A few days had passed since my revival, and most of those days I'd honestly just spent lazing around the house and lab, receiving small upgrades whenever they were available. It was kinda boring, though I'd somewhat expected as much.

Honestly, I'd spent more than a few hours contemplating if I should head down to the city can try to clear out the quarantine zones. I'm actively aware that I'm more than enough of a weapon in my own right to be able to handle anything down there, but considering that there's still things about myself and my capabilities that I'm not fully aware of, I decided against it. Besides, they already supposedly "got it under control," so there really was no immediate need to involve myself.

My routine these last few days was pretty standard, being to wake up, eat some food, then go berserk in the clearing I'd made, which mostly consisted of me trying to use new abilities. That much being said, though, it did seem that all I could do right now was move fast, hit hard, and release that sort of energy blast, not that it bothers me. It's certainly more than what I used to be able to do.

I was actively aware of the television going off on some news report in the other room, but I wasn't paying enough attention to actually care. It was just some stupid update on dumb celebrities or something like that, people I don't care about in the slightest. Looking around some, my eyes finally rest on the small cat curling around my ankle, purring as it did.

I let myself chuckle a little, before lifting up the cat from under the arms and smiling at it, the cat meowing at me happily in response as I bring it close to my chest and give it a hug.

I was about to give the cat some gentle scratches, when I heard something akin to screams in the other room. Setting the cat down, I quickly rush in to see what's up, and ultimately being directed to the television by Mrs. Orion.

Destruction and terror was the scene to be revealed, what was apparently once a peaceful scene had been interrupted by some strange robot. It was ripping everything in sight to pieces, smashing buildings with ease and slaughtering innocents in a rage, all while firing explosives from it's back at everything around it.

I grit my metallic teeth, before turning to Mrs. Orion with a frown, pointing at the screen as I did so.

"Where is this happening?" My question seems to catch her off guard, and she sputters for a minute before finally answering my question.

"Uhmm… Patch City, not that far from here… But you really don't wanna involve yourself with this, sugar. That thing looks dangerous."

"Yes, it does. But I wouldn't be a true Hunter if I didn't act on a threat so close." I say with finality, before doing an about face and racing out the house, blasting off through the streets toward home... or I suppose what used to be "home" for me. Who know, maybe my family's house is still standing?

I could see the city ablaze from at least five kilometers away, though to be fair it was really just a part of the city ablaze. I'd arrived after less than twenty minutes sprinting towards the action, slowing my pace as I closed in on the city, more specifically my new target. The city itself was, at least in my opinion, much better than what had become of Vale, more or less just looking like Vale used to look like back in my time, except with a few skyscrapers.

It honestly wasn't a difficult task tracking down the robotic monstrosity, seeing as I just had to listen for screams and explosions, though finally coming face to face with it, I realized just how much bigger it was than myself, easily being about five or six times my height. I sigh for a moment, before lifting a wrecked car with one hand and throwing it as hard as I could towards the robot. The robot, though I really suppose it shouldn't be considered a surprise, reacted with incredible speed, a massive blade extending from it's wrist and bisecting the car with a diagonal slash.

"Hmph. Got any other neat tricks up your sleeves, or are grenades and blades all you got, big guy?" I growl, crossing my arms as the robot faces towards me. Finally getting a better look, I notice that it did, without a shadow of a doubt, have much more up it's sleeves. It's head must've had at least nine optical lenses, each facing out in a different direction, meaning it most likely could see in a full 360 degree radius, and aside from that, it looked like it had machine guns, and a jetpack... Damnit, now I wish I had a jetpack, why can this thing have a jetpack and I can-

"Analysis Complete: You are my target." The robot spoke in what must've been the most robot-y voice I'd ever heard, successfully making me lose my thought of jetpacks and snap back to my opponent. "System Scan Complete: You're inferior. I am going to kill you now, do not resist."

I barely had enough time to duck down and avoid being split in two as the machine rushed toward me, it's jetpack blazing behind it. I kick off as hard as I can, putting some distance between myself and this thing, before driving my foot hard and rebounding back toward the machine, my eyes glowing brighter as I punch towards my foe. My eyes widen as the thing practically disappears, before gritting my teeth and pivoting with my arms raised to take the blow as it viciously lashes out down upon my falling form. Sparks fly as my forearms block the attack and I hit the floor, and before it could stomp on and turn me into scrap metal, I rolled back, just barely clearing the danger zone as I rise to my feet.

"Dammit! That thing is faster than me... for now!" I growl through grit teeth, digging my heels into the road. "Increase power output to 65%, divert additional power to arms!" I yell, and rush headlong into the thing, successfully scoring a punch to it's face and making it stumble back slightly. I seethe as it begins flying upwards with it's jetpack and launching grenades and rockets with machine guns blazing towards me. I scoff at the machine guns as they ping off my armor harmlessly and rush forward to avoid the explosions, leaping forward and kicking off a piece of debris as the streets and faces of buildings were wracked with massive explosions.

Slamming my fists together, I discharge a small pulse of energy before sending a flurry of punches directed at it's jetpack. I successfully smash the twin jets propelling it into the air, before getting smacked away.

Landing feet first, I skid across the ground for a few seconds before my momentum finally died, leaving me probably a good fifty meters away from my opponent as it crumpled a truck under it's massive weight like a piece of paper as it returned to the earth. I don't give it time to recover as I rush towards it, my semblance allowing me to close the distance faster than the human eye can possible comprehend.

"Anime reference time: Increase twin core power output to 100%, divert everything to arms!" I roar, and let my fists fly with dozens of after-images, each punch connecting with a loud, satisfying crunch as I let loose a mighty cry, "Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda, MUDA!" My right fist slams hard into the monstrous robot's chest crumpling the last of the armor on the torso and launching it back several dozen meters as explosions begin wracking it's form, facing away as it slams down into the ground a ways away, a large explosion consuming it's form as some bystanders who'd remained began cheering.

"So much for being so 'superior' to me, huh? I guess that's-" I was cut off as some purple laser blasted through my abdomen, leaving a large hole on my side. I throw myself to the side as I look back into the smoke rising from the fire, to see a smaller machine, roughly a foot smaller than I, rising from the ruins of what must've been it's old chassis. A quick scan is all I need to learn just how outclassed I just became, as as 100% I'm not even grazing it's estimated 5%.

"Aw, crap..." I swear, before taking off as fast as I can into one of the buildings as dozens of those lasers began lancing through everything around me. It's only thanks to my extensive experience dodging attacks that I legitimately have no right to be able to dodge that I manage to continue on without getting blasted to bits.

This is bad... Those lasers are starting to get more and more accurate, and if I can't close the distance, then I can't damage that thing. I was about to slide under a piece of debris, when the area round me became totally destroyed, leaving me in a freefall with it's sights trained on me.

I brace myself for the quick death, only for the first laser to strike a falling fire extinguisher, making it explode. I don't pay it any mind for a moment, before noticing that the stuff of the extinguisher is dissipating the laser beams, making them far less powerful as they strike. I'm still launched through the other side of the building, with my clothes still somehow intact after such a blow, but none of that is really relevant, I got an idea now...

"Order: Reveal yourself, so I may delete you." The droid said it's robotic voice, and for a few seconds, was met with nothing. After a few seconds delay, it began scanning the area around, eventually finding it's target crouched low behind some dense cover. "Statement: I've found you!"

Immediately, it began assailing the huntress's position, it's signature being lost among the ensuing explosions. For a moment, it thought it had killed it's target... before she blasted out from the explosions, still seemingly unharmed, carrying about a dozen red canisters as it fell. Looking up at her target, Ruby threw six of the canisters in one hand towards the robot's superior form, each being blasted apart by a single laser and creating a sort of smoke screen.

At this point, the A.I of the robot was livid, it's lenses and lasers changing from purple to red and blasting out many times more lasers towards her, all to only be cut short by the smoke screen as they dissipated into nothing...

With a grin, I leap high into the air, throwing the last of the canisters down towards my foe, and like last time, it blasted them, allowing me to fall with their remnants with relative safety towards the robot. Within a second, I was in range, and punched it's face with all my might, sundering it's armor and smashing many of it's lenses as I land. Looking back up, I notice it's about to blast me with it's lasers, so I don't dare even give it a moment's respite...

"OVERDRIVE ACTIVATE: ANNIHILATION PROTOCOLS!" I roar as loud as my vocal unit would allow, and let my fists fly. A massive electrical storm cascaded from my form as at the speed of my punches, my fists were turning white hot from their heat and velocity of my punches, each one finding it's mark in this form's inferior armor as over fifty after-images of each fist struck with full, unrelenting force.

"WRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYY!" I cry as my fists fly faster than even I can properly comprehend, crumpling the poor machine down and down, continuing to shred it with total abandon.

I'll admit, I was getting a little careless and didn't notice the glow coming from it's chest. That would become something I regret as a massive red laser blasted clean through my chest, throwing me back and off of it as a hole was burned through me, successfully reducing one of my twin cores to atoms as I fell on my back. Groaning, though it not really being something I did involuntarily, I manage to pick myself up and look down on the machine that had claimed me to be inferior, then began to laugh. The thing couldn't even move, it's arms and legs were totally smashed to bits, and the only place it could now shoot was straight up.

I walk over to it and take another laugh at it's fallen form, before kicking it lightly. "Y'know, I'm gonna call you 'Matt' for the last few seconds of your existence... heh, cuz whaddya call a guy with no arms and no legs laying on your front porch? MATT! Hah! Get-" It must've taken insult to my remarks, because it released a small energy blast that threw me away, not that I didn't land on my feet or anything, then created some sort of repulsion field that continued to push me back whenever I entered. "Hmm... if you can do that now, then I can't kill you..." I muse, before looking around, looking for something heavy to use.

My eyes eventually settle on an unused road roller across the street, and a grin plays across my face as I use my semblance to practically warp over to it to pick it up. Surprisingly, I'm actually able to lift it, and overhead at that. Then, wanting to recreate the scene I somehow know of as best I can while still actually winning, I leap high into the air, just so that I'd fall directly onto my opponent.

"ROAD ROLLER DAAAAA!" I roar with sadistic glee as I descend upon the droid. As if in a last ditch attempt, it began blasting with it's laser against the stone of the road roller at full blast. "IT'S TOO LATE! YOU CANNOT ESCAPE!" I yell in turn, before beginning to force it down with my own punches. "Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda! MUDAAAAA!"

Finally, after about two seconds passed feeling like an eternity each, the road roller had fallen, crushing... Matt... Yes, Matt. Crushing Matt like a bug under it's obscene weight, the light from it's lasers finally dying as the area descended into silence following the Thump! of the road roller. Hopping off, I threw myself upright and turned my side to face the road roller, before snapping my fingers and pointing under the road roller.

"The reason you lost was because you mistook sheer power as being all it took to win a fight... and because you pissed me off!" I say, and start approaching it. I lift the road roller to see the fruits of my labor, finally seeing myself able to relax in seeing it properly smashed to pieces... though a closer inspection revealed many of the components to still be salvageable... perhaps I could bring these back for upgrades?

However, I was caught off guard when I suddenly heard a clap, first one, then two, then a dozen and more and more, until it seemed all was being drowned out in jubilee at my victory. Cheers of happiness, cries of relief, and the deafening applause... It wasn't what I was expecting. Certainly, hunters back from my time were hailed as heroes, but usually they just got a few 'Thank You's when they saved the day, and I was no exception to that.

The massive attention, to be perfectly honest, was not something I was all too comfortable with right now. Modesty was something, after all, and all this attention and praise was unnerving, uncomfortable.

With a loud sigh, I pick up the smashed up droid and heave it over my shoulders, before racing off with a blast back home, a trail of rose petals following me all the way...

"Absolutely amazing..." Doctor Orion mused, marveling at the remnants of my foe. "You actually killed X7... this machine has been nearly unstoppable for the last two years, and here you've gone and killed it! Incredible!"

"That thing has been terrorizing you for two years? I still can't believe you people don't think you need hunters anymore when threats like this one still roam." I drone, before tapping on Matt, so properly named X7 now. "I'm still referring to him as 'Matt' if that's all the same to you."

"Matt, huh? Not gonna question your naming logic, but why did you bring this to me?"

"My components and armor were totally inferior in the fight, and I only survived through skill and experience... but something tells me this is just gonna be the first of many powerful enemies I fight in the future, and what saved my skin this time might not be enough in the next. I need you to reverse engineer this thing and upgrade me with it." The doctor quite literally spit out his coffee at my request, and looked at me as though I'd gone mad.

"Seriously?!. You want me to reverse engineer THIS?!. I mean, I can do it, but I don't think your cores could even handle the upgrades!"

"Then we upgrade the cores too!" I reason, stepping forward. "If my gut feeling is right, and it's almost always right, then I'm gonna need the upgrades if I wanna win in the future."

He sighed, tapping his foot rapidly, before falling back into his chair and reclining back as he took another sip of his bitter drink. He put a look of contemplation on while doing this, and I watched quietly. There's obviously something going on in that head of his, and I'll be damned if I don't find out just WHAT that is.

"...I'll get in contact with one of my colleagues for custom twin nuclear cores, and begin work on making those upgrades... but just... be careful. With your battle today, there's not a doubt in my mind that you've garnered the attention of everyone on Remnant... for better or worse." He said, before smiling, and gesturing to the table. "Now, come. We've gotta repair you now, after all, two holes in your torso and half your face missing isn't a good look for you."

A/N: Second time writing a fight in 1st person. I think I could use some improvements but that's the best I got right now. Any Criticisms appreciated