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Maya was still leaning, and shook her head. "I hope we each are with someone who complements our own powers. With competitions like these, there are no doubt people who are not above petty tricks and cheats." She glanced at the dragon who now had its eyes closed. For some reason, her control was waning. "I agree, we should start heading out."
Silver nodded, and swung her bag over her shoulder. She hoped that whoever she got teamed up with would work well with her, given she didn't work well with many people. She sighed and looked away from the group, trying not to show too much excitement. In reality, she was very excited and, though she'd never admit it to anyone, a bit nervous too.
"Shall we?"
And with that, The three members of Valor, and it's 'coach', head out of Sorcerers, and towards the stadium. There were thousands of fans already occupying it, and the stadium's parking lot was full. While they were closing in on the stadium, Enzo couldn't feel anything but nervousness. Three teams... He thought over and over. He figured it wouldn't be easy, seeing as how only the best of the best could make it to challenge the champion team.
It seemed the team entrance wasn't hard to make it, though they had to pass through a few checkpoints, to verify the legitimacy of the team members. Inside the stadium were team rooms, and lockers. It looked very much like a backstage area for football teams. Enzo went over into the room labeled: Team Valor on the side. Inside were TVs that were all broadcasting the actual battle arena. On the side was a table, carrying many cold water bottles for the team to use. "Woooow, this is neat!" Enzo said, despite his overbearing nervousness.
"Looks like the two of you are prepared for the competition. We have given Joanne an upgraded Glove. Are you sure you don't need a Glove, Ling? It would give your team and extra boost." Ling punched both of his together and a large surge of wind shook the car and even expanded the frame a little. "Something like a Glove will be useless for my strength Master." Joanne just simply sat in silent, not flinching to the show of Ling's strength. "Very well, I will be watching 'Team Valor' from the VIP lounge. Do not fail the organization." The two of them bowed and exited the black car. "This is going to be our most troublesome mission. But we are more then prepared, for the sake of our future." Ling let out his chuckled and walked through the team entrance.
The two of them walked into the locker room together and Ling had a brimming smile on his face. "Good morning everyone! Get a good sleep last night?" Ling hummed a jolly tune while Joanne kept her stone-faced composure. "Looks like we're going to be in for a long day. I am so itching to get out there and show them a good fight." Ling gave some fake jabs looking like he was practising for a boxing match instead.
Sarus heard the door to their teams room open. 'Heh they finally made it huh?' he thought. He finished changing into his first set of fighting clothes. They consisted of a black tight shirt they wouldn't get caught or grabbed easily, and showed off the muscle he usually like to hide behind baggy clothes and a lazy attitude.
To go with that he wore some comfortably fitting pants that tucked into some leather boots that ended at the middle of his calf. Last but not least where his favorite trench coat he has made plenty copies of, his figure-less gloves and his sword strapped snugly to his back that completed the look.
He smirked and open the door swiftly, possibly startling some of his team mates.
"Whats up....you guys sure took your time huh? " He voiced out lazily, plopping down on one of the benches, and popping open one of the water bottles all in one go. This is always about the time people start to wonder if they made the right choice about him.....pshhh of course they did!
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"E-..Everyone!" Enzo's nervousness had nearly vanished completely when he saw his comrades. He had no doubt that they'd win. He smiled at his friends appearances. "We've got to make sure we give it all we've got." He addressed his team. Kenji was digging through the water bottles, looking for some chocolate or decent, solid food. "Our match pairings are random, but we'll work together nonetheless, right?"
Meanwhile, the two reporters from earlier, were commentating on battle royal on TV. "Good afternoon, Ladies and gents! We're back to give you a rundown of the teams and the situation before we head on to battle royal!" "Our team list, and who's battling first, will be, Mechromancer. It's a one manned robotic team." "The team leader, and the only member, for Team Mechromancer, is a man nammed Spanner!" On the TV, they showed a picture of him, like they did Enzo.
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"He's got to be pretty strong if he's the only one in his team." "That's true. But he'll only be facing two of Team Valor, A randomized pair." "Say, speaking of that, what are our pairing for this battle royal?"
One of the reporters open a note containing the randomized pairings for all of the teams. "Our first fight will be Spanner, of Mechromancer, VS Silver and Joanne, from Valor!"
Maya stared in a little bit of awe at the newscast, and after a few seconds, snapped out of it. She put a hand on Silver's back and smiled. "Congratulations, Silver! And... Joanne. Fight as a team. You're representing all of us and setting the precedent for the rest of the battles." She was a bit nervous, but had great confidence in Silver. Maya was hoping she would get to fight alongside either Silver or Enzo.
Silver perked up a bit when she heard her name. Joanne? She looked over to the one she thought was Joanne. I wonder how strong she is. Ah well, no matter.
Silver nodded at Maya, dropped her bag next to her feet and cracked her knuckles. "This should be fun." she muttered as she grinned foxily.
He looked at the girl silver. She looked like she had some fight hidden in her, it should be interesting to see this upcoming battle. "Good luck out there....I can see you'll pulling something pretty cool out of your sleeve." He said simply, he didn't know her well enough to give much more, but he's still loyal to his team. He stood up and went over to Enzo. "how long do you think all the fights will be? until a winner is called or do you think it's timed..." he thought out loud and asked at the same time.
He couldn't wait till he could go out there and kick some ass.
Kenji snapped his fingers after Soren spoke. "That's what I forgot." He took off his hand, and took out two watches. He tossed both of them in the direction of Silver and Joanne, expecting them to catch it with no problem. "Your opponent has that watch too. Break his, and you win. Same goes for him, if your watch breaks, you're out."
Volitaire was sitting, eating his food. He still thought about training with Artizle. He didn't know him that well, but he was still family in some way and was willing to help. Even more so, he was willing to look after what was left of the home. After finishing his tray again, he tossed it in the bin, feeling too lazy to wash it off. He opened the doors of the mess hall and went for the bathrooms. He felt apprehensive of washing his cuts because of the sting. But he swallowed his pride and unwrapped them. After turning the water on and washing his wounds he thought about the students at Sorcerers and the tournament. "I wonder if Enzo is going be alright during that Battle Royale...I don't want him breaking anything. Or anyone else for that matter..." After wincing from the stings of his cuts being washed he turned the water off and walked out in a towel. "Though..I can't help but feel something is going terribly wrong over there." Volitaire walked down to his barracks to dry off.
She simply caught the watch in mid air, wearing it instantly. "Aiyaa, Joanne is going out in the first fight. You think you can handle it?" Ling was teasing Joanne a bit by poking her cheek. She smacked his hand away. "Don't take me for the others." She glared at Silver and let out a haughty sigh. "If you get in my way. I won't hesitate to shoot through you in order to win. I'm only in this for that purpose." "Oi oi, get along with your team mate Joanne." She walked on ahead of Silver towards the stadium. "Sorry about that Silver. That's just the way Joanne is. I can't really do much about her behaviour. Just make sure you don't stand in front of her okay." He let out a childish wink and stuck out his tongue. Even though his eyes did not open to show it, he was able to represent the idea well.
Silver caught her watch easily and put it on. She examined it for a moment before speaking again. "Seems easy enough.." She looked at Sarus, not recognizing him and grinning slightly. "Just watch.. You might be impressed with what I pull out of my sleeves." Ah yes, it seems she has some people to impress now. She glanced at Enzo and the others, for she had almost forgotten about that. Losing is not an option.
She looked at Joanne and Ling and shrugged. "Whatever, I'm in it to win, too. I won't get in your way as long as you don't get in mine."
Enzo felt the tense air disappear as the two left for the stadium. This... This is going to be bad. "Someone's going to get a bone broken." Kenji echoed Enzo's thoughts, while sipping on a water bottle and a few pieces of sugar candy.
The lights to the middle of the stadium light up as the two entered it. The crowd went wild, chanting 'Sorcerers'. On the other side of the field was Spanner. He held a toolbox in his hand, and had a lollipop in his mouth. "Mornin', ladies." He said before setting down his toolbox. Small rods appeared on all of the outer sides of the field, each projecting a large dome-like barrier over the field. The field itself started to change, as it changed to form a large school. For the combatants, the sound of the crowd lessened to silence, and the place looked real. The setting was a large school campus, at nighttime. Spanner had appeared somewhere in the middle of the school, where a courtyard was. His toolbox moved, and started to shift and form into a igloo-sized base. Spanner crawled in and the base itself was cloaked.
Inside were different monitors and buttons, all controls for something. "Let's bring out.. three testing Moscas..." Spanner said under his breath. The ground beside the cloaked base opened up, and three large robots emerged from it.
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BATTLE START!
Sarus chuckles lightly and gives her a little smirk. "I'll hold you to that ms. Silver, impress me." he replied with a wink. His face changed to a more serious one as he gave a side glance to the other girl. He didn't trust her very much as it was, anyone who wouldn't care for their teammates safety automatically goes on his black list. "Be careful out there" he said, inwardly directing it to Silver, but letting it sound for both of his teammates.
'This could get ugly if they can't work together...' he thought to himself silently. It was all in the mystery department right now, since he didn't know the potential of either of the girls, hopefully they did well.
Silver noticed the sudden change of scenery and looked to Joanne. She doubted that this girl was going to help her at all, so she looked back to her surroundings.
Okay, I just need to find that guy and break his watch, right? That shouldn't be too hard.
She reached behind her head and stuck her hands into her bag, and brought out her two swords, spinning them around once and gripping them firmly. She started walking off towards the center, prepared for anything that might come her way.
Joanne ignored the chant coming from the audience and entirely focused herself to the match. Across from them was Spanner who had already established a portable base to controlled the three giant robots that came out. She clicked her tongue and pulled out a coin roll from her pockets. She formed her hand into a shape of a finger gun and loaded up the roll like a magazine to the open cylinder slot. She let out a deep breath and waited for the sound of the signal. The moment the words "Battle Start" echoed the stadium her fight started.
She instantaneously aimed her "hand" gun towards the giant and started out firing shots at the giant without any aim to the necessary watch that was the objective. Each coin bullet rang like a real gun, but the shots were futile to the steel skin of the Moscas and each bullet simply bounced off the skins. In the span of 8 seconds, she had already shot 20 coins at the robots and not made a single dent in any of them.
The coins hit against Mosca #3, turning his attention towards Joanne. Two boosters were installed in the feet of the robot, so it lifted off like a rocket, and tilted to fly toward Joanne. It raised it's arm, pointing it's hand at her position. There were holes in it's fingers, and it looks as if they worked as machine guns. They fired bullets towards her.
Meanwhile, Mosca #2 tracked Silver's movement, and flew off towards her in the same fashion. All while scanning her.
Silver noticed she was being followed and turned to face her opponent. She flashed the Mosca a wide grin and twirled her swords again. "A huge hunk of metal, huh? No problem. Let's go then." she said as she shifted her weight from one foot to the other repeatedly, ready to dodge anything the Mosca might throw at her.
Mosca #2 Hovered over Silver. Small rocket pods appeared all over the robot. Inside the base, Spanner switched out what was left of his lollipop for a new one, and looked on the monitor. "So they call you Silver, huh?" He said to himself. "Let's see how you do against my Mosca." He pressed one of the buttons that controlled the Mosca, and missiles flew out of the pods like a angry swarm of bees, towards Silver.
Silver smirked and ran to her right, paying close attention to each missile that came her way, making sure to dodge them all. With each missile she dodged, she moved a bit closer to the Mosca. After quite a bit of dodging, she ended up almost behind it. She saw this as her opportunity to strike, and made sure that there weren't any more missiles coming before simply jumping next to it and slicing at it's arm.
The bullets the ground in front of her and moved up towards her feet until she tried her best to dodge to the side. It ended up with her rolling and the bullets easily locked on to her as she continued to run around in zig zags, making sure no bullets hit her. She gave about 10 more shots before she ran out. In one fell swoop she pulled another coin roll that are lined up on her leggings like bullet holster. She reloaded and fired again, clearly knowing that the shots were practically futile to the robot's tough skin.
The sharp slice at Mosca #2's arm cut it clean off."YES!" Enzo jumped up. "Hmph.. Swords, then?" Spanner again said to himself. He typed in the information that the Mosca was gathering. On the monitor, it looked as if a sketch of a Mosca had retractable sword arms. "Hmm. That's kind of deadly, though. Teehee~" Spanner laughed to himself. He looked on the other monitor, for Mosca #3, and saw Joanne's futile attempt at attacking the robot. Again, he went to a new sketch, putting in explosive bullets to the Mosca in it. "All this information, it's nice."
Mosca #3 kept on the assault with the bullets. Each of the bullets seemed to have a rubbery bounce off of the floor, suggesting that the bullets were non-lethal. But to add onto the assasult, The Mosca opened it's missile pods, and fired a valley of missiles towards her.
Silver jumped back and cheered at herself internally, smiling at the fact that she cut it's arm off. Now that I know I can cut it up, i just need to get to the controls.
She quickly ran up to the Mosca, jumping over it and landing in front of it. She swiftly turned and attempted to stab both of her swords directly into the heart of the Mosca, where she thought it's controls might be.
Mosca #2's boosters were the first to get damaged, sending both of them into a spirally ride through the air. It leveled out and was heading straight towards the side of the school.
Joanne gave a small glare as she noticed that the missiles were coming out. She slid on the floor for a couple of millimetres and the missiles burst onto the ground in front of her. The missiles exploded on impact and the area that Joanne was in went up into smoke, losing sight of her in the grey smokescreen.
Mosca #3's targeting system lost Joanne in the smoke, and so, the firing stopped. It hovered in mid air, looking left and right for her. "Are you going to be troublesome, Joanne?" Spanner continued to talk to himself, and laughing like a madman.
Oh shit. Silver had been taken along for the ride with the Mosca, and tried to jerk on her swords, but they wouldn't budge. She saw the approaching building and put her feet against the Mosca and tried to pull them out more, she managed to get them out right before they hit the building, and she fell. She tried to grab onto random openings on the side of the building to prevent her from falling all three floors, and she managed to grab onto an open window she passed by on the second floor. She was holding on with one hand and had her swords in the other. Her body slammed into the building, which hurt a little, and she took a moment to climb up into the building and look around. It had gotten quiet and she didn't see the Mosca at all. She decided to keep moving forward.
Then all of a sudden, two shots flew out of the smoke towards Mosca#3. One of them ricochet off but the other disappeared as it had struck the Mosca. The smoke cleared away and Joanne stood there with some bruises and dirt and some of her clothing a bit torn, including a streak open up to her left chest and her fancy bra was showing. She posed there still aiming at the Mosca.
With the Mosca being immobilized in the building, Spanner pressed the button for it's self destruction. The explosion was contained, only happening inside of the Mosca. The rest of the parts fell off as if they were unwelded. Meanwhile, The new Mosca, Mosca Assassin, took flight, it searched for Silver in the buildings, but was having no luck. The only differences in the two machines, was that the new one had stubs for hands, instead of it's handguns. The robot was also slimmer, to improve it's speed and agility to be similar to Silver's.
When the coins caught the Mosca's attention, it lifted it's hand to fire, but the gun was jammed. The coin had pierced through it's armor, revealing a soft spot in it. "Shit. That sucks." Spanner said. "Oh?" He had caught notice of Joanne's bra out, and zoomed in on it. "I need to fight this team more often, yes yes~"