Description: Difficulty: Low. Primary Attack Style: Blaster. Primary Defense Style: Dodger. Overall Non-Combat Threat Index: Low.
Zach is in a clearing, well away from civilization; he doesn't want to hurt anyone while he trains.
Currently, this involves Zach standing well away from a large rock, and throwing a punch at it. When the punch stops, some kind of purple energy lashes out from the fist towards the apparently targetted rock...
...only to stop short of it without inflicting any damage. Zach alternates left and right punches, but never seems to hit the rock.
The only warning is a glint of chrome from the trees.
Certain targets are dangerous. Jaeger knows this for a certain fact. Hunting is a difficult proposition when the game can fight back. That's what makes it exciting, however. The more powerful the opponent, the more destructive the fight, the better. But there's a time and a place for outright annihilation and blatant death, and there's a place for stealth and speed.
Now's the time for stealth.
The flash of light reflecting off a gaunt metal figure turns into a streak of silver as something bolts from the trees overhead. Leaves fall, fluttering down gracefully as Jaeger appears on the other end of the clearing in a crouch.
It barely makes a sound, but the soft beeping of a concussion grenade underneath Zach's feet is the only sound he gets as an alert that he's been attacked.
The NESTS soldier doesn't say a word as he waits to see if the grenade will be dealt with, or endured.
COMBATSYS: Jaeger has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Zach has joined the fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Zach dodges Jaeger's Defender.
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The beeping is apparently the only thing Zach needed. He leaps clear as the rock explodes. The grenade detonates a moment later. Curious.
He lands a few feet away, uncertain where the grenade just came from. He takes a moment to gather his thoughts, focus his attention.
Try to suppress the power as it flares up within him...
COMBATSYS: Zach focuses on his next action.
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It would seem the child is quick. No matter. Jaeger can deal with this as necessary. The machine only needs time to compensate. Until then, speed and stealth are his two best allies. He knows his own capabilities. Let's see if the boy can hold out as long as the machine can. Most people are fighters. Not many of them are soldiers. Still, fewer people enjoy the destruction and carnage that Jaeger is capable of unleashing.
Whipping up a tree to perch in the high branches, the droid also focuses his attention, narrowing his targeting systems down to the single target. If the child is fast or faster than him, then there will have to be some modifications to his tactical program.
COMBATSYS: Jaeger focuses on his next action.
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Zach is fast when he needs to be. The sound of the branches moving under weight gets his attention.
"You do not want to do this," the young man states as he whips an arm in the approximate direction. The outstretched limb shakes as a ball of purple psycho power forms in his palm before snapping off (hopefully) towards his assailant.
COMBATSYS: Jaeger blocks Zach's Warning Shot.
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And now comes the cavalcade of noise and nonsense.
Jaeger disregards the words instantly. There's no real reason to listen to any of them. He's not interested in the boy's comments, but only how well he fights. After years of listening to everything from the most pompous windbags to the most presumptive child, Jaeger has learned to tune out everything and glean the important information by keying his memory to key words. So far, it doesn't appear that Zach is capable of tripping any of these triggers.
Instead, the response is swift. The incoming projectile explodes harmlessly upon an upraised defense feild. While it stalls the next attack from the machine, it doesn't halt it completely. Shooting like a massive bullet fromt he branches, Jaeger's next attack comes towards the psycho-powered target's blind side, a rapid snap kick the the boy's ribcage as he rapidly jets by.
COMBATSYS: Jaeger successfully hits Zach with Light Kick.
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Glen whips around to deal with the attack; he was able to /track/ it, but his body could not follow. Zach slams into the shattered boulder, toppling over it with a yelp.
He picks himself up and looks at his assailant for a moment. His eyes go wide; this...is not within /any/thing he has dealt with. The arm raises again, forming a somewhat larger sphere. It quivers and shakes in his hand as it grows to the size of a basket ball.
Then it takes off after the rather large man.
COMBATSYS: Zach successfully hits Jaeger with Blast Ball.
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Energy blasts aren't foreign to Jaeger. On the battlefeild, he encounters many attacks that are energy based. However, pisonic attacks aren't exactly the same. The result? A complete attack on all his vital systems, which threatens a massive shutdown almost immediately. Despite his speed in attempting to evade the rapid assault, the blast hits him squarely. This doesn't bode well. Still, it would seem that there's a singular benefir to the assault. Now Jaeger knows precisely what he's dealing with, and how he'll be forced to deal with this the next time it's encountered.
Sheilding. Definitely more sheilding.
Hobbled severely by the attack, Jaeger's forced to take a moment to recover, pulling from his internal systems an automatic repair protocal to at least patch up some of the damage.
COMBATSYS: Jaeger gains composure.
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Zach simply watches as Jaeger backs off for a moment. His eyes narrow as he tries to catch his breath, tries to keep himself under control. He tries conversation, not knowing what will come of it.
"What... What do you /want/ from me?" Zach gasps.
COMBATSYS: Zach gains composure.
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What Jaeger wants is simple.
"I want you to die."
And then another explosive burst of activity. The sound of metal on metal fills the air as the machine produces a powerful carbon steel serrated blade from his forearm. The metal monster's cutting edge gleams in the visible light before he turns into a streak of silver yet again. The machine rockets at the lad at breakneck speeds.
Jetting by the boy, he attempts to rip the lad apart laterally, the saw-bladed edge looking for purchase in the lad's soft belly, trying to rip through musle and sinew to get to the soft vital organs beneath.
He's not really a very nice person. Not at all.
COMBATSYS: Zach dodges Jaeger's Tomahawk.
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Apparently not!
Zach's eyes narrow as Jaeger pops his blade. This guy...does not at all sound even remotely human. He grins slightly as he steps and spins away, allowing Jaeger to pass him by without the entrail barrage. Zach's not about to let him go without a parting gift, however. Glen snaps out with a single fist, a large sphere forming at the end of it as Zach tries to tag his assailant with it. It does not leave his hand, nor does it last very long.
But as Jaeger might find out, it doesn't need to do either.
COMBATSYS: Zach successfully hits Jaeger with Impulse Flare.
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And again, Jaeger is tagged with the powerful burst of energy. It woudl appear that having no prior experience with psionics is definitely punishing him. The speed he brings to bear is all but useless as the explosive burst once again ruins his internal systems, sending him reeling and stumbling backward. Another hit like that will likely finish him. But he's not goign without putting something down.
Ripping across the clearing once again, the machine lights in a tree, disappearing from view.
Then suddenly from nearly every single direction are small rockets. The explosive warheads rain down from the sky and detonate relentlessly across the clearing to the victim below, hopefully doing the damage Jaeger is looking for.
COMBATSYS: Jaeger successfully hits Zach with Veritech - Alpha.
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Zach's eyes track the source of the missiles. However, he can only dodge /so/ much before one missle tags him. The field is cratered by the multiple explosions, and Glen pulls himself up from one of them.
This dude...can't /POSSIBLY/ be human. No human can /carry/ that many missles. This...
...is a relief to Glen as he cups his hands at his side. Purple energy crackles and flares between the palms, which appear to be holding a ball. This means he can cut loose, if only a little bit. The ball grows to about the size of a soccer ball before Zach thrusts it at what he thinks is the launch point for the missiles. The ball seems to about to burst, before stretching into a long beam of pure psycho-power.
COMBATSYS: Jaeger dodges Zach's Burst Stream.
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Such an attack should hit, for all intents and purposes. The powerful stream of energy rips towards him like a destructive pillar of power. However... the blast is slow and ungainly, and finally the rapid moving droid's speed allows him to simply avoid the blast by not bing there when the beam tears through the surrounding foliage.
The machine simply disappears from view, blinking out of existance before appearing next to the boy a split second later.
Whirling around, the machine steps into a rapid forward motion to aim a quick snap kick to the boy's lower spine. While such an attack is hardly fatal, the machine is strong enough to make the attack sting.
COMBATSYS: Jaeger successfully hits Zach with Light Kick.
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Strong enough to send Zach tumbling across the clearing, in fact.
The youth bounces once, twice before skidding to a halt.
It's hard to breath, hard to /move/. He pushed himself too hard, too soon. His body is not trained well enough to keep up with that kind of activity yet. The air around Zach swirls as the power within him seems to /sense/ his fading life force, his flagging control. It is all Zach can do to lay there, and try to keep himself from simply...exploding.
COMBATSYS: Zach gains composure.
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Jaeger doesn't stop his assault. If anything, he only increases the pressure. The droid follows up his kick, even as the boy is trying to recover from the assault, by launching a series of silver spheres after him. The rapidly spinning orbs however, are nothing more than a distraction. As they burst in the air harmlessly, Jaeger is already shooting forward, his blade once again drawn and ready to rip the boy apart with a series of horrible slashes and stabs.
Apparently, the machine is without honor, mercy, or an iota of empathy. But what do you expect from a battle droid?
COMBATSYS: Jaeger successfully hits Zach with Tomahawk.
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Glen rolls away from the splinters before he stands...just in time to be impaled upon Jaeger's knife. He simply stares into the soulless eyes of the droid for a moment, as his fist sheathes itself in a massive, hazy gauntlet of power. His whole body shakes as he grabs the stabbing arm to try and hold the monster in place to receive the thunderous punch that he unloads on the mech.
Zach apparently expects Jaeger to go to pieces!
COMBATSYS: Zach can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Jaeger dodges Zach's Burst Strike.
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No such luck, unfortunately. Jaeger's just too quick to take the explosive assault. Even before the boy can start to charge up his formidible explosive power, the machine is already gone, leaving nothing but a gust of wind to declare that he even existed. The rapidly moving machine retreats to a safe distance, rocketing across the clearing to watch the imminent destruction. That was close... however, despite the lad's raw power, he doesn't have the machine's skill and experience. The battledroid pauses for only a second. The child will be left to his own devices. As much as he'd like to finish off his target, NESTS might want him in the future, and his battle protocals forbid him from obliterating anyone of interest to NESTS.
A shame, really. The boy would have made a lovely mess. He doesn't dally any further, before disappearing once more into the trees. Let someone find him. Maybe next time, the boy will bring more skill to the table.
Log created on 14:36:31 08/03/2007 by Jaeger, and last modified on 00:34:36 08/16/2007.