Ranma/ Metroid
'Ill Gain'
Nabiki sat reclined in her seat; she had warned her sister that it was probably a trap. At least Kasumi retrieved something that could possibly be useful. The younger woman looked out onto the dark planet, with the rain pummeling heavily onto the view window. She had little concern for the situation at hand.
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The two creatures stalked towards the Space Hunter from each end of the hall. The alligator type creature was the closest, causing Kasumi to back up a bit and stand defensively on her back leg. Once the beast was in range, it lashed out with it's barbed tail.
The Space Hunter vanished.
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Several mantis-like creatures watching a display blinked in unison.
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Kasumi twirled upside down over the centaur-beast and landed behind it. She fired her plasma cannon at its back as an opening volley to test its durability. The creature shrugged off the blast in irritation, and turned around to its source. It swung its massive arm at its target, causing the arm to elongate as if it were rubber. She jumped back out of the way, and converted to her rockets.
The damage this time seemed a little significant, but caused the creature to start aggressing on her faster. Kasumi rushed towards it, and dove between its legs. She rolled into a ball and left a couple of spherical objects by the Centaur's feet.
The beast collapsed onto one side as the explosions went off, and struggled to get back to its feet. The Space Hunter leapt from her roll, somersaulting once in a long drawn out flip in the air, towards the other creature.
While she was in the air, she fired two rockets, one at its head, and the other at its tail. The barbed appendage reeled back, and the head screamed as the rocket collided with it. Kasumi landed on it's back, and leapt away as soon as a double ax handed blow from the centaur slammed down onto it.
The alligator-like creature wailed again as it buckled under the blow from the other beast; its heavy armored shell getting cracked heavily by its partner's strength. Kasumi landed against the wall with her feet and left hand braced against it, she slid down it, and fired another shot at the centaur. The rocket connected with it's coned nose, causing it to flinch in agony to the side.
It retaliated by swinging its massive stretching arm at her again, and Kasumi hopped over it, hiking her knees to her chest to avoid the attack. She then turned around and stuck her index finger of her left hand out to intercept the barbed tail bearing down on her, and completely arrested it's motion. She brought her cannon under her left armpit, and fired another rocket at the head of the centaur, and then one at the head of the alligator-beast.
The centaur rose up on its hind legs, bellowing in fury, while the other creature shrugged off the blow and growled in irritation. It turned and fired a barrage of greenish sphere of energy at her, and the Space Hunter quickly switched to her standard plasma gun and intercepted each one with a shot. Kasumi raised an eyebrow when she noted the energy signature of the two attack's collisions formed the unstable energy she used for her rockets.
Kasumi jumped away, without even turning around, from the two fists of the centaur's that crashed into where she had just been standing. She collected the useful energy, and once again landed on the back of the alligator creature, and noted the heavy crack in its shell. Before she could do anything about it, the Space Hunter tilted heavily to her left side, to avoid a barbed tail taking off her head. Kasumi put the opening of her cannon right against it's tail at a carefully considered angle, and fired rapidly in retaliation. The alligator screeched in pain, as it flailed its tail away, and connected it's barbed end with the head of its partner, causing it to stagger into the hall wall.
Once she had a clear opening, Kasumi kneeled on the creature's back, and raised her left fist. It glowed lightly with her ki when she began to focus, as her father had shown Kasumi when she was young, as she rammed it into the fissure in the creature's armor.
It bucked violently at the pain, throwing Kasumi off and forcing her to roll away in a ball. She just barely came out of the sphere and leapt to the side before a massive foot of the centaur crashed into her. The Space Hunter switched to her rockets, and fired at the base of its foot. Once again it roared in pain, but did not collapse, instead managing to swing its arm at her again, and succeeding in connecting with its enemy.
Kasumi gritted her teeth, as she was sent flying into a wall. She slumped down it a bit, and then leapt away as the centaur's fist crashed into it. The Space Hunter circled around, firing at its head, causing the centaur to flail around in agony. Once it was too preoccupied with its pain, she returned to tend to the second creature. Kasumi was airborne again, and the creature attempted to take advantage of it by firing another of green projectiles at its current nemesis.
Kasumi dodged and weaved in the air, as was one of the skills she gained from the Saotome School, and landed for a third time on it's back. Mercilessly, the Space Hunter rammed her cannon's head into the opening crack of the creature that covered it's soft under hide, and went ballistic with her rockets.
This time she wasn't thrown off by the beast's bucking, and kept firing relentlessly, until she heard a rocket explode into the ground below them.
She jumped away, as it collapsed to the floor, defeated, and turned her full attention to the final enemy.
The centaur's chest opened up, revealing several organic pods. Each pod launched itself at her, and Kasumi went to evade by darting through them. The Space Hunter gritted her teeth when she noticed they had tails on them that was allowing the pods to maneuver and track her. She turned around and away from the centaur to deal with its projectiles, firing her plasma shots and causing a few of them to disintegrate. She leaped straight up over the centaur's swipe, and turned upside down.
Her feet braced against the ceiling, as she fired down at her remaining small pursuers, and then dropped down before the centaur slammed its fist against where she had been. Kasumi landed on her feet, and jumped back, idly collecting the rocket energy to replenish her slightly depleted stock. She noted that its head was cracked severely, and likely to shatter with a good enough impact. She also noted that it was heavily favoring its head, so a good clean shot would not be likely.
It's chest opened up again, and she saw the pulsing pods ready to launch at her again, and utilized her short light speed dash technique of the Anything Goes Grandmaster School. She rolled into a ball that allowed her to skim under the flying pods, and came to kneeling right under the centaur.
A heavy swirl of wind began under it, and built quickly to a tornado's fury that launched the creature to the ceiling hastefully. The centaur's head crashed into the roof of the hall, shattering its armored head, and then crushing it utterly.
It's limp body crashed to the ground beside Kasumi, who was still kneeling in position from utilizing Master Happosai's Bean jam Blowout. Her gun mechanically reconstructed itself over her right hand; the parts of it sliding down like a jigsaw puzzle being slid into place, and he stood up. She leapt and collected the ambient safety reserve energy and rocket energy that was left behind, replenishing her system's function energy and rocket stock.
"Don't even bother with saying 'I told you so'," Kasumi stated into her comm. unit."
"[I wasn't.]" Nabiki replied plainly.
"You can at least pretend you were going to be snooty about it," Kasumi said in exasperation. She turned towards the exit, and found it once again blue. She turned her gun towards it to fire, and then paused as it flickered back to gray. The Space Hunter quickly shifted around to find the centaur with its head still flattened, staggering back to its feet.
Kasumi backed up slowly, as it then made a last attempt at her by charging down the hall towards her. The Space Hunter deftly dodged to the side, and watched as it crashed into the far end, and through the wall. Kasumi ignored the door flashing back to blue when she saw the hidden room. In it was a pedestal that held what she knew was a rocket upgrade.
"I've added five more to my rocket stock, total at 105," Kasumi reported, and went back to exit the battleground.
She was back in the chasm and now facing the violet door. Her nose wrinkled in concertation, and then recalled the weapons upgrade she had just fought for. Activating it, Kasumi fired, and watched the dome melt away to allow her access.
"I think I figured the use of my new artillery addition is."
"[That is good to know.]"
"My, Nabiki, was that a hint of sarcasm?" Kasumi smirked to herself when her younger sister failed to respond.
Kasumi stepped beyond the door, prepared for what was to come next.
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"She's different," one Space Pirate stated calmly.
"Yes, she has new attacks that we had not anticipated."
"It is not anything that cannot be dealt with," a third, imposing voice stated arrogantly, "The Federation lackey will be taken care of. No matter what she is capable of. We cannot allow ourselves to fail once again."
'Ill Gain'
Nabiki sat reclined in her seat; she had warned her sister that it was probably a trap. At least Kasumi retrieved something that could possibly be useful. The younger woman looked out onto the dark planet, with the rain pummeling heavily onto the view window. She had little concern for the situation at hand.
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The two creatures stalked towards the Space Hunter from each end of the hall. The alligator type creature was the closest, causing Kasumi to back up a bit and stand defensively on her back leg. Once the beast was in range, it lashed out with it's barbed tail.
The Space Hunter vanished.
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Several mantis-like creatures watching a display blinked in unison.
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Kasumi twirled upside down over the centaur-beast and landed behind it. She fired her plasma cannon at its back as an opening volley to test its durability. The creature shrugged off the blast in irritation, and turned around to its source. It swung its massive arm at its target, causing the arm to elongate as if it were rubber. She jumped back out of the way, and converted to her rockets.
The damage this time seemed a little significant, but caused the creature to start aggressing on her faster. Kasumi rushed towards it, and dove between its legs. She rolled into a ball and left a couple of spherical objects by the Centaur's feet.
The beast collapsed onto one side as the explosions went off, and struggled to get back to its feet. The Space Hunter leapt from her roll, somersaulting once in a long drawn out flip in the air, towards the other creature.
While she was in the air, she fired two rockets, one at its head, and the other at its tail. The barbed appendage reeled back, and the head screamed as the rocket collided with it. Kasumi landed on it's back, and leapt away as soon as a double ax handed blow from the centaur slammed down onto it.
The alligator-like creature wailed again as it buckled under the blow from the other beast; its heavy armored shell getting cracked heavily by its partner's strength. Kasumi landed against the wall with her feet and left hand braced against it, she slid down it, and fired another shot at the centaur. The rocket connected with it's coned nose, causing it to flinch in agony to the side.
It retaliated by swinging its massive stretching arm at her again, and Kasumi hopped over it, hiking her knees to her chest to avoid the attack. She then turned around and stuck her index finger of her left hand out to intercept the barbed tail bearing down on her, and completely arrested it's motion. She brought her cannon under her left armpit, and fired another rocket at the head of the centaur, and then one at the head of the alligator-beast.
The centaur rose up on its hind legs, bellowing in fury, while the other creature shrugged off the blow and growled in irritation. It turned and fired a barrage of greenish sphere of energy at her, and the Space Hunter quickly switched to her standard plasma gun and intercepted each one with a shot. Kasumi raised an eyebrow when she noted the energy signature of the two attack's collisions formed the unstable energy she used for her rockets.
Kasumi jumped away, without even turning around, from the two fists of the centaur's that crashed into where she had just been standing. She collected the useful energy, and once again landed on the back of the alligator creature, and noted the heavy crack in its shell. Before she could do anything about it, the Space Hunter tilted heavily to her left side, to avoid a barbed tail taking off her head. Kasumi put the opening of her cannon right against it's tail at a carefully considered angle, and fired rapidly in retaliation. The alligator screeched in pain, as it flailed its tail away, and connected it's barbed end with the head of its partner, causing it to stagger into the hall wall.
Once she had a clear opening, Kasumi kneeled on the creature's back, and raised her left fist. It glowed lightly with her ki when she began to focus, as her father had shown Kasumi when she was young, as she rammed it into the fissure in the creature's armor.
It bucked violently at the pain, throwing Kasumi off and forcing her to roll away in a ball. She just barely came out of the sphere and leapt to the side before a massive foot of the centaur crashed into her. The Space Hunter switched to her rockets, and fired at the base of its foot. Once again it roared in pain, but did not collapse, instead managing to swing its arm at her again, and succeeding in connecting with its enemy.
Kasumi gritted her teeth, as she was sent flying into a wall. She slumped down it a bit, and then leapt away as the centaur's fist crashed into it. The Space Hunter circled around, firing at its head, causing the centaur to flail around in agony. Once it was too preoccupied with its pain, she returned to tend to the second creature. Kasumi was airborne again, and the creature attempted to take advantage of it by firing another of green projectiles at its current nemesis.
Kasumi dodged and weaved in the air, as was one of the skills she gained from the Saotome School, and landed for a third time on it's back. Mercilessly, the Space Hunter rammed her cannon's head into the opening crack of the creature that covered it's soft under hide, and went ballistic with her rockets.
This time she wasn't thrown off by the beast's bucking, and kept firing relentlessly, until she heard a rocket explode into the ground below them.
She jumped away, as it collapsed to the floor, defeated, and turned her full attention to the final enemy.
The centaur's chest opened up, revealing several organic pods. Each pod launched itself at her, and Kasumi went to evade by darting through them. The Space Hunter gritted her teeth when she noticed they had tails on them that was allowing the pods to maneuver and track her. She turned around and away from the centaur to deal with its projectiles, firing her plasma shots and causing a few of them to disintegrate. She leaped straight up over the centaur's swipe, and turned upside down.
Her feet braced against the ceiling, as she fired down at her remaining small pursuers, and then dropped down before the centaur slammed its fist against where she had been. Kasumi landed on her feet, and jumped back, idly collecting the rocket energy to replenish her slightly depleted stock. She noted that its head was cracked severely, and likely to shatter with a good enough impact. She also noted that it was heavily favoring its head, so a good clean shot would not be likely.
It's chest opened up again, and she saw the pulsing pods ready to launch at her again, and utilized her short light speed dash technique of the Anything Goes Grandmaster School. She rolled into a ball that allowed her to skim under the flying pods, and came to kneeling right under the centaur.
A heavy swirl of wind began under it, and built quickly to a tornado's fury that launched the creature to the ceiling hastefully. The centaur's head crashed into the roof of the hall, shattering its armored head, and then crushing it utterly.
It's limp body crashed to the ground beside Kasumi, who was still kneeling in position from utilizing Master Happosai's Bean jam Blowout. Her gun mechanically reconstructed itself over her right hand; the parts of it sliding down like a jigsaw puzzle being slid into place, and he stood up. She leapt and collected the ambient safety reserve energy and rocket energy that was left behind, replenishing her system's function energy and rocket stock.
"Don't even bother with saying 'I told you so'," Kasumi stated into her comm. unit."
"[I wasn't.]" Nabiki replied plainly.
"You can at least pretend you were going to be snooty about it," Kasumi said in exasperation. She turned towards the exit, and found it once again blue. She turned her gun towards it to fire, and then paused as it flickered back to gray. The Space Hunter quickly shifted around to find the centaur with its head still flattened, staggering back to its feet.
Kasumi backed up slowly, as it then made a last attempt at her by charging down the hall towards her. The Space Hunter deftly dodged to the side, and watched as it crashed into the far end, and through the wall. Kasumi ignored the door flashing back to blue when she saw the hidden room. In it was a pedestal that held what she knew was a rocket upgrade.
"I've added five more to my rocket stock, total at 105," Kasumi reported, and went back to exit the battleground.
She was back in the chasm and now facing the violet door. Her nose wrinkled in concertation, and then recalled the weapons upgrade she had just fought for. Activating it, Kasumi fired, and watched the dome melt away to allow her access.
"I think I figured the use of my new artillery addition is."
"[That is good to know.]"
"My, Nabiki, was that a hint of sarcasm?" Kasumi smirked to herself when her younger sister failed to respond.
Kasumi stepped beyond the door, prepared for what was to come next.
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"She's different," one Space Pirate stated calmly.
"Yes, she has new attacks that we had not anticipated."
"It is not anything that cannot be dealt with," a third, imposing voice stated arrogantly, "The Federation lackey will be taken care of. No matter what she is capable of. We cannot allow ourselves to fail once again."
