Galactus's World-Ship

[exiles-extras.livejournal.com]

The enormous vessel has entered Earth's solar system - seemingly oblivious to all broadcast entreaties, it inexorably closes the distance to Earth. So insignificant to the ship's master are the beings of Earth that only the most perfunctory of the ship's defenses have been activated.

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[certaindoom.livejournal.com]

Even Doom seems... no, "humbled" would never be the right word for Doom. Preoccupied, perhaps.

Still, his studies of this craft should prove sufficient as he pilots their transport toward the Taa, mystical energies cocooning them for protection.

"The arrogance of Galactus not to consider us a threat will be his downfall."

[proteus-maximus.livejournal.com]

"People in arrogant houses shouldn't throw arrogant stones, Vic. I just hope your ego can deflect plasma weapon fire."

[spidey2099.livejournal.com]

Spider-Man's eyes are glued to the vidscreen.

"Holy shock. Holy shock."

This thing is titanic. The newness of outer space is left behind at the sight of this monstrosity.

"Holy shock."

[rogue-starsr.livejournal.com]

She's seen and heard plenty about what transpired on the world of her birth, much of which had so much to do with Galactus. Even so, its hard to prepare for the reality.

"Yeah, that's about as good of words for it as any."

[certaindoom.livejournal.com]

Incredulity is for lesser minds.

Doom's craft begins to settle in, with a blueish glow coming from his optics, referencing the schematics of this massive ship to find the proper location for sliding in to board.

"Steel yourselves."

[rogue-starsr.livejournal.com]

Sarah braces herself, readying to move for the door quickly once they settle in. "He has a ton of security devices - force fields, blasters, phase shifters... and then there's the Cat around somewhere. Stay really alert, I'll go out first."

[proteus-maximus.livejournal.com]

"The Cat? I remember him having giant robotic minions, but a cat?"

[rogue-starsr.livejournal.com]

Starting to lean towards the door in preparation to make sure she gets out before something opens fire on the ship, Sarah nods to Morph. "Yeah, the Cat /is/ a giant robotic minion. Just what we called it, thanks to a comment by the Thing."

[wwii-hero.livejournal.com]

"My world, too," Bucky replies. He's watching the ship silently.

He's seen it a few times. It never gets less impressive.

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

Mystique's unfiltered Camel burns all the way down to her lips while she stares at the screen.

"That's..." Ash falls from her mouth as the remains of the cigarette disintegrate. "A lot of pink."

[certaindoom.livejournal.com]

Shields are up. Spells in effect.

Only a slight hesitation in Doom's hand before he pushes the navigator forward, slipping into a crease between machines, enveloping them in the massive craft.

No sign of Galactus himself. All sensors are on alert for those defenses that these fools are here to deflect.

[rogue-starsr.livejournal.com]

As soon as the ship slows, Sarah is up and moving for the door, ready to spring out the moment it opens, ready for virtually anything, since that's exactly what she was always taught to anticipate when it came to Galactus.

For the first time in a while, Doom is the least of her concerns.

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

Raven gives Sarah a look. Being neigh invunerable makes the girl cocky. One of these days, that leap first and look later attitude is going to get her much worse than an arm in a sling.

She hangs back, not stupid enough to be the first out that door. There could be vacuum on the other side. In preperation, her skin thickens, the pores closing completely. A second set of transparent eyelids grow beneath her blue ones. Small membranes close ready to thicken and seal off her nose and earlobes. Contrary to popular belief, she knows how to seal her own mouth closed.

Damnit. Now that she's sealed off, she craves another cigarette.

[marvel-citizens.livejournal.com]

The first of Galactus's defenders are quick to arrive on the scene - while humans may be beneath his notice, his robotic guardians are programmed to intervene against any sort of intrusion - no matter how slight.

Forcefields appear to encompass the invaders, trapping them in with the newly-arrived thirty-foot metallic watchmen.

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

"Why do they bother making those things humanoid if they're all geldings? I'd be a hell of a lot more scared if thirty robots with meter long erections tried to penetrate the ship."

[rogue-starsr.livejournal.com]

Sarah is the first out, and goes right into defensive mode, really wishing the team had more bricks to help spread out the beating a little. But she'll do her job, which starts with protecting the ship, their way out, and let everyone else get out and to cover.

"I'm not sure whether the appropriate quip is asking how you can think of sex at times like this, or to ask whether you'd be scared or if you meant you'd be looking forward to it more."

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

Raven snorts. "I don't want to play the egg in their attempt to inseminate the ship with lasers and bullets. Gotta give the idea credit, though. It'd sure as hell make great psychological warfare. Director Shaw never gets that in my proposals..."

[spidey2099.livejournal.com]

Giant Space Robots in a Giant Space Ship that wants to eat Earth.

"People who live this stuff daily! How do you beat these things?!"

The damn breathing apparatus is going to hamper his effectiveness a bit... as is the lack of air for his pseudo-cape to catch for gliding... as is the lack of meaningful gravity - god, don't throw up in the mask.

[certaindoom.livejournal.com]

Doom remains silent. Concentration, one phase at a time.

Testing the mettle of these dimensional exiles. Will they last more than a heartbeat while he prepares to weave a spell to escape this force-field trap?

Doom expects not.

[proteus-maximus.livejournal.com]

There's air, and the worldship's big enough to generate it's own gravity - Morph springs out into the hallway of the ship to meet the robotic sentinels head-on, literally - he stretches himself into a rubber-band shape to encompass the necks of the robots, and contracts, slamming them together and dealing minor damage to their metallic skulls.

"You beat them by hitting them hard, or making them hit each other! That's Superhero 101!"

[marvel-citizens.livejournal.com]

The robots recover quickly, and begin to direct their eyebeams and fist-blows towards Morph.

[rogue-starsr.livejournal.com]

With the group mostly disembarked, Sarah launches herself into the midst of the robots, having gotten used to Sentinels and their tendency to have trouble targeting when they have to consciously avoid each other, and have a moving target.

Of course, as she flies, she launches the hammer towards the first target. "Get ready to take cover as soon as the field is down, we need to keep them from targeting the ship!"

[nuttinbeatsrock.livejournal.com]

The General has been quiet for a while. A good while, really.

Almost as if he were coming to terms with something. Maybe he was just really accepting that the Exiles were right, and Reed was, for the first time in forever, wrong...

...either way. Finishing the preperations, the old soldier leaps out of the ship, twisting to fire a quick blast from his rifle at one of the robot soldiers before landing with a smack onto the ground. "We gotta direction we should be goin'in?"

[spidey2099.livejournal.com]

Hit them hard, they say. Easier said when you're indestructible and can hammer a nail into the earth's core. A bit harder when you're basically just a guy with bug powers.

Still... world at stake and all.

Two weblines snake up behind one of the robots as he flings himself onto its head. Hoping to get close enough to spot a weakness... or some kind of technological glitch to exploit. Design flaw, something...

In the meantime, he fires two big web globs onto the thing's optics, hoping at least to blind it.

[house-of-mystiq.livejournal.com]

"Get me inside!"

A handgun won't do much against these things, but she knows her way around a motherboard. At the very least, she can pull wires and grind gears.