Overwhelmed, with trouble lifting themselves and some slight memory clogs, Savan wobbled while trying to walk, alone and unsupervised, along the clinic’s hallways, still unsure of what happened. Step by step, they remembered everything from the fourth round, the arena, their victory…Angie. Angie? Right, they need to check...check on her? "Right? I mean, that's what she and Priya promised us..."
The pursuit ceased, though, right when they saw Vivar, with his right fist clenched and the shield on the left arm. He didn’t say a word, especially since he noticed how his partner had problems keeping straight on their feet and appeared spaced out. Savan squinted their eyes, looked at the ground, and then remembered. “It’s already time?”, they asked, confused.
Vivar only sighed and reached out his hand- “Do you think you can do it?”
A few moments later, the two of them were on a transport cube, with no time to tell the others about their sudden departure. They only took Syna WristCom, which she gave Savan right after Serviceman asked for the duel- " This should make you invisible for a bit, " they remember the hacker saying. It only took them five minutes to reach the site chosen by Serviceman, a valley surrounded by ragged rocks, high pillars, and dust. He waited, slouched on top of the highest pillar, and jumped down from it the moment the duet landed. A small crater was left in his wake, and gently, he approached them.
He had a plan in mind, and it was a simple one- Behave as if he was aiming for Savan, who would be shielded by Vivar and force him to use his railgun at full power. Then, take the full brunt of it head-on, and end this game, once and for all.
That thought failed the moment their fight started. The two split up, with Vivar running with his shield lifted towards Serviceman, while Savan hid behind a rock. The opponent thought he could keep an eye on both at the same time, but soon the clopy disappeared from all his scanning devices- “A jammer”, he muttered annoyed. Something was wrong then, his logs of each participant never showed them having any such technology installed.
Still, he had another problem to face now, as the knight was still charging at him. The C.T.D threw one of his grenades as a response, a magnetic one, that stopped Vivar in his tracks. The power was not enough to pin him down, but it gave enough time for Serviceman to transform his right hand into an assault rifle with which he forced the other robot to hide under the shield.
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Vivar took a few steps back, and now instead of hitting him, the projectiles were drawn towards the grenade. The knight then went to his left, rushing in an arch, while the enemy was still trying to hit him. The run covered more and more ground between them, getting him closer to the target, and when he got close enough, Vivar tried to slash him with the edge part of his shield. At the last second, though, a huge spread of bullets bounced it right back off, coming from his swiftly transformed arm from a rifle to a shotgun.
The knight backed off a bit, moving backwards with each blast from the new weapon. He then swivelled a bit to the right, hiding his right arm while a light started to shine from it as if he was preparing the railgun. Serviceman, if he could, would have smirked at this, and for a second he stopped firing. A moment in which Vivar profited to tackle him to the ground, but he didn’t have the strength necessary to keep him there for more than a few seconds.
After he got up, Serviceman, as a surprise, pulled from behind his back a metallic sphere, attached to him by a tough cable. The sphere was filled with spikes and sharp edges to it, on all sides, and the C.T.D started to spin it from the cable. “ That’s…that’s his patient”, figured Vivar out quickly, especially after noticing that something similar to a human face was attached to the medieval-looking weapon.
The opponent spun it around, launching it and retracting it, again and again, while the knight tried to parry and defend, again and again, without finding any moment when to counter. All of a sudden, from one of the ridges, pebbles, and rocks started to roll down towards Seviceman, but he quickly destroyed them using another of his grenades.
After that, he once again threw the Billy sphere towards Vivar, but while it was flying, something else flew past the weapon. One of his grenades was thrown by the knight, which he stole when he pinned Serviceman down. It activated mid-flight, pulling the sphere back and hitting the C.T.D at full force. Vivar started running again and tried to press the edge of the shield into the robot, but he managed to defend himself by using his left arm. In the process though, the knight managed to push it hard enough to cut the limb right off.
In return, Serviceman pointed his shotgun towards Vivar’s left hand as well and destroyed whatever connected it to the body. Both were left unhanded on their left sides now. This didn’t convince the knight to give up, though, and he used the weight of his body to press on his damaged limb and keep him down for longer now.
At that moment, Savan appeared on Serviceman’s scanners but it was too late for him to do anything about it. Two cables came out of the clopy’s artificial hair and connected themselves right to the C.T.D head, leaving both in a catatonic state.