CHAPTER 12: Grabbag

"What? Reinforcements?" A-01 yelled in his communicator. "Can you get Sesshomaru to do the work on his own?"

"Are you nuts?! The two was enough to delay us for almost half an hour! Now that both Jakotsu and Mukotsu had Janis, I think that Death and Witch would order them to destroy the Biometal!"

Upon hearing that, A-01 gritted his teeth. "Fefnir and I'll track them down, okay? Get in their way before Janis OR Biometal HA is harmed further."

"…"

A-01 turned the communicator off, looking at Fefnir in his Model FE form.

"Looks like we're on open season today." He exclaimed.

"I know. But back at our topic; did you found the Biometal's match?"

"No idea. It doesn't work on Mana either. All that testing made her a little too weird."

Fefnir snatched his knuckle busters form his back, posing in action and A-01 did the same.

"Let's go."

"Let's rock."

Meanwhile…

Janis opened her eyes as she slowly regained consciousness. While was rubbing her head, she tried to stand up, only to bump her head on something hard, making the American girl fell on her behind.

"What the heck? A force field?" Janis muttered, still in her Model HA form.

Jakotsu and Mukotsu appeared with Prometheus and Pandora in the abandoned hut. The two, (which Harpuia called Death and Witch, by the way.) walked up to the round and invisible force field, with Prometheus looking happy for no reason.

"Seems like we got one of the Mega Man. You're too easy, inferior Guardian."

Janis was about to utter some witty reply when Prometheus reached out to grab her collar. As she was expecting the reploid's hand would be blocked off by the force field, Prometheus caught her neck and suspended her on air.

"gasp Argh! Let me go!" Janis struggled.

"Pandora, do it." Prometheus ordered. "The two of you, find the rest."

"Got it."

Pandora nodded silently, following Prometheus' order as she raised her staff. A small circle floated from her staff and it floated on top of Model HA.

"What're you up to this time?"

Prometheus smirked as he walked ominously closer to Model HA. "What you don't know is that the Biometals knew where the gems were."

"Huh?"

"The Biometal duplicate you had contains the coordinates where the gems were hid. Pretty smart move, but a pretty lame way to hide something."

"…"

Suddenly, a loud explosion startled everyone in the abandoned hut. Prometheus hurriedly got out seeing what's going on. However, it was hard to see as the dense smoke had lowered his visibility. Prometheus gripped his scythe and got himself ready in an aggressive stance.

"Roger that, HQ. We're moving to offensive."

Right when he heard that voice, his eyes tweaked with surprise. It was an assault by Fefnir and Model FE!

From inside the billowing smoke, Prometheus saw the fireballs Model FE shot. He reflected the shot away, only to be hit by another. Once the explosive touched his scythe, the whole earth shook terribly. The Death-esque reploid quickly activated a self-healing program to minimize the damage. From here, Pandora too got out to see what's going on.

"Model FE… and Fighting Fefnir…"

Pandora then utilized a spell to clear the smoke away. On air, Prometheus saw that the ground where he was shot was razed in a charred X mark.

"Alright, you two. Give back Model HE to us or you'll be like the ground FE just firebombed!" Fefnir announced.

"…Not a chance…"

"Ah, no matter. Since we're equal in numbers, how about we settle this with a fight?"

Fefnir and Model FE stared at each other. Now somebody's need to do the rescuing works while the two of them keep both Prometheus and Pandora busy.

Pandora started off by lowering the temperature around them, making the environment starting to be coated in ice. This is when Model HA (Sesshomaru) appeared.

"What in the world…?!"

Model FE tried to regain his balance when he put his right foot after jumping to the air (to avoid his feet from being frozen solid) only to find himself falling on his back. Pandora laughed at this sight but Fefnir slapped his hand to his forehead.

"Now what the hell were you thinking?!"

"…That's none of your business." He replied. "The ice's too slippery for getting a grip. Looks like we're gonna slip and fall, Fefnir."

"Damn!"

Sesshomaru hovered beside Model FE as Fefnir tried to help his replicate to get up.

The only way of getting near to them is by the good ol' sliding and slide kick. I need to reserve the Firebombs to melt the ice, but even I can melt the slippery ground, that Pandora might freeze the ground back, and I can get my feet or Fefnir's stuck in the ice… Verdammt! This should've been easier if I can fly like Sesshomaru's Model HA!

"Quit fooling around! We got work to do!" Fefnir yelled as he fired his knuckle busters at Prometheus, who was advancing to him.

Before the reploid's scythe could cut his body into pieces, Fefnir rolled to his side while Model FE slammed his own knuckle buster to the ground. However, the ice did not melt away as he anticipated. Instead, he was thrown to the air.

"Ha! Ha! You fool!"

Suddenly, a loud explosion echoed and shook the ground. Pandora was quite shocked, but she quickly moved away from the visible mushroom clouds. She then struck the ground with her staff, making ice pillars to rise up to the ground.

This looks kind of familiar…

Model FE's bad rocket jump timing caused him to be frozen solid upon touching the ice pillars. Sesshomaru on the other hand had been gone to help Janis. That leaves Fefnir alone.

"Great. Now what?"

"Thunder Strike!"

A loud discharging noise echoed around the area, before three balls of green plasma came out from the hut where Janis was taken captive. One of it strayed and hit the ice block where Model FE was frozen.

"Thanks! I thought I'm gonna die frozen solid for a while there." A-01 thanked. "For you two… eat this!"

Aiming the knuckle busters at Prometheus and Pandora, he then fired it non-stop a la John Woo. Fefnir decided to suppress those two, so he joined Model FE. The rapid fire was so fierce that both Prometheus and Pandora had to retreat.

"We'll back off for now, but don't think you had won just yet!" Prometheus declared. "The next time we meet, you won't be so lucky!"

"…Goodbye."

The two of them later disappeared. As Pandora vanished into the thin air, the ice melted away, leaving pools of water. Amar-kun disengaged from his Model FE form before falling on his back.

"That was the craziest gunfight I had ever seen."

"Yeah, for you."

"Thanks, Janis."

"Don't thank me. Thank Sesshomaru. He got me off the stupid force field."

"…"

"Amar-kun?"

"Yeah?"

"There are a lot of things I want to tell you guts, personally, to Biometal holders."

"Really?"

"Let's get outta here."

A/N: Okay, I had concluded the 12th chapter of the story. Seems this' a long shot. Nevertheless, get ready for action in the upcoming chapter, people. Read on and review! TQ!