Like Oil and Water (NDE | R | Vannan vs Yoko)

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Thread Title: Like Oil and Water
Participants: Vannan Harper and Yoko Kusanagi
World: Human World
Death Setting: Non Death Enabled
Rating: R
Location: An oil rig in the ocean fairly close to Karakura. There's a large open area in the center of the ground floor, but lots of catwalks, narrow corridors, and that kinda stuff.


Special Conditions: None.
Circumstances: A node on the outskirts of the Uzaki Enterprises Detection Network picked up a large number of hollows headed towards the ocean. Yoko heads to investigate, but finds Vannan instead.

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Karakura Town, Uzaki Enterprises HQ: 1:52pm

Weather: Sunny, 21°C

Chief of Security’s status: annoyed.

An alarm blared in Yoko’s ear. She cursed herself for not testing the volume of her new earpiece before having used it, but what’s done was done. Uzaki Enterprises had a new system at their disposal, and though it needed a volume check, it seemed to be rather effective. The fullbringer had been alerted to the presence of hollows at the far end of Karakura long before she would have been without the device. No one else called in that they were heading to the scene. Despite the distance, it looked like Yoko had to be the first responder. As if the situation couldn’t have been worse, the new system indicated the hollows were heading away from her, outside of town. If she wanted to catch them, there was only one choice. As she took off from her office and headed up the stairs to the roof the young fullbringer called in that she had this one covered. Once she reached the roof, she was ready to go.

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[smear:00ffff]I am Gundam. Aegis![/smear:0000ff:1]

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{Release Reference Image}

With those words, pale white armor enveloped Yoko, forming over the top of her simultaneously formed Pilot Suit from her secondary fullbring. This was her fullbring, Gundam Meister. Though the girl herself was a fairly small thing, coming in at only five foot three and 120 pounds, her release was a rather daunting appearance. In her right hand was an HK-417 battle rifle, with enough stopping power to take down a semi-truck moving at full throttle. Her left hand was empty, but that forearm had a bright red shield mounted on it, ready to ward off any attacks. Caliburn was thrown across her back, angled so that it could be grabbed easily with her left hand. Her arsenal was completed by a single beam saber on her right hip.

She didn’t waste a second after activating her release. Instantly, she fired up her thrusters, flying towards the hollows. Even at her top speed, sans the use of step techniques, it took her a good five minutes to reach the hollows’ original position. By that point, they had already gotten farther away towards the edge of Uzaki Enterprises’ detection system. Chasing prey was never her style, but someone had to deal with these hollows. Eventually the swarm was in sight, and shortly thereafter, their destination was too. The whole ordeal had taken longer than Yoko cared to admit, but she did eventually catch up to the beasts… or at least what was left of them.

She had tracked them to an oil rig, not too far away from Karakura. By the time she got there though, there was only a single hollow left that she could see. That wasn’t the case for long either. Not a moment after Yoko had set down at the rig’s helipad, the last hollow turned around a corner. She moved to go after it, eventually reaching a large open space in the middle of the rig. All that was left of the hollow itself was dust. Someone else was here, and quite possibly hostile. Most would assume that anyone else who was killing hollows was an ally, but Yoko wasn’t that naïve. Hollows or no hollows, she was still on guard for the time being. Her fullbring was already released, and one of her level two abilities, GN Drive, had already restored the reiatsu she’d expended thus far. Even better for her, the flight out to the oil rig had given her enough time to catch her breath from releasing. She was completely ready for whatever had destroyed the hollows.

Reiatsu: 1750/1750
-500 for Fullbring level 2 Release
-50 for Thrusters
+800 from GN Drive

Fullbring Level 2: 1/13 posts

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{Stats and Skills}
Strength - [400(600)] Points

Speed - [200(250)] Points

Spiritual Pressure - [350(175)] Points

Reiatsu Strength - [50(25)] Points

Light Aura - [40] Points

Dark Aura - [60] Points

Instinct - [165] Points

Senses [235] Points

Energy sensory - [0] Points

Healing Expertise - [0] Points


Total SP: [1400]

• [Martial Art: Kunlun] {3}
  
  
• [Weapon: Sword {3}
  
  
• [Pain Tolerance] {2}
  
  
• [Battle Analysis] {2}
  
  
• [Calm Mind] {2}
  
  
• [Anti-Stealth] {3}
  
  
• [Weapon:Guns] {1}
  

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{Weapons}

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{Rifle}Name: HK-417 Battle Rifle
Appearance: Link
Slots Required: 1 Main
Effective Range: 500 meters
Power: 800
Speed: 800
Ammo Capacity: 20
Special Traits: Fire select can switch between semi-auto, 3-shot burst, and fully automatic.
Alternate Fire: None.
Spawn Cost: 200.
Drawback: Iron sights mean accuracy is poor unless two hands are used to aim. If fired from one hand, only one in two bullets (at maximum) can be perfectly on-target. This persists regardless of weapon skill. Standard Energy Shots ignore this drawback, but can only be fired at a semi-auto rate of fire.

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{Caliburn}Name: Physical Sword
Appearance: Varies. Any sword she's seen can be replicated in terms of form. Caliburn
Slots Required: 1 Main Slot if length of the blade is >10 inches. Shorter blades use 1 Sub slot.
Effective Range: Melee.
Power: Based on wielder's stats.
Speed: Based on wielder's stats.
Ammo Capacity: N/A
Special Traits: Spiritual Steel Durability. Edges can be made blunt when swords are formed.
Alternate Fire: N/A
Spawn Cost: 50
Drawback: It's not a gun, and it doesn’t do anything beyond cut people.

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{Beam Sabre}Name: Beam Sabre
Appearance: Link, but color depends on the normal color of the wielder's reiatsu.
Slots Required: 1 Sub
Effective Range: Melee
Power: Based on wielder's stats.
Speed: Based on wielder's stats.
Ammo Capacity: N/A
Special Traits: Can be turned on and off at will by either Yoko or the wielder. This means that cutting through the blade doesn’t destroy it, since it can just be reactivated. Also, length can be made shorter than is pictured at will. Finally, rather than cutting like a normal blade, it cuts more lightsaber style, using thermal energy. This gives it some alternative uses like melting ice and such, but the power is still determined by the normal attack stat during combat, and the thermal thing is only really noteworthy for flavor or non-combat situations.
Alternate Fire: N/A
Spawn Cost: 50
Drawback: It's not a gun either, and it can be cut through with a single point of attack stat superiority.

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{Shield}Name: MMI-RG59V Mobile Shield
Appearance: Link
Slots Required: 1 Sub
Effective Range: N/A
Power: Based on wielder's stats.
Speed: Based on wielder's stats.
Ammo Capacity: N/A
Special Traits: Can freely convert between a buckler-sized shield for storage or skirmishing and a tower-shield for full-on tanking. Additionally, the shield can be forearm-mounted so that a hand is not needed, and orientation can be changed on the fly between parallel to the arm, perpendicular to the arm, or any point in between. Durability is that of spiritual steel, requiring an attack stat of twice Yoko’s reiatsu strength to destroy it completely or cut straight through it, but it can be damaged by any attacks with simple superiority.
Alternate Fire: N/A
Spawn Cost: 100
Drawback: High cost for no offense.

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It was a simple mission for Vannan and the few privates he had under his command. They were to track down any hollows at the oil rig, kill them all and then take out the oil rig as it was somehow attracting hollows to it's location. Vannan didn't have an issue with this kind of mission, it was a simple one that really didn't involve the death of people, or at least he hoped that he could get away with out killing anyone in this mission. With the order given he was set off with three privates to complete this as quick as possible.

As the appeared from the gate Vannan ordered the three of them to take out all hollows they saw. Without hesitation all three of them did so slowly clearing out all hollows around the oil rig, Vannan looked around the area for the workers, however all he saw was blood everywhere and mangled bodies. He had been too late, they were all dead and the hollows devoured their souls. It was sickening he had hoped to at least save a few of the crew, but now he couldn't. As the last hollow was struck down by his subordinates he senses something coming. From where he was he saw what he could only describe as a robot mech suit land and stop at the vaporized hollow.

Vannan was standing on top of one of the cranes looking down at the mech suit, his subordinate close to the suit. Vannan over the radio that was provided for them to keep in contact spoke. “Everyone fall back to the base. I will handle this and take out the oil rig by my self. That is an order.” Vannan could sense that whatever the mech suit was, was strong, he couldn't risk losing his own soldiers over a fight like this, he had to fight himself, however he wasn't going to go in head first without knowing what the mech suit could do.

As the three privates used gate to head home he drew in reiatsu and pulled out one of the guns he had on his belt. From above he had a perfect view of the target. He pulled the trigger and fired the bullet. It was aimed at the chest of the mech suit. Vannan was going to test to see if it could take a bullet. He knew that his position would be compromised the moment the mech either heard or felt the bullet, so in order to remain hidden away he used movement to dash downward to a high level area that had walkways and dark spots that he could use to blend into. From this spot he would watch and wait to react.

Remaining reiatsu 2275/2000 - 25 for movement Total bullets left 119 - 1 bullet)

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{Stats and skills}

Strength ☣ [150] Points x.33= 50

Speed ☣ [200] Points

Spiritual Pressure ☣ [200] Points

Reiatsu Strength ☣ [300]x2=600Points

Light Aura ☣ [75] Points

Dark Aura ☣ [25] Points

Instinct ☣ [150].33=50 Points

Senses ☣ [50]= 50 Points

Energy sensory ☣ [0]x2=0 points

Healing Expertise ☣ [50].33=17 points


☣SKP ☣ 16/21( 2 free) 2/8 to next SKP

☣ [Stealth ] [2]
☣ [Archery] [2]
☣ [Acting] [2]
☣ [Sex] [2]
☣ [Focused Eye] [2]
☣ [Strength of will] [2]
☣ [Battle analysis] [2]

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{Items}Item Name: Cheap sunglasses

Item Type: Acessory

Item Description: In normal sunlight these glasses work about as well as almost any other pair however against sudden and bright flashes of light and energy the glasses filter it out and allow the user to see normally.(This also includes light off of reiatsu based attacks This only protects a person's eyes from being blinded by the light and not anything else the light would do.

Price: 2,000

Donatedtoshop?(Yes or No?): No

Owned 10



Owned 1

Item Name: Firearm License

Item Type: Other

Item Description: When looked at, this is a simple photo ID showing that the person is allowed to purchase and own firearms. Purchasing this item allows the purchase of Firearm class weapons. Item is not allowed to be owned by anyone under Class 3, so only Class 3's to Class 0 can own a license. This license only allows for the purchase of Human World Guns

Price: 30,000

Donatedtoshop?(Yes or No?): Yes



Owned 1

Item Name: [Wrath of Uriel]

Item Type: [FireArm]

Item Description: The weapon takes the form of a a typical government Colt .45 ACP M1911. The general design of the weapon is that it is created from spiritual steel and is colored steel black. What makes it unique in appearance is that on every handle, brown colored polished steel smooth casing perfectly fit over the handle with an image of Der Kaiser engraved and colored onto the handle. What makes this weapon special is the way that it is fired, the gun only comes with one clip. What makes this clip special is what kind of bullets they take, which to say the least, there are no physical bullets needed to fire this gun.

What happens is the user in general expends reiatsu directly into the clip, every 150 reiatsu they add into the clip creates one “bullet.” The clip itself is capable of holding 12 bullets and nothing more. These bullets are shaped and sized directly in accordance to an actual .45 ACP but their power is determined by the gun itself. Because reiatsu is changeable, the gun is able to have six presets that change the reiatsu in order to do certain things. Each preset uses a certain amount of bullets per clip. The Strength of the bullet is equal to the RS of the user.

.45 ACP: This is the Basic bullet that is fired from the Gun. The Phrase is “45” and fires at speeds of 600. The Bullet takes 1 bullet from the clip.

Buck Shot: What makes this bullet special is that it fires 10 small reiatsu balls that spread over a small distance at the speeds of 600. The Phrase for this bullet is “Spread” and it takes 5 bullets from the clip.

Hot Shot: This is where the entire thing becomes expensive as the effects gets deadlier. What happens is that upon leaving the barrel of the fire arm, the bullet ignites and burns at a concentrated form. The bullet itself has no strength but the strength of the fire is equal to the RS of the user. The bullet itself moves at 600 speed. The Phrase for this bullet is “Icarus” and it takes 8 bullets from the clip.

High Explosive: This is where the entire thing becomes expensive as the effects gets deadlier. What makes this bullet special is that when the bullet makes contact with any surface it releases an an explosive force equal to the RS of the user, the size of the explosion is 30ft. The bullet itself moves at 600 speed. The Phrase for this bullet is “High Ex” and it takes all 12 bullets from the clip.


Price: 50,000 Ryo

Donatedtoshop?(Yes or No?): Added to Caesar's Shop




Owned 1

Item Name: The Ring of Icarus

Item Type: [support]

Item Description: The object takes the form of a sun yellow gem placed onto a dark blue ring. What this ring specializes in is that when worn, it imbues the reiatsu of the user with the “Curse of Icarus.” As long as the wearer places the ring onto the hand that draws the bow, the arrow itself will have the properties similar to the story of Icarus. What it does is it gives any generic energy bow one property. That property is where the legend of Icarus comes into place. Like Icarus, who flew too close to the sun ignited and burst into flames. This means when the arrow is exactly 1 feet away from the target, it will ignite and burn at the temperatures equal to the users' RS and has 3 posts to hit the actual target before it will dissipate and burn up. This item can not be used with Release Bows. In order to activate and remain active, the user must pay 50 reiatsu per post.

Price: 35,000

Donatedtoshop?(Yes or No?): [Placed into Caesar's Shop]



Owned: 1

Item Name: Stealth Cloak

Item Type: Clothing

Item Description: This is a cloak created by the infamous Mr. Hat & Clogs, designed to enhance the natural stealth capabilities of those with reaitsu. It was inspired by the Lothlorien Cloaks from Lord of the Rings. Basically, it creates a field of reaitsu around the user, masking them from site by blending them into the background, while simultaneously masking their spiritual pressure further. With 1 point in Stealth, someone would need 200 in Senses or Energy Sensory to detect their presence. Each point in Stealth adds 100 to the requirements. With a three in stealth, it also completely suppresses all noise made from the user.

It can only be used for 5 posts total in a thread, before becoming a normal cloak for the duration of the thread. To use, the user must give up 50 reaitsu for each post, and draw the cloak around them. Techniques can be used while the cloak is being used, but no releases!

Price: 20,000 Ryo

Donatedtoshop?(Yes or No?): Yes



Owned: Two

Item Name: M1911 Handgun

Item Type: Weapon

Item Description: The Colt M1911 is a single-action, semi-automatic, magazine-fed, recoil-operated pistol handgun chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge. The magazine size is 8 rounds and it fires bullets at speeds of 600. The strength of each round fired is 300. Uses Handgun ammo. Is a Human World Weapon, meaning it is useless against any beings made from Spirit Energy (Shinigami, Arrancar, Hollow, etc)

Price: 10,000 ryo

Donatedtoshop?(Yes or No?): Yes




Item Name: Handgun Ammo Pack

Item Type: Ammo Pack

Item Description: This simply a crate of ammo for Handguns

Price: 50 ryo per bullet (500 ryo for a full magazine of 10 rounds)

Donatedtoshop?(Yes or No?): Yes

Remaining ammo: 120 bullets


Owned: 1

Item Name: Utility Belt

Item Type: Carrier

Item Description: A thick, leather belt reinforced with metal. Five pouches are arranged around the belt, each capable of holding different kinds of items. Shaping crystals, flashbang grenades, small items like that can easily fit into these pouches. Additional 'clips' can be bought. Possesses the same RS as the user. Each pouch can hold one 'serving' of an item.

Price: 1,000 ryo

Donatedtoshop?(Yes or No?): Yes


Owned two

Item Name: Pistol Clip

Item Type: Carrier/Special

Item Description: A rigid leather holster that can fit most types of standard handguns. A clip on the back is meant to clip onto the Utility Belt. Possesses the same RS as the user.

Price: 200 Ryo each

Donatedtoshop?(Yes or No?):


Owned two

Item Name: Pistol Ammo Clip

Item Type: Carrier/Special

Item Description: A large rectangular pouch, meant to hold pistol ammo. Can be clipped onto the Utility Belt. Can hold up to 5 magazines. Possesses the RS of the User.

Price: 500 ryo

Donatedtoshop?(Yes or No?): Yes

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It wasn’t until Yoko actually set foot on the oil rig that she realized how gruesome the scene was. She had been so focused on her pursuit of the hollows that she’d somehow not noticed the signs of death all around her. The walls were coated in blood, still fresh and warm. Bodies of workers lay sprawled all over the place. It was horrible, even by Yoko’s standards. Worse still, there was no conclusive evidence that the hollows were the ones who had killed the workers. It was possible, even likely, that the hollows had been drawn here because of whoever killed the workers. With this amount of loss of life, Yoko had to assume that whoever was still here was armed and extremely dangerous.

As she wandered into the center of the rig, she activated her Warning System. It was a property of her level two fullbring that warned her about incoming threats. The weaker Quincy had already escaped, unbeknownst to Yoko. She did immediately register one spiritual presence though. ”Quincy detected directly above. Power level 600.” Almost immediately after that power signature was identified, the Warning System was triggered again. A gunshot rang out above her, followed by the warning system identifying the threat with a loud beep. The fullbringer raised her shield overhead. She willed it to expand into a tower shield, stopping the bullet cold. Casually, she lowered her shield and returned it back to buckler size. A moment was spent examining the bullet fired at her. With a bit of squishing, she got the metal into a shape close enough to a circle to read the inscription: .45 ACP. A weapon of that caliber was no threat to her.

[smear:00ffff]”Quincy. You stand accused of attempted murder of a peacekeeping officer, and you are the prime suspect in the death of over a dozen civilians. Your sentence is death.”[/smear:0000ff:1]

Any chance of leniency had vanished the moment the Quincy had fired at Yoko. Before, he could have given her a convincing story about how he found the workers like this, and it would’ve been believable. He no longer had that luxury. Only criminals attacked without provocation. This was no longer a mission to curtail a hollow threat. It had become a mission to execute this Quincy. The first step towards that goal was locating him. He had already moved from the spot he was in. A simple look up had confirmed that much. Yoko didn’t have to search for long though. ”Target located. Bearing 030 mark 70.” Her sense of smell wasn’t much use here. Too much blood. Warning System, on the other hand, was functioning admirably. Just to increase its effectiveness, she set the thermal portion to scan for 37 degrees Celsius, give or take half a degree. It immediately chirped out a beep at roughly the same position that the reiatsu detection portion had indicated.

There was no escape. Yoko raised her rifle and steadied her aim with both hands. With her strength in the picture, recoil was a non-issue. She wasn’t the world’s best marksman, but without recoil in the picture, she could get a sub MOA grouping easily enough. Given that she couldn’t actually see the target, she simply aimed dead-center of where her sensors had indicated the Quincy was. Realistically, that probably meant they were going for his chest. At this angle though, if he was crouched, they would probably be headshots. It didn’t matter, as either would likely be fatal. She flipped the weapon to burst fire and pulled the trigger.

Three shots rang out, though only two would reach the target. The first was shot blew through a steel support beam that was in the way of her line of fire. Considering the firearm had a penetrating strength of 800, steel wasn’t an issue. It did, however, make that first bullet worthless. The second and third bullets flew through the opening made by the first, on a course straight for the Quincy. Dodging them would be rough too. The battle rifle fired its rounds at 800 speed, which was far above what most could dodge without a step technique. Given the poor acoustics, one needed an excellent sense of hearing to tell where exactly a shot came from in here before it hit them, and they would need incredible instinct to react in time to boot. Worse for most fighters, these shots did not cost any reiatsu, so detecting the rifle being fired was impossible with energy sensory. Those especially gifting in sensing energy could probably track the minute amount of reiatsu in each bullet, but such individuals were rare.

The odds already didn’t look good for this Quincy. To make matters worse, Yoko wasn’t going to play his game. She had enough firepower to blast through most cover from where she was, and she could track him without moving. Thus far, his only attack was ineffective against her shield. She had nothing to fear, and no need to move out of the open space where she held the advantage. The pace of this battle was hers to dictate, and she had no desire to give up that advantage. The battle was hers if it took place in the open, and it was hers if the Quincy continued trying to snipe from a distance. She just wondered what tricks the Quincy would pull out to try and change that.

Reiatsu: 1750/1750
-500 for Fullbring level 2 Release
-50 for Thrusters
+800 from GN Drive

Fullbring Level 2: 2/13 posts

Rifle Ammo: 17/20

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From where he was standing he watched his attack go towards the walking mech, he had hoped to see how well it could react to a surprise attack however what happened far exceeded his own expectations. Vannan's attack was blocked with ease, but at the very least it was quite informing. To be able to block an attack without knowing where it was coming from, meant that the mech suit had some kind of way of sensing attacks that it couldn't see or was covered in sensors. That had been the conclusion he had gotten from seeing his attack being blocked without the mech even moving. That meant that surprise attacks wouldn't really work if they were by themselves, he had occupy the mech somehow.

As he was about to move the suit spoke, now the fact that it could speak didn't shock him it was the voice behind the suit that caused him to stop for a moment. The voice was clearly feminine, something he didn't expect at all. He had assumed that this robotic suit would have a cold harsh metallic voice that would match it's exterior. Vannan really didn't care too much about the words, it called said that he was responsible for the deaths of the crewmen and attack a so called peace officer. The first part was a lie, if the mech had a brain it could see that easily after looking at some of the dead crewmen. The bodies were clearly attacked by a hollow. However the second part was true if it really was an officer of peace, which he doubted. If that thing really was a peace officer then he was the emperor of the Vandenreich.

When the suit raised it's rifle Vannan reacted taking a step backwards and to the right into the open. As she fired out the bullets he dashed away, this time using Hirenkyaku instead of movement. He didn't want to deal bullet fire from the mech. As he looked back he saw that the cover he had was no longer there. He attacks had destroyed it without any resistance. Vannan had ended up standing in the air clear in sight of the mech suit. He still couldn't get the idea of that mech having such a female voice, whoever built that mech and gave it that voice had some twisted sense of humor, but none the less. It could talk and maybe it could reason. It was worth a shot, but not in the open, that was taking a huge risk with that thing's rifle.

As he stopped moving from Hirenkyaku he created his small bow and let out one arrow enhanced by the bow to move even faster than normal. The arrow flew out towards Yoko aimed at the left shoulder, while Vannan sky walked to take cover behind another metal construct near the edge of the rig. The arrow however split as soon as it was twenty feet away from Yoko. The two new arrows had new targets one was to hit her in the center of her chest while the other was to hit the barrel of her rifle. Vannan wanted to take out the long range weapon it had, if he could do that then he could take control of the fight and work down on the mech's shield testing the limits of it before he would brake past it.

He really was at a disadvantage here, his bow level one wouldn't help here if he wanted to keep this oil rig from blowing up. One false arrow and it would cause the entire thing to blow up. He really was pissed, but that could prove to be useful, with only a few seconds to decide he made up his mind. He was going to blow this place sky high instead of trying to talk with the mech. Pulling one arrow back he charged it up with his reitasu firing it through the metal floor and down towards the center where the drill pipe was. His arrow tore through the steel with ease melting it as flew downwards. For every foot it traveled it started to split off smaller plasma bolts till there was eleven arrows ten circling the original one.

Vannan's sunglasses were affixed to his face to block out the light from the bolts. With the arrow leaving his hand he kicked off of the edge of the metal highrise he was on and glided on the air away from the rig. If his arrows really did hit then the whole rig would blow up and flames would go everywhere. Something he didn't want to be caught in the middle of. He needed to get as far away as possible, however he knew that his arrows were faster than him, so he could only get so far before they would land.

Remaining reiatsu 1925/2000 -50 for Hirenkyaku -100 for one class 3 arrow boosted by small bow - 25 for splitting the arrow - 100 for bow level one - 75 for one plasma bolt arrow class 3)

(OOC note Vannan's first arrow is moving at 400 while the plasma bolt is moving at 600)

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((Goofed up reiatsu last post. Spent nothing, so disregard the -500 and -50. I copy-pasted and forgot to remove those.))

Pesky little bugger. The Quincy darted around, intent on only attacking from the shadows, rather than opting to stand and fight. He was like a stealth archer build in Skyrim. The only problem with that build is that if it couldn’t attack without being noticed, it was almost powerless. Such was the case in this battle as well. His first attack had been blocked, and it was unlikely that anything in his arsenal strong enough to cut through Yoko’s shields. Well, unless he was one of those weirdos who tried to assassinate people with their weakest weapon. There were people like that out there. Even if that was the case, people like that were too overconfident to generally be a threat. The Chief of Security was far from concerned.

Music – Naruto Shippuden OST – My Name

It only took a second for the Quincy to reappear after Yoko’s first shots missed. Even if she was beyond the level where she’d get hit by a sneak attack, she had realized this Quincy had at least some clue what he was doing. He was smart enough to attack from an angle most people couldn’t defend against, so there was little chance that her first shots would’ve ended the fight. Oddly, this Quincy chose to reappear in midair. He didn’t opt for cover. That just made him an easier target. The Fullbringer aimed her rifle and fired off another three shot burst, center mass. With 800 strength and speed, it was faster and stronger than whatever the Quincy could muster.

Perhaps the Quincy realized this, because his arrow split in half right before the first bullet would’ve collided with the it. Still, he needed to move a lot faster than a mere walk to dodge the trio of bullets. He wasn’t the only one that needed to react though. Yoko tossed aside her rifle. As the pair of arrows came near, she drew Caliburn in a sweeping arc. There were only two arrows, coming at the same time. Aiming a diagonal slash to hit both what child’s play for a master swordsman. Had they been fired from closer, or were they moving several times faster, it would’ve been an impressive feat. As it was, such an attack was no threat. The pair of arrows simultaneously struck the edge of Caliburn and shattered into nothingness. It would take a far stronger attack to fel a blade of spiritual steel. At the same time, her rifle floated onto her back, anchoring into the same clamp that had previously held her blade.

The next attack came shortly afterwards, after the Quincy had evaded the most recent burst of rifle fire. From his latest perch, he shot an arrow straight through the floor. It wasn’t aimed for Yoko, or even anywhere near her. She only picked it up in time thanks to the damn annoying beeps from her Warning System. It didn’t take long for the Chief of Security to figure out what the target was, but every millisecond was precious. His target was the drill itself. It was a blatant attempt to blow up the entire oil rig and destroy all evidence of his crimes… including Yoko. She had taken just a fraction of a second too long to intercept the arrow easily.

With a flash of light, Yoko vanished from her previous spot. Bringer Light took her just in front of the drill, right in the path of the arrow. That was when she made the mistake of looking right at it. For the briefest fraction of a second, she saw a brilliant light. Then it was only darkness. Temporarily blinded by the light, Yoko took advantage of one of the lesser used properties of her Fullbring. The Psychoframe System was what allowed her to mentally control her weapons and armor. Using that part of it wasn’t rare, as she had already used it to attach her rifle to her back. The rare part was using it to replace her sight.

Truthfully, the Psychoframe System was normally held back by this property. In order to aim something not in her hands, she had to replace the eyesight of one eye with input from a camera on a weapon or shield conjured by her Fullbring. It was that, or rely on her own senses to determine if something was pointing in the vaguely right direction. The thing with blinding techniques was that they tended to work by causing damage to the actual eye. Cameras have a wonderful setting called HDR, or High Dynamic Range. It makes the brights less bright and the darks less dark so that an image isn’t washed out by an overwhelming light source. Such technology was present in any modern camera.

HDR wasn’t enough to counteract this level of brightness. That was nonsense, as this light was far too bright. It would be like sunbathing on Mercury and expecting SPF 15 to prevent you from burning alive. SPF 15 wasn’t enough for that, and HDR wasn’t enough for this. All either did was buy another fraction of a second. This level of light would wash out the camera as soon as the aperature opened fully. Thankfully, that took a few tenths of a second to complete. At that moment, that was all Yoko needed. She raised her shield in front of her, and her rifle floated over her right shoulder. She activated the camera on her rifle first, gaining another split second of sight. It was then that she saw the arrow was not one beacon of light, but several. There was more than one target. Without hesitation, Yoko mentally willed her rifle to fully automatic and emptied the magazine aside from a single shot.

Risking her eyes to examine the efficacy of her shots was foolish, so this time she utilized the camera on her shield. The largest beacon of light seemed to have stopped moving, as did many of the smaller ones. There were still a few left, and those slammed into her shield. Like the bullet before them, the arrows were unable to penetrate the bulwark of spiritual steel. They left some warm spots on her shield, but no actual damage was done. Still, this was enough to tell Yoko that perhaps she had misjudged her opponent. He was strong enough to actually affect her shield, even if it was only to make it nice and toasty. That level of power was definitely higher than the gun used for the opening shot.

Defending the drill had only taken a matter of seconds. With a mental command, Yoko willed her shield to return to buckler size and took off towards where Warning System indicated there was a moving heat signature. Seems like it was still plenty of time for the Quincy to attempt to flee. Most likely, he hadn’t counted on the Fullbringer stopping the rig from exploding. She had though. There was still evidence of his crimes, and she was hot on his trail as soon she got far enough from the columns of light to see clearly. Thanks to how quickly she had closed her eyes, and the use of her cameras, that was only a second or two later. She was faster than the Quincy by a small margin, and was able to close the gap fairly quickly.

Though it was almost out of ammo, she hadn’t discarded her rifle yet. The last bullet fired off towards the Quincy, who was now floating high in the air. Immediately afterwards, the Chief of Security discarded her rifle and grabbed the spiritual steel tube on her right hip. Without pause, she flung it at her opponent with all her might. It spun end over end as it sped towards him. The tube itself was only minorly dangerous. It would hurt like hell if it hit, but it didn't have enough mass to break a bone or anything. The true threat didn’t reveal itself until it reached near the Quincy. That was when she activated the beam sabre. It was only a few feet away, and the spin had made it into a whirlwind of golden, burning, lasery death. Could this man react to such sudden changes in time? Both were rough to deal with. The bullet was many times faster than either fighter was, and the true threat of the beam sabre didn’t reveal itself until the last moment. He had only a fraction of a second to react to each, and countering both would require both a sharp mind and eyes.

Reiatsu: 1750/1750
-50 from Bringer Light
+800 from GN Drive

Fullbring Level 2: 3/13 posts

Rifle Ammo: 0/20 and weapon tossed into the ocean

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Vannan had braced himself to hear the roar of a massive explosion happen before his eyes, yet there wasn't anything. He knew his arrows were hot enough to burn through the metal of this old oil rig and yet when he didn't hear an explosion he knew something was wrong. Something stopped his arrows and the sounds of the bullets being fired confirmed his suspicion that robotic mech had stopped his arrows. By some means or another, that didn't hold too well given that it seemed as if his blinding arrows didn't work so well against it. That would mean he would need to change his own tactics in order to face thing thing.

Upon hearing the bullets he activated Hirenyaku Schwerkraft this little tech while not a stepping technique like Hirenyaku it had it's own advantages. Mostly being able to cancel out the gravity around him. Why would he do this? A simple reason no gravity meant that he would start to float upwards. Without resistance and without any physical input from himself. Suddenly he could feel himself flying upwards towards the sky much faster than he thought he would be. Luckily for him it was at an angle away from the platform and away from the mech.

Still even as he was floating away he was waiting, watching listening for something to happen. The fact that there was bullet fire meant that the mech had something planned, meaning he couldn't take it easy, no instead he had to watch out. As he took a deep breath he saw it, down there it quickly fired off a bullet and then it looked like it had tossed something towards him. Vannan didn't focus on what exactly was tossed at him because the bullet that was coming towards him was more important then that. That's where his attention was drawn to, if it was as fast as the others then he would need to react without thinking.

Tilting his feet upwards he gathered reitasu to use for a stepping tech. Using the reitasu that had gathered under his feet he formed a platform to accelerate himself away from the bullet. Now normally he would of dodged to the left, however given that he had titled his feet and the lack of gravity the direction he chose to go was up. He stopped moving roughly sixty feet above where he was before. His left pant leg had a small bullet hole near the bottom and from where he was he could see that the little bit of metal had exploded into what looked like a whirlwind of light. He was glad that he had been able to dodge that, luck was on his side, but he couldn't rely on luck for too long.

Now that he was easily one hundred feet in the air he canceled out Hirenyaku Schwerkraft. Slowly letting gravity take over he stopped moving for a brief moment before standing on the air. So high up in the sky he smiled the sun behind him, he pulled back on his bow and fired out one arrow straight down towards the oil rig once more. Again it was a plasma bolt and soon it would spit apart and become eleven arrows once more, however he wasn't done just yet. He had one more attack in mind for this mech.

It seemed so set on saving the oil rig that he was going to make it much harder to save it . Being so close to the sun had given him the idea. Just like the myth of Icarus he was going to use heat to burn away the metal in the rig just like the wax of the wings Icarus made. Lining up five arrows in an normal bow his ring glowed as he fired them off. However he caused them to split not once, not twice but four times. Creating eighty arrows to fall down towards the oil rig each one aimed to either strike down the support of a high rise or to ignite some oil. What ever this Mech had planned for this oil rig it would be pointless, who knew if it could escape given that if it tried to block the first plasma bolt he sent down before the barrage of other arrows it would be in the center of the rig.

Vannan had faith in this plan, mostly because the arrows wouldn't show their true nature till a foot before they hit the platform and secondly, he was being coated by the sun it's self. Hovering with it behind him. He assumed that even if the thing was using cameras to track him, they would have a hard time adjusting to the bright light coming off of the sun. Either way this oil rig would be done for and he hoped that in the oncoming explosion from the rig would be enough to deal damage to the mech, but if it wasn't he had one last plan something that wouldn't be known to the mech. Something he hadn't shown he could do.

His first arrow held a little surprise for her. The original arrow that had been fired out that spawned all the smaller plasma bolts. It was set to explode the moment it came into contact with something. He was going to blow it up. Blowing it up would cause the hot plasma to spew everywhere. Blocking it was all for naught. He couldn't help but smile at this plan for some odd reason it felt right to try to blow this thing up. Normally he didn't enjoy fights because he had to hurt someone, but this thing was a machine, it was cold, it was heartless and even better when he stopped it he could feel the rush of victory over take him without feeling sorry for killing someone.

Taking a deep breath in he drew in some reiatsu to recover the massive amount he had lost just now. Up here he could smell the ocean air clearly, there wasn't the stench of oil and blood to cloud up his nose, it was relaxing. However he knew that until he saw this thing dead he couldn't relax. His eyes scanning all over watching to see what would happen, not wanting to be taken by surprise as it was his job to do the trickery. Still he could only imagine the paperwork he would have to do when he got back to clear up him blowing up an oil rig, maybe he could blame it on the robot if he brought back part of it.

(OOC: The flames coming off of the ring of Icarus are at 600C. I've asked clock and he said the temperature is based off of Celsius. 600C for reference is the coldest magma possible while it is still in it's semi liquid state. The advantage temp of magma however ranges from 700C to 1300C .OOC note the plasma bolt and the mini ones off of it will be moving at 600 the other arrows at 200)

(Remaining reiatsu 1375/2000 -50first arrows -25first split -50 second split -00 third split -200 fourth split -100 hirenyaku schwerkft -50 Hirenyaku – 100 for bow level – 75 for one class one plasma bolt- 50 for the ring – 50 for making the first arrow explode + 300 for quincy cross)

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Music – Fate/Zero OST – Let the Stars Fall Down (Extended)

So close… Yoko had heard the bullet rip through his fabric, but the distinct grunting of someone being shot was notably absent from the air. The Quincy had escaped death for the moment, but only barely. Her rifle’s bullets were fast enough, and his instinct and speed low enough, that he had been left with no choice but to dodge with a step technique. Chances are he had only been able to react because of the loud noise from the rifle. Out in the open air there was nowhere for him to hide. He could dodge for a time, but Yoko was willing to bet that she could fire more bullets than he could dodge. If the Quincy wanted a war of attrition, it wasn’t going to be one he would win.

Worse for the Quincy was that he missed out on valuable information. By the time he finished dodging the bullet, the Chief had already toggled her beam sabre back off. There was no point in leaving it active in mid-air. The fast deactivation meant he was unlikely to even know it was there. Based on his reactions thus far, the Quincy’s senses seemed to be that of a normal human, and that was insufficient to make out any useful detail on an object no larger than a beer bottle 60 feet away. If he had stayed around and deflected the bullet somehow, then perhaps he would’ve known about the sabre. As it was, he was in the dark still.

Of course that didn’t stop him from going back to his usual plan: let’s blow up the oil rig! The Quincy loosed another blinding arrow towards the structure. If nothing else, he was persistent. On the other hand, Yoko had re-evaluated her priorities. She had seen all she needed to see. The evidence was clear. Not only had he opened fire on her as soon as she showed up, but the rig was covered in corpses. The only reasons Yoko even considered for saving the rig were the ecological impact and the preservation of evidence. Hippy wasn’t a great word to describe Yoko, so the environment be damned. As for preserving evidence, she was judge, jury and executioner. She’d already sentenced him, so the evidence really wasn’t needed any longer.

Before, it had simply been instinct to defend the oil rig. Her sensors hadn’t registered another living human on the rig for some time now. There was no point in saving it. Instead she bolted off with Bringer Light. The Chief reappeared where the Quincy had just been, and her beam sabre still was. Sure it was naught but a hunk of metal at the moment, but it was worth retrieving. Part of what made it worth retrieving was that it only took a second. By the time Yoko had clipped the beam sabre back onto her left hip, the Quincy had nocked five arrows on his bow. Not wanting to waste any more energy, and knowing her shield could take the punishment, Yoko simply raised her shield overhead. She didn’t even bother looking up at him. Warning System had already identified where he was based on his body heat.

Perhaps the Quincy was getting desperate. He fired off the shots, but Yoko didn’t hear only five beeps from her Warning System. Instead, there was a single long tone. There were, quite simply, too many arrows to count with that method. It mattered not. She knew his position, and there was a barrier of spiritual steel between the two of them. He thought his arrows would make a difference, but they didn’t. At this distance, with normal human senses, he was still able to aim at Yoko, but he didn’t. No, instead he had aimed for the oil rig. A few arrows still came her way thanks to the spread, but that was far from intentional. Over 100 feet away from the rig, there was no way someone with normal human eyesight could aim precisely, especially for a nearly uncountable number of arrows at once.

None of it mattered. The Chief hadn’t stayed put long enough to try and count the arrows, nor had she waited around to see if they tickled. As soon as she had grabbed her beam sabre, and a fraction of a second after the Quincy had fired off his arrows, she disappeared with another step of Bringer Light. This time, she was aiming straight at him. Not past him. Not next to him. She was going to go straight into him. She still had Caliburn in her right hand, and it was pointed straight up at the villain above her. If he didn’t move in time, the blade would slide right between his legs and up his spine.

If that attack hit, at least his death would be painless and quick. Perhaps quick was an understatement. Indeed, it was. Death would be instant if this attack connected. Yoko had taken advantage of Bringer Light’s greatest strength: consecutive uses increase speed. For this step, straight at the Quincy, her speed had been multiplied 13 times over. She moved at a nigh unavoidable 3250 speed. By the time the Quincy finished splitting his arrows, her blade was inches from his flesh. Nothing he had done hindered her from reaching that spot. Several arrows hit her shield on the way up, but they were no stronger than before. At the speed the Fullbringer was moving, they didn’t even register to her.

There was still a chance that he would avoid the attack somehow, but it was incredibly slim. His step technique wasn’t fast enough to get out of the way. Yoko was faster than him at both of their un-boosted maximums, but she had stepped it up a notch with the second Bringer Light. Worse still was his reaction time and perceptive ability. Thus far, he had demonstrated nothing beyond what a normal human could do, and there was no way a normal human could either follow Yoko’s movement or react to it in time. As if things weren’t bad enough, Yoko was taking the fight into melee against the Quincy. Thus far, all he had done was scurry around with a bow. Chances were he had no melee skills whatsoever.

By a miracle, if he was still alive when Yoko exited Bringer Light above him, she was far from finished with her attack. Caliburn was immediately dropped, and it floated over her right shoulder, waiting to be drawn once more. In its place was a DSR-1 Sniper Rifle, complete with a suppressor. Chances were, if the Quincy were still alive, he had retreated back to a safe distance with a step technique. If he had, the rifle was aimed center mass at wherever he had moved to. If he hadn’t moved, it was aimed point blank at his head. Either way, the residual light from his plasma bolt was a non-issue. Yoko’s shield was positioned in the way so that she didn’t need to look right at it to see the Quincy. If he had moved in a way that made that impossible, she simply pointed the gun where Warning System registered his body heat. A single shot was fired, but it did not ring out. No, the suppressor made it completely inaudible to a normal human.

Dodging the bull rush required a miracle, and dodging a shot from a silenced DSR-1 required a second one. Though Yoko did need a split-second to sight in her target, the bullet itself moved at an absurd 2000 speed. If it hit, not even one of Yoko’s own shields could stop it. These bullets were .300 Magnum rounds, and they packed a 1200 strength punch. It was unlikely that either combatant could muster anything strong enough to combat this bullet. If blocking or counterattacking it wasn’t an option, all that was left was avoiding it. But how would the Quincy manage that? The bullet was as fast as his step technique was. On top of that, it was completely silent and small enough that his senses would never see it coming. How could he react to something he could neither see nor hear coming? He couldn’t. This was the end for the Quincy.

Off in the background, an explosion filled the air. The Quincy had been aiming to destroy the oil rig, and Yoko had let him. Was that a failure on her part? Maybe. There was still time for cleanup and containment if the damn Quincy wasn’t in the way. Still, at this range, high up above the machinery, it was no immediate threat to either of them. At worst, it was a minor distraction. Still, it went to show just how fast Bringer Light had taken Yoko through her attacks. By the time the Quincy’s second barrage of arrows had rained down and destroyed the thing, the Fullbringer had already finished her attack sequence. If he was still alive, he was going to need to step his game up.

Reiatsu: 1750/1750
-50 from Bringer Light
-100 from x13 Bringer Light
-450 from Suppressed DSR-1
+800 from GN Drive

Fullbring Level 2: 4/13 posts

Sniper Ammo: 4/5

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{Sniper Rifle Info}Name: DSR-1 Sniper Rifle
Appearance: Link
Slots Required: Both Main Slots.
Effective Range: 1500 meters
Power: 1200
Speed: 2000
Ammo Capacity: 5
Special Traits: The scope on this gun allows all shots fired by it to be treated as if they have Focused Eye 3. Can be equipped with a suppressor for 50 additional reiatsu.
Alternate Fire: None.
Spawn Cost: 400.
Drawback: Can only be used with Stage 2 active. Cannot be fired more than once a post in combat due to bolt action, but can be fired as much as desired during cinematics or posts where there is no immediate danger to Yoko. Also, any shots that do not use the scope apply a -2 modifier to the user's Gun Skill. This makes shooting from the hip virtually impossible to do accurately. Using the scope for a shot requires complete concentration, and is impossible in the middle of combat without instincts of at least 150, a combined 3 SKP in Calm Mind or Weapon: Guns, and the target must be moving at speeds at or below 400. Cost per round is also very high on this weapon. While this weapon is very powerful and fast, using it in the middle of combat is basically impossible. It can only effectively be utilized from cover, or if someone else is defending the user. Even then, most people can still dodge the bullet with a step technique fairly easily if they see the shot coming.

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Speed blitzing, it had never been something he had excelled at. No his style was to play around till his foes made a mistake which he could take advantage of and lead them to their downfall, yet he himself fell to not only his own tactic, but to one he wasn't use to at all. The idea of taking someone down by using insane speed did have appeal to him, however he knew that in order to do something like that he himself needed to be fast, faster than he was. It was sad to think that he would fall here to such a simple tactic, yet he did. The robot had vanished from his vision for a moment, but it seemed that it would only take a moment for him to lose.

He only had enough time to simply move back before getting slashed a crossed the chest and up to his arm. He could tell just from the pain that this was it, it would be over no matter what he tried to do, yet some part of him didn't want it to end like this. He didn't want to just die in the middle of the ocean with no one to see his end. Nor did he want to leave his sister in the hands of the Vandenreich. He hadn't been prepared for this fight, not as well as he should have been and that was his downfall. Blood flowed freely from his wounds as he saw the robot appear above him. Suddenly seeing the blood flow from him triggered a memory as he tried to move closer to the robot.

Vannan flashed back to a time when he first joined the Vandenreich, it had been a solo mission, but an easy one. He had been tasked to hunt down a traitor, a much younger member of the Vandenreich who had run away due to a fear of hollows. Vannan would of let the young boy run away, if it wasn't for the fact that he was being watched by lieutenants at the time, so the two ended up fighting. Vannan had been much stronger, but only because he was older and had more training if the boy had been Vannan's age, he wasn't sure that he would of won. Still during the fight Vannan could remember a blow he had taken.

It was a single arrow, it had pierced through his stomach, he was bleeding badly. At that time if he didn't act quick he didn't know if he would live, in desperation he charged at the boy and shot an arrow through his skull. The entire motion was very sloppy and easily read, however the young boy didn't dodge, instead he just let it happen. Vannan didn't know why or what happened next as he passed out from blood loss. Yet he still remembered what he had felt in that moment. Fear, it was fear of dying right there and that's exactly how he felt now, there was no hiding it from his face, he was terrified, yet somehow he was calm as if this seemed normal to him.

The flash of his memory took less than a second to happen. There wasn't getting around the fact that he had lost this battle, it was over for him, yet he didn't want to go down so easily. Not without landing an equally damaging blow to the robot as well. His arrows had proven to be ineffective against it's defenses, but maybe there was one way for him to break them. To use that technique that resided in all of the quincies who swore their allegiance to the Vandenreich, something he hated. The very nature of it made his skin crawl, because even if he had never used it before there was no escaping the fact that it was a constant reminder that he was bound to the Vandenreich by his very own blood.

Blut, by calling on the power that resided in his own blood to make himself stronger he was further delving into the trap that was the Vandenreich. Sure the Reich offered power, a family, and others of your own kind, yet what they took from those who joined was much worse. The took a person's freedom, their humanity and worst of all they took away what makes a person an individual. They strip you of everything and rebuild you bit by bit till you can't even recognize who you are in the mirror. Yet they all claim it was for a better tomorrow, for the glory of der kaiser.

Using blut made his skin crawl as he felt the power course through his veins. It felt wrong to do it, yet at the same time there was an eerie sense of peace that came over him as he did it. Something akin to that of a warm embrace from a loved one, the idea that this power made him feel like that was almost enough to make him sick to his stomach. Still he could feel how much stronger he had just become out of nowhere, this was a shock to himself, but he didn't have time to think about that at all.

Reiatsu gathered under his feet forming a platform that would allow him to quickly move. Normally he would of used this to move far away, but not this time, no he didn't have that in mind. He had to go all in as it fairly obvious to him that if he didn't make one final attack right now that he would just parish without even putting up a real fight to this mechanical creation that had so easily cost him his life. So instead his target was the robot it's self. He was going to dash right into it with his hand extended out towards it.

Why? Out of all the options he had why would Vannan eve n try a head on attack like this? To close the gap between him and it. He wanted to get as close as possible for his attack. Now his extended arm wasn't just out there for show. It was holding out the middle of his bow, the other hand would have had five arrows drawn back, however even seeing the action of him drawing back his bow while moving towards the automated automaton was highly unlikely, not impossible, but very unlikely. The moment he felt his hand collide against it's hard exterior he would unleash the arrows from his grasp and let them fly forward to strike at it's chest.

Vannan had slipped right passed the barrel of a new gun as he got in close, he had been lucky that it for some reason had decided to put away the blade it used to slice him and chose a gun to try to finish him off. The arrows flying from his hands he smiled and spoke with some of the remaining strength he still had. Mocking this thing one time before he would parish. His words came out at the same time his arrows flew from his fingers in an X shape. “At least...there are no... strings on me.”

Just as before the arrows weren't normal ones, they were plasma bolts. The light given off of them at this close of a range should actually cause a total white out for anything that was looking at them. Heat sensors should be over loaded as they would mask his own body temperature from in front. The large flash should blind cameras do to all other colors being obscured by the blinding white. Even Vannan himself didn't know if the arrows would land, all he could do is hope, but at the speed that they were moving it was very likely that they would.

The echo of the oil rig exploding under him reached him as smoke started to raise into the air . The explosion gave him one final idea one more thing to try. A second after the arrows were fired he had the four that where the outline of the pattern exploded spewing plasma everywhere. The one in the middle would remain intact as it kept on going. Only the middle arrow would eventually spawn out smaller arrows as it would actually travel far enough to do so while the rest of them would just end up becoming a large mass of plasma all over. If the robot had been struck by the arrows then at the time of the explosion the arrows would of just left it's back and the plasma would rain down on top of it.

(ooc: Reamining reiatsu 50/2000 - 500 for Blut Arterie - 100 for bow level one -50 for hirenyaku - 375 for five class three plasma bolts - 300 for exploding four class three plasma bolts. I boosted spiritual stats with blut arteire)

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Music – Gundam 00 OST – Power

Sometimes there was just nothing you could do. Every fighter had those moments where they were the strongest one in the room, and every fighter had moments where nothing they could do would bring them on par with their opponent. On that day, there was nothing the Quincy could have done to save him from falling at Yoko’s hands. Quite simply, he was outmatched in virtually every capacity. She was faster, her weapons were stronger, and her reaction time made him look like he saw the world on a delay. This was a gap that couldn’t be crossed through sheer willpower, but that was all the Quincy had left in him. Okay, there was a last ditch effort in there too, but that didn’t get him anywhere.

When Yoko flew at him with Bringer Light, the Quincy wasn’t even able to react quickly enough to charge reiatsu for a step technique. If he’d been able to amplify his speed, perhaps he would have escaped with a less than lethal wound. As it was, he wasn’t able to react until it was too late. Without aid of a step technique, and with the reaction time of a normal human, he could never hope to avoid the attack completely. This was the fate of those who didn’t hone their instincts. The Quincy, though admittedly not much slower than the Chief, couldn’t keep up because his mind was too slow. That was what cost him everything.

As the Fullbringer collided with him, her sword bit into his flesh just above the waist. His movement, though futile, was enough to save his most sensitive organ from being cut in half. What it didn’t do was stop the Chief’s blade, or her momentum. Just the sword stab alone was probably fatal. It still made contact, and it wasn’t a shallow wound either. No, he was simply too slow to dodge completely, especially considering it was his normal speed against a faster than normal Bringer Light. He had merely altered the angles a bit, and thus altered the point of entry. There was virtually no resistance either. The Chief was released, so cutback was no threat. The Quincy was physically weak, so his body couldn’t stop her either. Caliburn carved into the man so deeply that it severed every rib on one side of his body, as well as several organs and muscles. Somehow, probably because of the speed involved, the sword missed the man’s head.

The utterly massive wound wasn’t the only issue either. There was also the impact that came with taking a physical blow from a titan. Had the sword made contact a fraction of an inch deeper, it would have hit right in the spine, and everything in his body would have been obliterated. Instead, it was a relatively tolerable wound, but relative is the key concept there. The sheer force involved from taking a direct hit from a being strong enough to shrug off handgun fire that was moving at speeds faster than the naked eye could follow was nigh incalculable. However, the result was easy enough to predict: utter destruction. Though Yoko herself didn’t weigh a great deal, her raw strength and speed made up for that. Taking a hit from her at that speed was no safer than being hit by a bullet train. Even if it wasn’t a truly direct hit, bouncing off something with the force of a train behind it was still suicide.

In the end, the wound had two noteworthy effects. Obviously, the first effect was that the Quincy was fatally wounded. Most of his ribs were severed, as was one of his pectoral muscles, thus rendering that side of his upper body nearly useless. As for the rest of him, it had just been hit by a force his brain couldn’t hope to understand. That lack of comprehension was the second effect. He was sent flying upwards from the raw power of the strike. Just the impact put incredible strain on his body to the point where several bones were shattered beyond any hope of repair. Were he not so obviously evil, Yoko might have felt sorry for him. She had missed the instant kill, and the pain must have been unimaginable.

This was no longer a battle. This was euthanasia. From the instant her blade made contact, she knew what she had to do. That one piece of information meant that he hadn’t been able to dodge, and that meant that Yoko had already determined exactly where he ended up after her first attack finished. There was no time needed to think about things for her. She was a master swordswoman. Knowing what her sword did to someone was so well engrained in her mind that she processed it subconsciously before the Quincy could even blink. It was a shallow enough hit that it wasn’t instantly fatal, but the force had been enough to send him flying upwards. Yoko had pushed passed him with that same Bringer Light she had used to attack him. Though the force from her blow did send him upwards, the speed at which it did so was far inferior to that of her step technique.

What Yoko didn’t know was that the Quincy was foolish enough to keep trying to fight. She was in position above him. By the time he had recovered from the attack, Yoko was already preparing the finishing shot. At that moment, it was a battle of reaction times. How quickly could the Quincy process what had happened? That was the important element. If he had Yoko’s level of melee prowess or instinct, it might have been different, but he lacked in both those areas. All he had going for him was a bit of analytical talent, but he lacked the information to use it. This was the first time in the fight Yoko had actually gone into melee against him. He had no way to know her physical strength was this high, nor did he have a way to know just how far the blow would send him, or how badly it would injure him.

That was not the case for the Chief. She knew exactly how strong she was, and she knew exactly how far that attack could send an average human half-corpse. Her advantage didn’t end there. She knew her own attack sequence. She had already planned exactly how to follow up the first attack. There was no pause for thought required. No, it was just a flawless execution of both her actions and a Quincy. As for him? He had to not only process that his opponent had landed a hit, but he also needed to figure out where she was, how to counterattack, and how bad his injuries were.

Then again, that last one shouldn’t be too hard for him to determine. His body was utterly destroyed, and he was of course in a great deal of pain. Without an ungodly tolerance for pain, there was no way his mind could be clear enough to process everything he needed to in the time he needed to, even if he had the instincts to do so. Within an instant, his body would’ve gone into shock. Though a strong will can fight through the pain and still act, it first has to acknowledge the pain is there and then choose to power through it. Only a master of being stubborn could ever hope to ignore pain outright, without a moment needed to overcome it, and even then, doing so to a mortal wound was beyond the capabilities of a being without a specific tolerance for pain.

Despite all of this, he still tried. Yoko had to give him credit for that much. His body was broken and drenched in his own blood, but he didn’t give up. No, the Quincy was stubborn enough to try for one last attack. Thought it was admirable, he should’ve called it quits instead. Yoko was positioned above him, with a sniper rifle aimed down at his head. Her shield was right next to the barrel of her gun, blocking out the last moment of light from the plasma bolts the Quincy had fired at the oil rig. Given the size of the shield, and her stance with the sniper, there was no opening to exploit with a head on charge. While Yoko was not an expert with firearms, she was adequate enough to know a basic sideways rifle stance, and used that by default. It minimized the area an opponent had to strike at. That stance, combined with a tower shield, meant there was no place to get a clean attack in.

Even without an opening, the Quincy still tried. He was desperate, possibly even delusional from the sudden and massive loss of blood. For just a moment, Yoko hesitated, and that was all that the Quincy needed. He vanished with a step technique, and the hesitation vanished. As fast as she could, Yoko pulled the trigger on the DSR-1. Her finger was already on the trigger before that moment, so it was just a fraction of an inch that she needed to move. With her instinct, speed, and having already planned out this attack, pulling the trigger took but the tiniest fraction of a second.

With that, it was over. The Quincy had done one of the only things possible to shorten his lifespan. He hadn’t retreated, or tried to dodge. No, he welcomed his death and rushed into the embrace of hot steel. Even with Yoko’s senses, the details were a little blurry, but what had happened was clear enough when a corpse thudded against her shield. The bullet had met the Quincy’s head mid-flight. With the disgusting amount of power it held, the steel flew straight between his eyes without being hindered in the slightest. Had he not charged her head-on, he might have been able to dodge the attack, but he had tried to go out with glory.

If nothing else, he had Yoko’s respect for dying an honorable death, but it was done. There was no way for him to react fast enough to attack her before she could fire, and there was no way to dodge a bullet that you were actively moving towards and couldn’t hope to detect. His final attack never came. He died instantly, as soon as the bullet pierced his brain, and corpses didn’t fire off plasma bolts very well. Even if God Himself had intervened, with one of his pectorals destroyed, the Quincy’s arm wouldn’t even have been able to draw back on the bowstring anyway. This was a mercy killing, nothing more.

Reiatsu: 1750/1750
+800 from GN Drive

Fullbring Level 2: 5/13 posts

Sniper Ammo: 4/5

[Katekarin Mekatoku]

+440 TP + 100 for Victory TP to Yoko

+310 TP to Vannan