Post by Blue Topaz "Tazmania" on Sept 1, 2016 15:54:17 GMT
The stone pillars of gem-made Communications Hub structure hummed gently with the idle energy of the geode powering it all, nestled safely in a stone coffin of sorts at the center of the structure. The sun had long dipped away out of sight and there should have been nothing to disturb this place.
But alas, she did come, the Crystal Gem known as Tazmania, a Blue Topaz scout from Earth's first discovery all those millennia ago. She held in her hand a strange device much like a compass with dials on the underside of it; an archaic gem tracking device. She approached the hub on foot, the Warp Pad sitting dormant as usual, and when she came to the bottom of the pillars she stopped and looked up at them. Her concentration turned to confusion. "What the hell...?" she mumbled to herself, walking around the pillars and glancing at the device. Its arrow continued to spin randomly, a sign that its target was too near to properly trace. She'd found her quarry, but it only made her worry. Why had it come here? Was it hiding? Did it feel the dead signals of the hub and hone in on them? Is it trying to use them to communicate?
Whatever the reason, it was here, and it was time to put the poor thing down and take it back home. She'd tracked this unnatural creature for hundreds of miles and crossed an ocean to keep up with it, but such was her duty. It was no different now than it had been so long ago. It's just that now there was always a fight at the end. Putting away the device, Topaz hefted her mean ol' hammertime buddy and started to look around the hub, treading softly on the sand.
It was here. It had to be. She'd come so far to follow it... why had it even come here? Here, of all places! Was it even still at the hub, or was it getting away even now, losing her in the wilderness of the desert? Her caution and fear were starting to ebb and she started to just feel silly. This was foolish. Of course it wouldn't stay here-
WHAM
It was absolutely still here.
Topaz hit the sandy ground hard, completely laid out by the surprise attack by the large armed legless technicolour freak that had swung out from behind a pillar like a pendulum of angry grumbling monster. Her hammer landed a little further away with a muted thud. She groaned and propped herself back up, still seeing unseemly stars from the dumpster sized suckerpunch she just took. The creature, a gem of some kind, could only be described as an abnormally muscular legless gorilla with very little in the way of head. Most of its mouth was simply nestled on the top of its torso, a strange sight to behold, but the size of the mouth and the array of grinding teeth inside took away any kind of jovial hilarity about it. Its arms were lanky and dense; they needed to be to hold up this thing's body weight and keep it moving quickly. Its torso was large, even for a monster of its kind, easily bigger than most human vans. To top off this creepcake was the distinct lack of eyes to compliment its unnatural bloated nostrils. This thing was ugly incarnate. The very definition of a lightning bruiser.
It held itself aloft in the pillars, hooting and snorting aggressively and shaking one of its big hairy fists, as Topaz tried to regain her senses.
But alas, she did come, the Crystal Gem known as Tazmania, a Blue Topaz scout from Earth's first discovery all those millennia ago. She held in her hand a strange device much like a compass with dials on the underside of it; an archaic gem tracking device. She approached the hub on foot, the Warp Pad sitting dormant as usual, and when she came to the bottom of the pillars she stopped and looked up at them. Her concentration turned to confusion. "What the hell...?" she mumbled to herself, walking around the pillars and glancing at the device. Its arrow continued to spin randomly, a sign that its target was too near to properly trace. She'd found her quarry, but it only made her worry. Why had it come here? Was it hiding? Did it feel the dead signals of the hub and hone in on them? Is it trying to use them to communicate?
Whatever the reason, it was here, and it was time to put the poor thing down and take it back home. She'd tracked this unnatural creature for hundreds of miles and crossed an ocean to keep up with it, but such was her duty. It was no different now than it had been so long ago. It's just that now there was always a fight at the end. Putting away the device, Topaz hefted her mean ol' hammertime buddy and started to look around the hub, treading softly on the sand.
It was here. It had to be. She'd come so far to follow it... why had it even come here? Here, of all places! Was it even still at the hub, or was it getting away even now, losing her in the wilderness of the desert? Her caution and fear were starting to ebb and she started to just feel silly. This was foolish. Of course it wouldn't stay here-
WHAM
It was absolutely still here.
Topaz hit the sandy ground hard, completely laid out by the surprise attack by the large armed legless technicolour freak that had swung out from behind a pillar like a pendulum of angry grumbling monster. Her hammer landed a little further away with a muted thud. She groaned and propped herself back up, still seeing unseemly stars from the dumpster sized suckerpunch she just took. The creature, a gem of some kind, could only be described as an abnormally muscular legless gorilla with very little in the way of head. Most of its mouth was simply nestled on the top of its torso, a strange sight to behold, but the size of the mouth and the array of grinding teeth inside took away any kind of jovial hilarity about it. Its arms were lanky and dense; they needed to be to hold up this thing's body weight and keep it moving quickly. Its torso was large, even for a monster of its kind, easily bigger than most human vans. To top off this creepcake was the distinct lack of eyes to compliment its unnatural bloated nostrils. This thing was ugly incarnate. The very definition of a lightning bruiser.
It held itself aloft in the pillars, hooting and snorting aggressively and shaking one of its big hairy fists, as Topaz tried to regain her senses.