Preparations

Sorry about last time, the situastion got away from me a bit and some automatic protocols were activated, so the post ended rather suddenly.

You'll be glad to know we're all alive. There were quite a lot of electricity burns, scars, cuts etc, but Healthbar patched us all up.
You'll have gathered, I hope, that I worked out what the 'bugs' really were. They were just that. Computer bugs. Somehow, the Techorator's Technology warping abilities allowed him to bring them to life. Once I realized that, only one idea came to mind. I just hoped it would work.

I blasted a force bubble at the bug that was trying to eat me, sending it reeling backwards. I scrambled to my feet, wincing as I used my left arm. Holding onto the counter for support, I faced the front of the shop. 'Open the door.'

Doolittle left her Tiger to finish off the bug they'd been attacking, and looked at me like I was crazy. She may have been right. 'What?!'

'OPEN. The DOOR.'
She saw the look on my face. If we were getting out of this, we had to fight. And if we weren't getting out of this, we'd go down fighting. Dragging herself to the door, she reached up for the handle and pulled. It swung open. The bugsseemed confused, and swarmed forwards, creating a pile up, which slowly poured into the shop.

'Hey....bugs..got a little security system....I think you might.....be familiar with.....Firewall!!!!!'

I sent a wave of flames at them, as many fireballs as I could muster, each one finding a target. Clickety screams filled the air as the bugs turned black, fizzing away pixel by pixel. Within seconds the shop was clear, and the fire was streaming out of the door, destroying every bug it found. And it found them all.

As soon as I was sure, I let my concentration slip. 'I think I need to shut down now.'

And then I fainted.



Onto the big news. I think I've found the right volcano. The one the fates were using. The one where equinoxes go when they 'die'.

So we're getting everything ready.

I'm working on a few gadgets that I should be able to use without the techorator interfering, Healthbar's soaking up every speck of sunlight (and Moonlight) she can, Tingle's searching through the book of drawings Precog left us for any hints/advice, the Diffys are working on combined effort 'supercharged' illusions (FDiffy knows about them, he learnt some pretty cool stuff in those years that will never be), and Tildy's looking into getting some otherwoldly help, hopefully from some of the people trapped in that room. We're not sure how that works, because, well, we don't know how dead the people in that room are. She can astral project into people's dreams though, so we're hoping she make contact one way or the other. Lily wants to help out, and we're thrilled to have her, so she's practising all kinds of fancy molecular stuff on some boulders in our training cavern. By the time we go she'll be able to turn that volcano inside out if needed!

Which is good, because our other great shifter/warper of sorts, Blackmage, has gone missing. Well, he's called to say he's fine, but we don't know where he is. Apparently there was some emergency at a farm he knows, something to do with superpowers and horses. Makes very little sense to me, but it was important to him so he whizzed off as soon as he heard. He ran off halfway through the Doctor Who 50th special! Poor guy, he missed the best bit.

Best of luck dude, wherever you are. As for the rest of us, look out Fates. We're coming to your Volcano, and we're getting our friends back.

SOLAR will rise again.

Bugs

There are insects swarming the base. Literally covering it. We can't see out of the windows or open the door, they're swarming us so thickly. Big, dark, weird looking ones with wings, and loads of legs, and sort of blue sparks of light rippling over their bodies. But that's not even the weirdest thing. Doolittle can't understand them. She can understand the language of EVERY creature and culture on the planet, but she can't talk to these bugs, or understand them. She says she just gets this weird 'weeeeeb' tone in her ears when she tries, and some sort of static. She can't even hear them buzzing. Nobody else can, but it's driving me and Hana mad. What the hell is going on? Are these bugs only after me or something? All our electronics are going into meltdown, everything seems to be wrong with them at once, the base's defenses are glitching out of control, and we have no idea what to do. Rag's having to wear a containment suit, after seeing what happened with the wasp we're terrified what might happen if one of these touchs him. Tildy tried asking for some otherworldly help, but the ghosts who came to help made no impression on these things at all.

Oh God, the vents! I put the base on lockdown, but with all our tech going haywire, some of them have got in through the vents! and the shutters over the windows are trying to open!

Lightning isn't working! They like it! OHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGODOHGOD What the hell do we- Ow! Arhh, it scratches! 

Maelstrom, don't!

Dammit! He tried to whirlpool them. One got sucked it, started, I dunno, fritzing, and there was an explosion. Maelstrom's out cold, and the bug's getting up, although it seems to be having a fit. Can't anything destroy these things!

Bwoah! I'm on the ground, holding one away from my face with Precog's Cricket Bat. It's wings, there's something on them. I mean, they're blurry because it's buzzing them, but it's like the movement is forming some sort of, what is that? A pixel picture?

Ow, another scratch. If I could just concentrate for a second.....my head....figure something out.....where's Tingle.....Ow....

The image....black and white?.............some sort of creature?.....a...bear.......why does this bug....ow....have a picture....arhhhg........of a.....miserable......bear?.....my head......scratches......bleeding......

THE BEAR! SAD PANDA! ONLY ME AND HANA CAN HEAR THEM! ELECTRONICS GOING HAYWIRE. REACT BADLY TO WATER. LIKE ELECTRICITY.

BUGS.

Oh god....they must be......but they can't be! How did he........he must have.

Techorator, I don't know.......how you did this......but I will end it......and I will find you....and when I do-

Contact with Technopath mind lost.
Tempest emergency program 159 in effect. Autoblog of last known data to main server.