Enter The Arena As Your Avatar V6: This Time, It's Personal

The sound of the shotgun blast startles Yellow Kirby awake, and he is immediately slammed into the wall behind him by the concussive force of the bullets, flattening him into a vertical spot. He peels off the wall, unflattens, switches from SLEEP to JET, and rockets across the fast-food place. He stops instantly right in front of his attacker and transfers his propulsion into the Jet Cracker, a chain explosion of blue fire that bursts forth from his hands.

If you're not going to reveal your avatar(s)' ability(s), could you at least give me a name? EDIT: Gonna have to go AFK for a little while.

edited 12th Mar '18 9:30:02 AM by KiriK

Sure thing. She's SPAS-12 from Girls' Frontline. Her wiki page won't reveal much about her abilities, so to keep things short, imagine a Terminator crossed with a Moe Anthropomorphism of a firearm.

Hmmh. Dhidnt qwwyt -gulp- worked, huh.

-The dummy's shell holders sprang into action and forms a shield, blocking the blast from harming her-

-She quickly takes a speedloading clip from the holder and jams it into the loading gate. Racking the fore end, she then braces the unfolded arm-hook◊ and fires a couple of shots at Kirby one-handed, keeping a minimum amount of her body uncovered by the shield.

In case it isn't clear, only the original SPAS-12 can speak. The dummies are mostly mute.

What happened to Testedcomic?

Kirby stretches himself into a thin ovoid and twirls, the bullets narrowly grazing him. Hey! Yellow Kirby thinks. That lady is more than just a little mean if she's controlling this lookalike! She's trying to hurt me after I gave her so much food! He proceeds to grab the dummy's shield, attempting to rip it off and launch it back through the dummy's chest at rocket speed with Jet Blow.

I'm not sure myself.

-The struts that actuates Dummy #1's shield are much stronger than they look. Even with Yellow Kirby's strength, the plates hardly budge. But the Jet Blow actually puts a rather sizable crack on its hardened surface and pushes the dummy back-

-Being at such close proximity, though, the dummy attempts to whack Kirby off her and follow up with another buckshot blast-

SPAS-12, report.

-munch, munch- Oh, M590! Everything's fine. Mostly. I'm engaging some kind of... yellow... puffy... thing. I dunno. But this thing is definitely tougher than it looks!

You... what? Are you eating in the middle of a fight?!

Hey, I can't help it, alright? The food here is really delicious!

Kirby gets blown back once again. He hears the conversation faintly, sort-of rolls his eyes, and does two things. First, he switches to BOMB. Not his favorite, but it should be able to bust through that dang shield with relative ease. Second, he pulls out a Friend Heart, and immediately throws a bomb at the dummy followed by the Friend Heart.

I presume the dummy has little to no free will of her own. Therefore, if the bomb breaks her shield (or if it doesn't, but you think it'd be more interesting anyway), the Friend Heart will successfully turn her to Kirby's side.

ALSO: If it does work, you will still control the dummy, only she'll be teamed up with Kirby.

edited 12th Mar '18 10:32:14 AM by KiriK

-The blast is, again, resisted by the dummy's shield. Though as it prepares to counterattack, the Friend Heart slips past the shield and hits her-

-Congratulations! SPAS-12 DUMMY has joined your party!-

Besides possessing superhuman strength and durability, SPAS-12 also has absolute control of her firearm. This means she can pull off crazy trickshots with ease, but there might be other uses of it. Her kit includes a crowbar, some smoke grenades, reserve ammunition, and rations.

Ah, crap.

What's the matter?

Yeah, the feed cut off all of the sudden. Looks like my dummy got hacked.

Okay. Stay put. I'm going to send backup. Make sure not to-

Nah, I'm just going to hit it with my other dummies. Toodles, 590!

-Cut to two more dummies, helpfully labelled Dummy #2 and Dummy #3, bursting into the room. Both dummies quickly unload their weapons on Kirby. While #3 focuses on saturating the room with more buckshot pellets, #2 takes a careful aim at Kirby instead and fires a taser shell, intending to incapacitate him-

Tactical Dolls like SPAS-12 can only support up to 4 dummies, so she only has one dummy left in reserve.

edited 12th Mar '18 10:49:07 AM by ArmoredFury

Kirby lays a bomb right in front of himself. #2's taser shell hits the bomb and is destroyed in the blast before it reaches him. Unfortunately, both #3's area saturation and Kirby's own bomb blow him away.

Kirby lands face-down on the floor, unmoving, covered in burn marks and soot. He subtly switches to COPY and attempts to scan either one of the dummies or SPAS-12 herself from the floor.

Which Copy Ability should he get from scanning what you effectively called living-gun Terminator? Missile (turn into a self-guided missile), Bomb again, Crash (massively powerful single-use explosion, though not as instantly lethal or environmentally destructive as it was when Pink Kirby used it against the MUTO that one time), or Archer (Japanese name Sniper), which is what I want?

Either Missile or Bomb, I suppose. SPAS and her dummies carry explosives in one form or another after all. I feel that she's too inaccurate for Archer and too weak for Crash.

-While #3 is busy reloading her gun, #2 racks the pump and loads another shell: Dragon's Breath. The shell does not contain pellets. Rather, it shoots out an intense 5-meter long jet of flame capable of inflicting severe burns. This type of shell doesn't have enough recoil to cycle the semi-automatic action, so she is forced to pump the gun manually-

I might have to go for several hours real soon.

Then why don't we try to end this one quickly and peacefully?

Kirby actually doesn't get anything from using Copy. Disappointed, he switches to GHOST and possesses Dummy #1. Through her, he asks SPAS-12, "Why are you fighting me?"

-The original SPAS-12 is now outside the building, leaning against a wall while sipping on a can of soda-

Huh? Who? ...Oh, you must be the yellow puffball, aren't you? I don't know what are you supposed to be, but your tricks are pretty neat!

As for my reasons, that's a confidential information. Let's just say I'm on a some sort of recon mission, alright?

Ghost Kirby is actually visible floating over the dummy's head, but he is intangible. His mouth also moves in tandem with that of the dummy. "I'm not a worthy recon target, I'm just a kid! A kid who likes to eat food and make food! And isn't recon explicitly about not attacking your targets, but making it easier for other people to attack?" Ghost Kirby has appeared in one game as an actual Copy Ability, and in that game he was intangible while possessing an enemy until it was destroyed.

"Would you stop if I kept making food?"

edited 12th Mar '18 11:41:39 AM by KiriK

Oh, I know. It's not exactly that. It's just that I can't describe more without disobeying my orders.

That's awfully nice of you, but giving back my dummy is enough. I've got all the stuff I needed, so there's little reason for me to keep fighting.

edited 12th Mar '18 11:50:04 AM by ArmoredFury

"Well, fine. Just... stop fighting me, please." Kirby releases possession of the dummy (note, in the game Ghost is from, this would instantly destroy her, but I'm really trying to end this peacefully), drops GHOST for YO-YO, and squeezes a blue orb out of his body.

The orb touches the dummy, and the green recolor that had manifested when the Friend Heart hit her disappears (again, would've destroyed her if this was a Kirby game).

SPAS-12's link with Dummy #1 has been reestablished, though there is now a permanent icon in the very corner of #1's vision - an amorphous shape cycling between a heart, a star, and a Kirby without an ability. The dummy has obtained information on all of the Copy Abilities and Kirby's ability to produce Helpers.

...Aaaand she's back. I really appreciate it. These dummies are replaceable, but that doesn't mean they're cheap to build!

You know what, I hoped I've got something to repay you with, but I guess that'll have to wait until we meet again. Bye for now, puffball~

-And with that, SPAS dissapears into the alleys along with her dummies-

I wish I could have stayed here longer, but thanks for the fight nevertheless.

You're welcome. It was fun fighting with you, and now I'm much more confident about future Arena fights. The point of giving Dummy #1 that information is so that SPAS won't have completely forgotten Kirby should they meet again, assuming you would like her to remember.

Kirby switches to ESP and goes back in, repairing the damage done to the restaurant by the fight. Once that's done, he calls in his Warp Star and flies all the way back from wherever this was to Planet Popstar. It'll be a good long nap before he's going back to work again...

Anyone up for a fight?

edited 12th Mar '18 12:54:31 PM by DefRevenge24601

Wanna throw down with Yellow Kirby for his second Arena battle? If yes, may I choose the scene?

Sure and Sure.

Alright!

Scene: Dream Land, Planet Popstar, not long after Yellow Kirby's fight with SPAS-12. Yellow Kirby has finished resting and is about to call a Warp Star back to his job. This is where your avatar shows up.

edited 12th Mar '18 2:11:29 PM by KiriK

A few baseballs, radiating different colors, fly past Yellow Kirby, where a few other ones are circling around. And within them spawns the Harbinger of Winter.

"Man, I don't even get a break before I play with another imbecile? Well then. Shall it be a game of ball, or a game of death?"

A ball puts itself in Christopher's open palm.

Repeatedly hearing the word "Ball", Kirby does the only sensible thing. He transforms into BALL Kirby.

Shit I'm so dead

Ball Kirby becomes a ball (duh) and springs towards Christopher Robin, unsure whether to attack or simply remain on guard.

edited 12th Mar '18 4:23:21 PM by KiriK

"So, it's a fight you want, huh?"

Christopher simply steps to the side, a few more balls coming through. A green one attacked the Kirby head-on, stopping both in their tracks, as the other balls attempted to flank them.

edited 12th Mar '18 5:22:57 PM by DefRevenge24601

Kirby switches to FIGHTER and uppercuts his way out of the ball attack, then follows with a divekick to the ground. He lands close to Christopher Robin and takes a guarding stance.

The balls swarm around the Kirby, flying around and zigzagging at different angles, trying to get a hit in.

"Foolish Puffball. Try and try, yet you still can't even touch me. So, pray to whatever god you believe in, and despair in the revelation: There is no God. ONLY ME."

edited 12th Mar '18 5:58:06 PM by DefRevenge24601