Kirk and his gang of Hunters enter Seeira and search around for The Six Guns. During their search, they run into a strange entity. What looked like a man dressed in cybernetic armor was simply standing perfectly still, slightly hunched over, in a alley in Seeira. Kirk slowly approached the entity, and noticed it had no guns but was wearing a mask and helmet. It also had a large dark blue scarf draped over its right shoulder. It was CH-Mk.217, AKA Predator.
"Hey..." Kirk says to Predator. Predator didn't respond or move at all. Kirk waved his hand in front of it's face. "You alive?". Once again, Predator did not move. "We're looking for The Six Guns" Kirk continues, "Do you know anything about them? We're here looking for a man named Siran". After mentioning Siran's name, Predator suddenly stands upright. Predator turns its head towards Kirk and cocks his head slightly to the left.
"So you are alive" Kirk says. "Do you know where Siran-" Kirk was then interrupted by Predator grabbing his neck. Kirk managed to kick Predator to get loose from his grip. Predator then throws a large fireball at the ground, and the fireball spreads into a wave of fire that engulfed the entire alley. As the fire clears, Kirk is still standing with a digital shield covering him. "Wait! Why are you attacking us?" Kirk asks.
One of Kirk's men throws an electric spell at Predator, and Predator remained still. The spell hit him, or rather he let it hit him. The electricity hits him directly in the chest, but nothing happens. It was completely ineffective.
Predator stands upright again, then crouches down and leaps over the building. After Predator vanishes, Kirk and the rest of his crew were left in awe. "Son of a bitch" one of Kirk's men say.
The Killshot Hunters continue wandering the streets, asking people about The Six Guns. Everyone kept giving them the cold shoulder. It seemed everyone here either didn't know anything about where The Six Guns would hide, or were covering for them. After a long time of searching and questioning, Kirk shot his gun into the air and demanded "If one of you don't come out here and explain anything about The Six Guns, then this is goin' to get ugly!".
The Six Guns crew fell asleep and woke back up in the evening to the sound of gunfire. "Wake up!" Vivi shouts as she shakes Siran awake. "Something's going on outside".
Siran rubs his eyes and then jumps to his feet when he hears the sounds of people panicking in town. Vivi and Siran wake the rest of the crew up and rush outside. When they leave the house, they run towards the center of town, where all of the commotion was coming from. There, they found Kirk and his crew.
"Ah, finally" Kirk says.
"And you said I played dirty" Siran says as he shifts back into his monstrous form.
"Fight fire with fire" Kirk says. "Now how is this gonna go down?".
"With fire, I guess" Siran says.
"I like that answer" Kirk says as he prepares his gun to fire. Before Kirk pulls the trigger, Tanya runs in from the side and drop kicks one of Kirk's crew to the ground.
"Looks like I picked the right time to come back and check up on you guys!" Tanya says as she stands back up.
"Tanya!" Rose shouts in excitement.
Kirk points his gun at Tanya and Siran raises his gun at Kirk. "Oh no you don't!" Siran shouts as he pulls the trigger. Kirk throws up a digital shield and blocks the shot, however his shield shatters immediately. As Kirk was distracted, Siran jumps at Kirk and goes for a punch. Kirk throws a punch to counter and their fists collided in mid-air. However, Kirk used a distortion spell to counter Siran, and Siran felt the full impact of Kirk's punch. Siran landed on his feet, but he vomited blood as he landed.
"Whoa there, buddy!" Kirk says. "You've got some power there! I didn't expect you to break a shield in one shot, but I also didn't expect you to vomit blood from a single attack".
"Syr!" Zia shouts, "is your body still falling apart!?".
"Falling apart?" Kirk asks. Kirk then smiles and asks "So you've given me a handicap?".
"I thought you'd need it" Siran says as he laughs, "otherwise, it wouldn't be a fight. It'd be bullying".
"Well let's see how far I can drive my opportunity" Kirk says as he throws another distortion punch at Siran. Siran creates a knife with reactive endo, and stabs the distortion, causing it to shatter. As the distortion shatters, Siran could faintly hear Gaia's voice coming from the white light of the shattered and distorted space. "Siran?" Gaia asks before the distortion disappears. Siran stood still, shocked, and Kirk charged at Siran. "Pay attention, shit head!".
Kirk's punch was stopped by Zia, who stared into Kirk's eyes with a ferocious intent. "Wrong move" Zia says. Kirk's eyes widened in surprise as Zia kicks him back with a strong gust of wind from a spell. Kirk's men caught him to keep him from falling, but before they had time to react, Zia took out her guns and started shooting down Kirk's men in rapid succession. Twelve of Kirk's men fell to Zia's precise shooting, and as he stands up, Kirk could see that Zia was using clairvoyance magic.
"This got interesting" Kirk says as he activates clairvoyance magic as well. "Either you practiced all the strange arts of magic, or you're a Mahina".
Holly joined in on the fight, using her digital art Dokkaebi. Many people tried to attack her, but her defense was too solid. However, as Holly tried attacking them, they all managed to dodge or block all of her attacks. It grew into a stalemate, but at least she was able to keep them from attacking anyone else. After a while of fighting back against her, one of Kirk's men threw a giant fireball at Holly. Holly stopped the spell in mid-flight, and used redirection to shoot the spell back at them. However, she didn't simply throw the spell back at them. She pulled the spell apart and threw what looked like a spear made of fire back at them at a high speed. The spell hit the original caster and took him, as well as a couple others, out all at once.
As this was happening, Satomi and Mikoto charged into battle. Mikoto used her quick reflexes and her adept ability with digital and elemental magic to swiftly take out a small group of people. However, every time she knocked them down, they just kept getting back up. "You're going to have to hit harder than that if you want it to hurt" one of the Killshot's say.
"How's this for hard!?" Satomi yells as she plants her bat firmly in the man's face. The man smacked against the ground, and he didn't budge after that. "Looks like playing sports paid off" Satomi says.
"You only got good at sports because I was better than you at magic" Mikoto says.
"Then you might want to pull off a good magic trick" Satomi says, "because they're still coming right at us!".
Meanwhile, Finn and Rose were fighting together. With a small knife, Finn was able to keep a lot of the Hunters at bay. During this time, Rose threw a knife into the crowd. "Cover your eyes!" Rose shouts at Finn. Finn closes his eyes and shields them with one arm. A bright flash emits from Rose's blade and blinds several enemies. As the Hunters were panicking from their lack of vision, Finn moved swiftly, cutting at several of the Hunters. By the time their vision had returned, some of the Hunters were dead and some others were screaming in pain from their lack of hands. Finn had cut off some of their hands when he missed their vital spots. Some others had deep cuts on their upper arms and shoulders as well. A larger man walks up to Finn and Finn tries to prepare a wall of an illusion spell. Finn created a black veil that acted as a sort of wall to hide Rose and Finn's movements.
"Oh no you don't" the larger man says as he uses distortion magic with a heavy punch. The impact hits Finn from behind his veil, and knocks Finn to the ground. The man then charged at Rose.
"Finn!" Rose shouts.
"You don't have time to worry about him, young lady!" The man shouts as he charges at her.
Rose jumps up and grabs his arm with both of her legs as the man punches at her. Rose flings her body forward and tries to twist his arm, but he resists. Instead, Rose simply swung on his arm by her legs. As she came back around though, she tackles him to the ground with a large knife. After he hits the ground, his head rolls off.
Tanya has mixed reactive endo with her buff spells and was punching one Hunter's lights out after another. Before long, she was stopped by another man using distortion magic. As she was knocked to the ground, the man charged at her but was stopped by a sudden pain shooting through his left leg. Robin had used his sniper rifle and shot the man in the leg. As the man looks over at Robin, who was smiling, Tanya stands up and grabs the man by the back of the head. She pummels his head into the dirt, then stands him back up by pulling on his neck. The man stood upright on his feet, but he got dizzy and collapsed as he lost consciousness.
Meanwhile, Zia and Kirk kept trading blows. After a while, they were locked in a stalemate, blocking and dodging each other's punches. Before long, Kirk got tired of this game and he prepared another distortion spell in his right hand. Before he was able to throw a punch with the spell, Siran pulled Zia out of the way, spun around, and hit Kirk with the back of his fist. Siran had used reactive endo with his buff spells, but also elemental magic. Siran hit Kirk so hard that his face smashed open, and then was followed by a gust of wind that sent him flying backwards. Kirk flew back about 5 meters and hit the ground with a hard thud.
Kirk leans up and looks right at Siran, saying "So you do have some fight in you".
"You're not taking me" Siran says, "nor am I letting you kill any of my friends".
"You've already killed some of mine" Kirk says, "eye for an eye".
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" Siran says, "and I'm afraid killing any of them is out of the question".
"Do you really think you can handle all of us at once?" Kirk asks with a smile.
Without saying a word, Siran crouches over and focuses a lot of magic into the ground. The ground started to rumble, and Kirk's men all directed their attention at Siran. In a split second, multiple spikes of rock shot up from the ground, impaling most of Kirk's men and crushing the rest between the spikes. "All of who?" Siran asks.
Kirk began to shake in fear. "You really are a monster" he says. "The world really would be better off without you. The world doesn't need someone like you, Siran!".
Immediately after Kirk says Siran's name again, Predator shows up. Predator jumps from one of the nearby rooftops and lands between Siran and Kirk, with his back facing Kirk, looking right at Siran. The ground cracked beneath his feet. Predator tilts his head as he looks at Siran and a low growling voice could be heard coming from the machine known as Predator, with his voice sounding shaky and harsh, barely managing to talk properly. "Jack...?" Predator says. "Can't believe... you.. are still... alive".
Siran froze as Alex asks "what's he saying?".
"Who's Jack?" Rose asks.
"The only Jack I know of" Ruby says, "is Jack Tobin of The Mages Guild".
"Jack..." Predator says as he slowly but twitchingly raises his right hand to point at Siran, "ah... you're... S-S-Siran now?... that's... right".
"Who is this guy?" Tanya asks.
"Wait" Robin asks, "is that The Sniper? But I thought that Siran was The Sniper...".
"Of course I was" Siran says, "you guys even saw me take off my mask!".
"Then who is this?" Finn asks.
"I don't know, but I've got a really bad feeling about this" Siran says.
"Does he know you somehow?" Zia asks. "Maybe he survived The Naris Catastrophe as well. Was your name before perhaps Jack?".
"I don't remember!" Siran panics.
"Long time... no... see" Predator says. "We have... unfinished... business... I've waited... for... a long... time". Immediately, Predator jumps at Siran and the two throw a punch at each other. Both used powerful distortion magic, and the collision caused a small explosion of wind and a strong gust.
"What the...?" Kirk says as he scurries backwards, "What is this? What's going on? Why are they so strong?".
Predator hops back just a little bit and kicks at Siran. Predator's foot stops before hitting Siran, but an unimaginably strong gust of wind sent Siran flying backwards. Siran kept flying and didn't show any signs of slowing down any time soon, however he had another problem to worry about. As Siran was sent flying, a single spike shot up from the ground directly at Siran as he flew. Siran couldn't dodge in midair, so he threw reactive endo at it and made it crumble with an explosion. However, Predator jumped through the cloud of dust and smoke, flying at Siran. Predator planted his feet on Siran's chest and suddenly their flight pattern changed as if they were magnetized to the ground. Predator brought Siran directly into the ground, pummeling his body into a hole made in the ground from the impact. Siran choked and coughed from having the air in his lungs forced out of his body from the attack. "It's a good thing I activated that stability buff at the last second" Siran thinks to himself, "that would've killed any normal person". Predator, who still stood on top of Siran, had one hand raised towards the sky. Clouds quickly moved in and rain began to fall.
As the rest of The Six Guns tried to catch up to Siran, they noticed the clouds. "Can... can that guy control the weather!?" Zia asks.
"That can't be right" Alex says.
"But it was sunny until just now!" Vivi panics.
"How far away did they go?" Rose asks.
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning strikes the ground and the crew rushes towards where it struck. When they arrive, they see Siran standing on his feet, and a burn mark on the ground where the lightning struck close to Siran. Suddenly, another bolt comes from the sky and strikes right at Siran. Siran redirects it and makes it strike the ground again.
"Uh... guys?" Rose says, "I don't think lightning is supposed to strike at the same place twice like that".
"No way" Ruby says. "Not even a Mage is this strong. Who is this guy?".
Predator slowly turns his head towards the rest of the group. "Nice... to meet... you... humans" he says, "My name... is... Naris".