Chapter 25 - Rivaled

Competition between those two started with little cheating from Anastasia.

"Hah, eat my dirt, Tool Man!"

"Your wish! I will show you how the real man fights!"

"Ara ara, you guys are full of energy. That's good!" Roselin followed those two. Before she went outside, she gazed at Linsy. "Sweety, be careful."

Linsy didn't answer, focussed on her computer. 

"Listen, Tool Man. Our goal is to defeat those stupid four sentry guards and escape from this bunker. If they can't be destroyed, then we just run away and wish to outrun those robots. Hey, do you hear me?!"

The dented door stuck. Felix and Anastasia were able to jump out from gap.

They gave those four robot elements of surprise and they late to react. Like a bee Anastasia and Felix evaded robot arms. They started to build a chemistry on their move. 

With her whip blade, Anastasia severed a left and right arms of the first robot. She jumped back and landed safely.

"Is that all?" Felix shoots a first robot eye and blinds it.

"Don't be arrogant! It happened because my legs hurt, you know?"

"Ah, so why do you walk like granny?"

"You shall pay for that word!"

The second robot approaches the first robot to repair its two broken arms and eyes.

"Not so fast!" Anastasia jumped up and about to slashed a second robot's arm. However, a third elongated robotic arm hit her, sending her flying into the wall.

Felix swiftly jumped, catched Anastasia. With both feet he managed to land safely.

"Get off! Get off!" She strugled. "I said, let me go, Idiot!"

"Sure." Felix let go of Anastasia and made her butt bounces on the floor. 

"Ouch, it hurts." Anastasia stroked her butt while frowning, kicking Felix in the leg. "You can put me down slowly, right?!"

"Yeah, but I don't want to. Because I'm idiot. Duh."

[Eliminated all Target] The fourth robot rotates, dragging its arms. Fire came out from both its arms.

"Ah shit, your family is getting smarter, Anastasia."

"What did you say? You Tool Man!" Anastasia got up and prepared to attack, but she needed to synchronated her attack with Felix. "Hurry up, what is on your mind!"

Felix has an idea. "Roselin, can you form a shield wall in front of the robot? Like a brick?"

Roseline nodded. "Yes, but what for?"

"Just do it," Felix replied. "You'll find out later, and please build a staircase from the bottom, up to the robot's face."

"Just for a few seconds, Sweetie. What's all that for?"

"Just make it!"

According to Felix's request, she created a thick brick shield, trapped the robot's arm, and prevented its body from rotating. Felix uses a staircase and moves closer to the robot eye.

"Clean shoot!" Felix releases his arrow, piercing an eye, then suddenly, the staircase starts to fade. He jumped back and landed successfully. 

He said, "Two robots were neutralised." His forefinger rubbed his nose. "How is it, am I great?"

"Tch, just a coincidence!" Anastasia jumped, slashing the snagged arm and the robot's leg.

"Oh no, Sweetie, look." Roselin pointed at the first robot whose hands had reconnected. "Ara ara, quickly destroy that robot before he returns!"

"Roselin, can you make a shield around me?" asked Felix. 

She nodded. "But, the farther away from me, my shield cannot last long."

"It's okay, just created that shield on my order."

The third robot fires four missiles. Felix and two girls jumped, dodging an attack. A terrific explosion occurred.

Felix had one more arrow. He ran towards the third robot. "Roselin, created your staircase like before to that missile robot!"

Stairs created. Felix used it, jumping towards the robot's open chest. He prepared his right fist. "Time to try my strength!"

Robot was about to swat Felix like a swatting mosquito, but Anastasia crippled its right and left arm.

"Anastasia, run!" Felix was almost on the strike distance of robot chest. "Roslein! Create a shield on my body!"

"Okay!" said the two girls.

"I need a cool move name." Red flames created on his right fist, burst into the robot's chest from Felix's right hand. "Fire Snot!" a fire burned a missile in the robot's chest and caused a powerful explosion from inside its body. 

The blast thru Felix's harshly, luckily, there was Roselin's shield, so the effect of the blow didn't hurt him. The robot was shattered in the explosion.

He landed safely. "Heh, one destroyed."

Anastasia kicks him in the ass from behind. "Fire Snot? So that's your first move? Fire Snot?"  Anastasia's voice boomed as she crossed her arms and looked at the agitated Felix.

"What's your problem? That's my move, not yours, right!. Besides, how many robots can you destroy?"

"Listen, Tool Man, without me, you would be dead like an ant back then!"

"You two better focus, there are still three robots left," said Roselin, panting and her eyes glazed over.

"Roslein, are you all right?" Felix dashed, helping her to stay on feet.

"No, it's fine. It's just that my stamina—"

"Drink, it can restore your stamina." Felix offered a drinking vessel made of deerskin that contained a Stamina drink that Heaven Rabbit made. "Don't worry, I've taken it and the effect is great."

"Hey, hurry up, I need help!!"  Anastasia's whip wrapped around the robot's leg, pulling it almost to the ground, but its arms supported its body. "Tsk, that acrobatics again. Fine, I'll crush your arm first!"

Before she had time to react, eight missiles slid and hit her

Luckily, Roselin managed to create a shell shield in time. "Wow, Sweetie's great drink!"

"What drink? I want to try!" Anastasia was about to grab a drinker from Felix, but he gulped it all. "You really are a STUPID TOOL MAN, idiot!"

"Bah, you annoying woman. I'm too lazy to share with you."

Anastasia kicked Felix in the groyne. But felix coughed her leg, swung it, made her dance like ballerina. 

"Not that easy." Felix stuck out his tongue, insulting Anastasia.

"Ara ara, you guys!" Roslin screamed while enduring the robot's spinning attack. "Focus!"

Another four missiles came from the left side, while a fire from the robot on they right came closer.

Fire heated  Roselin shield, inside, it tasted like water in a kettle slowly boiling.

"The cavalry came!" Linsy deployed her bots and shot down four missiles.

Felix and Anastasia ran outside, focusing their attacks on the flamethrower robots.

"Shield!" asked Felix.

"Roger that!"

Roselin created a protective shield around Felix's body. He jolted on fire and prepared his daggers. The heat burned his skin slowly, but he still approached the robot's arms.

"Eat this shit!" Felix put his daggers, blocked a pipe on robot arms. He jumped back. 

Slowly both robot's arms shone brightly, like an Iron being tempered on forge. Its entire arm melted, then exploded.

Not far from there, Anastasia broke two robotic arms.

"Now you can't protect your face!" Felix shot his last arrow. The arrows shot fast, piercing a robot's eye.

Anastasia cuts off both of the robot's legs."Now you become a trash can!"

Felix and Anastasia do a high five .Then they realise that they were rivals.  Both turned away, coughing. Felix and Anastasia's collaboration destroyed three robots, leaving only one.

[Sequence self-destruct activation. Ten, nine, eight—]

"What the hell is that crazy robot trying to blow itself?!" he said. 

"Oh no, it must be a nuclear reactor!" said Linsy. "Everyone, run!"

[---Four, three, two, one.]

The robot glows brightly and…..

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