Devils in the Machine

[Tenshi the Sunkern]

ucarena.proboards.com/thread/1343/mauler

vs.

ucarena.proboards.com/thread/868/persephone-queen-darkness

Ref: Pending. Pay is 1500 credits an hour, and a position as the new political leader of Old Hell.

Intro: A beam of light shone down upon the dark, misty swampland. As it faded away, Persephone looked around her, eyebrows furrowed. Of course... it had to be a damp, murky swamp. Just her luck on an already worsening day. But though she wanted to vent her anger out on someone, she decided to keep it under control, for now atleast. She still had no idea who her foe was... and as her ice core hammer formed in her hands, she looked around, readying herself for combat...

[Hyperlulz]

Intro: As Persephone looked around, she began to hear a sound not unlike a plane overhead. The noise got steadily louder and louder until a ellipsoid shape took form as it fell from the heavens. The shape soon resolved into a massive drop pod. It impacted with a shower of dirt and other assorted debris. As Persephone looked on, A section of the steaming pod blew off, revealing a massive form. A cyclopean red eye stared out of the pod with startling intensity. As a muffled pulsing sound began to make itself heard. The pod did something that should be impossible due to it's construction. It began to flake and burn like ashes dissolving in a breeze, revealing the massive form of Mauler. The Quadruped robot rose to its full height. Maulers head focused on the Queen of Hell. It readied it's weapons as the massive buzzsaw spun up and waited for the command to begin.

[Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual]

"COMBATANTS!" roared the Announcer like a raging ocean wave. "PREPARE TO CLASH... NOW!"

[Tenshi the Sunkern]

Persy had to whistle as the machine approached. That was a big mecha... not as big as what the Holy Knights wielded, but still rather impressive. It also looked heavy as well, what with the mighty legs of the war machine sinking through the boggy marshlands. If anything, it would make a great addition to her army... but that was not why she was here.

She was here, to cave in faces. And Mauler's face was just large enough to do that.

Her thoughts were cut short as a pair of beams slammed into her chest, sending her flying into the marshy water. She rose, coughing up the muck and slime. Now there were a pair of beam cannons on the machine's shoulders, and they were already charging back up. She sneered. Very well, if that was how it was going to play. Ignoring the scorches on her armor, and the pain she felt, Persephone summoned the very waters to her side. The water rose and froze as it slammed into Mauler like a tidal wave, serrated spikes extending out from the front of the rising ice wall to impale through Mauler's armor. it scratched away at it, and went through a few vulnerable spots, but otherwise, the machine was holding itself up to the wall of ice, and even trying to burn it away with its lasers...

Atleast, until Persephone attacked from the side, her mighty hammer in hand as she leapt upward, before bringing the weapon down upon Mauler's face. The ice wall had been a distraction, and had allowed Persy to make a powerful blow to the machine. the metal dented as Mauler reeled back, the powerful legs keeping it upright as it tried to swing its buzz saw at Persephone. But the queen denied it of that, bringing the hammer in the way. She held her ground as the mighty mecha growled, its buzz saw held back by the firm frozen state of the hammer. She leapt back, the hammer disappearing as several amulets formed in both of her hands. The Queen of Hell hurled one handful, which detonated upon contact with the monolith, before she hurled another, ready to exploit any weaknesses she may have unearthed...

[Hyperlulz]

Mauler turned to face Persephone just as the amulets impacted, sending the warbot back a step. As Mauler continued to watch, The Hell Queen reformed her Ice hammer and charged, flying through the air at speed to deliver a massive blow. Before the hammer could hit anything important however, a massive bladed disk of metal intercepted it. Maulers buzzsaw caught Persephones hammer with a sound like a gong, only several hundred times louder. Before Persephone could react, a straight armed punch from Mauler sent her spinning away, before Mauler could move to stomp her, Persephone flew back up and fired more energy amulets. This time though, Mauler was ready.

The warbot fired his shoulder and eye lasers simultaneously, impacting with the amulets and sending out explosion after explosion. Before Persephone could respond. A thumping was heard... followed by a slight whistle... Followed by hellfire. Three incendiary mortar rounds had impacted with respectable accuracy on and around The Queen of Hell. Bathing her in flame. Persephone let out a snort. More of disappointment than of pain.

As she began to bat at the flames engulfing her cloak. Before she was done, she heard a disturbing banging sound. Just as Persy looked up she was blown backwards by a hail of shredder rounds. The shells impacted with her demonic armor. Strong enough to put rends and dents in its ancient surface. Persephone was blown back once again. Blood spurting out of the places that the rounds had broken through. Again she heard the thumping sound. She looked up to see more of the mortars. These with a slight mist to them as if they carried a frozen contents...

[Tenshi the Sunkern]

If Mauler could smile, he would have as the very ground around Persephone exploded in a sea of fire and mud from the mortar impacts. There had been no indication that she had avoided the attack... it had been a direct hit. As the dust and water rained back to earth, Mauler once more prepared to fire the mortars...

A sharp whistling sound caught the machine off guard. From the dust, emerged several lasers, crisscrossing across the marshy land and locking Mauler where he was. The machine tried to move out of the way, but one massive leg tripped through a laser. Electricity shot up through the mecha, shocking it where it was. While it was only a minor shock, it stunned it... just long enough for a pair of energy orbs to fly out of the dust and collide with the towering machine. The first detonated against its torso, and while it caused it to stumble back with armor and metal being blasted through, it failed to tumble the robot. The second, however, hit it square in the face and exploded, and the machine was finally blasted onto its back, marshy water spraying everywhere.

"That was annoying." Persephone growled as she emerged from the dust cloud, several bruises and bleeding gashes across her face from the recent attack. She looked down, at the robot that was struggling to rise back up. Due to the swampy ground, it was having trouble rising back up. It was sinking into the marshland, its own weight a curse in this battlefield. With a smirk, Persephone ordered the waters to her very will. The marshy water began to freeze over, but it wasn't just the water ontop of Mauler that was freezing solid. the water that had seeped within the mecha was also freezing and expanding, causing sparks to fly as wires and armor were ruined. Internal damage was taking place, which was just what Persephone wanted. She walked out upon the frozen water, her hammer in her hands as she aimed the head of it at the entombed Mauler, energy gathering in it to be refired out as a Master Spark, right at the machine...

[Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual]

Twenty-four hours, Hyper.

[Hyperlulz]

Mauler walked forward in the face of the Master Spark. His robotic mind reasoned that the beam could not be that dangerous. He was wrong. The beam splashed across his armor, burning it and sending Mauler stumbling back. As Persephone let the master spark die however, she was not prepared for the rapt response. Another barrage of lasers assaulted her. The Queen of Hell was thrown back. Her armor and cloak smoking. This did minor damage, but it gave Mauler time to reassert control.

As Persephone scrambled back up to her feet. She heard a cracking. When she looked up, she saw a utilitarian claw swinging at her in what was apparently terminal velocity. The freshly recovered Persephone was once again sent flying by Maulers titanic arm. A crack appeared in the demonic armor.

As Persephone lay stunned, she heard a momentous whining noise. She looked up, and saw Maulers Buzzsaw swinging down in a wild stroke...

[Tenshi the Sunkern]

There was little time for the demonic queen to react, but she did have time. She rolled out of the way at the last moment, the gigantic buzzsaw sinking into the soft muddy earth where she had been. it plunged in deep... too deep, infact. As Mauler tried to pull the saw back up, he found that it was stuck in the mud, the forward momentum of the swing sinking the saw in deeper than he had hoped. As the machine tried to pull the stuck limb out of the mud, Persephone took that opportunity to strike. A powerful blow of the ice hammer struck it across the head, dislodging the machine from where it was, and forcing it to stagger back, bracks forming in the thick armor of the mecha. Persy tried to unleash another swing, but was forced back by a swipe of the buzzsaw across her side. Blood spilt as it cleaved through her viking cloak, and into her flesh. She went skidding through the mire, face tarred with the black mud around her.

"Alright then..." Was all she said, before rising back onto her feet, spitting out blood from her mouth. As Mauler prepared to fire another blast of lasers at her, four energy orbs formed around Persephone. the beams spiraled toward her, but the orbs merely absorbed them, before flying out toward Mauler and detonating. The machine howled as it was consumed in fire and energy, blasting it onto its back. As it collapsed, the waters rushed in, before freezing into more fo the circutry and damaging it. Persephone lept upon the machine, ready to smash her hammer down upon Mauler's optics...

[Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual]

Twenty-four hours, Hyper.

[Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual]

Mauler is DQed. Persephone wins.

[Tenshi the Sunkern]

Persephone watched as the machine was warped away. Figured... It would rather not respond and get DQ'd than face her. No matter. That was how fearsome the skills she honed during her fight for the Hellian throne were... But now... she had other matters to attend to. She was beamed away as well, back toward her own room...