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August Kohler The arena today is a circular stage with several tall pillars, for either cover or destruction. Stepping out to the cheers of the crowd are the two competitors, one of who is August Kohler, dressed in a coat, knife and revolver concealed, and a pocket mirror in hand. As he reaches Staren, August nods. "Good luck. Let's make it the best we can."

And then, August glances into the mirror, and waits. As soon as the bell goes off, he speaks up. "Persona!" In a flash of dark grey and red, the black knight Dietrich manifests, and in an instant, is moving forward. August dashes to leap onto his back, and then...

Dietrich mvoes fast. He's holding a giant mechanical buster sword, which he immediately moves to slam into Staren no matter what he's piloting, flipping it up and coming overhead while thumbsing up at the crowd with a spare hand. It's meant to hype them up.

"Let's make sure they enjoy it, alright?!"
Staren     Staren walks up to the ring carrying his helmet and waving to the crowd with a smile. He turns to August, more seriously. "Funny how once I would have been especially glad for the chance to kick your ass... but now... well, it's for the best all around, right? No hatred, just a contest." He smiles. "May the best man win, eh?" He gives August a thumbs-up, puts on his helmet, and drops into a combat stance. Nodding at the comment about giving them a show.

    Dietrich comes in with an overhead swing. Staren is suddenly surrounded by a sphere of amber force, which Dietrich hits right on! Cracks swiftly spiderweb all across its surface and the outermost layer, a fair bit of its mass, shatters outright as Staren dashes to the right, blasting Dietrich with particle beams and a couple of micromissiles.

    "Yeah! Show me what Dietrich can do!"
August Kohler "Yeah, well, I'm always glad for the chance to kick /your/ ass." It's a joke, but it's dry enough that it might take a second. When Staren responds to the blow with a shield partially shattering, particle beams and micromissiles fly at Dietrich.

They impact. They blow off its armor, frying into the black mass and damaging it...but Staren will quickly notice that it regenerates. The armor repairs itself, even as August groans from the pain of the blow, and still seems to have expended energy healing.

Dietrich comes in again, sword suddenly wreathing with inky darkness as it moves to bash into the shield. This time, it hits even harder - it's like a truck crashing head on, with how much sheer strength the Persona possesses, darkness licking at the shield and trying to tear through it.
Staren     Staren laughs the instant he hears August's comment.

    So, Dietrich regenerates. Staren considers this with a serious look. "Hmm." He tries to jump out of the way, but he's not quite fast enough -- and even hitting it at a poor angle, the darkness tears at the shield, shrinking it and tearing a hole through it. Staren drops it again to return fire -- panels on his arm open and turn, beam cannons retracting inside (there can't be room in there for all this, /what/) as gatling railguns come out on little mechanical arms and dump a constant stream of metal shards at Dietrich. "A question of whose defenses wear down first, eh?"
August Kohler Gatling railguns tear through more of Dietrich's armor, as August grimaces in pain. The sword lashes out again, but this time, it transforms mid-swing, turning into a mixture of a chainsaw and a whip, gear-like blades along the whip as it moves to try and burst through the hole of the shield and try and grapple around Staren, even as the gatling bullets continue to batter into the regenerating Persona.

If the chainsaw manages to get a grip, either damaging the shield further or hitting Staren directly, it grinds into him, trying to tear flesh and steel apart. It's a nasty weapon.
Staren     There is no flesh here. But the chainsword begins to tear into armor. Staren's caught! He'll just have to roll with it! The forcefield stays down for the moment, and panels all over his body rotate and change again. Heavier armor comes out with which he tries to push the sword aside, and on the other side of his body... energy weapons, missiles, guns, just... raining everything sideways into Dietrich!
August Kohler A full flurry blasts into Dietrich from every angle. Energy weapons, missiles, bullets, everything, and it tears the armor apart, black bits all over the place. August is hit hard, coughing up blood, but he grins a bleeding smile. Dietrich, keep it up! Let's rip him to shreds!"

The whipsword is, both luckily and unluckily, pulled back. Luckily, because it'll soon be removed from Staren's body. Unluckily, because Dietrich is trying to use it to pull Staren /towards/ him, so that his other can can be used for a punch straight through that shield and into the robot body.
Staren     Strangely, the shield doesn't come back up as long as the whip has Staren. Hmmm...

    He's yanked towards Dietrich. The weapons retract. A fist punches into him. Heavily denting the armor on his left side with a sickening CRUNCH. That arm jerks and freezes. On the right side, however... the weapons retract, and a new one pops out, a pile bunker! "Sorry, this is going to hurt you a lot more than it hurts me!" With a controlled explosion, Staren tries to drive the spike deep into Dietrich's torso!
August Kohler Staren comes at Dietrich with a pile bunker. This is bad. But August actually pulls the whipsword back...and transforms it back into a sword, moving to deflect the pileblunker. It impacts off the sword and into Dietrich's side, ripping a hole through it and causing August to scream in pain, blood running down his nose.

But he's not done yet.He immediately follows this up by wreathing the sword in fire, a massive blaze, and swinging it for Staren's head! "Let's call this one...Jabberwock Slayer!" Yes, August is calling out his finishing attack, as the fiery sword trying to cut into the neck! It probably won't flat out decapitate Staren (not that it could kill him in the Shrine), but it'll sure as hell hurt and melt armor.
Staren     Staren's got Dietrich on its last legs. He just has to survive this next attack. Staren steps back and holds up his left arm, still with the extra armor on it, and puts up his forcefield. It's smaller and thinner than before, but the hole is gone.

    The sword cuts through it. Staren blocks with his arm but it's forced aside.

    It so turns out that the neck does not have external armor in this design. He /really/ needs to fix that.

    There's a thin layer of synthflesh, and under it, armor... but not enough to stop the Jabberwock Slayer.

    Staren looks positively shocked as he's decapitated.

    His body falls over with a clang.

    ...And then the bell rings, and Staren is rewound to wholeness. Staren still looks a bit startled but in good spirits as he approaches August and extends a hand. "Well done." He frowns slightly. "Guess this tournament's not going well for me... how's it going for you?"
August Kohler As the fight ends, the Persona disappears, August drops to the ground, and pants, exhausted. He shakes Staren's hand, as he waves to the crowd. "3-2. I'm feeling good. Thanks for the fight, and let's hope next time, we're not fighting each other."

And then, August is off, in high spirits, to rinse the blood out of his mouth and off his face and then head home.