I'd love to say that the Atlas looked at the slime demon, reared up, and obliterated it with one of its shockwave stomps.

I'd be lying.

Also, what actually ended up happening was much cooler than that.

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The slime demon roared loudly as soon as I heard the report telling me my titan had finished construction. Apparently, it had heard it too, or figured out that it had come online some other way, because it changed direction and put itself on a collision course with the titan. As it did so, it released a loud roar that caused my radar to screw up and generate blips that didn't exist. Somehow, it was jamming my radar.

Also, I noticed that it was emitting a different signal from its radar jamming roar, but it didn't seem important, so I ignored it.

Not wanting to wait for the giant slime demon to destroy my titan, I sent the Atlas on a collision course with the slime demon. It started meandering through the wall of factories, turrets, and actual walls I'd set up to protect it from the onslaught of angry wildlife, but it was slow going.

Note to self: make Atlas faster, that thing is way too slow.

Anyways, just as the Atlas managed to get past the last set of defenses, the slime demon arrived to meet it. The creature stared at its opponent for a moment, then roared as loud as it could. This one had no special effects tied to it, so I assumed this was just meant for intimidation.

Either way, it made for a really cool sight.

Now I wish I had music.

[ACCESSING MUSIC LIBRARY]

Wait, this thing had a music library?

I wonder if it had rock songs.

[OPENING 'ROCK' SUB FOLDER]

Oh. Wow, the progenitors really did think of everything. All of the rock songs that I saw were names I recognized. Going off the sample sections I listened too, they were the real deal, and not alien songs that just ended up having the same names as ones on Earth. Now I was starting to wonder if ROB had a hand in this.

I looked at them for a moment, before making my selection.

[SOUNDTRACK START: METAL GEAR RISING OST: RULES OF NATURE]

What?! It's a good song!

The slime demon roared one more time, before charging at my titan. My titan responded with a stomp attack, sending out a giant blast wave toward the demon. Somehow, it didn't harm my forces. Cool.

Unfortunately, it did only minor damage to the demon. To be fair, it obliterated it's escorts, including a few flying creatures that made the mistake of flying too low.

Unfortunately, the ones that did survive immediately ascended and started shooting acid at the Atlas. Being an Atlas titan, it couldn't hit them back.

I really needed to fix that. I mean, the Seraphim fixed that problem for the Ythona.

Anyways, I sent in a few fighters to deal with the enemy ones. The ensuing dogfight was awesome to behold, but it paled in comparison to the behemoth battle that was taking place on the ground.

The Slime Demon had collided with that Atlas, which responded by kicking it with its front legs. And no I don't mean it tried to use its stomp attack on the demon, it actually used the legs to kick it. Who would have known it could do that?

Unfortunately, the demon adapted and started hitting it back with punches. It even used a head-butt to stun it, which I didn't know was possible, nor that it would be effective against a titan. THEN, it started kneeing the titan in the gut. The machine seemed to be sagging forward and, going by my sensors, was at about 50% health, which dropped by 5% every hit it.

When it was down to 25%, the demon pulled back its left arm, which started glowing. Oh great, it was going to hit me with a burning punch. This was it, GG, end of the line for me.

[EMERCENY CLOSE QUARTER COMBAT ROUTINES ACTIVATED]

Huh? What?

The slime demon unleashed its finishing blow...

Only for my Atlas to catch the punch with its right hand.

Then it responded with a punch of its own to the demon's chest. The blow knocked the monster over, giving my titan a chance to get back on its legs.

The demon soon righted itself and let out another ear-splitting roar...

Only to be silenced when my Atlas leapt on top of it.

Which ended up reducing its health to 15%. Ouch.

THe demon manged to free itself, then began punching my titan. This time, though, the Atlas fought back and gave as good as it got. Unlike before, the demon actually seemed to be weakening from this onslaught, because it seemed to grow more sluggish and was losing a lot of blood.

Said blood was bright purple of all colors. Now I wanted the beast dead even more than before for shaming the Cat in the Hat.

The fight finally ended when my titan was at 5% health. At that point, the demon simply collapsed, unable to get back up. It certainly wasn't out of the fight though: it tried to chew on my titan's legs.

The Atlas responded with its usual attack, only this time, it was aimed right at the monster's head.

The giant goresplosion that followed (yes I'm calling it a goresplosion, don't judge me) was more than enough evidence that the thing was dead and never coming back.

OH YEAH! I DID IT! THE BEAST IS DEAD! NOTHING COULD STOP ME NOW!

[WARNING: LARGE ARMY OF UNIDENTIFIED ORGANISMS DETECTED]

Crap.

I turned my titan to face the oncoming army of bugs. It wasn't in the best shape, but it might be able to by me time to build a new army.

But, to mu surprise, the beasts seemed confused. They looked around, in a manner almost as if they were waking up from a dream.

They stared at my titan for a moment.

Then they ran.

Huh. Why'd they do that?

Then my attention turned back toward the utterly demolished corpse of the slime demon.

An idea began to formulate in my head.

Time to start studying my enemy.

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