Season 53-5 Missing Comments

[SageAcrin]

Zophar>Xorn

Demi>Kary

Yulie>Axl

Garet>Jin

[Sei]

Yulie > Axl

Meet Axl. Axl is a Maverick Hunter-class Reploid. He can take multiple energy shots, withstand several flying high-velocity shrapnels, and survive in environments of extreme temperatures. Yet the moment he so much as brushes against stationary spikes or lava, he explodes like a pinto.

Meet Yulie. Yulie is an ARMs Regulator. She can Material Drive the Guardian programs and control natural phenomena via microscopic ARM devices distributed throughout the land and air. She can, for example, use Code M to submerge an area in lava flows provided there's a Fire Ley Point.

Meet the Middle Finals arena. Oh look, there's a Fire Ley Point! Axl, meet lava. Lava, meet Axl.

Meet the rapidly expanding cluster of lights. This used to be Axl. Unfortunately, all his experience playing "the floor is lava" in Megaman X games proved fruitless with no platforms nearby.

[Bardiche]

Zophar > Xorn

[Taishyr]

Demi>Kary

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COMBAT LOG #sgs1aRRb

initializing Combat Protocol N24 - speed and recovery initiative
enemy is "Kary" - aka "Marilith". Level of power high, reaction time average, durability high. Chance of survival 51%.
enemy spotted, awaiting protocol "Ready... Fight!" submission from referee.
awaiting protocol "Ready... Fight!" submission from referee.
awaiting protocol "Ready... Fight!" submission from referee.
awaiting protocol "Ready... Fight!" submission from referee.
awaiting protocol "Ready... Fight!" submission from referee.
awaiting protocol "Ready... Fight!" submission from referee.

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"Man, this is pretty impressive. Never thought a staring contest would get this intense." Yuri remarked glibly, watching the two go at it. "I mean, sure, you expect the robot to win, but Demi does have a built-in cleaning function that simulates blinking! And Kary rarely needs to blink herself - I mean, it helps her eyesight, but her body doesn't do it reflexively, so she can passively wait..."

Edge just looked at Yuri. "And... why do you find this interesting?"

"It's better than watching an incredibly repetitive stallfest that takes eons. And from what we can tell, that's what the result of this fight would have been."

"...so you're having them stare at each other instead."

"This should last minutes instead of hours."

"...eh, fai-And Kary blinks! Demi is the winner!" Edge blurted out as Kary, hissing, fled.

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It took them two more weeks to find the glitch in Demi's battle coding.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Since the stabbing implement seems to have disappeared, I'll cover Zopharaptor > Xornserade.

Zophar > Xorn

The judges were baffled. While their utter boredom dictated the Godlike finals would not be a standard arena slugfest, Deis, Opera, Tengaar and Alice (who was covering for Margarete due to the latter's sudden outburst of work due to secret covert special ops involving television shows) couldn't find an appealing alternate contest for the two contestants. While Zophar didn't seem to protest against the idea of a bikini contest, the girls had nightmares even beginning to imagine how to put Xorn into a two-piece, let alone a brazilian bikini. A push-ups contest was out of the question given how Xorn didn't even have -hands-. And even an artistic haircut contest proved inviable, given how Zophar's gallant toupee is apparently actually made of styrofoam and aged chantilly, as Millich Oppenheimer found out much to his chagrin.

The only option left was obvious.

Artistic nude painting contests.

(No, we didn't say it was a -good- option. Only that it was obvious.)

While neither side is willing to disclosure the... erm... <i>experimental</i> results, reliable inside sources (who prefer to remain partially unidentified, only giving us the moniker "Raidou Kuzunoha") reported that Jean and Relm have been given permanent mental health insurance for their troubles. Tengaar, Deis, Opera and Alice apparently had a drinking night involving bloody marys, whiskey and margueritas and went missing for three days. Their current status is that they're currently drunk out of their minds, performing as a tango band in Buenos Aires.

The rest of the judge body simply defaulted victory to Zophar after the incident. Their reasoning, according to Magical Emperor Ghaleon: "At least, you could -feasibly- picture him naked."

[SageAcrin]

Garet>Jin:

A battle of swords.

A magnificent battle where Jin couldn't possibly lose.

His sword, flashing like lightning, forced Garet farther and farther back against the wall, Garet, bleeding cuts all over his body, desperately trying to avoid his fate.

But Garet was not through. Oh no. Jin's enemies had too many plans for him. Garet, rising from the dust, summoned his fearsome E.S. Metatron, the fusion of all the E.S. in existance, loomed over Jin.

Jin had no fear.

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"GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Jin's bellow, as he charged from the arena, could be heard three rings over.

"....huh. Well, that was...I guess they don't call it delusion status for nothing." Garet shrugged, as he watched Jin lose by virtue of ring out.

Jin came to himself, five days later, lacking a shirt and pants and attempting to shove Kiwi into a hydro-electric turbine.

His only statement on his, admittedly vague, memories of the previous five days, were that they made more sense than the last days of his travels with Shion.