Party!

Seraphim whistled a smal tune happily, sounding like a triumphant tune as he bobbed his head in tune with it, grinning happily that the makeshift party had won.

"We won, and onto the next battle, friends, for this is what we have come here for, to rid the world of these monsterly beings, and triumph over evil!" The delusional navi spoke out, grinning at the end with his eyes closed, then turning about, marching off into netfrica.
"Seraphim's kind of cute, really," Rania remarked casually, looking over the Magbolt data that had just been written onto a small chip. "Listen to his fanfare! It's just like in the video games!"

Nothing about the comment seemed to sit well with MeleeMan. "Cute? Fanfare? Video games!? Are you trying to make me ballistic?!" he roared, pumping smoke from his gauntlets as the RageClaw left his arm.

"No, no! I was just commenting!" Rania cried, waving her hands in dismay. "You don't have to take everything so personally!"

"Hmph," MeleeMan grunted, looking back to his allies as he walked on. He smiled confidently for a moment. "You two are real warriors. We cleaned those virii like clockwork. With our combined might, these puny, fistless weaklings are powerless to stop us."
Hmph... I hope you were listening, Rass. Perhaps next time you might actually do something useful, chirped Tem as she fluidly withdrew back into her sapphire containment unit, But then again, I somehow doubt that.

Rass sighed as he walked alongside MeleeMan and Seraphim, positioned slightly behind the two other fighters. That other navi said that we were a "party," thought Rass, looking to the side as his comrades boisterously charged into the network, But I'm certainly not having fun...
The party's just getting started!

BoomerEXA: 100
BoomerEXB: 100
BoomerEXC: 100
BoomerEXD: 100
NinetailsA: 150
NinetailsB: 150
Tuby: 100 (behind BoomerA)

Seraphim: 140
Meleeman: 100
Rass: 100

Battle 2 Start!
"M-More of them?!" whined Rass, burying his face in his hands, "This is s-seriously the worst party ever!"

Oh shut yer damn trap, Rasshole! growled Argo, Yer pissing me off with your whining. Besides, nothing like a good challenge, right Suien?

Suien, who had been watching the entire scene unfold via his PET, said nothing at first, instead opting to draw a quartet of chips from his folder. "I don't think you're going to be disappointed, Argo," he said, "The entire enemy party is showing HP readings of 100 or more... that, and we're up against a quartet of EX-class Boomer viruses. I'm sending you the data now for processing."

Argo laughed as he read the viral specifications. AH HAH! he shouted happily, a green patch with a pair of eyeballs appearing on Rass' shoulder, Looks like we've got ourselves a pretty fair challenge here, Rasshole! Suien! Send us that sword battlechip of ours and...

"Oh no you don't," interrupted Suien, a serious look on his face, "We're playing this safe, Argo. Tem, activate scanners. I know you're not at full operating capacity from your previous battle, so Rass is going to have to try to compensate. Rockcube, Airshot, slot in!"

Right away, Suien! chirped Tem as the battlefield was once again washed in a deep blue light, Okay Rass, let's see if you actually gained anything from my lesson. It's an extremely elementary maneuver, so don't think too hard about it.

Rass looked uneasily at his hand as it suddenly became very heavy with the stone data his netOp had sent. It's just like Tem said, he thought, Just pound the ground and... wait... where should I put it?! Rass looked from side to side frantically and, finally deciding on using it to temporarily guard his allies, settled on placing it directly in front of MeleeMan. The small black-and-pink navi hobbled as he lunged, creating a gigantic cube in front of his puglistic partner. "W-whoops," he said, staggering to his feet. Rass awkwardly turned away from Meleeman and facing the cube, he placed both palms against it, compressed air charging into his palmbuster units and swirling around within his body.

"H-here it goes!" he shouted to nobody in particular, "AIR-"

0: Tem Scanner (+5 to all attacks, boosted accuracy, any kills made increase chance for chip and RP reward factor by 1 rank)
1: Rockcube (200 HP Rockcube)
2: Airsh... wait, what?!

(turn splice for great justice!)

(...er... for... melee...men!)
((Melee men? I'm one of those! : D))

MeleeMan grumbled as the huge block appeared in front of him, obstructing his vision. Almost without thinking, he reared back his fist in preperation to punch the obstacle into dust.

"No, MeleeMan! Stop! Don't break that cube!" Rania warned him, flailing her arms madly in all directions. "Rass made that!"

"What? Well, it's in my way! MeleeMan shouted, grasping on to the cube firmly with two hands. He grunted, struggling to heave it up and move it from its place in front of himself. "Hrgh! Grr! Oorgh! This is going to take some real muscle power!" he grunted, clutching the sides of the rockcube tightly. Out of the corner of his eye, he just barely manged to catch a glimpse of Rass' airshot, his jaw dropping just a bit.

"Let go of the rock!" Rania shouted, her eyes widening as she realized it was too late to stop the course of action. The rock would go plummeting into the crowd, taking MeleeMan with it.

Surely enough, Rass fired a blast of wind into the cube, sending MeleeMan rocketing breakneck into the crowd. His lips flapped around his tightly clenched teeth as he felt the wind being torn asunder around him. He let out a yell, falling to the ground as he tumbled off of the cube towards the viruses. His recovery was amazingly quick, however, and he rocketed back up to his feet with one fist glowing brightly. "Huraaah! Soul Fist Uppercut!" he shouted, bringing his fist under one of the Boomers in an attempt to rocket it into the sky. "Ha ha ha! Don't think I'm through with you!" he called out, attempting to plunge his RageClaw into its center when he caught site of it again, then fling it into the trumpet virus. Realizing he was now in the center of the viruses, he prepared for some fancy footwork in case he was assaulted from many sides.

1) Grab hold tightly to RockCube for transportation
2) Soul Fist Uppercut to BoomerEX A [80 elemental bonus and lowered accuracy]
3) RageClaw to BoomerEX A [20] in to Tuby [20]
4) Dodge
"Oh. That's a lot of monsters!" The navi commented with a slight wince as he again spoke, "They're not supposed to gang us like this!" Completely and totally ignoring the fact that they were ganging on the viruses themselves as a party of three, he watched Rass closely, then his face brightened, as he realized something that was apparently incredibly important, looking at the navi with an ecstatic expression on his face, running over to the navi and slapping him hard on the back.

"You're a support-type class! You're Mister Clericky man! Buffy-supporty-from-the-sidey-type class!" The navi finished his tirade, grinning happily and looking at the viruses with his blade-mesh gun out to the side, then looked at his operator, asking a very specific question with general arm movements that made him look slightly insane, without any regard for Rass, whom he nearly decapitated several times with his motions with the sword-mesh-gun.

"Did I get any new skills from that previous battles, plot exposition person?" he asked, his eyes gleaming with a slightly lustful glow for those beautiful damaging chips which harmed the fateful monsters which threatened the world he knew and loved. Those randomly showing up viruses would never be forgiven. He cocked his head to the side, waiting for a reply from his operator, or as he called her, plot-exposition person.

"Um... Let me check your menu." The girl quickly looked at the new chip that had fallen into place upon the bed, picking it up with a frail arm, and staring it down for a couple seconds before answering her navi with the "name" of the spell, and what it did, her expression frankly whimsical as she spoke, a slight smirk on her face as she nodded to the two men that were inside the room, then raised a small glass of water from the counter beside the bed, sipping at it before finishing up the answer.

"It's called Mag Bolt. It drags the monster towards yourself using magnetic forces on the blade ends of your sword-gun-thing, and both shocks the poor thing as well as pierces it on the ends of the blades, dealing a massive amount of damage within a short period of time, in exact terms of the damage meter, it would be ninety in all, enough to destroy almost any virus alive. Although that bonus is a bit negated with the fact that every single virus here has over ninety hit points, you may be able to use these bonuses to kill one of those. Do you see any of them looks like they're watery?" The firl finished her dragging out speech with a sigh and a quick intake of breath until she calmed down a bit.

"Um. I- WOW, MISTER FIGHTER-MAN CAN FLY!" The navi yelled out, pointing at the airborne Meleeman before realizing what Meleeman was flying toward to, and what Meleeman was holding. Of course, he came to the conclusion that; "Wow, Mister fighter monk man must be really Strong in order to hold onto a rockcube while flying, don't you think, Mister Supporty-clericky?" The navi turned to Rass, and noticed that the navi seemed to be slightly in shock.

"You're so amazed at Mister Fighter-guy's feat of flying that you can't move?" The navi nodded, understanding Rass' predicament while he held his weapon out, aiming at one of the viruses, wanting to test out his new skill. He focused his energy into the blade prong-like extensions on the blade-mesh-gun and yelling out the name to this particular spell:

"Mag Bolt!" He yelled out, feeling the tug of the sword-mesh-gun and smiling confidently as he waited for the monster to be dragged toward him. He skidded a bit before he was forced forward a step, then another, then another, then he was forced into a walk by the increasingly growing powerful chip, into a jog, then finally into a full out run as he screamed , unwilling to let go of the sword-mesh-gun and basically finally, the weapon went too fast for him to keep up, the navi stumbled, and then was just dragged along by the weapon, which refused to fall from its height and clatter on the ground, the weapon went as if it were possessed, finally stopping as the prongs found their target, and the electricity discharged, the weapon finally nearly clattered to the ground, if it weren't for the unseen white-knuckled grip that was being kept upon it by the rattled Seraphim.

"Th-th-ha-that wus-wasn' wha you said it'd be!' The navi spoke, horrified and traumatized by the horrible experienced of being abused by his own attack, collapsed to his knees after he raised himself up, looking at all the monsters around him and nervously waving a hand at them, then quickly hopping to his feet and then his expression hardened slightly at the deadly monsters, taking careful aim and beginning to pick the monsters off like flies, attacking them with rapid-fire attacks, blasting them again and again. He'd try running later, but running would end this particular fight way too soon. He might lose this fight, but his ally the Mister Healy-man would resurrect him.

"Baru Kan! Shot... Gun! Za Pring!" He yelled out, one after the other as his operator complied with his demands, the chips loading and clicking, for Seraphim, the spells coming into place in his mind and firing out, blasting the foes again and again, once after another time, his attack upon the enemy rapid and unyielding, hoping to keep from becoming disabled from the current combat, for the might of the many viruses would certainly harm him beyond all belief possible, possibly even reducing him below fifty hitpoints. The navi hoped freverently that that would not happen.

1] Magbolt [80] [BoomerEXC]
2] Vulcan1 [20] [BoomerEXC] [40] [BoomerEXB]
3] Shotgun [60] [BoomerEXB]
4] Zapring [50] [BoomerEXB]
"-SHOT!" shouted Rass, sending a massive shockwave out of his palms as the rockcube flew toward the trumpet-like virus. Rass happily pumped his fist into the air, clearly estatic that his first attempt at utilizing the tactical subsystems without Tem had been such a success...

...until he realized, jaw dropping in horror, that MeleeMan was being carried by the flying chunk of rock. As Seraphim sidled up alongside him and bantered about being "Mister Supporty-Clericky," Rass didn't respond, praying silently to himself. It wasn't so much that he was worried that MeleeMan wouldn't survive the ordeal - No, that's not at it at all, thought Rass, When MeleeMan comes back after that...

...You're so going to get it! taunted Argo, quickly appearing in a flash of green light on Rass' right hand, You really screwed that one up, Rasshole! Man, I'm glad I'm not the core system. That guy's probably going to pound you so hard, you'll be BEGGING Tem to take the system administrator position.

"Argo, shut it!" shouted Suien, sliding two more chips into the PET tray, "and focus! It's your turn to fight. Sword and Minibomb coming your way, Rass. Let Argo do his thing!"

Finally! growled Argo, a small, blue bomb appearing in the palm of Rass' right hand, I was getting tired of waiting! Setting sword to standby, activate it on my signal! You ready for this, Rasshole? Rass shook his head nervously, Good, cause away we GO!

Tearing straight down the path of his rockcube, Rass found himself closing in on the last remaining boomerang virus. Pivoting on his back foot and spinning in mid-air, he leaped nimbly skyward, dropping the small blue explosive as he did so. The minibomb exploded in a great plume of dark smoke that quickly spread across the battlefield. Rass coughed as Argo laughed, the long green blade materializing on their right hand. Your fistfighter pal over there would love this! shouted Argo, as he brought the sword around in a brilliant green arc, briefly illuminating the darkened clouds. The sword hummed and sang as it crashed into the ground, sending a shower of sparks up into the air. Argo laughed maniacally, clearly enjoying himself.

Rass, however, had little reason to laugh. With all the smoke that obscured any vision, he thought back to Meleeman's earlier comment back at the netsquare festivities.

"In a street fight, it doesn't matter who your opponent is... and you can never tell who you're pounding once you've entered the fray."


((TemScan Active))

2: RockBoarding technique: Airshot Rockcube w/ Meleeman toward Tuby (200 +5)
3: Minibomb (60+5) BoomerEXD, attempt to generate smoke and reduce enemy accuracy
4: Sword (80+5) BoomerEXD
The assault works fairly well, Melee taking measures to save himself as an attack approaches, while Rass askewed some of the virii's vision before wiping them out. Seraphim hits with perfect accuracy, though it's clear he was unpolished with the magnet as the boomer almost got away. The ninetails retaliate, one striking Seraphim, then grew a new tail each...

BoomerEXA: Deleted
BoomerEXB: Deleted
BoomerEXC: Deleted
BoomerEXD: 20
NinetailsA: 150(Tail 2)
NinetailsB: 150(Tail 2)
Tuby: Deleted

Seraphim: 130
Meleeman: 100
Rass: 100
((BoomerEXD should be at... 15, right? Or 45, depending on which attack of mine missed.))

GAH! shouted Argo in alarm, seeing the damaged EX-class Boomer shake off the damage in a burst of electricity and slowly rotate on its axis toward its target. I missed? How the &%$! could I miss?! he fumed, a green streak flashing erratically across Rass' black skin, GRRRRRRAAAAGH!This is all YOUR fault, Rasshole! If you weren't such a pussy little healer-type ninny-navi, I could have had that mother$%&#er! As Argo continued to furiously dart across his body, Rass paused and looked between the shimmering blade attached to his arm and the heavily damaged virus a few meters away from him. Shuffling forward and ignoring Argo's angry ranting, he raised the sword chip above his head and brought it downward in an awkward motion. The green blade completed its swift arc, crashing heavily into the ground and generating fine, crystaline cracks in the panel. The impact shocked all three subsystems and none of them said anything as all three sped to Rass' torso to see what the fusion navi had accomplished without their help.

Then, Tem and Ishamel broke into laughter. Oh WOW shouted Tem, chuckling as she spoke, You really botched that one, Argo! Look! Even Rass can swing a sword like you can, and he can barely STAND without our help!

Wha... I can too stand without your hel... started Rass, in protest.

HA HA HA! YOUR HUMOROUS FAILURE GREATLY AMUSES ISHAMEL! laughed the targeting system in his normal mechanical voice, YOU SHOULD RETREAT AND ALLOW THE USEFUL SYSTEMS TO TAKE OVER!

Useful systems, thought Rass hopefully, You guys mean me, right?

DO NOT FLATTER YOURSELF, CORE SYSTEM.

Argo was livid. What?! You... I... USELESS?! I'll %&$#ing show you &%$#sucking mother&%$#ers USELESS! EUAAAAAARGH! Rass' normally black body turned a deep shade of emerald green as Argo overtook the fusion navi's movement systems. NOBODY &%$@ING CALLS ARGO USELESS! NOT TEM, NOT ISHAMEL, AND ESPECIALLY NOT YOU, RASSHOLE!

"B-b-but Argo, I n-never called y-you useless!" protested Rass out loud, forgetting for a moment that only he could hear the voices of his subsystems.

"Argo, calm down!" shouted Suien, glancing nervously toward the youthful Erin and cringing, "...and watch your language, there are young girls present."

Seemingly ignoring the dark-haired netOp's order and charging toward the nearest fox virus, Rass gasped in fear as his rage-driven melee system forced his body forward, traversing the field in long loping strides. The now-pink-and-green navi lunged forward, sword drawn and ready as it glowed with an uneartly green light. With a terrifying battle cry heard only in Rass' skull, Argo brought the sword across in a horizontal slice aimed to neatly slice the Ninetails' left flank. The blade whistled as it passed, giving a whine of protest as Argo drove it into the ground, attempting to halt his forward momentum and change directions quickly. Watch this, Rasshole! shouted Argo, I'll teach you to call me, Argo, the pride of the Sharo Military "worthless!" Without bothering to fully draw it out of the ground, Argo charged forward with the glowing green blade, dragging the tip on the ground and generating a shower of sparks. With a grunt of effort, Rass' arm brought the sword chip upward and skyward in a dazzling display of green light.

Recovering quickly from the vibrant maneuver, Argo laughed triumphantly, disengaging the sword and holding it high into the air. See that, fellow systems? he announced, That is what true power is! Who's useless now, Rasshole?!

Rass could only sigh and think about how ridiculous he must look, standing next to a potentially still-alive virus and holding the disengaged sword chip like some sort of offering to a diety...


1: Sword (80) BoomerEXD (point blank)
2: Sword (80) NinetailsA
3: Sword (80) NinetailsA
4: Disengage Sword chip and hold it aloft triumphantly. Argo laughs like a maniac, Rass cries and dies a little inside.
"Augh! I thought I was going to die! What was that little punk thinking?" MeleeMan ranted, smashing his fists into the ground repeatedly. "When I get my hands on him I'll rip those gems out of his-!"

"Wait, wait, MeleeMan! You grabbed his rock cube! It was obvious he was going to shoot it; that's what he did last time, remember? You just weren't thinking," Rania scolded him. "Don't take it out on Rass. Besides, the poor little guy's just scared and-"

It was Rania's turn to be interrupted as MeleeMan let out a powerful laugh. "What, scared? Look at him, ravaging the enemy like a beserker with his sword! Does it look like he's scared to you?"

"What? But... but he was over there just a minute ago!" Rania stuttered. "Alright, I concede that point," she sighed, "but that doesn't change the fact that that rock cube incident was your fault. Now, let's try to make it up to him by doing a little more damage to these viruses! It looks like he's going all out, so we want to make sure we get rid of every enemy as quickly as possible!"

"Ha! You know I don't waste time!" he laughed, heading for the opponents with his arm cricked back like a piston. "You guys may have a lot of tails, but that just means I have more to kick! Hoowah!" he grunted, attempting to plunge his claw deep into the virus' flesh, withdraw it, then plunge again. "Hmph! Now, for something with more firepower," he muttered, switching over to a shotgun. He pointed it toward the virus' side and gave a shot in its direction. "More tails just means more tail for me to kick!" he repeated, feeling exceedingly clever.

"You already said that, stupid," Rania grumbled, rubbing her forehead. The man next to her tried to ignore the bickering of her and her navi.

"It was so good I thought I'd give it another run," MeleeMan shrugged, drawing back and summoning a cannon. "If we're going all out, then hell, I'll go all out," he grunted, firing off a shot toward the already heavily assaulted opponents.

1) RageClaw to Ninetails A [40]
2) RageClaw to Ninetails A [40]
3) Shotgun to Ninetails A [50 and splash]
4) Cannon to Ninetails B [40]
"Um. What's left?" The navi asked, unsure what spells he had remaining in his repitoire left after that huge assault, he had taken a couple attacks, but nothing big enough to actually hurt the navi, but enough to shake him a bit, enough to make him forget which three spells were left. He motioned with the sword-mesh-gun toward the two remaining viruses, wincing as his companions ravaged them to pieces, but holding up the sword-mesh-gun and waiting for his operator to check his menu for the remaining spells he could cast.

"There's..." Erin picked up the NCP Programs, nodding to Marlowe as she paused, thinking of marlowes question for a short period of time, no more than five seconds before falling silent and looking away, then back at her navi. She didn't want to answer that, and she'd wait for a couple minutes for an answer to formulate in her mind.
"Look, he's holding that sword up for me!" The navi exclaimed, rushing up and interrupting Erin's thoughts.

"Wait, You shouldn't steal his sword!" Erin exclaimed, slapping her hand down on the bed, which didn't make a very satisfying sound, but she couldn't do any worse than that as she stared in horror at what her navi was doing, dashing... for Rass... as he sheathed the weapon he currently held, the sword-mesh-gun, breaking into a full run.

"Hey, he shouldn't be wielding a sword anyway, he's the Mister healy-guy! The Main character should get the cool sword!" The navi exlaimed confidently, sliding the sword-mesh-gun in a blaze of light behind him, then running up to Rass and nodding politely before snatching the sword out of Rass' hands, grinning confidently and staring at the blade for a second, looking at it curiously as his eyes suddenly blanked, and swirls of light burst forth from the sword, surrounding it with a slight aura before completely exploding apart, the shards breaking apart as well into small threads of light, which quickly surrounded the confident Seraphim, who now was floating upward in a slightly fetal position, his eyes half open, blank and unknowing as data was overwritten, his costume changed, the tiny jacket lengthening in the back, the two layers becoming pronounced as one dropped straight down, the top layer splitting out to the sides, like a demented coat-tail, as more armor extended around the upper arm, then the boots as well, a layer of light metal covering their fronts, and some of the back as the same happened to his gauntlets. His open belly was covered by a thin shirt, which runic symbols enveloped in the appearance of flames. The symbols on his cheeks changed their runic configuration, the navi opened his eyes slightly and looked around, his eyes now just as bright as before,as the threads of light burst apart, and the navi fell to the ground. He knelt on the ground for a brief moment, shaking his head slightly as he couldn't figure out just what had gone on. A moment ago he had been holding Rass' sword, and now it was... gone. He walked forward a step, and something flapped at his ankles. He looked down, his entire outfit had changed. he stared at his hands for a minute moment before raising his hands up to his shoulders to draw his weapon from empty space.

"Wait, wasn't his sword-gun-thing at his side?" Erin commented softly, shocked by the transformation invoked by grabbing onto the Sword Of Rass. The navi didn't hear her, as he pulled with both hands on empty space, the space giving, and with a burst of light, out coming an incredibly large sword, which hit the ground with a clang and a small cracking of the ground as the navi looked up at the final target with a slight smile, he seemed slightly more... mature as he hefted up the oversized blade with a bit of effort, struggling under it as he ran forward and brought it down with a smash, crying out the words to a brand-new attack:

"Shattering Blitz!" He yelled out, laying into the Ninetails with the attack, bringing the weapon down, twisting it, and slashing back out in a giant V attack, then swung the blade around, pirouetting with the sheer mass of the blade before finally bringing it overhead to cry out the name of the next attack he would demolish this thing with. The cape-like accessory he now had swirled around, teasing at tripping him up, but at the last second always floating away as if it were weightless and would flow in absolutely no wind, no matter what direction it was in.

"Rag Eclaw!" He yelled out, bringing the blade down with a smash. And so ended his attack on the ninetails as the navi brought the blade back to his side, holding it at an angle so the blade wouldn't top him in size and jumping back, the blade skidding along the ground as he smiled tiredly.

"I'm the protaganist. I've got a giant swo-" He spoke quietly as he tumbled to the ground, the blade falling with a shunk into the ground at an angle, exhausted by what he'd done.

1] Switch to Job Extension:Brandish
2] Shattering Blitz [Ninetails] [4*3]
3] Rage Claw [Ninetails] [60]
4] Rage Claw [ninetails] [60]
((Remember target indicators for multiple viruses please.))

Rass's sword cut down the Boomer in front of him easily, and his system drove him flying toward the other viruses: one Ninetails was cut clean through, but the other was at the far end of the slash. It quickly lashed out with both tails, catching the sword and wrenching it off of the Navi's arm. MeleeMan was there to save the day... or not, simply finishing deleting the one Rass had already started on. It attempted to strike back, but MeleeMan's claw overpowered it. He shotgun'd where the virus had been once for good measure. He then turned and blasted the remaining virus.
Seraphim must have been almost in tears when he knelt to pick up the shattered remnants of his heroic sword, but the transformation occured all the same. With his amazing newfound strength, the Navi tore the final virus to pieces.

BoomerEXA: Deleted
BoomerEXB: Deleted
BoomerEXC: Deleted
BoomerEXD: DELETED!
NinetailsA: DELETED!
NinetailsB: DELETED!
Tuby: Deleted

Seraphim: 130
Meleeman: 100
Rass: 100

VICTORY!

Rewards:

Seraphim: Varitail, 400 zenny.
Meleeman: Varitail, 400 zenny.
Rass: Boomerang, 400 zenny.
Seraphim panted on the ground, exhausted more from the data redesign than from anything else. He was recovering from it already though, and as he stood, he looked around one way, then another, then whistled the same tune tiredly while swaying a bit, sounding like he was severely drunk as he finished, propping himself up with the sword.
"H-heheh... L-look Argo! W-we got ourselves a n-new chip!" stammered Rass nervously as the green collected from his entire body into a concentrated patch on the fusion navi's chest, "I guess you sh-showed them who..."

THAT LITTLE BASTARD! interrupted a snarling Argo, his eyes appearing on Rass' chest and glaring at the smallish navi that had grabbed the sword chip, That sword belongs to me, and he thinks he can just take it away?! This is your fault, Rasshole! He thinks we're just a namby-pamby healing navi, doesn't he? Well I'm taking it upon myself to beat that brat's face in until...

"Argo, that's enough!" scolded Suien, transferring the boomerang data to a blank battlechip and placing it into his folder, "We finished the battle and got some decent data, so give it a rest, alright? Nobody thinks you're weak!"

The green melee system hesitated momentarily before retreating back into the peridot on Rass' back. Watch it, Rasshole he scowled, cause there'll be hell to pay if you keep making us look bad.

Rass gulped and nodded, quickly brushing himself off and putting on an uneasy smirk as he looked around the blasted network.
A bit of sweat rolled down MeleeMan's neck as the smoke cleared. He actually felt a little threatened by both navi's sudden and uncharacteristicly aggressive behavior. "Huh. Put a sword in a guy's hands and suddenly he's a barbarian, right?" he muttered, rubbing his large chin with one gauntlet as he disengaged his weapon.

"Ha ha, I guess so. They're probably just excited about the battle, like you were!" Rania explained. "Looks like we got a new chip... Oh! Varitail. That sounds unnatural!"

"Ha ha ha, I'll be kicking even more tail now that I have this chip!" MeleeMan laughed, mining his joke like a gold deposit. "Uh... so let's see... there should be more viruses showing up now, right?" he inquired, watching the strange behavior of both allies with his eyes squinted. "Damn. Wierd fellas."

"Hey, they're not so wierd. You're the one fistfighting with a steel plate covering your eyes!" she pointed out with a small chuckle.

"Heh... I'll explain that one of these days. But I'm not in a mood for talking right now," he responded, shaking his fists in the air. "I'm in a mood for punching out some more virii!"

Walking together, one drunkenly happy, one shizophrenic, and one shaking both fists in the air, each different heights and builds, they made quite a strange party indeed.
2 and a Half Navis find another population of viruses!!

FirepheonixA: 110
FirepheonixB: 110
VolgearEXA: 120
VolgearEXB: 120
VolgearEXC: 120
TubyA: 100
TubyB: 100

Seraphim: 130
Meleeman: 100
Rass: 100

Battle 3 Start!
"Baddies everywhere!' Seraphim exclaimed, pulling the massive blade from the ground. Was it just him, or did it feel lighter? He shrugged, the massive blade making a tiny movement as he did so, then he dashed at the first foe, dragging the blade behind him, where it made sparks along the ground as he ran, toward the phoenixes, raising up the blade and smashing the twin phoenixes into each other, dragging the blade through to the other side with a yell of, "Rag Eclaw!" He swung the blade past the FirePhoenixes and straight into the ground, where it stuck.

"Ohcrap, ohcrap!" The navi said as he tugged mightily on the blade, which came loose with a grinding roar, the blade slamming into the twin Phoenixes yet again as the navi grinned at his mistake, then felt so confident after the slash, he decided to pose as if he had already won, quite the arrogance, one might say, but then collapse into laughter at the result of his pose, as he lifted up the blade, and placed it on his shoulder, letting go with one hand, holding it and propping up on his shoulder, and for a moment he looked supremely cool, and noone could tell him different until there was a giant crack, and the navi's expression crossed with pain, and the sword slipped, falling over his back and back away into nothingness while the goofy navi clutched at his shoulder in pain, nearly falling over as he swayed, seeing the viruses in front of him, he pulled out the other weapon, the gun-sword-mesh, and tossed it to the other hand, the right one too filled with pain.

"Um, Um.... Ow, this really hurts! Maybe I'm supposed to kneel! Shot... Gun!" The navi yelled out, blasting the viruses with it nearly point blank, then rapidly beginning to back away, blasting the twin viruses with another spell, namely "B-Ba-ar-" The navi stopped as the pain in his arm overtook him, and he collapsed to one knee.

1] Rageclaw [30] Phoenix A, B.
2] Rageclaw [30] Phoenix A, B.
3] Switch Weapon: Gunner
4] Shotgun [60] Phoenix A, B.
"Ah, now here are some opponents with some spine! Look at their passionate flames, rising through the air! They crave for battle, just as I do!" MeleeMan uttered quietly, fire beginning to shine under the metal plate that covered his eyes. "I'm going to enjoy this fight... If those stinking trumpets in the back don't start up!"

"Hmm... It looks like Rass is planning to attack those tube viruses, so don't worry about them. Seraphim is going for the bird viruses... How about we go for those metal guys with the fire and smoke spewing everywhere?" she giggled. "They look a little like you, with their grumpy faces!"

"Wh-what? They're spirited, that's certain, Rania," he stuttered, "but they lack my powerful soul and my dashing jawline!"

"Dashing jawline? Where'd you get that from?" she asked, feeling suddenly awkward. It was a bit strange to hear MeleeMan talking about vain topics like his personal appearance. "Uh, let's just hurry up and knock those guys out, alright?"

"Fine by me. Magbolt! Let's give it a shot!" he roared, drawing one Volgear in. "I don't have to come to you guys; you'll come straight to me!" he laughed, smiling menacingly as the Volgear came towards him. He reared back, delivering a powerful electric punch to the virus with his right. Swinging again, he formed a cannon for a new attack. He brought his arm back around, attempting to end the virus with another powerful shot in the face. "Hwuah ha ha! You may have fire, my friend, but you lack the fists to focus it!" In case the virus was not finished off, he dashed to the side, clenching his teeth.

"Good riddance! Hm... can you get another of them now? Or is that too much to bite off?" she asked, arching her eyebrows with excitement. Her eyes began to glow amber as she slotted in a new chip. "I'm sending you a RageClaw, okay MeleeMan?" she informed him as the chip went through.

"No," he answered honestly, "but I'll still put a dent in him." With that, he ducked in next to another Volgear, thrusting the claw hard toward its side.

1) Magbolt1 to VolgearEXA [90]
2) Cannon to VolgearEXA [40]
3) Dodge
4) RageClaw to VolgearEXB [40]
Suien's fingers flew over the PET keyboard as he ran the pre-battle diagnostics on the newest viral threat. "Stay sharp Rass, it looks like we've got a new set of viruses," he said with a frown, "Can you confirm seven viruses, three EX-class, and three total types?"

Rass gulped and stepped back uneasily. "Y-yeah, Suien," he said nervously, his breathing becoming shorter and more panicked, "W-what's the plan? D-do you h-have a strategy to d-defeat them?"

You disgust me sometimes, Rass, said Tem, swirling from Rass' back to his front in a smooth motion, You can't always rely on your netOp to provide you with everything, you know. Sometimes you have to think for yourself to survive. Her eyes appeared on his chest and emitted a pale blue light, flooding the entire battlefield in an unearthly glow. As the data processed itself and relayed critical information to Rass' central computing unit, Tem yawned tiredly and retreated back into her gemstone. Of course, you can always do what you've been doing and rely on us to do the thinking for you, she said coldly, It seems to have worked pretty well in the past.

Rass actually growled slightly at the statement, but said nothing while assuming a defensive stance. Tilting his helmeted head upward, he contacted his netOp. "Suien, I th-think we s-should take down th-the trumpet viruses first s-since the others seem to have already s-started attacking!" he said, "Send me s-some long-range ch-chips - Ishamel c-can take care of it!"

Suien blinked in surprise, but complied with his navi's request. It was, after all, no different than his original intention, but the fact that his navi had actually stood and given a tactical overview of the situation was... surprising to say the least. "You got it Rass, two shotguns, a boomerang, and a rockcube for cover," he said, shrugging as he slid the four chips into the PET tray, "Now the boomerang's a bit tricky, and I don't think any of the subsystems cover thrown long-range chips, so you're going to have to be a bit creative with that. Are you sure you can handle it?"

Rass nodded fervently as Ishamel streaked from the garnet and materialized himself in two patches of red on the palms of his fluidlike hands. "Y-yeah, Suien. I th-think I've g-got it under control!" The pink-and-black navi feinted to one side, then spun around, lining up a shot toward the pair of tuby viruses. Rass hesitated for a moment, his arms shaking slightly until Ishamel took control and held them rigid. CONCENTRATE, CORE SYSTEM! shouted the targeting subsystem as he adjusted Rass aim and steadied his arms. The shotgun energy burned as it charged itself to full power within the palmbuster units, but Rass gritted his teeth and bore the pain, determined to showcase his own abilities. With a grunt of effort, he loosed both blasts simultaniously, sending a pair of piercing shotgun rounds barreling toward the target. The brilliant white beams lanced toward the tubys, exploding on impact and obscuring any chance of confirming the hit. Unpertuerbed, Rass materialized the large green boomerang in his right hand, waking up Tem and Argo in the process.

What the heck do you think you're doing with that? demanded Argo, Come on, let me take a crack at it. I won't botch it up like you will!

Hold on Argo, whispered Tem, Let's see what Rass does in this situation...

Wait? Hah, that's just inviting problems into the...

"M-Melee subsystem 4RG0, initialize in r-right arm!" shouted Rass.

What the HELL?! screamed Argo as he was forced into Rass' arm.

"Targeting s-system, initialize c-calculations for t-trajectory!"

AFFIRMATIVE, CORE SYSTEM! shouted Ishamel as he scanned the curvature of the boomerang lined up an arc that would catch the maximum number of viruses.

Bringing his arm back in an almost comically overdone fashion, Rass hurled the green weapon with all of Argo's borrowed strength, sending the weapon slicing down the battlefield in a long clean arc. Without wasting any time to confirm the hits, he pounded the ground, once again summoning a monumental cube and taking cover behind it.


0: Tem Scanner (+5 to all attacks, boosted accuracy, any kills made increase chance for chip and RP reward factor by 1 rank)
1: Shotgun (50+5, Splash) TubyA and TubyB
2: Shotgun (50+5, Splash) TubyA and TubyB
3: Boomerang (60+5, hits up to three) TubyA, TubyB, and VolgearEXC
4: Rockcube (200) for cover