14 - All of Us, All of Them
It wasn't too horribly long before the two Evoluders had made it to the outskirts of the city, where they landed in order to rest a bit before confronting the disturbance. Looking out at the city, Cainto could definitely tell that it was a lot more advanced than the other cities he had been to recently -- there were monorail tracks lining the enormous metropolis, and the buildings had to be at least two times taller than the highest structures in the other cities. Even from this distance though, he could tell that the city wasn't in a normal state; there weren't many people out on the streets, and there wasn't any monorails running at all on the tracks. It was almost dead silent, and for such a proud-looking city, that definitely wasn't normal.
"Let's hurry, Larean," Cainto told his comrade, firing up the engines on the StealthGao and launching off towards the city. As he approached the silent streets of the city, he could hear something crashing in the distance, and began to pick up speed. He turned upwards so that he could view the city from the sky, giving him a better idea of what was going on and where it was happening. From what he could see, and to his surprise, there were three spots in the whole city that were being attacked, each by a separate robot. One was near the northern part of the city, where they had arrived from, and the other two weren't too far off, leaving the southern half of the city in a panic; the reason for that was because everyone from the north was fleeing there.
"I'll take the closest one." Larean interrupted Cainto's surveying, flying past him and down to the north most robot that he had spotted. Cainto quickly followed her, branching off and heading for the robot that was southwest of the north most robot. Cainto landed beside the robot, and before trying to examine it even a little, struck it in its face head-on with CeoGar's already deployed Claw Arm. The robot, which was smaller than even CeoGar, lurched back from the strike, but surprisingly didn't fall back or even show a sign of unbalance. Instead, it bounced back with a quickness that rivaled even KyoGrief's from the previous battle, landing a solid uppercut on CeoGar's jaw and sending Cainto flying upwards, jumping after CeoGar right after it had launched it into the air.
Determined to not let speed get the best of him once again, Cainto fired up StealthGao's jets and hovered out of the way of the robot's rising kick. The robot, only a short and slender robot with no notable unique features, dropped back down to the ground, unable to fly because of the lack of wings or any visual propulsion system. "Even at this size..." Cainto gritted his teeth, sure that he wouldn't be able to handle even this robot in the long run, "requesting Final Fusion!"
Meanwhile, northeast of Cainto's battle, Larean was confronting her enemy. The robot wasn't anything that resembled a human; it was more bird-like in appearance, having a long beak-like protrusion in the front and two extremely large wings. The robot was firing small missiles at Larean from a short distance away, quickly making the distance smaller as it propelled towards her. Larean had decided it was wise to fight it in the sky; if she'd have stayed on the ground, she would have been bombarded by these same missiles with much less of an option of where to evade. Despite this advantage over ground, when attempting to dodge said missiles, KraGar was only able to evade four of the six that were fired, the other two exploding on contact with the mechanoids exterior. Larean was shaken, but she was extremely adept at recovery, shooting up out of the surrounding smoke and gaining a bit of altitude over the bird robot. "Requesting Final Fusion!" She shouted.
Back at the base, the command center was active with crew members running around here and there, rushing to get the newest battle information and spec briefs to each other for evaluation. Upon hearing the almost simultaneous requests from both Cainto and Larean for Final Fusion, Captain Mamoru smirked, standing confidently in the middle of the room with his arms crossed. Seroan turned around from her console to ask him about the two requests, and he cut her off before she could ask. "You heard them both, give 'em what they want! It's a perfect time to try out the new DrillGao and LinerGao!!" He shouted, his smirk never leaving his face. Seroan simply nodded, turning back around.
"Understood! Double Program Drive!!" Seroan shouted, raising both of her hands up and balling them into fists, smashing them into two identical green glass panels on either side of her console. Hearing the scream over the communication wire, both Cainto and Larean put their mechanoid's arms out to the side, spinning around in the air, producing a green fog to block their respective foes from interrupting the process. The usual DrillGao and LinerGao instantly penetrated CeoGar's produced fog, but a silver-drilled DrillGao and grey LinerGao pierced through KraGar's. Despite the differences in appearance, the two new Gao Machines performed Final Fusion completely the same way as CeoGar's Gao Machines, GaoCeoGar and GaoKraGar emerging from their fogs as incredible as ever, the screams of their pilots just as pumped-up as before.
"GAOCEOGAR!!"
"GAOKRAGAR!!"
Cainto grinned inside of GaoCeoGar, his teeth shining off of the intense green light now coming from his right hand. "I'll show you, you little ingrate!" He mocked the robot, lunging downwards at the much smaller robot. He extended GaoCeoGar's right hand to grab the robot and drag it up into the sky, but the hand was knocked away easily, and the robots monotoned fist caught GaoCeoGar straight in the face, knocking the super mechanoid straight onto the street, decimating the surrounding buildings and ruining everything it had landed on. "Damn..." Cainto whispered to himself, trying to quickly recover from the hit, "I didn't want anything like this to happen, we shouldn't be here in the city.." He quickly brought GaoCeoGar to its feet, grabbing onto the robot's leg with GaoCeoGar's right hand and clenching its fist, demolishing the robot's leg. The robot fell to one side, unable to move, and Cainto grasped onto its head with GaoCeoGar's left hand. He crushed it easily, but the robot's remaining body was beginning to glow a faint orange that continued to get stronger every fraction of a second that passed.
"That's the most annoying thing, you know!" Cainto complained, GaoCeoGar's right forearm beginning to glow pink and spin. "It's a bit of a habit I've been seeing, I'll help you get rid of it!" Cainto plunged GaoCeoGar's right arm into the robot's abdomen, the extremely fast spinning tearing apart the rest of the robot's body in mere seconds. Scraps of metal flew everywhere, but there was no ensuing explosion like there had been with the two other robot's that Cainto had fought previously. He had begun to wonder why, when suddenly he heard a large explosion and the ground beneath GaoCeoGar's feet began to shake. "What now?!"
Larean giggled. "Sorry about that, Cainto!" She smiled, the red glow of her left hand engulfing her cockpit while she tore the wings off of her bird-like robot opposition. The robot was crashed into the ground; probably the cause of the ground-shaking explosion, since Larean had apologized for it. The robot was in smithereens, laying in a large crater that seemed to have avoided most of the large buildings surrounding the area. The robot had also already started glowing orange, prompting Larean to begin tearing it into even smaller pieces. When she saw the orange glow around the remaining whole pieces of the robot begin to shine extremely bright, she shot off into the sky, more than barely escaping the large explosion that followed. It almost seemed to her as though The Power had self destructed the robot; to protect it's secrets from the enemy, or something of the sort.
Cainto slowly approached GaoKraGar, GaoCeoGar almost completely undamaged from his battle. "That was way to easy considering what we've done in the past.." He told Larean, joining up with her and heading westward. "I still can't shake the feeling their evaluating not only my power, but yours now too." He looked down, beginning to go into a deep thought.
"It's okay, Cainto," Larean smiled, speeding up a little more, but staying at GaoCeoGar's side, "it doesn't matter what they're doing, what matters is if we beat them or not!" She optimistically told him. Cainto didn't reply; he simply raised his head up again, an excited smile on his face, and sped up towards the third robot with GaoKraGar.