Mechanoid and Mechaloid would be getting back up by now, they, too having some claws extending from their fingertips, to engage in CQC with the Ballista charging the repulsion field.
((ooc Have some fun with this. Ill introduce Grahn my SS/Invuln brute Think the Abomination only 10 times meaner and youve got a good idea of this guy. His origin ahs him nearly trashing the Freedom phalanxe before he was defeated.
Also to have some fun. Hes a minion type (though a dangerous one) so its easy to see a mastermind hiring him as back up. So anyone that wants to call him in as reinforcements feel free.))
Above The carnage and battle high on a Skyscraper a monstrous hulking form crouched on his perch like some massive nearly 8 foot tall gargoyle. He looked down on the battle below with some small interest.
Massive corded muscles moved under a dark green scaled hide and a sneer formed on a face that could make a train back up and take a dirt road.
"Weaklings..." He sneered. Inwardly he cursed positron and only barely restrained the urge to tear the armored hero apart with his bare hands.
He had crushed the Freedom phalanxe once but those accursed Demolition girls had defeated him.
It was Positron who had devised the Hot-Sleep chamber that had imprisoned him, and Positron who had drained away much of the excess energy that had enabled him to tear his way through a warwall the day he was created.
Now he was barely a shadow of his former strength. Though he smirked that shadow still caused Longbow to shiver in terror at the mention of his name.
So for now he waited and watched as the 2 heroes and their Longbow allies fought for their lives agaisnt the assembled villians.
He watched and waited for the Call that would send him into battle to once again crush and smash.
So you mean you'll put down your rock, and I'll put down my sword; and we'll try and kill each other like civilized people?
Dubbed first knight of pep-istan by her majesty Queen Pepcat. first catmonaut to walk onna moon.
PENGUIN!!!...(^)>
...............C(...)D
.................m.m
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Positron seemed to be fairly well handled by the others so the multitude of laser beams, photon grenades, plasma blasts and a couple of seeker drones went hurtling towards the other hero she didn't recognise.
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Larry "Mr. Invincible" Lawson winced as some of the blasts splashed across him. That must be some high-end hardware for it to sting like that. Most of the time lasers only tickled.
He tore another robot in half, turning back around just in time to catch a seeker drone in the face. The whirling blades broke away against his skin, but the flashbomb-like explosion of the small device left him momentarily blinded.
"Men, switch to their comm. link channel" th man ordered. He also switched his as he went inside the building. He got his orders and charged to the right, ordering his men to follow. He saw the Ballistas, and for a moment thouht the rest were handling it well, but instead ordered for an attack. "Hit the deck!" he boomed, as he reached onto his belt and pulled out a flash grenade. He bit off the top and let itfly towards the Ballistas, hoping to momentarily blind them.
((The Ballistas are on the right, correct?))
OOC:
I hope so, anyway. :P
BIC:
Positron flailed wildly before his visor adjusted to compensate for the fog so he could see the incoming knock-out blow. And then he did something only people as skilled and experienced as the Freedom Phalanx could do:
He grabbed Doomtastic's blow by her wrist and squeezed, hard. He didn't have super-strength, but his armor helped quite a bit and the radiation emitting from his gauntlets always helped plenty. His other fist came around in an irridated punch at Doomtastic's face.
Recycler-33 scrambled back to his feet, and took advantage of Mr. Invincible's blindness to dash in close and start spraying with his tank of liquid Tiberium.
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The ballista heading for the sniper drone was blinded instantly by the flash grenade and started flailing around wildly, but the other two were protected sufficiently by their dispersion fields. The blinded one was being slashed at and he started to punch in random directions with his fists.
The one flying at the other's throat was still doing so, even while being attacked. His powerful hands breeched the shielding and went for the throat.
The one battling Breaker activated a repulsion field, and then attempted to give Breaker a bear hug with it turned on. A super-strength crushing bear hug.
As the Ballista turned on a repulsion field and moved in, trying to bear hug Breaker, the massive Assault Bot slung his arms to the sides, as if spreading his wings and just waited for the man to get too close.
Fixer's shields had been penetrated, the crazed Ballista still flying, so the Protector bot did the next best thing he could think of - extending his gun hand to the point that the barrel of the laser pistol would be resting square between the Longbow's eyes and squeezing the trigger all in one smooth motion.
Mechazoid kept slashing at the leaping Ballista, inputting the word "Crazy" in a file in its memory banks. Mechazoid then stopped his attack after Fixer fired at point blank range at the man. Since the Drone was still standing, and not leaping like this man was, he grabbed the man by both feet, and slung him towards the opposite wall.
Mechanoid and Mechaloid closed in on the blinded Ballista as the man was blinded, slashing and stabbing with precision and speed, knocking him around like he was some sort of play toy.
Dr. Mechan decided to step forward, the repulsion field still active, pushing away the two Ballista that had closed to melee range. Fixer got up from his kneeling position and rejoined the Doctor inside the field, next to Functionary, and the two Protector bots resumed firing with their heavy lasers.
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Recycler-33 scrambled back to his feet, and took advantage of Mr. Invincible's blindness to dash in close and start spraying with his tank of liquid Tiberium.
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Mr. I's enhanced hearing caught Recycler's approach and he threw himself to the side to avoid the villain's weapon. It wasn't quite in time however; his right arm and shoulder getting caught in the deadly liquid.
The hero's entire right side burst into an explosion of agony. The arm of his costume tore and shredded as the crystals sprang up. Larry's vision swam sickeningly, but he still knew he couldn't stay vulnerable like this or he was done.
Raising his right arm, Mr. I brought it smashing down, violently quaking the ground all around him. The crystals on his arm were smashed as well.
Larry pulled himself back to his feet. His arm was a sickly green color and it felt like his skin was cracking apart with every movement, but he could feel his body fighting it off like most everything else.
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Larry pulled himself back to his feet. His arm was a sickly green color and it felt like his skin was cracking apart with every movement, but he could feel his body fighting it off like most everything else.
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"What IS that stuff?", the girl in the powersuit asked. If it could do that to a hero when her bots had barely dented him, she wanted some. And speaking of heroes, probably best to hit him when he was down. She barked a command at her bots and the ones that could switched to their secondary weapons. The assault bot launched a volley of incendiary missiles, the protectors fired photon grenades and the drones kept firing their lasers since they lacked a secondary system. A third photon grenade flew from the girl's own rifle to add to the destruction.
[Admin] Emperor Marcus Cole: STOP!
[Admin] Emperor Marcus Cole: WAIT ONE SECOND!
[Admin] Emperor Marcus Cole: WHAT IS A SEAGULL DOING ON MY THRONE!?!?
The man cursed loudly as the flash grenade only managed to blind one. "Sanchez, George, Mier, your with them" he said, pointing from his Medic, Soldier and Commando to the group that hired them. "Rest of you are with me, taking on the Ballistas" he finished. His men ran off to follow the assigned group, while the two Spec Ops and a Soldier waited for orders concerning the Ballistas.
"Position-Forward Alpha" the man ordered his troops. The two Spec Ops took a couple steps back and took out their sniper rifles, trying to get a clear shot on the Longbw, while the Soldier O'Leary took aim with an M16. The man reached into his pocket and pulled out a small disk, and tossed it to the ground, in the rough center of everyone. It expanded into a small pyramid, and started radiating a green aura. "How many triage beacons do you have?" O'Leary laughed as he fired off mad shots. The man just chuckled and shot off bullets from his pistol.
((If any of the Ballistas are clear of anyone else, take into account a sniper shot, since they'll shoot if the Longbow are clear.))
Recycler-33 didn't let up with his liquid T spray, he went right after Mr. Invincible with every intent to hose him down with the vicious stuff even as the hero was bombarded by robotic minions.
***
The Ballista that had been trying to rip off Fixer's head staggered back as he was hit in the forehead by the drone's attack, and then the damndest thing happened. Something grabbed him by his legs and tried to toss him into the nearby wall. This only half worked, causing the super-soldier to stumble and crash into the wall still standing up. The shot to the head had disoriented him, and the wall certainly hadn't helped.
Then he was hit by a sniper round, this being the third time he'd been shot in the head. This time, he went down and didn't get up.
The Ballista being beaten eventually recovered the use of his eyes, and while he played punching-bag with the two drones, he punched at one as he was shoved at it with the Ballista's signature tank-cracking punch.
The ballista trying to repel Breaker got close. 
When the Ballista heading straight towards Breaker got within range, and just a little too close for Breaker's own taste, the massive Assault Drone's pistoned arms kicked into high-gear, bringing the hammer hands around, in a bashing attempt on the Ballista - should the Ballista be caught by the hammer blows, there would be a thunderous clap from the whole thing.
Dr. Mechan ordered Fixer to fry the head off the fallen Ballista, then order Mechazoid, Mechaloid, and Mechanoid to attack the 3rd Ballista. The three Warbots each took their turns swiping at the agent of Longbow, and then, Mechaloid got popped square in the optic sensors.
"Hey! OW! Damn you, Longbow!" Mechaloid hollered, then dropping back towards Dr. Mechan and Functionary.
Functionary took the shot at the Ballista that had punched Mechaloid, the heavy laser blast aimed at the man's head.
The renewed barrage of lasers and grenades ended up being a blessing in disguise (sorta) since it kept Recycler from aiming too well with the liquid Tiberium.
Mr. I was thrown back from a grenade impacting at his feet. He kicked up another section of street to help shield him from some of the ordinance before turning around and grabbing two nearby vehicles.
The cars suddenly arced up over the explosions and laser fire, catching a few moments of hangtime before plummeting toward the villains.
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The cars suddenly arced up over the explosions and laser fire, catching a few moments of hangtime before plummeting toward the villains.
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Big Mac the assault bot looked up at the rapidly approaching vehicles with the cold, calculating calmness of a machine. At just the right moment he raised both arms, his plasma blasts pushing the improvised projectiles off course so they wouldn't squash him or any of his friends. They impacted harmlessly onto empty pavement beside the villains. One careless Drone got clobbered by the flying chunk of pavement, but he was repaired soon enough by the two Protectors.
"Really, you think I would build minions that could be wiped out that easily? I'm offended", the girl in the powersuit laughed before resuming her assault on the invulnerable hero.
[Admin] Emperor Marcus Cole: STOP!
[Admin] Emperor Marcus Cole: WAIT ONE SECOND!
[Admin] Emperor Marcus Cole: WHAT IS A SEAGULL DOING ON MY THRONE!?!?
Doomtastic was surprised when Positron grabbed her wrist, so surprised that the shot to her face knocked her head back.
But Doomtastic was unyielding, she couldn't be moved unless she wanted to move, and her knock out blow couldn't be stopped, she followed through with her punch, the strength that flowed through her that enabled her to pick up tanks and rip safes from their hinges coupled with her nigh unbreakable bones meant that Positron would either let go of her wrist, or break his.
The punch connected with his armor and dented it, and even if it didn't send him flying 15 feet into the air, it staggered him. She reached her hands back for a Haymaker when the Phalanxer retailiated.
With a deafening roar, his jet boots exploded with force, propelling Positron into Doomtastic. The pair slammed into one of the trucks the masterminds brought, tearing through its side and stopping inside the back. They both had only a glimpse of the trucks' cargo before they both uttered.
"$#@&."
And it exploded in a brilliant ball of fire.
Infinity
Sam Varden 50 MA/Reg Scrap
Doomtastic 50 SS/Inv Brute
Ceus 50 Eng/Kin Corr
Cinderstorm 50 Fire/Fire Blaster
Recycler-33 was no robot, and did not have a machine's stoic calmness. He dived for safety when he saw the car heading his way. After both cars were deflected he got back onto his feet and reoriented himself to get a good look at Mr. Invincible.
What he saw was Positron and Doomtastic crashing into Mechanomorphics van, causing the fusion generator within to detonate along with most of the heavy ordinance within. It wasnt just a fireball-The explosion stretched out to the sidewalk on both ends of the street and left scorch marks on the buildings, and smelted the asphalt street into tar. The other two trucks survived as shielding flared up, but there was nothing to protect Recycler-33 or anyone else. The currently petless mastermind was thrown off his feet and through the window of the restaurant, where he crashed and flipped over the counter to land on the floor where his tank of liquid Tiberium cracked open. He was too busy counting the stars orbiting his head to notice this.
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The first ballista deftly avoided Breakers attacked and counter-attacked with a tank-cracker punch from the side.
The second had finally had too much, between being shot in the head and tossed around like a rag down he fell to the ground and whimpered, stunned.
Once he had been the patient little spy for Arachnos.
But that was before he'd been transformed into a near 8foot tall mass of muscle. Now he saw an opportunity to indulge in a spat of violence and mayhem. he smirked as he watched the First Longbow Ballista on the downed breaker.
He was in a perfect position. Distracted by the Explosion caused by Positron, and busy with the villian in front of him. he never heard the whistling sound as nearly a ton of muscle and green scales plummetd down on top of him like a comet. His only warningw as a shadow that expanded before a massive form crashed into him from above with a sickening crunch of bone. Several more crunches occurred as Haymaker blow after Haymaker blow was driven into the downed ballista.
GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHNNN!! He roared in triumph the savage roar that had given birth to his name, while smashing his fists against his chest like some massive green ape.
"Who's Next?" he asked in a voice like two slabs of bronze grating together. He sincerely hoped that Positron had survived the explosion. He was looking forward to peeling the armor off him personally.
Standing over the crushed body of the Ballista he turned looking around for his next challenger.
So you mean you'll put down your rock, and I'll put down my sword; and we'll try and kill each other like civilized people?
Dubbed first knight of pep-istan by her majesty Queen Pepcat. first catmonaut to walk onna moon.
PENGUIN!!!...(^)>
...............C(...)D
.................m.m
OOC:
Pssst! Catsi! The Ballista are inside, not on the street.
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The first ballista deftly avoided Breakers attacked and counter-attacked with a tank-cracker punch from the side.
The second had finally had too much, between being shot in the head and tossed around like a rag down he fell to the ground and whimpered, stunned.
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The second downed Ballista, being stunned, would be shown no mercy by the three Warbots, each of them retracting their claws, pulling out their heavy laser rifles, then encircling the doomed Ballista.
Dr. Mechan ordered the three Warbots: "Fire." The heavy laser bursts would incinerate the man's head.
Breaker had his own problems. The Ballista had dodged the hammer-slam, rearing back to take a shot at the massive Assault Bot. Breaker was in no position to retaliate, and at the exact moment the Ballista's fist slammed into Breaker, his chest compartant fired a single, plasma blast into the Ballista.
Unlike the man, Breaker kept his ground, retracting the hammer hands in order to unleash a dual plasma burst from his palms. Breaker would follow this up with a salvo of incendiary missiles, from his shoulder mounted missile rack.
Both Functionary and Fixer moved forward, lighting Breaker up with repairing beams of energy.
((OOC: Dr. Mechan begins tapping his foot, impatiently...))
OOC:
Wait for others, Kyzock.
((OOC: Roger that. Eyelids heavy enough already. Gotta log for sleep.))
Detecting the incoming blastwave, the girl in the powersuit and all six of her robots diverted all available power into their various shields. As the blast rolled over them they were tossed around a bit but they were mostly fine. Once the danger was past a number of green flashes lit up the area as the two Protectors repaired first the other bots then each other, while the girl pulled out a medical device to activate a similar function on herself. Before putting it away she looked around to see if anyone important was hurt while her bots went back to their primary orders and resumed lighting up Mr. Invincible.
[Admin] Emperor Marcus Cole: STOP!
[Admin] Emperor Marcus Cole: WAIT ONE SECOND!
[Admin] Emperor Marcus Cole: WHAT IS A SEAGULL DOING ON MY THRONE!?!?
Staggering up from the where the massive explosion had tossed her, Doomtastic groaned as she caught her breath. If she noticed the massive destruction filling the city streets after that little boom it didn't show. The first thing she did was make sure her costume was still on. Explosions were never nice to nano-assembled leather.
Assured of her own modesty, Doomtastic looked for Recycler-33 and didn't see him. Of course with the smoke, she barely saw Postitron pulling himself up.
The two looked at each other for a short beat. The silence was awkward and pregnant before they looked away from each other.
"Good god, that was sooo Freudian...." Doomtastic finally muttered, "That was not my fault!"
Positron didn't say anything and collapsed back to the ground.
Limping away from the burning remains, Doom began a more earnest search for her minionless mastermind. Well...she probably counted as a minion at the moment, would be bad form if it got out he was a petless mastermind. No one would ever work with him again. Grandville had enough unemployment problems.
Infinity
Sam Varden 50 MA/Reg Scrap
Doomtastic 50 SS/Inv Brute
Ceus 50 Eng/Kin Corr
Cinderstorm 50 Fire/Fire Blaster
Larry really needed to close the distance cause he was getting nowhere fast. Grabbing a large hunk of ripped-up street, Mr. I flew straight toward the attacking robots.
His cover didn't last very long; picked apart by grenades and laser fire within seconds. But it was long enough for Larry to close the gap.
As the last of the concrete crumbled away, Larry soaked up a few more blasts before slamming into the ground in the midst of the machines. He immediately turned and backhanded one, sending it flying across the street.
The energy punched into Doomtastic's gut like a sledgehammer, and she didn't even slow down. The thrill of a good fight was in her now, and she wasn't going to stop until she was satisfied.
"Well, Ray, even if you don't love me, Bella does!"
She threw her hand out and bright yellow lines of soul strings formed a skull that marred Positron's vision long enough for the enraged woman to wind up a powerful knock out blow.
Infinity
Sam Varden 50 MA/Reg Scrap
Doomtastic 50 SS/Inv Brute
Ceus 50 Eng/Kin Corr
Cinderstorm 50 Fire/Fire Blaster