Chapter 1: Genesis, part 3: Battle Above Manhattan, Raina Blake VS. Auriel Dark
Players: Auriel Dark, Raina Blake
Scene: The George Washington Bridge in Manhattan
Note: This is the infamous first duel of the RPG, fitting that it's such a kick-off to the RPG,
ne? ^_^ I like this duel very much myself, all the explosions and such. Poor Auriel, after this
duel, he gets no end of grief. XD
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The black and gold frame of Auriel's Taurus paint job is seen flailing across the sky as the
suit travels in mobile armour mode. Rain pelts the hull as the Taurus travels across Manhattan
Island, now passing almost completely over it. His proximity sensor detects another suit.
"Trouble..."
Raina yawns, lazed in the cockpit of her new UEF's Elemental. She had just spend an hour painting
over the logos and what not. "Lazy asses at the pard, give me a present and they can't even do
all the work..." She grumbles, swurling the liquid in her Vanilla Coke bottle around. She had
parked the mobile suit underneath the highway bridge leading into the busy city of Manhattan.
Cars roars overhead but she paid no heed. Suddenly, an alarm on the sensor beeps. "Oh? What's
this?" Sitting up, she checks the monitor. Another suit. Cursing under her breath, she adjust
herself in the pit, throwing the now empty bottle to the ground before closing the hatch.
The suit leads down and stands, walking into the open, watching the raining sky for the other
suit.
Auriel transforms into normal mode, sliding to a stop. He scans the suit. "Looks like an
Elemental, but no logos..." He hails the pilot. "This is Sergeant Auriel Dark of OZ. Confirm
yourself."
Raina rolls her neon green eyes. "Figures, a gov't bum..." she mutters, looking over the suit
"From Oz...great..." She hears the orders, glowering slightly. "Raina Blake, what's it to ya?"
Her Elemental takes out a sabre but doesn't activate it yet, keeping it ready just in case.
He looks upon the sabre drawn, pulling out a beam cannon in his right hand and the rifle in his
left. :Raina Blake...no, that's Lost Soul's ally!! This means trouble...: he thought. "What are
you doing in the Hudson River?"
She narrows her eyes, pulling the bazooka out in her left. "Well its none of you damn business
anyway but I was working before you came around..." she spat out, getting irriated.
The rifle glows, making the falling raindrops around it glow with it. "I make it my business, so
don't you dare take that tone with me, Blake. I have no time to deal with cocky loners,
especially if you associate with butchers such as DX."
She slowly grins and begins to laughs. "Oh, a bleeding heart! 'Don't kill anyone, its so bad!'"
She laughs harder. Still chuckling she presses a button, the beam sabre flaring to life. Tapping
a few more, the bazooka begins charging. "You know, it people liek you that make me hate the
government, that make me sick, you want to make everything good, but won't sacrifice to make it
work..." laughs again. "It pitiful really...And by the way, I'm not cocky, I just see reality."
"If you saw reality, you wouldn't be stupid enough to challenge me." Auriel slowly strafes
sideways so that the bridge wouldn't suffer with his attack. Then, taking careful aim at his
opponent, he lets rip with a large beam cannon blast. Waiting for his opponent to pop up, he aims
with the rifle in his hand, looking for the ex-Lycanthrope.
Dogdes the beam blast, winding between the bridge support. She growls slightly, muttering a
curse. The suit bends down, hopefully Dark had not spotted her yet. She raises the bazooka. Raina
aims carefully to where the cockpit should be and fires.
Auriel looks around, switching to nightvision display and zooming in, since it was rather late
in the evening. Scanning over the area, he sees the suit hiding, only to find the bazooka raised.
The alarms bleep frantically. She was aiming for the pit. As the shell flies, he releases a
single shot with the rifle, blowing up the shell. He fires another shot at the frame with great
care to get her out of the bridge.
She turns to move, but her suit doesn't make it in time, the beam skimming the shoulder of the
left arm. The metal melts slightly, a few wires inside crackling. an alarm goes off wildly. "Yea
yea! I know! Now shut up!" She shouts at the beeping, pushing buttons to turn it off. She narrows
her eyes at the Oz suit, Raina growling slightly "Screw this far range crap..." The beam sabre
raised, she charges the other suit.
Watching her move away from the bridge, Auriel jets down the river, away from the bridge, for he
couldn't risk civilian casualties. Turning round, he lets loose a rapid attack of beam rifle
fire, finishing with a beam cannon blast. "Ah, so you've quit hiding like a coward. Good. Let's
see how you fare now."
She dodges most of the attacks, pausing just a few yards from the bridge. She lowers the
beamsabre for a moment, glancing at him as he jets away. A grin develops on her face.
"Yea yea..." she mutters, turning her back to him, she raises the bakooza toward the bridge and
fires a few rounds. The bridge explodes, cars burst into flames.
Auriel's eyes widen in great shock. Watching the bridge go, he screams at his opponent. "What the
hell are you doing!?! That's the @#%$ George Washington bridge you idiot!!"
She smirks. "My partner isn't the only butcher. No, come back this way, I ain't fighting you down
there." She pauses to aim at another section of the highway. "Or I can explode these little
people to hell too..."
"You're forcing me to fight in the middle of a heavily populated state?" Auriel takes a deep
breath. "If you pull that trigger, you will guarauntee yourself a long, painful death. My OZ
comrades will ensure that, should I fail, which I won't. You're not just terrorists, you're
insane murderers." Auriel fires again with the cannon. Heat warnings plaster his display.
Raina smirks. "Suit yourself, bitch..." Strading left, she fires again at the highway. It burst
into flames, metal and car pieces fly in all directions. The suit spins slightly, the hand
dropping the bazooka and drawing two beam pistols. She raises them, aims, and fires.
Auriel loses his trademark composure. "Raina NO!!! This is crazy!!" Auriel lets loose yet
another large blast with the beam cannon, stopping the shell and preventing it from killing any
survivors. The beam cannon glows bright red with heat, and in a desperate dash, Auriel blasts
into the river and dips the cannon in. Steam billows out of the river, and the now normal cannon
is raised out. As she drops the bazooka, Auriel fires at it with the rifle, preventing her from
using it again, should she decide to use it again. Watching the shattered pieces fall into the
river, Auriel drops the beam cannon, aiming carefully with both hands, strafing in all directions
before dashing forth and firing 5 shots at her. Some of the beam gun fire slices into his legs
and arms, rocking the cockpit about and damaging electricals. "Why are you slaughtering
innocents?!"
She frowns at the fried bazooka "Darn..." she glances at Auriel, all his shots were off, skimming
across the left side. She slowly smiles. "Well...You pissed me off..."
Auriel is literally shattering his suit's microphone as he shouts at his opponent."DO YOU
SERIOUSLY THINK THAT THAT CAN JUSTIFY THE KILLING OF INNOCENT PEOPLE!?" Realising that he's
losing his temper and that his suit aiming's off, he presses a few buttons, recalibrating his
aim. It would take a bit of time. "This ends now. No more." He raises the rifle into the air. He
had a plan. "You wanna take anyone's life? You take mine."
She stares at him for a brief moment. 'He's up to something...' she considers. The suit's feet
slowly shift to face him, the pistols aimed at the sky. "What fun is that?" She asks dryly.
"You're just one life, but there's a hella lot more in this city..." She points her left pistol
at a nearby building "I could just knock down a few of these..."
:Time to change strategies....: "When I first signed up as a soldier, I swore to guard and serve
with my life. I've failed."
Raina shrugs. "And why should I care?" Her thumb hovers over the trigger button.
The panel bleeps. Calibration finished. :That's it!!!: Auriel quickly points the rifle at the
arm holding the gun and fires quickly. "I failed, but I didn't say I was finished. Thanks for
giving me the time to recalibrate my arms."
Eyes widen as the blast hits the arm, gun dropped. Growls at she aims the other gun at him and
fires over and over, aiming for the cockpit area. Heat radar beeps franticly on the screen. But
she doesn't pay attention, the gun beginning to glow red.
:Hah, that's got her worked up...: Auriel goes in a complete loop up and down, picking up the
beam cannon. Instead of firing it, he shields the beamgun shots, holding it at an angle to
deflect the blows. The beam cannon can't stand the pressure for long, and it snaps. A single
shot hits part of the cockpit, not destroying it but denting the door, making a small gap. Auriel
grins, pushing the knife further into the psychological gap and pointing the beam rifle at her
with a single hand. "Bet you feel real stupid now, don't you? One thing you need to learn is that
when the ball's in your possession, you score. You don't get sidelined by distractions. Hell, I
practically offered myself into your hands..."
She growls again and stops shooting. The beam gun falls from her hand into the river. The water
boils on contact, steaming. "Yea well, whatever..." she mutters, drawing a beam sabre and
lighting it.
"Whatever?" Auriel delays firing, still pointing the rifle. "You've got talent, Raina. I'm not
too proud to admit that. What you lack is skill, and most importantly, self control. You've
killed countless bystanders to try to get to me. You've let your enemy get away from your
clutches when he offered himself to you. You've let your emotions dominate your actions." His
grip tightens on the trigger, aiming for her wrist. "You've got a lot to learn." He fires once.
Jerks her hand out of the way just in time. She shakes her head, smiling. "Yes, that is my
downfall. But at least no one runs my like, I live the way I want to. By my emotions or not."
She raises the beam sabre "And I'm not going to let some government bum tell me to do otherwise!"
She charges forward, swinging the sabre at him.
Seeing the move coming from a mile off, Auriel simply pirouettes out of the way, continuing the
spinning momentum into a thrust kick intented to knock her off course. Hoping it worked, he spins
and fires three shots at her. He stops. Raising his weapon, the E-cap ejects out of its place,
spinning and falling into the river. Auriel plugs a fresh one in. "You tell me that we're so
desperate to make everything better, but we're not willing to sacrifice anything. Soldiers put
their lives on the line every day. Every sortie, every entry made into the battle theatre, they
don't know if they'll come back alive or even in one piece." Auriel takes aim at her. "Saying
such things is an INSULT!" He boosts forward, but then immediately reverses, firing thrice more.
The kick knocks into her left side, causing her to lose balance. One of the shots blasting
through her left shoulder. Growling, she glares at the other suit "Its meant to be an INSULT,
@#%$!" Raising the sabre she spins and swings at him again, taking another shot to the right leg.
Through lack of concentration, Auriel doesn't dodge correctly, and so the blade cuts through
part of his leg, almost taking it off completely. In anger, he aims a hard punch at the head of
his opponent, whilst at the same time placing the rifle away. He continues with two more hard
shots to the chest, finishing up with a large kick, using his good leg. He moves backwards.
"Useless..."
The punches make huge dents, rocking and jerking the suit. She tries to straighten quickly,
regaining her balance. Growls again, losing any bit of self control she had left. Raising the
blade above her head, "DIE!" Screams as she brings in down in a stabbing motion, digging the beam
sabre into the head.
Auriel reaches for the elbow, holding down the arm and preventing the sabre from destroying him.
The saber starts cutting into the pointed head of the Taurus.
A foot raises up, aiming for the area just below the cockpit. She smiles as she watches the
sabre dig into the metal ,wires frizzling "I think this is over now..." She Kicks off hard,
ripping the blade down the front in a vertical line from the head to the left leg.
Auriel is violently thrown backwards, further crumpling the cockpit door. keeping his
concentration, he rushes to the side, and quarter the head is torn away violently, affecting
vision. Grabbing his opponent's arm, he delivers a thrust kick to the torso.
She is thrown back, the cockpit hatch bending inward, sound of metal crunching. but as she
falls, she swings at the good leg. The beam slices through a good half of it. The suit crashed
into the ground. Raina groans as she shakes her head, climbing her feet.
Auriel isnt able to see the slash clearly enough to dodge, and so the blade takes out half of the
leg. As she lands on the floor, he boosts downwards, stomping his oppponent with both feet after
drawing his rifle.
She screams out something as she grabs his feet and throws him off, rolling onto her feet. She
blinks down at the water when she notices nothing metallic. Raina Smirks, its her pistol. She
sweeps down, raises it and fires at him a few times.
Auriel lands heavily on the floor. He aims at Raina, firing at her as she fires at him. Her shots
smash into the left side of his torso, completely removing his left arm's movement. He boosts
upwards, continuing his firing. "It's too dangerous to fight here."
She smirks, strafing out of the way. Firing at the head, she aims to remove it, destoy the
vision. "Still worried about your little innocents?"
"Yeah, I'm just sooo worried bout my little innocents..."
Pirouetting out of the way and towards her, he thrust kicks her in the side, swiping her once
more with the rifle. "...be realistic. It's stupid to fight here. You've killed enough people
here already, and for what reason? To annoy me? To intimidate me? You're a bigger fool than I
thought."
She laughs. "You know what's funny...It did get to you...So who's the fool? I'm not contradicting
myself am I?" Raising the gun to his head as she dodges most of the kick, the foot skimming her
side. She fires at point blank range.
Auriel's hand reaches out, grabbing the hand and pulling it up, so that the fire blazes out of
his sights. "I guess it did. And did it affect my performance? Not likely. I don't let my
emotions affect my piloting skills. Now, accept your punishment and hold still." He twists the
hand as violently as possible, trying to break it off or damage it.
She growls, trying to jerk away, but she can't budge it. The hand sparks, crunching. Her other
hand reachs for the other beam sabre, lighting it. "Omae o korosu..." SHe mutters, stabbing into
the torso.
Auriel sees the sabre light up, and instictively pulls her hand down to catch the sabre.
She growls at the power struggle, both their hands taken. "Why won't you just DIE!?!" She
screams, bringing her knee up into the abdomnal area hard.
The armour on the front dents and buckles, and Auriel can now be seen inside his suit. "You think
you managed to get this far against me because you wanted to? I don't think so..." Laughing, he
thrusts forwards at full speed, trying to push her into the bottom supports of the bridge.
Growls, turning on her own thrusters, the power struggling continues. "Keep talking..." She
mutters, grinding her knee into it harder.
The knee sparks and grinds against the cockpit. He sees warnings, but takes no notice.
"Disgraceful..." He raises his legs, so that the knee slips free. He angles his thrusters down
to push her into the river.
Jerks him off and too the side. She still lands into the water but without his weight on top of
that. "Oh right, like your any better!" She yells, climbing to her feet. The hand with the pistol
sparks, so she switches to the good and and fires at him.
Auriel reaches for his rifle, but the hand struggles to pick it up. No amount of calibration
could fix that. Dodging some of the gunshots, and aiming as best he could, he fires at the hand,
aiming to completely take it off altogether. "Yeah. That's why I'm an OZ Sergeant, and you're a
street punk."
She jerks her hand away just in time, the shot skimming the hand. She fires again, taking at shot
at the head and then the cockpit. "Ever hear of scarcasm, pal?"
"Jeez, ain'tcha ever heard of just shuttin your GODDAMN MOUTH!? QUIET ALREADY!!" Auriel
transforms into MA mode, boosting forwards and avoiding the shots. One catches his foot, taking
it off. He jets upwards, curling down with a hail of beam rifle fire.
She thrust backward, avoiding most of the attacks. One however, strikes her bad knee. She pulls
the other pistol, raising both and letting loose a load of shots. "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!"
Auriel smirks at his opponent's increasing temper. "And whilst you're at it, learn how to pilot
a mobile suit. You're lousy." The gunshots from the first damaged hand fail to strike him. Auriel
makes a long loop, evading the fire from the other hand, then charging straight at her. Hitting
the beam rifle's trigger, another hail of gunfire spirals towards her, whilst the other beamgun's
fire tears into his head, taking his nightvision display out altogether. He aims for his
opponent, charging at full speed. "Let's shee you dodge this..."
Growls, a few of the shot crashing into her, but she takes no heed. "Keep talking and I'll go for
more of your precious humans..." She waits for the right moment as he charges forward. When he's
close even she spins, raising her foot and kicking at the rifle.
The gun (and therefore the whole body) shifts way off course. A large dent is visible in the
rifle, but not enough to adversely affect functioning. He aims at her carefully. "Then kill them.
Remember, you're the one badly damaged and badly needing a repair bay, far more than me. Killing
them isn't going to kill me." He waits for the right moment to counter-attack...
She smirks, "Maybe not." She aims and throws a punch directly at the damaged head.
The fist goes straight through the panel, shattering the display. At the same time, Auriel had
stuck his rifle into her head and pulled the trigger. The suit falls...
She crashes into the river, all visions gone. Hits a button and the hatch opens. She climbs out
of the suit, clad in a green tank top and jeans, her tattoo showing. On her arms is dried paint.
"Come out and fight Auriel!"
The cockpit opens up. Slowly, Auriel climbs out. Unusually, he is wearing a suit with a black
shirt and tie. His coat blows around in the wind and rain. Taking his lightly tinted shades off,
he looks upon his opponent. :Just like a cat...: he thought.
She stalks in long strodes closer. Her neon green eyes looking at him, hatred in her eyes, the
pupils seemed to have narrowed into slits. "Say something, you seem to have alot to say..."
Auriel's silver eyes narrow. :Damn, that's weird, she really is like some kind of cat...:
"You take another step in my direction and I swear you'll regret it."
She rolls her eyes, her hand fingering the hilt of the dagger in her back pocket "More idle
threats?"
Auriel sees her hand move. He knows she has a weapon. "Note this. I don't make idle threats."
Her black and amber hair grows slick with the rain, clothes becoming soaked. "Right right..."
"Yeah, right. And if you're quite finished, I'm gonna get a ride home."
Auriel turns round, pulling a mobile phone out of his pocket. He slowly dials a number, waiting
for her to attack him.
She growls, drawing the dagger and flings it. It stabs right into the phone.
Auriel's phone crackles before going dead. Not at all amused, Auriel drops the phone, and it
falls into the cockpit. He turns around, inspecting a small, freshly made cut on his index
finger. He leaves his sword sheathed. "So now you're trying to prevent me from leaving? Just get
outta my face, Blake. I have no time to deal with you."
She has another dagger in her back pocket but she doesn't go for it yet. "Heap big Oz man trying
to run away?"
Auriel starts to lose his temper. He pulls his USP pistol out and aims it at her head. "I'm
warning you now. I could possibly face disciplinary action for not taking care of you properly.
Don't give me that chance."
She draws the other dagger, flinging it at the gun, it plunges straight into the barrel. "Laser
edged blades, always good for something..."
Auriel drops the pistol. "Yeah, they are." Auriel draws the wakizashi (short sword, shorter than
katana) bound to his side. "Last chance to leave."
She raises her balled fist to gaurd her face, her feet in fighting stance "I aint leaving..."
"What a shame, maybe you could've left alive..." Auriel dives towards her, his coat flapping
behind him. His foot flies towards her face.
She ducks, sweeping his legs out with her left leg.
As Auriel lands, he catches her sweeping leg, twisting laterally and tackling her to the floor.
"This is your very last chance Blake, leave alive or leave in a bodybag..."
She ground, laying against the suit with him on top. She slowly reaches her her last dagger, she
draws it carefully, he still doesn't notice. "If I die, I'm taking you with me..." She stabs at
his side.
Auriel dashes off her momentarily, the dagger scoring a rather nasty cut but nothing that
threatening. He inspects the wound. "Bitch..."
She smirks, rolling onto her back and climbing to her feet, the dagger poised and ready.
"Bakaku..."
"Don't think you can insult me in my own language... gaishou..." Auriel slides the sword back
into the sheath, ignoring the wound. Taking the coat off, he throws it into his cockpit, then
tosses the blade there as well. He didn't need his sword to beat her... "Why are you so
desperate to kill me?"
She smirks "Kenka uten noka?" She strafes slowly left, watching him "Or try this, just Kuchi ni
chakku..." She pauses when she sees a helicoptor fly over head, a camera man leaning out the
side. "@#%$..." She mutters. Glancing back at Auriel, Raina glowered "I'd hate to run, but
obviously I've made this fight a little too public, I hope you have fun explaining to the guys
above how I got away..." Smirks, flinging the blade at him. She runs and dives off the suit,
making no splash, no bubbles, just escaping with out trace.
Auriel leans back and catches the blade with a single hand. He runs over to the suit's edge, only
seeing a dark silhouette under the surface of the water. He drops the blade. Pulling a
handkerchief out and folding it up, he pads the cut on the side of his abdomen with it. Turning
around, he looks at the bridge, what remained of it. As the survivors are pulled from the
wreckage, he narrows his eyes. :This isn't over, Blake...: Straightening his tie, he turns
around, facing the OZ officials now approaching...
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Players: Auriel Dark, Raina Blake
Scene: The George Washington Bridge in Manhattan
Note: This is the infamous first duel of the RPG, fitting that it's such a kick-off to the RPG,
ne? ^_^ I like this duel very much myself, all the explosions and such. Poor Auriel, after this
duel, he gets no end of grief. XD
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The black and gold frame of Auriel's Taurus paint job is seen flailing across the sky as the
suit travels in mobile armour mode. Rain pelts the hull as the Taurus travels across Manhattan
Island, now passing almost completely over it. His proximity sensor detects another suit.
"Trouble..."
Raina yawns, lazed in the cockpit of her new UEF's Elemental. She had just spend an hour painting
over the logos and what not. "Lazy asses at the pard, give me a present and they can't even do
all the work..." She grumbles, swurling the liquid in her Vanilla Coke bottle around. She had
parked the mobile suit underneath the highway bridge leading into the busy city of Manhattan.
Cars roars overhead but she paid no heed. Suddenly, an alarm on the sensor beeps. "Oh? What's
this?" Sitting up, she checks the monitor. Another suit. Cursing under her breath, she adjust
herself in the pit, throwing the now empty bottle to the ground before closing the hatch.
The suit leads down and stands, walking into the open, watching the raining sky for the other
suit.
Auriel transforms into normal mode, sliding to a stop. He scans the suit. "Looks like an
Elemental, but no logos..." He hails the pilot. "This is Sergeant Auriel Dark of OZ. Confirm
yourself."
Raina rolls her neon green eyes. "Figures, a gov't bum..." she mutters, looking over the suit
"From Oz...great..." She hears the orders, glowering slightly. "Raina Blake, what's it to ya?"
Her Elemental takes out a sabre but doesn't activate it yet, keeping it ready just in case.
He looks upon the sabre drawn, pulling out a beam cannon in his right hand and the rifle in his
left. :Raina Blake...no, that's Lost Soul's ally!! This means trouble...: he thought. "What are
you doing in the Hudson River?"
She narrows her eyes, pulling the bazooka out in her left. "Well its none of you damn business
anyway but I was working before you came around..." she spat out, getting irriated.
The rifle glows, making the falling raindrops around it glow with it. "I make it my business, so
don't you dare take that tone with me, Blake. I have no time to deal with cocky loners,
especially if you associate with butchers such as DX."
She slowly grins and begins to laughs. "Oh, a bleeding heart! 'Don't kill anyone, its so bad!'"
She laughs harder. Still chuckling she presses a button, the beam sabre flaring to life. Tapping
a few more, the bazooka begins charging. "You know, it people liek you that make me hate the
government, that make me sick, you want to make everything good, but won't sacrifice to make it
work..." laughs again. "It pitiful really...And by the way, I'm not cocky, I just see reality."
"If you saw reality, you wouldn't be stupid enough to challenge me." Auriel slowly strafes
sideways so that the bridge wouldn't suffer with his attack. Then, taking careful aim at his
opponent, he lets rip with a large beam cannon blast. Waiting for his opponent to pop up, he aims
with the rifle in his hand, looking for the ex-Lycanthrope.
Dogdes the beam blast, winding between the bridge support. She growls slightly, muttering a
curse. The suit bends down, hopefully Dark had not spotted her yet. She raises the bazooka. Raina
aims carefully to where the cockpit should be and fires.
Auriel looks around, switching to nightvision display and zooming in, since it was rather late
in the evening. Scanning over the area, he sees the suit hiding, only to find the bazooka raised.
The alarms bleep frantically. She was aiming for the pit. As the shell flies, he releases a
single shot with the rifle, blowing up the shell. He fires another shot at the frame with great
care to get her out of the bridge.
She turns to move, but her suit doesn't make it in time, the beam skimming the shoulder of the
left arm. The metal melts slightly, a few wires inside crackling. an alarm goes off wildly. "Yea
yea! I know! Now shut up!" She shouts at the beeping, pushing buttons to turn it off. She narrows
her eyes at the Oz suit, Raina growling slightly "Screw this far range crap..." The beam sabre
raised, she charges the other suit.
Watching her move away from the bridge, Auriel jets down the river, away from the bridge, for he
couldn't risk civilian casualties. Turning round, he lets loose a rapid attack of beam rifle
fire, finishing with a beam cannon blast. "Ah, so you've quit hiding like a coward. Good. Let's
see how you fare now."
She dodges most of the attacks, pausing just a few yards from the bridge. She lowers the
beamsabre for a moment, glancing at him as he jets away. A grin develops on her face.
"Yea yea..." she mutters, turning her back to him, she raises the bakooza toward the bridge and
fires a few rounds. The bridge explodes, cars burst into flames.
Auriel's eyes widen in great shock. Watching the bridge go, he screams at his opponent. "What the
hell are you doing!?! That's the @#%$ George Washington bridge you idiot!!"
She smirks. "My partner isn't the only butcher. No, come back this way, I ain't fighting you down
there." She pauses to aim at another section of the highway. "Or I can explode these little
people to hell too..."
"You're forcing me to fight in the middle of a heavily populated state?" Auriel takes a deep
breath. "If you pull that trigger, you will guarauntee yourself a long, painful death. My OZ
comrades will ensure that, should I fail, which I won't. You're not just terrorists, you're
insane murderers." Auriel fires again with the cannon. Heat warnings plaster his display.
Raina smirks. "Suit yourself, bitch..." Strading left, she fires again at the highway. It burst
into flames, metal and car pieces fly in all directions. The suit spins slightly, the hand
dropping the bazooka and drawing two beam pistols. She raises them, aims, and fires.
Auriel loses his trademark composure. "Raina NO!!! This is crazy!!" Auriel lets loose yet
another large blast with the beam cannon, stopping the shell and preventing it from killing any
survivors. The beam cannon glows bright red with heat, and in a desperate dash, Auriel blasts
into the river and dips the cannon in. Steam billows out of the river, and the now normal cannon
is raised out. As she drops the bazooka, Auriel fires at it with the rifle, preventing her from
using it again, should she decide to use it again. Watching the shattered pieces fall into the
river, Auriel drops the beam cannon, aiming carefully with both hands, strafing in all directions
before dashing forth and firing 5 shots at her. Some of the beam gun fire slices into his legs
and arms, rocking the cockpit about and damaging electricals. "Why are you slaughtering
innocents?!"
She frowns at the fried bazooka "Darn..." she glances at Auriel, all his shots were off, skimming
across the left side. She slowly smiles. "Well...You pissed me off..."
Auriel is literally shattering his suit's microphone as he shouts at his opponent."DO YOU
SERIOUSLY THINK THAT THAT CAN JUSTIFY THE KILLING OF INNOCENT PEOPLE!?" Realising that he's
losing his temper and that his suit aiming's off, he presses a few buttons, recalibrating his
aim. It would take a bit of time. "This ends now. No more." He raises the rifle into the air. He
had a plan. "You wanna take anyone's life? You take mine."
She stares at him for a brief moment. 'He's up to something...' she considers. The suit's feet
slowly shift to face him, the pistols aimed at the sky. "What fun is that?" She asks dryly.
"You're just one life, but there's a hella lot more in this city..." She points her left pistol
at a nearby building "I could just knock down a few of these..."
:Time to change strategies....: "When I first signed up as a soldier, I swore to guard and serve
with my life. I've failed."
Raina shrugs. "And why should I care?" Her thumb hovers over the trigger button.
The panel bleeps. Calibration finished. :That's it!!!: Auriel quickly points the rifle at the
arm holding the gun and fires quickly. "I failed, but I didn't say I was finished. Thanks for
giving me the time to recalibrate my arms."
Eyes widen as the blast hits the arm, gun dropped. Growls at she aims the other gun at him and
fires over and over, aiming for the cockpit area. Heat radar beeps franticly on the screen. But
she doesn't pay attention, the gun beginning to glow red.
:Hah, that's got her worked up...: Auriel goes in a complete loop up and down, picking up the
beam cannon. Instead of firing it, he shields the beamgun shots, holding it at an angle to
deflect the blows. The beam cannon can't stand the pressure for long, and it snaps. A single
shot hits part of the cockpit, not destroying it but denting the door, making a small gap. Auriel
grins, pushing the knife further into the psychological gap and pointing the beam rifle at her
with a single hand. "Bet you feel real stupid now, don't you? One thing you need to learn is that
when the ball's in your possession, you score. You don't get sidelined by distractions. Hell, I
practically offered myself into your hands..."
She growls again and stops shooting. The beam gun falls from her hand into the river. The water
boils on contact, steaming. "Yea well, whatever..." she mutters, drawing a beam sabre and
lighting it.
"Whatever?" Auriel delays firing, still pointing the rifle. "You've got talent, Raina. I'm not
too proud to admit that. What you lack is skill, and most importantly, self control. You've
killed countless bystanders to try to get to me. You've let your enemy get away from your
clutches when he offered himself to you. You've let your emotions dominate your actions." His
grip tightens on the trigger, aiming for her wrist. "You've got a lot to learn." He fires once.
Jerks her hand out of the way just in time. She shakes her head, smiling. "Yes, that is my
downfall. But at least no one runs my like, I live the way I want to. By my emotions or not."
She raises the beam sabre "And I'm not going to let some government bum tell me to do otherwise!"
She charges forward, swinging the sabre at him.
Seeing the move coming from a mile off, Auriel simply pirouettes out of the way, continuing the
spinning momentum into a thrust kick intented to knock her off course. Hoping it worked, he spins
and fires three shots at her. He stops. Raising his weapon, the E-cap ejects out of its place,
spinning and falling into the river. Auriel plugs a fresh one in. "You tell me that we're so
desperate to make everything better, but we're not willing to sacrifice anything. Soldiers put
their lives on the line every day. Every sortie, every entry made into the battle theatre, they
don't know if they'll come back alive or even in one piece." Auriel takes aim at her. "Saying
such things is an INSULT!" He boosts forward, but then immediately reverses, firing thrice more.
The kick knocks into her left side, causing her to lose balance. One of the shots blasting
through her left shoulder. Growling, she glares at the other suit "Its meant to be an INSULT,
@#%$!" Raising the sabre she spins and swings at him again, taking another shot to the right leg.
Through lack of concentration, Auriel doesn't dodge correctly, and so the blade cuts through
part of his leg, almost taking it off completely. In anger, he aims a hard punch at the head of
his opponent, whilst at the same time placing the rifle away. He continues with two more hard
shots to the chest, finishing up with a large kick, using his good leg. He moves backwards.
"Useless..."
The punches make huge dents, rocking and jerking the suit. She tries to straighten quickly,
regaining her balance. Growls again, losing any bit of self control she had left. Raising the
blade above her head, "DIE!" Screams as she brings in down in a stabbing motion, digging the beam
sabre into the head.
Auriel reaches for the elbow, holding down the arm and preventing the sabre from destroying him.
The saber starts cutting into the pointed head of the Taurus.
A foot raises up, aiming for the area just below the cockpit. She smiles as she watches the
sabre dig into the metal ,wires frizzling "I think this is over now..." She Kicks off hard,
ripping the blade down the front in a vertical line from the head to the left leg.
Auriel is violently thrown backwards, further crumpling the cockpit door. keeping his
concentration, he rushes to the side, and quarter the head is torn away violently, affecting
vision. Grabbing his opponent's arm, he delivers a thrust kick to the torso.
She is thrown back, the cockpit hatch bending inward, sound of metal crunching. but as she
falls, she swings at the good leg. The beam slices through a good half of it. The suit crashed
into the ground. Raina groans as she shakes her head, climbing her feet.
Auriel isnt able to see the slash clearly enough to dodge, and so the blade takes out half of the
leg. As she lands on the floor, he boosts downwards, stomping his oppponent with both feet after
drawing his rifle.
She screams out something as she grabs his feet and throws him off, rolling onto her feet. She
blinks down at the water when she notices nothing metallic. Raina Smirks, its her pistol. She
sweeps down, raises it and fires at him a few times.
Auriel lands heavily on the floor. He aims at Raina, firing at her as she fires at him. Her shots
smash into the left side of his torso, completely removing his left arm's movement. He boosts
upwards, continuing his firing. "It's too dangerous to fight here."
She smirks, strafing out of the way. Firing at the head, she aims to remove it, destoy the
vision. "Still worried about your little innocents?"
"Yeah, I'm just sooo worried bout my little innocents..."
Pirouetting out of the way and towards her, he thrust kicks her in the side, swiping her once
more with the rifle. "...be realistic. It's stupid to fight here. You've killed enough people
here already, and for what reason? To annoy me? To intimidate me? You're a bigger fool than I
thought."
She laughs. "You know what's funny...It did get to you...So who's the fool? I'm not contradicting
myself am I?" Raising the gun to his head as she dodges most of the kick, the foot skimming her
side. She fires at point blank range.
Auriel's hand reaches out, grabbing the hand and pulling it up, so that the fire blazes out of
his sights. "I guess it did. And did it affect my performance? Not likely. I don't let my
emotions affect my piloting skills. Now, accept your punishment and hold still." He twists the
hand as violently as possible, trying to break it off or damage it.
She growls, trying to jerk away, but she can't budge it. The hand sparks, crunching. Her other
hand reachs for the other beam sabre, lighting it. "Omae o korosu..." SHe mutters, stabbing into
the torso.
Auriel sees the sabre light up, and instictively pulls her hand down to catch the sabre.
She growls at the power struggle, both their hands taken. "Why won't you just DIE!?!" She
screams, bringing her knee up into the abdomnal area hard.
The armour on the front dents and buckles, and Auriel can now be seen inside his suit. "You think
you managed to get this far against me because you wanted to? I don't think so..." Laughing, he
thrusts forwards at full speed, trying to push her into the bottom supports of the bridge.
Growls, turning on her own thrusters, the power struggling continues. "Keep talking..." She
mutters, grinding her knee into it harder.
The knee sparks and grinds against the cockpit. He sees warnings, but takes no notice.
"Disgraceful..." He raises his legs, so that the knee slips free. He angles his thrusters down
to push her into the river.
Jerks him off and too the side. She still lands into the water but without his weight on top of
that. "Oh right, like your any better!" She yells, climbing to her feet. The hand with the pistol
sparks, so she switches to the good and and fires at him.
Auriel reaches for his rifle, but the hand struggles to pick it up. No amount of calibration
could fix that. Dodging some of the gunshots, and aiming as best he could, he fires at the hand,
aiming to completely take it off altogether. "Yeah. That's why I'm an OZ Sergeant, and you're a
street punk."
She jerks her hand away just in time, the shot skimming the hand. She fires again, taking at shot
at the head and then the cockpit. "Ever hear of scarcasm, pal?"
"Jeez, ain'tcha ever heard of just shuttin your GODDAMN MOUTH!? QUIET ALREADY!!" Auriel
transforms into MA mode, boosting forwards and avoiding the shots. One catches his foot, taking
it off. He jets upwards, curling down with a hail of beam rifle fire.
She thrust backward, avoiding most of the attacks. One however, strikes her bad knee. She pulls
the other pistol, raising both and letting loose a load of shots. "DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!"
Auriel smirks at his opponent's increasing temper. "And whilst you're at it, learn how to pilot
a mobile suit. You're lousy." The gunshots from the first damaged hand fail to strike him. Auriel
makes a long loop, evading the fire from the other hand, then charging straight at her. Hitting
the beam rifle's trigger, another hail of gunfire spirals towards her, whilst the other beamgun's
fire tears into his head, taking his nightvision display out altogether. He aims for his
opponent, charging at full speed. "Let's shee you dodge this..."
Growls, a few of the shot crashing into her, but she takes no heed. "Keep talking and I'll go for
more of your precious humans..." She waits for the right moment as he charges forward. When he's
close even she spins, raising her foot and kicking at the rifle.
The gun (and therefore the whole body) shifts way off course. A large dent is visible in the
rifle, but not enough to adversely affect functioning. He aims at her carefully. "Then kill them.
Remember, you're the one badly damaged and badly needing a repair bay, far more than me. Killing
them isn't going to kill me." He waits for the right moment to counter-attack...
She smirks, "Maybe not." She aims and throws a punch directly at the damaged head.
The fist goes straight through the panel, shattering the display. At the same time, Auriel had
stuck his rifle into her head and pulled the trigger. The suit falls...
She crashes into the river, all visions gone. Hits a button and the hatch opens. She climbs out
of the suit, clad in a green tank top and jeans, her tattoo showing. On her arms is dried paint.
"Come out and fight Auriel!"
The cockpit opens up. Slowly, Auriel climbs out. Unusually, he is wearing a suit with a black
shirt and tie. His coat blows around in the wind and rain. Taking his lightly tinted shades off,
he looks upon his opponent. :Just like a cat...: he thought.
She stalks in long strodes closer. Her neon green eyes looking at him, hatred in her eyes, the
pupils seemed to have narrowed into slits. "Say something, you seem to have alot to say..."
Auriel's silver eyes narrow. :Damn, that's weird, she really is like some kind of cat...:
"You take another step in my direction and I swear you'll regret it."
She rolls her eyes, her hand fingering the hilt of the dagger in her back pocket "More idle
threats?"
Auriel sees her hand move. He knows she has a weapon. "Note this. I don't make idle threats."
Her black and amber hair grows slick with the rain, clothes becoming soaked. "Right right..."
"Yeah, right. And if you're quite finished, I'm gonna get a ride home."
Auriel turns round, pulling a mobile phone out of his pocket. He slowly dials a number, waiting
for her to attack him.
She growls, drawing the dagger and flings it. It stabs right into the phone.
Auriel's phone crackles before going dead. Not at all amused, Auriel drops the phone, and it
falls into the cockpit. He turns around, inspecting a small, freshly made cut on his index
finger. He leaves his sword sheathed. "So now you're trying to prevent me from leaving? Just get
outta my face, Blake. I have no time to deal with you."
She has another dagger in her back pocket but she doesn't go for it yet. "Heap big Oz man trying
to run away?"
Auriel starts to lose his temper. He pulls his USP pistol out and aims it at her head. "I'm
warning you now. I could possibly face disciplinary action for not taking care of you properly.
Don't give me that chance."
She draws the other dagger, flinging it at the gun, it plunges straight into the barrel. "Laser
edged blades, always good for something..."
Auriel drops the pistol. "Yeah, they are." Auriel draws the wakizashi (short sword, shorter than
katana) bound to his side. "Last chance to leave."
She raises her balled fist to gaurd her face, her feet in fighting stance "I aint leaving..."
"What a shame, maybe you could've left alive..." Auriel dives towards her, his coat flapping
behind him. His foot flies towards her face.
She ducks, sweeping his legs out with her left leg.
As Auriel lands, he catches her sweeping leg, twisting laterally and tackling her to the floor.
"This is your very last chance Blake, leave alive or leave in a bodybag..."
She ground, laying against the suit with him on top. She slowly reaches her her last dagger, she
draws it carefully, he still doesn't notice. "If I die, I'm taking you with me..." She stabs at
his side.
Auriel dashes off her momentarily, the dagger scoring a rather nasty cut but nothing that
threatening. He inspects the wound. "Bitch..."
She smirks, rolling onto her back and climbing to her feet, the dagger poised and ready.
"Bakaku..."
"Don't think you can insult me in my own language... gaishou..." Auriel slides the sword back
into the sheath, ignoring the wound. Taking the coat off, he throws it into his cockpit, then
tosses the blade there as well. He didn't need his sword to beat her... "Why are you so
desperate to kill me?"
She smirks "Kenka uten noka?" She strafes slowly left, watching him "Or try this, just Kuchi ni
chakku..." She pauses when she sees a helicoptor fly over head, a camera man leaning out the
side. "@#%$..." She mutters. Glancing back at Auriel, Raina glowered "I'd hate to run, but
obviously I've made this fight a little too public, I hope you have fun explaining to the guys
above how I got away..." Smirks, flinging the blade at him. She runs and dives off the suit,
making no splash, no bubbles, just escaping with out trace.
Auriel leans back and catches the blade with a single hand. He runs over to the suit's edge, only
seeing a dark silhouette under the surface of the water. He drops the blade. Pulling a
handkerchief out and folding it up, he pads the cut on the side of his abdomen with it. Turning
around, he looks at the bridge, what remained of it. As the survivors are pulled from the
wreckage, he narrows his eyes. :This isn't over, Blake...: Straightening his tie, he turns
around, facing the OZ officials now approaching...
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Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing. I do however, own slected characters from this story, all
the other characters are owned by the members of the RPG who made them up so don't take them or
I'll kick your ass. :-P