Storm Coming
I assume you're not all bunched up close together, otherwise Salsacookies' actions would have some unfortunate consequences for the rest of you.
Wake up from my nap. pound fists into the ground
"Ghraphish Nargiu TASH! Yokno Leme wakup, you stupid DREAM!!!"
You hit the ground with enough strength to cause a shock-wave and create a respectable crater below you. The shock-wave disturbs the ash on the ground, causing it to form even thicker clouds, and shakes the surrounding wreckage, a small rumble accompanying the echoes of your shock-wave as some of the debris resettle.
<Hey! Be careful! You may accidentally hurt one of your friends! And he may see you.>A couple of seconds later, as if to prove his statement right, a faint blue glow appears on the ground next to your hole. The wreckage of a car begin to spark and glow with St. Elmo's fire, the occasional spark escaping from its hull. The light is slowly getting brighter as the debris start to tremble.
Entity Challenge - John
"Uhh... sure. I've learned not to question. Be warned, Ron and I tend to make a lot of fire. Sniper rifle? Visibility here's kinda shit, but we can do long rifles."
Summon a hunting rifle with scope; something of a decent but not huge caliber. Make copies for everyone. Also ammo and copies; keep at least one clip to myself for additional copies.
You summon a rather gigantic high-tech death tube. Even with both hands, it still feels heavy, so you have to lean backwards, make use of a sling around your back and rest it on your pelvis to hold it comfortably, without straining. It's complex enough that you don't have enough time to make copies. And for the life of you, you can't tell what that thing is supposed to do.
It has two handles on the side (the one on the back is larger than the one in the front, while the one in the front has a button), a keypad and speaker on top and three unlabelled knobs on the other side, currently in the second of the three possible positions. The sling is attached close to the front of the weapon and is currently short enough to allow you to easily aim upwards. You can also tell it has what you think is a rather potent (and heavy) power-source, given that it is connected to the collection of black bits that form the heart of the machine with thick cables, where the button and the three switches are also connected. The barrel of the gun has three spinning bits inside it and is humming quietly.
You get the feeling that you are supposed to point at what you want to die and push the button. And the things to the side are probably meant to adjust its functionality. You could just push the button and see what happens...
A building on the opposite side of the street starts glowing with a faint blue glow that is slowly getting brighter, sparks flying out of the pieces of metal inside it.
"I would also like to request one of these 'big guns' of thine."
Look around for things I could launch at Nick.
Plenty of debris around. Depends on how confident you are. You could go from "Heavy Pebble" to "Spear made out of rebar" to "Car". Could even try with "Gigantic Piece of Reinforced Concrete" but even with most of your power behind the blast, you'd need him to fly pretty low.
Use a little bit of biomass to change my eyes so they can detect changes in heat, then look for a large flying shape. If I see anything large and moving through the sky that looks like a large bird, then blast it with my rocket launcher.
You get a sort-of blurry add-on to your vision that shows you infrared radiation. Unfortunately, it doesn't allow you to see much of interest beyond the fact that those glowing blue areas have something like a tendril of heat extending above them.
"Oh, you want us to distract him?......Well, uh, good luck with that. Let me know when my stuff is ready."
Run off and hide somewhere close by. If any of my biological allies get hurt, then point and laugh rush out, grab them, and bring them to my hiding place. Apply healing touch if necessary.
Seeing your teammates prepare, you commit the only sensible action: RUN AWAY!
It appears to have been the right choice too, as more and more of those blue areas are appearing around their general area, but (with the exception to Ron) not very close to them.
You hide in the remains of a sturdy looking house and adopt the fetal position.
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