunately the rest of you slinked back into place, yet another perk to the telth race. Das Berg seemed a little less fortunate. The blast had torn up some of his machinery in his leg. With blood dribbling with his mouth he yelled for you to take cover while he unleashed another clip from his machine gun. The cor body that tossed the grenade was littered with lead bullets, dropping another primed grenade. This one went off in the middle of the huddled cor. Body parts sailed through the hanger just as another squad of cor reinforced the room. They all had their guns ready and aimed at your and Das Berg.  

[Dugan195]

Tozzar sat taking pot shots as he kept cursing over and over again, finally as they killed another squad of Cor he looked over at Das and snarled, "Dammit you b*****d why did you start shooting then. Wait for them to decide whether or not join us. Damn to I have to spell everything out tinman?"

As he dodged a bullet Tozzar looked around at the ship, Troyce was gone, somenwhere in their ship or the Cor's, most likely the Cor's as Tozzar's ship was useless. "We have to fight our way onto their ship, once we get in there we can take control of it and fly away." Moving back towards the engine room dodging gun fire Tozzar yelled to Barney, "I hate to add a last minute stipulation, but make whatever you are doing something that can be reversed quickly, we gotta capture one of their ships to escape ******** why did I decide to ******** mercs tempting me to bribe them, ******** Das Berg going gun ho.....and ******** THAT ******** PIECE OF s**t TROYCE FOR RUNNING AWAY AGAIN. Next we capture that ******** remind me to inplant a tracking device in his ******** body, alright Barney?" After Barney responded Tozzar made his way back to the cover Das was behind, "I think as long as we have ammo we can hold them, they gotta go through the breach which slows them down. The problem is going to be us getting through that breach. Any ideas tinman?"  

[Joa-Boo]

“You are like this little nat that doesn’t know when to shut up and fire his gun.” Das Berg yelled back at you as he blew through another magazine of bullets that tore through another group of cor. He took them out so fast it would buy you guys some time. As soon as the bullets stop flying Barney emerged from the ship holding a miscellaneous number of random looking gadgets. He even admitted to not knowing what some of them even did. “To be honest Tozzar you all are already packed with tracking devices. Terra hooked you all up when she captured me and you all came. I might have stolen all the codes. It’s so fun to sometimes look down at all of your locations near mine and connect the dots on my instamap. Once we all stood in the perfect smiley face formation.” Barney was extremely distracted. He dropped a few gadgets and one of them went off, smoking up one whole side of the hanger. He laughed manically. “Good thing I didn’t drop this one with it cause that would have set off that gas like an explosion. Giget we are going to need sandwiches.” He looks to you. “SO which is it, a ship or the breach?”  

[Dugan195]

Tozzar laughed as Barney came out with his gadets. "Oh Barney I want the world and the moon, get me a ship and the breach." Tozzar said madly as he used the smoke screen to slide up to the remaining Cor on their side of the breach and started to slit throats and gouge backs. "Lets take one of these ships and get the ******** out of here." Tozzar said as he fought his way over to the breach. "Actually I want the stars as well Barney, lets try and nab that ******** b*****d Troyce while we take this ship if we can." Tozzar laughed as the three fended off the advancing Cor. The only thorn that could poke their side would be if that b*****d Tauk showed up to capture the group personally. It would make things more difficult. Hopefully Dowser could get to the mainbase fast enough to cause Tauk to rethink his attention towards saving his company and give the group time to sneak off.  

[Joa-Boo]

-Tozzar you cannot leave. As much as I know you might want to you have to remain their prisoner until we liberate you as a refuge. It would be considered taking in war prisoners and causality for Tithlitel to strike against the UA.- Simon was apparently listening to everything you had to say. He wasn’t much use to Dowser anymore so he instead brought his attention to you. Terra stood next to him with all of her tentacles clenched. She was secretly afraid for all of your safety. On the shallow end, if you didn’t remain safe than the UA wouldn’t get rid of the Harvengers.

“Opps let me get Giget. She will have this all fixed up in a jiffy. You guard the breach while I fix Das Burg and hacks a ship.” Barney let a stern focused face appear as he yelled out orders as if he was in command. Seconds later he giggled and ran off into the ship after dropping his gadgets. Another puff of smoke screen filled the docking station followed by a strange magnetic sensation pulling your armor towards the ceiling. Barney returned quickly with his trusty wife/ wrench and undid the less than desirable affect of one of his gadgets. He tossed Giget towards a ship and then frolicked to the down cyborg. The large amount of smoke in the dock caused the emergency fire sprinklers to down poor.

“Barney I can’t tell if I hate you or love you.” Das Burg face palmed as the rotund four armed bear skipped toward him to fix his mechanical leg. It was child play for the cor but it was still weird for Das Berg to be worked on by Barney. Das Burg was up on his feet just in time to take out the next wave of Harvengers. This time a small speeder mech entered the room with them and instantly rocketed the ship you entered on. While its rockets cooled down it unloaded a light machine gun in your direction through the smoke. It could easily sense you through heat vision.