Android Guardians

Android Guardians

Medium Quest

Requirement: Must have completed No Originality.

Reward: 2,000 zeni

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Jeraph had just got done radioing in the location of the scientists hidden laboratory. He had witnessed the man at a control panel working on something, and hadn't seen hide nor hair of any sort of android experiements. The entire time since he landed he had his Ki completely suppressed to try to keep hidden. He hadn't thought of leaving tracks in the snow outside when he landed and walked in or left to make the radio transmission.

Jeraph also hadn't though about the possibility of the scientist employing a frequency scanner, to monitor radio activity around the lab. As he replaced the radio in his belt pouch, he began hearing muffled footsteps approaching him. At this moment Jeraph began to realize his clothing didn't exactly blend in with the surroundings.

Jeraph tried to bury himself into the snow to hide, trying not to have to fight. As the steps draw closer, he can make out the sound of multiple foot falls. The exact number is hard to determine due to the snow. Jeraph stopped moving, parts of him still completely bare of snow. He laid in wait trying to lay still enough to not be noticed.

As Jeraph laid there, the cold from the snow began to seep through his clothing and he began to shiver. The sky let loose with a flurry of snow, nothing major just enough to distort view. The wind picked up as well, blowing the loose powder snow around, making it even harder for Jeraph to see where the foot falls were coming from.

Jeraph was laying there as still as he could, when he almost got stepped on by not one but what appeared to be five people. Each one looked different than the rest, none of them are showing any ki signatures. When Jeraph realized this he came out of hiding, he thought he was safe and they were just explorers, exploring the mountains.

Jeraph rose from the snow, and immediately the five people swarm around him.

"What are you doing here human" one of the people asks in a robotic sounding voice.

"First off I'm not human, and second I was looking for the scientists lab so Capsule Corporation could get a hold of him" Jeraph responds suddenly feeling like he isn't safe.

As soon as Jeraph finished answering, the group of apparent androids all raise their hands in sync and unleash what appears to be ki balls at Jeraph. Jeraph used every ounce of speed he could muster from powered flight and speed burst to fly directly into the sky. The ki balls colliding with a massive explosion, where moments before Jeraph has been standing.

The concussion from the blast made Jeraph's speed increase, and made it hard for him to stop and hover. The androids who launched the attack, and were literally feet from the blast seemed unaffected by the explosion. Simultaneously the constructs look up at the now hovering Jeraph, and take off into flight. Each one has four little rocket afterburners coming from the bottom of their feet.

It doesn't take long for each one of them to arrive near Jeraph. They all circle him, and it seems like the numbers game may come into play this time. Jeraph raised moves his right hand to the left side of his back. He grips the sword hilt tightly, his muscles clinching so tight his fingers go whiter than normal. He flicks the clasp on the sheath with his thumb releasing the safety clasp.

Once the well honed blade is free, he unsheathes it, the blade can be heard slicing through the air as he brings it to the ready. Jeraph begins to size up his opponents, trying to figure out which one is going to strike first, trying to get some sort of feel for their power level. Several moments later the fight truly began.

The first two constructs fly directly at Jeraph, and launch two ki balls each at him. Then immediately they try to hit a Dragon Rush. Jeraph once again used power flight to dodge both attacks. Then Jeraph began to channel his ki through his body, he could feel it moving like a river through his limbs, and welling inside his chest. The in began to surge into his left arm and hand, he free hand. The ki was at the breaking point, as he released a spirit sword, and tried to cut down both constructs.

Jeraph knew that if the spirit sword connected it would more than likely destroy the robotic constructs that had attacked him. At least the two of them that had attacked a second time. Amazingly enough both the androids dodge the attack, and aim their arms at Jeraph. Suddenly without warning the arms move and show a secret cannon on each arm.

The cannons begin to fire energy, similar to ki, very rapidly like a machine gun. Each little blast rushed towards Jeraph, and it doesn't take long for him to realize that his chance of dodging is very slim. Instead he raises his arms in front of him ready to block the attack as best as he can.

Each energy ball strikes his arms, chest, legs, and some on his face. Each on feels like getting hit by a flaming hot coal shot from a sling shot. Each one melts flesh, and clothing, they scorch hair, leaving a nasty smell floating on the wind. The entire time Jeraph kept his eyes closed, teeth tightly clinched, and grunted with the pain.

Several times through out the Hell Storm dual attack Jeraph almost passed out from the pain, the walls closing in around his vision, every time he managed to fight back the unconsciousness and keep his guard up. Just like everything else in the world, the attacks finally came to an end, Jeraph lowered his guard, little whiffs of smoke raising from his flesh and clothing and blowing with the wind.

"These guys are tough" Jeraph thought to himself "I need to come up with something fast or I'm not going to last long."

Jeraph then inhaled a massive breath, and held it. As he held it the breath became charged with his Ki energy, he then exhaled very slowly, stopping every so often, his breath was exhaled in to eight burts. Each small breath then forms into a ghost like replica of Jeraph. The ghosts then instantly home in on the two constructs breaking off into two groups of four.

The two androids begin to try to rush and flee from the oncoming ki spirits. The ghosts mimicked every movement the constructs made, mirroring them perfectly. The ki "ghosts" eventually converged on their designated targets. This resulted into a massive explosion on each of the androids. The smoke began to clear with the strong wind blowing it away.

Both the androids were still hovering there, with parts of their internal parts showing now. Both arms on one of the androids was missing completely, the other android was missing its left leg. The damage didn't seem to hinder the androids one bit. Both of them stared at Jeraph, as they stared a beam of super charged ki blasted at him from each of their eyes.

Jeraph watched the beams coming barreling towards him at a high speed. This attack was new to Jeraph and it took him a second to decide how to best alleviate taking any damage, since he was still sore from the last attack he blocked. The beams drew closer and closer to him, at the last moment before impact Jeraph used powered flight and speed burst to dodge the beams.

The beams collided into two of the remaining constructs surrounding Jeraph, and exploded on contact. The smoke from the explosion cleared and the two that had been hit, had a massive whole in their chest. This caused an internal failure of the androids and they began to fall lifeless to towards the earth. Upon impacting the earth the androids broke into several smaller pieces.

"Well that worked better than I planned" Jeraph thought to himself.

Jeraph felt a sense of pride and this renewed his resolve. He began to allow the ki to flow into his free arm again. The ki flowing through him like the tides of the ocean, coming together at a center point on his free left hand. The hand began to glow with the ki welling inside of it. Jeraph continued to charge the ki until it was no longer able to contain the massive amount of ki inside it.

He then flung his hand forming another Spirit Sword, this time fully charged. The blade of pure ki energy, expanded to around twenty feet in length and 2 feet wide. The sword was still sharp enough to slice through flesh, metal, wood, and various other materials. The damage sustained by the android had affected their movement.

The android tried everything the pair could do to move, but their motion controls were completely ruined by the Super Ghost Kamikaze. The sword formed by Jeraph's ki swept towards the android on the left, the one missing both of its arms. The blade eventually pierced into the android, and Jeraph ripped it out sweeping it towards the other damaged android.

The android finally got it's motion engines to work right before the Spirit Sword made contact with its chest. The Android shot towards Jeraph in a swift motion, it became a blur. Then re-materialized as it struck at Jeraph. Jeraph went to block the attack, but was never hit. He lowered his guard thinking it was some sort of illusion. As soon as his guard was lowered the fist struck him directly in the chest, knocking him backwards.

Jeraph used a small amount of ki to stop his unwanted flight. Then he righted himself facing the android. The android had a satisfied look on its face, but it didn't remain there for long. Jeraph reached a hand back behind him and began to charge it with Ki, the flow feeling like water running over and through his body.

Jeraph wasn't very far from the android, when he finished charging the super heated, very volatile ki attack known as cosmic cannon. He shot it towards the android, hoping it would do its purpose and end the androids existence. The android watched as the heated wave of ki barreled towards it. The construct tried to wait until the last moment and dodge, but once again his motion controls failed.

As the robotic beings motor controls failed, sparks began to fly from the exposed electronics. The wiring had been melted and exposed from a previous attack by Jeraph. The crackling Ki wave met with the android dead on, the android let out a shrill matching that of a screaming child as the wave impacted it abdomen area and exploded.

The subsequent explosion turned the construct to pieces, leaving oil, and metal raining down on the pure white snow beneath. Jeraph turned to face the last android, sweat beading and rolling down his brow. His muscles still completely tense, and shaking slightly. There are many areas of his body that are exposed due to the ki blasts that hit him, where the flesh is exposed its all singed and melted slightly.

Jeraph stared down the final metal guardian. The being itself was wearing a pair of camouflage pants, a wife beater style muscle shirt, and a red baseball cap. His body seems to be better designed than the rest, his muscles are bulging and rippling, his hair is hair is lime green. His eyes are green in color as well, and soulless. They seem to stare through Jeraph.

The android uses his boot jets to slowly fly towards Jeraph. Jeraph stands at the ready, waiting for an opportunity to attack and end the guards existence. The guard draws close but stops out of striking range, and continues to stare down Jeraph. Eventually the android smiled and laughed out loud.

"You are strong to have defeated the others" the android claimed "but not strong enough"

"Oh yeah, you're going to wind up a crushed can when I'm finished with you" Jeraph said in response sounding cocky.

"Don't make me laugh, I was created to be the strongest being on this pathetic planet, I was designed to destroy every one that won't bow to us" the android yelled.

"What is that supposed to mean? Do you think I'm afraid of you? I turned the rest of your crew into scrap, and you won't be any different" Jeraph made the comment still sounding full of confidence.

"Your going to wish you ran when you had the chance" the remaining android hisses.

As he finishes talking the android began to do what appeared to be a power up. His entire body was engulfed by white flaming energy. The energy reached towards the earth and engulfed the pieces of the fallen metallic beings. As he charged his power, the ki brought the parts up to him, and began to implement them into the design on the android.

The arm blasters added to his, making them true cannons; the motion controls adapted into his, making him move a lot quicker. The other parts finally combined changing his appearance, making him completely green, and looking like a competitor in the Worlds Strongest Man competition. His entire being has grown in size, and his power can be felt by Jeraph as it grows.

Finally the transformation comes to an end, and the new android that resulted is massive. It launched it's attack immediately, it rushed at Jeraph as it came close to Jeraph it unleashed a trio of Hell's Flashes directly at Jeraph. The distance between the two when the final attack was released was a mere few inches. Jeraph had no time to even bring up a block as all three attack blasted into his chest.

Jeraph's mind went completely blank as the energy hit him, his body went limp and he began to fall towards the earth. His clothing melted to his chest, smoke billowing from the area, and him completely unconscious. He continued to plummet toward the earth and was getting close to making an impact with the ground, when he snapped awake.

His eyes popping open, his full abilities being shown as he used power flight to charge directly at the android. His chest leaving a trail of smoke behind him, the smell of singed body hair, and flesh able to be smelled drifting on the air. Jeraph used powered flight to increase his speed as he flew at the droid, the anger welling inside him as he flew.

As he approached the android he used speed burst and closed the remaining distance in an instant, throwing a fierce knee at the androids abdomen, followed by a fierce elbow at it's chest, and a massive palm striking uppercut at its jaw. Each blow would end a fight with a weak opponent, but would they be enough to end this fight?

The knee struck home with a loud pinging sound as if a hammer was striking a steel beam, the elbow then found its target with a similar sound, the upper cut sounded like it broke a normal beings jaw. All of the attacks took the android by surprise, the first two doubled it over, making it lean forward. The final one snapped it back to the standing position and snapped his head back massively.

The attacks didn't do much damage to the android though, as he reached forward and grabbed Jeraph by the throat. As he held him in place, he took his free hand and pummeled his face with a few closed fisted strikes. Each strike landing with a sickening thud. The first one drawing blood from Jeraph's nose, the second drawing blood from his mouth, the third opening up a cut above his left eye.

Jeraph's face was dripping blood, as the android gripped his throat tighter and tighter. Jeraph was trying to break free from the vice like grip around his throat. Not being able to power out of the grip, the lack of oxygen began to cause Jeraph to black out again. Out of desperation, Jeraph opened ever gate holding back his ki.

The ki began to flood through his body and towards his finger tips trying to escape. Jeraph held it inside as long as he could without passing out from lack of air. At the final moment before it was lights out, Jeraph sliced at the Androids arm with his left hand and swung his sword at the androids left leg. As he sliced with his had, he unleashed the ki into a fully charged Ki Blade rank 3. The ki sliced completely through the arm that was choking Jeraph.

The arm released its grip on his throat as oil and hydrolic fluid sprayed from the severed hoses. As Jeraph swiped the sword at the androids leg, he let the ki channel through the blade and fly out in a Slicing Attack. The slicing attack dug deep into the metal leg, followed immediately by the sword which completely severed the leg.

The leg and arm both fell harmlessly towards the earth, the oil and other liquids spurting from the severed hoses as they fell, the stubs left on the android were also spurting liquids. The android howled in anger at having Jeraph remove its body parts. Although this didn't stop it for long, as it pointed its good arm and hand at Jeraph. The hand bends back and reveals the hidden gattling cannon.

The cannon began to spend and fire little blasts of ki at Jeraph. Jeraph decided to try something new and focused his ki into his arms and began swiping at the little blasts firing at him. As he swiped he began to swat the energy balls away from him, and made them fly harmlessly from him. The amount of blasts was amazing and Jeraph managed to knock away every single one.

The torrential downpour of energy blasts finally subsided and the cannon went back into the arm, as it folded over it again. Jeraph began moving quickly towards the injured construct, as he drew near Jeraph let loose a Cosmic Cannon, as he drew near the place where he saw the android last he stabbed directly forward with the sword trying to pierce the same spot the cannon would have blasted.

With his final attack Jeraph yanked the sword upward, he hoped this would slice the android in half and render it useless. The android didn't have time to guard or dodge the Cosmic Cannon as the wave barreled into its chest, the explosion knocked the construct backwards, and distracted it. Before the android could regain its wits, the sword stabbed directly into its chest. The metal sword found the weak point caused by the Cosmic Cannon, and pierced almost completely through.

As Jeraph yanked the blade skyward, it severed electrical wiring, and hoses. The subsequent mixture caused the android to explode with a vicious boom. The concussion sent Jeraph flying backwards through the air. Jeraph eventually used some of his remaining ki to stop his flight. He then descended to the earth, and sat down on the cold snow to rest.

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