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Re: High End IC Episode II-At the End of the Time Which Can Never Be Returned to
« Reply #140 on: December 09, 2018, 09:15:18 AM »
"Once I prove it, see if you can't explain this virus a bit more... I've not been sick a day in my life yet, and I don't want to start now," Amaterasu said, looking up at the incoming threat and preparing to warmly welcome it.

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« Reply #141 on: December 09, 2018, 09:38:42 AM »
"Must we always be interrupted by people with more guns than common sense when we're trying to have a conversation?

Arodatam! Any tactical advice? Weaknesses to exploit? You've got the most experience fighting these things!"


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« Reply #142 on: December 10, 2018, 12:40:17 PM »
Teresa would also transmit her I.D.

In a few seconds a new communications channel opens towards those of you who presented forth their IDs:
:”Hugo? Ammy?? Steph??? How is this possible after so much time? And how can you look so young? No, you can’t be real! You must just be clones or some ARKAS trickery! To think they would try to play such a low trick… Get out of my garden at once! I don’t have time for the likes of you!”
"I mean, I am suppose to be the ultimate soldier gene wise, so me no longer aging after my prime is ideal. However there is more going on here. Something we are currently trying to sort through" She was a bit surprised, as it seems that Arodatam seem to view her as an old friend.

Catching up, Katherine followed suit on transmitting her I.D. to the mechs.

"Katherine Matyr Yoshka at your service." She half salutes, half waves in greeting.

At Hugo's analysis she puts on a questioning face. "What? Are we walking into a crazy person's house you're saying?"
"Paranoia doesn't mean you're crazy... Well at least not crazy in a way to be concerned about in our situation."

:”They infected you with that vírus to exploit a flaw in your design but you actually aged pretty well, Ammy, how could you forget? No, you’re just some copy! But that crossed arms pose, that piloting style, that way of talking, just like I remember it, never shared with anyone... I was so lonely after you were gone, Ammy… So many regrets for the things I didn’t tell you when I had the time… Have you come back just for me? But I can’t be with you now, Ammy. I have an important job to finish. So please just wait a bit longer... ”
"Not to give into the paranoia, but a proper copy would share the same tendencies. I assure you we are not copies though, I don't think it's even possible to copy me without certain gene keys." the Googanheek family was a definition of healthy paranoia after all.

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Stephanie sighs heavily as she prepares herself for evasive actions. She enjoyed a good fight, but this really wasn't the time or place for this sort of thing. She looks back to her passenger, "Hold on tight, this may get a little dizzying." She looks back forward, her emerald eyes becoming red with dot patterns in them, "Exia ready to eliminate with extreme prejudice!" Teresa braces herself on her controls, "Yea yea, let's go!"

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Re: High End IC Episode II-At the End of the Time Which Can Never Be Returned to
« Reply #143 on: December 11, 2018, 12:52:44 AM »
: "Forces of Fog? Oh! One of you mentioned them, right? That was those super pirates I totally destroyed singlehandedly! Or, well, will destroy? Hah, this'll be a cake walk!"
: ”Will? You can explain that later, but do not let your guard down. Destroying their main force costed me. A lot.”

: "Once I prove it, see if you can't explain this virus a bit more... I've not been sick a day in my life yet, and I don't want to start now,"
: ”Not to worry Ammy, if we upload you into DAUGHTER you’ll never need to suffer through it again.”

Teresa would also transmit her I.D.
: ”63% match confirmed with code O.F.D. Accepted”

"I mean, I am suppose to be the ultimate soldier gene wise, so me no longer aging after my prime is ideal. However there is more going on here. Something we are currently trying to sort through"
: ”No such thing as ideal genes, that’s why DAUGHTER was created. But we can talk about that later, focus in the battle for now!”

"Not to give into the paranoia, but a proper copy would share the same tendencies. I assure you we are not copies though, I don't think it's even possible to copy me without certain gene keys."
: ”Sounds like something a copy would say. Looks and memories are easy enough to falsify, let me see if you can put your blades where your words are.”

"Hold on tight, this may get a little dizzying."
: ”Why does this things keep happening to mmmeeee!”

: "Must we always be interrupted by people with more guns than common sense when we're trying to have a conversation?

Arodatam! Any tactical advice? Weaknesses to exploit? You've got the most experience fighting these things!"

: ”Now that sounds like something the real Hugo would do, trying to get the shortest easiest path. But if you’re the real thing, then you should be able to figure those on your own fast enough.”

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Re: High End IC Episode II-At the End of the Time Which Can Never Be Returned to
« Reply #144 on: December 11, 2018, 10:00:31 AM »
"I am the 'old' Hugo, not that you'd believe me right now."

For the moment, he let his allies take the fight and awaited to best analyze how to take them out.

(After all, I have the lowest initiative last I checked).

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« Reply #145 on: December 19, 2018, 02:27:33 AM »
"Well, I guess I'll start testing these waters then and see how they hold up! Take notes Hugo!"

Katherine steers her mecha into the adjacent jungle fauna and makes to blend into it and disappear from sight. About simultaneously a massive explosion went off right on top of the largest of the Fog battleships hanging back the farthest from it's allies.

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« Reply #146 on: December 20, 2018, 06:08:06 PM »
"Can't we go with firmware or hardware updates and not backups? I'd rather avoid the problem than have dozens of me going around because of a copying mistake,"

Then the mecha raised its arm, gathering energy together into an immense star...

"Now someone keep them off me a second."

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Stephanie frowns "Hate to break it to you, but combat skill wouldn't prove anything either" she says as she maneuvers her mecha into position and two glowing spheres appear next to her mecha, white and light blue respectively.  Pointing one of its hands towards the sky, she causes a portal to form over the fleet with the main ship at it center. A sparking meteor like ball falls from it towards the main ship, striking it and then cause electricity to arc from it to other ships.

"Its normally my job to provide support fire in mech battles. I'll be watching your backs." Teresa communicates to her allies, training her Oxtongue Rifle towards the incoming fleet.

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After everyone's had a chance to beat on the fleet, Murakumo simply tosses a handful of discs towards them, which erupt into Solid Fog. Predictably.

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: "I am the 'old' Hugo, not that you'd believe me right now."
:”Seeing is believing, so let me see it, the terror technomage in action.”

: "Well, I guess I'll start testing these waters then and see how they hold up! Take notes Hugo!"

Katherine’s missile flies right through the enemy formation to hit the flagship’s bridge and producing a massive explosion that engulfs both it and the nearby escorts!

:”A perfect opening shot! Against a lesser opponent, our victory in one move! but against the Aether Phantom fleet...”

The smoke clears and FC class is still standing, an energy field still flaring from the explosion and the bridge still in one piece even if there’s significant damage all accross the hull. Even the nearby escorts are still hovering although they are in even worst shape, large tears in their structures.

: "Can't we go with firmware or hardware updates and not backups? I'd rather avoid the problem than have dozens of me going around because of a copying mistake,"
: “...But there already should be dozens of you going around because of a copying mistake, Ammy. Or will be? It took us some time to find that out. Wait, nevermind I said that, Ammy!”

Arodatam’s squaddies meanwhile appear awed at the massive ball of energy forming over Amaterasu.

:”Danger! Nearby radiation levels escalating 3817% over safety bounds and increasing!”

: “Oh shut up you, Ammy knows what she’s doing.”

:"Hate to break it to you, but combat skill wouldn't prove anything either"
:”Wouldn’t expect a scholar like you to understand, ‘Stephanie’. Sometimes the best way to understand each other is through direct battle, the clash of beams, the roar of missiles.”

:”Some friendly competition is nice now and then, but this seems like way too much!”

Meanwhile Stephanie’s lighting rock succeeds in causing sparks to jump accross roughly 1/3 of the Aether Phantom ships. Although their hulls seem fortified against energy and don’t suffer much damage, nevertheless they are left entangled in coils of electricity.

"Its normally my job to provide support fire in mech battles. I'll be watching your backs."
:”And you still keeping that old doll around? Better than nothing I guess. Arodatam, Wildraubtier Schnabel MK III High Mobility type, attacking!

:”Roger! Engaging targets!”

Arodatam and her squaddies power up their boosters, burning the vegetation behind them and quickly closing in the distance with the closest FS class ships. The immortal steel troops efficiently surround one of them and fire machine guns at point blank range to overwhelm its shield then blowing up its reactor, while Arodatam almost simultaneously draws twin beam blades from her mecha and slices multiple times through another FS class, in a style quite reminiscent of Katherine’s own but somewhat colder and more brutal. Torn to chunks, the crippled FS class explodes virtually simultaneously as the other.

Then Nei pops out from the jungle in her mecha.

“Light damnit Hugo Lotushand, I take my eyes off you for some nanoseconds and you already got yourself in a new fight! Wait, those are the bad pirates Katherine’s supposed to fight? A common enemy between us and Arodatam Neikapool, attacking!”

Nei starts flying towards the Aether Phantom fleet too, and unable to reach them yet instead unleashes a barrage of missiles from her machine’s chest that manage to damage some more ships.

:”A Nei here too? As long as she's fighting the Aether Phantom Fleet too, she's welcome for now."

:”Calculações acabadas. Alvos identificados. Iniciando cumprimento dos objectivos.”

As its escorts release repair nanomachines to patch it up, the FC class’s hull opens up, revealing a massive cannon inside that starts charging a ball of white energy that quickly becomes even bigger than Amaterasu’s own. For a few moments things seem to both be going faster and slower at the same time.

:”Canhão de degenerância protótipo-Fogo.

The ball of energy is fired right at the middle of the party before bursting out, then collapsing in a single point, pulling everything in the area! The trees and the ground itself are pulled and disappear. Katherine’s combat instincts allow her to turn on her boosters fast enough to escape the pull, although she’s left out in the open as all the nearby terrain is gone. Similarly, Hugo had Murakumo prepared for something just like this. Amaterasu and Stephanie must contend directly with the attack.

:”Destruir a caçadora! Reparar o passado! Processar o futuro!”

The remaining Aether Phantom fleet ships start fighting too, one FL class and the FS classes entangled by Stephanie remaining in place while unleashing long-range beam barrages from their deck cannons, while the remaining ships move forward while unleashing barrages of missiles and anti-air fire at all of you! Nei and Arodatam expertly dodge or parry all attacks going her way but the Immortal Steel troops take significant damage.

:”98%-99%-CRITICAL LEVELS REACHED UPLOADING DAT-”

One blows up in the sky but there’s no eject pod, neither a reaction from Arodatam or the other squad members.

:”You just lost one of your own! And they didn't-You didn't-”

:”Clearly she was defective. But also just a redundancy so victory is still well whitin our calculations.”

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"Huh. I guess at least their ramblings are making a little sense..."

Hugo curses inwardly as the Disk Launcher is wrangled from Murakumo's hands. He really ought to consider supergluing the damn thing with nanites or something.

But as usual, that just meant he needed to come up with a plan.

Breaking a Telekinesis disk on himself, he circled around to hide for a moment. He needed to think.

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"Oh what're you complaining about, they already look like that first shot of mine nearly dropped them out of the sky!" Katherine calls back to Arodatam, perhaps speaking too soon. As soon as she'd finished talking, all of her surrounding cover was promptly decimated and the following missile strikes struck hard. The ensuing explosions were worryingly accompanied by the simultaneously explosion of her Wildraubtier and Katherine herself being launched forth from the fire and smoke.

"Gosh.... Some day they'll make one slightly more durable than wet paper. These repair costs are really killing me!" the merc shouted over the sounds of battle, acting as if this was entirely expected. "You're right Arodatam, there probably wasn't anything left of your old Wildraubtier, eheheh."

Bracing herself, Katherine's eyes locked onto the massive FC class ship still lurking in the back ranks of their foes. Tensing for only a moment, she suddenly launched herself at incredible speeds, straight for that huge target just asking to be torn apart by her blades.

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The sword set at her side reverberates as the gravity cannon begins to warp the area. Stephanie frowns, willing Memento's power into her GN Short Sword as she swings it, creating a vacuum and possibly cutting time itself. It seems to do nothing, but the fact the mecha is still there is a testament to it at least partial success. As the attack ends her sharp, now red eyes detects a missile approaching, and with a flick of 00's wrist it is cut down with no harmful effect. Once all the dust clears, it appears as if her mecha hasn't taken any damage. "Ugh," she vocalizes as she mentally berates herself for not turning on her GN Field. She does so as she places the GN weapon back in its hanger, then uses the free hands of her mecha to weave signs with the hands. A pulse of blue white is emitted from 00, providing protections to any allies nearby. Light armor plates emerge from the edges of her mech's plating and cover it. Another set of hand-seals causes a clone to erupt in a puff of dark smoke.

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: "Huh. I guess at least their ramblings are making a little sense..."
: “Wait, you can make sense of their gibberish?”

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: "Gosh.... Some day they'll make one slightly more durable than wet paper. These repair costs are really killing me!"
: ”You’ll need to wait a bit, the Wildbrautier MK II will have even thinner armor for trying to cut costs, but the MK III will finally have proper durability. In the meanwhile a shield may’ve been a good long-term investment. Going to be?”

: "You're right Arodatam, there probably wasn't anything left of your old Wildraubtier, eheheh."
: ”I don’t recall it being lost this way! Wait, I can’t recall how it was lost at all, so long ago...”

A clone of Stephanie shows up in the middle of the battlefield and both espers release enhancing photons to increase both the defensive and offensive capacities of their allies.

Katherine spots an opening in the enemy fleet, three vessels lining up with their flagship for a moment, all the pirate hunter needs to fly at extreme seed slicing through their hulls. Katherine has trouble remembering the last time her blades sliced so cleanly through any targets,  tearing elegant gaps in the ships as she closes with the biggest enemy in sight and procceeds to viciously and repeatedly slash at it!

Amaterasu follows Katherine’s trail, her own massive blade tearing through weakened shields and sinking two of the smaller enemies while crippling another. It may not be her more elegant moment but her targets are relatively big and clumsy so hitting them up close is hardly a problem.

Teresa succeeds on hitting the undamaged FL class, although most of her beam disperses off the shield and plating, while the ship starts turning its beam cannons and missile racks so they’re pointing at the maid android

Hugo retrieves his disk launcher and disappears into the nearby foliage that wasn’t erased yet.

:”Wait Hugo, what you’re planning now?”

Nei flies into the foliage behind the arcane pilot, taking cover as well while positioning her mecha to serve as cover for him.

Aratodam and her remaining troops continue their own attack, succeeding in sinking another couple enemy vessels.

Meanwhile the massive FC class is still being sliced by Katherine’s zealous assault, her blades just as effective against it as its lesser brethern, internal systems exploding as fuels lines leak and the whole ship starts breaking apart in mid-air!

: “Erro Dano crítico a 98-99-Erro!”

It’s still sending broadcasts but its messages are filled with more and more static.

”Essas---Lâminas---Those---Blades---”

Time and space seem to be distorting even harder, bending and sucking all nearby light as the dying FC class seems to start collapsing upon itself.

: “És---verdadeira---Caçadora---the true---Huntress---”

The broken hull bits start separating, revealing a glowing engine core.

 : “Glory---Aether---Phantom---Fleet!”

The massive ship explodes in a dark nova!

:”Not yet! This isn’t over yet!”

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"Don't be so dramatic! I took out, like, four of you. AND! You shot ME first so get off your high horse, you out-dated cosplay giant! I don't even know you!"

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Hugo plots and considers, relaying his message to Nei and Arodatam on two separate channels.

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Of course, the arrival of the aptly-dressed robot was another variable to consider, but nothing that would affect the plan too much.

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Re: High End IC Episode II-At the End of the Time Which Can Never Be Returned to
« Reply #157 on: February 11, 2019, 03:19:44 PM »
As Stephanie's clone casts its supportive magics, the original pulls out it's GN Sword II. Spinning around in place it releases a wave of covering fire against the enemy fleet. The sweeping beams leaves energy lingering in the air as energy orbs, both daring them to get closer and threatening them if they don't move.

A wave of her mech's hand cause the missile headed for Teresa to disappear, but a beam deals a significant amount of damage to her. She then switches her Oxtongue for a smaller pair of rifles, while taking a moment to focus. She then lets loose a shot against each enemy.

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« Reply #158 on: February 18, 2019, 09:54:51 AM »
"Why do no maids I meet ever actually do maid work? It's always attempted murder," Amaterasu wonders, seemingly unconcerned about the state of disrepair her mecha was now in--sure enough, all the damage was bubbling and fusing together as if there had never been any damage to start with. "Now, if you want to disarm me that badly..."

Already her mecha's hand was starting to spin up, the light of fusion spilling from its connections with the rest of the mecha--before it shot off at high speed! It'd be back soon.

You know, maybe after it hit a moon or something.

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« Reply #159 on: February 25, 2019, 03:39:32 AM »
:"Don't be so dramatic! I took out, like, four of you. AND! You shot ME first so get off your high horse, you out-dated cosplay giant! I don't even know you!"
:”Not this body, but you will know my previous form one day and destroy hundreds, thousands, millions, virtually all of us… But you won’t because I’ll be taking care of you before that!”

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: "Why do no maids I meet ever actually do maid work? It's always attempted murder," 
:”Now that hurt me. I worked so hard finding and securing those hot springs, cleaning before, preparing the drinks and snacks, then cleaning up after you were finished...”

:"I-I used to work part-time at a maid cafe and never attempted murder on anybody..."

:”Since cycle 564813, classic ‘maid work’ is only available through the payment of macrotransactions. Attempted murder is the only service available with the base maid package.”

:”...Please do destroy that sorry excuse of a maid.”

Stephanie’s and Teresa’s combined bombardment fail to bring any enemy down but do succeed on greatly disrupting their formation, all enemies but one FL class and the Psycho Maid clearly slowed down as their shields flare up trying to stop the damage.

Amaterasu’s finds a good position from which to launch her atomic rocket first, cleanly punching a clean hole through both shield and hull of a FS class and FL class! However the psycho maid in between, seemingly distracted with dancing to evade Teresa’s and Stephanie’s projectiles, instantly shifts her position with a purple flash so that Amaterasu’s atomic rocket fist only glances her. Then the punched-through FS class explodes, soon followed by the FL class!

Katherine takes on the Psycho Maid head on, ignoring her plating and aiming directy at the very weak points of the giant robot’s essence, but finds a wall of solid, cold and electric hate that manages to stand up to her blades!

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The remaining Aether phantom fleet ships shoot cables at the psycho maid that latch at her nanodress then start pumping her with energy that make her start to glow.

:”Woooohh take this and begone for good! HEAVY FINGER SHOTS!”

The psycho maid rises her mechanical hands, opening her fingers while the robot’s fingertips open to reveal cannons, each aiming at a party member plus Arodatam’s forces while the enemy ships lock on their weapons to Katherine and they launch a combined barrage!

Simultaneously Arodatam and her minions close in with Katherine, managing to sink down two more FS classes on the way, before forming up around the pirate hunter, using their frames to block most of the attacks aimed at her while Arodatam parries missiles and beams aimed at the pirate hunter with her blades.

:”I’m still not sure who you are, but now I know it would be a shame to see you fall her and now. So hurry up and finish off that cheap maid!”

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