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Dove-Doll showdown

"Ladies first," Dollhouse stated lifting up his arms.

The dolls started their march towards the doves.

"Ivy, Alce, Ricky. You got left. Queen, Champion, Ace. Go right. Nara and Manna handle the middle. I got Dollhouse." King ordered and the group readied themselves.

The dolls dashed towards the doves.

Alce let out a whistle, "Well I'll be damn. They really are naked."

"They're nothing but metal and hardwire, Tin-man." Ivy said, stretching her neck side to side until it popped.

Ricky let out a grumble, "This should be fun."

Ivy grinned, "Yeah, it will."

Sand rose through the stone cracks and attached to Ivy's hands until they were giant sand fist. She swung her right arm out and uppercutted a doll wearing a white fedora. The doll sailed back and another one wearing a slutty sailor girl uniform jumped high in the air and stomped down.

Swoosh

Ivy swung up with her other fist and Sailor girl crashed down on it in a squat.

Wind blew out from the collision. Ivy threw her fist back and pushed Sailor girl far behind them. Ivy quickly fell into a chinese split as a doll with a purple bunny head and naked human body kicked for her chest.

Bunny head lifted up a saber sword and sliced it down. Whoosh. Ivy rolled backwards and the sword sparked as it hit the ground. Ivy smiled as the sand fell from her hands in a pile, "Now, we're talking." She grabbed her sand dagger from her hip and took it out.

Bunny head and Ivy both struck and connected, instantly going into a flurry of movement.

Alce noticed Fedora about to jump in the fight and quickly unsheathed his left pistol. Click. He aimed the pink baby AK and fired at her. The bullets crashed into her stomach and the force sent her back.

However, a doll with long black hair ran over and caught Fedora. Placing her to her feet, Black hair turned to face Alce. The sound of gears shifting was heard and then beams fired from her breast.

Alce quickly blasted his weapon too, then brought up his other pistol to join the fray, both shots cancelling the other. He changed his right gun into his purple shotgun, but before he could use it, Sailor girl ran from behind and yanked the weapon. Swinging it, Sailor girl smacked Alce across the chin with the butt.

Sailor girl prepared to hammer down on Alce's head, yet the man aimed his gun up and pulled the trigger. Pew pew pew. The beams flew up through her chin and burst out the top of her head. Her body fell to a heap.

Beams wheezing by him dragged Alce back to Black hair and her shooting tits. Alce ducked and rolled aside and grabbed his shotgun from Sailor girl's dead hand. He aimed at her and blasted two giant beams.

Black hair stood still as the beams approached and right when they hit, she phased out then phased back in darting towards Alce.

Alce fired sharp beams with his AK. Black hair just flashed stepped side to side and ran up to punch at the man. He blocked a few hits, but took a couple of them to the jaw, gut and shoulder. Black hair kicked at his head, but he folded his arm up to block her. And, man did that shit hurt. Taking a chance, he punched her across the jaw and...

"Dammit," the man screeched in pain, blocking her kick and shaking his, probably broken, wrist.

He looked over to his left and noticed Ricky standing off to the side.

"Uh," Alce started, blocking a punch. "Could really use some help." Punch. Wham. "Like yesterday."

"Sorry, I'm a gentleman, and a gentleman never hits a lady." Ricky said too cool, with his hands in his pockets.

Alce smacked Black hair with his shotgun and shot at her with the AK. She dodged away and swung at him, but he blocked it with his weapon. "Gentleman my ass." Kick. Punch. "They're not even real women." He grumbled loudly ducking a roundhouse kick.

Ricky lifted a brow, then a black whip wrapped tightly around his middle. He looked over and saw a short doll holding the whip handle. Shorty yanked the whip and pulled Ricky close. Grounding her feet in the stone, she spun around, spinning a yelling Ricky until she let him go.

"Aaahhh," The man fell through the air until he saw a couple of trees coming up. His brass knuckles glowed pink and a pink magic rope sprung from his right hand. The pink rope stuck on two trees like glue and Ricky flipped, landing against the rope with his feet. The force stretched the rope back. Boing. It released Ricky, sending him soaring back to the group. Ricky pointed a hand at Shorty and a pink sheet shot out and engulfed the doll. The wiggling pink cocoon slammed to the ground.

"Sorry, sweetie." Ricky apologized as he landed to his feet.

Alce continued wrestling with Black hair. She punched at him and he blocked and jabbed two fingers into her eyes sockets. Instead of going through like he'd wanted, they cracked against the screen.

"Yow!" Alce cried out, pulling his now throbbing hand to his chest. "Why the hell I do it again?" He tried to raise his shotgun, but Black hair pushed his arm aside spinning him around and when he was facing her thrust her palm against his chest.

Alce sailed back. Taking aim he shot his shotgun.

Black hair lifted her hand and absorbed the beams when they neared.

'Ah?!', Alce thought and flipped to a stop. He landed in a crouch, then stood tall. "'At's a nice trick ya got there." He said, impressively waving toward Black hair with his shotgun. "Wonder how much you can take?"

Click. Alce lifted his red, big barrel colt. The tip glowed then a giant energy canon bullet fired, leaving a cloud of powder in its wake.

The bullet rushed for Black hair and the doll braced herself. The bullet slammed into her, but the doll stood her ground as she slid back, breaking a trail through the stone, and then stopped. She held on it, pressing down her hands trying to consume its energy. However, it proved too strong as she started glitching, then sparking. BOOM.

"Whoo!" Alce cheered, thrusting his arms overhead and dodging falling parts.

Bunny head slashed her sword down and Ivy flipped back to her hands and stopped the sword with her spiked soles. Clank. She kicked the sword back, knocking the doll off balance and flipped to her feet. She swiped her dagger out and left a long cut across the doll's stomach. Oil rained along the skin, painting it black.

She left hooked Ivy, but the sand mage blocked it with her right elbow. Ivy aimed a kick for Bunny head's face, but the doll used the elbow of her blocked arm to stop Ivy's kick. She then punched Ivy across the jaw. The sword she was holding nicked the magic's forehead.

"Nn," The sand mage groaned, then leaned to the side to spit blood on the stone. "You know, I'm not really having fun anymore." Sand formed back into sand fists. Upper cutting the doll, she did a three punch combo and ended upper cutting again. The doll arched up. Sand gathered underneath into a giant spike which the doll impaled down on.

Ivy noticed Fedora running at her, then let out a irritated huff. She cocked her right arm across her chest. Sand spikes popped up along her knuckles. When Fedora reached her, Ivy bitch slapped her. The doll glitched against the spikes.

"Gross," Ivy uttered shaking her hand, releasing the sand and doll to pile at her feet.

Suddenly, there was a loud buzzing ringing through the air. The three quickly turned to the pink cocoon and saw a light glow grow bigger until a shot boomed loud. A hole burst through, followed by a hand.

Ivy marched to the doll trying to escape and lifted her foot. She stomped down and crushed Shorty's face in.

"Get serious," she said to the two men.

"Yeah, you might be right." Alce said with his widen eyes looking passed Ivy.

She frowned and then turned around to look.

More dolls could be seen creeping in from the distance.

Alce stepped to Ivy's side, "Havin' fun yet?"

A side of Ivy's lip twitched, "Not yet, but I'm about to."

Outskirts of The District...

Screams and stomping sounded off from the people running for their lives. The other doves were on evacuation duty. The doves came to this battle prepared. King had ordered a team to go and get the pedestrians away from the battle ground an hour before meeting.

"Just keep going everyone. You're almost there." Belle called out as they herded the people along.

Sensing something off, she turned and saw Rockie standing still, staring the opposite way. Belle walked to the boy.

"Rockie," she called out. "You know we don't have time to stop." She came to a halt behind him.

"I should be with them." Rockie said with a serious face.

"Well you can't. King gave us direct orders."

"Fuck the orders. I can help them." Rockie exclaimed, looking big eyed at Belle.

"You can help us get these people to safety." Belle gritted glaring at the ginger.

Rockie squinted his eyes at her, "No."

"No?" Belle questioned standing taller.

Rockie squared his shoulders. "No."

"Why are you being so difficult? It's easy, just follow the orders."

"What are you two chicken heads arguing about?" K.O broke in as he and Maya marched over.

"Talk some sense into your brother." Belle snapped at the blonde.

"What's wrong, shocky?" K.O asked sucking on his blue sucker.

"I'm going back."

"No you not." K.O said in a that's final tone.

"You can't tell me what to do." Rockie argued back.

"I'm older," K.O said crossing his arms.

"You will not..." Belle started fusing at Rockie.

"I'm my own boss..." Rockie growled at K.O.

"All of you are idiots..." Maya stated to everyone.

The group continued to talk over each other and argue, until.

Bam.

Rockie's body was slammed face first to the ground. He was pushed in deep enough that the stone outlined his shape. A doll wearing a toga with one breast out was crouched on the boy staring at them while holding his head into the ground.

K.O immediately saw red. Air swirled around his hand and he reached out and punched under the doll's chin. The doll swirled straight into the air.

An arrow suddenly sprung out and pierced K.O's shoulder.

"Gah," he cried out as the after force sent him tumbling to the ground. There was a cord attached to the arrow and led up to the doll wrist.

She jerked her up arm and K.O was yanked high up.

Maya started to hum and a brown aura outlined her. A red magic circle formed on the ground under the doll.

"Woodworks 50: Need a hand" the ground started vibrating as a giant wood hand rose from the circle. The hand grabbed the doll between the forefinger and thumb, and it started pinching down.

No longer being pulled, K.O quickly started falling. Belle sent a bubble up to catch him.

The hand crushed down hard, and the doll struggled to push it until the wood began to chip and crack. A long line cracked along the fingers then the tips broke off in chunks.

Belle lifted her hand and a bubble formed over Toga's head.

"Mini Tundra" Belle shouted and a waterfall gushed from the bubble and poured down on Toga. The strong current pushed her crashing down.

Rockie fought to get up, falling down a few times before he got enough strength in his arms. His face was bloodied up. "Heh," he chuckled then looked over to the group. 'Show time', he got to his feet and limped over.

The doll rushed from the water and ran towards the girls. Rockie zoomed by them, heading for Toga with a trail of electricity tailing him. A magic circle appeared before Rockie's left palm. He summoned a lightning bolt and grabbed it.

Toga ran up on Rockie with a wide swing, but Rockie ducked and slid under her. Turning, he slashed his bolt on her back. The doll jerked forward, then shot around to the boy. She brought her fist down and Rockie bent back.

Toga pointed her palm to the boy and it glowed as it released a beam. Rockie jumped back as the beam darkened the spot he was standing. He pointed the bolt at her and static beams blasted for the doll. Toga rolled away and continued shooting beams.

Maya called for Dustin and grabbed the handle, breaking the light particles off. She lifted the gavel to her face and whispered to it, "I summon thee to do your thang"

The gavel rumbled then a long pike grew from the top. With that, she grinned. She stretched her right arm back, and threw Dustin at the doll. It had a clear aim for Toga's back, but suddenly at the last minute, the doll spun and grabbed the gavel. She started twirling the gravel around in circles.

"Oh come on!" Maya huffed angrily.

Continuing the movement, Toga turned and blocked the bolt with Dustin.

"Be gentle Rockie!" Maya cried out.

"What about me?!" Rockie growled out.

Toga pushed the boy off and stabbed the pike out. Rockie folded in so it couldn't hit him. She lifted Dustin up and slammed it down. Rockie jumped up and landed on the gavel head when it hit the ground. Rockie then reached out and swiped his bolt across her face. The cut that was made sparked and then shorted out with a film of smoke clouding up from it. The dolls face twitched as she felt what she could say was close to pain.

Toga heaved the gavel up and Rockie flipped off of it. She swung it at Rockie and he blocked it which caused them to really go at it. Toga missed a swing, leaving Rockie open to attack. He stabbed the bolt into her left shoulder.

"Give my sister," he growled, then dragged it diagonally to her right hip, "back Dustin." He pulled it out and went in for the kill when...

"Duck!" A voice said from behind the doll.

Whoosh. An air ball instantly rushed through Toga's chest. Rockie ducked his head down just as the ball whirled overhead. Toga brokenly went down revealing a grinning K.O.

"You fucking thief. That was my kill." Rockie said angrily, but was knocked down as Maya pushed him aside to get to Dustin.

She hugged it to her chest, "I'm so sorry baby."

"Sorry, shorty. That one was personal." K.O said, then groaned and clutched at his injured shoulder. Blood left trails streaming down his right arm.

Belle saw this and walked over to him. She could tell his injury was starting to heal, but still wanted to be sure. "We need to catch up with the others and get them to safety. If we stay here, there's no telling how many more dolls there'll be."

K.O and Maya nodded their heads in agreement with the plan. They started back walking towards the evacuation route. Rockie started to follow, then stopped and peeked back over his shoulder, staring off once again in the distance.