Freeform PVP Arena Season 1 (IC)

[gunnar11]

Chronos - Circle of Death

Chronos was astounded by the many hits the man could take without trying to counter, without screaming for pain, and definetly without showing any emotion. He finally charged onto the man, sliding along the floor, pushing at the last second with his hand, elevating his legs into the air.
He grabbed the wizard in a headlock and turned, changing time for him personally, giving him tremendous speed, practically ripping his head of in the turn. The person (or was it a thing?) fell, head turned an 180 degrees.

Now the drawbacks were about to kick in. He would begin to move slower, much and much slower. Time had to be retreived in some way, always. Chronos hadn't wanted to show the drawbacks to the audience/opponents yet, and was now very angry at himself because of his recklessness. At that moment he got teleported out of the arena, just in time...

[Milo v3]

And that is the end of the first round. And thus begins the semi-finals.
In the First Battle is Proteus the shapeshifter & Chronos the timewarper in the Yarp Robotics Arena.
All the while Spider will be hunting the Mosquito Hybrid that is The Culicade in our new Psibur.rena.

[Luca]

Proteus, Yarp Robotics

Proteus stood, unsure in this new venue. No sooner it seemed had his acid burned through metal to flesh than he found himself in this new arena. Digestive tracts broke and settled, tendrils pulled back into flesh and his form filled out, mockeries of clothing forming as he returned to human shape. His head turned this way and that, searching for details on his surroundings, a factory if he ever saw one. He'd seen more than enough fighting military to recognise the signs, even if the purpose wasn't yet obvious.

He began to jog, his oponent hadn't made themselves obvious yet, there would be one no doubt. It would be best to appear little more than human when they did. Internally slick grinding noises were all that gave indication of his bones hardening and spreading forming something closer to an exoskeleton just below his skin.

Turning the corner sudden fright and racing heart led to the decapitation of a scrap robot. Its arm and right side defective, discarded from the floor; the first indication of the factory's purpose. Panting with bladed arm melting back to normal Mark chuckled "I guess that means they weren't my opponent."

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Chronos - Yarp Robotics
A flash.
And there he stood again. Chronos found himself in a large concrete building. He could see different parts of things, some chainsaws, some loose electricity cables, some melting machines, and more, all indicating this was a factory. Chronos couldn't yet determine what they were building here until he saw their heads: Robots.
Ugh, robots. He hated artificial intelligence. It's what once destroyed planet centricon II V. He loathed them and wanted to destroy them, even before they were made. He wanted to rip them apart, to melt them, to....

First: His enemy.
Proteus should be here somewhere Chronos thought.
He carefully walked stealthly through the heaps of garbage and walls. At one moment, he noticed him, just behind a car-like robot.
If he wanted the element of surprise, Chronos had to act fast. Improvising his weapons, he grabbed two circular saws, began spinning them around and threw them simultaniously at Proteus. Chronos then moved away fastly, as to not reveal his exact location.

The saws flew towards Proteus

[Luca]

Protues, Yarp Robotics

Credit where credit is due, Chronos made barely a sound. As he armed himself and threw his deadly payload the barest whisper was given until it was too late. Unforgettably for him his opponent wasn't exactly operating on standard levels of perception. By the time the blades had left his opponents hand's protues was already running, enhanced hearing having alerted him to the danger. Diving under the car shaped thing in front of him he heard a pair of thunks as the jagged blades sunk into metal. Strange, I only head one.

His opponent was strong, but how strong and what other abilities were yet to be perceived. His face twisted and warped, extra eyes growing across his forehead as hair shrunk back into his scalp. Legs thinned and compacted as he built himself up for running, the exoskeleton he had built thinning to shift into muscle mass. Within his arms bone and muscle fused and twisted into a hollow tube filled with a razor sharp spike of bone; ready to tear its way free of his palms in a surprise attack. He then hit his feet running searching for his opponent ready to deliver his surprising and deadly payload.

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Chronos - Yarp Robotics

Chronos couldn't believe his eyes. The moment the saws left his hands the creature known as Proteus almost vanished in his movement to avoid them. "This one is fast!" Chronos thought, as he looked around, trying to come up with a bright new plan. As of right now, Chronos still had the element of surprise, as he remained hidden, and knew Proteus location.

Proteus though, had enhanced perception, to be able to dodge like that. Chronos needed a distraction: Something to keep Proteus attention away from the real attack. Something that wouldn't be percepted; silent, still.
He then thought of a (according to himself) brilliant idea.

He looked around and saw two pointy pipes, which he launched at the sides of Proteus. This way, he wouldn't dodge, but would still be distracted. He used all the power he could muster to throw them at the fastest speed possible. He then teleported a car not-visible to Proteus, to the exact spot above him. Chronos teleporting is non-audible, so he hoped this plan would work. Proteus would be too distracted by the pipes to notice the car falling on top of him.

This had to work, if it didn't, Chronos would've betrayed his location and thereby maybe doomed himself...

[Milo v3]

Spider, Psibur.rena
Spider openned his eyes as the world configured around him. Everything was built of beams of light causing everything to look like old wireframe graphics. Except for the floor which showed a map of Old Earth. To his left was Amber.
He slowly walked to the black door and appeared out in a corridor, and started to look around for his opponent.
Amber appeared in the Corridor a second later.

His oppenent on the other hand wasn't in a corridor no she was an art program filled with squiggly shapes and a sanguine red goo was sprayed across the wall.

[Luca]

Proteus, Yarp Robotics

Pipes flew at high speed and Proteus wasn't sure he could dodge them, they were fast. Too fast. Time seemed to slow down to a crawl for those present, adrenaline overwhelming for the brush of a moment. Muscles in his legs corded, wound then sprung in a leap as the organs in his torso pushed their way forward.

With a pair of sickening cracks and tearing noises two pieces of metal entered through his sides, scythed through his weakened skeleton and clean out the other side trailing flesh behind them. Proteus rolled forward, a slam indicating the unseen car slamming into the ground behind him.

Time then resumed its normal flow for them, heart catching up with his body as adrenaline reached its zenith and the pain and blood blossomed. The quartet of holes in his form pumping blood before bone swiftly grew in the seal the gaps, blood-vessels resealing and redirecting. He allowed himself a roar of pain. He spun round, drunk on pain for a moment, incredulous that his foe was now standing behind him before turning to attack. Chronos was fast it seemed, too fast and too mobile to allow proper observation time. Even as he ran the flesh warper's body was twisting and changing. False clothes and skin melted back into flesh coloured simplicity. Hips and legs cracked and broke, reforming into a digitgrade stance for sprinting even as he ran, barely faltering in his stride.

Leaping at his foe proteus slammed his hands in from either direction, each eager to eject razor sharp spikes of condensed bone from his now fingerless palms into his opponent.

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Chronos - Yarp Robotics

Chronos was happy his plan worked. Or at least.... It seemed to work. He didn't expect for Proteus to actually take those pipes to evade the car. How did he know the car was coming? It should've been silent!
Proteus ducked forward to evade it and immediatly thereafter he stood up and ran. It was a good move, seeming how Chronos already was behind him. At the last moment though, Proteus turned and was ready to hit Chronos in two vital spots at the same time, with his now fingerless hands.
Fingerless? He had fingers just a while ago... How can this...? HE'S A SHAPESHIFTER! was what he could think before he got hit.

It burned, it pierced, it was painful and Chronos showed it by screaming. His head throbbed, pain taking over his senses. "No, not yet" He thought, and time reverted. The spears went back, the pain dissapeared, and Proteus turned once again to attack.
Knowing what was coming, Chronos grabbed one hand and threw Proteus on the ground, making his strength his weakness. He hadn't expected Proteus firing at the last minute, and thus was Chronos again he pierced: This time through his shoulder. "Wew, that was a close one.." Chronos thought.

Then the pain took over,

And Chronos began to rage again.

[Luca]

Protues, Yarp Robotics

Proteus grimaced as he slammed into the ground, clear fluid leaking briefly from where his hand blade broke off. What was supposed to be a clean stab had been avoided by the sudden grab, bone blade built for forward stabbing they didn't survive a sideways jump. With one of his weapons snapped clean off proteus swore, fear starting to mingle with pain. First the spears and now this, he was loosing biomass in dribs and drabs. Less to work with, less to survive.

His opponent was on the offensive now, showing that surpising strength again. Arms flattening out into shield like barriers it was all Proteus could do to keep fist and improvised weapons from breaking him. Whenever he thought he could break through the attack his opponent would parry at the right moment, always seeming to know the right moment to dodge. This was bad.

Fighting a teleporter who clearly knew how to handle themselves in a brawl, he couldn't keep up in a traditional sense and he couldnt effectively run either... what do I do?!

This time Chronos' fist slipped straight through his guard, and impacted with his chest... which simply gave. It was like punching a particularly soft pillow, no bones or similar were evidenced. Octopi have it right Protues' head simply melted down into his body, on the edge of hearing the highest of noises suggesting the shape shifter no longer relied on visual means. The hardened forms of his arms then set about a counter-attack, their now flexible shapes aiming to simply batter his opponent with raw concussive force,

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Chronos - Yarp Robotics

Chronos was happy, no, euphoric. His attacks were fast, precise and most of all damaging. He was cornering Proteus, and was doing so fast. Somehow though, Proteus managed to defend himself agains all the different attacks from different fighting styles Chronos presented to him.

Finally Chronos broke through, hitting Proteus in the center of his chest, with one rapid thrust. Proteus flinched, and Chronos hit again, this time only finding hard bone, unmovable, unshokable. And then it happened:

Proteus head dissapeared. It sunk back into his body, sprouting arms at the same time. No, scratch that, tentacles, it sprouted tentacles. The tentacles seemed to have some type of bone-structure around it, forming an exosceleton. Chronos, too slow to react, after all these changes was immediatly grappled by six tentacles at the same time. The two left began punching him. Thud. Thud. Thud.

The only sounds that could be heard were the demped punches hitting Chronos body. Crack. One rib broke. Crack. Another one.
Chronos had by now pretty much turned into a punching bag for Proteus. He had to do something, but it had to be fast, and it had to be NOW!

Away he thought, and suddenly Proteus was punching his own tentacles. Chronos was up near the ceiling, and using his black wings to fly. Calling upon the strands of time the ribs reverted to their old healed position, and Chronos was ready to fight again. He elevated himself once more and dove, to slam into Proteus with his full body capacity.

His body began to tremble, while diving, like turbulence to a human plane. Not now! he thought. He had overexerted his powers it seemed. His body began to dislocate as a consequence of the teleporting. His body randomly teleporten a feet in a random direction, rendering the control Chronos had over his own body useless. But not only that. He suddenly seemed to slow down. Time was catching up, and needed a lot to recover. Chronos barely moved now.

He was completely surrendered to Proteus mercy.

[Milo v3]

The Culicade
She smelled at the air trying to find her target. Nothing, nothing at all. Annoyed she looked around. Seeing a blank door she drifted towards it slowly. Immediately as she touched it she disappeared and reappeared in a dark near-empty corridor. On only other thing in the corridor was a girl who looked human. The smell of her blood filled the air in a way that seemed to taunt the abomination.

A few minutes ago, with Spider and Amber
They wandered through the corridor for a minute, but the path quickly end into two different programs. Spider simply handed Amber a shard of bone and split up. Spider went into the program on the left. Amber the program on the right. Spider was now standing on a giant chessboard. His view blocked by colossal figures of steel.
"This is ridiculous." Muttered the contractor just as his hand healed.

All the while Amber silently stumbled onto a giant typewriter. With each step a word imprinted into her mind. After a minute or two she found her way across to the other side of the room. Amber digitised in the middle of another corridor her masters foe yards away.

Ambers observer spirit rose out of a cut in Spiders hand.
"Amber found her."

[gunnar11]

Chronos - Apple City Towers

Dum, dum ti, dum, dum (elevator sounds)
Floor five.
What the heck? What just happened? I was fighting Proteus one moment, the next I am here, in an... elevator?
Dum, dum ti, dum, dum (elevator sounds)
Floor eleven.
I overused my powers, went teleporting crazy, and in slowmotion, due to the time-infringment. Then the fight ended, yes! And I got sent into te next arena. It seems I've been chosen for the finale! Wooo me!- Chronos thinks

Now for the opponent, Chronos had yet to find him. He didn't know who it was, and presumably, the opponent didn't know either. When the door of the elevator openend at the 16th floor though, suddenly there was a person standing in front of him.

[Milo v3]

Amber waited for the elevator while Spider scouted out the nearby rooms for his new foe. He left her a bone shard, so she can find the enemy.
As Spider entered each room in this little office he placed a single shard of bone.
DING!
The elevator doors drifted open, and Amber saw a strange man.

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The girl Chronos saw seemed to be astonished too. Rapidly, Chronos regained his posture and attacked, kicking the girl.
I never kicked a girl once... It's not normal to do that! resounded in his head, and his kick slowed down. Still in confusion with himself he tried to punch her. The same sentence resounded in his head. This time, though, he did finish his attack, in a slapping motion, to be precise

[Milo v3]

Your slap leaves a red hand print on the face 5 foot tall girl. Strangely she doesn't respond in anyway to it. Nothing. She didn't even flinch. No response other than a single tear. She didn't try to dodge and their was no emotion in her face.
Two halls away Spider hearing the elevator starts to return to his companion.

[Milo v3]

As Spider turned the corner anger sparked in his mind. He could see Amber, obviously in pain and his foe. A serrated blade of ivory tore from his wrist. He would have winced were it not for rage fueled adrenalin. Spider forgot about that he was in a competion and leapt at his foe thinking of nothing but protecting Amber.

[gunnar11]

Chronos was confused. The girl, his opponent, didn't seem to show any sign of real adversity. How could she have survived until the finals? Then another person appeared, someone who charged at Chronos, while peeling something off his skin. We're there two of them? That wasn't allowed! None of his battles had more than one opponent.

His opponent(s) though, were full of openings for attack. The girl didn't do anything at all, and as such Chronos attacked the other one. "Maybe she's part of the scenery?" Chronos thought while his fist made contact with the stomach of his male adversary.
"Maybe she's part of the stage, as she hasn't attacked me yet"
Chronos foot hit the upper leg of the man.

[Milo v3]

Spider
Spider found himself confused for a split-second his lunge was somehow stopped, then a swift kick slamed into Spider's leg. He staggered slighty, but quickly regained his balance.
Then as soon as he did he leapt backward doing a flip, just as a sharp shard of bone ripped through his hand. Then mid-flip he tossed it at his enemy. He landed a few feet away.
Spider slowly postioned his sword into a defensive stance, slightly distracted still by his companion. Glancing at her repeatedly, while his contractor mind told him to watch his opponent.

[gunnar11]

Chronos saw his opponent retreat, doing a backwards flip. Suddenly, there was also a sharp bone coming through the air. Chronos just managed to evade it, the bone leaving a cut in his arm.
"That hurt, you @#%^&!!!!"
His adversary didn't seem to be concentrated on him anyways, so it didn't bother him. He seemed to be looking at the girl constantly. Maybe she was an ally of his...

Chronos moved towards the girl, and was about to kick her, when suddenly another bone flew through the air, almost hitting him in the face. I knew it!
Chronos charged at the girl, watching out for the bone that could be coming from the man at the other end of the room. Knowing he wouldn't get near the girl, Chronos teleported, suddenly leaving the visible spectrum of the man, and reappearing behind him, and with Chronos fist coming at him.

[Milo v3]

Spider threw sharrd after shard. Making sure that he wouldn't lay another finger on her. His anger causes his accuraccy to decrease.
"What? Wher-"
His opponent disappeared. A kick hit into the confused characters in the back, send vibrations through the contractors body. Instantly Spider twisted around trying to hit his attacker with his blade. His aim slowly returning to normal, as his contractor mind overrided his emotion.

[gunnar11]

Chronos plan had worked, he had him now. Suddenly though, his opponent didn't stagger anymore, and instead turned, a sword slicing through the air. It was going to hit Chronos for sure!
Chronos slowed down time, giving him enough time for the sword to miss a vital spot. It still sliced his other arm, though, so now Chronos found himself with two cuts, one in each arm.

Then he thought of another strategy: Using the environement. He teleported behind the girl, and held her on her place, hoping she wouldn't be too much of a struggle, using her as a human (could she be called human?) shield. He then started throwing stuff from the office: pencils, tape, computer parts. Everything to hit the male. He wasn't that strong at ranged attacks, but his opponent wouldn't attack him anyways, and íf he came close, chronos melee would be useful once again.

[Milo v3]

Spider looked around looking for where you teleported, then he saw the Doll.
She didn't resist in anyway, she didn't react in anyway.
He felt slightly annoyed, that bastard is using her as a shield. As tiny "things" collided with Spider logic overrode emotion.

Spider grew more bone out making his blade slightly longer, but now the part connecting it to his body was only about a millimetre wide. He grabbed the blade with his other hand, and snapped it off from his arm.

Blade in hand he rolled to the side, using a nearby Office Cubicle and Desk as cover. He looked over his cover and tried to aim his new weapon into his foes arm (I'm guessing he has one arm across her chest when holding her).

[gunnar11]

Chronos adjusted his arm, to restrain the girl a little better. His enemy now moved behind a desk. Chronos chuckled; he had complete control over the fight now. He had a hostage, might over time (although limited) and most of all, might over objects, as he could move them at will. As such, he did so.
He teleported the desk in front of Spider, to just above him, hoping it would slam down on him. Suddenly though, a shard of bone came straight at him, piercing his arm.
"He's willing to sacrifice her to become the winner?" Chronos calculations seemed to have been wrong the whole time. He had to release her, to treat his wounded arm. Hopefully the desk would still hit him, giving Chronos enough time to restraint the girl again.

3, 2, 1....

[Milo v3]

Spider
The second his cover disappeared he decided not to wonder where it went and instinct caused his to throw his shard. Spider hoped he didn't hurt Amber, but he couldn't be sure.
Then a crushing pain forced him to the floor.
"Aargg" he grunted.
From his postion he could see his foe release the girl, but at any moment he could turn back and grab her.
"Air-mem-bur arre you hurrt?" he said in a feeble attempt to talk.
"Yes." Replied a cold and empty voice.

As Spider struggled to move the desk off him without using his powers but he found it difficult, his regeneration only now starting to stop his internal bleeding. Still trying to get the obstruction off his back, he whispers
"Amber run."
He hoped she heard, but he couldn't be sure.

[Milo v3]

Their was a crunch and then the table raised off Spider back. Raised by spires of ivory which have ruptured out of his back.
He slowly stood up. Reached around to his back with both hands and ripped off a Spire each.
He leapt at his foe, using his bone weapons as if swords, slashing at his winged enemy. Adrenilin pumping through his veins making sure that if his foe dodge he would adapt his attack.

[gunnar11]

Chronos saw the girl run away. He saw his opponent lift the desk too. He had lost the advantage. Somehow his opponent came charging at him to fight weapon-melee agains his bare fists. Too bad for him Chronos fists were stronger.

Chronos saw the blade coming at him, and slowed down time. He now had the chance to hit. One, two strikes at the chest, and one on the neck. Next he would sunder the blades. He struck at one, attempting to break it. He immediatly took a step back, just before time began to flow normally again. He leapt at his adversary, trying to hit him, but he held up a sword, which would've skewered Chronos, weren't it for the instant teleportation, now hitting Spider in his back. Chronos then noticed that while trying to break the sword, he had cut himself. "That sharp?"