Mecha Show Expo! (Open)

sky rebounded and landed square on the ground with a non too pleased look on her face. she punched the ground with frustration as the aura shifted slightly redder, lifting her fist out of the crater and liquified stone, she stood up and charged at her new fo, albeit the same pilots as before with some help. jumping at it again she flushed her wings to give her a boost to get head height before, giving her movement a spin and kicking with all of her force while boosters kicked of in her leg to help hit it faster.

lightning dropped into the crowds and stalls while activating her coms and triggering a supply pod to be deployed.

"The fuck?" Dust muttered, moving her mech into a more defensive position just in case it had new tricks. She then released her EMP and shot armour piercing missiles at the horn region at the same time, hoping the opposing mech would be too distracted recalibrating the horns from the transformation and the EMP blast to compensate for every missile.

Alpha was finally able to right himself and take a check of all of his systems. "My armor took moat of the hit." He says, sparks still going off in the cockpit eventually. "Damn energy weapons fried my auto targeting system. But my hydraulics and basic motor functions are still working." He checks his ammo supply, noting the lowering numbers. "Starting to deplete my ammo too, but I'll be fine. I don't think I can take another hit from that energy weapon though."

Nightwing had Tesujin slam his hands together, electricity flowing through them, to get the magnetized metal off. He then ordered Tesujin to punch the flying Mechatuar into the ground. if successful, Tetsujin would then lock into a three-hit combo, ending with a kick between the legs of the other mech to continue it on it's journey with the unicorn.

Indicus was having a good second wind with his actions, but the Minocentaur's momentum and weight would prove considerably greater as it practically trampled and forced its way through the shadow tendrils with all four legs charging onwards; It did have to compensate a little for balance, but it would be a small comfort for Indicus as the powered up fist struck the barrier at near full force, bouncing it and Indicus' mech away along with it even if he got a few shots in that would be endured through the stampeding charge; And if the barrier didn't already shatter from the heavy stress alone as raw energy was released from the fist upon impact, whatever or whoever was keeping the barrier up was sure to feel that instead. It might've been worse however, as the Minocentaur would be capable of more follow ups had it not been attacked by others at the time.

Instead, as Sky, Dusty, and Dawn's Tetsujin attacked, it kept moving again as it fought back with greater and faster coordination. Only some missiles would hit for minor damage, since the torso now had an easier time maneuvering by swiveling from side to side and they were far enough to see the shots coming. Sky would be parried by a rising backhand hit from the other arm on her direct approach; And the Tetsujin would get one hit in before being kicked away on the torso by one of the multiple legs of the Minocentaur. "Guh! Not this time! We won't fall again this time!" The pilots had a much easier time now keeping focus it seemed as they fought back, trying to distance themselves a bit from the Tetsujin as they charged the tri-horns more, the full machine rippling with more energy, so and heat came out from the mouth once more. Perhaps it might take more numbers or a change in strategy to truly overwhelm the foe, or simply keep pushing against it. It was stampeding a little slower after defending itself however, but it still fired away; Flame breath towards the Tetsujin directly, and the bolts of lightning showering towards Sky, and Dusty to a lesser extent as she was farther away.


The pilot of the Bat Mech would be wary enough to avoid entering the dangerous field of energy with a swift spread of the wings and a change in direction as Lagnia attacked. "What is this!? Aagh!?" It struggled from the surprise, but one of the wings itself brimmed with energy as it acted as a shield to defend from the strike it took. "These readings reek of Tartarus! Oh, you can bet I'm not giving you up just yet!" The mech would increase its thrusters to full throttle in an effort to push back against the Adjudicator, along with a release of missiles, many missiles from the other wing compartment as they both attacked directly and had a spinning-arshing trajectory towards Lagnia's position. The pilot did not seem concerned about explosions up close by its own missiles either.


Over at Sandy's direction, the workers were quick to get to work as they got the gears and parts to and fro, with one of the griffon workers flying next to her observing the installations. "Eeyup. Just stay right there, we can handle the rest in no time!" And fast they were, quick to replace the right arm with a larger and stronger gripping mechanism, and the front gattling gun with an 8-tube missile launcher setup. The main machine gun would get a restock, but just above the left shoulder, a large steel blade would be holstered. "The missiles should help give you more of a kick along with the twin rifle extra ammunition. Don't be shy to use both if you have to, especially since we're switching your 105mm ammo to the 90mm ammo; Better piercing and rate of fire, trust me. That grip arm also has a much stronger set of pistons than the older one, and while we don't expect you to use it much, it should help you wield that Heat Saber on your shoulder with greater ease. Bit of a last resort in your case, but better than having no melee ability if you do still run out of ammo. We also checked your specs, the tank is good to go!" Sandy would now be able to move again as needed with a superior weaponry setup.


Amphere then cheered and readied her machine to advance along with Alpha. "If you think you got it, then you got it! Lead the way, I'll follow up while my crew gets here." Of course, whether or not Alpha wanted it, the Turtle Bot that managed to stowaway with him got around to moving within his mech in an effort to try and fix vital components one by one for optimal performance. It whistled away with glee at its work.

Indicus shook his head to recover from the magical backlash but thanks to his ally's he would be able to with minimal damage. Once more he stepped back and took shots with both auto cannons hoping that the heavy rounds would at least do something. They really needed to take whatever gave the mech energy resistance down.

The electromagnetic interference lingering around Dust's own mech should be enough to nullify the lightning, causing the bolts to arc to small airborn particles that had been charged that were much closer than Dust's mech. She again spent a little time recharging her systems, however.

Alpha finished his checks and looked through his crackling monitor at the unicorn mech now turned minocentaur. He narrowed his eyes and furrowed his brow, looking at all the damage done to his mech, all the time he had spent on it, wasted with this assault. "Alright, you low down sack o' rivets..." He says, pulling a lever. His mech then holsters it's large machine gun on its back, large clamps grabbing it to keep it in place. "You break my back, I break yours." He gets into a low crouch, damaged gears sounding like a growl as the his mech looks at its target. One foot back, giant metal hand on the ground. And then it broke into a sprint, slow at first but picking up a tremendous amount of speed as he hurls past everyone else, dodging buildings and missiles. He puts a shoulder forward, the mech bracing for impact. It might have been able to withstand his bullets and missiles, but lets see how well it handles a whole mech thrown at it's back legs.

Nightwing grimaced and had Tesujin punch the ground, breaking off a large enough fragment of earth to use as a shield from the fire, before having him charge the bigger mech with the intent to tackle at the mech connection.

"Thanks, dudes. Now to beat up this giant mother bucken robot." Sandy said before treading off to the battle. 
When getting back into range sandy mech would start gunning at the Giant robot legs joints.
"If we focus effort on one side of the mech it would come crashing down." Sandy said over the radio to any mech still tune in.

[Panther]

Unfortunately for the Bat mech, the Adjudicator was on another level entirely. The demonic mech merely got faster and began pushing back the Bat mech's assault with precision blade strikes and seemingly point blank sniper shots from a rifle that had bullets curve around and hit the bat mech from odd angles. Then she decided it was a good idea to fire off her missiles. Portals would open up in front of the missiles, angling the portals so they would go in. Then a portal would open up in the cockpit of the bat mech, letting all the missiles through.

the message was reseved back at bace and that inturn began lightnings next assult, drop pods raind from the sky each the size of a truck with boring drills at the bace of there nose. another one, a smaller one fell and arived near lightning at which she began to collect what was inside.

sky twisted her body, activating her boosters and flinging herself to the floor before reboundinding and jumping up to the mechs back and jumping at the mechas head from behind.

Up in the air, the fight between the Bat Mech and the Adjudicator would reach an impasse as Lagnia's power got an Ace against his foe with the numerous portals. However, one single extra portal would open that he wasn't in control of inside his own cockpit conjured by powerful sorcery, where he was greeted by someone clad in a black helmet and full-body cloak piloting another mech of undetermined race and surrounded by a dark aura. There was a sinister red glow of slit eye-shapes under the helmet and a very familiar, and very spiteful, feminine chuckle. "You dare invoke a woman's scorn, demon!?" The figure became fully engulfed in darkness just as the missiles exploded from Lagnia's portal... briefly leaving the way open for Lagnia to have to deal with the explosion as well somehow. Hell hath no fury...

The Bat Mech's head blew a chunk off and began to drop in freefall afterwards, no longer fighting back with the head burning fiercely and some damages from the trick shots. It did, however, also began to become engulfed in a similar dark shroud as the pilot from earlier.


Dusty was still safe for the time being, effectively preventing damage to her mech given the range and lack of focus on her. Her Turtle Bot companion did seem to gently point out the hard situation the others closer by were in, trying to urge her into helping more directly soon if she could.


Sky would be met by electricity arching right at her harshly, as the head part was still firing bolts at her. Moving closer only made it easier for her to become targeted by a more focused attack. Lightning, however, would have no trouble in gathering extra aid for the time being, so she was good to go with her plans.


As for Indicus and Sandy's combined assault, their shots would inflict minor damage from a distance as the Minocentaur was still moving, making direct hits harder to land on any real significant joints. Dawn's Tetsujin, however, would get a harsher treatment as right after the flame attack ended in the approach the Unicorn head codpiece opened its mouth to fire ice at the Tetsujin instead, freezing its legs the longer it stayed up close as the Minocentaur tried to smack it away with a punch through the wall of dirt. The other arm would instead alternate between Sandy and Indicus by firing back its own autocanon while trying to block some of their shots with it.


From behind the Minocentaur, perhaps aid would come in an unexpected way as Amphere flew low right behind Alpha's charge. From the hind legs of the Minocentaur, a few holes opened up to launch a missile barrage at them, but Alpha would safely be defended by Amphere's sharpshooting short range lasers from the Ladybug around him. "Ba ba bam! Here we go!" As Alpha managed to tackle one leg, Amphere hit and held the other leg and tried to get the Minocentaur off balance by trying to fly off with the leg... But that was when things would get interesting as suddenly Amphere's mech got flailed about by the powerful hind leg that tried to buck her off. "Thiiis aiiin't myyy fiiirst roodeooo~!" Amphere held on for dear life, shooting the lasers again to try and overload the leg into lagging as she was flailed about. As for Alpha, though successful in hitting the leg, meant he was a quick grab for the very flexible tail now wrapping itself around his mech, and the hit leg was about to retaliate by bucking back if he didn't regain control soon once the other leg stood solid. It didn't help that the gripping tail prevented from getting a good shot with the cannon up close as it was forced to aim away from any vital points of interest, but at least others were still nearby to maybe turn things around. If nothing else, the stowaway Turtle Bot was working double-time to help Alpha's mech function optimally even in the current predicament without any loss of power.

Nightwing had Tetsujin grab the punching fist with both hands, clinging to it and allowing it to drag him at least further from the ice, before beginning to shock it from both hands.

Indicus took advantage of the interruption and fired on any vital spot he could find on the Centaur mech while the it was busy dealing with the mech latched on to it, even enchanting some shots to explode with shadow magic upon hit he as he used ammo he used what ever bit of scrap metal to create ammo and considering there was scrap being generated quite often he had plenty to work with as for the gun powder for the rounds he gathered the elements from his surroundings or just used magic to substitute.

Indicus was glad he learned as much as he did or he would have been in worse shape without knowing how gunpowder was made among other things though he slowed down once he gathered a total of twenty extra rounds combined shared between both guns due to the mentally taxing nature of breaking down a object into a base element and combining said elements to make a new one but it was better then wasting magic on creating something from pure energy.

Sandy began to fire the missiles at the autocannon. Then she switch to her sword. 
While the fire was aimed at indicus. She floored her tank forward at the giant mech.
She aimed for the closest leg to her and took a swing of the sword to the leg.

"Anything in particular i should be doing?" Dust said into her radio on general frequencies as she started to maneuver to the sides of the mino-centaur, firing some missiles filled with a quickly-hardening substance. Of course, the missile barrage was fired at the viewport of the opposing mech to prevent vision.

[Fall]
The Adjudicator was about to move to finish off the bat mech, but a portal opened in the cockpit. Lagnia stirred from his neural link, now eight feet tall and in the tatters of the clothing he wore beforehand. His horns had lengthened and curved, his fangs poked out from his lips, his body had gone from slender and effeminate to large and masculine, and he appeared to have brought a few weapons. The moment the portal opened, Lagnia would seize both of the anti-boarder magnums the cockpit, firing them at the figure before opening a portal in front of the portal that was going to shoot the explosion at him, and would empty the explosion outside.

When all that was finished, the Adjudicator would fire multiple shots from its rifle at the bat mech, guiding the bullets around to shred the remains and ensure they couldn't be used without excessive expenditure.

Lagnia would get a surprise when the portal moved briefly once it let out part of the explosion, leaving some of his cockpit and himself get struck by a small burst of flames while the rest was sent out by his extra portal. There might be no significant damage done to him or the cockpit, but that was only the beginning of what he had to put up with as he shot the falling Bat Mech. Voices echoed around him, again along with a familiar spiteful chuckle with mild ripples in the surrounding air. "You're cute when you're angry..." The Bat Mech took a few hits all over before the shadows completely consumed it, now merely absorbing the hits. "But I'm not finished yet, Demon. Especially not since you shot at me! You ruined my robes! So now I'll ruin YOU!" What then came from the shadowy Bat Mech were some of the shoots Lagnia sent at it to begin with the closer it got to coming down to the ground in retaliation.

Indicus and Sandy would get a few shots in proper this time, dealing some damage to the legs and upper body with greater success on the less mobile Minocentaur. But soon trouble would continue for the group attacking it up close as a whole, as when the Tetsujin grabbed onto the large arms, it in turn became a shield against Indicus and Sandy's attack, forcing them to not shoot as much unless they were willing to further harm an ally mech. The Minocentaur lagged in its movements somewhat as well from the Tetsujin's shocking, but not harmed by it just yet; As it were, it was using that extra energy to stun Sky in place, for even if she were resistant to becoming shocked herself, she could not control the energy field made around her as she was gripped by the energy being sent out from the horns of the giant mech. It as also with said grip that Sky was moved in front of some of Dusty's missiles to take some the concussive hits and the adhesive as well; The other missiles would just barely miss the mark as it hit part of the face, but there was more to come...

When Sandy herself came up close to try and hit the Minocentaur, it would instead block her path by laying down the Tetsujin's legs in her way to delay her advance as it tried to shake it off. Sky would then be tossed with the energy grip at Amphere's Ladybug at the same time it shook her away, resulting in both being sent flying with Sky being made stuck briefly to Amphere's mech with help of the adhesive as well. It was at around that time that Dusty would get their first response. "Amphere here, we need more backuuuuup~!" The elderly mare didn't quite have the time to give a proper request as she spiraled into the air with Sky. As for Alpha, the tail would toss him away just before he got his chance to act further, this time having no one right away to catch him as he was flung backwards once more. Somewhere within his mech, came some panicked whistling he could hear.

(("Soaring Golden Ox"))

But while it looked as if the Minocentaur was brushing off the others casually, it was actually giving it its all to set itself up for more as the Bat Mech was about to fall upon it. Once it did, it set off another transformation sequence between the two large mechs. However, this meant Sandy and the Tetsujin were about to get caught within the Dark energy field being made.

Right by Nightwing's side, the Turtle Bot hurriedly extended its flipper to press one button on his controller. "Turtle. Sorry. Emergency maneuver. Turtle." The Tetsujin 28's rocket thrusters went full throttle just then, forcing itself away from the grip of the Minocentaur and taking to the air. As the thrusters set off into the ground, Sandy's tank which was about to be consumed by the Dark energy as well ended up being blasted away by the pressure, but at least the field would not take hold of her mech.

Same as before, attacking the Dark field would result ineffective, and once the process was complete, a new shape would emerge from a shockwave of released power. Now towering immensely at 50meters, the Minocentaur now gained a somewhat bulkier form, it had large wings on its back, and its head took on an even more demonic shape since its teeth were all black gold fangs. It had once again restored itself from earlier damage, but it was also a larger target and single to boot. Once more the leading pilot laughed, but he had a more nervous tone to it. "Heh... He heh... Eh... Wow... This is really something... A lot more power than I expected..." It roared far more fiercely this time around too.

"Boss, these two are making me nervous... They haven't said a thing since they joined us..."

"Uh... I think they want us to keep fighting though. She's glaring at me something fierce..."

From the distance Sky and Aphere had been tossed at, there seemed to be aid coming at least...

"Dammit not again!!" Alpha screams as his attack is totally rejected and he's thrown through the air again. With nobody to catch him, he lands roughly on the asphalt, leaving a trail in his wake. He shakes his head and gets up, looking at the giant mech. "How the hell are we supposed to beat this thing...?" He says, standing and grabbing his machine gun. He would need a larger weapon if he was going to do anything more than piss it off.

Nightwing pets the Turtle. "Remind me to wax your shell sometime. You are a beautiful little machine." He gives the turtle his best impression of a thumbs up and pilots Tetsujin back. "Now then, little Turtle, do you see anything we could throw at them that might disrupt their abilities? Or, like, a giant hammer for Tetsujin to golf them to the moon?"

in lightning's general area the ground began to crack, she had equipped the artifacts found within the smaller pod and the shear force of the magic potential broke and destroyed the ground, into large jagged slabs, she began to flap her wings, raising beyond the stalls, lifting up the 24 drop pods and concrete slabs with her as well as everything else last was on the ground she raised her hand and rune tubes stretch from the drop pods to the mech's chest, the drills at the base of each pod began accelerating to there fullest degree, he thrusters boosted up and at that they were accelerated at the giant mech, there trajectory constantly being updated as they rocketed and were accelerated at the mech, there was near no chance of them missing, she followed up by accelerating the concrete and debris at the mech to.

presuming it had hardened sky began to brake separate from the mech. not being one to abandon what she saw as an allie, sky began to climb to the alternate side of said mech, braking what hardened adhesive she could on the way and using all of her force with the help of thrusters and her wings, attempted to slow down the mech and maybe even land it safely, if not land it safely, shed atleast act as a suspension against the ground with little to no problem on her side.

Dust let out a string of curses and looked at the Ladybug, but she saw that Sky had it and decided to not intervene lest she cause a midair collision. Dust decided to shoot a bunch of thermal grenades that would ignite into a hot but quick-burning flame on contact, hoping to trigger any reactive armour or fire suppression systems prematurely to weaken the enemy mech's defences.

Sandy sighed when she was blocked and forced away from the bot. Sandy talked into the radio between mecha.
"Okay, mindlessly flaring our guns and arm around is doing jack. Any one have an actual plan? because their one plan not all that safe but, it better than turning out dead. also, I'll be in dept, for the rest of my life if this thing gets smashed."

From the back of the giant Mech's equine body, a double-battleaxe rose up to be grabbed by the mech's left arm, and rapidly spun it to block the oncoming missile barrage and flapping its wings to keep the fire and heat away as it spread. Lightning's barrage would also hit, but it too would be chopped into debris for the most part; Whatever did manage to go through would only deal some scratches at best between the two for now. "Hah! What, are the rest just giving up!? If only two of you are attacking, this'll be a cakewalk...! Here we go. Yokai-Minocentaur, Double Bloodmoon Slash!!" The blades still spun until the attack was announced, a mix of Dark energy and the gathered fire being made to power the weapon until it swung twice with it, sending two blade beams of heat and sorcery from the double-battleaxe; Once towards Indicus' barrier to break past, and the other back at Dusty's direction as the blade beams cut through the soil with ease.


Next to Nightwing, the Turtle Bot by his side stared silently for a moment, before it pointed to a 10meter large shield among the now abandoned nearby workstations. "Turtle. Looks sturdy. Turtle."


As far as Alpha's luck went, it was a mix between good and bad still. It turns out he fell close to another abandoned workstation, but the available gear all looked either experimental or unwieldly. Once more the Turtle Bot within eventually popped out to greet him from under one of the panels, offering to help install it, but it was up to Alpha on what to pick from the gear if he wanted a mod or two: Pilder Wings Jetpack, Pile Bunker Arm Spike, Missile Launcher Boomerang, Giant Bazooka, Varia Armor, Gespy Power Kick, and Core Powered Beam Cannon.


Sky would get a dizzy sounding 'thanks' from the pilot of the Ladybug who then proceeded to fly towards the other 4 Mechs coming her way. Soon after, they began to all position themselves into a certain formation in the ground and air as she gave the command. "Bolt Lion-V! Commence Combination!" What would result from the newcomers? Find out on the next update!