Rhyson stood in the entrance to the medical unit with the others as the door slid open. The lights were quite bright. Not blinding, but brighter than was usual when in underground environments chasing old equipment. This place was clearly still functional. Functional, but empty.

Correction, Empty of living beings. But fill of fully operational bots of various sorts. At least this one didn't seem to sport a laser tail and immediately start shooting. But then, a surgical bot would probably have lasers, scalpels and other medical equipment that could prove to be decidedly unhealthy if used inappropriately.

Tomiki was at the front. Rhyson wasn't sure exactly what to say to the bot, so he simply passed the buck. Tomiki was in the front. He was the obvious choice for spokeperson, right? He prepared a spell just in case and waited to see what his compatriot would do or say.

As the glass door opened, Máiréad walked past Tomiki and seemed to be in a daze as she took in all the lights and mirrors and clean surfaces. She had never seen one of the ancient Medbays in such near pristine condition; they were usually destroyed, ransacked and dark.

"Please state the nature of your medical emergency?"

The mechanical voice caused her to start, but she recovered quickly and held her staff ready as the bot descended towards them. She relaxed a little as she began to understand the purpose of the bot. She was used to bots trying to kill her, and not offer to heal her.

Máiréad looked about at the rest of the group here as she recalled that none of them had any injuries due to the healing they received during the last battle with the Catbots. She turned back to the bot and voiced a reply.

"We have no injuries... currently," she spoke softly, "please state the purpose of this facility? What is this place?"

She doubted it would respond to those questions, she expected it to be only purposed to deal with the sick or injured, but you never knew, they might get lucky.

As the door opened Tomiki had his blaster rifle up and ready as he started to move in. However Máiréad moved past him blocking any line of sight. Sighing he dropped the barrel of the blaster rifle, re-slung it across his back, pulling his blaster pistol out instead.

Looking around her Tomiki could see a robot floated near the center of the ceiling, a cylindrical looking device with many arms and instruments branching from its main body. As he quickly brought up his blaster pistol, his finger tightening on it's trigger, it slowly descended toward the four of them announcing in a mechanical voice,

"Please state the nature of your medical emergency?"

Máiréad still in front of the rest was the first of the group to respond

"We have no injuries... currently," she spoke softly, "please state the purpose of this facility? What is this place?"

As Tomiki, along with the others, waited for a reply he kept the blaster pistol ready for action.

"We have no injuries... currently," Máiréad spoke softly, "Please state the purpose of this facility? What is this place?"

As Tomiki, along with the others, waited for a reply he kept the blaster pistol ready for action.

"No injuries? No injuries?" the floating medbot said slowly as if processing the information. "Well then, I must collect samples then." Suddenly, the glass doors behind you slammed shut with a violent "THUD". Two doors slide open on the opposite side of the room and through them, two tall robots, all painted white with medical symbols come out. The have large clamps for hands and a syringe like devices pops out of each arm close to the clamp, they move towards you rapidly.

Outside in the hallway, Lum hears the loud slam of the doors and sees through the glass the approach of the bots and his friends trapped behind the doors.

"No injuries? No injuries?" the floating medbot said slowly as if processing the information. "Well then, I must collect samples then." Suddenly, the glass doors behind you slammed shut with a violent "THUD". Two doors slide open on the opposite side of the room and through them, two tall robots, all painted white with medical symbols come out. The have large clamps for hands and a syringe like devices pops out of each arm close to the clamp, they move towards you rapidly.

"Damn it" Tomik muttered as the glass door came down with a loud crash behind them thus isolating them from Lum

At this point Tomki had to thank his paranoid nature as he already had his blaster pistol up and ready. Pushing Máiréad to the side, to give her more time to cast her magic, he quickly opened fire at the one to his left.

(Depending if successful in destroying it will of course switch to the right)

Outside in the hallway, Lum hears the loud slam of the doors and sees through the glass the approach of the bots and his friends trapped behind the doors.

The big man rushes over to the glass door and is about smash through with his great axe. But something seemed to remind him about medical containment areas. They could self clean to remove bio hazards and that cleaning could harm his friends.

Lowering his axe he search walls, floor and ceiling for an access panel that might hold the controls and relays to the doors. He also looked for cameras and sensors that might trigger other evens.

If he could just open the doors as a normal function then the bio cleaning may not be triggered. If he found nothing then it may be worth the risk to try and smash through.

Rhyson saw Tomiki move and fire his blaster. It seemed they would need to take down these bots before any samples were required. Seriously, why was this happening this way? Med bots. That was all they were.

But med bots with needles when you didn't want to get poked were still a problem. So Rhyson quickly sighed inwardly and sent a spark jolt towards the med bot that Tomiki did not target. If possible he would get more than one in the spells area of effect(either both med bots or one med bot and the original speaker)but if that wasn't possible the key would be to target the other med bot. Maybe a little jolt of energy could short circuit their little needles.

Tomiki's fast reflects and general state of caution won out as the security Bots came into the room. He opened up with the blaster pistol and hit the one on the left square in the centre chest. The blast knocked the shielding off the main component panel but the bot kept moving.

Outside Lum searched for a way to override the glass doors that had sealed his friends into the room. He could see bots and something floating within and hear the sound of blaster fire. Hastily, he found a panel and began to rewire it to run a bypass. The first attempt did nothing except turn the lights off in the hallway.

Rhyson cast his spark jolt spell which had served him well before. The security bots were both hit by the jolt and sputtered a bit but did not stop.

The floating silver "doctor" moved above the battle and spoke out in its mechanical voice, "Please refrain from moving while dissection s in process. " The machine opened up on the party with 6 surgical lasers. Tomiki rolled out of the way and under one of the beds as the laser sliced through his shoulder and armour like a hot knife through butter. Mal and Rhyson were both hit by the laser fire but managed to dodge most of the damage.

Máiréad cast a blast of Rocks at "the Doctor" with her staff. The floating surgeon was pleated by the blast and was force to move back to avoid serious damage.

The security bots moved in toward the two mages. Rhyson once again managed to avoid being hit or grabbed but one bot got hold of Máiréad. The needle for the arm pierced her skin and soon her eyes rolled back in her head and she slumped to the floor. The bot ignored the battle around it to pick up her limp form and carry to a table.




OOc: Tomiki - Light wounds, Rhyson - Light Wounds, Mal - Unconscious but still breathing and light wounds. Lum - in the dark. Security bots, both damaged, one more than other. Less damaged one is carrying Mal. Doctor -Unknown how damaged.

The first flashes of combat went fairly well as Tomiki's blaster hit one bot and Rhyson's spell hit both. "Yes!" thought the mage at the ability hit two at once. But his pleasure was quickly stopped as he saw Mal get needled and collapse. That couldn't be good - especially with the laser bot talking about dissection. But he wasn't in a position to do much about it. His spells generally hit an area and anything he did to that bot might well hit their unconscious companion.

So instead he focused on keeping himself alive and taking out the other bot. There were beds and other obstacles in the room - he tried mightily to keep one between him and the oncoming needle pusher. He cast another spark jolt - again trying to get this med bot and the original one with many lasers in it if possible. But if not, the dissector closest to him was going to get another jolt.

(OOC: I think I still have enough points left to keep casting spark jolt for a bit, but if not, let me know.)

Hastily, Lum found a panel and began to rewire it to run a bypass. The first attempt did nothing except turn the lights off in the hallway. Nimbly he reconnected the last pair of wires in an attempt to turn the lights back on.

(assuming the lights are back on.)

The sounds of battle were coming from the closed room and Lum tried one more time to rearrange wires to open the medical room door. This time he looked to see if there was any symbol, such as one matching the one on the door, that might guide him to the proper circuits.

Tomiki watched as his burst of fire shredded the bots main component panel but was dismayed as it kept coming for him. Then the battle seemed to get even more desperate as the 2nd of the 2 bots managed to inject Máiréad with some type of tranquilizer. With the bot picking up her body, Tomiki found he had no shot against it without the chance of hitting the mage. Turning back to the one he had hit before he let go another burst into its unprotected chest. Better to lower the odds first then rescue Máiréad.......