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Sylanwood, South Tarrabria: The Shoreline, Time: 6:00 AM
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"Woo, the Boy Scouts are getting fired up." Sugar snickered, stretching his muscles again.
"Well, they better make this a good one," Lucia ordered, looking at the 3 trainees.
"I will give them a chance by calling it off if they land a hit on me once." Sugar challenged, eating a coffee bean candy.
The trio tensed as Cefie spoke up again, their synthesized voice glitching urgently.
"Warning: My systems are overheating and fluid levels are critically low from that last impact. I have approximately...5 minutes until forced shutdown."
Chris and Sinnodal exchanged worried looks. Without Cefie to coordinate and analyze, their planned combination assault would be perilous.
"Can you at least get us the optimal strike timing before you're down?" Chris asked gruffly.
Cefie's head twitched as more fluid leaked out. "Affirmative...but we must act quickly once the m-moment arises."
They fell silent, optics flickering as they dedicated all remaining processing power to tracking Sugar's movements with laser precision. The seconds they were ticked by agonizingly.
Sinnodal stretched his legs, readying himself. "I'll put everything I have into my opening kick," he murmured. "You two better not miss your cues."
"Yeah, don't worry about me," Chris said, rolling his shoulders. "I'll be right on target."
The minutes slowly burned down as they waited with bated breath. Cefie's frame began emitting faint smoke as their systems strained past their limits.
November was confused at Cefie, "They're learning…" She smirked as her creation is adapting to the situation.
"Let's go!" Sinnodal announced with everyone dashing off in the direction they planned out.
"Don't disappoint me now…" Sugar muttered before going into his fighting stance.
Cefie was running straight at Sugar as he took in a defensive stance. Their head was bobbing up and down during the run in urgency.
Sugar glances to the side to see Chris is about to dropkick from behind, 'Behind?'
He quickly leaped as Chris landed on the group with a smirk on his face, "Now!"
Cefie started to emit the thickest fog they could ever do, blinding the surrounding area that the eye could see.
'Clever…' His thought was interrupted before he blocked a strike from the above, leading him to land on his back on the sand.
Sugar landed hard on his back in the thick fog, but immediately rolled to the side as Sinnodal's hoof
they have slammed down where he had been a split second before. The goat man's strike kicked up a cloud of sand.
"Over here!" Chris's voice called out, and Sugar whipped his head around to see the man charging through the smoke, fist reared back.
Sugar braced himself, but at the last moment, Chris's attack was just a feint.
'A distraction!' Sugar realized his mistake.
Instead, Cefie burst through the fog, aiming a devastating kick at Sugar's exposed side.
Sugar blocked the attack with his leg before blocking another punch from Chris with the side of his arms.
They both back away, leaving Sugar on his guard in the smoke.
"Okay, now what? He's very skilled at blocking all of us." Chris asked, looking over to Sinnodal.
Sinnodal opens his palm and point at the smoke, "Just fucking shot him."
Chris' eyes widened at how simple it was, "He can't deflect us so sure."
All of them pointed their hand at the smoke.
"A.P. Cannon!"
"Explosiver Dämonenjäger!"
"Frost Pressure Knuckle!"
All the projectiles are coming from all directions, about to collide with the man in the smoke.
In the smoke, Sugar was waiting 'I should move somewhere.'
He'd look up to the sky, 'I wonder If I still know that one technique' He started to climb up the air like a stair.
The smoke rose higher as the projectiles exploded. A bunch of people were curious and concerned about it but decided to ignore it since it was a Tuesday.
After unleashing their coordinated barrage of projectile attacks on Sugar, Chris and Sinnodal stood panting heavily in the clearing smoke. "Haaah…"
Cefie's frame suddenly went limp and collapsed to the ground. "SHUT…DOWN…"
"Oi, tin can!" Chris exclaimed in alarm, rushing over to the fallen robot. "Aw hell, looks like their systems finally gave out."
He crouched down and tried giving Cefie a shake, but there was no response. The damage from Sugar's Cyclone Kick had been too much.
"They're shut down for now," Chris grunted, standing back up. "Did we at least hit that smug bastard?"
Sinnodal squinted through the remnants of the thick fog, trying to make out any sign of Sugar. At first, he saw nothing, just the cratered beach where their combined attacks had struck.
But then his gaze drifted upwards, and his jaw dropped in disbelief. "You...you gotta be kidding me!"
Chris followed Sinnodal's stare and felt his stomach drop. There, floating impossibly high above them, was the silhouette of Sugar hovering calmly in the sky.
"How...what...what the hell?!" Chris sputtered, unable to comprehend what he was seeing.
Sugar grinned cockily, "Honestly, you guys almost got me. I just have a convenience tool at my disposal to use." He slowly descends to the ground.
"Ah, fuck it. I give in." Sinnodal raised his hand, he was at the absolute limit. Sinnodal was breathing heavily before Sugar walked up to him.
"A wise decision for a warrior." Sugar's finger started to glow in yellow spark before flicking Sinnodal in the forehead, sending him flying.
Dy'va scratches his head, "Jeez, I feel bad for em. Getting fling around like for the third time…"
Toodies realized where's Sinnodal body was, "I think it's going in your…direction." He was now concerned before backing away for a little.
Dy'va looks at Toodies with a raised eyebrow, "What?"
Sinnodal's body came crashing into his, throwing both of them into the beach house. Two of them cause a giant hole in the wall of the beach house.
Now, it was just Chris.
"Congratulations, boy scout." Sugar was in front of Chris as he tumble into the sand on his ass. "You won a prize!"
"A real one later, and an ass-kicking one at that." Sugar stated, cracking his knuckles.
"Kiss my ass, old man." Chris insulted one last time, knowing his fate. Instinctively grabbing Sugar's leg while at it.
"Aw, that's just precious." Sugar bonked Chris on the head, knocking him out instantly.
Rosco sighed before deciding to grab Chris's unconscious body, "You went way too hard on them, sir."
"Hey, it's fast to learn the reality." Sugar argues before Rosco just walks past with a scoffed expression.
Suddenly, he felt a bleeding on his leg. "What the…"
He looked down to see his left leg was squeezed and clawed a bit before looking back at Chris was holding onto Cefie's arm.
He smiled, "Clever, very clever." He didn't know that he could get tricked just like that.
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