King Ranter: Chapter 2-6 - The End of a Glorious Battle

Chrono woke up in a daze. He shook his head and looked down at the staff that had penetrated his torso only moments ago. He grasped it and tugged it, but it was stuck behind him. The staff had stuck into the wall and pinned Chrono. He grasped it with both hands, planted his feet on the floor, and pushed himself up, pulling the staff out of the wall. He took a minute to breath, and then he pulled the staff straight out of himself. There was not a drop of blood on the staff, and he had not bled a drop. In fact, his shirt was still in fine condition. He forgot about his super armor that Zinc designed.

He remembered where he was. He looked ahead and saw the struggling King crawling out of the crater he created in his collision. He looked pretty intact as well. 'He must have similar armor,' thought Chrono. "Hey, Fuckface!" he roared, "I'm still standing! What are you gonna do without your staff?"

The King looked up at Chrono with a look of absolute terror. Chrono glared at him, and started walking towards him. He snapped the staff in half in his two hands and tossed the pieces off to the side, and cracked his knuckles. The King stammered to his feet and grabbed for his staff that he didn't have. Chrono closed in on the King and grabbed him by the neck through his beard and lifted him up above the ground. He was shorter than he seemed. Chrono started crushing his neck. "Any last words, you son of a bitch?" asked Chrono sarcastically. The King choked.

Chrono swung the King over his head and smashed him into the ground behind him, cracking the coloured stone panels in the ground. Chrono leaped straight up, cranked his arm back, and came down with his fist straight into the King's gut, causing him to grunt loudly in pain. Chrono grabbed him by the shoulder and threw him at the distant wall. While the King was flying through the room, Chrono shot in his direction and axe-kicked the King in the back, changing his momentum to straight down with a face-plant, leaving yet another crater in the ground. Chrono landed valiantly next to the King, and faced him. Looking forward, he saw the throne straight across from him. Then he looked back down at the King and rolled him over with his foot. "Wake up, you coward," he said, "You don't have a weapon. It looks like I'm going to have to murder you with my bare hands." He waited to see what the King would do, but he lied there motionless, presumably pretending to be dead. "Except I can't," continued Chrono, "Because your armor is protecting you as mine is protecting me, so I'll have to do things a little differently than I had planned." He picked the King up by his cloak and put him on his feet. The King looked back at Chrono, still silent, and still terrified. "King of Gyronia," said Chrono, "This is the end of you. You have chosen to say nothing when I offered, and you will never say another word again. I would like to compliment you on your powerful techniques, but your choice of keeping peace on the battlefield has not aided you well, and that was your downfall. I will no longer allow Gyronia to be ruled by one man, and to do that, I must kill you here and now. You have done your job well."

With that, Chrono landed a powerful uppercut to the jaw of the King, lifting up high into the air. Chrono jumped up and met him in the air, brought his hand back in a claw and penetrated the King's chest. Chrono forced a current to flow through his arm, and the King began to get electrocuted while Chrono held him up in midair. After a few moments, Chrono ripped his hand out of the King's chest, leaving no blood behind because of his armor, and he started punching him in the chest repeatedly, back and forth with his two fists and incredible velocities while maintaining the King's position. The room around them started to grow dark again, and Chrono put his arms into an X-block, quickly charged up a large amount of energy inside the King's body, and released his arms, causing the energy to emit in every direction. The King's body exploded, his perfect armor destroyed along with it, and the King's remains splattered all over the walls of the throne room. Chrono floated in place for a moment before dropping down to his feet. He glared around the room. The splattered flesh and blood of the King, as well as his destroyed cloak started glowing brightly. They started spiraling around the room like a hurricane, but Chrono didn't flinch. He waited for them to slow, and they collected in the center of the room right in front of him. With one last flash of light, the cloak appeared before him, floating in the air. There was no one in it.

Chrono grabbed the cloak by the collar and it went limp, no longer floating. He sent it to hammer space and took a step into the center of the room and looked around. He telepathically carried the pieces of broken stone and repaired the throne room. No one could have known a battle took place here. Chrono crossed his arms and sighed. He chuckled a bit.

"King Chrono Blackfire. I like the sound of that."

King Ranter: Chapter 2-5 - A Fight for Glory

Chrono dashed forward and brought his sword down at the King, who raised his staff horizontally and blocked the strike. Chrono pushed against his staff while the King did nothing but hold him back. Chrono jumped back and returned with a backwards spinning strike, which was also blocked by the King. The King was successfully blocking all of Chrono's sword strikes, from the repetitive slashes back and forth that lead to a leaping overhead strike straight down, which the King was able to hold Chrono up above the ground with his block, to the many stabs and thrusts that the King managed to block with perfect precision by holding his staff in front of where the sword would stab. Chrono couldn't make any strategic attacks while the King was standing so close to his throne; the footing would be too uncomfortable and close to the wall for a decisive strike. Chrono jumped back and waited for the King to do something, as he hasn't done anything yet other than block.

"What the fuck are you doing?" cried Chrono, "Fight me, you bastard!"

"I don't want to fight," replied the King calmly, "You can fight if you must, but I will not."

"Fuck you," Chrono roared. He placed his sword on his back, where it remained as if sheathed, and cupped his hands near each other next to him. A bright white orb of light energy formed in his hands immediately, and he thrusted his arms forward, hands still cupped, releasing the energy in a beam aimed directly at the King's head. The King swiftly moved his staff in front of him, stopping the beam with the head of the staff. Chrono took the sword off his back and darted towards the King with a quick thrust, which he sidestepped easily to the right, and Chrono immediately spun around to his own right to slash the King on the way around. The King blocked the attack again and spun the staff around to strike Chrono to the head. Chrono slipped forward from his feet to dodge the attack and landed on his free hand, and he pushed himself straight up and spun around quickly, swinging his sword around at the King, who kept spinning his staff and held up up side down to block the many strikes. Chrono then flipped right side up in midair and swung his blade parallel to the King's staff at his head, but the King stepped back and narrowly dodged the tip of the blade, which ruffled the King's giant mustache. The King then jabbed the bottom end of his staff at Chrono as he landed, and Chrono deflected the staff downward with his free hand and held it on the ground for a moment, which was ample time to get off his feet again while balancing on his one hand which was now holding down the staff so he could roundhouse kick the King to the back of the head. The King, still holding onto the staff, wasn't able to dodge the kick without letting go, and he received the kick in full force to the side of the head, sending him flying into the nearby stone wall, crashing into it and landing on the ground.

Chrono stepped down onto his feet, still holding the staff in one hand and his sword in the other. The King pushed himself onto his feet painfully, but recollected himself quickly. Chrono tossed the King his staff and walked to the other side of the room backwards, as not to turn his back on his opponent. He readied himself in a low stance with his legs double-shoulder width apart, his right hand over his head holding his sword, which was pointed at the King, and his other arm extended forward, his hand open, ready to block any sneaky attacks. The King walked to the side of the room opposite Chrono and readied himself in the same feeble looking stance he had before.

They both darted at each other, swinging their weapons across at each other and clashing in the middle of the room. Chrono lifted his left leg and kicked the King square in the chest through his beard, and the King stumbled back and Chrono quickly swing his blade up at him, slashing the King in the ribs before he could collect himself again. Chrono took advantage of the King's injury and quickly barrel rolled around him and slashed him straight up his back, lifting him off the ground somewhat, which lead into Chrono levitating in the air and slashing and kicking the King in the back repetitively in the back while holding him floating in such a position with minor telepathy, and eventually breaking it with a double axe kick to both of his shoulders, causing the King to slam on his back on the ground, and Chrono brought his sword straight down, penetrating the King in the chest with the long blade. For good measure, Chrono twisted the blade ninety degrees quickly and forcefully, then pulled it out, and walked around his body to his feet and stood looking at his limp form lying on the ground.

Chrono almost felt proud of himself. It was an easier fight than he had imagined. He watched the corpse of the King lie on the ground, staff lying in his hand, his arms and legs outstretched and limp, like he fell into the snow to make a snow angel. Chrono sent his sword into hammerspace, causing it to turn into a bright light and disappear. He brought his right hand up and flicked his nose with his thumb, and then crossed his arms. He chuckled a bit, tapped his toes against the ground behind him, placed both feet firmly on the ground, and said, "Come on, you dumb shit, get up. I don't care if you don't want to fight, you don't have to be a big fucking baby about it."

At that moment, the King grasped the staff in his hand and sat up, completely unscathed. He helped himself up with his staff, and stood up with his staff at his side. "Why do you insist on fighting to the death?" he said sounding very concerned, "You win. You can be King."

"I know just as well as you that it doesn't work that way, old man," Chrono snarled, "We're doing this the right way, or I will murder you with my bare hands."

"I'm sick and tired of this," the King said wearily, "I don't want to kill anymore."

"I know you don't," said Chrono, "I get that. But you aren't going to, I guarantee it."

Chrono burst forward, thrusting his fist forward at the King's head. The King sidestepped and quickly smashed Chrono in the back with his staff, sending him into a face plant on the ground. Just as quickly as he went down, he pushed himself up towards the King with his arms, forcing both his legs at him. The King sidestepped that as well, and Chrono landed on his feet at the other side of the room. Chrono slid forward quickly with a roundhouse kick, which the King blocked with his staff, and Chrono started a flurry of kicks and punches, that the King blocked or sidestepped successfully without a single counterattack. Chrono stopped, still not understanding why the King was only defending himself and not retaliating at all. He knew he wouldn't get an answer, so he stood up straight, and called his sword back into his hand. He brought it over his head and then down at shoulder height, pointing it at the King, "I've had enough of this bullshit," he said. His sword glowed with a strange black aura that looked like it was sucking in light. He swung it back to his side, arm outstretched, and he darted towards the King with his sword again. Before the King got a chance to do anything, Chrono disappeared the room started to turn very dark, and he reappeared behind the King, and slashed him again in the back, then appeared suddenly across the room from beside the King, and he dashed in and slashed him in the side. Chrono kept warping around the room and advancing into the King and attacking and very high speeds, and very often, fast enough to make one think there were multiple instances of Chrono attacking at once. The King wasn't able to block any of these high speed strikes, and started paining quickly. While he was barely able to maintain a stance while being attacked, the head of his staff started glowing bright purple and the room exploded with the purple light. Chrono flew back against the back wall, and streams of purple steam-like light were coming out of the ground around the King. The colour of the room returned, but it still remained purple around the King, who had now returned to his stance with his staff held upright, still glowing.

"I've had enough of this bullshit myself," said the King angrily, and a blast of purple light energy burst out of the staff in a huge wave towards Chrono. Just barely able to react in time, Chrono pushed himself off the ground and darted out of the way of the tremendous wave, narrowly avoiding it's colossal power as it destroyed a large portion of the wall that was behind him. "This one won't miss," said the King viciously, as he readied another blast. Chrono tried to run around and behind the King, but he slammed straight into a wall of the King's magic energy. He looked around, seeing that he was cornered between the two walls of energy, and the King was still readying an attack. Chrono hesitated, took a step back nervously and put his arms up in an X-block in front of himself. The King forced a nearly instantaneous beam out at Chrono, who acted quickly. A green sphere of energy spawned around him, pushing through the walls of energy and shattering them like glass, and the beam of energy crashed into the sphere head on, stopping it in it's tracks. The King was still pushing out energy, but Chrono maintained his sphere shield and concentrated all of it's energy towards the point that the King's blast was trying to penetrate. He uncrossed his arms, and started collecting a swirling black and orange ball of energy in his hands while still maintaining his shield. The King was still pushing more and more energy out, making the concentrated energy pushing against Chrono's shield stronger and stronger exponentially, but Chrono was ready for it. Chrono dissipated his shield and blasted his own beam of energy forward, which collided perfectly against the King's already built up energy. There was a large shock wave from the collision, which shook the room violently and caused some pieces of the floor to break and some pieces of the ceiling to fall down around them. The two beams were pushing against each other forcefully, each one getting more and more powerful by the second, and neither barely moving between them. They pushed for several minutes, neither of them tiring out from all the energy they were consuming, and occasionally causing the room to shake again. But soon, Chrono grew impatient. He grunted angrily, pulled his arms back slightly while still pushing energy forward, the let out a roar and he pushed an even greater amount of energy into his beam, causing another violent shock wave. Now, his energy beam was started to approach the King, who started trying to push his own bursts of energy forward. Sadly for him, It only sped up Chrono's energy blast approaching the King's staff. As it neared closer and closer, Chrono could see in the King's eyes that he was terrified of his power. In the last moment of the clash, the King raised his staff pointing the bottom of the staff at Chrono while the energy beam began to enter the head of the staff, and as it did, the head violently exploded with pure energy, pushing everything around it away. The King flew back and smashed into the the wall behind him breaking it into a cave around him, and the staff itself broke from the head and flew towards Chrono. Chrono saw the pointed end of the staff careening towards him, and he stopped his energy beam flow to get out of the way, but he wasn't able to do it fast enough at the speed the staff was moving, and it penetrated Chrono's chest.

King Ranter: Chapter 2-4 - Storming the Castle

Chrono ran forward and put his fist through the head of a humanoid lizard - a lizard warrior, dressed in chest and shoulder plates and equipped with a shield and sword. There were two others in the entrance of the castle that saw this, and were almost too stunned to move. Chrono ripped his fist back out of the monster's head and it's body fell to the ground. Chrono quickly flashed over to one of the other lizards, gripped it's jaw and it's snout and ripped the bottom of his jaw out, swung his leg around and stomped on the back of the lizard's neck and ripped it's head off, and then whipped the bottom jaw at the other lizard, penetrating both the armor and his chest, killing him instantly. Chrono stepped into the middle of the room and looked at the bodies of the three warriors he disassembled so quickly. 'I hope this doesn't say anything about the King,' he thought.

Chrono stepped through another door, leading into an empty room. It was very, very tall, probably a magic-induced tower. Chrono took a few steps into the room while looking up at the blackness above. The room was so high that he couldn't see the end above. What he did see was a huge dragon plummeting down the tower. Chrono jumped back and the beast crashed onto the ground on it's feet and roared mightily at Chrono. It was brown with a plate on it's head that had many protruding horns. It stood on four legs, fairly low to the ground, but was still incredibly large compared to Chrono, who was probably the size of one of it's teeth. The dragon snarled at him, lowering it's huge wings. It took up almost the entirety of the diameter of the room, forcing it to curl it around next to it.

Chrono leaped at the dragon, who snapped at Chrono, but Chrono was far too quick. He jumped off it's nose and onto the back of it's neck behind it's plate. He grabbed onto some of the horns and broke them off, causing the dragon to roar in pain. Chrono jumped over the plate and stabbed the horns into it's eyes, and as quickly as the beast could react to the pain, Chrono stomped down on the broken end of one of the horns pushing it into it's skull, killing it mid-roar. Chrono looked around for another door, but there was only the one. He walked over to a wall, tapped it with his fist a few times, and he began running up the wall. The walls themselves were not very smooth, so he was able to make good footing while running straight up. Eventually, he found the top, which had a trap door that he smashed through without bothering to look for how to open it.

In the next room, there were four more lizard warriors, all with swords drawn. The room was perfectly round, so Chrono darted to one of the walls and started running around the perimeter of the room. The four lizard warriors turned around and stood back to back with each other to avoid being attacked from behind, and Chrono started running up the wall while still circling the perimeter. Quickly, he leaped off the wall and stopped in midair above the four warriors and immediately darted straight down in between the four forcing them apart slightly. There was a flash of light and a long, black sword appeared in Chrono's right hand which had pulled back across his chest, and he spun around while swinging the blade, cutting all four monsters in half below their rib cages. He had killed three of them, but one of them was struggling to survive. Chrono looked around the room and saw two doors, and he picked one instinctively and walked through it, leaving the barely alive warrior to bleed to death.

There was nothing in the next room, and it wasn't very tall. Chrono expected a trap to be in the floors or the walls, so he stomped hard on the floor and listened to the room shake, but he didn't hear anything in the walls. There were two more doors at the end of the rectangular room that were right next to each other. He opened the right room, and all he saw was a dead man hanging from a rope tied around his ankles, his hands about a foot from the floor. All of his flesh was torn away from his head to the center of his rib cage, and most of the flesh above that was rotting. The exposed bones looked like they were scratched up somewhat, but not broken. Chrono did not flinch at the sight of this, but only thought of the failures before him who came to the castle unprepared and unaware of what they were getting into. Chrono was different. Chrono had nothing to fear.

He closed the door, and opened the other one. This was the room he was looking for. He stepped into a very large, perfectly square room with ancient looking designs on the walls and on the floor, mostly made up of green and yellowish brown colours. At the other side of the room was a man who Chrono could barely take seriously at all. Sitting in a somewhat tall throne the same colours of the room was a very wide and short man which an incredibly large, white beard that managed to spread nearly as wide as his entire body, but still come to a point near his feet. He had a massive mutache to match, which spanned to almost twice the width of his body and was probably as thick as his head was tall. But he couldn't tell for sure, because his face was almost completely covered by his beard, mustache and hat. His had was massive, and was almost spherical sitting on his head. That and his robes, or at least what you could see of them, had a colour pattern of purple and gold - the colours of royalty. He had a gold staff as well that he held upright at the throne that had a purple orb on the top that was held in place by gold bars that wrapped around it. It didn't seem like it was detachable or anything. Chrono stepped into the room and pointed his sword at him.

"You the King?" Chrono demanded.

"You are quite the fighter, sir," said the King, "I am the King, but I am not looking for a fight that will leave another dead."

"That isn't up to you," Chrono said, "It's up to me: the next King of Gyronia!"

The King chuckled behind his beard, "What is your name, sonny? Why are you here to fight me? Have I not ruled well?"

"My name is Chrono Blackfire, and I don't give a damn about how you rule. I don't live in the society you rule in, but I'm taking over from here, old man!" The King didn't respond to that, "I know that you'll be a tough opponent," Chrono continued, "I didn't come here willy nilly, ready to fight any fight for any reason. If you won't draw your weapon, then I can put mine away and kill you with my bare hands right now."

"If that's how you want to do it, then," the King sighed. He lurched forward and stood up and gripped is staff tightly in both hands, "I'll let you make the first move, then."

"It's all the same to me," Chrono growled. He swung his sword over his head and and prepared himself for the hardest battle he's faced yet.

King Ranter: Chapter 2-3 - Off to the Castle

"Before you head off," said Zinc to Chrono, "I want to make sure you're in the right mindset."

"How could I not be? I only just got back."

"This is important. I'm going to explain all the equipment you're taking with you so it's all fresh in your head when you get there."

"I don't think that's necessary-"

"It is, please be patient with me. You need to utilize your equipment to the best of your abilities. First of all, your clothes are very important. They will protect you from all sorts of attacks; stabs, slashes, beatings, burns, you name it, you're protected. You'll still feel pain, not not as much, and both your clothes and your body will remain unbroken and unscathed. It also allows catalysts like your wings to pass through it without damaging it.

Then you've got your multi-use watch. You won't have much use for it, because you won't be able to use it as a weapon in the fight with the King otherwise he might fight dirty himself, and you won't be able to communicate with us from within the castle. Make sure, though, to turn down the watches power inhibitor when you get to the castle. Make sure you don't do it on your run there, otherwise you might get tired out."

"What should I turn it down to?" Replied Chrono, "It's always maxed out leaving me at 20% power. Should 50% be fine?"

"I was thinking more along the lines of 65% at least, you don't want to risk anything with that guy," replied Zinc, "This is less about a challenging opponent and and more about a fight to the death. I would suggest turning the inhibitor off if that didn't risk blowing up the whole damn castle. You don't know your own strength without it, after all."

"That's fair," agreed Chrono, "65% it is."

"Then there's your weapon," continued Zinc, "This will probably be a sword duel for the most part, but you don't want to bring out anything fancy. I would suggest calling your elementDark sword from Hammer Space, since he will probably just think it's a painted longsword or something, and I would also advise against using any weapon magic. If you need to do anything with magic, don't do anything too fancy, either. Energy blasts should be more than enough. Just as well, try and avoid using your sphere shield if you don't have to."

There was silence for a moment. Chrono waited a moment for Zinc to continue. He did not.

"So, that's it then?" Chrono asked, "Seems pretty simple to me, I think I can handle that. Where do I find the castle."

Zinc waited a moment before answering, "You're going to have to find it yourself," he said, "It can't be tracked, and no one who's ever seen it has left to tell about it, at least if they didn't move in to become King themselves."

There was silence for another moment. Chrono snorted, and Zinc continued, "I've heard rumors that it's farthest North that you can get on Gyronia."

"You mean, It's on top of the fucking planet? I've gotta run all the way up there?" Chrono waited for an answer, and Zinc nodded. Chrono thought about how they were right on the planet's equator. Then he snorted again, "Heh, no problem."

"I'm glad you feel that way," said Zinc smirking, "Your watch has a compass, you should find it no problem."

"I wouldn't doubt it for a second. Chrono BlackFire can do anything once he knows how." Chrono marched up to the door and kicked it open triumphantly and stepped outside. Zinc followed him out. "You gonna ride along in one of your mechs till I find it?"

"I know I'd only slow you down," he said confidently.

"Damn right you would," Chrono laughed, "I'll be back for a visit when I'm done."

With that, Chrono turned around and darted north, instantly out of Zinc's sight, leaving only a cloud of sand behind. Chrono ran across his planet, Gyronia, leaving everything behind him in a flash. He ran through forest, crashing through trees and sending tiny forest animals flying in the wind he created in his mighty dash. he ran up mountains and leaped from peak to peak. He jumped between the walls of buildings in the enormous cities as not to interfere with traffic, but occasionally jumped down to taunt the cars he left behind in his wake. He ran through grasslands that contained unnatural giant pillars of stone pushed out of the ground by geomancers through history, knocking over one occasionally for the thrill of destruction. His quick, light steps, as many as there were, left no footprints in the snowy winterlands that caused the endangerment of many animals that couldn't handle the climate. He ran until the ground below him began to fade. What was below him looked like spiraling flame and smoke that he had never seen before, but the ground he was running on still existed. It was as if it was invisible. Looking forward, he could see an immense, black castle in the distance. Massive black gates guarded it, but nothing Chrono couldn't leap over. But he didn't. Instead, he crashed through them like a bull, smashing them open like it was made of cardboard. He came to a quick stop at the doors of the castle, no bigger than any other double doors he's seen before, with little orange stained-glass windows that were there just for color. He took one small step back to examine the castle that towered over him. It looked to him like it might have been thousands of stories high, with many towers sprouting off of it, each with turrets at the top, and some with roofs. He looked around at the inferno that surrounded him. Fire spurting out all around the castle reflected off it's windows, but did not add much light to the castle itself, which seemed completely black and two-dimensional from the strange lighting.

Chrono was impressed by the castle, but no at all intimidated. flicked his nose sideways with his thumb, cracked his fisted knuckles, and kicked the door in.

King Ranter: Chapter 2-2 - Preparing for a Challenge

Chrono cracked his knuckles impatiently as he sat in Zinc's lab. Today, he was going to finish his training and prepare himself to challenge the King himself. Zinc was finishing up a machine that would pose as Chrono's final challenge. Or at least, he thought he was, but it was starting to feel like nothing was going on at all.

Suddenly, an old man walked into the lab from outside wearing a white lab coat, black boots, goggles on his forehead and white, frantic hair on the back of his head. The top of his head was totally bald. "Maddy! Is it done yet?" Chrono demanded.

"Yes, yes! But you should wait here a minute or two so I can tell you a bit about the training!" Maddy said, "Obviously, the King won't be as big as what we've built for you, but just as much, we want you to fight it just as you would fight the King. We suggest that you don't use any magic or weapons; just your hands and feet, you got that?"

"Rules are rules," Chrono said shrugging, "I'm bored back here, man, can we just go?"

"Alright, alright. Come, come." Maddy led Chrono outside and onto the dessert plains.

"Are you fucking kidding me?" Chrono said looking around at the empty plains. "There's nothing out here! What the fuck were you guy's doing?"

"Now, now, no need to flip your shit," laughed Zinc, coming out from the back of the building, "It's underground. It'll come out when you run over it."

"Oh, I see, ambush training?" replied Chrono curiously.

"No. Just run in that direction," Zinc pointed down the dessert, "and it'll come up behind you. Just turn around and do your thing from that point, and we'll monitor from over here like usual."

"It's too bad we can't get one of those generated training rooms, this would be so much easier."

"We'll never have enough money to get one, you fool!" cried Maddy angrily, "You aren't bringing in enough money for something like that! It's far too much money! We would need an entire organization to-"

"Hey, Fuckhead," interrupted Chrono, "Shut the fuck up. Let's not have you wasting all of our Goddamn time with you bitching and complaining about all the fucking freelancer cash I bring it not being enough to run a giant war emulator in a small room, alright? Fuck."

Maddy backed off and Zinc touched something on his watch, "Whenever you're ready, you just take off like you usually do."

Chrono nodded and boosted off down the dessert, leaving the lab behind in a flash. Chrono ran for only a few seconds before he heard a very loud crash behind him, and he immediately turned around to see the giant mass of metal behind him. What he saw was a towering snake-like beast with a very wide base that, upright and seemingly only halfway out of the ground, was about twenty stories high. Giant tentacles came out of the sand as well, as if part of the giant robotic beast, and flailed around almost aimlessly. It's head was sharp with saw blades spinning down the back of it's head. Chrono jumped towards it's head immediately at the sight of it. He spun around once and punched it right in the bridge of it's snout straight down, which dented it severely. He proceeded to nail it with punches and kicks in different directions while levitating himself at it's head level; roundhouse kicks, axe kicks, back-fist punches, hammer-fist punches, forefist punches, and the like. The one of it's tentacles suddenly jabbed at Chrono, and he quickly pushed himself around the tentacle in the air and landed one final kick straight up into the robot's chin, sending it's head flying back. Chrono landed at it's base and leaped backwards to get another good look at it, and then darted around it to it's back while avoiding it's flailing tentacles. He jumped up and heel-kicked the side of two saw blades that were next to each other, bending them both and stopping their spinning, which resulted in the rest grinding against the bent ones and eventually stopping as well. The robot's body itself started flailing much more violently, and then the whole thing spun around to face Chrono, who jumped back to keep a safe distance. The beast raised it's head straight up slowly, and a light shone in it's mouth. Chrono shifted his stance and prepared for another leap forward. The robot swung it's head forward and emitted a bright blast out of it's mouth towards Chrono, who instantly jumped over the beam of light and towards the top of it's head. He pounced on it with both feet jumped straight up, forcing the robot's head to fling down, which made it blast it's own body. It roared a loud, screeching roar and Chrono landed on it's back and pushed off of it, knocking it onto it's belly, and he rolled onto the sand and spun around to face the beast's back again. Chrono already knew what he was going to do next. As soon as the beast lifted itself from the ground, Chrono darted around it again, collecting the four tentacles and holding them together, despite their size. Then he leaped up, trying to uproot them, but failed. This did, however, throw the beast off balance as well, so Chrono decided he was going to try again. This time, a bright light shone from his back, and enormous, green, scaly wings spawned on his back, the base of the wings unexplainably through his shirt which was completely untorn. He leaped again, not getting very far off the ground, but not landing back down, because his giant wings allowed him to fly straight up without having to flap them. He forced himself upwards, tugging on the relentless tentacles that were still flailing above his grip. He glanced over at the beast again, who was preparing for another blast at Chrono. "You've got to be fucking kidding me," he muttered to himself. He looked down past his feet at the very little progress he had made uprooting the tentacles, "Fuck this." He let himself drop to the ground, still holding onto the ever-flailing hunks of metal between his arms. He began absorbing energy around him, causing him to glow somewhat. He glared up at the robotic beast, and he boosted up, casting a bright trail of golden light behind him. He pulled the tentacles straight out of the ground, ripping them out of whatever they might have been attached to under ground. The beast screamed as it shot out the to be expected blast of light that Chrono narrowly avoided in his leap, and Chrono let go of the now limp mechanical pillars and fell to the ground, landing on his feet and darting forwards to avoid the falling debris. A surprisingly small amount of wiring was exposed on the torn ends.

Chrono looked up at the tower that was what remained of the beast. It stared down back at him, almost angrily, if it were not a robot, and then suddenly lunged forward at Chrono. He shot himself into his gaping mouth and narrowly avoided the sharp, artificial teeth that it had, and sat in it's mouth for a moment, holding the mouth open enough as not to get crushed by it's mechanical jaws. He looked into the back of it's throat, and was not surprised to see that it didn't go very far back at all. 'Why would this thing have any digestive system, anyway?' Thought Chrono. The beast tried to throw Chrono out of it's mouth, but he held onto one of it's teeth for a moment and flipped around on top of it's dented face and held on. He looked into it's eyes and realized that there were cameras there. He knew that these had to be so it could register what was around it, because Zinc was monitoring him from the telescope back at the lab. Realizing this, Chrono punched through the glass of one eye that felt like it was supposed to be shatterproof, breaking the camera in the process. The monster flailed even harder, but Chrono held on enough to switch hands that he was holding on with to punch out the other camera, and then he leaped back onto the ground and watched the blinded robot try to fight off what wasn't on it's head anymore.

Chrono needed to make one final decision: how to shut this thing down for good. He looked around for the tentacles, which he saw still lying in the dirt from just a few moments ago. He picked one up from the torn side and dragged it off the others. He made some distance between himself and the beast, and he started swinging the tentacle around and around, and then he thrust himself towards the robot for one single impact which broke the beast in half. Neither half of the body moved, not even a twitch. He waited a few seconds to see if it would do anything else, and when he saw it wouldn't, he boosted off back to the lab.

I am all of me

I'd like to push on the matter that I am, believe it or not, a complicated individual, who fluctuates along with his biorhythm like any other human being would. I looked into that a little while back for shits, and it turns out I was low on my intelligence wave for the big time period that I was too lazy to post fuck all. How interesting. Anyway, I'm getting out of that rut now, so I think I'm going to actually post something every so often again, and maybe stop posting about how I'm going to be posting.

King Ranter's story has not been put on hold. Like I have been with posting in general, I've just been lazy. I'm not entirely sure what my next step is, but when I take it, the whole thing is going to spiral into momentum most likely. It's strangely un-suspenseful when I'm writing about something that's planned oh-so damn far ahead. The storyline started quite a few years ago and has been developing without deceleration, but I will of course, only be writing about what's plot important, as everything interesting that happens is interesting. There is going to be a side-story to it as well, as I wasn't actually planning on writing this up or anything so occasionally they all go on magical adventures etc etc. Considering this was founded on a child's imagination, you can't expect it not to, and since I'm still crashing through it while lost in thought, you can't expect the imagination to be worsening. Well, maybe you could, but I'm not much corporate, so.

I know I really should be giving you something to read... sure wish I could. I'll write something tomorrow, if I have the time, which I probably will, since I'll have my tech spare, lunch, and my scheduled spare to write in (sadly, not in succession). I might have stupid work to do or something, though. That all depends on what I feel like doing.

KingRanter