North Wind bomb range, undisclosed location
(Skipper's POV)
We were at The North Wind's bomb range in the middle of a desert. The Suborbital Space-plane that brought us here was parked just a few feet away it's engines off. The Robots landed rocket boots first and walked toward the bunkers. Cameras were positioned on top and inside of the bomb range bunkers. One was labeled "Team Penguin" and one was labeled "North Wind" the third that was set aside for the robots was labeled with a binary code.
Rico and Short Fuse were checking their explosive stocks. Rico barfed up several explosives and checked each one before checking his detonator remote. Short Fuse was checking his missiles, bombs, grenades, and underwater nano-charges. Rico then started to examine the various objects that were to be blown up. Tanks, bulletproof glass, jeeps, Humvees, land rovers, Troop carriers, armored cargo trucks, armored money truck, a semi, various sized boulders, steel plates, a boat covered in steel plates, reinforced concrete bunkers, vaults, safes, mines, a Submarine, a oil tanker train car, concrete blocks, a trailer home, a RV, 12 different household objects, and 12 pieces of construction equipment. Rico then examined one of the giant heavily fortified fortresses that he was supposed to breach.
"Rico got this," Kowalski said.
"Explosions are his specialty," Private said.
"We got this in the bag boys," I said, "Rico's been exploding stuff since before Short Fuse was born!"
"Which admittedly wasn't that long ago," Classified said.
"HEY!" Short Fuse said.
"Classified," Eva said, "Rico is so good at explosives that it's scary."
"He's crazy when it comes to explosives," Corporal said smiling, "So adorable... cute and cuddly..."
"Corporal!" Classified said, "stay professional!"
"Right sir!" Corporal said with a salute, "I'm Professional Bear, No."
"No?" Classified said.
"No, yeah?" Corporal said.
"Yes?" Classified said.
"Yes, no?" Corporal said.
"Argh!" Classified said.
"Are we talking like Pirates now, no?" Corporal said.
"Nevermind," Classified said walking away.
"Lutefisk?" Corporal asked holding up a jar of bad smelling month old fish.
"No thank you," I said politely.
Corporal then offers some to Classified who politely declined while trying not to vomit.
Rockgut walks up to a podium and taps the microphone, "Greetings coach potatoes," He said, "To the next event."
"This is another new event devised by the S.A.M Award planning board," Rockgut said, "The Explode-off. Where competitors compete to blown up as many objects within the time limit... the course record is 35 within the five minute time limit. Be careful if you run out of explosives... your turn will end regardless of how much time is left."
"Also once you make an attempt to destroy an object you can not go back to it... you also can't skip objects. If you make a attempt to destroy an object that fails... then they won't be counted to your total and you must move on to the next object... no exceptions."
"One turn per team," Rockgut said.
"Now let's get started," Rockgut said, "Representing Team Penguin... Rico. Representing North Wind... Short Fuse. Representing Robo-team... Agent-bot B."
"Robo-team is first," Rockgut said.
Turn 1: Robo-team
"Three. Two. ONE. Begin!"
Agent-bot B raced forward and placed a explosive device one of the three Tanks. Agent-bot hit a button on a screen on it's arm which caused the Tank to explode the depleted uranium armor plates flying everywhere. Unfortunately it miscalculated the shock-wave and was destroyed.
"Agent-bot B blow itself up," Rockgut said, "Zero points!"
Crews removed all the objects with Robo-team stamped on them. The clock is then reset ready to countdown from five minutes.
Turn 2: North Wind
Short Fuse destroyed one of the remaining tanks with the Underwater nano-charges. He then destroyed the pane of bulletproof glass with a missile and the jeep, Humvee, and land-rover with grenades. An explosive device finished off the troop carrier and a mine destroyed the cargo truck. A RPG destroyed the armored money truck and the same explosive he used to take out a octopus in Venice to destroy the semi-truck. Short Fuse then went up to the various sized boulders and used TNT and gunpowder to destroy the small, medium, large, and extra large boulders.
The Seal looks up at the clock and then goes over to the next object. Short Fuse destroys the steel plate and the boat with C-4 and then destroys the bunker with a missile. Short Fuse blows the safe with a small bomb and destroys the vault with more nano-charges. Dynamite made quick work of the mines, submarine, oil tanker, and blocks. Short Fuse went to destroy the trailer home only to find that he was out of explosives.
The clock stops and a bullhorn goes off.
"And we're done!" Rockgut said, "North Wind destroyed 22 objects in 3 minutes. That doesn't beat the record but it does mean they're closing in on Robo-team. 22 points to North Wind! 72 total points."
Turn 3: Team Penguin.
Rico quickly destroys all 22 of the objects Short Fuse did in 2 minutes. Rico rolled a round cartoon bomb which destroys both the Trailer and the RV in one explosion. Rico uses TNT to destroy all twelve of the household objects. Rico takes a second to study the twelve pieces of construction equipment and managed to destroy them all by throwing explosives everywhere and repeatedly hitting his detonator.
Rico hacks up a Missile with Launch platform and blows the door off the fortress. Rico then hacks up a MOAB(mother of all bombs)
"Where did he get that?" Kowalski said.
"At least he didn't pick the Nuke," I said.
"You have a nuke!" Classified said.
"Rico does," I said, "I don't know where half of the stuff he has in there comes from."
"That's not good," Eva said.
"MOAB's are not illegal in this contest," Rockgut said.
The Fortress and the other two not destroyed fortresses and all remaining not destroyed objects are destroyed.
"Team Penguins just destroyed 50 items with only two seconds left," Rockgut said, "and since he destroyed the remaining items of North Wind and Robo-team he scored a extra... 77 points! Bringing the total points for this round to 117 points! The Penguins are now in first place!"
"Yes!" Kowalski said.
"Go Rico!" Private said.
"Well played," Short Fuse said.
"Now with three events done; The Penguins are first with a total of 117 points, Robo-team is second with 108 points, and North Wind is last with 72! On to the next event!"
"We may need to accelerate some things," Rockgut said as he walked away.
"Hmm..." I said, "that sounded ominous."
"I told you," Kowalski said.
"Not now Kowalski paranoia is my job," I said.
"Right," Kowalski said.
"Let see what the planning board has in store for us next," I said.
Meanwhile
(Ultima Pentron's POV)
"You failed?" I said.
"Sir Agent-bot B failed to calculate the explosive shock-wave properly and was destroyed," Agent-bot A said.
"Agent-bot F," I said, "is the New Agent-bot A! And You are now the new Agent bot F!"
Agent-bot C and Agent-E watched as Agent-bot B's deactivated body is piled on top of Agent-bot D. The Scientist Dalek disintegrated the destroyed robots.
"The plan isn't working," The Heavy Assault Unit said.
"What's the next event?"
"The next event is survival your metalness," The Elite Unit said.
"Excellent," I said turning to The Cyber-dalek and last of The Cyber-masters.
"You two!" I said, "take The Heavy Assault Unit and shake up the survival event!"
"Rockgut!" I said as the mind-controlled penguin approached, "tell the contestants that their goal is to escape the jungle and it's hazards... but don't mention the cyber-surprises!"
"Of course sir that should liven up the competition!" Rockgut said as he left.
"Everything is falling into place," Davros said.
"Deploying Special Weapon's Dalek!" The Supreme Dalek screamed.
"Remote controlling Dalek shuttle," The Strategist said as it plugged into the battle computer.
(end of chapter five)