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With Francis unconscious due to the effects of Yuurei's Haoshoku Haki he cannot be awoken until he's received his due rest or if one of his opponent's makes a failed attempt on his life and jolts him awake. This gives Daimaru the opportunity to wrench Nidai Kitetsu from the unconscious man's hands with little hindrance aside from Francis' out grip strength. Rather than make an attempt to kill Francis while he's down, Daimaru's newly acquired sword is given to Yuurei to assist in his fight against his foe.

Yuurei, upon catching the sword, chooses to relinquish his hold on the one he had picked up previously. Rather than combining their strength, he opts to request Daimaru to retrieve the rest of his weapons from the chest on the stage. However, the man's preparation was slow and confident, allowing even Armstrong with his dull sense of thought enough time to pick up a weapon of his own. With the rubble the two had created in their fight, the muscular man donned weapons of stone.

With the two boulders in hand he let Yuurei rush him. Armstrong, a great deal slower than Yuurei was, had little time to do anything but cross his arms and hold up the boulders to defend his shoulders from the thief's attack. Letting his body give a little to Yuurei's strike, Armstrong received the attack and dampened the damage. As strong as Yuurei was, his sword couldn't cut the stone without proper stability, which was not given.

With the sword sliced into the stone, Armstrong rotated his wrist, threatening to snap the sword with the added force of the stone.

"Francis strong, but I am stronger," the muscled man grunted. "I take your sword, puny man."

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Meanwhile, Gideon faced off against the giant robot piloted by the Good Doctor. The giant, with an intelligent maneuver, released his hold on his massive sword and rolled to avoid the robot's strike, letting the massive metal hand slam into the ground at its feet. The heavy hand sent reverberations through the local area, breaking the ground where it landed.

However, Gideon wasn't done with merely dodging the slow attack from his opponent. Taking the robot's slow actions as an opening he used his cooking talents to breath fire onto the metal beast before him, covering the massive mechanical menace with an equally massive fireball. Alas, the flames were not enough to harm the creature the Good Doctor had created. When the giant's lungs and expended all of the air he had inhaled, the robot stepped out of the blaze with little more than singed metal and a cackling doctor seen behind the window in its center.

"Nice try, monster!" the doctor prodded, cackling all the while. "My metal man won't be taken down by such caveman tactics!"

Pushing the lever forward the Good Doctor caused the robot's feet to move. Each step shaking the ground as it covered the distance between it and Gideon. The steps were slow, but gave it enough time to lift its arm again for another brutal strike towards Gideon. The massive hand would, if it made contact, hit everything from his shoulder up.

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@Yuurei
@Excalibur

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Armstrong wasn't the world's smartest man, but he was intelligent enough to use leverage. With the leverage from using the rock against Yuurei's strength he could have bent the blade, if not broken it. Unfortunately, the thief's ability to provide the needed resistance to make such a feat possible was snuffed out as he went completely limp with an abrupt loss of consciousness. The flick of Armstrong's wrist twisted Nidai Kitetsu, the strength of Yuurei and the blade holding just long enough to toss the long-arm's unconscious body off harmlessly to the side.

However, with Yuurei having provided no resistance, the blade that he had used to attack was unable to be removed from stone, at least by his hands. It was now firmly in Armstrong's control. The muscular man turned the boulder around, gripped the weapon by its hilt, and wrenched it from the rock's grip, turning it to rubble with relative ease and holding the sword up in success.

"Now Frannie can have his shiny back," Armstrong grunted.

The hulking figure of Armstrong began its lumber walking to where Francis lie on the ground, ready to wake him up early if need be.

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Gideon dodged the Good Doctor's slow attack once more. For the high-tech appearance that the robot gave off, the pilot had forgotten to included weaponry beyond rotating arms, albeit ones with high destructive force. He had also, with his foresight, left out a quick movement ability. Luckily the Good Doctor didn't have any plans of dying, so he could add the necessary updates at a later time.

Gideon managed to position himself so that the doctor and his robot were between a set of burning barrels and him without giving away any plan. Fortunately for him, the Good Doctor's confidence was at a high and hadn't been paying attention to such environmental factors. That is, until Gideon blew out a stream of alcohol that went up in a flash with the barrels, engulfing the metal machine in a plume of fire.

Gideon's plan had worked, at least for the moment. The sake had coated the robot before it made contact with the barrels, meaning the leftover alcohol was still on fire for the moment, opening up a necessary gap for the giant to make another, even more devastating, move.

@Daimaru
@Excalibur

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Francis:

Giant Robot:

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The fishman grabbed Francis and bolted for the stairwell, hauling the man's unconscious form up the flight of stairs and into the warehouse to meet up with his still conscious, giant friend. After leaving Armstrong behind, the muscular man wasn't really sure what to do. His care towards Francis mattered little beyond the job, so if he was taken hostage, it was frustrating, but not his problem.

While Daimaru rushed upstairs, Armstrong sat down on the crown, crossing his legs and waiting until Quinn or the Good Doctor came to get him. He had the sword the trio had come for, so he'd have done good in their eyes.

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Meanwhile, Daimaru launched Francis into Gideon's hands. It caught the attention of any surrounding guards, but they were already well aware of what was going on with the giant and a robot battling outside the warehouse. Their guns were trained on the two attackers, but that was all they could do, lest shooting Francis.

The Good Doctor, however, wasn't so lenient. The cockpit of the robot was getting too hot for him to handle after the second round of flames washed over it, but rather than dropping out randomly, he jammed the stick forward and launched out the back.

The robot - still on fire - was sent careening forward towards Daimaru and Gideon. What was more, it was headed straight for the warehouse. If it were to crash, it'd bury the only staircase leading back to Armstrong in flaming rubble as well as pin Gideon's sword beneath its metal frame.

The Good Doctor, having ejected, ran the opposite way, choosing salvation over further combat.

@Daimaru
@Excalibur

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