Should the blast hit, Hachi would feel the full power of the android. Likely being knocked back several feet and caught in a continuous beam of bright green energy roughly the size of a man’s torso. After only a second or so, the energy beam would end, leaving the demon to a potential counter attack.

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The needles did not penetrate, as the android was not in any way made of flesh. His body made of metal. However, because his synthetic skin now had the needles sticking out of his body and forearms, the android again had the advantage. The two fighters would now be in close enough range to engage in melee combat, likely only eight or ten feet a part. And so, almost immediately after the needles struck, the android retaliated. Lunging forward and swinging his now needled right arm at the demon, hoping to stab him with his own needles. Naturally, if this works Hachi would be pierced, as he was not made of metal, though the penetration would not be very deep.

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Should AREU succeed in grabbing the demon, he would be reaching for his face. Again, depending on the demon’s facial positioning the android could potentially end up deeply poking him in the eye, causing severe bleeding and obviously blindness. At any rate, that was not AREU’s intention. He was simply going to grip a hold of the demon’s face and squeeze intensely, pushing the demon’s head back to better expose his true target. The neck. With another searing energy blast the beam would shoot down almost instantly at Hachi’s lower neck, just above the collar bone where the wind pipe was. Should it hit, the damage would be similar as to what happened with the cheek, only effecting the demon’s vulnerable neck.

At the same time AREU could feel his inner body temperature dramatically decreasing, between the massive blizzard and the freezing process, he wouldn’t be able to last very long at all.

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Immediately, AREU reached up and pulled the needles from his eyes with his unfrozen hand, looking around as he saw nothing but static everywhere. He was blinded, at least temporarily. It wouldn’t be long until the units began to function again, as they were not badly damaged. Just knocked off center by the impact.

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If the demon let go or if his arm was blasted, AREU would then turn his eyes to the sky and shoot off a beam of energy, the internal reactor core that produces the beams bursting into action and generating enough heat to prevent a total brain freeze. However, it is unlikely the blast would hit the demon in any fatal way. Possibly burning the skin his skin on his torso if he made no action to avoid the blast.

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At that moment, the demon let off one final shot, striking the back of the android’s head, causing his eyes to finally flicker to a solid black. The android’s motionless, half frozen body lingered in the air for a moment, before falling down after his opponent. Both crashing down among the rubble and snow from the desecrated palace. What was once a beautifully carved, vast extension of architectural wonder was now nothing but a pile of ice and stone, like everything else on this god forsaken planet.

AREU’s eyes flickered on, one last time. A single thought running through his mind. Why? An inanimate being, bound to logic and without emotion, had battled to the death, despite the horrible odds. It went against all that the android knew about himself. Against the rationality he had so greatly prized. Perhaps, he thought, that in his final moments of life the android had finally become human. Fallible, and illogical. And it was not at all as bad as it seemed.

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