Grand Prince

I am SRN 001 Terra Stardroid, your high and powerful Prince. Bow before me now!

[princeterrasrn001]

What Is Expected Of Us

[celestialemperor]

Apollo held Terra’s shoulders and nodded just slightly. “I will look into what may be causing such feelings, and if there is any questioning I will ensure that it is done for the sake of Sungod’s army, and not for your own personal reasons.” He frowned, considering that Sunstar would not be happy, then nodded again and deactivated the remainder of the securities. “Come with me and I will have it taken care of.” He stood again, heading out towards the door and expecting Terra to follow.

[princeterrasrn001]

Again with that expression, he knew that one Apollo got. For the betterment of Sunstars Army, always. He keeps himself from sighing loudly, wanting nothing more then to have Apollo look at him and have real love in his eyes, but he'd always felt like that. About Sunstar too, to have his Gods turn and look at him and smile, touch him, care about him. 

Now he just felt like a broken tool needing to be fixed. He flexes his remaining hand as he follows after Apollo. Wanting nothing more then to punch the bigger back right in the back of his beautiful blue head, but he quells it. Smoothers it until its no more. He'd done enough damage, it was time to just accept the fact he'd always just be a tool. 

It was always fine like that, why was it such a big deal now? Was it Earth? Was it the way the planet wrapped around him, and tugged him in every direction? He was thinking perhaps he should just go back to Terra Nova, regenerate. "Thank you, Lord Apollo." Or maybe he would allow Apollo to repair him, make him whole and then he would leave. 

Leave the stardroids, leave the army, leave it all far behind. Again, another stupid thought he squashed as quickly as it reared its ugly head. 

[princeterrasrn001]

What Is Expected Of Us

[celestialemperor]

Apollo held Terra’s shoulders and nodded just slightly. “I will look into what may be causing such feelings, and if there is any questioning I will ensure that it is done for the sake of Sungod’s army, and not for your own personal reasons.” He frowned, considering that Sunstar would not be happy, then nodded again and deactivated the remainder of the securities. “Come with me and I will have it taken care of.” He stood again, heading out towards the door and expecting Terra to follow.

[princeterrasrn001]

Terra was silent as he stood in the detention center. Hesitant at first, he could run, he could teleport out into the world and hide from the Stargods. He could have a new arm built so long as his hair grew he would have power for it. The idea was tempting, his fighting instincts kicking in as he watches Apollos back, his eyes narrowing and glowing a soft red for a moment. But he snaps out of it and follows. "Yes, Lord Apollo." 

[princeterrasrn001]

What Is Expected Of Us

[celestialemperor]

"If you believe, Terra," Apollo began as he brought the other’s hair back and continued to tame it, "that they have that opportunity to grow, I suggest that you prove it to yourself first." Not able to tell Terra to go directly against Sunstar’s orders, he cleared his throat and glanced away at the wall. "Perhaps when you are out, mm, surveying, you may find yourself with extra time on your hands. I’m not advocating spending it on researching the humans, or on making any attempts to protect them, but of course I cannot baby you and be with you every step of the way." Even he questioned his own reasoning for being so lenient and so encouraging when he knew Sunstar would have his head if he knew. But with no way to say he simply sighed.

"You understand, Terra?"

[princeterrasrn001]

"I think so?" He says, reaching up to push some of his hair behind his ear. "I should learn what I can about how humanity works. Learn their weaknesses, and strike them---help them there. But I should do it from the distance, tempered." 

He purses his lips a little. "So I should become a passive observer? But with Sunstars plans I do not have the time..." He takes a deep breath. "Fix me first? Please, find a way to balance these...these emotions I keep having. They bounce around, unpredictable and it is overwhelming. I do not even know why I have them, I have never had them before. But they are the reason I have betrayed my Gods, either remove them from me Lord Apollo, or help me train them."

He finally looks up into Apollos face. "I do not want to slip again. I love, hate, regret, take pleasure, and guilt over everything and everyone. Its maddening. 

[princeterrasrn001]

What Is Expected Of Us

[celestialemperor]

Apollo shook his head slightly. “You overestimate yourself. Yes Sungod may have a slight, and I do mean slight, ‘weakness’ to your weapon, and you do have Dark Moon, but those two things alone are not nearly enough. The Constellations are more than just the life half; they are also to balance power. Despite this purpose, even my army would be hard pressed to take him down. If you attack him you will not only find yourself defeated, but your planet will have no hope.” Terra’s hair was brushed back slowly. He was fully aware that he’d had a lot of time to think things over.

"If you cannot and will not speak to him, then your only hope is to come up with an alternative. Provide to me sound reasoning for the humans’ right to continue living and I will present it to Sungod. Until that happens, I have no choice but to follow his orders, for the stability of our home system."

[princeterrasrn001]

Terra sits there and closes his eyes as he lets the elder god groom him gently. He always liked his hair and head stroked, but he was doing his best not to let himself get swept up in it. "I don't.....I am no good at this. The humans should live because they are what we are not, they are....so young. Stupid. They just need to be shown the right way, they could share this planet, they could help us. Like....like gardeners left to tend a garden. With my technology they could explore their world further, learn its secrets and grow." 

[princeterrasrn001]

What Is Expected Of Us

[celestialemperor]

Apollo hesitated slightly before responding. “It is not all on my shoulders, Terra. I have tried convincing our Sungod otherwise but he grows restless. I am lucky the planet is intact at all at this point.” He deactivated the barrier to invite Terra into his space. “We are nearly out of time as far as his patience is concerned. I have attempted to get him to wait; if you believe that you can convince him they are worth keeping around, even if you lie and say they could be used as slave laborers, or as animal feed, then by all means go ahead. You are his second-in-command. He is not about to replace you with the cat.”

He unfolded his arms, reaching forward slightly to ask Terra to come closer. “You look a mess.”

[princeterrasrn001]

Terra hesitates for a moment too before he stands and walks out, his hair dragging along behind him before he sits down in front of Apollo and crosses his own legs. "Don't make me do it anymore." He asks, looking up at him. "Sungod will not listen to me, he never has. I'm a pet, a play thing. I could scream and shout and he would not heed. I could stop him, if you gave me my arm back. I could put the Sungod back into our system and keep him from attacking earth. I have Dark moon, I have my spark chaser." He knew what he was saying was treason, but he didn't stop himself. 

[princeterrasrn001]

What Is Expected Of Us

[celestialemperor]

Apollo raised an eyebrow. “Rightfully yours? This is the planet you have been assigned to, yes, but it is a resource planet. Have you forgotten our purpose? We are here only to harvest. You believe that the humans have such a high right to life with what they’ve done to destroy their only home?” It didn’t sound much like Terra. Maybe he really did need reprogramming.

[princeterrasrn001]

"They need to be taught, they are children fumbling in the dark. I could show them ways to live life without harming their planet. She will heal on her own, you give her no credit!" He hisses. "I thought you were supposed to be a constellation droid, not a murderer! You grumble when I only wish for conquest, and yet again you grumble when I want peace. Make up your mind, Apollo. Because I can not make it for you."

He sits forward. "I have no will to fight left. The killing intent, it is still there, so I will do what ever I must to stay peaceful. Even if I have to attack Sunstar again. I'm tired of being a killer, put Pluto in charge. He seems more then excited to see me replaced." 

[princeterrasrn001]

What Is Expected Of Us

[celestialemperor]

"And for what reason?" Apollo, though he had little patience, could manage for the time being. He was well aware that Terra had not been stable for some time.

[princeterrasrn001]

He rolls his head. "Because I like Earth. I want to conserve it the way it is." Terra sighs. "I do not want Lord Sunstar and you killing the humans. I want to keep them. They are rightfully mine." He says in a monotone, feeling tired. No sunshine for a 107 days, he was feeling like a trapped house plant. 

"They took my arm, they have a strong will to live. If you put me out side this cell I will defend them." He says simply, rolling his shoulders. "I will defend my planet, as is the job I was created for. I will put Luna on my moon, and I will show humanity the right path." 

[princeterrasrn001]

What Is Expected Of Us

celestialemperor said: He paused, then sat cross-legged in front of the invisible barrier separating them both. “Your planet is in danger, and we are now engaging in its conquest. For this, we need a strong, stable second-hand.”

He stares at Apollo with an apathetic sort of stare that only a conflicted killer could muster.  Terra drops the dead flower, and his arm drops into his lap. "No." Is all he says. 

[princeterrasrn001]

Apollo entered Terra's holding chamber quietly, waiting to deactivate the barrier until he was sure the other would be stable enough.

He finds Terra sitting against the back wall, he hadn’t been sleeping. His eyes rimmed with red, his hair ruffled and unkept and his armor off, leaving him in a torn body suit. The inside of the cell was destroyed. He’d slammed himself against walls tore off the cot and painting the walls with his blood. 

But the Stardroid knew Apollo was there. “You aren’t as sneaky as you’d like to think you are, Lord Apollo.” He sneers the name just a little. He’d been in his cell for 107 Earth days. No communication with the outside, only Pluto when the nasty shit showed his face. He holds up a dead flower that had been in his hair when he’d been thrown in, his spark chaser arm missing of course. 

[petalpunk]

Terra was crazy. Plant refused to budge, vines tight around his legs as he crawled deeper into the back of the hollow. “You’re insane! Whatever you just did, it isn’t natural! It isn’t real! It can’t be! I refuse to believe it!” And he did refuse to believe it. He had thoroughly convinced himself that whatever was going on was all some kind of scheme, some kind of show to try and win him over. Nobody could make things grow from nothing. And the music? it might as well have been magicians’ music.

"I’m not going to become a part of this.. whatever this is!" His Plant Barrier dispenser flicked into activation, though no bits were sent out just yet. "You’re crazy. You’re crazy!"

[princeterrasrn001]

Terra's hand slowly closes, his excited expression turning to sadness. "As you wish." His face falling into something unreadable. Being called insane, it hurt something deep inside. "...fine." He steps back, letting the bush fall back into place he turns and walks away. Why was it that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't seem to do anything right? He looks back over his shoulder. "I'll go now." He sighs, just to tired to even be angry. He teleports off, leaving Plant be. 

[princeterrasrn001]

He pulls himself out of the bush and spots Plant’s heat signature in the rose bush. “You are a robot, and you believe in magic?” He asks, raising his eyebrows as he pushed the roses out of the way, Apollo’s device still attached to his biological hand. But his armor kept the thorns from harming him. 

He spots Plant and frowns. “Why are you even hiding? Fine. Be that way, I will fix what I hurt, with or without you.” He closes the bush and walks off, fixing the device on his arm and he starts zapping every plant he runs across. Watching as it explodes with life and takes over, soon turning the garden into almost a jungle. 

[petalpunk]

Plant tried not to look, but when he did, he decided it would be best to just relax. He was obviously dreaming. None of this could possibly be real. He’d ask Doctor Cossack to have a look at him and possibly find the source of the problem. Could robots hallucinate? What else could be going on? He wasn’t lacking any updates, so why was he… oh. Ohhh. Glitches. It could be the only explanation.

Still, he refused to move from his hidey-hole, completely convinced that whatever was happening was too amazing and extraordinary to be true. He’d wake up soon, he thought, and everything would be back to normal.

[princeterrasrn001]

Terra finally returns, after turning Plants garden into a rainforest. He opens up the rose bush again and reaches a hand down to the little robot gently. "Hey, come out now. Come see." His bright green and black eyes wide and bright, filled with a sort of content happiness and excitement.

"Do you like music?" He asks when Plant wasn't budging yet. He reaches up to his arm and pushes a few parts, the metal lighting up like a keypad and a little holo circle pops up and starts to play a hauntingly beautiful melody, like crystals singing. "This is music from my home planet, from the people that I protect. Its call 'Rise of the Reds', it describes the rising sun and the flowers waking up to it. 

He stays there, bent over into the bush, patiently waiting for Plant. His hair mingling with the rose bush around it, making a few roses start to bloom in his hair. "Please come out and dance with me?" 

[petalpunk]

Plant waited until Terra had teleported to grab his helmet and put it back on, arms crossing as his face reddened with embarrassment. He jumped as soon as the spacedroid was back, not having expected him to teleport as he did. “What on earth?” He couldn’t believe it. It couldn’t possibly be real. “Your magic tricks will not convince me!” At this point he was wondering what this strange robot even wanted in the first place. With swiftness and speed he dove into his rose bushes, surrounding himself with them and burrowing into what must have been a little hideaway he had produced for himself long ago. “Go away.”

[princeterrasrn001]

He pulls himself out of the bush and spots Plant's heat signature in the rose bush. "You are a robot, and you believe in magic?" He asks, raising his eyebrows as he pushed the roses out of the way, Apollo's device still attached to his biological hand. But his armor kept the thorns from harming him. 

He spots Plant and frowns. "Why are you even hiding? Fine. Be that way, I will fix what I hurt, with or without you." He closes the bush and walks off, fixing the device on his arm and he starts zapping every plant he runs across. Watching as it explodes with life and takes over, soon turning the garden into almost a jungle. 

[bowdowntoyoursunlord]

Apollo had better have a plan, because just holding Terra down isn’t going to be enough. As soon as he’d made contact, Sunstar had latched onto the stardroid’s right arm with a viselike grip, ensuring that at least the arm would stay with him. Terra trying to break away only encourages him to pull harder, his strength more than enough to lift Terra off of his feet and back toward himself, his intent to slam him into the wall and keep him there. As long as he can, any damage he receives will be ignored.

[celestialemperor]

As soon as Terra was in Sunstar’s grasp and exposed enough for him to make a shot, he took the opportunity. Apollo let loose his blast, quickly pulling the fan off of his back and flicking it open to catch the rogue Spark Chaser moments afterward. Hopefully Terra was distracted enough by Sunstar that he would fail to notice the blast of blue energy heading to knock him out. Sunstar himself would take some of it, but by comparison it would surely be just a tickle.

[princeterrasrn001]

He thrashes against Sunstar, eyes wide. "NO! STOP!" Sunstars grip was so tight, he puts a hand on Sunstars face, his spark chaser charging as he showed his little fanged teeth. But it was the glow of Apollo's power that catches his attention finally, and he lets out a cry as they were hit. The world filled with light, his armor singing a little before he falls slump into Sunstar. Unconscious. His spark chaser powering down and clicking shut.

[bowdowntoyoursunlord]

At least now he doesn’t have to give Apollo an explanation. Sunstar quickly dodges the electricity, now past the point of any composure, and charges straight toward Terra, his intent to tackle and grab any limbs he can. There’s still alcohol on the floor and table, and surely some left on or inside Terra, so he keeps his attacks physical for now (since this is his ship after all), sure he’ll be able to take the stardroid down before any damage he might receive gets to him. 

[celestialemperor]

Earth was obviously making Terra crazy. It was probably best that he be sent home, or at least contained. Something in him must have gone horribly wrong for him to have acted up, and Apollo was about to fire his own weapon until he realized Sunstar’s literally cool attempt at fighting. The hot-headed ruler was always very keen to use his own firepower, so the fact that he wasn’t kept Apollo just as controlled. He noted the alcohol and, without hesitation, charged his arm only long enough to build up a jolt that’d do no more than fry and stun the poor second-in-command. “Sungod! Hold him!”

[princeterrasrn001]

Terra screams in rage when Sunstars tackle slams them both into the wall hard enough to shake the bulk head, knocking things over as they both slide to the floor. He had to escape, he needed to get to Megaman, to warn him! His spark chaser goes off again, bouncing off the walls of the room as he thrashes to get a leg under Sunstar and kick him off as hard as he can. "NO!" He rolls to the side and struggles to get back to his feet, slipping in the broken glass a few times and trying to make a b-line for the exit. Luna! Fan! Protoman! Anyone, he prayed that anyone would help him, he didn't want to be reset, he didn't want to be imprisoned, he needed to protect Earth.

[bowdowntoyoursunlord]

"Ew." With a sneer, he looks you over from head to toe. It’s true, he didn’t see it coming, and he’s not sure it makes enough sense to him to believe. But either way, how pathetic. "Did I say you were incapable of emotion? No, you’re undeniably capable. I said you shouldn’t let it rule you like you have been. For your own good. Don’t twist my words." Another hopeful glance at the door.

"I have no idea who you think you are or who you think you’re talking to, but we’re going to fix your little attitude problem once and for all. Just relax."

[celestialemperor]

Apollo arrived just as expected, his eyes dancing between Terra and Sunstar once he’d made his presence known. It wasn’t like Sunstar to request him so urgently (well it was, but not under these circumstances,) so he waited for further instruction. “You requested that I be in your presence, Sungod? Would you like something?” He could only assume it had to do with Terra, seeing as there was scattered glass on the floor and what looked like a static-charged puff of hair on the stardroid’s head.

[princeterrasrn001]

"NO!" He snarls, his spark chaser coming back online and he swings his arms, filling the room with lightening as it zipped around him. "NO! I WILL NOT RELAX!" His eyes glow brightly. "Earth speaks to me, and she will NOT let me go. Her fingers wrapped so tight around my heart. Whispers, whispers in the dark." Terra looked like he was ready to defend himself or attack at any moment. 

"You will not TOUCH ME!" He spastically teleports around his side of the room for a moment, like a flickering image. "Neither of you will touch me!!" He points at them both. "What you call a problem, I see as a revelation. My words burn through my haze filled head with a sweet truth."

[bowdowntoyoursunlord]

"…Idiot." Well the tension is half-gone, and a bit of disappointment lingers somewhere inside him. The desire to set your hair ablaze remains strong. He sends a quick message to Apollo, it’s status urgent.

> Come to me immediately.

His eyes only leave you for a split second, long enough to locate his helmet, which he puts back on. “I can’t believe that you still seem to be hung up on this…love thing. I’ve already told you: Love has no place in your life.” Not knowing how much of this is going to get through to you in your current state, he decides to keep it short, stalling only until Apollo arrives. 

"Do you think that it’s just me being cruel? Do you think that I’m trying to deprive you of something? Something that you deserve? Because that’s not it at all. Terra, love is not something you should be familiar with. Love expects love in return. And do I look like a loving god?" He glances at the door. "No, love will only make you act like a fool. And now you’ve proven it twice. Your inhibitions may be lowered, but the truth in your words is undeniable."

[princeterrasrn001]

He concentrates and with a shake of power the alcohol on him evaporates with sparks of power. "I am more then capable of emotion!" He snaps, taking a moment to take a deep breath while his systems scrubbers work on sobering him up at last. "My words the soured truth, I love you. Stars only know why. And I love Apollo! There! didn't see THAT one coming did you?" Terra's hair fluffs like a cats tail. "I am more then the sum of my parts!" 

[bowdowntoyoursunlord]

Sunstar just stares, thoroughly confused, but the sight of your weapon powering up certainly puts him on edge. The fire inside him is always ready, but the alcohol will make his attacks far more unpredictable. You’re covered in it, your hair is soaking it in, you’re even filled with it now, so he refrains from making any moves while you still have a chance to back down. It’s so hard to hold it in…

"Calm down." He does his best to stay calm as well, or at least appear that way. Not all that effective when he’s speaking through clenched teeth. "Don’t move, deactivate your weapon, and then listen to me." It’s agonizing to be unsure whether or not to expect obedience from his servant. Either way, he’s prepared.

[princeterrasrn001]

His head tilts back, his black and green eyes wide, but a huge smile on his face. "What, you mean this?" He holds up his synthetic arm, watching it pulse with life as his charge remained. Arches of power moving along its insides and up his arm to discharge at his shoulder. He wiggles his fingers before finally powering it down and pushing wet hair and glass out of his face again. "As you wish, my Lord." He wobbles. "I am listening." His lip curls just a little as he bends down to pick up the neck of a broken bottle. "Aww you made me destroy it." He pouts. "ugh, I need to sleep, I need to sober up, I can feel it clogging all my systems. The room is spinning."