Mission: Beat the harrasser!

(( Woop, won't be back til Saturday. Enjoy the battle-skip. ))

The giggling Zemon stopped as Red came up and asked for directions. Their shadows leapt up behind them, menacingly threatening the fairy-tale fighter. The Zemon quickly subdued them, greeting Red. One of them came up and talked, in a female voice.

Oh, you mean that big nasty? I think he's over there, unsheathing her (its?) katana and pointing in the direction of northwest. For a second there, we thought you were one of them male Navis coming in to tease the girls. They put us up here to stop them. But I can see you're a good one, the Zemon finished, even offering Red a quick smile.
"Thanks a lot! I heard that it was causing all sorts of trouble, so I've come to help!" Red proclaimed, pumping her fist into the air. "Wish me luck!"

And so she bounded off to the northwest.

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"That went better than I expected," Shin commented nonchalantly.

"The power of girliness unites all females on this planet, regardless of species!" the fairy-tale fighter announced, giggling as she skipped her way to her target.

"Sure, like the power of snacks unites all aces across dimensions," Shin joked.

[TO THE UNICORN]
(( Man, I had a modpost all typed out and someone had to shut the comp down. *glare* ))

And so did Red go in the direction of northwest. However, as she skipped along, the area's atmosphere seemed to shift somewhat, the shades of glaring feminine tones slowly growing darker, the grassy ground becoming more and more scarce of greenery, eventually turning into a dusty grey floor. Some of it even swirled strangely in peculiar ways, emitting an evil aura of sorts. Viruses that Red passed shrank away from her, as if afraid of something.

Then, a low sound echoed in the background.
HARRRUMPH.

The loud call seemed to spark fear in the viruses, as they fled quickly in droves from the source. Still did the fairy-tale fighter forge ahead, aware of the danger. But then, suddenly, a giant pillar stamped in front of the girl, causing her to stop in her tracks. Examined more closely, the pillar seemed to be a hoof, and looking up, the hoof continued up to an enormous white horse, its forehead marked with a mythical symbol, the horn of the majestic unicorn.

The unicorn looked down and grinned. The smile showed yellowed, nasty teeth as the animal talked. Ohhh, it's a little girl, come, little girl, come play with me... hehehehehhharrRRRUMPH! With that last bit, the animal's mane extended from the back of its head, twisting upon itself to form large, beastly appendages. Fully formed, the hair-tentacles flew towards Red in an attempt to subdue her.

No time for horsing around. *shot*

Unicorn: 1000HP (Attacking!)

Terrain: 65% Normal, 35% Cursed (edges of the field)

Red_Riding_Hood.EXE: 200HP
Myun.SP: 100HP

-BOSS BATTLE, FIGHT!!-
"Not so fast! RiskyHoney go!" Shin yelled, slotting in the chip with great speed.

"Hyah!" Red shouted, swinging her arm forward, quickly forming a barrier made of Honeycombs around herself in an attempt to bear the weight of the appendage attack. Bees with rockets attached to them buzzed angrily at the unicorn for attacking their queen and began to retaliate.

"Hold it down! Signature System route 1.2 initiate!" Shin ordered, prompting Red to whip out a metal canister from her picnic basket.

"This might be more suitable for you. Down boy!" the fairy-tale fighter called, slamming the canister into the ground before jumping back to see the result of her work.

A laser beam shot up from the ground and traced a circle around the unicorn. The disappearance of the marking laser was accompanied by a loud quaking of the ground, from which spouted a massive geyser of caramel in an attempt to engulf the mythical horse and glue it to the ground for the moment.

"What a bad attitude, kind of reminds me of someone I know," Shin commented, grimacing as he observed the unicorn's form. It was pretty big, like maybe the size of a normal brand-name hotel, but then again.

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall! For the sake of all women, we cannot let this thing exist!" Red proclaimed, uppercutting the air.

"For the sake of my peace of mind as well. At any rate, what should we...?" Shin began, before a list of requested chips was sent to his PET. Sighing, the self-proclaimed ace chuckled a bit as he sent in their terrain chip, an aqua chip, and the Cannonball.

Myun, in the meanwhile, took this time to lay the hurt on the unicorn. Moving toward the first leg with quick boxing steps, the boxing bunny slammed its powerful fist at the ligament, before following up with two quick hits from her ears.

Seeing her support unit wail on the unicorn gave the red-caped wonder another idea. First though, she snapped her fingers, an arctic wind encompassing the area and frosting over a good bit of the ground.

"You're getting a little too 'hot' for my liking, so..." Red started, swinging her arms forward, "Cool down!" Clapping her hands together, the crimson crusader summoned a serpentine dragon made entirely out of water to her side. Roaring mightily, the dragon rushed forward, slamming its body at two of the unicorn's legs, hoping the ice underneath would freeze them up quickly.

"Myun! Now!" Red called, pointing to the possibly frozen legs. Understanding the order, Myun charged up energy enough to smash through the most solid defenses and channeled it all into her fist. One step forward, and powerful right straight later, you could almost hear the ice shattered from the impact of the blow, but did it hit?

At the same time, Red sent a bowling bowl recently extracted from her bottomless picnic basket, flying toward the other possibly frozen leg. The damage it would do on impact was enormous, and Red dearly hoped it hit.

"Retreat! You don't know what it might do next!" Shin shouted, his friends giving him a firm nod, proceeding to skate around the ice terrain, a spotlight on Red's location.

Turn Summary:
1. RiskyHoney1 [Block 1-Hit and Counter for 5x10 +25(Bonus) Wood DMG]
2. Caramel stickiness to Unicorn [Stunx3]

Myun's Actions:
*Run Myun Run: Movement to get in Melee Range of Unicorn
1. Attack Unicorn [50 DMG + Impact]
*Rhythm Boxing to Unicorn [2x10 DMG]
*Smash: Add Break to next attack

Red' Actions:
3. Icezone [Create Medium-sized Ice Terrain centered on Red]
4. Wideshot1 to Unicorn [60 Aqua DMG + Wide Attack + Freeze (Ice)]

COMBO
Red 5. Cannonball to Unicorn [150 DMG + Breakx2(Break>Freeze) = 300 DMG]
Myun 2. Attack Unicorn [50 DMG + Impact + Breakx2(Break>Freeze) = 100 DMG]

RUN AWAY:
Red 6. Dodge
Myun 3. Dodge
*Sunshiny Day: Heal 15 to Red
As one of the tentacles smashed against the hive defense, some of the bees attacked the unicorn's foot, making it sneer slightly. Oops, heheheh. That might actually hurt a bit. Ooh, that stings. But then, the caramel geyser sprang up and blasted the animal with sticky sweetness, affixing a couple of hooves to the ground. Easily, it broke the caramel's hold by lifting them, one of the in the process smashing into Myun who was getting a little too close. (30) The bunny did, however, manage to land a few blows before getting knocked away. Then, Red made a skating rink of sorts to set up a combination attack, but the unicorn kept up its defense.

Harrrumph, what is this? Ice? Hrrrrahhhrahhhrhaaa, no, I have something better in mind. How about THIS, the unicorn laughed as it stamped a hoof onto the ground, negating most of the change, and turning it into blank grey once more. It even seemed to affect their creepy surroundings a bit, as the swirling ground seemed to creep up on them ever so unnoticeably.

Keeping up her attack, the fairy-tale fighter summoned a snaking dragon, which launched itself strongly against the unicorn's legs, damaging them with quite an amount of force. Following up, the duo launched a combo attack, with Myun focusing into a soulful fist smash, and Red attacking with a bowling ball. The ball did hit (150), but Myun's fist only managed to hit a bit of ice lying around after the dragon's attack.

Suddenly, one of the appendages from the earlier attack sprang up on Red after she was reeling from throwing the ball, and ensnared her in a tight hold! Hmhmhmhmhm... hrrrr, did you think that would stop me? Oh, you thought wrong, little girl, you thought wrong.She then felt a drain on her strength, as the hairy grip squeezed the stuffing out of her.

Such... a delicate child... Dear, dear, what shall I do with you? Eheheheheh... the unicorn said as the tentacle began to snake around her.

Unicorn: 775HP

Terrain: 10% Ice (centred on Red's area), 45% Cursed (edges of the field), 45% Normal (everywhere else)

Red_Riding_Hood.EXE: 165HP (Ensnared! Use action(s) to free self!)
Myun.SP: 70HP
((Just build up the 'Determination'))

The team should've been scared out of their minds, the potential damage of this thing, its attitude, their current situation, all of it was enough to make someone lose despair.

But Shin and Red had a different response in mind.

"Gotcha," they both said, grinning as Shin slotted in two chips and Red grabbed at the hairy appendage coiled around her, electricity crackling around her fingertips.

"Take this!" both operator and navi yelled, the chip activating, and Red sending a large amount, possibly a million volts even, of electricity straight through the unicorn's appendage, trying to conduct the charge into the beast's body and fray his ligaments and appendages for the moment.

The next chip in the roster activated, warping the caped crusader out of her little predicament and to the next planned destination...

...on top of the unicorn's back.

"This would be perfect with a DashAttack, don't you think?" Red giggled, sunlight shining on her figure as Myun dashed at the unicorn again, punching at it hard before following up with two attacks from her ears.

"Yeah, it's such a shame," Shin lamented, twirling three more chips in their arsenal in his hands before slotting them in.

"You're a naughty boy aren't you? Didn't I say you needed to cool down?" the red-caped wonder teased playfully, snapping her fingers as another watery dragon, more solidly built than the one summoned beforehand erupted from underneath the unicorn, chomping down on another leg and trying to hold it in place by freezing itself solid.

Myun took this opportunity to "break the ice" with the unicorn, charging up her fist with powerful energy and slamming it into the supposedly frozen part of the unicorn's leg, the dragon giving out a proud roar before shattering along with, possibly, the leg of the horned beast. The boxing bunny then bounced swiftly around, trying to avoid any more of the unicorn's attacks.

The fairy-tale fighter grinned from her position as her hand charged up with magnetic energy, forming an invisible blade around her fingers.

"I hear electroshock therapy is pretty good at curing personality disorders, let's give it a try!" the crimson crusader called out, licking her lips as she slammed the Magbolt toward the unicorn's back, the shock would surely stun the beast once more, but more a paralysis side than just plain stickiness.

Not relenting her attack, the red-cloaked warrior drew out a sword with a blade made entirely out of plasma that sparked and crackled with electricity. Feeling lucky, the red-caped wonder took a stab at the unicorn's back, literally.

The unicorn would recover from the shock soon, and Red held up her Elecsword, wary of the hair tentacles and felt ready to parry them with her weapon.

Turn summary:
1. Elecreel1 through hair tentacles [80 Elec DMG, get free?]
2. Areagrab to top of Unicron's back [Teleport, Movement, Dodge, +1 Accuracy, escape?]
*Sunshiny Day: Heal 15 to Red
3. MistConv to Unicorn [100 Aqua DMG + Impact + Freeze?(Ice)]

Myun's Actions:
*Run Myun Run: Get in Melee Range of Unicorn
1. Attack Unicorn [50 DMG + Impact]
*Rhythm Boxing to Unicorn [2x10 DMG]
2*. Break Attack to Frozen Leg? [50 DMG + Break + Impact x2?(Break>Freeze) = 100 DMG]
3. Dodge

Red's Actions cont.
4. Magbolt1 to Unicorn [90 Elec DMG + Stun]
5. Elecsword to Unicorn [80 Elec Slashing DMG]
6. Parry attacks with Elecsword
NnnnnnghhhyeaaaaarrrrrrRRRHHHH!! the unicorn shrieked as Red's shocking counterattack fried its hair, turning it into a crispy shell of what it was. After that, the caped crusader warped up to the unicorn's back as she unleashed a more powerful dragon than the last, bringing a chill to the unicorn. Myun's punches hit the beast dead-on as a result of Red's earlier stunning attacks. Then, the mythical beast reared, bringing Red down, but not before she made a few more electrical attacks on the beast, all hitting and injuring it further.

Suddenly, the animal roared, ENOUGH! as it stamped down as hard as it could on the ground, bringing the dark corner of the Dentech Area to ever more haunting darkness. The ground which didn't threaten Red much at the time burst out, enclosing the entire battlefield with its evil pulsating aura. Then, the unicorn lifted its horn, which immediately emanated a dark presence. The presence manifested itself in the form of an incorporeal dark humanoid figure, black and void, floating in a creepy manner and holding a gigantic blade in its hand. The unicorn fell lifelessly towards the ground, dematerializing into junk data shortly after.

The figure quickly pointed its weapon at Red, shouting, OH COME ON! I can't even get some peace here? I mean, seriously, all I was doing was admiring these girls, and then suddenly YOU had to show up and kill the fun! With that, it darted up quickly towards Red and hacked at her arm. The damage seemed to be multiplied further by the dark void that emanated from the very ground itself!

Hehehhehhehh... feel that? HUH?! DO YOU FEEL THE PAIN?! the figure taunted Red.

Unicorn: Deleted?
Dark Figure: 305HP

Terrain: 100% Cursed

Red_Riding_Hood.EXE: 85HP
Myun.SP: 70HP
((You'll have to make it 'Glossy!'))

Tapping the floor with the tip of her shoe and gripping her cut arm carefully, Red definitely felt the pain, but...

"You've finally..." Red began, sighing out in relief.

"Shown your true self!" Shin finished for her, rainbows spreading out from the tip of the caped crusader's foot and reverting the battlefield to what it once was, the energy lost from the transformation piled into Red, giving her strength. A beacon of sunlight added more to her condition and the fairy-tale fighter's eyes flared up in determination.

Gripping tight on the handle of her Elecsword, Red's eyes narrowed into a glare. "You're under arrest for acts of visual perversion and detaining Dentech security maintenance checks!" she proclaimed, trying to sound official, but her childish, girly voice pretty much made no one take her seriously.

"At any rate, take this guy down, we'll send a report later for the GNA and NP to handle the rest," Shin ordered, smirking as the battle seemed to reach its climax.

"Right!" Red shouted, charging the shadowy figure with her Elecsword, channeling all the energy she gained from the terrain change into this one blow and swinging hard at her enemy, the air crackling as the blade of electricity slashed through the air, and even possibly, the figure.

Myun took this time to approach the figure from behind with quick, silent boxing steps and delivered a powerful punch at the enemy's back. She did her usual follow-up with two quick slaps from her ears before sending a mighty uppercut at the opponent, bouncing away in case he decided to swing his sword around in a circle.

Red's Elecsword shattered, the stress from the built up energy taking its toll, but it suddenly reformed into a pistol, an odd reconstruction, but surely this would take the enemy by surprise as the red-caped wonder blasted exploding kernels of corn at the dark figure.

And if that wasn't enough, more chips came into Red's system, the first being the SideBamboo, where the forest fairy suddenly snapped her fingers upon receiving, prompting her own shadow to disappear before suddenly emerging, standing upright, to the left of the dark figure and attempting to skewer the enemy with Bamboo spears.

As a final act, the crimson crusader pulled out an ordinary looking sword from the depths of her picnic basket and twirling it fancily before cutting down at the dark figure mercilessly and holding up her left arm, activating yet another chip.

The familiar yellow Guard formed on Red's left arm, it was very durable and the red-caped wonder was pleased with the decision as its reflective properties would surely bounce back any attack that came her way.

Turn Summary:
1. Skipping Rainbow [Stage Change Normal and Strengthen 20]
*Sunshiny Day: Heal 15 to Red
2. Strengthened Elecsword to Dark Figure [80 Elec +20 =100 DMG + Slashing]

Myun's Actions:
*Run Myun Run: Get behind Dark Figure
1. Attack Dark Figure [50 DMG + Impact]
*Rhythm Boxing to Dark Figure [2x10 DMG]
2. Attack Dark Figure [50 DMG + Impact]
3. Dodge

Red's Actions cont.
3. Cornshot1 to Dark Figure [50 +25(Bonus) Wood DMG = 75 Wood DMG + Trick Shot Spread1]
4. SideBamboo1 to Dark Figure [80 +25(Bonus) Wood DMG = 105 Wood DMG + Piercing]
5. Sword to Dark Figure [80 DMG + Slashing, 5 uses left]
6. Guard1 [Block 1-Hit and reflect up to 60 DMG]
As the ElecSword cut through the dark figure, the figure screamed in pain. The Cornshot and Myun's smacks didn't help much to ease the figure's pain much either. The figure staggered towards Red, but instead of attacking, it held the girl and stared into her eyes. I... know I've seen you before... where was it? The figure didn't really have eyes to stare with, sure, but the void of which it was made of seemed to swirl around as it tried to recall Red, but from where?

Oh, you're from that, that tournament... That... finalist. No wonder. Heh, I've picked the wrong little girl to play around with.

Then, the SideBamboo ripped the figure to pieces, along with the generous bit of sword slicing Red delivered. It fell down onto the ground, its sword falling down with a clanking sound beside it. Heh, heh, you're... fighting that Pianissimo, right? Real nasty, make sure you win. Wouldn't want to get beaten... by someone weak....

Unicorn: Deleted?
Dark Figure: Deleted

Terrain: 100% Normal

Red_Riding_Hood.EXE: 85HP
Myun.SP: 70HP

Victory!
Rewards: 1500z, 75 BugFrags
Red raised an eyebrow as the figure dissolved away, curious that someone out here busy admiring girls would actually watch tournament matches, maybe he liked the girls in the tournament?

"Let's report back, we've got a final round to fight after all," Shin said as Red sent up the money.

"Alright! To the finals!" Red whooped, she and Myun jacking out.

[JACK OUT]