Vyser: Christmas is so close! But that's not what this opening is about. Many of you naturally assume that Kai is next to battle. You know the old saying, 'When you assume, you make an ASS out of U and of ME.' So meet the next and the first Mecano General…Gyro!
Gyro: You all forgot about me? Am I really that quiet?
Vyser: Actually you are. And you have such a cool power. Maybe when the reviewers see it, they'll actually understand why you're the second in command of the Mecano Generals.
Gyro: And when victory is mine, I'll come after all of the reviewers…at the same time!
Vyser: You need to put one foot in front of the other first, and soon you'll be walking out the door!
Gyro: What was that about?
Vyser: Sorry, I've been eating fruitcake, drank a little eggnog and watched too many Christmas specials.
Gyro: Well, I'll get onto the disclaimer…Vyser doesn't own Tales of Symphonia or the characters you all submitted.
Vyser: I just realized something, this is the 40th chapter! Hooray!
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Sheena, Suzu, Jet, Heath and Zelos were dealing with two Mecano Generals, not to mention they had the most deadly skills. Sealth was hiding somewhere in the room thanks to his powerful stealth powers, while Liminate had become a huge emerald dragon that took up a majority of the floor's space. Liminate then turned around so that he could slam his strong tail into his many foes.
"Incoming!" Zelos yelled as he ducked the tail.
A majority of the group however wasn't as lucky; the tail into one of the few non-glass walls slammed Sheena, Suzu and Jet. They even left a few cracks in the wall. Liminate seemed to laugh in his new dragon form as the three began to fall from the wall. Jet was the first to stand up on his feet, only to be punched and kicked by Sealth's invisible attack.
"Show yourself you coward!" commanded Jet before he was tripped by an invisible force and fell flat on his back.
"Oh but, its so much more fun to attack without being seen," Sealth replied as the rest of the group stood on their feet. "I think it's time finish them, don't you think Liminate?"
Liminate just roared as Sealth appeared on Liminate's back, then suddenly an emerald green flame began to form in Liminate's dragon fanged mouth.
"Everyone! Brace yourselves!" yelled Heath as Liminate reeled his head back.
Liminate shot the huge emerald flame that lit up the entire room. When the light died down, the entire group was on the ground, the windows were shattered open, and the fire sprinklers were working full blast. Liminate then transformed back into his true form.
"It's odd," Liminate said as he walked towards Sheena. "With all of the trouble this guys been giving us, you'd figure that they'd put up more of a fight."
"What did ya expect?" asked Sealth as he kicked Jet in the shin. "They're only made of flesh and blood. Completely insufficient in all forms of life."
"Now that we beat them," Liminate started as he walked next to Sealth. "What do we do with the bodies?"
"Want to throw them out the window and watch them go splat?" suggested Sealth as Liminate smirked.
"Sounds cool to me," Liminate replied as he looked around at the group. "Who should be first?"
"The shorty will make a fine starter," said Sealth as he raised Jet by the shoulders. After the first step, Jet opened his eyes and Sealth looked shocked. "Here's trouble."
"I'm not a microbe!" Jet yelled before he kicked Sealth in the face, sending Sealth flying through the drizzled air.
"If the little guy is all right then that means…" gasped Liminate as he slowly turned around just in time for him to punched by Zelos, Sheena, Suzu and Heath sending him flying next to Sealth. "How…how is it possible for you all to survive my attack?"
"I think it's obvious," Heath answered as everyone sighed.
"We all had our defensive moves going as your attack made its impact," answered Suzu as Sealth and Liminate stood up.
"I guess it's time for our special combination attack," Sealth said as Liminate grinned.
"Yep, we should try the Double Stealth attack!" announced Liminate as a light engulfed him.
"Now what is he going to become?" Sheena asked as the light died down and Liminate revealed his new form.
"Oh no, now there's two of them," sighed Jet as Liminate now looked like an emerald hair colored version of Sealth.
"Yes little man, we have now become the same," Sealth and Liminate said at the same time. "How can you defeat two invisible foes?"
All of sudden, the two versions of Sealth disappeared, unknowingly that the drizzle was leaving their marks on them.
"Let's get them!" yelled Zelos as the five charged towards the two soaked versions of Sealth.
Sealth and Liminate quickly raised their arm blades to block most of the opposing attacks.
"How is this possible?" the regular Sealth asked as he blocked Jet, Suzu, and Zelos's sword attack. "How can you see me?"
"Having Liminate attack activated the sprinkler system," answered Zelos before Suzu and Jet kicked Sealth in the stomach sending the Mecano General flying out of the broken window.
Luckily for Sealth, he managed to get a hold of the edge of the window frame. Jet however was also at the window edge, and he had murder in his eyes.
"Hello Jet," Sealth said before he gulped. "You don't want to do anything rash now."
"Oh yes I do," replied Jet before he stepped on Sealth's fingers with his feet. "Now, who's short?"
"Certainly not you!" Sealth yelled as Jet removed his feet. "Just kidding! You #(#) shorty!"
"Take this!" roared Jet as he stepped on Sealth's fingers causing Sealth to let go.
"With my death…I curse you Jet!" Sealth screamed as he began to plummet from the tall building.
Meanwhile, Liminate wasn't doing any better with Sheena and Heath. After Sheena slapped Liminate with her cards, Heath slashed Liminate in the stomach, which sent Liminate flying out the window. As Liminate was flying through the air he returned back to his normal form.
"So, this is how I go out, plummeting from a huge building with no way to say myself and Sealth," thought Liminate before he mentally slapped himself. "Oh wait, I can transform into a dragon."
In a quick flash of light, Liminate quickly returned to his dragon form. After so, he flew swiftly to catch his fellow Mecano general. Liminate was barely able to catch Sealth by the leg.
"Took you long enough," Sealth commented as Liminate put Sealth on his back. "Let's swoop in for a sneak attack."
Just as Liminate dove down and began to rise back into the air, a huge bolt of lightning strikes the two electrifying the two till Liminate returned back to normal.
"Holy crud!" yelled Liminate as the two Mecano Generals fell to the ground.
Thankfully, they weren't that far off the ground, but that didn't mean that they didn't fall with a loud crash following. They both landed face first; their bodies were singed and smoking from the lightning strike.
"That was unexpected," Sealth moaned before he let his head fall to the ground again.
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Meanwhile, back with the group they were all laughing at the funny sight they watched out the window.
"That was classic," laughed Zelos while Jet was laughing his head off.
"They deserved it," Sheena said as many footsteps came from the stairs that led downstairs.
"Someone's coming," said Suzu as everyone drew his or her weapons…except Jet who was still laughing.
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Lloyd and Colette were on a few more floors above where the last battle was taken place. The floor they were on was designed to look like a samurai dojo even though it still had the many windows showing the outside world. Lloyd and Colette figured they were on the 29th floor.
"It feels like we've been climbing stairs for ages," Lloyd moaned as Colette grinned.
"Relax Lloyd, I'm sure we'll find someone soon," replied Colette as the sound of running began to fill the air. "Do you hear that Lloyd?"
"Yeah, someone coming our way," Lloyd answered as he unsheathed his swords.
Suddenly, from the stairs in front of them came Gyro with his arm blades out, Lloyd and Colette got into fighter stances as Gyro stopped running towards them.
"And who might you be?" asked Colette as Gyro pointed his right arm blade towards Lloyd.
"I am Gyro…or you might remember me by a different name," Gyro answered as Lloyd and Colette looked confused.
"Have we met before?" asked Lloyd before Gyro laughed loudly.
"Yes, but that was before my upgrade," Gyro replied as he crossed his arms. "We met when I was Tech droid number 9…quite an improvement wouldn't you say?"
"You're that machine?" said Lloyd with disbelief in his voice.
"Yes, now that I'm a Mecano General, I can now take you down to size!" yelled Gyro as he began to run quickly towards the two.
Colette then threw her two charmakans towards Gyro, who had side flipped in order to dodge the flying discs. Gyro then ran directly towards Colette, before Lloyd stepped in front of Colette and then tried to slash Gyro…who at the last minute had jumped over the two to get behind them. Then, Gyro quickly ran to slash the two from behind, but Lloyd had pushed Colette out of the way, turned around and blocked Gyro's blades with his own swords. Both sword wielders were pushing in order to block each other attack. Gyro then smirked.
"Just to let ya know…I'm enjoying every minute of this honorable fight," complimented Gyro, as Lloyd looked intrigued.
"I didn't think that you Mecano Generals had honor," Lloyd replied before the two broke off their attacks.
"I can't speak for my fellow generals, but I have a code," answered Gyro as he raised his arms. "That's why I'm not using my secret power. So I have challenge Lloyd, I wish to face you one on one. I will not use your girlfriend as a shield; we will just fight with our blades…no dirty tricks. Do you accept my terms?"
"Yes, Colette you can relax, this is something I must do," Lloyd said as Colette nodded and walked to the stairs and sat down with her back to the wall.
"You can do it Lloyd!" cheered Colette as Lloyd and Gyro got into their fighting stance.
"You ready for a battle that won't be forgotten?" Lloyd asked as Gyro smirked.
"Just one more thing," replied Gyro as his arms separated and he now had four arms each with their own blade attached to them. "Okay now I'm ready!"
"No matter how many arms you've got, I'll still beat you!" Lloyd yelled as he and Gyro charged at each other.
Gyro was the first to strike; he used both of his right arm blades to slash at Lloyd. Lloyd blocked both blades with his swords; unfortunately, this left him wide open for a double blade attack from the left. As Gyro began to slash from the left, Lloyd quickly side stepped from Gyro, making Gyro mess up for a second. Gyro quickly shrugged it off and began to run after Lloyd. Lloyd at the second Gyro had gotten directly behind Lloyd; Lloyd turned and sent a powerful stab towards Gyro who had dodged by flipping backwards.
Lloyd then went on the offensive by running towards Gyro. Every slash and stab that Lloyd shot, Gyro was quick to block. Gyro had enough of defense play and decided to have all four of his arm blades spin extremely fast making them look like saucers shining in the light.
"Spinner Saws!" yelled Gyro as he jumped into the air to bring the deadly attack on his opponent.
Before Gyro could even get above Lloyd, a huge serpent dragon made of purple energy engulfed Gyro sending him flying in the wall next to Colette. Lloyd and Colette turned to see Kai standing at the opposing stairs with his right hand glowing with purple energy.
"Oh great," Lloyd said as Kai drew his extremely powerful demon sword. "You look familiar too…who are you?"
"I'm Kai…and I want revenge Lloyd for what you've done," answered Kai as he walked past Lloyd and towards Gyro. "This fool could've easily defeated you…if he used his power."
"Unlike you, he has honor!" Lloyd yelled as a dark aura engulfed Kai's right hand.
"What are you doing?" asked Colette as she drew her charmakans again.
"Gyro's honor is his handicap, now his full potential will be released," Kai answered without turning.
The aura that engulfed Kai's right hand then began to surge into Gyro, Gyro then jumped off the wall as the aura engulfed his entire body. Gyro then closed his eyes for a second then opened them to have his eyes yellow like Kai's.
"Feels like the weight of the world is off of my shoulders," said Gyro before a grin crept onto his face.
"Now Gyro! Show them your power and with my demonic powers included he'll be able to do it in the blink of an eye," Kai said as a bright light engulfed Gyro.
Lloyd and Colette covered their eyes, then quickly uncovered them as the light died down. They were shocked to see that in front of them were now…Two Gyros! Kai was laughing as the two Gyros cracked their neck.
"He has the power of copying himself?" gasped Colette.
"So? It's probably an illusion like Crystal used," Lloyd said as the two Gyros charged at him with both of their four arm blades charging.
Suddenly, both Gyros brought down their blades upon Lloyd, and to his surprise as he blocked the attacks; he learned that both of them were real as him.
"What the?" Lloyd said shocked as the two Gyros jumped backwards and stood next to Kai.
"Unfortunately for you, Gyro can make a full clone of himself," explained Kai as he sat on the ground. "And seeing as how they both have my demonic power in them, they'll be able to kill you at my hands. Lloyd say goodbye to your past, present, and future!"
As soon as Kai finished his sentence, two bright lights engulfed both of the Gyros. They were going to multiply again!
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Vyser: Whoa! Didn't expect that.
Gyro: My power is even better and with my skills, I can become a one-man army.
Kai: And with my demonic power, you'll be invincible!
Vyser: Demonic power is everything you know.
Kai: This coming from the guy who made Exodus.
Vyser: Just shut up.
Gyro: Before I come after you reviewers for forgetting me, I've got two messages for you all. One, please review and two, please have a happy holiday and stay away from the fruitcake that Vyser's grandmother makes!
Vyser: Hey! Just because it fell and broke your metal foot, that doesn't mean you can mock the fruitcake.
