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[Taroro enters from Kikyo Castle]

Taroro emerged from the pillar of light and it disappeared as he came out. He sat on top of the tower roof, looking back at Kikyo Castle on the horizon. "Damn that winged freak! She's going to make my invasion that much harder!" He gritted his teeth. "If only I had a permanent base somewhere, I could make more powerful tools to use. Only dilemma is where am I going to make a base where nobody will notice it?" He leaned back, deep in thought.

Taroro's military instinct took hold of him and he dove out of the way. He decided to use the smoke created from the imact to find a hiding spot. Said spot was found at the base of the tower. He sat and went to turn on his Anti-Barrier, but as he went to do so, he remembered something; Hazuki broke it. "s**t!" Now he needed to evaluate the situation. He could tell by looking at Kazuki that she was no pushover. Even for an Earthling, she might prove to be troublesome. He needed a plan to defeat her, so he got to thinking.

He decided he couldn't outrun her, so that just left overpowering her. He released the beaten up wing and it fell off his back. He would need more than just that to beat her. Taroro held his arms in an "X" shape over his face and a capsule hovered up in front of him. It broke and Taroro was engulfed in light.

It finally cleared, revealing high-tech armor covering Taroro's body. This armor also had a new set of wings, two sets to be precise, as well as many different types of consealed weapons. "The TMAS 00271, the Taroro Mobile Infantry Suit edition 271. Equiped with assorted weapons, long and close-range, as well as two sets of wings. And as an added bonus, a special feature I installed." He put his hand up and made the 'come here' gesture. "Toss one of those kunai at me Earthling, and you'll see what that special feature is."

"I press" Taroro said as he hit a button on the suit. The explosions occured, not deminished at all. But when they cleared, Taroro was unharmed, a transparent purple barrier around him. "Your attacks are less than useless against me now. It doesn't matter how strong your attacks are. The only way to shut down the barrier system is to punch in a special code to the suit. You're out of luck girl. Now for that special feature."

Just as Taroro said this, the wing that Kazuki had cut off hovered in the air and via electricity, re-connected to the suit. It appeared as though it was never cut off. "Now then, the best part about the barrier..." Multiple hatches opened on the suit and fired missiles that locked on to Kazuki and followed her. "Weapon rounds can leave, but thet can't enter! Tarotarotarotaro! You can't beat my technology."

Taroro laughed. "Foolish Earthling. If puny tech like this was the best I had up my sleeve, what kind of soldier would I be? In reality, such attacks would have already destroyed the first 270 TMAS models. But I learn from my mistakes. That energy you used just now; you made my barrier stronger. And need I remind you of the regeneration feature?" The barrier control pannel flew out of Kazuki's hand and re-attached itself to the suit. The barrier returned, powered up by the Chakra it came into contact with.

"Of course, this is YOUR energy, so I'll have to change the frequency of the wavelengths so it doesn't match yours." Taroro pressed a few buttons on a small machine around his wrist and the barrier changed colors from purple to blue. Like any other ninja, Kazuki could control her own Chakra. Taroro figured as much, and changed it so it wasn't hers anymore. "I told you you can't beat my tech. Now it's my turn." The missiles wouldn't work against an opponent that could fly unaided by machines. But that didn't necessarily mean ALL projectiles were useless.

Taroro inputted another code on the machine, and the gravity around the two began to multiply. Withing seconds, the gravity of the tower perimeter became roughly four times that of Earth's normal. The barrier kept Taroro safe from the effects. Her movement slowed, Kazuki would fall prey to the alien's weapons.

His fingers began to run wild with static electricity, which gathered in the palm of his hand. He raised his index finger and the static formed a ball of energy. He added some extra kick from the suit and threw it in Kazuki's direction. "Even if you dodge this, the explosion will be beyond escape in this gravity."

"You sure know how to piss a guy off" he said to her almost playfully. "But still, the TMAS is just the tip of the iceburg. But before we continue with our interplanetary contest, mind if I ask just WHY you followed me? I seriously doubt Hazuki wanted that gun so much, and I didn't kill him either. That said, you should have no real reason following me." He put some distance between himself and Kazuki, just enough so he could hear her talking. While he waited for a response, he released the suit, which was becoming heavy after the loss of the core mechanism. In its place, he prepared another capsulized weapon, just in case the girl persisted.

A combination of Xubanian pride, and the Shikamaru personality that said men must not lose to women caused Taroro to remove and open the capsule. "Then the hard way it is." When the light cleared, six heavily shielded guns floated behind Taroro's back. "AVX 2.17: Automatic Defense Lasers. These devices sense hostile intent and rush to block any oncoming attack, chi-based or otherwise. And I've made sure to craft them out of the toughest alloy in space. I don't even know if there's a way TO break them. But that's irrelivent." All six hovering shields turned their gun barrels on Kazuki. There was a couple bolts from each before they fired, but then each discharged a bright red laser beam that heated the surrounding air and severely burned anything it directly contacted.

(By the way, unbreakable means UNBREAKABLE dammit.)

"Damn salesman must have dooped me! If this was the real alloy, nothing, and I do quote nothing could even phase it. I have no use for such tools. I press." Taroro hit a button somewhere on his person and all six shields self-destructed. This girl was so troublesome. Physical attacks were useless; she had four limbs and six wings to block attacks. Ten shields built in basically. Still, Taroro was reluctant to use one of the bigger devices, so he went with a consolation prize so to speak. The gun he now held in his hand was light blue, and honestly didn't look like something one would use in battle.

"I'll need to test this." He aimed the gun at a tree and pulled the trigger. The blast discharged faster than even Taroro could see, and in a small fraction of a second, the tree was no more. In its place, there was a sprout emerging from the ground. "AR-B: V4. A weapon that reverses the aging process by a set amount of time. This weapon would of course be too dangerous in my enemies' hands, so it's based on a DNA memory system. If anybody but me tries to use it, it will lock up and completely shut down until a code is entered to reactivate it."

For some reason, Taroro enjoyed giving quick lessons about his inventions, almost like he was getting a Nobel Prize for them or something. Still, he aimed the gun at Kazuki and pulled the trigger.