Heavyclaws vs. Ferrum Magnus

[Inferno Rodan]

Heavyclaws

vs.

Ferrum Magnus

Arena: Forest Type 2, starting out beneath one of the giant uber-trees (I really need to come up with a proper name for those things).

Ref: Soundwave

[GI Jho]

The blinding beam of light tore through the thick canopy of a gargantuan tree. From the beam of light emerged the mechanical nightmare, Ferrum Magnus, the mech scanning the arena, looking for advantageous regions he could exploit to give himself to upper. An interesting arena... that was a for sure. The Sheekh mech had never seen a tree so massive before. It was almost as large as a mountain! It was trully a sight to behold.

But Ferrum had bigger things to be concerned with other than a massive tree. He had a battle.

With a mechanical hiss, Ferrum rotated himself towards the opposite end of the arena, awaiting his opponent's arrival...

[Inferno Rodan]

A moment after disappearing from the Hub, Heavyclaws reappears in the Forest region. Immediately, his sensors pick up the presence of another machine and he whips around to face it. It’s a rather unusual looking mech. At this point, though, he notices his surroundings. More specifically, he notices the gigantic tree overhead blocking out much of the sky. If he had a jaw, it would hit the floor. Already his motherboard is racing at the possibilities such a battlefield presents.

[Blerhwave]

Fizight

[GI Jho]

As soon as the call was given, Ferrum Magnus leapt into action. The crab barely has enough time to look at the mech before his much larger foe is swinging one of his deadly weapons toward him. The crab is suddenly sent flying through the air from a mighty uppercut from the Sheekh mech's massive, spiked fists. Heavyclaws is sent rolling a good 70 meters backwards before sliding to a stop. Ferrum lets out a haunting mechanical chuckle as he approaches the opposing mech.

Suddenly, the evil machine is buffeted by Missiles and twin lasers fired from the currently recovered crab robot. The missiels slam into Ferrum's armor plating, doing little damage, but the lasers manage to carve bright red paths in Ferrum's armored plating with ease. After the assault, Heavyclaws adopts an extremely ridiculous looking pose, as if trying to taunt Ferrum Magnus. The opposing mech simply groaned before unleashing a flurry of missiels from his shoulder turrets whilst advancing. Heavyclaws was suddenly engulfed in a cloud of fire and smoke.

Ferrum suddenly extended his mace fists, before he brought one down towards where he presumed the theatric mech was. He struck gold, as an audible CLANG verified the success of his actions. The smoek dispersed, showing a floored mech before him. Ferrum chuckled, withdrawing his weapon, as he brought down his other flail hand, aiming to crush Heavyclaws with his massive weapon of destruction...

[Inferno Rodan]

The heavy bludgeoning weapon swings down in a wide arc, giving Heavyclaws the opportunity to hop backwards before it impacts. The mace slams down where he was a fraction of a second later, cratering the ground and sending debris flying.

“Oh, good jobbu! Butto mai turn now!”

The mechanical crab strikes a pose with his right arm held straight out in front of him.

“ROCKETTO PAAAANCCCHHH!!!”

With that, the claw fires, streaking straight toward Ferrum Magnus and striking the alien mech square in the “forehead” (the area above its eye) with a resounding CLANG! before quickly retracting. The force of the impact makes FM stumble back, but the mech is quickly sent toppling over completely as Heavyclaws fires off his other claw and latches onto his opponent’s ankle, then retracts the claw and releases, yanking the foot out from underneath the mech.

Snickering gleefully, Heavyclaws scurries sideways, circling around Ferrum Magnus as the alien mech rises to its feet. One of its shoulder turrets quickly rotates and fires a volley of missiles, catching the crab off-guard and making him trip as the explosions rock his armored body.

Ferrum Magnus begins to turn, raising one arm in preparation to fire its mace at Heavyclaws, but the Imar mech quickly fires a shot from one of his Claw Cannons. The volatile blast of plasma detonates on impact with the alien machine’s armored hull, leaving a scorch mark as it stumbles once again.

Taking advantage of his opponent being off-balance, Heavyclaws fires a volley of missiles at it. They all hit their mark, striking Ferrum Magnus from all sides and covering the mech in explosions. With his foe’s vision obscured by smoke, the mechanical crab fires one of his claws straight up, grabbing onto one of the tree’s lower branches and hauling himself up. By the time he reaches the branch, Ferrum Magnus’ vision has cleared and it has begun looking around for him. From his perch high above, Heavyclaws takes aim and fires his Claw Cannons.

[GI Jho]

The beam struck gold, colliding with the gargantuan metal automaton's form, nearly toppling the mech with its raw power. Ferrum groaned, before he turned himself around, locking on to the location of the crab. The mechanical crustacean seemed to be doing soem sort of obnoxious dance, as if he had actually ACHEIVED something. Ferrum simply chuckled in his usual ominous, mechanized fashion. Before long, a flurry of missiels fired out from the Sheekh machine's shoulder turrets, all locked on to Heavyclaws.

The crab had no time to react, his initial joy quickly gobbled up with surprise and fear. The machine attempted to avoid to explosives, but instead took them full to the face. The force of the explosions caused the mech to fall off balance, before it tumbled to the forest floor below. Heavyclaws seemed most displeased by this, and managed to right himself fairly quickly. The crab glanced around, eyes looking for his foe...

Unfortunately, the crab looked at the wrong time, and yet, not nearly soon enough.

The crab took twin maces to the body, the blow uppercutting the metal crustaceon. The hit managed to send Heavyclaws flying, before he rolled multiple times and sliding to a stop on his back. The crab was about to right himself, but he heard the ominous sound of hydraulics activating, and a loud spring-like noise. He looked up, and, if he had aj aw, would have had it agape in shock. The mech was hurtlnig down towards him like a meteor!

Heavyclaws tried to maneuver out of the way, but simply wasn't quick enough. Ferrum slammed down, his full 90,000 tons slamming into the mech and pushing theh apless creature into the earth. The crab groaned quite organically, leading to Ferrum to chuckle with obvious malice. The malicious mech soon raised his fists up, before he brought them down towards his pinned opponent...

[Inferno Rodan]

As the maces swing down, Heavyclaws reaches up with his claws and catches them by the wrists, just managing to stop them before they make contact with his body. The two mechs struggle against each other for a few moments, but neither can seem to gain the upper hand. That is until Heavyclaws snickers. His eyes glow red for a moment before firing off his lasers, sweeping them in an X across the front of Ferrum’s torso and leaving trenches of melted metal in their wake. The mechanical crab then shoves Ferrum away and rolls backward to his feet. As Ferrum Magnus stumbles back, it fires off its own ocular projectile. Heavyclaws reacts quickly, bringing up one of his claws to take the hit instead of the intended target of his face. He then proceeds to flail the struck appendage around as if it burns.

Attempting to take advantage of his opponent’s perceived inattention, Ferrum Magnus prepares to fire its missiles. Heavyclaws immediately stops flailing and points both claws at the alien mech. The Destructor fires a volley of missiles from both turrets. An instant later, an equal number of missiles leap from ports on the Imar mech’s back, intercepting Ferrum’s missiles before they hit him and blanketing him from view with smoke.

A moment later, a claw erupts through the smoke and latches onto Ferrum’s shoulder. Before the war machine can do anything, the claw begins to retract at high speed, nearly pulling Ferrum off balance. The Sheekh mech manages to maintain its footing by taking a step forward and bracing itself, but nothing could prepare it for what comes next.

“SUPEEYAAAAA KEEEEEEEK!”

Heavyclaws hurtles out of the wall of smoke in mid-air, body turned sideways with the set of legs facing Ferrum held tightly together and pointing straight ahead while the ones on the trailing side are curled underneath him, the retracting cable of his claw drawing him toward his opponent at high speed.

The shriek of rending metal fills the air as the four points of Heavyclaws’ legs all pierce Ferrum Magnus’ armor as one. His other four legs immediately come down to brace against the opposing mech as it stumbles backward to keep its balance, having miraculously not been toppled outright by the tremendous impact. This is quickly rectified as Heavyclaws brings up his free claw, Gatling guns extending as he does so, and fires point-blank into Ferrum Magnus’ upper torso. Sparks and smoke quickly fill the air as the HEAP rounds do their work and tear into the alien mech’s armor.

Heavyclaws hangs on for the ride as Ferrum Magnus finally falls over backward, firing his Gatling guns the whole time. When the war machine hits the ground, the heroic crab mech springs off, landing gracefully in an awesome pose. Smoke rises from four holes in Ferrum’s armor where the Gatling guns’ fire was concentrated. Heavyclaws spins around, this time ready to unload with both sets of Gatling guns...

[GI Jho]

OOC: I am so, so sorry for taking this long to post. Time got away from me....

Ferrum let out a groan, his scanners taking in all the damage the opposing mech had caused. His armor was still in good shape, as was his circuitry. The mech soon flipped himself back onto his feet, before he was suddenly pelted with another flurry of bullets. The mech brought his arms in front of his body, the rounds glancing off of the more curved and angled armor and reducing the damage done to him in the process. Ferrum hissed in a mechanical manner, before he moved his arms out of the way, firing a blast of plasma from his eye while doing so.

The attack hit Heavyclaws, which distracted the mechanical crab long enough for Ferrum to hop into the sky like a spring. Shocked that something that looked so morbidly obese could so high into the sky, Heavyclaws quickly scuttled out of the way of the falling titan, causing Ferrum's landing strike to miss and causing an eruption of dirt and grass where the mighty blow landed. Heavyclaws quickly shot a claw up onto a branch, the mechanical crab flipping himself into the trees.

Ferrum followed suite.

With a single hop, and a quick boost from his jet, the two soon arrived in the branches of the trees, both facing off with each other. Ferrum fired a flurry of missiles, but Heavy claws launched his claw again, pulling himself away from his previous perch, which was soon obliterated by the missiles and sent plummeting to the forest floor below. The mechanical crustacean launched another claw, grappling to Ferrum's branch, as he came in from another attack.

"SUPEEYAAA KEEEEK!"

The machine went in for another blow, but Ferrum was ready for it this time. As the other mech approached, uppercutted him with one fist, the blow knocking Heavyclaws out of the sky, ripping his claw from the wood, the mech flying back as he withdrew his now freed hand. The crab fired his claw, grappling to another branch and pulling himself to safety. Ferrum hopped up once more, taking himself to a higher up branch, firing his missiles in the process. The explosive weapons struck gold, nearly knocking Heavyclaws from his perch, but his claws sank into the tree's branches, keeping him from falling off. Ferrum groaned, before he fired off one of his fists, aiming it at his foe who was on a relatively close branch...

[Inferno Rodan]

What Ferrum isn’t expecting, however, is for Heavyclaws to scuttle backwards around the back of the branch, his spike-tipped legs maintaining a firm grip on the bark even as his body goes completely vertical. The bludgeon flies over him harmlessly a fraction of a second later. After it passes, he reaches up and grabs hold of the chain which attaches the weapon to Ferrum Magnus’ arm.

With the chain gripped in his claws, the mecha-crab continues around the branch, backing underneath it and all the way back around until he’s back on top of it. With his opponent’s chain wrapped around the branch, Heavyclaws flips the mace up and over the chain, locking it in place and making it nigh-impossible to retract. The alien machine tries to reel in the chain, but it’s no use. As Ferrum Magnus groans in something between annoyance and frustration, Heavyclaws snickers jovially. He’s cut off by a flurry of missiles from his opponent. This time he’s unprepared to counter or dodge, and gets blasted. He’s nearly knocked from the branch, but manages to maintain his footing. He quickly recovers and retaliates with a shot from both Claw Cannons. The twin plasma blasts strike Ferrum head-on. A moment later, a pair of thin red lasers rake up the entire front side of his torso.

The two attacks in rapid succession nearly topple the war machine over backwards, but one of Heavyclaws’ pincers shoots forth and latches onto his shoulder before quickly retracting. Ferrum Magnus is pulled forward off the branch, the claw letting go as he begins to fall. Fortunately for him, though, he doesn’t fall far thanks to his mace and chain still being locked around the other branch. Before he can do much of anything besides dangle there, he hears Heavyclaws shouting once again.

“MAIKRO MISSAIRU MASSAKAAAAAA!!!”

Heavyclaws, whom had taken the opportunity to grapple and pull himself up to a slightly higher branch a good distance away, launches a massive barrage of missiles at Ferrum Magnus. The missiles spread out before converging upon Ferrum and engulfing him in dozens of explosions. The machine’s advanced armor may lessen damage from explosions, but the sheer number of missiles more than compensates in this case.

When the smoke clears, Ferrum Magnus dangles, motionless aside from slight swaying caused by the missile impacts and detonations. Heavyclaws takes aim and fires his Claw Cannons at the opposing mech.

[GI Jho]

Ferrum takes the blasts in stride, the powerful concussive force sending the mech swinging backwards like a swing. He didn't take too much damage from the attack, but the heat was enough to begin to warp his heavy steel and titanium chassis. Ferrum manages to regain control of his swing, but the attack actually gave Ferrum an idea. Ferrum began to swing himself back and forth. His massive tonnage gave him excellent inertia, which allowed him to swing himself on top of the branch he was chained to.

Heavyclaws seemed slightly impressed by the much bulkier mech's ingenuity, even giving a (very extaggerated) clap to him. But that was short lived. The Giant Enemy Crab soon fired A flurry of missiles at Ferrum. The ferrum countered with his eye beam, which made short work of the volley, before Ferrum followed with his own volley of missiles. Heavyclaws quickly launched a claw, pulling himself out of the way of missiles, but then he was met with ANOTHER volley of missiles. Unable to react fast enough, Heavyclaws took the blow in stride, the mechanical crustaceon's pointy legs tearing deep ruts in the massive tree branch. Ferrum soon hopped over to the other branch, his chain being just barely long enough for him to reach.

Heavyclaws attempted to counter his foe with his trademark "ROCKETTO PUNCH!", but he overestimated how fast Ferrum was going to arrive. Instead, he got struck in the body with a single punch with Ferrum only available fist, before the Sheekh War Machine "Pimp-Slapped", per se, the other mech, knocking him off balance. With surprising speed, Ferrum uppercutted the other mech, sending it flying off of the tree branch.

Now Ferrum was in a tough spot. How exactly was he going to get down from here? The Mech pondered his options. He could hop down and hope that his girth would snap the branch... he was unsure if that would work, since it had held his girth up for quite a while now. In addition, if he didn't break free soon, he'd just be a sitting duck for the giant crab robot. With an oddly emotional sigh, Ferrum's eye came aglow, before he fired his eye beam at his tied up arm, cutting the chain off at the point where the mace met the chain. Ferrum withdrew his weapon, and hopped down from his roost. Whil he had no other mace, now he could use his chain like a whip if need be.

Heavyclaws had just recovered as Ferrum landed. With a groan, Ferrum fired off another volley of missiles at his foe. This foolish machine would pay for its sin against Destructor MK-I...

[Inferno Rodan]

Still recovering from the fall, Heavyclaws is unable to react to the incoming missiles and gets rocked by explosions. A pair of red lasers slice through the smoke a moment later and sweep across Ferrum Magnus’ torso, leaving swaths of partially melted armor in their wake. The war machine shrugs off the damage and prepares to launch its remaining mace, but is interrupted by a pair of plasma blasts from Heavyclaws’ Claw Cannons striking the ground right in front of it and throwing tons of dirt and debris into the air.

With his opponent momentarily blinded, the mechanical crab strikes a pose, pointing one claw straight ahead while the other supports it under the elbow. The Gatling guns on the forward-pointing claw emerge.

“GATTORINGU DORIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRU!!!”

The claw launches forward. Immediately after launching, the thrusters on the claw angle so that the claw begins spinning rapidly. The Gatling guns roar to life, sending a hail of bullets at the alien mech. The spinning claw slams into Ferrum Magnus square in the middle of its torso a moment later, sparks flying as the tips of the claw grind away at the armor. The Gatling guns continue firing, tearing into the armor as well. Between the actual impact itself and the continued thrust from the rocket boosters, Ferrum Magnus is forced to stumble back before finally toppling over. Heavyclaws immediately stops firing and retracts his claw. Smoke rises from the circle of shredded armor on Ferrum’s torso where the Gatling guns were firing, as well as from the point where the claw tips were drilling into.

With his opponent down, Heavyclaws fires a volley of missiles, the weapons arcing through the air so that they’ll rain down directly on top of the alien machine.

[GI Jho]

My post shall be coming this evening... forgive me for the wait, IR.

[GI Jho]

Ferrum took the brunt of the assault, the explosions rocking his relatively tattered and mangled form. From within the blinding blanket of grey, the mechination of destruction rose to his feet, a cloak of smoke almose completely engulfing the massive machine as he stomped towards Heavyclaws. A red aura was visible from within the smoke, but Heavyclaws thought it was simply the mech firing his red laser from his eyes once more.

When the beam didn't come, however, Heavyclaws knew it wasn't good. Panicking, the machine fired a claw up to a branch above, attempting to hoist himself. But it was already too late. With a thunderous BOOM and earth-rallting power, a blinding red laser fired out from Ferrum's mouth panel, the beam striking Heavyclaws full force. The impact rattled the mech, ripping his claw clean out of the bark on the tree, before he was sent flying backwards. The power of the laser sent him with a collision course with another tree.

The impact shook Heavyclaws, as the laser died down, causing Heavyclaws to slump down to the floor for a moment. Ferrum hopped over to the downed mech and, before his foe could move, ferrum whipepd out his chain, swinging it twice overhead before lashign it towards the mechanical crab. The chain managed to wrap around Heavyclaws' right claw, before he was tugged over to the angered Sheekh mech. As he was pulled over, Ferrum's fist slammed down on top of it. This seemd to cuase the crab to leap into action, lashing out iwth his claws. Not about to get hit once more, Ferrum responded with a flurry of rockets to Heavyclaws' "face", which seemed to stop it for a moment. Ferrum seized this moment, withdrawing his chain, before he swung his mace hand down towards Heavyclaws...

[Inferno Rodan]

Still reeling from the Olympus Breaker, not to mention the two attacks afterward, Heavyclaws is unable to avoid the incoming blow. The mace strikes with a resounding crash, sending the crab sprawling to the forest floor. The Destructor chuckles menacingly as it raises its mace again for yet another blow. But this time when it swings, it only hits the ground as Heavyclaws springs to his feet and rears back, narrowly avoiding the weapon. He quickly scurries backward a short distance to avoid any immediate counterattacks. Then he does something that Ferrum Magnus doesn’t expect, even after all of the absurdity that he’s already displayed.

He gives a thumbs-up. Or the closest he can make to one, anyway, with the upper finger of his right claw pointing straight up.

“Naisu shotto!” (Nice shot)

After holding that for a few seconds, he lowers his arm while quickly raising his left.

“HYYPAAA! CRAAAAW!! CAAANNONNN!!!!

A massive yellow beam launches forth from the barrel on the claw, slamming into Ferrum Magnus head-on an instant later. The alien war machine is swept off its feet and hurled backwards before slamming into a tree, at which point the beam detonates in a large explosion. The tree sways and shakes violently from both the impact of the 90,000-ton robot and the ensuing explosion, but miraculously stays up, albeit leaning to the side somewhat.

When the smoke clears, much of Ferrum’s front side is scorched black and smoking. Before the Sheekh mech can even begin to recover, a claw latches onto his ankle and drags him away from the tree. As he’s pulled along the ground, a flurry of missiles slam down on him from above. Finally the claw releases its grip and Ferrum comes to a halt, only to come under a hail of fire from all eight of Heavyclaws’ Gatling guns a moment later. The mechanical crab keeps up the barrage for several seconds before finally stopping, at which point his eyes begin to glow red in preparation for firing his lasers.