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Shrapnel peppered off of Athan's armor as he turned his left side towards the Director, keeping his right hand on the hilt of the Destroyer, fingers bordering on a white knuckle grip on the weapon.

If there had been any knuckles, or any white for that matter, on the hand in the first place.

"In two seconds we can increase efficiency by .34 poi-"

"Time's up."

Athan surged forward as though he were shot from a cannon. He didn't know what was going on, he didn't care. This guy was blabbing a little too much for his liking, and let's face it, missiles weren't exactly very high on Athan's tolerance list.

Halfway into his charge he loosed his sword from its bindings in the shadesteel armor. The black sword coupled with the armor matched the decor of the factory pretty well. Athan's face was marked with the intensity that only Athan could show.

Sword in his right hand, Athan took a long step to his right at what could have been the last possible moment, a small explosion rocking his torso, denting the armor there and splashing his face with shrapnel. A number of cuts opened up on his face, but neither of the two seemed to slow him down.

"YAAAAAAAAAH!"

His sword came down to his right hip, left hand moving across his body to secure his grip on the sword, and Athan aimed to skewer the Director straight through his robotic chest.

[9] (After recharging for two posts)

And it was about now that Allen would show back up, sword in hand, black wings furled. And with the robot distracted, and apparently charging a laser, Allen had to do something.

Besides, Athan was a partner right now.

So with the director distracted, Allen would make a simple move. He'd fly right at the robot, and swing his right gauntleted fist right at the Directors face, slamming into the side of it and hopefully knocking the laser blast away before it hit. And keep in mind, this was the upgraded hand. So spikes and all.

"I am tired of these ******** robots!"

The laser missed it's mark, and beleive it or not Allen did a fair amount of damage between the spikes and anima ability of his gauntlet. Athan just so happened to have a powered up anima gauntlet too! It was a goddamn one two anima punch. Being so close Athan could see it's eyes flicker.

Of course there was that MORE POWER cry, and new machines had lined up as well. From the clouds a extremely potent lighting bolt to hit the Director right in the back. Not only would that electrify the Director and whatever was in contact with him, but it was also chain lighting. It would bounce out of the Directors chest and hit Athan with concussive and electrical force, and then bounce to Allen to peg him in the wings with a slightly weaker blast.

Still the Director's suit and body looked kind of toasted, and with it's head damaged it stumbled backwards a few steps before falling in a heap. Of course it was still sparkling... and apparently magnetized. Black cloud and machine fell on the director with surprising speed. Zombie parts, wheels, gears, and smog all began to form a shifting orb around the Director. The sound of mechanical change was in the air.

And then, as expected, the orb exploded outward showering the others with unused parts.

The Director was changed, that was for sure. The suit was gone exposing all it's skeletal robot parts... and so was most of it's right side where Athan had pierced. As were it's legs. The director was now on tank treads rather than legs, still had the missile pod on it's shoulder, it's right arm was replaced by what appeared to be a very very large energy cannon, and while it's left was still an arm it was beefed up... And holding Athan's sword.

"Sullivan, I am not done yet! This factory will finish your commands_" It hissed, "INCREASE PRODUCTION BY 1000%, MORE POWER, THE WORLD WILL BE SWARMED!_"

Xehart travelled a long distance towards the factory in the clouds, and finally he was here. It took him a few seconds to take in the scene, a large robot was fighting with two humans. Humans. That was all that Xehart needed to know, clearly the humans were the ones at fault here, trying to stop whatever was happening in this place.

The being in bone armour looked at the small group, and raised a bone covered arm, and pointed a finger towards the robot.

"Metalloid, we need to talk."

With that, Xehart began to walk towards the crowd, his swords already drawn, although he doubted very much that he would be using them in this fight. Most of his combat would most likely come from his body mage abilities.

As he approached the small group, he began to size up Allen and Athan. If either of them got in the way, Xehart was prepared to attack one or both of them. He couldn't let the metal being be hurt, he needed him.

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Off to the side anyone could see the increased production. Robot zombies were being put together at an alarming rate, but it seemed the orbs used to power them couldn't keep up. For every orb there was at least three skeletal robots for ever orb. Thus one would descend down as normal, unfortunately the other two would free fall.

"Talk? THERE IS WORK TO BE DONE?_" Any calm earlier was gone, "We are falling behind schedule. Dropped at least sixteen points. What will Sullivan think?_"

What came next could only be considered a barrage. Firstly missiles, the last three, one on a course to each of the combatants. Then came that bigass cannon. It would fire slowly, but he was able to get off at least two shots. One at Athan, and one at Allen who seemed to to be scolding him for being two evil. This wouldn't be a heat and force blast. This would be more along the lines of an actual cannon, with quite a bit of explosive force behind it as well.

"MORE POWER_"

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Yeah, missiles. They'd be great, if Allen didn't have his sword charged up. Using the theory behind the blast he'd used earlier, Allen swung his sword, sending the cutting energy blast right at the missile that had been heading towards him. It would blow up a lot closer to the Director than it would to him.

He didn't even know about the cannon when he launched himself into the air, but if the explosion didn't shock the Director enough to delay that it likely would have been avoided just by going into the air anyways. As it was, Allen was already charging another blast in his blade, planning an aeriel strike while Athan took care of him on the ground.

The other guy would be ignored unless an attack came from him.

And...oh s**t, Athan was knocked out of the ring. Ah well. Allen knew how tough Athan was and figured he'd be back.

One missile wouldn't do much as it couldn't follow the jumping dead man, the other would blow up right in the Directors personal space. Minor damage at most, but it did make the large blast list.

"Efficiency rising 13%_" The robot began to calculate, "One less target - 16 additional percentage points - Yes, talks_"

Then a series of strange moves, his arm cocked back right into the air, and then as the more power signal pre-told, a generator floated down behind him and just started pumping energy into the Director's back. Arm would come down at suprising speed and sent the sword FLYING like a buzzsaw towards Allen.

Then tank treads would start up beginning a slow move forward. The generator would float behind, still attached to the generator by a tether of electricity. The cannon arm seemed to start to glow and arc with electricity as it charged. Something was coming.

As Allan dropped to the floor, Xehart was already coming towards him. As soon as Allan landed, Xehart threw his second set of projectiles, both were aimed for his core, one for his heart, and the other for his stomach, unless he was wearing some sort of armour, in which case, Xehart would throw at the most obvious unarmoured zones.

It would only take seconds before Xehart was upon the human (?). As soon as he was close, Xehart began to throw bone cracking blows, ironically with his fists of bone. Two spikes also began to form along his armour, a form of fore-arm spikes. Xehart intended to use these as weapons, they would be formed very quickly, and as soon as they were, Allan was in trouble.

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