Flesh Verses Steel! Jorlaxl Verses Endive!

[Jorlaxl]

After a little while of flying, Jorlaxl finally found a suiting place to battle: an abandoned junkyard. Satisfied, he landed on the ground, in the middle of the antiquated detritus, and bowed low towards Endive, after she landed. He was ready for a real match, one where he will finally prove himself.

"Okay, Endive. This is where I've chosen to be your final resting place. I'm expecting you to pull no punches, alright? Give your all. And trust me, I'll do the same." Jorlaxl believed firmly in a fair fight. Although he could tell he was slightly more powerful than the saiyan-android, there could be something about her that he doesn't know yet.

Taking a deep breath, Jorlaxl spread his legs apart evenly, and planted them firmly in the ground. Placing both arms in front of him, he assumed a defensive stance. He was a defensive fighter, and only was aggressive when the situation called for it. He preferred to let the opponent go first, so he could react.

"I'm willing to give you a warrior's death, and I expect you to do the same. Ladies first, now." Grinning, he awaited Endive's move.

[endive]

Endive rolled her eyes at Jorlaxl's choice of scenery this was one of the planets larger scrapyards and she could only imagine that he'd chosen it because of what they were even if he was evidently not exactly mechanical in nature, it really was rather fitting that one of them would likely not be leaving this place and would be left amongst the broken remains of space pods and whatever other junk that was tossed out here.

The scrapyard would further serve as an interesting battleground simply because all the junk that littered it could easily be used to either warriors advantage, Endive was already scanning the area for anything that could serve an immediate use, she noted a few steel beams that were tough enough looking to serve as good weapons while still being relatively reasonable in size for them to not be too unwieldy.

"Oh you can trust that I will not hold back, unless ordered to I never do." Endive said ignoring the mans comment about this being her 'final resting place' Endive watched curiously as the man took up a defensive stance and then suggested that she make the first attack, Endive rolled her eye and with a sigh took her helmet off of her belt and slipped it on. Once the helmet was on Endive charged a few quick energy blasts and launched them at Jorlaxl without moving an inch.

She preferred to get a read on her opponent's preferred style before just rushing into the thick of battle, whatever information she could gather now would help later on considering Jorlaxl was already reading at a level slightly higher than her own, nothing that would effectively guarantee the man victory but still a definite edge that Endive wanted to balance out by finding out some sort of weakness.

[Jorlaxl]

Jorlaxl could feel his skin crawl before the battle even began. He had an obvious advantage, but now was not the time to be complacent. Those were the kind of mistake got people killed. Endive seemed to approve of the ironic battlefield, and it seemed that they were ready to get down to business. Seemingly carelessly, Endive shot a few ki blasts his way. How quaint.

Smiling in spite of himself, Jorlaxl opened up his hand, pointed his fingers outward, and proceeded to shoot magical missiles towards Endive. Not just at her, but also around her, so if she tried to escape, the resulting explosions would catch her in the blast radius. With his other hand, he shot a few at the ki blasts, meeting them head on, causing them both to explode.

It's obvious that she was testing him. Jorlaxl would do the same. It's only fair, afterall.

[endive]

Endive watched with interest as Jorlaxl held out his hands and launched what her eye detected to be tiny rockets from his finertips, there were a fair number of them as he'd managed to use them to not only stop her attack but also sent a number of them at Endive herself, her eye noted that several of the rockets seemed to be targeted to the general area around her, likely an attempt to ensure that she would be hit by some of them. Frowning slightly benearth her mask Endive launched another volley of energy blasts specifically aiming them for the rockets that were aimed at her.

Endives blasts collided with the rockets and thankfully the tiny explosives did just as they were likely designed to do. Explode. As Endive smirked to herself her eye indicated that two of the rockets had not followed the trajectory that she had expected and thus her blasts had missed them by mere inches, the blasts themselves would likely fly in Jorlaxl's general direction though Endive had put reletively little energy behind them and thus even if they hit they would be be without much effect unless Jorlaxl was susceptible to the burns that they could cause.

Endive quickly brought her arms up to defend herself as the rockets approached and just as she did to the rockets made contact with her armored forearms detonating and causing her to take a step back as the tiny rockets had a surprising amount of force behind them. As the dust cleared from the explosions Endive brought her arms back down and began charging energy, her first test had shown that Jorlaxl had a rather interesting means of defending against multiple weak energy attacks, now she would see how he would do against one significantly more powerful blast.

Charging up her energy Endive's palms began to glow with power after a few more moments of charging Endive would unleash the blast at Jorlaxl, the blast she would unleash would be akin to that of the more common major energy blasts such as the 'Galic Gun' of Planet Vegeta however as Endive had not trained herself in how to do such techniques the result was just a regular energy wave however as her opponent knew little of her capability's she was banking on the possibility that he would assume the technique to be stronger than it would be.

[Jorlaxl]

Jorlaxl smiled in spite of himself as his missiles did their job well. He was protected from the ki blasts, and it seemed that some of them made their way to Endive, exploding. However, the android seemed to skillfully evade the missiles in the same way he had evaded her ki blasts.

Very clever, Endive. You are a most interesting opponent... And so very precise. That's very good. Very good indeed... Jorlaxl had that much time to think, but then she proceeded to attack again. Cupping her hands, she began charging up a beam of energy, aimed straight at him. I guess it was his day to stay defensive and counterattack.

No matter, he thought to himself, as he flew up in the air. I prefer this style of counter attacking anyway. Approximately 30 feet in the air, Jorlaxl looked around, and saw that he was right in the middle of the giant junkyard, a most impressive and large landfill of Vegeta's broken machinery.

The wave of energy was about to fire, and Jorlaxl had to think quick. The blast looked powerful, but not nearly strong enough to hurt him too badly. The power reading that 2B was reading in his head told him to watch out, but if he were to get hit, it wouldn't be detrimental. He thought about using his cloning technique, but he figured he'd save it for a rainy day.

Content, Jorlaxl flew around in a wide circle around Endive, weaving in and out amongst the trash piles jutting out of the land. Perhaps she wouldn't see him and lose track of him. However, as he was flying around, making himself a difficult target, he also started shooting magic missiles out of his fingertips towards her, so she would not be able to stay at her current position for long when they approached her.

[endive]

Endive smirked ever so slightly beneath her mask as Jorlaxl took to the air to avoid her attack reasulting in the blast hitting one of the many piles of scrap causing a far more destructive explosion than the blast would have normally produced than if it had just hit a person as shrapnel was sent flying everywhere. Several pieces of metal clinked off of Endive's armor and mroe than likely Jorlaxl was able to evade any of the potentially harmful pieces through sheer speed and the fact that he'd already been moving away.

Endive almsot chuckled as Jorlaxl began flying around the scrap yard weaving in between the junk piles in a very obvious attempt to confuse and disorient Endive, were this a battle with a normal warrior such a tactic would likely be very useful as to most an android would be undetectable. However Endive had several advantages over a 'normal' warrior. Firstly was her left 'eye' which was at its core basics a highly advanced scouter, one of the few devices capable of reading an androids power level, secondly was her eyes ability to lock in on a target in order to study it for more information which in this case meant that so long as she could still sense Jorlaxl it would be nearly impossible for her to lose him.

However. Considering her opponent was unaware that his tactics were mostly useless against her Endive decided that perhaps it might be a good idea to use that to her advantage. She quickly began searching the area trying to 'find' Jorlaxl' as he zipped around, once her opponent began shooting more missiles Endive would take a few moments before responding making sure to have it simply appear to be that she was more busy trying to find Jorlaxl. Endive would fire off blasts of basic ki blasts to destroy the incoming missiles but even still she noted that since she had to slow her reactions to Jorlaxl's attacks he was able to fire off enough missiles that they were beginning to get too close for comfort.

Once the missiles got to that point Endive decided to try and set a trap for Jorlaxl, she clenched her fists and launched herself into the air trying to give off the impression that she'd simply had enough of trying to find Jorlaxl and shot off for the scarp heap that Jorlaxl had last been at making sure to keep note of where her opponent really was. Once she was hidden by the scarp heap Endive would lie in wait for Jorlaxl to try and make a move of his own, once he came within line of sight Endive would rush him with all the speed she could muster and attack him with a few quick jabs followed up by a swift knee to the groin in an effort to find out if that particular area was still a weak point.

[Jorlaxl]

Averting his eyes, Jorlaxl grinned as the blast Endive was aiming at him for missed it's mark. The junk pile exploded, causing little chunks of miscellaneous metal to fly into the sky. Jorlaxl needed to look for a moment to find his opponent, and when he did, he noticed that his ploy was working expertly. She had no idea where he was! She was managing to destroy some of his magic missiles, though. That was a slight problem. Well, no matter. There were plenty more where that came from. Now, all he had to do was sneak up on her...

She was looking around, obviously completely unaware of where he was. Flying into the air with a blast, she went over to a junk pile Jorlaxl was previously at, and started searching for him. Jorlaxl found this game of hide and seek hilarious, in a morbid kind of way. Because both opponents know what'll happen as soon as they find each other...

Endive approached the junk pile, and immediately was lost in the resulting junk pile that was piled high to the sky. Curious, Jorlaxl slowed down, and cautiously descended onto the ground. Now's the best time to sneak up on her. But just to cause further distraction... Thinking quickly and smiling to himself, Jorlaxl used his mirror image technique to make 2 clones of himself! While not completely real, they are exact duplicates of the real thing, and will more than likely fool Endive.

"Let's see how Endive responds to this."

"Let's see how Endive responds to this."

"Let's see how Endive responds to this."

All three of the Jorlaxl's said in unison. Walking underneath a particularly long piece of junk, Jorlaxl found Endive, just as she struck. Running at him with a supernatural speed, Endive rushed at one of the clones, and jabbed him a few times. Taking the hits, the Jorlaxl clone tried to counterattack, just as Endive attacked with a knee to the groin. Taking a step back, obviously hurt, Jorlaxl gasped in pain.

Endive looked up, and saw the other Jorlaxl clone and the real one just a minute too late. The other two Jorlaxl's ran at Endive. The clone was punching and jabbing at her rather stylishly in an attempt to distract her, while the real run ran to her with a big punch to the face, following with a swift sweep to the legs.

[endive]

Endive had been mildly confused when Jorlaxl's power signature seemed to sort of replicate itself and split off into three separate directions, at first Endive simply discounted this as perhaps some sort of error as two of the signtures had remained stationary while the third made it's way towards her, she managed to land several blows on it and even interrupted it's counter with her knee and with a grin Endiver noted that Jorlaxl DID seem to retain that weakness. However then noted of the energy signatures seemed to be moving causing Endive to raise an eyebrow.

Once the signatures were within visual range Endive was further confused tby the fact that they were actually just two more Jorlaxl's. She knew of a number of 'clone' techniques however they usually required the used to splice there power between the clones something that had not happened for Jorlaxl's copies. Endive raised her arms in defense as one of the three came at her, the clone's strikes were for the most part blocked by Endive's arms which had it been the real Jorlaxl would have only soaked up some of the damage however Endive noted that this Jorlaxl didn't actually DO anything when he landed a hit.

Endive smirked to herself beneath her mask as she believed she had figured out the trick to Jorlaxl's technique. These 'extra' Jorlaxl's were truly just fakes, though considering it WAS making contact with her and seemed to radiate a power they likely would be able to be hit which meant that the only Jorlaxl she could confirm as a fake was this one. With that Endive had her augmented eye make a note that this Jorlaxl was a fake having it's power reading come up as a different color than the other two.

As Endive was busy with the false Jorlaxl yet another made an attack on her, Endive had tried to pull her arms up further to protect her fact as this one swooped in however Jorlaxl was far to quick and landed a hard punch on her mask, luckily the metal held up very well against the fist though Endive could feel blood dunning down the side of her face from the impact of the blow. This also however confirmed at least as far as Endive was away that THIS was the true Jorlaxl to which Endive changed the color for this Jorlaxl to a new color and made a note that he was the 'true' one.

As she did so Jorlaxl made an attempt to sweep Endives legs out from her, the sweep connected for the most part however Endive simply engaged her flight and righted herself with a flip in mid fall. Endive would then raise her hands aiming her palms at the true Jorlaxl and unleash a wave of fire at him smirking as Jorlaxl was now within her preferred range, melee. While most saiyan's preferred a mixed style or pure 'ranged ki' style of fighting Endive generally liked to stick to a brawl, with her mechanical augmentations her hits generally did a bit more than a normal persons and her Flamethrower was a incredibly dangerous technique at point-blank range, such as now.

[Jorlaxl]

Grinning to himself as Endive fell into his trap, Jorlaxl proceeded to punch at her face, and was suddenly regretting the decision. Forgetting that Endive was made of metal, the punch landed squarely on her face. However, blood started flowing from underneath the seemingly impenetrable mask. He also felt a surge of pain in his knuckles, and made a mental note to himself to not go for direct attacks like that. However, it seemed Endive liked being up close and personal. He wouldn't have much of a choice.

When Jorlaxl swept at her legs, Endive fell, but only to a certain extent. Correcting herself with her ability of flight in the middle of her fall, Endive spread her palms at Jorlaxl and started to shoot fire out of them. This was most unexpected, and Jorlaxl genuinely wasn't ready for such a maneuver. The flames rapidly approaching, Jorlaxl did the only thing he could think of, and that fly.

Both of his copies following him, Jorlaxl blasted off into the sky, well out of the short range of Endive's flamethrower. However, he noticed that she was aiming at the real Jorlaxl, and none of the fake copies he produced. Was that a mere coincidence? Or was this something... more?

Cursing himself for his foolishness, Jorlaxl realized that he was being duped, again. Endive was part android and was obviously scanning the copies, trying to figure out which was the true one. Very clever, Endive. It's a shame I have to kill you. You would have made a very valuable ally... In the air, Jorlaxl stood there, aiming at Endive carefully.

All three of his copies in perfect tandem, they started shooting magic missiles at Endive. Glowing and sparkling in the harsh Vegetan sun, they sped out of the 6 hands at towards Endive, spinning and weaving through each other. Would Endive be able to figure out which ones were illusions?

[endive]

Endive smirked as her attack caused Jorlaxl to retreat to the sky with his clones, while she would have refereed to have landed the hit she was fine with gaining the knowledge that Jorlaxl legitimately feared her attack to avoid it entirely. It meant he knew or at least assumed that the attack was strong enough to cause him more damage than staying through it would be worth. Luckily for Jorlaxl that he'd chosen to do so as unless she wouldn't have actually stopped her flamethrower had he stayed within range.

Endive scowled however as all three Jorlaxls began firing missiles, were they not so close together it would have been simple for her eye to track and mark all of the missiles being fired by the true jorlaxl especially since she knew which one was the real one. HOWEVER despite the advanced technology involved in her eye it was still far to momentous of a task to try and sort each missile out and even if she could it would take far too long and leave her with little time to properly defend against them. And so Endive simply had to make do with launching a quick barrage of basic ki bblasts at the few she could immedietly mark before blasting off toward another junk pile, once there endive aimed her palms at it and let loose a torrent of fire, unlike before she pulled the flames in close but amped up the heat significantly.

While at first this would seem to be a pointless action Endive quickly began melting and destroying much of the metal junk until finally there was a small enough area for her enter, once inside her makeshift slag-fort Endive would begin rapidly firing upon Jorlaxl's missiles, her makeshift for would provide the missiles with far less area to come at her from thus making it easier for her to defend herself while either waiting for Jorlaxl to change tactic or until she came up with another plan.

[Jorlaxl]

The missiles were working better than Jorlaxl had hoped. Not only did they cause her to retreat, they also made her seek refuge in the pile of junk that would become her grave! This was all too perfect. Jorlaxl was practically giddy with excitement. He was actually winning! He has fought some strong warriors: Xanden, Caius, and his new master, Suki. He didn't win any of the three times, and this was going to be different. He was sure of it. He would win, no matter the cost.

Seeing a lull in the action, Endive quickly and strategically melted some junk and made a makeshift fort out of it. Running inside, she quickly began ki blasting his missiles out of the sky. She was quickly picking up his technique, and he'd be forced to change tactics, and quickly. Landing out of the air, he and his clones walked slowly towards the slag fort Endive created. Noticing quickly that the metal melded together in most places, Jorlaxl couldn't help but grin to himself.

She unintentionally signed her own death warrant... Jorlaxl grinned to himself, and smiled. She was definitely a Johnny fighter. She liked to win with style. Nothing brutal or outlandish, but artfully. To him, it seemed that she liked to win with flair. The flamethrower seemed to be a nice indicator of that.

"Endive... Where are you? Come out, come out wherever you are," A Jorlaxl clone purred. They were all getting close to the entrance to the fort, now.

"We don't want you to get lost in this Junk pile of yours... It would be most unfortunate," another snarled. They were closer, oh so close.

"Afterall, you want a warriors end, right? You don't want to be remembered as a coward," The last intoned, flashing a smile. They were at the door now, and they could see her.

All the Jorlaxl's smiled. Endive was trapped in the junk coffin she made. Raising their arms, the Jorlaxl's shot ki missiles, getting closer and closer to Endive. When they were within 8 feet of her, they all rushed her at the same time. One clone started jabbing her torso, the other went for a giant bear hug, obstructing her vision. The last (and real) Jorlaxl charged at her, with a giant punch aimed right at her face. Steeling himself, he readied his hand as he ran. That mask was tough, and he wouldn't be surprised again.

[Deleted]

The planet suddenly began to shake, the ground trembling and likely cracking even further. The shaking was heavy enough that those standing on the ground would likely lose balance. Off in the distance a large pillar of purple and black Ki could be felt by all in the area. The power emitted was well over 200,000, and could be felt by all in the area.


(In your next post feel free to respond to this phenomena)

[endive]

Endive ignored Jorlaxl's verbal attempts to rattle her, shed heard far worse from the civilian population of Vegeta and if her own people's words hadn't been enough to cut her down she wasn't about to let an enemy do so. Even if she disliked the tactic she was using she knew it was the better tactic the one that would help her win the battle rather than blindly charging into the fray like so many new recruits liked to do. Endive frowend as Jorlaxl's missile assault came to an end and she noted that he and his clones were close... very close.. As the first one came in at her Endive immedietly switched up tactics choosing to point her palms at the clone and unleash a torrent of fire from both palms, once the second clone tried to make it's way in she simply adjusted her arm spreading the fire from a single point into a arc of flame.

Jorlaxl would have to choose, if he truly wished to commit to his attack he would have to actively bathe himself and his clones in fire and even with the diffrence in power Endive was certain that even Jorlaxl could not stand up to the intense flames for long, espceially since the flames were within such close quarters, her slag hut provided more than just protectionf rom the missiles, with her flamethrower it ensured that she would not be the first to suffer major injury as even at top speed moving through the flames would garner significant damage. And once in close quarters Endive could do FAR worse with her flamethrowers.

As Endive's flames bathed the entrance to the hut she felt the hairs on the abck of her neck stand on end and then suddenly her left eye began going nuts as someone was very suddenly becoming incredibly powerful. From her eye's readings it was the power signature of Touketsuki that was increasing with such speed and with a few quick comparisons Endive placed the tyrants new power in the two hundred thousand range, a level of power that almost made her begin to wonder if her eye had finally started to show exactly why it was a prototype. Endive could only hope that Rensou had something up his sleeve.

[OOC: sorry this took so long >_<, I choose not to actually respond to youra ttacks due to Endives method of 'defending' as I didn't want to jsut assume that you'd charge blindly into Endive's fire xD! As well I believe there was a bit of miscommunication on the size of the 'hut' it's really only large enough for one or two people to 'comfortably' be inside(I.E. fight in tight quarters) so I don't quite know if you intended to actually have all 3 Jorlaxls AND Endive inside it at the same time. Though I suppose that the one bear hugging wouldent really count towards the number of people inside as it'd jsut be like one larger person ! But yeah if you DO want me to post a reaction to you simply going on with the attack as per how you wrote it even with the fire I shall edit it in.]

[Jorlaxl]

((It's completely fine with me dude. Thanks for not making Jorlaxl a piece of toast xD))

Jorlaxl scolded himself for his stupidity and farsightedness. Fool! Of course Endive would use her flamethrower again! It only made sense. Making a mental note to himself, he resolved to either find a way to solve the flamethrower problem, or avoid them all together. The easiest solution would be to continue shooting missiles at a distance. He decided that would be his best choice. Making the two clones dissipate, he backflipped out of range of the flamethrower, and landed on his feet, outside of the small shack that Endive created.

It was then that Jorlaxl felt the power of his Lord come into fruition.

He felt the power increase dramatically. Looking north to the battlefield where Suki was fighting, he felt the ground shake underneath his feet, and quickly tried to collect himself and gain his balance again. Was all of this Suki's power? Or was this an attack as well? Damn it, Suki's going to win! He saw the column of black and purple ki, and that was when he realized that Suki was the sure victor. The WTO had won this round. It didn't matter what happened between Gurin and his opponent, or what happened between Aice, Caius, and their enemy.

But most importantly, it meant that it doesn't matter what happens between Jorlaxl and Endive.

Within the next few seconds, Jorlaxl pondered his situation. He didn't need to kill Endive. It would just be a waste of life. Besides, Jorlaxl had a distinct advantage right now.

"Endive!" Jorlaxl yelled into the shack. Surely you felt that power. The earth shaking, the very air becoming charged with Suki's power? Listen, your leader is dead. There's no doubt about it in my mind. I don't mean this in a pretentious way, either. It's just fact." Jorlaxl needed to word what he was going to say carefully.

Still outside of Endive's fortress, he said, "You need not die this day. I am willing to allow you to live, but you must flee. However, I want you to get stronger. When next we visit, I want another fair fight. You're a great fighter, and I respect that."

Jorlaxl paused, hoping he was coming through to the android. He didn't want to kill her without the need to.

"If either of us die, it wouldn't matter, anyway. My leader is the victor, and as of now, my life as well as yours are simply statistic. If you decide to fight to the death, I will honor your decision."

His case made, Jorlaxl waited, levitating slightly off the ground. He needed to be ready, no matter what Endive decided.

[endive]

Endive smirked as Jorlaxl retreated away from the entrance to the scrap heap, her 'plan' was working out just as she needed it to now she just needed to figure out how to turn her powerful defense into a means of victory. Then she felt it again, another surge of power her left eye started going nuts as it was still recovering from Touketsuki's first power up but not it seemed that Rensou was the one powering up, Endive smirked to herself as her battle with jorlaxl seemed to come to a halt as the both of them felt there respective leaders growing in power.

Then all to suddenly Rensou's power spiked reacing a level that actually caused her eye to activate its first level of safety protocols in order to not suddenly explode... and then it was gone, Touketsuki's was similarly weakened but it was still there as opposed to Rensou's which had flickered out of existence causing Endive's blood to run cold. Rensou had failed to defeat the tyrant. They had won. She was almost glad she'd not made an effort to seek Rensou out after there battle, becoming friendly with the man would have only worsened the blow of his death.

Endive had been all but ready to just give it up when Jorlaxl began speaking again, he was asking her to surrender he was "allowing her to live" and it was those words that snapped Endive out of her momentary slip into depression. She wouldn't allow him to speak to her like that, he was acting as if he had been the one to deliver the winning blow on Rensou. Beneath her mask Endive's gritted her teeth as she seethed over Jorlaxl's words.

Part of her knew that he was likely quite genuine in his offer and was not actually looking goad her on, that same part also felt it a good idea to end the fight to live to fight another day. HOWEVER that part of Endive was easily overshadowed by her rage and her pride. "I will never surrender to you or the beast you call a master." Endive snarled before exploding out of the scrap heap rocketing at Jorlaxl like a missile, once she closed the distance between them Endive would unleash a furious barrage of strikes aimed at the man's face, chest, and groin.