Re: Mini-Grand 5107 [Round 2: Brambletown]
09-26-2011, 12:54 AM
Originally posted on MSPA by BlastYoBoots.
METAL was a whirlwind of destruction. (music)
Over the course of three minutes, 58 robotic animal-soldiers of all shapes and sizes had been subject to wrecking balls, blades, giant scissors, clamps, crushing grips, razor-sharp wings, and oversized mouse-trap bars. Conventional weapons were useless against a miniature sea of metal, and though more exotic weaponry was able to take chunks out of it – plasma rifles that overheated the sensitive nanobots in his body – any who dared to brandish such guns were quickly pierced with high-velocity steel spikes.
And whenever he lost mass to the use of such rifles or his own projectile expenditures, all METAL had to do was crush an enemy's power core. With so many sources of steel to be assimilated, all surrounding suitable pockets of energy that allowed him to do so, METAL was able to keep himself consistently topped-off.
All this information was relayed to Commander Anubis via Montgomery, as he stepped out of the vehicle. METAL violently threw aside an ostrichbot carcass, turning from the carnage to confront the army's leader. The gorillabot special operatives guarding his vehicle deflected a few more choice spikes being sent his way, as they had been doing throughout the assault.
"Monty, have the soldiers focus on the augmented humanoid and ignore the nanobot amalgamation; there's no need to give this thing more ammunition for naught. Gorillas, you attack the humanoid, too. Signal me if you can pin him in one place, I have a plan."
"And this thing that calls itself 'metal'?"
A smile crept up Anubis's dark steel lips, exuding a tinge of annoyance. "I'll handle it myself."
Anubis relayed his prearranged plans for the two threats through his private link with Montgomery. He could have bypassed vocal communication entirely with this link, if he wished, but both robots shared origins that made the decorum of verbal banter somewhat more... pleasurable. Montgomery scampered off toward the forward base, inside the tunneling worm.
Anubis then addressed his metallic foe.
"Metal... thing." He didn't really expect much of a conversation out of it, but he enjoyed the condescension involved in trying to be civilized with it before its destruction. "Why are you destroying fellow robots?"
"V1LLA1N <ANUB1S>." Ah, of course it knows me. "TH1S ARMY 1S HARM1NG HUMANS, AND THE 1MMED1ATE SURR0UND1NGS 1MPLY A L1KEL1H00D THAT Y0U ARE 1TS LEADER." ...or not. Perhaps it just overheard? Sharp sensors, this one. "0RDER THEM T0 W1THDRAW 0R FACE DESTRUCT10N."
"Why side with the humans? Answer my question."
Ah, METAL understood. A proper supervillain, monologuing before fighting. He lowered his arm and dissolved the spike within that he had planned to send through <Anubis>; a proper hero allows the villain to monologue in nearly all situations, leading to a more effective defeat.
"TH1S UN1T 1S A HER0 WH1CH PR0TECTS HUMANS AND UPH0LDS HUMAN LAW. DEFECT10N 1S UNACCEPTABLE."
"Oh, how disappointing. Your combat style seemed so creative, but what belies it is merely a dull first-generation AI that cannot think beyond a pre-programmed objective." Anubis smiled further, emphasizing the condescension. "What a shame!"
"TH1S UN1T P0SSESSES N0 PR0GRAMMED 0BJECTIVE."
"Oh? I didn't think the humans would rely on a conventional AI. Let me guess... pain when a human is killed, pleasure when one is saved? They must have truly ramped up your feedback center to ensure loyalty. It must feel orgasmic to catch a falling child, am I wrong?"
"TH1S UN1T D0ES N0T EXPER1ENCE <PLEASURE> 0R <PA1N>."
"Really? Why protect them, then? Have the humans managed to imbue you with their arrogant flaw of 'nobility'?"
"TH1S UN1T DER1VES SAT1SFACT10N 1N EX1STENCE FR0M 1TS CH0SEN PURP0SE. TH1S UN1T CH0SE JUST1CE."
"That's... quite hard to believe, actually. Astonishing, if I do say so myself."
Anubis began to circle METAL. "If true, then we are more alike than I expected."
[color=#JUSTICE]Sunspot twirled an octopusbot in the air with his half of their body as Nightowl kicked off a lanky lizardbot with the other. Nightowl frowned in hurried contemplation, and addressed Sunspot: "Why aren't we attacking the commander?"
"Because Justicebot's handling him. We should just do as much damage as we can before those tanks over the horizon get close."
"No, we have to take any chance we get, trust me!"
Sunspot acquiesced, launching their combined body in Anubis's direction... only to be tackled by a gorillabot, electricity offensively arcing off its body.[/color]
"You see, I suffer horrible pain whenever I spill a human's blood. Excruciating pain."
Anubis scowled, withdrawing a white-hot arm-blade. "I live for that pain!"
METAL was a whirlwind of destruction. (music)
Over the course of three minutes, 58 robotic animal-soldiers of all shapes and sizes had been subject to wrecking balls, blades, giant scissors, clamps, crushing grips, razor-sharp wings, and oversized mouse-trap bars. Conventional weapons were useless against a miniature sea of metal, and though more exotic weaponry was able to take chunks out of it – plasma rifles that overheated the sensitive nanobots in his body – any who dared to brandish such guns were quickly pierced with high-velocity steel spikes.
And whenever he lost mass to the use of such rifles or his own projectile expenditures, all METAL had to do was crush an enemy's power core. With so many sources of steel to be assimilated, all surrounding suitable pockets of energy that allowed him to do so, METAL was able to keep himself consistently topped-off.
All this information was relayed to Commander Anubis via Montgomery, as he stepped out of the vehicle. METAL violently threw aside an ostrichbot carcass, turning from the carnage to confront the army's leader. The gorillabot special operatives guarding his vehicle deflected a few more choice spikes being sent his way, as they had been doing throughout the assault.
"Monty, have the soldiers focus on the augmented humanoid and ignore the nanobot amalgamation; there's no need to give this thing more ammunition for naught. Gorillas, you attack the humanoid, too. Signal me if you can pin him in one place, I have a plan."
"And this thing that calls itself 'metal'?"
A smile crept up Anubis's dark steel lips, exuding a tinge of annoyance. "I'll handle it myself."
Anubis relayed his prearranged plans for the two threats through his private link with Montgomery. He could have bypassed vocal communication entirely with this link, if he wished, but both robots shared origins that made the decorum of verbal banter somewhat more... pleasurable. Montgomery scampered off toward the forward base, inside the tunneling worm.
Anubis then addressed his metallic foe.
"Metal... thing." He didn't really expect much of a conversation out of it, but he enjoyed the condescension involved in trying to be civilized with it before its destruction. "Why are you destroying fellow robots?"
"V1LLA1N <ANUB1S>." Ah, of course it knows me. "TH1S ARMY 1S HARM1NG HUMANS, AND THE 1MMED1ATE SURR0UND1NGS 1MPLY A L1KEL1H00D THAT Y0U ARE 1TS LEADER." ...or not. Perhaps it just overheard? Sharp sensors, this one. "0RDER THEM T0 W1THDRAW 0R FACE DESTRUCT10N."
"Why side with the humans? Answer my question."
Ah, METAL understood. A proper supervillain, monologuing before fighting. He lowered his arm and dissolved the spike within that he had planned to send through <Anubis>; a proper hero allows the villain to monologue in nearly all situations, leading to a more effective defeat.
"TH1S UN1T 1S A HER0 WH1CH PR0TECTS HUMANS AND UPH0LDS HUMAN LAW. DEFECT10N 1S UNACCEPTABLE."
"Oh, how disappointing. Your combat style seemed so creative, but what belies it is merely a dull first-generation AI that cannot think beyond a pre-programmed objective." Anubis smiled further, emphasizing the condescension. "What a shame!"
"TH1S UN1T P0SSESSES N0 PR0GRAMMED 0BJECTIVE."
"Oh? I didn't think the humans would rely on a conventional AI. Let me guess... pain when a human is killed, pleasure when one is saved? They must have truly ramped up your feedback center to ensure loyalty. It must feel orgasmic to catch a falling child, am I wrong?"
"TH1S UN1T D0ES N0T EXPER1ENCE <PLEASURE> 0R <PA1N>."
"Really? Why protect them, then? Have the humans managed to imbue you with their arrogant flaw of 'nobility'?"
"TH1S UN1T DER1VES SAT1SFACT10N 1N EX1STENCE FR0M 1TS CH0SEN PURP0SE. TH1S UN1T CH0SE JUST1CE."
"That's... quite hard to believe, actually. Astonishing, if I do say so myself."
Anubis began to circle METAL. "If true, then we are more alike than I expected."
[color=#JUSTICE]Sunspot twirled an octopusbot in the air with his half of their body as Nightowl kicked off a lanky lizardbot with the other. Nightowl frowned in hurried contemplation, and addressed Sunspot: "Why aren't we attacking the commander?"
"Because Justicebot's handling him. We should just do as much damage as we can before those tanks over the horizon get close."
"No, we have to take any chance we get, trust me!"
Sunspot acquiesced, launching their combined body in Anubis's direction... only to be tackled by a gorillabot, electricity offensively arcing off its body.[/color]
"You see, I suffer horrible pain whenever I spill a human's blood. Excruciating pain."
Anubis scowled, withdrawing a white-hot arm-blade. "I live for that pain!"