AN: Well, time for another chapter of this madness. Sorry if this isn't as happy go lucky as some of my other chapters, but, I've been up since 3 am the day of typing, its 10:40pm as of starting, and I have had a grandmother in the hospital getting her leg amputated. Not so cheerful right now, and this is mainly to get my mind off my current family affairs. So, once more, to my madness. (Side note, yes, the title and several names are in Latin. Translations will be provided at the end.)
Sly 5:
Return of the Thievious Racconus
Ch17 OPERATION PHEONIX
Part 4
Belli Inter Titanus Prelude
Sly's POV: I was standing beside the door we were supposed to enter, currently grappling with and Impulse that had manage to sneak up on me. While Shadow's virus had made them uncontrollable, they were still capable of tactics and sneak attacks. Just as I managed to throw it down the hall and reach my sword, Shadow came around the corner. Before I could warn him, the robot had recovered and was swinging its blade around on him. He didn't even try to dodge. He just grabbed the sword and swung the robot into the wall that led to the hanger, smashing the mech through the wall and out the other end of the hanger. That was new. The wall was made of the same armor as the exterior plates of the fortress and it to much bigger hits than that. That and his new voice told me something was very off about him, even more so than normal
"Surprised Sly? I've been holding back what I can do to minimize damage. The delay forced me to go to about 10% of max. And the voice comes with the power. Again, the melodramatics of it are a bonus. And don't worry, I got that ruby you needed as well." I began to hold out my hand for it, but he stopped me. "We ain't out of this deathtrap yet, and I don't want to have to bail you out of a flashback induced paralysis" I had to agree that that would be bad
Shadow's POV: "And now to get what this has been for," I said as I want up to the hole. "The Supreme Robotic Warmachine Unit-01, Machina Numen-Imperator!"
Sitting in a tank of a rapidly hardening red liquid was our prize. At 240ft, it was a truly impressive sight. The body was the same as the rest of the robots that Sly had seen in Li's arsenal, but this far more visually impressive. The legs below the knee began with a 30ft long foot, styled like a large combat boot that's toe was a spike, painted in red and green flames. Past the ankle was pretty much a block in the same colors, save for several lines for unknown purposes and the spike like knee plate that went up another 10ft past the knee, ending at the joint. The upper legs were cylinders, a red tinted gray, with a ball joint at the hip. Past the hip, the body was white and fairly rectangular, until half way up, where it began to bulge out slightly into a wedge shape til it came to about 12ft out from the body. Here, a large green circle, about 6ft across was prominently displayed beside two large heat vents. Above them , the body flattened back out. The shoulders were about a foot below the head, and were large black spheres, with a golden 3ft spike jutting out and curved back. The arms were plain, two white rectangles connected via joints, with a five fingered hand at the end, and several more odd lines along them. The head was remarkably similar to Shadow's: a guard fully covering the lower face, a green visor covered the eyes, and an angular samurai-like helmet topped with a golden V. Two hilts ware attached to a binder on its waist, and a large shield was attached to the left arm, completing the mech.
At least, it it was completed. On the left leg, the knee guard was missing. The head only had half of the V attached. The left shoulder, indeed, the entire left arm was gone, with interior hydraulics and wiring exposed. All over the body and legs were swaths of missing armor, with the interior workings peeking out through the holes.
"Shadow," Sly began," just what is that monster?"
"That Sly, is going to be, when completed," that brought Sly's attention to the incompleteness," one of my trump cards in my long battle with Li. Not everything in her arsenal is as small as what you've seen, indeed, this whole fortress pales in comparison to some of the monsters she has unleashed in the past."
Sly became noticeably agitated. How, after all, could things like this go unnoticed, even with that barrier he had seen. Surely someone would see the wreckage, the carnage, even just the tremors.
I muttered under my breath, "You'll know sooner or latter." Then, raising my voice to more audible levels, "Time for our escape. Best hurry. That liquid is a fast hardening cement. Give it a few minutes and it will freeze every joint and circuit run
the Imperator has." I began to step forward, and felt the filament snap.
Sly's POV: Suddenly, Shadow, lunged back and threw me at the mech, the hatch barely opening on the chest for me to slam inside. I could just see him dart in and the fireball coming closer as darkness stole my vision.
Li's POV: As the Epsilon rode the elevator to the surface, I could feel the vibration resound throughout the fortress. The haywire mechs were ripping it to pieces in the mass firefight, and it was barely able to stay aloft. Then, a much larger rumble could be felt through the fortress. The nuclear scuttling charges in the experimental hanger had just gone off. Maybe it had done some good, but Li doubted it, as the armor of the SRW had thwarted every effort she had made to crack it, and Shadow was no different. Sly, however...
These thoughts were ended when a gout of flame burst through the fortress as the hanger vented the blast trough one of the many holes that infernal fighter was still putting in the fortress. And ridding the blast front was her foe, the incomplete SRW. The machine crashed down in front of her, still unpowered, and with chunks of hardened Bakelite clinging to it. Seeing the chance to rid herself of her foe, she unlimbered a bladed from Epsilon's back, and prepared to stab it into the heart of her foe.
Then, suddenly, though she had no radio of any type turned of, she could hear it. A simple guitar chord, followed by a single line of a song:
"I don't wanna know why,
Everybody ready,
Lets get it on!"
Madwoman vs. Mysterious Hero
A Battle of Titans will soon
occur. Find out what happens
next chapter!
AN: Well, sorry for the cliffhanger, but I wanted to get this out soon, so her we have it, chapter 17! And besides, I wanted to devote a full chapter to this fight. And as promised, here are the translations for the little bit of Latin (and it will be explained latter)
The title: Battle of Titans
Machina Numen-Imperator: Machine God-Emperor
And as I stated in the first autors note, things are not going so well in my family. This is after a few days, so, she has lived through it, but my whole family is still running around in a panic, so if I go missing for awhile, I am (probably) okay, just unable to type. Well, this is one slightly somber Fanus, signing off once more.