Fite 32- Mech Fite (Celestia in the WarMech Leader vs. Rebecca on Bug)

It's time for gears to grind and wires to snap! Tonight in the arena, two people have brought their machines of choice to combat each other to prove their mech is the superior mechanism. Celestia has brought her machine, the WarMech Leader, a robotic menace some have called a Death Machine. Rebecca has brought an organic machine called Bug that is known for razing city blocks in mere seconds. These two are here to prove their mettle and their metal. The first robot to fall loses the fite. So let's put the pedal to the metal and see some scrap fly! Celestia and Rebecca, prepare your machines, because its time to Fite Yer' Mate!

The bulky frame of the WarMech Leader hustles into the arena, its robotic body whirring into action. Celestia runs a few tests on the machine, making sure that its mobile and armed.

A strange roar is heard as Rebecca enters the arena atop her massive Strider Bug. Bug's lithe body has no trouble approaching its much smaller opponent. Celestia looks up at her much taller opponent from within the cockpit. Rebecca pets the top of Bug, comforting the organic side of the robot.

Gezora lumbers into the arena in a massive mech of his own. Apparently the ref is getting in the spirit! The gigantic robot waves one of its massive robot tentacles, signalling for our competitors to get this mechanical bash going!

Celestia starts moving the mech about, dodging the spindly legs of the Strider as it tries to puncture the cockpit with its spiky feet. Celestia casts a few spells to try and keep her and the mech safe and then begins to aim the cannons up at her aggressor. Rebecca sits atop Bug, urging the machine to slam its leg against the WarMech Leader's side as its warp cannon charges up.

The spiked leg of the Strider slams against the Warmech Leader, but the skinny leg gets caught between the tinier mech and its own cannon. Lodged in the mechanisms of its opponent, Bug begins to thrash about to try and escape, its Warp Cannon depowering in Rebecca and Bug's panic. Celestia tries to fire her cannons at the Strider, but the laser and guns are just out of the range of the tangled Strider. Celestia begins to reposition the flamethrower and freeze ray to target her opponent, but the taller machine begins to blast into the smaller mech's top with its plasma cannon. The Mech's hard plates aren't penetrated, but the many buffs Celestia had on her machine began to fade.

Scrambling at the controls, Celestia eventually settles on pressing a red button. Not a BIG red button, just a red button. The WarMech's thrusters begin to ignite, sending the tangled robots into the air. Rebecca clings onto Bug for dear life as the Strider flips about uselessly in the air. The WarMech opens fire with its guns, the bullets nicking the machine but also failing to penetrate its opponent's tough hide. Celestia begins to prep her missiles, but she hears a strange hum from the dangling Bug. Suddenly, a properly charged blast from the warp cannon tears into the WarMech Leader's rocket boosters. The two now flightless robotic creations tumble out of the sky and land clumsily to the ground.

Both machines take heavy damage from the fall, but Rebecca is thrown from Bug! The Strider looks down in worry at its owner, but then looks back at the sizzling WarMech Leader. Celestia was disoriented from the fall, so the WarMech was immobile. The Combine-created machine jams one of its leg spikes into the cockpit of the WarMech Leader, breaking the glass and shattering a few controls. Celestia quickly zaps the Strider with a Thunder spell, but before she can get back to piloting the WarMech, Rebecca leaps onto it and rips the black mage out of the cockpit and wrestles her to the ground.

One advantage Rebecca had was that her Strider Bug was not only capable of remote control, but also somewhat sentient. The Strider begins to lay into the WarMech and Rebecca keeps Celestia away from her machine. Pinning the black mage to the ground, Rebecca grapples with Celestia as best she can to buy Bug some time. Celestia does her best to fite back, but physical fiting was not her forte.

The WarMech's tough playing begins to give way as Bug's strong weaponry begins to make its mark. Celestia struggles against her aggressor, but she can't seem to dislodge her. Her robot was getting trashed, and if she didn't get up soon, she would lose on account of a mech she couldn't remotely pilot...

Being smacked and punched repeatedly can make it hard to focus on casting the spells that could get one out of a situation like this. Celestia couldn't think well with Rebecca slamming her repeatedly every time the mage relaxed her retaliations.

Meanwhile, the Strider prepped its warp cannon for a finishing shot on the WarMech Leader. Celestia sees the situation though and realizes she has little time to prevent it. In a desperate move, the mage kicks her legs out. The sudden movement disoriented Rebecca, allowing Celestia to push her to the ground and dash towards the WarMech Leader. Blasting the Strider with a quick Blizzard spell, Celestia struggles to get back into the cockpit of her war machine.

The icy spell hits the cannon of the mech and freezes it, causing the odd weapon to malfunction. With a loud electrical snap and a puff of gobs of black smoke, the Strider's warp cannon is broken beyond use. Bug wails in frustration, but suddenly its wailing ceases. Rebecca has seized remote control of Bug, and is piloting it from far away. Bug's drum machine unleashes a volley of rapid plasma shots at the Mech, tearing off chunks of the plating it had already weakened.

Celestia struggles to fix up the controls Bug had bashed in her absence, eventually finding a BIG red button. Hitting the BIG red button, the Mech's salvo of missiles pops out and launches towards Bug. Although Bug would have been able to dodge the missile's itself with its reflexes, the woman controlling it from afar had little time to properly react. Missiles blow off the back leg of the Strider, sending it into a rocky bipedal stance. The remote control components of the Bug are also blasted off by one of the missiles. Rebecca curses a bit as she charges towards Bug to help guide the confused biomech.

Having exhausted her warheads, Celestia begins to hook back up the wires for the freeze ray. Rebecca begins to scale her giant mech, the Strider trying to get its bearings in its new standing setup. When Rebecca reaches Bug's head, she gently pats the confused Strider and begins to urge it to slam its legspikes back into the WarMech. Strider tries, but the odd stance causes Bug to tumble backwards. Luckily for it, Celestia gets the freeze ray working, but the controls send the ray blasting wildly around the arena. The runaway ice ray freezes Bug's feet to the ground, preventing it from falling to the ground. Rebecca clings on to the tilted Strider, but a sudden blast from a laser slices of the bit she held on to.

Rebecca falls to the ground, a sickening snap signalling an injured back. Rebecca struggles to get up, but the pain is to great. She looks up at Bug, who has righted itself and is firing its last weapon back at Celestia's machine. Lasers and plasma fly, but neither machine is going down. Armor is sheared off, vital systems are destroyed, and the weaponry of the WarMech Leader bursts in fiery explosions. Celestia tries to move her mech, but the motion systems for the feet were broken. The two were trapped, unleashing their entire payload at each other in the final standoff.

Only one could prevail.

Only one machine could be the winner.

Both machines fire one last powerful blow.

One machine's beam hits, but it is not enough. The other machine's beam tears right through its foe's vital systems.

One machine has lost.

But which?

The laser of the WarMech Leader tears right through the biological cerebral unit that Bug used as a brain stand-in. Rebecca screams in anguish, both out of physical pain and out of the pain of watching her mech die. Bug toppled down on top of her, but her opponent is not a cruel woman. Celestia immediately hops out of her own smoking mess of a machine and goes to help Rebecca out from under the Strider.

"Gezora declares Celestia the winner! Her annihilation of the biomech was most exceptional, except for all parts where her own mech was hit. But now, Gezora and the GezoraMech must leave. Gezora hungers for meat, and GezoraMech hungers for robo-meat."