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| - Arachnae has arrived. Arachnae slips quietly into the area. Arachnae slinks in, steering well clear of anyone and everyone in general. And who else should enter the pit? None other than everyone's favourite Seeker, Comcast! Well, okay, that's not true at all. But he /is/ here to help take the shots and improve the chances that the winner will be a Decepticon. Spade has arrived. Scourge stalks in behind various combatants, pushing his way towards the ranks of the Decepticon persuasion. Reluctantly, he approaches Shockwave and begins to size up their competition. "Interesting plan," he remarks off the cuff, "We'll see if it works." Spade attempts to enter the arena without being noticed, which is impossible because he's absolutely humongous. Dr. Cox makes his way into the combat pit and seals the doors behind him, a small energy shield coming up over the pit. He walks across the floor as if he had not one care in the universe and climbs into his judgely seat, which also has a small shield around it considering the destructive nature of most of the combatants in this event. "All right ya knuckleheads, bring it in ya confoundits... take a knee if you have to," he yells into a bullhorn. "This is pretty simple; its a Free For All. Any weapon or tactic is permissable. Order of initiative is determined alphabetically. When I call out your name, you're DQed. The last three lifeforms remaining will get the medals based on who wins and all that junk. Any questions? Well, I couldn't really give a crap anyway, you all get paid too much for doing nothing as it is. Begin!" Arachnae headtilts, listening to the judge as she takes in the area, others positions, the idle chatter through the airwaves. A brow lifts behind her visor as a mask slides across her face. Wings tip forward, panels fanning out as she looks oddly calm.. Then again, she has been drinking cans of things she got from Swindle so her mood is *anyones* guess at this point. Then the judge announces initiative.. And she shakes her head, now tensing and crouching, ready to be set loose. The word begin rings in her audials as she springs upwards, wings snapping outwards to deliver a bolt of blue towards.. yes, according to plan, Slag. Not that he's done anything to her.. recently.. But orders are orders. A flash of energy casdades across her wingspan, coalescing into the blue bolt that ziiiiiiings outwards with a crack-zot! Arachnae strikes you with Bolt of Blue for 9 points of damage. Comcast eyes the various Autobots in the pit.. selecting his opponent carefully. He /could/ go after DepthCharge. He /could/. But instead, the Seeker sends a few strafing shots at the Dinobot, Slag. "Slagging neanderthals.." he yells loudly at the opponent, hoping to get the Dino's temper going. Comcast kicks in his anti-gravs, hoping to draw Slag away from the rest of the crowd. Comcast strikes you with Energy Rifle(High Power) for 9 points of damage. Mysterious Masked Scarletsman finishes his wonderful 'interview', the TV camera people just staring in disbelief and backing away slowly, and now struts his way over back to the centre of the ring. As that's where be belongs. In the centre, to be worshiped by all his fans - The Scarletsmanters. And coming soon will be a wonderful cartoon called Mysterious Masked Scarletsman's Rock n' Roll Wrestling, along with a wide range of shoddy merchandise. Oh yeah! And then Cox shouts that it begins. Mysterious Masked Scarletsman, starting under 'D' for 'DepthCharge' for some reason shouts, "Oh yeah! Now it is time to feel the burn! I am a fire and you are.. umm.. gasoline. Yeah. That works." and begins to run towards Soundwave. As he gets near to Big Blue, MMS extends out his arm, saying, "Scarletsman SMASH!" and whips out a punch. Oh yeah! DepthCharge misses Soundwave with his Scarletsman SMASH attack. Hardstrike hefts his rifle, and takes aim at Shockwave. He owes that big purple people killer for ruining his armor back on Mars. With a smile, he clicks off the safety, and begins to fire a spread of laser rounds, before moving quickly away from his position, hoping to confuse the Decepticon as to the source of the attack... Hardstrike misses Shockwave with his Laser Rifle attack. Hook nods to himself as "BEGIN!" rings in his audial sensors. Mortal Kombat, anyone? As it is, the player is listening to the Mortal Kombat theme right now. Back to Hook. He readies his sword, and charges, looking like an idiot. Who is her charging? Why, it's Slag of course. Everyone hates Dinobots; Hook REALLY hates them. "Oh, Slag...EAT THIS!" He swings heavily at Slag's torso. Hook strikes you with Disembowelment for 5 points of damage. Of course Jazz is here. Somewhere. And where else would he be, besides being in... er... the Mysterious Mask's shadow. Well. Yay. Of course a lovely scintilating green catches his gaze, heading straight for the dinobuddies-- of course he's gonna try and do something. What he's going to do is ... well. Another thing altogether. Free for all. Free for lunch? Taking his casual gait to a jog, he heads over towards Hook, and gives him a shot to think about. Jazz strikes Hook with laser. Rodimus Prime grins seeing the fight going strong in the beginning. He says, "Hey cons, you want to pick on the dinobots?! That's no fair." He lifts both his exhaust blasters and opens fire towards Comcast, streams of silver and yellow rip the air between Prime and the con in double lines of three with each shot. He crouches with the last few shots of the burst so he might get a better aim at it, that and it looks damn cool kneeling and firing. Rodimus Prime misses Comcast with his Exhaust Pipe Blasters attack. Scourge kicks off the ground as the combat begins, twisting out of the way of Hardstrike's failed assault on Shockwave. Shifting from his current messy on-the-ground position into a more graceful and sinister crouch, Scourge draws his laser pistol and draws a bead on the Dinobot who seems to be drawing all the fire. Process of elimination, after all. Scourge isn't about to slow down this machine of efficiency. Saying nothing, he simply depresses the trigger and lets off a small burst towards Slag. Sure. We'll play Shockwave's game. For now. Scourge strikes you with Laser Pistol for 5 points of damage. Shockwave arranges himself to keep as much distance from the Autobots as possible; he's fast enough to avoid most ranged attacks and accurate enough to hit with most of his. As Hardstrike attempts to get revenge on him, the MilOps commander simply side-steps the blast and returns fire, however he's looking for bigger fish to fry than Hardstrike. Snarl's armor catches his attention so Shockwave points his cannon and opens fire at the behemoth with a thin, red beam of phased energy. Shockwave strikes Snarl with Phaser. Soundwave, luckily, is smarter than your average bear, and discerns Depthcharge's intentions long before the larger Autobot can make contact. Instead, Soundwave's antigravity systems activate, giving him an artificial boost and flipping him over and past the charging medic. In the meantime, his rifle has already swung up in one hand and comes to train on Slag's large bulk across the pit. Soundwave strikes you with Plasma Wave for 11 points of damage. Slag looks around at the heavyweights but gets blindsided by the non-combatant right on the upper left shoulder. Then gets peppered by Comcast right in the chest area then by Hook and Scourge. People are really bent on making the dino angry. Slag transforms and vomits forth a huge cone of flame, tilting his head to the side the walk the cone around a few targets. The fists retract and the legs execute a 180 degree spin backwards which result in Slag falling on all fours in Triceratop mode. Slag unleashes his Hellfire Blast! attack on Arachnae, Comcast, Hook and Soundwave, striking Hook, Soundwave and Comcast. Snarl doesn't waste anytime. This is a free for all and everyone know that Dinobots are targets of choice during those events. Good call, Shockwave just shot him right in the middle of the chest, leaving a smoking hole. So Snarl falls fowards and transforms into his heavy armored stegosaurus mode. He make sure to stay away from the Mysterious Masked Scarletsman, he doesn't know who he is and feels safer far from him. The dinobot however notice Hardstrike who, he remembers, argued with Grimlock a long time ago... it is a unique chance to make him pay! But suddenly, his brother Slag is attacked by a bunch of Decepticons. Time to change his plan, Decepticons are asking for a Dino beating! Snarl's optics flare and fire comes out of his jaw as he charges through the Decepticons ranks, hitting with his tail, biting. Snarl falls fowards as his body twist and fold into his powerful dino mode. Snarl unleashes his Psycho Dino attack attack on Comcast, Hook, Shockwave, Arachnae and Scourge, striking Comcast and Shockwave. Spade sidesteps to a more manueverable position and readies his shield, looking grim. More than anything he'd love to destroy an Autobot, the evilest of all sub-galactic races. Yes, doom! MWAHAHAH!... ahem... He pulls his blaster and levels it at Slag, taking queue from his superiors actions. They are, after all, always correct in their actions. Spade strikes you with Laser Blaster for 1 points of damage. Dr. Cox stares at the actiuon, truly on the seat of his pants... literally. "No DQs yet, but the Decepticons sure do seem keen on hitting the Dinobots while the Autobots aren't concentrating on anyone! So much for tactics from that loser Rodimus Prime, eh?! Continue!" Foxfire has arrived. Arachnae twists in the air, dancing out of the path of impending extra-crispy and avoiding the thrashing of the other assigned target with ease, as she is rightly in her place: in the air. Endevoring to keep her distance as best as she can in these confined spaces, momentary wicked amusement dances through her slowly darkening optics as she side-slides and spins, manuvering back towards the flame spitting psychotic dino-monster. "Sorry." tone actually apologetic. A minor flicker, a tiny casdade of electrical faerie fire races across a shoulder, down her arm, pausing at fingertips before the tinest of lightning balls flings forward once more towards Slag. The Seeker deftly evades Rodimus' attack. "You'll have to try better than that, Hod Ro-NNUUURRRRK!" Too busy Gloating, Comcast, and not enough time NOT dodging Dinobot flame breath, which lines him up for a piece of the pit wall falling on him when Snarl unleashes his attack on the ground. The Seeker rights himself and begins sidling from left to right in the air. "Chosen one my afthole, at least Optimus could strike me on the occasion! Come on, HOT ROD. Want to try again?" Just in case Rodimus isn't paying attention, Comcast fires up his sonic device, pouring devastating audial mayhem into the airwaves and aimed directly for none other than Prime Daddy. Comcast strikes Rodimus Prime with Sonic Shreikers. Foxfire has left. Arachnae strikes you with Ball Lightning for 1 points of damage. Grah. Soundwave doged his Scarlestman SMASH by flying high into the air. That's so unfair. DepthCharge spent all night practicing that move. It was meant to be is signature move. But all is not lost. For DepthCharge has some more patented, trademarked moves to try out. Ones he got from an old NES Wreslemania game. Such as his Red Scarred Kick. A mighty attack for a mighty wrestler. Now he just needs someone to show his awesomeness to! Apart from the world watching on TV though. They already know how cool he is. Can't you hear them cheering at home? With is radio crackling with something, Mysterious Masked Scarlestman starts to run again, moving himself towards the general area Shockwave is residing in. He crouches down, secretly powering up his anti gravs and shouts, "It is time to lose some teeth. Oh yeah! Feel the power of my Red. Scarred. Kick! ." Mysterious Masked Scarletsman then propels himself forward through the air with a leap, flipping himself end over end and trying to whip out a kick at Shockwave. Even though he doesn't have a mouth or teeth to lose. DepthCharge strikes Shockwave with Red Scarred Kick. Hardstrike frowns, seeing the two dinobots begin to take a beating. Shoulder his rifle, he transforms, falling into his vehicle mode. The treaded tires kick up dust on the pit floor as the begin to move, swerving the Artillery Unit into an apt position for the assault. He doesn't have long, and begins adjust the launchers as soon as target reticles begin lock-on sequence, " Let's rock and roll...." he emits softly, unleashing a swarm of rockets.... Hardstrike's body seems to fall into itself as it compacts and folds together into his vehicle mode. Hardstrike unleashes his Rocket Swarm attack on Spade, Arachnae, Comcast, Soundwave, Scourge, Hook and Shockwave, striking Hook, Scourge, Soundwave, Arachnae and Comcast. Hook winces as Jazz's laser nails him in the shoulder. "Stupid Autobra-AAH!" Mm mm mm mm mm, toasty. "THIS is why I hate Dinobots.! he yells, rolling on the ground to kill the flames. All of his rolling keeps Hook safe from the Psycho-Dino-of-Doom that stomps past him. "Decisions, decisions..." he mutters, trying to keep his wits as the combat pit turns into a miniature war zone from hell. He considers, beifly, attacking Slag again, but decides against it. "Hey, BOY!" he yells, turning to look at...Jazz. He doesn't even flinch as a rocket hits him, leaving a char mark. "Run home to your mommy!" Quickly, he transforms and charges at Jazz. Hook collapses down and flips his crane arm over his head, becoming a construction crane. Lime Green Crane strikes Jazz with ram. Turning from mean and green, Jazz starts to look for the floating phallic symbol. Which is why the lime green crane manages to sneak up and hit him. Because cranes really aren't that fast. Ping. That's a crunched fender. And backside. It takes Jazz a moment to recover and dive away from Hook. "... you really gotta get a hobby." He tells Hook, and goes back to looking for purple. Purple. Purple. And he shoots at the first purple that meets his gaze. He may be accurate, and he may know Decepticon targets-- but man. He's in a hurry, so... Hi Scourge. Jazz strikes Scourge with Photon shot. Rodimus Prime gets nailed by a sonic shower from Comcast, it only goes so far as to shake the ground around him but even though there is damage, it's too light to be visible from a distance. Sure, micro-fractures and some stressed places on the armor would show up in a scan, but that's about it. Rodimus decides it's time to break out the big guns and says, "Hey Shockwave, if this is a free for all, why are the cons acting like they always do?" He calls forth his photon eliminator and gives it a cocky spin before pointing it from a sideways angle towards Shockwave. Thankfully, it's not on 'beyond pain' mode and just pin prick mode. A beam of energy lances out towards Shockwave from the weapon with a THEWWWWWW sound we all love about of big giant robot battles. Rodimus Prime strikes Shockwave with Photon Eliminator . Scourge skirts around Snarl as he rampages through the Decepticon line. Ducking out of the way of the Dinobot's tail, the Sweep leaps up into the air for a better shot. Then, Scourge notices something on his internal radar. Too late Scourge realizes the small detection is a stray rocket, and it catches him in the gut as he turns to intercept. The impact explosion twists and gnarls his abdomen, but the damage is mostly cosmetic. Then Jazz's attack comes, and its effects are not so benign. Totally ripping apart the already mangled torso and exposing the Sweep's delicate innards, the attack stuns Scourge, sending him hurtling back to the ground, or, more specifically, Snarl's plated back. Quick to get a hold of himself, Scourge apraises his situation and makes the most of it by minimalizing the damage from his fall and keeping his now-fragile mid-section from being impaled by Snarl's plating. Making a slight alteration to his plans, Scourge stows the idea of ranged weaponry and decides to get personal with the Dinobot. Using great effort to balance himself on the berserker, he stands to stretch his hands out on either side and jabs them towards both sides of the behemoth, intent on shredding through the Dinobot's armor (or foolishly trying) to bury the pain he's feeling right now from the combined efforts of Hardstrike and Jazz. Scourge misses Stegosaurus with his ten-clawed body massage attack. The attention certainly seems to have shifted from scattershoting (not the character) to focusing on one or two targets for the Autobots, and one of those targets is apparently Shockwave. He takes a kick from the MMS and a photon eliminator shot from Rodimus Prime, in addition to lovely parting gifts in verbal taunts. Above responding to such foolishness, he only keeps Snarl in his sights and fires a salvo of photon torpedoes at the beast. Dr. Cox strikes Stegosaurus with Pulse-Compression Cannon. Triceratops continues to be peppered from all sides but at least in dino mode it hurts a bit less. The dino already sustained considerable damage which only serves to motivate him. The dino hears the radio message and ignores it...he acts on it but not because he follows orders from someone else. No sir. Because he /feels/ like it. The triceratops spits forth a thin jet of flame aimed at the big purple cyclops. You strike Shockwave with Searing Flame . Stegosaurus is now standing in the middle of the Decepticons. Many would hate to be where he is, but he is just too enraged to care at the moment. Now he wonders why he listened to Magnus who spent hours talking about fair play and sportmanship... Snarl will have to talk to him once he's back on Earth. But right now he has to worry about the Sweep leader trying to slice him. Of course, Scourge cannot miss him! But Snarl's armor block the deadly claws. However the torpedoes fired by Dr Cox manages to hurt Snarl. The judge will have to wait... for now the dinobot is busy with Scourge and he s wings his tail at him, trying to use his spikes like Scourge used his claws. Stegosaurus misses Scourge with his Spikes slash attack. Soundwave changes angle as his upward motion brings him dangerously close to the force-field bubble covering the combat pit, but he doesn't slow down and continues to fly at high speed(or at least high speed for him), skirting along the field's perimeter and maintaining altitude. A cloud of explosions from multiple shots and multiple Autobots momentarily obscures him, but he soon emerges, dented and scorched, and still moving fast. Only now he is directly above Snarl, and that's when the Decepticon's anti-gravity systems cut out. Moments later, Soundwave is plummeting Monacus-bound, both boots stretched out underneath him. Soundwave strikes Stegosaurus with Big Blue Piledriver. Spade draws his sword as the stegosaurus appears in the middle of his beloved commanders. "You will not attack my superiors!" He charges forward with an upraised sword, bringing it down upon the big brute. Spade misses Stegosaurus with his Downward Slash attack. Arachnae continues her cross-cut through the air over the chaotic mass melee. Taking a brief moment to calculate the opposition and her chances, she grimaces grimly behind her mask, but continues on with her aerial pinking of the dinobot. She knows that she's having little to absolutly no effect on the behemoth, but orders.. are.. orders.. Despite not wanting to continue in this vein, she does so, fear of command far greater than fear of simply getting smeared across the pit. Wings snap closed behind her as she darts from one side of the pit to the other, generating another weak static pulse, letting it sing out towards the bulk of the only target she has chosen: Slag. Yes, this is a free for all, but.. orders still stand. Arachnae strikes you with Electrostatic bolt for 1 points of damage. Dr. Cox watches the shots and bodies fly back and forth across the pit, and is pleased that there is, in fact, a forcefield in effect to avoid collateral damage. "The Autobots got their stuff together and seem to be after Captain Blinky; meanwhile, the Decepticons seem to be going after whoever is closest to them. The Dinobots might disagree, though. No DQs yet, continue! Mysterious Masked Scarlestman lands on the ground, after kicking Shockwave. Yeah! He stands and looks at all the competitors, saying as he points, "Yeah! You see that? That's what you get for trying to fight the Mysterious Masked Scarlestman. A whoooole world of pain. Oh yeah! You all don't want none of that." But wait. It doesn't seem like anyone is listening to him. They are all.. still fighting! He says, clearly not impressed, "Oh no! No one ignores the Mysterious Masked Scarlestman. Ooooh. Now I'm gonna have to get rough with ya all. Oh yeah!" Mysterious Masked Scarlestman heads to the edge of the pit, to where the TV crew were, and picks up a chair that one of the crew were sitting on, and begins to walk back towards the battle, with the crowd oooing and aaaahing, knowing what is about to happen. He heads towards Shockwave's back, since the 'con is so intent on keeping the dinobot in his sights, and pauses for drama. He looks at the TV cameras, gives a 'Oh Yeah!' look and swings the chair at Shockwave. DepthCharge strikes Shockwave with Chair!. Hardstrike turns as he reaches the curved pit wall, and spots Shockwave. They do have unfinished business from the Red Planet after all. He asked for it, after all. Kicking the throttle into full gear, a cloud of dust and exhaust kicks up behind the Guerilla, as he charges for Shockwave. " In the air, you guys may be hot stuff...but down here, you're road kill..." Hardstrike misses Shockwave with his Autobot Lovin' attack. Lime Green Crane emits a snorting sound from it's exterior speakers. "You ARE my hobby, Jazz." Hook says, cackling evily. Seems like Hook is really pumped up for this fight. Either that, or he has MAJOR issues. Maybe both. Yeah, I'll go with that. Two rocket launchers raise from the roof of the crane. The crane begins to emit a loud, evil cackling. That is really creepy. Someone forgot to take their medications today. "Hungry, Jazz? Here...EAT THIS!" he emits loudly, sending a pair of missiles headed straight for the ever-annoying Jazzmeister. Lime Green Crane strikes Jazz with Twin Rockets. Okay. Now that's an interesting ... hobby. Jazz barely has time to realize that he shot the OTHER Purple Decepticon, before those two missiles slam into ... "Ow... aww, man. I ain't a hobby, Hook. You an' your brothers need to go learn how t'meditate. Or do somethin' with Ritalin. " The meister sighs heavily, taking out a rarely used device, and gives Hook something that looks a bit like a ... wink? "Settle down." He tells the truck. "I got business wit'cher boss." Time for the flashything. Rodimus Prime grins and transforms himself. He won't give up this chance to run Shockwave over as well. With all six wheels on the floor the flaming red semi rips up the ground behind him timing it just so when Hardstrike is done with Shockwave, Rodimus will have a go. He chuckles, "Hey Hardstrike, going to leave me any?" as he closes in on Shockwave. The chrome even reflects Shockwave off Rodimus Prime's bumper. Just like the Prime before him and Ramjet. Jazz strikes Lime Green Crane with his FlashyThing attack. Rodimus Prime falls forward. His arms compress and fold backward as a trailer comes out of subspace to connect with the back of his legs. Where the vanguard of the autobots once was, a tricked out flaming semi-rig appears. Tricked out Semi-rig strikes Shockwave with R.K.O.. Scourge leaps back to avoid Snarl's spiked tail, skidding to a halt and nearly tipping over backwards just to get out of the way of the deadly appendage. The motion elicits a splash of energon from his wound and a jolt of pain. "NNNGGGRRRRShockwave," the growl lessening into a harsh hiss. "Your...plan, and at thi--nggh," he brings a hand up to his stomach as it sparks and glitches. As he recovers, he continues: "And at this point, I do use the term in jest, seems to lack defense." He activates the laser on his head and keeps his targets on Snarl. "So, while we make feeble attempts to obliterate these foolish giants, we also are drawing the brunt of the Autobot retaliatory fire." He opens fire on Snarl at full-power as he continues to berate Shockwave's tactics. "If your strategy doesn't start showing some merit soon, then I..." After releasing his assault on the Dinobot, he glances over at the Decepticon cyclops just in time to watch him turn into roadkill. "...forget it. I'm beginning to approve of this situation." Shockwave continues to be the target of some Autobot love, however Hardstrike's Autobot love fails to woo him more than the MMS's. Rodimus Prime, on the other hand, can suck it. Shockwave flies against the far wall of the stadium, quite beaten at this point. As such, desperate times call for desperate measures and all that. He transforms into Orbital Cannon mode and flips up the site on the back, bringing Rodimus' engine into focus. "I believe the correct cultural connotation in this instance is, 'Come to pappa.'" Shockwave brings his arms and legs together to BRING THE PAIN! Scourge strikes Stegosaurus with Head blast. Orbital Cannon strikes Tricked out Semi-rig with Ultimate Shockwave. Triceratops gets pinged once again by Arachnae. Yeah Slag knows you are there but all in due time. Slag sees his brother being pummeled from all sides as well and decides to lend a little helping hand or breath. The triceratops turns around to face his new target. Something big and blue is about to be roasting on an open fire. "Me Slag remember you. Me Slaw owe you. Me Slag going to pay you back...BURRRNN!" Slag moves into position and spits a huge flame jet at Soundwave. Soundwave evades your Searing Flame attack. BANG, that's the sound made by Soundwave as he falls on Snarl. The dinobot grunts but the attack did little damage to his armored back. Spade's sword strikes him at the same moment but bounces harmlessly on Snarl's armor. Scourge's head does more damage but it is not enough to slow the dinobot down. Snarl is being attacked from 3 different sides so he must choose a target. And the winner is....! Soundwave. The dinobot spins to face the tape commander and tries to bite his leg off. Stegosaurus strikes Soundwave with Dreadful jaw of DOOM. Spade looks at his sword in bewilderment as it bounces uselessly off of his opponent. "Hmm, this is no good. My sword was made aeons ago out of the strongest... " Blah, blah blah, Spade continues, babbling on about nothing in particular. All in good time, he tries again, this time aiming for the tiny head of the huge boulder of an Autobot instead of the protective shell. As he slashes he says (unbeknownst to him that the line has been said before in a battle long ago...) "Now to crack the nuts inside.." Spade strikes Stegosaurus with Head Cut!. Soundwave has dropped into the danger zone literally. As his downward momentum coasts to a stop courtesy of Snarl's armored back, he finds himself between a rock and a hard place. Given the choice of roasting on a spit for Slag or diving back through the mass of pain that is Snarl, he opts for the latter and receives a nasty gash on one leg for his trouble, but its far from enough to detatch the Decepticon's limb, let alone incapacitate him. Instead he reverses his rifle in his hand and swings it down at the dinobot's head as he tries to hobble away. Soundwave strikes Stegosaurus with Rifle Butt. Dr. Cox says, "STILL no DQs! Either you guys are the greatest bunch of FFAers that ever were, or ya suck. Based on recent history I'd have to wager on the latter. Continue!" Arachnae isn't stupid. She knows that she isn't considered a threat or viable target at the moment. Still, she's moving a trace bit slower as systems remind her of the hit she took earlier. By reminder, we mean a whine of dynamos and generators taking a brief unsanctioned break, leaving her sans electricity for a few brief seconds. Blinking behind her visor, she has a momentary panic attack as she finds herself sans ranged weapons. Her targeting systems click-whine then flash back on as she wingovers, pulling back and upwards, transforming to her alternate form in order to re-engage weapon systems, switching to another series of weapons. The now formed hybrid craft kicks engines in with a sudden rush forwards and down, aiming itself at Slag with a sudden raucous roar of engines screaming protest as she dives, straightens out and continues on a heads on course for her target. Voidcraft (Arachnae) strikes you with Playin' Chicken for 11 points of damage. Mysterious Masked Scarletsman 'blinks' after the end of the round. Let's get this straight. MMS hit Shockwave with a chair. Then Rodimus hit Shockwave with a car. In other words, Mysterious Masked Scarletsman was just upstaged. And in front of all his fans at home. He says, seeming really ticked off, "No one upstages the Mysterious Masked Scarletsman. No one!" and reaches to his back, slipping out a crowbar. Uh oh. He heads over towards where Rodimus is hopefully dazed from his cannoning and swings the crowbar at the car. No one upstages him! DepthCharge strikes Tricked out Semi-rig with Scarlet Crowbar. Hardstrike misses Shockwave, but hears a satisfying crunch as Rodimus makes up for it. Actiavting his chain-machine gun, the artillery weapon is turns upon Scourge, unleashing a spray of bullets upon the sweep. " Here ya' go, Scourgy. Enjoy..." Hardstrike strikes Scourge with Going BaLlIsTiC!. Lime Green Crane laughs as his missiles smack Jazz around. "Oh Jazz, why can't you be a hobby?" he chuckles. The the FlashThing nails him head-on...errm, you know what I mean. "That was a cheapshot Jazz! Why don't you come over here and fight me mech-to-mech you coward!" he yells loudly, but it is from naught. Hook is a big honking target, stuck in vehicle mode and unable to move. "I really hate you Jazz." he complains, revving hi9s engine, ready to kick someone's aft next turn. Someone, as in Jazz. (STUNNED: NO ATTACK) Of course Jazz knows what he's doing. That's the point of the whole attitude. "Yeah yeah yeah. Ya complain too much, Hook-- that'd explain why yer not the lead constructicon anymore." He grins, and actually does walk over to where Hook is stuck. "You wanna get up close an' personal? You got it." He raises both hands above his head in one combined fist, and brings it down towards Hook's cab. "How's this for personal, ya green garbage truck?" Jazz strikes Lime Green Crane with CabBashin'. With no other attack coming his way, Scourge is pleasantly capable of being fortunate enough to spy Hardstrike unleashing before it's too late. Scourge draws a wing over himself, allowing the bullets to press their way into the metal. Sure, it hurts, but not as bad as it would have if Scourge had allowed the attack to go on unimpeded. Letting the wing jut back to its original position, the Sweep levels a claw at the Autobot. "What I'll enjoy, Autobot, is tearing your armor off and taking each instrument apart, disconnecting each vital system, and simply let the life flow out of you into a puddle at your feet." He lifts off the ground and lunges at Hardstrike, reaching towards him, fully meaning to deliver on his threat. Let Shockwave deal with the Dinobots for now. Scourge feels the need to take a brief intermission and indulge his bloodlust. Scourge strikes Hardstrike with Evisceration. Triceratops gets rammed hard in the aft by Arachnae and boy he did not like that...not one bit. The furnace of anger explodes! In the blink of an optic Slag transforms into his robot mode and leaps into the air trying to grab the a piece of the voidcraft for leverage in order to impale his sword through the now-annoying non-combatant. Picking on girls ? Picking on non-combatants. Talk to him about it after the fight. The thick metal plating opens up on each side while the legs unfold, the dinobot's face becomes visible. All black with red optics burning with anger that could twist steel. The triceratops completes it's transformation into the walking furnace of anger known as Slag. You hit Arachnae, sending her flying back. Once again, Spade swings his sword at Snarl with a little bit mroe success this time but it did so little damage that the Dinobot didn't even notice... Spade will live longer than some could think. At the same moment, Soundwave bashs on Snarl's head not being more successful than Spade. The dinobot didn't take any major hit so far but all those attacks slowed him down. Suddenly he notices that Scourge left his side and his charging towards Hardstrike. "Me Snarl say where do you think you going? Me not done with you yet." Before the Sweep can fly too far aways, Snarl swings his massive tail at him, hoping to knock him on the wall of the combat pit. Stegosaurus strikes Scourge with Tail Crusher. Spade realizes that his attacks are useless and that he's failing in his objective. "This will simply not do!" Spade pronounces to himself. The ugly hunk of stylized Autobot completely ignores Spade and this, in Spade's mind, will also 'not do.' Spade sheathes his sword and draws his blaster once more. He takes careful aim and... shoots at Snarl. Spade misses Stegosaurus with his Laser Blaster attack. Soundwave reactivates his anti-gravs the instant he's clear of the Snarl's chomping metal teeth. Things are dangerous down on the ground. Better to stay high where he has time to dodge, as well as stay of his enemys' radars. After attaining some decent altitude within the pit, Soundwave wheels around again, rifle raised at the first target he spots... Hardstrike. Soundwave strikes Hardstrike with Disruption Wave. Dr. Cox looks disgruntled as he checks the systems, "Eff.. NO DQ's YEt! You are the lamest bunch of fighters.. Stop playing with eachother and get to some serious business!" Tricked out Semi-rig gets crowbard? Rodimus transforms and looks at DepthCharge. He says, "DC, that was a 'way' wrong move." He lifts his photon eliminator pointing it at the autobot medic. With a thumb he selects 'big pain' selector and says, "Sorry DC, you just won't play by the rules." Then he pulls the trigger sending a 'huge' burst of energy and white light. The weapon kicks hard against Rodimus but he holds onto the force of the weapon. The tricked out semi-rig seems to leap in the air. The trailer behind it falls away into nothing while the front of the rig folds and forms a torso and arms. The underside of the whole thing forms into a pair of treetrunk like legs. Finally, a head rises up into place. Where a tricked out rig once was, Rodimus Prime stands. Rodimus Prime misses DepthCharge with his Photon Eliminator attack. Yay! Dr. Cox looks disgruntled as he checks the systems, "Eff.. NO DQ's YEt! You are the lamest bunch of fighters.. Stop playing with eachother and get to some serious business!" The judge does snicker as dissention in the bots causes some fallout.. "Get to some serious fighting... Pansies." (re-ending of Round) Alright.. that impact shook something up inside the deranged void-craft. her internal display pops back up with viable weapons systems as she pulls up sharply, letting weapons repower, reprime, retarget. Then.. it happens.. She's pulling back up and finds herself all of a sudden at twice her usual mass.. Did someone mess with the gravity? Proximity alarms go psychotic, her hull registers a grip just before something sears upwards and through her hull, doing grave internal damage to the craft. With an audible shriek, Arachnae transforms, one wing canting out in full extension, the other half open, the deep rent apparent as her systems slip into full fledged, all out, balls to the wall, off with the gloves, lets get this done with mode. The damage is more apparent in this form, her side echoing the rent in her wing panel. Electricity cascades down her back, rolling up her shins to spin all about her in a static haze. "Get off me!" Simplistic, but full of emotion. A swing of a hand towards the Dinobot that grabbed her punctuates her desire to get him off, the swing ending with the shimmer-click of a weapon from subspace coming into play. A curved blade that starts in mid-swing as solid matter, but ends up phasing into energy as she slashes at Slag, "Get off!" Arachnae strikes you with Phase_Blade-Energy for 8 points of damage. Having given justice to the upstart Rodimus Prime, Mysterious Masked Scarletsman drops the crowbar, looking towards the crowd and holding his hands up in victory. Waiting for the cheers. So you had better cheer Foxfire if you know what's good for you! But wait, there is movement from Prime! He seems to be upset about something. And goes so far as to use his highest attack on MMS. But have no fear Scarketeers, the Mysterious Masked Scarlestman cannot be defeated so easily and he dodges Prime's blast. He looks at the TV cameras and says, "Oh yeah! I am tough! I cannot be taken down!". After basking in the love of his fans for a moment, MMS turns back to look at the competitors, saying to Prime, "You wait right there kiddo. I'll be back for you. Time to fry me some bigger fight." As there are still other fighters standing. Ones that have not realized they are no match for him. He says to the ring in general, "Soo.. you seek to challenge the Masked Scarletsman? Come on, babies. Bring it to me. I'll eat you for my dinner. I eat babies!" and he sets forth one more, away from Prime, looking for an opponent. He sees his original target, Soundwave, flying after Hardstrike and MMS laughs, "Yeah! Come on down here!" and sends a blast of electrical energy out of his fingers towards the flying Soundwave. Okay, that isn't exactly a wrestling move but you know.. DepthCharge strikes Soundwave with Trident Energy. Hardstrike is reamed by Scourge' evisceration, quickly trying to shake the Sweep's clawed attention, though he backs right up into the disruptor blast from Soundwave. " Hey now! " he emits, transforming, " That's not very nice..." A sword hilt is pulled, a blade of pure energy coming forth, which is slashed at the offending Unicronian... Hardstrike's vehicular body pulls upwards from the middle, and begins to re-shape into his robot body. Hardstrike misses Scourge with his Energy Longsword attack.
* SMASH!* Okay, that hurt. Alot! "Okay, I was going to leave you alone. You are dead now." The green crane emits a terrible laugh. The crane shudders, and erupts into Hook's robot form. "You are a stubborn aft head, Jazz." he comments dryly, pulling out his sword. "Can you handle it? The pressure, I mean." Hook smiles, swinging the sword around in an arc. "How about we...turn you into a femme, hmm?" Hook flashes a nasty grin, and shoves the sharp implement up into Jazz's...vitals. If you know what I mean. Hehehe. Hook flips his crane arm onto his back and rises into his robot form Hook strikes Jazz with Mech to Femme Operation. A femme? Jazz is stylish enough as it is. He doesn't need to be feminine too. Even if he is one of those mechs with the top-heavy bits. "Whoa, whoa, Whoa!" He exclaims, making the attempt to get his... vitals out of Hook's way. "I ain't your guinea pig, Thumbtack." Man. That was close. Even if it did nearly take off a limb. Jazz as a femme? No WAY Jose. Ain't happenin'. Not in this lifetime. "Try doin' that to oneof your brothers first, then I'll -- oh what the slag. Ya really are a wierd-aft mech, Tacky." And of course he's got a very *ahem* Potent response to Hook. Missiles for breakfast, perhaps? Jazz strikes Hook with POTENCY UNAFFECTED. Beep! Hello, you've reached the home of Scourge. Sorry I'm not here to receive your Energy Longsword, I'm currently being batted across the arena like a dead squirrel. Leave your name and number and I'll get back to you! Actually, maybe not. Hardstrike is forgotten as Scourge crashes into the wall of the stadium with a sickening thud, sliding down to the floor, stunned for a moment. As soon as he regains control of his senses, Scourge rises and charges back into battle like a good little minion, his entire being filled with an intense hatred and loathing of Snarl. As he dashes back towards the Dinobot, he yanks his sickle out of subspace. The Sweep clamps down on the pressure-sensitive handle, prompting the blade to become filled with glowing super-heat! Nearing Snarl, Scourge jumps at his foe, hoping to sink the weapon into some part of Snarl that is vulnerable. Scourge misses Stegosaurus with his energized sickle attack. Slag raises an arm to block the non-combatant's blow which leaves a mark in the dinobot's arm. Slag replies with a heavy punch to the FACE! "Me Slag getting off now." and proceeds to release Arachnae and move towards another target. You hit Arachnae, sending her flying back. Once again Spade attacks Snarl, once again his attack bounces on the dinobot's back. Snarl doesn't even notice, but an angry Sweep flying at him with a BIG sickle, that is much more scary. But the dinobot is a lucky bastard today, his armor completely protected him AGAIN! The stegosaurus doesn't waste any time before counter attacking. Once again he swings his tail at the Sweep, trying to send him back where he came from : the wall. Stegosaurus misses Scourge with his Tail swing attack. Spade stands grim in the fact that he has again failed. His imprisonment taught him the art of failure and Spade had, until this moment, believed that he had beat back those ugly memories. "No!" Spade screams as he charges towards Snarl, transforming into the sleak and slightly less-than-shiny form of a stretch limousine. The limo gets closer to the dino and just before impact Spade locks the brakes and spins sideways, attempting to clip Snarl with his rear-end. Spade's arms begin to fold inward on themselves, the hands disappearing up into the arm. His legs fold backwards and his chest folds up, covering his head and leaving the front end of a stretch limousine. His shield slides into position on the hood and the limo rests, sleek and black. Spade strikes Stegosaurus with Sideswipe. Soundwave spins in mid-flight as his long blue body is suddenly made into a moving lightning rod. His anti-grav systems are disrupted by the blast, and suddenly Soundwave looks more like Wile E. Coyote after running off a cliff than a world-class fighting machine in mid-battle. Miraculously, he wasn't terribly high up when the blast hits, so although his landing is nothing to be proud of, the impact does him no further damage. In the meantime a small cloud of dust rises up from his point of landing, masking the tape commander for a few crucial moments while he re-orients himself. When the dust clears, he is standing and facing his attacker. A low hum grows into a high pitched whine moments before a visible shockwave emenates from Soundwave's tape-deck front. The power of the spoken word rips toward Depthcharge at the speed of sound, "DIE..." Soundwave manages to strike DepthCharge with his The Word. Dr. Cox shakes his head as he continues to watch this grand event of all events.. that is until the grudge matches begin. Leaning head on hand, he taps boredly at the reader... "Look.. What a surprise... No DQ's yet.. Maaaarrrrvaloouuuussss.." Slamming fist onto microphone he yells snappily, "GET ON WITH IT!" Arachnae's blade sings through its arc and.. barely scratches Slag.. Really now. Did you expect anything else? With a wide opticed startled look, Arachnae finds herself knocked heels over head, facemask cracking with the impact of Slag's knuckles into the metal.. "!!!!" a startled noise as she rights herself, looking here and there to see exactly what in the world is going on... Not good. not good at all.. No orders have come across to steer her away from this path, so she limps into the air once more, targeting Slag.. "Sorry.." a mournful comment spoken softly as she raises both hands in front of her, makes fists around the hilt of her now solid sword.. and as electricity lights her frame up like a forth of july celebration, unleashes a pizeo-electric wavefront at the lumbering Dinobot.. You are temporarily incapacitated by Arachnae's Pizeo-electric Wavefront attack. Mysterious Masked Scarletsman's electrical blast against Soundwave hit home. As if there was any doubt. For this here is the guy you all love to hate. Or hate to love! Whichever works. He pumps his fist in the air and continues to work on Big Blue. As everyone knows Scarlet and Blue are arch enemies. As what's the saying.. Red and Green should never be Seen? Err.. wait.. Oh Hoooook. But wait, no time for Constructicon bashing now. For Soundwave is singing a bad song. As Soundwave booms 'DIE' DepthCharge is thrown back ala Marty McFly in the beginning of Back to the Future, hitting against the wall of the ring with a *crack*. Mysterious Masked Scarletsman gets back to his feet though, looking only slightly dented and saying, "Oh no! You did not just do that. No one throws Mysterious Masked Scarletsman." Fighting dirty once again, MMS this time pulls out a small rod from one of his compartment. With a press of a button the rod activates, a red burst of energy flowing from the tip in a lightsaber rip off. But wait, this isn't a night saber. This is a light-baseball bat. Nodding and grinning, Mysterious Masked Scarletsman begins to advance on Soundwave, swinging the bat. Hardstrike puts up the sword, finding himself no longer in a melee situation requiring it. Scanning the group for targets, his eyes land upon Spade. Looks easy enough. Locking on, he launches a singular rocket upon the Decepticon Servant. Explosive Love, Oh So Good! DepthCharge strikes Soundwave with Energy Baseball bat. Hardstrike strikes Spade with Hardstrike's Vengeance. Hook stumbles backward from the missile impact, now showing serious signs of battle damage. "Aw, slaggit, now I'm MAD!" he shouts, rubbing various joints that now hurt like all heck. "Just quit while you are ahead. Or rather, while you still have your head." The constructicon engineer laughs an evil, evil laugh.Hook leaps up, boosted by anti-gravs. He sets down behind Jazz, and whips out his blaster, all Indiana Jones style. Despite his injuries, Hook still seems to be extremely cocky. "...Just die already!" Hook takes aim...and fires. BANG! Hook strikes Jazz with HEADSHOT!. Getting kicked around by something painted a tacky green is really not styling. If it weren't for being bored, and tottering around, Jazz would be almost bored. At least until he gets smacked in the head by something. Tumbling forwards, he takes a minute, on the floor of the arena, to recover, despite how dangerous that might be. Jazz shakes his head, then turns to shoot in Hook's general direction. Jazz misses Hook with his Photon shot attack. Scourge recovers from his failed attempt and takes off into the air. Charging up his head laser as well as drawing his pistol, he begins to rain down rapid laser fire on the Dinobot, hissing and growling. "Why. Can't. I. Get. Rid. Of. You!" he chokes out with each shot. Lasers lance out again and again and with much unfocused fury. It would probably be better if Scourge could check the rage that's blinding him right now and focus on commanding the Decepticons to victory, but this fight is all-consuming. Scourge misses Stegosaurus with his doomy barrage of...doom attack. Slag leaves Nae and flies down towards his next target only to be hit in the back by Arachnae. The blasts temporarily shorts the dinobot's servos and more importantly anti-gravs which send the mastodont plumetting towards the ground. Slag lands in a huge cloud of dust and lays there twitching trying to fight off the paralysis. (NO ATTACK) The limo hits Snarl, but the Dinobot is much heavier than a car and he barely move. He must be tired because he growls in pain anyway. The less popular dino doesn't wait for scourge to attacka gain, he charges right towards him...too late, Scourge fires at him but it is now enough, all the bullets bounces on Snarl's armor. As soon as Snarl arrives in melee range, he opens his jaws wide and tries to bite off Scourge's arm. Stegosaurus strikes Scourge with Dreadful jaw of DOOM. Soundwave raises his left arm to deflect the impact of the energy weapon to one side. Armor buckles and cracks violently along the exposed forearm when the baseball bat makes contact, but Soundwave himself doesn't even flinch. He's fought against far more imposing Autobots than Depthcharge, and even with the Autobot medic's size advantage, Soundwave is still confident in his chances. If this is to come to blows, so be it. In the opening created by DC's raised bat, Soundwave brings his right fist in hard and fast. Soundwave manages to strike DepthCharge with his Right Cross. Spade feels all awesome as he connects against the big robot. Spade gets ready to back up and ram Snarl again but is suddenly broadsided by a rocket. His sensors scream as he takes his first hit of this particular battle. "Blast you!" Spade transforms and pulls his blaster, firing frantically at Hardstrike. The limousine splits down the middle, legs fold out from the rear end, the front end bends down, revealing a robotic head. The sides fold out into arms and extend, pushing the robot upright into a standing position. What's left is the ominous figure of Spade. Spade strikes Hardstrike with Laser Blaster. Dr. Cox gets himself a quintuple double poured frothy cappalattemochanillachoco coffee.. And stares at the arena.. "No DQ's.. NO DQ"s!! When will the maaaadnessss end! Oh the horror, the humanity of machines pounding themselves into pieces? Can.. they.. still. carry.. ON?!?!" Arachnae shakes her head, trying to clear the multiple system errors showing damage. There once was a time where she'd have run off screaming for the high hills. Evidently.. this is not such a time. With a determined look in her optics, she struggles to get one wing to fan out properly before lifting off of the ground again. Rather amazed that she's managed to get Slag down for a short breather, she agains hakes her head, trying to clear error codes. "I hate this planet, I hate these stupid games, I hate whomever decided this was a bright idea and I'm NOT TO FOND OF YOU EITHER!" She levels a glare at Slag before her wingtips flick-glimmer and submit for the dinobots perusal another flickering bit of electrical shine at him. Arachnae strikes you with Electrostatic bolt for 3 points of damage. Mysterious Masked Scarletsman's 'offs' and buckles over as Soundwave punches him square in the chest. MMS then drops to his knees, the amour around his chest area nicely fractured around a Soundwave fist sized dint. But after taking a moment to recover himself the Masked bot says from where he kneels, "Do you smell what the Scarletsman is cooking? Well, do ya? It is paaain!" And clenches his fist, jumping back into a standing position. But as he jumps, Mysterious Masked Scarletsman swings his clenched fist in an uppercut, attempting to show Soundwave who the real heavy weight contender is. DepthCharge misses Soundwave with his Uppercut attack. Hardstrike mutters as the laserfire goes wild, a blast striking his shoulder, leaving a scorched hole where it struck his armor. Stomping forwards, he lashes out with a clenched fist at Spade, aiming for the face. " Quit yer' whining! " Hardstrike strikes Spade with Mean Left Hook. Hook drops into the horizontal spits to dodge Jazz's disruptor. "Yeah, yeah, you are boring!" Hook laughs, and does a niffty hand spring to get himself on his feet again. "Really now. Can'tt you /try/ a bit?" Nevermind that Hook looks extremely battered right now. "Quit now, before you die, alright? Or do you WANT me to kick your aft?" Hook aims again for the headshot. "DIE NOW!" Hook strikes Jazz with Die, Die, DIE!. DepthCharge pulls out a medical scanner and runs a check on DepthCharge. Man, it's a good thing this is all hologramatic damage, otherwise this would be a real b*tch of a fight for some people. Especially those who are more meant for dancing, 'stead of fighting. Like.... Jazz. The Meister reals from the punch. Not really doing any damage, things are starting to pile up on him. And he's not exactly feelin' so hot himself. But he's smiling as he comes back to return the favor. "Nah. I'd rather kick yours. An' I don't die easy, see." He winds up and kicks. Jazz strikes Hook with kick. Scourge unloads a vast reserve of ammunition into the general direction of the Dinobot, somehow managing to not hurt Snarl in the slightest way. Through his fit of rage as well as the thick smoke rising from his depleted weaponry, Snarl comes down on him unimpeded as well as unexpected. By the time Scourge starts to react, the Dinobot is already upon the Sweep Commander and his metallic jaws are wrapped firmly around the Decepticon's wrist. Much to Scourge's utter horror, just as smoothly as the Dinobot clamps down on his arm, he finds it smoothly being ripped right out of its socket. He gapes at his wound as it begins to spray energon and sparks, before bringing his still-intact fist down towards the Stegosaurus' head. "MY ARM!" he shrieks, hacking and slashing at the Dinobot madly. Ooo, that's going to hurt once the shock wears off. Scourge strikes Stegosaurus with Punch. Slag struggles to get back up and transforms for better protection. Better stay on the ground and on 4 legs until the gyros are re-calibrated and stuff. Slag shakes off the after-effects and looks around for a target and spots his brother in need of a hand. Slag eyes Scourge and charges hoping to break the sweep commander's spine or at least hurt him severely. The fists retract and the legs execute a 180 degree spin backwards which result in Slag falling on all fours in Triceratop mode. Scourge evades your Full steam charge! attack. Stegosaurus tries to move out of Scourge way but he is, of course, too slow. BANG, Scourge hits him right on his head but surprisingly it does little damage. The Sweep commander must be hurt. The dinobot steps back to get some room, then he swing his tail at Scourge, trying to slice him open. Stegosaurus misses Scourge with his Spikes slash attack. Soundwave's optical band flashes in cold amusement at Depthcharge's self-important prattle. His left arm sparks slightly as he lowers it, and his legs tense as the Autobot rises to his feet again. "Boasts are irrelevant... defeat is inevitable." Soundwave spots the uppercut miles away and easily drops below it. In the meantime one leg shoots outward in a sweeping motion, metal foot aimed directly for the Autobot's ankles. Soundwave misses DepthCharge with his Sweep Kick attack. Yay! Spade is amazed at the power of the smaller robot and goes down to a knee, his gun spinning wildy away from him, skittering on the energon-laced battle-grounds. Spade rolls with the punch, spinning completely around as he draws his sword and attempts to the gut Hardstrike. "Filthy Autobot, you'll pay for that." Spade strikes Hardstrike with Ultra-rockin' Spinning Blade Swipe Attack of Doooooooom!. Dr. Cox can only shake his head in bewildered.. ackzeeep.. Now the caffiene kicks in.. "One of you will fall, ONE OF YOU WILL FALL!!! FALL Fall!!" He shakes fist at the combatants, "Just fall over already!! No DQ's yet! Nothing!! Nothing but.. Glorious mochachocachococvanilla goodness!! ANOTHER!!" And more expresso goodness is delivered. Arachnae heaves a silent sigh of relief as Slag doesn't turn back on her to pound her into nothing but an irritating memory. Her systems whine warnings of impending doom as she shakes off a momentary bout of dizzyness and tracks her quarry back down. "hate this all.. " she mutters, gliding upwards as far as the fields allow, pivoting wingtips forward over her head. Both points begin a sullen blue glow that descends rapidly through cerulean, down through violet and settling on ultraviolet with flashes of pure, white plasma. A flash-boom sounds around the former sweep as she sends forth a raging line of electrically formed plasma straight at Slag.. "Not dead yet...." Arachnae strikes you with plasma for 8 points of damage. Oooh. Things aren't going well for the Mysterious Masked Scarletsman. His upper cut misses Soundwave completely! But, he is able to regain his footing, by dodging Soundwave's next attack, a sweeping kick. Jumping over it, the Maked 'bot says, "Oo yeah! There will be defeat, but not by your feet." He then makes a grimace, realizing he sounded just like either Blaster or Jazz. Eeek. Soldiering on, the Masked Man grips his hands together and tries to go for a 'power hammer slam' onto Soundwave's shoulder. The one that has his cannon speaker thing on it. As we all know, the easiest thing to break on a Transformer is its accessories. "Now get down and stay down!" DepthCharge misses Soundwave with his Hammer slam attack. Hardstrike is cut, the blade digging accross his faceplate, and down his chest. Spitting out some fluid, he turns, glaring. " I think I owe you some change..." he murmers, and then lashes out with a foot at Spade's gut. Hardstrike misses Spade with his Stomp attack. Hook takes the kick in the gut, and doubles over. "Owwie..." The constructicon falls over onto his back, clutching his stomache. "That hurt!" he cries...Suddenly, Hook starts laughing wildly. "I am just joking!" he cries, smirking evily at the Autobot. "Jazz, I have decided...You will join /MY/ collection of trophies!" he snarls loudly, aiming his boots at Jazz's already injured 'vital section'. Man, Hook has no mercy when it comes to his enemies. Hook strikes Jazz with Taco Bell Kick: South of the Border. Now what's wrong with sounding like Jazz? He's got cool rhymes, some of the time. It's better than sounding like Wheelie, ya dig? And Hook didn't get what he was aiming for before-- but now the kick pegs Jazz quite firmly in the .... hip. Crunch. Guess he's not going to be walking for a while. "Ow... Well, if ya insist..." He says, since driving is preferable to walking anyhow. He takes a step back, transforms, and pops out a pair of speakers. Mmm. "I don't mind givin' ya a taste of what this 'trophy' can give ya..." A headache. Ska-Punk-Bagpipes. Sinking down and folding up, Jazz becomes a Porsche 935 Turbo. Porsche 935 Turbo strikes Hook with his Metallica as done by four Bagpipes attack. Scourge notices he's being double-teamed and so leaps up into the air to give himself some breathing room. Gripping the gaping socket on his shoulder with one hand he flies up and up, to survey the situation behind hazy vision. The Decepticons aren't winning. They aren't exactly losing either, but unless something is done, they will lose and then...wait a minute. It suddenly filters into Scourge's mind that this is, in fact, a game. The remembrance that this battle holds no consequence drains Scourge. He comes to a realization that he hates the Olympics, the Dinobots, Shockwave and Monacus. He's about to keep flying up and off into the sky and head back to Earth to get a new arm and wait for the others to come back, but stops as he remembers that Galvatron and other Decepticons see victories here as morale victories. And so, reluctantly, the Sweep changes direction and transforms, bearing down on Snarl. As he swoops overhead, he targets the Dinobot and launches a missile which zips through the air with an unholy screech, hoping the Autobots will just keel over dead or he gets disqualified so this trash will end. Scourge transforms into a Sweepcraft. Sweepcraft [Scourge] strikes Stegosaurus with Missile. Triceratops realizes his coordination is not all that good and decides to go for something a little easier. "Me Slag say beardy should be going down now. Cmon' Snarl. Me Slag say we give him a hand, teeth and lots of hurt." Just as he finishes his sentence the dinobot gets nailed hard again across the back. Smoke can be seen coming out of the corner of his eyes. The dino spits forth the mother of all flame blasts and spins around spraying the love. Slag unleashes his Hellfire Blast! attack on Scourge, Arachnae, Spade and Soundwave, striking Scourge, Soundwave and Spade. Stegosaurus charges Scourge but the Sweep is faster and transforms, taking off before the Dinobot can reach him. But Snarl won't let him go anywhere! He transform into his robot mode and follows Scourge into the air. Meanwhile he is struck by a missile and pieces of his chestplate fly all around. The dinobot grunts but wait for Scourge to come close and then he tries to smash him into the ground. The Stegosaurus unfolds and the towering robot form of Snarl arises. Snarl strikes Sweepcraft [Scourge] with PANCAKE. Soundwave, still in a crouch on the ground when Depthcharge's fists come whistling down through the air. Moments later, the two are locked in place as Soundwave's own hands come flying up to arrest Depthcharge's attack before it can impact. He grips the Autobot's wrists in hands of iron for a moment, and his voice sounds out again in that strange inhuman tone of his. "Leave rhyme to those with talent..." A moment to let that sink in, and then Soundwave is wrenching back on Depthcharge's wrists, pulling back the Autobot in an attempt to throw DC up and over Soundwave's own crouched form. Slag's blast in the meantime simply rebounds of Soundwave's armor, doing little damage. Soundwave manages to strike DepthCharge with his The Old Heave-Ho. Spade deflects Hardstrike's foot with his shield. "We'll see who has the last laugh tonight." He grunts as he is hit with some fire, but not enough to detour him from his prey. Spade pushes forward, moving his shield and attempting to slam the hilt of his sword into Hardstrike's already-damaged faceplate. Spade misses Hardstrike with his Hilt-To-Face! Hilt-To-Face! attack. Dr. Cox leans forward, watching the screan with hyper-active intensity.. "We're looking at recod breaking moves! No DQ's.. Several drop outs! LEts GET 'ER DONE!" Arachnae lands hard on the ground after that fiery event, optics flickering to a dullish green before she shakes her head. Wings fold behind her, one cleanly, the other crookedly as she finds herself determined to see this to the end. If she drops, she drops.. Time to put herself to the test. She takes several running steps forward then leaps upwards, attempting to flip over Slag even as he lets loose with the fire-breathe o'doom, slashing downwards with all her might with all 10 talons plus the fully extended forearm blades she's sporting.. "Die die, my darling..." Arachnae strikes you with evisceration for 1 points of damage. Swooosh goes the Masked Autobot, indeed flying up over Soundwaven's crouched form and arcing through the air. SMASH goes the Masked Autobot, falling to the ground with an 'Omph'. Oh yeah. And there he lies for a moment. Could it be that he is out for the count? Go on Soundwave, Pin him. Pin him! Fortunately for all of us that don't want to see Soundwave sprawling on top of DepthCharge, the Aquabot moves. Slightly. Then he slowly wobbles up to his feet. The crowd should be cheering him now. You can't keep a good Masked Wrestler down. He says, stumbling slightly, "And why don't you leave the acting bad business to those of us with talent." In an un-wrestler like move, two panels on DepthCharge's torso slide open and a few rockets launch themselves out of his chest towards Soundwave. DepthCharge strikes Soundwave with Torpedo Missle thing. Hardstrike grabs Spade's wrist as he lashes out, " You just don't learn, do you. " He says, using the Decepticon's momentum to flip him. Directly into a wall. " Hard way is a lot more fun for me, though..." Hardstrike strikes Spade with Throwdown. Having startled Hook into running away with the wonderful tunes of NeoScotland Apocalyptica, Jazz is left with the choice. Should he help someone, or just give up? DUH. He's an Autobot. He ain't giving up quite yet. And at the moment, Jazz has his optics setting on the purple one again. Yeah, Scourge. That'd be you. Laser lovin'? Sure. Porsche 935 Turbo strikes Sweepcraft [Scourge] with Headlight Blasters. Snarl's attack does just as it intended, by flinging Scourge straight down into the ground. He crashes with a nasty-sounding thud and lies there motionless for many moments. He struggles to get his engines back online, and for a while, he contemplates just letting the Dinobots smash him into oblivion. That thought is quickly wiped from the list of possibilities. Giving up isn't going to be happening. As Scourge solidifies his resolution, his engines come back to functionality and propel him back into the air, thanks to a courtesy push from Jazz's lasers. Recalibrating himself, the Sweep turns towards Snarl, intent on taking him out one way or another. He increases thrust to maximum and transforms himself as a missile to destroy liberty and justice HA! HA! And Snarl. Liberty, justice and Snarl. Okay, actually just Snarl. Sweepcraft [Scourge] strikes Snarl with Collision. Triceratops sees the incoming Decepti-femme out of the corner of his eye and readies himself. Almost like a shark waiting for his prey to make the fatal mistake of entering 'deadly' range. Arachnae's blade creates some sparks as it scratches the dino's back without piercing. However her poking did give the dinobot her exact location. The triceratops's head jerks to the side trying to clamp down on the femme's arm with his mighty jaw. Arachnae evades your Chew toy! attack. Snarl is now flying above Scourge, looking down, he suddenly knows what he's going to do next. He transforms and aims his fall at the Sweep. At the same moment, Scourge charges right towards him! The sweepcraft rams into him, sendgin him flying accross the pit and crashing on the ground. The dinobot is stunned for a moment and can't see if his attack succeeded. Snarl falls fowards as his body twist and fold into his powerful dino mode. Stegosaurus misses Sweepcraft [Scourge] with his Tail Crusher attack. Soundwave lets go of Depthcharge's wrists as soon as he has swung the Autobot through sufficient arc to create a bit of space between them. Then, as the medic is coming to his feet, Soundwave is doing exactly the same, turning and rising to face the Autobot once again. Soundwave's own form has taken a decent battering, but he's got a few punches left in him yet, as well as several other surprises. Unfortunately, the rocket barrage takes the usually collected Soundwave by surprise. The best he can do is turn and duck so as to present minimal target aspect to the sudden artillery barrage. In the meantime out of the midst of the explosions a wrist flicks and a dagger composed of pure green energon comes spinning outwards. Soundwave manages to strike DepthCharge with his Energon Dagger(Thrown). Spade flips into the wall, and groans at the pain. Ow. From the ground Spade kicks up (a la Prime in the movie in the epic fight scene) at Hardstrike. DOOOM! Spade strikes Hardstrike with Upward Double Heels +5. Dr. Cox simply stares at the combatants as they keep going.. and going.. and going.. and going.. and going.. "Will the madness never end.. Will we find ourselves with a winner? Will my lotto ticket be the winning number? Only time will tell! There Is... No.. DQ! Not yet!" Arachnae continues her flying dart over Slag, misisng getting her arm bitten off due to momentum and a sudden change of wing-angle. Landing at the massive behemoths side.. Not the best place to be by any means, she slashes at him again, claws only as blades sluggishly retract into her forearms.. "This.. is.. really.. getting.. stupid.." Arachnae strikes you with claw for 1 points of damage. DepthCharge took Soundwave by surprise. Excellent! But, then Soundwave takes DepthCharge by surprise with the energon dagger. To quote Kup, 'I've never seen anything like this before.' It whacks into his already cracked chest, sparks flying and amour cracking further. He falls to his knees, the energon dagger dispersing after it hits but not the damage, a nice seeping wound left visible. Poor DC. The masked wrestler retaliates by running back towards Soundwave and attacking him with a dagger of his own. A laser scalpel! Thrown! DepthCharge strikes Soundwave with Thrown Laser scalpel. Hardstrike is struck in the jaw, hard, and his neck snaps backwards with a scattering of fluid upon the ground. Taking a step or two backwards, he works the servos to make sure they still function. " That was a good one, kid.....but you need to learn..." the Autobot reaches for his rifle, "....when to stay down..." He hefts it at the prone Decepticon, firing once. Hardstrike strikes Spade with Laser Rifle. And wouldn't it be nice to have infinate power levels, and to be able to just use a large ranged attack to take EVERYONE out? Jazz would probably like that right now. Since he's a bit weary of the whole 'fighting' thing. Primus. Fighting is really really boring. That bar he went to last night, now THAT was a good time. Mmm. Bar. Dancing. Music. . . the Meister transforms with a sigh, and makes a shot on the only femme in the bunch. Good ol' Nae. Not that he's trying to piss her off, or anything, "I ain't hearin' music here, gal. howsabout you?" Attention span is slipping. Bad The Porche explodes into action, becoming Jazz, Autobot hero. Sweepcraft [Scourge] managed to evade Snarl's attack and is looking to push this minor victory into a major victory. He zips after the hurling Dinobot, not taking any pride in any of this, just wanting it to be over as soon as possible. As Snarl hits the ground, he adjusts his sights, checks his systems, finds them not to be in the greatest of shape. Oh well, Scourge isn't going to go out without a fight, no matter how inane all of this is. With the Dinobot in his sights, a lancet of laser spews out from the prow of the craft and tears through the air. "Do all of us a favor and stay down, Dinobot, so that this idiotic masquerade will be one step closer to its end!" Sweepcraft [Scourge] strikes Stegosaurus with Disintegrator Ray. Jazz strikes Arachnae with Accross a crowded room. Triceratops looks up at Scourge still picking on his brother and decides to give a little hand. The triceratops ignores Nae for the time being and settles himself in a stable position. The tip of Slag's horns are glowing an eerie yellow for a few seconds just before a series of triple-blast leap forth like an electrical arc towards the flying sweepcraft. You strike Sweepcraft [Scourge] with Tri-Horn Blaster. Of course Snarl doesn't stay down. It takes time, but he is back on his feet. Just in time to be blasted by Scourge's Disintegrator Ray. The energy hits in right on his back, burning his armor. It hurts but it is not enough, the dinobot opens his jaw and spits fire at Scourge. Stegosaurus strikes Sweepcraft [Scourge] with Fire breath. Soundwave is just stepping out of the mass of explosions from the rocket barrage when the laser scalpel spears him directly in the gut. It sticks quivering for a moment, and only a strong act of will makes it possible for Soundwave to reach down and wrench the blade free, tossing it behind him like a piece of trash. Energy sparks across the wound left behind and a quick internal diagnostic does not encourage Soundwave. This threat must be dealt with, and quickly. It is time to fire the big gun. On his right shoulder the so called 'cannon speaker thing' whines into life as it loads a round into the chamber. Soundwave centers Depthcharge in front of him, attains tone, and lets fly a massive missile. "This must end..." are his only words. Soundwave manages to strike DepthCharge with his Missile Launcher. Spade growls in pain. PAIN! PAIN! Ow!... Sensors go berzerk. A parting shot perhaps? Sure thing, Jim. He dives for his blaster and fires at Hardstrike. Spade strikes Hardstrike with Bye Bye Blaster Shot. Dr. Cox looks at the readouts, looks up at the grand fight, looks back at the melle and jumps up out of his seat, "Jumpin jiminy gingersnaps!!! Spade Out!! Get out of my pit you idiot.. Depthcharge.. you masked mindless moron, OUT OUT OUT!! Jazz.. You were cool.. but survey says!! GET OUT!! OUT OUT OUT!! We have 3 DQ's this round.. GET 'ER DONE!!!!" Spade has left. Jazz is obnoxious enough to give Arachnae a grin and a wave as he's kicked out of the pit. Yeah. Smartass. Jazz has left. The Mysterious Masked Scarlet guy is dragged from the ring (which isn't that difficult since he is pretty beat up) calling out, "The match was fixed! Fixed! Where was the ref?" and that's all they wrote of DepthCharge. Arachnae was fine, really.. she's fine just dandy as she dances awaaay from the dinobot.. Only to get clocked by something from someone over.. there.. "AAAAaaaAAaaAaaaaaHHHH!!!!!!" Yup.. she screamed.. She whips about, looking here and there to see just who. Oh.. Jazz.. And he smiled at her.. "You're really grating on my capacitors..." she seethes. A shake of her head, a quick tabulation of tactics left.. aside from the oh so beautiful option of cutting out and ruuuuning away.. Rather amazed at finding herself one among the few still standing, she runs through her systems in quick-like fashion. HUD reads critical, systems are protesting.. Fine.. Steeling herself for what is most likely going to be something painful but oh so short.. She charges Slag once more.. leaping into a simple, fluid kick.. "Just roll over or something. Play dead.. be a good dino.." Arachnae strikes you with Flying Leap-kick for 1 points of damage. Hardstrike is shot in the side, and staggers. He's still going, but his fuel levels are pretty low. That last rifle shot and the targetting systems it used ate up what was left beyond standard combat maneuvers. Turning, he notices Arachnae leaping up to kick Slag, and then spots....the aluminum chair left behind by that Masked Mech. Picking it up, he runs up behind the femme, and swings as she returns groundwards. Hardstrike misses Arachnae with his Called Chair to the Head attack. Sweepcraft [Scourge] is nailed by two Dinobot strikes and is sent down. Luckily, he has plenty of time to revert to one-armed robot mode and manages to brace himself against the fall. Seeing as how his attack options are somewhat limited due to his missing appendage, he leaps at the nearest target, Slag, and twists his upper body, slicing at the Dinobot with a razor-sharp wing. "RAAAAARGH! This has to end! GO DOWN!" Scourge transforms into robot mode. You evade Scourge's Wing slash attack. Dr. Cox has left. Orbital Cannon has left. DepthCharge has left. Triceratops feels a little 'ping' on his aft. The dino moves a bit and swings his tail left and right hoping to catch the mosquito that is bugging him and then proceeds to move towards a juicier target. Someone that is long overdue to be out of this fight. Yeah the sweep commander Scourge while dodging the attempted wing slash. You hit Arachnae, sending her flying back. As soon as Scourge comes close enough, Snarl charges right towards him. It's a good thing that Scourge came down because the dinobot doesn't have enough energy to fire any of his ranged weapons. The stegosaurus arrives near the Sweep, he opens his jaw and tries to bite his wing. Stegosaurus misses Scourge with his Dreadful jaw of DOOM attack. Soundwave stands for a moment in the aftermath of his fight against Depthcharge. Even as the Autobot is dragged kicking from the ring, Soundwave is left evaluating his own options. His resources were severely tapped by the effort required to eliminate the masked marvel over there, and now he's been left in the ring with two dinobots and only Scourge to count on for true help. This could be tricky. For the moment, it's all he can do to regroup. He kneels for a few seconds, redirecting the limited energon left in his system to the most crucial systems. (no attack) Dr. Cox looks about wildly in the hopes that another has fallen. Finding noone stumbling about, he raises both hands to the skies, "WHYYY!! Why Oh LORD Whyyyy have thee forsaken meeee!!!!!!! NO DQ's!!! They're stiill going and going and going and.. and... " Arachnae, while in the process of trying to dance away from Slag, finds herself catching movement out of the corner of an optic. Which leads to her twisting to avoid a chair coming at her from nowhere.. and leading her straight into a wildly flung about tail. Sent skidding backwards, landing on her rear to only skid some further distance.. she lets out an 'Eeeeeeeeeeek!" clawing at the ground in order to come to some semblence of a halt.. "I don't belong here...." she mutters, albeit in a disjointed fashion.. Since hardstrike chose to launch something at her, she can only return the favor. Popping a wing out, she jerks a spar loose from the damaged side and hurls it at the Autobot, "Back off, bucko!" Arachnae misses Hardstrike with her Javalin-Spar attack. Hardstrike blocks the javalin with his chair, knocking the point away. " Like hell I will, lady...yer' goin' down! " Another swing with the chair, this time horizantally, instead of the brunt of the object... Hardstrike misses Arachnae with his Chair-Fu attack. Scourge finds himself with low energy, one arm, and two hungry, hungry Dinobots on either side of him. As one lashes out at him, he skips back a few steps, recovers quickly and dashes back in for a counter attack, swinging his fist down at the Stegosaurus' head. Woo. Scourge strikes Stegosaurus with Punch. Triceratops decides it's time to get back at Scourge for that last shot. Yeah the dinobot has been playing robot-oppossum for a while now. The angry beast has been keeping an ace for a situation just like that one. People might think dinobots are retarded but warfare.../that/ they know pretty well. "Me Slag say time for beardy to get out and stay out...burn." Slag uses all his remaining efforts to shoot forth all the fire he has left in him in one big bolt aimed at the sweep commander. You strike Scourge with Searing Flame . Stegosaurus shrugs off Scourge's punch. The dinobot may almost be out of energon and be severely damaged, his hide is just as tough at it was. The stegosaurus roars and spins on himself, trying to smash Scourge's legs with his tail. Stegosaurus strikes Scourge with Tail swing. Soundwave has finally come to his feet, and the cries of Arachnae have evidently reached his audio receptors, because he starts moving toward her and Hardstrike. As Soundwave closes the gap he gradually gains speed until he's moving at a flat out sprint, charging Hardstrike directly from the rear. One shoulder lowers in preperation for the collision. Soundwave strikes Hardstrike with Shoulder Check. Hardstrike is struck by the punch, and called out. " Damn..." he murmers, limping away. Hardstrike has left. dr. Cox blinks.. "Will Wonders never cease, Hardstrike, Get outta my ring!! Scourge.. drag your pink nailed self out and let the rest of these loosers duke it out. Two.. MOre.. DQ's!!" Arachnae staggers backwards as Hardstrike swings a chair at her.. The stumbling accomplishes enough movement to get her out of the strike zone.. and then.. someone comes to her rescue.. Ahh yes.. Sometimes it pays to be able to scream like a femme.. wait.. she is a femme. Running a quick systems check, she shakes off her disorientation enough to give Soundwave a thumbs up before she summons up every last iota of energy her parched systems have held in reserve. usually used for quick get-a-ways.. and lets loose with a crackling ball of dimmed down lightning. Once more, her target is Slag.. why not.. She's not thinking all to well at this point. Arachnae strikes you with Ball Lightning for 1 points of damage. Slag's plasma burst sends Scourge face down to the ground. He lies there, groaning, hissing as Snarl jabs him while he's down. A guard begins to pull the Sweep commander out of the ring by his legs, letting his face drag on the floor. "Erg...don't...touch...me..." The Sweep grates, almost enraged, but soon calmed by the fact that this tedious exercise in irrelevance is over. Scourge has left. Triceratops ignores Nae for now and charges at Soundwave. A small ball of lightning splashes on the dino's aft but he keeps going towards Soundwave. Upon reaching the sorry-excuse-for-a-tape-deck Slag tries to bite down on Sounder's arm and play with it like a chew toy. You strike Soundwave with Chew toy!. If he could, Snarl would grin as Scourge goes down. One less Decepticon, but the other two are still dangerous. Snarl didn't forget that Soundwave hurt him earlier and he did't have the chance to give him some pay back. The dinobot 'sneaks' behind the tape commander and tries to bite his arm off. Stegosaurus strikes Soundwave with Dreadful jaw of DOOM. Soundwave stumbles to a halt after body-checking Hardstrike clear out of the ring. His optical band briefly registers Arachnae giving him a thumbs-up sign before pain strikes in both of his arms simultaneously. He's been pinned with his hands in the lions' mouths, and things aren't looking good. A quick evaluation of his systems and the decision is clear. He cannot overpower two dinobots at once, and drastic measures are called for. His shoulder begins to hum with some of the final energon left in his system while the rest goes into wrenching his body sideways, literally dragging the dinobot heads around with him. After a moment, he is facing Snarl at point blank range. "Operation... detonation... initiate..." He fires. Soundwave strikes Stegosaurus with Missile Launcher. Dr. Cox just watches with full glee and devilish delight as one by one, they all fall down.. "Come on come on come on, let ssee some HEADS ROLL!!" He slurps his beverage of choice, "Not any new DQ's but those Dinowhatnots are certainly putting a chewing on that blue mech.. Ow." Arachnae staggers backwards, moving away from the two on one action there in the middle.. She fans wings outwards and upwards, forceing that ripped panel out once more. A faint phantom haze of electricity starts it's dance about her once more before zotting outwards, "Get off of him you twits!" she snarls, all but running on emotion alone as she submits for taste and feel, another vamped out electrical display. This one a twisting wave of that crackling energy, visibly leeching from her systems as she fires almost blindly, hoping she hits who she's aiming for.. The one on the left.. Ahh.. tail... Yes.. Slag.. Arachnae strikes you with Electrostatic bolt for 1 points of damage. Triceratops transforms and charges at Soundwave with a kick to FACE! With full intentions of making the blue mech swallow his annoying vocalizer. "Me Slag tired, tired of you, tired of this. Me Slag whoopin' aft now." *PING* Another hit barely registers on his side armor. He looks at Arachnae and points outside "Me Slag say you get out now while you can. Or me Slag make you get out when done with the blue retard." The thick metal plating opens up on each side while the legs unfold, the dinobot's face becomes visible. All black with red optics burning with anger that could twist steel. The triceratops completes it's transformation into the walking furnace of anger known as Slag. You strike Soundwave with Dino-Boot to the face. Stegosaurus is blasted by the explosion and is forced to release Soundwave's arm. His armor is now burned and partially melted but the assault it took but the Dinobot is still standing. Slowly he transforms into his robot mode and turns his attention towards Nae. "Me say it is time for you to leave." He launches himself towards the Decepticons and throws a punch at her. The Stegosaurus unfolds and the towering robot form of Snarl arises. Snarl strikes Arachnae with Dino Punch. Soundwave staggers as he's blasted free. Somehow he pushes himself back to his feet even as Slag's foot snaps his head back. His metal faceplate groans with the impact, but holds, if just barely. In response, it's all that Soundwave can do to haul back and bring his fist of steel around in kind. Soundwave strikes you with Haymaker for 1 points of damage. Comcast has left. Dr. Cox just blinks.. "The madness.. For the LOVE OF.. PUT YOUR BACK INTO IT!!!" Oh so nooow it's alright to slap the medic around.. Arachnae gets knocked clear heels over head, landing on a knee, head bowed, wings splayed out around her.. She slowly looks up at the mechanism that struck her, optics crimson behind cracked visor, mask a scattering of cracks against once prisine metal.. "Hnnnnnng....." is all that her vocoder can emit at this point.. She doesn't bother standing, just remains on knee as wingtips bend close together, wing panels cant out at an angle and pure viciousness sends forth a compressed message towards Snarl, packed with the full irritation that this particular Decepticon has for this entire event.. Plasma coils between those wingtips, pulsing as electricity is warped and twisted, matter forced into that hyper state to only be sent forth in a destructive lancing beam.. "You're.. really.. irritating.. me.." Arachnae strikes Snarl with plasma. Slag gets clocked by Soundwave, right across the jaw. Slag assess the damage frowns and lunges at Soundwave trying to grab him by one shoulder to 1) keep him standing 2) prevent him from backing away. Finally with all the grace of a classic Hogan-Piper match, the dinobot unleashes a flurry of punches at the blue Decepticon. *smack* "Keeping your mouth shut now eh ?" *smack* "Let your trained brain get you out of this." *smack* "You piece of junk!" *smack* Soundwave evades your Dino punch! attack. Snarl turns his back on Nae as she plies aways. Biiiiig mistake since she blast in right in the middle of his back, knocking him fowards, but it's ok since he's falling towards Soundwave. While falling, the Dinobot launches his foot towards the big blue. Snarl strikes Soundwave with Dinobot STOMPS. Soundwave is sent flipping over backwards, gigantic dinobot footprints denting his entire chest panel inwards. No mental skills are needed to realize that Cox is about to toss his butt, so Soundwave struggles to his feet and raises his rifle. He's going out with a bang. The last bits of energon in his system surge and he crumples as he hits bone-dry. Soundwave misses Snarl with his Plasma Wave attack. Soundwave falls to the ground unconscious. Dr. Cox stands up and waves arms, "Last Mech out, Soundwave.. eh.. someone lug that piece of post 80's trash outta my pit!" Dr. Cox leans forward, "Now.. to the last mech standing goes the prize!" Soundwave is dragged from the ring... Soundwave has left. Arachnae falls flat on her aft after loosing roughly half of her remaining power supply out on what she thinks is a rather foolish display. Struggling to get back up to her feet, she blinks, rather amazed.. and confused to see herself faceing.. "HOly... Oh no.. *this*.. is gonna hurt.." two dinobots.. And her.. Where *did* Soundwave go? Looking here, there, everythwere in a moment of utter panic, she scrambles, albeit without her usual grace to her feet and simply stares at the dinobots, "Eh.. No harm no foul?" hopefully.. But even as she speaks, she is prepping to fire again, refuseing to give up without this, her last fight.. With a fizzled sounding *zrrrp*, she recharges capacitors in a forearm, nominaly used for welding work, and sends forth all of her fury and might!!.. in the form of a faded electrical blue bolt.. aimed.. at Snarl.. Since his back was at her.. Arachnae strikes Snarl with Bolt of Blue. Slag looks back at Arachnae and realizes she is still there! The dinobot walks towards her with a decisive pace. Closing in. No obvious threatning gesture except for the tall metal form quickly looming over the Decepticon femme. Slag raises his massive leg and kicks Arachnae in the face. Arachnae evades your Dino-Boot to the face attack. Snarl is blasted right in the middle of his back, he falls fowards and decides to transform. This will be his last shot, with his last strengths. The Decepticons is out of range so... why not picking Salg as a target? He's a jerk anyway, so Snarl swing his tail at his brother! What a bastard! Snarl falls fowards as his body twist and fold into his powerful dino mode. Stegosaurus strikes you with Tail Crusher for 13 points of damage. Dr. Cox, whoever he is (DC isn't a scrubs fan) says, "Alright. We have two eliminations this round. About fricken time to. Now I can go and get take out. Snarl, who was disqualified by Arachnae. Aaaand Arachnae, who is out of juice. So, obviously that means our gold winner is Slag. But who does the silver go to? I'm doing it by whoever has the most endurance left at the end of this 'round, which is Arachnae. So she takes the Silver and Slag takes the Bronze. That's it. Show's over. Get outta here. I'm never judging one of these things again." Arachnae made her final shot.. and then.. everything went nice n grey with little sparklies.. She isn't sure what's going on.. until the murmurings of her systems resetting after everything is done and overwith get her attention.. "Ow..." Stegosaurus is now laying unconscious into the combat pit 1. Out of energon once again... Slag stands alone in the middle of the arena sword in hand looking around if anybody is left. The dino takes breather and boy is he messed up. His armor looks like swiss metal, there are holes, burn marks, scratches, cuts, punctures, energon leaks but despite all that Slag is still standing and for the first time in his life, he looks...not angry for a moment. 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