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Ch.6
"You are quite a bother you know?" I said as recover from my last attack.
It has been a minute into the match.
Laura and I had been throwing attacks and trying to break each other's defense. Not a single direct hit had landed on either one of us. Laura with her A.I.C; and me with the stunning evading skills. In within this short amount of time, we were no further than 20m apart. Close-quarter combat.
"Ha…I… I shouldn't ruin the fun so quickly." Laura replied with sign of out-of-breath. "It is never too late to surrender."
"I will pass that offer, thanks."
But throwing more attack was useless. As long as she could see my attack coming, she could stop it at will with her A.I.C, at any range. I couldn't use any other modes in my arsenal, none of them could really help at this situation. I thought of stealth mode, but when I attack, the camouflage goes off. Plus, the arena was too small and not enough covers to do so.
I switched the radio channel. "Charlotte, what do you have in mind?"
"I have no idea. Last time I beat Laura under the help of Ichika." Charlotte answered with a very clueless tone. "The weakness of A.I.C is that it can only focus on one target… But in a face-off duel like this… there is no secondary target."
"If only I have something that can make a decoy…"
"I was looking at your IS's arsenal just then, your advantage is speed. Maybe try to out run her?" Charlotte suggested. "She can't use A.I.C if she can't see where you are hitting her from."
"Worth a shot. I suppose."
I held my Nikana replica (Bigger than my actual Nikana of course) with both of my arms at a ready position.
I took a deep breath and ignited all my boosted, circle her at supersonic speed. It blew up all the dust as I travel along the floor. All a sudden, I broke out from the loop and swung my Nikana at her point blank rang.
PINGGG…..
The sound of metal vibration echo through the arena.
The dust that covered everything in the arena and slowly faded away. Laura reemerge from the cover, still standing at the same position as she was. Her hand was already reached out and blocked my sword swing by the time the dust settled.
A.I.C!
"Really?" Laura asked. "Do you think I am blind?"
I could not move under the restrain set by the A.I.C. "Laura, you got me good."
"Now then, let me end your misery." She responded, calibrating her gun's angle at me. Between me and the barrel's end is Laura's A.I.C and my sword. "Fire!"
At that split second, I let go of my sword and went backwards as fast as possible. The shot was a near miss and only hit the sword. The IS survived the blast, but my sword broke into pieces. Shattered metal shot towards me at the speed of bullets, puncturing the suit and dent the armor. My Warframe, however, was unharmed.
The arena now has a massive hole in the ground, the explosion created a thin layer smoke between us.
"Is that all you got?" Laura shouted in the radio. "Run away?"
"A true warrior never run away from a fight." I laughed. This duel was no joke. I never thought I would need my trump card so soon. "A warrior never fight alone. Time for you to meet my friend Ordis."
"Who?"
"You will know soon." I activated the disk transfer. Moments later, a voice appear inside my helmet.
"Operator?"
"Ordis, I need you help?"
"Are you fight a girl? … SPICY… how may I help?"
"I want you to rewrite the Suit's function so that my Warframe's Ability is compatible with it."
"As you wish. Give me a minute or so, and I will complete the program rewrite."
"Let's get the show on the road."
Laura changed her approach to this fight. Previously, she remained on her defensive position; now, she begins to take some very aggressive moves. Dashing towards me with her pink plasma swords extended from her arms. "Stop running away!"
I continued to evade her attack, but it was getting more and more difficult to dodge the attacks as she enclosed me along the ring of the arena. "About time to bring this into the sky." I ignited the thrusters and climbed into the sky. "Ordis, I could really need the suit to be ready."
"You can't get away, Voli!" Laura shouted from behind as she was chasing me. She shot some pink threads. It grabbed my left leg and pull me towards her. "Not with what you have done to my Charlotte."
"Shit!"
As she swang her blade, I tried to dodge it, but she still manage to slice one of my IS's ankle clean off along with some of my thrusters. Instantly, I lost the lifting force and the altitude, falling straight down into the ground.
"Man, that hurts." I murmured. Looking up and saw Laura dashing down with her sword towards my body.
"Anytime now, Ordis… Anytime!"
"…2 …1 …completed!" Ordis replied. "The system is synced!"
"Mold!"
At that split second, I created a mold of the IS and myself at the point where I felt onto the ground, slipped out of my IS to the open as Laura got real close to me. She missed my real person and landed her sword right through the mold and into the dirt ground. The impact blow the dust and covered my track.
I stood up and clean off some of the dirt on my Warframe, Saryn, the only thing I am now equipped with. My IS was stuck Laura's arm and the mold reinforced the blade from coming out. I could see Laura trying to pull her hand out, but not able to do anything. "Voli! What is this?"
"A little trick of mine. You like it?"
She grinned as she continued to struggle to pull her hand out.
"If I remember right, IS technology can rebuild their own weapons… I kinda like that sword you broke earlier."
"Let me go!"
"Woah, easy there." I replicated the nikana and walked towards her. A small thought came into my mind,
Should I end this now?
No… I remember Teshin always remind us a duel could be used to settle score, but never develop the hatred against your opponent.
So I continued, "I…I want to clear up our understanding… So… please listen to me"
"Quit talking already!" she shouted.
Charlotte interjected, "She is right, you could end the match right now."
"No, Charlotte, this is not the right way to end a duel." I disagreed, "I don't want her to hate me after this. It just… just… it just ain't right."
"What is your plan then?" Charlottle asked. "Talk her through? She is quite stubborn, you know."
"I will talk with my mouth first, then if necessary… I will let my sword do the work."
"Good luck." She then cut the radio and I switched back to the comm. with Laura.
"Will you let me out or what?" she was still trying to pull her arm out
"The mold will degenerate over time, so Laura, calm down, and let's talk this through a bit."
"… Fine! A détente then."
"Good. Let me ask first… What do you think of me?"
"A weird boy from outer space, a pervert and a rivalry." She continues to struggle to pull her arm out.
"Rivalry? In what terms."
"Ever since you outrun my attacks in the forest that day, I know you are stronger than me. Therefore, I have to overcome and surpass you."
"Interesting indeed. Laura, I will make a fine rivalry. Don't worry about that"
"Voli, I have a question."
"uh?"
"How did you become so strong in such a short amount of time?" She asked, eager to know the answer judging from her face. "Is there like someone you want to protect?"
"No, I have no one to protect. In fact, I am not strong at all." I answered without hesitation. "Sometimes I lose, I fail and get defeated. I make mistakes, bring the wrong gears. No way I can be classified as 'strong'."
"There must be something you are doing that makes me in the blink of defeat."
I took a second to think. I had nothing in my mind. "I honestly don't know, Laura."
"You can think about that when you lose."
"Wait what?" I looked at the mold, it was nearly degenerated. She was buying time for herself.
Laura quickly pull her arm out of the mold, shattering the IS into piece like broken ice. "Time to end this, once and for all."
I quickly leaped backwards a few meters. This is bad, I told myself. Now she has speed and height advantage. "I guess you won't be that easy to be talk through." I said, "Luckily, making a mold isn't my only ability."
"Fancy Magic tricks aren't going to save you now."
"No, they won't." I replied. "but it will end the match."
I charged at her at full speed. She swung her blade at me in response. I slide beneath her swing and placed a spore at her IS's ankle. Although my spore would not do much damage, together with my sword it could penetrate the IS's link and cut off her left IS foot clean off.
Laura lost her balance and fell forward driven by the momentum of her swing. She rolled out of IS and only activated the right arm along with her. She re-activated her plasma sword and dashed towards me. Something was different. Her Eyepatch was taken off, revealing a golden eye.
I knew I couldn't block her sword, her plasma sword can cut my sword in half.
The first swing came from the top left, I dodged towards the lower left and rolled, trying to widen the distance. It wasn't soon for her to catch up.
The loop of dodge and chase continue for a bit. The fighting intensity increased as she attacked faster than before for each blow. At one point, I noticed that her body wasn't catching up with the fight, and I took the opportunity to strike. I pretended to counter her attack by parrying with my sword.
As predicted, by sword was cut in half. At the very moment when our sword crosses, I let go of my sword and formed a fist with my right hand, slammed a heavy hit into Laura's body. (Not in my full strength or she will die for sure)
Laura choked once and fell to the ground. Her remaining IS arm degenerates and left with just her body suit. I think the shock of that hit knocked her out.
There was a moment of silence and the audience cheered and clapped. The announcer spoke, "And the winner goes to our new transfer student, Chelsea!"
I looked at the crowd as they waved around and cheered. I then looked at the ground where Laura was lying down, unconscious and defenseless. The Dueling area around us was full of craters and debits. I kneed down and took a closer look at Laura.
Her eyes were closed and she was breathing softly. I double checked the vitals to see if she immediate danger. Frankly speaking, I think I punched her a bit too hard. I picked her up and carried her like how prince carries a princess. The crowd turns from cheering to high pitch girl scream sound. To make it worse, it echoed in the arena. Laura regained some conscious and noticed that I was carrying her. I expected her to start moving around and try to get out of my arms.
But instead, she stayed in my arms and looked away from my eye contact.
I quickly carried her out of the sight and pass it to the medical school staffs awaits at the entrances of the arena ring. They gave me a quick thank you and off they went.
It wasn't soon when Charlotte hopped down the stairs from the command room down to the entrance, meeting me with joy.
"You done it!" She shouted and hugged my Warframe. "You beat Laura!"
"Yea, it was quite a match." I replied and saw the School newspaper club coming towards me. I whispered, "Charlotte, I think we should better get out of here."
She nodded. "But what about your Warframe?"
"We can deal with that later. Here." I carried her like how just carried Laura and ran off.
As always...
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