Regrouping II

"Let's issue him a challenge."

"What?" Frost said with a surprised look.

"I'm serious, that way he won't have to "hunt" us down and vice versa."

Frost thought about it for a minute before speaking.

"I get what you're saying but that would imply we fight him head on. Do you really think we can take him?"

"His armor is indeed a problem, but we can figure something out later. You said you didn't want him coming here, right? What better way to solve the problem than by facing it head on?"

"I swear, you're going to get me killed one of these days." Frost shook his head in disbelief. But deep down he knew that this was the best course of action right now.

"Got a place in mind though?"

"Yea, abandoned construction zone out of the city. It's where I've been going to test my abilities. It's isolated and if we lose ground in an open fight, we can run in the building and drop steel beams on him or something."

"Great, then all we have to do now is to send a message."

"Hmm, let me try something."

Volt summoned his Warframe and decided to test something out.

(Cephalon, can you relay a message to Rhino's cephalon?)

(I can relay a coded message to him.)

(Send him the coordinates of the construction yard and tell him to be there at 8pm tomorrow if he wants to settle things.)

(As you wish.)

Just as Volt was wondering just how long it would take for Rhino to respond, he was pleasantly surprised.

(Operator, Rhino has acknowledged and accepted your terms.)

(Huh, well that was fast.)

"8pm, tomorrow." Volt said after he changed.

Frost nodded.

"I'm worried that might be too soon."

"So am I, that's why we're going to train."

"You're not serious, are you? The city is already on high alert because of him."

"Be at the construction yard in three hours. You'll be there if you want to live through this." Volt said as he got ready to leave Frost's room.

"What are we even going to do?"

"Get familiar with our powers, the layout of the fighting area, and maybe set a trap?"

"This is giving me a headache." Frost said as he massaged his forehead.

"Just wait until after the fight."

With that last retort, Volt left Frost's house and went home for now.

Several hours later, Volt yawned as he was approaching the site. When he got to the entrance, he noticed a hooded figure leaning back on the fence.

"I hope you're not intending to train all night." Frost said as he stepped out of the shadows.

"We'll stay here as long as we need to. Or at least until we get too tired. Anyways, I'm glad you're here, means I can actually spar with someone."

Volt changed to his Warframe and Frost followed suit.

(Cephalon, did I get any experience from that fight with Rhino?)

(Yes, Operator.)

(Show me my stats then.)

Warframe: Volt

Level: 5/30

Health: 140, Energy: 105, Shields: 210, Shield Recharge: 25.5 per second, Armor: 15

Abilities:

Shock (Unranked): Cost 25 Energy

Speed (Unranked): Cost 25 Energy

Electric Shield (Unranked): Cost 50 Energy

Passive: Static Discharge

(Cephalon, show these to Frost.)

(Affirmative.)

(Alright, Frost. Know yourself, know your enemy and you'll win a hundred battles. So, let me see your stats.)

(Well, if you say so. Umm, cephalon? If you mind.)

(Of course, operator.)

Warframe: Frost

Level: 5/30

Health: 140, Energy: 105, Shields: 210, Shield Recharge: 25.5 per second, Armor: 300

Abilities:

Freeze (Unranked): Cost 25 Energy

Ice Wave (Unranked): Cost 50 Energy

Snow Globe (Unranked): Cost 50 Energy

Passive: Cryogenic

Notes: Sprint Speed is 0.9 compared to most other Warframes

(Huh. Looks like it's mostly the same, except you're tougher than I am and a bit slower too. Your abilities seem to cost more too. Although, it looks like we both have a new ability.)

(I wonder what they do, cephalon can you please explain them to us?)

([Electric Shield] deploys a 6m x 4.25m shield in front of the user. It is an indestructible shield that, at the current rank, lasts for 10 seconds. It is able to be picked up by the user at the cost of 1 energy for every 4 meters walked and the reduced range of the picked-up shield is 2m x 3m. Projectiles fired through the shield will gain 50% electric damage and 200% critical damage. Maximum limit of deployable shields is six.)

(I don't know about the second part but it looks like we have a deployable cover.)

(Enemies will be able to move through the shield however.)

(Wow, this is terrible in a melee fight then.) Volt felt a little down that it probably wouldn't help against Rhino, but in the future, it might be useful to have.

(And mine?)

([Snow Globe] deploys a 10-meter globe, the epicenter of which is the user. This globe has 3000 base health at current rank. When deployed, there is an invulnerability period in which damage taken to the globe is added to its base health, at current rank the period is 1 second. 500% of user's current base armor is also added to the base health when deployed. All enemies within the globe are slowed, at current rank this is will slow by 40%.)

(You know, I'm starting to think this is unfair.)

(There is more to note about this ability, operator.)

(You've got to be kidding me.)

([Snow Globe] when deployed will also freeze and push out enemies near the user. Using [Freeze] on a globe's exterior will cause the globe to explode. Also, the max number of deployable globes is four. When a globe is deployed inside a globe, the already deployed globe will not disappear, rather the globe will take the health of the second globe ability's health. The invulnerability period will also be refreshed. If [Snow Globe] is used inside another snow globe, this will not count towards the number of deployed globes.)

(This is pretty damn complicated for one ability.) Frost shook his head as he was slowly trying to digest all this information.

(Look at it this way. Even now, your role is to protect something.) Volt laughed as he silently cursed what he thought was the disparity between their two frames.