2735/WMAT BQ1 Nagato vs Kirito

WMAT BQ1 Nagato vs Kirito
Date of Scene:	05 August 2015
Location:	Papaya Island
Synopsis:	The ocean outside Papaya is a great place for a flying swordsman and a battleship to duel for who goes on. Kirito vs Nagato, who will win!?
Cast of Characters:	Kirito, Tomoe, 73, Nagato
Tinyplot:	WMAT 2015

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Nagato has posed:
    Mid day in Papaya Island, the water is crystal clear and calm, the sun is bright and shining and the day is quite nice for an event of pounding and punching. Many benches were built for a few of the fights that were going to be taking place at the edge of the island, facing towards the ocean and already, many people have gathered for this next event. Speakers booming with music and the voices of announcers goings ons about the qualifying matches and today will be no different, only the venue has changed to the ocean surrounding the island.

    Nagato, herself, is kitted out in her land fitout, the turrets whirring to life as she takes aim, making sure that everything was working properly. A bad gun could spell disaster for her. The secondaries whirr to life, the smaller fourteen centimeter guns spinning as the ready up. And recently, the four AA guns that dot the superstructure make theirselves known. "Equipment check, all green."

    Nagato lets out a soft sigh, normally she wasn't one to go out for sortie expeditions but this, she couldn't just stand behind and watch. She joined the WMAT for one reason, to show her fleet she's still willing to get out there and show herself. "Alright. Nagato, ready for sortie!"

Kirito has posed:
    It's an unusual choice and change of venue that Kirito could have rejected. But in an actual fair fight he's nothing if not sporting. So the match will be held out in the ocean. He can manage.

    He can manage because he has wings.

    The slim Spriggan, garbed entirely in black, comes soaring down from the heavens like a meteor! He brakes at literally the last moment, kicking up one hell of a wave. As the water cascades down back into the ocean around him, the boy sprouts a mischevious grin. One hand pokes at the air, punching buttons on a menu only he can see. Light shines around the young man, forming into his signature black coat and twins words sheathed across his back.

    Both hands come up confidently to grip those swords and draw them with a swift, decisive yank that sends the raspy sound of scraping steel echoing over the waves.

    Both his blades are black as midnight, but gleam in the tropical sun.

    He is held aloft by a pair of translucent black wings shaped similar to those a dragonfly might have. Motes of light constantly glitter and sparkle around the fairy wings.

    "Alright. Let's do this!"

Nagato has posed:
    Nagato's stoic face and slow movements have her skate along the water, heading deeper and deeper into the ocean. Still viewable by the audience, she lets that stoic face go, a light smile upon her face as Kirito makes his entrance. "Kirito." she starts, watching the flying fairy.. Anti air will be good here, a thought that runs through the battleship's mind.

    The secondaries and anti air that lines her superstructure all point towards Kirito while the main turrets angle slightly away from him. "I look forward to this. Lets not let anyone down with our performance. I expect an S Rank sortie from you!" and with a wave of her hand, snapping into a pointing hand towards Kirito, she starts to skate along, kicking up water behind her as the anti air turrets and secondaries start rapidly pumping out bullet after bullet towards the fairy.

    "I'll show you the might of the Big Seven, show me your might Reserve Officer!" she shouts, keeping herself a moving target as her guns traverse to try to keep up with aiming on the flying fairy.

Tomoe has posed:
Tomoe is here but not as the Iron Lily, no Eisen all five foot two of her is here and sitting in a good spot to get a whole. She blows a strand of red hair out of her face. She seems to be enjoying her perch is decent enough and she's calling out.

"COme on lets give a good show here you two!"

Frederica (73) has posed:
    Frika is here as... well, as Frika. Frederica's Cait Sith alter-ego. The catgirl faerie is wearing a cute nurse's cap as she's partly on-duty, and isn't bothering with sitting in the stands. No, she's got her own Alf wings out, bobbing through the air adroitly as she watches the fight and cheers. "Come on Kirito! Don't die!"

    Yeaaaah, when she cheers for someone, it's not always entirely cheering. Cheerful, perhaps. She doesn't sound upset at least...

Kirito has posed:
    GUNS. It's always guns. Well, Kirito's got one thing going for him through this battle.

    He just emerged from an MMO where guns were prevalent enough that he learned to block bullets.

    The instant those weapons train on him his wings SNAP down hard enough to kick up another shockwave. A special effect very much like breaking the sound barrier, except he's nowhere near THAT fast. Still, he goes from 0 to over a hundred miles per hour instantly. "You're on!"

    But his brow's furrowed with intense focus. He zigs and zags, rolls and swerves, flying as unpredictably as possible. And through the midst of it all... his sword gleams cerulean!

    After evading several bursts, he dives STRAIGHT THROUGH some of it! With his left-hand blade covered in windy energy, he uses the right as a shield for his face and vitals. This way he offers the smallest target profile possible.

    A half dozen bullets spang off the flat of his blade, but just as many get through and rip into his shoulders. Where they land they leave glowing red marks in the impact's shape. Nagato will even see his HP meter appear, dropping to around 2/3rds... but it's refilling steadily!

    At least, she'll see if she has time. Because Kirito's moving with tremendous speed through the last bits of the barrage. That single extended blade comes at her, aiming for a thrust that will BURY itself down one of the guns and possibly cleave THROUGH some equipment!

    Through some inexplicable means, the slash carries Kirito just PAST her. The instant he stops though... "... there!"

    FIRE engulfs his other blade before the Sword Skill cooldown should be up. He whirls around for a decisive series of slashes all over her body, ending with a huge downward slash. One big enough that a PLUME OF FIRE erupts from the ground around Nagato, never mind it being FROM THE OCEAN.

Nagato has posed:
    It's ALWAYS guns when you're dealing with a battleship.

    However, Nagato wasn't a cruiser, her AA was never the best, but she goes back to her stoic face, watching Kirito as the secondaries still let loose their battery upon the fairy. She gives no indication of happiness at seeing some of them actually strike, she readies herself for another barrage, but as Kirito comes in, the main turrets swerve into aiming. Fast target.

    The ceruelan gleamed blade manages to get a good strike upon her superstructure, cleaving off two of her secondary turrets from it... Akashi's going to have a word with her when she's done... "NNngh." she grunts as they fall into the ocean, swiveling around to place her super structure in front of her to take the brunt of the slashes, some still get through to her own, creating cuts upon the Admiral's body and then... that plume of fire that engulfs the battleship. She starts to skate her rudders in reverse, aiming towards Kirito with those big fourty one centimeter guns. "Block this..." she taunts, part of her structure on fire. "Main guns, FIRE!"

    With a massive bang and smoke cloud filling the area in front of her, eight large shells, loaded with the Type 3 Sanshiki Anti air shells, are let loose into the sky, the shells bursting and raining down shards designed to destroy a massive amount of aircraft. She's hoping her aim was decent for this, flying was never her best forte.

Kirito has posed:
    Thankfully, Kirito is not an aircraft. The VR Spriggan body is certainly vulnerable to flak, but isn't blown out of the sky or torn to pieces. Largely because...

    "HUAH!"

    The moment he sees Nagato taking aim again he angles his weapon. The left blade gleams a frosty white - and whips around the instant there's a muzzle flash fro the main guns!

    It's a haphazard attempt to parry something that simply SHOULD NOT be parryable. NOBODY should be capable of this feat. Ever.

    But the blade, aglow with ice magic, cleaves apart the first few shells just as Kirito kicks his wings into gear again. Grunting and gasping he goes sailing through the barrage, freezing and shattering a good third - maybe even half - of the shells before they can shred him. He still takes a scorching array of shots to the legs, plunging his HP down even further.

    It's a reckless way of fighting, but he has no choice. If Nagato can maintain a respectable distance in this fight he WILL lose.

    So this insane in your face style is his best SHOT!

    Once again he swiftly gets up into Nagato's face, only to duck down this time. Instead of just a slash he goes for an ELBOW STRIKE, hoping to knock her off her groove and expose her for a series of lightning double slashes that follows.

Nagato has posed:
    Nagato frowns as a couple of the full shells get sheared before they could even explode. Guess this is why he's the reserve officer of the Union, "You're capable, Kirito. I'll give you that." she comments in a bit of praise.

    Meanwhile, in the stands, Ryuujou pouts, she didn't get praised.

    This guy was reckless, getting close to the battleship, going in regardless of the secondary fire and anti air... Nagato is wondering how crazy he is, but she shakes the thought out of her head just as the elbo strikes her face, knocking her back a ways before the lightning slashes strike home, making more bloodless cuts upon her body.

    Without even thinking, using the momentum of being knocked around, she spins around and brings up one of her legs, the rudder and speed kicking up to provide a good roundhouse kick towards Kirito's stomach. Meanwhile, the secondaries train on Kirito and start letting loose their bullets once more in a hail of gunfire!

Tomoe has posed:
Eisen shouts out from her perch. "Come on Kirito stop fooling around here! Or are you going to be the one get sunk?"

Kirito has posed:
    Moving on pure reflex, Kirito brings his twin blades about to catch the swerving foot. The impact's simply ABSORBED in a shower of sparks... but there's enough force behind it that Kirito's forced back a few meters. Oops.

    Realizing his mistake a moment too late, he's a bit wide-eyed at the guns that train on him. "Crap--" All he can do is execute a sharp backflip of his own, back arched impossibly. His wings kick into gear at the last moment to send him swooping straight up and around, but even so he's pelted with gunfire! "Ghhhh..."

    By now he's taken enough damage that he's starting to get short on breath, and the stinging pressure of being low on HP is settling in.

    He's just lucky there's no real, true, sharp pain from getting SHOT involved, really.

    But he swoops around, doing weird loop-de-loops, and uses the erratic flying to bring him back down... into a 'crouch' near Nagato.

    "This is just skill."

    There's the sound of steel whistling through air as Kirito swings his right blade around and settles it nearly across his shoulders.

    "Original Sword Skill: SEVEN SINS!" There's almost no time at all between it gleaming a frosty white-blue and him LUNGING forward with a few spinning diagonal slashes that carry him forward and hopefully past where Nagato can safely fire. The two slashes are followed by three more reverse spin-slashes... and finally a weird backflip that comes down in three more swift slashes, all with one sword!

    The magic-covered blade casts a wave of frost every which way, causing chunks of ice to form in the tropical waters.

    "Being an officer means being in a position where you can never stop moving forward, no matter how awful things get..."

Nagato has posed:
    At least the bullets got him, that's what matters. Keep your distance, Nagato. You have this if you ... can keep him from flying. "Is skill all you have or are you going to rely on it for the entire tournament. Tactics is what matters! Skill comes later."

    The call of some sort of 'skill' is made and the two blades being white and blue... this might... no, don't think about it, roll with it, down the flying one and your shots will be easier. She braces herself for the incoming slashes, moving to skate around the water to try and avoid a few, though most graze the superstructure, freezing some of the steel on it, locking a secondary into place, but this doesn't seem to change what the Battleship has in mind.

    A few more strikes manage to hit home, continuing to create bloodless wounds upon the Admiral's shoulders, the rudders sinking down into the water a bit more. She wasn't going to sink here, what would that say to her Fleet...

    "Nnngh, you're good but being an officer means more than just that. You're speaking to the Flagship of the daughters, Kirito. Sometimes, you have to move to the side!" Nagato makes a 'quick' turn around, the wave created slowing her down as she looks to some of the iced water. She leans down to grab a chunk and rubs it along the barrel, shaping it from the heat into a bullet before slipping it into the main turret.

    "And improvisation is key..." training the main turrets back on Kirito, she seems to be aiming a bit to the left and right, aiming directly for those wings. "Main battery, fire!" and with another loud explosion and plume of black smoke, more of the type three sanshiki explode in the air to rain anti air fire down, but that ice bullet? It shatters upon exit, heading towards Kirito at a high rate of speed.

Kirito has posed:
    "Then figure mine out!" Kirito quips mischeviously. CAN she figure out his tactics? His dark eyes shift back and forth, tracking the movement of every single turret.

    And one thing holds true even now, on the water. Watching an opponent's breathing and footing tells of what they're going to do.

    In those few seconds... Kirito extends a hand and starts chanting. A few words are all he needs! Rings of words swirl around him, and those he speaks lock in place, glowing gold. Just as Nagato turns to fire on him...

    KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

    Streamers of thick, choking black smoke erupt from Kirito's hands. They swirl and fill the area, eventually ERUPTING into a mushroom cloud of pure choking smokescreen.

    NAgato's shots disappear into the cloud with only a second to spare on Kirito's advantage.

    All is quiet for a few moments...

    THEN...

    The boy comes DROPPING in from straight above with both blades swinging down. His drop? Entirely unpowered so that the sound of his wings wouldn't give him away. But they both flitter into motion again before he hits the water!

Nagato has posed:
    "I will do my best!" she returns the quip as her main turrets start traversing to the rear... then the smokescreen, bane of all battleships. That and torpedoes but Kirito, thankfully, doesn't have any... or so she thinks.

    The bullets, all of them make a splashing sound in the water... a miss. A complete miss. This won't hold well... but where did. Suddenly, spriggan dropping in to say hello, Nagato looks up and "Ghh!" the blades cleaving her anti air guns off her superstructure, sending her stumbling back from the damage, rudders sinking in just a bit more from that sneak attack. Now she knows what she has to do. Don't treat this as an aircraft... treat this as a destroyer!

    The secondaries that are left start pointing away from Kirito with a few that stay trained on him. With the sound of the main guns firing, Nagato uses the recoil to launch herself forward, using the speed from that waste of ammunition to try and match the Spriggan's. The secondaries aiming towards Kirito start firing, hoping to lead him off into one direction... in which case, the leading off secondaries will start firing. Make the destroyer do what YOU want, not the other way around!

Kirito has posed:
    A complete and sudden change of tactics is exactly the right thing to do it seems. Kirito was expecting more of the same, but things quickly get weird on him.

    Startled, his eyes go wide and forehead creases in panicked focus. Can't dodge left or right, and with bullets coming at him?

    HIS tactics stay remarkably close to the original mess.

    If more guns have him boxed in, then it's better to only get shot by a few than ALL of them.

    More on reflex and ace instinct than any conscious thought, he answers Nagato's charge by CHARGING HIMSELF.

    "HUUUUUOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAW!!" With a deep, ferocious battlecry, he simply plows THROUGH the bullets. They slam into shoulders and his torso, depleting his HP drastically more than prior hits. The impacts DO in fact stagger him slightly, but he ducks under further round. BOTH his swords glow this time as he crosses them, one atop another. It's a greenish-white that casts off gale winds.

    And once he's up close again...

    The Sword Skill is unleashed!

    Both blades rip off in each direction towards Nagato's midsection, then reverse direction at an upward angle that brings Kirito up a meter or two. he flips around int he air and SLAMS back down with the twin blades one last time!

    A sonic vortex spins across both blades the whole while, adding wind damage!

Nagato has posed:
    A change in tactics seems to have benefitted the battleship more this time, and with this, she keeps up the tracing fire, keep Kirito where she wants him, not the other way around. She continues to press her speed forward as she pauses the secondary battery fire, the blades striking quite well upon her arms, clutching them in pain as the wind threatens to cause waves around her. "Nnngh, I'm going to need a lot of time in the docks after this is done, Kirito."

    She shoots past the fairy and widens her angle upon the main turrets, still facing backwards and with a quick look, wide angle Sanshiki shots come firing out of the barrels, emitting that black smoke to give the Admiral a bit of cover as the shells start forming a wider area of shrapnel, while some of the secondaries swivel around to lay out more burst fire.

    The recoil from the shots give Nagato a bit more speed to make a sharp turn around, kicking up a wide wave as she holds one arm in another, panting. The secondaries facing forward seem to just trace out the fairy... waiting...

Kirito has posed:
    If nothing else, those words trigger a pang of guilt. Nagato's taking real damage here. Kirito's is completely virtual - worst case, he won't be able to bring his Avatar out of ALO.

    That tiny pang's enough of a distraction that he fails tor eact fast enough to nagato's change of direction. He spins around to try and close that distance but it's too late!

    He's faced with an ONSLAUGHT of bullets, far too many for him to even think about parrying WITH a Bullet Line - let alone WITHOUT.

    "Uooooagh!" The exploding shells and more shots slam against him, leaving huge crimson splashes all over his arms and gut.

    Throughout the assault, he once again casts a spell. One that he rarely uses... but this situation's perfect for it!

    All around him, a dozen OTHER KIRITOs appear in the air! All share the same damage marks and apparent Hit Points. There's nothing to distinguish them from the original...

    Except that if they're shot, they vanish.

    And if they're NOT shot, they swoop in and slash at Nagato.

    Granted, they don't actually HURT. They're illusions. But Kirito uses the confusion they grant to swoop around and join the assault. he comes in from the side with another series of slashes!

    Once the REAL one attacks, the clones fade away...

Nagato has posed:
    Alright, you have him Nagato. Now, sink him. Nagato turns back around, looking towards the sector she shot at and... as the smoke clears, she's met with a dozen magical flying destroyer fairies... "What in the...?" comes out of her mouth in disbelief, causing her to shake her head slightly. There's too many targets to try to even make a good shot attempt so...

    She brings herself into the defensive as two of her turrets start traversing to the rear. She won't be able to fire on anything but, with what she's hoping... There's a slash... and it doesn't hurt. Another... and another. Something's not right here, why are they not hurting.

    More slashes that do nothing have her making the last two turrets traverse to the rear but when the real thing comes her way, she's too short from bringing her armor to protect her, the slash cuts right across her chest, causing her to stumble and sink even further... but she uses this to find out where he is.. and with a loud bang from her turrets.. She's sent turning rapidly in one direction, her hand balled into a fist to make a recoil powered punch into Kirito!

Kirito has posed:
    GUN-PROPELLED PUNCHES have quite a lot of oomph! The fist buries deep into Kirito's gut, but there's one problem with this strategy. While it WOULD have knocked the wind out of a purely biological opponent...

    The real Kirito, commanding this avatar via FullDive, is breathing just fine and not pained at all. While another few notches of HP vanish from the bar - it's now getting perilously low! - his groove's not slowed in the slightest. Both blades are extended again in another Sword Skill Stance, with one forward and one back. They gleam a deep purplish-black, the element of Darkness coating them BOTH.

    And then Kirito engages in a whirling quadruple-slash, spinning around and pushing forward!

Nagato has posed:
    Nagato, however, doesn't have an HP meter... .she's got damage art. Tastefully, though. She's going to need quite the time in the docks from this, however the feeling from that gut punch.. it didn't do everything she wanted. She frowns and realizes that she's still close to the spriggan. "Damnit." she mutters.

    She's too close to even remotely try to dodge the attack, the blades spinning around and pushing forward... shaving off more and more of her armor and making deeper cuts into her already damaged body and superstructure. However, she leaves this as an opening.. she's close enough to have a good aim with her secondaries. They spin around during the Sword Skill. And as soon as that last strike hits, the guns let loose their ammunition once more directly towards the Avatar! At close range, there shouldn't be a chance to miss... shouldn't...

    "FIRE!" she shouts as they unload their ammunition, locking eyes with Kirito.. "No matter what... you fought well. I would gladly have you in the Northern Force fleet.."

Kirito has posed:
    This close, Kirito has no chance to dodge. No chance whatsoever. If he moves away she'll have him boxed in. If he does NOTHING though, he'll simply take a huge pelting like before.

    Can't have THAT. Not again!

    The moment he sees her guns start swiveling around into new positions he activates one of the most basic 1H Sword Skills - Slant!

    An upward diagonal strike with his right blade clangs against some of the guns before they can lock into place, turning them away. Only about half of the shots Nagato intended to strike actually do - the rest fly harmlessly off into the water and sky. Kirito still staggers sideways from the impact, but just as SLANT's nearly over with... SAVAGE FULCRUM activates with his left blade. Frost-power coats his left blade. The boy howls out a battlecry as it's swing straight for Nagato's exposed side, thrust in further, then finally WRENCHED OUT... causing another icy explosion.

    But it's not over yet.

    The right blade again gleams, this time sizzling yellow with electricity magic. The black swordsman whirls around again... for a double horizontal slash at extreme speeds! that one's called SNAKE BITE...

Nagato has posed:
    The Slant skill manages to lock a few turrets, destroying their traverse capability and she grunts in pain, she's taken too much damage this fight. The swordsman was good... no, he was better than she expected. She groans out in pain, strikes from the next skill cause her right side to ice up, blocks of ice freezing in place to the superstructure and coldwelding it into place temporarily.

    Not having a digital body is one thing, you can feel pain, the ice blade is wrenched out, more freezing blocks of ice embedding themselves on the Admiral before both blocks explode, the ice shrapnel cutting into her body, causing her to be up to her ankles and then some in water. She was sinking and if she didn't end this... No, can't think of that now...

    "Kirito..." she starts, watching the yellow blade, trying to duck away from it but the speed from which it was launched strikes home, the electricity courses through her body and explosions wrack the secondary turrets causing explosions upon her superstructure.. the whole thing looking like a pile of wrecked ship steel. The four main's, however, burned, cut, but functional. "You... did well."

    "I hope you go far!" the four main turrets traverse, aiming directly for the flying magical swordsfairy... she's got one shot left. High Explosive shells loaded in, the Sanshiki swapped out for a final, heavy strike. She stumbles forward, the turrets aiming for compensation. "And I hope to move forward just like you have. Main guns. Sequential fire!" she shouts... the turrets firing in order... one... two... three... four. Scattering eight high explosive shells wide to try and cover any possible escape and... with that last shot, she falls to her knees into the water.

    Meanwhile in the stands, her Fleet... Atago, Kiso, Shimakaze, Amatsukaze and Ryuujou are cheering loudly, flying the banner for Nagato. "YOU CAN DO IT!" "WE BELIEVE IN YOU!" "STOP LETTING SOMEONE THAT FAST BEAT YOU!" "IT'S RYUUJOU'S TURN TO PRAISE YOU!" "PAN PAKA PAN!"

Kirito has posed:
    There's so little time to speak. Kirito's eyes are full of resolve and determination, windows into his quick-thinking mind. By now he's got a very, VERY good idea of the rate of fire for each of Nagato's turrets and how fast they can track. There's only one answer to sequential fire!

    Cut through, and pray.

    A high-pitched whine cuts across the waves as one of his blades glows green with speedy wind! "Huuuuuuah!"

    And again he charges, swerving about. The Sword Skill cleaves through three of the shots easily, but the shards still strike. Unlike the Photon Saber, he can't simply VAPORIZE shells here. Particularly not with a wind skill, it seems.

    But still he plunges through, even as his remaining HP hits critical - a few red slivers left.

    FASTER, FASTER, HAVE TO PUSH THROUGH!

    A few more blasts are dodged, leaving Kirito nearly upon Nagato! As she sinks lower into the water he prepares for a slash to end it, and cleave the main gun!

    Had he been a quarter-second faster, that might've worked, too.

    BOOOM!

    Because the final shot gets a clean hit to his chest, depleting the rest of his hit points. For just one second he's still able to move, but the black sword doesn't reach Nagato in time...

    His whole avatar, weapons included, explodes harmlessly in a cloud of black smoke and fire. After it dies down, all that's left is a black flame hovering over the water.

Nagato has posed:
    Blast after blast, shell after shell .. cut down by the expert swordsman. She's watching that HP Bar... not exactly sure what it does but everytime he gets hit, it goes down some... so, maybe it's almost over.

    Nagato's eyes go wide as the sword comes through, the swordsman continuing to push through. "Good job..." is what she says, that last shell, that lucky shell gets the hit and she sees the bar deplete.. that sword oh so close to hitting its mark. Nagato's eyes close... the harmless explosion comes through and she gives a soft sigh...

    Upon opening her eyes once more, she sees the black flame, her hands slowly moving towards it, scooping it up, holding it close to her chest... "You did well. Thank you for this. Let me get you back to shore and we'll both have our own time at the docks, Kirito." Nagato slowly stands up, down to halfway to her knees in water, she trudges along the sea towards shore, holding the flame of Kirito close.. "Let me take you to Mamiya's after that."