1010 heros (nsr au)

Episode 2: the Cyborg and the White Knight

There's the sounds of a tape recorder playing as a distorted voice speaks
"Log date xx/xx/20xx Those 1010 heros have once again defeated my monster. Unfortunate but this shows I need to rethink my plans. As such I've decided to look into when these new hero's first appeared, unfortunately since I don't know their true identities I can only go so far. But I don't intend to give up. Those heroes will fall one day, and my plan will seek fruition" and another click as the recording ends. They were looking over the monster battles, then found it, the last battle neon j had fought alone. Might as well review it once again.
Maybe this time they'll find something useful.

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It was a lovely day in Vinyl city. The sky was blue, the paths were clear. And everyone lived in peace as they did their daily commute. Of course there's the occasional disturbance, no city is perfect. But usually it's nothing the authorities can't handle.
That is until a multicolored slime monster appeared and started clawing chunks out of nearby buildings. Cackling behind it was a woman with a overcoat and wings, she was siting on a lamp post with a sharp tooth grinned.
"Yes YES! Go my monster! Make these pathetic humans FEAR YOU!" She laughed maniacally. Her laugher was interrupted by a Sharp red needle being shot at her. She squawked and jumped out of the way and glared at the direction the attack came from.
"You again! You just don't know when to quit do ya old man?!" She exclaimed.
Standing on a device that was floating slightly was a cybornetic man. His cape flowed behind him as the fluff of it accented his screen head, a sonar spinning calmly on the screen. it blipped with the location of the two monsters. A department on his mount opened as he pulled out a yellow colored weapon, it looked similar to a pistol, but had a floating circle around the front.
"As long as the flag of rhythm stands, I will fight to protect my city from monsters like you!" He declared raising a fist to the sky. The winged woman sneered and declared
"Then l'll burn this city down with you in it! Goodra! Attack!" She said pointing at the cyborg. The slime monster did as told and started launching flaming attacks towards neon j. The cyborg maneuvered his flying machine away to dodge attacks, but with the monsters many heads he had too many close calls for comfort. But neon j wouldn't give up. He had to protect the city, alone if he had to.
There was nobody else available to anymore.
He fired his pistol, shooting yellow glowing shots at the beast. The areas hit gave off a dull yellow glow, but before anything else could happen the icky goo covered the impact points. It was like it was absorbing the damage. But neon j continued to fire. Shoot. Dodge. Shoot. Dodge. Dodge. Shoot. Miss. No. Wait. Move!
Then he was hit. His weapons factory fell and crashed the ground, knocking neon j off and landing on the cold concrete floor. He sprawled on the ground, his factory sliding some distance away. If he could crawl over he could pull out another weapon. But the slime dragon was already charging up another shot.
This couldn't be it.
He had to protect the city.
He covered his screen with an arm as the monster launched a projectile attack. He couldn't even dodge.
Then suddenly he heard a young man's voice.
"Watch out!!" And suddenly neon j looked up to see a silver haired teenager jump in front of him and swing a baseball bat at the projectile, sending it back with a loud CRACK.
The flaming ball of slime hit one of the hydra monsters heads casing it to splatter and fizz away. The remaining two heads blinked at the now empty spot in surprise.
Neon j looked up to see blue eyes looking back at him. This kid looked to be in high school at least, maybe early collage at most.
"Hey, you okay?" He asked offering a hand to the downed cyborg. Neon j's screen blipped in an imitation of blinking as he took the offered hand.
"I will be, thanks for the assist solder. But you shouldn't be out on the battlefield, it's dangerous for you-" and he was cut off as the goodra let out a furious roar. Before neon j could make a call for retreat the teen grabbed him by the arm.
"Yea yea I know- but we gotta move it!" And he pulled the cyborg along and away from the blast radius of the hydras attack. As they ran neon j grabbed the handle of the factory, luckily the jets still functioned so it hovered just above the ground so it was easily tugged along. They had just barely passed the corner when a flaming ball of slime wizzed passed them. Neon immediately knelt to check if his factory was damaged. Thankfully it wasn't to badly broken that it wouldn't function, but he couldn't immediately create any new weapons. The teen looked over at the machine, then at neon j and said. "I can buy you some time to get that working." He had a confident glint in his eye, neon j looked up and was about to protest when he saw that look. This kid knew of the danger and yet was willing to put himself at risk.
It reminded him of someone he knew in the past.
He found himself speaking before he realized it.
"Why solder? Why would you put yourself in such danger?" The teen gave a confident grin and put his free arm across his chest.
"Because vinyl city is my home. And I won't let anyone get hurt or die because of some monster attack. Not if I can help it."
Neon recognized that confidence this kid had, he recognized it as something he once had- maybe even still does considering what he is out doing now. He knew he wouldn't be able to convince this kid to run off. So he nodded.
"What's your name, solder?"
"Rin, sir!"
"Rin. Can you keep the Goodra's attention off me while I get this old bird functioning again. I just need it to spawn a certain weapon. Shouldn't take long."
Rin nodded and ran back out behind the corner. Neon j quickly got to work rebooting the factory.
"Hey! Look over here you Two headed beast!" Rin yelled over with a wave. But instead of the dragons attention someone else looked over.
"Well look who's a bold little rat!" The winged monster cackled, landing on a street light nearby. Rin held his bat close ready to strike.
"And who are you? Some kind of feral bat?"
The woman huffed at this, though not really helping the bat comparison since she decided to hang upside down now, wings outstretched,
"Names Inky, you little snowflake. Better remember the name- because I'm gonna make sure everyone remembers it when I burn down this dumb city!" She let out a wicked laugh as she made a lunge for the teen, but Rin was faster and wacked her away with the bat. Making a metallic TWANG. As she skidded across the pavement. She growled as she held the side of her face, dark ink dripping over where she was struck.
"Why you little- I'll obliterate you!!!" She screeched as she prepared to attack. Though she didn't get the chance as a yellow missile hit her. Rin looked back and spotted neon j with a rocket launcher over his shoulder. By now the monster had turned its attention to the attackers. Neon j quickly reloading and moving in front of the teen.
"Duck and cover soldier!" He ordered, Rin barely covered his head as another rocket was launched at the monster, hitting it in its chest. For a few moments nothing happened, then the center of the monster started to glow a yellow color. The light expanded and grew. And at the last possible moment the beast looked up.
Then it exploded into slime bits.
Neon j managed to cover Rin before anything could hit him. And luckily civilians were evacuated so nobody was hit by the sizzling slime.
But neon j knew one more thing had to be done.
No time to purify. He put his rocket launcher down and pulled a sword out from his belt, Running quickly towards the center of what used to be the hydra like monster. Soon neon j found what he was looking for.
The core.
It was already secreting more of the corruptive slime to reform. But neon j wouldn't let it. With a quick motion he sliced the core in half, destroying it. The slime around started to melt away into nothing.
Rin finally looked up when he heard the hissing of the slime melting away. He looked over and saw the cyborg. Standing at the destroyed core. He knelt down and picked up a half of the item inside.
It was a plush dragon, old and warn from years of being loved.
Neon j let out an electronic sigh. He only looked away from the toy when he heard footsteps approach. Rin has moved to stand next to him. The boy looked confused at the plushy.
Ah.
He didn't know.
"It's this monsters core, solder." Neon j explained. "Each one has it. Only way to defeat the beast is to destroy the core. Or purify it, but that's much harder in most cases" Rin nodded at the explanation. Though quickly jumped when neon j suddenly keeled over. Rin was quick to catch him.
"Sir!"
"I'm- I'm alright, Soldier. Just tired." Rin was going to argue that he looked more than just a little tired, but had a feeling that wouldn't help any. So he decided to do something that would.
"Let me help you back to... well wherever you usually stay. It's the least I can do for you sir"
Neon j was too tired to argue. So with a nod they made their way out of the battle scene, stopping only to pick up the factory to pull behind them.