“Okay, what now, boss?”
Tch…
Great, all 4 of us are down now, with Sideswipe all hogtied…
The ISes cautiously approached us. They think that we’re down for the count, but that’s not true and they don’t seem to know that.
The Silverback has to be downed 3 times in order for it to be out of the fight. Let’s see here…
Scourge and I have been downed twice; Sideswipe and Ratchet, downed once.
6 ISes; 3 of them right by Ratchet and Scourge, 1 with Sideswipe and the other 2 are with me; being Ichika and his support.
We can’t do anything to startle them. Not when they’re watching closely. Unless…
Huh?
I feel something in my right hand. With my whole body on top of my right hand, Ichika and his support can’t see it.
This object has this cylinder-shaped canister feel to it with holes on the sides…
!
A concussion grenade; must’ve gotten it as Ichika broke through my energy shield.
Maybe we there’s something we can do with these…
“Ratchet, you there?”
“Yeah, unfortunately…”
“Got any concussion grenades?”
“I only have 2 left.”
“Scourge, you there? What about you?”
“Same here; got 2 left.”
I tried to get turn my eyes over to Sideswipe, and just as I barely have him in my eyesight…
“So what’s the plan?”
“First of all, we have to get you untied. I got something in mind, but you’ll have to wait. Ratchet, you got those grenades on you right now.”
“No… they were knocked off after…”
“?…”
Ratchet made a pause mid-sentence and he sounded a bit hesitant in his response.
“Ratchet?”
“Ha-ha-ha…”
Now he sounds like he’s having a tough time breathing…
“Ratchet.”
“!.. Uh… Sorry, Hot Shot. It’s just that when she hit me with that pilebunker, my concussion grenades were knocked off… And at least, they’re within arm’s reach... ”
That isn’t a normal response from Ratchet, but it’s not something that I should be dealing with right now.
“But are you okay?”
“I’m doing just dandy by lying here…”
“Well, okay…”
I clenched the grenade to ease the tension that’s built up.
“I have a Concussion grenade in hand, but they don’t know it because my body’s covering it.”
I eyeballed Ichika and his support, then to Sideswipe. I eyeballed back at Ichika and it looks as though he’s about go off somewhere…
[Energy Shield on standby, stand up to activate]
“You guys have something on your visors?”
“No… I don’t have a feedback about the energy shield...”
“I have the feedback, Bro. But I obviously can’t do that yet.”
“I got it as well; it’s just flashing away at me…”
“Okay, here’s the plan; Ratchet, get that Concussion grenade and throw it at those 3 ISes to disorient them. But make sure it’s set hot before you throw it at them. Scourge, you’re to do as you see fit to take them down; but watch it, this is the second time your energy shield’s been broken through. One more, and that’s it, you’re out of this fight.”
“Got it.”
“You got it.”
“Sideswipe, pretend you’re unconscious, I’ll get you out.”
“Not much I can do anyway.”
I made another eyeball look at Ichika’s support, then Ichika.
“I’ll make the first move; don’t do anything stupid while you wait…”
Tightly clenching the grenade in my hand to ease up even more tension, I wait patiently for the right moment…
I looked at the IS who’s carrying Sideswipe with her tentacle-like wires. Oh all the methods to tie him up, why Hogtie?
I don’t even want to think about it. Not with how females these days can be sometimes…
Waiting patiently, Ichika began to take off somewhere. Not knowing where, I waited a bit longer for the right time to go with the plan.
After Ichika took off, his support watched over me in his place. I can’t go with it yet…
“Okay, Ichika’s gone… Now what?”
Ratchet’s getting a little impatient…
“Not yet…”
I looked at Ichika’s support and she turned her attention to Sideswipe. With her back turned, it’s not going to work out well.
Not yet…
She then began to turn back to me, I armed my grenade as she did; this may not look like it, but this is the time to act…
Just as she looked down, I flung out the grenade in front of her.
*Beephew!*
The ringing sound pierced through the surrounding area. I got myself back up and the vision on my visor restored itself, only that it has 2 huge cracks on the visor now.
The blue IS that stood over me, stumbled back away from the small smoke cloud the grenade produced and dropped her large sniper rifle.
Even though I didn’t get the full effects of the Concussion grenade, it’s really difficult to keep my balance.
While I’m regaining my balance, the black IS seemed to tighten her ‘grip’ on Sideswipe. I got to get him out of there…
Laying near the blue IS is the large sniper rifle she dropped.
I rushed through the smoke cloud and picked it up by the end of the barrel.
The blue IS’s still disoriented was unaware that I had picked up her large sniper rifle. Looking back behind her, the black IS brought out more of those energy wires from her back.
What I noticed while I was down, is that this blue IS’s pilot seems to have some sort of ‘pride’ in her skills and position.
If there’s one thing I have to tell you; is that if there’s a specific type of person I hate the most; it’s those who take ‘pride’.
For me, that’s a sign of them being ‘egomaniacs’. Those who look down on others, those who deserved to be pulled down from their ‘high horse’, as others would say, in a harsh manner.
My solution with dealing them, is take whatever they have pride in, and simply disgrace them with it!
I swung the large gun like a large kanabo at the blue IS just as the black IS behind her shot more of the energy wires at me.
“Hya-ah!”
*BANG!*
On impact, I felt the large rifle I swung at the blue IS dissipating into white particles as the blue IS collided with the black IS.
The impact caused the black IS to loosen her tie on Sideswipe.
Taking advantage of the whole commotion, Sideswipe broke free the moment the black IS ‘dropped’ him as he was loosely tied.
========
*Beephew!*
The Akatsubaki, Shenlong and Rafael Revive Custom II ISes took a quick a look to where the ear ringing noise came from to see a smoke cloud right by their black and blue comrades.
“!”
Just as Rin looked back to Ratchet and Scourge, a cylinder-shaped canister flew up in the middle of her and the other 2 ISes with her.
*Beephew!*
The same high pitch sound ringed through the heads of the 3 IS pilots as they’re engulfed by the smoke cloud produced by a Concussion grenade.
With the 3 ISes engulfed by the smoke cloud, Scourge took advantage and tackled the Akatsubaki the moment he got up, while they’re disoriented from the grenade’s effect.
As he’s over the Akatsubaki, Scourge drew and clenched his right fist, before unleashing thunderous punch on Houki’s face.
Shortly after Scourge brought the Akatsubaki down, Ratchet sprang up to the Rafael Custom Revive II and grabbed hold of the weapon she picked up. That weapon she has in her and is actually Ratchet’s Flak Cannon.
Feeling Ratchet’s pull on her right arm while disoriented from the Concussion grenade, Charlotte aimed his own weapon at him. As she moved her arm, Ratchet diverted her by holding on to her right arm, spinning counter clockwise to have her arm wrapped around him, bent forward to lower her stance.
The IS tried to fling Ratchet off, but he grabbed her arm even tighter. With how the IS’s right arm wrapped around Ratchet, the side part of his Flak Cannon is held against the left side of his head.
“Fr-r-r-r-rgh…”
Struggling to get his weapon back, he then changed his grip from the IS’s arm, to the working mechanism of his Flak Cannon…
*Click* *Clack!*
Forced the side of the Flak Cannon even more against his head…
*BAM!*
The blast from the barrel went off right next to Ratchet’s head; sending a tight group of energy infused flak shells right at Charlotte’s head…
Then the IS loosened her arm that wrapped around Ratchet and his Flak Cannon fell out of her hand as she stumbled back.
After dealing with the Akatsubaki, Scourge moved on to the Shenlong and made quick work with her by grabbing both sides of Rin’s head and yank her head against his; giving Rin a massive head butt, breaking the magenta-colored tiara looking piece on her forehead.
The impact she received made her even more disoriented.
Noticing the Rafael Revive Custom II stumbling backwards to him, he backed off to check on Ratchet.
“You okay, bro?”
“Yeah, sure…”
Recovering from their ordeal, the two began to recover Ratchet’s other weapons.
As they backed off a bit more from the 3 ISes to do so, Hot Shot knocked the Blue Tears into the Schwarzer Regen with a large blue sniper rifle.
The impact the Schwarzer Regen received loosened her tie on Sideswipe. As she ‘dropped’ Sideswipe, the tie got even looser as he hit the ground and he manages to break free.
Knowing that Sideswipe’s free, Hot Shot closed in on the Blue Tears, grabbed hold of her right arm with his left hand, pulled her towards him and thrust his right fist into her abdomen.
Letting go of her as she’s bent forward, he gave a huge kick in the same spot he punched, sending her crashing into the Rafael Revive that’s close by.
Sideswipe’s vision fully restored itself, aside from a huge crack on his visor and he began to fight back on the Schwarzer Regen that hogtied him.
Noticing the Schwazer Regen’s trying to recover from the impact she received, Sideswipe jumped on her back and began to thrash her around a bit as much as he could.
With his thrashing movement, Laura’s unable to regain her balance with her Scharzer Regen. They continued this thrashing as Laura stumbled slowly towards the other 4 downed ISes
“UO-O-O-O-O-O-O-OHH!”
Attempting to make a surprise attack, Ichika charged towards Hot Shot. Hearing Ichika’s battle cry is a dead giveaway for Hot Shot; telling him where the attack’s coming from.
Right before Ichika thrust his Yukihira at Hot Shot, he made a sidestep and grabbed hold of his side as he passed by.
Feeling movement from left side to his back, he and Hot Shot began the same hustle and tussle as Sideswipe and Laura are having.
Even though Hot Shot’s smaller in comparison to Ichika in his Byakushiki, he’s able to manipulate Ichika in facing the other 5 ISes. 4 of them down, and Sideswipe and the Schwarzer Regen thrashing each other about.
“!”
Shocked from what he saw, he attempt to reach for Hot Shot to get him off of his back in anger but as he tried, Hot Shot pulled a cylinder-shaped canister, which’s a Concussion grenade and armed it…
“Say ‘hi’ to your friends for me!”
The moment Ichika heard Hot Shot’s slightly distorted tone say that. He felt a hard tap on his upper back before receiving a hard kick just a little lower from it; sending him right to his comrades.
Ichika spun around a bit to find out what was put on his back along the way.
As Ichika got closer to the other 5 ISes, Sideswipe armed the same kind of grenade and tagged it on Laura’s back and jumped off of her right before Ichika got next to her.
**BEEPHEW!!**
2012-12-27, 20:39
Artist
To be fair, seems like 'bond strengthened by common suffering' is not a lie, I gained some friends and self satisfaction, and of course, ideas. MOAR INSPIRATION MOAR!
