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Post by Omegarex24 on Jul 6, 2013 1:51:06 GMT -5
(Jeez, sorry about that. I forgot I went after MM.)
"Not yet. Not by a long shot."
Adler seemed almost surprised as Darktide groaned to a standing position once more. The alien energy weapon had done a real number on Darktide's chassis. Ben knew his time was short, but he still had another trick up his sleeve. He still had enough fuel left for another round of Overboost...as well as his trump card. He just needed his three targets to gather close enough together. But first...
"Argh, you will die American scum!"
"You first," Ben said as he disengaged the firing limiters. As Adler charged up his massive weapon again, Ben fired everything he had: all three barrels on the MAC, the Hyper Nova, the Ion Linear Cannon (despite the protests from the arm), the last of the Hydra missiles and the Harmonics Disruptor. Heidenreich teetered backwards as several powerful beams and explosions ripped through his weakened armor, toppling the war machine over in a pile of twisted scrap and flame, Adler cursing into his radio the entire time.
"God, just shut up!"
"Cease at once! Combat must cease if we are to survive!"
"You too! If I wanted my mech to talk back to me, I'd have them install a real AI. As is, I'm happy with the one I've got. Speaking of...activate Overboost and the Overdrive Cannon."
"Corona-Eclispe Overdrive Cannon power-up sequence initiated. Thirty seconds until maximum charge is achieved. Warning, use of Overboost and Overdrive Cannon in conjunction may result in unstable flight trajectory."
"Noted. Do it."
"Overboost activated."
Darktide kicked off the ground as several powerful booster rockets switched on, sending the machine rocketing off towards Rust Red and Ferrum. The two of them needed to be shut down, here and now. Ben swept the the Hyper Nova across Rust Red's back, eliciting a shriek of surprise and the heavy particle beam burned a hole through his armor.
"'ey! That weren't nice!"
Ben paid the revolutionist no mind, as he quickly swept past Ferrum, driving his Plasma Cutter into the Sheekh mech's flank, leaving a glowing wound in its wake. Neither Ferrum nor Rust Red took this well, as they both fired on Ben. Although his Barrier Fields managed to block most of the assault, their weakened output allowed some of the damage though, forcing Ben to land, with a slowly rising Heidenreich between him, Rust Red and Ferrum, the two alien machines seeking to put the meddlesome draconic mech out of the fight. Which was exactly where Ben wanted them, as he slammed Darktide's feet to the ground before calling to Robert over the radio. He didn't hate the pilot of the lanky machine. If anything, he respected him. Hence the warning he now gave.
"You may want to move."
"Overdrive Cannon power-up sequence complete. Firing in 5..."
A building hum came to a crescendo as Darktide engaged foot locks to anchor himself in place.
"4..."
The chest panel began to split open, as arcs of electricity crackled across the panels. A glowing aura could be seen within.
"3..."
The aura built to a blinding white light as a glowing sphere of thermo-nuclear doom formed at the core crystal.
"2..."
All three enemy machines raised their weapons, preparing to strike before Darktide could finish. Red Arrow had wisely gotten out of the way.
"1. Firing now."
A white hot beam of nuclear plasma erupted from Darktide's chest area, as a massive line of devastation followed. Heidenreich, Rust Red and Ferrum Magnus were all caught in the beam's path, as the sheer heat slagged metal and circuits alike. Any remaining structures in the path of the beam were reduced to molten scrap or ashes, as the sheer shockwave of the beam knocked the enemy mechs over. For a few seconds that seemed like an eternity, the beam continued before petering out. When it was finished, the three mechs were in a tangled heap, their armor, or what was left of it, glowed white with residual heat.
Darktide's chest panel closed back up as the machine slumped, visibly drained from the attack.
"Main power at 19%. Reserve power online."
"Charge the Ion Cannon. Aim for Heidenreich..."
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Post by Tenshi the Sunkern on Jul 12, 2013 23:03:41 GMT -5
24 hours, Hayes.
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Post by Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual on Jul 13, 2013 0:40:14 GMT -5
(Sorry! Got careless on vacation. Thought I'd have time to do it, didn't. My bad.)
The white lance of light peeled a searing path towards the Nazi super-machine, burning the air around it into vapor, but a rough shove from a hot, dripping machine arm sent Ferrum stumbling into its path. The barrel-shaped machine was skewered by the beam of charged particles, the accelerated matter ray piercing through his damaged, molten armor like pudding. Flames bloomed from both inside and around the robot, the tallest plumes coming from its breached chest area. The flaming hunk of machine hurled back and smashed into Heidenreich, toppling the humanoid mech- who had been trying to rise, damaged and enraged- and pinning it under a steaming metal bulk.
"Oops," grinned Rustred cruelly. The alien thing was ragged and half-melted, his inner gears and servos showing as his armor slumped, but his spirits were still high. Pain was for filthy organics. And he had gotten over looks a loooooong time ago.
Red Arrow, perhaps angered by such a dirty, childish tactic, or maybe just taking advantage of what he perceived as an opening, advanced on quick, light feet, bow drawn and leveled on the old one. But Rustred, lightened by his stripped armor plates, whirled around with a mad crow and hurled hot slag towards the archer. The liquid metal splattered across the optics of the world's finest suit, not damaging the tough shell of the thing, but drying fast and blinding it. Robert raised a mechanized set of mitts to claw at the hardened goop. Smirking, RR raised his trusty blaster and let loose with a viscous energy blast. The gellatin-like mass of acid and fire splashed across the ravaged form of the slender mech, setting his metal skin aflame with emerald poison and throwing him back. There was no fancy cloak of light to protect him now. He received the full brunt of the weapon, it's hateful flames spreading across his torso and right arm like hungry bacteria, eating all eye met and wires they could find with savage little grins. The smoldering machine, chest festering with burning acid, collided with the weakened Darktide. The drained kaiju-killing tool groaned in distress, armor and circuits touched by the green hatred that was Rustred's essence. The dark machine teetered for a moment, Red Arrow sprawled messily across its bulky frame, then collapsed, shrouded in a smoking aurora of energetic acid.
"Bam!" The rusted madman cackled hysterically. "Two for two, baby!."
The burning form of Ferrum hurtled past RR suddenly. The rebellious one turned, optic widening in intrigue. Heidenreich approached like a devil of steel, flames and smoke shrouded around its black outline like a ghastly cloak. Adler growled from within the machine devil, his voice blasted across the devastated city.
"That was your last mistake," hissed the German ace pilot. "You outdated automaton!"
"Aw," cooed the naked machine, who danced forward suddenly on his hooked feet. "I love you too! Bring 'er here."
The giddy hell raiser of rust and rough patches enveloped Heidenreich in a hug, his glowing core letting out a powerful pulse of force as he embraced the Nazi killer. Adler snarled and tried to throw the old one off, but his vessel didn't respond. Instead, after Rustred had skittered away, the black humanoid raised its clawed hands- defying Adler's control- and breathed. Moving a millions cubic feet of air into its damaged shell and releasing it with another huff, the newly thinking thing spoke, forming a sentence from various snippets of Adler's voice. Its words were from the pilot, but indescribably harsher and demonic, like a distorted echo.
"YOU... ARE ALL... INFERIOR."
Adler bellowed commands at his robot, trying to wrestle its controls back into his hand, but the war machine overwhelmed his thin human voice with another grating roar.
"YOU TOO... ARE INFERIOR."
With its last screeching words, Heidenreich brought its machine gun to life and spun a vicious circle! Red Arrow, Darktide, and Ferrum Magnus all spasmed and jolted as they were riddled with tens of thousands of jagged holes, flames funneling through each and creating huge beds of fire across their metal surfaces. Heidenreich roared and turned its guns on Rustred as well, chipping at his "father" with thirty-pound bullets. Even as he sparked and staggered, his left leg nearly buckling under the spray of death, RR cried out with glee, not betrayal.
"I've created a monster," laughed the mad old machine. "Nows I gotta put 'im down!"
With a grin that could split skin from flesh, Rustred narrowed his glowing optic and fired a thin bolt of energy right at the opening of Heidenreich's brutal gun...
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Post by GI Jho on Jul 27, 2013 22:48:08 GMT -5
OOC: Holy procrastination, Batman! @_@
As Rustred confronted the mighty Nazi war machine, the scorched form of Ferrum arose from the billows of fire and smoke. Like an unstoppable Automaton, Ferrum groaned and stepped forth from the inferno, his thick, heavy armor warped and blazing red from the heat of the fire pit that he had been tossed into. The mech scanned his body, checking for any damage that he had received as a result of the fire. Though his outer shell was damaged, his inner workings were still in good working condition. Excellent news to the fighting machine form outer space.
It was time to teach these simpletons to not mess with the Sheekhs' ultimate killing machine.
With an uncanny roar, the heavy mech crouched, before it hopped hundreds of meters into the air using its hydraulic legs. The hulking machine activated his jump jet, allowing him to hover in the air a few extra moments, allowing him to survey the battlefield from above for a few extra seconds. Soon, the mech hovered high over the target he had locked himself onto: Rustred. Like a steel meteorite, Ferrum stopped his Jump jet, before he rapidly dropped down from the skies. Before the rusted machine even knew what hit him, he was suddenly crushed beneath the tonnage of Ferrum's descending form. An audible crash filled the air, as Rustred's body was crushed to the ground.
Before Heidenreich could unleash a hellstorm of bullets at the Sheekh mech, Ferrum fired out his mace hand, aiming to smash the Nazi mech straight in the face. Heidenreich however stepped to the side, narrowly avoiding the punishing blow. Taking advantage of Ferrum's prone form, the Nazi mech unleashed a volley of bullets, tearing into Ferrum's still red-hot and thus, softer, shell. The Sheekh mech let out a groan, before swinging his flail hand up and downwards, bringing his deadly weapon down onto Heidenreich's head, delivering a punishing blow to the mech, severely denting the mech's armor and leaving spiky indentations in the armor, causing Heidenreich the stumble from the brutal blow.
But Ferrum wasn't going to be left alone for long, as two arrows narrowly missed impaling the Sheekh mech. Ferrum turned around, his red eye glowing more ominously for a moment. Red Arrow rapidly approached from behind, Notching another arrow as he did so. Ferrum wasn't about to let the mech get in another volley, however, before a single red beam fired out from the optic, slicing across the mech's chest, causing it to stumble. Ferrum groaned, and withdrew his mace hand. Though a foolish move, Ferrum had had enough of the hunter mech. The sheikh war machine hopped off of Rustred's crumpled body, and stomped towards Red Arrow, firing a volley of plasma missiles at him....
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Post by The Merry Lambfish on Aug 5, 2013 9:11:54 GMT -5
Red Arrow braced as the missiles exploded against him, coating him in steaming hot plasma. The nimble mech burst off from the ground with a combination of jets and the spring-like extendable legs, the crystal-tipped tendril braced against his right shoulder. A shockwave blasted apart nearby buildings as Red Arrow rammed into Ferrum at high speeds, burrowing the sharp crystal deep into his body. Robert forced Red Arrow to drop to a crouch, simultaneously carving a deep vertical path down the body of the alien machine. As the blade tore free of the hull after slicing down between the stubby legs, Red Arrow flipped into the air, activating his jets and rocketing off into the sky.
Robert scanned the arena below him.With both Rustred and Heidenreich so close to Ferrum Magnus, he calculated that both would soon be distracted by its wrath. The Sheekh War Machine seemed to be out to destroy anybody and everybody in sight, taking no sides and holding no prejudice. Nearby he noticed the pavement creaking and shuttering, as if caught in a miniature earthquake. Pre-programed builder bots were under there, constructing a nasty trap he had devised solely for these mechanical fiends.
The mech dove down, racing past the three mechs as he went. He spun around with his bow in hand, a blast arrow already at the ready. A powerful explosion stuck the chest of Heidenreich, blow chunks of armor across the demolished city streets. Another arrow was fired at Rustred, though the machine revolutionist saw this attack coming and quickly ducked to avoid the projectile. Red Arrow swerved to avoid retaliation between the two, landing on the streets and raising his shield for protection. An assault of sheer firepower soon followed, from both Rustred and the Nazi mech. Explosions raked against his shadow shield, but the hunter hidden behind the protective wall was unarmed.
Changing tactics, Heidenreich began to march forwards, pinning down Red Arrow with his weapons. If Robert moved, the Nazi's weapons would almost certainly hit, but if he stayed, Heidenreich would eventually reach the hidden mech.
Then the ground beneath the crazed machine disappeared.
Rising up like a huge burrowing monster emerged the end of a large plank contracted of hundreds of pieces of welded steel, from the debris of the city. Heidenreich collapsed as his end of the plank teetered like a massive see-saw, dropping him into a deep pit hidden far below, the floor laced with huge spears of metal. Dozens of holes were ripped open as the spears pierced the machine's tough hull, aided by its own weight and momentum. But that wasn't the only surprise Red Arrow held in store. As sparks of electricity sprayed out from the mech, Alder, still trapped inside the rampaging machine, realized that the metal spikes were frying Heidenreich alive. They were attached to the electrical cables of the city. Even Heidenreich, who was highly resistant to electrical attacks, would be damaged by a prolonged assault like this.
Above the surface, the giant plank settled back into place, as if Heidenreich had been swallowed up by the earth itself, leaving onlookers shocked. Red Arrow his shield, several bolts of plasma exploding from his shoulder cannons as he fired at Rustred...
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Post by The Great MM on Aug 5, 2013 15:15:33 GMT -5
Adler groaned as his eyes rolled in his head. Crimson streaks raced down his tanned forehead, busted open by the edges of the combat helmet and visor. The German-born pilot scowled as removed the helmet, a loud pop following as cables attaching to it disconnected. He muttered something in German as he gripped the controls… But Heidenreich didn’t respond! Adler’s eyes widened as his head shot down, glaring at the computer screens. The normal screens were gone. Everything was gone. From the system mechanics screen, ammo consumption data, and even live footage from the eyes of Heidenreich itself. It was all gone… Replaced by a blue screen! Adler Maynor’s hands clenched into fists. He lifted them over his head, screaming something horrible in German before slamming them down. His hands hammered through two smaller screens… he was out of the fight. (OOC: Yes, I’m out. I know I’m not going to win and, for what I have planned after this, this makes more sense.)
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Post by Tenshi the Sunkern on Aug 5, 2013 17:10:58 GMT -5
"ATTENTION, THIS FIGHT IS OVER!" The words of the UCA boomed out. At that moment, the projectiles launched by Red Arrow vanished into thin air, dissipated by the UCA's power before they could connect. "THIS WAS A GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP. ALL OF YOU MECHA PILOTS... AND RUSTRED... PUT UP A TRULY SPECTACULAR EFFORT AND A THRILLING FIGHT... BUT ONLY ONE OF YOU WON... AND THAT WAS THE SETNIENT MACHINE RUSTED! CONGRATULATIONS! NOW RETURN TO YOUR LIVING QUARTERS AT ONCE! THERE IS A SPECIAL PRIZE THERE FOR YOU, RUSTRED."
OOC: Sweet merciful Makai. This was a doozy. Seeing as MM more or less gave up at the end, and Red Arrow...didn't seem to do as much to the other fighters as he took in damage, I feel as if it was a tossup between Rustred, Ferrum, and Darktide... after much consideration, I put Ferrum in third, Darktide in second, and Rustred in first. I apologize for the laziness in my reffing as a while, and for having this drag on for way too long. Hope you all enjoyed the Robotica Championship Fight!
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Post by Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual on Aug 6, 2013 10:24:52 GMT -5
"WHOOOOOOOOOO!" came the great metallic whoop. Rustred slashed the ground with his hooked metal toes as he danced about, his fanged lips curled into a madman's grin. "I won! Champion, bitches! Champion! This one's fer' you, Arc, ol' buddy! Hoo! Hahaheh!"
The dancing machine sashayed his way over to Red Arrow, shattering the ground in front of him with a stomping heel and flicking the human hunter atop his synthetic head. The old one giggled and grinned. "I think we both know that there's unfinished business 'ere, but we'll let that wait 'til after I get my prize, 'kay, Earth man?"
Rust' bound away, spinning towards his defeated mechanical foes on a heel and giving a mock salute. "Until next time, suckers. Rustred is outta' here! And into my prize! Heheheheh!"
Alien light fell on the mad machine and whisked him away.
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As Rustred's emerald lens readjusted to the light of his new environment, briefly blinded by the brilliant flash of his transport, the metal alien began rolling his head and eye in search of his prize. Arc, his bony helmet regenerated and glossy after his encounter with Tenshi and Tevedrus, stood at attendance, aware that his master and friend had triumphed from the standard UCA broadcasts that reached every corner and room of The Hub. The metal-boned ally to the rebellious machine gestured his covered skull towards a coppery gold stand that stood in the middle of the living space, something that had never been there before. Rustred squealed in delight.
"Oh, whatta beaut', eh, Arc?"
RR stretched forward a machine arm and plucked his prize from the stand- a championship belt made of whirling gears and welded plates, like a steampunk dream draped across his clawed limb.
Chortling in glee, the old machine placed the mechanized belt around his waist, over the rubber banding that connected his upper and lower halves. With a mind of its own, the belt latched onto his exposed midriff and began altering itself, tucking away and expanding plates and gears, until it fit perfectly between his torso and hips. Rustred gyrated his waist some, admiring the completed connection.
"Well, there goes that soft spot! Hey, Arc! I think I'm gonna hang my spare hands from this thing! 'Cause some of those dumb-bots coulda used my war hammer upside the head. Watcha' think, bud?"
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Post by GI Jho on Aug 6, 2013 14:16:48 GMT -5
You have failed once again, Destructor MK 1, The voice of Sejanus said into the mech's communications relay. Returning to hangar immediately for improvement.
With that, Ferrum Magnus was teleported back to the hub, his masters disappointed with the turn of events...
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Post by Omegarex24 on Aug 20, 2013 21:33:39 GMT -5
"That was painful," Ben said to himself as he picked his machine out of the dust. "Well, at least I outlasted the Nazi. I don't think Kevein would ever let me live it down otherwise."
Yet another beam of light fell from the heavens, returning Ben and Darktide to the hanger, so the former could rest and the latter could be repaired.
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