[center][h3]Arahabaki - The Noboties[/h3]
Roxas’ [@Double] / Blazermate’s [@Archmage MC] vs [color=#0087BD]Blaze[/color] / [color=red]Fortune[/color] / [color=red]RockTrans[/color] / [color=lime]HeartRoll[/color]
[b]Word Count:[/b] 7,004
[b]Exp:[/b] +8[/center]

[color=Gold]”Um…”[/color] Roxas looked around and was able to put it together that something went wrong. He stepped on the teleport pad like he was supposed to but even he could tell this was the wrong place. His first clue was the fact that he didn’t see any of the other Seekers around except for Blazermate. Did someone rig the pad at some point? Was that even possible? But wait, wouldn’t that mean that someone in Shinra was on to them and knew they were coming?

[color=Gold]”Sandalphon, can you hear me?”[/color] Roxas asked, pressing his fingers to his ear and hoping the glyph the Angel had given him was still there, [color=Gold]”I got sent to the wrong place, what should I do?”[/color] He didn’t have to wait long to hear a response.

[i]“Come in, everyone,” Sandalphon’s voice broadcasted through her personal network. “It appears that we tripped some sort of intrusion countermeasure and have been sent through a number of connected teleporter relays, effectively scattering us throughout Arahabaki. I am with Geralt, and we’re both unharmed. Please confirm your status ASAP.”[/i]

It sounded like they weren’t the only ones who got lost, [color=Gold]”It’s Roxas. We’re still in one piece over here. Blazermate’s here with me, too.”[/color]

Speaking of Blazermate, she was looking around the area to see what exactly was going on. They were in some weird Japanese themed industrial park with pagoda shingles mixed in with industrial scenery. At least she knew thanks to Sandalphon’s report that everyone was fine. [color=0072bc]”Well, I’m glad everyone is fine. A bit weird we got split up like that though.”[/color] Blazermate said.

[color=Gold]”Sure is. Man, just when I thought we had all this figured out.”[/color] said Roxas with an exasperated tone, [color=Gold]”Why can’t these things ever stay simple?”[/color] Not that groaning about this was going to help anything. So instead they might as well just get started, [color=Gold]”It’d be nice if we had any idea where this is so we could figure out where to go, though.”[/color]

The Keybearer had no idea that he was being watched. How could he? The [url=https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4dX5neLZXzg/Tfj5WWrVMlI/AAAAAAAAAoY/3jeawDrKQww/s1600/Fortune_1.jpg]woman[/url] was spying them from a long distance away through the scope of her large rail gun. She currently had it trained on the boy and was waiting for a clear shot. Personally she didn’t like the idea of having to kill a kid, but orders were orders. And these people were apparently extremely dangerous if the reports were to be believed, so nothing could be left to chance.

“Sorry about this, kid. It’s nothing personal.” she whispered to herself, and then squeezed the trigger.

[color=0072bc]”Well, I know we will be fighting something at SOME point, so might as well keep us both topped up.”[/color] Blazermate said, giving Roxas and herself an overheal. This was well timed as the railgun shot, coming from a large distance out of nowhere, hit Roxas and took out the full overheal and a bit of his actual health. [color=0072bc]”Sniper, get cover!”[/color] Blazermate said, noting that she couldn’t scan where the shot came from.

And it knocked him clear to the ground to boot, [color=Gold]”Ack! What was [i]that[/i]?”[/color] Roxas said, staggering to his feet and frantically looking around. His instinct was to find some cover, and yet for some reason another shot didn’t appear to be coming yet and he had no idea why. He couldn’t possibly have known that the weapon of his would-be sniper needed a cooldown before another shot could be taken. But before Roxas could begin thinking about it he heard some rather loud and metallic footsteps that honestly sounded more like stomps. Coming toward them head on was a [url=http://static.heroesofthestorm.com/heroes/blaze/skins/veteran-firebat-800.jpg]space marine[/url] piloting a big bulky suit of power armor painted reddish orange with actual fire decals on the arms and a fiery yellow skull emblem painted on the center of the torso.

[color=Gold]”That… doesn’t look very friendly.”[/color] Roxas said, pointing at the hulking Firebat stomping their way. As it got closer, he also realized that it wasn’t alone. It was flanked by a pair of robotic figures that bore a striking resemblance to Blazermate. One of them looked like a [url=http://static.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/c/c6/Medarot_S_RME00_RockTrans.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20210808204459 ]male[/url] and the other a [url=http://medarots.projectrisingbeetle.com/images/thumb/1/11/Mugshot_HeartRoll.png/500px-Mugshot_HeartRoll.png]female[/url]. The male medabot looked mostly blue and indigo, except for his eyes which glowed green. Also his right hand appeared to be replaced by some kind of cannon weapon. The female medabot was almost all pink and possessed similarly glowing green eyes. And like her male counterpart, her left hand appeared to be replaced by a… cannon? Or was it a crossbow? It sort of looked like a fusion of the two actually.

[color=Gold]”Um… friends of yours?”[/color] Roxas asked Blazermate on the off chance that maybe she knew the robots. But something told him he wasn’t going to be that lucky and so he summoned both his Keyblades and brandished them in preparation for the fight he was pretty sure was coming. 

[color=0072bc]”Uh nope. They aren’t ones I know. And they’re the fancy limited edition models too!”[/color] Blazermate said. [color=0072bc]”The male one is model RME00, or RockTrans. The other is RME02, or Heart Roll. I’ve only seen them in catalogs!”[/color] She then looked at Blaze and said. [color=0072bc]”Nope, I don’t know him. I guess he's their medafighter.”[/color]

And as the battle was about to start, out of a chimney popped out an [url=https://i.imgur.com/nNYrcek.png]old man in a sports official outfit.[/url] For all intents and purposes he just appeared out of nowhere for the group. Even Blaze was a bit confused at seeing this man appear out of nowhere saying “What the?” in a deep voice. As he appeared and began his speech about the oncoming Robattle, Blazermate said. [color=0072bc]”Oh it's Mr. Referee! I haven’t seen him in forever! Roxas, he isn’t our enemy and don’t attack him. He just officiates Robattles.”[/color] and seemingly oblivious to the actual conflict in front of him, he called the names of both Blazermate and her medabot opponents before declaring a start to the robattle from his slightly off the ground perch. 

With the battle starting, Blazermate summoned her striker who got to work making his buildings as she kept her healing beam on Roxas. While she knew what the two medabots names were, she wasn’t entirely sure what they did. [color=0072bc]”If I had to guess, RockTrans will shoot you with his gun and be agile. The Heart Roll could either be a healer or an elementalist. It's hard to tell until they do something. Aim for the arms to disable their weapons, or their head to win the robattle.”[/color] Blazermate said, giving Roxas info on their medabot opponents She also said. [color=0072bc]”That blaze guy is also really tanky, so he’ll take awhile to take down.”[/color]

And taking the robattle declaration to begin the fight, Blaze commanded the two medabots under his control to go after the pair as he himself used his jet fist to rocket towards Roxas, as Blazermate flew out of his reach. Much like Blazermate said, RockTrans began to shoot at the pair with his arm cannon, firing out pellets of energy at Blazermate who used her shield arm to block them. Heart Roll meanwhile shot her crossbow at Roxas, but needed a much longer time to reload compared to RockTrans’ cannon.

Roxas was pretty sure he couldn’t block an attack like the one Blaze was using. So instead he dodge rolled out of the way, his agility easily making him faster than the hulking Firebat. But that was also when the pink medabot started taking slow, measured shots at him with her crossbow arm. He deflected the first pellet with his Keyblades and dodge rolled away from a second one moments after. But he also seemed a little distracted by something. He glanced around himself on occasion, and seemed anxious. Whoever had tried to snipe him was definitely still hiding somewhere, and it was only a matter of time before they shot at them again.

He almost didn’t see the attack from Blaze coming. The Firebat sweeped his arm out in front of him and fired a gout of flames from his arm-mounted flamethrower. It almost caught Roxas due to his worrying about the sniper, but he snapped out of it and threw a Waterga spell out in front of him at the last second to keep the flames from getting him, [color=Gold]”Geez, who is this guy?”[/color] Roxas wondered, hurling one of his Keyblades at the Firebat. It hit, but didn’t appear to damage the armor very much. And right after that Roxas was nearly caught off guard by another arrow from Heart Roll. He avoided a direct hit, but it did glance him.

Elsewhere, the sniper’s railgun finished cooling down. Now she was leveling it, training it on the enemy medabot in the air. All she needed was the bot to pause for even a moment, then she’d squeeze the trigger and take her shot.

As Roxas managed to dodge Blaze’s jet punch, Blaze followed up with a can of oil, followed by his dual flamethrowers to light the oil and hit Roxas with all that fire. Although that being said, all of his abilities were spent for now so all he could do was try to use his smaller flamethrowers on Roxas until his fuel pressure recharged. Blazermate meanwhile was constantly healing Roxas, and blocking the RockTrans with her suffering shield. While a shield was very good against bullet type medabots, it wasn’t invincible. But that's where healing Roxas and herself got her a projectile shield, which seeing as it also did a lot of damage, she’d deploy right away. And just in time too, as another sniper shot aimed at her came at her, but fizzled when it hit the deployed projectile shield. At least now she had a bit of a better idea of where that sniper was as she moved up to start to approach and roast her two medabot enemies with the shield.

Seeing as this was similar to something a nutranurse would do, at first RockTrans and Heart Roll didn’t do much but reposition as they noticed really quick their shots couldn’t pass by the shield. What was new was that when Blazermate’s shield made contact with RockTrans, the medabot found that it hurt a lot, and used its superior agility to jump away as Heart Roll fired a healing arrow at him to heal. Using this, she moved to touch a crack and spawn a purgatory ghost, which zoomed in on the closest target, this being Blaze, and blowing up when it reached him. He was tanky though, and took the hit with a grunt as he moved on Roxas, entering his own fire and healing a bit.

Having some time to himself, the Engineer striker managed to build his sentry and began upgrading it. The gun attacked the closest target, Blaze again, and dealt some steady damage to the tank. Seeing the automated gun attacking him, he commanded RockTrans to fire on it and destroy it, delaying its upgrade to level 2 as the engineer whacked at it and repaired it when it was shot at. At least for now Rocktrans was distracted attacking the sentry, and with that Blazermate moved her shield over to try to zap Heart Roll and get into range to start to brawl with the ranged healer. She knew from experience that ranged medabots like her really didn’t like getting punched. Although like her partner Rocktrans, this medabot was also evasive and did what she could to stay out of Blazermate’s shield and melee range. Although it couldn’t fly like Blazermate, so this was only delaying the inevitable.

Even so, she was only tapped by a bit of Blazermte’s projectile shield before Blazermate had to retreat back to Roxas, but she could at least smack Blaze in the back with her ubersaw a couple times before she came back to hover around Roxas again. She got some uber from Blaze though, and when Roxas went to clash with him again, she’d get more uber from him.

Roxas had been quick to realize that Blaze was somehow being healed by fire. Given the Firebat’s apparent affinity for flame weapons, Roxas had never exactly intended on trying to throw any Firagas at him. But now he was doubly certain about not doing that. Instead Roxas combatted Blaze by wielding an element of his own. He used magic to repeatedly fling Waterga spells at the Firebat and the flames it was causing. By doing this he could not only deal water damage to Blaze’s armor, but also douse the fires he was setting and at least for the time being essentially cut off the guy’s ability to heal himself. And the space marine didn’t seem particularly happy about that, either. Which was probably why he kept trying to focus his attention on taking out the Keybearer.

And as long as Roxas could keep his distance and focus on throwing water spells, that would be all well and good. But there was an inherent flaw in Roxas’ strategy. Namely the fact that his MP wasn’t going to last forever. He’d run out sooner or later and then what? He’d have nothing to combat Blaze’s flames with at that point. So he’d have to get a bit bolder and try something to hit the tanky armored marine a bit harder. But what? His Striker wouldn’t do any good here, and in fact their fire attacks would just serve to heal Blaze! Since he had no other options he could think of, Roxas decided to hurl one more Waterga and then rush in against Blaze while he was still doused.

Being more agile, Roxas was quick to close the distance. He let loose a flurry of swings with his Keyblades against Blaze’s firebat armor. He honestly couldn’t tell how much damage this was doing. After a handful of strikes, Roxas leaped back and hurled another Waterga in anticipation of more flames from Blaze. This seemed like it was working, but Roxas was about to be in for a harder time. Blaze used some kind of spell that seemed to summon a literal bunker that dropped out of the sky and that he was now hidden within. Roxas’ waterga spell crashed into the bunker’s walls and damaged some of its HP, but within Blaze was completely safe and able to use his flamethrowers as if they had a much lower cooldown.

[color=Gold]”Hey! No fair!”[/color] Roxas shouted. Evidently Blaze had done this out of a growing frustration over not being able to use his flames. Well now it was Roxas who was getting frustrated. Blaze even started throwing out fire from within the bunker. This? Roxas could dodge well enough. But the real trouble was figuring out how to get at the guy inside! And to make matters worse, RockTrans and Heart Roll also retreated into the bunker as well!

Blazermate could see the hp of everyone, even when they entered the bunker, although the bunker’s hp pool overrode theirs while they were inside it. [color=0072bc]”You can break the bunker, it took a fair amount of damage from your water spell. The big guy was looking kinda hurt as well from your magic.”[/color] Although she wasn’t sure if they were healing inside of the bunker. Still, without RockTrans peppering his sentry, the engineer upgraded it to level 2, and the gun’s damage doubled as it peppered the bunker launching jets of fire at Blazermate and Roxas. 

Being unable to really do much with ranged attacks besides grab more ghosts, Blazermate did just that as she healed Roxas, flying out of the range of the flames. The ghosts assaulted the bunker with their explosions, and with that, the sentry gun, and Roxas’ magic, it didn’t take too long for the bunker to crumble. Still, this had given Blaze and his medabots some time to prepare, and as the bunker went down, Blaze threw more oil as he started to charge Roxas again, but this time zooming past him with his jet fist to instead activate two of his abilities, one caused him to emanate intense heat out from himself, and another slowed him down a bit, but he built internal pressure to unleash a wave of powerful fire. He was still getting shot at by the sentry gun though, with Heart Roll healing him and RockTrans doing his best to target Blazermate and Roxas and keep them within Blaze’s fire AoE with some leading shots. 

Seeing the automated sentry was starting to be a problem for her allies, Fortune decided to use her next shot to shoot the sentry itself. Being immobile, the sentry took the rail gun shot full on and caught on fire and looked worse for wear, but was still barely standing. Unfortunately for Blzermate, due to RockTrans delaying the upgrade and this new bout of damage, the engineer timed out before he could fully repair the gun. Seeing the gun being so damaged, after unleashing his wave of fire, Blaze turned to the automated gun and used his dual flamethrowers to take it out and alleviate himself of the damage he had been taking. Still, that gun had taken its toll and he wasn’t looking super good, even with Heart Roll healing him with her healing arrows.

The massive fire DoT was something that Blazermate could cleanse from Roxas and heal him up. From what little she could gleam from Blaze though, he seemed to be running out of fuel himself as that combination of attacks was far and away the most damage he had done in this fight, and it seemed to at least take a lot of prep time and be telegraphed if he was to do it again. But if they didn’t take out Heart Roll or RockTrans, their numbers could overwhelm them. 

[color=0072bc]”Hey Roxas, we should go after the medabots while Blaze is behind us, he's kinda slow when he's not using his jet punch.”[/color] Blazermate said. And it was true, Blaze, to make sure his close range AoE fire attacks could go off, had gone behind Blazermate and Roxas, leaving his medabots exposed.

“Oh no ya don’t!” said the gruff voice of Blaze. He used his last emergency trick to give himself a neural stim to refresh a cooldown and attempted to use his jet fist to stop Roxas, but the Nobody was far too agile and managed to disengage. And with that, Blaze was left to waddle to protect his allies, having severely overestimated himself.

Roxas charged in the direction of RockTrans. The medabot fired a shot at him, but Roxas was able to bat it away with his Keyblade. Roxas didn’t have much MP left, having used most of it on all those Watergas he was previously throwing at Blaze. So he put the last of his current MP into one more trick. Roxas became a streak of light that zig-zagged its way toward RockTrans at blinding speed. It was a good thing he did this when he did. Less than a second after Roxas streaked away, a shot from the sniper’s railgun blasted the spot where he had just been running. When the streak of light collided with the medabot, Roxas emerged and unleashed his powerful Cross Slash on RockTrans. The last thing he expected was for RockTrans to have a way to safely absorb the blow.

The medabot had disengaged with his arm cannon and switched to his Step Sword, a beam saber that ignited from an emitter mounted on his left wrist. With the blade up he was able to use it to take the brunt of the damage from Roxas’ Cross Slash. After that the two began swinging at each other, beam sword clashing with Keyblades. Roxas hadn’t counted on having to trade sword slashes with this opponent, but at least this was a type of fight that was more his speed. He’d adapt to the medabot’s tactics a bit more easily than he did for Blaze.

Up in her hidden perch, Fortune muttered a curse to herself. It wasn’t like her to miss a shot like that. She’d never known luck to be on anyone else’s side but her own. Somehow these targets were managing to put even her own supernatural luck to the test. She would almost be impressed, if she weren’t also simultaneously frustrated by it.

With Blaze unable to catch up to Roxas in a snappy fashion, he was just left to walk to Roxas now to get him off of his medabots. Blazermate took this chance to ubersaw him in the back which got Blaze to turn around. “Oh, now you’ve done it little lady.” with the space marine turning around to deal with the healing medabot. This led to a bit of a back and forth between the two, with Blazermate taking some flames and Blaze taking her ubersaw. But while Blaze could only do damage to Blazermate, Blazermate was getting uber. 

And with that uber, she was going to do what she did in medafights, and pointed at RockTrans as Heart Roll healed Blaze, and fired her medaforce beam at him. Being distracted by needing to parry Roxas, the medaforce beam blindsided him and dealt significant damage, alongside disabling his sword arm and healing Blazermate for the damage it dealt, healing whatever damage she had taken from Blaze. She then continued hammering on Blaze, hopping over him when he brought his flamethrowers up to hit her and zooming away when he threw oil under himself. She escaped with a fair amount of Uber as she distracted him and dealt her medaforce blast damage. And zooming away, she decided to touch some more ghost fissures as Blaze lacked any ranged attacks that zoomed at either Blaze or Heart Roll, whoever was closer. While Blaze could only take the ghost, Heart Roll tried her best to dodge the one zooming at her, but she couldn’t escape and took her first damage of the battle as well. 

Meanwhile, Roxas and RockTrans were still going at it. At a glance they looked evenly matched. But if at any point Blaze looked down at his medawatch, he would see the energy levels of RockTrans begin to gradually dip. RockTrans was skilled, but he was a Shooting type Medabot first and foremost, and his Step Sword was mostly just a backup weapon. His build was obviously focused more on ranged attacks with the arm cannon, so being forced into a drawn out melee like this was not good for him. There was also the numerical advantage Roxas had in that he wielded two blades against the medabot’s single blade. This allowed Roxas to get in shots on RockTrans that the medabot simply lacked the ability to prevent or punish.

After one such successful strike on RockTrans, Roxas noticed the colors of his right arm appear to darken slightly. After that the arm became limp, as if it could no longer be used. Again, if Blaze was paying attention to his medawatch, he’d hear it announce the serious damage to the bot’s arm part and its status of being disabled. Nearby, Heart Roll saw the damage her partner medabot was taking and attempted to fly in and use her Heart Hand to heal him. Before she could get close enough, Roxas spotted her and threw one of his keyblades at her to deter her approach.

As this happened, Rock Trans lunged forward for one more last ditch attack against Roxas. The Nobody readied his remaining Keyblade and lunged forward as well. Both combatants appeared to pass by each other with their slashes. Like something out of a samurai film, they both stood there for a brief moment before the sparks flew from RockTrans’ body, eventually resulting in his Medal being ejected out of his back, signaling his defeat. Roxas tilted his head in a moment of curiosity and it picked it up off the ground. It looked like a gold, hexagon-shaped coin. Roxas flipped the medal over in his fingers so he could look at both sides of it. He knew nothing about medabots, but based on the fact that this came shooting out of RockTrans after he was defeated, Roxas could at least guess it was important somehow.

This moment of distraction gave the sniper a shot she had been waiting for. She leveled her railgun and aimed it at the Keybearer. She held her breath and then squeezed the trigger.

Roxas was hit, and it definitely hurt. He screamed out as he went sprawling onto the ground. Unknown to him or the sniper, the medabot’s medal was also caught in the crossfire of this attack. It landed on the ground nearby Roxas with a metallic clang, now cracked and looking like it was ready to fall to pieces.

Seeing her first example of a robattle since coming here and the medal eject, instead of RockTrans turning into a spirit right away was very reassuring to Blazermate. Although that left a lot of very uncomfortable questions she had to ask herself later, if she even had the mental strength to or if she even wanted to. But that was put aside as Roxas was sniped again, not having as much overheal this time to tank the shot and getting hurt pretty bad. But he also took out RockTrans, so it was just the sniper, Blaze, and Heart Roll left, with the latter starting to panic a bit as one of its allies fell. That was usual for support medabots without too much offensive power themselves. 

Blaze was running on fumes himself, not hp wise as Heart Roll was healing him, but just on flamer fuel (mana), and with Blazermate finding his fire punches weren’t really all that strong, she could farm uber off of him without too much issue. Yes he out damaged Blazermate’s passive healing, but she could heal back any damage he did with her medaforce beam. Either way, right now, the sniper was the biggest threat and she had to heal Roxas. Smacking Blaze a few more times with her ubersaw, she then hovered out of his reach and began to heal Roxas again. She could build uber quickly though, so this fight would end pretty soon she hoped, as long as that sniper didn’t have a trick up her sleeve or Heart Roll busted out a medaforce beam or something…

Roxas groaned a bit, once the heal beam got under way. He pushed himself into a sitting position, and then summoned one of his, [color=Gold]”...Heal!”[/color] he cried weakly. The Curaga spell worked its magic, and coupled with Blazermate’s heal beam he was back on his feet and feeling ready to continue fighting. He didn’t like having to spend all his MP only after having just recovered it, but that railgun shot left him no other choice. It was either that or hang onto death’s door while Blazermate risked her neck trying to heal him and fight at the same time.

Roxas staggered up to his feet and brandished both his Keyblades. Nearby out of the corner of his eye, he spotted the damaged medal turning into a spirit. But the Keybearer couldn’t dwell on this. He sprang back into action and chose to run toward the armored space marine, [color=Gold]”Keep her busy!”[/color] he called out to Blazermate in reference to the other Medabot. His plan was fairly apparent. If Blazermate could keep the heat on Heart Roll, then she should be able to prevent her from healing Blaze while Roxas worked to try and finish him off.

[color=Gold]”You’re done!”[/color] Roxas shouted at Blaze as he went on the attack. Blaze was momentarily stunned in surprise at the fact that this kid managed to get back up after taking a direct shot from Fortune. At this point he really was running on fumes, and so he lacked almost all the tricks he had been employing against Roxas earlier in the fight. Then again, Roxas himself was more or less on fumes too - at least until his MP recharged again anyway. But Roxas did have the edge in that he was a lot more mobile than Blaze was. And the Nobody was quick to take advantage of this, even managing to use flowmotion to keep himself on the move while attacking Blaze with hit-and-run slashes of his Keyblade.

“Argh, dammit kid!” Blaze shouted in frustration, “Hold still so I can kill you, already!”

Blazermate, being the more aggressive of the two medics, rushed at Heart Roll as she had to decide between attacking Blazermate, or healing Blaze. And being unable to fly, she couldn’t evade Blazermate for long. What made this fight even worse for Heart Roll, Blazermate could keep up with her jumping based evasion and also summon homing ghosts that couldn’t be evaded if she got too far from Blaze. And even if she shot Blazermate, having a shield part made any lasting damage on Blazermate difficult to inflict. 

This led to a bit of a cat and mouse game for a bit until Blazermate got close enough to hold Heart Roll inside of a deployed projectile shield and roast the poor medabot medic until her medal ejected. If Roxas knew things about robattling and medabot medals, he’d also know that Blazermate was just overall stronger than these two simple medabots due to her rare medal, but that would be a bit too much to point out. Fortune knew what this shield was this time, so she knew to hold her shot until it was gone, but that also held her off as Blazermate went back to support Roxas with Blaze. And with both medabots down, Mr. Referee declared the robattle over and Blazermate the winner, before hopping backwards back into the shaft he had come out of and disappearing like the enigmatic man he was.

[color=Gold]”Looks like you’re fresh outta healers!”[/color] Taunted Roxas when he noticed that Blazermate had finished off Heart Roll. His own one-on-one against Blaze was starting to wind down now too. With him so low on flamer fuel and his medabot support gone, there just wasn’t much Blaze could do against the fast and agile Keyblade Wielder. And now with Blazermate making it a two-on-one, the odds were even more stacked against him. His only hope now was if the sniper could take one of the Seekers out with her next shot. Of course, Blazermate’s shield and Roxas’ near constant movement wasn’t exactly doing her any favors right now in finding a clear shot.

Using flowmotion, Roxas launched himself off of Blaze’s armored form and toward a nearby shrine gate structure. He used his Keyblade to hook onto it and slingshot himself right back around toward Blaze with increased momentum, [color=Gold]”And stay down!”[/color] The Keybearer put his momentum and whatever strength of light he could muster into a downward thrust on top of Blaze that also released some Light as an additional source of damage. And that seemed to be what did it, since Blaze’s armored form finally toppled over and didn’t appear to be moving anymore.

[color=Gold]”We’ve gotta find that sniper. And that medabot’s spirit is still back there too, we probably shouldn’t leave it.”[/color] he told Blazermate, still unable to relax his guard knowing that their sniper “friend” was still lurking out there somewhere.

[color=0072bc]”Yeah, I have an idea of where she is, we’ve just gotta get there. Use that cool movement thing and we can get over there quickly, I can follow you no problem.”[/color] Blazermate said, keeping her beam on Roxas and pointing him in the direction of Fortune. Her shield would be going down soon, but she got some uber so she could at least uber Roxas a bit after the shield went down to block a final shot and hopefully get them close enough to take  them out.

Roxas took off in a sprint. But he wasn’t going in the direction Blazermate pointed to just yet. Instead he worked his way back to where RockTrans’ spirit was still waiting. The Keybearer had to stop long enough to scoop the spirit up off of the ground. And that was the risky part of this move. He’d be giving the sniper a window - however small - to take a shot at him. But he did have Blazermate flying close behind him. So he would trust that her shields could stop another shot from hitting him.

Roxas’ prediction came true. In the fraction of time he had stopped in order to grab up the spirit, another shot from the sniper’s railgun threatened to take him out for good. But true to her word, Blazermate had no problem keeping up with his flowmotion. And when he had stopped, she took that moment to uber off of him and took the shot intended for him with her shield. This was also their chance to close the distance on the sniper while she waited for her weapon to cool down.

[color=Gold]”Now’s our chance!’”[/color] Roxas cried and went right back on the move again. Flowmotion made it easy to weave through and past the structures and other obstacles. And unlike the first time, now he was going in the direction Blazermate had pointed them in. They had a precious window of time to reach Fortune before she could take another shot. Roxas could close the distance easily enough utilizing flowmotion, and it looked like Blazermate was hot on his tail thanks to her ability to fly and her medibeam copying his speed boosts. In moments Roxas spotted a figure holding a large rifle of some kind on her shoulder. That had to be her.

[color=Gold]”Gotcha!”[/color] he cried, shifting the direction of his momentum to swing toward her. His MP had also finished recharging by now. So now it was his turn to aim and take a shot, [color=Gold]”Firaga!”[/color] he called, shooting the heated fireball out of the tip of his Keyblade. The spell went flying toward the sniper and then… somehow swerved at the last moment and missed her, [color=Gold]”Huh?”[/color] Roxas didn’t have much time to analyze that. He was already rapidly approaching melee range. So instead he followed that up by hurling both Keyblades at the sniper, sending them both on opposite circular arcs toward her. And just like with the Firaga spell… they appeared to swerve at the last moment and missed her entirely.

[color=Gold]”What’s going on?”[/color] Roxas questioned, not having caught on to Fortune’s possession of what seemed to be superhuman luck on her side.

[color=0072bc]”No clue, let me have a crack at her!”[/color] Blazermate said as she zoomed up and tried to ubersaw Fortune, only for her to get knocked back. [color=0072bc]”Shes got some kind of like, force field or something.”[/color] Blazermate said, her metal body being knocked back by the magnetic field that protected Fortune. 

“No one has ever been able to hit me in combat.” Fortune said as she turned her gun on Blazermate, now unable to miss her being at such close range. Blazermate was ready for that though, and before the shot even rung out, she ubered herself and Roxas to give them some seconds of invincibility to figure out what to do here. Wait… what about her ghosts? Magnets and stuff wouldn’t work against them, and they were relentless when they found a target. 

[color=0072bc]”I got an idea, Stay with me Roxas.”[/color] Blazermate said as she looked for a purgatory crack to summon a ghost from. Seeing the red crack on the floor wasn’t all that difficult to spot, with her zooming over to touch it. Once it was touched, the ghost summoned out like it normally did, and Fortune was confident it wouldn’t do anything to her, nothing had done anything to her. But she’d be mistaken here as the ghost screeched and zoomed at her, missing her on the first dive due to her field, but taking a sharp turn to try to dive at her again. It took a couple turns, but eventually there wasn’t any speed for the ghost to rubber band and miss her with, and it finally exploded when it made contact with her.

Not without Fortune managing to get off one last trick. She pulled her sidearm, a Baretta 49F and attempted to take a last ditch shot at the ghost, Roxas, and Blazermate. Her shots bounced off the uber Roxas and Blazermate, but did nothing to the incoming ghost, and so its explosion attack went through unstopped.

[color=Gold]”First time for everything, huh?”[/color] Roxas said in response to the successful ghost attack. And it indeed managed to surprise even Fortune. The ghost attack did its job, maybe even a little too well since all that was left of Fortune after the dust cleared was her spirit. [color=Gold]”Guess you weren’t as untouchable as you thought you were.”[/color] He picked the spirit up and stared at it a moment before pulling out the spirit of RockTrans that he picked up earlier.

[color=Gold]”Well? What should we do with them?”[/color] he asked Blazermate. He knew what could be done with spirits like this, but… he still hadn’t really reconciled with the idea of fusing with one. Would it change who he was? Would it still be [i]him[/i] underneath it? For someone like Roxas, who once fought so hard to prove his own existence… well it was no wonder he had his fears about something like this.

[color=0072bc]”Well, if you're afraid of the fusion stuff, fusion with a medabot might be just for you! I’ve noticed that I tend to not have as many side effects when fusing than the others. I mean you saw how Bowser looked that one time, and I have fused with almost as many spirits and don't look nearly as chimeric as he did before the snackvator!”[/color] blazermate said, puffing out her chest in pride. [color=0072bc]”Although you’ll have some robot bits once you fuse with that, and well, I guess it’ll be up to me and Susie to teach ya how to deal with that. But hey, you can then have a gun arm!”[/color] Blazermate continued. [color=0072bc]”And you’ve gotta fuse sometime, this’ll just help you with that.”[/color] Blazermate wasn’t aware of the actual conflict Roxas had with the whole thing about losing his identity or anything, she figured he was just worried about looking weird.

[color=Gold]”Will I still be… [i]me[/i]?”[/color] Roxas asked with some hesitation, [color=Gold]”Will my Heart still be in there?”[/color] He closed his eyes and thought about it all. Was it really so different from when he had to return to Sora? He could accept that back then, so why did he hesitate now? Even though he faded into Sora’s Heart for a time, deep down he was still there through it all. He and Xion both were.

[color=Gold]”I can’t let fear control me.”[/color] He finally said, [color=Gold]”Not when I know that Xehanort is involved in all this. Here goes…”[/color] Roxas squeezed his eyes shut and hugged the spirit to his chest, and then all that was left was to hope for the best.

[center][hider=For Roxas]Notable spirit consumed:
[b][url=https://i.imgur.com/XN2PE8C.png]RockTrans[/url][/b]
The host is slightly paler, and his spiky hair is darker toward the bottom, a dirty blonde shade. He has been equipped with bulky yet sleek blue metal boots and gauntlets, with a matching helmet that has a deployable green visor for shielding his eyes. The palm of the right gauntlet has a red energy core in it, while the back of the left gauntlet has a module that resembles an arrow pointing toward the knuckles. The host is a bit less hot-tempered and a bit better at mental math / calculation. This spirit confers the power [b]RockGun / StepSword[/b], giving the host two handy abilities. The right gauntlet can fire an unlimited amount of energy shots at a rate of 2 per second. They have mediocre power and range but can be charged to boost both, with a full charge taking 1.5 seconds. The left gauntlet can be used to perform short-range a dash slash with an energy sword that expands from the module. This dash tracks targets, even ones in stealth, and it can be used every few seconds. This spirit also confers the weakness [b]Medal Eject[/b]. If the host is reduced to low health, a medal will be automatically ejected from the helmet. With the medal out, none of this spirit's abilities can be used. It must be manually reinserted to regain functionality[/hider][/center]

After a short flash of light, Roxas tentatively opened his eyes, [color=Gold]”Whoa!”[/color] He cried out in momentary surprise at the sight of his new gauntlets and boots, then felt his head and realized he was also now wearing a helmet, [color=Gold]”This… it [i]is[/i] still me!”[/color] He called out in triumph, only to accidentally shoot an energy shot out his right gauntlet, [color=Gold]”Oops… That’s gonna take some getting used to. But can I still…?”[/color] He held out his hands and, sure enough, both of his Keyblades still appeared to him as usual. He gave one of them a swing to see if it felt any different under the weight of his newly worn gauntlets, and accidentally triggered his dash slash, [color=Gold]”Whoa! Guess the gun’s not the only weapon this fusion gave me…”[/color]

[color=0072bc]”Aw lucky, you got two powers! But I guess the sword is redundant since you got those keyblades.”[/color] Blazermate said, patting him on the back heartily. [color=0072bc]”I dunno what you were mumbling about back there, but I haven’t seen much in the way of anything but getting stronger with everyone who has fused with stuff. Except Geralt, but uh… he fused with a Guardian spirit so I guess those are special. I can totally understand your apprehension if you were thinking about those. He didn’t always go on those berserker rages ya know, that's kinda new.”[/color] Blazermate said, more or less going off a bit of what she has seen with the various fusions and everything.

[color=Gold]”Wait, what?”[/color] asked Roxas, though naturally the fusion was already done so no point in being worried now, [color=Gold]”Uh, I’m gonna check in with Sandalphon and let her know we’re done here and on our way.”[/color] Roxas then pressed his fingers to his ear… only remember that the helmet. Would the glyph still work with the helmet? He was about to find out.

[color=Gold]”Halo? It’s Roxas. We got ambushed, but we’re fine. Do we have a rendezvous point?”[/color]

After a moment, he heard the archangel’s voice. It sounded subtly different from how he remembered it, both in voice and intonation, though given how little time he’d spent around Sandalphon, maybe he was imagining things. “Good to hear from you. Unfortunately I have been unable to confirm an exact exit to this labyrinth. Advance toward Arahabaki’s central structure however you can. Be on the lookout for security turrets, mines, laser grids, and mobile conveyors.”

[color=Gold]”Central structure.”[/color] Roxas repeated, [color=Gold]”Got it! We’ll see you in a bit… I hope. Roxas, out.”[/color] He then ended the communication and looked back at Blazermate, [color=Gold]”We may as well bring the other spirit with us. Maybe we’ll figure out what to do with it once we’re back with the others. Let’s get out of here for now.”[/color] Blazermate nodded and hovered next to Roxas, keeping them both healed and overhealed as they moved juuust in case.