Deathsaurer

Super Robot Wars SL

Shanghai:

The group was listening to the reports of Inferno's exploits.

"Approximately 15 minutes ago a bizarre event occurred. An unknown fire department vehicle sped down several city streets and high speeds. When traffic got too thick it proceeded to drive over sidewalks knocking over all manor of trees and vending machines. It is unclear how it was undamaged from this. As a result of this mad driving several dozen people were injured. Paying no heed to traffic lights it also clipped 5 vehicles causing massive pile ups and backing up traffic for what will likely be hours. Eventually it seemingly pulled up to a suspected drug gang warehouse where eye witnesses say the unknown laser was fire from nearly an hour ago. After briefly stopping in front of it the unknown vehicle sped off once again followed by a series of small explosions and one massive one resulting in the damage you see behind me."

Everyone stared in minor annoyance as the camera panned over the devastation.

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After a bit of disagreement and some confusion over exactly where the trunk on a Lamborghini is located Inferno sped to the location of the laser weapon in a manor that didn't befit a stealth mission. Being a Predacon he didn't exactly care how much chaos he caused carrying out his mission he just wanted to get the bombs out of his frame as soon as possibly. Memories of all his most painful defeats in the Beast Wars ringing in his mind. The problem with running all the red lights and driving on sidewalks at high speed is it makes one look rather suspicious so as he approached the target the drug gang proceeded to open fire on him.

"Oh this is just my luck. It's a simple mission they said, if you're careful they won't even notice you they said."

Fortunately the guards hadn't expected his level of acceleration and were thus wildly inaccurate. Pulling right up to the defense wall out of their firing arcs he briefly stopped to deploy the drones before speeding off again. Once again his unexpected speed making him near impossible to hit. He was a couple of blocks away when he heard a series of explosions rock the area. Pleased with his success he called Megatron to report.

"Royalty, good news!"

It was at this moment he noticed a massive explosion heading his way. "Oh no..." As the blast wave caught up to him it sent him flying through the air spiraling head over heel for several blocks. Transforming on impact he continued flipping until he smashed into a large building. Looking back while lying on his back it was clear the detonation had level at least 5 blocks in every direction. Inferno's Predacon nature got the best of him and he proceeded to laugh at the destruction.

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"That sounds like a good first step. How do you plan on pulling this off? Judging from how we had trouble finding him in the first place, I can't imagine Sideways making it easy for us to pin all of these events on him."

@Laughing Matter

"The thing about Sideways is the longer things go on the more he starts backstabbing everyone and pissing them all off. He even managed to repeat this after the Unicron Singularity made everyone forget the first time he did it. Only so many times you can keep switching sides going wait, I'm on your side before people start calling bullshit."

As soon as Brainwave finished his reply a laser streaked across the sky and pierced the moon. Everyone stopped for a moment to stare at the event.

"Well if he's going to start pulling nonsense on that scale it's not going to take long before people start catching on. Or they'll be dead. Either way our problems seem on course to start solving themselves."

Megatron considered the situation and smirked. "If you want to have all his side changing catch up with him destroying that laser will be a good first step. It will be taking his bait but when it isn't quite the way he expected he will start fuming."

"Interesting..." The Transtech began computing possible methods of disabling the weapon without revealing themselves. "Perhaps we can have Rastun use his time slow to deliver a collection of mini drones housing some extremely powerful micro explosives that will destroy the lasers power supply and perhaps even the fools operating it."

Chuckling Megatron provided an alternate plan. "Why not use the least conspicuous, most expendable person here to deliver the devices?"

"A brilliant plan Royalty!" Chimed Inferno before he realized everyone was staring at him. Slowly he began to realize the plan.

"Isn't it just?"

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Tarantulas' laughing episode was interrupted by a sudden flash of light. "This feeling..." As he returned to his feet an unknown dust fell on him. Annoyed by this insult from his prey he began the chase. "You will pay for that smartass. All of you, AFTER HIM! And when I catch you I shall enjoy extracted that power from you the most painful way possible." Breaking into another fit of maniacal laughter as he planned his revenge.

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As he saw Brainwave's discussion with Megatron finish, Rastun decides to have a few words of his own with the Transtech. He opens up a comm link while patrolling the skies. "So what's the plan now? I assume 'Joe's' idea is somewhat successful, seeing as he's alive and all."

@Laughing Matter

"It went mostly as planned for Sideways. He set us up to run into a wanted criminal and sent the cops after us. Obviously the first thing we have to do is out him as the one responsible for all the madness going on in this city which should piss him off. Once he's mad he'll come after us without thinking. And hopefully we can hit him with something that will put him in stasis."

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Shanghai Megatron couldn't contain his laughter. "I'm glad you find this amusing" Brainwave snarked "How can you not find this funny?" Inquired the Predacon "This walking parody provoked one of the most dedicated trolls reality has ever known. He's obviously a criminal since the cops are after him. How much you want to bet he's a drug lord and Sideways is responsible for that uptick in drug violence to piss him off?" Brainwave considered this for a moment. "... It makes too much sense." "And then we have you..." Added Megatron. "What about me?" Megatron chuckled lightly. "Come now, you think I haven't noticed. You hate these restrictions that have been placed on you. They're getting in the way. And with the pathetic tech you're allowed to use you can't pull off the plans you want. All those weak defenses of your failures... They're transparent. Don't you think it's time to quit playing around and deal with this in a serious manor?" "I will not be manipulated by your transparent ploy Megatron. More advanced technologies will be deployed when and if I decide they should." "Well Brainwave, I'll be sure to leave a note on your corpse that reads he died because you're all uptight retards." And with that Megatron walked off.

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Brainwave had been keeping a bit of a distance from the group with a hopefully upgraded cloaking system. He had intended for Rastun to play this part but he refused outright saying he didn't want to be a guinea pig. As the GM's began their assault it became clear the cloak wasn't as "upgraded" as he had hoped.

"Okay, that obviously didn't work out as well as I had hoped."

Shutting the device off he quickly ran to Megatron and Lance. The good news was the energy shields were working perfectly, the bad news is the volume of fire they were taking prevented retaliation as the shield was putting a sizable drain on their power supplies.

"Alright time to go."

Megatron realizing what the Transtech was about to do quickly turned to him in alarm.

"Wait..." But it was to no avail because as he uttered the words they were transported to Rastun's location somewhere on the other side of the city.

"Oh, well, that didn't backfire at all. Nevermind."

Brainwave glared at him briefly. "The only reason that mess in Carbombya was dangerous was because I set off the safety systems and didn't give the device an exit point. Aside from the cloaking device which I can't seem to get to work on them everything else I've tried has worked fine."

Megatron scoffed at the statement. "Like the phasing tech you equipped to out blasters?"

"I may have overlooked energy shields being more problematic than armor when I designed them. Remember, I'm trying not to go too advanced. Don't want the kiddies playing with nukes they don't understand after all." Turning to Lance Brainwave asked him the most pressing question they all had on their minds. "I have one simple question for you, why is Sideways after you?"

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Shanghai

As Megatron summoned his upgraded sword to deal with his current attacker a bright flash of light came from the direction of the loud mouthed human. The GM that was charging him was sent flying and severely damaged when it landed. Everyone stopped for a moment to look at the smug jackass as he muttered something about interrupting his tea time. Everyone was at a loss as to what exactly happened.

"Alright, what the hell is going on here?"

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Shanghai

Megatron gave his human acquaintance a sideways glance after hearing his reply. Clearly this idiot was going to be as big a headache as Sideways. Turning attention back to the attacking GMs he quickly blocked the beam spear strike while leaving his human "ally" to his own devices as the second GM charged him.

"Sideways, please. I dealt with Tarantulas long enough. You honestly think I wasn't planning on backstabbing you?"

Shoving the GM Striker back and deploying his arm mounted gun he unleashed several shots at the off balance mobile suit. The shots passed through the shield as the upgrades were intended to do. Unfortunately a great deal of energy was lost bypassing the shield causing only minor armor damage when the bolts finally hit.

"Well that's a problem that's going to need to be fixed..."

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Surveying the situation Megatron quickly decided it was in his best interest to try to talk his way out of this instead of tipping his hand about his upgrades.

"Why Sideways, what is this? I thought we were friends. What, with that solitarium thing and all. Clever use of my alias there by the way."