Healbot 2: Heal Harder

"Seems like this part of the area's fairly clear from the lava."
"Almost makes it seem like some kind of park."

Moving further through the area, the two stumbled upon what appeared to be a rather benign area of cooled lava-base soil. The black soil seemed to spread out for a good while, a welcome respite from the volatile explosions of the island's network. Eternalis walked side-by-side with Aurora as the recovery patch restored the damage done by the earlier burst of fire. With the patch in full force, it was easy enough for Aurora to move about unabated, and even add a small spring to her step as she reminisced.

"Hm... Alright, where were we? Right, my old partner. So he was Serena's old Navi, employed for Sharo's 'internal logistics', with me as support. The job wasn't easy, but it was decent enough. We had a bunch of slip-ups, him and me both, but we always managed to pull each other out of it somehow. Of course, that is, until we didn't," said Aurora, looking off into the smoke-filled skies with a wistful air. "Serena brought in a new upgrade one day, told us that it was some kind of new 'detection system' for him. Our work tended to be a bit on the secretive side, we had to do some 'permanent removal' a few times on witnesses. Still, it's never at all possible to catch every witness, and the cleanup work after those kinds of incidents nearly got both of us 'removed' ourselves by the higher-ups. That upgrade was supposed to... eliminate that problem. Essentially, it detected any attempt at resolving his identity data as a hostile threat. If the data wasn't scrambled in time, it immediately boosted his statistics in order to intercept the data and eliminate the threat."

Aurora cleared her throat. "Basically, if you managed to look at his face, it turned him into a cruise missile."

Harke's expression turned into an incredulous confusion. "W-What? But won't that just delete everything in sight?"

"His internal code normally had an execute-permission setup that didn't allow him to access any network that wasn't thoroughly checked and authorized for, and the upgrade itself had an extensive whitelist. Like I said, we were involved in internal logistics, not external, so the area we were operating in was tiny. But, well..." Aurora hesitated, clutching at her chest with a pained expression.

"Aurora..."

Eternalis had a similarly pained expression on his face, though likely more out of concern than painful memories. He hesitantly reached out for her shoulder, but before he could do so, a loud thump demanded their attention. As they had been walking about, it seemed like a horde of viruses had materialized out of thin air.

Jettisoned out of her reminiscing time, Aurora shook her head to clear it, and sighed. "These viruses really don't know how to read the mood, it seems."

"No kidding. You guys sure you don't want to do this in the PET or anything?" said Harke. "Well, here's the usual. Anything else? AquaTower looks decent here." A set of four chips inserted itself as the operator gave the command through his floating touchscreen.

"Yeah, that and MediumCloud. I'll wipe 'em out nice and easy," said Eternalis, readying himself as the chips came into their processing queues.

Aurora had already put her hand forward, activating the first of the chips. The familiar red Trumpy floated into existence in front of her. It let out a few viral toots before it set to work on playing its melody, this time going for a powerfully patriotic rendition of the Sharo anthem. While Aurora's summoned virus set to loudly extolling the virtues of the military nation, Eternalis summoned his own little helper, with the KillerEye virus hopping in with a cheerful beep of its own as it scouted forward for intruders.

He then held back his arm, gathering a small blob of slime in his hand before pitching it hard towards the viruses. The blob landed with a wet smack and sprouted a pair of iridescent blue eyes, looking around with wonderment at its surroundings. Unfortunately, it wouldn't have much of a time to appreciate them as the ground beneath it crackled open and a powerful geyser shot forth, slicing apart anything caught in its path.

The Sharoan duo then blinked out of the way before the Little Boiler could do its work, with Eternalis reappearing high above the sky. As they hovered briefly, the ground rumbled loudly, and another geyser appeared to wreak havoc on the viral ranks. This one covered a much larger area than the previous one, but its spread was also much slower. Observing the battlefield from high above, Eternalis waved his arm to separate a part of it from him. The separated blob halted in midair before it turned a murky grey and expelling a stormy rain towards the enemies below.

// Summary
[Et.*] Sig: Influx Aegis: Heal 18x4 @ Aurora, 18 @ Self
[Ar.1] Chip: TimpaniHP: 50
Properties: Heavy
Object Damage: 50 + Impact
Damage Method: Throw, Telekinesis
Status Effect: Hold + To-All-Clause(Enemies)
Accuracy: S
Description: Stops all enemies from moving with a powerful sonic wave.
Duration: 1 turn or until destroyed.
Element: Null
Trader Rank: C: 50HP Heavy Object, 1-Turn: Hold + To-All-Enemy (Acc: S) @ In front
[Et.1] Chip: Sensor2HP: 100
Properties: Anchored, ElecBody
Object Damage: 100 + Impact
Damage Method: Telekinesis
Attack Damage: 130 Elec + Beam Attack + Stun 1
Accuracy: S
Description: Summons a Killereye to search for enemies. Fires an eye-beam when it detects them. It can see through invisibility.
Duration: Until destroyed or until it attacks.
Element: Elec
Special: ElecBody: Immune to Elec damage. Special: Laser TAG: Attack triggers when something moves through the targeting laser beam, no matter who or what that may be.
Trader Rank: C: 100HP Anchored ElecBody Object: (130 + Beam Attack + Stun + Self-Destruct): Laser TAG (Acc: S) @ In front, pointed to MetalCragger (Beam: +100%*SrcAtk)
[Ar.2] Sig: Infiltration Module: Invisibility + Self-Slow @ Self
[Et.2] Chip: LittleBoiler1HP: 1
Properties: Light
Object Damage: (100 Aqua + Damage Absorbed) + Blast 3
Damage Method: Throw, Knockback, Microburst, Telekinesis, Gust
Attack Damage: (100 Aqua + Damage Absorbed) + Blast 3
Accuracy: E (thrown) / B (trigger)
Description: Throws a boiling kettle 3 panels ahead that boils over when hit once, dealing aqua damage to everything around it without regard to who or what that may be. The damage of the attack that strikes it is added to the blast.
Duration: Until destroyed.
Element: Wood
Special: Time Delay: Upon taking damage, there is a 2 action time delay before the attack triggers.
Special: For the purposes of Elemental Bonuses, this chip is counts as Aqua Element.
Trader Rank: D: 1HP Light Object: (100 + Damage-Absorb + Blast3 + Delay-Action(2)): On-Hit (Acc: E (thrown) / B (trigger)) @ Middle of virus horde (Aqua: Atk+15, Fire: +100%*SrcAtk)
[Et.3] Chip: WaterLine2Damage: 130 + Ground Attack + Wide Attack
Accuracy: B
Description: A wall of water gushes from the ground, drowning up to 3 targets.
Duration: Once
Element: Aqua
Trader Rank: C: 130 + Ground Attack + Wide Attack (Acc: B) @ LittleBoiler1/MetalCragger/Momogro (Aqua: Atk+15, Fire: +100%SrcAtk)
[Et.4] Sig: Rapid Sublimation: Teleport @ High Alt above Virus Horde, out of LittleBoiler's Blast range (Tag Along: Aurora)
[Et.5] Chip: AquaTower1Damage: 100 + Piercing + Ground Attack + Line-Chain
Accuracy: D
Description: Geysers of water march across the field.
Duration: Once
Element: Aqua
Special: Line-Chain: This attack moves forward in a rough line, but may shift side to side slightly as it advances to engage more targets in its general path. The attack cannot ever stray more than 45 degrees from its original path, and cannot make greater than a 45 degree turn at any given time.
Trader Rank: D: 100 + Piercing + Ground Attack + Line-Chain (Acc: D) @ Virus Horde (Aqua: Atk+15, Fire: +100%*SrcAtk, Teleport: Acc+)
[Ar.3] Act: Evade incoming attacks (Dodge)
[Et.6] Chip: MediumCloudDamage: 90 + Wide Attack + Drop Attack
Accuracy: C
Description: Cloud moves up and down three enemies, raining on them for two turns. Enemies can move out from under it if possible.
Duration: Two turns
Element: Aqua
Special: Drop Attack: This attack originates above the battlefield, and falls to the ground. It gains one rank of accuracy against High Altitude targets.
Trader Rank: C: 90 + Wide Attack + Drop Attack + 2-Turn (Acc: C) @ Lizegg/Megalian-F2/Breaker (Aqua: Atk+15, Fire: +100%*SrcAtk)

[Et.*] Act: Panacea: Status Cure @ Self (Subtype)

Taking a quick chance to patch themselves up (+72 to Aurora, +18 to Eternalis), the duo got to work, Aroura summoning the ever so wonderful Timpani, it's low brown note inducing note immediately held all the viruses to the ground without a second thought (To-All Hold). Each virus roaring in anger at the duo as they did everything they could to avoid whatever they could. The MetalCragger, unable to escape, took the attack from the Sensor without a second thought, but it's bulk made the attack do less than satisfactory damage (-50, Stun1) as Aurora immediately went undercover, cloaking herself from any sense of possible sight. The two Miner viruses quickly began to summon up mines, disappearing underground for a brief moment, laying down their mines all over the field (+10% Mined field).

The Megalian-F2 shooting it's head at the Timpani that was summoned and tried to crash through it, just -barely- missing to the side as the Breaker tried to hop up into the air, but firmly rooted to the ground, was unable to attack for the brief moment the Timpani was on the field. But as soon as the kettle was thrown onto the field, the MetalCragger smashed it's fist onto the ground as it stood motionless for the moment, the fist smashing into the Kettle with little difficulty, cracking everything to the sides of it and heavily damaging the weapon (90+Break, 10% Cracked Field)...but then, exploding all around the viruses that it surrounded (205 Aqua+Blast3), everything but the Momogoro and Cragger was immediately deleted by the scalding water of the attack, leaving little more than a scalded field all around where the kettle existed, the Cragger just barely alive by the virtue of it's HardBody (105). The Momogoro popping it's head up to see that it and the Cragger were the only things alive and soon enough, they weren't. With the WaterLine attack would finish off the fight quickly enough, neither virus able to move out of the way and were subsequently erased from existence. Afterwards, only a pile of (very wet) zenny could be gathered up, as well as what looked to be some sort of GIANT ROCK FIST. Maybe Eternalis could convert it to chip data?

-- Viruses --
LizeggLizegg (Cregg)

The Cregg version is a brown scaly egg with red spots. Most notably, it possesses a long gray tail that extends from a crack in the egg's rear, which is constantly on fire. It moves around by emitting flames from cracks in the scaly shell, trying to hit an enemy. The Lizegg is the same, but grows four gray scaly legs and feet that pop out of the egg and two holes at the front for two shining yellow eyes. It retains the tail from its weaker form, though the flames are a bit more intense. The egg grows slightly. Its scales also become stronger which allows it to pop back in for a defensive action. The Raptegg's hind legs grow more so it can stand on them. Its head, similar to that of a raptor but gray, pops out of the egg too and a long gray scaly tail that moves behind him frantically, which is covered in roaring fire. The egg grows slightly again. Same as the Lizegg, it can also pop everything back in for a defensive action, though it is better than its lower version at this.

Area: Netfrica, Hades Isle

HP: 150
Attack Damage/Effect: 40 Fire + Impact
Attack Accuracy: B
Attack Description: Spins to create a ring of flames around itself, then tries to ram an enemy.
Element: Fire
Possible Rewards (Per Virus): FlameScales2, Zenny
Special: Fire-element HardBody: Non-Aqua or Break attack damage is halved. Aqua and Break attacks deal double damage and ignore the HardBody effect.
Special: Can use an action to retreat into its shell, protecting it from all hits of a single attack. Break penetrates this effect.: NUKED
BreakerBreaker (Quaker)

Area: Netopia, Hades Isle, NetVegas

HP: 150
Attack Damage/Effect: 50 Null + Piercing + Ground Attack + Chain(2) + Earthquake
Attack Accuracy: B
Attack Description: Jumps high into the air, then slams its wrecking ball onto the ground when it lands, making the ground shake, and forming a shock wave that zeroes in on enemies.
Element: None
Possible Rewards (Per Virus): WaveArm2, RockArm2, Zenny
Special: High Altitude Status while Jumping.
Special: If underground or in a building, it can break through ceilings or cause a rock-fall.
Special: Earthquake: Whenever this virus lands when using its attack, all enemies touching the ground have their evasion reduced by 1 rank until the end of the next turn. This effect does not stack with other Earthquake instances, and does not affect allies of this virus.
Special: Chain 3: This attack, upon striking a target, may change directions towards a new target. This may be done up to 3 times in one attack.: BY
Megalian-F2Megalian-F2 (Megalian-F)

All Megalian-F viruses are equipped with Omnishoes, and fight from the air. This virus type will spend an Action Dodging, and then Attack the following Action. If there are more than one Megalian (family does not matter) the viruses will work together, alternating their attack Actions or attacking as a group (mod's discretion). When attacking, both the head and the base can be damaged separately (if the Aura protecting the base has been destroyed).

Area: Netfrica, Hades Isle

HP: 190
Attack Damage/Effect: 80 Fire + Break + Piercing + Group attack.
Attack Accuracy: B (special)
Attack Description: Lines up with a target and launches its head at the enemy. Accuracy decreases with each hit.
Element: Fire
Possible Rewards (Per Virus): AuraHead2, Barrier100, Zenny
Special: Omnishoes: capable of free flight.
- Dodges every other Action. Attacks when not dodging.
- Has a 80HP Fire Aura (Pierced and destroyed by Aqua attacks).
- Can be attacked while head is extended.: A
Miner2Miner2 (Miner)

Area: SciLab, Hades Isle

HP: 200
Attack Damage/Effect: 100 Null + Ground (Trap)
Attack Accuracy: -- (See Description)
Attack Description: The virus dispenses a stack of mines, sinks into the ground, and randomly places them within various panels all across the field. Every time a stack of mines is placed, it covers 5% of the field. When stepped upon, they explode, and 5% of the field is freed up again.
Element: None
Possible Rewards (Per Virus): Mine2, Zenny
Special: Immobile
- This virus may dodge by ducking an attack while placing a mine.
- Trap [Movement Triggered]: Whenever a Player Navi or allied character Dodges or Moves, there is a chance they will trigger the mines. Mods will roll 1d20 for every move action made by allied characters. A roll of 1 is always a hit, with the threat range increased by 1 for every 5% of the field covered in mines. The max coverage of the field is 90%. Characters with Omnishoes who are flying at High Altitude can ignore this effect entirely.
- Panel Breaking can destroy mines.
- Can use Panel Return as a free-action once.A: GODDAMN
Miner2Miner2 (Miner)

Area: SciLab, Hades Isle

HP: 200
Attack Damage/Effect: 100 Null + Ground (Trap)
Attack Accuracy: -- (See Description)
Attack Description: The virus dispenses a stack of mines, sinks into the ground, and randomly places them within various panels all across the field. Every time a stack of mines is placed, it covers 5% of the field. When stepped upon, they explode, and 5% of the field is freed up again.
Element: None
Possible Rewards (Per Virus): Mine2, Zenny
Special: Immobile
- This virus may dodge by ducking an attack while placing a mine.
- Trap [Movement Triggered]: Whenever a Player Navi or allied character Dodges or Moves, there is a chance they will trigger the mines. Mods will roll 1d20 for every move action made by allied characters. A roll of 1 is always a hit, with the threat range increased by 1 for every 5% of the field covered in mines. The max coverage of the field is 90%. Characters with Omnishoes who are flying at High Altitude can ignore this effect entirely.
- Panel Breaking can destroy mines.
- Can use Panel Return as a free-action once.B: KETTLE
MomogroMomogro (Momogra)

Momogras move by tunneling through the ground. They poke their heads up just far enough from time to time to see where the enemy is, but they are still protected from most forms of attack. Drop attacks, Bomb attacks (which fall out of the air after being thrown), and Ground attacks damage them in this state. Other attacks executed from a high angle/altitude also work. All movements performed by a Momogra are considered a dodge, as they occur underground, and out of sight. Momogras only attack in response to having an attack launched in their direction, and only if they have an action remaining for that turn. Momogras attack by instantly tunneling to the panel behind the enemy, popping out of the ground, and striking with a shovel. A Momogra is completely vulnerable to any form of attack during its own atack, and until it moves again following that attack. The movement prior to the attack does not require an action, but movement afterwards does. The attack cannot execute if the panel behind the target is a liquid terrain type, Metal, Broken, or Missing. The attack also will not execute if there is something currently occupying the panel they would be attacking from. If the attack cannot execute, the Momogra will not move. In the case of Glass and Cracked terrain, the Momogras will still attempt to attack, but suffer the consequences of doing do as those panels will break and damage the Momogra, also causing the attack to fail. Momogra get 1 free movement per turn at the start of the turn before their first action.

Area: Okuden Valley, Hades Isle, NetVegas

HP: 130
Attack Damage/Effect: 45 Null + Backstab
Attack Accuracy: B
Attack Description: Hits enemy with shovel.
Element: None
Possible Rewards (Per Virus): Mole2, Zenny
Special: Always attacks if it is targeted, though it can attack otherwise. Only overhead-striking attacks can hit these viruses while they are not attacking (bombs, etc.): CLEANED
MetalCraggerMetalCragger (Cragger)

Craggers are pretty easy targets, given their size. They also move very rarely, and when they do they move slowly. Their dodge rate is abysmal. They generally rely on their HardBody defense, which reduces non-break damage by half, but doubles break damage. They have high attack power and AoE, but their accuracy is generally bad as their attacks are easy to follow and take time to deliver. Their attack is executed as a Drop Attack, and thus attacks from above, and not head-on. Targets caught underground within this attack's AoE range take an additional 50 Null damage that ignores all defenses.

Area: Netopia, Sharo, Hades Isle

HP: 200
Attack Damage/Effect: 90 Null + Break + Panel Break + WideAttack
Attack Accuracy: D
Attack Description: Slams the enemy and surrounding area with fist. This is executed as a Drop Attack, and is more damaging to targets below ground (IE: Submerged or burrowed).
Element: None.
Possible Rewards (Per Virus): GolemHit2, Zenny
Special: Hardbody.: UP

-- Navis --
Eternalis.Exe: 318 HP
Aurora.Exe: 100 HP

-- Objects --
Timpani: 100 HP

-- Terrain --
80% Normal
10% Cracked
10% Mined

BATTLE 4 DECISIVE VICTORY

Rewards: GolemHit2Damage: 190 + Break + Panel Crack + Wide Attack
Accuracy: C
Description: A fist of stone falls from the sky to smash an enemy, and create a shock wave that hits two nearby enemies. The area affected by the fist becomes Cracked terrain.
Duration: Once
Element: Null
Trader Rank: C, 5040z, 61 Bug Fragments

"Phew..." muttered Eternalis, landing on the ground as the last of the viruses was wiped out cleanly. One of the giant rocky fists still remained on the field, but not for long, as it warped up into the PET to be printed out into battlechip data. Beside him, Aurora's body shimmered back into visibility. The SP wiped her forehead as she scouted the surroundings, which seemed rather barren now. The story she had been telling echoed inside her mind, but the sudden shift into battle mode had tired her out.

"Maybe Harke's right, let's just take this to the PET. I think that mood whiplash took all the energy out of me," she sighed.
"Good idea. I think we've had enough busting for the day... Harke?"
"I was wondering how long you guys were going to last... Sure, let's get out of here and I can take a walk or something."

With all of them in agreement, the two raised their fists into a quick bump before warping out of the fiery area.

[Z > 32815, BF > 274 > 14, ExF > 11.]
[Jack Out - SciLab]