Description: [Momo/Hinata vs. M0M0] No pity. No pain. No fear. A thing that will not die. It has come from the future to kill Sarah Conno---wait. Whoops. Wrong robot. No, this one's after Momo. Running down the halls of the Suiryuu, the young tennis player quickly finds there's no escape. Until she comes across Hinata. Together, can they prevail against the horrors of technology? Well...kinda. But one thing's for sure... she'll be back. [Winner: Momo/Hinata]
Run, run, run, or you'll be well done! Such is the way of the Momo, at least when dozens of robot duplicates are involved. Sure, she just blew them all up in an explosion so great that it collapsed the floor and rocked the entire ship, but after seeing M0M0 REASSEMBLE HERSELF after being torn to pieces, the tennis star can't help but think that the more distance she puts between herself and ground zero, the better.
Naturally, her fleeing has nothing to do with the fact that she just blew up a chunk of the ninja ship and wants to make sure she's far enough away to have plausible deniability before they catch her.
Unlike Momo's frantic insanity, Hinata's simply standing in the middle of the hallway, somewhat confused. She has yet another one of those fancy cards telling her where to be, but it doesn't say who she's supposed to meet, just the time and place. Of course she'd rather be up out there helping to get rid of all those guys trying to take over the ship, but when she tried to head up toward the deck one of the staff told her to stay down below, so here she is... waiting for a match that, thankfully, isn't going to have her chest deep in water.
Then the entire ship is rocked with the biggest explosion so far and Hinata finds herself being bowled over right onto the floor of the hallway, putting her hands over her head as she waits for the little bits of ceiling to stop falling. It's about this point that she's about ready to forget all about the match and demand to be doing something more useful, but before she can get up off the floor, a rather frantic little girl comes racing down the hall right toward her.
Hinata could probably have found a better place to wait than ducking and covering on the ground there. "Woah!" shouts Momo as she leaps up and over her fellow Taiyo student, skidding to a stop on her other side and doubling back. "Hey! You! It's dangerous here, you shouldn't be lying around," the tennis player says as she tries to pull Hinata to her feet.
Then she gets an idea. But the tennis player will need to wait until Hinata's up before she can go through with it.
It takes her a moment to recognize Momo as she looks up at the other girl from her spot on the floor (maybe due to the fact that she looks a bit worse for wear, but probably just because she's never had to look UP at her), but when she does she's quick to get back up to her feet with Momo's help. "Of course it's dangerous here, those guys attacking the ship must have almost just blown us up just now. That explosion was massive!" She takes a moment to start brushing off little bits of debris from out of her hair with a frown on her face, "I was going to go up and help out on the deck, but they just kept telling me I had a match right here."
"A match? Here?" Momo considers the implications of this. Close by is the M0M0 hive, where all of the M0M0s just woke up simultaniously, and which she just blew up. Could it be that the ninjas wanted Hinata to fight against an army of robots? It's as good as any other theory, it's certainly not like they could have predicted that Momo would run down this very corridor and into Hinata.
But since she's here, she may as well make use of it. The girl takes the pink ribbons out of her hair and ducks around behind the taller girl. And then, in a fit of spontaneity, starts to put the other girl's hair in pigtails. "Here, you should wear these," Momo says as she attempts to quickly do her work, distracting Hinata with even more talking. "I don't know what's going on, with the weird invader people and the explosions and the everything, but it's really scary! Momo doesn't think she'll ride a ninja boat ever again after this."
Hopefully, Hinata won't notice that Momo isn't in her normal clothing. Or rather, won't notice that the pink sweatshirt the tennis player is wearing over her outfit is kind of burned on the back, almost as if it had been perilously close to a fire.
That explosion is briefly rivalled in intensity by a resounding groan from some bay deep within the Suiryuu, shortly resolved by a shrieking, and finally, another, smaller explosion. However, this time it's literally /right underneath your feet/.
It could easily be the ministrations of "R". But judging from the soldier who just got pitched clear up a flight of stairs and into a nearby wall, that's highly unlikely. Better hurry it up, that soldier probably won't stay groggy for long. And furthermore, neither is whatever threw him.
Flickering, a headlight of some kind clicks on, illuminating the wall up the service stairs not 20 feet from where Momo and Hinata are standing.
Suddenly having Momo upon her and grabbing hold of her hair is certainly a very confusing change of events. Admittedly she'd always suspected that Momo was a little bit off, but this doesn't seem like the time or the place for new hair styles. She makes a few attempts to get a word in, but when Momo doesn't give her a chance to say anything she does her best to wait out the other student's babelling.
With Momo's rambling finished she just manages to get out "What are you doing with my ha-" before another explosion goes off, rocking the floor right beneath her feet and nearly knocking her right back down again. Oh... and then someone comes flying up a flight of stairs in a manner that doesn't look like he was in control, unless he was trying to make the least threatening entrance ever. The sudden spotlight could almost suggest that it was a failure of an entrance...
"What's going on here?!"
Momo stumbles when the deck rocks directly beneath them, and she begin inching towards the stairs to look down... until a soldier is thrown up them, at least, and a headlight shines against the opposite wall. "Eep!" squeaks the tennis player as she runs back behind Hinata, a fearful look upon her face. "I think it might be the monsters," she says to the taller girl. "You can fight, right? A lot better than Momo can, Momo just plays tennis." She reaches into her sweatshirt and pulls out a tennis ball, contemplating it for a moment before trying to shove it into Hinata's hands. "It's dangerous to go alone. Take this! If anything dangerous comes by, you can throw it at 'em!"
And with that, the pink little Taiyo student runs down the hall in the opposite direction, rounding a corner. A few moments later, her head peeks back, watching to see what happens.
CRUNCH.
It's about that time that the jangling automaton breaches the stairs like a very small underwater vaguely pink leviathan of some type. It is a tragedy of a creation at this point, all exposed gears and twisted metals, and seeming as if it was cobbled together from pieces of.. other things. It has /three/ arms now. The poor reinforced racket at its side is barely recognizable as such anymore, bent into more of a lop-sided shape than the perfect oblong before, with the steel wire twisted and distorted at haphazard angles, like a spider's web.
Most of all, the coin slot on the creation's head is now dented inwards, and it only has one of its trademark headlight eyes, which is shining brightly and illuminating the otherwise sparsely lit corridors. What was originally a very cartoonish looking thing has, through the course of the Invasion, and the fires that followed, been warped into a very terrible, black nightmare of a creature.
Wobbly, it lurches towards Hinata, the headlight orienting on her and her alone. With Momo having her hair in pigtails as she has, the automaton.. seems about ready to tear her limb from limb, ignoring the initial "R" soldier. It approachs, raising a lazily spinning racket, bolted to that one utility arm. Advances on Hinata, menacingly.
.. If Hinata doesn't stop the replicant, it will advance.. right past her and onwards towards Momo.
It would seem that it .. does not actually see, in a strict sense.
Hasn't she seen Momo in a few televised fights before? How can anyone who goes to Taiyo, especially on the school's famous sports teams, not know how to fight? None of this really makes much sense, but maybe the younger girl is scared. Hinata wouldn't exactly blame Momo for being freaked out in the current circumstances, and she is one of her fellow classmates; if Momo really can't fight, then it's her duty to protect her. With... a tennis ball? For a few moments, all Hinata can do is stare down at the tennis ball and wonder why Momo thinks this could be any more effective than her regular techniques.
Then this train of thought is blasted right out the window like a missile out of a rocket launcher or a rocket out of a missile launcher. Some sort of mechanical monster rising up like an unstoppable beast from some sort of video game. The ball drops out of Hinata's hand as she's momentarily dumbstruck, bouncing down along the corridor in the direction the monster just came from.
It's only as the monstrocity starts to walk past her than she manages to pull her senses together, a hand whipping out to land on the mangled robot's shoulder, "Hey, what do you think you're doing?"
"Yes, yes, that's right," Momo says under her breath as M0M0 advances upon Hinata... and then continues to advance past her. "What!?" She comes out from behind the corner. "Yeah, what ARE you doing? Can't you see that's Momo? Look, she has pigtails and a tennis ball and everything! Don't just ignore her!"
There are several potential reactions to this, hopefully Hinata is one of those stupid nice guys who'll pick the one that portrays Momo in the best light, like thinking Hinata was strong enough to take the metal monstrocity or something.
Snap.
Once Momo actually puts herself directly into the automaton's line of sight, the replicant freezes, focusing closely on the schoolgirl. That racket arm spins ever faster, as if it had mounted a drill bit instead of a racket. It's already gone through how many people today trying to get to her?
Seems like it's got one more interloper, too.
When Hinata seizes the thing by the shoulder, the racket comes to a shock still, perfectly level with the ground. It never actually /directly/ looks at Hinata. Instead, its entire upper torso spins with a loud ratcheting sound, the racket cutting the air like a sword. It's aiming to hit her /right/ in the throat with the narrow end of the racket. Potentially a stunning move, if it can land a blow to her windpipe. Unfortunately, M0M0 may or may not be paying /that/ much attention.
Anthropomorphically speaking, /it doesn't care/.
COMBATSYS: M0M0 has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Hinata has joined the fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Momo has joined the fight here.
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COMBATSYS: M0M0 successfully hits Hinata with Fierce Punch.
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Hinata would probably have things under at least some amount of control... at least if Momo didn't suddenly hop out from behind her cover spouting crazy things about how SHE (Hinata) is really HER (Momo). This moment of confusion leaves Hinata wide open as the furious throat shot comes in, and it slams into her neck at full force, forcing the girl to let go of the automaton to clutch at her throat, trying to suck in air while tears stream down from her eyes. There's nothing Hinata can do but stumble back a few steps while trying to collect herself.
COMBATSYS: Hinata gains composure.
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Momo emits a frightened "Eep!" when her robotic duplicate locks eyes with her. Emerging from her hiding place was not the best of ideas... but it looks like Hinata's on the ball, stopping the clone on the spot! And promptly falls off the ball when she's punched in the throat.
"Noooo!" the tennis player calls out from the end of the hall. "That's now how it's supposed to work! You're supposed to go 'Pow!' and punch it! Or or or kick your shoe at it or something!" However, her cheering isn't doing nearly enough to help Hinata breathe again, so she'll just have to buy the girl some time to recover. "Hey, big stupid doo-doo head! Look sharp!" she calls, one hand reaching into her sweatshirt to retrieve another tennis ball while the other unhooks the tennis racquet from her back. The two items are brought together in one smooth motion that should end (hopefully) with M0M0 getting that coin slot dented in even further.
COMBATSYS: M0M0 dodges Momo's Whale Serve.
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One more obstacle out of its way. Oh, M0M0 hardly thinks to consider that Hinata may get up--it doesn't think that way. Things continue to be problems until they stop moving, adn then they are no longer problems until they move towards it again. Needless to say--from the thing's hellish appearance, not many have tried to be a continued obstruction to the unit.
That still leaves its primary objective, however.
As Momo shouts at it, the replicant customarily fails to respond in a verbal way--it merely begins to run towards her. And then--here's the kicker. When Momo fires off her deadly Whale Serve, the headlight on the thing focuses dead on the brighy yellow projectile. It's sent sailing towards M0M0..
And then the automaton's /head/ shoots off. It spnis in a low arc towards Momo--over the tennis ball. And then--SNAP. It's back in the creation's neck socket.
This means M0M0 is now much, much closer to Momo than before.
Burgeoned onward by pure force of momentum and /inability to stop/, it attacks. Racket arm spinning again, it thrusts, trying to drill /right through/ the schoolgirl. Or at the very least, traumatize her upper body by a large measure.
The deranged machine may not think of Hinata as a threat, but one blow to the throught won't keep the power of TAIYO SPIRIT from bringing her back into the fight. Nobody messes with her fellow students.
Nobody.
...Not even if they can pop their heads off and then back on.
Hinata bursts forward in at M0M0 from behind, letting out a fierce shout, "Hey! Keep away from here, you monster!" Moving with incredible speed, she starts to punch right for the back of M0M0's head like a machine gun, rapid fire punches all aiming to slam right into it before one final punch flies forward ending with a sudden burst of golden chi that seems to blossom out into the shape of a sunflower.
COMBATSYS: M0M0 successfully hits Momo with Flip Flap Racket.
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"H-hey, that's cheating!" Momo says as she watches M0M0's head fly off. Unfortunately for the girl, watching this feat of springiness leaves her too distracted to get out of the way of the drill-racquet that's coming straight for her. She squeals in pain as the twisted wreckage of sports equipment bores into her chest, stretching and tearing the front of her sweatshirt to match the scorched back. At least the pain is only temporary, as the force of the blow throws her backwards.
Landing roughly on her butt, Momo groans in pain, then bounces back to her feet. "Why are you still here?" she demands of the robot. "I kicked your butt and blew you up! Don't you know when to give up? Momo is the only Momo!" Her tennis racquet is swung at the robot clone's head-- if that thing is detachable, maybe she can send it off with a strong enough blow!
COMBATSYS: Hinata successfully hits M0M0 with Rengekiken.
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COMBATSYS: M0M0 endures Momo's Racket Return.
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There are no answers for Momo. At least, none she'd understand.
The automaton has it's directive. And it's the only directive it has ever known. It braces a bit to pursue the issue--to break Momo underneath its racket, but unfortunately, Hinata has other ideas. The punches batter M0M0's shell, sending countless gears flying everywhere, putting out many fine motor control functions, including that of its weapon arm, before the automaton is smashed with chi, and blown away by Momo's relentless headshot with the racket, sending the device clear off its steel tennis shoes and flying through the air farther down the corridor, back towards the stairs, its steel pigtailed-head separating from its body with the action, twisting the delicate brass framing of the neck, and easily snapping the wood infrastructure.
Arm now useless for fine maneuvering required of combat, the replicant raises the tennis racket arm mid-spin. It feels no pain. It is not distracted sufficiently from its goal.
The spinning shape of the arm and an internal gyroscope should be enough to regain its stability. Even so--The racket is now useless. Save for its final function. The warped frame pops off every bolt with a pre-set charge, before the entire assembly fires out of its arm like a very wobbly, spinning.. Racket Rocket. Wobbling through the air erratically and trailing flame, the projectile is amazingly still unerringly aimed, even as the replicant slams into the far wall roughly.
If Momo (or Hinata) isn't fast, it'll land in the tennis player's vicinity, if not dead on her.
Given the shortly ensuing explosion, even 'in the vicinity' will be enough.
As the mutilated machine's head goes flying off, Hinata lets out a raucous cheer in victory, leaping up into the air as the thing is most assuradly defeated!
...Or not.
The thing starts to flail about in a rather threatening manner that prompted Hinata to start moving back away from the thing. This is probably very, very bad. Then as the rocket rocket flies off of its mount, something in the back of Hinata's mind tells her that this would be a good time to run! "Oh no, it's going to blow! Run for it, Momo!" Heeding her own words, she starts to race off down the cooridor, turning on to the next one over that Momo had tried to hide in.
COMBATSYS: Hinata takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Momo reflects Long Shot from M0M0 with Racket Return.
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"Woo!" cheers the Momo as her combined assault with Hinata sends the Robomomo flying. But it's too soon to celebrate, as the tennis player is well aware; M0M0 doesn't die just because she's fallen to pieces. "Watch out, she'll probably put her head back on or something in a minute. If you hear ticking, get out of the way," she warns the taller girl, as she watches M0M0 fly through the air towards the far wall... and use the dreaded rocket racquet technique!?
Momo grins at the incoming racquet, taking a few steps back and to the left to get a better position and bracing herself. "Momo is on to you, Robomomo! She knew that all robots have rocket punches!" And so, the girl SWINGS her racquet, just hitting the top of the incoming projectile... enough to flip the thing over, and let it rocket its way back to M0M0!
COMBATSYS: M0M0 endures Momo's Reflected Long Shot!
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Temporarily, the corridor is simply too bright to see--the explosion ruptures the hall's walls--causing pipes in the walls and pumping equipment to finally give way. Though M0M0 by herself would normally not play a noticeable toll on the ship's reinforced bulkheads, the sheer volume and tenacity of battle that's been going on in this section of the ship overall has compromised this area to the point of collapse. Watertight walls burst--sending high pressure streams of water rocketing across the way. In this area, the explosion is deafening, and all encompassing--luckily, it engulfs M0M0, rather than either of the two girls.
At least, one would think so, until a horrible distended shriek parts the cacophony, and something only barely recognizable as a /machine,/ let alone a humanoid, bursts high from the fire cloud. A skeletal /remnant/ of its former self, there is very little wood or armor plating left on it anymore--what few bits of wood are left, is now /ignited/, what little sealing and fireproofing treatment on the wood was given finally giving way.
And worst of all, in its third arm, mounted into a prepared (!) socket just below its sole functioning arm, is carrying the cable to its now disconnected head, upside down with its headlamp still dimly flickering, like some strange lantern. The idle thing is chattering--distended voicebox playing off some pre-prepared recording in Mandarin.
Its other functioning arm is reaching for the closest and most intended target--Momo's throat.
Its methods transparent or not, it's intending on strangling its twin right now.
An explosion powerful enough to rock the entire ship once more goes off, likely missed by most considering the battle going on against the massive Black Noah. Hinata starts to wonder if the battle against the people invading the Suiryuu could manage to cause as much damage as this one mechanoid monstrocity.
Of course once the blast begins to clear, it becomes quite apparent to Hinata that Momo didn't manage to make it into the corridor with her. Worrying about what might have happened to her classmate, she blazes around the corner only to see... the robot even more battered and Momo appearing for the most part okay... right up until the moment it starts to lunge for Momo's throat. The Sunshine Girl begins to race down through the hallway, dropping down toward the ground as she nears the robot and sliding across the floor for a few feet before blasting up off the ground, her fist aimed to take M0M0 right in what looks to be its spinal column (or would be if it weren't a robot) as her fist burns with fiery chi in a powerful uppercut motion. "Fall beneath the power of TAIYO, monster!"
COMBATSYS: M0M0 successfully hits Momo with Strong Throw.
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"Pthtbhbbbhththhh!"
Such is the sound that fills the corridor as Momo rasperries the explosion on the far end, unbound hair blowing behind her thanks to the shockwave (what with her hair ties being in Hinata's hair). Unfortunately, she's neglecting to take her own advice regarding the unkillability of M0M0. This leaves her off-balance when the robot charges out of the fires, even moreso because the robot is hardly a robot at all anymore, but a twisted wreckage of brass and flames.
Her racquet is raised to try and bat away what was once her doppelganger, but M0M0 is too fast. Momo is grabbed around the neck, eyes going wide as she realizes what's going on. She tries to say something, but the words can't form, a garbled, 'Hirrkkn," all that escapes. The tennis player claws desperately at the machine's arm and hand in lieu of properly fighting back, trying to pry the monster off of her neck.
COMBATSYS: Momo takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: M0M0 endures Hinata's Shouyouken.
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It is a grim, chaotic scene, though there is no rage in creation. There is no emotional bias, no ghost in the machine. M0M0 has a directive. As long as it fucntions, it will carry it out. Logic--simple, brutal logic--can often be terrifying, especially in the guise of a flaming spectre carrying its own head.
But that does not make it any less simple. It does not make it any more poetic. WHat it does make it, is dangerous.
Simple; the Mandarin is a test spec readoff at the beginning of M0M0's voice tape. M0M0 recently reset, and cannot fast-forward in its condition. It's holding its head because it is a chi-infused component, regardless of whether or not it is attached.
Simple; it doesn't often defend because it only has one directive beyond what is instinctive to its nature. So when Hinata attacks it, it only turns its back against the girl. Ironically, this is actually its strongest area, given the sheer amount of firepower its absorbed to its front and sides, so it absorbs damage better while continuing to hold Momo. This does not stop its back from being torn wide open by the power of Hinata's fist, however.
Simple; it's strangling Momo because it was out of other palatable options. It speaks only one sentence that is all that it can say, test readoff aside. However it does have a recording function, one of the last functions it's forced to use.
"..Hello, me, now is the time for bomb," the machine assures, reciting with machine perfection. Or at least, perfect were Momo being punched in the throat at the time. It begins to glow internally, seals overloading on the device one by one, including a large spiral one briefly visible only after its main backplate is torn away.
Simple; it's out of other effective options.
Simple; it's over. And there can only be one.
..Dangerous; When its core overloads, it /will/ cripple anyone in its vicinity. In the resultant chi release and return. It WILL cause the localized flooding to get worse. Much worse. That presents the two with problems. One of the two will have to tear off M0M0's arm to release the machine's grip. And then both will have to escape.
Simple; A few seconds later, M0M0 reaches the end of the very short tape. "... Goodbye, me. :)" -- Dangerous; It gets very bright. Very fast.
COMBATSYS: Hinata fails to interrupt Self-Destruct from M0M0 with Kikou Shoutei.
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This... is bad. In fact it's pretty much what she was expecting to happen earlier, only now it's actually happening. And that robot is really really annoying and she'd probably be happy it was going to die if it wasn't trying to take her with it. If the earlier explosions were things it was expected to live through, it's final blast was certainly going to be even worse, and she probably couldn't run fast enough to get out of there so with only one possible hope left, she takes it. Her hands cup down toward her side as she starts to form a spark of chi, willing it to grow fast enough that she could thrust it out in front of herself as some sort of shield, but... then the explosion goes off and any hope of getting out is torn to shreds as it bathes over her, the energy sending her flying back with incredible force, crashing through practically every conceivable obstacle in the hallway before finally being thrown halfway through a door all the way on the end head first before blacking out, her front half on the inside her back half on the outside.
COMBATSYS: Momo fails to interrupt Self-Destruct from M0M0 with Giant Swing.
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"W-whgrt?" Momo chokes out, her replica still keeping her air supply woefully low. Already widened eyes bug out as the seals begin to glow brighter and brighter. "Lggr, lggr!" exclaims the tennis player as she begins to fail, trying desperately to spin around and throw her captor off-balance, perhaps tear through the explosion-weakened arm and free herself before all hell breaks loose.
Unfortunately, she doesn't quite manage it. The garbled, but still intelligible au revoir causes Momo to drop straight to the ground, perhaps drawing M0M0 down on top of her. Her knees are brought up to her chin, the fetal position, hoping to protect her body with her legs.
The inevitable arrives, the M0M0CALYPSE that Momo had been fearing since she first saw her robotic doppelganger in the air vents. The already weakened infrastructure of the ship gives way beneath the force of the explosion, sending Momo down to a lower level, into the hallway the soldier from earlier lost his battle against M0M0 to. Her back impacts with force enough to elicit a sharp cry of pain from the girl, if not for the fact that the machine's hand is still gripping her throat. Instead, after a few moments recovering and floating dangerously close to unconsciousness, the tennis player finally pries the fingers off of her neck and begins to cough, burning lungs finally getting the air they've been screaming for.
COMBATSYS: M0M0 successfully hits M0M0 with Self-Destruct.
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Water sprays into the area from a torrent of locations, tides of water slowing all battling in the area to a crawl, forcing what will likely be a mutual evacuation. Nearby crew mobilize--though the invasion takes precidence, there are watertight bays to shut in the area, before the whole ship floods. Luckily, the Suiryuu has many, /many/ of these bays, so they're relatively close together. In only a few minutes, Momo, as she lay gasping on the floor, will be treated to a sudden spotlight--that of a flashlight. Held by a wounded Suiryuu crewmember in a soaked Jinchuu uniform, from a prior battle with "R" troops.
"Are there any others in here?! We gotta evacuate this bay before it floods!"
As for the automaton? The head floats in the fast rising water, buoyant there, only partially annihilated by the blast. An empty brass braincase, with single melted headlight, and enduring steel pigtails, with cute brass bows, dented though they are. It bobs there, hopelessly mangled coin slot still showing just enough metal to display a fragment of the judgment kanji.
The auto-tan's skull, in fact, is the only part left of M0M0 Prime.
The headlamp glows dimly, the kanji fragment flashing with dormant, trace chi.
Log created on 19:36:21 10/09/2007 by M0M0, and last modified on 06:56:57 10/10/2007.