(Log) WHALEZ STILL SUKKK

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WHO: Skull Man, Thunder Man, Swallow Man, Alia, Bomb Man
WHAT: Alia and Bomb Man take on some bored Robot Masters.
WHERE: South America
WHEN: August 5, 2221

Northern South America

South America has been called the lungs of the world for good reason; the wealth of plant life here cannot be found anywhere else in the world, and provides much of the fresh oxygen used by all living things. The northern portion of the continent is divided from Central America by the breathtaking Andes Mountains, but quickly thickens into hardy jungles. Vast amounts of agribusiness is conducted here, though local forces are only slowly moving to stop the renewed plague of slash and burn farmers.

The Panama Canal, located at the northern edge of the continent, was once an essential economic asset to the New World. Today, the canal is a relatively sedate connection between the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea, transferring smaller loads of freight between the different sides of the world with every passing decade. People have been claiming that the canal will eventually become irrelevant for decades, but it appears that it will be necessary in some form well into the 23rd century.

A large crater in French Guyana marks where the Robot Master Bass crashed his personal asteroid into the Earth, killing one of the Stardroids.

RIGHT NOW - NORTH SOUTH AMERICA, THE DIRTY COAST

There is a beach. On that beach is a huge robot whale, helpless and out of the water, his red torpedoes lying helplessly in the sand like his wounded children. Near this beached robot whale, a Moby class robot, is Skull Man, a Thrash-Class robot.

"I'm sure we'll get you back in the water in no time, pal. Just need to perform a little operation first." Skull Man says to the helpless Moby, who responds by looking sad as only a whale can.

RIGHT NOW - CARSON CITY, CHURCH BASEMENT

"Hello, my name is Girl Beat... and I'm an alcoholic," Girl Beat says, convinced everyone can hear her. She is smoking a Virginia Slim and hovering over a styrofoam cup of Future Folgers. Everyone else in attendance just hears 'Preeeep preeep preep peep, however.

"Someone get that fuckin' robot bird outta here. It smells like worms and vomit."

SOUTH AMERICA - STILL NOW

After spraying some in a bag and taking a big huff of it, Skull Man spraypaints 'WHALEZ STILL SUKKK on the robot whale's body. "That'll teach you to leave the ocean, queer."

Thunder stood near by tyhe beached robo-whale, nearer by Skull Man. He idly pondered the point of a machine huffing chemicals.. but their father had seen fit to trouble himself with enourmous food bills when he chose to grant his sons the ability and sometimes the desire to eat.. so why wouldn't the brillient man bestow upon them the ability to enter a altered state of mind?

"Hermano Skull, why worry about graffiti. We could just blow the whale up.. or better yet, push it back into the ocean.." it.. because Thunder wasn't about to go looking for boy or girl whale parts.

CASTLE SCHWARZHEIM - SOME MOMENTS AGO

Alia is rubbing her forehead as twelve individual screens all talk at her at once. "Alia, you're working too hard," a nameless fellow Navigator who will never be seen again says. "Here, I've got this beach I like to look at when I'm getting too stressed, the view really calms me down."

The remote cam activates, and Alia sees 'WHALEZ STILL SUKKK' written in robot spray paint on a robot whale. She moves her mouth, but no words come out, and then shoots an angry glare at the bewildered nameless Navigator. Without a word, she spins in her chair and is rushing for the teleporters.

[Radio: (A) H-Chat] Alia transmits, "Someone's... /vandalizing whales/ in South America. I need a rest, so I'm going to go get to the bottom of it."

[Radio: (A) H-Chat] Mac transmits, "Again?"

Bored, Swallow Man is flying around. He lands when he spots the whale and his brothers, perching on top of the whale and peering at Thunder and Skull. He peers (upside down) at the graffiti, and then peers at Skull, "Dude, couldn't you even bother to spell it right? And Thunder's right, anyways - why bother with graffiti, when you could do a dozen other things that are even worse?"

Ah the beach, Bomb Man loves the beach, especially one that is far from the public eye shame about the Robot Masters but they are sorta like ants at a picnic always coming when it's most annoying. Bomb knows he was once one of them. 

Bomb Man was just settling into his sun chair when Skull and the rest of them came along. The alpha had noticed the whale but since Bomb Man's knowledge of wildlife was about the same of a deranged snail he just thought it was resting or something. Standing up the alpha sighs and also starts walking towards the whale although at a more slower pace. 

"That is not what I meant, Swallow." replies Thunder as the avian brother lands and injects his own point of view, "There is no point in this.. It is mischief. Far better suited for Irregulars." he states as if that meant something.

He would expand on the meaning of Robot Masters and Irregulars.. but then something fat caught his eye, something fat and possibly duck billed.. "Senor Bomb. I did not expect to find you here.."

How Alia got here is unimportant, and frankly, Hunters do what Hunters want anyway, so who are you to judge. In any case: Alia is now descending from the sky, gun-arm charging as she gracefully lands near the robo-carcass. "Get away from that Robot Whale, Robot Masters!" she commands, pointing her gun arm. "It's robo-protected by the Endangered Model Act of 22XX!"

"Hey guys." Bomb Man says cheerfully as he walks up to two of his cousins and grins "How's it going?" 

Bomb Man is actually not duck billed but he is very fat "Well you know. Just working on my tan." The old android says then he looks at the poor robo-whale and continues "I'm not sure the whale likes being used as a wall by graffiti artist but then again I'm no whale so who can tell." 

"Hey Alia." He waves as he sees his fellow hunter coming down from the sky. 

Swallow Man looks over at Skull Man, "See what you did?" Well, at least Alia's easy on the eyes, unlike Shield Shellfish. The bird-bot offers what he hopes is a charming smile to Alia, "I'm hurt, really. -We- aren't the ones doing anything wrong, here. We're just trying to help the poor whale, and try to find out how to get it back into the water." It's a complete and utter lie, of course - but hey, maybe it'll work.

STILL THE BEACH - NOW

Skull Man considers Thunder Man's words. "Nah, we'll get it back in the water. Otherwise how are the other whales going to know that they still suck? It's not like fatty can talk, can you fatty?" Skull Man asks the whale as he playfully punches it in the eye. He puts his board down, "Here, we'll just get the whale on my skate and push it back in the wat---" and then a billion fucking people show up and all talk at once.

BACK IN CARSON CITY - NOW

Girl Beat has been caught in a neon yellow net, much to her chagrin.

"Hey you perverts, get off of me!" she howls in her low-toned cougar voice, "This is worse than the time I got dropped in a cage of convict seagulls and--"

preeeep preeep preeep

and she essentially burns someone in the eye with her Virginia Slim and flies away... into a vortex???

THE BEACH :(

"Uh. Who wants to see me do a sick 720 rock 'n roll off of this whale's blowhole?" Skull Man replies to Alia, Bomb Man and Swallow Man.

Thunder Man casts his glowing eyes upwards to Alia, the blonde bomber making the usual heroic entrance and demands. "Endangered Model act..?" wondered Thunder aloud, distracted somewhat by being pointed at by a buster cannon. He mused over this 'act' of endangerment, "If Endangered models are protected because of their dwindling number.. then suirely we Robot Masters are covered." he suggested, looking up to Alia, "We are after all one of a kind, I am the Only Thunder Man currently in exsistance, Hermano Swallow is the only Swallow, Skull the only Skull." he reasoned.

"PLease, lay aside your weapons, Senorita Alia, we are muy endangered. You would not wish to break the law, would you?"

Alia keeps her gun trained squarely on Thunder Man, if only because he's the most recent to speak. "I'm a Hunter, Thunder Man," she says, squinting with grit and determination and tuffness. "We go outside the law to make those laws stronger." She nods her head toward the whale. "You Robot Masters just misspell insults toward Robot Whales, which never did anything to you, and attempt to cruelly exploit them for anti-Robot Whale fear-mongering. I don't know how you can recharge at night."

Thunder Man says, "Two and a half bottles of taquila usualy help."

"Half ounce of birdseed and a bottle of vodka does it for me," Swallow agrees. He shrugs, still smiling at Alia, "But seriously - yes, Skull graffiti'd all over the poor whale, but we were going to get him to wash it off! Or at least replace it with something more...artistic and...tasteful." Tasteful to whom, Swallow isn't going to get into right now.

"Well Wily could always make another of you. It's not like you are special like the alphas or anything." Bomb Man continues grabbing a small Ice cream(bomb flavored) out of somewhere and starts to eat it. "And personally Skully I'd like to see you stuff you into your own blowhole but that's just me." the alpha says still in the same cheerful voice. 

"Are you guys scared of some she-bot? God, what a bunch of pussies. Come on whale," Skull Man says, wedging his skateboard under the whale's face. "Let me tell you about she-bots. They always fuckin' Coug you while you're just doing normal stuff, like tagging some gay robo-whale or stealing all the money i n the Future 7-11's cash register so you can set it on fire in front of the manager. God, I sent Girl Beat to FAA (Future Alcoholics Anonymous) just so she wouldn't Coug the shit out of me for like three hours..."

a vortex has opened

Alia's gun arm whirls toward Skull Man. "I mean it, Skull Man! Don't even /think/ about touching that Robot Whale, or I fire!" Fifteen mental processing tracks are dwelling on fifteen ways this could go and the majority are not good, but Alia can't afford to back down now. She just continues applying her little frown.

[Radio: (A) H-Chat] Bomb Man transmits, "I got 'chere back alia."

[Radio: (A) H-Chat] Alia transmits, "I appreciate it, Bomb Man! There's no telling what these dangerous Robot Masters might do to that poor, helpless beached Robot Whale!"

[Radio: (A) H-Chat] As text data, Quiet Man transmits, "Shoot them."

Thunder Man applies his own sort of a frown, of course his pitch black features make it difficult to make out, "Women today, so violent." he murmured to himself befor striding out into the surf line. Crouching, he scooped up a hand ful of sand and begain to compact it into a little ball of wet sand, "Hermano Bomb, that is not exactly correct. Padre Wily.. he is not always exact with his builds. Every time.. we are a little different." he states as he straightens up and takes aim bnefor flinging the ball of wet sand at Alia, "Skull Man is the best current example."

Swallow Man rolls his eyes at Bomb Man, and then peers at Skull. Pointing towards Skull, he offers to Alia, "Look, I can see you must be under a lot of stress. If you think it'd help, go ahead and shoot Skull. It's great stress relief - almost as good as beating up Dust Man."

"I think it's called independence Thunder but I suppose you wouldn't know anything about that." Bomb Man shoots back and watches his former brothers carefully, he's pretty sure this is going to go bad soon but hell if he's going to back down from his former brothers. "And yeah Skull has been acting a bit different, which isn't a bad thing I suppose." 

"Yes, I am the best example of pure thrash chaos on wheels who will shit in your four dollar taco and pass you the hot sauce," Skull Man says before Swallow Man puts on a police badge and Rodney Kings him. "Swallow Man, you puss-bot. Your beak's writing checks your cloaca can't cash."

Skull Man just looks at Alia as if she hasn't even passed robot third grade. "Look, She-Bot. How else are you going to get a fucking whale back in the ocean? Look how fat it is." He punches the whale in the eye again, "Aren't you, fatty?" Again he addresses Alia, "I'd like to see you get this big robot piece of shit whale back into the water without a skateboard. But you can't do it, you're all talk and no robo-oves."

A flutter from the vortex

Alia says defiantly, "Don't think you can talk your way out of ackpth!" She's nailed in the face with a load of wet sand, staggering backward and accidentally firing at Skull Man. "Ppff! Hhchpfft! Pluh!" She spits up sand and tries to wipe sticky granules out of her robot eyes. "Bomb Man!" she says in her Helpful Navigator voice, "Use your bomb attacks to damage them!"

You strike Skull Man with a minor hit from your A-buster Run By Shooting attack.

The vortex is still there and Girl Beat appears out of it, with something behind her, something sinister, "I was born in a small town..."

Meanwhile, Skull Man is shot with a blast of energy, right in his red-gemmed skull chest. "Owwwwwwwwwwwww that was totally uncalled for, I was playing marine rescue biologist while you were being all narc-after-school-special, and you shot me. This whale knows who its real friends are. Right, fat stuff?" To emphasize, Skull Man punches the whale.

Retrieving his board, Skull Man simply throws it at Alia's face.

Skull Man misses you with his Throw attack.

"I was thinking more along the lines of no-longer-thinking-himself-death man." Bomb Man says matter of factly then he freezes for just a moment as Alia advices him. "Dammit Alia what on earth do you think I'd try to attack them with, giant scissors!" Grumbling the alpha grabs his ice cream and focuses for a moment the Ice cream glows white then he tosses it at Swallow Man since he's never liked the neo alphas, he didn't like being replaced, even if he did sorta betray Wily. "Sorry guys, but I can't allow you to hurt that innocent whale and I'm behind on my robot master beating quota." 

Bomb Man misses Swallow Man with his Food Bomb attack.

Thunder is quite pleased with his aim, dusting his hands of the wet, clumpy sand.

It is now that he realizes there is a mealstrom in the very air.. and a sultry little tart of a bird-ball flapping out of it... followed by omnious tones. "It was such a quiet monday too.."

Alia catches the skateboard, backflipping and landing on it. "I'm not going to get much traction on this sand," she says, "But I bet I can still show you a gnarly trick or two, Skull Man!" She uses her Alia Buster to blast the ground under her, sending her launching into the air atop the skateboard, riding a wave of disrupted sand -- and attempting to spin the board right into Skull Man's skull face!

You strike Skull Man with a glancing hit from your Ram attack.

"Hey!" Swallow ducks and the ice cream bomb flies over his head, going off in mid-air and splattering the whale. "The worst any of us have done so far is graffiti it!" He's not about to let Bomb get away with trying to attack him, of course, and he activates his buster cannon, firing a glowing blue bird at the ex-Robot Master. "Besides - two of you and three of us! You really think the odds are in your favor here?"

Hit with his own board, Skull Man is mega-pissed. He bends down as a huge bruise starts to show up on his robot skull face, and retrieves his spraypaint and paper bag. He sprays some fresh gnar-green in the bag and huffs it before spraying the rest of the contents at Alia, and basically ruining a whole bunch of sand, seashells and used needles no matter what. There's also some hefty back-spray directed at Skull Man and the whale, but who cares

Swallow Man strikes Bomb Man with his Swallow Buster attack.

Skull Man misses you with his Generic Ranged attack.

The vortexxx fades away, but there is Girl Beat and the shadowy man behind her... he starts to come into the light, "Make it hurt so good..."

The birds impact upon Bomb Man's black armor and cut into it making a small dent and making the older master stumble backwards a bit. "Quite Frankly I'd take the two of us over the three of you any day of the month." Bomb Man says calmly morphing his arm into a large cannon between a shotgun and a cannon and aims it at the Swallow letting loose a large blast of plasma. "I think the key word here is 'yet'." 

Bomb Man misses Swallow Man with his Boomstick attack.

Thunder Man had seen these kind of movies. Weidos coming in out of the darkness. They were never good news..

Deciding to cut directly to the last few minutes befor the credits start to roll, Thunder Man lifts his arm and casts a lance of lightning towards the shadowy singer.

Dipping low and only ending up with a green streak in her hair, Alia gasps. "You little... twerp! These extensions are so expensive!" She corrects herself almost immediately: "I mean, my real hair, which is all real, is so hard to manage as it is!" She attempts to rise up in an intensely limber kick. "You're really in for it now!"

You miss Skull Man with your Kick attack.

Swallow Man bounces up off the whale, taking to the skies to evade Bomb Man's plasma blast. "Yeah, well, you're gonna have to get better at shooting, first!" He fires his cannon at Bomb again, sending a baby tornado towards the traitorous sibling. "And I bet you can't ride the whirlwind, either!"

Swallow Man misses Bomb Man with his Tornado attack.

Lightning cracks, and behind Girl Beat is the man you have all been waiting to see. THE COUG himself, the original Cougar, the man who put Cougars on the map. John Cougar Mellencamp, THE COUG, floats on a cloud of spraypaint and American dreams.

Meanwhile, Skull Man dodges a kick. "Ugh, only one thing left to do... SKULL BARRIE-- ohhh man, is that The Coug?! The fuckin' Coug?! I'm sorry I blasphemed your American name, bro!" Skull Man tells the Coug, the real Coug, as his Skull Barrier just floats around and tries to hit Alia by itself.

Girl Beat preeep preep peep ("Skull Man you use the word coug too liberally this is your divine punishment I have come from Future AA to sow the seeds of your destruction!")

"Awww, quit cougin' me, Girl Beat!" Skull Man replies.

Skull Man strikes you with a minor hit from his Skull Barrier attack for 13 units of damage.

This time Bomb Man manages to throw himself out from under the mini tornado before it blows him away. his natural fatness might also have been helpful in that regard. "I'll be the first to admit I'm not the best at sharpshooting." Bomb Man says calmly morphing his arm again into it's shotgun-cannon form and sending a small but potent missile up into the air after Swallow Man. "But I'm actually quite good at sharpbombing...And I can't really ride tornadoes I'm a little to fat for that." 

Bomb Man misses Swallow Man with his Master To Air Missiles attack.

Swallow Man just sneers at Bomb Man's attempt to hit him, evading the missile and then ignoring it as it heads out into the ocean. "That's your sharpbombing? Thank Wily - I thought I might actually have to worry, for a nano-second!" He dives at Bomb Man, going for the old, familiar tricks: when in doubt, ram into it.

Thunder Man mutters a few choice words about a few choice things, wandering away to find himself some over-priced beach bear..

Swallow Man strikes Bomb Man with his Sage Harpuia Palette Swap attack.

Alia is ricocheted backward like a pink girl pinball by the SKULLS that flare to life out of thin air, forming a veritable BARRIER around the skeletal Robot Master. "Aaa!" she says, quickly composing herself as she tumbles to her feet, landing in a knee. "Nice trick, Skull Man! But does it compare to my /Alia Buster/?!" She flickers slightly with a pink charge, summoning her robot chi and pouring it into a blast from her buster.

You strike Skull Man with a major hit from your Alia Buster 2 attack.

This isn't Bomb Man's night it seems but the night is however still young and bomb Man is not about to give in that easily even as he sees Swallow Man coming for him he braces and grits his teeth before taking the impact straight on. the alpha is driven back a few feet as the Neo-alpha crashes into him painfully but Bomb just takes it, the alpha gritting his teeth and trying to grab hold of his feathered opponent and slam him into the ground head first in a little wrestling trick he learned from his brother. 

Bomb Man strikes Swallow Man with his Alpha Style attack.

poooosh Skull Man is hit by a ladyshot. He falls back and looks pretty bad, the little bar at the top of the screen shows him down to like three more bars and then he's gone. "Oh man that was pretty harsh, Girl Mega Man," Skull Man says. "Liked your skate style, though!"

Punching the whale again, Skull Man leaps into the arms of John Cougar Mellencamp, and the vortexas appears once more.

"I saw you first. I'm the first one tonight. I saw you first. Don't that give me the right," says The Coug to the Skull.

"Shit, we are so outta here. Good luck with the whale, assholes!" Skull Man says.

Girl Beat, Skull Man and The Coug disappear into the vortex. Little pink houses for you and me

Skull Man retreats from the area swiftly, leaving him open to pursuit or parting shots from Number Man, Swallow Man, and Alia.

Thunder Man returns with a single bottle of over-priced beach beer.. Not that he is concerned over matters of price, he just shocked the guy and took a bottle while he was unconcious. Being able to power a small city means never having to buy your own drinks. He arrives just in time to see Skull on thwe withdrawl, that means Alia is unoccupied. To correct this, he points at her while tipping the bottle to his lips. From this pointing finger leaps a current of electricity.

Thunder Man misses you with his Zap attack.

You intercept a transmission to [Number Man]: Swallow Man says, "Can we deny being related to Skull? Like, just in case anyone who actually matters who isn't one of the Old Men sees or hears him?"

Well, it had to happen some time - Swallow doesn't dodge so well, when he's close in, after all. He gets slammed into the ground and attempts to claw wildly at him, yelping indignantly as he flails. "Hate you -so- much!"

Swallow Man strikes Bomb Man with his Expected Scratch attack.

The claw strikes Bomb Man's chest and cuts it slightly but the old alpha just shrugs it off. Even if he's looking a bit worn down by now. "Well ye'll be glad to know the feeling ain't mutual." Bomb Man says cheerfully and launches himself forwards aiming a heavy punch at Swallow Man's head aiming to knock the stuffing into the bird bot. "cos all I feel is pity for you." 

Bomb Man strikes Swallow Man with his Slug attack.

Alia does a quick cartwheel out of the path of the lightning bolt sent her way, landing in a crouch and taking a half-second to stategize. She's got an awful lot of metal plating on this armor, she thinks, and grimaces as she realizes her chances. "Thunder Man!" she says. "I didn't get a chance to thank you properly for that sand in the face earlier!" She fires a low Alia Buster shot at the sand just in front of Thunder Man, trying to blast sand up at the Robot Master's face and, more importantly, beer. "Be careful, Bomb Man! Swallow Man's talons are one of his most lethal assets!" she calls, pretty much way too late.

You miss Thunder Man with your Generic Ranged attack.

Don't forget the wings, Alia! Swallow gets hit in the head, but his helmet absorbs most of the damage, and he starts to batter at Bomb Man with those wings, "Hmm, knock out or kill? I never can remember which we're supposed to do with the traitors who aren't Tron..." Swallow Man strikes Bomb Man with his Wind Racket attack.

"Si, est no problemo." he responded civily. "It did make you stop simply talking about Skull Man and actualy shoot Skull Man, no?" inquired the Thunder Man as he extended on foot far to the right, planted it, and used it to drag himself just to the side of the sand's blast radius and the impact area of Alia's shot. "When did you decide to try green streaks? Is no bueno, Senorita." he critiqued as he pressed a palm towards her in the air. To correct this hair disaster, Thunder Man cast out a stronger current of electricity, whipping it through the air at Alia and hopefuly replacing that green streak with shock white.. She'd look rather fetching as the bride of frankenstien.

Thunder Man strikes you with a minor hit from his Tesla Effect attack for 9 units of damage. You take extra damage due to your Electric weakness.

"We arn't the traitors we are the betrayed." Bomb Man says sharply as he pulls what appears to be a small bottle of whisky from his belt and launches it at Swallow Man. Should it hit the alpha will then calmly take a lighter from out of subspace and attempt to light Swallow Man on fire "And if ye think you can knock me out without killing me yer free to try but first let me buy you a drink." 

Bomb Man strikes Swallow Man with his Molotov Cocktail attack.

KKKZZZZKKKKTT

Alia is caught dead in the face with the electric blast, current causing sparks to spray out of her earpieces, her hair to stand up on end, and for a brief moment, her skull is visible through synthetic flesh, like a cartoon character. "Augh!" she howls as smoke pours from her nostrils and mouth, falling to one knee and clutching her face. She backflips to her feet, looking reddened, perhaps a little fried. Her hair has been straightened, and hangs limply. "I've only got one chance!" she narrates. "Got to make this count!" She leaps into the air and... "SLIDE KICK!" With a sudden swoosh, her huge boot zooms toward Thunder Man!

You strike Thunder Man with a minor hit from your Slide Kick attack.

Ooh, booze! Swallow Man is thrown off-guard by that play on every Robot Master's true weakness: alcohol. Thus, he doesn't manage to dodge in time to avoid getting hit with alcohol that's on fire. Ow. The now brightly burning Swallow howls indignantly again, backing up to yank out a few feathers and throw them at Bomb Man before trying to back up long enough to put out the fire. Swallow Man misses Bomb Man with his Obligatory Feather Missiles attack.

And Thunder Man is kicked by a flying slide kick. The large foot of Alia crashing into his chest, denting in the banded metal and casting him back to the sand, the crackling electricity that radiates from his body super-heating much of it, turning it quickly into glass.. broken glass.. much like the shattered brown bottle that lays a scant few feet away from Thunder Man, the sand around it darkened by the soaked liquid.

Thunder could blame his own lax hold on the bottle for this catastrophe, he could blame the rock that served as a hard surface in a beach filled with soft, absorbing sand.. or he could blame Alia for her blatent abuse of alcohole.

Drawing himself up, Thunder Man frowned towards Alia, the air around him darkening, storm clouds forming just over either shoulder, minatuire lightning bolts flashing within, thunder rolling omniously.

"Now, Senorita, Alia, now I am angry." he announces, digging in his heels as eight generator disks erupt from his back and then freeze in a circle behind him. Should her olfactory senses remain intact she may be able to catch a wif of ozone.. if not.. well then she would be able to see the sudden, bright flash of light and crash of thunder as the electricity master cast out a bolt of lightning.

Thunder Man misses you with his Bolt attack.

"Getting a little hot under your feathers are you, well don't you worry a bit. I'LL HELP YOU." Bomb Man says cheerfully, even as he throws himself in a dodge below the feathery missiles coming his way, rolling to his feet with surprising nimbleness for someone so fat the alpha grabs a small canister from his belt marked with green skull and crossbones and tosses it at the feathery master. "here this should put out the fire." The gas grenade will explode into a small cloud of highly acidic gas strong enough to melt most metals. On the plus side It should indeed smother the fire. 

Bomb Man strikes Swallow Man with his Gas Grenade attack.

Watched in slow motion, it's a spectacular sight. Alia kicks up one leg so high that it carries her whole body backward, in a backflip that moves her out of the lightning bolt's path -- just /barely/. She lands on both feet, and says smugly, "Good work, Bomb Man. Forgive me, though, if I deal with my own problem at the moment!" In a flash, she leaps into the air, firing her Alia Buster as she moves.

You strike Thunder Man with a minor hit from your Alia Buster attack.

Well, the flames are put out - but now Swallow Man looks like he's melting. He scowls at Bomb Man, firing his buster cannon while it's still intact; a flock of swallows bursts out of it, all glowing blue and heading towards Bomb.

Swallow Man strikes Bomb Man with his Swallow Mirage attack.

"Doing fine yerself there Alia." Bomb Man says cheerfully before he is covered by several dozen birds who circle the orange bomber and cut deeply into some of his armor. The alpha doesn't look all that good himself even now. But he isn't down yet and he's still grinning although that's a nasty little grins. "Well Swallow you've been lucky so far but I think the time has come to pay the piper." Bomb Man grins and grabs a small pipe from his belt and tosses it at Swallow Man "And how else to do it then with a pipe bomb, eh?"

Bomb Man strikes Swallow Man with his Pipe Bomb attack.

The Alia Buster shot tore through him, had it not he would have been flung too far to be worried of at the moment. Instead it has left him with a hole that he has not the ability to fill.

Clapping a hand over this sparking hole, Thunder Man scowls in pain.

His scowl contorts, teeth grit, his eyes flash.. pain changes so easily into anger. It is something primal, simple. "You.. will not avoid this.. so easily.." he vows as he thrusts both arms forward, pouring from them crackling threads of light, weaving them into a convulsing ball of energy and harm. With a bark of effort he hurls it towards Alia.. it seems able to do something the bolts could not, follow her.

Thunder Man misses you with his Thunderball attack.

The bomb hits one of Swallow's wings and explodes, taking the wing - and Swallow's arm and shoulder - with it. Mech fluid gushes from the wounds, and Swallow doesn't even bother with a witty reply or threat. Instead, he backs away, taking to the air as he tries to flee for wherever the Masters are based right now, half-distracted with doing damage control to try and keep from losing too much mech fluid before he gets back to base.

Swallow Man retreats from the area swiftly, outdistancing all pursuit and parting shots.

Confronted by a giant Alia-seeking ball of electric death, Alia does the only real sensible thing -- she runs. She pumps her legs as hard as she can, sprinting as the electric ball teases out the tips of her hair, so close she can feel its intense heat... and she seems to be running toward a handy outcropping of rocks -- at the last second, she slides down and backward, under the ball of death as it impacts the rock, diffusing in a brilliant explosion as Alia slides clear. She whips her hair out of her face: "That was a close one!" she says, dashing back toward Thunder Man. She takes to the air again, because the last thing she needs right now is to be grounded -- and her huge vertical arc is aimed to end right with a knee to Thunder Man's head!

You miss Thunder Man with your Knee Strike High Kick attack.

Bomb Man smirk turns into a grimace as Swallow Man retreats, he was dangerously near his limit there and he knew it panting a bit the old android takes a moment to catch his breath. There is no way he can catch up with Swallow Man. Still he managed to show the neo alpha that the old alphas still got it and that was worth a lot.

Thunder watched as Alia out ran, out maneuvered his attack.. he would have to work on that one a little more. This was not something he had much tim to be concerned with however, Alia was fast on the attack once more. He stood his ground like any omnious, tall foe should. Waiting for her to draw ever closer until he shifted his wieght to the left, and dipped his head down beneath that striking knee. This would have been a very unfortunate and perhaps comedic time to use that tall, rigid spike that sprouted from his head.. and in a change of plans this would be exactly what Thunder Man would do, thrust his head upwards at the leaping Alia, hoping to spear her with his lightning rod.

Thunder Man strikes you with a glancing hit from his Spiked Headbutt attack for 5 units of damage.

Alia is caught -- right in the belly, no less. Thunder Man's head spear does its job and snags her trim torso, resulting in Alia being worn as a hat. "Guurck!" she sputters, flailing as she tries to wrench herself free without tearing her stomach further. "Augh! Well, as long as we're... nhgh... up close and personal... Thunder Man... I might as well make the most of it!" Making up for her failed strike just previous, Alia uses her position atop Thunder Man to attempt to drive in a devastating knee-lift or five.

You strike Thunder Man with a glancing hit from your Generic Melee attack.

[Radio: (A) H-Chat] Bomb Man transmits, "Do you think you can handle thunder man on yer own Alia?"

[Radio: (A) H-Chat] Alia transmits, "Ngh. Mmgh. I'm... managing! (Oh wow this hurts.) Gghh."

Thunder Man is suddenly assaulted by a sudden barrage of Alia knees to the head and shoulders.. They would have found his neck aswell, but Thunder Man doesn't quite have one. He staggers back as if in retreat, only to have the Alia hat follow along aswell atop his head. Unable to orient himself or focus for a attack, the electricity master seems at a loss as for what he should do.. and then he just cuts loose. His body becoming suddenly radient with electricity as he releases a powerful discharge, hoping to eject Alia from her impaled perch.. and give her something of a time out aswell.

Thunder Man strikes you with a minor hit from his Thunder Shock attack for 14 units of damage. You take extra damage due to your Electric weakness. Alia is temporarily disoriented by Thunder Man's Thunder Shock attack.

Alia's smoking, sparking body is launched into the air. She lands in a heap, eyes rolled back into her head, body twitching and seizing as electricity courses over her.

Thunder Man feels a certain sense of releif wash over him. That had been building up for quite some time now, it was good to be able to go full bore every once and a while.

Taking a mioment to crudely rearrange his battered face, Thunder Man then stalked towards the downed Alia, steps casual and slow. He was in no hurry, she wouldn't be recovering from that for a short while.

With this moment's peace, Thunder Man looks over the battle field... Skull Man is gone, Swallow Man absent aswell.. it is a unsettling realization that Bomb Man is the only Master still currently standing.. but neither of them were on ther same side anymore. His choices were unpleasent. Continue fighting and perhaps pull off a victory only then to be destroyed as revenge from Bomb Man.. or to be beaten by Alia and be bustered.. Neither were very pleasent.

He took a moment to mull this over, rubbing the back of his banded helm in thought.. He could simply say he was overwhelemed, there was noone else there to speak of him simply giving up the fight. "Via con dios, Senorita Alia." he spoke to the twitching women, "Adios, mi hermano Bomb Man." he bade the rotund master. And with that, he rturned and headed for a extractuion point, a spanish guitar playing as he withdrew.. hopefuly not to be shot in the back.

Bomb Man looks on grimly as Thunder Man turns on Alia but sighs in relief as he decides to withdraw, Bomb can't take another battle like the one he just had. "Adios Senior Thunder." Bomb Man says cheerfully and waves at the retreating Robot Master, he's never really disliked thunder Man. The dude was one of the nicer robot masters after all. standing up the alpha turns towards Alia and walks over to help her get back up. He won't hit Thunder in the back, he only does that to the masters he hates. "You okay there Alia?" 

Alia bzzts and twitches a bit but seems to be stabilizing as she's helped up. "Thanks, Bomb Man," she says, wincing and clutching the hole in her belly. "Nothing... nothing a round of repairs and some light admin work can't fix." She watches Thunder Man go, frowning.

Thunder Man escaped, didn't get blown up, didn't get bustered. FISSON MAILED!

Alia uses the Junk Shield still in her buster to push the whale back into the sea.

THE END