DBX : Artficial Intelligence, Real Instinct

Couple of drones swarm about, deep space. A huge battleship is seen moving at a snail's pace. A few fighter drones accompany it.
The UNSC was in deep trouble again. The rogue space predator, Agent Maine, was loose yet again. Bloodthirsty. All of the Corp's super marines were in healing quarters since they attempted to engage in combat with The Meta and had failed, quite bad.


Aboard the UNSC Mothership...
The Senate sat among themselves wondering how to come up with a solution for this problem of theirs. One of the Senators suggested John-117, but the Chief was on a seperate mission, searching for two others space marines. Suddenly, a secondary Senator rose up and spoke aloud, "Earth has developed quite a lot since our last visit there. I have heard of a company called 'Ultratech' down there. Maybe, we could contact them and tell them to be aware of Agent Maine because... they seem to have an unstoppable metal soldier."
The Colonel looked at this Senator with a grin, and the rest with awe. He ordered the Senator to contact Ultratech and say, "We have a test for your soldier."

Detroit, Earth...
The Meta was in hiding. He was being followed by several UNSC search and attack drones. Though they wouldn't be much of a match for him, he was trying to avoid excessive combat. Hiding in an alley in a destroyed city he hadn't encountered before, he stepped out, feeling like the drones had left. Agent Maine started walking down the streets of this city, scouting. All he could see were buildings destroyed, set ablaze by flames. Not a soul on the streets. He walked down, ashes floating in the slow breeze until he noticed one building afar that seemed intact, hiding in the shadows. He ran closer towards it and noticed a humongous "U" placed on it.

Before The Meta could react, he heard the humming of a drone. The drone came swarming behind him, but the mental space soldier was fast enough to jump up, over the domed drone, flipping mid-air and grappling onto the drone. He punched into it, and somehow managed to guide the drone straight into the building he was glaring at. It burst through the building exterior and The Meta got off safely, dusting himself off.

Agent Maine appeared to be in one of the upper floors of the building. He noticed an alarm sounding off and hundreds of soldiers swarming the room. "Fire at will!" one of them yelled. They aimed their semi-automatic rifles at the invader and as the bullets flew, The Meta flinched, grabbing his dome shield. He threw it down, falling onto one knee. The bullets dissolved straight into the golden aura of the shield. When they stopped to reload, The Meta threw a frag grenade at them with all his might. "Incoming!" a soldier yelled but he was too slow; it was too late. The explosive took off, incinerating few of the soldiers and obliterating most of The Meta's problems. The Meta threw a couple more and the rest were eliminated.

Before the smoke began clearing, The Meta noticed two red eyes sparkling amidst the fog. The eyes shone brightly as they charged towards Agent Maine. The Meta threw a fourth grenade only to see it disrupt by two pairs of plasma claws that this creature suddenly grew from it's arms. This creature flew through the dome as the space mercenary got a single glimpse of this new warrior to his eyes, Fulgore.

*THOWMP!*

Fulgore landed a hard kick right to the gut of a shocked Maine, flinging him out the crash site he created.

The Meta felt pain, but it was a mere tickle to what he had faced before. He flipped in mid-air, and landed on his feet outside the building. He looked up and the bulky figure stepped out, and landed straight infront of the soldier. Fulgore stretched his left foot back and his right foot forward, his back slightly arched as his plasma claws glowed, whilst flexing his metal arms. The Meta simply pulled out his Magnum Pistol and aimed.

The Meta began the battle by firing two rounds at Fulgore which he dodged with no effort. Fulgore stepped away from them and began to jog at his opponent. Fulgore caught up momentum while Maine pulled out The Brute by which he fired two grenades that Fulgore dodged as well. Maine ran and skidded between the metal warrior's legs. He was back on his feet in no time and delivered a hard kick to Fulgore's back. Fulgore stumbled forward. The metal monster turned back as The Meta hit him on the face with a hard elbow strike, following with two hard knee swipes at Fulgore's head and quickly, pulled out his pistol, firing three shots point blank. Fulgore almost fell down at the quick barrage of attacks.

The Meta went to fire a fourth bullet after a quick reload but Fulgore swiped up with a hard uppercut, sending Agent Maine a few metres back, but on his knees. Fulgore dashed at The Meta and attempted a hard jab with his left claw, but Maine deflected it with the blade of The Brute. The blades clashed in a fraction of a second, one of burning hot plasma, and the other of a space metal that sliced a RPG in half. After this, The Meta immediately rolled back and lunged at Fulgore again, his blade thirsty for Fulgore's armor but Fulgore fended off the attack by flexing his right arm; dual claw catching space blade yet once again.

The Meta rolled back and pulled his Magnum out again, and once his feet was on the ground, he threw himself in the air and fired as many bullets as he could at Fulgore. The metal hulk glared at the bullets as two red rays from his eyes vaporised the bullets. The Meta landed back on his feet and wasted no time in activating his overshield and punching Fulgore hard in the chest plate, sending him nearly fifteen feet back. 

Agent Maine again lunged upwards and towards Fulgore, his blade out again and aimed at his target but Fulgore swiped underneath and caught his opponent's foot, smashing him left and right into the floor with utter force.
*crash!*
                                   *smash!*
                                                                            *crash!*
                                                                                                                      *smash!*
                                                                                                                                                                      *crash!*
                                                                                                                                                                                                                   *smash!*
He then threw Maine away but of course, the rogue mercenary felt no pain.

He trajected himself down and then quickly with a flip, kicked Fulgore again on the chest plate. The Overshield caused Fulgore back a ten feet again. The Overshield dissipated quickly because of the damage sustained from Fulgore's hard smashing. Fulgore felt a little weak but that was overruled by his urge to win. He stretched his arms, as his reactor began charging. The Meta didn't bother and ran at Fulgore, but Fulgore swiped in defence. Maine springboarded off Fulgore's arm high into the air and onto the building. Before the metal warrior of Ultratech could comprehend, The Meta leapt from corner to corner, back into the crash site that he had created. He quickly pulled the dead drone's body about and fired lazers at Fulgore. Fulgore ran out of range and morphed into huge metal monster that fired a huge barricade of machine gun bullets from its arms at Maine. The Meta ran away but the bullets flew straight tthrew the drone and caused a huge explosion that obliterated even further of the building.

As the fire died and smoke slept, Meta walked forward but a titanic metal endoskeleton came flying through and stomped itself upon the mercenary. The Meta was on his back and Fulgore was upon him. He activated his eye beam but Maine stretched up to the squatting Fulgore and grabbed his face, his fingers out of harm's way. The beams flared through the air but Maine was strong enough to push Fulgore's head inches away from his own, preventing his own abomination. The Meta suddenly added every ounce of strength into his arm and pushed him away. The Meta flipped back up as he fired Magnum rounds at Fulgore, that he deflected with his plasma claws. Fulgore then fired plasma projectiles at Maine which he fended off his swift movements. He pulled out his Grenade Launcher and swiped Fulgore across the gut when he attempted to lunge at Maine. He quickly fired 4 bombs that Fulgore swiped through, while swinging 360 degrees. Maine attempted a right hook but Fulgore countered it with two quick jabs to the stomach. The Meta was in clear pain but still managed to deliver to hard kicks to Fulgore's head. The Meta jumped and flipped to deliver an ax kick but Fulgore caught it and slammed him so hard to the ground that it began to shatter. Fulgore then capitalised and jumped with a hard forearm to the chest of the mercenary, sending them both down. They began to fall through into a huge hall. Fulgore began charging his reactor once again.
REACTOR LEVEL : 4
Those words appeared on his screen but distracted him away from The Meta, who fired multiple grenades at Fulgore and finally began o crack open that shell of an armor. The Meta then glided through the air and before they could make an contact with the ground, kicked Fulgore diagonally upwards, as he crashed through one of the pillars that was upholding the structure.

*BLOOM!*

Fulgore was hurt but not out. He kept on charging his reactor.
REACTOR LEVEL : 6
The constant damage wasn't allowing Fulgore much time and it must've arguably damaged his reactor as well. As he got up, The Meta ran at him and sliced Fulgore's head with his blade. Fulgore's arm wasn't broken but it was taken upon too much damage from this warrior. Maine went to town upon Fulgore, slashing everywhere he could. Fulgore was down to a single knee when he decided to counter with his claws. Maine slid under a desperate swipe from the Ultratech soldier and lifted Fulgore overhead. The Meta threw Fulgore but he managed to get his balance and landed on his feet. He ran and dodged all the last few Magnum rounds the space mercenary had left.

Fulgore was too close to the Meta when he swiped his claw for an uppercut. The Meta leant back and delivered two hard punches to Fulgore's gut whilst reloading the Magnum with his final magazine. He went to kick Fulgore in the head but he swiped underneath and delivered a hard knee strike to the ribs of Maine.

*THUD!*

A certain crackle could be felt by Fulgore's motion sensors.

The Meta was stunned by the pain but finally decided to end the fight once and for all. Fulgore dashed forward with his claws aimed straight at his opponent but The Meta grabbed Fulgore's leg this time and flung with full force and another pillar, but this time towards the ceiling. As Fulgore flew back helplessly, Agent Maine fired two grenades at him that exploded upon contact. The Meta finally fell to a single knee, breathing hard inside his helmet.

He looked back up and saw a metal monster, with sparks coming out of his armor's cracks but with an undefeated will. Fulgore flew through the air with his plasma claws aimed straight again. The Meta activated his cloaking device. Fulgore landed upon his feet and thought to himself that two could play at this game... but not for long.

The Meta fired a grenade and followed with two point blank Magnum shots at the temple of Fulgore's metal skull. The Meta took advantage and ran all around Fulgore. Firing grenades to his back and as Fulgore looked up, point blank shots to his face. Fulgore was too weak. He was getting weaker and weaker by the second as The Meta kicked Fulgore's chest repeatedly and fired the last of his Magnum magazines at Fulgore's chasis. Fulgore kept charging up his reactor nevertheless.
REACTOR LEVEL : 9
And soon...
REACTOR LEVEL : 10
DEVASTATOR BEAM : READY.

Fulgore finally calmed down in a nanosecond and heard the clocking of The Brute gun above his head. Fulgore flew up with an uppercut and transmorphed into a laser turret that fired multiple lasers straight at The Meta, who was now exposed. Fulgore was glowing red from within as he swiped left and right at Maine's chest. He then jabbed him hard and kicked him in the gut and followed with a hard overhead plasma claw attack. The Meta was taking damage like he never did before. He was too slow and hurt to react to the burning hot claws of the Fulgore unit attacking him at supersonic speeds. As the Meta stumbled back, his armor wide open and now secreting blood, Fulgore further charged up his reactor. He was being overheated but wanted to kill off this soldier once and for all. Agent Maine took a second and lunged at Fulgore. The chest plates opened up and at point blank, Agent Maine saw a red shine. His death.

*TWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!*

After the attack, The Meta was half the man he was. Literally. The legs of Agent Maine fell lifelessly, blood flowing over the place. The Meta's blood coated the Fulgore unit. Fulgore fell to a single knee and pulled off what seemed to be a few brain pieces off his armor. Fulgore had just defeated his hardest opponent yet. But it wasn't easy. He was in need of dire repairs.

Fulgore slowly got up and walked away from the scene of war.