79 Onramp
Sobek carved around a turn, digging its claws into the pavement to make it without smashing into another building. As it passed that corner, though, it slapped the side and put up a hazard: Deployable Cover. A bronzed plate sprang to life out of a base that almost looked like sandstone, blocking Loran's barrage of missiles. Sobek climbed the onramp and cranked its head back. "I'm not giving myself up! Please stop!"
North Eastside Estates
Mr and Mrs Wang returned to their home from the neighbour's house. They had heard news about a bank robbery, strange boxes that fell from the sky which granted suits to people. And all they wanted to do was to go home for a rest.
They would soon be in for a nasty surprise. The door to the backyard was open, and the two parents could smell blood coming from there. The lady hurried out to the backyard, followed by Reaper's stepdad, and both of them immediately dropped to the ground in tears.
What they encountered was a grisly sight. Both of their twins, dead in the same night, lying on their backyard in the stained grass, one had his head blasted to bits, and the other's body was completely crushed, with a hole in his head and an empty space where his brain used to be.
Mr Wang took out his phone and dialed an emergency call to the police station, as Mrs' Wang was hysterically wailing over her children's dead bodies.. "Police come quick... I think somebody's... broke into our house and murdered both our children...!!! Help... please..."
The reality, of course, was much different. The only clue being the hole in the soil, dug into the ground by the magnetically propelled bullet.
edited 8th Mar '16 3:22:50 PM by ironcommando
...eheh"Yup, looks like we're on the fast lane up Shit's creek from here..." Tony added, letting out a small sigh, doing a couple stunts in the air to try and keep his mind off the fact everything was going to hell down below. It worked, for a few seconds; The whole thing kinda soured the excitement of getting his very own mech, just a bit.
"I dunno, how's it looking like on your end?" he inquired as he slowly started losing altitude, cruising over the river. "Doesn't like we can just crack open a cold one and let it all blow over, now, can we?"
the force of the dragon's attack caused raven to slide back, thankfully he had used his own shield to block otherwise Sven is pretty sure that attack would have torn him in half on impact.
"I can already tell, you're gonna be the one!"
Sven smirked a bit, happy that his first opponent was so strong. The jump jets mounted on the back of the Raven fired up in response, sending the machine hurtling forward to ram into dragon force with the Raven's heavy shield acting as a barrier.
Marbury, 79 Onramp
Loran made a slight grimace as his missiles were impacting at the cover. Did that terrorist really just asked him to stop? Well funny, he was pretty sure the policemen also wanted this all to stop before being killed, obvioulsy enough their pleas weren't heard either. He charged further, hoping to get a good hit with the lance. "Aicha, reload the missile launcher and launch the frones again." "As you wish, master."
edited 8th Mar '16 1:50:32 PM by Sergey_Smirnov
"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"Even though the Troublesome Raven was a smaller mecha, the force at which it rammed Dragon Force knocked him back a fair distance. His feet dug into the pavement as he was sent backwards, but he didn't lose his balance.
"Interesting... let's see how you handle THIS!"
He shot a red jet of flames at the Raven with his flamethrower, its destructive power and area of effect amplified by the Dragon body.
Banking on Success
"What the fu—?!" The sudden entrance of a second mech had been unexpected. Raising his enormous shield with barely enough time to catch the blow, he braced himself as the quadruped nature of his mech allowed him to stay in place. Unfortunately, this broke his line of sight with Izanami, as evidenced by the sad frown-y face the Spider had.
Gritting his teeth, he shoved his shield back at the new attacker, attempting to shake him off. "Some good guys; since when was two on one a fair and valiant fight?" Flicking his wrist, an icon appeared in front of Adam's face. Best leave the fighting to the professionals. "Then it's time I stopped playing nice!"
As the soldier AI took over, Red Bull charged towards Izanami, spinning its lance in preparation of a charging thrust.
"Evii is right though" -Saturn "I didn't know you were a bitch Evii." -Lior ValRaven was once again forced backwards, though this time doing the backwards movement itself as he was burnt by the flames and nearly reduced to extra crispy.
"I should have figured a dragon would be capable of breathing fire, kinda dumb of me not to assume that"
Sven just chuckled a bit as he began to ready himself yet again, the suit shaking slightly to get rid of excess soot.
"In my home country, they used to tell stories about ancient knights fighting against dragons."
the Raven dropped it's shield and grabbed on it's particle edged blade with both hands, pointing it at dragon force and assuming a stance that looked like it was gonna rush for a straight pierce.
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Bradbury Downtown
Falcon took a moment to munch on the protein bar. The number of tiny things he could store in here was amazing.
The scout drones were shuffled. It seemed that Sheffield had some sort of camo on him, so trying to track him down with judicuous artillery fire would not work. They had enough casualties for a single day, so for now it would pursue both Sobek and Loran. As for the situation at the bank, that Laura girl distracted the robber well enough and the scout was mostly unneeded there.
For now his priority was that bomb-lobbing fucker from earlier.
Thankfully Loran was doing a good job in rooting him out. The zoom proved invaluable in ascertaining Sobek's position, too. "Loran, was it?" All four pieces of ordnance leveled at the target's position.
"I'd take cover if I were you." And boom they went, like a bibilical judgment day raining fire and death upon the designated victim.
Ignatius smirked.
"How very appropriate... but I hope you didn't forget the other key feature of dragons."
Attemping to get the jump on the Troublesome Raven before its charge, Dragon Force leaped into the air, flying in a loop-de-loop motion and outstretching its fists as it divebombed towards the opposing mecha.
Bank: Tauro! Tauro!
Laura premptively moved Izanami away from the now-charging Red Bull, knowing that he planned to skewer her with his lance.
"Charging straight at me? You've left yourself wide open...", she said from inside the suit before attempting to manuver behind him and trying to slash him with her Particle Edge Blade.
"Never let anyone tell you that something is impossible." - Monty Oum, 1981-2015Alexandros Control Sphere
Ciel felt a sudden chill as Rose turned toward her. "Ciel, it would seem we have a... Guest."
Ciel typed a bit on one of her keyboards, bringing up a surveillance display. "Well hello. When did she get here?"
"Shall I greet her?" Rose asked in a calm tone.
"Er... Why not?"
Alexandros, Corrider
As Ms Smith was progressing, she would eventually find herself face to face with Rose, flanked by two light Drones. "Welcome intruder. Come to worship your new robot overlords?"
"Roooooooooooose." Came a voice from the intercom, obviously chastising the AI.
Rose gave a small smile. "It seems my humor was not appreciated."
79 Southbound
"Nothing to say, then." Nakhte sighed into his radio. "A shame." He leaped into the air, carried forward by his momentum, and spun around. His skates reversed in midair and he hit the street running backwards with his Sharpshooter in hand. "Maybe someday you'll learn." He lined up a shot with his head cocked to the side to let him still look forwards with Hawkeye, then fired a short burst of bullets for the mech's center of mass. As another barrage of artillery thundered down towards him Nakhte boosted forwards on his jets, briefly doubling in speed down the highway to evade them while continuing to close on his target. The closer he got the higher the angles would have to be and the closer he'd get to figuring out where that fucker was.
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WARBLE STRIKE!!!
Near Marbury West First Bank
The small drone had flown over to the bank, and saw three targets, as it hovered at ground level to keep them in sight, but in a secluded, hard to see place to avoid detection. A red bull-like suit was charging at a medium-sized black-and-white winged suit at the entrance, and a hopper-mech that was attacking the red bull was in the bank.
Thermosphere
[There's three guys. Two facing off against one. Command?]
(This is interesting. I think I know what to do... )
Without further ado, Reaper got Thanatos to fly in from the west. He'd do a loop in the air before firing one missile downwards from Death's Knell, then another. All this while, he remained far from most detection.
(Guided Missiles: 6 FR- Two can be shot per turn)
Marbury West First Bank
(You shouldn't have gone out of cover, guys.)
The first would lock onto that Red Bull. The second would lock onto the Izanami.
As the missiles descended, they both curved down in a quarter-loop until they were parallel to the ground, as they rushed towards the two combatants. Right when they became parallel to the ground and heading straight for the two combatants... they stopped homing in.
It was a win-win situation. If they hit, Reaper would have a good laugh. If they missed, they would head towards the bank's entrance, and into the bank itself to blow up the tellers within. If they were both shot down, it would still cause a good amount of paranoia as to who fired them.
(Humans... Anyway, Sever, your job's done. Remove yourself, catch up with you later.)
Near Marbury West First Bank
As soon as the missiles had a confirmed trajectory towards the two, Sever would make a hasty retreat towards the south.
Thermosphere
Thanatos would fly towards the north end of the city and begin circling the area around his home, high in the air and camouflaged.
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...ehehAlexandros
Miss Smith dropped her camouflage, Kitsune becoming visible to the naked eye. "Apparently my stealth systems are not infallible." She noted. "This is embarrassing, No one was supposed to know I was here. I was in fact trying to avoid conflict all together."
A claim which was backed up by a lack of visible weaponry except for a long, straight tube on the suit's back.
"Quite frankly, it's an objective I would like to keep intact, so I must ask: Would you like to see a magic trick?"
-dramatic music ensues-Interstate 108
Sven was grinning even more as the dragon barred down on him, but then something else caught some of his focus, the sound of artillery fire in the distance.
unfortunately this lack of concentration on the target in front caused him to just barely be able to dodge the dragon's dive bomb, getting his sword knocked out of his hands from the attack and leaving him without his close range weapon.
"looks like you win this round Ignatius"
Sven sounded happy despite the fact he had lost.
"But I think something is heading our way, any outside interference would ruin the point of this duel"
edited 8th Mar '16 2:23:43 PM by Bcom
Dragon Force crashed into the ground fists first, lightning from his Power Fists flickering across the crater he had created in his wake. He looked over at the Troubled Raven, realizing that a third party had appeared.
"Heh... that was better than any boxing match. You're right, though, it seems someone has decided to interrupt our fun. Stay on your guard."
Marbury, 79 Onramp
As Loran hear to take cover he din't argue. Before he could leap out of the way though the shots from the sniper hit him. Unfortunatly for him the cockpit resided more or less at the center of mass, the shots hit dead center, though the armor stood fast. Then the artillery barrage came down, it was not pretty, but all in all Ultimo managed to come out of it mostly undamaged, luckily there was no direct hit. He immideatly charged the other mech again "Aicha, let the drones follow him to."He opened a com channel "Let me lure him out in the open, please wait until he's in the clear before firing of at all possible, I plead to you to consider the collateral damage."
"One may feel fear in the face of danger so long as one banishes fear when danger actually arrives"Alexandros Corridor
Rose tilted her head a bit. "A magic trick you say? I did not know our intruder was a magician."
Ciel spoke over the speakers. "Please, we mean no harm. Well Rose might but I have suspicions that my AI might be crazy."
"Not at all, I just have an underappreciated sense of humor."
"Aaaaanyways. is there any way we can work things out peacefully?"
Interstate 108
the Troublesome Raven walked over and picked up the sword and shield it had dropped, making sure they were not too heavily damaged.
"I can feel vibrations through the ground, seems like artillery cannons. I'm not interested in getting blown to smithereens for now though so I'll be on my way."
Sven started walking off heading back towards Alexandria hospital but paused to look back at his new rival.
"If you want to fight me again, go to Rigel island. But for now I'm gonna go check on the hospital, see if that can be turned into a truce zone"
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Alexandros.
"I assure you, my magic tricks are nothing but peaceful." Miss Smith replied, before activating both flares and smoke to obscure herself.
"And I assure you, for the moment, I mean you no harm. But quite frankly this mech represents a threat that I cannot simply ignore, So I'll just be having a look at the schematics if it's all the same to you."
When the smoke finally cleared, an image of Kitsune, generated by the suit itself leapt over Rose's avatar with the grace of a gymnast. Where the suit had been standing there was a loudly beeping EMP grenade.
Miss Smith herself had reactivated stealth and retreated around the last corner of the hallway, hoping to avoid detection.
edited 8th Mar '16 3:49:40 PM by guyshane
-dramatic music ensues-After a few seconds of walking, Neil finally stopped in front of the suit. The Basilisk was twice his size; it wasn't quite clear how big it was until now. Even if most of it was just being tall as opposed to being as large and chunky as some of the other suits. Looking down at the man in front of him felt awkward.
"Uh... one second," he said, this piped through his mech's external speakers. After a moment of hunting he hit the "crouch" button and the Basilisk leaned down, now only a foot or too taller, but significantly more personable.
Neil was relieved they were friendly; no more, no less. Even as he spoke with sarcasm's intent, he was still audibly nervous - a sign of just how much shit he had landed in. "So I take it your little question means that you aren't a bloodlusted psychopath either, huh?"
"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."As Elise waited for Titan to answer, she tried out her flight part of her suit for a bit, turning it on and off, do a short dash across the roof. Then, she had an idea.
"On second thought," she said with a grin on her face. "Race ya Greenville College, my house's near it anyway. See ya nerds-AHHHH!"
She really did not expect her to fly so fast,as evidenced as her flying around randomly across the downtown airspace. But eventually, she straightened herself out and headed out to college and it's still amazing to her that she reached the location within...minutes? Seconds? She's not really good with timing.
What she's definitely not good at is landing, as seen here at the college entrance, trying to slid in all cool and all and ended up tripping over and rolling around the pavement. Now here's something she doesn't see much often nowadays; night students. And them running out of the campus. Guess the stress must've gotten into them.
"Like, oh, my god, I am so not ready to get rape by a hentai tentacle monster," she overheard one of the students crying out. That alone peaked Elise's interest enough to head straight in and investigate.
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Well, that was easy as hell..
Luiz expected more of a response than "No" from the guy's radio, but it seemed as if he was attempting to keep himself hidden..he guessed radio revealed their position or something like that.
The Bushido waited for Neil to get closer to him, while looking around the area.