Or as Luthor would call it, chump change. Also it seems like the market for seaweed suddenly grew a lot in 2020, and it's not 2020 in story yet.
Well he does try to emulate Lex, so it makes sense that he'd continue the tradition of being a pain in the ass.
It's a shame the economy and transportation sectors are still so fucked. Because I've said it before and I'll keep saying it, a henge network would probably do wonders when it comes to working around the "not everyone can be an archmage" problem by concentrating and directing ambient magic through a leyline magic to prepared locations. Doesn't matter if your corporate or government wizards don't have as much personal power as the Big Boys if they can just tap into a sufficiently large source of external magic via the almighty power of infrastructure.
Vocal override? Good plan, if you can make yourself heard over shit going sideways. Also, saw blades seem a bit excessive for a planting unit. Unless they're for tree-roots or something. Unfortunately, that makes them especially potent against people, too.
And no emergency drill could prepare you for something like this, either.
Electric vehicle, so that's probably a lithium-ion battery in there. And they are not known for stability when...
...Breached. Seriously, Look up lithium-Ion batteries cooking off on your video site of choice. They are way too energetic. Unfortunately, they're also the best option we have until someone develops somethign cheaper, more efficient or both...
Definitely not a single freak malfunction. The SUV going dark suggested it, but this confirms it. Someone is out to get either Mitchell or Eve.
And any one of those options would blow your admittedly-loose cover. Rendering this whole exercise pointless.
OF course, you are a fairly fit young man, and trained by Amazons. So going a little beyond the norm is manageable.
Pretty much instinct, yes.
...I have the feeling Enginehead is in manual control.
Yeah, it's not likely that you would trip, and a moment of flight would compensate for it, but... Undercover.
Presumably as some part of their sensor network. Vocal commands, at the least.
Depending on how they steer, last-second dodges could be effective. As long as you keep out of the way of those saws while you do so.
Heh. All that training paying off.
So much for that paddock, if nothing else.
Though I imagine the amounts of air needed to induce that state are far larger. Worst case, blame any discrepancies on Amazon training.
Definitely being controlled by someone. A complex tactical move like that is probably not in their basic coding.
Heh. Inadvertent compliment, though I doubt she'll remember it.
...Do you want to try and reach it past the saws?
Logical. This is certainly proving that correct.
Do they respond to sign-language? Written signage? And would the bots respond even if they could hold up a 'Shut Down!' flag?
So not much faster than, say, a golf-cart. That's still a couple of tons of mass, and waving around sawblades.
So holding up a sign would work. Good luck getting a chance to write one.
Yeah, this is no more malfunction. This is a hit.
Which isn't a great idea, but the alternative is hauling ass around the field with them chasing you like a goddamn Benny Hill finale.
And how fast can you write?
And that still relies on whatever's controlling them not overriding the safety protocols.
Just don't freeze up. A big ask for someone who's not in the usual branches of Lexcorp that might see trouble...
He's probably just waiting for you to 'show your true colours' or something, if he's aware of this situation.
Would be bad if one coudl tell the other to head them off.
Let's not cut it so close Eve loses a few hairs to their blades, anime-style.
If nothing else, he's looking real bad-ass to whoever's in control of the bots...
With any luck, it gets tangled in the gate wreckage...
Lex the supervillain knows who he is. Lex the honest business does not.
It's the one-two punch of him being strong, clever, and capable to activate the monkey-brain, and being adorkable and kind to tug the heartstrings.
…why? Also, pretending for who? He has to know that LexCorp knows full well who and what he is. Not like 'adopted son of Wonder Woman' is an identity that will avoid scrutiny in the first place.
What possibilities? Diana doesn't seem to have any difficulties with people knowing her legal identity.
Lex Luthor also knows who Superman is. The issue is that while LexCorp more or less got away with creating the genomorphs, cloning Superman would get them in a lot more trouble. Not legal trouble, popular perception trouble. Heck, most of their own staff wouldn't accept it. Meanwhile, the Justice League doesn't want to broadcast it in case someone else gets ideas and to allow the boys to have a life. But if he reveals himself, that all changes.
And neither does the SI. Kal-El on the other hand prefers to keep them separate, and his point of view is the local majority.
Ah, the fun part of pretending to be a squishy human: Remembering to act injured when you get slashed by, say, a giant buzzsaw. Maybe he can claim it didn't catch his skin? Just a really lucky close call...
I don't she's going to buy a delayed bleeding response.
Presumably hoping that the saw arms only bend forwards. Which does make sense. Why would it need 360-degree field of cutting?
Unless she wants to try and squeeze past the saw-arms.
Good show, Eve. No heroes to come save you out here, aside from the handsome Amazon boy.
I assume it's like a ten-foot-drop tot he ground. A bit more than most people are willing to take without something soft to land on.
And if it could talk, it would probably be swearing its' vocoder off at the gate, them, the world in general. I can just picture the frustrated revving it's doing.
Means you'll be jumping down either way. Better to do it with some control of your fall...
Yeah, this won't even be much trouble for him.
Though I suspect anyone looking closely will notice the slightly janky way he went along...
So much story in one exclamation and two sound effects.
You do realise how dangerous your current situation is at this moment, Eve? Let the Amazon Prince carry your butt.
After all, that fence is only so strong. One determined rush from the other bot...
Ah. A little trauma there, I see...
Good point. Let's hope the response team sets a new record for rushing over, then.
Oh, my. </takei> But seriously, The seems unlikely to move it. guess they don't have many options, though.
Good thing you guys got out of there, then.
Yes, we established that a few chapters back.
Anything pertinent now?...Ah, it's getting a lunger run-up.
And ramping the other bot in three... Two...
...That works too.
Hey, it's better than melting into a weepy puddle of fear-piss.
...Time to reconsider the 'playing human' plan, Mitchell.
...And then flew away? Good luck getting folks to believe that about him.
...And if every other bot in the facility is also going nuts? What then?
Don't tell me, the problem solved itself?
Boy, those electric batteries are volatile, aren't they?
Or they were already lurking nearby as part of some plan...
Shirt feels like it might be a bit loose...
Missing Full Stop.
...but then she gets her feet on the rungs...
On the other hand, having security armed with attack helicopters is exactly the sort of thing Lex would do; both because he likes having his own private army and because in the DC-verse, sometimes your security force does in fact need attack helicopters.
Not after destroying their SUV anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if they were when they first deployed. This being a comic book setting, they might even have an internal sterilization function not only for the tools, but also for the wheels for when they go between fields. I know that in present day agriculture farmers have run into issues around lax equipment control regarding soil and contaminant transfer, or leaks, when utility companies or their contractors need to service/install lines, pipes, or other equipment that runs through their land. There are plans and procedures for access and containment that preserve the conditions needed for their food safety certification that the farmers send to the utilities to have on file, but the workers on the ground don't always receive them or follow them. This can get very expensive as soil remediation is not cheap, let alone crop waste if you aren't allowed to sell it.
Thank you, corrected.
It sounds like Eve just doesn't know for some reason even though she's in a position where she absolutely should.
Mr Flaherty also doesn't know that, though I appreciate you were being hyperbolic.
