Episode 9
Will turned up the Misfits on his left and
opened Galvatron's advanced targeting controls. His surround sound
package was the fruit of years of fine tuning and experimentation. He’d
spent countless hours, mounting, remounting, and adjusting angle and
pitch on nearly a dozen speakers arranged around his office to provide
four even channels of sound in each corner of the room around Will’s
desk that could overpower each other by moving a few inches in any
direction. TAO music was carefully blended under all of these.
The
Internet radio stations would be changed anywhere from a few songs to a
few days, and Will could go long periods of time without leaning into a
quadrant and discovering his mood had changed from when he programmed
the station. The Northwest corner usually played some flavor of heavy
metal, while the Southwest was normally folk and acoustic stations,
giving Will a dramatic change between the two he listened to most
frequently. The two east stations were usually more varied and weird,
for when Will needed to lean back and think about things. It could be
Jazz, techno, world-beat, acid-rock, or even disco, depending what Will
was trying to work out in his head. To compliment Glenn Danzig, Will
cranked “Gregorian Chant,” behind him.That should shake things up a bit.
StarScream: Dude next door likes shitty music.
Will
was lost in combat. As the Grilmox hurtled past, Galvatron swiped with
his LaSword, scoring a few points of structural damage and following
with the laser cannon mounted on Galvatron’s arm. Two blasts hit their
target and one caused critical damage to the Grimlox, sending it
spinning out of control. Galvatron hung in space a moment, watching the
Grimlox getting smaller in the distance, then changed to space ship mode
and tracked StarScream’s course to follow.
Unfortunately,
this took Will’s attention away from the Grimlox’s recovery, and caused
him to ignore the sonar lock on his own ship, didn’t hear the targeter
beeping as the Grimlox closed in, and therefore, none of Galvatron’s
shields were ready for a salvo of missiles that hit so hard Galvatron
was knocked back to robot form and his transformation hub was
obliterated. Further more unfortunate for Will, he’d crossed into the
atmosphere of the TAO Fantasy planet and was caught into its
gravitational pull. Ships suffered the damage from the friction
of gravity in the game and powerful shields were required to enter or
leave a planet. If Will didn’t get control quickly, Galvatron was going
to burn up.
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