Akechi walked and picked up speed until he was full on charging at the robot.
"Entering offensive mode. Preparing to engage in combat." The robot raised its hands as Akechi ran towards it. He swing his sword and slash at one of its arms before ducking and sliding underneath the robot's arm as he got on the other side of it. He quickly turned and kept his sword out as his eyes analyze how much damage that attack did just now.
Unfortunately it didn't seem to do much damage. There was a deep scratch on it's right arm, but it didn't make a hole like he would have wanted. It wasn't that surprising since it was made out of a stronger type of metal than he had hoped. It seems that physical attacks will not be very effective against this kind of opponent.
Well Akechi's magic was pretty strong so it's alright. Akechi concentrated his light magic into his sword. He grinned as it glowed brightly as he did practice swing with the sword and charge once more. He attacked the main body and spinned to swing his sword up to attack the same arm again. This time the attacks did leave pierce through it's armour. It also caused the metal to melt at the edge of the injuries too. The arm was heavily damaged and it was in mid-air in a grabbing motion, its fingers twitching as it grabbed only air. The electricity sparks coming out of it showed that wasn't working properly now.
' Nice!'
His light magic was a bit different compared to normal light magic. It seems to have a similar effect as powerful fire magic causing the enemies to be severely burnt with his attacks. While fire attacks have a chance of causing the opponents to be caught on fire too, Akechi's magic doesn't extend to that.
However, since his sword acts like a heated red hot weapon, he doesn't need to use a lot of force when attacking since the weapon just easily slid through his opponents. While idealistically, it should save him some stamina when fighting. However, the truth is, he has to be constantly using his magic for it to work so it would still tire him out in the end. Luckily, magic potions solves this problem, but there are no potions that could instantly cure being physically tired.
Akechi was only a few meters away from the guard so it reached out with its other arm. The arm movements were kind of fast, but it seems to walk slow he noted.
Akechi wasn't sure if the guard wanted to grab him or claw him and he didn't want to find out so he dodged it by jumping on the handrails before proceeding to climb on its disabled arm. Akechi swung his sword forcefully through the guard's neck and leapt off its shoulder, flipping in the air and landing gracefully on his feet. He turned to look at it, waiting to see if the last attack was good enough.
The guard made a loud static noise before collapsing onto the ground.
"Intruder alert!" A loud siren rang out. It was coming from the robot! Akechi hurried to stab it in the center of its forehead with his sword.
The noise stopped midway, the red glowing eyes disappeared confirming that it was dead now. Akechi looked quickly around, the pathway had a few exits and he wasn't sure where the others would be coming from.
"Don't worry for I am here!"
' Huh?'
Akechi was confused, who said that? He narrowed his eyes as he put his guard up.
A flash of black suddenly appeared in front of him.
"We meet once again Crow."
' Oh fuck no. ' he thought when the person revealed his face. Well his masked face to be more exact.
"Joker." He said in a clipped tone.
"Aw that's it? No 'it's only been one day, but I missed you so much already' or 'Joker, you're looking more and more striking every time I gaze upon your face'?" He grinned.
"No. Is that it? Okay goodbye then." Akechi said as he moved past him.
He was planning on going into one of the rooms, but stopped when he heard thundering footsteps coming closer.
"I guess we have to work together Crow. You got my back?" He said as he pulled his weapon out.
"No, you can take care of everything coming towards you from that direction and I'll take care of the rest." He said stiffly as he pointed to the door on his right.
Joker might have saved him yesterday, but he doesn't trust him to have his back. There is a high chance Joker might ending up feeling him up during the fight. Sounds like something he might do. Ugh, Akechi still needs to repay him back for the kiss. Maybe a take down attack would do.
"Intruder has been spotted. Prepare to engage in combat." Two guards appeared from each side.
"Be ready, they're coming!" Joker warns as he walked towards his targets.
"Tch, you don't have to tell me." Crow sneered.
" Persona!" They yelled together. Robin Hood stood behind Akechi in a protective manner.
"Makouga!" He cried out. Robin Hood responded by firing an arrow at the enemies. When the arrow flew right between the enemies, it swallowed the whole area in light. After it faded, both enemies fell onto the ground. Akechi ran up to them and proceeded to stab both of them on the foreheads. He wouldn't want anymore sudden enemy attacks.
His mask re-appeared before he turned to see how Joker was doing. It turns out that he also finished his battle and was looking over the fallen enemies. Probably checking for items to sell, he doubt there was anything of value unless the merchants need metal. Seems more of a hassle to take back though.
Crow started walking towards him, ready to ask what was he doing here, if he was stalking him and to punish him for yesterday.
"All guards 01 through 05 have been defeated, preparing to unleash battle mode. All intruders will be eliminated." A robotic voice could be heard through the door between Joker and Crow. When the guard finally showed up, both of them took in the appearance of it. It looked bigger than the other guards and, surprisingly, was holding a machine gun in one of its arms. It took aim and fired multiple shots at them.
' Oh shit.' He thought as he dodged and ran behind a machine. Joker ran in the opposite direction and took cover behind another machine.
Luckily it's aim was bad and he didn't managed to get shot at all. He wondered briefly if Joker had gotten hit and quickly demolished that thought, he doesn't care if that guy gets hit.
The firing of bullets stopped, but they could hear the heavy stomps of the guard who was slowly inching its way towards them.
Crow was thinking on his next step, the machine he was hiding behind was attached to the wall, meaning he was unable to go around it and attack the guard from behind. There was one exit that wasn't blocked off by the guard, the one he come in from, but it was exposed and the guard would be able to shoot at him down if he tried to escaped.
"Crow!"
He looked at Joker who was pointing up. Hmm, there were rails close to the machines that prevented people from falling over into the basement floor. The building has three floors including the basement, Akechi wondered how Joker got into the place before putting the thought out of his head. He couldn't afford to get distracted at the moment. He looked and decided that the rails and pipes that were connected to the machine could be used to reach the top of it. The guard wouldn't expect that so it would at least buy him some time to think of a better plan.
He moved back a few steps to get more momentum before running to the rails. He gave a big leap and landed on the rails before jumping again to reach the pipes, he jumped onto two more pipes before reaching his hands out to grab the corner of the machine and pulled himself swiftly on top.
' Thank goodness I go bouldering on the weekends, otherwise this would have been much harder to achieve.'
He glanced over to see if Joker made it safely too. Wait, that sounds like he was concerned for him. Hmm, he was interested in knowing the location of Joker and seeing if he was able to provide a distraction so Crow could be the person who took down the guard. Yes, that sounds much better.
It turns out he was fine, one might even say that he looked like he was feeling superb. He was waving to get Crow's attention, before giving him a thumbs up. Ugh. Crow was tempted to ignore him...but the enemy has a gun. He should remain cautious in proceeding as he peek his head out to see where the guard currently was.
It finally got to the location Joker and Crow previously were before they hid for safety and looked around.
"Intruders have evacuated from the area, Guard-X will proceed to search the building to guarantee that the intruders have indeed fled." It started walking back towards the door where it came from. Crow saw a bright red shape moving in the corner of his eyes.
' What now? If he starts doing obscene gestures or something similar to that, I'm willing to reveal my location just to shoot him.'
Crow looked at him with resigned eyes.
Joker gestured at himself, then pointed at the machine with his left hand and showed his dagger in his right. He was planning on taking it down? Crow narrowed his eyes, this was his prey, no perverted, trying (and failing!) to be the cool guy dressed in black is going to take it from him.
Unfortunately, he wasn't able to do anything or even show him his nice middle finger because Joker immediately took off after and creeped up behind the guard. He was somewhat impressed that he barely made any noise while jumping down onto the metal floor.
Crow was also annoyed, how dare this guy do his own thing. He took out his gun, loaded the iron bullets before concentrating his magic into it.
" Arsene! Dazzler!" A creature with black wings dressed in red appeared and threw its hand up as it casted the spell.
' A different Persona? Is he like me?' Akechi was surprised. He thought that he was the only person who had more than one Persona. Joker's outfit didn't change though. How strange.
The guard stumbled on its next step. It raised its gun and started shooting as it turned around towards Joker.
'What a waste of bullets.'
He raised his gun, closed his right eye for accuracy, and aimed at its head. Crow waited for a moment before pressing trigger and fired with deadly accuracy, perfectly hitting the head of the guard. Normally, he wouldn't be confident if a normal iron bullet can go through the robot's head, but with his magic's special ability, the bullet easily pierce through, left the robot, and hit the wall.
The shooting stopped as the guard fell onto the floor. Joker stabbed it, finishing it off.
After Joker looked at him to give him the thumbs up, he left the safety of his location to get to Joker.
"Now I have questions! What are you doing here? Are you stalking me? Oh, I need to do something too." He said as he walked quickly towards Joker. Joker grinned at him, probably expecting some sort of award. Well he's going to get one.
Crow punched him on the arm. Hard.
Joker recoiled back as he rubbed his sore arm. He gave a hurt look, but Crow isn't affected by it. The mask is covering his face too so half of his expression is hidden, meaning it wouldn't have worked anyways.
"Answer my questions." He stated.
"Wow you sound just like a prosecutor." He murmured as he continue to rub his arm.
Crow answered with silence and the narrowing of his eyes. He slowly raised his arm again, curling his fingers to make a fist.
"Fine fine, calm down first and I'll answer." Joker said as he raised his hands up.
" .calm."
"Someone sounds like they are having an off day, well, your luck should turn around now since I came."
' It was you! You're the one made it worse!' he mentally screamed, his eye twitched in annoyance, but he kept the thought to himself.
"Hmm, to answer your questions, I saw you taking the bounty poster and was curious on what you were planning on fighting against. And stalking? Would you call someone following you around stalking?"
"Yes, that's the definition of stalking." He said emotionlessly.
"Ha ha well I didn't do that. I just asked someone which bounty was the one that you took and they told me. I walked here and found the place. No stalking involved." He said proudly.
"It still is. Just because you didn't follow me step by step didn't mean this wouldn't be considered stalking."
Joker pouted. "Well call it what you will, but I saw how well we worked together in fighting that last guard. We would make a great team." He said excitedly.
"I'm not joining your merry little group of thieves. I'm still a detective, I wouldn't work outside the law just because I don't agree with everything it states. You guys also need to stop going after Persona-wielders. The police hasn't been putting a lot of effort at the moment in trying to capture you, however if you keep continuing on what your doing, they will." he warns.
Joker smirks.
"It depends if we get caught now doesn't it? I don't plan on getting captured, but thank you for being concerned about us...or rather me. It's so touching." Joker wiped an imaginary tear from his eye as he smiled.
"! I'm not concerned!" Crow barked out. Ugh, talking to this guy is giving him a headache.
"Ha ha! You're so fun to tease." He chuckled.
"On a serious note, I was talking about bounty hunting, it's more fun to have teammates around when you're fighting. While we might disagree on our methods on how to deal with Persona-wielders, we can agree that taking care of bounties is important, otherwise, why else would people pay large amount of rupies to get rid of them? So would you join with us in collecting bounties?" He grinned at Crow.