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.
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