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Post by Alki Ambrosi on Aug 23, 2012 23:13:27 GMT -5
May 20th, 2521. Outskirts, in a maverick heavy area.
A twist of her foot, and the movement of body, Alki was doing very, very well. It has been months since her repeated kidnappings and she insisted on training in the arts of Seishinteki kyōyō (spiritual refinement), as well as improving on her Taijutsu, Shurikenjutsu, and Intonjutsu (unarmed compat, use of shurikens and concealment)
"Remember what the Buddah would do. Clear your mind, and move with your body, how your instincts roll in. Use all of your senses, Alki." Model S spoke in her mind. She was currently Megamerged, her eyes darting around in the shadows as she watched Mavericks pass by her without knowing what was going to happen.
Out of nowhere, Alki slashed, using a blade she hid in her gauntlets to strike a weak spot on the maverick, flipping it over and using hers and the maverick' body weight to crush another one as she judo flipped it down. She ensured it's death with a shuriken stab in the core.
"Irony. Weren't you interested in Shinto religion, Shadowman?" Alki grinned.
"Tsch, doesn't mean I'll use other tricks. The Nepalese and the Iranians knew how to defend themselves." Model S spoke up again. He added. "You've been very focused and quiet lately... and GOOD. Did someone dump Adderall down your throat?"
"Can't say. Maybe Kristine secretly put focus medicine in my limbs." The girl joked, jumping back into the shadows to conceal herself.
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Post by Nomine and FZ on Aug 24, 2012 15:13:00 GMT -5
Thank goodness Nomine wasn't able to hear any of that conversation, otherwise that reoccuring headache would just get worse. What was he doing? He was looking around the outlands area on his own.
...in addition to leaving a nice trail of dead mavericks behind him.
"Haven't seen you practice this much before."
"...Those two idiots out to kill me...and whoever kidnapped us before," he replied. "...Pandora doesn't want them dead. Doesn't mean I won't kick their asses just to get them to stop being idiots."
"...Works for me."
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Post by Ebran Phare on Aug 24, 2012 17:46:28 GMT -5
This really sucked.
It was supposed to be a normal mission for Ebran Phare; search for some supposedly buried treasure in the outskirts. Finding the location where the "buried treasure" was didn't take too long, though what he found wasn't actually treasure. It was just a really small old-style machine that didn't look like it would be functioning again. Still, it was what he came here for.
The machine was now in his backpack, but Ebran had gotten unlucky as the route that he decided to come back in was apparently now filled with Mavericks.
"Goddammit." Most of this usually resulted in Ebran trying to stay hidden and out of sight behind rocks, while keeping his buster gun out and ready to shoot if necessary. He wasn't going to be caught without protection, and he needed to get back to the Hunters' Camp.
...Maybe there were other people nearby. That wouldn't have as much trouble. He hoped.
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Post by Alki Ambrosi on Aug 24, 2012 18:11:21 GMT -5
Alki knew Ebran and Nomine. They were close together, and she wondered if she could try and fool them. Maybe not. Either way, the art of deception was key for her. She leaned against the wall, crossing her arms and wondering what to do. Hm. She could notice that Nomine left a trail of dead Mavericks.
"..." She'd jump up in the air, flip and then land, Megamerged. Ebran is first. After all she knew him a bit better than Nomine. And all she knew about Nomine is that he was having issues with Prometheus and Julianne, last she checked.
"You seem to be in a pickle." That is before the maverick that tried to sneak up on her collapsed and broke apart. How that happened, nobody will know. She's a ninja.
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Post by Nomine and FZ on Aug 26, 2012 3:49:15 GMT -5
Not like Nomine knew either were there. How could he in the heat of battle? Especially when he came here thinking he was going to be alone. Seriously, when he finds out there were two other people here fighting off the other mavericks he'll be somewhat disappointed his training wasn't as satisfying as he thought it would be.
...Damn Nomine, how wreckless and careless can you get? Pandora and Blossom won't be happy if you get seriously injured from trying this kind of deadly training. Prometheus and Juli might but still, not like he has much of a care about either of them...besides the fact Pandora likes them alive.
Still, didn't matter much. If he could handle taking on multiple opponents at once ganging up on him at all sides, he figured it would then be easier if for some odd reason one day Juli and Prom decided to team up against him just because he was hanging around Pandora.
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Post by Ebran Phare on Aug 26, 2012 13:02:26 GMT -5
And of course, who should he bump into but Voile's girlfriend, Alki? Except she was in some kind of armor; probably had something to do with her Biometal. He blinked up (down? She was quite short...) at her in her armor, and gave a bit of a sheepish smile.
"Nothing too bad. More of an inconvenience than anything. I've gotten very good at sneaking away from Mavericks."
Still, he wouldn't mind blowing them to bits. He fired his gun at another Maverick that had noticed them, the three shots connecting and destroying it, before regarding Alki again. He was still unaware of Nomine's presence.
"What're you doing here? I was on a mission."
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Post by Alki Ambrosi on Aug 27, 2012 19:44:25 GMT -5
Alki grinned when Ebran spoke up about those silly Mavericks. Yeah, it was indeed the annoying nature of Mavericks to get on one's nerves. Alki pulled out her katana and slashed a few Mavericks down in their weak spots, noticing they were clearing up. Nice.
"Usually I am too, but I have my reasons right now why I'm in the open." She put her Katana up and looked around. There were a few small explosions at some of the Maverick's feets, causing them to scatter.
"Been training. So what mission were you on?" Nomine would be ignored for now. He wasn't talking.
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Post by Nomine and FZ on Sept 2, 2012 13:41:31 GMT -5
And on Nomine's side of the battlefield, the metallic chasis's just keep piling up. Normally you wouldn't really show mercy to mavericks, but the mess Nomine was making looked more like...Well yeah. He was just being plain cold in the mess he was making. Not just to the Mavericks, but the area around him as well.
When the Mavericks' AI's finally came up with the solution to try and surround him and gang up on him, his fist glowed brightly and he slammed that fist into the ground, causing a large tremor in the earth as the Earth Gaizer shockwave effect took out the surrounding mavericks.
Not to mention the large amount of earth that was pretty much launched into the air all around him.
RPer does not know how close Ebran and Alki are, so whether or not they can feel it will be up to their RPers.
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Post by Ebran Phare on Sept 2, 2012 13:46:21 GMT -5
Ebran, of course, didn't ignore the Mavericks. Ignoring Mavericks when in this kind of situation was a very good way to get oneself killed. So he kept his buster gun out and firing at the Mavericks whenever it seemed like they were starting to get close to the two of them - if Alki didn't get them first. He was better at getting the ones that were further away, anyways.
"Well, considering you're a little busy destroying them, I'll say that yeah, you do have a good reason for that. I was trying to sneak, but clearly that didn't work out too well right about now."
Ebran pointed to his backpack as she asked him what kind of mission he was on. He wasn't going to take what was in it out, though. In this lot, it would risk getting destroyed, and that would mean no pay for him.
"Oh, just an archaeology mission. I had to go dig something up that seemed like it was from a few hundred years ago - I think it predates Reploids even." He had no idea what it was, but he could tell that it was extremely old. Valuable? Who knew. It seemed like a fairly simple machine.
The earth shook from the tremors that Nomine caused, and Ebran placed a hand against the nearest boulder to balance himself.
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Post by Alki Ambrosi on Sept 2, 2012 22:57:22 GMT -5
Alki herself grinned when Ebra spoke up. Within the second, Alki had struck down five mavericks with five shurikens... and a bomb. She then looked in the corner of her eye and threw a kunai, landing straight in the 'eye' of a Galleon.
"It takes practice to be sneaky." She spoke up.
"Which you do a horrible job at." Model S jabbed. "Pay attention, I sense a biometal."
".. Well it's not like I can sense biometals..." Alki muttered before speaking up. "Careful, we have a biomatch nearby." Of course she easily got distracted when Ebran mentioned an ancient equipment.
"Oh! I work with museum equipment. I might be able to identify it." It might be from her timeline! of course she couldn't get that wish because of that tremor and Alki moved her feet to try and stay standing in the course of the tremor.
"... That might be from that biomatch. Better be careful. They might be friendly or cruel."
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Post by Nomine and FZ on Sept 3, 2012 1:28:56 GMT -5
Or said biomatch could be both, depending on your point of view. It would take some time to charge that Weapon Energy back up, but a nice portion of area was cleared of Mavericks.
For a short while anyways. Nomine couldn't stand there in some epic dramatic standing still pose for long. He had to get back to the hacking and slashing of what Mavericks were starting to fill back up that gap. Already his armor looked pretty banged up and scorched...but then again, it might be hard to notice scorch marks on black armor compared to other armor colors. It seemed like a large number of the mavericks were swarming out of a cave. One might think it would be a good idea to close the cave up. But that wasn't what Nomine came here to do. Heck, sealing up the cave would be detrimental to the reason he came here to begin with. To become stronger. So he was and could be seen running inside the mouth of the cave, red plasma blade cutting down any maverick he saw. He even used his special copy power on a Galleon holding a bazooka to fire off a few rockets at some of the other Mavericks in the area.
A shame he doesn't have E-Tanks or Subtanks to heal or repair his damage. Who knows how Blossom would react if she saw him in such a banged up state. Or even Pandora.
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Post by Ebran Phare on Sept 3, 2012 12:20:39 GMT -5
Ebran fired at another Maverick that had pulled its own buster gun out, destroying it as he continued to look over at Alki. He just smiled a bit when she mentioned that it took practice to be sneaky.
"Practice that you're not getting right now?" He was clearly joking from his tone. Of course that mumbling sound he now knew to associate with Biometals happened, and he blinked as Alki spoke to what appeared to be herself.
"I take it he told you that? And I'm guessing it's someone that we don't know well or at all." Otherwise she probably would have told him who it was. Either way, he smiled a bit when she mentioned that she worked with museum equipment.
"Oh really? Cool! I can show it to you once we get out of this mess here, I don't want to risk it getting destroyed."
Didn't need to tell him twice, Ebran had figured that out already. He just nodded, trying to see if he could get a glance at whoever this Biomatch was. Once he saw Nomine, he probably would recognize him, but until then, this Biomatch was an unknown.
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Post by Alki Ambrosi on Sept 6, 2012 15:01:51 GMT -5
Alki threw more shurikens at the Mavericks, noticing they were coming in one direction. She'd take care of them, but right now it would be better to just get some practice and then disappear into the crowd, so to speak. She'd pause for a moment to look over at Ebran.
"Aha. Well, Mavericks are a brainless way to practice, but Sensei S is helpful teaching me tricks." She'd explain.
She'd nod when Ebran spoke up again. Yes, indeed, it might be hostile or friendly. She'd pour her focus on figuring it out later. For now She and Ebran needed to back down before they sustained damage.
"Yeah. I assume training's finished anyway. There's too many Mavericks, though they seem to be coming in one direction." She paused. "There might be a station that rebuilds and makes new mechaniloids. I dunno."
"It's a reasonable guess."
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Post by Nomine and FZ on Sept 11, 2012 1:01:18 GMT -5
So now he's out of ammo. Fine. Just toss the Bazooka at another Galleon, which seemed to blow up the moment it hit the poor fella.
And yet the bullets kept coming. Nomine ducked behind the nearest rock he could and crouched down taking a few fast breaths as he tried to recover.
"...Maybe not such a bright idea huh?" FZ chimed in.
"...Shut...Up," Nomine replied. He figured he'd sit there for a few moments and wait for the fire to stop for a moment before he'd strike again. He needed his weapon energy to reload for one. The only problem was he wasn't sure if the Mavericks would wait long enough to give him the time needed. Heck. A few were probably approaching his rock now and he wouldn't even notice.
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Post by Ebran Phare on Sept 12, 2012 0:30:38 GMT -5
Ebran fired a few more shots at the Mavericks, taking down another couple as they got a little too close. Sooner or later, he was going to have to book it back to Hunters' Camp. Afterwards, he turned back to where Alki was still talking with him.
"Hm. Some are, I'll say that, but-" He shut up at that point, just shaking his head a little at himself and then looking back over at her. So the Biometal was teaching her tricks, huh...? A genuine ninja would know a lot.
"Maybe. They probably have a base to go to. Someone has to be making them for them to be this persistent."
Hey, was that a voice? Ebran blinked, and then looked over at where someone had appeared. "Nomine?"
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