The dust cleared and Reishi was still standing, her clothes singed and wounds healing.
"That tickled," she said.
In a blur of motion she was in front of the mecha, her fist driving into the chassis, knocking it down and leaving a large hole in the chest.
"Pfft," ARC said and waved its hand dismissively. "Can a woodchuck chuck? Can only you prevent forest fires? Is HK-47 bloodthirsty? Of course I can do it. In fact, let's start."
Tucking its rifle away, ARC figured in Reishi's placement and the mecha's speed. This would be easy.
As ARC sped up in place, it looked as though the Jump Bot's edges were blurring and its line were melting together. After a second or two of this, ARC started dashing around the mecha moving so fast that it looked like a continuous line of white was surrounding the machine. Now, this technique would take more than a moment and ARC spent a trillionth of a second hoping that the mecha wouldn't realize what was wrong until it was too late.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
When Reishis fist connected with the mechs armor, the powerful charge in the metal caused it to vibrate which dissipated the force of her blow throughout the air causing the air to distort. The mech staggered back a step, only a slight dent in its chest and prepared to release its charged repulsor blast. While Reishi had been attacking, ARC was circling mecha and siphoning the energy feeding its armor. Although not all at once, its powerful armor was beginning to weaken.
Jase quickly performed a series of hand signs to focus his chakra and ended in a cross with a pair of fingers from each hand, Double Team. His shadow began to wriggle a bit before stretching longways then rise from the floor. Its form began to solidify and morph into a mirror image of Jase himself. The shadow leapt up while Jase swiftly ran to one side of the giant robot and pulled out an exploding shuriken from his side.
The shadow Jase threw blades from both hands at the vulnerable parts of the charging repulsor cannons causing them to explode in a blast of force that had no effect on the mech. The real Jase threw a single exploding shuriken at the energy blaster in the arm but didnt manage to hit its mark. It exploded in an armored spot of the arm but didnt have any affect. Jase fell to a knee, dripping with sweat and his breath came a bit labored. The shadow of Jase vanished and returned to his feet. Luckily, he was a good distance away so the following energy blasts werent aimed at him. The mech desperately fired blasts of energy(the last weapon it was equipped with for the match) at Reishi and in ARCs path as its armor slowly weakened.
Reishi got what she needed: her sword. It had been lodged in the mecha.
Since she was already at point blank range, she drove the sword into the mecha's chest.
The moment Reishi pulled her sword from the mechs chest, four tendrils escaped the wound and shot past her then curved back to grab her from behind. It was prepared to fling her back but ARCs tactic seemed to be working. Sparks began to flow from its shoulder and arm joints as its energy cells began to malfunction. Reishi was able to strike at the machine unheeded by its armor or movements as it switched offline for a short moment which was all the time she needed. Her blade plunged deep into the mechas chest and an odd whirr or whine could be heard as it struggled to switch back online. All that was left was to finish it off.
Reishi twisted the sword to ensure it stayed lodged into the mecha, and to do a bit of extra damage to its insides. She then launched herself off, kicking the mecha with a good deal of force.
OOC:Not tryin to drop any lugs here, but if we just start the next official match we might start getting more posts.....just sayin.
(OOC: Well, if we just started it without the GM picking the rules, it'd be breaking the rules)
((I'd GM, but I believe I placed last. . .))
((Fine, fine, I'll GM.))
The next match was beginning to start, and the rules were sent to each of the Masters.
The match was a two on two, first come, first enter match. The arena has been modified for this event.
Limiters were placed on abilities to jump, fly, teleport, or any other means of special transportation.
Twenty foot walls have been erected to create a maze. The object is to find your opponents, and finish them. The maze is barely lit, the audience viewing it all through a series of hidden cameras.
The kinetic limiters are set for just under lethal force, making this game of cat and mouse as real as possible.
Let the game begin!
Arc ID: 475246, "Bringing a Lord to Power"
"I'm only a simple man trying to cling to my tomorrow. Every day. By any means necessary."
-Caldwell B. Cladwell
With the blade twisting inside its chassis, it began to involuntarily jolt its arms as it continued its attempted to reactivate itself. Then Raishi kicked off the mech with a forceful thrust of her foot and the heavy mech fell to its back. It continued to spasm on ground the ground for a few moments before it went completely offline. It looks like we have a winner! Did you ever have a doubt for Raishi, ARC and Jase? Lets hear it for a most entertaining match! The crowd began to roar as the floor under the robot sank down to take the machine to get repaired for any future matches.
Nice fight guys, Jase commented, Although Im sure it could have gone smoother but we still finished, right? he grinned with a hand on his hip. He began to make his exit from the arena when he saw Ryjuta, Hyun-ki and Elaine waiting in his path. Hey guys, cool match, eh?
Ryjutas brown eyes were burning with anger, When did I ever tell you you could enter an exhibition match without my permission?
It was all Ians idea. Besides, I dont have to listen to an old b*st*rd like you. The only reason Im here is because Ian asked me to, Jase retorted
Well, where is he? Hyun-ki asked as he looked around the inside of the arena from the large doorway.
Oh yeah, he got smashed sometime in the middle of the match. Hes fine though, he should have been mediported.
Slightly relieved that Ian didnt get another match under his belt to feed his ego, Ryjuta looked down at his watch. Okay, another official match is opening up. Hyun-ki, Elaine. Youre going to be the two I enter. Ill go make sure Ian is okay.
Um....can Gazer go in my place? I really dont- Hyun-ki began but was met by a Ryjutas serious face, Fine...
"Yay!" Super Roby exclaimed, flying into the arena, and subsequently falling to the ground with a loud CLUNK.
"What kind of evil, sadistic person created this fight?" he exclaimed. "Super Roby can't fly anymore!" He struggled to get up, weighted down by his paws of steel.
((EDIT: Wait. . . does two on two mean two for each Master, or two sets of two total?))
((Four fighters in the match. Preferably one per master.))
Arc ID: 475246, "Bringing a Lord to Power"
"I'm only a simple man trying to cling to my tomorrow. Every day. By any means necessary."
-Caldwell B. Cladwell
(OOC: It's spelled Reishi btw, like the mushroom)
"Te-chan?" Annette called over her comm device between her gladiators.
"Yes m'lady?!" Nomura Tetsuko replied excitedly.
"You're entering the next match. I give you permission to use your 'good' arm," Annette ordered.
"YES MA'AM!" Tetsuko replied eagerly.
Shortly, in the official arena, a short girl with a green right eye and red left eye behind large glasses and her hair in pig tails, as well as a large robotic right arm and a painful looking taser sheathed on her waist, stepped into the arena.
When the mecha hit the ground, Kamui disappeared in a bright light, and Reishi left the arena.
"Nomura's battle is next," a voice from behind her in the hallway said.
Reishi turned and saw Igarashii Sousuke, perhaps the only fighter on Annette's team that was more dangerous than herself.
"Should be interestin'," Reishi grinned, "The little one doesn't fight like we do..."
Super Roby suddenly remembered he had super strength, and lifted his paws of steel off the ground with ease.
He walked blithely into the maze. He would be lost within seconds.
Curtis blinked.
With a click, his thermal vision activated, and the Gunslinger slunk down to a crouched walk, his black clothing making him incredibly hard to see, and his trained steps making him incredibly hard to hear.
((And no, Gunslingers don't wear the super glowy green goggles, he's using thermal goggles with plain black lenses. So don't say you see those.))
The Shade: Ok, I finally got the details of the next match. And...Shinade, its your turn.
Shinade: K.
The Shade: Its a two on two, and I don't know who your partner is, but if he gets whupped on in the beginning like Shinae's partner then, then you can always call on them.
Shinade:K
Shinade went to the waiting room to wait for the match to start and hopefully meet his partner.
((Sorry, Shinji. You got beaten to it.))
On the contestants chest, a light appeared. Curtis and Super Roby were red, Nomura and _________ ((pick one)) blue.
A buzzer sounded, signaling the start of the match.
Arc ID: 475246, "Bringing a Lord to Power"
"I'm only a simple man trying to cling to my tomorrow. Every day. By any means necessary."
-Caldwell B. Cladwell
Curtis hissed and covered the red light with his arm as he stalked.
"AAAAGH! GET THIS THING OFF ROBY'S CHEST!" Super Roby hurtled through the maze at top speed, banging into walls and making a huge amount of noise.
((Poor Curtis. 
))
((Sorry Soviet, I just had to do it ))
Arc ID: 475246, "Bringing a Lord to Power"
"I'm only a simple man trying to cling to my tomorrow. Every day. By any means necessary."
-Caldwell B. Cladwell
((*Hangs head*))
((Are we starting next to our teammates?))
((Nope. Opposite ends of your side of the maze.))
Arc ID: 475246, "Bringing a Lord to Power"
"I'm only a simple man trying to cling to my tomorrow. Every day. By any means necessary."
-Caldwell B. Cladwell
((Ok.))
"Ah sure hope that's not ma' boy...Utherwyse ah may hafta waste ah few bullets righ' awf tha' bat...."
The fist quickly retracted back into the arm after it was deflected back. In the same moment, it began firing energy blasts down at the female combatant with the other arm to defeat her. If she tried to rush in it would simply release the charged repulsion bombs to knock her back down.
Do you think thatll work? I mean, the thing might shoot at you and trip you up, Jase replied to ARC. It looks like its just you and me in this plan but I wont be able to do much to its armor. I do have a few incendiary shuriken but those probably wont do much either. A trickle of sweat dripped from his face and off of his chin. Already, fatigue was setting in for him and he only had a few more attacks left before he would have to pull out his more dangerous life threatening tricks.