SINNBAD's Trials

Several sectors of SINNBAD's status screen began to change to yellow while he fought. Destin's brow slowly furrowed at this. He began typing commands into his PET, bringing up notification windows on these sections. Several of those notifications claimed that there was quite a bit of corrupted data. SINNBAD would need some data reconstruction soon if this kept up.
Ding.

Shotgun + 250z for Firehit1.

Ding.

Guard1 for Shockwave.

... Ding.

[Pending] Sword for HeatShot.


Destin was only half paying attention to SINNBAD as he fought. He was quite busy watching several trade channels. Destin was changing out his spare chips for redundant chips of types he found useful. However, the increase in danger that SINNBAD was experiencing was distracting Destin from his task. Destin minimized the trade channels in order to concentrate on SINNBAD's fight.
SINNBAD managed to work his way to the Kabutanks and deleted both of them, but found himself cut off from what little land remained intact. Fortunately, this meant that the shockwaves from the Metools were rendered harmless. The Melody was not as hampered by the terrain and eagerly bounded on top of SINNBAD's head before crashing against the mystery data.

MetoolA: 40 HP
MetoolB: 40 HP
MelodyA: DELETED
MelodyB: 30 HP
KabutankA: DELETED
KabutankB: DELETED
Green Mystery Data: 15 HP

Terrain: 10% Cracked, 30% Normal, 60% Broken (scattered)

SINNBAD.EXE: 75HP
Black smoke again bellowed from SINNBAD's eyes as his anger mounted. Not only was he struck once more. Not only was the way in which he was attacked an insult, being stepped on, like some sort of insect. But the virus was clumsy to boot. A clumsiness that lead to property destruction. This was especially unforgivable because it was against a potential treasure. That was crossing over a line that would lead to the virus' annihilation.

SINNBAD loomed over the Melody laying on the ground after the crashing fall. His eyes twin embers in a relatively ghostly visage. He raised his sword arm, the tip of the glowing sword pointing straight at the virus' eyes. SINN's mouth spread into a maniac of a grin, stretching from ear to ear. This was quite hard to see due to the fact that his ears were covered in a helmet. But his teeth were as white as new fallen snow and reflected the luminescence of the blade he held at the virus' face.

He was like a psycho as thrusted his blade at the Melody's body with a powerful stroke of his arm. As he struck, swiftly, again and again, he began to cackle. The cackle rose to a thunderous, insane laughter. Bloody datum gushed not only from the potentially fatal stabbing of the Melody, but from the open wounds on SINNBAD's sword arm. The pain was probably mind-numbing, but SINNBAD showed no signs of his struggle.

Destin thought the sound of SINN's mounting laughter and the way he acted was quite disturbing. The longer SINNBAD battled, the more bloodthirsty he became. As SINN's status changed to all yellow, Destin became concerned that SINNBAD would have a system crash. Or worse, be lost to his becoming nature, and turn into a mindless virus. This would probably be the last battle that Destin would subject SINNBAD to until he dealt with the abnormalities.

But for the moment, Destin would watch SINNBAD butcher a virus.

Summary
1: Sword [Battlechip]: 80 Null Damage + Slashing to MelodyB. [3/6 uses remaining.]
2: Sword [Battlechip]: 80 Null Damage + Slashing to MelodyB. [2/6 uses remaining.]
3: Sword [Battlechip]: 80 Null Damage + Slashing to MelodyB. [1/6 uses remaining.]

Other Effects:
1: Float Shoes [NaviCust]: Ignores effects from panels except broken/missing.
2: Sword [Battlechip]: 1 use remaining.
SINNBAD's blind rage worked against him as he charged towards the Melody with a series of slashes, only to stumble right into one of the many numerous broken panels littering the field. The Melody was able to bound away and watched as the navi struggled to stay anchored onto the ledge with only one free arm. The Metools peered into the small pit, still unable to attack.

MetoolA: 40 HP
MetoolB: 40 HP
MelodyA: DELETED
MelodyB: 30 HP
KabutankA: DELETED
KabutankB: DELETED
Green Mystery Data: 15 HP

Terrain: 10% Cracked, 30% Normal, 60% Broken (scattered)

SINNBAD.EXE: 75HP [stuck in a broken panel, -1 action to escape]
[I thought the Melody was right next to SINNBAD.]

SINNBAD fell, blinded by rage. However, he seemed conscious enough to grab hold of a ledge with his free hand, saving himself. The smoke faded away by the rush of wind created by SINN's fall, before he was halted by his own action. The smog didn't return. His attack was also halted. If he wasn't in danger, and half-crazed, SINN would probably feel shame unparalleled.

SINNBAD's Sword vanished and his right hand returned. He struggled as he attempted to pull himself up, reaching with his right hand in order to grab another part of the ledge to balance himself. His digital muscles flexing and straining with effort. His body heavy in the armor. His Float Shoes unable to assist.

After SINNBAD manages to pull himself up, a golden disk of energy appeared. Destin had slotted in the Guard1 battlechip. The yellow-orange bulwark rotated around SINN's kneeling form, warding him from harm. SINN tried to stand. His body was wobbly from the stress of battle and the constant deterioration of his form.

He turned now to the Melody. A Melody whom SINNBAD's previously hate-filled, narrowed vision placed right next to him. But the Melody was, in fact, several paces away, beyond a pitfall. SINNBAD's right hand disappeared again as he aimed his Buster at the Melody once more. SINN would not stop until the virus was dead. Dead for the continual dishonor the virus inflicted upon SINN.

A small spear extended from barrel. SINN aimed the harpoon at the Melody, his vision slightly blurry by fatigue. When SINN thought he had the virus, he fired. Two harpoons launched from the Buster, one right after another. Each blast made a distinctive popping sound of rushing, compressed air. The javelins lanced across whatever distance there were between the two combatants, slamming into something. Whether it was the virus, or the soil around it, only fate could say.

Summary
*Sword [Battlechip]: Dismissed.
1: SINNBAD pulls himself up.
2: Guard1 [Battlechip]: (1 Hit Shield) + (Reflect up to 60 + Piercing + Line Attack).
3: DoubleNeedle [Battlechip]: 50 Null Damage + Multi-Hit2 to MelodyB.

Other Effects:
1: Float Shoes [NaviCust]: Ignores effects from panels except broken/missing.
Climbing out of his hole and calming down, SINNBAD was able to pull up a shield and dispatch the Melody with a pair of spears. Now, only the Metools remained and were still just as helpless with the damaged terrain all around them. The battle was drawing to a close.

MetoolA: 40 HP
MetoolB: 40 HP
MelodyA: DELETED
MelodyB: DELETED
KabutankA: DELETED
KabutankB: DELETED
Green Mystery Data: 15 HP

Terrain: 10% Cracked, 30% Normal, 60% Broken (scattered)

SINNBAD.EXE: 75HP [guard1]
SINNBAD took aim at the remaining viruses and drew upon the datum streams one last time. Threads of multi-colored coding materialized from thin air and wrapped themselves around the navi. It was like being cocooned by a rainbow. Parts of SINN's body began to fade from view, absorbed into his next attack. SINN looked patchy, with some pieces of him being semi-transparent.

His Buster recoiled as it thundered off two rounds. The thunderclaps were met with blazing muzzle flashes as the payload rocketed outwards. The ghostly bolts were covered with dusky swirls as they careened across the field towards the Metools. After the shells left SINN's weapon, SINN collapsed to a knee, breathing heavily. He was still floating. But it would be amazing if he could move for much longer.

Summary
1: Codestring Augment [Signature]: Two instances of Strengthen 20.
2: Shot1 [Signature]: (30 + 20) 50 Null Damage [Shot Type] to MetoolA.
3: Shot2 [Signature]: (30 + 20) 50 Null Damage [Shot Type] to MetoolB.

Signature Cool Downs:
1: Codestring Augment: 1 Turn.
2: Shot1: 1 Turn.
3: Shot2: 1 Turn.

Other Effects:
1: Float Shoes [NaviCust]: Ignores effects from panels except broken/missing.
((You're not supposed to use strengthen on signature attacks, only chips and charged buster attacks. FYI for next time.))

PEW PEW! The Metools were picked off like targets at a shooting gallery. The green mystery data cracked open to reveal some new chip data.

MetoolA: DELETED
MetoolB: DELETED
MelodyA: DELETED
MelodyB: DELETED
KabutankA: DELETED
KabutankB: DELETED
Green Mystery Data: 15 HP

Terrain: 10% Cracked, 30% Normal, 60% Broken (scattered)

SINNBAD.EXE: 75HP [guard1]

[Battle 6 - Victory!]

Get: 600z
GMD: Zapring1
[Wow, I never noticed before or was told that Strengthen only worked on Chip and Charged Buster attacks. All those other times I used Strengthen to increase my Signatures were mistakes.]

The green mystery data contents were uploaded as SINNBAD collapsed. He was pulled out of the Net by Destin. It would be a few days before the navi was fit to start busting again. Destin froze SINN's programming in his PET so he could enact repair programs. He needed to purge SINN of a number of things.

[SINNBAD LOGGED OUT!]