Red and Purple Ledgers

* Confrontation
* Final Showdown

**Red and Purple Ledgers** is the official term described to chronicle the rivalry of two most prominent assassins in the entirety of Nexonia Prime, featuring PSYLOCKE-832 and KAZAMA-437; the latter is better known as the PROJECT GRANDIOSE. Their hatred for each other was mainly emphasised on competitiveness, over proving who is better as an assassin.

## History

### First Encounters

PSYLOCKE-832's reputation in *A Call to Arms* has readily increased when she joined COALESCENCE after a string of favourable assassinations. The story was picked up by KAZAMA-437 because the station is pro-COA. She carried out numerous assassinations throughout *A Call to Arms* to prevent PROJECT from entering any of COALESCENCE's domains. As a result, the megacorporation became so enraged at her that they dispatched KAZAMA-437 to assassinate her.

KAZAMA-437 has heard of her reputation and is quickly looking for her. PSYLOCKE-832 and 437 meet by chance in a lonely alleyway in July 2999. Both are unarmed, but his demeanour is more reminiscent of his PROJECT GRANDIOSE persona, and he pulls a gun on her. She moves slowly and unarmed towards KAZAMA-437. Despite her legendary status, he tells her that if she fights against PROJECT alone, rather defeat the resistance, she will be killed by him or PROJECT itself. He even invites her to join the megacorporation.

She refused, giggled and verbally abused him, prompting KAZAMA-437 to fire his pistol at her. PSYLOCKE-832 manages to avoid the bullet, much to his surprise. Although KAZAMA-437 is previously unarmed, he pulls out three pistols, which 832 quickly disarms with swift kicks and elbows. Desperate, KAZAMA-437 kicks her six times in the stomach, with some effect. She recovered quickly and exploited him by easily defeating him in hand-to-hand combat before he could defeat her. KAZAMA-437 is well aware that being a cybernetic warrior as PROJECT GRANDIOSE form holds the key to stopping her.

PSYLOCKE-832 kicks the pistols away before KAZAMA-437 can pick them up, but he responds by using an assault rifle, only for her to unveil a collapsible glaive, slice the rifle in half and aim the blade right at his throat. He is left with only fear and deafening silence. He demands another fight. However, they should be equipped with their own PROJECT technology. She agreed without any personal animosity. Nonetheless, she punched him in the face, poked him with the weapon and kicked him to the jaw, effectively destroying it, before he could finish his words. Afterwards, she got involved in a commotion.

The commotion was PSYLOCKE-832 with the ragtag group known as the G/NEX.

### Corporate War

It is clear that PSYLOCKE-832 and PROJECT GRANDIOSE have ensured that their rivalry is primarily emphasised on competitiveness, above anything else. However, the latter has made it clear that he wishes to outperform her as an assassin. Throughout the course of the PROJECT-G/NEX War, the two have fought more than can be precisely counted. As a result, COALESCENCE has enacted measures against the obsidian assassin in order to tame her relentless desire to kill him and instead focus on the goal of defeating the megacorporation.

In *Rampancy* however, GRANDIOSE was disappointed of her not to make any presence despite the entire mecha incident on Technovolk. Furthermore, PSYLOCKE-832 mocks him, saying that nothing has been fascinating so far due to a paucity of military actions from RUBICORE that she can assist with. As a consequence, the two just agreed to have encrypted conversations about their lives and the intense, seemingly everyday arguments they may come up with, Lauren Van Damme was able to discover this, and COALESCENCE were able to use it in their advantage; The Obsidian assassin, is perplexed by the fact that they are not angry with it. GRANDIOSE on the other hand, is known for sending death threats and even threatens to steal her own bike, which she simply shrugged in annoyance.

Their agreement to meet for a fight appears to have been revived during the events of *The COALESCENCE*, as PROJECT has sent him, MEDARDA, and SHADOW to capture the DATA, and they have used the pair as a hostage, meaning to use them against the assassin. PSYLOCKE-832 is enraged and returns to Rutherland as soon as possible. He is disappointed, however, to see her with VI-516 moments before the two of them quickly kill him, but he was able to be restored a few years later, as his Power core was left intact. When GRANDIOSE has awoken in an Avarshian headquarters, he is immediately messaged by her, stating that if he proves to be a worthy opponent in their next fight, she'll start respecting her; Knowing his attitude, he boasts about his Cybernetics and his helmet.

GRANDIOSE later served as a soldier in *Going All Out*, leading an entire battalion of the Command Line as they invaded the city of Obrinia, using an invading force in the city's outer wall at the request of PROJECT VATROX in their current state. As he dispatched many RUBICORE soldiers with ease, the virtuoso saw PSYLOCKE-832. Unfortunately, the latter is uninterested in fighting him, since she is currently defending the walls after a small portion of the Command Line has breached them. VATROX also informs him that he has been blinded and requires artificial optics as a result of her. Due to this, GRANDIOSE demanded her presence in Daitoshi.

In Daitoshi, GRANDIOSE noticed her leading a team of the G/NEX, consisting of FIONA-384 and SCYLLA-028. Dismayed, he pursued the team, alongside bots and MEDARDA herself. A fierce battle engulfed the city, but he was forced to retreat as RUBICORE's forces have been inside the city in a while. With that in mind, he manage to capture her later on in *Technological Lies* and attempted to torture her, to no avail as the rebels have rescued her and he was forced to flee again after seemingly losing a fight. As a result of interrupted fights, the two have settled to finish it all, once and for all in Henvul, a city in Roji.

### Technological Lies: Finale

To put an end to it once and for all, PSYLOCKE-832 returns to Roji and commits a "massacre" among Command Line forces, effortlessly assassinating over two hundred thousand soldiers. Because of the elite assassin's incredible feat of skill, she was called through the Van Dammes in a call and inquired about her whereabouts. It was KAZAMA-437, the stylistic PROJECT GRANDIOSE, and she still recalls their agreement to fight to the death in Henvul, a city on Roji. SCYLLA-028 jokingly calls her, instantly analysing that she travelled to a certain place to kill her rival, to which 832 replied by stating she'll kill that fashionable marksman cyborg.

PROJECT GRANDIOSE quickly locates her, but he sends his best soldiers against her to give the elite assassin a proper challenge. To mock him, she hurls the robotic heads of three soldiers she killed while GRANDIOSE was doing nothing but surfing the internet and reading the news, which the heads landed near him on an overpassing bridge amidst his time of using a corpo-network. However, he stops his doing and quickly gestures for her to follow in a dark alleyway.

Following the speech, there is a fight. GRANDIOSE instantly dares her to a fight while he exploits the city by wall running and jumping from buildings and bridges, which she appears to have quickly followed while attacking at high speeds, allowing him to taunt her, stating that her skill can only lead her so far. Unbeknownst to him, PSYLOCKE-832 has a trick against him and unmasks herself while using her wrist computer to track his location, as a tracking grenade is implanted on his back, even if he managed to get away from her at least a thousand meters away. To make matters worse, he gets collided over by PSYLOCKE-832 in her bike and kicks him to a wall, quickly dismounting from her bike, with the full intention of killing him for good.

As the two assassins are ready to kill each other, GRANDIOSE quickly counters her moves despite his state and shoots her in the chest, with some effect. However, PSYLOCKE-832 decides to toy with him until her rival's skills got the best of him, losing afterwards after she threw him to a wall, shot him dead in the head and rubble drops on him. As a result, he goes offline. His head module detaches from him and attempts to reconnect in order to revive him, but she was able to find out and quickly stabbed the module, and his Power core, effectively killing him while preventing any revival attempts.

This marks the end of their competitive rivalry.

## Main Cast

**Red and Purple Ledgers** featured the two main titular characters: PSYLOCKE-832, the NIGHTSTALKER and KAZAMA-437, the GRANDIOSE. This article fully covers the entire scope of their rivalry, which first grew as a form of competition after Kazi lost a fight without cybernetics, then later became a rivalry purely born out of hatred and the competition to prove on who is better.

* PSYLOCKE-832, the *PROJECT NIGHTSTALKER*
* KAZAMA-437, the *PROJECT GRANDIOSE*

## Quotes

### PROJECT GRANDIOSE

* "No cybernetics at all. An Alpha? this fight should be the best of my life."
* "We are both ledgers of two different, opposing sides. I am red, you are purple."
* "Never have I ever have fun killing until I met you."
* "When I died at your hands, the only thing that came to my mind was to equal you, in combat."
	+ - During *The COALESCENCE*
* "I thought you didn't side with the rebels. I am gravely disappointed."
	+ - GRANDIOSE seeing her with FIONA-384 and SCYLLA-028 in *Going All Out*
* "You do know I wished you, the NIGHTSTALKER; To maintain allegiance with us. Your skills and experience outmatches pretty much everyone here, if not for some. Since you infiltrated and exposed everything about the megacorporation, I have to kill you."
	+ - A Private message sent to her.

### PROJECT NIGHTSTALKER

* "I work for COALESCENCE to provide security in this planet dominated by PROJECT. I don't support those rebels, but they're good on their own."
* "A Lieutenant? You are an assassin, KAZAMA-437."
* "It gets boring when you send an army for me to easily slaughter them. Bring out your best men!"
* "GRANDIOSE? You should've had the codename FLASHY. You're codename sounds wack as hell."
* "Red is for bloodshed, Purple symbolises royalty. Know the difference."
* "Well well, this should be fun. A cyborg now? Interesting."
	+ - Meeting each other again in *The COALESCENCE*
* "Do I have to kill you again? You pose minimal challenge."
	+ - In Going All Out
* "Should I kill **thousands** more of your worthless pawns?"
	+ - During their final fight in *Technological Lies*
* "I may be a purple ledger, but I'm a born hero. You're nothing but a red ledger, the showboating assassin with a big, egotistical mouth."
	+ - Her last words against him, after killing him.

## Gallery

NIGHTSTALKER takes aim at GRANDIOSE while in pursuit, after killing his entire squad of elite soldiers.GRANDIOSE v NIGHTSTALKER, with him aiming at her.NIGHTSTALKER shoots him in return.A distant shot capturing the two's intense fight, while in the air.GRANDIOSE returns the favour and shoots her, but misses.Testing her patience, NIGHTSTALKER wall runs to intercept GRANDIOSE.She takes aim after looking for an open shot.Her Silver round travelling onwards to GRANDIOSE.GRANDIOSE outsmarts her, placing an entrapment field right at her feet.She looks dismayed after realising she has been trapped, or stalled.Due to this, she was immobilised.GRANDIOSE taunts her by doing a bow, before fleeing.She coldly stares at him, knowing that she has implanted a tracking grenade on his back.She unmasks herself, confident that she has a trick against him.She tracks his current location in Henvul.She keeps tracking him, before detonating the grenade through the same wrist computer.A tracking grenade implanted on his back, courtesy of PSYLOCKE-832.Now, KAZAMA-437 gets cornered by PSYLOCKE-832, after being rammed with a bike and his injury from a grenade.She brings an end to GRANDIOSE, with him being shot and crushed into rubble.She silently watches his demise.As the rubble drops on him, she watches in complete satisfaction.GRANDIOSE's fate.
## Trivia

### General

* It is clear that PSYLOCKE-832 is clearly the superior assassin.
* PROJECT GRANDIOSE's combat abilities against her has been improved after their fight in their first encounter and The COALESCENCE.
* GRANDIOSE finds it interesting that she is extremely composed in most situations, even in their fights alone.
* The titular event was coined after GRANDIOSE stated in his speech against her.
* VI-516 confirms that the NIGHTSTALKER became bloodthirsty to kill GRANDIOSE after the failed heist in 3012.