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About just a few short minutes, Dell and Kiana both arrived before the Hospital as they got out of Dells truck.

The Hospital was a mess on the outside. Smoke coming from the ground floor, Holes both big and small everywhere on its walls. And there were nurses, police and huntsmen carrying patients out of the hospital to safety.

Kiana's eyes dart up to the second floor, hearing the faintest sounds of mechanical footsteps.

"What's the hell is the situation here!?" Dell asked a nearby Huntress.

"Whatever that thing is, we it was last seen shooting itself up to the 2nd floor! We evacuated as many people as we could but_" 

But everyone looked up as they saw an explosion sound go off! 
Kiana's eyes go wide as she realized the explosion was right around where Brynhildr's hospital room should be!

And that was enough for her to start running without a shred of thought. Like an Idiot.

"WAIT!!"
Kiana could hear Dell call out to her as she dodges or runs past policemen and hunters, until she could barely hear him as she started running through the ground floors hallway which was now in shambles.

Kiana ran as fast as her legs could allow her to, until she reached a stairway leading upwards.The higher she ran, she could hear heavy and Metallic footsteps from the 2nd floor.

She began running faster as she finally reached the 2nd floor, and turning around to her right, she saw something big making it's way inside Brynhildrs Room through some smoke and dirt in the air!!

With panic, Kiana quickly pulled out her handguns and aimed at the monster and opened fire!

*Bang,Bang!/Klang, Klung!*

But the bullets just bounced off of it's back, and it turned around to face Kiana with its blood red optics visible through the smoke, and then one of it's hands began to turn and twist around in a mechanical way, and a massive claw appeared in its place!

And when it swung its claw around and aimed it at Kiana, It also moved the smoke and dirt out of the way a bit for Kiana to finally saw just what she was dealing with

{The Robot}

"...Oooh my Sparda." Kiana said, as her eye and her new prosthetic eye all widen, realizing she may be out of her league here.

*Boom!*

The robot then shot it's claw toward Kiana with a metal wire attaching it and it's wrist together!

"OH CRAP!!!" She shrieked as she threw herself on the floor to dodge the Claw.
She then sat up and aimed her guns at the robot again, But the wire began to move back,
*BONK!* "AGH!!"
 and the Claw slammed into the back of her head as it came back on it's wrist!

"Uuugh....I can't believe I didn't see THAT Old trick coming....God I'm rustier than I thought..." Kiana grumbled, but she quickly rolled backwards before a massive metal foot stomped down on her head.

"Damn IT!!" She then kept firing, but the Bullets continue to bounce off its body!

The robot just rose its claw and swung it down on her which she dodged again. She tried to fire right at its face, only for the Robots other hand to shift and turn into another claw which it swung down onto her!

Kiana gasped and managed to backflip away, but the other claw was shot out again and slammed right into her!

Kiana was thrown back with her Aura damaged, while the Robots claw was pulled back to its place via its wire.

Kiana managed to stand back up, And looked up and saw the Robot was starting to walk back into Brynhildrs room again.
Panicking, she started firing again and the bullets all just bounce off its back.
Her guns run out of ammo, and she just runs and uses her Semblance, pulling her old metal baseball bat out and slams it at the back of the robots lower back.

And the robot looks back at her again, and this time its hand shifts into a Gripper hand, and extends forward and latches around her throat.

Kiana gasps for air as the robot lifts her up, and the gripper tightens.
She panics and drops her bat and holds onto the Gripper around her throat, Desperately trying to free herself. 

She swings her legs back and forth, trying to kick the robot to no avail. 

And just when she could feel her vision slowly about to go black around the corners,

*Ka-Bang!*

A shotgun blast was heard, hitting the side of the Robots head, making it shake a little as it looks down the hallway.

"Heya Ugly." Dell said as he pumped his weapon: Frontier Justice, and aimed it back at the Robot, and a little red metal tool box on the back of his toolbelt as well.
"Let the lil' Lady go and I might just not recycle all yer parts into my personal backscratcher."

The Robot stares at Dell, its scanners showing that he is also a dangerous target.
It casually dropped Kiana who started coughing and panting, and the Robot starts walking toward Dell.

Dell starts to fire his weapon at the Robot as he starts walking backwards.
"That's right, Big guy. C'mere n' get me!"

The Robot then somehow grew little rocket boosters on the back of its legs and dashed right toward Dell.
He gasped and jumped out of the way back into the 2nd floors lobby as the Robot nearly missed him and comes to a stop.

The Robot slowly turns around and faces Dell, Who aims his shotgun at the Robot again.
He continues to fire over and over, until the Robots arm extends and grabs him by his left arm and pulls him in.
"OUCH!!" Del yelps in pain from the robots literal iron grip.

The robot lifts Dell up and glares into his goggles with its red optics. Dell tried to move his weapon up and fire into its face, which the robot casually smacked his weapon out of his hand.

Dell kept looking up at the robot, before he smirked and smashed his right fist right into the side of the robots head, with a loud *KLANG* sound going off!

The robot actually stumbled back a step before it let go of Dell, who held its right fist back and slammed it hard into the Robots torso, making it stumble back further.

Dell reached his left hand to his right, and pulled off his glove and revealed his Mechanical hand.

"Start Prayin', big guy." Dell kept smirking, as he held up his right mechanical arm up and formed it back into a fist.

The Robot swung its massive claw right at Dells upper body. But he jumped right under its attack and slammed his fist right under the Robots armpit. 
The robot looks down and swung its other claw at Dell, who dodges again by jumping back.
He then runs up on one of the Hospital sits and jumps up in the air behind the robot, and slams his fist into the robots head again!

But this time, the robot stumbles backward even more, utterly dazed and its sensors glitching from the blow.

When it does get its bearings back, it saw Dell with his Frontier justice aimed at him walking right toward it.

Dell started firing shot after shot at the Robot, Which it blocked by forming shields on its arms the size of riot shields and charging right at Dell.
Dell in response prepared his Prosthetic arm, and slammed it against the Robots shield.
He slammed his fist into the shield one more time.
And then, with the third hit, He managed to damage and crack the shield to some degree.

The robot analyzes the damage and realizes his shield might not survive any more attacks.
So He quickly retracted the the shields back into his arms as Dell was about to punch again, and formed his hands into a Hammer on its right hand, and a mace on the left one.

It swung the Mace down on Dell who jumped back quickly and fired his shotgun at the Robots face again.

The robots optics grow a brighter red and it swung the hammer again, aimed at Dells ribs.
Which he manages to still dodge, and delivers another punch right at the Robots chest.

The Robot then tried to swing both its hammer and mace down, in which Dell delivers another punch right back at the Robots weapons!

As his Fist collides with the Hammer and Mace, The Robot actually stumbles backwards.

The Robot looks back at Dell, as its arms begin to shift again.

But then, Dell had grabbed the red Metal toolbox on the back of his belt and thrown it right at the Robots face!

The Toolbox is smashed right into the Robots face as the robot stumbles backwards even further, as the Toolbox lands right behind it.

The Robot glares down on Dell who mockingly smirks back and aims his shotgun at it again.

Dell starts blasting his shotgun at the Robot before he runs out of Ammo.

The robot then begins to move right toward Dell. But he simply presses a button on his Prosthetic arm, and the small Red Toolbox explodes and something forms up and aims right at the back of the Robot.

*Blang! Blang! Blang! Blang! Blang!*

The Mini Sentry starts firing at the back if the Robot rapidly, causing the Robot to stumble again and turns around and faces the Mini Sentry instead.

All the while, Kiana could only watch as Dell was battling the robot by himself from Brynhildrs rooms doorframe. 

As she could only watch, she soon turned back to her comatosed sister and rushed at her side, ripping off the wires attached to her chest and placing the IV bag still attached to her arm right beside Brynhildr. And she even picked up the Breathing machine and placed it on the bed before she started to push Brynhildr out on her bed.

She watches as Dell was now hanging onto the Robots shoulders while punching its head over and over again, while the Mini Sentry keeps firing.

Until the robot suddenly raises its arm, and it morphed into a massive minigun!

"Aw hell!!!" Dell gasped as he dived into one of a Storage room!

"OH CRAP!!!" Kiana gasped louder as she pulled Brynhildrs bed back in the room!

*RATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATAT!!!*

The Robot started spraying everywhere with bullets, or maybe magical little glowing demon pellets, putting holes all around the hallway where Dell had hidden.

Then it turned the minigun around, shooting some shots dangerously closely toward he room Kiana and Brynhildr were and to its back, and riddled the mini Sentry into small little pieces of scrap!

Dell looked out from the door, but he dived back in on the floor soon as the Robots other hand formed into another Minigun and it began firing at full power toward Dell's direction within the storage room.

Kiana carefully poked her head out of the doorframe, and watched as the Robot had turned the tables on her Profressor.
'Oh man oh man oh man!!!' Kiana mentally panicked as she pulled her head back in and sat down on the floor against the wall, holding her head with both hands.
'This was SO STUPID what the actual HELL was I even THINKING?!? This is WAY out of my league, I'm gonna die here and I can't save Bryn and she's gonna die too and professor Dell is gonna die too and I'M FREAKIN' USELESS WHY DID I THINK I CAN DO THIS GOD PLEASE SOMEONE ANYONE GET ME OUT OF_'

Kiana was hyperventilating at this point. Her prosthetic eye was starting to blink in a twitching manner, And she was utterly lost in the panic ramblings in her head.

And meanwhile, The Robot finally stopped firing and was now approaching the room Dell was hiding in, until Dell aimed his shotgun from the edge of the door frame right toward the Robot and opened fire again.

But this time, the Robots massive shoulder shifted and opened, and a rocket appeared out of it!

"...Aw Hell." Dell sighed in a tired way as he saw the rocket.

*FEWWW/BOOM!!*

"UAAAAAAH!!" Dell yelled in pain as the rocket exploded, sending him flying back down the hall.

And finally, Kiana's panic attack stopped as she heard Dell yell in pain.
She slowly poked her head out of the room, and saw the Robot walking down the hall, undoubtedly toward Dell, and its arm shifted from the minigun to a sharp blade, almost like a massive boxcutter blade.

She realized if she doesn't do anything, Dell was going to indeed be killed.

'...What do I do?' Kiana thought.
'What CAN I do?! This thing was mopping the floor with me when I was fighting it?! What do I do?! W-What would The others do?!' Kiana thought.
'...What...would Ruby do?'
She thought about that for a few seconds.

Dell starts to try and crawl up on his feet by supporting himself on the wall.
And as the Robot was right before him, he tried to swung his prosthetic fist up again.
Which the Robot caught with his other arm and lifted Dell up and slammed him against the wall, and squeezed his prosthetic arm very tightly as it began to creak!
"AAAH!!" Dell yelled as his prosthetic arm getting crushed was also hurting the nerves and the bone in his right arm.

The robot raises the massive blade on its arm, ready to strike it down right into Dell's head!

That is until,

*Shatter!*

a bottle of medical alcohol was thrown and smashed right into the side of its head!

The Robot looks to its right, And saw Kiana aiming one of her guns straight at its head!

*Bang!*

Kiana fired a bullet, and the medical Alcohol drenched around its head flames up!!

The Robot stumbles back and lets go of Dell, feeling the fire on its head damaging some of its inside circuitry behind its skull-plate and optics.

"...Yeah, I feel stupid for even asking myself what Ruby and the others would." Kiana said to herself, and looked straight at the Robot with another bottle of Medical Alcohol in her other hand.
"Obviously, They'd just run in and Wing it!"

The Robot managed to look through the fire around its head, just barely that is, and saw Kiana Aiming one of her guns at it.

In response, it aimed the bladed arm right at Kiana,  and the blade was shot out right toward her!

Kiana managed to dodge and ran at the Robot and continued to fire!

The Robots arm shifted back into the minigun and it tried to fire right at Kiana, But she threw the Medical Alcohol forward at the Robots face again, causing the robot to catch it this time with its other arm. But Kiana fired a bullet at the bottle and it went up in flames in its arm!

The Robot was distracted by its arm burning, feeling the circuits in its arm starting to heat up too.

And in that moment, Kiana had launched herself up toward the Robot, and then pulled out her Baseball bat out of her Semblance and slammed it right into the Robots head!!

The Robot stumbled again, and its arm formed from Minigun into a massive spiky jackhammer and tried to jam it right into Kianas stomach!

Which she managed to dodge and swung her bet right at the back of the robots knee, making it fall on one knee!
Then she slammed her Baseball bat down hard on its head again, and the robots sensors glitched because of the impact.

Kiana followed up with another swing right into the Robots face, the impact making its optics receive nothing but snow statics for a moment.

But as Kiana went for another swing straight into the back of its head, the robot soon grabbed her baseball bat just in time.

But Kiana then pulled out one of her guns on her other hand and aimed right at the Robots face, and opened fire!

The robots head shook back from the gunfire, but it just grabbed her gun with its other arm,
*CREAK-GIRR*
And Bent Kianas gun barrel so much, it became completely useless now.

"Hey I LIKED THAT GUN!!!" Kiana yelled, genuinely pissed that one of her handguns was now ruined before she delivered a high kick into the Robots face!

But this time, The robot already knew that Kiana was aiming specifically for its head. So it let go of her broken gun and grabbed her ankle, and swung her right into the wall!

Kiana grunted as she fell on the floor beside a closet room, and she could see the robot shifting its right hand into a drill this time.

"...Just how many stuff do you have cramped inside you?" Kiana asked in genuine .

The Robot raised the Drill, as it spun at high speed,
*Ka-Bang!* 
It was interrupted from a shot right at its back.

The Robot looked back, as Dell had managed to get back up and walked up to the robot with his shotgun in hand, and continued to fire at the robot!

It rose its drill and prepared to swing it at Dell, Which he dodged and uppercut the robot into the chin!
and followed up with a 

The Robots optics grew an even brighter shade of red as it stared down Dell.

"You've done incurred my wrath now, scrap heap." Dell growled as he gripped a cord attached to his mechanical arm.
He pulled on the cord hard, as an engine sound goes off from his arm!

His wrist starts to spin at a very high speed, his hand turning into a literal Drill!

The Robot raises its own drill, ready to meet Dells own attack head on!

Dell pulls his spinning mechanical arm back, and the two thrust their spinning appendages forward towards each other!!

But at the last second, Dell tilted his head to the side, as the drill narrowly hit his helmet and sent it flying off!
But Dell managed to slam his spinning mechanical wrist straight into the Robots chest,
*CRIIIIISSSHH-KLANG!!!*
And drilled a hole right into its chest!!!

The Robots sensors picked up on the damage, and it kicked Dell away and stumbled back wards against the wall!

As it did, Both Kiana and Dell managed to see through the hole in its chest plate, and they saw an glowing orange orb right in the center of its chest.

The Robot notices its core was exposed, and multiple Alarms was set off in its sensors.

It quickly changed both arms into Miniguns and opened fire on both sides, trying to make Kiana and Dell to just back away to gain distance between its  current targets.

Kiana shrieked as she rolled back and ran into the closet next to her and dropped on the floor, and Dell ran off down the hallway to avoid the robots bullets getting shot toward him, or even through the walls toward him!!

The Robot then turned both miniguns down the hall and stands right before the said hallway, and aimed both miniguns to gun down Dell!

But Kiana looks out of the closet, and her eyes widens as she sees the Robot about to fire down the hall, and potentially through her Sisters rooms walls and right at her comatose state!!

Kiana Gripped her Baseball bat tightly and ran forward toward the Robot!
The Robot notices Kiana running at it, and tried to aim one of the Miniguns right at her! But it was too slow, leading to Kiana slamming her Baseball bat right into the Core in its chest!!

The impact made a loud electronic boom, and the robot stuttered and shook, its red optics turning off and on a few times!

Kiana notices the Robot literally spasming out, and made another swing at its core!

The robot stumbles back against the wall and spasms more, before it turned one of its arm into the hammer, which extended forward like a jackhammer and slammed into Kiana sending her falling back away, Her Aura getting a massive hit.

But Dell ran and helped her get back up, as the two notice how the Robot was barely standing now!

And then, The Robot looks up as warnings and alarms were filling its sensors. The Robot realized that if this continues, the destruction of its core WILL happen.
So, there was only one solution it could analyze: Retreat!

Its legs started to shift smaller into two big tubes, and fire started to emit form under them as the Robot began to float!

"Oh No You DON'T!!!" Kiana stubbornly yelled as she pulled out her only remaining gun, and both she and Dell aimed right at the Robot and opened fire!

A few of the bullets hit right into its core, Causing the Robot to start spasming again and instead of flying right out of the roof, it started to fly all wrong and right toward the 2 down the hallway!

The two yell in shock and try to duck, But Kiana was unfortunate enough to get caught right in the Robots messed up flight pattern and get stuck on its shoulder as it went flying down the hall!!

And soon,
*SHATTER*
Right out of one of the windows!!!

"AAAHWAWHOAWHOA WHOA!!!" Kiana shrieked and yelled as she held onto the Robots massive shoulder pads for dear life, before it started to float up right.

And then it grabbed Kiana by her hand that held her handgun, planning to either kill her right there, or to throw her off to her death!

And Kiana struggled before she held onto the robots arm with her other arm and kicked both her feet up into the Robots core again, Causing it to start spasming yet again!!

It started to Fly out of control, and Kiana didn't stop. She kept delivering kick after kick into the Core, and the Robot loosened its grip on her wrist, letting her to hang onto its arm with her other arm and aim her gun right into its core!!

*Bang bang bang bang!*

She fired all the remaining bullets in her guns chamber into one single point in the robots core, making a noticeable crack and causing more damage against the Robot!
She then held onto the robots broken chest plate and held her fist back, and punched riht into the core where the crack was!!

She delivered punch after punch into the core, making the crack even bigger!

"COME ON!!!" She yelled and kept punching, the crack getting even more unstable!!
And the Robot couldn't even react, as it was too busy flying all over the place uncontrollably and with its sensors too damaged and glitching from the constant punching!

"UAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!" And with one final battle cry!
*POW/SHATTER*

Kianas fist slammed right through the crack, deep into the robots now broken core!

The robot went still, before the jets beneath its legs gave out and it started to plummet!!

Kiana held onto the robot, and looked down to the ground where thanks to her prosthetic eye, she could make out the hospitals rooftop directly beneath them!

She then looked down at the robot, and hung onto it for dear life!!

"This is gonna HUUUUUURT!!!!" Kiana yelled!
And right after,

*CRASH!/CLAANK!!*

"WHOAA!!" Kiana was bounced off into the air and fell painfully on the ground!

"...Ow...Oowww.." Kiana moaned in pain and crawled back on on her feet.
Having used the robots form and all of her remaining Aura to not cushion, but to literally blunt her fall. 
Which had worked out, since she was still alive.

"That was...the Worst...Landing strategy...ever. Of ALL time." Kiana groaned, feeling her body still shaking from the adrenalin rush.

But soon, she looked over and saw the Robots broken and battered form on the ground, its red optics just about to give out.

Kiana looks at the Robot for a second, before her eyes form into a Glare and it stares down the dying robot.
"...I just hope you can feel pain right now, you robot freak." Kiana spat out, her hatred for the robot for trying to attack her sister and everyone else fully display.

She could somehow fell the robot staring back at her with her red glowing optics...until its red glow flickered out and changed to blue.
Then, without any hostility, The robot held its broken arm up toward the sky.

"...What are you_" Kiana tried to ask, but stopped as a bird slowly landed on the robots arm.
She stares in shock as the robot seemed to be gently holding the bird, as the bird chippered while looking at its face.

And soon, the robots blue optics completely lost color, and its arm went limp causing the bird to fly away back into the sky.

And kiana watches the bird disappear in the distance.

"...What was...that about?" Kiana asked herself, and looked down at the robots lifeless body in confusion.
"At least its finally over..."

...She spoke too soon.

Suddenly, the Robots broken chest emits an orange shine, and something flies right out!
Kiana realized it was a small, orange ball the size of a golf ball.

"What now?!" Kiana gasped as she tried to step away.

But then, the Ball flies right toward her at high speed!!

And goes right through her Prosthetic eye!!

"AAH!!" Kiana yelled and fell backwards on the floor.
"W-What was_"

She stopped talking as she felt her prosthetic eye starting to creak and shift against her eye socket.
And with a painful sensation, she felt her eye...somehow trying to cramp itself deeper into her skulls empty eye socket!

"N-no no no no NO NO NO NO!!!" Kiana panics and grips the prosthetic eye very tightly, and tries to rip it off!
She yelps in pain as she felt a few parts of the eye become jagged and sharp, trying to stab themselves deeper inside her skull!!

"H-HELP!!!! SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!" Kiana screamed out loud, struggling to tear the Prosthetic eye off as fast as she could!
But with a sickly crack most of the Eyes parts had caved into her empty eye socket as orange glowing lines appear around it, running into Kianas skin on her face as well.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!" Kiana yelled in pain as she fell on her knees, holding onto her face while the eye starts to somehow cramp itself even deeper into her skull!!
"STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPP!!!!!!!" Kiana screamed in agony, until the entirety of the eye was completely cramped into her skull!!

...And then...nothing else.

Kiana was on her knees, gasping in and out after the pain and the agony had suddenly stopped.
"Haah...haaah...haa-aah...ha-aah...."
Her breathing was shaky and uneven, and she kept gripping her right side of her face.

And soon, her grip loosened and she slowly opened her right eye...

[Kiana has now equipped: HUITZIL EYE]

"...Ah....AAAH..." Kiana started to groan again, and was barely holding herself up while on all fours.

But suddenly, the door to the rooftop was kicked open and Dell ran in with his Frontier justice still in hand, and looks around and finds the robot destroyed, and Kiana groaning on all four.

"Kid!" Dell called out as he ran to her side and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Are you okay?! Any-Whoa." He gasping as he noticed Kianas new orange eye.
"What in gods name_"

"AAAH!!!" Kiana held her orange eye tightly, and fell flat on the floor.

"KID!!" Dell held on Kiana, trying to help her stand to see what exactly was wrong with her.
"Let me see_"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!" Kiana screamed as she faces upwards, and her orange eye suddenly emits orange energy in form of electricity!
And then, The electricity starts to run down her entire body, and down throughout all of the hospital!!

And the electricity runs down the walls, and into the devices causing them to short circuit, or turn on and off.

.....But some of the electricity strikes down on Brynhildr as she was still on her bed.

And as the electricity slams into her body, she starts to jolt and shake on her bed violently.
Until her eyes are shot wide open!!

"AAAH!!!" Brynhildr yells in shock as she kept jolting, and comedically falls her bed on the floor!

"AAAh! Aaah....huh?" She stops yelling when she notices the orange electricity running down the walls, before they all disappear and everything quiets down.

Brynhildr just stares around the room still wide eyed and panting, before she slowly reached up to the breathing device on her face and pulls it off of her face and takes in some fresh air.
"....Where...Am I?" She asked, extremely lost in the moment.