Scene #6525: MECC: Staren vs Solty Revant

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Solty Revant	It's only her third tournament fight, so Solty is still pretty nervous as she enters the arena. She still waves to the crowd a bit, but nothing really attention grabbing. Their arena for today is something pretty straight forward. They enter atop a skyscraper, and when both combatants have entered it expands into several city blocks worth of skyscrapers and roadways dozens of stories below. It's a nice sunny setting, too. Solty bows to Staren when he enters, then lowers into an amateur fighting stance, both arms folded at her sides. "Hello Mr. Staren. It is good to see you again! Good luck in our fight!" The green-haired android girl waits for him to respond, then widens her stance a bit. "Here I come!" she announces before leaping toward Staren with quite a bit of speed. She bounces a couple of times to try and throw off his aim before aiming a punch at his midsection.
Staren	Staren walks out as he's announced, smiling and giving a quick wave to the crowd. Initially he's dressed in a more military-looking version of his usual clothes, with coat and slacks and boots. He smiles back at Solty and bows, "Good to see you too!" When he adjusts his belt buckle a ring of light travels over his body, clothes fading to reveal not flesh but metal. The outward construction is actually rather simplistic; jointed cylindrical limbs rather than trying to ape the shape of a human exactly. Parts are painted red or sea green, others made of transparent metal that shows the machnery inside, including part of the electronic brain. The face has a sculpted nose and mouth, but the optics look weird, like reflectors. "Before I studied the multiverse, I was a specialist in combat robotics." Staren holds his hands out to the side of his shoulders, palm-up. "This is my ultimate creation in the area of personal combat robotics." There's a soft flash of light as combat armor is teleported onto him. Behind the visor, he smiles (he has a face again, now). "Show me what a full-body resemble can do." He drops into a combat stance. "Show me what /you/ can do!" And she does! As she comes dashing towards him, he adopts a defensive stance with his arms ready to block, and surrounds himself with a transparent amber sphere of force. He rolls his eyes a bit as she feints this way and that -- the forcefield is omni-directional, it doesnt't /matter/ which way-- She smashes THROUGH the field -- most of the front half of it shatters into sparkling dust that fades away. He didn't expect that, and she easily ducks under his guard to punch him in the gut with a satisfying KLONG sound. He stumbles backward... ...But as a machine, he can't actually have the wind knocked out of him or be stunned by hard hits. Thrusters on his back stand him up, and he drops the field long enough to aim both arms at her. The two beam cannons on the right arm fire, but compartments on the left arm open and little mechanical arms come out, holding pieces that assemble into... some kind of energy weapon around the left arm. And then it sprays plasma like a flamethrower, as close as Solty is. "Nice start!" Staren comments, with a grin!
Solty Revant	Solty smiles with the sort of innocense of a child being given a compliment. "Thank you!" she says before blinking as those weapons deploy and train on her. She looks like she is going to try and block them since she crouches down and puts her arms in an X-block position. But instead, just as the beam cannons go off...Solty is suddenly no longer in front of Staren. Instead, she is above him! Depending on what kind of sensors Staren has, he might be able to tell that she didn't teleport. She just moved that amazingly fast that it seemed like time stood still for just a moment. Now she is already mid-somersault, aiming a downward kick at Staren's robot head!
Staren	It was a sincere compliment! When Solty disappears, Staren knows what's coming since /he literally just had 17 try that one a day ago/. He looks up and starts to dive out of the way but it's /still/ not fast enough, and her foot lands on the helmet, denting it with cracks spiderwebbing out around the top. "Tch!" So... if she's going to insist on melee, he tries to grab her with his right hand, continuing the flamethrower assault but trying to dump a ton of voltage through his right hand into her chassis! Then he tries to thruster-kick her away and put the forcefield back up.
Solty Revant	Solty giggles as she lands a good hit! But blinks in surprise when she is grabbed. She is just about to try escaping when BBZZZT!! It is probably unsurprising to Staren that the electricity has quite an effect. Whether organic or robotic, a jolt like that plays so serious havoc. "Grrrk!" Solty's body tenses up completely at the shock, leaving her to get burned and kicked by his follow up attacks. The kick sends her rolling away, and when she lands face down finally she is smoldering thanks to the plasma thrower. She gets up slowly, obviously feeling pain from the attacks despite being a fully artificial human. "Hehe...o-ouch." she says, staying on a knee for a few moments before standing up fully again. "You developed these weapons yourself? They're really powerful!" she says, though much more softly she murmurs, "...even if I don't like weapons much." Seems to be more of a 'weapons are bad' kind of attitude than 'they are unfair' kind of attitude. She charges forward again, really without any actual tactics beyond close the distance and keep attacking. But, she is very fast on the ground. Her running speed is easily as fast as most high performance vehicles. And when she closes in she leaps and throws another kick, this time a roundhouse aimed at Staren's side.
Staren	Staren watches dispassionately as she lands down and burnt, planning his next move. "Some of them. No need to reinvent the wheel." Before he can follow it up, though, she's back on her feet and charging him! He actually turns off the field as he tries to step aside, and it's clear why -- the sphere is a much /bigger/ target -- if her attack is close enough, dodging won't matter if she has the field up! But he's still not fast enough! "Oof!" her foot crunches into his side and he starts to tumble over, but wings of energy appear at his back and buzz like an insect's, righting him as he makes a horizontal CHOP with his arm -- the armor's folded into it somehow, the metal skin shining with light, charged with electricity to not only shock her, but use high-frequency physics to increase its cutting power!
Solty Revant	Solty quickly puts up a side block to try and stop that arm, but still the chop causes some metallic crunching sounds and that electricity once again does its job. She winces as the current flows through her, and suddenly a battle that looked like it was going well seems to be quickly turning against her. But, since she has Staren so close she grips the arm that chopped at her. She looks a bit angry and rather determined as a flowing yellow-orange aura surrounds her. "I guess we aren't playing nice." she says as she hefts and tries to lift Staren by that arm before swinging him over her head and slamming him down into the ground. If she manages it, the first slam is followed by a few more, displaying the little androids surprising strength.
Staren	"Of course not. We're playing to win." Staren answers matter-of-factly. And then he gets slammed into the ground. The floor of the arena cracks around him. With dents and cracks in his gut, side, and head, he's looking pretty beat-up. As she flings him over her head, some shards of armor from around where she kicked him stay on the ground. Before she can slam him again, though, he curls up to aim feet toward her and his thrusters and wings PULL, with a weaker shock for added incentive to let go along with the heat from the thrusters aimed point-blank at her! Once free, he takes to the air and... stays there. The forcefield comes back up, much thinner than it was originally, but the hole she punched through before has closed up. Staren tries to catch his breath for a moment and make a new plan of attack. Does Solty have a way to hit someone who's flying?
Solty Revant	Solty yelps as she is singed by those thrusters. Combined with the pulling, it causes her to release Staren. He flies up, and Solty looks up at him, and for a few moments it looks like she won't be able to follow. But, that aura of her's intensifies and with a leap that leaves the ground beneath her cratered she sails upward, aiming another punch at Staren's helmet. "You can still be nice!"
Staren	Staren adopts a guarding posture with his arms in front of him, and... Solty punches the forcefield, crushing a chunk of it into quickly-fading sparkles and making cracks spiderweb all over its surface, but it holds... until Staren drops it, as the hit has sent him falling towards the ground, where he lands in a crouch. "I am." He states, flatly, and starts running, trying to keep distance between them. The speakers make sure his voice carries as he runs: "I'm giving this fight my best. To do otherwise... /that/ would be disrespectful!" He fires a couple of staggered shots from the beam cannons to try and discourage her from just charging him in a straight line. There must be tiny cameras built into that body, since he's shooting without looking as he runs away...
Solty Revant	Solty blinks at that. "Oh. I guess that's true." she says as she stays right on Staren's tail. She barrels through his shots, some of her artificial skin flaking away and revealing shining bluish metal beneath. Still, she follows him right to the ground, even trying to punch him right into the ground, that aura still surrounding her.
Staren	As soon as Solty's fist connects with the forcefield, she can feel something off. The angle was just slightly wrong, and Staren slides out from under her, staying at the center of the field as it's pushed aside. It drops again as he holds out his arms. Compartments open all over his body, and weapons emerge on spindly little arms, far bigger than could possibly fit inside that body -- he must be using some kind of space-warping storage technology! He fires everything. Particle beams, lasers, bullets, HEAT rockets, a hail of death by high-energy physics!
Solty Revant	Solty misses, but that doesn't seem to deter her from chasing after him. She jumps about, managing to avoid the bulk of the attack. More of her skin is gone and electricity arcs over several deeper holes. With little other choice, she just keeps punching for all she is worth, her punches augmented not only by her substantial strength, but with explosive bursts of pure kinetic energy.
Staren	Behind the transparent visor, Staren looks surprised that didn't drop her -- but he gets ready to defend himself, the various guns retracting back into him and vents openening to spew coolant vapor behind him. Solty punches through the forcefield and this time all of it dissolves, discs on Staren's chestplate sparking and smoking. This time, Staren manages to keep up, blocking and parrying all but one of the punches, though the one that does land makes a loud CRACK!, and Staren's chestplate just splits down the middle. Staren fires the beam cannons point-blank, staggering their shots, and then he jumps back and fires micromissiles from his arms, which airburst into tiny piercing lances of plasma! They're both on their last legs... will this be enough to finally drop her?