Koji growled as he saw the Giant Mantis finally begin its attack- not on the two mechas, but on vehicles and people on its path. Now he regretted waiting so long to act and blamed himself.

"OKAY THAT'S IT I'm taking this roach down!!" he shouted over his comm system as he drove the Mazinger forward (while still keeping an eye on the other robots via radar.) He pressed a button while shouting (for no other reason than he liked doing it): Rocket Punch!! and suddenly both of his robot's arms detached and blasted off like missiles, heading towards Preytor.

-The Odin follows the trail of destruction left by the insect, until coming across the other mechs already fighting it.-

Who're these guys...

Hey, freak! Catch!

-The Odin's arm cannons lift up and begin firing their particle cannons into the beast.-

Yuto flew near Blades before he saw Koji engage Preytor with Mazinger Z.

"Looks like the bug's a hostile. Moving in for the kill."

He flew the Valkyrie down near the streets until it was safe for him to switch to Battroid mode.

Yuto moved carefully, using the buildings for cover as he tried to get closer and closer to the giant insect.

Rei's cellphone buzzed.

Port district. Warehouse 264. Come immediately.

The message was unexpected, but then there was nothing about this whole situation made any sense to her. With a sigh, she pocketed the phone, along with her ID card which was sat underneath it. Something told her she'd need it.

Amuro observed the mantis and decided to simply end it quickly, with a subtle thought, the funnels on the Nu Gundam's back sprung to life.

They surrounded the mantis and opened fire.

Beachfront

Lune watches the action from her cockpit. The guys sort of remind her of the Steel Dragons. One guy even yells his attacks like that Ryusei nerd. She would jump in with the Valsione R, but it seems they have it handled for now.

edited 10th Aug '15 7:30:09 PM by josh6243

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Mazinger's two fists shot down the street like a pair of torpedoes, streaking toward Preytor as she whirled to face the new threat. The first fist wound up socking her directly in the abdomen; the sickening crunch of reinforced metal hitting chitin echoed through the panicked streets. Preytor screeched- a grating, completely inhuman sound - as she, however improbably, returned fire. The second fist went wide, ploughing its way into an office tower; its entrance livened up Mr. Nesmith's decidedly bland retirement party.

The comparatively tiny ^note  to be fair, it was still the size of a sedan life form that emerged from her mouth flew toward the temporarily and literally disarmed Mazinger. In a few seconds, the parasite was scrabbling all over the gigantic machine, spraying viscous goop as it clawed viciously at the gaps at the mech's armor.

The second hail of fire - a combined fusillade from both Nu Gundam and the Odin - had more of an effect. The salvo tore great ragged holes all along Preytor's thick exoskeleton. A few of the shots found their way into the giant insect's closest eye. The end result was not pretty, to say the least [[note]]Local real estate prices would probably take a nasty knock; nobody wanted mantis eyeball juice all over their neighborhood]]. Partially blinded and entirely furious, the mantis swung around to try and grab Nu Gundam. Gigantic claws snapping, Preytor bowled down the street, picking up momentum as it went, and threw itself onto Nu Gundam in a horrible bear hug, trying to squeeze the mech open like a gigantic nutcracker.

"What are they doing?" That was Bonecrusher; the bulky bulldozer-bot had taken up cover on a nearby overpass, and was now currently trying to draw a bead on the frantic thrashing of the huge insect.

"I think the question is... what are they?" Scavenger loaded a few more cartridges into his blaster and fired; the bullets sank into Preytor's skin with all the effect of a peashooter on an elephant. "Slag."

"They are going to get themselves killed." Mixmaster had thrown subtlety to the wind a long time ago; he stomped through the freeway and over the heads of panicked civilians. "Prowl! Ya reading me? We've kinda got a situation goin' on down here...!"

"...a situation that's big and green and mad as hell," finished Scavenger over the rat-tat-tat of his comically small rifle.

"Loud and clear, Mixmaster. We've just met up with some... friends. I think. Be with you soon."

Financial District

With the Mazinger currently "disarmed" Koji was helpless to keep the Parasite from crawling over his robot. Fortunately, other than covering it with slime, it didn't seem to be doing much damage to the superalloy mecha. He considered firing some of his other weapons at it but worried about causing more destruction to his surroundings.

He decided to recall the Rocket Punches first. By flipping a switch, a signal was sent that activated the rocket boosters in the arms' fingers, causing them to blast off backwards back towards him.

edited 10th Aug '15 7:43:19 PM by Sijo

Yuto drew out the Messiah's OTEC AK/VF-M9 assault knife and charged in towards her.

"Let's see if you're tougher than those mothereffin' Vajra!"

The Messiah grabbed Preytor from the back in order to keep it away from Amuro.

"ORYAAAA!" Yuto yelled at the top of his voice when he stabbed the creature several times to the chest and head.

edited 11th Aug '15 2:25:08 AM by Ominae

Industrial District

"If you're talkin' about the whole 'transported to another place against your will' deal, then this is as new an experience to us," Streetwise replied to Long Haul, himself transforming. He had heard that Optimus Prime and his team were victims of such 'kidnappings' several times in the past, but the Protectobots themselves had never been placed in that kind of situation before. "Best we stick together until we find a way to get home."

A few meters from them both, Groove's driver kept its eye on the much-larger Cybertronian - even as his vehicle mode turned and began rolling back onto the road, making it appear as if the driver was not paying attention to his driving at all. "Eyes on the road, Groove," Streetwise reminded as he rolled out onto the street.

"Man, I can't figure out how you're stayin' calm in all this," Groove sent back, his driver turning its head to look at the road. "We're talkin' about the Constructicons here! And they keep sayin' that Prowl's one'o them!! And - "

"Easy, Groove. Until we know exactly what's goin' on, we shouldn't start provoking anything."

The telltale^* and inaudible to anyone else beeping of their comm links cut the exchange short, as Hot Spot's voice chimed in. "Local ERTs're reporting that combat's started. Better get your afts over here, quick!!"

"On our way, Chief."

"Scrap, what's goin' on now?"

Groove picked up speed first, dashing off and disappearing around a corner Prowl and Hook had turned. "Can y'keep up?" Streetwise casually asked Long Haul behind him, before speeding up as well.

Before Blades could give Simon a (mostly) non-answer since he and his teammates were just as confused as to where they were, the sounds of combat echoed from a nearby section of that district. "At last, some action!!" he said out loud, increasing his altitude and pointing himself in the general direction of the disturbance. "First Aid, take care'o these two!!" He didn't even wait for an answer, his helicopter mode pitching forward and heading out, leaving an annoyed - and admittedly intimidated by Simon's larger companion - First Aid on the street below.

"...Uh... Shee-moan, was it?" his driver asked, peeking his head out the ambulance window. "I've got a job to do, but let's get you and your... friend to a safe place first." The much larger robot's frame appeared less-armored than your typical Cybertronian of that size, so the medic considered him a non-Earth civilian for the time being.

edited 10th Aug '15 10:58:21 PM by Demovere

Financial District

Aw dammit, ah wanted his head.

-The Odin maneuvers to avoid hitting the other mech and fires again, aiming for the creature's abdomen.-

Beachfront->Financial District

Lune continued to watch the fight from her cockpit. It seems the creature would be more than handful for these guys. It would be neat if the Valsione helped out, right? The Valsione R walked into the Financial District, and some of the more interested tourists followed in order to see more of the action.

"Cross Saucer!"

The disc-like weapon on Valsione R's left shoulder turns blue and the disc-like weapon on the right shoulder turns red. The Valsione R points at the Preytor and the discs fly at Preytor's legs in an attempt at cutting them off.

"Not... worry." The Giant said, metal face slightly twisting into a smile. "I keep... Shimon... safe."

He engaged his rocket boots again, rising into the air. If all these people with machines were heading to this fight, then surely Simon's friend was fighting as well. So the Giant flew off towards the ruckus.

He identified the immediate threat - a massively upscaled bug, if he wasn't mistaken - but the other group of robots and pilots seemed to have it under control. So he scanned the various machines. Yet none of them seemed to match the profile Simon had given him.

"Simon... is friend... here?"

"Aw, c'mon!" grumbled Long Haul as he flipped into his alternate mode and rumbled along after him. "You know I can't do that kind of speed." Indeed, the heavy dump truck ground its way along the streets at a positively glacial pace compared to the decidedly more nimble law enforcement vehicles (and a cement mixer).

"Pick it up, Long Haul!" teased Mixmaster as he kicked his engine into high gear, falling into place just behind Prowl, Streetwise, and Groove. "There's a killer bug on the loose an' that's how fast you're gonna go?"

"...shut up, Mix." Long Haul's engine growled like a particularly peeved dog.

"Both of you fall in," Prowl's tone was brusque and bored; this was clearly not the first fight that he'd had to break up. "This situation is more important than your bickering."

Preytor was suddenly yanked backwards into a kind of chokehold ^note the analogy fell apart when you remembered that mantises don't really have lungs in the conventional sense by the Messiah., just as the Valsione managed to cut off one of her four legs. The offending limb toppled like a collapsing tree to the ground, throwing up a cloud of dust and debris as it made contact with the asphalt.

Thrashing and screeching, she fired off a vicious kick with her remaining hind legs at this particular mech, hoping that she could sweep the legs out from underneath it and trip it up... only to be met with a particularly nasty slice through the head. The first few strikes merely crunched into her thick exoskeleton. After a few more slashes, however, there was a particularly ugly gash carved into the huge insect's backside.

The second round of fire from the Odin managed to have a similar effect on Preytor; tearing off a chunk of her softer underbelly and releasing a torrent of particularly unsightly fluids ^note  that for the sake of the squeamish shall not be described in depth here.

At the same time, the parasite currently clamped onto the Mazinger gave up on its liquid assault and went for a different tactic: scratching great gouges out of the mech with its claws, hoping to dig into the delicate machinery beneath the reinforced armor.

Yuto was doing a good job in keeping Preytor away and stabbing him good with the large assault knife.

That was until the giant mantis decide to play at his own game and try to mess with the Valkyrie's footing.

"Why you, you piece of...!"

The pilot noted that the mantis kicked the left leg very hard, causing the mech to stumble a bit backward and falling down on its rear.

"Shit! Shit!"

The brown-haired pilot did a quick systems check before he managed to pick himself up, albeit slowly as to not be attacked again in case of an ambush.

"I can't keep this up if that giant bug decide to use another tactic."

Industrial District

Then Mazinger's arms finally locked back in place. Koji, by now sick of the slimy bug running all over him (or rather his mech) proceeded to try to catch it its hands. If he succeeded, he would crush it into a pulp.

Financial District

The Cross Saucers returned to Valsione R's shoulders, and she gave the Valkyrie and its pilot a big thumbs up for protecting them.

"Thanks! Let me give you a hand! Makyuu Mirage Ball!"

Two balls of energy appear on the disc weapons on the Valsione R's shoulders. They merge together into a larger spiral energy ball. The Valsione R attempts to kick this energy ball at the giant mantis's remaining legs.

Industrial District

"Heh, seems like this is old hat for you guys," Streetwise said to Prowl as the quintet approached a suspension bridge connecting the north from the south districts. Unseen by the others, Groove's driver rolled his eyes at his teammate's continued casual tone.

"Wha - wait!!" First Aid's plea fell on deaf ears as the giant took off, the human boy and his smaller mech in tow. With a grunt of further annoyance, the ambulance quickly took off, weaving through the now-much-clearer streets after the two.

Blades quickly arrived at the fight, where he slowed to a hover at a safe distance to survey the situation... which was pretty weird, even for Earth in his time. A giant mantis creature was being fought off by three similarly-scaled robots: a rather rounded, black-and-red one, a sleek white one, and... a really large female Pretender?

Whoa, do they even make Pretender shells that big? Ah, whatever! Quickly deciding to forego his disguise^* there were already several other robots on the field, so what did staying incognito matter?, Blades' holographic pilot appeared to be consumed by his shifting parts^* which is what it ends up looking like if a Cybertronian didn't deactivate their driver first before transforming as he transformed. Soon, a (relatively) smaller robot was zipping towards the giant bug, rotor blades whirling furiously on his back.

"Hey ugly - time t'rearrange yer face!!" he shouted, bringing both of his arm-mounted launchers to bear and firing off four rockets, all aimed at the creature's head.

edited 16th Aug '15 9:58:02 PM by Demovere

Amuro got the Nu Gundam back up on it's feet and turned to the great Mazinger, he dropped the shield and went over to Kyoji and the Mazinger.

With a quick motion he hoped to grab the parasite and then vaporize it with the Beam saber. Beam Rifle would output too much damage.

Financial District

-The Odin's guns continue hammering into the creature's abdomen, Tychus occasionally shooting a glance at the button that will deploy its massive shoulder cannons. But there is the little matter of the other mechs in the way...-

Simon initially began panicking as Superman moved them away from the seemingly helpful Firss Taid and toward some kind of oversized monster that definitely wanted to kill them, but then he realized Superman had unintentionally made a great point. If Kamina was anywhere in the vicinity, he would be making a beeline for a big fight, if he wasn’t in it already.

So Simon gulped heavily and bore witness to the battle raging down below, looking out for any oversized pairs of sunglasses. But all he saw were more Ganmen the likes of which he’d never seen before, with firepower that made him shudder. If any of these guys are on the beastmen’s side, me and bro could be in real trouble. He thought to himself, as the dazzle of Odin’s laser barrage reflected in his goggles.

Simon then noticed the vehicle from earlier flying alongside them. “Hey mister, have you seen this kind of thing befoaaaaaaAAAAAAHHHHH!” Simon’s jaw and body locked up in uncomprehending shock as the driver of the vehicle was crushed during the vehicle’s transformation into yet another strange Ganman.

Lagann scrambled over, clutching onto the side of the Giant’s head for dear life. “He’s not here!” He said in an urgent (comparative) whisper. “He’s not here, Superman, and we need to get out of here.” Simon looked back to the streets below, leering at Firss Taid’s approach. “Let’s head back to the water.” He said. “Please. It’ll be safer there.”

Simon's friend was not here then. Recognizing the futility of being here - these other machines had just about killed the arthropod anyway - the Giant nodded. He reactivated his rocket boots and flew away, off towards the water as Simon suggested.

"Where... look... next?"

Rei, Unknown location

"Transferring Unit-00 to launch track... Energising magnetic rails. Standby."

An alarm and a quiet rumbling noise signalled the opening of a hatchway in the port district of the city.

A louder rumble heralded the arrival of Evangelion Unit-00, as the orange and black robot clattered up its launch rails to the surface.

Inside the Entry Plug, Rei, now wearing her white Plugsuit rather than her school uniform, made some attempt to survey the scene.

The squirming, shrieking parasite wasn't much of a match for the Mazinger's colossal armored gauntlets; as soon as the two fists had firmly clamped themselves back on the mech's body it found itself the recipient of a particularly vicious squish, coupled with a sudden slice downward from Nu Gundam's laser sword. As squashed bugs were prone to do, it left one final parting gift by spraying all kinds of internal juices around the nearby area, like a particularly horrible paint bomb.

Preytor, meanwhile, was finding herself quickly outmatched by the growing number of opponents dogpiling onto the confused mantis. Blades's missile salvo impacted against her ^note comparatively small head, blowing the manis's cranium apart. Coupled with the gunfire from the Odin, whatever was left of the mantis plummeted to the ground with a strange, almost serene majesty. Several dozen tonnes of dead mantis hit the street with an all-too-audible thud, sending a wave of dust and debris flying out from the initial shockwave.

People peered out from hastily barricaded windows, from behind doors and underneath benches (and, in one interesting case, an overturned trash can. They stared up at the colossal machines that had killed this insectoid invader, the perpetual July sunlight reflecting off their various metal skins and armors. And then... they simply began cleaning up the mess, as though nothing interesting or supernatural had happened at all.

Industrial District

"Ah, you don't know the half of it," said Mixmaster in reply to Streetwise's remark. "I mean, you should see the way ol' Devvy works now that the new boss took over. Brains an' brawn, that's what I'm talkin' about.

It only took a few more minutes of driving before the strange group of mismatched Cybertronians arrived at Preytor's corpse. Immediately Prowl transformed, flexing his shoulders and unconsciously deploying his shoulder-mounted missiles. Whatever this thing was, it wasn't native Earth life. Nor were the various gigantic machines standing around... that is, unless humanity had made some serious technological advancements in the ten minutes that he had been off the planet.

edited 21st Aug '15 3:29:28 AM by Locoman