Testing One's Luck (Anyone)

It had been one month since Dilnos had his last battle, and he was recovering nicely. He had the local blacksmith repair the Gravity Gauntlets back to normal, he had trained with Ardnal for a bit, and he had Gadget talking to him in between her works.

Now was one of those moments.

"Look, Dilnos," Gadget said as politely as she could, "I'm a bit busy right now,"

Dilnos looked over her shoulders, curious as to what she was "busy" with. They were both at a wooden desk next to the porting device he had used to get to his last battle. On the desk was some sort of blueprints for a new tool. The plans looked like a portable fan when he saw the last step.

“A fan?” Dilnos asked.

“Yes, a fan,”

“You know, they already invented those,”

“I know, but I’m not going to buy one for a hundred dollars,”

“Okay…”

“Look, why don’t you go through the porting device? You need to get out and do more battles,”

“How? The Recall Bracelet were destroyed when I came back, remember?”

The Recall Bracelet was a sort of bracelets that ultimately saved Dilnos after his last battle. It did what its name says: it recalls the person wearing it back through the mother portal, which was located inside the very place they were in right now.

“Oh… those. I fixed them about a month ago, didn’t you remember?” She asked.

“Not really. I was busy training with Ardnal,”

“I hung them on the side of the device. Grab them, push the button next to them, and step through the portal,”

“Which button?”

“You’ll see it. It’s green,”

“Okay, thanks,”

He turned and walked to his left for a bit. Then he looked for the Recall Bracelet. He found it on a nail protruding out of the structure. He grabbed it, put it on his right wrist, and looked for a green button. He found it right underneath the nail.

Gadget, sometimes I don’t know you… he thought as he pressed it. The portal appeared. It was green with a touch of white in the middle.

“I’ll be back,” he said. He checked himself. He had the Recall Bracelet, the Magnif, and the repaired Gravity Gauntlets on him, so he stepped through the portal.

He felt a slight jerk, something that had a huge consequence later on as he landed.

He fell flat on his face.

“Ow,” he said as he got out. He was currently standing in the middle of somewhere high. He looked ahead. In front of him, he saw a rather huge mountain out in the distance. Behind him was a solid wall of rocks. Fearing the worst, he walked over to an edge and looked down. He saw a deep gorge that stretched down for a good who-knows-what distance before it went all black.

“Whoa,” he said. He didn’t expect to see an abyss.

Okay, get a grip, Dilnos… he thought frantically, Your opponent should be here in a minute…

Or two…

He decided to back away from the edge and sat down against the wall, trying to make sense of what was going on. He remembered that he in a forest last time, but why wasn’t he there now? Still, either he’s in his opponent’s world, or the portal will bring him here.

Emperor Maximilian Saurus was jetting across the sky in his makeshift rocketship for quite some time; eager to chart these unexplored wildlands to see if there were any valuable resources that he could use in his quest to reclaim the Earth, his eyes focused on the ship's radar screen with diligence. That is, until another spacecraft immediately caught up to him, ramming in to the side of his ship.

"Damn, they sure are persistent..." Saurus silently said to himself, as he saw the miniature flying saucer to the side of his ship begin to zap laser beams at his own ship. "I'm going to have to lose this imbecile fast; otherwise, I'll be shot down." Saurus once again said, as he pressed a small red button on his control panel. After he pressed it, his own ship released a minor pulse of energy; one that was strong enough to disorientate the other ship for a few moments.

The pulse gave Saurus the time to gain some distance between himself and the enemy ship as it stabilized itself. Noting that it was futile to try escaping, Saurus turned his own ship to face the enemy ship, which was now preparing to charge. Immediately, Saurus planned out his next action, and began to charge at the enemy ship, head-on. The two ships, traveling with extreme speed, met with a head-on collision, destroying them both. However, right before the two ships met, Saurus ejected himself from his own ship and activated his newly built jetpack.

Saurus flew a fair distance before his jetpack began to fail; taking care to avoid the gaping chasm below, Saurus landed on the ledge overlooking the chasm. "I take it the jetpack needs some tweaking before it is truly ready for practical application," Saurus acknowledged as he unstrapped himself from the broken, smoking jetpack. He began to scout the area that he had found himself in.

Saurus knew that he was at an elevated location; peering over the edge of the ground he was standing on, he saw a solid wall of rocks stretching down in to the depths. Saurus almost decided that there was nothing interesting to see down there, until his eyes landed on a tiny figure standing upon the ledge at the base of the rock wall. "I wonder what that might be; let's see how it reacts to the knowledge of my presence." Saurus thought to himself.

Saurus then pulled how his laser gun and fired a shot one foot to the side of this tiny figure with deadly accuracy.

Dilnos's senses kicked in.

He barely had enough time to dodge the shot, but as he did so, he felt his right foot slip. At this point, he realized that: (a) the shot wasn't to him; (b) something above him was trying to shoot at him; and (c) the ledge was only three feet wide. His left foot slipped from under him, and he found himself falling down to a terrible death. He cleared his head quickly enough to pull out the Magnif.

"Stratnus!" he called. His sword turned into Stratnus, and he laid it on his back. The sword itself was a little hang glider now, but he could still fly. He pulled up quickly and started to go up along the rocky wall. He looked up to see if anything was up ahead. He saw nothing but a giant T-Rex while he was flying.

Hold on… he thought, A T-Rex?

He nearly crashed into the creature, something he was lucky not to happen. He changed the Magnif back to normal and landed on the ground, feeling a bit paralyzed. He rolled to try getting some of the feeling back, but it only interfered with his body. He let go of the Magnif and laid on his back, exhausted.

At least he now knew that his life couldn’t get any weirder.

He got up after a while and grabbed the Magnif off the ground. Then he put it in front of him for defense and turned to face the T-Rex.

“Who are you?” he said.

Saurus watched in awe as the blade changed shape. "What fine technology; what fine craftsmanship! So, these tasty little creatures are not as hopelessly stupid as I had imagined; I could possibly make use of their ingenuity. It seems as though this organism will not go down without a fight, however, so I'll have to think of a clever way to subdue him. We'll see how he reacts to the activation of my buzzsaw droids; first, however, I should at least give him the honor of showing friendly sportsmanship, at the very least."Saurus thought to himself as he gazed at his now-gliding new adversary.

Saurus wasn't hesitant to speak after his new opponent asked who he was. "Ah, you're an inquisitive creature, aren't you? Most of you tasty little animals are too overcome by fear when they see me to realize that I am a sentient being." Saurus declared, as he pointed his laser gun at his new opponent.

"I could give you a long, drawn-out summary of my life's achievements, but I'll make it short: I am Emperor Maximilian Saurus I. I am many things; I was ruler of the Earth (And I will be again), I am a scientist, but today, I will be your opponent. There is something different about you when compared to other mammals; I'd like to document your behavior. In addition, that device of yours; the shapeshifting blade... I want it. Such technology could prove useful in my quest to reclaim the Earth. So, enough talk. Have at you!" Saurus proclaimed, as he began firing at his opponent.

He began to move in a circular direction around his opponent as he fired; at some point, he commanded the two miniature droids strapped to his sides to activate. Now his opponent was faced with a smug dinosaur scientist and two small attack droids with spinning buzzsaws extending from their sides; it would be interesting to see what this opponent's next move would be.

I can handle two of those robots, Dilnos thought as he dodged the shots. He ran towards one of the bots.

“Cut!” he called. The Magnif changed into Sawyior, and he swung it at the robot. He heard a silent SWOOSH! as he cut it in half. He made short work of the other one with a lightning bolt shot from his hand.

“Any other surprises, Mister Saurus?” he said afterward.

He saw that his opponent was getting quite angry at this point.

I wonder if he goes berserk like me? Dilnos thought.

Then again, it’s a T-Rex, so maybe he’s not as smart as I think he is, which means—

He barely had time to dodge a shot from the gun in his opponent’s “hands”.

“Excuse me?” he said, “I was thinking really—”

He was hit full in his left shoulder, sending him right to the hard ground. He was dazed for a bit until he realized that Saurus was running right towards him. He rolled out of the way. While his opponent had to adjust quickly, he got up and powered up his Gravity Gauntlets.

Let’s see how smart he is… Dilnos thought as he held his right fist in front of him. Saurus had just now changed directions and was heading right towards him. When he was twenty feet away, Dilnos changed tactics. He threw his right fist down to the ground, kneeling as he did so. As the gauntlet touched the ground, he was blasted upwards, right for the dinosaur’s chest.

OoC: Short, because I wasn't able to think of anything much more than this.

BiC: Noticing that his opponent was approaching him at a great speed, Saurus quickly spinned in a full circle; this caused his tail to come in to contact with his opponent before his opponent could reach his chest, causing the foe to fly through the air for a brief moment and bounce on to the ground a few times after he was hit. "Silly little mammal, you must learn to expect the unexpected. Reflexes are key!" Saurus laughed, as he pulled what appeared to be a small bomb out of his tool bag.

Quickly tossing the bomb to the ground, Saurus and his opponent were encased in a cloud of thick smoke. "It will be interesting to see how you fare under these circumstances," Saurus said as he slowly approached his opponent. "I think I have a good idea as to where you are," Saurus said, and he began to fire his gun in the direction he believed his opponent to be.

OoC: That's okay.

BiC: Dilnos barely had enough time to dodge a laser beam shot in his direction. He couldn’t see where he was going to land, so he landed on his chest and rolled out of the smoke on his side. He still had the Magnif with him, fortunately, and he got a good idea. He changed it into Invisia.

“Turn invisible,” he whispered quietly so as not to let Saurus hear him. A second after he turned invisible, the smoke cleared, and he saw Saurus standing there, wondering where he had gone.

Now is my chance, Dilnos thought. He snuck quietly around to Saurus’s backside, and ran full speed towards him, becoming visible in the process.

“Reflexes are key, huh?” Dilnos said as he landed on the dinosaur’s back. He swung his right fist down to Saurus’s back as soon as he landed. He was satisfied when he felt a BOOM! after he struck. He got off as Saurus fell flat on his chest.

“I’ll happen to let you know that I know as much about reflexes as you,” Dilnos continued, “After all, how do you think I dodged all your—”

He felt a sharp pain all of a sudden. He looked at his left shoulder and saw that the laser that hit him there earlier had slashed his shoulder good. A quick analysis told him that he should still be able to use his left arm, but why didn’t his body warn him about it? He barely had time to think about it when Saurus rolled up and got on his feet.

Oh, yeah… he thought, Something that size usually gets dazed for a bit…

He readied himself for the worst.