Description: Mission: Analysis of former member. State: Failure. Unit Candy defeated. Explanation : Target survived repeated blows, could not be taken down. Threat still there. Unit Candy failure due to ineffective attempts towards stronger member.
Though Southtown is often a violent place, full of conflict and strife as the many colorful personalities that fill it clash, tonight there is at least a small measure of peace in the city. A respite from the craziness of the world for the man known only as Dr. Tran.
His face is calm as he stares in the distance, coat billowing behind him as it tends to do. What heavy thoughts run through his mind, what mysteries does he contemplate in such stoic silence?
"Your order ready, now quit hogging fan and get out!" Tran blinks and steps up to the counter in a hurry, grabbing a bag full of delicious Chinese takeout, before rushing out the door in case the guy decides to whack him with a broom or something. The doctor doesn't even pause for long enough to grab a pair of chopsticks.
Walking down the street afterward, Tran wonders to himself aloud, just a little grumpy, "I bet that guy doesn't even normally have an accent." Tran reaches into his bag and pulls out a carton, expertly flipping it open with one hand. He takes a good whiff. "Food's good, though."
There are many fighters within Southtown. Some more interesting, or difficult than others. And some Dr. Tran.
Slipping around the corner, as Tran leaves the Chinese Take out place, Candy follows.. holograms helping morph the girl into .. nurse Candy. She looks like a nurse, to a degree, except for the hair being uncovered. The clothing is spot on. As is the coloring.
And thus Candy begins to follow Tran, as he walks down the street, sniffing his food before eating it.
And yet following him, she is silent save for the fact that she is a machine. She cannot prevent all movements from making noise, and her footsteps do as well. Why is Candy doing such an obvious observation? This man .. had been apparently linked to some happenings in the past. His fighting style, is also unique.
Thus, he was a target, if only for information, of those who may get in the way.
Candy just smiles, in her nurse form, following the caped Doctor Tran.
And she doesn't say anything, instead, mimicing his movements. Maybe the Dr. will notice he .. seems to have a hanger on?
More like Dr. Tran has a HUNGER on, for some delicious chow mein, rich in delicious MSG and other artificial preservatives! Mmmm-mmmm!
Lifting the carton, Tran looks to the left, then to the right. Not behind, so much. He's checking for people, not so much out of paranoia, but, well...more because moments later, he lifts the carton to his face and starts pigging out. That's not something you want to do when people are watching. It's gross.
Tran lowers his meal contentedly, stoppng at a corner to check for traffic. He turns, looks both way for traffic because getting run over sucks, and then chokes. Noodle catches in his throat as he sees a young nurse staring right at him. Smiling.
It makes Tran /nervous./
(Why is she looking at me? Is she really a nurse? Seems kind of young...and familiar? What?) For a time, Dr. Tran stares right back at Candy, frozen, as he tries to figure out just what her deal is.
The smile does not break. Candy has been briefed. Nurses are generally supposed to be happy. She has taken it to an extreme. It is as he finally turns that Candy seems to look back at him, staring in response, not moving an inch. There is not even much of a breath. If Tran focused on such a thing, he alone would be the one that makes noise through existence.
"Hello." The nurse-bot states, still smiling.
"Every doctor needs a nurse. I have come to assist you." A simple, obvious statement. Her hands rest infront of her, cupping each other, clasping themselves closed. She seems simply enough, decked out in the nurse garb.
But if Tran could feel energy at all, he would realize there is something more worth noting. There is a void within that women. Energy equal to a rock, or another unliving object, stands before him in this faux form. A creature of metal and wire, she knows nothing else.. and similarly, does not move as Tran does not.
"I hope you have not choked. If you do, I will be doctorless."
For many long moments, Dr. Tran continues to stare at Candy, gradually recovering from the effects of failing to swallow properly. Even with his mouth unoccupied, he can't really think of anything to say. Is this girl for real? Is she some kind of crazy fan? An unusually calm crazy fan?
Slowly lowering his delicious, delicious foods, Tran does his best to respond. "Uh...hello." (Good start. Keep going, keep her from getting violent.) "You...you're a nurse?" (Smooth. That's not obvious at all, try again with less dumb.) Tran struggles a moment, trying to find the right way to phrase his very distracting thoughts.
"What do you think you're going to assist me with?"
Candy's unique characteristics go unnoticed for now, but give the doctor a break. It has been a very stressful thirty seconds for him.
Long moments to Candy are both short and long. Her existence lives within milliseconds, ticking away ever so slowly as information passes effortlessly through her, bringing up Tran's past history, his words, his phrases, his personalities, and his merchandising, by his hand or not.
In this time, the machine learns to recognize most of what he will probably say, or do. He hates schoolchildren. A reason she did not go as one.
"Yes. I am a nurse. I had hoped you would recognize." She states, taking a step back, for whatever reason. It is because he asks her of what she will assist him with. Now. That is a good question, isn't it?
But her body turns a bit, still looking towards Tran. "I will assist you in your work." She claims nothing else. "But not the work a Doctor normally would do." She adds in, to get her point across. She is anything but shapely, as well. Almost like a doll. Her eyes, vaguely lifeless, focus upon him.
She takes that step forwards, but moves a bit farther in, the smile staying. His next response may change things.. or will be met as planned.
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Somehow, Dr. Tran feels as though control in the situation, never his to begin with, is swiftly spiralling away from his grasp. In a moment of caution, he closes the lid on his takeout and sets it back in the bag while he struggles to come to terms with this creepy lady. Because really, help him with his work? Could Candy possibly be any more vague? Unless...is she...
"Are you HITTING on me?" Tran's disbelief stems not from the belief that that doesn't really happen (he is after all a moderately succesful fighter of note), but more the way she's doing it in. Her step forward, complete with the always smiling, causes Tran to take a step back in reponse. "I...I mean, I'm flattered, I guess, but who ARE you?"
Tran begins to close his food, setting it back, and come to terms with things. But as Tran drives off the cliff in his decisions, and chooses the far oddest one, Candy cannot grasp this logic. She does not understand what job would be there beyond the violent kind, instead of the helping kind.
perhaps she will have to remind him.
But after Tran asks who she is, Candy, already having stepped forwards, puts a hand on his shoulder. "I am here for you."
Which may sound like it is a support for Tran's choice ... before the hand tightens around his arm, squeezing, before she pulls him forwards, dashing him towards the ground, her body and his crashing into the ground before Candy kicks upwards with mechanical precision.
"Maybe you will understand now."
Sliding out two tonfas, the woman stands there now, Candy entering battle conditions, a different kind of programming taking up where the last left off.
COMBATSYS: Candy has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Tran has joined the fight here.
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Candy 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Tran
COMBATSYS: Tran blocks Candy's Candy Drop.
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Candy 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Tran
Dr. Tran is a man of many facets. A complex man. A fighting man. A man used to danger. This doesn't feel like most danger he's encounted, that being in the form of ridiculously powerful superhumans who can shoot pure death out of their eyes. This is different.
So when Candy reaches out for Tran, he doesn't react, instead still trying to puzzle things out, and getting increasingly upset. "WHY are you here for me!?"
Then she throws him. Or, to be more accurate, she grabs him and pulls him down. He braces himself against the ground as he falls with one hand, his free hand, saving his meal with the other, enduring the impact roughly. He shoves himself upward almost immediately, taking a cautious step or two back, setting his bag of chinese on the ground where hopefully nobody will step on it or anything terrible like that.
And then Dr. Tran goes straight into cool mode. His eyes narrow, and it seems like whatever issues he had moments ago have been resolved. Or at the very least, put on hold. "Yeah, this isn't so strange after all, is it?" Just a complete stranger trying to beat the crap out of him for reasons unknown. Again.
The only real solution is to respond in kind, and Dr. Tran is not a man to shy away from doing so. "Then take this!" He dashes forward, closing the distance between himself and the strange robot quickly. Tran drives upward with an open hand to pick Candy up by her neck, only to follow that with a spinning kick to her midsection.
COMBATSYS: Tran successfully hits Candy with 3 2 1...Dr Tran.
- Power hit! -
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Candy 0/-------/----===|==-----\-------\0 Tran
As Dr. Tran is able to roll with most of the assault, Candy is 'ready'. It turns out she is not.
But as Tran dashes forwards, closing the distance.. he drives a hand, picking her up, and then delivering a spinning kick to her midsection. Such is quite painful. Such is unstoppable, for the moment. She is incapable of doing anything in response. The robot is un-phased.
Despite being tossed away from the force, and slamming, head first, against the wall. There was an error. It turns out she was not fine tuned before hand. Her reaction had stopped. Why?
'Please Accept this Update Now'.
It is canceled.
Her head, slammed against the hard wall, opens it's eyes, focusing upon Dr. Tran. Her body shoots upwards with no 'remnants' of pain.
And she rushes toward Tran, tonfa swinging around, before being thrust towards his chest.
"This is not strange at all. I am here due to your nature of work."
COMBATSYS: Tran fails to interrupt Medium Strike from Candy with Heavy Kick.
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Candy 0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0 Tran
What on earth? As Tran picks Candy up, he notices something. She is not a large person by any stretch of the imagination, but somehow, she weighs about as much as three tons of bricks. It's about then that he picks up on how she's more or less completely without an aura. He's no chi savant, really, not like some people, but he knows his way around the energy-based block, so to speak.
Questions go racing through the doctor's head, which is probably a bad thing since Tran's chosen a moderately unorthodox tactic for dealing with the unrelenting Candy. That tactic: lifting a leg to let her just kind of...run into it. Maybe it's not the best plan, especially since it doesn't work in the slightest, leaving Tran stumbling backward, breathing just a little strained from the hit.
He pauses, frowning. "Forget about who you are, what are you? And what work? Explain yourself!"
As Tran lifts his leg, Candy aims to run into it.. but not straight on. And knocking Tran back seems to be effective enough.
Her weight is odd. She cannot hide that. Generally no one gets a good grasp upon her so quickly. It was an error she could not avoid. The 'plan' has been scrapped so quickly. But she can still salvage it. To draw more from him. Pulling backwards, the information that she has grasped on Tran .. begins to filter in. Her irii skip to Tran's body, a complete scan, flitting about, matching details given from the reports that were recorded before. All begin to cross her irii, scrolling farther and farther upwards.
But she makes no motion forwards.
"That information is not able to be released. You will not have any of it."
That isn't to say that he is completely incapable of deciding, for himself, how things go.. and just what she may be. It's rather easy to tell. It just takes a bit of energy. Which Candy is aiming to completely lock him away from, with what she does next. The information flows, and she focuses now on working to get to know more of Dr. Tran.
As every bit of motion, every slight action. Everything is fed into her receptors, allowing her to read the man before he can possibly move.
She steps backwards, a single step, as she finishes the scan. "But you are important enough to be noticed."
COMBATSYS: Candy focuses on her next action.
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Candy 0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0 Tran
"I won't, huh?" Dr. Tran gets a bona fide Look in his eye. It is not a safe, sane look. Some people might even go so far to describe it as 'crazy'. "And you've decided that all by yourself, whatever you are?" He chuckles, taking a step back and then turning around, head bowed.
He has no inkling of what's going on inside Candy's head right now, the data she's gathering on him, processing. But she might find it a little bit hard to classify it, and him. "I guess I could let that go. I'm not a selfish kind of guy." At this point, Candy's fancy reading and detectors probably start to react much more than they were a few moments ago, as the very air around Dr. Tran begins to ripple with power. Chi, coursing out of him, flowing back in, in a gradually building loop.
"But if you think I'm important enough for you to pay attention to me, I think maybe I owe a little bit more than that."
COMBATSYS: Tran gathers his will.
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Candy 0/-------/---====|=======\-------\1 Tran
The sight is interesting. She has not dealt with one best described as 'crazy'. And Candy is one of those people ... machines which are interested in absorbing what she can find, a somewhat childish interest in learning things she has not.
And this man is full of that. There is no one quite like this Dr. Tran. And there is a beginning to be a ... error. Error. Candy's eyes glaze over, for a moment. There's something with that chi. There's something that Candy just cannot take.
It is the chi itself.
Her scanning equipment is still capable of receiving levels of chi. Unfortunately, she has to read it raw. Thus shielding has not been provided. For now, she can read the strength. And it grows. And it grows. She will need to interrupt it.
"You are important. You are a target." She states, matter of factly, before something .. odd happens.
Her hand points forwards, palm facing upwards, out towards Tran. Her resources are drawn out, before her clothing, the holograms, begins to flutter slightly, as if wind was flowing through them. But the energy is only being transferred, and from the clothing, tendrils, spear like protrusions, erupt forwards about her hand, and shoot through the air, light being weaved in a special pattern, the holograms, solid, lancing through the air towards Dr. Tran.
And while it may be light, and while it may be lancing through the air .. there is no 'energy' to speak of.
This is purely science.
COMBATSYS: Tran blocks Candy's Critical Shoot.
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Candy 0/-------/---====|=======\-------\1 Tran
"Now we're getting there." Tran sees, out of the corner of his eye, a flicker. It's unusual, really, because normally he can at least feel when someone is acting, moving, even with his back turned. He can tell they're alive. It makes dealing with their attempts to kill him so much easier.
But he doesn't have that to rely on right now. It's all visual from here, so he half-twists to at least see Candy's attack incoming. It looks like energy, sure, but it doesn't FEEL like it, so Dr. Tran takes the only course he can in regards to this solid hologram. He punches it.
The first tendril impacts his fist solidly, stopping dead. If only there was only the one. Several slip by Tran's aggresive defense, each rocking his torso. But all told, he's felt worse. He laughs.
"You're really something unbelievable, you know that? If I didn't know better, I'd think none of this was even really happening at all." He looks completely unconcerned, like he's not even in a fight, as he walks up to Candy, lifting a hand smoothly toward her forehead. And, assuming nothing goes too horribly wrong, he gives it a shove. This probably wouldn't matter in the slightest if there weren't a light pole right behind her. That boosts it up to 'maybe slightly effective' in Tran's mind.
COMBATSYS: Candy interrupts Quick Throw from Tran with Diamond Cutter.
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Candy 0/-------/--=====|=======\===----\1 Tran
The laughter is recorded. It is not usual. Candy has never heard laughter from the response of that assault. It is new to her. Her stimuli begins and ends with Kula, a few fights so far, and clones.
None have laughed, save for perhaps K9999. She was not allowed, in the end, to ever truly 'fight' with him. There was a reason. It was kept from her. She has never asked. But as Tran looks towards her, walking up, and lifting a hand towards her forehead.. perhaps a few others would react immediately.
Candy doesn't, instead, giving him time. "It is not recommended that you move closer to me." She notes, before he shoves.
The second it takes for her head to push backwards, a string of commands has already been analyzed and processed, and an adequate response has been calculated. Her hands thrust towards Tran's chest, but they stop before. The solid light begins to weave around him, surrounding him, softening his assault, before Candy brings one metal hand upwards, and backwards.
It is brought downwards, against the weaving, cutting it in half..
And bending it, with Tran inside, before he is released, the weaving vanishing, and Candy's head slammed against the pole.
Most noticeably.
There was a dull 'clang'. The hair is real. Something isn't.
Truth be told, this is not an unexpected outcome. The further use of these strange...whatever they-ares, the immediate, brutal attack that doesn't even give Tran a chance to react. Yeah, Dr. Tran is an intelligent enough man to have seen it coming. Especially, since, y'know. Candy even warned him not to move closer. THAT he wasn't expecting so much.
It makes the doctor laugh, again. At least, after he's finished being put through the wringer. After he's slammed down to the ground, while he's slowly getting to his feet. "Funny. It's funny! I wonder, do you even know how to laugh?"
Shaking his head, Tran steps back again. "It doesn't matter, I guess." His eyes lock onto Candy's, suddenly intense. They almost look like they're glowing, which is not precisely the truth. It's more a visual effect of all the steam that is suddenly slipping out of him. Out of his eyes, out of his mouth as he talks, even a small but constant amount pouring out from his skin. "If you want, you can still walk away."
COMBATSYS: Tran focuses on his next action.
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Candy 0/-------/--=====|=======\===----\1 Tran
Her irii focus on Tran, eyes watching as he laughs after it all. More laughter from the man. He has to realize she is not laughing, or interested in his laughter. But he laughs for another reason. She wonders what it may be.
But he is correct. "...." She responds to his words. No response. "You shouldn't ask such questions.. it's not fitting." She smiles. "You're showing me so much. So please don't stop now." Candy adds, especially as chi pours through his skin as chi.
She should not move forwards.
She does anyways.
Step after step brings her forwards, before Candy ends up infront of him, but her slow and steady movements suddenly change, the false woman suddenly rushing, before her tonfa's come forwards, Candy suddenly ducking as she gets close.. and then bringing her tonfas about herself, rising nearby Tran, the spinning assault attempting to prevent anything he has in mind..
While striking him with each revolution, and sending him skywards, and away.
"Good. It shouldn't matter."
COMBATSYS: Tran blocks Candy's Crow Bite.
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Candy 0/-------/---====|=======\====---\1 Tran
"Haaaaaah..." Dr. Tran exhales heavily, expelling a great gout of steam from his mouth. It seems wholly unintentional. He hunches forward slightly, stretching and loosening himself, waiting for Candy. She comes, and drives upward. He takes the first hit, but it fails to knock him upward, only sending him staggering back a step. Dr. Tran doesn't seem to mind in the slightest.
"I guess that's a no, then. Should've taken the chance while you had it." Tran takes a step forward, and raises a hand flat to the sky. It clenches into a fist with a puff of steam. "No more questions, now. Be happy, if you can." And then, since Candy has PRESUMABLY landed by now, Dr. Tran bats his fist forward at the center of her forehead. Doink. It might not even be worth mentioning, if it weren't for an accompanying explosion of hot and hectic steamy chi.
COMBATSYS: Candy blocks Tran's Jab Punch.
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Candy 0/-------/--=====|=======\=====--\1 Tran
As Tran exhales that gout of steam, Candy watches.. and as he takes the hit, she realizes.
Something is different. The chi manipulation has thrown off her sensors. Suddenly they're all beginning to collapse. Her sensors can't keep up. There's too much of .. it in the area.
It being his energy. There's just too much. She can't actually function any longer.
As as Tran steps forwards, and raises a hand to the sky .. it explodes in that energy. The hand erupts to her as she lands, and her hands slide upwards, the explosion of hot chi shows Candy something. "Weakness for strength.." She notes, having seen how he puts himself out there.
Yet something happens. The chi touches Candy. The energy is read.
The woman falters backwards, and half her head .. phases for a second, here the strike was aimed. The energy fights against her own. Interfering.
But the irii look upon Tran once more, eyes focused on him .. in his new state. She will need to collect this information.
And prepare for what is to come.
COMBATSYS: Candy focuses on her next action.
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Candy 0/-------/--=====|=======\=====--\1 Tran
Fascinating. Really, it is. The way Tran's fist, his chi, disrupts Candy's face like that. It's a pity he's really not in a state of mind to really mull it over. It's just another thing that doesn't matter. There's only one thing to do, one focus.
Wreck the shit out of this strange woman's who has shown up to complicate his life. "Did you say something? SPEAK UP!" He takes an aggresive step forward after the now-hesistant Candy, and then he explodes. It looks exactly like he's detonated, steam erupting from deep inside of him in every direction, a concealing cloud of chi that stretches for yards in any direction. There should be only one certainly with Tran's attack. It is coming.
COMBATSYS: Candy interrupts Random Weapon from Tran with Random Strike.
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Candy 0/-------/=======|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Tran
And then Tran comes bursting out of his cloud of steam, trying to beat Candy to death with a trash can he picked up somewhere along the way.
As Tran demands her to speak up, Candy says nothing. She doesn't really speak after her orders her too. A failsafe, perhaps. Or maybe she doesn't feel like speaking. It could be either. Candy doesn't say a word, however.. and then the steam erupts everywhere. Candy can't see where he ends, or the steam begins.
She just can't.
Her circuits are clouded, her sight unable to make any note of what's going on. What's happening. What she sees. Nothing.
But she brings the tonfa's around, as Tran comes towards her with the trashcan.
It strikes. Candy reacts, lashing out, the strike causing her to immediately crash towards Tran, tonfa swinging in wide, random patterns, as her head is dented in. She doesn't stop. She keeps swinging.
And then finally staggers backwards, weakened, but not falling.
"You should not try that. It does not seem to be working."
Bwong, bwong, series of meaty thwacks. Garbage can, as it turns out, is trumped by tonfa. This time, at least. Each hit crashes into Tran, beating the crap out of him, bruising him badly. He doesn't care. He /really/ doesn't care. It's pretty evident when he cracks up.
Yes, Tran starts laughing. Again. More loudly this time, like something is uproariously funny and he just can't help himself. "Ha ha, don't you think I know?!" He bursts into laughter again, but rather than just collapse and go into conniptions, he comes at Candy again, drawing his foot back. It shrouds itself in steam with the merest thought, and then he tries to split the goalposts with Candy. This is not to imply that he is kicking her between the legs, this is more an indication of where she is likely to end up should his kick, which is aimed at her stomach, land.
Another possibility: space.
COMBATSYS: Candy interrupts Strong Kick from Tran with Diamond Cutter.
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Candy 1/----===/=======|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Tran
Tran keeps laughing. Candy figures this will continue. The robot is not surprised when it happens again. Yet as Tran comes forth, the foot drawn back, Candy watches the foot shroud itself in steam.. and the kick is hard. But Candy is not .. able to be tossed around by energy.
She just cannot resist the effects on her systems.
The foot impacts without much effort. It's also stopped to some degree, her metal body preventing herself from being launched into space. But next comes something else. The energy swarms over Candy, swelling, growing, washing over the machine, taking her energy, the holograms, the light, all of it.
And snapping it in half.
Her disguise is gone. Her armoring, metal in joints, body, and face, shown.
But it will be a momentary victory. Candy throws her hands forwards, once again coating Tran in such light, forcing him upwards.. and then cutting it, bending him, contorting him in all ways, once more. She staggers backwards, sparking once or twice.
"E-Error.."
Crunch. Oh, Dr. Tran feels it, and it feels good. That kick, slamming home. He doesn't even care when Candy puts on her light show again immediately afterward. He's decidedly mangled and broken afterward, but he's still standing. To put it simply, the soul still burns.
"So that's the truth, is it? Just a doll!" Tran's still got a bit of reason in him, it seems. Enough to recognize the obvious when it's in front of him, at least. Not that it really matters to him right now, anyway. "This is your punishment for interrupting my dinner!" Tran raises his hand to the sky again, palm flat, and steam clusters thick around it. "PERISH!" Tran's hand snaps down to one side, and then slices in a wide arc in front of his body. Steam, pushed down and compacted in the shape of a wicked sharp sickle until it's akin to a solid object itself, shoots forward in its wake.
COMBATSYS: Candy reflects American Hero Cutter from Tran with Access Violation.
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Candy 0/-------/----===|=======\=======\1 Tran
Tran's reasoning is effective enough, yet the doll .. the doll is just not that. She hates being called 'just one'. But yet, she knows that's all she is. Just a doll. Why should it inspire such things in her? Error. Things should not exist. She cannot feel hatred. Why does she react so strongly against such a word.
"Not .. just a doll."
She does not know why, exactly, she insists this. She is just a doll. Nothing more. Nothing less. But weakened, her reserves are still within capability to be used. And use she does.
Her hands pull upwards, as the steam, into a wicked sickle, slices towards her. The light raises.. and the sickle suddenly finds itself trapped within the holograms, the light weaving the sickle like energy, pulling it, twisting it .. and sending it back towards Tran, the weaving light following it, spiralling through the air.
"You have been helpful. But your usefulness ends here." She intones, letting the energy fly backwards.
But she is .. just a machine, still.
Unfortunately. That is all she will be.. it seems.
COMBATSYS: Tran reflects Reflected American Hero Cutter from Candy with -Q- is for Dr. Tran.
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Candy 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\0 Tran
"If you're not just a mindless robot, then prove it!" Dr. Tran takes a step forward, following his own attack, not even content to let it resolve before he goes into action again.
Steam begins to gather more thickly around Tran again, an aura of it, hot and heavy as he draws upon the power he's stored up to this point. "And don't mistake me! What I do isn't for you, or whoever sent you!" Tran isn't laughing anymore.
As Candy sends his own chi back at him, the doctor looks positively furious. "This is a choice I've made, for my own benefit! If you don't like, then DIE!" And then Dr. Tran drops down and slaps the ground with both hands. Then he explodes. Again. Except different this time.
Instead of a thick cloud, this is a very dense, very focused pillar of chi, whirling in a maelstrom about the doctor. The chi blade goes in, engulfed by its depths, only to reappear moments later, empowered, free of the holographic strands that entangled it before.
And then the steam around Tran dissipates, revealing him to stalking forward with a feral look. That's probably not good.
COMBATSYS: Tran successfully hits Candy with Reflected American Hero Cutter.
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COMBATSYS: Candy focuses on her next action.
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COMBATSYS: Candy can no longer fight.
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Candy can say no more.
The wave of energy erupts backwards towards Candy. The wave of chi strikes her. She staggers, unable to say anything.
And then she collapses, staggering forwards, her form almost completely stripped by the assault from Dr. Tran.
She is just a mindless, worthless machine to NESTs.. a use that is only to make someone stronger. Even then, her purpose is pointless, her existence nothing.
And so she 'dies'. Once more. One time more of many. She will be retrieved. But all programs stop.
All.
Dr. Tran does not stop. He is rather unstoppable. Reaching for her neck, he hefts her now inert body up, seeming to cope with her weight much more easily, now that's he's super-pumped on the adrenaline of the fight.
But she's not moving anymore. He stares at her for a moment, and then like a switch, the chi surrounding his body dissipates. "Humph." Tran stays still for a moment longer, considering her, and then tosses Candy to the side before turning around and stalking back toward his food.
"Don't know why that left such a bad taste in my mouth."
Log created on 21:44:36 10/04/2008 by Candy, and last modified on 02:17:49 10/05/2008.