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Chap. 6

"Darkhand, come in."

"Glaive, can't talk now. I'm a little tied up."

"Same here. They set this up well."

"Well I'm so glad you're enjoying this, but in case you haven't noticed, we're in trouble."

"I have a plan. Head for the spaceship. And get both of their attentions."

"What? Are you sure?"

"No."

Darkhand blasted off toward the spaceship relic with Ripshade in hot pursuit. As he flew, a few energy beams narrowly missed him. He didn't see Glaive around.

"Glaive, where are you?"

No reply came and Darkhand stopped at the relic, seemingly trapped.

"Looks like you partner abandoned you. Why don't you just give up?"

"Funny, we were just about to suggest that same thing."

From high above, Glaive dove in and fired a few grenade rounds at Gauntlet. Gauntlet was pushed back, slightly damaged and ready to raise its energy shield when Glaive extended its blade and sliced off the shield arm.

"Darkhand, go for it."

Darkhand raised both his Karasawa rifle and his EO option and pelted Gauntlet with sheer energy. Without its shield, Gauntlet was overwhelmed by the power and in moments, Gauntlet was down and out, leaving Ripshade behind.

"Glaive, I have a slight problem. I'm out of energy. I have to recharge."

"Don't worry." Glaive ejected his grenade launcher and extended his blade, "This one's mine."

Ripshade continued to come, despite seeing what happened to his partner. Glaive blasted toward him and struck. But his blade impacted the energy shield and Ripshade charged his blade. Glaive backed away just before the deadly blade could hit, but his awkward movement allowed Ripshade to fire its tri-rockets and knock him back. Ripshade stood over him and prepared to strike when several blasts hit his triple rockets off. It was from Darkhand and the distraction was enough for Glaive to get back up, but he waited for Ripshade to notice him again.

"Glaive, now you're even."

With both armed with only a blade, Riphade charged again and slashed out. Glaive dodged the slash and made one of his own. However, Ripshade dodged, but not before damaging him somewhat. Ripshade saw what had happened and dumped his extension. With increased speed, Ripshade charged repeatedly at Glaive, with Glaive only barely dodging the slashes. He was about to strike again when he realized that the blade ammo had run out. Ripshade had no weapons to fight with anymore, just as Glaive wanted. Glaive made a sweeping motion and floors Ripshade.

"Give it up. You can't win now."

Ripshade stood still for a moment and the suddenly OB at him in an attempt to ram him, but Glaive simply sidestepped the charge and slashed the right arm and part of the core booster. Ripshade knelt to the ground and Glaive moved in front of it, blade extending out.

"Checkmate."

The match was over.

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(Yeah I know it's a short chapter, but I'll make it up in the next one.)