Hunting for Information

((...Oh Demon, you master of Suspense XD))

Alphonse's stood there with blank look on his face. He was so confused about everything, the reason why the two philistines Heelnavi fled and the mysterious, yet omnipotent roar from the back ground.

"What in the world just happened?"

"You tell me! I'm just as confused as you are!!"

"I don't know"

Alphonse's armor slowly dissipated along with his silvery shield, returning to his original attire.

"Err...What happened"

"...Can...No, it can't be."

"Eh?"

"The roar. The roar from that titanic virii we met before, it did something to my programming..."

"Woah...LET'S GO GET IT!!"

"Hey Hey!! There's no way we can defeat that beast. Remember our mission, get vital information and that's it!"

"But we can get more info by attacking it straight on! If things go bad, we can just jack out!"

"...*Sigh*...I know how stubborn you are, so I guess I should go..."

Alphonse breathed in very deeply and slowly walked towards the ruin with caution.
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((Sorry for the wait, here we go!))

As Alphonse blunders his way through the ruins, he notices a faint tremor... dismissing it as a trick of his mind, he continues on--until the tremors become more and more frequent. It wasn't a constant vibration, but pulses of quakes, followed by lulls--which were shrinking by the second.

A crack in the wall right next to Alphonse! He leaps back, barely in time as the strange beast from earlier barges past him, plowing into the other wall of the narror corridor. Two dark shapes flit over the wall, attacking all the while...
Alphonse quickly grasped his balance and saw the two figures heading towards the Cybeast. Both K and Alphonse was, again, pretty confused about the situation.

"Those two?"

"They must be after the Cybeast..."

"Are they in the same mission like ours?"

"I heavily doubt that, K. Even though I have the slightest clue of what they're after...We just can't let them hunt down that beast."

"Err...Yea...LET'S GO!!"
Alphonse follows into a clearing within the ruin, the rubble so decimated that few obstacles remain. He stares into the back of a bipedal creature, heavily reinforced in the upper body region. The beast snorts, catching Alphonse's scent upon the air.

It turns, and Alphonse stares into the eyes of the enraged giant.

It looks like a mythical minotaur, its ears pierced with golden hoops and its its horns alloyed with bronze. It's hands look strange, half-formed hooves making the fingers cumbersome. It stands nearly twice as tall as Alphonse, yet its shoulders are nearly three times as wide!

Suddenly, a shot comes from behind Alphonse! Ducking instinctly, he dodges--then realizes the shot wasn't for him. A slight prick in its furry shoulder, the Minotaur charges Alphonse, horns lowered!

???: 990 HP

Alphonse: 147

Fight for your life!
"!!"

"Shi-- Watch out!!"

Instinctively Alphonse reacted to the charging Cybeast and hastily jumped sideways just before the Cybeast came in contact. Alphonse quickly regained his balance and prepared to retaliate.

"Damn man...What are we going to do about that?!"

"At least it looks like those duos are here to "help" us. We don't have any time to think of this, that beast is going to get the best of us if we just stay like this!"

"Right! Firehit1, Chip transfer!"

K slid in two crimson chips into his PET slot, heating both of Alphonse's gauntlets into the reddish orange tone. No fear, only the faint fire of excitement was in Alphonse's eye when he locked on to his towering opponent and grasped his fingers into a burning fist. Alphonse immediately threw a colossal uppercut, sending a mimicking fiery fist towards the Cybeast, and with no-lag he threw a whipping jab to connect his combo.

"Damn, that should do a damage!"

"It could, but I have no idea how capable that Cybeast is..."

Alphonse took a deep sigh and prepared his mind and leg to avoid another charge from the Cybeast.

Actions:
1: Prepare to evade the Charge
2: Firehit1 [70/Fire] @ "Cybeast"
3: Firehit1 [70/Fire] @ "Cybeast"
4: Prepare to evade again
Its fur ablaze, the minotaur shatters yet another wall, the force of the impact knocking Alphonse off his feet. With a loud snort, it rips a pole from ground, swinging the makeshift weapon like a club wildly at Alphonse.

Headshot! Alphonse's glasses go flying!

???: 850 HP

Alphonse: 127
Alphonse stood still as his glass went stray into the air. His eyes was shadowed by the way he tilted his eyes, but slowly came to face towards the Cybeast. Alphonse's silver eye was blazing with a deadly look mixed with the personality Alphonse barely showes, anger. K was dumb struck by the strange image of Alphonse, the navi who was calm, collective, and blithe even in battle was this serious now. Not even a fraction of a second could follow the speed of the hook and uppercut he threw at the Cybeast's giant body. Immedately following his punches Alphonse leaped up and shifted his leg to aim at the Cybeast's head, ready to send a slashing jump-kick head-on. After Alphonse' combo, he quickly prepared his body for evasive combat.

Actions:
1: Rapier Punch [12/Fire/Buster] @ Cybeast
2: Rapier Punch [12/Fire/Buster] @ Cybeast
3: Halberd Impaler [60/Fire/Raises chance to Evade/SigAtk] @ Cybeast
4: Prepare to evade
Nump~
((MOD-JACK))

Alphonse's attacks all land, but as the creature charges, head lowered, he swiftly dodges the left horn... and into the right. The blow is jarring, but mostly superficial.

???: 766 HP

Alphonse: 117
Alphonse only flinched as his stomach got a direct hit from the Cybeast's dire tackle and he was thrown to the other side of the battle field. He quickly recovered from the attack, still having the fresh expression on his face, equipped rage claw onto both of his gauntlets. Raising his blood hungry claws, Alphonse dashed with all his might and aimed his knife-like fingers straight towards the Ox. Alphonse gave a quick twirl with his hand and tried to land two slashes onto the Cybeast's torso as he did last time with his fist. Just when the Cybeast was about to retaliate, Alphonse thrusted his claws straight towards the pair of those proud horns the Cybeast had. Alphonse was attempting to take a firm grab to the horn and throw it across the field, trying to throw off the Cybeast's attack "rhythm". Alphonse slowly grasped his fingers and prepared to evade the attacks once more.

Actions:
1: RageClaw Slash [40+10 (Untapped Power)/Close-combat/Grapple] @ Cybeast
2: RageClaw Slash [40/Close-combat/Grapple] @ Cybeast
3: RageClaw Grapple Throw [20/Close-Combat] @ Cybeast. Attempting to throw off the Cybeast's offence.
4: Prepare to evade.
Lump
((Hey, who you calling a lump? ;P))

Alphonse let's loose a rapid flurry of blows against the creature, attempts to throw it around are fuitle, however, it's much to big. the beast takes another charge, but Alphonse dodges.

Suddenly, a HeelNavi comes up of a ridge. "HEY! I FOUND BARANGUF!" he yells back over his shoulder. "GET THE EQUIPMENT READY!" Suddenly, four more HeelNavis flank the first, and one spots Alphonse. Pointing him out to the leader, then starting to get his weapons ready, the leader holds up his hand. "Listen, rookie. We let Baranguf be distracted by that punk while we do our work. If there's anything left, then we smash him."

'Baranguf' notices the group too, and opens his mouth, and fires a massive amount of what can only be described as concentrated darkness at the Heelnavis. When the light returns, only three Navi's are left.

?Baranguf?: 666 HP

Alphonse: 117

HeelNaviLeader: ???
HeelNaviA: ???
HeelNaviB: ???
Alphonse stood stolid while keeping his harsh eyes and atmosphere intact. His finger twitched and the claw slowly disintegrated into bits of datas, exchanging it with a large barreled gun. "K...". K's eye grew wide when he heard Alphonse talking back. It should be a normal response since this was the first time for K to see him like this. "Er...Yea?", "Send in all of the Heatshots", "...". K slowly reached onto his pocket and looked through the handful of chips he grabbed, sorting out three crimson chips. K looked up towards his PET to see Alphonse, still unmoved and surrounded by ominous atmosphere, and slid in the chips all at once.

When the chips loaded onto Alphonse, his gun flared with furious flame and grew even more by the seconds. Alphonse dashed with his gun pointed low and rushed towards Baranguf, he was planning to take full advantage of the Cybeast's slow reflex and deal as much damage as he can afflict. It was just before when it looked as if Alphonse was about to tackle the Cybeast with his body, he swung his heavy gun to negate his speed with the momentum. As soon as he regained his balance, Alphonse pulled the trigger once and twice, releasing a hammering blast straight to the stomach of the beast.

"Awesome! Now let's shoot down those He—"

"You fool, we do not want to make anymore enemies as we fight that Ox. Besides, they'll use me like a pawn till they find an opportunity..."

"...What's gotten into you"

Alphonse kicked the ground and dashed backwards, but, Alphonse did not make waste of his time and shot yet another blast of heatshot as he was backing away. Alphonse landed and looked down to find his glass lying next to him. He reached down to grab his glass but rather than wearing it, he put it in his inner jacket pocket and looked straight towards Baranguf preparing to dodge the charge.

Actions:
1: Heatshot (Close-Range) Blast [45+10/Fire/Spread] @ Baranguf
2: Heatshot (Close-Range) Blast [45/Fire/Spread] @ Baranguf
3: Heatshot Blast [45/Fire/Spread] @ Baranguf
4: Prepare to evade
Pump (I'm running out of Puns here...)
((Sorry.))

Alphonse fires shot of heat over and over, the first two hit, but Baranguf dodges the third, and gives Alphonse a gut full of horn for his trouble.

The HeelNavi's use the distraction to get into position, quickly erecting several peices of equipment. "Yo, ugly!" one yells to the creature, and as Baranguf turns, he fires another blast of darkness at them. This time, however, the rays of darkness refract, bending inward on themselves, causing a slight fizzle as the attack was nullified. Suddenly, the equipment flashes to life, firing light beams around the beast, caging it.

As Alphonse looks on, two of the injured HeelNavi's cart off the pasified creature. The third comes to Alphonse. "Listen, punk. We've got some real fragile cargo, now, so we can't be offin' ya today. Just hear this: You'd better not be telling nobody what you seen today, else yous be bringing the whole NetMafia to your doorstep. We have eyes and ears everywhere, kid." Laughing like a maniac, the HeelNavi runs off to help his comrades.

Victory?

Reward: 1000 Zenny
((No need to be sorry :3))

Alphonse stared with his blank eyes towards the "NetMafia" while he was explaining his about the situation. He takes the bribe from the navi and started to walk towards the Netopian Square.

"...You ok?"

Alphonse slowly reached for his pocket and finally placed it on his eyes.

"I'm perfectly fine, bit shacken by those terrible horns."

K sighed in relief and smiled back.

"Alright. Let's head back for the mission."

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