Band, Two Strong

Bard and sly looked at the viruses, completely unsure as to what they could do in battle. Even Leo had to take a second look at them, not at all knowing what attack pattern to take. Sly took a step back from the ramp and readied his bass guitar as the enemies brought themselves to the ready as well. "Guess we are just going to have to figure out how to fight them on the fly," Bard said. She brought the trumpet to her lips, and began summoning the musician's transport. She would need to to get up that incline, as well as avoid the attacks from those pesky quakers. As the spell played, the ground under bard began to glow bright white, and a disk formed under her feet. The pattern on the disk was one of musical notes following flowing french curves. The disk lifted Bard up into the air and she waited for some chips from Leo.

"I am going to send Sly the guard, so he won't have to move out of the way of the quakers attacks. Bard, you are going to have to handle the main damage here again. I am sending in dash attack and a shotgun. Use the 8th note dodge prior to attacking. Lets see how these things react to these attacks first." Leo grabbed the chips, slotting them in and quickly pressing in the correct options for each of the band members.

Sly wasted no time getting his precious defense up and running, knowing it wouldn't be long before attacks would be rained down upon them. He plucked the strings carefully and quickly, producing an even bass beat for Bard. As he did so, the guard chip worked and brought up a barrier around him, light blue in color. He kept picking at the strings as Bard pulled the trumpet to her mouth and quickly played the two dodge spells with the process attack.

Now that she had two dodge spells ready, and a disk under her feet, she kicked the disk into gear, working her way up the ramp. She started to bring up the shotgun chip as she moved towards the virus group, and the short fast beats escaped from her trumpet. The sound began more and more intense as she reached the point of firing the chip. She pulled the trumpet away from her mouth, and sang the final note as the shotgun attack aimed towards the two big hats.

Once the shotgun attack as finished, Bard pulled up the dash attack. As she played the notes for the spell, the trumpet itself began to change and morph into a wrecking ball. Once the trumpet was fully changed, she gripped it by the handle, it was effectively a ball and chain, and kicked the transport into gear, trying to make it up to the top of the ramp and damage the enemies with the attack all at once. She aimed first for the quakers, knowing they would fall to the impact of the attack.

Summary
Bard
1) Summon Musicians Transport -47 HP ((20 + 20 + 7) + Passive Movement)

Sly
1) Guard -60 HP bounce back shield-

Bard
2) 8th Note dodge Sig Attack -Dodge + Dodge-
-Passive movement up ramp
3) Shotgun to BigHatA -50 + splash-
4) Dash Attack to Quaker B -90 + Impact to 5 in a row-
The BigHat viruses simply did nothing to stop Bard's advance but to lob small spheres down the ramp, where they rolled down until they met the ground and gravity had no more hold on them. Bard's shotgun trumpeting hit the BigHat without much fanfare, and the Quakers leapt to the skies. Bard had that one covered, though, evading their attacks by attacking them herself and taking one down. The other, which she missed, whizzed past her up to the skies with its own wrecking ball, aiming for Sly down at the bottom of the ramp.

BigHatA: 50HP
BigHatB: 100HP
QuakerA: 80HP [High Altitude]
QuakerB: DELETED

FlashBombA: 20HP (lower area)
FlashBombB: 20HP (lower area)

Terrain: 30% Normal (Lower Bard's area), 20% Normal (45 degree ramp) 50% Normal (Higher Viruses' area)

Bard.EXE: 190HP (upper area)
Sly.SP: 40HP [Guard1] (lower area)
Musician's Transport: 47HP
Leo saw the bombs rolling down the ramp towards the area where Sly was holding his defenses. As Bard kept attacking the viruses, she couldn't see the threat to Sly and Leo quickly yelled to him, "Sly, Move up the ramp you don't want to be near those explosions!" Sly turned briefly to see the bombs behind him and then started to run up the ramp in haste, gripping the neck of his guitar tightly as he ran. Leo sat back after sly began moving and thought about the situation that Bard was in. "There's no way that she will be able to destroy them all in one wave of attacks now, plus one is unreachable. Might as well take out the ones on the ground then leave the final virus to be dealt with." He slotted in the boomerang chip and the two fire hit chips. "Bard, finish off the two big hats, and watch out for both Sly, who is advancing up the ramp, and the big virus in the air above you. We don't have an effective way to deal with him so we will just have to wait until he comes back down.

Bard received the chip data, and brought the trumpet to her mouth for the boomerang chip. The beat was a very rapid paced song with even notes and a clear beat line, a rather tribal noise for a brass instrument to produce. The noise alone was very foreign as was the way the trumpet began to morph and shape itself into the boomerang. A few short notes later and the weapon was finished, which she took careful aim with to try to hit both of the big hats at once. He hand gripped the brass-wood boomerang before throwing it at the targets. The boomerang was on the return path from the attack, and the moment it reconnected with her hand she stated playing the songs for the fire hits.

These spells have a very jazzy feel to them. Upbeat, quick, and random the songs perfectly matched the element of fire they ere tying to reproduce. The mouth of the trumpet turned a burnt black color as the interior was becoming heated with the flames. As the spell finished, Bard kicked the musician's transport into action and moved as close to the big hats as she could, before unleashing the attacks from the trumpet. Two balls of fire were sent from the trumpet, one aimed at each of the bighats. Lastly, Bard looked down at Sly to see him working on the ramp to hold his guard chip in place. She then diverted her eyes skyward to see the looming virus there, ready to crash down and cause some serious harm. Unless those explosions were very large, which they shouldn't be based on the size of the spheres, Sly's guard should stay in one piece to take an attack from the Quaker above.

Bard pulled her black and brass trumpet to her mouth and played a familiar tune. Two large De Capos, which are the repeate signs of the music world, appeared and caused Bard to start shifting around very very rapidly. The song played as the spell worked, giving a smooth jazzy background to the now Blurry Bard. As the spell finished, Two copies of Bard were now on the stage, with the musician herself in a new location from the original spot of using the spell. These defenses should hold use for one attack, Bard said as she waited for the next wave of chips.

Summary
Sly
1) Move up the ramp

Bard
1) Boomerang to BigHatB, attempted aim for BighatA as well (60 wood, arching)
Passive movement from Musician's Transport - Move closer to big hats
2) Firehit to Bighat B (60 fire)
3) Firehit to BigHat A (60 fire)
4) De Capo process attack, Create two Decoys
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Running up the ramp, Sly got himself into position with the Quaker, reversing its attack onto itself! A Boomerang thrown to the BigHats from Bard managed to severely damage one of the hatted viruses, with a follow-up fireball deleting one. Then, as Bard made her two decoys, the bombs from below exploded in a flash of light, blinding and stunning Bard and Sly! (10) (10) (10) (10)

BigHatA: DELETED
BigHatB: 40HP
QuakerA: 60HP
QuakerB: DELETED

Terrain: 30% Normal (Lower Bard's area), 20% Normal (45 degree ramp) 50% Normal (Higher Viruses' area)

Bard.EXE: 170HP (upper area) (Blinded! 2 Turns) (Stunned! -2 Action) (2 Decoy: 1 Turn)
Sly.SP: 20HP (lower area) (Blinded! 2 Turns) (Stunned! -2 Action)
Musician's Transport: 47HP
Bard and Sly both gripped their hands tightly against their heads as the blast from the bombs went off. Sly took the damage far worse then Bard. To him the flashbang sounded worse than any reverb he had ever heard from a speaker. Sly stumbled around the area of his platform before Falling to his knees to hold her ears tightly. Bard took the noise damage a little better than Sly, being able to still think and function to figure out the best course of action. Leo's face was glued to the monitor as he watched the status of his netnavi change drastically, from some form of a fighting sense to a much more defensive action to be held. He knew Bard wouldn't be able to aim or focus well this turn, and that the quaker had to be held still for the group to be able to shake off the flashbang. Bard had a heavy job ahead of her to make the playing field safe enough for Sly and herself, while blinded by the light.

Let grabbed a cannon chip and slotted it in for Bard. "I'm aware you won't be able to do much this time around, but you have to at least drop the bighat, and try holding down the quaker. Two attacks is all I ask."

Bard felt the data entering her system, and she quickly processed it. She still held her head tightly, and forced the musicians transport to not move so quickly. Her eyes hurt greatly as she lifted the trumpet to her lips, aiming the mouth of the instrument right where the bighat was, to the best of her sight ability. She played through the short song, consisting of quick rises and short beats, and on the final low note of the song the cannon ball fired out towards the bighat virus.

Bard tried forcing her eyes open more to see the quaker better, but could still only make out very little. She kicked the musicians transport into effect to move closer to where she remembered the Quaker to have landed. Down the ramp from where she was, closer to Sly.

In Bard's vision, the shape of the virus soon appeared, and appeared largely, with which sight she hit the break quickly on the Transport. Bard changed her instrument to her trusty guitar, and began to fiddle and pick at the strings. This song was second nature to her, so the casting of the spell shouldn't be as easily effected by the blindness.

Feeling her way around the neck of the instrument caused the string to come to life in the classical format of this attack for Bard. Each one unwound from the guitar neck, and started to recoil and hiss like snakes. She gaining its on life and it's own Identity. The strings launched themselves at the quaker, attempting to wrap their barbed bodies around the virus and dig into the ground to keep it on the platform new time they could gain the offensive.

Summary

Bard
1) Stun
2) Stun
Passive movement towards Bighat Musicians Transport.
3) Cannon to BigHat B (40)
4) Musical Bindings to Quaker A (30 + Hold)

Sly
1) Stun
Hindered by blindness and stunned, Bard attempted to shake off the detrimental effects while her SP remained mostly unable to act. Upon recovering sufficiently, she willed her transport closer to the BigHat and aimed a cannonball shot at it. The attack nearly landed, but ended up missing by about a foot when the virus stumbled out of the way.

Her next attack was more successful. however. The strings of Bard's guitar made straight for the Quaker and held it down on the ground before it could move away. That was good, since the BigHat soon launched another bomb that landed relatively close to Bard. Contending with the bomb would probably be easier without a virus actively trying to smash her.

BigHatA: DELETED
BigHatB: 40HP
QuakerA: 30HP (Hold)
QuakerB: DELETED

FlashBomb: 20HP (Near Bard)

Terrain: 30% Normal (Lower Bard's area), 20% Normal (45 degree ramp) 50% Normal (Higher Viruses' area)

Bard.EXE: 170HP (upper area) (Blinded! 1 Turn)
Sly.SP: 20HP (lower area) (Blinded! 1 Turn) (Stunned! -1 Action)
Musician's Transport: 47HP
Bard's vision was still very whited out, but her hearing had returned from the flashbang. Although he vision was improving, she still wouldn't be able to aim straight, and she informed Leo of this. Sly, however, was in far worse shape. His ear were still ringing harshly as he gripped the side of his head to try and ease the pain. Lucky, he had remained on the ground and not gotten up to wonder around to safety. "That's a very good sign," Leo remarked, "In a very real term, those grenades were made to disorient the target and cause them to stand up and be exposed."

"That's very nice, Leo, now back to the matter at hand!" Bard shouted at her operator. No sooner had the sentence finished, did Bard see another bomb land next to her. This time, she wasn't going to make the mistake of letting one of those remain around. "At least it landed near to me," Bard mumbled as she brought the trumpet to her lips. Leo was already in the process of supplying the chip to take out the bomb.

"This should be the final wave of attacks," Leo said, looking over both the vitals of Bard and the vitals of the poor SP Sly. Use this chip to take out the bomb, the range of its spread should be enough to make hitting the damned thing much easier." Leo slotted in the shotgun chip and then started to shift through the pile as Bard started to play the spell.

The song was very upbeat and fast, with many note changes and 8th notes in the song. As the song kept playing, the trumpet began to shift and change into something that resembled a blunderbuss. The mouth became wider, and the overall length of the instrument grew. The keys on top that Bard was using to play were shifting into a flintlock style shotgun, and as the final changes were done, Bard played the last note on the flintlock latch that fired the shotgun towards the small, but dangerous, bomb on the ground. "The spread from that should take care of the bomb," Bard hoped.

Leo, in the mean while, had found the perfect chip to deal with the remaining viruses. It was a chip they hadn't used before, something foreign to the musical warrior. The machine gun chip. "Bard, kick the transport into gear and line yourself up with the last two viruses in a cone. We want to spray these gun, hopefully two bullets will hit and finish these guys off easily." He slotted in the chip then found another item that would be perfect for dealing final blows to all of the enemies. He slotted that in along with the DBL cube. "Lots of wide hitting attacks should, combined, deal through your bad vision right now from the flashbang. Let's hope so eh?"

Bard kicked the musicians transport into action and moved it quickly into a firing lane to line up the held quaker, and the big hat viruses. She couldn't see overly well, but with the next weapon she was going to bring up, she wouldn't have to.

Bard started to summon each of the chips in the order they were given to her. First up, was the machine gun. This song was odd and in an extremely fast time signature for any instrument, minus maybe a drum set. Bard played the fast beat, with many many 16th notes and low booming bass noises, loud and proud. As she did so, her trumpet gained lots of weight, and many mouths. Soon there were four different mouths to the trumpet, and the instrument became to heavy for Bard to hold on her own, to her mouth. She found, however, that as she lowered it, the song finished by itself. She sat the gun down upon the transport, and held tightly to the top mounted grip and reinforced the gun with her legs. She took one last line up through her blurry vision, before pulling the trigger and sending the four mouth spinning, and shooting out 9 shots. She made a point to try and rotate the platform slightly from side to side to further send the bullets in the cone pattern she had attempted to line the viruses up in before her.

She brought up the next chip, the AmatsuHaretsu1 chip. She had used this one before, and as such, the spell was far simpler and the transformation, which was minimal, to her trumpet was prepared for. The song had four different sections, each mirroring the other and having smooth carryins to be played with. As each section was finished, a small colored ball was produced from the mouth of the trumpet, and began to circle around the Bard until the song was finished. The final four notes assigned where the attacks went and she sent two attacks at the bomb on the ground, and one each at the two viruses before her. Bard glanced to Sly, only to see him still gripping his ears in pain, not wanting to move and unable to see.

The final chip was one Bard had used before but barely had much use out of. "I do think that this is the first time this chip as proven to be slightly useful to us," Bard commented to Leo as she prepared to play the song. "It seemed to fit our situation very well, and both of the sides will be helpful in one way or another." Bard nodded as she played the song. The trumpet began to change colors, and split into a red side and a blue side. As the song kept going, each side flashed brightly, and the rotation of which side was lit was changing more and more rapidly. Finally one color stood out over the other, determining which side was used.


Summary
Sly
1) Stunned

Bard
1) Shotgun to Flashbomb hoping spread helps with lack of vision. (50 + Spread)
Passive Movement Musicians Transport (Move to a better cone shaped firing lane with the two viruses in sight)
2) Machinegun1 Down the range at Bighat and Quaker (30 damage x 9 shots/D)
3) AmatsuHaretsu1 to Flashbomb, Bighat, and Quaker (10 damage x 4. 2 hits to Bomb, 1 to Quaker and Bighat)
4) DBLbeam1 (Red or Blue. Red- 40 damage to all enemies. Blue- 30 Heal to all Allies)
Playing an upbeat and quick song, Bard's notes shot towards the bomb near her and destroyed it quickly. Moving around a bit more to get a better shot, Bard then played an even faster song, the song that signified the Machinegun battlechip. It was extremely inefficient at hitting most anything, but at least it hit both viruses left on the field twice, and that was what mattered. The fireballs later finished off the BigHat and deleted it. The trumpet was then used to play a rousing song for their victory, which flashed red in all of its brilliance.

BigHatA: DELETED
BigHatB: DELETED
QuakerA: DELETED
QuakerB: DELETED

Terrain: 30% Normal (Lower Bard's area), 20% Normal (45 degree ramp) 50% Normal (Higher Viruses' area)

Bard.EXE: 170HP (upper area)
Sly.SP: 20HP (lower area)
Musician's Transport: 47HP

-- BATTLE TWO, VICTORY!! --

-- REWARDS --

800z, 18 BugFrags
Bard's vision cleared to discover the enemies cleared from the field, and Sly standing back to his feet. Sly still kept a hand on the side of his head to block out the ringing, but he could see and grabbed his instrument and walked shamefully over towards Bard. Bard smiled as he walked over, glad to see him still okay after the fight. "Don't be ashamed, you did well. Lets take a break, we will get more practice another day." Sly Nodded as the pair jacked out from the network.

{JACK-OUT}