3210/WMAT Exhibition: Fuki and Silent Black vs. Vervi and Maverick

WMAT Exhibition: Fuki and Silent Black vs. Vervi and Maverick
Date of Scene:	15 October 2015
Location:	Papaya Island - Stadium
Synopsis:	Having created the weapons wielded by one of her two rivals, Fuki now wants to test their strength...by taking on Vervi at full strength! Will the creator best the created, or will her own creation lead to Fuki's downfall?! Find out in this special exhibition of Abstractum capability!
Cast of Characters:	168, 192, Fuki, 347, 880
Tinyplot:	WMAT 2015

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Red Saber (880) has posed:
     "Ladies and gentlemen! I, the glorious Red Saber, welcome you to yet another heartpounding battle that is sure to go down in the pages of history!" Saber, fron the announcer's seat, grasps the mic and speaks dramatically. "Here, at Papaya Island, we have two very small competitors today! But do not let their size fool you! They are capable of holding their own with the best of the best!"

     "Introducing the Silent Wind, Fuki! And her opponent, the Iron Will, Vervi! I implore the both of you; have a battle worthy of the god's praise! To do any less would be a disservice to all watching!" And with that, she threw out an arm and proclaimed.

     "By my will; ENGAGE!"

Fuki has posed:
    Floating in the middle of the arena, Fuki's armored up and ready to go, in her right hand is her special scythe, Silent Black. "You finally woke up. And just in time. I missed you, my friend." she speaks to her scythe. To some it may seem crazy but this isn't an ordinary scythe. "We've dealt with her before... she's strong but let's show her who she came from."

    Fuki's eyes open and the mask is drawn in front of her face. It's showing a sinister fox face upon it, the Shinki's smile wicked under it. "Let's show her... who is the best here... why she fights. And most importantly... who's the better Abstractum!"

Vervi (192) has posed:
    While Fuki has been waiting, Vervi's just arriving. Bidding farewell to her Master in the stands, the VerVietta type swoops down into the stadium on a trail of blue jet exhaust. Circling the arena at high speed, she rolls, tracing a corkscrew of blue trails that spirals inward towards the red stone fighting square in the center.

    Upon crossing the edge of the square, Vervi swings her legs forward and adjusts the angles of her engines, braking herself midair and pulling herself into a hover. Unarmed for the moment, the blue shinki clasps her hands together, "It's been a while since we've fought, hasn't it?" Her hands unclasp and she swings one arm to the side, "But don't think I've gotten complacent! We're not gonna go easy on you!" That same hand is raised, "C'mon out, Maverick! Let's show her what we can do!"

Abstractum.Net (347) has posed:
    Silent Black makes an affectionate sort of noise, and Fuki will detect just a small amount of warmth in the hilt of the blade, shifting back against her tiny palms in a friendly way. "The most important part of stealth is timing, you know." It says, in a warm voice. Then, "Right!" And it flares with red light! "Powering Strife Drives!" The head of the axe now glows with a crimson fire.

    At Vervi's call, Maverick is in motion! The miniature jet-formed Abstractum launches, with a streak of red light left behind it. "YEAH! Gonna show her, and everyone else! This one's gonna be /good/!" Swooping down, the energetic, enthusiastic Abstractum seems eager to fight! It dramatically transforms from fighter to exosuit module in a swift, dramatic motion, meant to encase and protect Vervi in its shiny blue exoskeletal armor-shape. If she's going along with things, it'll even rapidly assemble around her while she stays motionless! "Strife Drives powered and ready to go, Verv'! Are you as hype for this as I am? Dumb question, of course not."

Red Saber (880) has posed:
     "Both fighters are primed for battle, the preparations have been made, they have steeled their bodies and souls! All that remains...is the clash!" Saber settles back down into her announcer's chair. "The crowd awaits! I await! The Myriad universes await! The gods await! It is time!"

Fuki has posed:
    "Stealth, in all things, requires patience." she replies back to Silent Black, feeling the warmth on the hilt. With a bowed head she points the head of the scythe towards Vervi. "Vervi. Maverick. Show us... no... the world what you are capable of doing. Show me that fire or I, the Silent Wind will blow out your life!" With this, Fuki's wings spread out wide and nod, "Predator Drive, go!"

    Fuki proceeds to dash forth in the air, pulling the scythe back some while the Predator Drive armor comes into place, time to press what advantage she has and go at it. "Your stoic nature... your passion to protect your Master. Bring it to bear against me, give me everything you have and don't hold back!" it sounds like Fuki's trying to goad the other Shinki as she comes in with a heavy scythe swing intended for decapitation.

    "Or are you afraid that I will show you what you lack?"

Nathan Hall (168) has posed:
    Of course, Nathan is here, cheering for Vervi. While he has seemed much more exhausted recently, he has seemed, counterintuitively, sort of in higher spirits. "Vervi! You can do this!" His monotone may be exhausted, but it seems to at least have proper exclaimation in the voice! "Be careful and show them how strong I know you are!" And so on, and so forth. Cheering! Nathan is here to give all that moral support! Given that Vervi is actually stronger than Nathan is in day-to-day combat, that's probably the best thing he can give here.

Vervi (192) has posed:
    "It's hard to be more excited than you," Vervi admits to Maverick with a sheepish expression while the Abstractum materializes around her. Twisting in midair, once Maverick has fully appeared, she thrusts out an arm in an action pose for a second or so. Sweeping that arm back and resuming her hover, Vervi faces Fuki head-on, "Showing me where I'm weakest... is exactly what I'm hoping for! We only get stronger when that happens!"

    "Come on, Maverick!"

    With the fox ninja closing, Vervi ... cuts her engines. This drops her several inches below the rushdown decapitation, twisting herself as she drops. Limbs compress and reorient as she shifts the Abstractum into its jet form, engines flaring and hurling the shinki away at a lower angle, with a rolling motion. At the end of the boost she transforms the armor-lke Abstractum again, flipping upside-down and thrusting one arm outward. The emitter on the outside of her exoframe's wrist glitters, materializing a quad-barrel cannon. When it opens fire, it's one gun at a time, a rapid-fire stream of blue light sweeping in an arc after the airborne ninjabot.

Abstractum.Net (347) has posed:
    Fuki activates her combat transformations! Fox-like fur lines the gauntlet-like portions of her arms, and the thinner parts of her legs. Her fox mask is substantially more aggressive-looking, and bears a pair of glowing white eyes now. A bushy fox-tail is present, but menacing; it looks as if it can be used offensively against flesh when dragged along the surface. A dreadful-looking pair of claws have come into existence along her fingers. The scythe itself takes on a vulpine aesthetic, with animalistic teeth at its blade-edge. All over her, additional plates on her armor resolve into existence.

    "FORM: VULPINE REAPER." Silent Black states. "MODIFIER: PREDATOR DRIVE."

    The fox features turn a dark gray, close to black, and match some of the purple influences in Fuki's aesthetic. Her movements are quieted, systems are silenced, the whirs of motors and electronics dim. Now, she has night-vision, motion-tracking, and even instinctual tracking of fear, alongside the suite of other ninja-like stealth functions.

    Meanwhile, Maverick and its user transform as well! The suit is suddenly that little starfighter again, and then right back to armor, swiftly and in quick motions, allowing the suit's high-powered weapons to be used with incredible dexterity. While a Barrier swiftly interposes itself between Fuki and those crimson return shots, provided by Silent Black, the blunt jarring impact might be transferred to Fuki a bit too much if she doesn't move quick!

Fuki has posed:
    It's been a while. Those new sensations... the motion tracking... night vision. She was in the wrong modifier for now, but she'll take advantage of it, but the shots crash onto the barrier and Fuki darts herself off again in another direction. She needs to turn this into a way she can use the Predator Drive to her advantage... but how. It's daylight. No matter...

    "Perhaps I was hasty. We'll deal with Predator Drive for now. Shall we?" she smirks under that mask, the bushy tail twitches and off she goes. Those wings spread out once more and attempts to move in close by dropping from above with her foot outstretched, the talons on them moving to try and slice into the armor, only to flip around and bring an overhead scythe slice at the Vic Viper Shinki and the Hot Blooded Addon.

    "Show me that fear." she whispers, "I know you have more, Vervi. You're holding out on your friend... You're limiting Maverick..." a grin under that mask, the mask follows a bit. "How's your Master, by the way?"

Vervi (192) has posed:
    With the Reaper closing in again, Vervi rights herself with an out-thrust of her arms, legs spread out for balance with the boot thrusters and supported by the main engines on her back. "Master is fine, stay focused on the fight!" Like this, Fuki is fast..! Though Vervi feels she still has the speed advantage, in closer ranges, Fuki clearly has the upper hand. One arm raises, intercepting the down-slashing talons with the fuselage lining her forearm and relying on it to block the scythe as well.

    "Do you think so?" Vervi asks more directly at such close range, "I think you might be right." Engines flare, pushing her back and away, shedding floating orbs that act like mines from her wing mounts, "I'm trying to do everything on my own, but you're showing me-- Abstractum-User interfaces are a partnership! I have to let Maverick share some of the load, right? That's how you and Silent Black work so well together, is that it?"

    Arms spreading out, Vervi glances down at her interface readouts, a smile crossing her face, "I'm sorry if I've held you back, Maverick. Let's show her what we can do-- together!"

Abstractum.Net (347) has posed:
    Silent Black slams down into the arm. A barrier rose to blunt the impact, just enough to keep the part functional, but the impact shattered it, releasing a tremendous shockwave, far bigger than either combatant, as large as you'd expect such an exchange's shockwave at normal size! Systems flash red in Vervi's cockpit, letting her know that she's sustained the Form damage, though the core, at the mech-suit's head, remains intact.

    Silent Black cooperates quite well with Fuki, helping her in verbal intimidation alongside combat matters! Of course... This is a rivalry, so it doesn't come with venemous hostility, but still seems to have that element of aggression. "Doesn't he seem tired, though? Are you really sure?" If Fuki's gonna try to throw Vervi off her game, so will Silent Black!

    Maverick makes an eager noise. "You're right! I'm not just pushing you to get into fights here, Vervi! I want /us/ to get in 'em! It's how we work, together! She lets her scythe take the strain it can handle, you can let me handle that too!" It releases a field of mines, a set of complicated photonic constructs meant to go off with proximity! Of course, Predator Drive can rapidly analyze their sensor constructs, letting Fuki become hyperaware of their range, their cones of perception, blindspots... Vervi's getting some distance! But in order to stop it, Predator Drive can find a few parts where Fuki can zoom through the field with the least damage from passing explosions.

Fuki has posed:
    Fuki smirks, this is what she wants. "I am focused. With Silent Black here..." she gives a bit of a laugh, "It's always been about partnership. It's always been about letting yourself go and listening... no feeling what your Abstractum wants and what they want from you. You're out of synchronization." as Vervi pushes away from her, she blinks, only to see those exploding orbs. "She's feeling." she whispers to Silent Black, "She's slowly feeling what it means to have one."

    She blinks her eyes just once, the sudden visual acuity she has from the Predator Drive feeding her more information than someone ought to have gives the Shinki a shudder of happiness. "Silent Black, I've traced a path through. Few explosions this way. Ready up the Lance Mode." she tucks her body in close and shoots off, quickly going up, around, side to side. A few of them actually go off, but with the way Fuki positions herself, she does so to take minimal damage and shoot off with the speed.

    "He always seems tired, Silent Black. He's getting up there in stress... I can smell it. I can feel it too..." she smirks, "Maybe we should have fun with him after this..." she turns to Vervi and kicks the thrusters into full, "I know that she defends her master more than she takes care of the gift I've given her..."

Vervi (192) has posed:
    "That's right," Red crossing her vision from alarm indicators, Vervi lowers her eyes, "I shouldn't be fighting to control you. You're not like my armor at all. You're my partner." She jets backwards in two short bursts, increasing her distance even with Fuki closing in, "It's not like wearing armor at all-- I have to become one with you! That's what you're trying to tell me, isn't it, Maverick? You aren't trying to force me to do things.. You're just seeking a connection! And the more I fought, the harder you tried..!"

    "Come on! Let's show her what OUR drives can do!"

    The engine thrust flares, bringing Vervi to a halt. A second burst throws her straight in the opposite direction, right towards the charging Predator-mode Fubuki type.

Abstractum.Net (347) has posed:
    The blasts go off like... Well, like bombs. Except these are definitely not toys. Each blast rocks the stands themselves! Several of Silent Black's own Barriers are utterly shattered by the damage. "There we go, /there/ we go!" Maverick shouts. "That's how you learn to trust a weapon, and understand it! Alright! If you're gonna trust me, then here's what we do! We face her head on! No fancy dodges, no tricks! We hit our problems head-first! And we solve them together!" The suit pumps energy up its arms, gushing huge blasts of fire out of ports all over its form. "If she's going to bring out this 'Vulpine Reaper'... I'll give her /this/! Function Matrix expansion comple--!"

    "FORM: LANCE!" There's Silent Black and Fuki. It seems the little scythe just couldn't leave well enough alone. It blasted forward with a boost from the STRIKE DRIVER, before Vervi's Abstractum could complete showing off its new powerup! Unless Vervi did something really, REALLY clever... Fuki's requested Lance Mode attack is going to lance right through the side of Maverick's midsection! Impaling through the Abstractum, but not Vervi within, protected by the deflection of barriers.

    "...But that was a mistake." Maverick says, laughing. "SMART BOMB!" And the ship sets off a strange energy field... It'll do some damage to Fuki if she stays in it, completely unavoidable in the area of effect -- and if Vervi has trusted Maverick, she'll have the perfect chance to keep her in short range, if she can pull off some close-quarter combat moves. But, that's not the important bit. The important bit is that every single leftover mine Vervi desposited that gets hit by the expanding wave is suddenly charging right towards Fuki. "Are you ready, Vervi? Head on! No fear, all guts! You've got the armor to take it, and they /don't/!"

Fuki has posed:
    "I don't like you." Fuki comments. "Silent Black, can you combine Feral and Predator? Take what energy you need from me to do it if you can." as she hears the word expansion... finally... "Finally... they're bringing out the true strength." She thrusts the lance form forward and her face goes really calm inside that mask of hers. "Come on, Maverick, show me... what you can finally do."

    The words Smart Bomb peirce the Shinki's ear and a quick radar scan shows those orbs coming right back. "I see how it is... did you make them homing? Such a clever little thing, maybe I should give you a gold star!" a flash of light and a shuriken appears in her hand before she moves to try and stab it into the 'battlesuit', a small shaped charge is on it, glowing gold.

    She pulls Lance Silent Black away and kicks off, time to play dodge tank now. "It's getting denser... flight path... found... no lost .. it changed." nngh.. she starts running away from the bombs, maybe she can use this for her advantage...

Vervi (192) has posed:
    "We have the defenses..." Vervi thinks out loud, eyes tracking Fuki's motions, "Let's turn them into offenses! Let's put her on the run, Maverick!"

    Wrenching back on her controls, Vervi's armor shifts back into jet form, the tiny robot seated in the center. With all the explosives pursuing Fuki, the source of those smart mines rolls up into the same altitude, banking in pursuit. Right then, the shuriken explosive detonates, blasting the jet downward in a tumble.

    Seconds later, at a lower altitude, the jet emerges trailing smoke, pulling up in an banking ascent. In the pilot's seat, ignoring the red indicators flashing across her vision, Vervi leans into her controls, "Let's give her more to play with 'til we can close the gap!" In immediate response, the arrays under and over the wings light up, generating sprays of missiles out to either side which promptly light up and dash ahead of the jet fighter.

Abstractum.Net (347) has posed:
    "I can... Override a bit! Crap! Sorry, Fuki!" The little scythe calls out! Some of Predator Drive is soon overwritten, drawing the spare energy from Fuki herself! The fur grows more matted, the claws grow more vicious, and there's a surge of combat energy, battle awareness, and mighty overwhelming melee force that rushes through Fuki, coupled with a sudden gnashing of much longer, much more vicious teeth at the edge. It's not the full Feral Drive, but it's close!

    There's more flashing red screens at the interior after that explosive. Smoke emerges from a heavy wound in the body of the fighter. "I'm holding together, don't worry! You've got the idea! Let me take on the wounds, you can count on me!" The missiles arc out, but already, the lance -- reverted back to a scythe -- is eager to lash out and split them apart before they can impact Fuki! Their blasts may be small, but the shockwave can be felt at the stands. While Maverick may have suffered the most damage so far, it also seems to have the most momentum!

Fuki has posed:
    Fuki lets out a soft gasp, the energy draining from her to power the override. "This, this will do. Just a bit more power, I don't need all of Predator for this." the surge of new energy now, the claws and those teeth on the Scythe.. and the power in her arms. "Yes... time to turn this into a reaping fest..." The blasts from those missiles and the smart orbs send Fuki back quite a ways (relative to Shinki Size) but with a quick thruster motion, she's back upright and sending a peircing red glare at Vervi.

    "Perfection." she whispered, "Pure perfection." but as Maverick and Vervi get closer... seems they want to get in. Strange but, Fuki's at home being up in someone's face. "Ninja Art, Misdirection." and with a bite on something.. thick black smoke conceals the Shinki and it spreads outwards... "On three." she whispers to Silent Black, waiting for it to overtake a majority of the airspace before she bolts down from the bottom of it, kicks off the floor of the stadium and shoots herself back up, swinging Silent Black with a force to decapitate once more, aiming for those wings. "Break that armor!"

Vervi (192) has posed:
    "She's dropping down--" Picking up on Vervi's earlier evasion tactic? She doesn't bother to think about it. Instead, she's already planning her next move, "Maverick-- get ready! We're gonna give her just what she wants!" Her eyes track the ninja downward, the fighter banking sharply in response. Mercifully, the missile fire has abated, and the fighter simply circles while the pilot waits for the right moment.

    That moment comes with alarming speed: Fuki springing off the arena floor and hurtling right up towards her. Wrenching on her controls, the fighter transforms, assuming its robotic power armor form with Vervi at its center. One arm extends forward defensively while the other reaches up and behind her shoulder. The mast there disconnects and she swings it forward, igniting the energy blade and sweeping it downward one-handed to meet Fuki's upward assault..!

Abstractum.Net (347) has posed:
    The crash between two Strike Driver enhanced assaults is tremendous. The ground below the two flying fighters is only a few dozen feet below at absolute most, but now it's much farther away, because the scythe coming up and the blade coming down result in a clash that emits such tremendous force that the ground is cratered beneath them, blasting chunks of the stone floor away violently.

    Both Abstractum lock together in an intense clash of wills. "Yeah! There we go, Verv', we've got 'em! We're all gettin' exactly what we want!" The armor vents gouts of crimson light from ports all around the back and arms, sparking and crackling with electricity where it was previously hit along the arms and side. "I'll hold! You can count on me, Vervi! Just KEEP GOOOOIIIIIING!" It flares brightly! The sheer force it'll have to bring to bear now depends on Vervi's willpower!

    "Huhhhhhh... I'll crack it open, Fuki! We made that thing, and we can break it too! You can do it, we're almost through!" Silent Black shouts, roaring as its teeth begin to try to gnash through the energy blade. It flares up shortly too, to meet the gushing red light from Maverick. Both are now locked in a contest of sheer will, and the waves of force emitted by the clash are progressively cracking and cratering more and more of the stadium floor.

Fuki has posed:
    The clash, that long awaited clash. Finally, this is what Fuki needed. "Isn't this beautiful?" she whispers, "This power, this energy, this crater?" she locks peircing red eyes from that mask into Vervi's own, her thrusters pouring out energy to keep them locked in this contest of will. "We're going to break you. We're going to break Maverick."

    She grunts and pulls her scythe up more, trying to press her advantage. She's had Silent Black a lot longer, she's used Silent Black a lot more and knows what its' capable of and only now has Vervi unlocked everything for Maverick. Fuki, however, knows that the damn shinki's pretty willful. "Show me what your will can do. Are you going to beat me?" she shakes her head, the mask dissapears and shows her face, a smile.. "Do it." she whispers, "Show the world that you can defeat me."

    With a loud battle cry, the thrusters on her jets pour out red energy and the wings flare wide, the Black Angel meets the Blue Angel... "Show me your will to win!"

Vervi (192) has posed:
    Surrounded by the chaos of two Abstractum crashing together, Vervi tunes out the crackling of lightning and pressure, focusing entirely on the vicious assassin in front of her and the sickle keeping her energy sword at bay. She continues to ignore the readouts on the edges of her vision, focusing purely on the battle.

    "Every time we fight," Vervi mutters, barely audible over the clash of energies, "You threaten to break things I care about." As she speaks, her voice grows louder, "My possessions, my friends, my partners, my Master..!" The blue shinki shouts now, "This is the end of that!" Leaning into the blade she holds, Vervi reaches down, slamming her armor's free hand into the back of the blade further up to increase her force and leverage, "I'm not letting you do whatever you want anymore! For Master, for Maverick, and for all my friends you've hurt..! You've made me angry plenty of times, but now--" The blue-haired robot girl roars, shoving her all into the effort.

    "--NOW YOU GET TO SEE WHAT THAT MEANS!"

Abstractum.Net (347) has posed:
    "It is, it is! It's like fireworks!!" Silent Black is just as caught up in the excitement as Fuki is. These two really are like each other. But it is just as Fuki thinks; her Abstractum has been around for far longer, and absorbed far more Resonance. When it flares... It flares brutally. Gushing brighter and brigter, until it's a firestorm, the size of a small house, slamming brutally up into Vervi from below, and pushing Fuki further and further up.

    "Yes, Vervi! You can do this! You know what you care about and you know how to care about it! Break through! We can /do this/, together!" Maverick is coming apart around Vervi, rattling to pieces and being seared off in chunks by the intense storm of this clash. But it's got enough. "SHOW HER, VERVI!!"

    Something cracks.

    "F-form integrity dropping?!" Silent Black calls out suddenly. There's a crack along its hilt. "Fuki! /WATCH OUT!/ GhhhhHHHHHRGHK--!" And the handle of the scythe snaps in two. Vervi's downward strike tears Silent Black down from a scythe to a sickle, and though Fuki has a moment of warning, she'll have to deal with the heavy energy blade coming down to strike her head-on. With that sudden, unexpected flaring burst of Strike Driver power, her non-Feral modifier armor enhancements won't hold up...!!

    Whatever the end of this may be for Fuki, the fulfillment of that clash will be big enough that it explosively tears a gash a foot wide in the arena from the crater here all the way to the edge of the arena, and an explosive dispersal of that storm of light!!

Fuki has posed:
    Pushing up, she grins. Fuki's eyes are wide. Murderous intent miiiiiight not be there but the red that surrounds her. "This... is truely a spectacular fight, Vervi." she comments but when Silent Black speaks up... the words integrity dropping quickly bring Fuki back to a reality. "This can't be... this cannot be! Silent Black! Hold on!"

    She hears the crack... the scythe snaps and the ninjabot is facing the worlds biggest energy blade she's ever seen.. "Where did this power come from? WHO gave you that power!" she screams at Vervi but even with the moment of warning... she spins around just a bit and the blade cuts deep... and through Fuki, splitting her in half diagnoally! She screams out and the light surrounding her dies as she falls split in two into the ground, creating one last crater. Her chest is cracked open, showing the triple lights of her CMS...

    Fuki pants slowly, eyes looking up at Vervi and Maverick. "I got what I wanted out of this... you have a choice to make, Vervi. You can do it right now, prevent me from ever hurting your master or anything you love... or you can let me go... and I'll be there as your dark shadow... there to foil whatever you do in the future... there to present a constant threat to your Master... to your Abstractum... to anything you ever love or will love.."

    She points the now Sickle Silent Black up to Vervi... "The choice is yours... I know what you will make, though..."

Red Saber (880) has posed:
     "AHEM! I would like to inform both competitors that killing is strictly forbidden within the tournament!" Saber spoke up from the announcer's seat, interjecting quickly before going right into her commentary.

     "Nonetheless! After a risky gambit, Fuki finds herself cut short, quite literally, as Vervi's strike rings true! The tiny warrior cleaves through her opponent! Typically this would spell death for any normal human or mortal entity! Thankfully our competitors are anything but normal!"

Vervi (192) has posed:
    Every readout in Vervi's field of vision is red, flashing, and beeping.

    She ignores it.

    With one final scream of effort she pushes forward and down with all of her weight and all of her frustration, at last breaking that defense and smashing Fuki downwards. Without even the moment to take in how badly damaged the other shinki is, there's a burst of engines hurling the battered blue angel down in hot pursuit.

    Mere seconds after Fuki has landed, so badly damaged now that she cannot fight, Maverick's feet slam down less than a foot away. Rising up to her full height within her battered battle armor, Vervi glowers down at her long-time foe through the flashing crimson alerts of her HUD. Steam, or something similar, hisses out of the exoframe's joints and vents. Lit from below by the crimson blade of the sword she wields when wearing Maverick, the light in her eyes is almost absent, as if dead.

    With an agonizing sound of damaged machinery, she steps forward heavily, raising the sword overhead and spinning it around to point downward. The armor slumps down and slams the blade down as well with a resonating noise of steel striking stone-- safely several inches from where Fuki impacted the arena floor.

    The chest cavity opens up and Vervi disentangles herself from Maverick's control interface, dropping down. Completely armorless, she trots forward and leans over the damaged Fubuki type, panting, worry written all over her face. Once she can tell for sure the black shinki is still online, her eyes close and she lets out a relieved sigh, resting a hand over her own CMS. She then reaches down, holding her hand out, "We'll always be enemies, Fuki. Come on, let's get you to your Master."

Red Saber (880) has posed:
     "And with that, the battle is concluded! The Iron Will, Vervi, has prevailed over the Silent Wind, Fuki! Truly, a fantastic battle has taken place here this day! Let us congratulate both competitors for giving it their all, and allowing us to bear witness to a clash that will not soon be forgotten!"

     Saber stood, arm outstretched. "I am your illustrious announcer, Red Saber, and it is by my will that I proclaim; this is the end! Let us meet once again on the field of battle, when souls fated to duel come together once more!"

Abstractum.Net (347) has posed:
    Nathan, of course, is cheering. It's still a stoic kind of cheering, but it's cheering! Meanwhile the two Abstractum are sure in a shape. The arms both fall off Maverick after that sword is deposited, and most of one of the legs is gone. But the core, atop the head of the suit, is still intact. And the eye there seems to be happy, almost grinning. "That's right! Don't take the easy solution, you know the way this has to be solved! We can stick together and solve this the /right/ way." The heavy suit shudders a bit. "Except, maybe I won't stick together entirely. I'mma need... A minute. Wow, though, /wow/, that was satisfying. Doesn't this feel alright, Vervi?"

    Silent Black was extremely tense and defensive for a moment, glaring and growling and gnashing the teeth on its blade edge... But it looks like everything's going to calm down. And it is very much like Fuki, at the end of the day, willing to rescind its transformations and retreat into a lower power mode, to start recovering. It may be snapped in half, but it can regenerate, like Maverick can, with a few days of rest. "Don't... Ohhh, Fuki, don't risk yourself like that..." The blade says, urgently, to Fuki. It very, very clearly can't stand the idea of Fuki trying to force a deadly confrontation like that when she's in such a disadvantageous position right now!!

    But, things are winding down. Looks like the fight's over! All the fancy light disperses and they're left with a stadium that has been well and truly wrecked on a scale usually reserved for the human-sized elites.

Fuki has posed:
    Fuki closes her eyes from the sword impact and Maverick's forceful landing, she lets out a loud sigh and nods. "She's incapable of taking a life, especially mine." she states to Silent Black. "She knows what she has now... and for that, I can take a good rest." she gives a bit of a smile, looking up towards Vervi... she shakes her head and clutches tightly to the rest of Silent Black's hilt...

    "We will always be enemies. I will always try to break things that are yours... you will always try to stop me and..." she chuckles, looking at the blue shinki, "I think you finally got what I have been trying to teach you all along... I think from now on, our fights... our scuffles... our rivalry... will be better. Wouldn't you say so?" she takes the offered hand awkwardly... by holding her arm out to it. "I'm not letting Silent Black go... so you'll have to princess carry me, servant..." a chiding.. a bit mocking... but genuinely... a friendly comment. "Kourin would want to say hello..."