SP Mission: Nitro's Escort Service

((fix'd))

The smell of Bugfrags roused the Spikey awake and it scarfed them down in a few snaps of its massive jaws. Nitro began to follow the map to the base where he assumed he would drop off his new pet. The Spikey followed him out of self-interest and the promise of bugfrags. The first bit of the trek involved passing through a desert which didn't seem to be a problem but Nitro encountered a small band of viruses. Two Quakers and a Skeletal torso blocked his path. Also, there was an anthropomorphized broom that tried to clean away the sand.

QuakerA: 80 HP [sand]
QuakerB: 80 HP [sand]
SkarabA: 120 HP [sand]
SkarabB: 120 HP [sand]
Brushman: 100 HP [normal]

Terrain: 90% Sand, 10% Normal

Nitro: 11 HP [Sand]
Spikey Omega: 340 HP [Sand] [Mood: Neutral]

[Battle 2 - Begin!]

Nitro stopped as the group of viruses came into view. He began talking to Chris, to discuss his options. "We've got some viruses here, Chris," Nitro said. "What should I do?"

"Heal yourself, first and foremost," Chris replied. "After that, just keep your eye on them. It's possible that they won't see you as a threat, seeing as you're traveling with a virus. Hell, if we're lucky, they might even tag along."

"I seriously doubt that that'll happen," Nitro replied. "Viruses are generally hostile by nature, and it's a miracle that I'm not Spikey chow right now," He glanced over his shoulder at said canine virus, eyeing its considerably large teeth before continuing. "Still, I guess it's worth a shot."

Nitro backed up toward the Spikey before firing his medical munitions at the ground beneath him. Once the cloud of restorative chemicals cleared, Chris uploaded a Guard, to try to defend himself from any possible incoming attacks. Nitro began forming a plan of attack, should he need to defend himself.

Summary:
1: Move back to Omega Spikey
2: Healing Hand Grenade at Nitro (and Omega Spikey) (60heal + Blast1)(2tcd)
3: Guard1 defending Nitro
4: (Dodge right)

Cooldowns:
Healing Hand Grenade: UTT

((bonk))

Nitro tried to heal himself and the Spikey with his healing bomb but trying to hug the virus didn't go over so well. The Spikey didn't know what Nitro was doing and kind of trotted away, outside of the blast radius. After repairing himself, he pulled up a guard in time to reflect a bone from one of the Skarabs. The virus fell apart from the rebound. The other Skarab sat still while the Brushman painted the panel beneath it a shiny golden colour and the two Quakers leapt high into the air.

QuakerA: 80 HP [high alt]
QuakerB: 80 HP [high alt]
SkarabA: 120 HP [holy]
SkarabB: 100 HP [sand] [invulnerable]
Brushman: 100 HP [holy]

Terrain: 95% Sand, 10% Normal, 5% Holy

Nitro: 71 HP [Sand]
Spikey Omega: 340 HP [Sand] [Mood: Neutral]

Nitro eyed the shining ground below the standing Skarab and the broom virus. "Hey, Chris," Nitro said. "You have any idea what that shiney ground is?"

"No clue," Chris replied. "But it looks beneficial to them. It'd probably be a good idea to get rid of that broom virus quickly, and eliminate the terrain while we're at it. But you might want to look out above you, first."

Nitro looked up, and he saw the two heavy looking viruses sailing higher into the air. It stood to reason that they'd be coming down pretty hard, and more likely than not, they planned on landing on him. A thought suddenly occured to him. "Hey, what was that chip we got from Honeywell?"

"Oh, uh... a Geddon1."

"What's it do?"

"It cracks the entire field, according to the chip database."

"Send it, we might be able to use the two heavy guys' weight to their disadvantage." Chis did as instructed, and Nitro recieved a small remote, with a stereotypical big red button. Nitro pressed it, and a dull, yet loud thud was heard as the ground immediately began splintering up, sand running through the cracks. Thinking quickly, Nitro jumped to the left, then immediately dove forward into a roll. He rolled into a crouched positon, and qiuckly aimed his buster at the upright Skarab. He fired, sending a bomb flying at the virus, in attempt to break it up as the other one had been.

Summary:
1: Geddon1 (Full Battefield Terrain Crack)
2: Dodge left
3: Dodge forward
4: Buster at SkarabA (2x2x2=8 Fire + Knockback)

Cooldowns:
Healing Hand Grenade: 2

Nitro's efforts of getting rid of the Holy terrain wasn't as effective as he had hoped. Immediately after activating the Geddon chip, the Brushman redoubled its efforts and replaced the cracked panels under BOTH the Skarabs (and itself) with more shiny tiles. The Quakers landed and, meeting with the unstable ground, crashed through the floor and created two pits. The resulting tremor from their landing, stalled Nitro's ability to dodge slightly but he still managed to avoid the bone being hurled at him. He tried to break the Skarab apart with his buster but it apparently didn't have enough strength behind it as the virus was simply pushed backwards. The other Skarab reconstituted itself and attacked again but missed. However, the spinning bones homed in on Nitro's position as they spun in the air.

The Spikey remained mostly impartial to the fighting.

QuakerA: 80 HP [broken]
QuakerB: 80 HP [broken]
SkarabA: 112 HP [holy] [homing attack]
SkarabB: 100 HP [holy] [homing attack]
Brushman: 100 HP [holy]

Terrain: 70% Cracked, 20% Broken, 10% Holy

Nitro: 71 HP [cracked]
Spikey Omega: 340 HP [cracked] [Mood: Neutral]

Nitro was getting irritated with his would-be partner's refusal to participate. He spun around and faced the virus, and threw his arms up in frustration. "Come on!" Nitro said. "Would you do something useful instead of just standing there, you lazy-"

"Uh, Nitro," Chris cut in. "Getting mad at him isn't going to do us any favours."

"Your right," Nitro said. He then continued to the Spikey. "Uh, sorry about that. You just... do whatever right now. Attack whenever it strikes your fancy." He then turned back to face the hostile viruses. "Now that that's settled, let's deal with these buggers. What else we got, Chris?"

"Well, we've got that Lavabomb," Chris suggested. "That should clear out that broom easily enough."

"That'll do," Nitro said. "Just wait a sec." Nitro could feel the ground beneath him begin to give way, so he jumped off to the side. As he did so, he spun around to face the Quakers that had crashed through the ground, and were presumably still in the holes they had created. In the same movement, he materialized a translucent bottle of propellant, which he hurled toward the holes in the ground. It was Nitro's natural assumption that being in a hole when the ground changed to molten rock would not be very healthy for the Quakers.
He then turned to face the Brushman, a molten ball appearing within his hand. Nitro readied the oozing mass of lava, keeping his eye on the broom, and slung it towards the virus. Hopefully, this would get rid of it quickly, and keep the amount of glowing golden ground to a minimum.


Summary:
1: Dodge left
2: Molotov Cocktail at QuakerA (50Fire + Large Area Lava Zone Terrain Change)(3TCD)
3+4: Take aim and throw Lavaball at Brushman (120Fire (+Elemental Affinity Bonus = 130 Fire) + Break + Lava Panel Change)

Cooldowns:
Healing Hand Grenade: 1
Molotov Cocktail: UTT

((bonk))

The Molotov baked the Quaker it was being thrown at and forced the other Quaker to surface while simultaneously burning it (50 + 10). It promptly leapt into the air again to escape the heat. The Skarabs and Brushman were also burned but they found the strength to continue. Nito avoided the first round of homing bones as they doubled back and spun off into the distance, but the Skarabs were quick to replace them with another set. Fortunately, their aim was atrocious and none of the spinning femurs managed to hit him at all. The Brushman cleaned away the lava it was standing on before Nitro tossed a Lavaball... And missed. The Spikey wandered off of its cracked panels to sit on the edge of the molten terrain and went to sleep.

QuakerA: DELETED
QuakerB: 30 HP [high alt]
SkarabA: 102 HP [lava] [homing attack]
SkarabB: 90 HP [lava] [homing attack]
Brushman: 90 HP [holy]

Terrain: 40% Lava, 25% Cracked, 30% Broken, 5% Holy

Nitro: 71 HP [lava]
Spikey Omega: 340 HP [lava] [Mood: Neutral] [sleep]

Nitro watched the Quaker launch itself into the air. Nitro remained stationary, and began discussing his options. "I need a gun," Nitro said. "What're my options?"

"I'll send you the Cannon," Chris said. "That should do the job nicely."

The Cannon materialised over Nitro's buster, and he aimed it skyward, toward the Quaker. He wasted no time in sqeezing off a shot headed for the airborne virus. He then looked over to the Spikey, to see that it had, unsurprisingly, fallen asleep. He let out an angry sigh, and returned his attention to the viruses. Nitro rolled to the right, in an attempt to shake the bone boomerangs. Nitro recieved another chip from Chris; a Thunder. He quickly spun to face the Brushman, and fired the electric ball at the virus, but not before pouring his special additive down the barrel. Between the Lavaball missing, the Brushman erasing the terrain, and the Spikey's general uselessness, Nitro was starting to get irritated with the current progression of events. One more wrong move might be enough to send Nitro over the edge.


Summary:
1: Cannon at QuakerB (40dmg + Knockback)
2: Dodge right
*Nitro's Secret Recipe on Thunder (+10dmg)
3: Thunder at Brushman (50Elec* + Stun1 + Homing)
4: (Dodge backward)

Cooldowns:
Molotov Cocktail: 3

The Quaker was blasted out of the sky while the two Skarabs threw another set of bones seeing as how the first set missed again. The second set nearly hit Nitro, but he managed to dodge. The bony viruses continued to feel the burn from the lava panels while Nitro sent his Thunder after the virus. The Brushman was shocked by the ball but thanks to the special panel, it only sustained half damage from the attack.

QuakerA: DELETED
QuakerB: DELETED
SkarabA: 92 HP [lava] [homing attack]
SkarabB: 80 HP [lava] [homing attack]
Brushman: 65 HP [holy]

Terrain: 30% Lava, 25% Cracked, 30% Broken, 15% Holy

Nitro: 71 HP [lava]
Spikey Omega: 340 HP [lava] [Mood: Neutral] [sleep]

Nitro's disposal of the Quaker had improved his spirits slightly, but his disposition soon soured when he saw that the Brushman had taken minimal damage from the Thunder. "Damn," Nitro said. "Again, these stupid enemies are cheating! How much is it to ask that my attacks are as strong as they're supposed to be?"

"It's a bloody shame," Chris said, somewhat sarcastically. "I'm sure that you can still handle these viruses. You've got that spikey on your side, remember?"

"Yeah, I guess you're ri-" Nitro turned to see that despite the fight going on, the Spikey was still fast asleep. "HEY!" Nitro said, finally losing his cool. "GET UP, YOU LAZY MUTT!" Nitro was seething, and he had a green aura glowing around him once again. "HOW HARD IS IT TO STAY CONCIOUS? WAKE UP AND HELP ME FIGHT!" Chris sensed that Nitro might try to harm the Spikey, which would definitely not be a good idea, for his own safety. He tried his best to return Nitro's attention to the viruses.

"Nitro!" Chris said hurriedly. "You're leaving yourself open! Those viruses could attack you at any time!"

"What're you- oh, them." Nitro shot a sharp glare towards the three remaining viruses. "Give me the Minibomb, that broom is really pissing me off." The small, spherical explosive materialised in an instant, and Nitro gripped it between his hands, unscrewing it. He poured a small vial of liquid over the inner components, then twisted it back shut. Nitro quickly ran at the Brushman and held the juiced up explosive behind him. He hurled it as hard as he could toward the virus, and quickly followed it up with a bomb from his buster. He then began shouting some instructions to Chris. "Get my Rageclaw ready!"


Summary:
1: Short Fuse on Nitro (Strengthen 50, Damage Resistance 10, 15 Self dmg, 3TCD)
*: Nitro's Secret Recipe on Minibomb (Strengthen10)
2: Dodge toward Brushman
3: Minibomb at Brushman (60dmg (+60dmg centered on Brushman) + Blast2)(Mass Destruction activated)
4: Buster at Brushman (2x2x2=8Fire + Knockback)

Cooldowns:
Molotov Cocktail: 2
Short Fuse: UTT

Nitro's super enhanced Minibomb took out the Brushman at the cost of his well-being. Only the Skarabs were left now but two powerful explosives zapped them from behind and finished the battle for him.

The sneak attack had come from two navis, dressed in the same blackened uniform he had seen earlier from the attacked meeting site. They treaded carefully along the cracked panels and stopped at the edge of the lava field. The Spikey, awakened by the new presences, snarled at the new arrivals but held its ground beside Nitro. The navis were armed with red Cannons and pointed them at Nitro.

"Freeze!" one of them shouted, "Identify yourself!"

QuakerA: DELETED
QuakerB: DELETED
SkarabA: DELETED
SkarabB: DELETED
Brushman: DELETED

BlackNaviA: 500 HP [Broken]
BlackNaviB: 500 HP [Broken]

Terrain: 30% Lava, 25% Cracked, 30% Broken, 15% Holy

Nitro: 56 HP [lava]
Spikey Omega: 340 HP [lava] [Mood: Angry]

Nitro held his ground as the two navis approached. He made a quick glance back at the Spikey, to see that it had finally woken up. "Took you long enough," Nitro muttered, and turned back to face the new navis. "Chris, send me a Guard," Nitro said privately to his operator. "Things might be getting ugly around here."

The yellow shield appeared in front of Nitro, and he took it quickly. He kept the shield low enough that he could still clearly see the navis, but otherwise, he was relatively well protected. "I'm Nitro.EXE," he shouted back to them. "The GNA sent me here for a mission." Nitro thought for a moment. He and Chris had figured that the navis in black were on their side from the clues they had gotten, but it was still too early to be sure. He continued shouting to the navis. "And that's all I'm telling you until you tell me who you are!" Chris uploaded the Rageclaw Nitro had requested earlier, which Nitro kept hidden behind the shield. If the navis opened fire on him, he would be ready for them.

Summary:
1: Guard1 defending Nitro
2: Identify self
-TURN SPLICE-

"You're the escort?" the navi asked as he lowered his weapon while keeping his eye on the Spikey, "We were sent to assess the situation after communication broke down but we weren't expecting this."

He looked at his partner who simply shrugged in response.

"We're not coming any closer but there's something we need you need to do. There should be a control pad on the side of its collar. Press the red button twice and then the green one - That'll knock it out. We'll take care of the rest."

Nitro looked up at the collar and noticed some coloured buttons. Fortunately, the Spikey didn't seem to understand what was being said and didn't try to defend itself against Nitro, focussing primarily on the two black navis.

QuakerA: DELETED
QuakerB: DELETED
SkarabA: DELETED
SkarabB: DELETED
Brushman: DELETED

BlackNaviA: 500 HP [Broken]
BlackNaviB: 500 HP [Broken]

Terrain: 30% Lava, 25% Cracked, 30% Broken, 15% Holy

Nitro: 56 HP [lava] [Guard] [-2 actions]
Spikey Omega: 340 HP [lava] [Mood: Angry]

Nitro lowered the Guard and discarded the Rageclaw. He looked up at the Spikey, and saw the control pad the navi was talking about. He quickly brought Chris up over the private line to assess their options. "So, you think we can trust them?" Nitro asked.

"Well, they seem to know that you were going to be here," Chris said. "And they did lower their weapons when you identified themselves. I'd trust them if I were you."

Nitro nodded his head, then turned back to the black navis. "Alright, you guys seem trustworthy. I'll do what you say." Nitro then turned back to face the Spikey. "Chris, send me some BugFrags," Nitro said. "It'd probably be a good idea to keep our friend occupied." A small handful of Bugfrags appeared in Nitro's hand, and he held them up for the Spikey to see, whistling to get his attention. He then laid them down on the ground, then approached the Spikey's collar. Making sure it hadn't suddenly jerked around to see what he was doing, Nitro reached up and punched in the buttons that the navi had told him to. He then took a step back, to see if it had worked.


Summary:
-END TURN SPLICE-
3: Feed Spikey Omega 5 Bugfrags
4: Activate collar

The Spikey quickly changed it mood when the bugfrags were brought out. As it leaned down to snack on them, lapping up some of the lava along with it, Nitro reached around its neck and pressed the buttons in order before stepping back. It was a good thing he did as the collar seemed to release an intense electric shock that shot through the virus's massive body. It gave out a piercing yelp before falling over. Its breathing was laboured but it was still alive, though barely.

"Good work." The black navi called out and tapped the side of his helmet, "Hey, this is Recon One. We've located and subdued the specimen. Returning to base. Prepare holding facility seven."

The virus's eyes opened weakly and stared at Nitro with a look of betrayal and profound sadness before it disappeared along with the two navis. He had finished his mission successfully but he felt terrible inside.

QuakerA: DELETED
QuakerB: DELETED
SkarabA: DELETED
SkarabB: DELETED
Brushman: DELETED

BlackNaviA: [Gone]
BlackNaviB: [Gone]

Terrain: 30% Lava, 25% Cracked, 30% Broken, 15% Holy

Nitro: 56 HP [lava] [Guard]
Spikey Omega: [Gone]

[Battle 2 - Victory...]

Get: 600z

Nitro watched in horror as the electricity from the collar arced across the virus's body. As it fell onto the ground, he saw the Spikey look up at him. The look on its face shot through Nitro's body just as the electricity had shot through the Spikey's. Nitro just stood there in stunned silence as the Navis and his companion disappeared. Only four words escaped Nitro's lips in the five minutes he stood there.

"What have I done?"

"Nitro, are you okay?" Chris asked, concerned with his Navi's silence. Nitro produced the map that they had found on the black navi back in the battlefield. He gripped it tightly in his hand, then threw it to the ground. "Nitro?" Chris said again.

"Get me out of here," Nitro said. With those words, Nitro disappeared in a flash of green light. A subtle breeze blew through the air, picking up the map and laying it to rest on the lava, where it quickly burned up and was removed from the net.

-Nitro Jack-Out-