Chapter 33

Clyde rushed towards the group of apocalypses as they prepared to smashed him with their iron hands. Five apocalypses attack Clyde at the same time, but he quickly dodged the attack and appeared between them. Without wasting more time, Clyde used the 'Desperado', hitting all of them. But strangely, they didn't fall down. They didn't even give the smallest reaction. "What? Desperado was ineffective!?" Clyde quickly pulled himself off the crowd, but the giant apocalypse punch nearly hit his right leg when he tried to jump.

"Damn! He almost got me!!" Clyde attacked the chasing giant using his bullet shower. The giant apocalypse fastened his punches, nearly hitting Clyde every time they were close enough. "Clyde!" Martina dashed towards the mass while bombarding the apocalypses with her Gate Keeper, but the result was same, no effect. Four apocalypses tried to punched her, but she was quick to avoid all the attacks and stepped backwards carefully.

Clyde, who didn't want to be beaten up, aimed his revolver to the giant apocalypse's right arm after another near blow and hit it with 'Bull's Eye', completely destroying it. "Bull's eye!" Clyde shouted as he stepped backwards quickly. But much to his dismay, he received one quick punch from the giant robot which sent him flying and crashed the wall behind him.

"Aaakh!" Clyde coughed some blood as he tried to rose. '"Snake Eyes!" Clyde dashed towards his opponent. Giant apocalypse shoots some lasers from his eyes, but Clyde dodged it with his speed. Once he got closer to the robot, he shot Apocalypse's left leg with the 'Cracker', giving it some crack. Apocalypse quickly threw another lasers, but the gunslinger's anticipation was much quicker as he avoid the laser again.

"You're a decent fighter. I must give you that" Giant apocalypse praised his opponent for his effort. "Thanks, but that won't stop me from killing you!" Clyde dashed again as giant apocalypse ordered his three balls like device to surround him. Clyde threw them a piercing shot, but magically the bullets stopped and dropped right in front of the ball devices.

"What!? How!?" Clyde quickly ran backwards as he attacked the gigantic robot with his bullet shower, but again the bullets stopped and fell as they were about to reached the ball devices. Clyde narrowed his eyes seeing his attacks failed again. Giant apocalypse used this chance to order the ball devices to surround the gunslinger.

The ball devices quickly surrounded the shocked gunslinger when Clyde tried to ran backwards. But suddenly he couldn't move his body. "The devices..form a magnetic field!?! Is that why the bullets couldn't touch him?! And now it's holding me?!" Clyde desperately tried to free himself to no avail. Before he realized, the giant apocalypse gave him another smash and sent him out of the engine room. "Aaaaaaah!!" Blood splattered from his body as he fell to the floor.

Martina wasn't much better, a dozen apocalypses rushed their attacks on her without giving her a chance to counter. "Ukh, I can't find some space to attack them back this way!!" She tried to avoid the smashes as hard as she could, but bad luck catch her as she finally cornered in the wall.

"No way I die like this!! Shotgun Frenzy!!" Martina quickly attacked the surrounding apocalypses using the shotgun frenzy. Although she didn't manage to destroy them, she knocked them back several steps, giving her some space to sneak between the apocalypses and shot her 'Spread attack' to six of them. This time, the attack completely destroyed the apocalypses she hit.

"Bingo! They weakened at last!!" Knowing that her opponents aren't totally indestructible, Martina quickly seized the rest of the group with another shotgun frenzy, exploding most of them. But the apocalypses didn't want to be defeated easily. They activated the self-destruction system on their bodies as their body glows.

"Not good!" Martina realized what was going to happen and prepared herself as the apocalypses who was starting to explode chased her. "They are going to explode in a matter of seconds, so they must be prone of attacks!" Martina bombarded the apocalypses using the spread attack, successfully destroying some of the apocalypses before they reached her. Martina continuously attacked the ready to explode apocalypses using her spread attacks. The plan proved successful as every single apocalypse who tried to attack her destroyed one by one.

Meanwhile, Clyde was having a hard time against the giant apocalypse. He desperately tried to stood up after received another blow from the giant robot. "Your attacks proved ineffective against me! You should have surrendered instead. If you keep insisting, I'll really kill you", the giant apocalypse warned him.

"Don't underestimate me!!" Clyde stood up and stared seriously towards the giant robots. "A member of Ropera Squad is better off dead than surrender!! I wouldn't be able to face my comrades if I ran just from a giant robot!!" He slowly pulled a Smith & Wesson revolver from his pocket. "I'll show you why they called me 'The Throttle"!".

Giant apocalypse said to the gunslinger, "That kind of courageousness is enough to be praised. But you won't live long enough with that!! Your courageousness is no different from stupidity!!", as the giant robot threw another punch. Clyde quickly evaded the attack and chanted, "Piercing Shot!". The merciless bullet hit the giant apocalypse's right arm and successfully destroyed it.

"What?! One shot was enough to destroyed my arm!? How come?!" Giant apocalypse ordered his ball devices to surround Clyde and use the magnetic field again,which they quickly did. "Madness Canceler", Clyde chanted as the magnetic field start affecting him. "Die!" Giant apocalypse shot another laser, but Clyde quickly aimed his revolver and shot one bullet right towards the giant robot's eyes, completely destroying it and nullified the reaction of the magnetic field, shutting down the ball devices as giant apocalypse fall down to the floor.

"What did you shoot at me?! How come the bullet wasn't affected by the magnetic field!?" The giant apocalypse desperately tried to stood back, but the damage on his head was enough to stress him down. Clyde approached him and explained.

"Two reasons. First, I used the madness canceler which abandoned my speed but gave me more power, so your magnetic field wasn't really useful. Second, this gun. This Smith & Wesson revolver is made of oridecon, including the bullets. That's why your magnetic field pressure didn't work. Oridecon is a magical metal, you can't stop it just by a magnetic field. Using this gun will make me move slower, but fighting you, the cons is a given", Clyde finished his explanation as the giant apocalypse fell silent.

"You did a good job, Clyde" Martina slowly walked towards the bloodied gunslinger. "You destroyed the apocalypses, as expected from the acting vice-captain" Clyde praised the blond who replied with a chuckle. "Gunslingers" One word from the giant robot who was trying to stand back was enough to cautioned the two comrades. "Don't worry, I mean no harm. I will show you where the aircraft engine is" The statement made Clyde and Martina narrowed their eyes.

"A change of heart? What happened, big guy?" Clyde cynically asked the giant robot. "I have been defeated. I have no reason to continue this battle. I was wrong to say your courage was a mere stupidity. Let me honor your efforts by giving you what you want" Clyde and Martina looked at each other weirdly. "Fine, but if you do something suspicious we'll destroy you for sure!" Martina warned the robot as he led their way to the aircraft engine.

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Well, that's it for Clyde and Martina in action, although I focused this chapter more on Clyde. But that's a given since he fought a greater opponent.

This battle is quite short from a gunslinger battle, but from the start I didn't have any plan to make it as long as Elraven's battles, since there are no proper opponent for this chapter.

OK, hope u enjoy!! Please review, see u next chap!! ^^