The weapon dealer's son

Chapter 23: The first fight.

The one entering from the right side of the arena was a simple looking blue robot, a little shorter than the other one, with black straps spiraling from its leg up. A black sword taller than its body attached to its back, it didn't do any dramatic entering like the first one, it just slowly climbed down.

Once they both got to their position, a loud count down began.

Three…

Two…

One…

Instantly, both robots started attacking each other. the red one was suicidal, it kept charging while avoiding the sword slashes, it obviously tried to impale its opponent on the spikes coming out of its body.

The blue robot was a little faster and lighter on its feet, with its sword lagging behind, it occasionally leveraged the sword to change directions, or to defend itself from the impaling end.

The red spiky robot adapted a new tactic, two spikes fell down from its hands, attached with a thin wire, It started swinging the wire with the spikes all over the arena, trying to land a hit on the other robot.

The blue robot seeing this, both of its leg calf turned into a pressure piston, and instantly compressed as much pressure as it can contain, while the sword became a bit smaller and its shape slightly changed, once it was ready, it ran into its opponent. the sword clashing with the spikes that seemed to come from every direction, making a loud banging sound with no metal ringing, as if two rubber coated objects are hitting each other.

The red robot swung its spikes faster and faster, eventually it hammered its lower part into the ground, dropping every spike on its body, it started spinning increasingly fast.

The blue robot now one meter away from the center of this whirlwind, it released all the pressure in its leg at once, propelling its self three meters high, once it started falling, it adjusted its position using pressurized air to be directly on top of the madly spinning red robot.

In the air while falling, it started changing its entire body into a disc shape, holding the sword in its hand, another similar sword emerged where the other hand disappeared. The two swords started spinning so fast they became a blur.

The two robots clashed in a final explosion that included parts of both robots, hitting the dome barrier and startling some of the audience near the places it hit.

The entire battle took less than a minute, with the winner still unknown. when the dust settled, both robots were revealed to be missing huge parts of their constructs, the blue robot still in disk shape with both swords intact, and the main disk split in half and shattered.

The red robots entire upper part was little more then dust, revealing that the flying parts mostly came from its spikes shattering. Its lower part still mostly buried in the ground, with the ground split in two in its middle.

"that guy is smart!" Adam said while stuffing his mouth with the ice-cream. Mela looked at him while also eating her ice-cream, but in a more gentle manner.

"which one?! Who is the winner?" she said in confusion, turning her head between Adam and the screen.

At that moment, movement were seen as the camera started focusing on the moving parts, the two swords turned into a metallic liquid, and crawled like a slime towards each other, finally merging together and turning into the blue robot, parts of its body also started crawling towards it from all over the arena and forming the sword on its back.

The winner was announced with a big bang, and the name (Drum-Sword) appeared on a screen showing the participants charts.

Mela still confused about what happened, she asked. "how did he win?! Did you see something I didn't see?!" Her eyes alternating between her empty ice-cream box, and Adam's one remaining ice-cream box.

"that guy kept most of the robot's mass inside the sword, making it stronger, while leaving out only enough of the fabric in the robot itself for movement." Adam explained while handing her the remaining ice-cream box. "It had the sword with it, so based on the situation, the core could switch between the blueprints to use any of the different forms.

"the spinning desk in its last move, it turned the entire mass in the body into another sword, leaving enough to protect the link between them.

"that's how it survived the clash without needing to repair more than 20% of the construct."

"But isn't changing the construct blueprint just as hard as repairing the construct?" Mela asked, quite confused, she consumed the ice-cream while looking at Adam expectantly.

"It is, if the construct is made from a different element or a different density!" Adam said casually as he took the last bit of ice-cream in his box. "The sword and the body are always made of the same element and density, I think he made those custom blueprints him self."

Adam stood up from his seat. "I'll go get more ice-cream, and maybe orange juice, don't move." he said while dashing away, disappearing from Mela's range of vision.

The moment he was gone, Mela was setting alone, watching the winning robot collecting the scattered cluster fabric from all over the arena, when a man in his mid twenties approached her. "Hey kid! Wanna play? I have a game that you would like! If you win I'll give you a very powerful toy core! And all the fabric you need!" the man said as he slowly drawing closer to Mela.

[Danger detected, untrusted individual approaching the host's companion.

Plan of action can include, instant decapitation, warning shot, full defense cocoon, manual response.]

'what the… whose approaching Mela?! And why the f*ck would you put decapitation first?! What if the peace keeper catches us and accuse us of murder!' Adam said as the symbiote started turning some of the fabric on Mela's body into a tiny camera, showing Adam what's happening there on a screen using the visual system.

Mela was scared, she started sliding back on her seat slightly. "No thank you! My friend went to buy ice-cream and he will be back in a second!" she acted brave, she was so afraid, but there was people around, at least if she screams the peace keeper would instantly come to this place.

The weird man wore a black leather jacket with red interior, his hair was long and black tide in a small ponytail, he wore a dark blue sunglasses, both his hand behind his back while still drawing closer.

Jerry kept an eye on Mela when he noticed Adam leaving her alone, a pretty little girl like her was bound to attract some attention. When he saw the suspicious man approaching her he instantly started heading towards her, but when he saw the man not stopping his slow approach, he prepared him self to run in and stop him.

That's when the man started coughing madly, the suspicious man heard a sound in his head. "state your reason or die painfully." When he heard this sound, the man stood up heavily and started running away while coughing, as if he saw a ghost.

"are you okay? You're Adam's friend right! What did that man say to you?" Jerry asked when he reached Mela, she was about to cry with the tears building up in her eyes.

At that instant, Adam appeared beside her and held her close to him, and her tears disappeared. "Don't worry, I'm here." He said casually. To Adam those were just words, but to Mela, they were way more than that.

Mela was used to being weak and clumsy, she could never do any thing on her own, which is why her mother never allowed her out alone, and she had to attend school virtually as well.

A few hundred meters away from robots fighting arena, the suspicious man fell to the ground, with blood escaping multiple wounds on his nick.

A surveillance camera caught that scene and instantly alerted a nearby peace keeper, the drone almost instantly reached that area, it transformed into a metallic dome with the dark golden color used by the tower officials, covering the man from the eyes of the passersby, and scanning him silently.