((Update only for BETA mission. Sorry. I somehow end up being more busy on weekends then on weekdays.))
Look around for anything edible and eat it to increase my biomass. Try to grow as much as I can. Don't eat the girl, she's saved my life 2 times at least.
Well, there is the forest around the city, but that's out of reach right now.
There are various restaurants and other food containing places around the city, but that would require you to find such a place and that would probably require you to get off this roof and on to ground level.
Well, you could start with something simple. Like searching for food in someone's fridge. You push the roof door open and start heading downstairs. And what luck, downstairs turns out to be some sort of storage area, filled with plastic containers. One of them ought to contain some food.
You ram a container, breaking it apart, its semi-liquid contents spilling on you and on the floor. It's an orange mushy substance with soft chunks of... something in it. You're not sure exactly what this is, but it is sweet and tasty. Oh well, beggars can't be choosers. Let's hope this doesn't give you food poisoning.
((Occurs to me I didn't say anything, when that would be sensible.))
<<My gun's about ready, and I'm aiming for the head. He's coming for me though, so if anyone can distract it, do it!>>
<I think I got its attention...>
<That was loud! And you almost killed me!>
Throw more big heavy stuff at the BETA's joints and head. Teleport away in case of friendly fire or enemy attack. Or environmental hazard. Or rift in the space-time continuum. Or evil clone. Or--well, any kind of danger one can teleport from really.
The Rhino leaves you and goes downstairs.
You throw a large piece of metal from the collapsing building at the BETA's head, hitting it from the side and completely destroying what little was left of it (the mouth, mostly). The headless giant robot continues moving forward.
A spaceplane flies overhead at high speed, releasing one of those hovering balls with the lenses above you. It looks at you with its giant lens.
I assume you want to bravely run away?
<<Errr... oops? Hey, I hit it, at least. Everyone okay?>> John adjust himself briefly to speak to his Entity. <<Hey Zero, got any suggestions? I'm thinking hit it again while it gets out a secondary weapon.>>
Summon another shell- this one amounting to a giant shotgun shell. Keep looking around as the summoning happens. If he- or any of his buddies- look like it's about to open fire at me and I'm not ready to shoot, run.
You get a large number of metal spheres the size of a marble inside a can. Maybe you could summon a slingshot?
You look around with the aid of your sensor helmet. You think you can see something. A pattern of light similar to the one surrounding the BETA but much less complex and much more faint somewhere below you, near the facade of the building (or what would be the facade of the building if it wasn't under construction). Seems close.
Do you dare to look over the ledge?
Memorize every detail of that poster, I'm sure it's important.
Then continue building the death-machine.
Hey! I was just up there! I could've died! I thought we were supposed to limit collateral damage.
You look at the picture, making sure to memorize every detail, certain that it is some great secret or important piece of evidence or something. Yes. Yes, the solution is there... and that solution is... make a robot lady for the giant robot! Yes, that always works, you saw it on television. It was right after that documentary about hunting birds in the desert with cutting edge equipment.
"Hey! You! Wake up!" Your observation of the poster and your train of thought are interrupted by the your entity shouting at you. She sounds rather annoyed.
"You're not here to gawk at pinups. Get to work!"You get back on making your death machine. Well, you make it awesome. Or as awesome as a crossbow made of scrap tied on the roof of a hover-truck with copious amounts of office tape can look, at least. You make sure to give your crossbow an upwards angle, since you'll probably be aiming high. You also manage to glue your remaining scissor-arrows on the front of the truck with some effort.
You attempt to use your power on the truck but you just can't concentrate enough. Perhaps deep down inside you, you know that building a female giant robot is the only way to end this conflict. Or maybe you're just thinking about the blue-haired girl.
GWG and ToasterThe BETA takes a few more steps before crouching and then jumping. Its feet and back erupt with orange-blue fire as the rockets there struggle to keep its immense weight in the air. Smaller fires can be seen all over its body, wherever its maneuvering thrusters are positioned.
You can see most of it clearly now that it has risen out of the dust and smoke, save for its back and legs. Its entire body is made out of angular metal that has turned black from the heat and smoke. Its torso seems to possess the thickest metal, followed closely by its left hand, which isn't really a hand at all. Rather, it's a dome like piece of thick metal attached to the end of its left arm. Its right hand looks more like a hand, but it has something that looks like barbed wire wrapped around its palm and fingers. Its head is gone, nothing more than a few metal beams rising upwards left to remind anyone of its presence.
The most interesting feature lies in its torso, where you can see a shape made of bright light moving. It's like the torso of the BETA is transparent and some kind of aquatic creature can be seen through its walls, moving inside it, its tendrils reaching out to touch various parts of its body or just moving aimlessly, as if they were affected by some unseen current of water.
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