James Goldsworth's Story

James stepped through the silent warehouse, his footsteps echoing throughout the unkempt building as the sound of clanging metal. With every step, his armour adjusted itself with every movement to allow the most efficient reaction. Finally, he appeared at the bottom of the staircase, relieved to find a way out of this strange place. However, what he could see was a lone blue-haired girl. The hair itself reminded him of a poor encounter a few months ago, bringing him to bare his teeth from behind his pure metallic helmet. Of course, the other asshole was not with this girl, so it isn't his enemy... Yet.

"Oi," James spoke out, slowly taking steps up the staircase, "You got a ship? Or something to get away from this place?"

A lone figure crashed through the walls of the warhouse with an audible explosion. The figure slowly stood up dazed by what just happened, now any normal attack like that would have ended up killing him but with fast thinking and having a personal shield always at the ready he only suffered from the shock of the attack. "Alright! Who is the one responsible for nearly killing me!?" The man yelled through the hole in the wall. Soon afterwards another figure stepped into a warehouse, a woman holding a railgun was pointing her weapon at the man. "Target identified as Russian...no...Russian I have finally found you after all this time! You will pay for what you have done." The android woman called out to the man.

The man now known as Russian stood up. "Well, looks like this fight is just about over. You made the worst mistake in challenging the greatest hacker and robotics expert in this entire universe." With lightning reflexes he brought out a device wrapped around his arm and tapped a icon, but nothing happened. "Oh boy...do you think we can talk this ov---" he suddenly felt the beam of a railgun slam into him, instantly shattering his shield as sending him flying into multiple crates.

The Android woman soon began to move to his location giving the Russian some time to think. "What the hell! How come I can't hack that Android woman? It's like she is not a robot but clearly she is a robot. Whatever it looks like I will be doing things the hard way." He slowly muttered to himself and grabbed the rifle from his back before taking a few shots at the android, only to have his bullets impact the shield, but it did give him some insight to her equipment. "Personal shield, capable of stopping armour piercing rounds, railgun that hits its target before they even know it fired, and that strange sword and strange devices surrounding her. For now I should take cover!" He quickly rolled behind one of the many crates in the warehouse to think of a plan."

Distracted by the strange sounds coming from within the warehouse, James snapped out of some sort of hallucination, realising he was alone. But that didn't matter as the sounds continued on, a strange voice which sounded both familiar, and different. Was he already found by those bastards? Or is it some kind of lucky coincidence. The only way to find out was to return back to the warehouse to check...

Just as James had come to the scene, a female had shot some high powered weapon at a male, breaking his defences and throwing him into the crates stacked on the other side of the massive building. Of course, this power is easily compared to James' abilities, as he thought himself to be more powerful. However, as he watched the fight take place some more, with the man seeming to be panicking while the woman continued, lifeless. Just as he thought, an android, and by the looks of it, this android may be linked to that asshole's creation. Why are they here?

As the man took cover behind a crate, an object which would be easily broken by this android, James quickly threw himself into the mix. He stood between the two, his fist pointed towards the android as the plates of the MechAr constantly adjusted to his movements, opening a little around his wrist to allow fire to be thrown towards the android. His other fist did the same, throwing bolts of electricity instead as small, strong pipes ejected from both the back and the back of the legs, piercing into the ground to provide support to any shock the AI of the MechAr anticipated.

The Android stopped in her tracks as a mysterious man stepped between her and the Russian. She was about to say something but the man suddenly aimed his fists at her, throwing fire and electricity in her direction. Without much effort, she began to dodge these attacks not willing to open fire on this man. "Please step aside, this battle does not involve you. My target is that horrid man who cares not for anyone he meets. Be warned that I will attempt to kill you unless you cease your attack." The android woman warned him, all the while dodging the fire and electric attacks with just quick feet movements.

Russian peered to the side as he relized his position was not under fire, there he noticed a man fighting his assailant. Unsure if she was his enemy or he was just a guy to protects other or whatever his reason were, he was thankful regardless for the time he was buying. He brought out the device on his arm before speaking into it. "Hey ship, drop a mech suit on my location. And do it all quick like." With that a ship hovering in orbit launched a drop pod to the Russian's location, with that he could easily fight back against any foe

As the Android refused to fight back, swiftly dodging every inch on flame or electricity, James grew irritated. It may not want to fight with him, but he wanted to fight with it. No way would he allow the scum attack a living being, they all need to be destroyed. With that, the piping snapped back into the armour as he retracted his arms, allowing the plating to readjust and move as he stepped diagonal towards the android, as if he was circling it like a hawk, watching everything as he allowed the MechAr scan over the android.

"I ain't letting scum like you exist. You associated with her? 'The Motherboard'?" James questioned through his teeth, lucky to have the helmet hide his embarrassing facial expressions. "It doesn't matter if you are or not, your kind deserve to be destroyed" He continued as the straight plate running down his spine began to glow blue, showing that the inbuilt Blutrinium generator had activated, providing the MechAr with more energy.

Of course, James' attention was temporarily grabbed by the drop pod which broke through the ceiling of the warehouse, but was quickly ignored as he saw the man scramble for whatever was inside. No matter, the android was of more importance.
His fists were raised again as the wrist areas opened up once more, this time firing a barrage of bullets towards the android, the armour itself set up to anticipate any movements by the android to keep the bullets firing towards it.

The Android watched as the man circled around her, questioning her if she was part of the Motherboard. Although in the end it seemed he did not care because he hated her kind. "I see...well if I am forced to fight I will not hold back." The android spoke as she held up her railgun but began to wait patiently for the man to make his move, she had to be careful.

Her attention soon focused on the drop pod crashing through the ceiling, it seemed that the Russian called in some heavy ordinance. For the Russian however the drop pod was about to land where he was taking cover at and rolled out of the way just in time to avoid being crushed. "I did not mean drop it at my exact location you stupid ship!" He yelled at the sky before rushing to the drop pod to re-arm. He hopped into the pilots chair and closed the hatch and began to power up his mech suit. "This will teach anyone not to mess with the best mercenary around."

The android soon turned her attention to the man in front of her who was now firing a barrage of bullets in her location. She began to dodge the bullets, but it seemed that he was now tracking her movements since they were now hitting her shield. In response to this she aimed her railgun at the man and took a shot at him, while she engaged the man with her primary weapon, the four lances floating around her back began to glow a light blue before taking aim at the man and shot a blue beam at him. The beams were not pinpoint accurate like their user, but the beams made up for it by being both continuous and froze the targets they hit making it dangerous to get hit by.

With the sudden attack from both the railgun and the strange lances, the MechAr was stuck for means to protect James, forcing him to take the full on attack from the railgun while one beam skimmed the left arm, throwing him back into the wall of the warehouse with a loud crash. From the shock of the attack, James was momentarily knocked out before quickly coming back into consciousness to the sound and sight of warning symbols lighting up the whole of the inner screen as the MechAr struggled to counteract the damage. The backlight lit up an even brighter blue as the generator worked at full capacity to provide energy to the heating systems, preventing the freezing effect of the beam from freezing James' arm before attempting to thaw out the frozen plates. The front chest plates were damaged beyond repair with large dents and cracks in the metal, forcing the AI to eject the affected plates with a small hiss of released gas, throwing them out to clang against the ground as plates from the second area moved to replace the exposed area. Within the time frame of a few seconds, the armour was restored to relatively well condition, if one would ignore the frozen arm as the plates attempted to move back and forth to crack through the ice.

James slowly brought himself back to his feet once the armour was deemed moveable once more. Breathing heavily as he attempted to recover from the winding caused by the shock of the attack. "You little shit, I'm gonna send you to the scrap heap." He spoke out as he walked back to the fight, combating the warning symbols with his thoughts as he argued with the MechAr which simply heavily suggested he retreated. Eventually, the AI gave up and activated the further electromagnetic shielding; pumping ions into the air around him which gave a temporary blue hue before becoming translucent once more as the electromagnetic ionic (EMI) shielding was formed.

"Oi, 'mercenary', it'd be nice if you helped out. James reluctantly stated to the mech suited mercenary he was protecting.

"I intended to help anyways, I am not letting this android woman make a mockery of me." The Russian spoke as the entire pod was blown up filling the area with smoke, as the smoke quickly dissipated, a 20 foot tall mech armed with four auto cannons which shot large exploding shells at their target, two back mounted rocket launchers capable of launching an entire payload of 8 rockets each, and multiple gun ports each each armed with a heavy stubber capable of also firing small exploding shell but at a higher rate and to top it all off it was armed with its own personal shield. "Have to hand it to those imperial guys, whenever I have I chance I can easily salvage some of their weapons and equipment for my own personal use, now time to show this little android some real firepower." He called out through the mechs microphone and began to unleash an entire salvo at ammo directed towards the android. Now in normal circumstances he would not have much ammo in his mech, however he came up with a ingenious idea to make large mechs bristling with guns work, and that was to have the ammo teleport to its respective gun making it near impossible to run out of ammo.

The android used her jet boots and began to avoid the mech's entire swarm of explosive rounds with an occasional shell hitting her. The situation was getting dangerous but she did not falter in the slightest and instead brought out her railgun and began to direct her fire on the mech. While she was aiming at the mech her four lances focused on the man as to keep him busy and not let him have free reign while she was busy with the mech. She was determined to defeat Russian, no matter how much damage she needed to sustain.

With a focus on repairing the frozen parts of the suit, James could not use any forms of synthetic magic without removing his helmet. And so, he had a new plan, to get close. With a quick glance over the heavily armed mech the mercenary was piloting, James left the MechAr to calculate a decent means of assault. It wasn't a surprise to see the Android focusing on both it's enemies, luckily, the high powered weapon was aimed at its original target while the annoying freeze rays were fired towards James. It was such a shame for the android to have the MechAr both see and experience an attack from these freeze rays, the AI was designed to learn, to protect the user as an ingenious defensive machine. With just calculations of velocities, bearings and error chance, the risk of being struck once more was drastically lowered.

And so, James charged forward with one goal; To get into close combat. The MechAr itself took temporary control of James' body via the direct connection to the central nervous system, allowing James to step to the side just enough to have each freeze beam miss. The cooperation between man and machine was so intertwined, they could be considered as a single being, a perfect match as James quickly closed the distance between him and the android. Finally allowing him to swing a reinforced, powered punch towards the android's face as soon as it made the mistake of dodging the mercenary's attacks straight into James' path.

The android kept her calm as the man charged her location. It was going to be difficult to fight in close quarters with the amount of firepower the mech had but instead of taking her focus off of the mech, she went for another dodge just as the man closed the distance to deliver his punch so she could not dodge the attack, but as he did two wires slicked from her back like a snake. The two spear like devices rushed at the man as her counterattack and these just like her lances could freeze their target with one added benefit, it could also hold them in place if they got a chance to wrap around. But she was also carful to move one hand on another object on her hip just in case they missed but was willing to take the hit as well. Her accuracy with the railgun was not reduced all that much, and her attention was still focused on the mech until the man proved to be more of a threat.

Meanwhile for the Russian, he noticed that his shields were going drastically lower each time a shot from the androids railgun hit him. "100...84....73..." He muttered as he read the numbers on his shields durability. This was supposed to be one of his more stronger mechs and here he was taking hits like they came from a tank, well it was a railgun at the end of the day and it does the job of blasting armour better than any old rocket. "No one appreciates the explosives anymore...Its all about lasers and---" suddenly an alarm came ringing in his mech, warning him that his shields have reached less than half. His shields were about to go and if that happened he would be suffering some major damage, at this rate he felt his wallet cry out thinking of all the damage he had to repair.

James smiled under his mask as he saw the wires emerge from the android's back, rushing straight towards him as a final means of defence. Luckily, James' limited knowledge included the simple fact that electromagnetism messes with electronics, and it just so happens that the MechAr had activated the EMI shielding before he charged in, perhaps it had already planned something like this to happen.

Within the short time frame, James quickly spoke out loud; "Put all shielding to the front." The short command was acted upon with little lag as a thin layer of blue faded into existence; a whole field of large electromagnetism and ions had been concentrated in one area. This concept would allow electricity to be repelled and anything conductive to be overcharged to the point of explosion or -if connected to electrical devices- short circuit what it were connected to. The defensive counter attack of the android was easily cancelled out as the wires were overcharged, sending a massive electrical surge back towards the android as James' original attack was still pushed forward, ready to collide with the android's face.

[OOC: This is assuming the wires are electrical, I wouldn't be surprised if the android had means to prevent short circuiting, or even to stop the surge of electricity.]

The two spears began to short circuit after being hit by the EMI shielding, thankfully for the android the wires were not connected to her body but without any time to counter the man with her own weapon she took the punch to the face and she was sent flying a few feet back, crashing into the ground in a small daze. The Russian took the opportunity when the man was not close enough to aim the missile launchers at the android. "Time to bury you in ordinance! See you in the scrapyard!" He called out as he launched his entire explosive payload of 16 rockets along with hundreds of autocannon slugs behind them.

The android looked at the rockets but did not move since she was still recovering from the punch, as the rockets were about to hit she knew she could not avoid them all and even if she could get past the missiles the slugs would get her. She severly underestimated her targets and she would die by the man she swore to kill. "No...I will not die here...there is still more for me to accomplish in this world, there is still more good that I can do...I can not die here...I can...No I will survive..." With that she felt something resonate in her, her very soul was set on fire but not in a bad way, it felt good almost like the fires of justice. This had happened to her a few times before and each time this would happen. As the missiles were mere inches away from her she unseathed the sword by her side and began to cut apart the missiles and slugs each of them exploding into smoke. "I think I got her...unless she was faster than 16 speeding missiles and hundreds of shells, I highly doubt she is in one piece, heck maybe there is no piece to be found." He chuckled to himself as he looked at the smoke forming in the warehouse which was bombarded with everything he had, even though he had more ammo to burn through.

The smoke clered and a figure was still standing there. "Looks like she still has some left in her...Just when I thought I did not have to waste more money on trying to kill you! Just lay down and...what the heck?" Russian slowly spoke as he noticed what had formed behind her. Two wings had formed of her back, one white and one black. What was going on? She was an android yet she was not an android. People are strange sometimes. "Looks like its time for round two guy, but we can still deal with...her...I'm not ever sure what to call that thing anymore...whatever another round of ordinance should be enough."

As the android flew back and the massive bombardment of slugs from the mercenary were fired, James straightened himself up. A small sigh was given off as he moved his head to the sides to click his neck, giving the frozen arm a few large taps to break the ice and allow the plates to fully move once again. The internal heating had slowly cooled as the many minimised warning signs disappeared from his screen one-by-one. There may be some damage and ejected plates, but at least he was still in working order, and the mercenary should definitely have means to get away from here. These thoughts were quickly removed as the mercenary mentioned round two, bringing James' attention back to the clearing smoke to see the winged figure emerge.

"Fuck..." James cursed out loud as he parted his legs once more to reach a fighting stance. "This bitch reminds me of some people... You beat the shit into them before they unleash some 'hidden power'" He mentioned to the mercenary as he quickly shifted next to the mech. "You got some hidden power to unleash now? We kinda need it.

As James spoke to the mercenary, keeping his eyes on the newly-winged android, he raised his right arm out to the side, his hand open to allow a small tube to emerge from beneath the plates of his wrist. As soon as this tube was gripped in his hand, it extended into a fully metallic spear; without any form of synthetic magic, the end of the spear combusted into an ever burning flame with three extra points emerging around the central point in a triangle shape. The Spear of Fire had finally been wielded.

"If this goes on, I'm gonna have to do what that asshole always does."

"Hidden power? I'm not some sort of magician that can cast magical spells on a whim. The least I could do is drop a bunch of robots on my location but judging how she managed to cut down my entire barrage...I highly doubt that will help. The best I could do is get out of this mech and use some of my more powerful hand held ordinance...judging I live long enough to activate it in the first place. You probably have an ace up your sleeve as well, everyone has an ace up their sleeve." Russian spoke as he readied all of his weapons before using every weapon at his disposal to attack the android, she can't possibly stop his salvo on full auto, if she did then he would be in major trouble.

The android looked at the two as they got ready to fight. She drew her sword and began to walk forward slicing the slugs that Russian shot at her, no matter how many bullets he seemed to shoot she would easily deflect or cut the apart faster than he could fire. Soon the barrels of his weapon soon began to glow red, his autocannons were overheating due to the extended use of full auto mode, and his weapons were supposed to be used semi automatically which began to strain the weapons. "How...is...she...still...walking! If you have a plan now is the best time for one while I have her suppressed! These weapons are not going to hold together for very long! And I highly doubt I will have time to cool down the weapons before she rushes us!" He yelled at the man on the ground as he kept the pressure on the android, hopefully the man could come up with a plan before his weapons literally exploded.

As the mercenary tried his best to hold the annoying android back, James thought. Coming up with plans and strategies was never his forte, then again, thinking isn't an easy thing either. As the pressure fell down on James, the MechAr telling him to get into action as soon as possible, a small idea finally popped into his head. 'More powerful hand held ordinance', synthetic magic, the last resort... Nope, just the first one.

"Alright, you go get that powerful thing. I'll cover you." James decided as he swung his spear around several times before falling back into an offensive position, ready to push himself forward.

Once the mercenary had stopped the slugs to grab his device, James quickly jumped forward, using a massive force of air as means of propulsion to throw himself at the Android with great speed. While in the air, other jets were used to move his body as he covered his spear and arm in nearly-white-hot flames, swinging the weapon as hard as he and the suit could, aiming for the android's abdomen.

Russian had to agree with the plan and thought of which explosive to use. It was usually a quick and easy decision but in a situation like this it could mean either turning this battle around, getting them killed or get both parties killed. He had plenty of options but he had to narrow them down quickly and effectively. "Let's see...nuke grenade? No, it would blow us up in the process. Black hole grenade? Takes a little longer than usual to detonate, she could get out of the way. Cluster grenade? Explodes on contact and splits apart, comes in a mini nuke variety. Yeah, that will work even if she cuts it, dodges it, or try's to fling it back to them and it won't blow them up in the process.

As Russian opened up his mech, he jumped down to get into position. He knew that there was a possibility it could get shot out of the air so he had to get close and personal, maybe risk one of arms...half of his body in the process. Of course he was not willing to go kamikaze just to destroy one android but he was sure to think of something that would work. For now he just had to time it right so he could catch the android out, but he had to be careful since he was her target in the first place and she could easily rush his position if he was not careful. "Just inching along the dragons nest...this will totally not go wrong." He muttered sarcastically.

As the shells stopped firing, the android charged forward but stopped upon seeing the man rush at her from the air. She knew he was not to be underestimated and took a defensive stance while carefully reading his moves. As James closed on the android, she avoided the attack by sidestepping it, she then immediately followed this up by a quick slash with her sword to test if his shield would defend against it. Of course she was prepared for any counter attack he would make.

Stepping to the side was a dodging technique the person James keeps referring to as 'that asshole' would always use during any kinds of encounters, therefore, the MechAr automatically recognised this movement and instantly acted upon it, with great experience against one person, the counter to be performed was at great precision and skill, it would seem that it wasn't even James anymore...

Landing perfectly on the ground, James pierced the concrete with his spear, using it as a form of leverage as a massive jet of air was fired, spinning him around the spear and throwing his legs out to give a full-blown kick to the androids abdomen with very high momentum. Sadly, the shielding was designed for high energy weaponry, stuff made of metal and/or energised equipment. This strange 'frozen' sword that was swung in his direction would have been a direct hit. But it was of no matter, with the way his body was moving extremely fast, the sword would collide with his arm; which was already superheated from the white-hot flames, preventing any further freezing while the three layers of plating would prevent any damage.

The android grunted as they kick connected to her abdomen at a very high momentum, causing her to skid back a few feet but she remained standing despite the powerful blow. She now knew that the shield did not protect him from the sword which was a valuable piece of information, however the heat system he had would negate the freezing effect of her sword making it much harder to cut through and cripple him. It would also seem like dodging would be dangerous since he was was seemingly adapting to her tactics, she had to change things up a bit and go on the offensive.

The android placed her sword back into its sheath before using her wings to propel herself backwards into the air. She had decided to go on the offense due to the mans armor and skill in dealing with quick opponents. She then activate her jet before placing a hand over her sword before using her wings to dive at the man from the air using the momentum to amplify her next attack.

Russian found a safe location to observe the fight, he was now predicting where the android would go. He was thinking of the many attacks the man would do and how each one would affect the android, and he would guess where she would fly to or land at. He had one chance at this so there was no need for any pressure, just in case he had the emergency nuke grenade and black hole grenade in case he needed something to distract her with while he got out of there. Of course he was not planning to leave the man behind until he was defeated.

James quickly recovered from his counter, rising back to his feet and rushing back to retrieve his spear, all while keeping an eye on the android. He had met the assumption that the MechAr had learned of her nature in combat, making it easier to land hits and dodge any forms of counters. Of course, this assumption was quickly broken as the android jumped into a full on forward attack, using something like James had previously done, diving from the air to attack.

Attempting to get out of the way, the MechAr, designed to protect the user, refused to allow his movements. Warning symbols came up on his screen telling him that dodging is more dangerous than taking a full on hit. But that wasn't all, even the armour itself was lost at what to do exactly, it was such a quick change for the android to jump into an attack; even though it always fought defensively. Looks like he really will have to do what he really didn't want to...

As the android's dive drew closer and closer, James slowly pushed the spear to the ground, holding it upright as the permanent flame at the end burned brighter. The armour plating slowly rearranged itself to allow a small gaps to form around the midline of his lower leg and across the outside area of his arms. From there, flames poured out from beneath the armour, flooding into the immediate surroundings as it came into the form of bird-like wings from his arms, and rings from his legs. A layer of bright red flames slowly encased his whole body as a temporary image of the demon bound to the spear came into existence around James' whole body: A Phoenix.

This image was broken as James called out from the intense sound of surging flames; "Whatever you're gonna do, do it now!" The flames raised even further in intensity as the Android came into their range. And, for a moment, it seemed as if James' bright blue eyes could be seen from behind the solid metal of the helmet. Eyes of a murderer, of a soldier, of a being plagued with the curse of life, looking straight into the android's own eyes.

The android pressed her attack despite seeing what the man was doing, or what he was planning. She then slowly began to slide her sword out her sheath prepared to unleash her devastating attack. "I will not falter! I will beat that man no matter who stands in my way." She called out not seeing what was happening behind the flames.

Russian acted quickly when he saw the opportunity. He knew the grenade would have been blown up if it hit the flames so he had to do something he really did not want to do. He pulled out his device on his arm and pressed one of the floating icons cause the mechs legs to violently explode, sending it flying forward to body slam the android. "Move now before you get crushed!" He yelled at the top of his lungs to get the guy to move. If he did the mech would land right on the android but not before she used her strength to hold it up, however if the man did not move in time he too would be stuck under the mech and he would not be able to help him.

Regardless of what happened the android would have no chance to escape the trap, and boy was he glad to soon be finished with this fight but of course he had a few questions he wanted answered from the android. And he also has the stranger to thank as well, without him he would surely be dead, and if the man decided to fight her alone he was sure he would be in much more trouble than that if her focus was directed on one person instead of two.

The android pressed further, her sword drawn and ready to strike at James as he continued expelling the flames from his body. There was still a few minutes he had to endure until the synchronisation was complete, which makes him wish he was the same race as that asshole, bastard has it easy to synchronise in seconds.

Suddenly, the MechAr took control of James' body without warning, quickly cancelling the synchronisation as forcing him to crouch down. These movements occurred just in time as the massive mech which the mercenary was previously piloting was thrown over his head, colliding directly with the android with a large crash, followed by the sounds of crushing and breaking metal as gravity pulled the two metallic entities to the ground. Dumbfounded with what happened, James pulled himself back to his feat as he took a glance over the shoulder to see the victorious mercenary holding his arm out with some device worn on it before looking back to the smoking wreckage.

After a small pause, attempting to process what had just happened, James finally returned to reality. He slowly stepped towards the wrecked mech as the clanging sounds of movement echoed through the deserted insides of the machine. Finally, a metallic hand found it's way back into the open, grasping to the concrete floor in an attempt to pull the rest of the body free. However, this attempt was blocked as James' armoured foot stomped down onto the arm, crushing it into the flooring, preventing any more usage. Luckily, James was still not done. He grabbed onto the arm and pulled the rest of the android from the wreckage, holding it up to prevent it's feet from touching the floor. What a pitiful sight, the artificial skin was ripped and pulled away from the mechanised interior, a couple of the floating lances were nowhere to be seen as the rest struggled to float behind the user.

"What a lovely sight." James scoffed, his helmet retracted back into the MechAr to reveal his grinning face, his eyes filled with hatred as he stared the android in the only working eye. "How about we make sure we have to followers

With that, James used his free arm to snap the legs of the Android before throwing it to the floor in front of the mercenary. "You want in on smashing this piece of shit?"

The android did not react when the man smashed her arm, she did not react when he crushed her leg. Of course it was a grueling amount of pain, having your arm broken and legs snapped off but she did not want to give these two any satisfaction of watching her suffer. She landed in front of the Russian and he in return got down on one knee and smiled at her. "Well...looks like you are a little banged up, sucks to be you I suppose." He spoke as he poked the android on the head in a teasing manner. "But as the winners I think we have a right to have some questions answered before deciding what to do with you, First off what are you? You are an android yet you are not, you appear to not be in pain but from that subtle twitch in the eye you are in pain. Tell me, what in the universe are you?"

The android looked up at Russian and decided to speak, no use is delaying the inevitable. "I have a name...and its Hadriel. And if you want to know I am most certainly an android, but I have a soul of a human." She replied without emotion as she stared at him. "Wow...I actually thought you would stay silent. Well some thanks are in order but for the next question: Why target me out of all people to kill? I have to hand it to you, you got some courage in facing one of the best if not the very best mercenary in this universe. So any reason why?"

"This is just purely for revenge. Remember Victoria Primus? When those Imperium types hired you to find a facility? I was there when it happened...I saw what you and those...monsters...did to the people...my friends and family....they wanted peace and in response your actions ended up having them either burned, cleaved in half, shot to bits, or just blown up just because their religion deems it heretical for machines to posses true emotions." She spat out the words looking truly angry. "Oh no...I am so sorry! I feel so bad in killing a whole bunch of people even though its my job...I will cry you a river!" Russian pretended to cry before laughing. "Yeah I could care less, they paid a good amount of money for that job. But thanks for the laugh, but sadly for you it seems that I have no more questions so as thanks I will not kill you immediately and give you...a chance to limit how messy your corpse will be." He spoke as he placed down his explosive and pulled the pin on it before placing a small piece of rubble on it just slightly over the edge which would slowly topple the explosive over given enough time. "With the state your in, you have no chance of getting to the doors of this place in at least five minutes. Well I would love to stay and talk but time is ticking and I have a firework show starting in about five minutes."[/color] He laughed as he began to leave. "You gonna stay for the fireworks? Or you got some other things in mind? Anyways I have to thank you for the assist there."

James clicked his tongue in annoyance at the android's pitiful words, all of this for some kind of revenge. A synthetic being wanting revenge? These fuckers don't feel anything, and they should never be allowed the pleasure of emotion, that's only for living beings. "Fuck your sob story," He interrupted, spitting onto the android's face as the mercenary set up the explosive. "I think watching little show like this would be cool, shall we get going?"

As he turned to leave the warehouse, James' helmet unfolded once more to cover his head. His spear retreated back into the arm it came from as steam slowly raised from the heated metal of the MechAr. "By the way, I'm James Goldsworth. I hope you have a way to get away from here."

"Alright James, names Russian. And yes I do have a way to leave this place once the fireworks go off." Russian spoke as he tapped on the device on his arm to call his ship down, afterwards he just sat down on the ground to enjoy the destruction of most of the warehouse. It would be repaired by the city, of course he was going to make sure he got away before his face got on any news channels.

For Hadriel, she knew she could not tamper with the explosive safely. Instead she gathered her legs and called one of the lances that were still operational to freeze them into place. They probably knew that she could still get away, but of course she had other ways of escaping a situation like this. She sent a signal to a facility long since abbandoned, knowing full well that it could still be used before warping from the area.

Once the Android was clear of the area, the explosive finally tipped over detonating and exploded into a fiery mushroom cloud of destruction. The roof and walls of the building were blown clean away and bits and pieces were thrown in every direction. Russian began to laugh as he watched the inferno but of course his bad karma kicked in and a piece of his mech flew right into his face sending him flying but he was still alive, albeit with a broken nose. [color=red]"Gah! Stupid karma!"[/red]

James stood still and enjoyed the explosions which took place before him, thinking about where he could go to hunt down the motherboard. A quest he had given himself, with a small side goal of grabbing a group of people to assist him in his travels. Of course, how could he explain that he needs help hunting down, and killing, an immortal being. Perhaps he should have asked that android about it, it may not be associated with the motherboard; but all androids should have heard of her.

Of course, James snickered at Russian's misfortune as he was struck in the face with a piece of his own armour. While James took the debris head on, bits of the warehouse ricocheting off his armour while larger parts where expelled with a swing of his arm. "Well, I hope you don't have anywhere to go now." James called over the sounds of the explosion and falling debris as he strolled toward Russian, offering a hand to help him up from the ground. "Because I'm in need of some good help. Oh, and are you able to forge some new metal plates for my armour?"