A Game of Gods: A Multiversal Challenge

"Miss Subaru! Supplies get recharged and stuff every challenge!" Blink said, before pulling out the syringe filled with orange liquid and encrusted with medical tools. "I can use this on you and you'll be fine!"

Rey got to his feet, murmuring softly. "We're ALL gonna die..."

Had Kimimaro been a lesser man, he would've flinched at the sheer, raw Killing Intent radiating from Dis Baba. As it was, he steeled himself for what may come.

A robot appeared…and grew in size. It seemed like the Common room also grew in size to compensate as well. The change was slow, but it took shape. The being was tall…very tall. It had a humanoid appearance, head, arms, torso, legs, etc.

But more details now appeared. It seemed to settle on a simple white color, the Decepticon symbol appearing on its flat chest. A Truly massive black cannon appeared, attached to its right arm. The head took shape, a white helmet around a pair of glowing red eyes and a scowl Ravage would only know too well…

No one copies Shepard.

—Saren slammed his scimitar through the robotic double's visor.—

Kimimaro turned to Ravage, recognizing the figure before him due to a small article he read while researching Challengers.

"Megatron, I presume?"

Rey scooted over to join with the others, staring up at the robot. "I hope someone has a plan."

For a moment, Ravage could simply stare at the slowly materializing Decepticon, slack-jawed and dumbstruck. Then fury began to well up in his spark, and he snarled in nothing less than sheer, world-destroying rage.

"You DARE?!" he roared, a bellow that seemed to cause the entire chamber to shudder. "You dare desecrate both the glorious Decepticon cause and mighty Megatron in this manner?!"

With a howl of absolute fury, the Predacon rocketed into the air, setting his blaster to maximum and firing a shot straight at the false Megatron's chest; his rage seemed to amplify the power of the shot, and at the very least it would stagger the towering transformer.

"I shall endure no more of this depravity!!!"

At the same time, the ground behind Megatron suddenly exploded, and an enormous metal hand reached up to seize the imposter by its cumbersome ankle...

Let it be said. This was the first boss battle.

Megatron, even a copy, does not go down without one hell of a fight. He leapt, just barely missing the ceiling as he took the blasts from Ravage. It swung around that massive Fusion Cannon, pointed it down at the metal hand, and fired, sending off a purple roaring bolt of dark matter.

The copy of Megatron landed with a dull crunch and came around for Ravage, its hand sliding inside its left forearm housing as a massive energy mace took its place and the machine swung at the now pint sized Decepticon.

Subaru roared,

“GET HIM!”

"...or we could let Ravage handle it. That's a viable option." Rey sighed, charging up shadow around his hands yet again.

edited 17th Mar '11 7:18:23 PM by MystyGlyttyr

" Agreed. This is his fight. We should stay put." Narumi said.

edited 17th Mar '11 7:18:44 PM by Psyga315

The metal hand grabbed the false Megatron by the shoulder and spun him around violently, revealing a smoking, blackened and utterly livid Transformer that was, for all intents and purposes, its exact duplicate. Well, not entirely; there were a few key differences, such as the fact that this Decepticon's face was contorted with contempt, as if he were insulted by the very presence of this pathetic imitation.

"Pathetic worm!" this second Megatron boomed. "You dare impersonate me?!"

And without waiting for a response, the enraged leader of the Decepticons delivered a crushing right hook to his doppelganger's jaw, then tackled him to the floor.

"I'll rip out your optics!!!" he snarled, clawing at the imposter's face.

Ravage was struck by the false Megatron's flail and sent flying across the room to strike the wall. He hung there for a few moments before sliding to the floor with a groan, sparks fountaining from his badly-battered chassis.

edited 17th Mar '11 7:21:30 PM by SullenFrog

THIS POST WAS THUMPED BY KIMIMARO'S BONE CLUB

edited 17th Mar '11 7:22:29 PM by DKN117

"Ravage!" Rey turned and hurried over, sliding to his knees next to Ravage. "Are you okay?"

“Ravage!” Subaru shouted, now as the two Megatron’s grappled. The copy might have only been a copy…for a moment.

It kicked off the actual Megatron as it stood up, its entire surface going silver as it changed.

Subaru stared,

“What the…”

Then it again had solid color. What had been white and very blockish was now dark purple and rather…more rounded. A Tri-corner crown almost seem to be set into its head. Galvatron, Emissary of Unicron stood there as it suddenly transformed into a massive howitzer like cannon and fired a crushing purple bolt of light at Megatron.

Subaru was healed from Blink’s little device so she got up and went over to the Decepticon and slowly tried to help him up,

“Come on! This fight is not over!”

" I will remain behind..." Narumi said, sitting aside.

Okay, thought Sub-Zero, robots aren't invulnerable to freezing techniques in my realm. They should still be effective here. He readied an ice grenade, which, if he was lucky, would either freeze the Decepticon or blast its torso into slag.

"Let's see how you deal with this, yessssss!" Sub-Zero said mockingly as he threw the grenade directly for the duplicate Megatron's chest.

edited 17th Mar '11 7:35:44 PM by TestYourMight

Rey looked over his shoulder, then back to Ravage. "Could the Engineer repair you?"

Megatron lunged past the imposter, narrowly evading the shot as he delivered a crushing blow to Galvatron's side, knocking the howizter-mode Decepticon over. Megatron then strode over and brought a foot down on his duplicate's gun barrel, crushing it into worthless scrap metal beneath his metal heel.

"You attacked one of my subordinates," Megatron growled, pointing his fusion cannon at the pinned herald of Unicron. "You stole my face like a human pickpocket might steal those worthless scraps of pressed plant matter they use as currency, and then discarded it like chaff when it no longer suited your purpose, like an organic throwing away an expendable pair of pants. Worst of all, you dared to pass yourself off as a Decepticon, and could not even hold your own against a real Decepticon to back up that false claim. I do not know what manner of pathetic shapeshifter you are, coward, but the universe shall be infinitely better without your weakling, mongrel chassis in it."

And with that he fired his fusion cannon into Galvatron at point-blank range.

Ravage sparked and fizzled, struggling to rise but unable to do so. Frustrated electronic syllables escaped the Predacon's mangled lips, forming odd strings of zeroes and ones and white noise.

edited 17th Mar '11 7:38:24 PM by SullenFrog

The Doctor just snores his way through the whole event. Somehow not hit once by the crossfire.

Galvatron suddenly froze in place, as it suddenly turned silver again. Then it faded back to its purple sheen. Then it went silver again.

CONGRAT- ERROR! SYSTEM OVERLOAD! CAN-NO ADAPT SYSTEMS FAILING! FAILURE IN MAIN BUFFER! THERE IS NO CAKE! FAILURE! ERROR! WARNING! MAIN BUFFER OVERLOADED! WARNING! EXPLOSIV- WARNING! RUN AWAY!

Galvatron exploded in a massive flash of white light, and all over the place it seemed various robots were appearing and then exploding as the entire combat drone process, which had been running amok, suddenly overloaded. Subaru covered her eyes as it all vanished.

When the dust cleared, Galvatron was gone. Megatron was gone. Everything was back to normal. Hell, even the couch was back to normal.

And everyone’s injuries were totally gone.

“What just happened?”

"Someone come help me! Ravage is hurt bad!" Rey winced, looking him over. "God...just lay still, we'll take care of you..." He stopped at the sudden shift, blinking. "What...the...?"

edited 17th Mar '11 7:42:05 PM by MystyGlyttyr

Spriggan had come back out of the armory and went prone, aiming the Russian-made VKS bullpup sniper rifle when it disappeared.

"Not that I'm trying to do a big heroes moment, but is it gone?"

"Hey, Ravage," said Sub-Zero, "you got time for a quick spar?"

Kimimaro sighed as he willed his Cursed Seal to recede, his body turning back to normal as the marks turned back into a small symbol below his neck. He gave a sigh and walked over to Subaru and company, slightly winded.

"I haven't had to work that hard in a while. How's your back, Nakajima-san?"