[IC] A Hero Tale {Complete}

[SuperFlash]

Jeff just sat there quietly gripping his gauntlets tightly out of anger. He didn't want to say anything out of fear of accidently lashing out at Jenso. Givenbhe did consider the entire thing his fault and it bugged him greatly.

[Jensoman]

Jenso looked at Jeff and sighed. "Don't let it get to you, man...Dacer shot me with that electrical bolt before too, and it ended up paralysing me and allowing Dacer to shoot me in the knee. And that's only because Adarine was toying with me, otherwise I would have died." Jenso stated to Jeff. "Don't blame yourself...Hell, you're still able to fight, too. Dacer ran away. I'd consider that more of a win rather than a loss. And...I doubt this is the last time that we'll see Dacer again. And when we run into him again, we'll make sure to turn him back to normal." Jenso stated in a calm tone, attempting to make Jeff feel better. "I wouldn't have even been able to reach him. And you did, that on it's own is impressive."

[SuperFlash]

"Yeah.. that masked person was smart with doing that." Jeff said hinting that he still had a trick up his sleeve. "I wasn't gonna make the same mistake again."
Knowing that now wasn't the time to be letting himself be upset over this, he did his best to put his feelings aside and calmed himself. "Okay Jenso, let's go" Jeff said as he started heading out of the building. "Seeing how Vale kinda left us for dead.... like usual.. I'll lead the way."

[Jensoman]

Jenso smiled. "Let's do this!" Jenso said confidently, and followed after Jeff. He made sure to stay close near his ally, in case Dacer tried to sneak-attack them.

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~ End Of Chapter 75 ~

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~ Chapter 76 ~

_Ordo

Jeff Lead Jenso through Tech-mo with haste. Fortunately, they were not very far from the Ordo republic, and rolled right up to the front gates in a manner of minutes. Rather than a ton of guards however, there were bodies strewn about, and a pair of men guarding the gates. They turned to look at Jenso and Jeff, but didn't say a word.

[Jensoman]

Jenso casually walked up to the men, acting as if he didn't care about the bodies. "Sera sent us, we're here to assist." Jenso said calmly. It seemed obvious that the men were working for Sera, but he wanted to get close to them and dispatch them silently. 'And if they somehow don't work for Sera, we can just walk away...'

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"Sera only has 4 men working for him in Techno," the larger, masked man wheezed through a speaking device implanted in his armor. Upon closer inspection, it appeared that his body was large, rounded, and covered in vents that ported air into the inner workings. It was mostly covered in a cloak, however, hiding his frame from a better view. The other man looked at Jenso through his high tech goggles and grunted.

"And you two aint exactly quantifyin' as elves," He spat. His ears were pointed, and his frame was lithe. "Do you think we're stupid?" He barked, drawing a long, thin gun from his holster.

[Jensoman]

"Yes. Yes I do." Jenso stated plainly, dashing further to the left to make himself harder to hit. 'Only 5 of them including Sera, huh? That's good to know..' He thought, launching a flame ball at the man's hand that was holding the gun with his left hand in an attempt to disarm him, and launched a second fireball at the man's mask with his right.

[SuperFlash]

"Jenso, you realize there was no way that was gonna work right?" Jeff said annoyed at the fact the Jenso even tried to sneak past the guys. Given at least they got a little information out of it. Backing Jenso up in disarming the guys Jeff launched his grappling hook out at the guy's weapons and attempted to grab ahold of them.

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"Careful, Jip," The larger man wheezed, suddenly reaching out from under his cloak with a giant robotic arm, and pulling him out of the the path of Jenso's fire ball. It passed by and crashed into one of the Ordo gate's poles, melting away a fair layer of its iron. Jeff's grappling hook was agile enough to snatch Jip's weapons as he flew through the air, but his larger friend immediately stood up, revealing that his lower body was entirely covered in robotic enhancements. His torso was a giant spherical tank and his legs back backwards at the knee, holding him several feet off the ground. Jip was released and landed nearby on one hand and both feet, with his knees bent slightly.

"Awright, Gib. Let's shut these kids down," Jip said quietly, drawing another thin pistol from his belt. It seemed like he had several guns, all identical, around his torso. At least 6 were left, but what in the world was he doing with those? He didn't stop and immediately fired at Jeff, launching a firey bullet towards him from the barrel of his gun.

[Jensoman]

"I was just trying to get close enough to silently take them out. They probably have communication devices, hence why I wanted to knock them out before they could contact Sera. But it looks like it failed." Jenso whispered to Jeff. "Let's do this!" He shouted, and dashed towards the larger man while Jeff took on Jip. He dashed towards Gib and feigned as if he was about to punch at the man's torso, but suddenly made a sharp left turn, moving at the man's right side as he punched at his right knee. He made sure that his body was heated up as he did, hoping it would cause the metal to melt.

[SuperFlash]

"Oh shi!"Jeff started to yell as all he could do was take to the ground in order to dodge the bullets from this far away. He then descided to use the mans gun againt him as he retracted the gauntlet and aimed for the guys firing arm. He made use his wind to his advantage and boost the bullets speed. "Seems like some of these enhancements were made by me too! By gods, if it wasn't illegal to have made a kill switch for these things."

[tex]

Gib tried to turn, but his slow, clunky body made it impossible for him to keep up with Jenso. As Jenso struck his armour however, something strange happened. his fist left a melted imprint, and the processed material cracked open, releasing a purple smoke that sprayed Jenso right in the face, and spread out explosively. Gib turned to Jenso, albeit on one knee due to Jenso's attack, and swung his bulbous, poppeye-sized metal right forearm at him. Spikes sprouted out around his robotic wrist like a bracelet of death as well, aimed to impale Jenso's left shoulder.

Jeff's stolen weapon fired an electrical round, but Jip was ready for it, and drew a second gun, firing an earthy round into it to cancel it out. Rock scattered away from the impact, and Jip put his guns away, drawing two more. He fired them both, fusing the bullets together in midair, and creating an Icey ball of plasma that rapidly heated and cooled the air as it headed for Jeff.

[Jensoman]

Jenso attempted to jump back and out of the way of Gib's attack, looking at the strange smoke that he was covered in. He began to dash rapidly around Gib in circles, in an attempt to shake the smoke off of him. He made sure to keep moving so Gib would have a harder time to hit him.

[SuperFlash]

"Ah so each gun has an elemental type huh? Noted." Jeff said as he roll jumped out of the way of the next oncoming bullet. He then slipped the gun into his bag and descided it might be handy later. Following that Jeff kicked towards Jip and fired off 2 wind scythes at him whike preparing something in his left gauntlet.

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Gib stood resolute as his spiked arm slammed into the ground and dented the steel floor. Suddenly, as Jenso began circling him, his armor clicked open around his torso to reveal several air jets. He lifted his spiked arm, retracted the spikes, and flexed his body, expelling a massive amount of purple smoke the covered the entire battlefield, far enough that even Jeff was within range. Jenso's running did nothing to disperse the smoke, and Jeff's wind scythes, while passing through it, didn't affect it all that much either. Jip rolled out of the way of Jeff's twin attacks and drew another pistol. This one was slightly different from the rest, with black lining along its barrel. He fired it at the slower-moving plasma ball behind Jeff, and struck it dead-on. The plasma ball exploded, expanding violently without pushing the purple smoke around. It began firing plasma orbs out in random directions, as well as creating a slowly expanding cold area that crept towards Jeff.

[Jensoman]

Jenso dashed further away from Gib, and dashed towards Jeff. As he moved beside him, he slammed his fists together. A shockwave of Ki erupted from his fists, in order to knock the plasma orbs away and possibly knock away the smoke temporarily. As he did, he kept his body and by extension, the immediate area within several feet, to an extremely high degree in order to counter the cold area that headed for him and Jeff. "If you've got any ideas Jeff, now's the time.." Jenso muttered. "I don't know what this smoke does, but I don't want to use my flame powers and risk blowing us up." He whispered.

[SuperFlash]

"Yeah I got this!" Jeff said as he flowed his arms around to make the wind build and gather the smoke more together in front of him and then proceeded to blast the wind out back at Gib making it act like a smoke screen that focused on blinding his face. "Now lets see how he handles this.." the inventor said as he fired off a sticky plasma grenade from his left gauntlet out at the guy.

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The smoke around Jenso dispersed for a few moments, but immediately sunk towards him again, flooding the air that was cleared in a second. Gib rose his giant arms immediately after Jeff gathered nearly all of the smoke near him and launched it forward, and stopped the incoming smoke in its tracks, tanking the air blast head on and receiving minimal damage. Upon closer inspection, it seemed that his metal boots had anchored him to the ground with two clamp-like devices. Afterwards, Gib spread his arms and dispersed the smoke again, covering the battle field once more. But Jeff's sticky grenade latched to the bottom of one of his legs without him even noticing. Jip on the other hand, was backing away and picking out his next gun carefully.

"Hah, you can't stop my poisonous smog array-"

"P.S.A. for short, kiddies! And as a public service announcement, back to Gib!" Jip cut in abruptly. Gib paused and angrily groaned at Jip's inappropriate attempt at comedy.

"My PSA is a collection of millions of tiny bio-organic Nano machines. They're controlled by arcane magnets, so that they'll always return to a position relative to where I'm standing, no matter what. They're also rather effective at clogging one's airways and draining their arcane energy," Gib finished explaining. "Don't you feel it?"

It was as he said, Jeff and Jenso were beginning to feel the effects of the nano machines. Their arcane energy was being pulled away. Soon enough, their breathing would get heavier, and eventually, they would faint from exhaustion. Gib's giant masked face leaned forwards.

"Keep them off of me, Jip," He grunted. Jip nodded and pulled out two pistols. His icey blast had dissipated by now, but he had plenty more where that came from.

"You're gonna die!" Jip shrieked happily.

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~ End Of Chapter 76 ~