• "Kill the Person Above you"
    by ~flarex23

    Speaking of killing, I just so happened to kill a person a second ago. I was running away and then I ran into RanmaRaj... Sadly our rules state no witnessess. So this is how I would kill you.

    Usually what happens Is I notice you before you notice me. Right when you turn to look at my location I dash right behind a tree. You would hear the ruffles of the grass and be suspicious. You would move closer to try and invesitage, make sure no ones... I dont know trying to kill you?

    As I hear your footsteps get louder and louder. As you walk closer and closer, My heart is thumping from the mere thought of getting caught. The fact is, If you find me, You will most likely alarm the Military. This would mean my homocidal days are over. So my mind goes into last resort mode.

    I slip my hand into my pocket and take out a flash grenade, quickly toss it in front of your feet. I dash while a blindingly bright light illuminates the forest, leaving you stunned for a couple of seconds. Your ears ring from the electro magnetic pulse's going through the air. You look around still dizzy from the flash. I hide behind another tree.

    This time I take pull out a grenade from my right pocket. You walk rubbing your ears not knowing where you are going. I unclip the pin of the grenade, and toss it. It slowly rolls like a tire downhill, and taps your sneakers lightly.

    You open your eyes only to see a blurry explosion blow up parts of your feet, exposing your flesh on your leg. You find yourself also burned from the great intense heat from the grenade.

    Now you know someone is out there, But you don't know where.

    I listen closely only to hear you still alive. "Damn" I think to myself. I search my pockets once again for some type of lethal weaponry. But to no avail I find nothing.

    "I know your out there!" RanmaRaj exclaims.

    Flare finds himself nervous... He begins sweating and looks around for any type of item that can be used to attack. He looks down towards a perfectly curved sharp long stick. It was clearly a part of a branch, but it looked so perfect, the edge of the stick seemed as if they were sharpened just for combat.

    Flare kneeled and lightly picked up the long slender stick. He put both hands to grab the stick and looked at RanmaRaj's back. He quietly tip toed towards his enemy with his weapon just ready to be swung.

    When he was close enough, RanmaRaj seemed to turn his head just a bit to look back at a suspicious noise that bothered him.

    Quickly Flare gripped the stick as if it was the mighty sword excalibur itself!


    He swung the stick so fast, it broke the sound barrier. The branch moved at a speed which caused mini whirlwinds in its pathway of destruction. The weapon made a full 45 degree angle swing, and all the energy exerted from Flare unleashed to the central point in which it made contact with RanmaRaj's neck.

    RanmaRaj was forced off the ground due to the critical hit, and landed on his back. The intensity of the landing from such energy forced cracks to form the outline of his body, and formed a dent which was identical to RanmaRaj's body.

    Flare had did a full turn from the first strike, similar to a baseball player who hit a home-run that left the baseball field. When he finished exerting his power he clutched the branch and glared at Ranma who was still alive, his body twitching from landing, but still...Alive...Still...Moving...

    In Anger, Flare broke his branch in half, holding each half in each hand. He instinctively threw his left hand forward to toss the stick that aimed for Ranma's forehead. The stick swung in full rotations at a dynamic speed, similar to a knife thrown in the air by a military soldier.

    Flare quickly dashed towards Ranma right after he was attacked by the rotating stick. He moved so quick he was able to grab the rotating stick in mid air after it smacked Ranma's face leaving a bruise on it.

    Quickly Flare swung punches at Ranma making sure the two branches in his hand would help deal extra damage.

    Flare then leaned backward to do a back flip making sure his sneakers uppercutted Ranma's lip causing blood to spew out of his mouth instantly.

    Flare landed on the ball of his feet in order to help the recovering of his backflip. He charged towards Ranma who was trying to register everything that just happened.

    Flare hit Ranma with his shoulder forcing him to go off balance. He then quickly grabbed his shirt collar to toss him down on the ground with close quarters combat tactics in mind.

    Ranma hit the ground, and Flare swore that for a second, the screen shook!

    It seemed Ranma had enough, and he raised his legs towards his stomach. He then pushed his legs out, causing enough momentum to send his body from the ground straight up into the air, back onto his feet. He stood straight and prepared his fighting stance.

    Flare threw a fast swipe of a punches to interfere with Ranma, But he suddenly dodged by moving his body to the left, Thus evading each punch.

    Ranma then reacted by kicking Flare in the stomach causing him to fall to the ground.

    "You fool..." Ranma began..

    "I am the best...when it comes to combat!" He continued.

    Flare looked up at Ranma who formed a fist and flexed his muscles.

    Ranma then looked down on Flare. "Whats the matter is that all you got?" He asked disappointed.

    "No." Flare replied and he got up dashing towards Ranma.

    Flare attempted to grab Ranma's neck, but Ranma pulled off a swift side kick to his chest, causing him to fall down back to the ground.

    Ranma chuckled in Flare's failure, who was squirming on the ground from the attack.

    "I Thought you'd be better" Ranma announced into the empty rain forest.

    He turned to look down at the pathetic soldier who lied on the ground helpless.

    "17 years in training and you can't even stop one retired man" Ranma teased.

    Flare trembled, but his body told him to continue, he began to stand up. Bones aching and heart beating.

    "I'm not done yet..." Flare said in more of a whisper, than a reply.

    Ranma smirked. He knew Flare would not win this battle, he was too tired, and took too many hits. Unless some miracle would heal him... Flare was done for.

    They both glared at each other, waiting to return in combat,until suddenly, static interrupted the silence.

    "This is Echo Sierra Squad, Status Report unit 12." A familiar commanding officer voiced.

    Flare reached into his left pocket and pulled out a communications microphone.

    "Unit 12, I've located the target...engaging now". Flare replied softly.

    Ranma grinned slyly.

    "Unit 12 be advised you were late upon report, therefore we launched nuclear war heads on the target's predicted location." The commander explained.

    "WHAT!" Flare exclaimed.

    They clearly went against orders! They launched a nuclear strike without any warning to him whatsoever, were they just using him as bait this whole time? Flare thought to himself.

    The static died, meaning the communication was disconnected, But Flare knew this was intentional.

    "Hahaha...First you fail, then you die... Santa must have read my mind." Ranma chuckled heinously.

    Flare clenched a fist.

    "You do realize, your going to die too.." Flare reasoned.

    "Thats where your wrong, I have an escape route, but before I leave...Lets continue, right where we left off" Ranma said forming a fist.

    Flare tilted his head "Where did we leave off again?" he asked.

    Ranma quickly threw a punch, which was countered by Flare's arm.

    "Now I remember" Flare said while gripping Ranmas arm.

    Flare felt a metallic tool under Ranma's sleeve and pulled it out tactically to remain with a control over on his forearm while sliding off the metal.

    Flare grabbed a knife and formed a close quarters stance.

    "I can still win this" Flare said confidently.

    "Oh Really?" Ranma said holding out a walkie talkie.

    "What are you going to do, play a scream-o into my ears?" Flare taunted.

    "Loyal units, drop in a Advanced Mecha Suit Version 2." Ranma requested awaiting for a response.

    "Copy that dropping..."

    A helicopter flew over head dropping 2 packages.

    "Two?" Ranma questioned while opening one of the containers.

    Flare rushed to the other container, and unveiled the new advanced technology of warfare.

    The suits had an aerodynamic air compressor to help the body adjust to high altitude. The suit was made with slender bullet proof fabrics. And the wings were triangular with a wing similar to a jet that hung on your back.

    "Idiot dropped two!" Ranma yelled in anger.

    "Heh Now its fair!" Flare challenged.

    They both put on their A.I.T.'s (Aerial Individual Transport)



    Ranma configured the settings on the buttons found in his hand. The thrusters started booting up, weapons turned on, and the mechanism started operating.

    Flare on the other hand was pressing random buttons hoping for a successful fly.

    "Self Destruct Initiated" Said the operating system of Flare's A.I.T.

    "NOOOO!!" Flare exclaimed.

    "Confirmed. Voice command acknowledged." said the machine.

    Flare sighed in relief.

    Ranma on the other hand started levitating above the air.

    "System resume Task Zero Dash 1 start up operating programs" Ranma said.

    The wings raised Ranma higher in the sky, then it rotated his body so he would look down on the ground and assume flight formation.

    "System: Utilize weapon systems 0-9 upon activation request" Ranma continued.

    The wings opened up to show missiles, bombs, even grenades hidden under its cover. The weapons were exposed and ready to fire.

    "awaiting firing command" the system reported

    "stand by" replied Ranma, and he zoomed across the sky getting in a good elevation to engage Flare, who was still trying to take off.

    "Ugh... Computer..Activate function..six nine two...?" Flare said outloud.

    "Activate missile system, lock on target A!" Flare tried again

    "Transform!" he yelled

    "Warp Speed!" he tried

    "Activate uhh start up zero dash two" Flare guessed again.

    To Flare's surprise the machine beeped and started adjusting something in the wing.

    "Yeah!" Flare said happily.

    "Langing Gear Engaged" The system reported.

    "Aw COME ON!" Flare yelled.

    Ranma on the other hand was flying gaining the speed of 2 miles per second, just ready to engage Flare as soon as he got up in flight. All of his weapons were locked on, From Missiles, grenades, machine guns, knives, lasers, scissors, and even duct tape's were all ready to engage and follow Flare's trail.

    Meanwhile back on ground.

    "Ok time to do this the old fashion way" Flare said.

    Flare took a deep breath. And then he charged down the open space as if it was a run way. He picked up speed, and wind dashed through his wings. He then jumped in hopes to fly. Only to find himself belly flop into the tough ground.

    "Ow..." Flare said landing.

    Flare got up irritated. "Stupid thing FLY!"

    The machine beeped and the system spoke.

    "Command activated, Thrusters 100%, Fueling usage 59%, Energy output 20%, Shield capacity 110% Engage in under 3 seconds"

    Within the spoken words Flare took flight, and shot into the sky like a space shuttle firing into space itself, he fought against gravity just firing straight up at 600 miles per second.

    "Too Fast!" Flare yelled.

    "Slowing down speed, stand-by flying mode activated, switching to auto fire, and bullet prediction capability" The system reacted.

    Flare's body became parallel to the floor, and he looked down at the immense forest, it was a view to be appreciated.

    Flare looked around and saw his enemy, Ranma.

    "Its about time" Ranma said, his voice projected in Flare's headset.

    Flare seemed to be going forward flying towards Ranma, who levitated above airborne. On Ranma's hand he was pressing something, And Flare wondered what.

    Suddenly as soon as Flare got a couple of meters away from Ranma, A whole cluster of different weapons deployed from the wings of Ranma's AIT.


    (Imagine the Flare's as missiles)

    Flare's eyes widened in fear, The missiles spread out in all angles away from Ranma, drawing distance in yards, and then they all simultaneously turned towards Flare's location in the sky.

    Flare squirmed around turning, flipping, twisting in the sky. The missiles had a tough time trying to track him down, but slowly picked up speed.

    Flare focused his thrust upwards to gain altitude, with 2 missiles right behind him. He speeded and ripped through a cloudy mist of vapor, from this moment, He took a chance.

    "Computer go offline!" Flare yelled hoping this was a valid command.

    The systems shut down, and Gravity carried Flare to plummet towards the ground. He leaned back and found his nose just inches away from a metallic missile which could not sense any heat source, and seemed to have just continued launching straight into the sky, safely away from Flare.

    Flare sighed happily, but saw the rest of the weapons chasing after him.
    He truly got the hang of this, and said.

    "System online, FLY mode engage"

    The wings quickly took flight and thrusters worked powerful enough that Flare hit an afterburner! The thrusters spit out a long vortex of a blue hue with transparent circles surrounding it. He created his own wind turbulence, causing the weapons to increase in speed also.

    Flare worked with this and then turned around in mid air still flying upwards above the troposphere. He reached in his holster where he left the remaining half of his stick from earlier, and readied it once again. He swung the stick and it stabbed the rough skin of the grenade chasing him, and it exploded.

    Flare was close enough to feel the heat but far enough to escape its damage. Now all that remained were flying duct-tape and scissors.

    Flare turned around to control his flight once more.

    Meanwhile... far away from the dog fight.

    "BUT HOW!" Ranma exclaimed angrily watching flare evade each weapon.

    "He's a noob but hes performing tactical avoidances that even elites can't pull off!" Ranma feared he would actually lose, and speeded up towards Flare.

    Flare looked at one of the mirrors he had just duct taped to the edge of his wing, after capturing it when it chased him. He used the mirror to avoid the scissors, and saw Ranma closing in on him quick.

    Flare smirked receiving an idea. He pulled up speed to keep Ranma into chasing him. He kept his eyes on the rotating scissors which were still inches away from the wing.

    Flare knew well if the scissors just as so, skimmed the wing, that the system's engines would explode causing a chemical chain explosion reaction which would incinerate Flare's body to the point of vaporization.

    Well... Flare did not know for sure, but he thought about it that way for motivation to survive.

    Flare caught an idea looking at dark clouds. He shifted his body towards a dark cloud and pushed himself through the vapor. The scissor followed him expertly, but Ranma did not know what path he took, and awaited his escape.

    Flare popped out of the cloud, and Ranma dashed towards him, But then Flare did a barrel roll and seemed to disappear again!

    Ranma entered a cloud close by, but could not see anything, it was like a dark intense mist. He pulled out, and saw flare flying through the skies again.

    Flare did a complete 180 turn to go back the air-path he came from and zoomed right into another dark cloud. Ranma clearly saw which cloud he went through, and followed him there.

    Flare quickly pulled out of the dark cloud and watched Ranma who was still inside. The scissors that were roaming airborne following Flare in the cloud lost his trace,and went for the nearest target to the cloud, Ranma...

    Ranma was stabbed just below the heart, bleeding deeply. But he did not give up, he was still chasing Flare airborne.

    "If only I had an RPG, thatd be awesome, like a dude on a jet taking an rpg to take out another jet" Flare went on talking to himself with his sense of wishful thinking.

    "Standby,Left Wing forming RPG mode, please balance yourself as you will be gliding slowly towards the ground until re-transformation." The system advised.

    Flare was surprised and happy to hear the rpg function was allowed on these jet's. He leaned, and shifted his weight to accommodate the rpg weight and keep himself steady in mid air.

    The wing transformed, re-arranged itself, re-formed and then constructed into an RPG. A green lock-on triangle was slowly forming over Ranma.

    "No!" Ranma yelled, but Flare pulled the trigger.

    "Transform Back" Flare said without looking to see the result of the shot.

    Flare spun out of control lowering down in altitude, he was below the clouds, and he could see the mountains more detailed then before. The machine then finished re-forming its wing, and Flare regained Flight.

    "20% fuel remaining, Estimated air time: 2 minutes" The system reported.

    Flare's quick thinking clicked and he realized he did not need to use fuel.

    "System offline" Flare said, and the jet completely gave up in maintaining flight.

    Flare did not need fuel because after every explosion, there is...


    - - -The huge explosive firepower from the rpg hit broke the sound barrier, and caused a shockwave throughout the skies. A high pressurized wave of air pierced the skies horizontally. There was so much air pressure that Flare was pushed by it at tremendously accelerating speeds.

    Flare attempted to look at his duct taped mirror, and noticed that the mirror broke off due to the shockwave.

    He kept his eye on the ground, he needed to activate the system at the right moment in order to land safely. The wing deployed a wired oxygen masked from the calculated speed in drop.

    It was a good idea, Flare forgot the constant drop from such high altitude could cause his organs to burst due to pressure. He quickly grabbed the mask and inhaled deeply, and exhaled equally at suppressed intervals.

    Flare was plummeting to the point he descended below the trees of the rainforest.

    "SYSTEM LANDING GEAR" Flare yelled.

    The system popped out wheels that were broken and were not going to break his fall. He had another option.

    "Full Thrusters Initiated start at 90%, gradually decrease at intervals of 10% until there is successful landing. Also perform precautional safety measures!" Flare commanded

    The system went through the full chain of commands strategically. Flare was at first vigorously forced to be suspended in air, but then slowly and drastically he finally touched the ground. For the first time in hours, he felt the ground, he felt what it feels to be pulled down by gravity. He smiled in his accomplishment, and now being safe he looked up at the sky to check up on Ranma.

    Just then seconds later from turning around, a giant powerful swift fireball zoomed right past flare, close enough the flames themselves were able to touch Flare's eye lash. He instantly blinked from the quick transaction trying to registered in his mind.

    To Flare it was a blur of red, until Ranma hit the ground and formed a mini crater to mark his impact.

    "Is that your idea of crash landing?" Flare teased, but he was worried about Ranma fracturing his bones.

    Flare stepped up to the crater, Ranma was messed up, his skin torn up, burned, cut up by scissors, punched in the face by pancakes, but even through all that. Ranma still had hatred.

    "Die" Ranma said while pulling out a small machine gun. He quickly held on to the trigger, but a mysterious orb shielded flare. It was not his doing, but the bullets floated air borne just in front of him, separated by a transparent power.

    "what the?" Flare said curiously.

    "Bullets have metallic functions, the shield acts as a repellant towards these metallic bullets. Think of it as a giant south pole magnet repelling a south pole bullet." The wing system explained.

    "Cool" Flare said in amazement.

    "Not done... With advanced calculating technology, we can absorb the energy from the bullet, and then project it reversed in any angle we want, Observe" The system said.

    The bullets floated in mid air, and then suddenly, they shot right back to the shooter, Ranma was shot down by his own ammo.

    Flare smiled in victory and turned around.

    "System do you have water?" Flare asked.

    The wings rumbled and then created fresh spring water from one of its arms. Flare took a sip only to be alarmed again. He turned around to find Ranma, still standing, after taking hits from pancakes, doughnuts, scissors, duct tape, and even duck sauce! Hes still on his feet standing.

    At this point Ranma was like a terminator just walking slowly towards Flare.

    "You....Must... Die.." Ranma said, his voice was fractured and all out of pitch.

    Flare swiped the spring water towards Ranma.

    "NOOOO YOU FOOL" Ranma exclaimed so loud, the pigeons started getting on airplanes to fly away home safely.

    "huh?" Flare gestured.

    "Ranma was encircled by over circuiting static which overcharged and broke down his own body.

    "Water....My only weakness...." Ranma said.

    Flare was still puzzled.

    "I was created to become the ultimate killer, destroyer of anyone, and I was forced to survive anything, I am immune to any disease, and my body can digest any type of poison... But the scientist forgot the one thing humans can do that robots cant do" Ranma explained.

    "Dance?" Flare guessed.

    "No! Of course we can dance!" The robot replied confidently...

    Ranma then started coughing and breaking down...

    "You are a worthy opponent." Ranma said before dropping to the ground.

    Flare walked closer to Ranma.

    "Built to survive everything and anything, Excluding water...Its a tragic death for a noble fighter..." Flare said while looking up the sky.

    Ironically it started raining. Flare wondered, So even if Ranma survived longer he would have still died from this rain. Quickly Flare disregarded the thought, because it was.............too much to take in.

    The death of his only friend...They were friends since elementary school. He remembered how they first met.
    -flash back-

    "Hey dude" Flare had said to break the tension between them.

    "IM gunna obliterate the military and all of its forces!" Ranma shouted towards Flare.

    Flare took a moment to reply.

    "What a coincidence! Mee Too!!" Flare acknowledged.

    From there, the friendship was born.

    -return-

    Flare stepped up towards the dead Ranma. He closed his eyes holding back tears. He took out an umbrella from the back mount of his AIT and dropped it over Ranma.

    "Farewell...Friend...." Flare said and left.

    "Hello!?" a static transmission shrieked.

    The sound came from Flare's communication device.

    "Yes.." Flare sniffled trying not to be heard from the device.

    "Watchu' crying for fool' " Yelled the same commander from earlier.

    "A friend..." Flare said innocently.

    "you lost A friend? I lost a hundred friends." The commander began.

    "On facebook!! They just be erasing me left and right!" The commander continued.

    "Your right... I do have to move on" Flare concluded, and walked forward.

    "Oh yeah the bombs gunna explode in 5 minutes, we were joking when we said we launched them, but then Tim... You know Tim" The commander explained

    "Ugh.. Tim " Flare sighed in disgust, the very name Tim made him feel horrible about living. The name Tim, made Flare wish he could join Ranma by dying from water.

    Tim was your typical clumsy worker. The type who slips over a banana peel twice...while only stepping once...

    "Anyways, Tim sat on the launch button, and accidentally pressed the exact numbers to trigger the authentication code to fire. And he mistakenly pressed ok, and put his finger print on the finger print authentication stamp, and somehow he got the president to voice activate it. All by Mistake." The commander went on.

    "I understand, Five minutes is enough" Flare said.

    He then hung up.

    "Alright AIT system online, Activate hover board jet mode!" Flare said while tossing his AIT device in the air.

    The AIT flew up in the air, and then transformed and shapeshifted. At first it looked like a motorcycle, then it looked like a car, then a skateboard, then a cat, and lastly a hover board!


    The hover board levitated in the air.

    Flare got on the board.

    "Alright full speed ahead!!" Flare yelled so loud, the earth vibrated from the sound waves.

    Scientist observing Satellite images from NASA thought Earth was dancing for the first time in history.

    "Low Battery, System shutting Down." The hover board exclaimed.

    The hover board shut down, and Flare looked up at the missile which sent a trail of fire with a trajectory heading right into this island.

    "TIM!!!!!!!!!!" Flare yelled being exposed to the bomb's detonation.