Mr. Gun's Secret

[gantzgun74]

Gantz and Talim clashed fiercely, before Gantz pushed her back. Talim ran with surprisingly fast strides, and swung the blade edges with a circular motion. Gantz easily blocked, and followed with a barrage of attacks. Talim blocked a few of the attacks, and dodged the rest, following with a kick, which caught Gantz in the chest.

"OOF!!" Gantz slid across the dirt road, before catching traction once more. "Not bad." Gantz said quickly before charging once more. Talim lifted her guard to her face...

Bad idea.

Gantz jumped into the air, feinting an up-high attack, before he hit the ground and launched a ground sweeping kick. Talim was swept off her feet, before Gantz followed a powerful blow to Talim's back as she was in mid-air. Talim winced, as she hit the ground, and quickly got to her feet. "A very sneaky attack." she said.

Gantz merely shrugged, before lifting his keyblade quickly, to block another circular swing making the blade connect with the keyblade. Gantz countered with a powerful swing that connected with Talim's gut. The girl was sent sliding backward, but quickly followed with running up to the boy, jumping and swinging her elbow blade's dull hilt parallel to her fist.

WHAM!!!! Gantz was floored, sliding on his back, and his legs and lower body over the body over the head. Using the momentum, he backflipped, and got back to his feet. With a smile, he wiped off a bit of blood away from his mouth. "Nice hit. You're every bit as strong and fast as I thought you'd be."

Talim smiled, "Thank you so much." She gave Gantz a small look, "And you're not so bad yourself."

Gantz rubbed his chin. "Thank you for the complement." He held up his keyblade. "Shall we continue?"

"Yes... Let's."

CLAANG!!! BAAAM!!! SLAAM!!! CLAANG, CLAANG!! WHAAM!!

The fight continued, as the two fought fiercely. Talim was the better fighter, but Gantz was still a competant fighter all the same, so the two was somewhat even in a few ways.

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Meanwhile in the market place...

Metal and Climber examined some of the gemstones that were on sale at a stand. Climber looked at each gem, unable to figure out which gem was which.

Metal however, easily picked out the best gem-stones needed for Beatrice's gear. He pointed to a specific gem, as a cue to the Climber. "Oh! This one please." Climber said, picking up the gem.

Metal nodded, as Climber payed for the gem...

Suddenly however, something else caught Metal's attention...

On his scanners, he could pick up the life-signs of a certain figure... As soon as Climber payed for the gems, he turned to Metal, and looked confused to see the robot staring at the other side of town. "What is it Metaru?"

Metal continued to look over the horizon. "My sensors indicate a certain life-signature coming this way..."

The Climber looked confused at this. "Really? What kind?"

Metal could barely answer... The signature was one that was both the bane of his existance... Yet the source of his creation.

[Firebreath Fishslap]

Dale looked at Chip, who sighed. "I tried to warn him. They never listen, do they?" He started following after Nutcase, heading toward the sounds of fighting. "Oh hey, there's Mr. Gantz! And he's getting into a fight like everyone else on this bloody island!"

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Finally, Beatrice finished her gloves, and pulled them on. She was now wearing everything she needed, minus those shoes and a new hairband.
"Man, I hope those two idiots get done soon. I need to make me some awesome shoes!" Beatrice said loudly. Some more villagers stared at her. She clenched her teeth and turned to them, yelling, "YOU WANNA FIGHT?!" A few of them rolled their eyes and returned to their business, while the others flinched a little, and still returned to their business.

[Felix Falora]

On the other side of town from Metal's position, as he scanned, Sonic and Tails were there. They were just trying to have a peaceful shopping trip, pick up a few goods here and there, maybe even get Amy something. However... Sonic felt a bit of a disturbance. "... ... ..."

"Sonic? What's wrong?" Tails asked.

"Huh... That's weird... I get the feeling some familiar figure's around here," Sonic said.

"... ... ... In this place, you could run into anybody. Don't worry about it," Tails said softly. "Let's just get back to shopping."

"... Yeah. Besides... if I don't get Amy a present for our suppose anniversary, she'll kill me."

[gantzgun74]

As the fight between Gantz and Talim continued, Climber and Metal continued on their shopping trip, looking around at the various stalls and stores. "Leather... Leather, leather... Do you see any leather Metaru?"

"Negative." Metal responded, as he looked around. He couldn't help but notice, the more they walked down this path... The closer they got to the place where Sonic and Tails were at.

While Metal hated Sonic, he knew he wouldn't be able to start a good new life if he got to close to the hedgehog. It would only light the fuse to some previous resentment. "Kuraima, I suggest we look in another stall in town."

The Climber looked at the robot curiously. "Now why would you say that?" He suddenly looks in the window of a nearby stall and sees, what he recognizes, as leather... Though the sign posted between the strips helped him. "Ah! There they are!" He motioned to Metal. "Come on, Metaru. I found the leather! Let's go on in!"

Metal was less then enthused. He could sense Sonic's life signature just right inside. "I foresee negative circumstances in the future if we step inside this establishment." But since Climber's brain was basically just a ball of fluff, he didn't understand what he said. The Climber pushed Metal right inside, and the robot, with little choice, walked.

He suddenly saw Sonic and his partner Tails browsing around... ...

He had never felt his 'programming to destroy' more painfully then at that very moment. However, Metal remained cool and collected, and easily continued along the store. If his most hated enemy in the entire world was shopping in the same store as him, no-one would've been able to guess by how he walked; where most forced calm movements were painful, Metal easily kept it up, since he felt no pain.

Climber meanwhile, just continued right after Metal, COMPLETELY unaware as to the mental warfare Metal was going through.

[nutcase17133]

Nutcase finally got to where the commotion was coming from, and saw a young woman duking it out with Gantz, tooth and nail.

"Hey hey! What's going on here?!" Nutcase said as he forced the fight to stop by getting between the two.

"Gantz, you yourself said we need to keep a low profile after what happened in town the other day. Why are you fighting in full view of the public like this?! What if some psychopath decides to get whatever it is you've been carting around this whole time?!"

Nutcase looked to Talim and said, "And speaking of...who the heck are you? If you're working for a cross-dressing demon with lobster claws for hands, you'd better be ready to be blown out of tyown!"

For emphasis, Nutcase pulled out a bundle of dynamite from his pocket along with an old-fashioned wooden detonator with a plunger handle activation switch.

[Felix Falora]

"Ooooh, how about this?"

"Nah... too goth."

"Well maybe Amy'll like this."

"No way she'd go for that, it doesn't seem right."

"Well... maybe th...!"

"Oh come on Tails, stop it, that's embarassing!" Sonic said, facepalming at his friend's attempts. "You may a genius at machinery, but I think, right now, that's about it. Amy's gonna like something perky, something happy... eh..." He picked up a pink purse and grinned. "Well she had been talking about wanting a new purse for some time now."

[Firebreath Fishslap]

Chip looked up at Talim, and waved to her. "Hey lady, you're really pretty! Can I eat you?"

When Nutcase pulled out the dynamite, Chip stared at it, then went back to watching the battle. Dale, on the other hand, had different plans, and was slowly snaking towards the dynamite, and he was beginning to look like he wanted to eat it.

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Beatrice sighed and finally stood up, heading towards the market where Climber and Metal Sonic had gone. They were taking too long, and it was getting boring just sewing here, so she was going to take the sewing to them.

[gantzgun74]

Talim looked at Nutcase, looking confused when he described Him, and then at Chip confused even more confused at what he just said. "... 'Eat me?'" Talim repeated with a confused look.

The second the dynamite was pulled out, Talim was even more confused then ever. Having coming from a village high up in the Asian Mountains, their was a lot of things she had missed out on. "What is that?"

Gantz immediately yanked the dynamite out of Nutcase's hands. "And you tell ME not to make a scene?!?" He pulled the plunger switch away as well. "For crying out loud, Nutcase... Street Fighting is a common occurance around the island, there's no reason to use this to blow something to kingdom come."

Holding the dynamite, he motioned to Talim. "Nutcase this is Talim; Talim, Nutcase."

Talim bowed to Nutcase from the waist up. "Pleasure to make your acquaintance." She tilted her head to the left, looking at the loon curiously, "And to answer your question, I don't have the slightest clue what you're going on about." She looked like she meant it too.

[Firebreath Fishslap]

Chip looked at Nutcase. "I think Ms. Talim doesn't know who Him is... 'He' is?" He scratched his head again, which caused it to start bleeding... again.

"So, anyways, you guys done fighting yet, because I think Nutcase is getting really impatient about your secret, Gantz, and something in your pocket's making my antenna go haywire." Chip finally asked. "You're not hiding anything, are you? Not a stone of some sorts, right?" Chip started leaning in closer to Gantz. "'Cause, if you are, I kinda need that stone."

((OOC: Chip's talking about the Philosopher's Stone, but everyone else will probably think it's Soul Edge he's talking about.))

[nutcase17133]

Nutcase aimed a revolver at Chip's head and said, "Make one move and I'll blow your head off."

Turning to Talim, Nutcase said, "Sorry about the mixup, we've had some trouble as of late involving this freakshow demon. No one knows his real name, and those that do are too terrified to speak it so we just call the guy 'Him'. If you see this clown, I sugest you start running. Fast. I'm also sorry about Chip here. He and his kind are idiots who deserve to be stuffed and mounted."

[gantzgun74]

Gantz shrugged. "Anyways, Talim is here to take away the item I have in my possession of which my research is centered around." I shrugged. "I had explained myself, but Talim wouldn't believe me. She was the one that forced me to defend myself."

Talim bowed. "I'm sorry. But you must understand that what you have in your possession would make your word somewhat questionable." She nodded to Gantz, smiling. "I realize now, that your word is true, you have no thoughts in mind to use evil power." She turned to Chip lifting her elbow blades. "I cannot let you have the stone though, you could be a different case. What Gantz has in his possession is something of great evil."

Nutcase threw Gantz one of the most wide-eyed looks, the boy had seen in his life. "It's not what you think I swear! If you'll allow me to explain, it will be easy to understand."

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The Climber and Metal continued along the store, Climber looking through the leather, and Metal doing everything in his power to ignore the destructive programming that was currently screaming at him for this opportunity to do what he was created to do.

Sonic was unaware, his guard was down, he would never expect an attack here.

Metal ignored this programming and proceeded to listen to Climber, as he looked through the sheets of leather before him. "Let's see... Miss Beatrice will need a good quality..." He turned to Metal. "Which do you think Metaru?"

Metal examined each sheet. "My sensors indicate that this sheet here," He pointed to the sheet of leather that Climber had just put down, "Will be the highest quality."

Climber smiled as he picked up the sheet once more. "Oh okay! Thanks for the tip, Metaru."

"With pleasure." Metal shrugged, as Climber added it along with the other pieces of leather...

Metal turned back to where Sonic was along with his buddy Tails. So far, it's been two minutes, and he hasn't surrendered to his programming... So far so good. He was now actually starting to think the Climber; if Climber hadn't pushed him into the store, he wouldn't have known how long he could ignore his programming when so close to the Hedgehog...

Metal suddenly looked curious, when he saw a robed figure approach Sonic and Tails, though neither noticed...

He felt his wires freeze when he saw that the figure under the hood looked like he had spines on his back, and appeared to be made of Silver.

[As a one thread boss battle, I'm bringing in Silver Sonic (First and only appearance made in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Genesis) to the mix. He will only appear in this thread as a boss, so I hope no-one minds.]

[Now we wait for Felix.]

[Firebreath Fishslap]

Chip suddenly grabbed Nutcase's arm and pulled it away from Chip's head so that he no longer had a gun pointed at him.
"...I'd rather you didn't point that gun at me..." Chip said. "And besides? That comment you made about my race? Downright racist, it was!"

After that, Chip looked at Talim. "...I kinda need to bring that stone back to my planet though... I mean, I was going to try to make it myself, but since Gantz has it, I was going to take it with me... Could I just borrow it? Long enough that I can get a ride back home? I'll bring it back! I promise!"

[nutcase17133]

Nutcase glared at chip angrily and said, "No way! I'm not gonna let you have any advantage against the human race to turn them into your people's very own cattle ranch! I may not be a bigot by nature, but in your case I'll make an exception! No race has the right to reduce another to slavery for any means! Especially if it means treating them as lambs for the slaughter in the literal sense!"

Turning to Talim and Gantz, he said, "This little clown has admitted to me that his kind are trying to enslave the human race so they can stuff their faces with our lifeless carcasses. Gantz has a good reason to have this thing, no doubt, but Chip here cannot be allowed to even see it! It'll doom the human race!"

[gantzgun74]

Gantz smiled nervously... Talim suddenly looked uncomfortable, looking up to the sky. She seemed to shudder at a thought that crossed her mind; one could tell it was over what had just been said.

Gantz slowly reached into his pocket. "Not just the human race. It would be bad enough if a human got a hold of this, but an alien? That just screams bad news." He kept his hand in his pocket, fingering what was inside. "Tell me Chip, what is it you think I have in my possession?"

[Firebreath Fishslap]

Chip glared at Nutcase. "I said no such things!" This was a lie, but only Nutcase would know that.

At Gantz's question, he tilted his head. "The only thing I know that makes my antennae tingle like that... the Philosopher's Stone, of course! If I could bring that home, then I would become famous among the other drones, they might make me a commander, I could become the queen's mate, even! It would be wonderful, oh so wonderful, but for that to happen, I need that stone! And since Beatrice won't give me hers... [glow=red,2,300]I have to keep trying and trying to make my own and sometimes I go a little wacko from straining my brain that hard, y'know? It'd be a lot easier if I could just take it for myself, y'know?"[/glow] As Chip talked, his voice changed from the cheerful giddy tone to something that sounded a bit less forced.