Re: The Adbot's Revenge!
The battle between the two hybrids raged on, uninterrupted by anything or anyone. They had been at it for nearly three minutes now, neither seeming really to have the upper hand in it, though one of Siphons eyes was now blackened where the bot had managed to get a hit in. Likewise, the bot was missing one of it's own eyes that Siphon had torn out, though it hadn't seemed to slow the thing down yet.
"Tell me, why do you fight on the side of these.... pathetic humans? Why do you not join your own kind?"
"I fight for them because they are the only family I have ever known. And frankly, if all of my kind are such as you and the other I've seen, killing for the sheer joy of it with no regards for innocent lives, then I'd sooner hunt the rest of you down one by one and terminate your existences rather than allow you to tarnish what we SHOULD be."
"As you wish. You could have made a fine soldier in our ranks, now you will suffer your fate."
There was a smirk on Siphon's face as he repied to this. "I'm already a soldier. Just not YOURS."
The bot growled at him and charged again, arm raised to club him. This time however, Siphon was ready for it, and managed to move out of the way, and sweep his leg out, cutting the bots legs out from under it. It came crashing down onto it's backside, and before it could move Siphon was upon it. "Let's see if you die like the rest!"
His hand smashed down over the area where the heart on a human would be, feeder making contact. The bot hybrid let out a roar of pain, seemingly not having expected this, and tried to move, but found the pain to be too much.
It took almost another three minutes for him to finish it off, the power supply this one had being quite large. By the time he was done, he felt almost super charged, and stood.
"Now then, time to shatter this god damned core."
He entered the hive, and soon found the device. Having no bots to encounter resistance with, it had been easy to move through the hulking ruins of the hive. Now that he had found the core, he grinned like a fool, and tore it out of it's receptacle. Still though, it glowed with power. It was now he got an idea.
Tearing out one of the power cables from the wall, he smashed it into the core globe itself, sparks flying. A screaming sound erupted from the hive, the destruct triggered. Siphon's grin froze when he saw the read out for the time left. He had exactly forty seconds to get out of there before the hive went sky high. "FUCK!"
The hybrid bolted, running as fast and as far as he could, barely making it far enough from the hive before it exploded. The sheer force of the explosion lifted him off his feet and sent him flying over fifty meters, but luckily he was tougher than a human and managed to survive the impact to the ground, though it hurt like hell. When he hit, it was hard, cracking a couple of his ribs, and forcing him to lay there while they healed. He managed to concentrate long enough to get off to Copper, Shrike, and barely to Pale a mental message. Core.... destroyed... go. Kill them... He silently wished them luck, then fell still, waiting out the healing process.
The screaming from the hive would reach the base where the others would, albeit slightly low considering the battle raging on. The explosion however, was audible, visible and felt inside of the base. To their Northwest, the skies lit up massively, as if they were on fire, while the exploding sound was clearly audible over the racket. The worst though might be the feeling of it, which shook the entire area. The bots, most of them were actually knocked down due to the sheer force, and took several moments to get back up.
The strangest part was, the bots on the roof of course were not knocked down, being too high to truly be taken off balance, though those on the roof still felt the tremor, just not as strong. As a group of the bots closed in on Copper and Shrike, something strange happened. They seemingly froze in mid stride for six seconds before moving again, albeit with the glow in their eyes that had been there now faded a bit. Whatever had just happened, it seemed the bots had been either weakened, or something else had happened to them. The stunning part was, as one of the few surviving snipers picked off a pair of bots on the ground that had just kept reforming, their heads exploded, and the bots did not get back up, nor did any take their places. He shouted out a warning to the others, just before his location was blown up by a terminator like bot with what seemed like a rocket launcher for an arm.
"HEY! They're not getting back up now! Something's happened to them. OH FUCK!"
The last part of course was said as he took a rocket between the eyes, a shower of powderized bone and blood splattering everywhere from his death. The others would realize soon though that he had been right. It seemed the tide was finally turning, the only question now was, did they have enough left in them to survive the final assault?
