"...Alright," she responded. Fortunately she was there to help them so the secret was safe with her and stuff.
Ding
The main elevator opened up to reveal a guard robot.
At eight feet tall and wielding a lance, the guard robot was fairly intimidating. They still had those pistols and body armor from the Nightclub visit, though, and whatever other things they had on their persons. In any case, Karin and the other woman didn't seem like they were going to be running off anytime soon.
"Prepare for combat!" she shouted, folding her umbrella and putting it away.
"Of course! I'm always ready!" Karin responded, ignoring her gun in favor of running up to the robot.
"...I think I'm going to, uh, try something else."
Unlike the two girls, Goto started to walk to the outskirts of the battle.
Looked like they could fight the robot or follow Goto to see what he was up to.
@Verite @Jeremi
"...Alright," she responded. Fortunately she was there to help them so the secret was safe with her and stuff.
Ding
The main elevator opened up to reveal a guard robot.
At eight feet tall and wielding a lance, the guard robot was fairly intimidating. They still had those pistols and body armor from the Nightclub visit, though, and whatever other things they had on their persons. In any case, Karin and the other woman didn't seem like they were going to be running off anytime soon.
"Prepare for combat!" she shouted, folding her umbrella and putting it away.
"Of course! I'm always ready!" Karin responded, ignoring her gun in favor of running up to the robot.
"...I think I'm going to, uh, try something else."
Unlike the two girls, Goto started to walk to the outskirts of the battle.
Looked like they could fight the robot or follow Goto to see what he was up to.
@Verite @Jeremi
"EEEEEEH?!?! What the hell is that!"
And with that shock came the final clarity. She wasn't Joan Jaffa...she was Perona and she was way out of her element. Looking on in disbelief at the two girls attacking the thing she'd opt to follow Goto instead. "This better not get me killed our I swear I'll haunt you Goto!"
@Verite @Kaykay
Oh, right. Oops. Kana was about to do something, but then it seemed to turn out that the girl didn't seem to care. And then it turned out that she was... gonna help them? Unless she was literally about to walk them into a trap like it was nothing. That would be extremely awkward for both parties.
And then...
Oh, guard robot. Well, that was to be expected. For some odd reason, seeing such a tall drone made her feel... nostalgic. As though she remembered something. But now wasn't really the time for that.
About the robot here that was standing before them... Well, taking down a whole company meant you had to have at least one fight. Where even were they in the building? A restricted place now? Well, in any case, time to go to work.
Deciding to fight the robot, Kana drew her weapon. But to her surprise, it wasn't her standard revolver that she pulled out. But rather, a weapon that was foreign to her.
"This...?"
What was this thing?
This was not her revolver. This looked more like some high-tech hand cannon than anything else, complete with bright flashy lights that one would wonder what the purpose of it was. It seemed like something that would fit this day and age, but it wasn't her old standard, trusty revolver.
D O M I N A T O R
A... Dominator? The name sounded so familiar, yet unfamiliar. The grip felt familiar, yet unfamiliar. Where did this weapon come from? How did it show up in place of her revolver? Her revolver, her weapon, had been what she had used ever since joining the force at the young, naive age of 20. Four years later, and it had never let her down. It was like a part of who she was. It was like a part of her identity.
Bump.
Ripple.
A headache suddenly assaulted Kana's head, distracting the young woman for the moment from the situation that she was in. It was like a hammer had smashed into her cranium, the feeling too distracting for her to ignore and focus on the guard robot in front of her. Her vision went blurry for a second, and in that second, everything changed for the young woman. Kana Hanazawa's perception of the world around her changed.
No, her name was not Kana Hanazawa. She was not Kana Hanazawa.
A dumb old revolver was not part of the real her. This Dominator was part of who she was. This Dominator was the gun that verified her identity more than anything else.
This Dominator belonged to the young woman holding it in her hand right now.
Akane Tsunemori.
I see.
I get it now.
It was all clear to her now. She had broken the illusion that made her pause. She had broken through the illusion that had almost rewritten everything she knew about the world. She had broken through the illusion that had almost rewritten her very life, her very identity.
But Kana Hanazawa was erased, gone like a document that had been pasted over another document, and then promptly cut out, and in her place, stood the original. Akane Tsunemori.
And what Akane Tsunemori had to do in this moment was defeat the enemy in front of her.
"Alright then! You two, distract the robot and keep it off me! I've got a little friend waiting for it!" She exclaimed to the other two in a sudden authoritative tone, the Dominator in her hand beginning to light up, its position shifting like a transforming robot that one would see in old cartoons.
M O D E - C H A N G E
D E S T R O Y - D O M I N A T O R
@Kaykay @Jeremi
Makiko opened her eyes, realizing she'd totally zoned out for a while there. Maybe she was getting sick, or maybe time was just out of whack.
"What's happening right now...?"
@The Silver Paladin @All...?
"You got it!"
As the others' identities were revealed, so was Karin's. But she'd known it for some time now. Tekkou somehow formed around Karin's, or Misao's, fists as she rushed towards the robot to keep it busy.
Only to attempt to kick the robot, rendering the tekkou more or less pointless.
It rather easily evaded a few of her kicks, simply shifting slightly from side to side as she jumped at it.
"Huff...huff... Okay then, big guy, how about this?!"
Swinging her leg in an arc, she threw a roundhouse kick at it so it couldn't simply shift away. She finally managed to land a kick on the robot, only for it to simply stand there afterwards.
"Eh...heh heh!"
Well karate could only take her so far, right? After laughing nervously, she whipped out the pistol she had earlier, pointed it and fired.
She dropped the pistol as she covered her ears. So loud! But by sheer luck she'd managed to actually hit the guard. However, it didn't seem any more effective than the kick, simply ricocheting off the armor. Well crap.
Its eyes lighting up, the robot separated its lance into two pieces.
It lashed out at Misao, who was previously Karin, at a high speed. Too fast for her to dodge.
"Idiot!"
The woman with the umbrella ran and smacked her out of the way, keeping a safe distance from the blade itself with her umbrella. But unfortunately, that was now two blades. With a second stroke, the guard impaled the older woman.
It raised her up before kicking her sharply, sending her flying off its separated lance before rejoining the two halves.
Misao watched in shock as the woman who saved her was tossed to the side. Was she dead? No human could be impaled through the chest and still be alright. The girl slowly stood up, tightening her fists. Her usually cheery demeanor gone, she immediately rushed at the robot and slammed her fists repeatedly into the bot. Aiming at the stomach area, which seemed less armored, a few times before finishing with a punch to the robot's chin. Or its equivalent, anyway.
But it was still useless. Unmoved, the robot knocked her to the side with one arm, sending her flying into the wall. It turned to her and began to charge some sort of attack.
On the bright side, its attention was diverted for now, having turned away from Kana, or Akane to attack Misao.
@Verite @Jeremi
"What does it look like?! It's a goddamn security robot! You think I want to die or something, huh?!"
Staying away from the big confrontation, the police officer made his way to the main elevator, Perona presumably in tow. The elevator had closed behind the robot and Goto pressed the button to try to get it to open.
It didn't.
"What the hell?!" Goto shouted, kicking the elevator door in vain. He took out a small device with a wire and jammed the wire into a small hole near the elevator button. A little screen lit up.
import itertools
int main() {
res = itertools.permutations('abc',3); // 3 is the length of your result.
for i in res:
print ''.join(i);
return 0;
}
Primitive code, but that was the default, and Goto was no hacker or anything. He ran it and...
Failed.
"Shit!" Once more, Goto kicked the door. The door still didn't open. "They have to be using permutations of a, b, and c, so what the hell's the problem?!" Why anyone would use have such a strange limit nobody knew, but it didn't matter for now.
Looked like they were stuck until someone could either hack or force their way into the elevator. And with the guard robot fight going on not far away at all, they'd best figure it out quickly. Goto needed some help with the code, or advice on what he needed to fix in it.
"You got it!"
As the others' identities were revealed, so was Karin's. But she'd known it for some time now. Tekkou somehow formed around Karin's, or Misao's, fists as she rushed towards the robot to keep it busy.
Only to attempt to kick the robot, rendering the tekkou more or less pointless.
It rather easily evaded a few of her kicks, simply shifting slightly from side to side as she jumped at it.
"Huff...huff... Okay then, big guy, how about this?!"
Swinging her leg in an arc, she threw a roundhouse kick at it so it couldn't simply shift away. She finally managed to land a kick on the robot, only for it to simply stand there afterwards.
"Eh...heh heh!"
Well karate could only take her so far, right? After laughing nervously, she whipped out the pistol she had earlier, pointed it and fired.
She dropped the pistol as she covered her ears. So loud! But by sheer luck she'd managed to actually hit the guard. However, it didn't seem any more effective than the kick, simply ricocheting off the armor. Well crap.
Its eyes lighting up, the robot separated its lance into two pieces.
It lashed out at Misao, who was previously Karin, at a high speed. Too fast for her to dodge.
"Idiot!"
The woman with the umbrella ran and smacked her out of the way, keeping a safe distance from the blade itself with her umbrella. But unfortunately, that was now two blades. With a second stroke, the guard impaled the older woman.
It raised her up before kicking her sharply, sending her flying off its separated lance before rejoining the two halves.
Misao watched in shock as the woman who saved her was tossed to the side. Was she dead? No human could be impaled through the chest and still be alright. The girl slowly stood up, tightening her fists. Her usually cheery demeanor gone, she immediately rushed at the robot and slammed her fists repeatedly into the bot. Aiming at the stomach area, which seemed less armored, a few times before finishing with a punch to the robot's chin. Or its equivalent, anyway.
But it was still useless. Unmoved, the robot knocked her to the side with one arm, sending her flying into the wall. It turned to her and began to charge some sort of attack.
On the bright side, its attention was diverted for now, having turned away from Kana, or Akane to attack Misao.
@Verite @Jeremi
