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Post by ryocker on Dec 23, 2015 22:04:08 GMT -5
Nora walked into view. "Did someone start a party?" she asked, yawning with one hand on her hammer. The sprite desperately wiggled, standing on her feet after a short while.
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Post by gantzgun74 on Dec 23, 2015 22:18:27 GMT -5
Mere inches Shulk's hand was from the Monado-
WHOOOSH CLINK.
Only for a shape, much bigger then a bullet, to impact into the wall right between Shulk's hand and the sword... The missile then beeped.
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The hole blasted into the wall was apparent to the entirety of the Apartment complex, as charred debris crashed on the front yard loudly and continuously.
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The Monado was no longer immediately visible. Shulk had either been blasted backwards by the missile's explosion or had hit the dirt in time to avoid getting seriously burned. Either way, Metal had vanished in the smokescreen... Or at least it appeared that way...
Outside of general knowledge, Metal Sonic had retreated outside and seemed to be resting against the side of a building... As he did however, he took in the apartment building, carefully scanning his opponents as he prepared for one more attack. He WAS going to get those Mechon parts... HE WAS NOT GOING TO BE DENIED.
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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Dec 23, 2015 23:22:51 GMT -5
Paul got down on the floor, brushing the drywall off his back as he leaned in towards the sprite. "You okay?"
No sooner had he asked that than Metal fired at Shulk, subsequently blowing a massive hole in the room. Paul hastily ducked and covered, shielding the sprite from the force and debris. Despite his quick thinking, his eyes were wide with panic. "Aw, nut bunnies..."
As the apartment shook and the air cracked, Kenny jumped a few feet and screamed every obscenity he knew. Unable to bear the feeling of hopelessness anymore, the boy charged out into the living room and, upon quick inspection, decided his first course of action would be to swipe a particularly awesome looking piece of discarded Mechon metal. That robot wanted these parts so badly? Well, it'd have to go through him!
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Post by ShadesofGrey18 on Dec 23, 2015 23:28:42 GMT -5
"AHHHGH!" Shulk's reflexes weren't enough to help him, and the Homs was blown backwards into the wall, clothes singed and burned by the explosion. The Monado was nowhere to be seen.
"N...No... how?" He hadn't had a single vision that whole time. He needed to find his weapon and fast. Where was it?
He sat up... and promptly felt searing pain through him. "Ghhk!"
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Post by ryocker on Dec 24, 2015 0:08:45 GMT -5
Nora flinched at the explosion, blinking. "Wow... must've been a real humdinger of a party," she smiled, making her way to the hold in the apartment. "You want some of this?!" she cheered, shifting her hammer into grenade launcher form. It blasted a pink missile with a heart mark toward Metal, the girl hoping to distract him.
The sprite squeaked, soon noticing that Shulk was apparently in pain. "...host... needs help," she coughed, standing up and wobbling her way toward shulk. She provided a bit of ice for his burns, her decided lack of healing powers noticeable.
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Post by gantzgun74 on Dec 24, 2015 0:41:43 GMT -5
As everyone recovered from the missile attack, Metal noted that one of them had spotted him and was firing on them... But that served him just fine. They knew exactly where to look now... They knew exactly where he was coming from... Which meant they would have time to see him coming... But not enough to get away. He saw the round coming....
He fired off rounds at the missile allowing it to explode in mid-air...
When that caught attention however, they were only in time to catch Metal Sonic zooming at them... Then zooming past them at INCREDIBLE speeds, PLOWING THROUGH THE WALLS AND PLASTER LIKE THEY WERE WET TISSUE.
When Metal came out the other side, he stopped...
... The bunch still in the apartment however noticed how the sheer friction from Metal's speed was now igniting...
BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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CLACK...
When Metal landed in the smoldering debris with a loud stomp, it had been with absolution as he checked the debris over... No sign of the Mechon Metal anywhere... Hmm....
CLACK... CLACK... CLACK... CLACK... CLACK...
.... He once more turned on the magnetic charge... AH THERE IT WAS... There was some parts moving about under the plaster...
CLACK... CLACK... CLACK... CLACK... CLACK...
As he walked, he passed by the carcus of a boy he did not recognize... Ah whatever, the parts were all he- Wait... He turned again and found a metal part with him.... Growling, the robot snatched the metal out of the boy's hand. Once he merged it, he walked over to the shuffling bits of plaster... His sensors were picking up the remains of smoldering gas in the air... Likely his friction explosion had hit a gas main to trigger the second one... Whatever...
The machine coldly dug through the blazing hot plaster and found one more part... It was an interesting one too...
And when the robot melded the part into it's body... AH YES... This would do nicely...
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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Dec 24, 2015 0:51:05 GMT -5
"Sh-Shulk...!" At the sprite's insistence, Paul moved towards Shulk, keeping low and helping to nudge the sprite along. Hopefully Nora could keep the robot occupied while Paul inspected Shulk.
No such luck.
Before Paul even knew what hit him, the atmosphere heated up and the apartment came tumbling down. With a yelp, Paul leaped atop Shulk and the sprite and once again curled up, his dense body taking the brunt of the damage for them. It felt like it took an eternity for the debris to settle, and once it did, Paul achingly sat up and pushed the plaster away. "Ahhh... Well... Guess we know what you do now, you ugly pile of OH MY GOD HE KILLED KENNY!!!"
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Post by ShadesofGrey18 on Dec 24, 2015 18:15:45 GMT -5
Shulk's eyes glowed very briefly before Metal tore through the apartment, and he saw...
He didn't have time to realize what he'd seen before the massive explosion with Paul covering him. "Rrgh..." He saw the boy's corpse and he gasped, sitting up and looking at the robot. "YOU BASTARD!" The words had practically leapt from his mouth unbidden.
Forcing himself to his feet, Shulk grit his teeth. "Urk... L-Light Heal!" Drawing in some Ether from around him, the Homs felt his wounds abate somewhat. "Hhh... Paul... I need my blade. I need the Monado for us to even stand a chance here... If you see it, do not pick it up! Let me know where it is..."
He just hoped that Nora could hold off the robot long enough... and then he saw the latest addition to Metal's body.
"No..." Even still, looking at that brought him chills.
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Post by ryocker on Dec 24, 2015 21:00:31 GMT -5
A blizzard blast caused a majority of the rubble to part, the sprite wheezing underneath the pile of destruction the apartment had become. "...No... Breath," she gagged, trying to get up. She was sweating, her small body looking overly stressed out.
Nora got up, shaking her head on the lawn. "Woo... that was a rush," she smiled, looking up to try and find metal. She switched her weapon back to hammer form, charging toward the glowing robot and giving him a thwack on the noggin. Right afterward, a missile popped up on the end of the hammer. "SURPRISE!"
BOOM!!!
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Post by gantzgun74 on Dec 27, 2015 16:54:37 GMT -5
Metal had just melded the part onto himself when Nora attacked. The explosion was deafening and smoke covered the scene... .............. CLACK!! THUD!!!! Metal had used the repulsors in his elbows to triple the swinging speed, so when the punch connected with Nora's jaw, it sent her flying clean across the avenue THROUGH a street light and crashing clean into another apartment... The punch however allowed the smoke to clear... The robot's new face would haunt Shulk's nightmares for many days to come. The robot's face now looked itself... But it also had many traits similar to the face plate it had pulled from the pile of debris, a mouth slot seemingly sealed with metallic bars across it, narrowed and slanted eyes which made Metal Sonic's face appear even angrier and glowing energy veins that appeared green... In fact, the mask allowed these veins to suddenly appear around Metal sonic's body all of them flashing bright green. "HRRRRRR...." ?? WAIT... WAS THE ROBOT... SPEAKING? IT DIDN'T SOUND ROBOTIC... IT SOUNDED- "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"The blast of energy, cuing the finishing of the transformation caused intense winds to pick up, windows across the avenue shattered, and the robot silenced itself long enough to look at Shulk. ...........
"LET..."? HE WAS SPEAKING TO HIM. "LET ME GO."
..... "I WISH TO SHOW YOU GRATITUDE FOR REPAIRING ME. LET ME GO AND I WILL NOT HARM YOU FURTHER." |
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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Dec 27, 2015 18:56:43 GMT -5
Paul was panting, trying his best to come up with a course of action amongst all the chaos. First and foremost, after a brief nod to Shulk, he scooped up the sprite and disappeared into the smoke and debris. In relative solitude, he scanned the wreckage for Shulk's blade, doing his best to shut out the background noise.
He really and truly had no idea what was going on.
All he knew was that Kenny was going to be ticked when he revived.
Eventually Paul spotted what he could only assume was the Monado lying on the floor. Right at that moment, he froze up and let out an awkward squeak, questioning how to get Shulk's attention without drawing Metal back here.
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Post by ShadesofGrey18 on Dec 28, 2015 3:27:53 GMT -5
"Hhh... hhhh..." Shulk froze up a bit. "...You..."
He could scarcely believe what he was hearing. "F...Fine..." He knew when he was outgunned, at least. And his visions didn't seem to be coming at all, either. He knew better than to try rushing blindly into a situation... and without the Monado, none of them could defeat this upgraded robot.
"...Go." Was this going to bite him in the ass later? Probably. But at least with this he had time to plan.
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Post by ryocker on Dec 29, 2015 1:07:10 GMT -5
The sprite loudly squeaked during the entirety of the bright flash, but she soon pettered out when it all calmed down. She didn't like getting blasted apart like that, but she couldn't really argue either. this wasn't her home, after all.
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"WHAAAA- OOMPH!"
ZAP!!!
Nora made a rather productive trip through the air, eventually smacking right into the electric pole. It gave a brief electrical charge, zapping her mere moments before she hit the pavement, making yet another crater for the islanders to smooth over. She hopped up, grabbed her hammer, was about to leap right back into the yard-
"I WISH TO SHOW YOU GRATITUDE FOR REPAIRING ME. LET ME GO AND I WILL NOT HARM YOU FURTHER."
Her jaw went slack. "All that and you just want to go away-" The moment Shulk said his piece, the young woman groaned. "...eh, okay," she sighed.
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Post by gantzgun74 on Jan 23, 2016 15:03:21 GMT -5
............
Metal nodded.... Letting out a metallic grunt, the robot turned.... THE JET ENGINES KICKED IN.
Metal took off-.
FAST ENOUGH TO CAUSE THE SHEER FRICTION TO EXPLODE OUTWARDS ONCE MORE, the robot clearly taking no chances of having these people follow him. Even if they managed to keep on their feet however, the robot had vanished over the horizon before they would even pick themselves up after the parting attack...
A grave threat had been unleashed on Dimensional Island.......
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Post by ParamountKeymaster on Jan 23, 2016 15:17:35 GMT -5
Paul looked over his shoulder, devastated that Shulk was just going to let this fiend go. But... really, what else could they do? They couldn't fight Metal like this. It was hard to accept and the consequences of releasing him would be grave, but regardless of whether or not they fought, Paul understood that here and now, they were defeated. Their best option was the one that would let them live to recuperate and warn the public.
He braced himself and leaned against the wall as the force of Metal's liftoff blew them back. Then he straightened back up and started gingerly stepping over the rubble, picking up and cradling the sprite along the way. Poor thing... She probably needed to rest someplace cold.
Standing next to Shulk, Paul looked at him sadly, took a deep breath and murmured firmly, "We can fix this."
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