Issue#1 "First Measures"

[Shameless]

Marc grunted, seeing the mech take damage but still going on the attack against them all.  He dodged the blasts aimed at him acrobatically, somersaulting behind the mech and taking aim at the panel Tesseract had indicated earlier with another blast of impact webbing.   They'd been at this too long, and briefly he spared a glance to Ariel, who he'd rescued before this thing showed up.

 

Spoiler

7 successes to break open the panel with an impact webbing shot.

 

Edited October 10 by Shameless

[SalmonMax]

From her perch, Tesseract spotted the concussive burst high up on the suit's back, right between its shoulders...and further, caught a glimpse of a little piece of metal flipping away. That was the opening she needed! She flashed across to a neighboring building's fire escape, giving her line of sight to the now-exposed panel on the robot suit's back. She winked out again and appeared just above the suit's helmet, dropping down onto it from above.

 

Immediately she swung herself around and hooked her feet into little vent-looking apertures on its sides and kept her left arm looped up and around the helmet's jawline to keep herself anchored as she examined what the panel had concealed. It wasn't as simple as a big red button, or a handle or a lever. There was a small panel of buttons, several switches, a gauge or two. Probably was designed not to open unless certain emergency criteria were met. Buuuut...

 

She got her pistol up in there against a gauge and shot into it. The riot bullets were too soft to penetrate human flesh, let alone armor...but they still hit pretty hard. More than hard enough to damage sensitive electronic components. A spray of sparks fountained up from the gauge, and several lights went from green to yellow.

 

Gwen had to pause then to shift herself down and to the side, avoiding the suit pilot's attempts to awkwardly reach back and dislodge her. The suit's arms however weren't as flexible as human ones...that much armor around the shoulders prohibited it, to say nothing of the engineering challenges of making a ball-and-socket joint that was combat-worthy. Her feet were heating up as well, from the exhaust being vented where she was standing. Not much time, not much time...

 

Deprived of its ability to detect damage to itself though, the suit was...as she'd hoped...designed to err on the side of caution. Each switch, when flipped, lit the corresponding row of buttons up. The system was armed!

 

The suit rumbled and started backing up towards the wall behind it! Gwen was about to teleport away when a combined attack from her allies forced the pilot to pause and protect himself. This might be her last chance to do this! If he backed against the wall, there'd be no way to get an opening here again until the suit was inoperative anyway...

 

She flicked her goggles to UV mode and spotted the telltale fluorescence on several of the buttons. Human skin oil. These buttons were...hopefully...the last ones to be pushed. And hopefully the sequence was high to low because she couldn't really tell what order they'd been pressed in...

 

*click* *click* *click* *click*

 

Four buttons, one from each row. A sequence she hoped would initiate an emergency power-down and open the pilot chamber. No sooner was the last button pressed than the suit broke away from the melee and slammed back against the wall!

 

Tesseract was, by that time, gone.

 

Spoiler

13 successes on Technology to use the panel Marc opened to try to shut the suit down!