Scene #2533: Testing One's Metal

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Septette Arcubielle	Hugging her cloak tightly around herself, Septette surveys the magitech arena with evident satisfaction. This particular simulation is one she designed just for the occasion- largely plain and a little larger than a boxing ring, with no ceiling, but high and sturdy tungsten-alloy walls. The floor is covered in an inch-thick layer of a gallium-indium compound: it gleams like polished brass, but it's fairly soft- at least, as far as metals go- and has a honeycomb pattern etched into it for traction. The little robot closes her eyes and goes over her diagnostics, making sure that everything is in fighting shape... or, at least, as close as she can get. There's nothing left to do but wait for her opponent, now... oh, but they're going to have such fun~!
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa had been invited to the HQ of the union for this spar, she doesn't mind that at all. Given the training area's systems? She won't have to hold back, right? So here she is she's clad not in the XCOM Carapace armour she uses sometime,s opting for the optic cameo suit she also has access to. Lighter armour at the cost of other options. She's also carrying an SMG of some sort and two other pistol like weapons on her hips. She also got a knife somewhere on her too. "Hey Septette? Thanks for letting me come here to train, normally I'd have to hold back in training..."
Septette Arcubielle	Resting one hand on her hip, Septette grins a little as she looks Kotone up and down... it's a decent enough shell, she concludes, but it doesn't seem that Miss Yamakawa has the kinetics down pat just yet. Those weapons aren't familiar to her, but they don't look like they're anti-materiel grade, at least. "I don't think you'd have to worry about that anyway," the robot girl replies mischievously. "Let's set some ground rules first, though. I'll let you choose- magic or no magic? Drones allowed? Weapons, or unarmed combat only?" No matter what Kotone chooses, it seems that Sept is confident it won't put her at too much of a disadvantage. "Regardless, I'm ready when you are. Just say the word." At that, Septette throws off her cloak, revealing that bladed and skeletal form of hers. Her talons subtly bite into the flooring, digging in to give her traction...
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa seems to be in a good mood, she's well in over her head with Septette. Still she needs to learn and this is a good way to do so. Also her shell's designers have taken a lot of effort for mimicing human things. Likely given that almost all cyborgs from Kotone's world start out as organic. She thinks for a moment and tilts her head a little bit. "I should have brought a shiv with me if we were going to get into a drone fight. I'd way leave the drones out of it, and might as well get used to dealing with magic, right?"
Septette Arcubielle	Septette doesn't seem to know what a 'shiv' is in this context, but she nods eagerly as she holds her arms out at her sides. "Assuming weapons are a 'yes', judging by all those guns... but let's get started, shall we?" A moment later, the little robot bursts into a flurry of movements, tearing deep furrows into the floor with her talons as she closes the meager distance between the combatants. Her upper body twists to the left as she gets within a few meters of Kotone, and she abruptly changes course, digging in her heels to redirect her considerable momentum. At the same time, a wickedly curved blade folds out of her forearm, and she lashes out at Kotone's throat as her body untwists like a spring. It wouldn't take much to avoid the attack, despite its suddenness- Septette is feeling her opponent out, rather than fishing for a killing blow already.
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa says "My close combat training is lacking I admi. I only have basic hand to hand." She looks a bit sheepish, she's not a green horn anymore, however she knows her limits. She's got to push them. She wtches as Sepet gets into the fight and here comes the blade. She's quick on her feet. Kotone isn't slow, that much is clear. She's evading the attack and then going for the SMG, which is loaded with reaper rounds, thanks to one Doctor Shen. The things are not as accurate as normal rounds but they do a heck of a lot more damage if they connect. Kotone's also on the move too she's wise enough to not /hold/ still at least!
Septette Arcubielle	Septette splits into a wide grin as she turns to run down Kotone. Her dense armor plates make it a little hard to change directions suddenly, but she can still move surprisingly swiftly; despite her opponent's evasive maneuvers, Sept is careful not to let the cyborg stay outside the reach of her blades for long. Of course, that puts her at point-blank range for the SMG... something she's keen not to let Kotone exploit. Even as she lines up a couple of vicious swipes at Kotone's knees and ankles, a look of intense concentration comes over Sept, and the air around her starts to warp and distort. A moment later, Kotone would be able to feel the heat pouring off of her, melting the top few inches of gallium flooring and turning Septette's blades red-hot. Lining up her attack carefully, Sept slashes at the gun's magazine, trying to cook off the ammunition before the cyborg has a chance to use it!
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa seems to be having fun and she's trying to keep mobile she's got other wepaons after all. She's also got the idea of just how up close and personal Septette is, she may have found a long term teacher in such things. For now the young Cyborg is caught off guard by the nature of the floor as it starts to melt. It's not enough to burn off her synth skin but this is something not expected. She's trying to get clear she does get clear however the weapon clip is cut. The heat does it no good, kotone's managed to keep from losing a limb. Well for now and she throws the weapon at Septette as it goes off, while she gets out of the molten metal, or that's the plan she has.
Septette Arcubielle	The heat continues to build, radiating off of Septette and remaining trapped in the closed arena: it seems to be some kind of active enchantment she's placed on herself, though she doesn't seem fazed by the way her body temperature has spiked. If it keeps climbing like this, it'll only be a matter of time before one of them starts to fail from the temperature... and it probably isn't going to be Sept, if her casual demeanor is any indication. One of her eyebrows lifts slightly as Kotone throws the mangled gun; reacting almost instantaneously, the robot girl holds out her hand and snatches it out of the air, crushing the magazine in her hand. When the bullets cook off in her fist, there's a muffled series of pops... but when she opens her claws again a moment later, there's nothing but slag in her palm. "Clever," she says in an encouraging tone, "but I hope you've got more firepower than that at your disposal." Septette flexes her fingers to make sure everything's in order; they spark and twitch a little, but seem largely undamaged. Meanwhile, the heat wave has spread to engulf the entire arena: the floor is molten down to its tungsten base, leaving the entire battlefield several inches deep in molten gallium. Septette holds out her other hand towards Kotone and makes an odd gesture; an instant later, the gallium around the cyborg's ankles flash-freezes as the temperature plummets. Hoping that's enough of an opening, Arcubielle throws herself towards her opponent, intent on grappling and slicing into Kotone.
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa says "Reaper rounds, made to bring down biolgocial counterparts to things like your self." It's the only thing Kotone has time say at the ,moment. For Spetette is proven that up close combat is a very bad idea for her right now. Kotone thinks she could match her with raw physical power. Skill? Not to much. She notices the light damage and noe she's managed to get away from some of the melted part of the of the flor, this is hard but she's got the idea that the terrain has been stacked against her. She's got other weapons one of which is one that Septette wouldn't be expecting. She pulls one of the side arms she has and sets it to full auto. It's not bullets that come from the muzzel but energy bolts it's some sort of blaster. Kotone is backing up now and generally moving. Tht doesn't do much good for her. Kotone is strpped but she doesn't panic she does however let out a cry as she forcably tears her self free rolling out of the way but is unable to offer further attacks for the moment.
Septette Arcubielle	Septette lands on all fours in the molten metal when her lunge misses Kotone, and looks up with fire in her eyes as she's struck by the energy bolts. One hits her armored 'ribcage', scorching and blackening it but failing to pierce through; the second hits her left arm near the shoulder, damaging some of her black artificial muscles. The third bolt, however, finds her prepared- a yellow forcefield flares around Septette as she mutters an incantation, and the projectile freezes in midair. An instant later, she raises her hand, and the bolt reverses course- now heading directly for Kotone's head. It's quickly followed by the yggdroid herself, who leaps and activates her thrusters, seeming to skate across the sea of liquid metal...
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone's far from helpless but it's clear she's got a long way to go. She does however attempt to as she fights see if Septette has any open wireless ports or any equive she can get into to try and give her false sensory feeds. She's able to multi task well enough, she boplts out of the wy and now is going to make use of the wall to flip off the wall she's got some air now and she's opening fire again with the pistol set to full auto.
Septette Arcubielle	Septette makes little attempt to dodge the bolts: those that do hit her seem to inflict minor damage, but for every shot that lands, another is intercepted by her flickering yellow barrier and turned right back at Kotone. The barrier drops for a moment after each deflection, but just as quickly, the robot girl weaves another to replace it. "You've got decent gear," Arcubielle remarks casually, "but you didn't bother to specialize your loadout to fight me, did you? Otherwise you wouldn't have even bothered bringing a knife." She gestures again, and the pools of gallium writhe and twist themselves into tendrils that lash out at Kotone, trying to grasp and restrain the cyborg so that Septette can get in a vicious strike with her built-in blades. "Ah, well... I can't really fault you for a lack of subtlety. You'll improve with practice." As she scans for open wireless ports, Kotone would find only one- the unencrypted signal seems to come from Septette, but what would the yggdroid even need one for, anyway? It's transmitting a stream of data that seems to consist of image files...
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa says "There's certain things I don't have access to and there's there's other uses for a knife." She'd left certain other personal weapons in her ship's armoury. She should have brought them but she wasn't sure how practical it would. She sees there's not much she can do the files are not accessed she doubts they'd be of use in a fire fight. She's still dancing about but she's still spamming blaster bolts now she knows nothing lasts for ever at this point. Meanwhile things go tentacle on her and there's a legit look of anger on her face. Kotone is moving to break free but well she's caught and the blade rips into her it's pretty nasty cutting into her body, leaving a burst of red hydraulic fluid that's the same shade as blood in a human. She's not quite out of it however, just what is she up to? She's also clearly in a good deal of pain even with this being simulated fight. Septette is really just walking over Kotone at this point.
Septette Arcubielle	Ever cautious, Septette uses the brief lull in Kotone's assault to renew her magical barriers and step back for a moment, glancing over her own gruesome handiwork. "Maybe; maybe not. ... You've done fairly well, for someone who's still adjusting to her body. I can tell that close combat isn't your specialty, but that's nothing that time and experience won't cure, is it?" One of the metal tendrils wraps around Kotone's throat, trying to hold her head still, and the gallium freezes back into a solid metal prison as another quiet incantation leaves Septette's lips. "Sorry for hurting you, little one. I tried to gut you cleanly, but that didn't work out very well, did it?" Her left arm rearranges itself into a sinister shape that almost resembles a mantis shrimp's claw; instead of running parallel, the 'bones' of her upper arm are stacked end-to-end, adding an extra joint and a couple of feet to her reach. Despite the worrying gesture, there's a warm smile on her face and a kind look in her eyes- a rather jarring contrast. "Good match, Kotone. Sleep well." As she steps forwards, Septette's spine twists to the left momentarily before uncoiling like a spring; she brings her arm around in a wide arc, swinging the curved blade at its tip quickly enough that it seems to disappear. The strike is aimed to cut Kotone's head in half diagonally, from her lower jaw to the opposite temple; regardless of whether the blow connects, the robot girl brings it back in a reverse strike a few inches lower, shifting her momentum neatly to carry through in several follow-up strikes to different parts of the cyborg's body.
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa knows she's lost more or less at this point. She'll talk to Septette, when the fight's actually over. She's very stubborn about going down quietly she watches as Septette attempts to wrap about her throat and she moves to try and rip it free. She's looking panicked now but she's still got one last thing to play. The kind look on Septette is quite horrific given her actions, She still has some movement left she's managed to keep one arm to pull something off her person. A Pair of items fall from her hand even as Septette moves to just twist her head out of harms away. She has no idea if the Union's tech can actually protect her from something like that. Even a she's being impaled all over the rest of her body, she screams and that's at the time the alien tech plasma grenades from XCOM she dropped detonate. Plasma weapons causing Zwei no amount of what the hell is going on here, may start doing that to Septette. Soon both may be engulfed in a fiery blast of high explosives meant crack open armoured vehicles and other heavily armoured things.
Septette Arcubielle	Though she doesn't recognize the exact model, Septette knows an explosive when she sees it. Unfortunately, the fuse is too short for her to get out of the blast radius in time- so instead, she steps on one of the grenades, trying to crush it underfoot before it can detonate. That only sets it off more quickly, and though the maneuver does direct the blast down and away from the rest of her body, the hydraulics in her leg are largely shredded by the blast. The other is just about to go off when Septette's barrier abruptly changes from yellow to red: those plasma grenades may not be magical, but they certainly count as 'fire', and the shield redirects the brunt of the explosion towards Kotone in a semicircular shockwave of concussive force and superheated air. When her vision clears, Septette glances over what's left of the arena, and at the slag trickling down her 'bones' from molten circuitry. If Kotone's down for the count, she'll raise her hand with some difficulty, and motion to end the simulation.
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone doesn't really have time to scream but the blast goes off she's alive still due to the safeties but otherwise she'd likely be very dead. She's laying there in the metal and she's kinda trapped in it as it's formed about her now. She gets up slowly as the simulation fades taking the metal away along with everything else. The pain's gone and she slowly gets back to her feet. "I take i you wanted knock any bit of ego I had about my abilities out of me? Also what ... was in those files it smelled like a trap to me."
Septette Arcubielle	As soon as the cyborg starts moving again, three small, spherical, hovering drones teleport in around Kotone, positively seething with stored magical energy- Septette had been diverting power to them throughout the fight, 'just in case'. Should they all fire at once at point-blank range, the results would likely be catastrophic. The red drone is already almost white-hot, the blue is dripping liquified air, and the yellow sphere crackles ominously like a miniature thunderstorm. Before the simulation can fade completely, Septette's leg-boosters flare, and she launches herself at Kotone- then screeches to a halt just in front of her. That claw-like arm stops halfway through a slicing arc that could have taken off the cyborg's head. "Not exactly," Sept replies, as her demeanor almost instantly changes back to a cheery one and the arm-blade retracts. "I was testing you. Taking you apart. Figuring out where you're weak. If I wanted to humble you, I'd have gone in guns-blazing at the start." She smiles cryptically as she slips back into her hoodless lavender cloak. "Files? I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about, Miss Yamakawa. The adrenaline rush of combat can play tricks on one's perceptions- perhaps you merely thought you saw something."
Kotone Yamakawa	Kotone Yamakawa listens to what Septette has to say as she's being healed up. She's still shuddering a bit just from how Sept took her down. Finding out she was just probing her for where she needed to work, was less humiliating to her. She knew she was going to lose but like that? She looks at Septette for a moment and chose to not poke at those. She deletes them from her on board memory never having looking at them. "Unhuh and I'm the President of the AmerRussio Alliance. So yes I'm terrible at close combat even if I got the strange to do more. I need help Septette or I'll continue to be a liability..."