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Chapter 22 - Battle Royal

(Hardcore fighting warning. May lack other content type and flavor.)

[Chapter summary]

Final Flurry

Overdrive

Benediction

Weak point shots

cross kick countering

captain maverick

Booms then bangs and many onomatopoeia occurred almost immediately as Gypsy launched himself as the fastest amongst them. It didn't take less than another second to counter-counter by Cross's colt. Just simply because of Gypsy's combat prowess alone allowed him to block the bullet that would have downed any human the bullet only forced him to fly backwards. Adilita tried to fire again to slag a follow up bullet only to discover the cool down that collapsed the weapon into a sleek blade-like formation of mechanics that used the heated chamber as a deadly searing hot plasma edge. The captain cursed in utter fury as he had thought he was safe from her only to be assaulted by her.

[Cool down in sixty seconds. Repeated overheating will require longer maintenance protocols.]

"Calico back me up." Adilita called for help as the raw strength and fluid-like kicking technique from the Captain diverted the inexperienced android aside. Even though the Captain had bladed weapons he has yet to consider using them and that made Adilita's analyzer unable to find weaknesses in his breathing, posture, and many other breakdowns of data being added to the overdrive's capacity to record. On the outside, the android realized that it would be best to bait and follow the prepared combat programs. Instead of muscling her way through with her synthetic frame she allowed the programs to play out in a nearly omnisciently predicted plan. After all this only a microsecond passed as she watched the subprogram pilot her body in a vicious game of cat and mouse to keep the Captain distracted from capturing the coin. The attacks were met with blocks and the blocks were met with flawless execution of kicks in a deadly dance which only resulted in a gleam in the Captain's eyes to shine fiercely. The reflection in his eyes however told as different story as pieces of stone and mana gathered into a crude shaped morning star. Calico had finally managed to grasp the situation as her role dictated to use an explosive force onto the Captain. With such power bursting forward with a mix of magical bindings that were rather beautiful and intricate it was designed to inflict damage but it also negated Adilita's attack patterns as the stone and earth morning star broke apart with the core mana flow destabilizing. Adilita's scanner routed an evasive pathway as she nowarked herself to sideways step so that her back no longer faced Calico's line of attack. Even then the minor yet faster shrapnel still tried to leave a mark onto to bounce into a shell of rippling air that folded itself in what Adilita's scanners revealed to be a solid line of mana running from Calico to her. Pings and plunks sounded lyrically making Adilita smile happily at the little extra feminine touch Calico had put into making her barrier.

"Do Re Mi!" The Captain roared in alto as he fully bore the brunt of such a large attack behind a well covered manly set of muscles that bulged as into a boxing shell.

"Faaaast so like thunder and lightning does." Gypsy joined into headway as well. In the moment of recovery from Cross's suppressed fire he'd llpll once again to knock the coin over and over without much ground earned as it has already repeated begun to be snatched inches away. Aside from that it was Cross's turn to reload and Adilita's cool down had yet to finish it's cycle. In treble clef Cross sang as he kicked the empty shells out of his colt chamber. "Everybody was kung fu fighting."

[Detecting music and choir classic. Would you like to activate singing and choreography?] The program file appeared in Adilita's visual to which her holoworld self answered due to the fact there was already too much going on outside.

[No! Cancel.]

[Initiating song.]

[Father you idiot! Why? I'm going to die of embarrassment.]

"I know it's a little bit frightening. Oh, but it's so enlightening for the battle of the fists. Comes the battle of the mind when you don't know who you are." Adilita's voice sang making everyone pause and stare at the android. Even the coin landed on the ground motionlessly adding it's ting ting ting sounds to her singing.

The captain who was a millimeter from losing his neck to Gypsy's blade just froze in surprise then clapped since Gypsy too had frozen in place in his amazement. A few of the Captain's men had even caught on and added a little instrumental touch since they were drawn back to reality by Adilita's voice. Calico King's cat-smile mouth curled into a furious set of lips as jealousy rolled out of waves the moment Adilita stopped. Calico opened her tonsils and unleashed a heavenly chorus matching the power of a priestess until the song finished. Gypsy's feline ears curled out of embarrassment because they were in fact supposed to be in the middle of an attempted arrest yet it had now gone to him to finish the song.

Gypsy's wide mischievous grin boiled up to a boisterous cheer as he broke down and finished the finals of the song in a synchronous duet battle choreography with the Captain. "Oooo, Ooo, Oooo!"

Adilita sniffles quietly almost crying. "My lost dignity. Father I hate you. How could you make me do that?"

"Cheer up, I'll treat you like a good daddy after the arrest Zero One." Captain replied making Adilita's tortured face broil into heated fire of bruised ego and fury. The weapon in her hand twitched rapidly as it was now in the fire arm form to once again make the coin toss into the air from the beam striking the underbelly stones of the plaza. The Captain roared as a massive aura unleashed from his soul forcing the coin to magnetize towards him. "Men distract her." The aura itself seemed to only graze a spectrum barely picked up by Adilita's visual synthesizer but it was contagious for the other officers as their own bodies now began to glow in a similar wavelength. "Come at me meat shield minions," Adilita taunted!