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Post by Vatarian on Jun 29, 2014 13:11:06 GMT -5
A huge screen of dust rose up, all but obscuring the Nucleaphage's slowly rising form.
Big Jack sighed, a quiet, slightly metallic sound.
"Well. Screw it. Before 'e does whatever he's doing, might as well get off a shot or two..."
With a sound like small volcanic eruptions, or perhaps thunder, the two cannons on Big Jack's shoulders fired their projectiles, scoring the Nucleaphage's shoulders and nicking the sensitive stripes on his side. As if in response, their came a low hum, like tesla coils warming up. The hum increased in volume and pitch, and Big Jack squinted into the gloom, taking a step back. He'd hit the thing's ugly-ass stripes. Was it going to explode now, or....?
Said stripes were now pulsing progressively faster and had brightened to a stellar yellow. As Big Jack watched, they brightened furtyher to white, then began to shift towards a retina-scorching blue.
".....Aw, hell, better give him another dose. Looks angry."
Big Jack drew his shoulder-cannons up once again to target the Nucleaphage, initiating the weapons' firing protocals.
The stripes now looked like twin strobe-lights. Or perhaps small solar flairs. Big Jack's optics were polarized as far as they could go and he was still finding it hard to look at the creature.
"Smile for the camera, you ugly son-of-a-"
Something like a miniatureized pulsar erupted from the cloud of molten dust, lancing into Big Jack's right side, blowing away a massive chunk of armor, fusing and melting the circuitry and components beneath, and sending Big Jack flying through the air to create a trench of his own some distance away, bits of molten metal dripping from his shredded flank to sizzle against the wasted earth below him.
The beam had burned a sizable chunk out of Big Jack's side and gouged a long trench down the side of his tail, boiling away every last layer of armor-plating and, in the case of his side, quite a few servo-motors and circuit-boards.
Still, it was nothing crippling. Just.... Extremely painful and.... Ow. He had been lucky the beam hadn't scored a head-shot or struck his body directly. As it was, Big Jack hauled himself to his feet with little trouble, waving his tail experimentally and stretching his side after shutting off his pain-sensors in the area.
Nothing vital hit... Throwing a mock one-two punch, Big Jack bounced back towards the seemingly ineffected Nucleaphage, which was padding towards him even now, sides once again a comparatively comforting amber.
Big Jack was thinking of a good pun just when the thing whirled around and tossed the 140,000 ton boulder it had been carrying with its right hand
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Post by Omegarex24 on Jul 5, 2014 23:39:58 GMT -5
The good pun just hit Jack.
"Batter up!"
The robotic kangaroo then reared back and delivered a devastating kick to the incoming rock fragment. The boulder shattered into hundreds of fragments, spraying the landscape with them in the process. Unfortunately, the destruction clouded the battlefield with dust, hiding the Nucleophage's true motives, as another blast of plasma pierced the cloud and struck Jack in the chest, warping armor plating in it's wake.
"Quit scratchin' the paint!"
As the nuclear terror prepared to attack once again, Jack heroically leaped forth before slamming his jackhammer into the Nucleophage's chest. With the armor weakened due to the acid and railgun strikes, the hardened alloy head penetrated deep into its flesh, spraying blood everywhere in the process. The Nucleophage recoiled from the strike, only to catch a rocket-powered punch to the jaw. The Nucleophage rocked back from the blow, but was completely floored by Jack kicking it once more. The dust didn't even have a chance to settle before Jack was on him once more, ready to deliver another rocket punch...
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Post by Vatarian on Jul 6, 2014 13:45:03 GMT -5
....And the Nucleaphage's tail caught the arm easily, clenching at the joint and crushing metal and mechanical muscle easily.
Jack's bravado begins to fold as he beats frantically at the tail with his free arm, denting and cracking its armor plating.
The Nucleapahage tires of the beating after a moment and flings Jack upwards, bringing him back down with a crack into the hard, wasteland ground.
Jack lands on his stomach and struggles to push himself up, flexing his damaged arm and inspecting the deep trenches in either side of it.
Satisfied that it's fit for combat, if not display, Jack cocks it back and whirls it at the shoulder mockingly, as though the Nucleahage's onslaught did nothing more than put a burr in the joint.
"Oy, can't break me arm that easily, mate, now let me-"
The Nucleaphage's entire body slams into Big Jack, bowling him over. The creature rises above him, then slams all 152,000 tons down on Jack's damaged chest, spiked chest biting deep into the metal. As Big Jack struggles to bring his feet to bear and kick the monstrosity off, the Nucleaphage's maw begins to glow as he prepares to loose a blast of plasma at Big Jack's face point-blank.
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Post by Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual on Jul 6, 2014 14:15:40 GMT -5
Three more posts.
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Post by Omegarex24 on Jul 17, 2014 19:46:50 GMT -5
A swift rocket powered uppercut to the jaw deflected the oncoming blast nicely, although it didn't stop the nuclear nasty from lashing out with its tail, crushing more armor in its wake. Jack rocked back from the blow, utilizing the force to once more bring his feet to bear against his atomic foe.
"Ya never learn, do ya," Jack taunted, as his powerful kick staggered the Nucleophage once more, dropping him to the ground a good distance away. "I can't let this go on too much longer though. Time to bust out the big guns!"
Once again, Jack dropped to a crouched position, as the hatch on his gut, mangled but still functional, opened up to reveal a group of spider drones. However, instead of acid sacs, this group seemed to have giant explosives where their abdomens would be. The horde scuttled forward before latching onto the Nucleophage in strategic points all over its body. The repeated kicks and the acid from earlier had severely weakened the once tough shell of the atomic horror, allowing Jack's newest move to prove truly devastating, as all the spider drones detonated at once, enveloping the Nucleophage in a nine kiloton explosion. A large mushroom cloud formed in the wake of the blast as Jack shielded himself from flying debris and dust.
When the smoke finally cleared, the Nucleophage was alive, but far from unharmed, as his once thick armor had been splintered and cracked open in many places, while small fires still burned in the gaps created by the MOAB level blast.
"Still kickin' eh? Guess I'll have to perform an air drop!"
And with that, Jack leaped into the air, preparing to crash back down atop the Nucleophage and activate his shockwave generators at the same time...
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Post by Vatarian on Jul 17, 2014 21:44:29 GMT -5
....And the Nucleaphage shook itself, flanks and back smoldering, and whipped its tail skywards, smashing its bulky, barbed length into Jack's midsection.
Metal squeals and splinters as the combined impact of Big Jack's weight and the speed of the Nucleaphage's blow drive the long, sharp, chittinous barbs into the mecha's hull, piercing through his armor and tearing into the mechanisms below, though they stop short of doing serious damage to the central, underlying systems that drive the mechanical titan's movement.
The Nucleaphage pauses for a moment, heaving its sides and shifting its weight. Strange, colorless fluid oozes from several places where its armor is rent the deepest, and its nuclear vents are pulsing rapidly.
Big Jack flails and endeavors to tear himself off the angled spikes, succeeding only in twisting the barbs in deeper. After a moment, he realizes the futility of the movement and abruptly throws his weight to the side, breaking several of the spines off with shear strength. Chuckling, the Australian trash-talker tears two of the broken spikes free with one hand, then drives them into a crack in the Nucleaphage's damaged tail-armor.
Roused by its opponent's effort, the Nucleaphage swings its hips to the side, and smashes its tail, and consequently Big Jack, into the wasteland's dry, unyielding ground. Hard.
Rock and dry, dusty soil fly into the air by the ton as the Nucleaphage lurches forward and plants its foot on Big Jack's chest, tearing its spiked tail free of Big Jack along with a good deal of the robot's abdominal armor.
Then, with a soft click of disgust, it throws its head back, and bathes Big Jack in a stream of plasma, boiling his head and neck in the blistering stream of radiation.
As Big Jack thrusts up an arm to keep the blast from destroying his optical sensors, the Nucleaphage rears back, sides pulsing, to deliver another blast.......
((Aaahh.... Just to let you know, a nine kiloton explosion wouldn't do shit to the Nucleaphage. It took a blast in the low megatons to wake it up. Hell, a punch from either monster probably packs multitudes more force than that, considering the speed and weight behind the blow.))
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Post by Omegarex24 on Jul 31, 2014 9:53:55 GMT -5
(Yes, well, I had the feeling that if it was described as being bigger, people would complain. I guess the opposite is instead true. Although, in my defense, I only used after having cracked through the tougher outer layers and this explosion is driving directly into the soft and gooey center of the Nucleophage.)
The plasma stream washes over Jack, once more searing and warping armor and circuitry in its wake. However, the robotic marsupial is able to shield his face from the blast, which was important if he wanted to see what he was doing. The Nucleophage, sensing an opportunity, reared back in preparation for one final blast to end his mechanical adversary, when Jack, as per usual, lashed out with his massive feet. The blow struck the Nucleophage dead center, as the shockwave generators added an extra kick to the blow. The nuclear menace was hurled backwards, his chest area now thoroughly pulverized, before skidding to a halt several hundred meters away.
Jack once more rose to his feet, although this time without anything even remotely funny to say, as he leveled his shoulder cannons and offloaded the last two shots from his railguns, the twin rounds striking the Nucleophage in the head, resulting in a spray of blood and ichor. But Jack wasn't about to let it end there, oh no. Jack had had enough of this mutant freak and wanted him dead (or at least seriously injured), as he leaped into the air before crashing back down on the Nucleophage's chest, smashing his foe rather thoroughly into the ground and doing all manner of damage, both internal and external.
Finally, as the dust settled, Jack backed down, knowing that this fight was over, one way or another...
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Post by Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual on Jul 31, 2014 16:28:48 GMT -5
"FIGHTERS! CEASE COMBAT! THE MATCH HAS BEEN CALLED! THE WINNER IS... BIG JACK! NOW RETURN TO YOUR QUARTERS IMMEDIATELY!"
(Very close match. Nucleophage put up an impressive showing between his durability and sheer muscle, but Jack had a larger variety of offensive options and, more importantly, exercised them tactically. He focused on the chest, head, and neck areas, essentially reducing them all to mush by the end of the match, and also paid more attention to weakening armor and then breaking it with decisive blows. Not to say that Nucleophage didn't do some armor-breaking himself, but Jack did it more consistently, so... the win goes to him, though not without honors to his foe.)
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Post by Omegarex24 on Aug 3, 2014 10:56:29 GMT -5
"Well, looks like I won that 'un, then. Normally, I'd finish ya' off, but today..."
Jack bounced once, landing in the center of the teleport beacon. As the blinding light engulfed him, he began to power down in anticipation of a nice hot oil bath and a change of parts. He'd earned it.
(Good match! Here's hoping we can do this again sometime.)
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Post by Vatarian on Aug 3, 2014 12:40:13 GMT -5
The Nucleaphage rises to its feet with a low hiss, thick blood sloughing off of its ruptured chest as steam rises from its head.
It stands tall despite its injuries and watches the robot go, another beam causing the Nucleaphage itself to disappear after a moment, leaving only the wasteland.
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