The Prison Break
It was an average day. At the maverick hunters base we got a call about a prison break. Some mavericks that were transferred to a more secure prison had broken free, and were now escaping in their stolen prison bus. We were to intercept them. By we I mean Zero my comrade in arms, and Sigma our leader.
We were beamed to the sight where the bus was, and the chase was on. We all have rockets in the soles of our feet, and can run at speeds exceeding one hundred miles per hour. The bus was still disappearing around a corner of the crowded city street. We gave chase, gaining on it easily.
The bus was leaving a wide path of destruction, and we had to stop it before innocents were hurt. With a flying leap I leapt on the side of a building. My boots defied gravity, and stuck to the side. I began to slide, but I had plenty of traction, and I didn't plan on staying here. I leapt forward, and jumping from building to building I caught up to the bus faster than the others.
I landed on the roof. My boots more than able to grip the top of it. My right hand, being a robotic prosthetic was incredibly strong, and I could crush neo-titanium in my hand.
I dug my fingers into the metal of the roof of the bus, and ripped a hole in it. Sigma and Zero were catching up.
Before I could even think of what to do, my sensors beeped. A red blinking light caught my attention on my visor that was over my eyes. The red blinking light turned into a figure, as Vile came tearing around the corner.
Vile in actuality is similar to me. He is my height, he has a purple and blue body, with a touch of silver. He has a shoulder mounted energy blaster, and is all machine. But that is not why he is considered to be the most dangerous maverick in existence. He rides in an armored carrier. He controls it's every move from a protective cockpit. It towers over all of us, and is not only tall, but wide as well. Constructed of a alloy that is stronger than my, Sigma's and Zero's armor put together.
The carrier was made for one purpose, and one purpose alone. To be a war machine. It is bustling with weapons of mass destruction, missile launchers, flame throwers, and laser cannons. Then it's two arms can wreck buildings in one punch. They are powerful, and massive. His whole hand being the size of me.
On the ground, outside of his carrier, I could take Vile on. But since he has that carrier that my shots cant even penetrate the armor of, he has an unfair advantage.
He was rushing toward the prison bus. Despite it's size, that carrier of his is quite fast. It was nothing more than a jet black blur with silver streaks that were his hands. He crossed the distance to the bus in no time, and gave it one fell uppercut.
The huge bus was thrown up into the air, and cartwheeled across the road. I was thrown clear of it, and it came crashing down, hard.
I slid along the road for a long stretch. There was the grating sound of metal upon the hard ferocrete, as the armor on my back was scraped, and torn.
Once I came to a stop, I got to my feet. Sigma and Zero joined me. The prison bus lay in a wrecked heap not to far off. We stood our ground against Vile.
Vile rushed at us with his surprising speed. Before we could even raise our blasters, he slammed his giant shoulder into Zero. He went flying backwards. Then he wound up and swung strait at me. His metal fist struck me in the center, and I flew into the side of a nearby building. I hit hard, then slumped to the ground.
When I looked up, a strange thing happened, Sigma was standing next to Vile, and Vile wasn't attacking him. They were standing side by side.
"It is time to stop living the lie." Sigma said. "The maverick mastermind we have been hunting for so long, trying to find out who. I am him." Sigma said. "And my first act as my true self will be to get rid of you two!"
"Sigma!" Yelled Zero. He came rushing forward, his blaster already throwing out tons of energy. Zero likes small charged bursts.
Sigma was the only one who could have fought Vile on his own, and won. He was the most powerful. Zero was next in line. He could have fought Vile to a standoff, and when training, he would surprise Sigma sometimes. I was last of our particular unit. I was the weakest, but the weakest on a team of the most powerful robots in the world is something. And I had the most human mind. And humans while being dumb sometimes, have extreme ingenuity, reasoning, and fast thinking. Robots while they can process information much faster than humans, do everything in a by the book basis. I was wild, the X factor. That's how I got my name, X.
With Sigma and Zero dukeing it out, that left me to handle Vile. Zero and Sigma were close. I think he felt betrayed, and would make it his personal honor to destroy him.
Vile, in his stupid carrier rushed at me. I jumped to my feet. Calculating the distance until he came too close, I waited. When he got as close as I dared to let him, I fired the powerful metal, and real muscles in my legs, and jumped high into the air. Clearing Vile's carrier by a good ten feet.
A pair of missiles came flying out of shoulder mounted launchers, and began to track me. I finished my jump, hit the ground, rolled, and snapped off two quick shots. The shots took the missiles head on, and they detonated early. I was on my feet in a flash.
I rushed at Vile. I charged up my X-buster. I ran in close to him, almost into the range of his arms. I let go my super charged blast. Balls of pink energy went forth in waves, and slammed into him, hard. His charge was almost complexly, stopped. Almost. But I wasted no time. I ran right inside his range while his vision was distorted, and put my blaster right up to his carriers arm pit. I fired a semi charged blast right into the joints, point blank range.
Since I wasn't the strongest maverick hunter, I had to make sure I was the smartest. I had long since studied Vile's carrier, and his style of fighting. While he had missile launchers, and laser cannons, he preferred to use his arms, because they were the strongest weapon he possessed. Then I studied the weak points. When fighting robots, I learned that hacking at the joints was preferable to shooting at the body. Joints are the weakest part of a robot. So I had marked all the joints, and pressure points on Vile's carrier.
The blast did not take his arm off totally, but it did rip armor to shreds, and damage the joint thoroughly.
I jumped back out of his range, and fired a series of small blasts. Then my situation got so much better. And sarcasm was not something that was taken out of my mind when I became mostly machine.
The wall of the prison bus suddenly glowed red, and exploded outward. All the mavericks inside the bus leaped out of the hole they formed. There was one shaped like a flacon with a pair of wings attached to his back, and a blaster on one arm. Another was tall, thin with a huge pair of horns on his head. Another was shaped like an armadillo, with a blaster that appeared out of his forehead. There was one like a giant green chameleon, and one like a penguin. There was an octopus, and a mammoth. And one looked like a big monkey, sort of, he didn't really have a definite shape. All looked like a tough fight, and I still had Vile to attend with.
The mavericks instead of fleeing, decided to come right at me. I turned away from vile, and began speeding towards the oncoming mavericks.
I saw the targets reflected in my visor. I saw my computer lock onto them, and designate a number to each one. I began charging up my X- buster. I hit a button on my wrist. I switched my weapon systems over to homing missiles.
When my X-buster was fully charged, I let fly a charged blast of homing missile. Not one, but fifteen missiles exploded from me. All the weapon systems installed in my structure have a second form that requires massive energy.
The missiles slammed into the mavericks, and all of them were knocked to the ground. Their charge stopped, I began to pick them off one by one. I continued my charge. It kept me away from Vile, and it presented less of a target for any of the mavericks that could start firing at me even though they were down.
I singled out the one with the pair of wings. He was in the air when my missile hit, so he recovered with out hitting the ground. I switched back to normal fire, and nailed him in the chest with a partially charged blast. He tumbled down, and slammed into the ground with a loud smack.
The maverick shaped like an armadillo fired blast after blast from the pop up cannon that appeared in his forehead. I kept running, dodging his shots. The maverick with the horns suddenly leapt in front of me. He was quite fast, even faster than me.
He lowered his head, and ran at me with his horns aimed at my midsection. With a split second decision, I retracted my blaster, and brought out my right hand. I grabbed his horns and swung him around. I swept him off his feet, and hurled him into one of the blasts from the armadillo one. The energy was absorbed into his entire body, he glowed white and all his limbs shook.
The huge mammoth took a run at me next. Charged at me with surprising speed, despite being as tall as a small building. From his trunk he spat out a wall of fire. The inferno came rocketing at me. I leapt into a back flip, to avoid the wall of flames. The one shaped like a falcon came swooping out of the air, and grabbed me by the shoulders with his talons. He flapped his wings, and also fired the rocket in-between his wings to fly higher. Once he was several thousand feet up, he tossed me up into air, and began his plummet to the ground. Forgetting about me even before I stopped going up, and began to fall downwards. Mavericks are all the same, they don't care who they kill. And I was just another half breed. Not enough machine for them to consider me a brother, and just enough human to kill.
I began to fall. Reached peak falling velocity for this planets gravity. And even with my armor, and enhanced durability, there was no way I could survive a fall like that.
But I reacted with a cool, calm mind. I knew that while the fall would be what actually physically made my life go out, it would be panicking that would kill me. I righted my self so my feet were pointing down, with microbursts from jets located all over my body. The good thing about being mostly machine is that I can control them with my mind, and that is almost second nature to me. I think I need to right my self, and the jets come on. If I was totally human I would need to be working complicated joysticks, and controls.
Now with my feet pointed down I had a chance to survive. I zeroed in on the tallest building in my falling radius. It just happened to be right underneath me. My HUD build into my visor zoomed in, and automatically ranged it. It was seven hundred feet away, and coming fast. I braced my self. Even if I hit the top of the building, the fall would still be fatal. But I knew that, and I had no intention of hitting it. I angled my body, so my back was to the side of the building, but my legs were behind my body. I angled my fall into a gentle slope, so I would hit the side of the building gently.
My feet were the first to hit, and my magnetic boots clamped on. They were designed to give me a second or two if I miscalculated a jump. They couldn't even hold my weight normally. And they definitely wouldn't stop me at maximum falling velocity. But I had planned for that too. Because stopping was stopping. At this speed if I came to a sudden stop, I didn't have to hit the ground to die. What little internal organs I had left would impact my metal superstructure very hard, and my circuits would do the same. So I was counting on the fact that I would slide.
I slid down the side of the building with a metallic scraping sound. I was slowing gradually, but the friction was intense. My feet began to burn, even through my armor. And some circuits in there would definitely be fried. But I would survive.
My speed was diminishing rapidly, and now that I had a degree of control, I took this time to charge up my X-buster. But as usual, another problem would present itself. I was slowing down yes, but I was running out of building to slow down on. I was still at a damaging speed, and the ground was nearing.
I leapt forward. Forcing my body to go as high as it would go. This killed my downward momentum. When I went as high as I could, and began to fall again, I started to reach maximum falling velocity. But I wasn't high enough in the air to do any damage now. And my jump had gotten rid of all my speed from my fall.
I rolled into a front flip, and hit the button on my wrist console for electricity burst. As I descended on the surprised mavericks, I let the fully charged burst go. A wall of solid electricity went forward, as wide as a building. It his all of the mavericks, including Vile, and sent them falling to the ground.
I hit the ground with an earth shattering crash. I bent my knees to absorb the shock, but I still cracked the ferocrete. I was up and running before any of them could recover. I charged at the one who had the wings. I fired shot after shot strait at him. The small energy particles hit him one after the other. He crashed to the ground.
The one with the horns was up, he really was fast. He raced at me. I stopped dead to hold my ground against him. I was bracing for another take down on him, when the ground between my feet began to move. The one that looked like a chameleon, he had camouflaged himself to look exactly like the street. His tail whipped around my leg, and pulled me off my feet. I was thrown right into the charge of the one with the horns. A deep gash was cut in my armor by the horns, and I was tossed to the ground, hard.
But I was up before you knew it. However I heard a noise behind me. Before I could turn, I was hit by a sticky substance. It made my feet stick to the ground, and gummed up my joints. I could barley move.
"He's mine." Growled the monkey resembling one. He slammed his fists into the ground. Two bolts of electricity began to travel along the ground towards me. They merged into one large bolt, and slammed into me. The sticky substance, (I learned later that it was oil from the mammoth looking one,) prevented me from falling, or I would have. I screamed in very human pain. But the bolts of electricity did one good thing for me. They made the oil harden. I summed up every ounce of strength I had, and burst out of the now shell like oil.
"You fool, you released him!" Shouted the falcon looking one. He raised his arm. And on it was a blaster that looked like mine, only I couldn't tell if it could retract or not. But instead of shooting out energy bursts, a very, very powerful fan inside created a tornado, that was lying on it's side.
The tornado came flying at me. It hit me dead on, and sent me flying. I crashed into the ferocrete wall of the nearest building. The walls crumbled around me. I could hear howls of laughter coming from outside.
Once again, I summed up every ounce of strength I had. I stood up with explosive force. The rubble surrounding me was thrown away.
"You want to play it soft, we'll play it soft, but you want to play it hard, we'll play it hard!" I said to them.
They weren't as cocky as before, seeing me explode from the rubble like that. But they still liked their numerically superior advantage. But Vile I noticed chose to watch the mavericks fight me, instead of taking a more active part. He also wasn't interfering in Sigma's and Zero's fight. Oh well, less for us to handle.
I rushed at all of them. Charging up my X-buster all the way. The armadillo one rolled himself into a ball, and came hauling towards me. The little spikes and bumps on his armor would chew up mine real quick.
But I had a plan in mind. I rushed strait at him. When we were only a few feet away, I jumped into a front handspring. My hands landed however, not on the ground, but on him. I dug my strong metal fingers deep into his armor, bending , and even penetrating it in places. The force of suddenly stopping an object that was rolling so fast was tremendous. But I managed.
I flipped around, still holding the ball that was a maverick shaped like an armadillo. Once I was on my feet I hurled the ball. It flew through the air, and slammed into the monkey resembling one. He fell backwards and took the mammoth down with him. I wouldn't have stopped there, but a sudden tentacle appeared behind me. It belonged to the octopus shaped one. He seemed to have some trouble moving outside of water, so he didn't attack until now, when he had the advantage of surprise. So he thought.
Quick as a flash I hit the button for shield on my wrist console, and discharged all the energy I had stored up. It all went into a shield projection around me. The tentacles hit the shield, and began to drain the energy from it. I knew it wouldn't have lasted long anyway, but I thought it would last a lot longer.
But quick decisions were what I lived for. Instead of standing there, and waiting for the tentacles to absorb the shield, then absorb my energy until I was an empty shell, I jumped backwards, and slammed into the maverick. Knocking him down. The force drained what was left of the shield's energy. But I flipped over the maverick and landed on the other side. I spun to face the rest of the mavericks.
They were all charging towards me. I fired the shield weapon with out charging up. The result was a low power shield that would only take one hit before it's energy was dissipated. It was ovalish like the one that had protected me, so it rolled. The first one I fired rolled towards the one with the horns. He hit it, it's energy dissipated, and he went down hard.
I fired another, but this time I caught it. I hurled it, this way I could make it go a lot faster than if I just shot it. It went forward, and tripped the chameleon one. He crashed down even harder than the other one.
The octopus was on his feet. His tentacles once again reaching for me to drain my energy. I fired another shield right into the tips of his tentacles. They absorbed the energy, and were stopped in their progress towards me. Faster than anyone else, save the one with the horns, I flipped to cutters by hitting the appropriate button on my wrist console. I fired three blades. The boomerang shaped knives sailed out. And cut the tips off of six of the tentacles. They also continued to sail onwards. One slammed in to the shoulder joint of the mammoth, the other hit the leg of the armadillo, and the third went towards the stationary Vile. He shot it down with a missile with out even moving.
I decided not to give any of them a chance to recover. I leapt over the damaged octopus, and charged at the ones still standing.
Powering up my X-buster took a lot of time. And in a situation like this, time was something you didn't have a lot of. So Wonderful Dr. Light had build in advanced capacitors. For those of us who are not educated in the ways of electronics. A capacitor can hold an electric charge indefinitely if it needs to. The advanced capacitors could hold exactly the amount of energy it took to charge my X-buster to maximum. And each was about the size of a tiny water bottle, and fit nicely underneath my armor. I had six capacitors, so that meant I could take six fully charged shots with out taking time to charge them. And discharging a capacitor doesn't destroy it. So when I had the time, I could charge them again for later use.
I switched over to electron net. This is a weapon that when fired normally shoots out a ball of electricity, that shorts out electric systems by overloading them. When charged up, it sends out four balls of electricity. The four balls have an extreme voltage. Because of their extreme voltage they generate magnetic fields. Those magnetic fields pull electricity across the open air. So there is a rectangle of nothing but high levels of energy.
I fired, sending the net of energy flying out. It struck five of the mavericks, they fell to the ground screaming.
One of the ones left standing was the one with horns. We rushed at each other. He grabbed his horns and chucked them at me. I quickly switched over to ice. I fired a blast of ice that hit the horns, and froze them, making them fall to the earth. They shattered into a million tiny pieces.
I was dismayed to see new ones sprout onto of his head, as we continued running at each other. In a split second decision, I ducked down, and curled up into a little ball like shape. The maverick hit me hard, and tripped.
I straitened up, as he slid along the ground. I swapped back to cutters. I fired four blades. They went forward, and slammed into the earth, cutting deep through the ferrocrete. They trapped the mavericks hands and legs down.
"One down, seven to go. Then I'll finish with Vile." I said to my self, turning to face the remaining seven mavericks. None of them were looking cocky now.
The one that looked like a penguin slid at me. Sliding along on his belly. I waited for a second, then jumped clear. He jumped to his feet, and began to hurl ice chunks at me. I switched to fire. I sent a steady stream of fire towards him, and took out all the ice chunks coming at me. Once I landed, I rushed at him, the flame thrower still going. He ran away in fright.
The eagle one challenged me. He flew at me, his arm up, ready to send me sprawling with another one of his tornadoes. I switched to ice and fired a quick shot. It hit his arm, and froze the front of his blaster. That forced a back blast. His entire arm was ripped off.
Firing the rockets in my feet, I rushed at him and gave him a cold shoulder. He fell down, and wasn't getting up.
The monkey like one was rushing at me. I discharged another one of my capacitors in order to charge up my X-buster fully. I kept it on ice, and let go a supercharged ice burst. Tiny chunks of ice came out of my blaster, and began to form a shape at my feet. They formed into what was a crude ice sled.
It was a wonder how it was formed. The pieces of ice were heated to they melted together, and formed the sled. I leapt onto it, and pushed off. I began to slide forward with amazing speed. I slammed into the monkey one, knocking him aside. He hit a building and wasn't getting up.
I used my foot to turn me, and went on a collision course with the armadillo, and octopus ones. I slammed into them, and they also were not ready to continue fighting.
All that remained standing were the penguin, the mammoth, and the chameleon. I slammed the ice sled into the chameleon, and he went down, but the sled shattered. It was only good for so much.
The mammoth charged at me. He brought up his trunk, and began hurling fire at me. I switched over to vortex. Like the eagle, I could make a small tornado with my blaster.
I fired the tornado, and it flew strait into the fire, blowing it in every direction, except towards me. The penguin caught the brunt of the fire, and fell down squealing. The tornado passed right through the center of the mammoth. He looked down at the hole that formed there in disbelief. It wasn't as big as the actual tornado. Some of the power was dissipated. But there was defiantly a hole that you could see sky through in the mammoth's belly.
"Seven down, now for Vile." I said to no one.
It was an average day. At the maverick hunters base we got a call about a prison break. Some mavericks that were transferred to a more secure prison had broken free, and were now escaping in their stolen prison bus. We were to intercept them. By we I mean Zero my comrade in arms, and Sigma our leader.
We were beamed to the sight where the bus was, and the chase was on. We all have rockets in the soles of our feet, and can run at speeds exceeding one hundred miles per hour. The bus was still disappearing around a corner of the crowded city street. We gave chase, gaining on it easily.
The bus was leaving a wide path of destruction, and we had to stop it before innocents were hurt. With a flying leap I leapt on the side of a building. My boots defied gravity, and stuck to the side. I began to slide, but I had plenty of traction, and I didn't plan on staying here. I leapt forward, and jumping from building to building I caught up to the bus faster than the others.
I landed on the roof. My boots more than able to grip the top of it. My right hand, being a robotic prosthetic was incredibly strong, and I could crush neo-titanium in my hand.
I dug my fingers into the metal of the roof of the bus, and ripped a hole in it. Sigma and Zero were catching up.
Before I could even think of what to do, my sensors beeped. A red blinking light caught my attention on my visor that was over my eyes. The red blinking light turned into a figure, as Vile came tearing around the corner.
Vile in actuality is similar to me. He is my height, he has a purple and blue body, with a touch of silver. He has a shoulder mounted energy blaster, and is all machine. But that is not why he is considered to be the most dangerous maverick in existence. He rides in an armored carrier. He controls it's every move from a protective cockpit. It towers over all of us, and is not only tall, but wide as well. Constructed of a alloy that is stronger than my, Sigma's and Zero's armor put together.
The carrier was made for one purpose, and one purpose alone. To be a war machine. It is bustling with weapons of mass destruction, missile launchers, flame throwers, and laser cannons. Then it's two arms can wreck buildings in one punch. They are powerful, and massive. His whole hand being the size of me.
On the ground, outside of his carrier, I could take Vile on. But since he has that carrier that my shots cant even penetrate the armor of, he has an unfair advantage.
He was rushing toward the prison bus. Despite it's size, that carrier of his is quite fast. It was nothing more than a jet black blur with silver streaks that were his hands. He crossed the distance to the bus in no time, and gave it one fell uppercut.
The huge bus was thrown up into the air, and cartwheeled across the road. I was thrown clear of it, and it came crashing down, hard.
I slid along the road for a long stretch. There was the grating sound of metal upon the hard ferocrete, as the armor on my back was scraped, and torn.
Once I came to a stop, I got to my feet. Sigma and Zero joined me. The prison bus lay in a wrecked heap not to far off. We stood our ground against Vile.
Vile rushed at us with his surprising speed. Before we could even raise our blasters, he slammed his giant shoulder into Zero. He went flying backwards. Then he wound up and swung strait at me. His metal fist struck me in the center, and I flew into the side of a nearby building. I hit hard, then slumped to the ground.
When I looked up, a strange thing happened, Sigma was standing next to Vile, and Vile wasn't attacking him. They were standing side by side.
"It is time to stop living the lie." Sigma said. "The maverick mastermind we have been hunting for so long, trying to find out who. I am him." Sigma said. "And my first act as my true self will be to get rid of you two!"
"Sigma!" Yelled Zero. He came rushing forward, his blaster already throwing out tons of energy. Zero likes small charged bursts.
Sigma was the only one who could have fought Vile on his own, and won. He was the most powerful. Zero was next in line. He could have fought Vile to a standoff, and when training, he would surprise Sigma sometimes. I was last of our particular unit. I was the weakest, but the weakest on a team of the most powerful robots in the world is something. And I had the most human mind. And humans while being dumb sometimes, have extreme ingenuity, reasoning, and fast thinking. Robots while they can process information much faster than humans, do everything in a by the book basis. I was wild, the X factor. That's how I got my name, X.
With Sigma and Zero dukeing it out, that left me to handle Vile. Zero and Sigma were close. I think he felt betrayed, and would make it his personal honor to destroy him.
Vile, in his stupid carrier rushed at me. I jumped to my feet. Calculating the distance until he came too close, I waited. When he got as close as I dared to let him, I fired the powerful metal, and real muscles in my legs, and jumped high into the air. Clearing Vile's carrier by a good ten feet.
A pair of missiles came flying out of shoulder mounted launchers, and began to track me. I finished my jump, hit the ground, rolled, and snapped off two quick shots. The shots took the missiles head on, and they detonated early. I was on my feet in a flash.
I rushed at Vile. I charged up my X-buster. I ran in close to him, almost into the range of his arms. I let go my super charged blast. Balls of pink energy went forth in waves, and slammed into him, hard. His charge was almost complexly, stopped. Almost. But I wasted no time. I ran right inside his range while his vision was distorted, and put my blaster right up to his carriers arm pit. I fired a semi charged blast right into the joints, point blank range.
Since I wasn't the strongest maverick hunter, I had to make sure I was the smartest. I had long since studied Vile's carrier, and his style of fighting. While he had missile launchers, and laser cannons, he preferred to use his arms, because they were the strongest weapon he possessed. Then I studied the weak points. When fighting robots, I learned that hacking at the joints was preferable to shooting at the body. Joints are the weakest part of a robot. So I had marked all the joints, and pressure points on Vile's carrier.
The blast did not take his arm off totally, but it did rip armor to shreds, and damage the joint thoroughly.
I jumped back out of his range, and fired a series of small blasts. Then my situation got so much better. And sarcasm was not something that was taken out of my mind when I became mostly machine.
The wall of the prison bus suddenly glowed red, and exploded outward. All the mavericks inside the bus leaped out of the hole they formed. There was one shaped like a flacon with a pair of wings attached to his back, and a blaster on one arm. Another was tall, thin with a huge pair of horns on his head. Another was shaped like an armadillo, with a blaster that appeared out of his forehead. There was one like a giant green chameleon, and one like a penguin. There was an octopus, and a mammoth. And one looked like a big monkey, sort of, he didn't really have a definite shape. All looked like a tough fight, and I still had Vile to attend with.
The mavericks instead of fleeing, decided to come right at me. I turned away from vile, and began speeding towards the oncoming mavericks.
I saw the targets reflected in my visor. I saw my computer lock onto them, and designate a number to each one. I began charging up my X- buster. I hit a button on my wrist. I switched my weapon systems over to homing missiles.
When my X-buster was fully charged, I let fly a charged blast of homing missile. Not one, but fifteen missiles exploded from me. All the weapon systems installed in my structure have a second form that requires massive energy.
The missiles slammed into the mavericks, and all of them were knocked to the ground. Their charge stopped, I began to pick them off one by one. I continued my charge. It kept me away from Vile, and it presented less of a target for any of the mavericks that could start firing at me even though they were down.
I singled out the one with the pair of wings. He was in the air when my missile hit, so he recovered with out hitting the ground. I switched back to normal fire, and nailed him in the chest with a partially charged blast. He tumbled down, and slammed into the ground with a loud smack.
The maverick shaped like an armadillo fired blast after blast from the pop up cannon that appeared in his forehead. I kept running, dodging his shots. The maverick with the horns suddenly leapt in front of me. He was quite fast, even faster than me.
He lowered his head, and ran at me with his horns aimed at my midsection. With a split second decision, I retracted my blaster, and brought out my right hand. I grabbed his horns and swung him around. I swept him off his feet, and hurled him into one of the blasts from the armadillo one. The energy was absorbed into his entire body, he glowed white and all his limbs shook.
The huge mammoth took a run at me next. Charged at me with surprising speed, despite being as tall as a small building. From his trunk he spat out a wall of fire. The inferno came rocketing at me. I leapt into a back flip, to avoid the wall of flames. The one shaped like a falcon came swooping out of the air, and grabbed me by the shoulders with his talons. He flapped his wings, and also fired the rocket in-between his wings to fly higher. Once he was several thousand feet up, he tossed me up into air, and began his plummet to the ground. Forgetting about me even before I stopped going up, and began to fall downwards. Mavericks are all the same, they don't care who they kill. And I was just another half breed. Not enough machine for them to consider me a brother, and just enough human to kill.
I began to fall. Reached peak falling velocity for this planets gravity. And even with my armor, and enhanced durability, there was no way I could survive a fall like that.
But I reacted with a cool, calm mind. I knew that while the fall would be what actually physically made my life go out, it would be panicking that would kill me. I righted my self so my feet were pointing down, with microbursts from jets located all over my body. The good thing about being mostly machine is that I can control them with my mind, and that is almost second nature to me. I think I need to right my self, and the jets come on. If I was totally human I would need to be working complicated joysticks, and controls.
Now with my feet pointed down I had a chance to survive. I zeroed in on the tallest building in my falling radius. It just happened to be right underneath me. My HUD build into my visor zoomed in, and automatically ranged it. It was seven hundred feet away, and coming fast. I braced my self. Even if I hit the top of the building, the fall would still be fatal. But I knew that, and I had no intention of hitting it. I angled my body, so my back was to the side of the building, but my legs were behind my body. I angled my fall into a gentle slope, so I would hit the side of the building gently.
My feet were the first to hit, and my magnetic boots clamped on. They were designed to give me a second or two if I miscalculated a jump. They couldn't even hold my weight normally. And they definitely wouldn't stop me at maximum falling velocity. But I had planned for that too. Because stopping was stopping. At this speed if I came to a sudden stop, I didn't have to hit the ground to die. What little internal organs I had left would impact my metal superstructure very hard, and my circuits would do the same. So I was counting on the fact that I would slide.
I slid down the side of the building with a metallic scraping sound. I was slowing gradually, but the friction was intense. My feet began to burn, even through my armor. And some circuits in there would definitely be fried. But I would survive.
My speed was diminishing rapidly, and now that I had a degree of control, I took this time to charge up my X-buster. But as usual, another problem would present itself. I was slowing down yes, but I was running out of building to slow down on. I was still at a damaging speed, and the ground was nearing.
I leapt forward. Forcing my body to go as high as it would go. This killed my downward momentum. When I went as high as I could, and began to fall again, I started to reach maximum falling velocity. But I wasn't high enough in the air to do any damage now. And my jump had gotten rid of all my speed from my fall.
I rolled into a front flip, and hit the button on my wrist console for electricity burst. As I descended on the surprised mavericks, I let the fully charged burst go. A wall of solid electricity went forward, as wide as a building. It his all of the mavericks, including Vile, and sent them falling to the ground.
I hit the ground with an earth shattering crash. I bent my knees to absorb the shock, but I still cracked the ferocrete. I was up and running before any of them could recover. I charged at the one who had the wings. I fired shot after shot strait at him. The small energy particles hit him one after the other. He crashed to the ground.
The one with the horns was up, he really was fast. He raced at me. I stopped dead to hold my ground against him. I was bracing for another take down on him, when the ground between my feet began to move. The one that looked like a chameleon, he had camouflaged himself to look exactly like the street. His tail whipped around my leg, and pulled me off my feet. I was thrown right into the charge of the one with the horns. A deep gash was cut in my armor by the horns, and I was tossed to the ground, hard.
But I was up before you knew it. However I heard a noise behind me. Before I could turn, I was hit by a sticky substance. It made my feet stick to the ground, and gummed up my joints. I could barley move.
"He's mine." Growled the monkey resembling one. He slammed his fists into the ground. Two bolts of electricity began to travel along the ground towards me. They merged into one large bolt, and slammed into me. The sticky substance, (I learned later that it was oil from the mammoth looking one,) prevented me from falling, or I would have. I screamed in very human pain. But the bolts of electricity did one good thing for me. They made the oil harden. I summed up every ounce of strength I had, and burst out of the now shell like oil.
"You fool, you released him!" Shouted the falcon looking one. He raised his arm. And on it was a blaster that looked like mine, only I couldn't tell if it could retract or not. But instead of shooting out energy bursts, a very, very powerful fan inside created a tornado, that was lying on it's side.
The tornado came flying at me. It hit me dead on, and sent me flying. I crashed into the ferocrete wall of the nearest building. The walls crumbled around me. I could hear howls of laughter coming from outside.
Once again, I summed up every ounce of strength I had. I stood up with explosive force. The rubble surrounding me was thrown away.
"You want to play it soft, we'll play it soft, but you want to play it hard, we'll play it hard!" I said to them.
They weren't as cocky as before, seeing me explode from the rubble like that. But they still liked their numerically superior advantage. But Vile I noticed chose to watch the mavericks fight me, instead of taking a more active part. He also wasn't interfering in Sigma's and Zero's fight. Oh well, less for us to handle.
I rushed at all of them. Charging up my X-buster all the way. The armadillo one rolled himself into a ball, and came hauling towards me. The little spikes and bumps on his armor would chew up mine real quick.
But I had a plan in mind. I rushed strait at him. When we were only a few feet away, I jumped into a front handspring. My hands landed however, not on the ground, but on him. I dug my strong metal fingers deep into his armor, bending , and even penetrating it in places. The force of suddenly stopping an object that was rolling so fast was tremendous. But I managed.
I flipped around, still holding the ball that was a maverick shaped like an armadillo. Once I was on my feet I hurled the ball. It flew through the air, and slammed into the monkey resembling one. He fell backwards and took the mammoth down with him. I wouldn't have stopped there, but a sudden tentacle appeared behind me. It belonged to the octopus shaped one. He seemed to have some trouble moving outside of water, so he didn't attack until now, when he had the advantage of surprise. So he thought.
Quick as a flash I hit the button for shield on my wrist console, and discharged all the energy I had stored up. It all went into a shield projection around me. The tentacles hit the shield, and began to drain the energy from it. I knew it wouldn't have lasted long anyway, but I thought it would last a lot longer.
But quick decisions were what I lived for. Instead of standing there, and waiting for the tentacles to absorb the shield, then absorb my energy until I was an empty shell, I jumped backwards, and slammed into the maverick. Knocking him down. The force drained what was left of the shield's energy. But I flipped over the maverick and landed on the other side. I spun to face the rest of the mavericks.
They were all charging towards me. I fired the shield weapon with out charging up. The result was a low power shield that would only take one hit before it's energy was dissipated. It was ovalish like the one that had protected me, so it rolled. The first one I fired rolled towards the one with the horns. He hit it, it's energy dissipated, and he went down hard.
I fired another, but this time I caught it. I hurled it, this way I could make it go a lot faster than if I just shot it. It went forward, and tripped the chameleon one. He crashed down even harder than the other one.
The octopus was on his feet. His tentacles once again reaching for me to drain my energy. I fired another shield right into the tips of his tentacles. They absorbed the energy, and were stopped in their progress towards me. Faster than anyone else, save the one with the horns, I flipped to cutters by hitting the appropriate button on my wrist console. I fired three blades. The boomerang shaped knives sailed out. And cut the tips off of six of the tentacles. They also continued to sail onwards. One slammed in to the shoulder joint of the mammoth, the other hit the leg of the armadillo, and the third went towards the stationary Vile. He shot it down with a missile with out even moving.
I decided not to give any of them a chance to recover. I leapt over the damaged octopus, and charged at the ones still standing.
Powering up my X-buster took a lot of time. And in a situation like this, time was something you didn't have a lot of. So Wonderful Dr. Light had build in advanced capacitors. For those of us who are not educated in the ways of electronics. A capacitor can hold an electric charge indefinitely if it needs to. The advanced capacitors could hold exactly the amount of energy it took to charge my X-buster to maximum. And each was about the size of a tiny water bottle, and fit nicely underneath my armor. I had six capacitors, so that meant I could take six fully charged shots with out taking time to charge them. And discharging a capacitor doesn't destroy it. So when I had the time, I could charge them again for later use.
I switched over to electron net. This is a weapon that when fired normally shoots out a ball of electricity, that shorts out electric systems by overloading them. When charged up, it sends out four balls of electricity. The four balls have an extreme voltage. Because of their extreme voltage they generate magnetic fields. Those magnetic fields pull electricity across the open air. So there is a rectangle of nothing but high levels of energy.
I fired, sending the net of energy flying out. It struck five of the mavericks, they fell to the ground screaming.
One of the ones left standing was the one with horns. We rushed at each other. He grabbed his horns and chucked them at me. I quickly switched over to ice. I fired a blast of ice that hit the horns, and froze them, making them fall to the earth. They shattered into a million tiny pieces.
I was dismayed to see new ones sprout onto of his head, as we continued running at each other. In a split second decision, I ducked down, and curled up into a little ball like shape. The maverick hit me hard, and tripped.
I straitened up, as he slid along the ground. I swapped back to cutters. I fired four blades. They went forward, and slammed into the earth, cutting deep through the ferrocrete. They trapped the mavericks hands and legs down.
"One down, seven to go. Then I'll finish with Vile." I said to my self, turning to face the remaining seven mavericks. None of them were looking cocky now.
The one that looked like a penguin slid at me. Sliding along on his belly. I waited for a second, then jumped clear. He jumped to his feet, and began to hurl ice chunks at me. I switched to fire. I sent a steady stream of fire towards him, and took out all the ice chunks coming at me. Once I landed, I rushed at him, the flame thrower still going. He ran away in fright.
The eagle one challenged me. He flew at me, his arm up, ready to send me sprawling with another one of his tornadoes. I switched to ice and fired a quick shot. It hit his arm, and froze the front of his blaster. That forced a back blast. His entire arm was ripped off.
Firing the rockets in my feet, I rushed at him and gave him a cold shoulder. He fell down, and wasn't getting up.
The monkey like one was rushing at me. I discharged another one of my capacitors in order to charge up my X-buster fully. I kept it on ice, and let go a supercharged ice burst. Tiny chunks of ice came out of my blaster, and began to form a shape at my feet. They formed into what was a crude ice sled.
It was a wonder how it was formed. The pieces of ice were heated to they melted together, and formed the sled. I leapt onto it, and pushed off. I began to slide forward with amazing speed. I slammed into the monkey one, knocking him aside. He hit a building and wasn't getting up.
I used my foot to turn me, and went on a collision course with the armadillo, and octopus ones. I slammed into them, and they also were not ready to continue fighting.
All that remained standing were the penguin, the mammoth, and the chameleon. I slammed the ice sled into the chameleon, and he went down, but the sled shattered. It was only good for so much.
The mammoth charged at me. He brought up his trunk, and began hurling fire at me. I switched over to vortex. Like the eagle, I could make a small tornado with my blaster.
I fired the tornado, and it flew strait into the fire, blowing it in every direction, except towards me. The penguin caught the brunt of the fire, and fell down squealing. The tornado passed right through the center of the mammoth. He looked down at the hole that formed there in disbelief. It wasn't as big as the actual tornado. Some of the power was dissipated. But there was defiantly a hole that you could see sky through in the mammoth's belly.
"Seven down, now for Vile." I said to no one.