Race against time in StoveComp!

One left. Goodbye.

Machman's wings swing forward and pair up. The pairs point directly at the lone virus as the energy begins to charge. After a few seconds, the plasma is fully energized and released from it's magnetic prison; blasting towards the virus. Both Navis are bathed in a crimson glow as the plasma beams rocket by. The glow dies, leaving little glowing bits of data in the wake of the attack. Machman stands firm with his wings returning to his back. He braces himself, ready to counter any attacks.

ACTIONS:
Thrust Laser: SpikeyA (60dmg 2TCD)
Counter1: Spikey A (Counter attack w/ 70dmg + Breaking + Impact)
Dodge
Dodge
((Just thought I'd point out, Majin you wrote his name as XII (12) instead of XIII (thirteen) in that last one. No big deal though.))

XIII didn't have to do anything, he knew machman could handle this last one. "Take him down Mach! we don't have time to waste playing with cannon fodder!"

Summary
Cheer Machman
Dodge
Dodge
Dodge
The last one dies. Huzzah.

BeetankA: DELETED!
BeetankB: DELETED!
BeetankC: DELETED!
KabutankA: DELETED!
KabutankB: DELETED!
KabutankC: DELETED!
SpikeyA: DELETED!
SpikeyB: DELETED!
SpikeyC: DELETED!
SpikeyD: DELETED!
SpikeyE: DELETED!
SwordyA: DELETED!
SwordyB: DELETED!

Terrain: 100% Normal

Rockcube: 170 HP
Machman.exe: 55 HP
XIII.exe: 65 HP

Rewards: Mach: Minibomb, 400z
XIII: 500z
Machman picks up some battlechip and zenny data from the virus corpses, and uploads them to his PET. A screen pops up in front of him, showing Mazer's worried face.

[Machman, we need to hurry! The temperature in here is rising dangerously high and the flames are getting larger! We need to shut down the stove now!]

Machman turns back to XIII.

We gotta be getting close.

Machman looks out into the distance and sees some short structures next to a large vent-like tower. The shorter structures almost look like instrument panels.

That must be it! Lets go, XIII!

Machman's thrusters kick in and he boosts away towards the structure.

(Prepared for the final battle: #5!)
Kasumi had also contacted XIII with the same information at approximately the same time. But he didn't need to be told by his operator that things were getting bad. He knew this had gone on too long for his own comfort as well, and XIII was certainly ready to finish this.

XIII hears Machman and sees the structure in the distance. He immediately runs after his companion, their destination in sight. But he suddenly slowed to a cautious pace when something occurred to him.
"Where's the cause?" he muttered to himself. The structure was clearly visible, but no one else was in sight. That could only mean one of two things: either the culprit had gotten away, or he was hiding in wait for them and knew they were coming. Considering how the problems were only getting worse, the latter was the obvious one.
"Machman! Slow down!" XIII began yelling at his partner, trying to keep up with the pace while still maintaining a surveillance of their surroundings. "Slow down Mach! Its a trap!"

(Ready for battle 5)
((Geez, you guys totally forgot the preface to battle 4. :'D))

Before Machman could dash off, however, he crashed into a wall of flames, which surprisingly didn't hurt a bit, and was sent reeling back in the direction he came, crashing into XIII as well. They both looked up to see the flames surrounding the SYSTEM CONTROL PANEL THAT THE PROG FROM BEFORE HAD LED THEM TO, still covered in flames.
Said Prog returned and greeted the navis with a nod.
"Thanks guys! I brought help to wash away these flames," the Prog said as many other Mr. Progs bounced behind him. They quickly went to work, dousing the flames with a water hose program. All seemed good, until...
FWOOSH
A stream of heat wiped out most of the Mr. Progs and a figure came out from the flames. It was a Heelnavi, well, a FLAMING Heelnavi, but a Heelnavi nonetheless.
"Hah! So you've beaten my viruses I see. Well, you'll have to get through me to stop that fire! ORAH!" the navi bellowed as a wall of flames surrounded the area. The Mr. Progs, thankfully, had gotten away before they were trapped by the wall of flames. Now, Machman and XIII were the only navi's left, well, except their opponent.
"I, the great Sydonay shall burn you to ashes! Come my minions! We shall ride into battle together!" Sydonay bellowed as many FirePhoenixes rose from seemingly nowhere.
Well, time to get cracking.

Sydonay: 400 HP
FirePhoenixA: 110 HP
FirePhoenixB: 110 HP
FirePhoenixC: 110 HP
FirePhoenixD: 110 HP

Terrain: 100% Normal (JACK OUT BARRIER)

Machman.exe: 55 HP
XIII.exe: 65 HP

-READY?-
-BATTLE 5-
-GO!-
((I am done with Finals and ready to kick ass!))

Wuh?

Machman bounces off a wall of flames that immediately appeared in front of him. He was more surprised than hurt, and his attention was shifted over to the approaching prog. They got to work dousing the flames but were quickly stopped in their tracks by a heat wave. A flaming Heelnavi stood in the duo's path, and then trapped them in an encompassing wall of flame. Not soon after, several bulked up fire viruses appeared around him.

You! Who are you working for? Why are you doing this?

The only response Machman got was another wave of heat, pushing him closer to the flames behind him. Machman turns to XIII.

I think this punk has an attitude problem. He looks back to the Heelnavi. We can fix that.

Machman crosses his arms as he stares at the Heelnavi; his eyes beginning to glow. In fact, his entire body starts to be illuminated by some odd light source in his body. A small spark flashes in front of him, and the surrounding air bursts into a large pillar of flame. The fire vortex covers Machman's body, he cannot be seen beneath the flames.

Two pockets of fire spurt from the sides of the pillar, followed by two emerging blade points. The sharpened metal shimmers in the fire's light, and the points sticking out of the flame move incredibly fast, slicing at the fire encasing Machman. The blades disappear into the flame and the pillar explodes, revealing Machman's transformation.

Machman's eyes glow a bright orange, his red ponytail moves with the waves of heat pulsing from his red body. His white pants are emblazoned with flames that seem to move like it was actual flame.

Machman's eyes look to the empty air above him, and he blurs into nothing. He almost instantly reappears above the enemies, bubble launcher already charged and locked on. He fires the bubble straight down towards Sydonay. The bubble then explodes on impact, spraying the area with water and covering the immediate area with ensnaring bubbles. Machman materializes back to the ground, ZapRing launcher in hand. He lines up on Sydonay and fires the electrified ring.

Machman's ZapRing launcher crumbles into bits of data as both of his blades float into his hand. They fuse together side by side and the blade changes from sharpened metal to a red energy blade. Machman's glowing orange eyes shift from his sword to one of the FirePhoenix viruses. Machman shifts his sword to the ready position in one fluid motion and blurs into thin air. Two red streaks of energy arc around the virus. Two slashes so blindingly fast, the only traces were the trails of air charged by the energy blade and the sound of it whipping through the air.

ACTIONS:
Activate XIIICross_LVL2 (+20HP, +1 Speed, +15 to Fire battlechips, and activates passive 60HP Barrier)
BubbleStar1: Sydonay, FirePhoenixA,B (40dmg Aqua + Bubble Trap)
ZapRing1: Sydonay (80dmg Elec + Stun)
Sword: FirePhoenixC (80dmg)
Sword: FirePhoenixC (80dmg)
Extra Dodge (Sword Subtype)

Thrust Laser: Ready
Invisible Edge: Ready
Heat Guard: 60HP
XIIICross_LVL2: Active
((Lost contact with Kenshin. Sent him a second PM today, I'll wait for a few days for a reply.))
((I'm back every body! sorry I just up and disappeared like that, but I had to go to Japan for two weeks to study abroad. Then there was alot of stuff I had to do afterwards.)

XIII was busy sizing up his opponent still waiting to see how his partner attacked him. He couldn't explain it, but there was something about this navi that ticked him off a little, Possibly the arrogance of his actions or something of the like.
"The great Sydonay? Burn us all to ashes?" XIII said, his voice dripping with thinly veiled sarcasm. "Boy, you sure have quite the pair on you, don'cha? I was thinking about taking this one easy, but there's something about you that just makes me want to beat you halfway to kingdom-come and back."

The navi opened his comlink to his operator, Kasumi. "Remi-chan, lets use that special program you've been working on!"
His operator was a little surprised, and responded with "XIII, how did you know about that?"
"Please Remi, even with all your security measures you were still programing it on the PET I just happen to reside in. Lets do it!"

Kasumi nodded and started punching in a few codes into the display of her PET. "Soul cross system upgrade engaged. Activating Machman residual data program refined to level two..."

XIII's body was visibly glowing brighter, like a small sun flames were literally erupting from different parts of his body, and pretty soon the only thing about him still barely visible with in that intense light was merely his outline. The light and white-hot flames began dying down rapidly, leaving behind XIII in his Mach 13 soul cross, but looking entirely different than before. There was now several cable-like devices protruding from behind him like a fragmented cape, there were glowing lines crossing all over his body, the face guard was more complex, and so on. Even the balls of flame and wing fragments surrounding him had changed, becoming blue and with glowing white eyes, making them seem more like a large grouping Will'o'wisp than anything else.

"Mach 13, Another Type. I come bringing ominous bad luck, you who are unlucky enough to lay eyes on this form."
The navi began to move forward, becoming a blur in the enemy's vision and his form was further distorted by the glowing balls of blue/white fire careening behind him. He was a little faster than last time, he could tell that much, but more noticeably was the fact that he felt far more stable, like XIII could control it much more than last time. It felt like his feet barely had to touch the ground now, each step's speed carried him so much distance that he felt like he was flying. "Ok, lets see what I can do here. Yonin Kage!"

Something very strange happened just then, as XIII was starting to circle infront of the Heelnavi. It was almost like he'd stop for a split second in his path, leaving behind an after image of himself in his own wake. But the images didn't disappear, instead started to become more solid looking, and pretty soon there were four separate copies of XIII surrounding Sydonay with their energy swords pointed straight at him. With a yell, all four XIII's thrust in their blades in a four-pronged attack. And just as soon as the attack had been executed, the figures disappeared with XIII dashing back to the other side.

"Don't let up XIII! Cannon and Shotgun, Slot in!" Kasumi yelled to him, sliding the chips into their slots on the PET. XIII turned to take aim as the data loaded up, though this time instead of reconfiguring his entire arm, the weapons formed into his hands until he was holding a large gun in one hand and a double barrel shotgun in his other. He let fly the two guns, their shots careening towards the Heelnavi behind him as he slowed and stopped on the ground next to Machman.

Summary:
Activate Mach 13 cross Lv2: Mach 13 Another type (Type: Normal, +15 to all normal chips, +20hp, +1 speed upgrade
Subtype: Sword)
Sig Attack: Yonnin Kage (4 hits, 15dmg each, 2 turn cool down, Normal/Sword) to Sydonay
Cannon (40 normal + 15 bonus) to Sydonay
Shotgun (50 normal + 15 bonus) to Sydonay, splash damage to FirePhoenixC
Dodge
Both combatants crossed out, glaring threateningly at Sydonay before going into attack.
Machman sends out entrapping bubbles, but only snares a single FirePhoenix. Sydonay grins as XIII rushes him with his signature attack. Multiple flashes of light later, XIII turns around to find, the trapped FirePhoenix? Even so, Machman had also been attacking the flaming enemy at this time, so in the midst of XIII's signature attack, he finished off the FirePhoenix with a ring of electricity.
"Hah! Well, your aim ain't so bright now, ain't it?" Sydonay taunted the warriors, who immediately charged into the fray again.
Machman took down another FirePhoenix with some quick swordsmanship, and sidestepped out of the way of the attack from its brethren's heat wave.
Surprisingly enough, XIII managed to pull off some nice shots on Sydonay with both a Cannon and Shotgun blast. Reeling back in surprise, the Heelnavi smirked, dusting himself off.
"Not bad, not bad. Well, as to why I'm doing this? It's simply because I told these guys at the restaurant to up their security a little, but the poor fools didn't listen. Well, they're getting what they deserve," Sydonay growled darkly, the flames on his body rising higher and higher.
A blur of flame came at XIII, who immediately turned to the side, the blast slamming into the ground near him. That could've dealt some serious damage.
"Who do I work for, you ask? Hah! Like I'd actually tell you chickenheads! Burn in hell!" Sydonay roared, punching the ground and sending streams of roaring flames at the two. Machman took the blow with his barrier, but it didn't seem it would last long. XIII got the bitterer side of it. Some panels in the floor appeared cracked due to the fire navi's attack.

Sydonay: 280 HP
FirePhoenixA: DELETED
FirePhoenixB: 110 HP
FirePhoenixC: DELETED
FirePhoenixD: 110 HP

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

Machman.exe: 75 HP (XIII Lv2) [10 HP Barrier] [Sword]
XIII.exe: 35 HP (Mach 13 Another Type)
Machman stands steadfast as his shield gets hammered by the flames. His eyes still grow brightly like two hot coals in a furnace. His gaze shifts to XIII as he is also hit with the flames. A green glow shines in Machman's face as he activates two recovery chips on his comrade. As the green glow dies off, Mazers voice chimes in to his ear.

[Keep your focus. Take down those FirePhoenix viruses first, then focus fire on the HeelNavi.]

Understood

Machman's twin swords move away from his back and quickly float in front of him. He grabs a hilt with each hand and the swords start to fragment. He slams the bottoms of the hilts together, fusing them as the swords re-form into a single black boomerang shape. Machman releases the sword boomerang, and it floats in front of him and flips so the blades are parallel with the ground. Machman's eyes seemed to glow a little brighter, and the boomerang quickly spins up to an incredible speed. The boomerang, looking more like a shimmering black disk, spins so fast it emits a high pitched rumbling sound like a helicopter rotor and some of the flames in the surrounding area start to be pulled into the vortex it makes. The flames and smoke are pulled above and below the boomerang and spin into cone shapes, making an hourglass of flame and smoke, with the boomerang as its center.

Without warning, the boomerang zooms towards the group of fire viruses and Sydonay. The boomerang cruises a few feet from the ground, leaving a trail of swirling air and flames picked up by its vortices. The boomerang passes through the group and begins its banking turn. The boomerang zips back to Machman and comes to a dead stop inches from his face. The boomerang's spin slows and the two blades making up the boomerang separate and return to their normal shapes to be wielded for a precision strike. Machman focuses in on a FirePhoenix and engages, dashing forward at incredible speed. Machman's right arm rises, hoisting 'Kaji' to the ready position. As he is just about to collide with the virus, he slashes downward. He cannot stop, so he... passes right through the virus? His body, or at least an image of his body, passes through the virus like a phantom and disappears. Machman then quickly reappears behind the virus, blades drawn and resting on eachother in a crossed formation like a pair of scissors. He then spreads his arms apart in one lightening fast motion, delivering a devastating slash.

Machman continues to stare at Sydonay with his burning orange eyes as he releases his blades and his right hand becomes encased in a semi-transparent gut fist, ready to crush some skulls.

Come...

ACTIONS:
Recover10: XIII.EXE (Recover 10HP)
Recover10: XIII.EXE (Recover 10HP)
Boomerang1: FirePhoenixB,D, Sydonay (60dmg Wood)
Invisible Edge: FirePhoenixB (60dmg Fire + 2TCD)
Counter: 1 Opponent (Counter one attack with GutPunch for 70dmg + Breaking + Impact)

Thrust Laser: Ready
Invisible Edge: 2 Turns Remaining
Heat Guard: 10HP
XIIICross_LVL2: Active
XIII hit the ground and slid back, coughing with some dark red flying from his mouth. He may have more control over his high speeds in his form, but that wasn't the problem. The last two major enemies they had fought, Magnus and Emperor, while both had been fearsomely powerful, both had still been only holding back to test them. While Sydonay wasn't nearly as strong as those previous two, he wasn't holding back at all, and that threw off XIII's reading just slightly enough to prove dangerous.

The green glow descended on XIII's body healing some of the damage, albeit a little. Kasumi sighed in relief and looked at Mazer. "Thanks Mazer. I was really worried about XIII for a second," She said, then turning to the PET screen, "XIII, are you ok! you need to get up. There's a jamming signal on the area, I can't jack you out until the fight's over... come on, you've beaten tougher guys than this."

The damaged had been healed, but XIII was still quite senseless on the ground. The navi was weakly trying to get up on his feet, but his vision was still slightly blurred from the pain and his ears were ringing. He could faintly hear kasumi yelling to him, but every so often the voice would sound like something different, and the terrain would shift to something that looked more like the real world. It was like he was having some sort of flash back, but this was no memory he'd ever consciously recalled.
"Stand up soldier! Your not down and out yet!" It sounded like a gruff man's voice just on the edge of his hearing, yet sounded so familiar. The scenery infront of his eyes had changed too, looking like a street in a city in Sharo to the north, but with a strange haze across it. "Remember your training, Raven! Even if you die, you must eliminate your target!" The man's voice yelled at him again, sounding alot like some kind of drill sergeant. XIII stood up in the street and slowly walked forward but fell against a wall clutching his chest, yet still forcing himself to move. There was a searing pain in his chest that caused him to look down, and his hands were covered in fresh blood, like a from a severe gunshot wound. He just stared down at his shaking hands, trying to make sense of the situation.

"XIII, are you alright?! Answer me!" That was clearly Kasumi's voice. XIII looked up and the battle field had returned back to the normal stove network he had been in before. He glanced down at his hands, but there was no blood on them or any thing. Had that been some kind of weird hallucination from a glitch?
"Yeah, I'm alright Remi," He answered back, regaining his composure, "Just got a little confused thats all." There was still a slight ringing noise in his ears still, but it was fading.

"Good, you worried me there. You just stopped responding all of a sudden." Kasumi fished a couple of chips out from her bag and began slotting them in. "OK XIII, he seems to be strong against melee attacks, but the cannon and shotgun managed to hit him dead on. Three Heatshots and a DblCube coming your way, XIII!"

The massive cube landed behind him to begin charging up energy, and the three weapons appeared in his hands. Thanks to the modification, they looked like sawed-off shotguns with flame-like etchings on the reddened barrels, and there were two already in his hands prepped for firing, the third appearing in a holster on his back. "Now this is what I'm talking about...." he took aim on Sydonay, and fired one after the other, then casted one away and grabbed the final one from his back to let loose another hailstorm of explosive shot at the same target. He took stance to dodge and retaliatory attacks, but was paying special attention to the newly cracked panels on the sides of him. Machman could fly, so he didn't have to worry about them, but XIII would be ejected forcefully if he were to fall in a hole.

Summary:
Heatshot (40 + Fire) Sydonay, splash to FirePhoenixD
Heatshot (40 + Fire) Sydonay, splash to FirePhoenixD
Heatshot (40 + Fire) Sydonay, splash to FirePhoenixB
DblBeam1(summon - 40 Null to all Enemies (Red Beam) or- 30 heal to all Allies. Random (Blue Beam)), Counter1 (70 + Impact + Break)
Dodge
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...?}