Oh hello there again, I'm back and the fourth chapter of "A Girl and the Machias" is here once more and thank you for your reviews and support in this FT fanfic. To be perfectly honest, I'm in a dilemma on how to make a fight between Bob and Viridian in this chapter and after I was watching the new Overwatch cinematic "Honor and Glory" about Reinhardt's origin story which gave me the feelz :'( and also Dragon Ball Z Abridged to cheer me up with good laughs on YouTube in two different tabs on my laptop, I got the inspiration and got me fired up again. :D

As for my other stories, I've already made document drafts and some are in progress and near completion for proof-reading and fixing some grammar. Man, I really am a lazy bum who should continue updating them and not sleep around. But that's me talking to myself lol.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail and its characters. They respectively belong to Hiro Mashima, the author of the manga series. Same goes for A-1 Animation Studios and FUNimation for the old anime adaptation that I sorely missed and still need of accepting the current incarnation from 2014-2016.

Enjoy and don't forget to review. :D

Chapter 4

Right after Viridian Kriegshammer made Bob Armstrong absolutely furious for calling him: a.) fat, b.) ugly, and c.) gay in one sentence, and have transformed from a happy go-lucky and effeminate plump man into a towering figure of pure unadulterated sparkling muscles and a badass mustache he had somehow grown too as well that caught the ancient Machias warrior off guard and allowed the Blue Pegasus Guild Master to make the first move and sent him flying so hard like a rocket, the entire audience composed of the entirety of Blue Pegasus, Red Princess and the citizens of Helicon Town were shocked with their eyes widening like dinner plates and jaws dropping with a variety of reactions.

"Oh my God!"

"What a crude language..."

"There are children present!"

"Does that new guy have a death wish or something?!"

"He's dead. So very dead."

Jenny facepalmed in utter embarrassment of her Machias friend's stupidity with her face still red. "GODDAMMIT VIRIDIAN!"

Sweatdropping, Hibiki sympathized with his friend, "Well, I did not see that coming."

"I never expected your robot friend was really that dumb to make Master Bob so angry. It's almost like he wanted to fight him at full power and at his best." Karen remarked with her face still in shock.

"Agreed, and it looks like Sir Kriegshammer got what he wanted and he received it in full special package. He should be careful what he wished for in the future. Meeehhhnnn...", Ichiya nodded in agreement.

"A-a-a-all in favor of never directly antagonizing Master Bob and Guild ever again. Say A-aye.", Brianna weakly proposed with her pretty face pale in terror and fear after seeing the former Fairy Tail member's other side with all of her girls in Red Princess immediately raised their hands unanimously with all Ayes.

From such a terrifying speed of Bob's attack on his metallic gut that sent him rocketing into quite a distance, Viridian had violently crashed right towards the Jutsu Shiki barrier with a hint of cracks as a result of Bob Smash.

It was Super Effective.

Then the Machias remained stuck there for a few minutes before sliding down and crashed into the ground with a large thud and a crater too as well.

"Owww...", Viridian clutched his punched gut in pain as Bob's attack had almost ruptured his highly durable metal torso a racial trait the Machias race have possessed, and leaked small trickles of bleeding Ethergon he noticed on his hand. "So this is the true power of Master Bob when he gets mad enough. Arrrrghhhh... I believe that I have made a poor decision."

"INDEED YOU HAVE!", his opponent shouted in agreement.

Apparently, Master Bob can hear him from a distance thanks to his transformed appearance through Muscle Speak which may have enhanced his five senses to superhuman levels.

Viridian looked up to see The Destroyer himself, still with his eyes wide open for the first time, making a fabulous standing pose and sparkles all around himself with his hand pointed to the right side where the audience are and shouted with all his might from the top of his lungs.

"HIT BOB'S MUSIC!", he commanded.

It turns out that there was a band of fabulous-looking and able-bodied musicians with their musical instruments who then immediately started singing, providing a background music which happens to be wrestling for the main event of the fight between Blue Pegasus Guild Master and the new member.

(*starts The Pillar Men theme*)

Satisfied that his theme song is now playing, Bob turned towards the Machias warrior as he made series of body flexing poses and exclaimed loudly. "Viridian! That was quite a trash talk you have made there! Rolled all three together at once! Right on my WEIGHT! Right on my BEAUTY! And right on my SEXUALITY! I've never felt so much OVERWHELMING RAGE in all my life! That I should thank you and also forgive you for that... right after I SMASH you so hard just to vent all my anger out of my system on you and you won't even walk straight for weeks! If you manage to survive that is!"

Not even replying or responding on the apparent innuendo from the older human who is more into men as Viridian slowly stood up with the help of his rocket mace and allowing his Guild Master continue his monologue while reassessing the flamboyant human's Threat Level that had been raised from Very High to Very Large after he had transformed and analyzing ways to defeat him if he were to survive and win.

"You think that just because you're a Machias you're the best there is at what you do and what you think your way of logic is better than us in the present era compared to yours in the past... But let Bob tell you something, brother: you ain't no Wolverine! And you ain't got what it takes to step up to a five time champion!", the smug smirking Guild Master of Blue Pegasus exaggeratedly pointed his finger to the sky.

"Champion of what?", the Machias warrior questioned with mild confusion.

The ex-Fairy Tail Mage shouted in reply with his finger pointed at him, "WRESTLEMANIA OF WIZARDRY! You see, Viridian, you sit here and brag about how the Machias are the most technologically advanced race in all the world; how they're the most intelligent and how they apparently shaped history with us humans in the past. Well, look at where they are now: MISSING! You talk about your legends, and your race, and your pride, but that doesn't mean a damn thing to this man!"

With the final touch unleashed for the climax, he made series of absolutely fabulous and the most sparkling poses that has made Ichiya cry and revere in deep admiration for his Guild Master. "BECAUSE THE NAME'S BOB! AND I'LL MAKE YOU SOB! AND YOU'RE GONNA BE HURTING ALL! TOO! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!"

After that, ten pillars of Magical fireworks exploded behind Bob in a finishing standing pose of showing off his glorious muscly backside and buttocks that formed the symbol of Blue Pegasus after he made quite a trashtalk on the Machias himself compared to what he called him earlier.

In short, Viridian Kriegshammer got utterly roasted.

Very Hard.

He needs Jenny's repairing for the burns on his systems when this is over.

The many fans of Bob among the audience, male, female and those swinging both ways, have shouted with pure admiration and glee of his fabulousness and sparkleness as they have loudly cheered and applauded for him. "BOB! BOB! BOB! BOB! BOB!"

"Master Bob is truly the most fabulous of us all! We are not worthy! Not worthy in his presence! MEEEEHHHHNNNN!", the short stocky man exclaimed with tears and sparkles.

The three children of Blue Pegasus, the brown-haired woman with witch hat and stunning revealing dress, and the entirety of Red Princess merely sweatdropped at Bob's overly-flamboyance while the most of the Guild were so amazed of his pure unadulterated manliest of man performance.

(*ends The Pillar Men theme*)

And that's where the music theme stopped in conclusion from the band.

"I see. So that's your other side when you're mad enough and transformed into your more appropriate form. Intriguing. You have my full attention, Master Bob. Now it's my turn to introduce myself!", Viridian commented, when he managed to recover from such roasting and witnessing his human leader's flashy performance of muscles and posing, before he assumed a fighting stance with his left arm raised as he's ready to ram at his opponent and his rocket mace held in the other side with his right arm as the main thruster behind his back began to hum to life and began to flare out, ready to burst.

"Oh..", Bob quirked his eyebrow and mustache in amusement as he knew his new member is ready to fight back.

Viridian declared as his systems locked on target to ensure he won't miss or make a mistake, "My name is Viridian Kriegshammer! Veteran of the Human-Machias War of X500s! I have fought and bested countless of powerful human wizards and warriors in the past from that same conflict! A war machine of a hundred battles! Thank you for this opportunity to fight you at your best Master Bob! Now let me show you why I'm one of the strongest among my people! CHARGE ASSAULT!"

With that, Viridian charges forth with a short temporary boosting speed in a straight path line, intending to ram Bob in his way. Bob was somewhat surprised that the Machias warrior was deceptively faster than he looks due to looking like a big bulky knight when the latter literally slammed right into his stomach like a charging bull, obviously paying back for the gut punch he gave Viridian earlier.

As a result of the collusion like a speeding combination of a tank and a trainwreck, Bob's eyes nearly bulged and his lungs were nearly knocked out of its air.

Immediately after that when Bob was pushed back a few meters long enough to be reached within his weapon's melee range, the armored giant made a fast series of his rocket mace swinging which its boosters flared to life that enhanced the speed and power of the blows, pummeling the overly-muscular man's body as hard as he can and with the final strike, he smacked the former Fairy Tail Mage right in the face, causing a huge explosion that nearly shook the ground and almost made the audience fall into the ground from that kind of attack.

However, Bob appeared to have been unharmed apparently as he neither flinched nor was sent flying from Viridian's counterattack. If it were an average Mage, they would have been completely demolished with all of their bones broken into dust and pieces, and probably died from their internal wounds within their bodies if not treated quickly.

But then again, Blue Pegasus Guild Master was anything but an average Mage at all. He was a Fairy Tail Mage and such people from that Guild that he used to be a member of, they're apparently notoriously gluttons for punishment and will never give up in the face of an overwhelming adversary even if it kills them.

"Thank you sir. May I have another?", he complimented with a smile.

Viridian was actually surprised of this development as he watched Bob nonchalantly removed the rocket mace from his undamaged head and stretched his neck like it was nothing to him. "This is impossible... How did you withstand my chain combo of attacks? My Charge Assault felled so many of my opponents even if they have put up the strongest defenses back in the war."

"Silly Viridian. The only thing Bob sells... is Merchandise! BOB SMASH!", Bob replied before disappearing and reappearing in front of the ancient Machias with a powerful punch to the chest that pushed him back several meters back and the latter suffered another direct blow as a result with more leaks of Ethergon becoming visible through the ruptures and tears on his chassis.

Performing a bodybuilding flex with his raised muscular arms bulging and pecs bouncing along with sparkles and hearts, he explained, "Thanks to this supportive Magic, Muscle Speak along with High Speed, I have regained my former build and speed from my youth back in Fairy Tail as a member of Team Makarov. After all, these amazing set of manliness and sparkling muscles has been passed down in the Armstrong family for generations!"

Unfettered and recovered for a brief moment when Bob reappeared in front of him at a blink of an eye again, Viridian retaliated with another assault of powerful swings of his weapon but to his shock, his rocket mace have phased through Bob's body in every blow and realized he's using Phasing Magic but it was too late to shield himself on time.

"BOB PHASING KICK!", the Blue Pegasus Guild Master then kicked Viridian directly in the head and sent him flying like a cannonball, causing a massive explosion of dust and debris.

"GAAAHHH!", the Machias screamed in pain as leaks of Ethergon spilled out of his head wound and looked like he was about to short-circuit with sparks of electricity around his damaged body.

"Viridian!", Jenny shouted in shock and concern.

Hibiki said after observing the fight, "That must be Master Bob's Phasing Magic. A type of Caster Magic that enables the user to pass through solid matter as they temporarily merges with the matter they are attempting to phase through, neither harming them nor the matter upon exit. Viridian has picked the worst opponent. What was he thinking?"

"A dumb machine no doubt. Guess his years of stasis must have screwed his head full of bucket of bolts to challenge Master Bob in a fight he cannot win.", Karen snidely remarked before she was grabbed by the shirt from an enraged blonde girl who did not take her remarks well.

Jenny snarled in anger, "You take that back, Karen!"

"Make me! He's just a dumb machine, Jenny!", the green-haired girl snarled back.

"That's it. I've had it with you!", Jenny was about punch Karen in the face.

"Girls, stop fighting this instant! You're members of Blue Pegasus! Act like it and behave!", a brown-haired woman with a witch hat and a stunning revealing dress who helped with Ichiya setting up the Jutsu Shiki barrier broke up the two young girls before it escalates into a cat fight that is unbecoming of dignified women of Blue Pegasus.

"Whatever, Helen.", the two girls huffed away with their anger barely cooled down for a moment before they continue watching the duel.

The woman named Helen sighed, "Children. Why can't those two be friends?"

"Sorry about that, Miss Helen. They're... complicated.", Hibiki apologized on the girls' behalf.

"Understatement of the week...", the Blue Pegasus woman named Helen dryly noted.

Now back to the fight, Viridian got up again from the kick to the head by Bob after he phased through his rocket mace several times. Never before he had been pushed back this hard, not even the Mages and warriors he had fought and slain in X500s can compare. Last time he had recalled in his programming, they were never this strong and skilled before.

Perhaps this must have been a wake up call for the ancient Machias warrior who had been reactivated in the new era that these humans are never to be underestimated and have grown more powerful in terms of Magic Power and fighting skill.

But that doesn't mean he will just roll over and lose himself to the man whom he had pledged his allegiance to his Guild and comply with such extremely ridiculous no-killing moral rule of this Fairy Tail they have imposed themselves and those who follows it like Bob had for Blue Pegasus. He is a knight who defends the weak and protects the innocent from harm, and annihilates those who harm the weak and innocent and had the audacity to dare ask for mercy while they themselves didn't give it to their victims with extreme prejudice by his rocket mace.

Sure, it sounds nice on paper but it's way too foolish and naive as sparing even your absolutely worst enemy who had done so much pain, death and suffering after defeating them at last will only allow more path of bloodshed and carnage if they gets away with it Scot-free and not facing the consequences before doing it over and over again.

After all he had seen the worst of humanity back in X500s and now in the present era he's in, they have manifested in the form of Dark Guilds, bandits, cultists, and slavers who are currently plaguing the land of Fiore and made the people suffer while the Legal Guilds who follows Fairy Tail's moral rule of no-killing them. That thought in his programming infuriates him because these Mages of Legal Guilds are soft and fools who don't have the stomach to end the deviants' pathetic lives so they won't hurt or kill anyone else ever again, but he could not blame them because they live in a period of peace and a thought of killing must be revolting for them.

However, he won't care if they call him a murderer even when it's already legal to kill these criminals by the laws of the Magic Council described by Hibiki and act like they're better than him, lecturing or rather droning over that killing is not the answer and giving second chances to the bastards who will sooner bite the helping hand than accept it.

He will not lie and pretend that he will fall in line with their dumb "moral high ground", and will stand his ground if he must.

Maybe he should have joined the Fiore Royal Army or even the Magic Council's Rune Knights because he can legally kill such scum of humanity that way in defense of the state and people properly. But now that he's officially a member of Blue Pegasus because of his meeting and friendship with Jenny Realight, he will have to make do with this human Guild.

Because one way or another, Viridian Kriegshammer, the Last Machias and new member of Blue Pegasus swore that he will win this fight no matter the what. Of course he will have to draw the line of his methodology first in order to not disgrace the name of his new Guild he joined after that as he still has his own sense of honor as a knight.

And now his analysis of his opponent is complete, ready to exploit the human's weakness.

While waiting for his opponent to recover from such a intense beatdown he gave him, Bob contemplated in his mind of why he had chosen to fight the sentient machine in this one-on-one duel, so he can win and wanted Viridian to drop his controversial intentions of killing Dark Mages left and right when taking jobs of destroying Dark Guilds.

Because that is not the right way.

In spite of the guild's reputation and fame stemming mostly from the beautiful and fashionable men and women in it, becoming a member of Blue Pegasus requires little more than the simple approval of Bob, regardless of Magical capabilities, former allegiances or the other members' opinion. Almost similar with Fairy Tail, because even after he left to form his own Guild, Bob follows Makarov's example of doing his duty to guide young men and women who have lost their way back onto the right path.

Bob is fully aware that there are indeed irredeemable psychopaths, maniacs and monsters who cause so much harm to the weak and innocent out there but there are too many young people who have been repeatedly screwed over so much by the wickedness and cruelty of the world itself that made them that way and lashed all their pain, suffering and anger out in the wrong path.

It will just create more tragedies and sorrow, and usher new waves of even more screwed up people.

A cycle of hatred.

This is what Bob intends to follow his old friend's lead and help the youngsters back on their feet with a new leash of life and redemption. In fact, several of his members in his Guild used to be criminals, delinquents, bandits and even a cultist in the past before they changed their ways when they diligently served their sentence with good behavior and rehabilitation in their surrender to the authorities by his efforts in visiting Council jails along with hiring out lawyers to defend them in court, and became proud and respectable Mages of Blue Pegasus today.

His best quality which makes him Guild Master is his natural charisma and persuasion, either through talking or kicking ass but mostly the former. Of course, he also invested on hiring out therapists and psychiatrists for the evaluation of his members' mental health and conditions so they can lead a stable life in their careers as Mages of his Guild.

Something Makarov didn't when he took in orphans, outcasts and weirdos into Fairy Tail for some reason. Because of that, almost all the Mages of Fairy Tail are unpredictably wild and destructive that always gets on the nerves of the Magic Council and presumably everybody else in Fiore by their streaks of continuous property damages and crazy antics.

Poor Makarov and his aging heart for having to always write apology letters and arrange compensations to the Council whenever that happens.

He'll have to ask his old friend about his lack of hiring help on their mental health and well being when this is over now that he thought about it. That's probably partly the reason why he left and founded his own Guild with the foundations of beauty, manners and grace he set up.

Moving past that. The most important value that Bob shared with his time in Fairy Tail of them all.

There's always a second chance.

If Viridian knew some of the members of Blue Pegasus of their dark pasts as criminals and Dark Mages the moment he scanned them of their identities, there is a 1% of probability that he would try to kill them because he clearly stated that he will annihilate such scum with the hammer of justice and apparently doesn't believe in second chances. Earlier back then, Bob felt the nervousness and apprehension of the same young men and women who listened to Viridian's approval in taking jobs of destroying Dark Guilds and having no problems of legally killing them thanks to the Council's laws.

He could hear how they whisper how they're fortunate and grateful of their Master giving them second chances of life from their path of wrong and are more worried if Viridian will more likely squash them like bugs than accept they have changed for the better since he doesn't believe in humanity's capacity to move past their transgressions should such a potentially disastrous encounter happen.

This put his members in serious danger with an ancient Machias warrior from a long distant conflict between humanity and his people who won't hesitate to bring the hammer down on the first Dark Mage he sees on the first day of the job in his Guild. Now they're counting on him to make Viridian see reason and also change his bloody methodology or else none of them will be ever safe from him.

For the sake of his honor and ideals of Fairy Tail he had cherished deeply in his heart, Bob Armstrong, The Destroyer and Guild Master of Blue Pegasus, will win this fight and prevail no matter what.

"I hope you're not running out of fumes there, Viridian. There's plenty more where that came from!", Bob cheerfully called out.

"I'm just getting started, Master Bob!", the large armored knight shouted back as he's ready to fight back despite suffering chassis damage.

Rerouting his Magical energy from his systems into his rocket mace that glows hotly red on the tip as if it was freshly made from the hottest forge with strong exertion and effort, the Machias member of Blue Pegasus dashed towards Bob once again. "CHARGE ASSAULT!"

In response, the overly-muscular man raised his fist and ready to punch him once more after phasing through his hammer swing. "BOB SMASH!"

Within the hair's breath which is obviously not Bob who's still bald, the Machias warrior dodged the punching attack on time and made his move.

"FIRE STRIKE!", Viridian gave a hard upper swing of his glowing rocket mace that ignited like a matchstick through the ground and a huge Magical slash of fire was fired from the weapon and struck Bob right in the chest with an explosive result. The ex-Fairy Tail Mage was sent tumbling back like rolling ball and crashed into the Jutsu Shiki's barrier walls with an audible cracks from it, surprising everybody witnessing it.

"Viridian can use Fire Magic?!", Hibiki said in surprise with wide eyes.

"I don't think so. I believe saw Viridian channel his Magic power into his weapon and created what it looks like a Fire spell attack that Master Bob's Phasing Magic didn't phase through when he upper swung at him directly. Like a fiery weapon ignited by intense friction like how we use the matchsticks or hitting rocks together to make fire.", Jenny countered.

Hibiki and those who had overheard Jenny's explanation behind Viridian's Fire Strike technique among the audience seemed to have understood and watched on.

"You... bypassed my Phasing Magic?", Bob muttered when he realized he was wounded as he got up and noticed the glowing rocket mace of Jenny's friend.

Viridian confirmed while maintaining his guard with his trusty weapon. "Affirmative. Phasing Magic. Quite a dangerous ability to phase any solid matter when used in battle. A human wizard with such Magic like you can go through walls, shields, defenses and weapons while inflicting damage on their opponents. Even phasing through the target's body for a quick kill. With the combination of Muscle Speak and this High Speed of yours, you made yourselves a very dangerous adversary. Unless... unless you cannot go through Magical types of offense and defense. I believe I have a found a weakness to Phasing Magic.", he finished his analysis of Bob's strengths and weaknesses.

"And because of my Fire Strike technique, it looks like that you've been... Hammered.", he ended with a lame punchline.

Then a presence of awkward silences dawned on the field with a wave of cool breeze from the northern lands of Fiore passing by as the audience blankly stared with a sweatdrop at the Machias, who sensed it and didn't make a move, for cracking an incredibly lame pun related to his rocket mace. Even Jenny and her friends could not believe it too either as well.

"I get it!", a young man from Helicon Town shouted out.

"Shut up, man.", his companion chided him with a dope slap.

"Sir Kriegshammer needs to polish his sense of humor first if he's going to make a punchline like that. Meeehhhnnn...", Ichiya deadpan muttered which his comrades and the townsfolk agreed.

Laughing heartily with literal hearts appearing next to him, Bob mused, "That was actually really funny! You Machias are really smart figuring out my strengths and weaknesses of my Magic. Let's test that theory out, shall we? With this attack, this will go through you and end it in one blow. But rest assured, I won't kill you. Now... DOOODDDDDGGGGEEEEE!"

Assuming a basic form of human martial arts stance that the ancient Machias had noticed, the Blue Pegasus Guild Master immediately fired a soft but incredibly fast and strong Magical blast from his fist glowing with blue Magical energy, ensuring he won't end up accidentally killing his own member as he punched forward towards his opponent with a great shout, "BOB PHASING FLASH FIST!"

In response with a quick reflex, Viridian projects a broad, forward-facing Magical energy barrier from his left hand of the castle gauntlet he had raised and Bob's own Magical attack had been stopped in its tracks with a loud sound boom and another destroyed surrounding as a result. "BARRIER FIELD..."

"Whoa...", Jenny can only say in awe and surprise of her Machias friend's glowing barrier of blue Magical energy that defended against Master Bob's offensive spell of Phasing Magic.

"Hibiki, your Archive Magic can also do that right?", Karen asked as she was also surprised as the rest of the audience watching with the same reaction too as well.

Slowly nodding, Hibiki replied, "Yes, I have one such defensive spell of Archive: Force Shield, it creates a shield from screens of Archive Magic that are very durable but the limit of its blocking capability is unknown so far because I haven't tested it yet. Viridian seemed to be capable of projecting a large barrier wide enough to protect himself and a handful of people who gets behind his back for protection but I don't know if it shares my defensive Archive spell since Viridian had been sleeping for 300 years before Jenny found and reactivated him."

"Oooh, now you really are compensating for something Viridian. A big strong Machias knight with a large rocket mace and a huge Magical barrier shield. How appropriate. Hmm... I was hoping you would Dodge that.", Bob teased with his hand on his chin in an affectionate pose at his member's defenses.

"Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. You humans never fail to amuse me. Even after 400 years has passed until today, your kind are as quirky and lively as ever. Not there's anything wrong about it. For your information, I'll only Dodge when there's something I cannot defend myself with my Barrier Field.", Viridian dryly commented as he put away his Barrier Field.

"Thank you. I also believe your people liked imitating us too considering you have a personality of your own from your programming. That is a good thing too. As you know, I don't like boys and girls who act like emos with goth-themed appearances as if they're trying too hard to look dark and edgy. They crawl in my skin sometimes and they have no sense of real defining personality and expression as they act and feel like emotionless robots, no offense. Most of them are from Dark Guilds and Zeref cults.", the Destroyer commented while in his thoughts. Which I have corrected my members to the right path filled with color, fashion and real individuality after accepting them in my Guild.

"Duly noted.", the Machias warrior took that into considering as it makes things easier for him to identify Dark Mages of their appearances. Readying to battle once more with his trusty weapon, Viridian asked, "Shall we return to the fight, Master Bob?"

"Of course, Viridian. Let's skip the foreplay and ready for the real deal now that I'm all warmed up! REQUIP!", Bob happily commented as he clapped his muscular hands together to form a blue Magic circle and summoned a large broadsword fit for someone like him in his Muscle Speak form when it's revealed in all its length and its girth.

There's nothing special about this weapon wielded by the ex-Fairy Tail Mage. Just a plain regular broadsword that you can normally find in many weapons and blacksmith shops among the variety of armor and weaponry you can buy with enough Jewels for a price.

Nope, it's not even a legendary weapon that isn't a goddamn katana that has been passed down through generations unlike the Armstrongs' sparkly muscles and manliness, by some dumb mythical creatures from fairy tales because katanas are overdone and overrated to death especially in this universe.

"Is it just me or are you the one who's actually compensating for something, Master Bob?", the Machias member of Blue Pegasus drawled at the apparent hypocrisy of his human leader for making fun of his rocket mace and barrier field while he himself wielded a broadsword as large as his overly-muscular form.

"My bad, Viridian. Sorry about the little hypocrisy I made. After all, I'm only human.", Bob mused before he gave a lazy swing on the ground at the left that immediately carved it into exploding pieces of dust and debris as if he wasn't even trying. "Heh, still got it.", he grinned and assumed a basic swordsman's stance with his legs spread and weapon ready to slice and dice.

The armored giant appeared to be cautious now that he just witnessed Master Bob casually sliced the ground next to him with nothing more than a regular broadsword of his size which it is actually his superhuman strength that made the weapon look so deadly to the point others may easily mistake that as Sword Magic.

But in reality, he's just that good.

Bob The Destroyer was not as rusty as he looks despite looking past his prime pre-Muscle Speak and not much of an active fighter since Jenny informed him he used to be a Mage of Fairy Tail earlier due to managing Blue Pegasus as Guild Master.

He certainly lived up to his namesake.

Now, Viridian will have to take him seriously and end this duel with victory or defeat. "Let's finish this battle then!", he declared with his back thruster and rocket mace flared to life.

"I couldn't agree more!", Bob smiled with glee as he readied himself for the real fight to begin.

Using Charge Assault once more, the Machias dashed directly towards the Armstrong in great speed and powerfully swung his rocket mace ignited with fire through intense friction. Bob then slashed his broadsword in response and intercepted the attack with ease.

The resulting clash between the war machine and the former Fairy Tail Mage have caused the already destroyed surrounding even more damage and the audience had braced themselves. The Jutsu Shiki barriers appeared to be cracking with intense pressure from the ongoing duel and the Mages of Blue Pegasus and surprisingly Red Princess had to immediately work on maintaining them as best as they can in order to protect the Helicon citizens and also themselves.

"Kyaaah!"

"Oh shit!"

"Brace yourselves!"

"Everyone, hold the barriers together!"

"This is crazy!"

In the midst of the raging fight, Bob launched series of fast basic yet precise sword slashes and Viridian responded by also retaliating with his hammer swings, almost matching them in the same speed as blood and Ethergon spilled out from their wounds and bruises they have sustained. The Destroyer then retracted his broadsword and fired another Bob Phasing Flash Fist which the Machias warrior sustained a shoulder injury with a big dent after barely dodged in time.

Retaliating, Viridian fired his Fire Strike from his rocket mace and landed a bone-crunching blow right on the ribs on Bob who simply grinned despite feeling the immense pain. The Blue Pegasus Guild Master swung his blade again only to be stopped by the armored giant's barrier field and the latter used it to bash his head with it, giving him a concussive blow as a result.

Regaining his footing, Bob made a devastating sweeping kick that sent Viridian off balance and made an elbow strike of his muscular arm to smash him down to the ground. Then Viridian grabbed Bob's left leg and began to smack the overly-muscular man around like a rag doll and beating up a dusty rug, creating Bob-shaped craters in the process.

Having had enough of being played like an abused toy, the Armstrong man had wrapped his legs around Viridian and performed a German suplex on the Machias and planted him like a vegetable with an exploding smash. Grabbing the sentient machine's leg, Bob plucked him out like a vegetable and dropped him on the ground. Getting back on his feet, Viridian headbutted the Armstrong and pushed him back.

Then they continue trading powerful blows with their respective weapons with sheer intensity and brutality.

And so the battle between man and machines rages on to the point the entire surroundings have become nothing more than a wasteland of their ground-shattering blows and clashes, and there's apparently no end to it. If this keeps up, the audience will be in danger and Helicon Town might be put at risk of being destroyed down to the ground.

Intending to finish their duel in one decisive blow because they're already wounded and exhausted to the point of no dragging this further, two combatants readied their respective techniques. Bob made series of fabulous fighting poses alongside his weapon with even more powerful exertion of his Magical pressure rising to the max and Viridian took a stance with his rocket mace and rerouted all remaining Magical power into his weapon and his charging thrusters as both of them charged at high speed simultaneously.

The Machias warrior jumped high into the air thanks to a short burst of his main rocket thruster on the back and Bob jumped good too as well to intercept him with his glowing broadsword.

"BOB ULTRA FIGHTING MIRACLE..."

"HAMMER..."

Then the two strongest attacks of Bob Armstrong and Viridian Kriegshammer have collided and clashed with explosive Magical power and strength.

"SLASH!"

"DOWN!"

The entire completely and utterly demolished field was engulfed in a blinding light of red and blue mixed together including the two combatants and the audience themselves. And then the Jutsu Shiki barriers, which have been futilely maintained by the Pegasi and Princesses to protect the town and its people, have finally broke and easily cracked like glass.

Meanwhile on the outskirts of Helicon Town

On the road towards Helicon, there was a middle-aged good looking man with somewhat messy blond hair and blue eyes who wears wearing a simple red tie and a suit, and a fitted trench coat walking in the path back to Helicon Town and had a cigarette on his mouth after he lit it with his lighter. If it weren't for the Blue Pegasus mark on his right hand, he would have been mistaken for an unemployed man who's been a wash up for screwing up his career and future.

He's anything but an unemployed man or a wash up.

Because the man happens to be John Hellblazer, one of Blue Pegasus' four S-Class Mages and had returned from one of his usual works that happened to be taking down Demons and cultists, and investigating various supernatural cases he had solved and dealt with in Fiore as that's his specialty.

Just when he was finished smoking a blunt or two, a bright light had appeared and almost blinded him if he hadn't covered his eyes with his arm. Then with wide surprise, John saw a huge pillar of smoke forming outside Helicon.

"Bloody hell, what in the blazes is going on down there? It looks like a freaking warzone happening down there. It can't be those cunts from Red Princess. They ain't dumb enough to piss off Master Bob just by starting a Guild War here in Helicon. Must be something else... Oh well. Might as well check it out.", John remarked as he finished smoking and dropped his cigarette before stomping on it and proceeded to head towards Blue Pegasus to get some answers.

Author's Note: Hahahaha! Wow, the fourth chapter of "A Girl and the Machias" is done and the next update will be coming soon again as usual. The match between Blue Pegasus Guild Master Bob Armstrong and his new member Viridian Kriegshammer have started with a raging clash between man and machine, and it ends with a cliffhanger. Meanwhile, a certain man in a loose suit and a trenchcoat with a penchant for smoking and specializing supernatural returns to Helicon Town just to witness the end of the fight and he's one of the S-Class Mages of Blue Pegasus who had returned from his high-profile job.

In regards of our lovable Guild Master of Blue Pegasus, I decided to give Bob a wrestler-type personality while retaining who he is in canon and if you get the TFS references, you earn a cookie lol. And as for Viridian, I have to flesh him out of his personality and characteristics while giving him the abilities of a Crusader since I'm a such fan of Reinhardt especially Balderich's epic last stand before he died sitting on his throne like a badass boss in "Honor and Glory" of Overwatch.

I apologize for the innuendos in advance because this is who Bob is and is shameless about it. XD I mean have you seen him calling Natsu and Gray yummy in first meeting? Yeah, he wasn't even subtle about it.

Oh and Bob's theme song is The Pillar Men from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and it's fabulously manly to the core, quite fitting for the Blue Pegasus Guild Master himself when he's on his game face. *starts posing for no reason after listening to the song*

Anyways, I find it very annoying that OCs I've read from other FT stories act like complete saints and always spare the bad guy and forgives them so hard with friendship just like the rest of Fairy Tail cast does 24/7 and it gets old. So yeah, Viridian is the Anti-Hero and will kill his enemies with extreme prejudice even if they beg for mercy but of course he will have to draw the line and not alienate his human friends in Blue Pegasus, even Jenny if he went too far.

However, I also included what was Bob thinking in his mind of his reasons why he doesn't want Viridian to indiscriminately slaughter Dark Mages left and right just like that even though he acknowledges there are unrepentant assholes who deserve what's coming to them. Despite my annoyance at the cliche in most FT fanfics of OCs having typical tragic backstories (if done right, I won't mind), I got to give credit to Fairy Tail that the titular Guild have accepted people from walks of life who had a dark and troubled past in their lives as stated by Mirajane, and made them who they are now.

It wouldn't be a surprise that Bob would follow Makarov's lead of accepting anybody into Blue Pegasus, so long they're good looking and fashionable lol. The flashback scene with Makarov and Gajeel pretty much sums it up with the elderly Fairy Tail Guild Master offering his hand to the Iron Dragon Slayer to join his Guild and guide him back to the right path despite the latter's past actions of destroying the original Guildhall and attacked Team Shadowgear.

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