Blind Fight

Nothing? He waited again. Nothing yet again. After a few moments of anticipation, Nova was greeted by a loud thud. As he reopened his eyes, he saw a Mech buzzing, brutally dismantled.

"A-Are you alright....?"

Standing before the corpse of scrap, was the familiar timid girl.

"Yeah....Much appreciated," he replied. 

'Was I just saved by a child? And was that another...?'

After that wave wrapped up, the girl was dragged from the ear by no other than Ruthless. She then shrunk back while being scolded.

"Two! You just wasted another Accelerator? That was the fourth one I gave you and you wasted it on him?!? You're making my life hard, Two. Do you really want to find out what happened to Seven?"

The girl's eyes expressed her fear. She whimpered quietly, and shook her head.

"Exactly. Now go hide with One like the good girl you are." 

She scurried off to the dumpster, however, Nova spotted that there was girl there the whole time.

'There's two...?' After standing up, he fully got to take a closer look at the twins. They were basically identical - golden brown skin, ominous orange eyes, brown hair, and rather small. But the only difference, was the numbers '1' and '2' engraved into their wrists. They simultaneously hid themselves again, behind another unsuspecting building.

Ruthless glared at Nova, but regained focus after the fourth wave commenced - which subsequently ended after a easy-going battle. Then, finally, The final wave came. The recognizable golden Mech made it's entrance. The wind became heavy, and thrusted around in the barrier. It seemed that the night became darker in this small moment of time, yet the moon shone fluorescently against the Mech's metallic shell.

"Let's start this, shall we?"

With a swift motion, Ruthless brought her foot to her enemy's throat, resulting in a large gust a wind, shoving the Mech in a wall. The other Raiders took this chance and simultaneously fired anything they had when the robot had risen, creating a huge gust of dust. It had dodged a few bullets, but couldn't dodge them all. As the dust cleared, everyone could see that the Mech was still standing. But, it's chest plate was heavily damaged. The golden core was now visible, but the battle wasn't over yet.

In a monotone, machinelike voice, the Mech exclaimed:

"Core.exe has been breached. Initiating Phase Two: Tactical Offense Mode."

Somehow, with someway, in the blink of an eye, the Golden Mech was no longer golden, but it was of silver tinted metal. Shockingly so, It was back a normal state, maybe even stronger.

Ruthless quickly turned to the group. "Listen Up! Some of you may not know this, but the last wave can go up to 3 phases. The 1st: Initial Stage, 2nd: Tactical Offense Mode...and let's hope we don't make it to the 3rd."

A few gulps spread throughout the crowd, however Nova did not lose faith at all. He was, in actuality, ready to fight again, despite nearly dying. Glancing back at the Mech, he witnessed it charge up. The area became misty, blocking everyone's vision with the thick, chilly fog. 

'I can't see for the life of me....wait...!'

[ EoJ Enabled. ]

The haze had died down, and in Nova's eyes, the area became visible to him once more. Steadily, he searched for his enemy. A thud was heard to his right: Upon snapping his head round, he could see a Raider on the ground. The Mech before them, reeking and leaving a trail of oil.

[ Status Window

Name: Homura Uchien

Status: Unconscious ]

Their culprit then changed it's course towards Ruthless, who even now, was perplexed. A screen appeared above her head.

[ Status Window

Name: Ruthia Emrys

Age: 28

Status: Disoriented ]

"Ruthless!!! 5 o'clock The Mech straight towards you!" Nova bellowed out. No matter what, this time, no one was going to die and hopefully, survive the end of the Raid.

Ruthless whipped her body to face the charging Mech, in which she raised her guns and fired her whole magazine in the direction. It then reversed into the mist after being scratched by her bullets.

'The armour is definitely more durable...What will it take to take this thing down?' 

Reappearing again, this time towards Nova himself, the Mech raised its humanoid arm with an attempt to grab his neck. Of course, with these new eyes of his, seeing this attack was not a problem for him at all. He ducked out of the way, before sliding his pistol underneath the side of the metal chestplate and firing a single round into the Mech.

'If I can't break into you, then I'll break you from in to out.'

The bot's body, stunned, began to vibrate menacingly. Electric sparks shot off of it as if it died. Not before long, it's left arm went limp and it scurried back into the fog.

Minutes passed, but the Mech had not returned for another attack. Nova could see it, but it was standing in front of the glitch, frozen.

"What's going on, Red Head?" Nova turned and spotted Ruthless standing with her guard up, trying to gather any sense of direction.

"I have no idea...The Mech seemed to have stopped attacking us for now after I shot it."

"That's one of two things happening," Ruthless stated, "One being waiting for us to lower our guard and the other being...regenerating." She said this as she drew nearer to Nova's voice.

"Highly likely to be the latter. It's standing at the Glitch."

"Be careful. Do not lose focus."

Soon enough, each Raider (Each conscious Raider) gathered together in a defensive formation using the sound of Ruthless' rash voice. 6 minutes then passed and the bot was ready to act again. It stretched out it's arm and let out a small beep. The mist began to subtly dissipate. The fight was soon about to begin again.