Somewhere in Australia, mid evening
Raiden touched down in the center of the city, the gleaming red sword in hand as he saw the massive target in the distance. His mission was simple: terminate what appeared to be a humanoid Metal Gear. The machine resembled a massive factory, but what was odd was the strange box firing at it and circling it. The city was long since cleared out, fighter jets were swatted down easily and missiles, while damaging it, weren’t incredibly effective. This had to be some sort of other cyborg fighting it. Curious, Raiden dashed right for it, holding the trusty Muramasa in hand.
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In the distance, a sole woman in what appeared to be a maid dress flew, the Engel trying to swat her down missing each (somewhat telegraphed) swing. As it did, 2B found her chance and flew towards it’s sawblade-like arm, swinging the longsword at the arm with enough force to slice it right off and kept flying past, using her pod to ‘grab’ the sword as if telekinesis was used. With a single swing, the Engel was ripped in half with its own arm, causing it to crumble forward. The machine began to beep as it did, its eyes flashing red.
“Goliath class is beginning to self-destruct, recommended option – get away.”
2B cursed at the obvious answer as she tried to get some distance. The resulting eruption managing to pull her closer to the mushroom cloud, the blindfold and dress fluttered from the rumbling blast as debris flew past her, some pelting her but not enough to hurt her severely.
Once the dust settled, 2B allowed herself to be set down from the flight unit, looking around in caution in case of any attackers. This Engel definitely went down easier than she anticipated.
“Hey!”
2B turned to the sound of the voice, seeing Raiden himself holding his sword at her in warning. “Are you the one who did this?” he questioned.
“Are you a YoRHa unit as well?” questioned 2B. Raiden wanted to question her, but something seemed off. He needed to find out what that was.
“YoRHa? Never heard of them. But you’re not supposed to be here. Come with me.” He issued. 2B didn’t respond but instead took her longsword. The two were ready to fight, and it was clear someone wasn’t walking away after this scuffle.
Glory to Nature
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The two dashed in! 2B swinging her longsword to meet with the Murasama, the two swords shook the ground around them, but 2B was slowly giving in, she could tell she wasn’t going to win a straight up standoff. Her pod hovered behind her and gave a faint hum before firing a stream of what appeared to be electricity. Raiden noticed this and jumped back, allowing 2B to swing as he rolled to the side shortly after, annoyed at the assist she had. Keeping his focus on the woman dressed like a maid, he dashed right in, seemingly heading for her – only to jump and slice at her pod. The flying assistant managed to dodge, only for Raiden to spin and swing right for 2B’s head, the YoRHa unit backflipped a few meters from the attack at the last moment, even dodging the follow up attack of Raiden throwing the sword for her by a tilt to the side. As Raiden landed, his strategy to try and hit either a dud, he saw the pod head for his sword, giving him the opening he needed to pick up a downed rocket launcher and hoist it over his shoulder with ease and fire.
The rocket hit 2B’s pod dead on, knocking it down and leaving the YoRHa to hurry towards the cyborg facing her. She managed to catch the next rocket heading for her and threw it right back at Raiden, who responded by firing the final shot, the explosion occurring from this gave both of them the chance to hurry in, hoping the other wasn’t thinking of the same idea.
Upon recognizing the other, 2B swung her blade, only for Raiden to dodge and counter with a backhanded knuckle punch. The swing staggered 2B a bit, leaving her open for an electrically charged punch to the gut followed by a spinning kick to the side of the head and low kick for the back of the heel. The YoRHa was getting outpaced fast, and she couldn’t even counter thanks to Raiden’s sheer speed, the Ripper suddenly gathered several voltages of electricity and unleashed it into 2B’s chest in the form of a one inch punch, knocking her through the still dissipating smoke and against a nearby building.
Suffering a bit of electrical damage and the sensation of severe pain, 2B coughed a bit and sensed the approach of Raiden’s sword, she tried to parry, only for the blade to cut through her longsword like a burning blade through butter. She was going to get her head cleaved in half if she didn’t dodge, and at this range, it might as well be over… if she didn’t have the reflex to grab the handle of the oncoming blade. Raiden seemed to have hoped for this outcome however as he suddenly got close once again, grabbing her arm and standing to the side to follow up with a backhanded punch to the face and stomach. 2B riled her head back, only to get a chop to the neck to knock the wind out of her, making her fall over.
Contempt, Raiden took his sword back, ready to end the scuffle. As he held it up for the killing blow, something struck his hands, knocking the sword back and making it stab the ground next to 2B. The YoRHa unit took this as her chance to stagger back up and throw a kick for Raiden’s leg, knocking him down before jumping back to pick up a downed short sword: the Virtuous Contract, one she must have dropped during her fight with the Goliath. The two stared down, ready for the next round.
A small beat occurred before 2B began to receive a message, Raiden using this as his chance to jump high up.
“2B? This is Operator 6O, we got a confirmation that the Goliath class is down but you didn’t return, is everything okay?”
During this question, 2B lifted her sword, blocking on oncoming attack from above and rolled to the side, Raiden took note and closed the gap, the two in a swordlock once again.
“I’ve encountered someone, possibly a rogue YoRHa unit.” 2B simply replied, as if someone was just ordering food from the menu. The two suddenly pushed back, with Raiden’s ringer going off as well.
“Raiden, the Metal Gear is gone, da? You can return now.”
“I wish, but theres a cyborg here that’s giving me trouble. I’ll be late.” he replied, getting in a kendo stance to swing from above, 2B countered with her own stance, suddenly pushing the blade up and trying to swing for his gut. As Raiden dodged, the YoRHa’s fellow operator kept talking.
“Wait, a rogue YoRHa? But that hasn’t happened in awhile. Describe this unit.”
“What? A cyborg hasn’t been spotted there in awhile, you think they have relations to the Winds or Raven Sword?”
2B and Raiden growled in minor annoyance at their retrospective operator.
“Tall, silver hair, male. Using some red sword that seems to be cutting into mine with ease.”
“No, she doesn’t seem to have any relations, mentioned something about a YoRHa.”
The operators seemed stunned, nobody fitting the current description. With Raiden’s case, a YoRHa wouldn’t be a surprising name for a newly found terrorist cell, but for 2B’s case, rogue androids are also not too surprising, even if they decide to act as if they didn’t know what she was talking about. Before either could continue however, the communications went completely dark, likely communication failure.
Still, it didn’t matter to them as 2B suddenly vanished, unleashing a shockwave to stun Raiden as she hurried to her flight unit, if her sword was taking damage, it’d be a matter of time before shes left vulnerable, and she knew a hand to hand confrontation would be suicide. She had to take to the skies to have a chance. As she locked in, Raiden being quick to notice, the flight unit blasted high into the air, with 2B firing a steady hailstorm of bullets below. Raiden could see them all approaching and quickly activated zandatsu to better time his swings. Each swing of his sword knocking the bullets away or severing them with ease. Not wanting to just stand here, he jumped into the building window first and instantly took to a sprint.
BLAKAKAKAKKAKA!
Bullets ripped through the walls, missing Raiden as he ran into an elevator and slammed his fist onto the roof access and cut through the roof, jumping up as the elevator sped upwards. As it climbed, Wind resistance trying to keep the Ripper from standing, he prepared his sword and as soon as he saw the ceiling, began slicing it to ribbons so he didn’t risk crashing before jumping through. The sheer speed and sudden halt gave Raiden the boost he needed to jump high into the air and come down from above, preparing to attack from above.
As he came down however, he saw 2B flying upwards towards him! Firing at him from the flight unit. The bullets missed him for the most part, some managing to pierce into his body as he gritted his teeth, he knew of this strategy, she was trying to get him to take on the defense so she could ram him through. He took a risky choice doing this, but it gave him the chance to swing his sword, forcing 2B to swerve in an attempt to keep from being cut in two. Luckily for her, she dodged, getting only the paintjob ruined on the flight unit, but Raiden quickly grabbed her foot, throwing her hard against the roof of the banking tower. As 2B crashed violently, Raiden landed with both knees firmly against her sternum, the force making the roof collapse upon itself and bringing the two into the penthouse. Raiden himself stood over the downed YoRHa and swung for her head, again, she managed to deflect his killing blow with her hand, grabbing the sword as it cut into her skin. She was in severe pain now, but she may have just one chance to use this with him so close.
She began to scream in pain, with Raiden unaware if this was because of her molecular bonds being shredded or something else. By the time he understood why, it was too late.
A massive explosion destroyed three floors of the building’s top, leaving smoke to trail upwards as rubble gathered and scattered in all directions. Among the rubble, 2B dragged herself from it, coughing as her dress was completely vaporized, leaving her in a revealing swimsuit like cloth. She was near death at this point, and it felt as if stubbing her toe would be enough to end her life. As she looked around, she saw Raiden lying among the rubble, coughing and forcing the rubble off. He had been in dozens of explosions, escaped some even, yet this one was capable of hurt him quite a good deal. Of course, this could be since a chain reaction had caused some of his grenades to pop as well and make his sword burn through his chest as it flew off the side. Glaring her down, he wasn’t willing to allow her to get away.
“Turn off my pain inhibitors.”
Those five words alerted 2B, with her running and jumping off of the side of the building to try and get to the ground several dozen stories down. Holding her hand out, the pod barely got close in time, allowing her to grab onto it and hover down to the ground. Taking a large recovery restorative object, she stood back up, looking as Raiden jumped before her, completely unharmed as if he took his own healing kit. His grin however… his sanity seemed to be gone. With a dark chuckle, he aimed his blade at her.
“Its time for Jack the Ripper to let her rip!” he announced. 2B looked at her pod, having it fire at Raiden desperately before it was suddenly sliced in two. Raiden then turned his attention to 2B and charged in with hapless abandon, 2B at first seemed outmatched as she was forced to the defensive, jumping and backflipping from each swing in a desperate attempt for survival. As she did, Raiden suddenly changed tactics, slamming the sword with enough force to crack the ground and lift it, launching chunks of it at the YoRHa android. As 2B kicked it away-
SLASH!!
Raiden took his chance, embedding the Muramasa into her abdomen. 2B gasped out… then vanished right before the Ripper’s eyes.
Before Raiden could notice, time itself seemed to slow around him, a sudden swing from 2B’s short sword destroyed his visor with ease, cutting into his other eye. Not even noticing the pain, Raiden tried to bring his sword back, and time resumed… the Ripper was launched into the air, with several dozen afterimages of 2B attacking from almost hundreds of directions at once at blinding speeds. His body being shredded apart, one arm even flying off before 2B appeared from above, kicking her short sword into Raiden’s back with enough force to slam him against the ground. The Ripper couldn’t feel pain, but with one arm missing, and both legs cut open, he’d be lucky to even stand.
The sound of clinking heels alerted him as 2B landed, the YoRHa ripping her sword from his back. Holding the Ripper up by his hair, 2B suddenly swung rapidly, sending the upper half of his torso into the air with the first swing before slicing upwards, separating his shoulder from the remaining torso followed by another which decapitated him. Still, it wasn’t enough. 2B kept swinging, reducing Raiden’s torso and head to a messy pile of gibs and scraps. To end it, she spun and kicked the body away, leaving whatever was left to rot in the open. With the battle over, 2B headed for her flight unit.
“2B? Are you there? We had some interference.” 6O stated, seemingly worried.
“I’m here. The enemy was terminated. Returning to the bunker.” She announced.
2B thought to herself, next time, she needs to bring all of her weapons…
KO
This winner is...
YoRHa 2B
Epilogue
A figure stood over the dirt covered remains of Raiden, chuckling as he studied the battlefield.
“This was adequate. A bit shorter than I hoped, but for what its worth…” the man looked down at the remains, lifting the leg.
“Yes. This will be a worthy step forward. Towards a glorious evolution.”
A dark chuckle emitted from the man as he dragged Raiden’s corpse. A weapon he needed, one to bring Zaun over Piltover once more. As he did, someone stood before him. A strange looking man with an Egyptian-like mask and makeup.
“It would appear that we must rework on our deal, Viktor.” The man stated in a rather foreboding matter. Two scientists in one dangerous location, it was rarely a good sign…
