[center][h2]Medaboat battle[/h2] Wordcount 4188 6 xp. [img]https://i.imgur.com/6w4V9ZJ.png[/img] Level 10 Blazermate - (94/100) - 1 stored level up Rika: [color=Aqua]//////[/color]//////////////////////////////////////////// (6/50) [/center] “So, you and me huh?” Rika said as she wandered over to meet up with Blazermate before pausing for a moment and then asking, “So, uh, do you have any idea how this works?” [color=0072bc]”Uh, vaguely.”/color] Blazermate said, gesturing for Rika to follow her. As they moved through Alcamoth Blazermate said what she thought it was at least. [color=0072bc]”So what we do is we go to this battle arena place and choose an arena, and we robattle. We can go as hard as we want as we’ll just be healed up afterwards and there is no risk of death or serious injury. But only inside the arena. If someone gets knocked out of the arena, the person left standing wins. Don’t attack people outside of the arenas for obvious reasons.”[/color] Blazermate continued, trying to remember where the arena area was. It took the two ladies a bit of time to make it there, but they were more middle of the pack. They could see a few fights going on in some observation windows, where the arenas looked very flat, but colorful and interesting locales. Very different from robattles that was for sure. [color=0072bc]”So. Any idea where you wanna go?”[/color] Blazermate said, asking Rika to choose one of the arches that had various symbols over them. “Hmmmmmmm how abouuuuuut, that one” Rika, having perhaps little frame of reference for these symbols out of anyone present, pointed at a wild west looking one and explained her choice simply as “It’s of a hat” [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/rLSMT5W.png[/img][/center] Unfortunately the stage did not turn out to be a hat, and was instead a sandy western town that someone had decided to run two minecart tracks through before spicing the place up with the odd tnt barrel. The place’s name, painted onto a sign hung above the active railway like certainly was appropriate: Danger Gulch “Huh, it's like a place that’s just all beach? Weird” Rika said as she stepped away from her starting spot in front of the greed painted building and gave the sand an experimental kick. [color=Aqua]“You ever been to somewhere like this?”[/color] she called over casually to her opponent who had spawned in under the awning of the red painted telegraph building [color=0072bc]”Yeah, it's some kind of thing out of a western. It's a canyon in some desert or something? Anyway, let's get started then!”[/color] Blazermate said, giving a flex at Rika before summoning her Striker who began to make his buildings before charging Rika with ubersaw attachment in one hand, but her shield out in front in an attempt to both close the distance and possibly shield bash Rika. “Lets” Rike replied, closing her eyes briefly, snuffing out the blue flame wafting out if them only for that fire to flare out a dozen times hotter when she reopened them, the cable tuning to a great streak of fire that trailed behind her when she moved [hider=Rika: 4 level ups] Strength: Kai Flagship Upgrades: Rika gains a full suit of upgrades to push her ship class to its full potential, increasing her armor and vitality a fair margin but mainly massively raising her evasion, the ship girl becoming quite the artful dodger. Strength: Brute Strength (Brachydios): Despite being built with a pair of massive gauntlets, Rika was not designed for close combat. This little number fixes that problem by imbuing her with Wyvernian strength and battle prowess of the mighty Brachydios, making her quite the slugger. Power: Triple Torpedo Mistress (herself, Pacific princess and Mikuma): Rika’s gauntlets can store and deploy a number of forearm sized high speed torpedoes from the undersides of her gauntlets, which shoot through the water, delivering a hefty explosive payload to close range targets. On land these are obviously less useful, though having a source of on demand high explosives does have its advantages if she gets clever about it. Power: All Out Assault (Mikuma): on every 8th’s shot from her main (8inch) gun her shot is enhanced into being a shower of [url=https://azurlane.netojuu.com/images/4/47/Bullet_pattern_skill_22252.gif]5 triple shots fired in a spread pattern[/url] [/hider] [color=Aqua]“I’ve been wanting to try out these upgrades i got last night after all”[/color] True to her word, the ship girl didn’t just start up with her tried and true strategy of overwhelming firepower, but instead raced forwards to meet the bot with a here-for unseen burst of speed, right gauntlet wound back in preparation for a massive punch while she held her other, bayoneted, gauntlet over her chest defensively, moving it to intercept the incoming saw. Blazermate took her challenge somewhat head on. She still rushed at Rika until she got close, at which point she used her agility to jump over Rika, tilting her shield to use Rika’s blow for more lift if needed. When she did her little flip over Rika, she slashed with her ready Ubersaw. All the while the Engineer had managed to make his level 1 sentry, which began to shoot Rika from the direction where Blazermate was, the shipgirl now sandwiched between both an automated turret, and a medabot. [color=Aqua]“Ow”[/color] went Rika as the blade slashed over her shoulder, followed by [color=Aqua]“Ow, ow, ow”[/color] as the turret started pinging her hull until she dodged to the side and out into the street. An invisible field popped up around her, gripping the bullets as they came in and slowing them enough that the ship girl didn’t take any more than the first three shots. She turned her right side main gun and one of her turrets in the direction of the stationary target and fried off a battery of 6 ship shells in its vague direction while turning her head after blazermate and actively targeting her with the other turret and her rapidfire cannon, the Brachydios headed rifle roaring as it fired shot after shot in quick succession. Rika’s ship shells didn’t need to hit too close to home to destroy the level 1 sentry. Seeing the random deviation projectiles come at him, the engineer hid behind his dispenser using it as a wall. This managed to save him from being damaged from Rika’s attack, but he was forced to rebuild both of his buildings. Blazermate meanwhile used her shield to start to block the rapid fire machine gun fire, much like a medabot would do against other medabots with SMGs or assault rifles. Rika’s bullets were a bit bigger though than the standard medabot rounds, which even with Blazermate healing herself and her shield couldn’t keep up with Rika’s damage output. But this built Blazermate’s Medaforce, and when her shield started to show some wear and tear, she took off into the air to dodge Rika’s shots as she healed herself back up. With her vantage point over the battlefield, Blazermate saw one of those red cracks that summoned a ghost around where the engineer was rebuilding his buildings, and kept that in mind. [color=Aqua]“Alright both barrels for you, you ahhhh!”[/color] Rika cried out as she was interrupted from turning all her firepower at Blazermate now that the sentry was (temporarily) dealt with by the fact that no one had taught her about the dangers of standing in the middle of the road. Or in this case on a minecart track, the rightful user of which came whizzing up the central road and then careaning into the shipgirl upon whom it had snuck up on by virtue of all the racket she had been making. The little cart smacked into her hips, causing her to topple ass backwards into it, at which point it kept rolling, more slowly now, towards stage right [color=Aqua]“Nooo I don’t want to go this way!”[/color] Rika yelled, before pushing herself upright enough to push herself out right next to the undertakers. [color=Aqua]“I’m ok!”[/color] she informed her opponent as if the bot hadn't been responsible for her bullet and stab wounds. This didn't stop her from hopping floatlly up onto the roof of the undertakers either, and then shifting to use its sign as cover as she trained her guns on the engineer's sentry spot and raining down hell on him again while she looked out for Blazermate The engineer took cover where he could from the ship fire, at least having the knowhow to hide although he took some damage from the splash of Rika’s fire. Blazermate meanwhile had been healing herself above Rika and managed to build some Overheal in the process, although still not enough for her shield or any of her abilities yet, even though she was close. As Rika was looking at the engineer, Blazermate looped around behind Rika, and using her shield as a battering ram, she swooped down to knock Rika off her perch and do some damage. [color=Aqua]“Oof!”[/color] went the ship as she was knocked over her cover and fell down to the ground, smashing into a (thankfully empty) coffin that broke her fall a bit but left her with a butt full of splinters.She started up at the sky for a moment, a touch dazed, then shook her head and used her hullblades to jump herself back onto her feet before setting of at a run and then trying to jump first up onto the yellow building’s awning and then going higher, aiming for the bridge that crossed the street. Blazermate having swooped back into the sky, moved to where her striker was as Rika repositioned to heal the damage he had taken so that he wouldn’t go down to her next volley and gain some more medaforce and shield in the process. With him all patched up, Blazermate zoomed back into the sky, healing herself and looking for Rika. At least finding Rika wouldn’t be too difficult thanks to Blazermate’s scan ability putting a glowing mark on her. She wasn't exactly trying to hide either, the ship girl leaping up beside the horse repair sign, then atop the green flop haus’s roof and finally atop its rooftop water tank for maximum height. Of course she wasn't going to ever beat the flying blazermate when it came to altitude, but from here she had a good view of the whole stage from which to bring her guns to bare. And bring them to bear she did, finally training all 4 sets of guns she had and letting loose a barrage that almost blew her off the roof from the recoil. [color=0072bc]”She acts like a God Emperor medabot! But without the heat seeking missiles or lasers…”[/color] Blazermate said Rika unloading on her in the sky, trying to shoot her out of it. Seeing this as a problem, Blazermate did aerial evasion moves to try to land on the ground in some cover. Her descent didn’t go too well as planned though as Rika managed to shoot her as she was landing, Blazermate being blasted away but thankfully into cover. Cover that wouldn’t last too long as Rika seemed to be having fun destroying all the buildings and walls and everything, so Blazermate did what healing she could to herself behind cover. She then made a flight to that crack in the ground she had seen earlier when she figured she could, the engineer having moved to a different spot on the battlefield to set up, and summoned the ghost that zoomed aggressively at Rika to explode in her face. [color=Aqua]“Oh no you don’t”[/color] Rika shouted at the ghost as she hopped backwards off of her perch, slow field procking and delaying the ghost just enough that when it served after her it slammed right into the water tank. Rika’s self congratulatory cheer was swiftly ended when the ghost did as ghosts did and phased right through the barrel. Then it headbutter her descending foot while its body was still inside the barrel, scorching Rika’s lower leg. Her cry of pain was swiftly rended into a blub as the rest of the spook bomb had blasted the water tank to bits, showering Rika with water and splinters to add insult to injury. [color=Aqua]“Bleh, waterlogged, so not good”[/color] she complained after the torrent was over, shaking her arms futilely for a moment before her combat focus kicked back in. The drenched shipgirl limped around the ruins of her ruined firing platform, aimed and then pulled the trigger on her main gun, only to immediately lose control as all out assault procked, the resulting five bursts of triple shots being sprayed widely across the town as she was literally floored by the unexpected recoil. Windows were smashed, awnics collapsed, and then a strey shell hit a loitering tnt barrel and there went the telegraph office up in smoke. When it finally ended, about 3 rapidfire heartbeats after it started, Rika was laying flat on her back in a pool of rapidly evaporating water on top of the only unscared building in the town telling herself [color=Aqua]“Guuuuuuuuess I need to start counting my shots”[/color] Blazermate couldn’t help but feel bad for the shipgirl. All that firepower but no discipline or knowhow to use it. Sort of like your standard God Emperor, ah, she was becoming more and more like one of those every moment Blazermate fought her. Still that didn’t make the shipgirl any less dangerous. Still with her being distracted by that ghost which did far, FAR more damage than Blazermate expected, both to Rika and the town (in part thanks to Rika blowing up a vast majority of the arena.) Blazermate was able to get enough charge for her projectile shield. With that charged, Blazermate started flying right at Rika to use it to zap the shipgirl and do loads of damage for once, waiting to deploy it when she got in range or Rika opened fire again.. So far it felt like Rika did more damage to herself than Blazermate did, and Blazermate kinda wanted to end the battle soon to save the shipgirl from more embarrassment. [color=Aqua]“Oook?”[/color] Rika said, unsure as to why Blazer was coming at her without her blade out, but she expected a trap. So, while opening up with her 2 rigging turrets, she laid her own, hammering the building with her gauntlets to leave big splats of green goo, before giving 'em a spittoon and hopping back, leaving the front of the building priming to blow. Blazermate seeing Rika leave her cover, decided to veer up and away before coming back down on her. Seeing as Rika acted just like a god emperor, although inexperienced, Blazermate wasn’t going to fall for the mine legs, not again anyway. You only make that mistake once. Although she did know of a medabot that made it many, many times, but that's besides the point. When she made her way to Rika, Rika’s little turrets started shooting at her. Now this was a smart move, well, it would’ve been, if Blazermate didn’t swoop down on her with her projectile shield, trying to zap her with it. [color=Aqua]“Uh oh”[/color] Rika worried as Blazer simply waited out her goo bombs, which blasted apart the front of the top of her building with little gain, and then came in again now that the bomb spot was gone, deploying a shield that blocked her side turret suppressing fire, and which she was pretty clearly trying to ram her with. With the stage edge behind her there wasn't really anywhere Rika could go [color=Aqua]“Uh uh”[/color] except [color=Aqua]“Up!”[/color] The ship girl hopped, cranking her gauntlet’s antigrav to the max to make her jump much floatier, before turning all of her guns down and blasting the building she had been on and using the recoil to launch herself up and over the shield at surprising speed with an accompanying whoop of delight from the flying boat. Blazermate wasn’t expecting Rika to explosive jump with her guns like that, so while Blazermate had her shield deployed, Rika dodged it for the moment fairly well with the smaller scrap of the destroyed building being vaporized and forcing Blazermate to dodge the larger chunks that her shield didn’t vaporize. Although sadly for Rika, once Blazermate got back out of the wreckage Rika had caused, she was right back to trying to zap Rika with her shield, Rika noticing wherever Blazermate pointed her healing arm is where her big blue energy shield went. Rika performed a stumble of a landing behind Blazer, turned back to face her, and was immediately presented with the same problem she had just escaped [color=Aqua]“So does that thing ever run out?”[/color] she asked, before blasting herself backwards and landing on her butt in the ruins of the telegraph office. [color=0072bc]”At this rate you will be doing more damage to you than I do!”[/color] Blazermate said, her shield protecting her from Rika’s blastback as she used the same thing to try to escape Blazermate and her shield of ouch. A good thing too, as Rika has seen what this shield can do when it sits on something for too long. And with Rika evading it, the shield was starting to flicker. Seeing that, Blazermate still approached, but with her arm shield out seeing her energy shield starting to blink out of existence. All this while the engineer had managed to set up a fully functioning nest in the block over, sipping beer in his chair as his work was done for the moment and nothing was bothering him. [color=Aqua]“Hey what’s that beeping sound?”[/color] Rika asked in response to this, curiosity getting the better of her as she followed the sound during a running retreat, punched open a door (guanteleted hands meant no opening them) and then being immediately blown back into the street by a hail of minigun fire. Blazermate just wobbled in the air when she heard and saw what Rika had just done. [color=0072bc]”OK, this girl REALLY needs a mentor. If this wasn’t practice she would’ve gotten herself probably killed.”[/color] Blazermate then zoomed above Rika as she retreated from the level 3 sentry and its gunfire and rockets and said. [color=0072bc]”Don’t go TOWARDS beeping things! Those usually mean danger! It could’ve been a bomb you know!”[/color] Blazermate was clearly flabbergasted at the naivety of this girl. [color=Aqua]“Why would you make a bomb beep? Or that gun beep? Doesn't that give them away?”[/color] Rika asked as she hauled herself up unsteadily of the dirt, her’retreat having beenmore of stumbling and then rolling away while the massive knockback of the sentry blew her away. Her wet clothes were a patchwork of holes and her skin a quilt of bruises, blood and oil, but she wasn’t going to lie down and give up. [color=Aqua]“Ah this hurts”[/color] the ship girl whined [color=Aqua]“Ok, but, hmm, how do I deal with that… oh. Its a static position, so of course all I need to do is”[/color] she squared up her guns, but rather than fire flicked to switches that caused a pair of torpedoes to drop down from beneath the gauntlets. And on to the sand. Where they just sat, uselessly whirring their propellers. [color=Aqua]“...”[/color] Rike looked down at the pair of bombs, very offended by their uselessness, and then just started shooting at Blazermate again with everything she had. Blazermate could only look at Rika with a look of sadness in her eyes as the poor girl seemed to have almost no combat experience vs anything that wasn’t right in front of her and charged her head on. Something that Blazermate would need to fix at some point. But now was not that point as Rika, having dumbstruck Blazermate and herself with her torpedo shot, turned around and shot at Blazermate with all of her guns, catching the medabot off guard. Blazermate took quite a bit of damage from this attack, but used another ability of her suffering shield to let out a loud sonic screech to both escape Rika and stun her. The shipgirl stumbled back trying and failing to protect her ears with her hands due to them being stuck in her gauntlets, which Blazermate used to get distance and cover to heal herself. Her uber was almost ready, but she also had her Medaforce beam. Although, seeing the engineer’s nest gave her an idea…. What would happen if she teleported on top of Rika? This area seemed to be safe, at least according to Mewtwo, so nothing bad should happen besides Rika flying off into the sunset, and the round being over… Yeah Blazermate figured she’d try that. Rika meanwhile shook her head to recover. Then started to take a step forwards only for the beeping to remind her that doing so would put her in gun range again. [color=Aqua]“That really is silly”[/color] she said, and then thought about what to do about that, getting mad at her useless torpedoes again for a moment before having an idea. She reached down, grabbed the two torpedoes with the jaws of her gauntlets, and then circled round the side of the building so it wouldn’t see her approaching. Though not exactly sneaky, Blaze was busy prepping her own plan, so the ship girl had free right to sneak up next to the door she had kicked in, and then proceeded to lay them down in the doorway and use a length of splintered wood to set them rolling over the floor and towards the sentry. After she heard the [i]klonk[/i] of them hitting the wood she backed up a bit, and then blindfired her rapidfire gauntlet through the door, slowfield giving her just enough time to get her shots off before she got gunned/rocketed down, and setting off the torpedoes which exploded with the force of multiple grenades each, vaporizing the sentry and most of the room along with it. Blazermate meanwhile had her full uber charge ready, and zoomed up behind Rika as she had just finished destroying the engineer’s sentry. Grabbing Rika from behind, Blazermate pushed her into the rest of the engineer’s nest. While she did manage to destroy the sentry, that wasn’t Blazermate’s goal as a pair of teleporters was not too far away. Since the engineer had no destination to set them up with, he just put them right next to each other in an attempt to get all of his buildings all built. Rika tried her best to retaliate and protest at Blazermate carrying her at the shining platforms, but Blazermate popped ubercharge the moment Rika did anything, and the shipgirl found herself helpless at the invincible medabot carrying her over to the teleporters. Once they got there, Blazermate flew up and dropped Rika on top of one, flying down as she fell to take the other teleporter as Rika landed on the first one. The shipgirl had almost no time to react as Blazermate teleported and even if she managed to get a foot off the other teleporter, Blazermate appeared where Rika was, sending the shipgirl flying straight up through the roof into the stratosphere and ending the combat. [center][h1]Game![/h1][/center] With that done, both parties appeared in a lobby, having a small bit of battle damage, but not nearly as much as they should’ve had going at each other like that. [color=0072bc]”OK so, we need to really get you combat ready. [”/color] was the first thing Blazermate said, healing Rika and herself up as she gestured for them both to leave for the next people. [color=0072bc]”If I was more deceptive instead of being evasive, it wouldn’t end well for you. And trust me, there are a lot of deceptive medabots out there. Also we gotta work on your weaponry, while they worked in the sea, I don’t think we’ll be going back there at any point anytime soon so we need to get you some ground weapons. Maybe when we go to “japan” we might find a God Emperor medabot. Those parts would feel right at home to you.”[/color] Blazermate said. [color=Aqua]“Deceptive? What do you mean by that?”[/color] Rika asked first, trying to focus on learning rather than getting dejected in response to this barrage of criticism. [color=0072bc]”Uh, well… Like the sentry. If ya hear beeping, try to be cautious around it. Yeah sometimes it doesn’t make sense for bombs or guns to beep, but they do, and yeah.”[/color] Blazermate said. [color=0072bc]”Also I suggest practicing with your guns and how much recoil they do. I saw you getting hurt a lot by your own thing than me. The explosive jumping was a good idea though, although did that hurt?”[/color] [color=Aqua]“Ooook?”[/color] Rika replied, not really sure why they beeped, but filed it away for later anyway [color=Aqua]“Oh and that? Well, if I’m too close yeah, but mainly it's the stuff shooting out of the barrels that gave the lift. I guess if i could tough out the bombs too I could use those for extra hight? But, yeah, mainly it's pushing me back while I’m making myself all floaty that did it. Dunno why that happens, but it does so I thought why not use that, you know?”[/color] [color=0072bc]”Well, make sure you figure out your recoil and all of that. Good to see you learned something though. Maybe the others will have some advice for you.”[/color] Blazermte said as she led Rika back to the main atrium.