Asset retrieval (mission) (Maria)

[John Nicholson]

Here John was again. running another errand for the blonde woman. Again, he needed to recover something. This time however it was quite a bit larger than a simple ring. Good thing he knew how to drive. The blonde woman had put John in contact with another user to help with this mission. He didn't know much of her althouh he was quite sure she had beenone of the many users at the full moon event.

He had messaged her to meet him on the outskirts of the airport, It was the first time he had wandered out this far into shadow territory. Thankfully, he had managed to avoid contact with shadows so far, although that would probably be different inside the airport. Why did the shadows congregate around large structures anyway? It seemed like quite a specific thing to do, especially for beings whose standard combat strategy is to fight to the death, even against obviousy superior opposition.

Thus, here he stood at the edge of the derelict airport, ready to enter as soon as his partner showed up. He wanted this to go smoothly although he knew that probably wouldn't be the case. He started checking his equipment methodically to kill time while he waited.

[Maria Stark]

Maria took a job from the strange blond woman at the airport. She decided never to take a mission in the safe zone again in case she would really get arrested. A job at the airport with such a nice reward? She wouldn't say no against that. She was informed that there would be another user. She got a message from an unknown number to meet him on the outside of the airport she just went there. She already visited the airport once she she knew what kind of caliber shadows she could expect.

Arriving at the airport she met an old man. She first wanted to go closer and tell him it isn't safe her and should go back to the east part of the city. When she came closer however he seemed armed with a shotgun and she remembered seeing him at the full moon battle this month. He too was an user. So she decided to say something else. "hi sir, did you took the mission to get a cart here back to the gap?" Maria asked the older man.

[ChromaticTruthsayer]

As you make your way into the airport, you enter the airfield. With the directions that the blonde woman gave you, you are easily able to find the location of the vehicles in question. Though to get there, you will need to take quite a walk. As you go on such a walk, you are attacked by a few shadows.


Venus Eagle x2

• Zionga
• Fatal End
• Agilao

Absorb: Repel: Null: Rs: Wk: Pierce
Raw Castle x2

• Garula
• Bufula
• Viper Smash

Absorb: Repel: Null: Rs: Wk: Elec

[John Nicholson]

As they silently walked to the airport John gauged up his partner for this mission. He had seen her fight at he full moon boss although he hadn't had a chance to get to know her in all the chaos and confusion that night. She seemed like a vibrant young adult. He wondered how she would handle combat situations. And then wondered about a million other small things.

His pondering was interrupted as they were attacked by shadows. It didn't seem like there was any way around them. He had been planning on using the same divide and conquer strategy he had used on his previous mission. He chose to fight the pair of birds. Leaving the other shadows for His sword wielding accomplice to deal with. The birds flew up in the air upon his approach. Their movements synchronous to one another. At least, until John blasted a wing off of one of them.

The other shadow seemed to become quite agitated at the wounds of its partner as it divebombed John. He didn't expect a body slam from the bird to deal all that much damage. He thus didn't expect the shadow to take a slight turn at the last moment, using its steellike feathers to cause multiple gashes in his side. John pivoted to focus on the bird while berating himself for making the mistake of underestimating his enemy. However, he sensed the wounded shadow behind him crawling closer. John took this as a good oppurtunity to kill two birds with one stone. Calling forth Ippon-Datara to strike at both foes.

"Seal bomb"

 The projectile flew up in the air above John then split up like a clusterbomb, riddling both shadows with numerous explosions. This proved to be enough to finish off the wounded shadow. The remaining bird seemed quite beaten up too although it was still flying around. It flew at John once more, this time remaing high up in the air. John wondered wat it was doing now. He realized it was gathering energy for an attack and braced himself. The shadow dive bombed again and struck john with a fireball. The attack briefly brought back bad memories although John shrugged it off. angrily blasting the shadow out of the air."Freaking birds. Why the hell does america use them as their national mascot anyway." John pivoted around to Maria's direction, wondering how she was holding up against her half of the enemies.

[Maria Stark]

It didn't took long to find some shadows. The duo had been sneaking around to get to the car which went pretty well until they met these four. The old man rushed of some birds so she guessed the castles were hers. She came out immediately not giving them any time to act first. "Pixie!" Maria shouted as a large gust of wind flew to the both the castles. While they were busy turning around she fired another gust of wind.

The two hits left their mark but it wasn't over yet. They both send two different attacks at her, one wind and one ice. Wind didn't hurt her much. She took it nicely but the Ice attack hurt. It was... cold. She needed to end this soon. She couldn't take much damage, but could deal quite a bit of damage herself. "Persona!" She shouted to summon another gust of wind. Thanks to her own wind damage improving bracelet. She was still feeling cold though and she would feel so for some time. 

She went to the older man. "Well, you're good for your age, let me heal you a little." She said while crushing another persona card to use Media. The danger was over so they could go to take what they were looking for now.

[ChromaticTruthsayer]

Finally, you reach the hangar containing all of the vehicles you could need. Thankfully, you'll only be needing one. You look around the vehicles checking to see if any of them work. Sadly, the majority of them don't, though you are able to snag a key for one off one of the non-working ones. And just as you do, you can hear something coming after you. Turning around, you see a few of the carts moving around on their own. Better get to work on fixing that.

Possessed Airport Cart x4

• Gigantic Fist
• Zionga
• Tetrakarn
• Makarakarn

Absorb: Repel: Null: Rs: Wk: Elec, Pierce

[John Nicholson]

All in all, they seemd to have reached the vehicles quite easily. Of course just then the derelict vehicles sprang to life just to disprove this thought. Two of them seemed to have set their sights on John while the other two went for Maria. The small cars seemed quite nonthreathening at first but the were still large hunks of metal charging right at John. They seemed to erect some kind of barrier around them as they went. John shot at one of the cars ony for the bullets to come whizzing right back at him. So physical attacks seemed like a bad idea for the moment. John then answered them with a magical attack from Ippon-Datara. "Mamudo" blasting the wave of darkness at the possesed vehicles. It didn't seem particularly effectve although it still dealt a respectable amount of damage to both of the service cars.

In this time though, the cars had gotten awfully close to John. One charged right at him, knocking him over wuth ittle effort. John was thrown to the ground by the impact where he was wide open fr the second car to attack. Its battery was exposed and started sparking, sending a bolt of electricity at John. The onslaught hurt quite a bit. However, it seemed that the barriers protecting the cars had dissapated. John fired at the car from the ground. The bullets tore at the vehicle's cheap plastic body, causing a large amont of damage. Both of the cars then revved up the engine. Charging right at John. He had seen this as an oppurtunity however, and blasted the ire out from under one of the charging cars then jumped out of the way. The vehicles were going too fast to dodge each other and crashed into each other with a loud bang. Then they remained on the gound, sligthly smoking. "Hmm, I envisioned that to end quite a bit more spectacularly." As if yielding to these words, the cars suddendly combusted and exploded. Lookin at the blast in amazement that such small vehicles could cause such a large explosion, he slowly turned to Maria to check if she was making just as much explosive progress. "Well that was more like it".

[Maria Stark]

It seemed their destination was near. Maria could see countless targets in this place but which one still worked? Maria looked around and got into one. She took a card form one and tried it out, but this one didn't function. The the airport card she was in did seem to come to live, but it didn't do anything Maria asked it to. It moved entirely on it's own. Some other did too. She could see the old man fight a few as well. "Persona!" she shouted while jumping out.The wind hit all the cards she was fighting. She rolled a little further but another one rode over her. Which hurt a lot. "Pixie!" She shouted out and another gust of wind. They didn't seem to be able to finish the job. She had to think of something...
She had an idea. She rushed between the vehicles, which both rushed at her while shooting lightning. She dodged the moment she saw a spark and the cars both hit each other. Which then abruptly stood still and stopped functioning. She went to the old man again. "Damn those were tough." she said while summoning Pixie again to heal both the old man and Maria.

[ChromaticTruthsayer]

You take care of the carts in an orderly fashion. However, you notice that one of them seems to be in working condition. It seems you found your cart to take back!

Mission accomplished!

You received your reward: Level 3 Weapon, 500 FP