Hare and Hedgehog (VS Riccio)

Falling through space, with the ever growing feeling of static and ozone in the air around him, Jazz still managed to bring his weapon to bear and keep it trained in the dazzling comet that was the beast descending alongside him. They dropped towards the ground of an open interior cavern that pulsed and glowed faintly with what could only be the thunder's own heart beat – golden lines of sharp-angled light glowing and dimming in concord all around them.

The cavern itself was scattered with odd shapes and strange protrusions, each patterned in the same metallic circuitry, but they bore the memory of other objects within them – to one side, a long, cylindrical shape rose form the ground at an angle, and the golden circuit tracing picked out access hatches, control panels and the broad solar-panel fans of a long forgotten satellite. Elsewhere, the snub-nosed shape of a derelict space shuttle was suggested int another metal protrusion, the gold etching marking its frontal window, the edges of its fins and a gaping hole torn in one side. All around the, various relics and remnants of space junk filled the chamber, but each was still clearly made now of the same black metal that comprised the asteroid.

Riccio landed first, just ahead of Jazz, with an electrical crash that send a pulse through the ground and a hum through the air. His spines glowed and sparked as it became clear that the pulse of light running through the cavern was originating from the beast himself. A static snarl reverberated through the space as Jazz landed a moment later and pulled the trigger.

The beast moved, his form crackling and partially distending into electric light as he darted across the space at an angle to Jazz but moving closer. Jazz tracked with the sudden shift, a stream of bullet scattering in an arc as he followed the beast and plugged the majority of his shots into the electrified form despite Riccio's sudden movement. As the weapon ran dry, the beast zapped back in the other direction, closing the distance to Jazz until they were almost face to face, but for a few feet. Each time he shifted with that lighting speed, some of the ice coating his form broke away, and now he stood before the furry intruder in his home, massive by comparison and standing proud as he released another ear-splitting howl.

Jazz's next attack came at it full force, and Riccio shifted, partially crouching with one foreleg and lowering his head, before throwing it back as the first log cracked across it; the log was flung away, seemingly deflected, but Jazz was sharp enough to see the signs of a genuine impact that dulled the panels beneath the beast. The second log came a moment later, and though it wasn't quite as accurate as the first, Riccio leapt to one side instead, avoiding the attempt anyway.

He shook himself, hindered by the ice, and a low, angered growl that sounded more like a connection error tone, magnified a thousand times echoed out from him before he stamped at the ground, flexing his claws and sinking them into the metal. When he stood straight this time, bracing his massive form, lighting crackled fresh over his body and a shock-wave of raw force pulsed out from the beast, shattering away the last of the ice in a blast of static, but Jazz was already making use of the moment; Riccio's form was still and exposed and the perfect target for his next bomb – though the hare was forced to back up an extra step to make sure he didn't put himself in blast as well. This explosion ripped across Riccio's form, and though it didn't seem to have too much real impact on the beast, smouldering embers remained lodged and burning within his nest of quills after the smoke cleared.

-=Beast-hunting Hare =-

Jazz.Exe: 185Hp [Magnet][Imbue Wood: 3 Charges]

-=The Solitary Thunder=-

Riccio: 3440Hp [Magnet][Poison(15)][Burn(10)]

-=Lost Asteroid=-
100% Black Magnet

• Non-Elec Elementals get -30% Evasion, and 50% (+/- 25% RP) chance to fail movement off the panel.
• Only Elec Elementals can burrow.
• Wood attacks: Change terrain hit to Normal.
• PanelShot: Imbue Elec + Seeking.

(Terrain directly under Riccio is dull, as is a diagonal strip further away, where the needle cannon marked him)

Terrain looks like a large, spacious cavern at this point - though details are hard to make out at the moment. The space is lit by an electric glow, coming mostly from Riccio, but also from the lacing of golden circuitry that runs through the whole area, creating an eerie pulsing effect.

Black Magnet: Magnet surface created exclusively by Riccio, the solitary thunder. Acts in all ways like normal magnet terrain, with the exception that it cannot be burrowed into, even by elec types. It also resists terrain changes, and has one instance of terrain protection, which is consumed the first time a panel would otherwise change.

Field Effect: Charged Air: Electric element AoEs are increased in coverage by one rank, and single target electric attacks gain the ability to jump to a single other target for free, but non-melee electrical attacks are decreased in accuracy by one rank as the charged air creates diffusion.

Jazz didn't flinch once as the beast postured, it's growls and roars, the static clinging to his fur and the pricks across his body as he continued to move. His body was getting used to this kind of treatment, this kind of movement as it instinctively began to move. Shadows wrapping around his body as Stephine had sent more chip data, his eyes glowing dimly in the low light. Stars and constalations beginning to wrap around his body, even as he moved, they moved with him. And with it, his voice began to sound across the terrain as the beat, the song, in his head continued on despite...or perhaps...in spite of the beast's posturing. Lyrics coming out in a hushed, harsh, whisper to the beast even as it echoed across the mostly empty cavern.

Salt of the earth salting your own fields,
Road to destruction this true and tried,
You walk the path laid before you,
The call of reason, you refuse to abide,

As he sung aloud, his darkened body began to slowly wreath itself in another familiar green glow ahead of the beast, his form slowly coming into view for the beady eyed menace as the song began to pick up in tempo, the song's voice through Jazz's mouth as it's tone continued on, the low rumbling tone, the almost quiet rock song leading to a shade of Jazz's former self towering above him. The hare looking almost nonchalant as he brought his foot forward, twisting to the side as the figure continued to loom above him wordlessly, matted green fur stained with dried, copper red blood and white patches of snow clinging helplessly to the abomidable form.

Necessity is an in-ventive moth-er,
Promising sanctum She cannot provide,

As the words left his mouth, Jazz summoned another pair of hardened cyberwood logs next to either side of him. His hands reaching to either side to swiftly pick them up from their tops, grasping firmly, almost to the point the beast could see flashes of red from his fingers as he held them that tight in his grasp. Flinging one up into the air, arm held up with his fingers and palm stretched wide, Jazz quickly kicked the underside of the other log up, letting go of it briefly, before striking it hard with the palm of his hand. The log flying towards the beast with a resounding crack, whistling through the air before seemlessly rolling across the ground as it should. Within seconds, the other log was coming down and Jazz hiked his leg up behind him, flipping the log back around to his front and with it, the same foot cracking the log again towards the beast like it was a ball, causing the log to roll across the ground just the same with untold ferocity, all while Jazz continued to sing, beat beginning to drop as it continued, a low rumble in the caves as it echoed about.

She is the hand, that rocks the cradle,
The wind that breaks the bough AND LEAVES YOU TO DIE!

At that last quintet of words, the beat dropped even harder, Jazz summoning a pair of simple hilts into his hands, the sound of a slight buzzing sound as a pair of short blades began to come out, their glow illuminating the dimly lit caverns he found himself fighting Riccio in. Unflinching in whatever the beast had done or was trying to do, a glint of white teeth as Jazz gave the beast an unnerving grin, as he rushed towards the beast with buzzing blades in hand, just barely keeping them from scraping the terrain below. Reaching his quarry, the almost psychotic looking hare began to swing towards the beast, caring not for wheather he could reach or not, he brought his blade to try and bear itself against the beast's hide in it's entirety, attempting to rake the blade across it's side horizontally. His other blade, however, swiftly came across the back of his hand as it flipped from his grasp from the first swipe, the hare grasping it as the blade bared itself downwards in the seconds it had slipped from his grasp, before he did the same as before, sending the blade upwards in a diagonal pattern in an attempt to slice away parts of the beast's coding for his manic tirade against it.

Overview
*STAB: AoE/Multihit:+10 Wood, Single Target: 20
*Smash: Add Breaking property to a single chip, once per turn
*Mass Destruction: +1 range to Blast, Spread, Nova, Blast, etc chip effects
*Floatshoes: Ignore panel effects, not multiplicative damage
1: Shadow2Effect: Shadow
Accuracy: S
Description: Grants the user Shadow. This reduces all incoming non-Slashing attacks to 0 damage, and reduces accuracy on ranged attacks by 20%.
Duration: 2 turns
Element: Null
Trader Rank: C--->Self
2: Signature: Imbuing Spell; Add 4 Wood imbues to self, 2TCD
3: RollingLog1Damage: 50 + Ground Attack + Wide Attack (2) + Double Attack
Accuracy: C
Description: Rolls a log at enemies. Can hit up to two enemies at once per log.
Duration: Up to 2 uses before the end of the turn.
Element: Wood
Special: Double Attack: After spending an action to attack with this chip, you may choose to spend a second action and attack with it again before the end of the turn.
Note: This chip used to be known as RingLog1
Trader Rank: D--->Riccio (+10 STAB, X2 Source)
4: Repeat action 3
5&6: BambooKnifeDamage: 60 + Slashing
Accuracy: B
Description: Creates a sword made of solid wood, with a blade comparible to a large knife. Hits one target per slash.
Duration: Until Overridden/Broken. Breaks automatically after 6 swings.
Element: Wood
Trader Rank: D--->Riccio (+20 STAB, X2 Source, per hit)(4/6 uses left)

Facing off, Jazz nevertheless had a song on his lips to face down the beast's static snarls as it postured at him. Riccio's claws dug in and his body phased forward, becoming a storm of blistering electricity that raked through Jazz's position but once again, and the beast slowed and caught itself against the far side of the humming chamber, ready to lunge at him again, Jazz remained unharmed; at the last moment, his form shadowed into darkness and stars, leaving the beast's attack to pass through him without effect.

Still singing and drawing up the energy he'd need to exploit the great beast's weakness, Jazz was able to turn with the creature, the spectre of past lives adding presence to the next attacks he prepared. Riccio lunged but despite the difficulty of aiming in his current state, the broad attacks crashed one after another into the violent beast's attack, shattering across his head and body and cutting the lunge short. Riccio's claws sank into the metal, dragging deep, golden gouges in the black that sparked with light as he was driven back. As the grinding and screeching of torn magnet slowed, Riccio lifted one claw and stamped down, taking his footing again. A volley of dark spines shot forward as he did, sending a pin-cushioning barrage of black metal back towards Jazz, but though the are around him was hammered by the clatter of piercing quills and Jazz himself was riddled by several of them, his defence held him safe.

There was a moment of stillness as the air hummed and crackled with ozone in the wide cavern, and the metallic protrusions and shapes cast distorted shadows about the space; Rioccio held steady for a moment longer, watching Jazz, his black eyes alight with arcing bolts of lightning snapping across them; the toxic acid and smouldering embers that clung to him continued to hamper the beast, but he flexed his claws and gave a shorter, more resonate bark of sound; his spines crackled with light and the stretch of destroyed black magnet between them healed, filling in with a lacework of intricate golden circuitry before the black metal unfolded, block by block, to patch up the damage. The beast seemed... more cautious now, or perhaps waiting.

Despite this, Jazz wasn't letting him have time to think too much and came on, blades swinging. Riccio's body began to glow, his quills crackling as the golden lines that covered him crackled brighter and brighter. The beast jumped back, repositioning as Jazz attacked; not fast enough to evade the hare's swinging blade, but in amongst the pair of rapid strikes that he cut in with, the beast was watching him, light growing and charging while he focused on the small, intangible threat that had come into his home...


-=Beast-hunting Hare =-

Jazz.Exe: 185Hp [Magnet][Shadow: 1Turn][Imbue Wood: 7 Charges]

-=The Solitary Thunder=-

Riccio: 2805Hp [Magnet][Poison(15)][Burn(10)][Charging]

-=Lost Asteroid=-
100% Black Magnet

• Non-Elec Elementals get -30% Evasion, and 50% (+/- 25% RP) chance to fail movement off the panel.
• Only Elec Elementals can burrow.
• Wood attacks: Change terrain hit to Normal.
• PanelShot: Imbue Elec + Seeking.

(Terrain directly under Riccio is dull, as is a similar section right beside him, where he was at the first knife strike)

Terrain looks like a large, spacious cavern at this point - though details are hard to make out at the moment. The space is lit by an electric glow, coming mostly from Riccio, but also from the lacing of golden circuitry that runs through the whole area, creating an eerie pulsing effect.

Black Magnet: Magnet surface created exclusively by Riccio, the solitary thunder. Acts in all ways like normal magnet terrain, with the exception that it cannot be burrowed into, even by elec types. It also resists terrain changes, and has one instance of terrain protection, which is consumed the first time a panel would otherwise change.

Field Effect: Charged Air: Electric element AoEs are increased in coverage by one rank, and single target electric attacks gain the ability to jump to a single other target for free, but non-melee electrical attacks are decreased in accuracy by one rank as the charged air creates diffusion.

The hare kicked away for a moment, sliding to a stop as the beast did the same...but it stood there, watching him...waiting for the right moment to strike. Even as the poison and embers licked at the beast's data, it stood there and began to charge up energy. It was preparing for something...preparing to strike him as soon as his shadows dipped away...even as the song on his lips continued, Jazz became heasatent to strike for a moment. The beast was getting cautious about him, it was brought into a corner thanks to him and it was already starting to flag on the health front, but...he couldn't let up, now could he?

And there She leaves you to die!

His song continue on, his voice growing in volume as it did. His blades in hand, Jazz rushed the beast in no short order. Feet crossing the path laid before him, the hare rushed across the paneling in front of him, ceaseless in his persuit of power, he quickly went straight for the beast's face with no heed for his own safety, knowing the beast could not touch him. Arms back behind him as he rushed the gigantic creature, his blades laving a pale green trail behind him as he reajusted the grip on his weapons on the fly as he closed the distance between him and the beast. As soon as he was within striking distance, Jazz quickly lashed out with a swift slash across the beast's mouth with one of his blades, attempting to bury the blow deep into the sensitive part of the beast. And with a second swing of this blade, Jazz quickly brought his arm low like an uppercut, his blade quickly attempting to bury itself deep in the jaw of the beast, attempting to pierce through into the softest part of it's jaw, though weather or not the attack succeeded the blade cracked and fell off at the hilt, energy drained and completely useless as he tossed the bladeless hilt away to the side.

And there She leaves you to die!

But he had a second blade to strike with, using his freed up hand to redouble the grip his weapon. His body shifting towards the beast's side, his motions attempting to get as close as he could to it without a second thought, Jazz leaped into the air as soon as he was sufficently sure of his position. The hare baring the dagger in both hands as he fell towards the beast's great body and thrust downwards towards it's face...and aimed to wrench the dagger deep inside it's beady black eye, attempting to blind the beast at least a little bit. Even if the dagger missed, he wouldn't try it again for the time being...and if it did manage to wrench itself into the beast's eye, he'd quickly let go, hopping away and letting his weapon stay buried inside for the time being.

Jazz slipped back, music going quiet in his head, the lyrics doing just the same as he began to gather power. Whisps of crimson beginning to wrap around his body as Jazz tapped into his cross routines, arms brought out widely as his fingers began to stretch upwards and his palm began to droop inwards, mimicing the shape of a cup of sorts. Hope you beasts are watching... He muttered as he began to draw more and more power into himself, Prose's cross beginning to materialize along his shadowy body. Lighter colorations of the hare's form beginning to slip along his bodysuit, an eggshell white peeking through the shadows, as his shoulders and arms began to be covered by a crimson colored jacket, bigger than he was wide and tall, tails to either side of the jacket unfurling and floating just above the paneling behind the hare. If Riccio could see through the shadows and darkness of it's home, it could see little pinpricks of light on either shoulder of Jazz's as he stepped forwards, one foot in front of the other as knee length boots the same color of his jacket materialized, a small metal plate where the toes would be contained wrapping around, as his hands quickly took on a pair of elbow length gloves the same eggshell white as his suit. Small plates finding themselves on his knuckles and around the top of his fingers in sections to provide proper flexibility, all the while Jazz's eyes took on a light, almost electrical crimson glow as he stood down the beast, small wings flaring up from his back as they flapped slowly behind him in easily identifiable "frames". Because we're not as weak as you make us out to be... He muttered again, a slight static tinge to his voice.

As his body finished the transformation, even if he could feel himself more drawn to Riccio in his cross with Prose, he kept his wits about him all the same. His shadow would fade soon and he'd need a way to prevent himself from getting hit by the beast's attacks for a few moments. Inhaling deeply, Jazz closed his eyes and began to materialize his defenses. Hands outstretched and a crackling of crimson electricity wrapping about his body, his form would find itself completely wrapped in a static barrier whilst his coat wrapped around his body like armor, hardening but keeping him mobile all the same, as a transparent shield found itself resting in his hand and finding himself gripping it tightly between his fingers. Bring it on hedgie, I won't stop until I take your power for my own...

Overview
*STAB: AoE/Multihit:+10 Wood, Single Target: 20
*Smash: Add Breaking property to a single chip, once per turn
*Mass Destruction: +1 range to Blast, Spread, Nova, Blast, etc chip effects
*Floatshoes: Ignore panel effects, not multiplicative damage
1-2: BambooKnifeDamage: 60 + Slashing
Accuracy: B
Description: Creates a sword made of solid wood, with a blade comparible to a large knife. Hits one target per slash.
Duration: Until Overridden/Broken. Breaks automatically after 6 swings.
Element: Wood
Trader Rank: D--->Riccio (x2 Source, +20 Stab)
3: Feint around to the left side of it's face
4: BambooKnifeDamage: 60 + Slashing
Accuracy: B
Description: Creates a sword made of solid wood, with a blade comparible to a large knife. Hits one target per slash.
Duration: Until Overridden/Broken. Breaks automatically after 6 swings.
Element: Wood
Trader Rank: D--->Riccio's eye? (2x Source, +20 STAB?)
5: ProseCross V2: Null/Speed Overwrite, High Gear/Overclock, +20 Max HP, +15 Null Chip STAB
*High gear: Increases evasion on Dodge, Feint and Movement actions by 10%
*Overclock: Imbue on a movement action Once Per Turn, Movement goes as far as possible in a line and has 50% base evasion chance
6: Defensive Positions!: 20 HP Barrier, 20 HP Casing and 2-hit shield to self (2TCD)

Opposite him in the shadow-flickering cavern, the huge beast set itself, watching Jazz weave in front of it. Riccio's claws dug through the black metal while to glow surrounding him grew to a brilliant, fierce crackle that downed out the pulsing glow of the the chamber's circuitry. When Jazz lunged in the first time, still singing, the beast twisted his head and shoulder to one side and seemed to flex its whole body.

Just as the first sweep of his blade struck across Riccio's head and neck, Jazz's vision was obliterated in a sensory white-out of flaring lighting. The whole chamber seemed to explode in one great blast of saturated lighting, robbing him momentarily of his senses. Fortunately, for the hare, even though Riccio had waited until the exact moment that he struck to deliver its counterblast, Jazz's shadowed form remained safe through the all-consuming assault, and he felt his follow up cut deep a second time even as the storm flooded past him.

The light level dropped back to the pulsing golden circuit glow from the threads that laced through the inner cavern and gave shape and form to the objects formed out of the black metal; rapidly, his senses returned – the smell of dense ozone and an infuriated roar of bestial static interference were the main contenders for his attention, but Jazz wasn't put off. As he shifted around, Riccio strafed with him, jumping and shifting as it looked for an opening. The black depths of its eyes were trying to work out how to deal with the resilient intruder, while the lingering embers and poisons ate notches into his quills.

With a swift motion, the beast feinted and spun about, sweeping his body around and leaping back, halfway up the wall of the cavern. Trials of golden light circuit stretched behind him form each claw, still anchored to the ground, and he only left Jazz alone for an instant. His claws dug in, pulling a large, blocky chunk of metal from the wall that was shaped vaguely like part of an old space ship. The golden lines parted and filtered away, leaving just dense black metal, while the ones tethering his body to the ground sparked and strained. In one fluid motion, Riccio snapped back down again, flipping over in the air as he attempted to drive the massive chunk of his lair into Jazz's small form with a thunderous impact. Yet again, however, the attack failed break through his shadows.

The beast flipped free from its shattering pile-driver, landing on Jazz's opposite side, but even as it set itself Jazz sprang in, seeking the beast's face again, this time with more precise intent. The creature's eye was easily as big as Jazz's whole torso, but as he drew close and struck at it, he came to realise that it was more then just a regular black eyeball. There was a surface to it, but his blade passed in ,then his wrist and his whole arm. He couldn't see where he was striking, past the eye's surface; it was just black, with a storm of golden lightning tracing and flickering though it, more like an expansive empty space than single object. His arm began to feel shocked and numb before he finished the strike, despite his protections, and a creeping sense of something else brushed against his awareness.

Riccio howled, flinching all the same and wrenching his head away as he spun to one side, getting clear of the strike. The feeling receded form his arm, but a glance showed faint trails of creeping gold, running up his fingers and wrist, like encroaching circuits on his body. Riccio continued to thrash, shaking his head back and force and filling the area with further reverberating static echoes and ear-splitting interference noises. Jazz no longer held the blade; somewhere in the exchange his grip had lost it, presumably leaving the woody irritant within the beast.

While the beast recovered its composure slowly, Jazz took the opportunity to reach out to a different kind of power, invoking his bond with Prose as the last vestiges of his shadows began to wear off. If he'd been hoping fro some kind of recognition from Riccio, this particular beast seemed focused only on the intrusion into his home and turned back to face Jazz with a fresh glower; it seemed to be favouring one side of its head now, a slight squint, perhaps, or some distraction hampering it, but even so, as Jazz took his new stance the beast jumped and stamped its claws, then reared up on its hind legs with a screech that made all of the golden circuit lines in the cavern pulse brightly in unison.

As its claws came up, the golden lines sparked and tore free of the black metal that they grew through, beginning to fill the chamber with thin threads in angled, geometric patterns. Al at once, Riccio slammed his claws down again, practically leaping forward as he hammered in towards Jazz. In response, every circuit thread lashed down and inwards, latticing the chamber and everything in it with slashing, cutting lines of razor metal and electricity.

The dense assault of cutting lashes was hard to avoid, but even though this latest test by the beast would almost certainly have managed to dispel the final remnants of Jazz's shadow protect, if it hadn' run its course on its own, the hare was already putting up a fresh line of defence. Several of the golden threads slashed across the new barrier that formed around him, weakening it, though it held together, for now and left the pair facing off again a short distance from one another across the middle of the central cavern. Riccio huffed an electronic growl; he was definitely showing wear now, and the damage done to his body seemed to be wearing the beast down.



-=Beast-hunting Hare =-

Jazz.Exe: 205Hp [Magnet][ProseCross Lvl2][Imbue Wood: 7 Charges][Barrier: 10/20 Hp][Casing: 20/20Hp][2-Hit Shield]

-=The Solitary Thunder=-

Riccio: 2250Hp [Magnet][Poison(15)][Burn(10)][Partially Distracted]

-=Lost Asteroid=-
100% Black Magnet

• Non-Elec Elementals get -30% Evasion, and 50% (+/- 25% RP) chance to fail movement off the panel.
• Only Elec Elementals can burrow.
• Wood attacks: Change terrain hit to Normal.
• PanelShot: Imbue Elec + Seeking.

(Terrain directly under Riccio is dull, as is a similar section right beside him, where he was at the first knife strike)

Terrain looks like a large, spacious cavern at this point - though details are hard to make out at the moment. The space is lit by an electric glow, coming mostly from Riccio, but also from the lacing of golden circuitry that runs through the whole area, creating an eerie pulsing effect.

Black Magnet: Magnet surface created exclusively by Riccio, the solitary thunder. Acts in all ways like normal magnet terrain, with the exception that it cannot be burrowed into, even by elec types. It also resists terrain changes, and has one instance of terrain protection, which is consumed the first time a panel would otherwise change.

Field Effect: Charged Air: Electric element AoEs are increased in coverage by one rank, and single target electric attacks gain the ability to jump to a single other target for free, but non-melee electrical attacks are decreased in accuracy by one rank as the charged air creates diffusion.

Jazz had managed to hold his ground against the beast for the time being, even as his shadowy protections had faded, his barrier and defenses held for the time being despite the beast's lashing out, threads of gold smashing against him as it howled in pain. Even as he began to feel an impatient tug at him...he couldn't shake the feeling of what he felt deep inside the beast's eye...even as he flexed his hand, he still couldn't shake the feeling of numbness...the feeling of...something else reaching up to him...his hand, his wrist still covered in the encroaching golden threads that had attacked him...a curious, but...not altogether unfamiliar feeling from being around Prose and, to a much lesser extent, Asteca from his excursion in the chaos nets earlier.

Flexing his fingers all the same, the wings on his back continuing to slowly flap disjointedly, not dissimilar to a lag spike in a game, Jazz quickly refreshed his shadowy disguise from his signature routines. His body quickly taking on the same darkness that permiated the outside of Riccio's home...even as this happened, the crimson from his outfit tinged him that same color, a deep dark redness wrapping around his form...up until his hand, his wrist taking on a deep golden color, copper tones invading on the electrified form of his hand as he finished. Flexing his now golden hand, holding tight to the shield in his other, Jazz was slightly bemused...and concerned, from the deep glowing rubies for his eyes expressing it from his now featureless face. I can't slow down...I need to keep up my offense...I...I can't falter. He thought to himself, his now golden fingers clenching into a balled up fist as he stared down the beast ahead of him, a deep glare on his face as he began to walk towards it.

I gave you an out, Riccio. I gave you a chance to simply give me your power and be done with it. But look at your home...It's going to be your gods damned tomb when I'm done with you. Your power, your form, I will take so I can be stronger, so I may use it for the net as a whole.

your sacrifice will be greatly appreciated in the long-term. He spoke, simply and coldly as he punctuated the end of his speech, gesturing at the insides of the beast's golden tinged den, hands spread as he did before quickly balling back into a fist, wings glowing a faint crimson as he stepped forwards. His gaze not faltering from the beast's as he began to move faster...his hand beginning to glow with a great power, the golden digits crackling as they began to hold power deeply inside them. Swiftly, he fiented around to the left of the beast and tried to stay in it's semi-blindspot he had made. Fist growing as the power coallessed into it, a leafy green glow wrapping up along his forearm as he reared it back behind his head. The glowing fist grew and grew until it had become thrice it's original size, metal and rock flowing from the area around him as he took his aim with where he wanted his fist to fly...and suddenly launched his fist towards the beast's side, spikes along the knuckles as he practically flew at the beast in his power-trip, crimson jets of sparking energy flying off the ends as it crashed into something solid, disengaging from the hare's system almost as suddenly as he had flown towards the beast.

Electrifying hisses cuminated around the hellbent hare, his shadows flickering and gliching as he continued his assult on the beast whom he had chosen to sacrifice for his own power trip, for his own willingness to delve back into who he was fourty years ago. Shadows and shades warping, twisting around him as the crimson wings on his back flickered dimly behind him, scant little illumination he was given in the face of the beast's own electrifying power. Hands reaching towards his side, shield grasped firmly in one as a sword and sheath began to materialize on his side, the hare's free hand reaching for the hilt in a slow, methodical fashion as he slipped back into his own madness. Savoring the moment, crimson flecks of energy pouring off the weapon to his side as he grasped it's sword hilt firmly and, with a flick of his wrist, drew the weapon out like a flash of light. The sword itself nonexistant as he had drawn it, but instead a crimson, golden green amalgamated flash of energy was sent flying towards the beast in that moment, attempting to cut through more of it's data protections and weaken it even further in his silent rage at the formerly rampaging monstrosity.

But while the sheath had disappeared, the hilt remained. A flash of crimson, gold and green flooding through the blade as Jazz rushed forwards at the beast again, oblivious to it's rampaging, it's pain. He continued to press his advantage he had prepared in advance. While his wood chips were few and somewhat weak in the end, his null chips...were far more neumerous, more powerful than he could have hoped to get his hands on fourty years ago. And all the same, his power, while it was weaker than then, he could morph it into whatever shape he willed it so long as he could control it in the end. He would rip the beast apart and take what he needed to supplement his own power. And to that end, the hare rushed forward and jumped towards it's body, unafraid of it's own power as he knew it was helpless while he was cloaked in shadows like this. And he swung with all his might towards it's body, the tri-colored blade attempting to bite deep into it's body and send it's energies back into him to reinforce his own vitality before landing, jumping backwards to get a little distance for his next strike.

And to that end, the hilt of the sword began to droop downwards...it's hardened material becoming soft and fluffy between his fingers, spreading outwards and forwards...the shape of a pillow...right, he fought those Chaos Snoozies in his mission while running from Asteca, this was what he had gotten from escaping from her grasp...well, beggars can't be choosers if you had a beast to slay, right? To that end, Jazz infused the pillow with some of the energy that he had been gathering...and to that end, no less, a trio of Crimson, Gold and Green began to flood through the dark piece of floof and cloth in his hand, grasping it tightly between his fingers at the corner, Jazz quickly pushed his attack again, swinging the "weapon" in his hand upwards as he jumped, aiming for the beast's face this time around, as he swung downwards with a single stroke like a blade, attempting to batter the beast's senses around and make it fall asleep briefly, if nothing else...

Overview
*STAB: +15 Null
*High gear: Increases evasion on Dodge, Feint and Movement actions by 10%
*Overclock: Imbue on a movement action Once Per Turn, Movement goes as far as possible in a line and has 50% base evasion chance
*Floatshoes: Ignore panel effects, not multiplicative damage
1: Signature: Shadow's Shadow 1; 2 Turn Shadow to self, -2 Evasion ranks next turn, 2TCD
*-2 Accuracy ranks at non-melee ranges
2: Charge
3: GigasArm3Damage: 150 + Break + Impact + Knockback + Gigas Charge 150
Accuracy: B
Description: Grants the user the strength of the Gigas to smash their foes with an iron fist. Charge up to unleash incredible power. Rare
Duration: Once
Element: Null
Special: Gigas Charge 150: Expend one action to increase this chip's damage by 120 and upgrade Knockback to Microburst. Buster Charges do not work as a substitute.
Trader Rank: A--->Riccio, attempt to launch Riccio into the cavern walls (+120 Damage, Microburst effect, Imbue Wood)
4: SonicBlade1Damage: 60 + Slashing + Piercing + Line Attack
Accuracy: B
Description: The user swings a special sword, producing an air shock wave that penetrates enemies and obstacles.
Duration: Once
Element: Null
Trader Rank: D--->Riccio (Imbue Wood)
5: Signature: Adrenaline Slice 1; 30 Wood Melee/Slashing Lifedrain to Riccio
6: Pillow3Damage: 90 + Sleep
Accuracy: B
Description: A fluffy pillow that will make anyone drowsy when it hits.
Duration: Until Overridden/Broken. Breaks after 3 swings.
Element: Null
Trader Rank: B--->Riccio (Imbue Wood, +Sleep) (2/3 uses)

Even damaged as the beast before him was, Riccio didn't seem to be slowing down. If anything the beast's more careful stance was rapidly trying to pick the moments when Jazz was vulnerable now. The static in the air hummed with energy and it lunged forward again, phasing in rapid dashes around the space junk and littered rubble that obscured the field as it blasted through Jazz's position in a stretched out streaking crackling lightning and metal. The assault as the beast's form passed through him again was numbing and drowned out most of his senses in a static overload, however briefly. Without the buffer of an intangible body, the sensation was very nearly overwhelming, but his defences held off most of the hailstorm of strikes, and a moment later the hare was able to refresh the well of shadow and intangibility that protected him from the creature's other efforts.

As the beast skidded to a screeching stop, its form taking full shape again and spinning as it continued to face Jazz, the intrepid hare had in turn become a mote of darkness, with a crimson glow at its core. As he formed his weapon, Riccio crashed forward, rearing back and raising one of his forepaws that filled with a brilliant, blinding light. It slammed down, with a crash the exploded sparks in every direction, but Jazz moved in beneath it, around the brunt of the primary strike and letting his shadowed body ignore the radiating fall-off of lightning. The asteroid rocked and shifted, the internal gravity beginning to spin but Jazz was already close enough to counter with a vicious,impacting blow that caught the beast broadside with enough force to crumpling a section of its body and lift it bodily off the ground.

As big as he was, the blow threw Riccio away from the centre of the chamber with a static crash of sound that could only be identified as pained and shocked. As the gravity came unstuck, Riccio travelled back to an outer edge and crashed against the wall with another ripple of sparks. All around him, the black magnet twisted and shifted, folding away in geometric shapes and patters, while the golden threads of circuitry caught the beast, then rand outwards, ahead of the changes to cut the path for the re-configuring metal.

All around, the asteroid twisted and began to open up. Holes bloomed all over the inner cavern, showing views of stars and space beyond, latticed with golden threads. Jazz found himself losing grip on the ground, and had to kick off some of the metal debris to chase after Riccio, tri-coloured edge ready to strike. Riccio Sprang as well, gathering himself then launching off the upper edge of the chamber, back towards Jazz. They met in open space, and though Jazz's form was intangible enough to avoid the damage that Riccio sought to deliver, the presence of the beast was nevertheless enough to drive him back towards the centre of the asteroid. Jazz struck twice, connecting with two more powerful strikes that bit into the creature, and he felt another brush of sensation as more of its essence transferred back to him; a sense of certainty, and of pride; a sense of absolute belonging, all codified in electrical impulse and rigid order; lines and angles forming patterns and shapes, forming a picture of truth that was here and now and always.

In an instant the impression passed, as Riccio moved past Jazz, kicking away from him to turn mid transit and land with a crash against the opposite interior wall. It had left Jazz spinning in the reduced gravity, but all a round the hare could see more and more of the asteroid opening up geometric holes in its structure, turning itself bit by bit into an intricate, hollowed out prism made of connecting black metal struts with every hole holding a spiderweb mesh of golden circuit wire. The entire asteroid crackled with electricity.

All at once Riccio roared again and the metal threads exploded with light, injecting bolts of lightning inwards from every mesh and filling the inner space with a solid barrage of energy that swelled and blossomed, filling the asteroid to its rim. In the middle of it all, Jazz was blinded and deafened, but the sense was muffled from beyond his shadowed veil and he felt no pain. Instead, the hare found Riccio amidst the storm and lunged at the beast with his latest weapon, soft and fluffy though it be.

From out of the blinding light, Jazz emerged, belting the posing beast across the face with his pillow and staggering it to one side. The damage he had dealt to its body was building up now, and though most of the major impacts visibly seemed to re-orgnaise and repair themselves to some degree, he could tell that the creature wasn't actually healing, and that it was very close to running out of energy, now. It shook its head, trying to focus on Jazz and stumbled in place, unsteady. Putting a beast this powerful to sleep with a single chip might be a stretch, no matter how strong, but Riccio seemed to be struggling to shrug it off entirely, and a grogginess made his movement sluggish. All around them, the asteroid dimmed again, the storm of lighting ended. Slowly, in a progressive bloom, it began to unfold metal sections to return to its original shape, though it seemed like it would take some time – maybe Riccio's own muzziness was having an impact.

-=Beast-hunting Hare =-

Jazz.Exe: 210Hp [Magnet][ProseCross Lvl2][Imbue Wood: 4 Charges][Shadow: 1 Turn]

-=The Solitary Thunder=-

Riccio: 1185Hp [Magnet][Poison(15)][Burn(10)][Partially Distracted][Unsteady]

-=Lost Asteroid=-
100% Black Magnet

• Non-Elec Elementals get -30% Evasion, and 50% (+/- 25% RP) chance to fail movement off the panel.
• Only Elec Elementals can burrow.
• Wood attacks: Change terrain hit to Normal.
• PanelShot: Imbue Elec + Seeking.

The interior cavern is largely open space now, and the exterior sides still leave many clear openings out to the surface of the asteroid instead – it still more resembles moving around on a gigantic, hollowed out 3d geometric prism with hundreds of facets, and most of the faces still hollow, although it is slowly closing itself up now.

Black Magnet: Magnet surface created exclusively by Riccio, the solitary thunder. Acts in all ways like normal magnet terrain, with the exception that it cannot be burrowed into, even by elec types. It also resists terrain changes, and has one instance of terrain protection, which is consumed the first time a panel would otherwise change.

Field Effect: Nullified Gravity: The asteroid has lost its gravity more or less entirely, and acts a lot like an object in open space. Characters without free flight can fly as though they benefited from the upgrade, although they suffer a -2 ranks to all evasion while flying or moving in this manner. As long as he is moving in a controlled way from one section of black magnet to another, Riccio does not suffer this penalty.

Mania. That single word described himself forty years prior.

Once upon a time, Jazz was manic. He slipped deep into the struggles of greater and greater power...and now he began to slip into it again in an attempt to keep himself in check, even with the advancements that the net and society itself had made in these four decades, it was unsure what kind of destruction he could cause in his wake. Even as those thoughts flashed through his head, the idea he was gathering power again...the idea he might become what he was...Was I the one controlling the body? Was...I the one...who caused that destruction? Did I steal his memories when I escaped? flew through his mind as his eyes began to bleed...his mind's eye, his own eyes beginning to leak a deep, sticky crimson onto the paneling below, staining the eggshell white that his bodysuit had become with that same crimson that clung to his body...a dark pink staining it in multiple places as he moved. Even if he had not noticed it, the gold from his attack at Riccio earlier still clung to his forearm, the hare leaving striking golden trails as he flew.

Globs of his blood floating freely from his body as he jumped from his position and flew towards the cybeast, his hand reared back as he began to see clearer in the crimson that stained his vision, cutting through the darkness that encapsulated his eyesight just a moment previous. Even as his mind raced at a hundred miles per hour, his pupils darting to and fro in his head beneath a film of crimson. His wings flapping more in time with the world around him, frames beginning to blend together in a quicker manner, almost looking like an amateurish animation as he attempted to get within the beast's pervew, shadows slowly slinking away from his form as he brought the pillow down, hopefully upon the beast's face, a crunching sound echoing weakly from within, wooden needles poking through the soft fabric and fluff this time, crimson and gold . The hare would quickly capitalize on the attack again, this time as he hopped into the air, twirling about from his kickoff point, body twisting through the ether as he attempted to follow the beast's movements...and slam that pillow down a third time onto it's face, which upon impact with whatever that it hit, would explode outwards from it's point of impact and little wooden needles and fluff would begin to float through the area of it's impact, even as the battlefield continuously turned about like a dice rolling about. I'm a bad person for having fought Riccio like this... Echoed through his head, guilt beginning to tug at him...but the battle was nearly finished...and he didn't leave a job unfinished if he could help it.

Tapping into his signature processors, Jazz hopped backwards briefly as he began to split into multiple clones of himself, each Jazz landing in unison as the clones flickered between tangibility and intangibility. Words left unspoken as Jazz and his trio of clones lifted their knives up, one or two in each hand, the navi and his posse would take a quick, loose, aim at the giant flagging beast. Weather it managed to stay awake or not, it would wind up with a sextet of razor sharp knives flying through the air, attempting to embed themselves into it's hide...even as the hares had attacked, more pings of guilt running through the quartet before the trio of clones disappeared, knives hopefully having embedded themselves in the beast's body.

Just let this end quickly...I...I need to end this soon... He murrmured to himself as chip data embedded itself in his body again, the hare closing his eyes and inhaling deeply as he materialized the weapon that would pelt Riccio with...a battered and beaten tommy gun, almost twice the size that Jazz was used to...rust covering the barrel and body of the weapon as he loaded in a drum of wood-alligned ammo into the weapon, each tipped with petrified wood and ready to fire on his command. Leveling the weapon, a golden sheen beginning to take over the weapon before tightly gripping it in both hands...and depressing the trigger, the navi sending out a veritable hail of shots at the large creature, even as he tried to hold it steady, the shots would likely go wide and bounce off the reflective surfaces of the cave, an echoing RATATATATATATATATATA sound coming from the weapon before it emptied it's clip...and the hare discarding the weapon entirely, letting it break away into junk for later use, before quickly bringing a reflective shield outwards towards the beast, rubber insulating the inside whilst the outer material would gleem in the low light. Lets end this fight, big guy. I'll give you a proper death, no joking on you...but your power...I need your power...to prevent history from repeating...

Overview
*STAB: +15 Null
*High gear: Increases evasion on Dodge, Feint and Movement actions by 10%
*Overclock: Imbue on a movement action Once Per Turn, Movement goes as far as possible in a line and has 50% base evasion chance
*Floatshoes: Ignore panel effects, not multiplicative damage
1: Signature: Hyper Sight to self, Accuracy Enhancement 2 (1 turn, 2 ranks), Self Sacrifice 30 (1TCD, -30 HP)
2: Pillow3Damage: 90 + Sleep
Accuracy: B
Description: A fluffy pillow that will make anyone drowsy when it hits.
Duration: Until Overridden/Broken. Breaks after 3 swings.
Element: Null
Trader Rank: B--->Riccio (Imbue Wood, +Sleep) (1/3 uses)
3: Pillow3Damage: 90 + Sleep
Accuracy: B
Description: A fluffy pillow that will make anyone drowsy when it hits.
Duration: Until Overridden/Broken. Breaks after 3 swings.
Element: Null
Trader Rank: B--->Riccio (Imbue Wood, +Sleep) (Broken!)
4: Signature: Army of One--->Riccio First; Sacrifice15 before attacking with 15x6 Wood Shot Slashing damage. Then; Time Delay: Start of next turn, Decoy1 (3TCD) (X2 Source)
5: MachineGun1Damage: (30 x 9 Shots) + Spray Fire
Accuracy: D
Description: Creates a machine gun that fires 9 shots at a single enemy. While inaccurate, its missed shots are capable of hitting others.
Duration: Once
Element: Null
Special: Spray Fire: If a shot from this attack misses its primary target, it has a chance to hit something near the enemy instead of completely missing. Good RP increases the chance of triggering this effect.
Trader Rank: D--->Riccio (30x9, Wood Imbued)
6: Equip Guard1Effect: (1 Hit Shield) + (Reflect(up to 60 + Piercing + Line Attack): On Hit)
Accuracy: S
Description: Generates a 1-Hit Shield upon activation. When this shield blocks one hit from a non-Break attack, it responds with a hyper-fast damage ray.
Duration: Until broken or overridden.
Element: Null
Special: Negated by Break. Ignores Impact.
Special: Reflect: Damage returned is equal to the damage of the attack blocked or the damage cap listed, whichever comes first. Reflect is not subject to negation by Impact.
Special: Status Guard: This chip blocks debuffs.
Trader Rank: E (unimbued)

Jazz got his bearings in the now weightless space as across from him the great beast wavered. It was perched on the inside edge of the slowly reforming prism, and after fixing Jazz with a glare that it was struggling to keep focused, the beast launched itself back towards him, a fresh meteor of electricity, blazing through the empty space between. Jazz met Riccio head on, striking back as they crossed paths in the centre of the hollow space; a crunch of impact as his attack struck while Riccio failed to connect in turn.

By the time Jazz touched down on the far side, the metal under his feet was shifting into new shapes. It wasn't simply recovering and filling in the wire-frame shape of the asteroid, but each facet now seemed to be growing inward in uniform steps of black metal blocks, led my golden circuit lines. Each section was forming inward-facing spires as the view of space and starlight grew smaller and smaller. Across from him, Riccio drifted slightly, scrabbling to catch his magnetic landing point with faltering claws as his reflexes seemed to slow further. Where his steps faltered, the network of golden threads laced across the gap to support the beast, but even so, he was definitely slowing.

Step by step, the inward-facing spires blotted out the stars, gradually returning the space where the pair battled to a contrast of darkness and glowing light. Jazz kicked off again and riccio responded, leaping back at him with another reverberating roar. The beast was slow, slower than Jazz, and though he crossed by the hare in another violent explosion of force and energy, he seemed to have forgotten that Jazz's shadowed form was still difficult to harm. The pillow crashed in a third time, scattering a minefield of wooden shrapnel across the centre of the asteroid's interior space, and as the navigator touched down on one of the opposite pyramid shapes, Riccio turned over in the air, floating off course and failing to correct. The beast had curled in on himself slightly as he lost momentum, drifting now just near the inner edge without landing properly.

The darkness became more complete, lit only now by Riccio's own soft electric glow, and the golden circuit light that laced the metal without throwing off any illumination of its own. In the network of line,s Jazz could see that every facet had sealed in, forming stepped pyramids that pressed into the internal space of the asteroid. Each one was extending a further pointed spire of metal that in turn began to branch out in symmetrical directions, stretching to meet up with others; the amount of open space was rapidly disappearing as the forest of magnetic spines grew and filled the space from every side. Around Riccio, a mass of the same golden circuit wires formed up then rose, beginning to create an angular prism about him, almost like a cocoon. The beast was momentarily asleep.

Before the shell could form completely, however, Jazz capitalised on the creature's vulnerability, splitting into a variety of clones that each threw attacks at the dozing beast. Each hit, digging in deeply all around Riccio's body, and he awoke again with a roar that echoed off the nest of metal spines and seemed to amplify to a painful screech of static noise. His quills bristled as the last of the internal space became obstructed by the inward-piercing mesh of magnetic spines. They began to spark, leaving Jazz with nowhere safe to stand amidst it all, and precious little space to move, despite his small size. He had one more weapon, but even as he readied it to fire, the clinging threads of gold that remained with him responded, reaching through the machine gun and casting a backlash through Jazz's mind; it wasn't painful, not exactly, but as he began to fire the gun, there was a sense of knowing, and of oneness to everything that was happening.

He felt, more than saw, Riccio leap forward trough the forest of spines; felt them fold back for him and snap back into place behind. Riccio was the creature, but it was also the lightning, and the circuits; it was the magnets and the metal, and the asteroid itself; it was Jazz, in this moment, and Jazz was it. Jazz felt, more than saw, the beast land across from him, supported amongst the spines of gold and black, and saw them open in an unfolding spiral to allow the two of them to see one another clearly. They roared, and a cavalcade of lightning bolts launched themselves through the chamber, diving and jumping, reflecting and ricocheting in every direction. They fired their weapon too; a drowning burst of golden threads, flecked with a green energy that empowered them further, darting through the space in tandem. Jazz felt the lightning strike him, multiple times, from different angles, scoring in where his shadows had begun to fail. He felt the golden threads imbued with that painful green energy striking in as well, rattling across his spines and through the rest of his body.

Then, silence. They took a long breath and exhaled it in a sigh and staticy growl; their eyes were locked, and try as he might, Jazz couldn't avert them; the empty black darkness of Riccio's gaze was still shot through with intermittent lightning flares, somewhere within the void of his being. But as the two creatures were held for a moment in the centre of the asteroid, the long sigh became a sense of relaxing. Golden circuit lines covered the hare's body and began to sink in, disappearing from sight. As they did, the body of the beast, still watching him with a gaze that was hard to break, collapsed into the holding embrace of the black magnet, and swiftly sank into it, dissolving away.

The asteroid trembled, and the claustrophobia of the space he was locked in became all the more pointed as the spines began to shift and branch and grow further, filling in what little room to manoeuvre remained. In a second, his arms and legs were pinned, held still by extensions of solid black magnet; there was no where to move, nothing to breath, no space at all; the asteroid was absorbing him. And then a sense of piercing; spines thudded into him across his body, and grew through. It should have hurt; it wasn't comfortable, but it should have hurt, and it didn't. The sense of Riccio's being swelled up underneath his own senses, and Jazz felt himself blacking out.

-=Beast-hunting Hare =-

Jazz.Exe: 65Hp [Magnet][ProseCross Lvl2][Imbue Wood: 1 Charge]

-=The Solitary Thunder=-

Riccio: DEFEATED

-=Lost Asteroid=-
100% Black Magnet

• Non-Elec Elementals get -30% Evasion, and 50% (+/- 25% RP) chance to fail movement off the panel.
• Only Elec Elementals can burrow.
• Wood attacks: Change terrain hit to Normal.
• PanelShot: Imbue Elec + Seeking.

Jazz finds himself back on the smooth surface of the asteroid.

-=Battle Victory!=-
Spoils: Riccio BeastOut, 20FXP with his own inner traumas.

Sense returned. Cold harness, a flat surface. Once he opened his eyes again, Jazz would find himself on a smooth plane of black magnet, with the stars of open space wheeling overhead slowly. He was on the surface of the asteroid, reformed and looking just as it had when he first approached, only something was different now.

The sense of life and power was here, but he could feel it, close and connected to his being. Faintly, he could sense the whole structure, and every tunnel and passageway that ran through it. Riccio, the great beast, the solitary thunder, was not here... but he was as well. He was here, and he always would be; that much came to jazz as a certainty, almost like a voice in the back of his mind telling him, but without words. He could feel a thread of the creature's power within him, responding to the land mass beneath him even as it strained to rework Jazz's body to its own preference, but the spark was answered by a greater presence that existed within the very metal and circuitry of the asteroid itself. This was his Home; This was absolute, and eternal. Riccio was not here right now, but he was always here, always would be, and Jazz was no longer welcome.

Jazz tried to scream out as the claustrophobic sphere that was the inside of Riccio's domain closed in around him...spines uncomfortably piercing through the whole of his body...the darkness that filled in around him and...the loss of consciousness as he was unceremoniously ejected from the inside of Riccio's domain. His body still...his form pulsing with energy, a deep golden glow invading the whole of his being from the outside in. His form quivered outside the asteroid that was Riccio's home, laying upon the cold meteorite that was cought within it's pull as his eyes opened...deep black spheres within the hare's head.

A groan reverberating through him as his cross with Prose began to fade away from his form, leaving the navi completely naked from head to toe. The golden threads that had clung to his forearm had only begun to stretch out across his body. The hare's fur quickly flattening out like plates of metal, green hues quickly turning to darkened greys and with it, the hare began to scramble to his feet, watching it all unfold without a chance to stop it. Within he could feel the beastial power of Riccio begin to take hold, a fragment spreading through the whole of his unstable data. Gold hues creeping across his body as a metal plate formed around his mouth like a mask, silencing the hare before he could scream.

As the transformation took place, Stephine began to shout and try to jack Jazz out of the network to no avail, her PET quickly going to a "maintenence" mode as data began to shuffle through the network and into it like a common transferrence of data. The hare's form quickly overtaken by bright golds flooding through his body and blacks sepperating the "plates" that began to form across his body, as where things started and ended were capped off by these black lines of the darkest reaches of the net. Data flooded through his body as across his shoulders and at the very tops of his thighs, Jazz could feel straps of purest steel wire form along them and tightly force themselves along him so he could never take them off. A curvature of plating began to come outwards from those wires, big enough to completely cover his back and then some as it curved at each end, just past the back of his neck and tail. Golden spikes tipped with crimson-colored tips sprouting from this steel plating, sharper and almost as durable as the beast's, jagged edges on either side of the spike to hammer the point home that, unlike the beast, the form he was taking would in some respects be better than it, running less on instinct and more on logic...

As this happened, the hare's feet began to contort, muffled screams coming from Jazz as tears ran down his face. Nails growing outwards, jagged tips and serraded blades replacing the hare's own nails, curving downwards towards the floor like scythed blades painfully attached to his form, rustic copper...almost crimson-like...coloration on each of the three scythed nails of each foot, plates of gold with black outlines forcing themselves onto each foot, each pad of his feet leaving behind an echoing thump of metal on the asteroid he stood on, stumbling about in pain. On that same note, his hands would face the same fate. Each of his finger's nails growing out to a good inch or so each, much like the nails on his feet, each with the same scythed curvature, the same serraded blades on the insides with the same copper-crimson coloring on the insides of each with gold and black on the outer parts.

As he fell to his hands and knees in pain, the body of the hare would take on a different transformation. Heavy plates of armor strapping themselves to his body from the shoulder, down to his stomach, a plate of rustic copper coloring to add coloration on the "behest" of what was taking over. Below that, a grey steel plate would drag downwards, forming along all sides of his lower half like a pair of pants. The liquid steel moving with Jazz no matter how he did, no matter how he thrashed in pain, they clung to his body tightly with few drops flinging their way off of his body. Then his ears...the once fluffy externals would quickly "melt" away into Jazz's head and in their place? A pair of conduction coils in brass would replace them. Like the Bunny viruses, Jazz's ears reached up to the skies and turned inwards behind themselves, hollow in the middle as they seared themselves into Jazz's skull with a hiss, the navi's screams even louder despite the plate across his mouth as he continued to thrash in pain. The armor across his body would provide one more unpleasant surprise for Jazz...wrapping around his arms came induction coils that seared away what little organic material that he had, brightly alit across his arms and bending as he moved them in his blinding pain, with bright flashes of light bringing the dark NAXA area of the net into the light with the singular navi that resided in this part of the network as spikes like the ones across his back shot through his knees and into the asteroid with such power, such force, it cracked the asteroid and sent spidery-lines through the rock and metal when he was forced back to his knees. And finally, the "mask" across his face had small cracks of black lines go through it, in all his pain, Jazz's voice could be heard as it happened, screaming out into the depths of space like an out of tune radio. The mask breaking apart...and revealing the hare's new mouth...jagged spikes of teeth and blood as he screeched into the air, radio waves being sent to all around with his screams of anguish and pain. While different from the beast's electric growls...the hare's voice was not too dissimilar to the beast's roar at the end of the day...and as he finally finished his transformation...Jazz could finally jack out...even though he did not turn to the beast's den...he could feel the bast's unwelcoming presence...and it's burning hatred for the hare.