Chaos Within

[Alpha Omega]

Since Rampage wasn't about to make the first move, Omega decided to take the opportunity. He dashed at the cyborg, drawing back his left arm, the one with the ring around his knuckles, and taking a swing at Rampage's mid-section. Since he has no kind of formal fighting style, the attack was likely very open and predictable.

[Echo]

The sound of the swatbot opening fire pierced Am to his bones. The pain in his head so intense his eyes snapped shut, his teeth ground together, and one of his legs involuntarily lifted up to his belly, like a flamingo, while the rest of his muscles went stiff.

"yow! Oh scales that hurts"

Quote:"I change my mind. You need to stick with me."

"Do exactly what I say, and come with me."

Amiroo immediately gave Nail a look of disapproval as they retreated into the alleyway.

"I think you'll regret your choice to come along with us kid, we'll be lucky if we survive the day with what's all coming."

Quote:"Can you tell me what was shooting?"

"A death machine you Mobians call Swatbots, a rather obnoxiously large one at that, with a giant mini-gun on it."

Amiroo made sure to cover their rear as they made their way up the alleyway, "what's our plan Nail? We've still got a while until the guys pick us up, and I'm fairly sure that attack earlier just ticked it off."

[Rampage]

Rampage dropped his right shoulder and fore-arm and leaned out into Alpha's strike hard, hoping to stop his arm cold with his metallic forearm/elbow strike, and possibly numb his arm with pain. Using that pain as a potential, momentary distraction, he quickly followed up his block with a powerful, hay-maker with his left arm, aiming to repay the favour and knock a few teeth out of Alpha's mouth. Of course, for Rampage, he relied heavily on raw power than speed or technique, so he might yet be able to avoid Rampage's heavy blow.

The sound of heavy metallic footsteps were getting closer as Nail broke out his plan to the others. Thankfully, the Com-bot lacked the kind of sensitive hearing many Mobian species possessed, so it had no clue what it was in for. It would be up to the small band to exploit their advantage however.

Those heavy footsteps kept getting closer, and closer, and then... nothing. A quick eye might notice a small puff of dust wisp up at the entrance to the alley. A tense, heart-pounding minute passed in utter silence. For a second, it might appear as though the Com-bot had left.

The air in front of the alley began to warp and shift, in a very similar way to Amiroo's ship in fact, before out of the distortion stood the green monster they feared. But this time, it was sporting an enormous blade protruding from it's forearm. "Resistance is futile. Prepare for annihilation." Beta declared before it charged headlong at the trio in a full-on sprint, it's huge legs allowing it to clear meters at a time in a single stride.

[Assuming you guys are still 'in' the alley as you didn't state if you were hiding behind any crates or garbage cans. Sorry... Um... duck and cover?]

[Nail Strafer]

Quote:"what's our plan Nail? We've still got a while until the guys pick us up, and I'm fairly sure that attack earlier just ticked it off."

Nail wanted to throw up his hands in annoyance, considering he'd just got done explaining what the plan was and Amiroo apparently wasn't listening. However he kept his feelings to himself, and decided to try explaining it in a different way.

"What I'm saying is, you separate from me and the kid, and we keep in radio contact. We figure out where that bot is, and th--"

He heard the footsteps approaching again, and felt his blood temporarily turn to ice. If that bot caught them in this alleyway, it could mow them all down in seconds. They had no place to hide here. Nail quit talking, as he put a finger to his lips to signal silence. Then he waved for the other two to follow, as he started quietly walking down the alleyway away from the Combot, careful not to make too much noise.

Quote:"Resistance is futile. Prepare for annihilation."

Nail would have been grateful for the verbal warning, if only he wasn't too busy standing stock still in fright.

Fuuuu--

"RUN!"

He broke into an all out sprint after the cry, hoping he could make it to the other end of the alleyway. It approached quickly, but he felt that menace bearing down on him at a frightening speed. As soon as Nail was clear of the exit, he quickly jumped to the right. He also hoped that such a large robot moving at such a high speed would have trouble stopping or changing course quickly, unlike the comparatively smaller and lighter Mobians.

[Gail Strafer]

Quote:"I think you'll regret your choice to come along with us kid, we'll be lucky if we survive the day with what's all coming."

"With what all's comin'?" Gail repeated, feeling his legs shake a bit at the sound of that. "What could be coming after those shadow beasts?!"

Meanwhile, Nail launched into the more detailed explanation of his plan, but then suddenly stopped talking. Gail paused to look, and noticed the fox's ears moving around in search of a sound. The wolf then realized he could hear it too. Heavy footsteps approaching, as relentless and sure as death.

He too started slowly walking down the alleyway, following behind Nail as quietly as possible. Then the Combot bellowed out its war cry, or the closest thing it had to one. He turned around to catch a brief glimpse of it, and then wished he hadn't. That was no SWATbot. This thing was almost as wide as the entire alleyway and looked like twice as tall as a regular bot.

When Nail shouted to run, he was only too happy to comply. His long legs allowed him to keep up and then pass Nail, despite the fox having a head start. He too quickly jumped to the side of the alley's exit, as he readied his handgun. Although he doubted it would do much good against this kind of bot...

[Alpha Omega]

As Omega's ringed fist connected with Rampage's metal arm, his cry of pain quickly drowned out the sound of metal clashing. His first instinct was to back away from the source of the pain, and he moved to clutch his left arm in his right. While this didn't get him completely out of the badger's swing path, it did prevent him from taking the full blow. However, it was enough to slam his jaw shut, and send him stumbling back even further. At that point, his right hand moved to cover his mouth, and when he moved it away, there was some blood in the palm of his glove, and his teeth were definitely not straight anymore.

Maybe dropping that blaster was a poor idea. I probably should have just kept shooting at him...

After failing his own attack and being clocked so hard, he was a bit hesitant to launch another attack, so instead, narrowed his eyes at the cyborg and assumed a more defensive stance.

[Echo]

Quote:"With what all's comin'?" Gail repeated, feeling his legs shake a bit at the sound of that. "What could be coming after those shadow beasts?!"

"...an invasion" Amiroo said darkly, "this city will be occupied territory by sunset. The rebels and the C.R.A. don't play around."

Quote:"What I'm saying is, you separate from me and the kid, and we keep in radio contact. We figure out where that bot is, and th--"

Quote:"Resistance is futile. Prepare for annihilation."

Quote:"RUN!"

Amiroo didn't need any more motivation as he took off in the opposite direction the voice had come from. Nail and Gail would find that Amiroo, being a bipedal Dinonychus, can easily keep pace with the Mobians, possibly he could outrun them if he desired. Amiroo circled the corner next to Gail.

"What was that about splitting up? You want me to go? Go where?"

[Rampage]

Rampage cast a savage grin at Alpha as he saw his had come away with blood. Now baited like a shark in the ocean, Rampage could feel a blood haze creep over him. He smelt blood in the water, and he wanted more. It was a familiar feeling to him, one that he reveled in. One in which, unlike most, he'd spent so much time in as he'd become accustomed to it's alluring power. Unlike most, Rampage did not completely succumb to his blood lust and lose all sense and reason. That only made him more dangerous. With his feral brutality and razor-sharp warriors mind, Rampage had truly gone full-on berserker.

"Not so easy when you don't get easy sucker punches is it? Hope you like the taste of your own blood, boy. Cause you're going to be tasting a lot more of it!" Rampage spared no further warning as he barred his those wicked claws on the tips of his fingers and charged, slashing like a feral beast at Alpha's torso.

Those heavy, stomping metal boots were hot on the tails of the fleeing trio. As they rounded the corner, Beta stomped his feet into the ground, and sparks flew as he skidded along the hard concrete pavement. Beta's momentum would bring him just short of the corner, but that was all Beta needed. Raising his massive arm he brought his enormous blade down with colossal into the wall itself. The blade easily sliced through at least three feet of the cinder block wall, sending debris and dust flying out from the impact alone. Lucky for them, Beta's enormous size played against him. The blade struck about four feet off the ground, slicing downward and shallow angle. While whoever was standing closest to the corner might receive a haircut, the others would have time to duck out of the way from pure reflex because of the flying debris ought to be able to dodge.

[Nail Strafer]

"What was that about splitting up? You want me to go? Go where?"

Nail wanted to scream. He'd just explained twice already what he wanted Amiroo to do. Regardless, he tried to explain again as calmly as he could, given the fact a two-ton robot was bearing down on them right now.

"Look! We can't stay in one group! We need to give that bot more than one target and--"

He heard the screech of metal on concrete, with his ears folding back as he winced from the sound. Without another word, he started to physically push the others away from the corner. It wasn't a moment too soon, as the bot's blade smashed right through the building's corner and would have likely taken one of their heads off if he hadn't done that.

However, the sword appeared to be stuck. That would give them about five seconds to decide how to react. Nail promptly whipped his head around, scanning the new street for something, anything they could use to stop the rampaging bot. A couple steps away, he happened to see a door leading into the building they were hiding behind. He made a split second decision to take cover in there. If they fought out in the wide open street, the bot could easily gun them all down with his minigun.

"Gail! Break down that door!"

Nail then immediately spun around, and pointed the coil gun at what he could see of the blade still stuck in the wall. Then he began tapping the trigger repeatedly, working the rifle up and down. He hoped that the volume of fire would end up breaking the weapon in half, rendering it a lot less useful for the bot.

[Gail Strafer]

Quote:"...an invasion" Amiroo said darkly, "this city will be occupied territory by sunset. The rebels and the C.R.A. don't play around."

Invasion? Two invasions right here one day? Seriously?

Gail wanted to reply to the dinosaur, but he just didn't have time to say anything. Nail promptly shoved him backwards away from the corner. He didn't understand why, until that sword suddenly stuck into that building's wall like it was cheese instead of cinderblock. The wolf's blood turned to ice.

That could have been my head, with where he cut...

Regardless, he didn't have time to dwell on it before the fox ordered him to break down the nearby door.

Wait! He knew my name! But we've only just met!

He looked at the fox for a second, wondering if it wasn't just a coincidence they looked so much alike. But when Nail started shooting his gun, that got him back to the task at hand. He sure didn't have time to question anything right now. The wolf started to slam his shoulder into it, with the wood immediately starting to splinter as he worked his well-toned body into it.