• Silverhand Chronicles: The blade of Eshatter - The woman in white

    Zack ran out of the mansion, guns in hand. The woman was waiting for Zack with a large, tri-barreled anti infantry weapon in hand.

    "Oh shi- " said Zack and turned tail towards the woods as the woman started firing at him. Zack kept running to avoid getting hit and the trees provided foilage to cover him.

    Zack hid behind a thick tree and readied his weapons, "Why is it everytime I run into a bad guy, their guns get bigger?" grumbled Zack as he took out his pistols and waited for the right time to move out.

    The bullets stopped firing and Zack jumped out. But to his suprise, the woman wasn't there. A shadow loomed over Zack and he instinctively rolled forward, evading a downward crush by mere inches from the woman. Zack was knocked back a bit by the impact and debri flew everywhere. The woman was kneeling in a crater she made because of her blow. Zack took the opportunity to ask questions.

    "Who are you? What do you want?" Zack asked at gunpoint.

    The woman rose slowly and looked at Zack in the eye. "Scanning... Zack Adrian Braveheart, status: located. List of offenses: insubordination, treason, reckless endangerment, mayhem, vigilantism. Alloted reward for capture: 400 Million dead or alive."

    In a flash, the woman grabbed Zack by the neck and held him high and then threw him to the mansion again. Zack went flying through a wall and landed in the dining room.

    "Ooohhh... That was more that I bargained for..." said Zack, clutching his head from the impact.

    Zack then noticed that he was in the dining room and looked around.

    "Wait a sec... If this is the dining room, then..." Zack looked around and saw the breakfast he prepared for Hemera ruined. The steak was covered in debri and the food was now, as people would call it, garbage.

    "Aw damn! That's it woman, you're going down! " said Zack and rushed out from the wreckage.

    The woman was walking calmly and Zack jumped out of the dust with a kick aimed for her head. The woman caught Zack's leg and slammed him into the floor.

    "Come 'ere! " Zack reached up and pulled on her hair and slammed her also into the ground.

    Zack was about to hit her on the face but she kicked Zack on the belly and the force busted Zack through another wall. The woman rose up from the wreckage and ran towards Zack, crushing debri in her path and tore through the mansion towards Zack. Zack also ran towards the woman and jumped toward the woman to stab her in the chest. The woman met him head on and kicked Zack.

    Zack blocked the kick but was thrown back from the force.

    "Alright, new plan..." said Zack.

    The woman kept advancing towards Zack and Zack waited. It seemed that the woman wanted to try her hands on Zack. The woman rushed at Zack with a palm thrust. Zack countered it by timingly pushing her arm upward and delivering a forceful blow to her belly. The woman was knocked back slightly but kept attacking Zack. She attacked with a low sweep but Zack blocked it by stabbing his sword into the ground. effectively stopping her sweep.

    "Bull's eye! " said Zack as he pulled out a gun and shot the woman on the head.

    The woman jerked at the force, but wasn't killed. She rose up with a palm thrust aimed at Zack's head. Zack barely evaded and left a cut on Zack's chin. Both combatants then jumped away from each other.

    "Heh. I should've guessed that you were no ordinary woman" said Zack, looking at the deep scratch his shot left at the woman's face. "Mind telling me your name?"

    The woman relaxed her stance for a while and spoke, "My production code is MAV-9088. I am more commonly known by the name of ARIANN."

    "Wow. That's a pretty name for an android " said Zack. "Now, let's get back to business!"

    Zack rushed at ARIANN with his sword held forward to deliver a lethal shattering stab. ARIANN simply recieved the sword blow with her hand and delivered a kick Zack's side but Zack countered by using his right arm to absorb the blow and grabbed her leg and threw her to a wall. The mansion wall was destroyed, but ARIANN jumped out of the wreckage and tackled Zack.

    Zack was thrown back and slammed into a wall and ARIANN followed it up with repeated puches to his stomach. With every punch, Zack was getting slammed deeper and deeper into the wall until he burst out of the other side. Zack ended up in the music room of the mansion and was a bit dazed from the attacks he recieved. KOS-MOS clamly walked in the room and Zack held a ready stance.

    "Alright. Her wall busting moves with me are getting really annoying... Better get serious, I don't wanna get caught yet. "

    KOS-MOS rushed at Zack with another palm thrust and Zack blocked it with his sword. Zack spun around, making KOS-MOS lose her balance and kicked her from her behind and fell face first on the floor.

    "Ooooh. Now that's a nice kick in the booty."

    ARIANN stood up and regained her previous composure

    "Hm. Pretty cool, aren't ya? Let's go!" said Zack and withdrew his weapons.

    At that moment, Zack and the woman both went all out on each other. The woman sent a palm thrust at Zack's face, Zack brushed it aside. Zack flipped backward, hitting ARIANN' chin and lifted her a bit at Zack delivered a full force punch from his left hand.

    KOS-MOS managed to block his punch and used her weight to perform a suplex by suddenly shifting her weight backward, slamming Zack into the floor. Zack repeated his move last time and pulled at ARIANN's hair and slammed her into the floor. Zack stood up and grabbed her leg and activated his first Trigger.

    "This is gonna be fun " said Zack and used her to slam the floor.

    Zack the swung her overhead and slammed her into the floor again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again.

    "Hahahahaha! Ya like that, huh?! Ya like that?! " said Zack and kept swinging her over head.

    Zack finished his slam-o-rama by holding ARIANN by both her ankles and started to spin. Zack spun faster and faster and let go of ARIANN, sending her through wall after wall until she flew out of the house .

    Zack fell to his rear with exhaustion. It has been a long time since Zack has fought with that intensity. He took a few seconds to gather a bit of strength and ran out of the mansion to go after Hemera.