Mushroom Hill Zone

[Knuckles]

Knuckles cuaght sight of the swat bots. His injury from the pyro bot was merely a small hinderance and would not hold him back from the robot scum.

"You bots wanna join your friend? Fine by me." He stayed as he cracked his knuckles and readied himself for the onsluaght.

[Rampage]

[enacting inactivity rule...]

Sonic cleanly slapped Rampage under the chin, making the enraged badger's head snap backwards and stager back. He was quite surprised to see that bunny collapse to the ground. Evidently his shots must have hit him. Unexpected, but a welcome sight given that he was rapidly becoming out-numbered. Much as he loves a good fight, Rampage can tell this one is going south in a hurry. He who flees, lives to FIGHT another day after all.

"This is Rampage, I need a pick up." Rampage said, barely louder than a whisper. Whether Rose herself actually bothered dispatching a ship to him or not, he would need a lift if he was going to escape back to the Launch Base Zone. Whatever the case, it wouldn't take long for a ship to arrive to pick him up.

Meanwhile the Swat-bots started firing at Knuckles, obliviously following the same, tired old combat program.

The Com-bot in the meantime, seeing the Swat-bot fall from Tancer's grip disengaged the taser cables from its arm. Then, unexpectedly at the moment Vanessa launched her attack, the Com-bot swivelled its torso a full 360 degrees on its hip, its right arm outstretched to swat Vanessa away like an annoying insect.

[Sorry, I couldn't tell if your description of Vanessa was indicating that she was launching her attack NOW, or on your next post so I left the Com-bot's action as a sort of readied action.]

[Vanessa Blue]

Finally with the huge column of flame ready to move the cat began her attack. As the robot swiveled around to bat at the cat, she met its attempt with sheer force. The huge fist dwarfed her own form, barreling straight like a giant train.

Vanessa was aiming at one shotting the robot, and she had the power to do it.

[Tancer Fang]

Staggering to his feet. The purple fox could see Vanessa was using 'that' attack. Something even he really didn't want to get hit by.
Just in case the robot survived the onslaught of an attack, Tancer started up a back swing blow. Sliding back far enough to make sure he was out of range of the inferno fist and then coming back again to bop the robot one good.

[Knuckles]

The crimson echidna used his suprising agility in a zig-zag motion to avoid any and all gunfire. H was attempting to get in close enough to where he can use his fists to turn them to scrap metal.

[Rampage]

[Pushing on...]

The Com-bot's arm warped around Vanessa's fiery attack. Rather than bat her away like the Com-bot had expected the blow possessed such kinetic force as to be unstoppable. With a loud crash, the Com-bot's torso buckled under the weight of the powerful strike, bending the machine to a sickening angle. Even the weighty armour of the Com-bot couldn't sustain such a massive blow.

Unfortunately for Vanessa, one of the perks of the Com-bot's design meant that with the power located towards the rear of the machine's body, it could sustain a tremendous amount of abuse and damage head-on. But was meant it was far more vulnerable at the rear. And that is precisely what Vanessa has done... ruptured the core.

As the bot collapsed to the ground, the Com-bot's glowing red eyes began to flash in warning. "Danger! Core rupture. Core melt-down imminent!" It said with its last remaining pulses of energy as the reactor began to entire a wild-cat destabilization. In short, there is about to be a VERY large crater here VERY soon.

"NO!!!! You idiot!! Do you have any idea what you've DONE!!!" Rampage screamed with fury.

Suddenly, emerging from the smoke filled skies, a bot plane floated down. "HA!! Just in time!" Rampage smiled in delight and reached out for a rope ladder that the ship had lowered down to him.

As the ship began to lift off into the air with Rampage still dangling off the end of the ladder the badger called back to his opponents. "Lovely dancing with you all. I'd suggest you all head for Robotnik's mining sight if I were you. Where you're standing is about to become one big crater!! And I'd really love to kill you all myself instead of a big bomb. Till next time!!!" With that the ship peeled away and flew off towards the Launch Base Zone.

The other Swat-bot's however were not paying any attention to the new drama and were still firing at Knuckles.

[Rampage to Launch Base Zone...]

[Tancer Fang]

Tancer let out massive sigh hearing that the robot would explode. With a trail obscenities he dashed as quickly as he could to Vanessa. Grabbing the cat by the scruff of her collar, he threw her as far as he could making sure to keep himself between the soon to detonate robot and her.

"One of these days girl, you're gonna be the death of me!"

[Vanessa Blue]

Vanessa was completely drained from the gigas breaker. When the metallic fox grabed her thew her. Being just under a hundred pounds Tancer had little trouble throwing her a farther then a hundred feet.

Normally she would have made it out of there herself, but after being drained from the gigas his help was needed. Though the method wasn't exactly appreciated.
"******* ya **** head!" she yelled back at Tancer landing on her behind.

[Dr. Robotnik]

[Hey guys, anything we can do to help move things along? I'd like to get us all pushed towards the Launch Base Zone so that we can get the finale going.]

[Knuckles]

The sound of the Com-bot echoed through Knuckles' ears. He was too distracted by that to be aware he was still being fired at. After a shot grazed his shoulder, he somersaulted backwards and distanced himself. His violet eyes scanned the skies where he saw the cyborg badger making his escape. From this distance, his words were hard to here, but the crimson echidna heard the word “crater” and that didn’t sound good. Without any hesitation, he too fled the scene and attempted to follow the fiend.