The Crop that Weeps (Closed, IC, accepting submissions)

[NebulaCone]

Pluto was sort of panicking a lil. Thankfully she was being protected by badger which gave her a lil time to think.

"Are you strong enough to hurt that thing massively in one of its legs?"

Pluto asked as she used her fourth ability to greatly slow down the creature to almost a crawl.

"The thing should be slow enough to attack safely!" 

[Owlrrex]

When Valerie had finally had plummeted low enough to pull the parachute - as low as sanely possible - she had a great overview over things, and she leaned over to glide into the direction where the giant Infested was stomping off towards. As her HUD signalled to her that her comms were connected to the whole Squad now, she spoke with a voice of excited adrenaline: 
"Well ain't that a lovely start! Don't take care of all of them before I'm there, will ya?"

The eruptions of colorful warframe energy were glaringly unfitting in this gloomy environment, and thus even easier to spot. For Valerie, that meant that she would soon have small fry to cleave through to her hearts content soon enough. All that was left was taking care of the big one before that happened. And she had the perfect plan to do that in a flashy and fun way.

Roughly 30 feet above the infested abomination, the Saryn detached from her parachute and went into a free fall again. She unsheathed her Scindo from her back, and after seeing the tentacle attack against the other two Tenno, she held it in front of her to be able to deflect - just in case the beast did actually notice her before she finished her attack: An unbraked drop right onto it, her Contagion-covered Axe swinging against the beast's head where the tentacles came from - probably a mouth? - with all the impact force of her fall and a joyful, bloodthirsty warcry. If the Scindo's blades might penetrate the hide deep enough, Valerie looked forward to a round of Infested-Abomination-Rodeo, because this was a vantage spot that she would probably not be able to reach again.

[FreedomIncarnate]

Curiously enough, as Nova's fourth ability travels through the creature, instead of being slowed to a crawl, it's only marginally slower than it should be slowed down to, and persists with a harsh screech erupting from its top mouth, completely oblivious of the Saryn coming down from above.

It'd be just as A.T.W. comes up a small mound into sight of the creature that Valerie's Scindo makes its way right into its gaping maw, full of tentacles and teeth with an odd, orange and light blue glow emanating from within. However, nearly as soon as the blades of the heavy axe make its way into the mouth, the entire 'jaw' clamps shut around the Tenno's weaponry, attempting to fling Valerie off with not a quick jerk, but rather a sudden slam into the ground, throwing itself down on its knees, head slammed down into the ground just far enough for the other three Warframes to get a good look at the apparent weak spot, the entire top of its head. It's significantly squishier-looking than any other part of the creature, with large pulsating membranes strewn across the surface. They'll only have a few moments before it attempts to throw Valerie off if she isn't already chucked right off.

[NebulaCone]

Pluto was greatly confused when her fourth ability did not work as well as it should of.

"That's not possible...how..?" 

She didn't get time to think about it before she saw another warframe hit the creature in the head. Pluto sighed a sigh of relief knowing she was not going to be taking this thing on alone. Pluto reacted to this and aiming for looked like the thing's head with her Vectis prime. 

"This should put some dent into that..."

[Owlrrex]

Valerie had been prepared for the infested beast trying a few shakes left and right before it would do anything this drastic. As such, she didn't have a good hold on the creature's head before it went into a violent bow-down before the Nova, and Valerie was flung around by the momentum.

She did have the instincts to only let go of the axe in the last moment, so she wouldn't be flung far away, but it took a few rolls and tumbles and a little bit of her shields to slow herself down on the rough terrain around the wreck.

As soon as Valerie had basic control of her movements again, she withdrew her Panthera from the back and fired a few sawblades at the beast. They weren't well-aimed, and not even a "warrior's instinct" - just an emotional reaction of 'F*** you, I'll pay you back for that!'. 
"Whoooo, no riding, so boring! Now I really wanna chop you up!" she yelled, sounding annoyed and new Sawblades whirring in excitement in her weapon's magazine. 

[FreedomIncarnate]

As the creature takes shots from not only the combination of ATW’s Braton, Valerie’s Panthera, and Pluto’s Vectis, it’d emit an ear-splitting roar that’s more than capable of decimating all the frames’ shields, including Badger’s iron skin. It wouldn’t take long for it to recover, but now with Valerie’s Scindo, the creature’d get back up to standing height, making its weak spot unavailable. It’s already recovered from the effect of the Nova’s ability, and now with its complete freedom, more of those spine-like tendrils shoot from its mouth, and reach down towards the frames and without hesitation, wraps it’s tendrils around Badger’s legs. The bleeding, combine with th threat of the four able bodied frames, lets this monstrosity know fully well that it’s best course of action is to flee, something that other infested don’t display. The tri-legged beast reels badger away from the group like a fish on a line before galloping back towards the corpus tower from whence it came. 

 

ATW, having focused his sight on the weak spot, almost didn’t notice his teammate being whisked away by the tripod. Though, by the time he does notice, it’s far too late to try to catch up, and firing at the creature further might result in accidental friendly fire. With his shields down and target out of sight, the tenno’d lower his weapon before murmuring, “Wellllll... Hm, that’s not good. I uh...” he’d stop, then clear his throat before scratching at the back of his neck. “We should probably go and get her. That thing’s fast, isn’t it?” 

Edited January 11, 2018 by FreedomIncarnate

[NebulaCone]

"That thing... maybe it's smarter than it looks..." 

Pluto was looking around. 

"that was too crazy for me... I could portal us to catch up..." 

[Owlrrex]

Valerie held her Panthera up with one sawblade levitated in front of her, as a replacement-melee weapon to ward off the tentacles as they shoot out, and hunkered down to bullet-jump away if any came too close. But as she wasn't the primary target, she had little problems, and tried to hit some of the writhing extensions as they grabbed and abducted Badger - without significant success. 

"Oy, no running away, you $%&§&§# walking blister! My axe is no bone to chew on, don't you have some rocks or an Ancient for that?!!" she yelled after the beast, as if she hoped to provoke it to return and fight back. As it ran further and further away, so did her voice quieted down - but her temper didn't. "If there's just a single scratch on those blades, Imma put my poison on a fork and stab it until it's got cancer!" she fumed, her mood much more appropiate of an ember right now.

Pluto's suggestion sounds great in her ears, anything really that brings her back into round 2 of this very uneven fight. "I can't wait to get it! If it's by me, get going!"