"Whoa!" Zac yells as he crashes through the wall of a building. Groaning, he pushes himself to his feet, using his sword to stand. "Damn," he says, grinning. "You're tougher than I thought."

In front of him stands a large, silvery, [url=http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q83/blipper2/21b2.jpg]three-legged machine.[/url] From the top part of the machine, two tendrils slowly wave. Three lights, one in the center and two on both sides, shine down on the hole it had just launched Zac through, acting like spotlights for the young man. As Zac steps back out into the street, sword in hand, he grins up at the machine. "It's been awhile since I've had a good fight like this!"

Just then, his holographic gauntlet lights up. Raising his arm in front of him, he notices the screen and a keyboard had appeared. On the screen was what appeared to be a username and a single word:

[color=green]>Rawr_Pwr: Hello?[/color]

[i]Weird,[/i] Zac thinks. [i]I've seen this message board thing before, but no one ever uses it.[/i] Shaking his head, he quickly types up a response:

[color=green]>John Doe: cant talk fighting monster will get back to you[/color]

As his gauntlet disappears, he grips his sword with both hands, and charges with a yell. The machine lifts one of its legs and swings it at Zac, who manages to lift his weapon and stop the attack. One hand on the back of his sword, the other holding the hilt, he grins up at the machine and calls, "What're you gonna do now, you piece of scrap?!"

One of the tendrils extends and, unnoticed to Zac, who was busy holding the machine's leg back, wraps around his ankle and lifts him up. Yelping in surprise as Zac suddenly finds himself upside down, he quickly attempts to slice the tendril in two. However, before he has a chance, the machine chucks him through another building, this time, the mirror copy of Ai International. Crashing through the wall, he hits another inside the building and falls to the floor, groaning. "Damn," he mutters, once again rising to his feet.

He was about to charge again, only to stop once he notices someone else there. Seeing the blonde woman, he stands for a moment, dumbstruck. [i]I've been coming here for awhile, now,[/i] he thinks. [i]Up until now, this place has been empty![/i] However, grinning, he says, "Hey. Just give me a second and I'll be right with you."

That said, he jumps out of the building and on top of the machine, where he drives his sword into the top of its head. However, that only seems to annoy the machine as it tries to shake Zac off.