[center][h2]Collab Between Cherry Lover and Arms Slave[/h2][/center]

Roaming beyond the walls of the Black City, Arms Slave was looking for someone to kill. Anyone, he'd even be willing to go outlaw just to murder someone. Fortunately for the blood-thirsty player, he noticed a couple of red names in the distance. [b]"Outlaws? Good. I was getting bored."[/b] Arms Slave approached the Outlaws, who seemed to be harassing some player. 

Rikka had been aimlessly walking around in the vast world to look for companions that she could aid with her abilities. The fact that she couldn't defeat other players made it difficult to gain levels on her own. She needed someone that could defend her in order for her to gain levels by only healing. But right now she was in some other mess. Outlaws had started attacking the helpless girl that was all alone. They might have thought she was an easy target but it was proven different. She had been fending off most of their attacks with her weapon and needed to prepare to draw them apart so she could focus on paralysing one of the 4. One of the 4 tried striking from her side but her arm stretched out and automatically loaded with a capsule. 

The capsule shot full force onto his face and broke once it had made contact. Tiny little electronic bugs flew out of the capsule. Rikka swung her fan at the bugs and sended them the right direction by the force of wind. The nanobots flew over to the person that had tried hurting Rikka just now and entered his body by any means. The nanobots dug their way down towards the central nerve spin and all gathered. In one go they dug through the nerve spine and broke it so the boy couldn't move again. The nanobots left by digging through his skin and returned towards Rikka. In the meantime Rikka had been fending off the other three but was taken by surprise as one of her feet had been swept away. The guys started laughing maniacally and tried punching and stabbing the girl to death.

[b]"Yoink."[/b]

The same player was pulled away from Cherry Lover and onto Arms Slave's polearm. Major damage was done to him, and shortly after he was put into critical condition when Arms Slave stabbed the weapon into the ground to leave the player to pull himself out. [b]"Ara ara ara! What's this? Isn't this a bit too stereotypical? A bunch of guys ganging up on a lone girl... And she's kicking your ass anyways. Whelp. Let me have some fun too!"[/b]

Down to only two combat capable players, one went back to attacking Cherry Lover while one took on Arms Slave. he tried to fire some sort of stunning attack, but Arms Slave wasn't just going to stand there and take it. He dodged out of the way and fired a chain at the player attacking Cherry Lover, pulling him towards Arms Slave. [b]"I'm your opponent now!"[/b]

The enemies continually kept striking the girl while they could but it wasn't long before someone else had arrived. A certain someone that had 4 arms, he looked more like the enemy than the people that were attacking her. Rikka was however grateful to the person that began helping her out by his own kindness. The man obstructed one of the outlaws from attacking any further by gruesomely piercing through him and leaving him hanging onto the spear. While he was slowly being killed, one of the two left over split up and started attacking both of them on their own. It was a little easier for Rikka to fight now since she only had one person left to beat. The outlaw tried continuing where he left off with but Rikka griped onto both his arms and stopped him from attacking. The man struggled but suddenly launched backwards. Rikka was a little startled but noticed it was arms slave his doings. He wanted to face the two at once but she wasn't so sure about him being fine just like that. Rikka got up from the ground and thought a little on what to do. But her natural reaction kicked in making her go towards the arms slave to help him beat the other two. She didn't want to help him all that much just yet but gave the opponents a few strikes with her fan.

The two enemies tried to flank Arms Slave, swinging their weapons at him, but he didn't last this long if he couldn't handle a simple double-team. He blocked and deflected their attacks with his shields, poking and cutting them with his swords. [b]"Come on! Come on! Are you telling me you can only fight a little girl!?"[/b] One of the opponents got blind-sided by Cherry Lover's fan, which gave Arms Slave the opportunity to stab him in the chest, doing critical damage. His friend tried to grapple Arms Slave, but that just earned him the position of improvised weapon: grabbing onto the outlaw Arms Slave slammed him onto the other player, killing him.

The last survivor was on the ground. As he tried to stand up Arms Slave stepped on his sword arm and slammed his shield onto his other arm. [b]"Now things are looking up, eh? Heh heh heh. Say, newbie! Cherry Lover, right? Do you want the honors?"[/b] Arms Slave motioned towards the outlaw under his feet. In this state it shouldn't be hard even for Cherry Lover to finish off the critically injured character.

Rikka was found staring at arms slave, it didn't look like he had much of a problem fending them off and even made fun of Rikka for being called a little girl. She gritted her teeth as her fans hit the opponent his flesh. Blood streamed out of his arm and left a trail of blood flying through the air. Arms slave violently stabbed the one before her to death and slammed the other one on the ground while killing the one that had a gap in his chest now. Rikka got the blood from her opponent all over herself but didn't even blink about that fact. 

Arms slave locked down the left over outlaw onto the ground and offered Rikka to kill him. She slowly shook her head [color=9e005d]"I don't need it."[/color] She glanced over to the side of her and looked at the bodies. It reminded her that one was still alive but couldn't move his body any more because of her harsh treatment [color=9e005d]"If you want, you can kill that guy too. I only get experience by healing."[/color] She had a monotone aspect to her voice as she talked to arms slave. Well to be exact that was her voice, she didn't have much of the so called word emotion. 

Experience by healing? Arms Slave was about to call her out, but decided not to. More fun for him. [b]"We're going to see how far I can throw you! It'll make a good reference when I make a 'Can't trust them as far as I can throw them' joke."[/b] Arms Slave picked up the unfortunate player by both his arms with all four of Arms Slaves. Admittedly he knew no proper throwing form, so he just started to spin around and around before letting the player go. He sailed a good twenty feet before he landed on the ground. He didn't seem dead yet, so Arms Slave took out one of his spears and lobbed it into the air, letting it land and impale the player in the chest. He died. The others he didn't really bother with: They really weren't his kills and he only killed the other one to test his throw. [b]"Huh. Maybe I'm a nice guy after all."[/b]

Looking over to Cherry Lover, Arms Slave beckoned for her. [b]"Ayo, so what are you doing out here? Wanna come with me to the Black City?"[/b] Always a blunt one Arms Slave did not hesitate to try to pick up chicks. Usually female avatars in Deep Ground were also female players, so with any luck he'll be able to woo this one.

Arms slave seemed to believe her lie. Well, didn't attempt to disapprove her at least. When Cherry Lover had let him take care of the he already had a plan on what to do with the player under his foot. He picked him up and spinning him around with his massive arms and trew him for about 20 feet. Cherry lover's eyes followed the player as he flew through the air and landed with a quite hard tud. She could clearly hear the breaking of bones and bit her lip for a moment. Arms slave threw a spear short after he had thrown the player and killed him in a flash.

[color=9e005d]"I'm looking for potential party members so that I could support them. I haven't passed anyone that caught my eyes today. Everyone I tried to support died in a flash, weaklings."[/color] She gritted her teeth and looked down with a somewhat despised look on her face. Cherry lover looked back up again at Arms slave and gave a confirming nod [color=9e005d]"Arms slave, right? Let's get along." [/color]She poked out her robotic hand at him as greeting.

Arms Slave grasped Cherry Lover's outstretched hand with two of his own, giving her a firm shake before picking up his weapons. [b]"Right! We got a long walk ahead of us, so we'll be extra busy! Eh? Huh. Got a message here."[/b] Arms Slave opened up the new message in his inbox. Same no face name that gave him his targets for the Sweepers. Oddly enough there was only one name for this one: Owari. Arms Slave still had some others targets to hunt down, but he supposed that he could find time to search for this Owari too. She wasn't a high priority target (i.e. Arms Slave doesn't need to go after her in real life) so he'd just gather some fellas and knock her down a notch.

It was a long, mostly uneventful march to the Black City. They ran into a few Dissolutions, but hardly anything that Arms Slave and Cherry Lover would have any difficulty defeating. Once at the Black City, Arms Slave didn't notice anything particularly unusual. Many Sweepers were making their rounds through the city, marking things that needed to be repaired and beginning reconstruction. [b]"Here we are. Let's head to the guild hall, see if there's any work for us."[/b]

Cherry Lover was taken by surprise by the firm handshake and annoyingly looked at her hurted robot hand before giving him a nod at the comment on the long trip.

They venture forth through the landscape on their way towards the black city. They had to fight through multiple enemies but none were a real threat to them. Cherry lover only helped hurting the enemies instead of focusing on healing since she still wasn't comfortable with the way arms slave looked. 

They had soon entered the black city and arrived in quite a mess actually. The city was all destroyed and was already starting to be rebuild but it still left Cherry Lover in wonder to what happened. She gave another nod as she heard about going to the guild hall and followed Arms Slave the rest of the way.

The Guild Hall was full of players for once. Most of them, as Arms Slave knew, were Sweepers. There were even a few Cleaners amongst the crowd. [b]"Hey hey! I know these guys. Well I'm sure finding work won't be too hard now. What about you Lover? Thinking of working with the Sweepers?"[/b]

Cherry lover looked over at Arms Slave with a somewhat blank face and gave him a small nod [color=9e005d]"I don't mind."[/color] She was however a little cautious with the sweepers since she didn't trust them like she did with Arms Slave yet. However she did meet Arms Slave only a few minutes ago so it probably wouldn't be long before she grew accustomed to them.

[b]"Awesome sauce. Well, I don't know how they plan to do the process now. You'd either be joining the Ebon Stykers or get scouted out by the Sweepers. Either or really."[/b] Arms Slave was itching to go back out there and fight something. But before he left, he remembered that he was suppose to meet with Yuuno. Or at least she was suppose to contact him. Seeing that she was in game right now, Arms Slave figured he could call her up. Now that he thought about it... Yuuno did say he could bring a friend to their little get together.

[b]"Hey Lover, I got a question for ya."[/b]

Cherry lover gazed around her while Arms Slave was saying some things. She had mostly traveled alone up to now so she only knew the basics about these factions but not much more. She looked back at Arms Slave once he had said something remarkable. She tilted her head [color=9e005d]"What is it?"[/color] she said in a quite curious blank tone.

[b]"Wanna hang out with me? In... In real life. You're a student at Purple Crown, right? So am I. I'm just here to kill some time before I have to head out and meet with some people. Maybe... You'd like them."[/b] Arms Slave then thought to himself. [b][i]"Maybe you'd like me too."[/i][/b]His avatar didn't have the face for it, but he smirked at the thought. Two girls in one day. Aside from that business with his sister, things were looking up. [b]"How about it?"[/b]

Just when Cherry Lover put her back in place she tilted it once more to his weird question. Why would someone want to hang out with her out of nowhere? Cherry Lovers gaze pointed at the ground as she began thinking about what he wanted from her. She looked back up at his face and back down to ponder some more. Cherry lover carefully looked around her before giving a small nod at him while herself still being full of hesitation [color=9e005d]"Hmm, alright."[/color] She carefully looked around her and started talking again [color=9e005d]"Where do we meet?"[/color]

[b]"Not sure yet. I'm expecting a call. If I don't get one, I guess we can just do our own thing... Hence, why I'm here, killing time and anyone else I can get my hands on. So! Now that that's decided, I got another proposition for ya."[/b] Arms Slave walked with Cherry Lover to a sort of bar in Deep Ground. None of the drinks were real in the sense that their body would suffer from the effects of alcohol, but that never stopped the players from drinking. Currently there was a player role playing and actually serving as the bartender. Arms Slave ordered a drink for himself and Lover, trading one of his swords instead of EXP. 

[b]"You heard about that announcement for by the student prez? About the Corpse Collector? What say you and me gather some other blokes and form a party, take her down. I know a couple of guys who are good for it. And we could use a healer. You in?"[/b]

Cherry Lover simply followed Arms Slave over towards one of the good known bars around the city. This was one way of killing time alright. Arms Slave was so kind as to buy them both a drink. Cherry Lover wasn't an adult yet and wasn't planning to do anything tricky by ordering something that she wasn't allowed to take yet. Instead she ordered a simple ice tea. She bowed gracefully at Arms Slave and heard him out further. He was planning to take out corpse collector? well alright that wasn't so bad as it seemed to be. After all she wasn't someone who wanted to get involved with the guy all that much but if she would have been in a group with a few others she wouldn't suffer anything from it since someone else would most likely kill him. Cherry Lover was thinking longer about it then she had originally planned and left an empty silence for a while but ended with a nod again.

[b]"Sweet. Well, cheers to that! You and me Cherry, this is going to be the start of something beautiful."[/b] The bartender served up the drinks, with Arms Slave taking two of the beers for himself, raising his glass towards Cherry. [b]"A toast, yeah? To kill the Corpse Collector!"[/b]

Cherry Lover wasn't really accustomed to these kind of situations but tried acting out of instinct. She raised her glass a bit high up in the air with her arm still half bended and let out a quiet [color=9e005d]"Woo."[/color] She stayed silent after that to think about if she had done the right thing or not and began sipping lightly on her ice tea while she peeked back at Arms Slave a few times more.