Race against time in StoveComp!

Machman goes to work, patching up XIII's data with some recovery chips. He then throws a Boomerang at the opponents, but it only goes through one, before falling down, burning uselessly to a crisp. He then does some awesome samurai flash step blade draw thing, critically damaging another FirePhoenix.
XIII goes berserk, letting loose barrage after barrage of fireballs, defeating the FirePhoenixes once and for all. Sydonay frowned as XIII's DBLCUBE stopped flashing, settling on blue and healing the justice duo.
"Annoying brats, you won't stop me here! Take this!" the flaming Heelnavi roared, sending two straight lines of fire at the combatants, XIII quickly dashed out of the way, while Mach took the blow, his barrier drawing out, and then slammed Sydonay in the nose with a rocketing Gut Punch. Ouch~
The pyromaniac stumbled back, rubbing his nose fretfully, before glaring menacingly at his opponents.
"HAVE A HEALTHY DOSE OF JUST DIE!" Sydonay bellowed as he sent a swirling disc flying at the two battlers.

Sydonay: 210 HP
FirePhoenixA: DELETED
FirePhoenixB: DELETED
FirePhoenixC: DELETED
FirePhoenixD: DELETED

Terrain: 94% Normal, 6% Cracked (JACK OUT BARRIER)

Machman.exe: 45 HP (XIII Lv2) [Sword]
XIII.exe: 25 HP (Mach 13 Another Type)
Machman takes a step back from the impact of the flaming disk. His head snaps forward, glaring at Sydonay with his glowing orange eyes.

[FireHit1, MiniBomb, and RageClaw chips uploaded! Use of thrust laser approved! Take him down!]

You have made a grave mistake by continuing to fight. I will reduce you to ash!!!

Machman disappears in blur of red and orange, leaving nothing but a windy trail kicking up the dust at his feet. Machman bolts towards him at blinding speed, but carefully avoids the cracked panels to vary his route to Sydonay. As Machman is about to pass by, a small orange flash ignites next to him. The orange light streaks towards Sydonay and leaving a trail of flickering embers and smoke.

After Machman has passed, a small thud was heard. Machman had left an armed Minibomb behind him as he threw his flaming punch with his free hand. The bomb explodes like a powerful incendiary grenade, making a shock wave accompanied with a pillar of flame and smoke. Machman continues on his path, turning sharply to the right and jumping a couple dozen feet into the air. Machman finally comes back into view perched high in the air, with his twin swords pointing down towards Sydonay and spinning increasingly faster and faster. As the blades spin and the smoke from the bomb clears, a glob of ruby-red plasma appears and intensifies between the swords. The plasma reaches its maximum power output and breaks free from its magnetic prison, streaking towards the ground in a wide beam. The roar of the beam and the accompanying light seemed overwhelming to the senses, until the beam started to thin out as the plasma started to shed power.

Machman's white hot swords stop spinning and return to his back as he reaches the ground. Machman doesn't hesitate for a moment and again dashes towards Sydonay. As he approaches, his right hand twists and contorts into a menacing black claw, covered in razor-like blades. Machman runs towards his target a full speed.

You think threatening innocent people for not listening to you makes you powerful?

Machman passes Sydonay, swinging his clawed right hand diagonally upward in a lightening-fast motion. He jumps, comes to a complete stop in the air, and accelerates back to full speed back towards Sydonay again. He appears in front of Sydonay, already turning back towards him and delivering a horizontal crescent-like slash.

You are a coward. Nothing more.


ACTIONS:
FireHit1: Sydonay (75dmg Fire {60+15dmg element bonus})
Minibomb: Sydonay (60dmg)
Thrust Laser: Sydonay (60dmg + 2TCD)
RageClaw: Sydonay (40dmg)
RageClaw: Sydonay (40dmg)
Bonus Dodge

Thrust Laser: 2 Turns Remaining
Invisible Edge: 1 Turn Remaining
Heat Guard: 0HP
XIIICross_LVL2: Active
((Sorry for the late reply again. My internet went down yesterday.))

XIII dodged the column of flame but the discs had hit him hard. He reeled back but somehow managed to continue standing. The ringing in his ears was back, and his vision was acting weird again, going back and forth between the area in the StoveComp and that odd hallucination in the Sharo real world. Kasumi's panicked voice yelling in his ear was intermingling with the other voice from the hallucination, they both seemed to be saying approximately the same things. XIII closed his eyes a little, shaking his head to try and clear it up.

"Wake up XIII!" his operators voice came back through crystal clear, and snapped him back to his senses. He looked up and his vision was clear again, as if those weird images had never crossed his mind. "I'm sending a couple of chips your way," Kasumi yelled to him through the com link, "FireBurn1, Slot in!"

XIII shot across the ground as the flames propelled him forward through his target. Stopping immediately, he spun around only to draw his energy sword form his hip, the blade a crackiling from the energy surging through it, but oddly enough. he tossed the energy blade to his left hand and grabbed the sheath from his hip, taking it into his right. A new energy blade shot out from that sheath, revealing that it wasn't a sheath at all but rather another sword.

the navi shifted to have his right foot in back, XIII taking on a stance similar to his normal signature attack, the Legendary Blade, and launched forward, delivering the deadly first blow. But the moment his right foot touched ground after the first strike, the stance shifted to mirrior the first, and XIII carried out an identical strike with the left blade immediately. The entire combination was so fast that it was hard to trace; both blades looked like they crossed each other at almost the same times, and XIII's afterimage was overlapping himself when he finished.
"Legendary Cross!"

Summary
FireBurn1 (50 + line attack) to Sydonay
SigAttack #2: Legendary Cross (2hits/30dmg, 2 turn cool down, Normal/Sword) to Sydonay
Dodge
Dodge
Dodge


((Bump time, if I'm not mistaken))
Sydonay 'tch'd' as he bent out of the way of the Firehit, only to be caught off guard and blown up by the Minibomb. The flaming heelnavi coughed and splattered dust, ash, and spit everywhere. Machman sent down his powerful signature attack, but the pyromaniac threw up a Minibomb of his own, which exploded on impact with the laser, canceling it out.
"Hah! Who said I thought it made me more powerful? I'm just giving these fools their just desserts!" Sydonay cried out, blocking Machman's Rageclaw with his own. However, XIII charges in, searing the flaming navi's back. Sydonay releases his grip, causing Machman to swing again, more accurately this time, and XIII joins in an amazing pincer attack, performing his Legendary Cross attack on the enemy's back while Machman gives the opponent a nasty gash in the front.
"A coward, huh? If I was one, you'd think the thing wouldn't have started burning, idiots," Sydonay cackled as he was swept away by the flames. Was it over?

Sydonay: EJO'D
FirePhoenixA: DELETED
FirePhoenixB: DELETED
FirePhoenixC: DELETED
FirePhoenixD: DELETED

Terrain: 94% Normal, 6% Cracked

Machman.exe: 45 HP (XIII Lv2) [Rageclaw]
XIII.exe: 25 HP (Mach 13 Another Type)

Well, you're too late anyway! Burn in hell, bitches! MWAHAHAHAHA! the Heelnavi's voice echoed throughout the StoveComp.
One glance at the control panel confirmed some people's worst fears, it was still going haywire, and the fire outside wasn't stopping any time soon. Was all this just for nothing?

"Fear not, friends! I'll handle this!" the Mr. Prog from before bellowed, bouncing quickly up to the control panel, and letting loose a giant stream of water at it. Apparently, this net water could do more than put out net fires, as the control panel restored to its normal self. The fire outside immediately ceased, well, the source of it anyway, there was bound to be a couple of stray flames here and there.

Whew, well wasn't that an adventure?

-VICTORY-
Get: PhoenixShot1
FXP: 1 Static
3 for collaborative healing
1 for awesome finishing pincer attack
((Thanks for the excellent battles, RevivedSin!))

Never show your face here again, I won't let you escape next time.

As the flames die off from the hose of water, Machman's body returns to his original un-crossed form in a glow of blue light. Machman's glowing orange eyes lose their light, revealing his colder blue eyes. Machman's twin swords are also enveloped in a blue light before changing shape and splitting into two pieces and floating back into position. The water washes from the control panel and flows onto the floor. The tiny wave of water crashes against Machman's feet, hissing from the residual heat in his body.

Machman looks out upon the StoveComp area, watching as the flames are extinguished one by one by the efficient Mr. Progs. Machman notices a glint of metal out of the corner of his eye, and walks towards it to investigate. He finds two battlechip data packets submerged a few inches in the water. He snatches them up, shakes off the water, and tosses one to XIII.

Great work out there, XIII! He didn't stand a chance.

A window pops up in front of him, revealing Mazer's face as he breathes a sigh of relief.

[The stove has stopped, I think everyone is okay. Excellent job, you two!]
Kasumi immediately rushed over to the previously trapped people, and just in the nick of time the paramedics also arrived.

XIII nodded at Machman in agreement, and the data dispersed off of him in a flash, bringing him back to his original form. It was then that a sudden wave of weakness and exhaustion swept through his body, and before he knew it, he was on his hands and knees in the shallow water, feeling like he couldn't get back up.
"D-damn..." He swore under his breath, "I took more hits than I thought. I guess it was that cross data that was the only thing still keeping me up after all that."

The navi relaxed his armed and rolled, landing on his back, laying down in the water and looking up, feeling way too weak to move. "I think I'll just stay here until Kasumi jacks me out, ne?"
((Kenshin, after we log out, do you want to continue the real world thread in ACDC?))

Machman walks to one of the control panels of the burner control as Mazer follows Kasumi to check up on the previously trapped people. Machman takes a seat an breathes a sigh of relief. His entire body relaxes and almost slips off the console into the water.

Man, what an adventure. I could use some R&R after this...

Machman glances over to the reclining and partially submerged XIII and then back to the water beneath his feet. His reflection stares back at him, as weary and tired as he. Machman's expression becomes more serious as an image of an unknown face flashes over his reflection. The face looks like his, but still different. Machman's mind starts to become restless; feeling as if something is calling him out to unlock the secret. The image fades back to his reflection and he looks up into the air above him.

{Who are you...?}
((Sure thing. I'll see you there in that topic.))

XIII had alot on his mind too. Why were memories that were not his suddenly coming appearing to him. Lately, when he got really into a battle, he had been feeling something similar happen, but this was the first time it had been this severe, the first time he had actually hallucinated like that.

The navi sighed a little and continued staring up into the flashing net-sky. He'd have to have dad take a look at him to make sure he didn't pick up a glitch anywhere. Hopefully without Kasumi knowing about it, he didn't want to make her worry about him too much.

Kasumi was at her PET again. "Ready to come out XIII? You've had a rough day, huh?"
The navi chuckled and nodded weakly, so his operator hit the jackout button.

((*points dramatically* To the real world!))
[...]

[...man...]

[Machman.]

[Machman!]

Machman is jolted back into reality. His mind was working overtime, trying to identify the face he saw in his reflection.

Sorry about that. What is it, Mazer?

[We just checked on the people who were trapped. They are a little rattled but otherwise okay. Prepare to log out.]

Yes sir.

Machman hops off the console, making a small splash as he lands on the water covered floor. The water droplets splashed up slow and slide to a stop, suspended in the air by an invisible force. Machman stands tall with his arms at his sides as he begins to glow.

Machman, logging out.

Machman beams out in a splendid cyan beam up and into the ceiling of the comp space. The water droplets are released from the unseen grip and fall back to the floor below.

-{Logged Out}-