Battle Royale: Mercs and Juggs duel (02-04-2403)

Mavrick, Val and R.O.M assembled in a more remote area of Swartzvald away from Fortd David in preparation for their three round duel. Mavrick wanted the battle to go down in the Training Room but due to the nature of Val’s form it was suggested that they duel elsewhere.

As the battle started Val activated his Smouldering and disappeared from sight. R.O.M also vanished leaving Mavrick to attempt to track them both to no avail, so he activated his defensive abilities in preparation for an attack. Val spread over the battlefield undetected and activated his Incendiary causing napalm to rain down on the area. At this point Mavrick looked up to see the Juggerknot as he sailed through the air to land in the middle of the napalm rain.

“Well….more learnage….jus what da doctor ordered.” Juggerknot stated as he looked around.

“More vict... I mean more opponents...” Mavrick began with a smirk.

Just then the area violently exploded as Val activated his Full Burn. Juggerknot ran through the chain of explosions towards Mavrick as he attempted to shift the blasts around him as well as decrease their effects within his area of influence. However due to the extreme saturation of active energy in the area Mavrick did not sense the massive channeler’s approach but would feel himself being pulled against his will. Due to being fully engaged in dealing with Val’s explosions and draining shadows from his Lightsworn, Mavrick could only sigh before being grabbed by the throat by the Juggerknot and slammed into the ground.  A small crater would result as a still morphed Val unleashed a series of attacks targeting a stunned Mavrick specifically.

Two Splices would then fully materialise within the fiery doom to explode and further add to the doomage. Juggerknot was unmoved by the powerful blasts and Learnn allowed him to absorb a great deal of the energy as he picked up Mavrick by his leg and slammed into the ground again.

Val then deactivated his techniques and returned to his usual form followed by R.O.M. decloaking. Juggerknot was about to finish off Mavrick when his fellow Mercs intervened to let Derick know they were not fighting to reversion and this was only the first round.

“Oh cha, look how you wudda learn when you woke up in three days. Juggerknot stated as he deactivated his abilities, signalling a premature end to the first round.

“Ok, ok you guys did alright. Not bad at all I must say.” Mavrick started, acting like he did not just barely escape 5 days reversion.

The group would be healed by Mavrick’s subordinate Seraph and the rules were explained to the Juggerknot.

“Now to get serious.” Mavrick stated as round 2 was about to begin.

Val repeated his previous tactic, vanishing and spreading his volatile energies across the battlefield only this time activating his Omega Drive. R.O.M. would also repeat the same stealth tactic leaving Juggerknot and Mavrick looking at each other.

“Don’t even think about it.” Mavrick remarked as he powered up into his Ashura form and utilised his Power Saver while Juggerknot activated his Learnn again. Val, R.O.M. and Juggerknot would find their channeling abilities significantly compromised as Mavrick’s Faith and Power Saver boosted his abilities greatly. Juggerknot stormed through Mavrick’s extremely chaotic energies albeit taking a great damage in the process. A likewise greatly damage Val was forced to abandon his morphs as they seemed to make him more susceptible to Sealed Beast Ashura. Mavrick would focus on keeping Juggerknot back while also engulfing Val in a destabilising field of energy, whose Genesis Broken statistics would save him from an untimely reversion.

Multi-spliced and continuously regenerating R.O.Ms then grabbed Juggerknot, Mavrick and Val and detonated. In the wake of the explosions a new set of ROMs would appear to engage the trio. The three Deviant splices that were attacking Mavrick each simultaneously activated their Spawn Host ability which caused three pairs of arms to extend from Mavrick’s form doing considerable damage in the process. Four arms would grab Mavrick’s own and restrain them while the other two arms caused him to trip. The Stigma of the three ROMs would then cause Mavrick’s form to malfunction before he soft reverted. Val and the ROMs would proceed to blow each other up until the Shifter reached 10% health and would be forced to bow out.

As usual Juggerknot would be the last man standing, his Perfect Guard prolonging the battle even more. The massive channeler would grow tired of this exchange and activated Back Up which greatly disoriented the current batch of ROMS. Juggerknot then focused his Soul Brekkah on detecting the remaining ROM who was stealthed some distance away. Derick could not pin point his exact location but did discern the Deviant was still in the area. Noting that Juggerknot was at about 40% health ROM decided to Splice en masse leaving just enough stamina to ensure that he did not soft revert. What followed was the systematic detonation of each ROM, exhausting the Errant’s Perfect Guard and finally bring him down to 10% health, thus ending the second round.

After more healing the third and final round would begin. Unfortunately for Mavrick, the effects of ROM’s Stigma ensured he would not be able to heal anytime soon, far less power up.

Val commenced the final round with a Full Burn fuelled explosion. ROM quickly dashed out of the area aided by his Hardpoint Thrusters while Juggerknot jumped high above the chain reaction of explosions before pummelling back down with his Back Up activated, immediately knocking Val out of his morph and stunning him. The huge hand of the massive Errant clasped around Val’s head as he lifted him and proceeded to pummel his abdomen with Concussive Wave boosted punches. The Deviant then decloaked and activated copies of Mavrick’s Chaos Break and Denial Zone and got in the last blow to Val’s back before he reached his health limit. ROM would then activate copies of Juggerknot’s three modifiers and decided to duke it out hand to hand with the Errant before Juggerknot was forced to announce an end to the round.

“Dat healing ting of yours is pretty handy yuh. I feel I gots to get some of dat.” Juggerknot remarked to ROM who was well on his way to being restored to full health courtesy of his own abilities.

ROM: 360 Exp (fully healed)

Mavrick: 340 Exp (-2116hp)

Val: Exp 360 (-1900hp)

Juggerknot: 360 Exp (-3060hp)

Seraph: 520 Exp (soft reverted 5 days)