Warworld with its cloaking device loomed on the much smaller Ship

“Deploy the improved Blitz Engines “Bludgeon ordered

The Cultist crewmember silently complied and Warworld began firing strange capsules on the ship which attached to it's surface Hull

The impacts of the Blitz engines caused the Mess Hall of the ship to lurch violently, ruining the sandwich that Natarle had been in the middle of making.

Aaron level a look of the utmost disgust at her, before heading to the Mech Bay, followed by Ali as the ships shields deployed in an attempt to ward off further attack. The Zwei and stealthed ReGHOST took off moments later as the Nava-Hoe automatically began attempting to leave the immediate vicinity.

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The impacts of the Blitz engines caused the Mess Hall of the ship to lurch violently, ruining the sandwich that Natarle had been in the middle of making.Aaron level a look of the utmost disgust at her, before heading to the Mech Bay, followed by Ali as the ships shields deployed in an attempt to ward off further attack. The Zwei and stealthed ReGHOST took off moments later as the automatically began attempting to leave the immediate vicinity.

Upon making contact the Engines borrowed trough the Nava-Hoe's hull and began blasting everything that wasn't immediately ejected into space

A single child appeared before them in a normal suit, wielding a knife while screaming about Mayu, God, and Tradition as it also attempted to shoot the blitz engines with it's other hand.

The ReGHOST attempted to extract the machines as the Zwei took the more efficient route and simply shot them repeatedly since, hey, it wasn't Ali's ship.

TehChron said
A single child appeared before them in a normal suit, wielding a knife while screaming about Mayu, God, and Tradition as it also attempted to shoot the blitz engines with it's other hand.The ReGHOST attempted to extract the machines as the Zwei took the more efficient route and simply shot them repeatedly since, hey, it wasn't Ali's ship.

Taking damage from Zwei, the engines merely regenerated from whatever was inflicted and continued firing

The Engines casually vaporized the child and continued with butchering the rest of the crew

Carbombya

Megatron wasted no time charging the spider. Drawing his sword he intended to end the fight in a single blow. Seeing this Tarantulas used the energy webbing to spring himself into the air, transforming mid acrobatics to gain momentum. Having mass shifted from the size of a human to slightly larger than Brainwave he was easily able to counter Megatron's sword swing with a well placed kick to the arm. A rather unexpected tactic from someone touted as a scientist. Having disrupted Megatron's sword swing he pivoted his weight allowing him to deliver a swift kick to Megatron's face before he could react leaving the Predacon dazed. Continuing with his momentum he sprung himself off the now backwards stumbling Megatron doing a ridiculous anime back flip landing with his left hand and pivoting himself back to his feet.

"Whoa whoa whoa..." Brainwave objected. "Since when do you do that ninja bullshit? Have you been reading your profile or something?"

Tarantulas' laughter was the only reply he got.

"Gotta say this isn't how I was expecting this fight to go."

"Why not?" Tarantulas interjected. "Didn't you hear what I did to Primal Prime?"

"I assumed it was some sort of ambush nonsense."

"Oh you wish it was!" His laughter unending.

"Rastun, is your time slow still working? We're going to need it to fight him with this ninja BS happening."

"Personally I think you should be more concerned with whether your silly entropy blades can even cut my Vok enhanced armor. And just how useless you'll be if they can't."

You're about to find out how well they work, you damn spider.

Rastun engages his time-slow and charges directly for the arachnid, his blade swinging straight down at the enemy once up close. The time-slow lasts only for a handful of seconds, but in most situations, that amount is enough. He can almost sense the satisfaction he'll get from cleaving the spider right in half. The entropy blade descends and crashes on the spider's head, making a loud clanging sound as it did so. But to Rastun's shock, there's no sign of any damage! Even without its property of aging objects, it's still a rather large blade being swung by a rather large robot. Out of desperation, he slashes away at the cultist mastermind a few more times, but to no avail. The time dilation expires, and Rastun quickly decides to put space between himself and the enemy, who then laughs.

"Just as I thought, that little trick is useless against someone who is ageless! Now what will you do?"

Brainwave was surprised Rastun blinded charged in the way he did. Tarantulas' goading must have hit a nerve with him too. And predictably the results were as productive as Megatron's.

"So let me get this straight, during the duration of your entire time slow it never occurred to you to aim for his eyes? Why must everyone run off half cocked today..."

"You shouldn't hold it against him. His mech's design is far too reliant on the blades, it was an obvious place to prod at. Megatron on the other hand deserves mockery"

"I deserve mockery? You once lost to a rat that threw mud in your eyes."

"And you once lost to a half dead robot with a stick. Do you really want to compare failures?"

Not wasting anymore time with idle chatter Megatron charged again slashing at Tarantulas with his sword. Tarantulas simply blocked the blade with his left arm.

"Really Megatron, is that the best you can come up with right now? I realize you're only good at plotting when you piggy back off of someone elses plans but this is pathetic."

"If the sword can't cut you I'll simply hit you till you break!" Releasing a flurry of blows Megatron attempted to smash Tarantulas' armor with brute force.

"How inventive. Let me indulge you." Lowering his arm, not even pretending to defend anymore Tarantulas let Megatron strike away to taunt him. "Can't you see it's pointless? You should just accept the inevitable and join me!"

Enjoying his taunting of Megatron far too much for his own good Tarantulas failed to notice Brainwave take action. Silently approaching from the spiders blindspot the Transtech sprung his trap.

"Surprise!" He shouted as he slapped a small device on Tarantulas shoulder.

The former Predacon scientist instantly recognized what it was as well as realized the timer was far too short to disarm. He gasped in horror at the realization.

"What a shame, you got so caught up in the idea you had Megatron wrapped around your claws you never considered he could use that against you."

The beeping from the device was speeding up clearly approaching activation. "Oh no!" The final beep in the sequence sounded off... "Psyke! No unauthorized space bridges on these premises. Have to say that was ballsy though. And unrefined generator like that. Had it worked it would have sucked us all in and likely blown up the city when the portal collapsed." The spider finished by charging the disturbingly clever Transtech and delivering a swift kick to his side. Brainwave for his part did his best to block the blow with his left arm but the blow was enough to send him flying several hundred feet anyways.

"I certainly hope that wasn't the best you had to offer. I'd be very disappointed if it was." This irritating spawn of Unicron was trying to bait him now. Well he wasn't going to fall for it but he was certainly going to make the would be mastermind regret it. He just needed to wait for another distraction to spring a few more surprises.

Boringverse

"Looks like they killed Shinn," Aaron said, noting the lack of the status monitor in the child's normal suit.

"Eh", was Ali's only response

The Engineer shrugged, this had gone on long enough, as he began pumping Mirage Colloid into the ship. Better that most of it be ruined than the ship itself be totaled. Aaron could always repair the damages later.

Ali shifted his Zwei from simply shooting the Blitz Engines that remained within sight, and switched to batting any that came near him back towards Warworld.

TehChron said
"Looks like they killed Shinn," Aaron said, noting the lack of the status monitor in the child's normal suit."Eh", was Ali's only responseThe Engineer shrugged, this had gone on long enough, as he began pumping Mirage Colloid into the ship. Better that most of it be ruined than the ship itself be totaled. Aaron could always repair the damages later.Ali shifted his Zwei from simply shooting the Blitz Engines that remained within sight, and switched to batting any that came near him back towards Warworld.

The attempts to throw the engines back ended in failure as they simply rocketed back onto the ship.

Impatient with the progress of the fight Bludgeon took to the airlock to finish this mockery of a battle.

He began to zoom into the battlefield in the matter of seconds.
Being true to his name, Bludgeon smashed into the Nava-Hoe tearing it in half

Carbombya: The Spider's Cave

Yes, because he'd actually overlook his eyes while he makes the rest of his body invulnerable.

Rastun would have said that aloud, but this isn't time to be bantering. It's obvious that they need to think of something to deal with this arachnid. Brainwave is more than likely thinking up of another plan, but whatever his idea is, it would be useless without the time to implement it. So Rastun decides to give him time. He dashes away from the enemy to give himself yet more space between them, and when he stops, he deploys the Astafanel's ultimate weapon; the Existence Reversal Cannon. Its chest plate opens up, revealing its trump card. The ERC needed several seconds of charge time and to make it worse, the Astafanel has to be stationary as it gathers power and it's also unable to utilize its other time-related abilities. Very impractical for this situation, but the point is not hitting him with it. No, the point is to be the bait as he charges it up while Brainwave does whatever he's going to do.

The Astafanel proceeds to divert massive amounts of temporal energy to the ERC, likely displaying a massive spike in power readings to the spider's sensors. This should undoubtedly attract his attention. Hopefully Megatron keeps him busy as this happens while Brainwave completes his plan in time, and maybe join Megatron while trying to implement his actual strategy. This needs to appear as genuine as possible.

Guy of Z said
The attempts to throw the engines back ended in failure as the Engines rocketed back onto the ship.Impatient with the progress of the fight Bludgeon took to the airlock to finish this mockery of a battle.He began to zoom into the battlefield in the matter of seconds.Being true to his name, Bludgeon smashed into the Nava-Hoe tearing it in half

Boringverse

Aaron panics, watching his ship become ruined by the new combatants entry.

A single tear runs down his cheek, reminiscent of his Native American heritage.

"YOU BASTARD!" The invisible Astray soars towards Bludgeon, axe raised before it's cut off by the insane laughter of Ali al-Saachez, charging towards the Pretender, GN particles trailing behind the Zwei like a crimson comet.

Still seething, the Engineer reaches for a switch near his Mirage Colloid controls. He flips it, and a single word flashes across his viewscreen. The letters spelling out "MUSPELHEIM".

TehChron said
Aaron panics, watching his ship become ruined by the new combatants entry.A single tear runs down his cheek, reminiscent of his Native American heritage."YOU BASTARD!" The invisible Astray soars towards Bludgeon, axe raised before it's cut off by the insane laughter of Ali al-Saachez, charging towards the Pretender, GN particles trailing behind the Zwei like a crimson comet.Still seething, the Engineer reaches for a switch near his Mirage Colloid controls. He flips it, and a single word flashes across his viewscreen. The letters spelling out "MUSPELHEIM".

Bludgeon noticed the Zwei dashing at him.
He welcomed the challenge and prepared himself for the upcoming battle.

His sensors also picked up a cloaked unit, Bludgeon sneered at the pilots cowardice.
He had the chance to have a glorious death facing a Herald of Unicorn but instead he just hid behind his primitive cloaking device .
After all everything dies, he could at least try to make it a mighty last stand.

Bludgeon remembered he was expecting too much from the denizens of this Universe to die with any semblance of dignity after all his first encounter with the warriors of this world ended with one simply rolling over and dying to a single shot from his minions.

Mirage Colloid was a relatively recent innovation of the Earth Federation, considered by them to be a revolutionary step forward in warfare. The microscopic artificial particles drifted through space, ordinarily acting simply as a means of efficiently obscuring light and other means of detection when coated onto an object properly. Under certain circumstances, its energy bending properties could even be abused by creating a field capable of reflecting most types of beam weaponry without issue. But these were only the first applications of this overhyped substance

With the development of the Mirage Colloid Virus system, the particles were proved to be manipulated into carrying forms of energy across space, relatively free of interference. Even so much as allowing for the remote hijacking of state of the art mobile suits

When the gynoid Chachamaru fell into his lap and revealed that she herself was a "state of the art" mechanical construct that ran on magic of all things, Aaron Gentles realized that here lay a trove of knowledge simply begging to be put to use

When Aaron later proved able to provide said magic to the robot via a suggestive ritual that left the Engineer disgusted, he vowed to create an alternative that didnt smack so much of...degeneracy.

When he finished, the Guild Tech figured he may as well weaponize the damn thing for his own use.

So over the course of the several weeks since picking up the toaster, Aaron created a system where his own magical energy could be channeled through his ReGHOSTs Mirage Colloid to generate a number of effects.

That the microscopic particles were now generated in shapes that matched up with the 18 original symbols of the Runic Alphabet was simply flavor, an attempt to circumvent that annoying muttering that magic users used according to Chachamarus memory files.

Aboard the remains of the Nava-Hoe, millions of microscopic particles latched themselves onto the Blitz Engines before glowing a bright white and burning through the weapons hulls continuously, adhering even as it attempted to regenerate, the mirage colloid continuing to pile up until even their creation matrix powered regeneration would be overwhelmed.

Natarle, for her part, remained in the ships hangar with the gynoid and remained somehow free of harm

Meanwhile, Ali charged blindly towards the Pretender, swinging his GN Buster Sword at Bludgeons own blade.

"THE HELL'RE YOU SUPPOSED TO BE?! SOME KINDA ALIEN SAMURAI OR SOMETHIN'?!"

Two red points of light flew from the Zweis hips towards the Herald of Unicron

"FANGU!"

The blitz engines were momentarily disabled by the virus but they easily shrugged it off after a matter of minutes

Ali's attack harmlessly bounced off of Bludgeon's armor

Pitiful

The virus was easily shrugged off, but that did nothing against the now billions of particles enshrouding each engine, melting them down with a childs equivalent of MagiTech.

Ali crossed blades with Bludgeon while Aaron in his ReGHOST looked for an opening to exploit.

The Magitech however made a dangerous reaction with the Matrix powered remnants of the machines

Instantaneously the Engines rebuilt themselves

Bludgeon became tired of toying with his foe, due to his martial arts prowess and Dark Magic skills he could move so quickly his opponents looked like they were more then merely moving in slow motion but frozen completely.

He hurled Ali aside into the ship where he crashed into Natalie and the Robot maid crushing them both.

Bludgeon laughed as he could sense Aaron's impotent rage, it would do him no good against a follower of the Bringer of Chaos.

He picked up his unit as his Dark Science technique left him powerless to defend against the assault , Bludgeon decided to Hammer Toss gentles into Mars.

He began to whirl the renegade as if he was Metroplex with Trypticon and threw him to Mars.

Carbombya: The Spider's Cave

Tarantulas realized he'd have to be more careful with Megatron and the Transtech. They'd managed to pull off a combo attack without saying a word to one another. If Brainwave had any more gadgets to try things could get tricky. It suddenly occurred to him the third member of the group was strangely... absent from the scuffle. Turning to see what the Overseer was up to he noticed not only had the Astafanel put a considerable distance between them but it was preparing to fire a massive cannon.

"Like hell!" Acquiring a target lock he prepared to unleash a missile barrage on the not sitting duck. Luckily Megatron recognized the posture he was switching to and took the opportunity to body check the now distracted spawn of Unicron. The missiles still went flying though significantly off course. Unfortunately though they missed the shockwave from the explosions was still enough to send Rastun flying.

Tarantulas regained his balance from Megatron's blindside attack. "You three are actually starting to get on my nerves."

"Then I'm sure you're really going to enjoy this." Came a voice from the far side of the cave.

"Oh no..." Realizing he took his focus off the Transtech too long Tarantulas turned to see what he had done this time. He was just standing there... with a small device in his hand. Like he expected it to matter. "What exactly is that supposed to be?"

"See for yourself." And with that the device activated. It was only a split second before the spider realized his error in ignoring Brainwave and just what that device was. It was designed to incapacitate people wielding Unicron's power by hitting them with a massive feedback surge on Unicron's frequency. The more they fight it, the stronger the feedback gets.

Falling to his knees in pain Tarantulas was all but disabled for the moment. Never one to waste an opening Megatron instantly kicked him adding insult to injury.

"Look at you. Coming into this thinking you were invincible. And now you're at my mercy, YES!" Rolling the spider on his back Megatron stomped on his chest. "It's going to be fun beating on you till that armor cracks while you can't do anything about it!"

If only it were that easy... Tarantulas dug for all of his strength and channeled his Vok powers discharging energy beams from both hands right into Megatron before he could react sending him flying into the air.

"Oh shit..." Was the only response Brainwave could give as Megatron could be heard screaming on his way down. Right as Megatron landed the spider released a second omnidirectional discharge sending the entire group flying yet again. It also caused sizable structural damage to the cave as several large cracks formed in the walls.

"I have had about ENOUGH of all of you!" Bellowed the infuriated spawn of Unicron.

Boringverse: En Route to Mars

Screaming in impotent fury, Gentles careened through space towards the Red Planet

"WHY ISNT THIS MAGIC CRAP WORKING?!"

As soon as he got his bearings, answering that question would be the Guild Techs number one priority.

Meanwhile, Alis survival instincts finally kicked in, and he prepared to book it back to friendly space, what remained of the ship followed suit soon afterward

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Carbombya: The Spider's Cave

Tarantulas realized he'd have to be more careful with Megatron and the Transtech. They'd managed to pull off a combo attack without saying a word to one another. If Brainwave had any more gadgets to try things could get tricky. It suddenly occurred to him the third member of the group was strangely... absent from the scuffle. Turning to see what the Overseer was up to he noticed not only had the Astafanel put a considerable distance between them but it was preparing to fire a massive cannon.

"Like hell!" Acquiring a target lock he prepared to unleash a missile barrage on the not sitting duck. Luckily Megatron recognized the posture he was switching to and took the opportunity to body check the now distracted spawn of Unicron. The missiles still went flying though significantly off course. Unfortunately though they missed the shockwave from the explosions was still enough to send Rastun flying.

Tarantulas regained his balance from Megatron's blindside attack. "You three are actually starting to get on my nerves."

"Then I'm sure you're really going to enjoy this." Came a voice from the far side of the cave.

"Oh no..." Realizing he took his focus off the Transtech too long Tarantulas turned to see what he had done this time. He was just standing there... with a small device in his hand. Like he expected it to matter. "What exactly is that supposed to be?"

"See for yourself." And with that the device activated. It was only a split second before the spider realized his error in ignoring Brainwave and just what that device was. It was designed to incapacitate people wielding Unicron's power by hitting them with a massive feedback surge on Unicron's frequency. The more they fight it, the stronger the feedback gets.

Falling to his knees in pain Tarantulas was all but disabled for the moment. Never one to waste an opening Megatron instantly kicked him adding insult to injury.

"Look at you. Coming into this thinking you were invincible. And now you're at my mercy, YES!" Rolling the spider on his back Megatron stomped on his chest. "It's going to be fun beating on you till that armor cracks while you can't do anything about it!"

If only it were that easy... Tarantulas dug for all of his strength and channeled his Vok powers discharging energy beams from both hands right into Megatron before he could react sending him flying into the air.

"Oh shit..." Was the only response Brainwave could give as Megatron could be heard screaming on his way down. Right as Megatron landed the spider released a second omnidirectional discharge sending the entire group flying yet again. It also caused sizable structural damage to the cave as several large cracks formed in the walls.

"I have had about ENOUGH of all of you!" Bellowed the infuriated spawn of Unicron.

The Astafanel uses its thrusters to prevent itself from being fully blown away and eventually regains its balance. Clearly, things are not going the way the arachnid thought they would.

Well, at least that was a partial success.

The spider is in a rage now, and Rastun is running out of ideas. So he does the only thing possible and fires on the enemy. The Astafanel unleashes a barrage of energy blasts from its eyes and wrist cannons, likely not doing much damage. If he retaliates with those energy beams, Rastun will just have to dodge and fire back until another opportunity presents itself.