IC: Sakajima Nori
"I'm afraid I don't understand your manly metaphor, Gary-San," I retorted while hurriedly routing a message to the fortress' intelligence division. "I was never good at history. All I know is that if we don't have a serious force in the next few minutes I'm going to be plastered across the bridge for some poor crew to clean up."
IC: Garry
"Search up Pyrrhus of Epirus some time," replied Garry, before switching to a public channel. "Everyone! We have quite a number of robots coming our way. Anyone who can pilot, we'll be needing you."
IC: Sakajima Nori
I'll look it up if I live, I thought with a wry smile. Glancing at my current Core energy balance, I licked bit my lower lip in nervous habit. This should be interesting. Punching forward, I drove my Uplink mech farther from the advancing forces, then stopped halfway to my destination.
"Gary-san," I say slowly; "Remember how you always say a man should face things head on? Well, men who face things head on are cool, right? In that case... I'm going to be cool! Get out here soon!"
With the pumping of adrenaline and something I called cool-ness (other's probably called it recklessness or hormones), I pushed the accelerator to the floor and sprinted towards the opposing force.
IC:
"Oh I can fly, though I prefer to stay on the ground where I can get off safely and not plummet down." Hezeka did like the capabilities of the White Lightning class mech, but he always preferred ground attack than air.
"I'll take to the skies if things get rough out there."
IC: Garry
"Oh dear ... what are you planning?"
IC: Zyki (Bridge)
"To charge recklessly directly at the approaching force without waiting for any kind of back-up,"
Zyki replies, landing for a moment on Tenchi before launching back upwards, her dual pistols firing all the while at the 'bots.
"It would be appriciated if ya turned around now, Nori. Do you want to be stranded on the battlefield without a workable mech-Again?"
Zakaro
IC:
Hezeka aimed at the bot riders with the Stealth Hunter rifle. Using his cross-hairs on his HUD to shoot precisely at them. He then fired a shot at a Thunder Fury, then to a Sentry.
"I suggest we aim at the riders, make it easier to take them out. Also cut off their power supply."
IC:Cyrista was hovering in the air above the gate, firing his machine guns all the while. "Now," he murmured to himself, "Let's see if I can capture a Devastator for my experiments."
IC: Sakajima Nori
"Hey, Zyki-San, that was an accident the last time. Kazebushi had her legs torn off. Not much I could do about that, now could I," I defended against the female voice chipper in my ear. "I'm just gonna' defeat them this time. Simple and cool. We need more analysis of their combat techniques anyway, why not use a mech that records these things in real time?" I was within firing range of their missiles now, but so far had remained unharmed. My shields were going to save and break me in this battle, so I decided to rely on speed and manual controls. Flipping the dial up, a red light illuminated the panel to engage manual operation. Kazebushi paused in mid-stride, then burst forward as my combat boots locked into the foot controls. My chair began to fold up, pulling me into a standing position.
"Gary-San, I don't like the speed of this attack at all. The robots have never rallied and countered within an hour. My HUD helps with things in range, but can you patch me through your more advanced readouts so I can see better what's going on? I like your idea about the riders, Hazeka-San, but getting the Cores will be a challenge unless I can turn them off phalanx."
Crushing the last few hundred meters with daring speed, I pulled the automatic pistol from its home on the left thigh, a burst of air flashing behind me as the armor plating opened up to release the weapon. Not taking aim, I gripped my left control stem and pulled the index trigger. Kazebushi's hand responded, and a spray of laser light vanished into the ranks of oncoming Sentry mechs. Good, a little confusion to deal with, I thought while silently praying to mess with their programming. Robots were intelligent, but every now and again you could one up them on creativity and disrupt the algorithms running inside their CPU.
"I need someone to take out the flame throwers. Does someone have a clear shot," I shouted, my voice cool and direct as Kazebushi plunged headfirst into the enemy forces, gun and tachi blazing as my piloting skills were put to the test. Our orange and black armor quickly vanished within the ranks, becoming too close for guns without inflicting casualties to their own side. Knowing robots, I mused dryly, they really don't care.OOC: Okay, I just hope he doesn't get killed from this. However, its totally an insane (on the surface) thing to do. However, note the tactics behind his "spearhead."
IC:"I do," Cyrista sent over. He rotated his machine guns above his arms, putting them into single-fire mode, increasing accuracy. He began firing at the fuel tanks, hoping to blow them up and put out the Fire Vulture's fire. "Also, the Fire Vulture on the far right from our side, keep its pilot alive. I want to capture it for study."
IC: D-8015
Just behind the phalanx of brown-armored Sentries stood a larger, and significantly more heavily armed, Battle Machine. One piloted by a silver-plated Devastator robot that was significantly more intelligent than the bronze Iron Drones that operated the Sentries. And as it was, it was in a relatively good position to respond with appropriate force to the rather unexpected attack. Well, unexpected for the Iron Drones, with their rather limited programming. Not so much for the Devastator, which looked slightly different from the normal Devastator model upon closer inspection.
Not so unexpectedly, as a black and orange-armored Uplink-class mech dove into the group of Sentries, the Robot pilots simply turned their Surge Cannons onto the Battle Machine designated Kazebushi. They were completely uncaring to the fact that any shots fired at this range would certainly go through almost any armor, and into any friendly units behind the target. However, before their weapons' capacitors could begin to charge, a cold, mechanical voice rang out over their radios, one identical in every way to their own.
"Sentry Units 436, 285, 674a, and 682: Fall back, defensive pattern Alpha-A-A-Gamma-Two."
Wordlessly, as Robots did not complain or illogically defy orders- yet another reason why they were immensely superior to humans- the four Sentries quickly backed away from the Uplink before any damage could be sustained, and proceeded to form up along the flanks of the orange-trimmed Thunder Fury. The maneuver cleared a space of sorts within the Robot's formation, occupied solely by Kazebushi and the heavily modified Thunder Fury known to it's pilot as ETF-3.
If it's pilot, D-8015, had been human, for surely Robots were incapable of feeling emotion of any kind, he might've smiled. Pity, The small portion of his programming set aside for extra tasks thought within milliseconds, Perhaps this will do instead.
Though he had no way of knowing if the roar of his mech's Titanium Power Saw did or not. Or whether the fact that his mech began to stomp towards the admittedly smaller Uplink further conveyed the message anymore.
IC:
Hezeka aimed at the Fury in front of the Kazebushi. He set his sights on the driver, and fired a round towards him. He then aimed at the Vulture Cyrista had told. He aimed the Rifle at the fuel tank of flame thrower. "I got a clear shot at that Vulture, but I have no guarantee that it will come out alive."
IC:
The Crimson Gunner came out from the Robot side of the bridge. 'Ranger' began to 'wallk over towards the Phalanx of drones in front of him. He aimed the laser cannon at a mech on the other side of the bridge. Keeping his cross-hairs' on it, he fired right through an opening in the formation towards the mech.
IC: Gwen -- Bridge Battle
The deep green armour of the Ghastly Cutie trapped light like an event horizon, making it a fine asset during midnight raids on some of the smaller bridges. Today, with the sun’s bright rays beating down on machines and organics alike, it probably wasn’t going to be quite as useful an attribute.
But, nevertheless, I charged into the blossoming skirmish with the Cutie, partly out of a desire to protect my friends and allies, and partly out of a wish for some real excitement today. Because nothing is quite as exhilarating as having robots try to char you to the most delicate of crisps and dissect your mechanical pride and joy like a frog during secondary biology class, right?
Oh, who am I kidding; of course you agree with me.
Speaking of which, another person who seemed to share this philosophy of virtuous thrill-seeking was Mr. Sakajima Nori, a fellow mechanic, who had (almost literally) leaped into the ranks of approaching Sentries in a mad gambit to keep them off-balance -- and ended up face-to-face with a very large and very... well, large Thunder Fury.
Okay, maybe “face-to-face” isn’t the best term...
Without a breath of doubt, I pushed forward into firing range of the Kazebushi’s assailant. Finding a lock and thumbing the appropriate trigger, I let the Cutie’s dual shoulder-top cannons loose on the charging Fury and watched with dark abandon as bolts of shimmering death flew at the robot.
Though, quietly, I hoped that my attack wouldn’t do too much damage to the mech -- girl’s gotta have something to study, right?
-Void
Ooc sorrt avout typos and all that jazz. Im on a mobile.Ic sakjima noriThe bridge shook with the footsteps of a monster. The Thunder Fury tromping towards me brought a lump of fear to my throat, but with a flex of my neck I had banished the emotion. If this was going to be a duel, then good. At least I'd go down in a cool way, David and Goliath style."Hezeka-san, snipe the Fire Vultures to keep them pinned. I need them distracted or I'm crispy Bacon," I asked with a crisp tone. No time to get emotional, so I fired off trying second plan to my fellow mechanic. "And Gwen-San I need you to keep your barrage on the upper portion of this junk heap."Shifting the connection on my headset with a verbal command in English, I urged Kazebushi towards the mech twice our size. Scratch that. The Fury's melee weapon was twice the size of my Uplink. The manual drive system operated flawlessly as the distance closed, my HUD shifting into a far more dueling mode to show the diagnostics of the enemy mech. Leave it to the robots to have machines in perfect condition.
IC:As Cyrista was firing at the Fire Vultures, trying to take out their fuel, he sent out a transmission. "Hey, if someone could disable but not kill that green-and-blue Fire Vulture, I'd appreciate it. That Devastator has volunteered to be a lab rat for me."
IC: Garry and Holly ~ Bridge
Garry continued to fire off shots, moving forth to soak in the enemy blows with the titanic mass of the G-Machine. True, the majority of the human forces had split to deal with the large amount of robots, but he could still try and get the attention of most of their opponents, so his allies could have a much easier time. After all, his Grand Titan was a large target.
"Everyone!" he said, his commanding tone broadcasting through the channel. "New orders: don't die."
The bald man shifted the controls once more, turning the G-Machine to move closer towards the robots. His coilguns were blazing, the magnetic projectiles firing into the enemy forces at great speeds, while the turrets on the mech's shoulders were rapidly swerving around, hoping to pick off any Vultures that dared flank him.
Elsewhere on the bridge, the Betelgeuse had finished charging up its energies, and was rapidly advancing towards the robot assault group. Holly gripped onto her controls tightly, focusing completely on the enemy Sentry units. While everyone else was preoccupied with the Vultures and the massive robot titan, she would try and disable her targets quickly.
Power began to build up in her mech's arms as she skidded to a halt in front of the enemy. A ball of plasma began to form in one of the metal hands, and as one of the Sentries turned to face her, she threw it at lightning speed into its frame.
IC: X-71
Meanwhile, as battle raged on the Techni bridge, far far below the laser fire and screaming rockets, I sat in the front of the R-1 Rammer, my hands on the controls of the vehicle. Beyond the enormous blast doors ahead of me lay bridge J-16, a smaller one far enough removed from Techni to be almost out of sight. I repeatedly ran through the plan in my head, imagining exactly how we were going to drive across the bridge, shooting down any battle machines that tried to stop us, exactly how we were going to rapidly raze the town on the other side and kidnap the villagers. It was all planned out. It had to go to plan.
IC: (Eleza)
I stood in my Fire Vulture, hovering in the corner of the hanger. When the three R-1s and Panzer's Fire Vulture deployed, I followed them. They were raiding a village, and I needed new human test subjects. When the first Gate Guardian flew in to attack, the lead R-1 took care of it. When another flew in, my gatling gun made short scrap of it. We were halfway across, halfway to my precious new test subjects.
IC:Resistance eliminated.A single sniper round tore through the sole remaining enemy machine, an Uplink, lancing through the cockpit. The pilot's doom was certain. More efficient that way. The Vernichten flew across the bridge, just above the ground-based machines below. The village's only defenders had been eliminated before they even had a chance to think about sounding the alarm. A notification appeared in Panzer's mind; a unit not assigned to this mission was following them.
Pilot identification: Eleza.
There was a momentary pause, as Panzer considered what was none of the machine. A malfunctioning unit, by all accounts. Deranged, obsessive over a single human pilot. Not yet scheduled for termination due to current usefulness. But usefulness was not indicative of trustworthiness.
A comm channel opened to X-71, down below. "Eleza is present. Watch her. Resources gained from this trip are not for allocation to any of her projects, and any attempts by her to take captives should be discouraged. I do not trust her ability to keep them in custody, and this project is of the utmost importance. News of it cannot be leaked."
IC:With the alarm's sounding, Alistair hurried bolted on the armor, darting away before another word could be said. Monkey-like, he climbed the gantry to a machine covered in a tarp.
IC: Zyki (Bridge)
She's taken cover behind the G-Machine again, allowing its bulk to take the shots while she fires around it and above it, jumping just above the mech every once-in-a-while.
Zyki frowns. Their efforts don't seem to be making as much of a dent as she'd hope..
Zakaro
IC: D-8015
The orange-trimmed Thunder Fury continued to stomp towards Kazebushi, it's titanic footsteps causing the bridge to tremble under the weight. There was no yell or battle cry that came from the cold, mechanical pilot as the two Battle Machines came closer. Scenarios and subsequent reactions raced through the Robot's mind at frightening speeds, combat variables and alterations to current conditions were tested and retested.
D-8015 didn't move as green bolts from another mech lanced out towards his Thunder Fury, and simply let its tanetium armor absorb the flurry of lasers, which didn't do much more than dent the heavy plating. All of which was taken into account by the Devastator, who calmly, for what other emotion could he express, lifted his mech's Ion Cannon, adjusting the targeting lock for the proper firing solution, before letting loose a powerful beam from the weapon. As expected, the blast went far over the Uplink his Thunder Fury was rapidly approaching, though that wasn't who he had been aiming for. Instead, the yellow beam of energy shot out towards the dark green-armored mech, the one which provided the briefly irritating swarm of bolts from a shoulder-mounted cannon.
There was also the Kazebushi to deal with to, yes. And to deal with it, D-8015 brought his arm down, his mech's arm mirroring the movement, bringing the Titanium Power Saw downwards in an arc that looked like it could cleave through a number of objects. Heavily armored Battle Machines included.
IC: Sakajima Nori and D-8015 (Jam between Gravity and Kughz)
The chains of the Thunder Fury's saw dug deep into Tenchi bridge with a roar of shredding sheet metal, Kazebushi safely skirting the first attack with a slide to the left. I gasped without thinking, the droning of the melee weapon threatening to jam by headset.
OOC: Hmm, tempted to join this, just have two questions
1.) Could the robot character I have in mind pilot a Sonic Phantom?
2.) Are there any important events I need know about?
1) Hm... I suppose it could be possible, though vehicles like the Mobile Defense Tank and Sonic Phantom might have to be nerfed from their original versions a bit. Most things are approved on a case-by-case basis, anyway, so something might be able to be worked out.
2) Nothing much has happened event-wise. The Robots are currently in the middle of an attack used as a decoy to kidnap humans, but not much else.
OOC:Is someone gonna control if I hit Fire Vulture fuel tanks, or should I just hit some, miss some, and go after my captive?
OOC: Was going to leave the attack up to Bulik, but I'll RP the Fire Vultures if you want.
I'll edit in a reply soon.
OOC:Thanks. I wanna take care of the capture I mentioned.
Name: Devastator Alpha Mu Ascension: Gestalt Entity [aka, Damage]
Gender: NeitherAge: Has been active just over a yearSpecies: RobotAppearance: Looks like a standard Devastator unit, coloured silver with a secondary armour in greenSkill(s): A thinker and planner. He is actually capable of linking into the mental programmings of other robots in the field, using their processing power to boost his own intelligence and give himself various different perspectives on a battle by looking through their sensorsPersonality: Abrupt and cold, even to his follow machines. He simply does not like to waste time if he can help it, if you have something to say, be it advice or criticism, then say itWeakness(es): As his brainpower is largely reliant on there being others for him to route it through, the more of his colleagues are destroyed the less capable he gets Mech: Designation: Banshee-01Type: Sonic PhantomEquipment: Dual laser cannons on left and right vertical thrust projections. Missile launcher [one shot per battle] built into main fuselage complete with tracking system that allows the missile to lock onto a target. Forward deflector shields built into main turbinesAppearance: A standard looking Sonic Phantom. Why change things?Notes: Nothing to add
I'll see if I can catch up on the latest battle while waiting for comments on this
Eh, I'll be watching it, but approved.
OOC: Alright! New question incidentally, but in some of the comics it was pointed out that the robots had been building extendable bridges that they could project over the chasm to reach key sites on the human site that were otherwise inaccessible, do those exist yet?
They do, but most of the time the humans know about them, and have defenses against.
OOC:Umm..... Fire Vultures?
IC:
Hezeka began to fire at the mech attacking Sakajima. He made sure to strike the Devastator piloting it. If Sakajima got in the way of one of those shots, it would not be his fault. He then fired at those in the back of the mech to keep the machines back from the human side.
IC: Josh Hu
Josh quickly powered up his mech once more, restocked his missiles, and rushed outside.
."What's the current situation?" he asked, taking cover behind the others.
IC:
"We've got bots trying to cross the bridge in a formation. Fire Vultures are taking to the skies to take us out, and also we got one of ours out there in the middle of it all, trying to take on a Thunder Fury," said Hezeka to Josh.
IC: News of the latest attack on the human occupied side of the mountain had reached the mind of Damage. Acquiring the various troops Panzer and X-17 had commandeered was something that wouldn't go unnoticed. Damage didn't know the full motivations behind their plan, but he did approve of the strategies behind it. Keeping the humans on their toes meant their battlemechs would get worn down from poor quick-fix maintenance, and their pilots would get tired with the constant strain of warfare. He did however, feel a few modifcations could be made for the overall plan. Which is why he had rounded up a few troops of his own...
Two bridges began to slide out from the robot home turf on either side of the Tenchi Bridge, each one carrying a squad of five Thunder Fury battlemechs. Watching from the skies in the Banshee, Damage could see the humans rushing about on their own side of the mountain to the usual positions for fending of those two particular bridges. Which was rather pointless as he'd had the trajectories of those particular bridges adjusted. Originally from a lower elevation, they were reaching up to the Tenchi Bridge, their gradient preventing the defenders from firing on the Thunder Furys. They succeeded only in striking the underside of the bridge.
Another adjustment to the extension path was that they weren't headed directly to the human barricades. No, Damage had seen no point in that. Even with some of the humans distracted by heading to the lower levels, there would be enough firepower there to repel an immediate assault. So instead the bridges shot upwards until the collided with the Tenchi Bridge itself...behind the current line of defense the human battlemechs. The humans were caught in a pincer movement between the original assault and these new reinforcements striking them in the rear. As the ten Thunder Furys opened fire on the backs of the outflanked defenders, Damage sent word to the rest of the troops he'd taken command of. The Rammers would come up first with their greater speed, reinforce the Thunder Furys since it was unlikely even ten of them could hold their current position. The Sentries would follow up next to both soak up and provide gunfire.
The way Damage saw it the human fighters had to make some attempt to punch through this latest stage in the attack. With the new robots in position they were cut off, unable to retreat, or get fixed up on the battlefield by Uplink engineers, or receive fresh ammunition. But if they focused all their efforts on smashing through Damage's new line they'd have to turn their backs to the much larger original assault and risk getting overwhelmed. And if they split their forces, tried to take on both attacks at the same time, they'd also split their strength...and risk getting overwhelmed.
As his Rammers began zoomed up the bridges, gatling cannons blazing, he slipped into the mind of one of the Iron Drone drivers. He wanted to get a first person view of the conflict for now, so he could identify key targets to focus fire on
IC: Josh Hu
"Then we have to push the robots back. We also have to prevent casualties, so whoever is engaging the Thunder Fury, please do not run into a similar situation like Jack's. Also, alert me if any of you have laser attacks running your way."
Josh piloted the Thunder Striker above the others and shot a few fast laser rounds and a missile at the Thunder Fury before descending again.
IC: Gwen -- Bridge Battle
We had a situation.
And before you ask, it was not the stream of destruction racing from the Fury's ion cannon towards me. The Cutie was designed to be light on its feet, so dodging the attack was basically one step below child's play -- nothing to worry about there. No, the real problem was keeping that mech off of the Kazebushi before Sakajima got his body parts rearranged for him. My lasers hadn't even pierced the Thunder's armour plating -- note to self: salvage some of its shell after the battle for study -- and the robot was refusing to give any quarter in this fight. Not that they ever do, but you get where I'm coming from...
The White Lightning I had repaired earlier was still pumping rounds at the Fury, trying to keep it at bay, while an airborne Gate Defender attacked it from above before taking cover amongst the ground crew. I fired up my comlink, syncing it up to the other humans as I started navigating the Cutie closer to the Kazebushi/Thunder Fury grudge match.
"Folks, if anyone has something stronger than a laser cannon hiding up their sleeves, could you please aim it at the Thunder Fury -- its armour is a little too thick penetrate otherwise."
Now, with that said and done -- and with little that could help Sakajima until I was closer in -- I raced at the advancing line of Sentries, turning the full and terrifying might of my shoulder cannons upon any robot who was unfortunate enough to be within my firing range.
-Void
IC- X-71
IC: Zyki (Battle)
Out of a force of habit, Zyki turned Escape slightly around so that she could make sure that she wasn't being followed...or flanked, or such.. yeah..
Her eyes widened as she saw the second robot force turning onto Tenchi from their extendable bridge. Aw, curses.
"Guys, hate ta tell ya this, but we're getting sandwiched."
Zakaro