Hong Kong - Park District

 

        Green and serene best describe the massive Freedom Park, one of the nice, quiet places in Hong Kong. It consists of chiefly trees and grass - the traditional symbol of parks. Weaved between the green plots are paths reserved for walking and biking, as well as any other physical activity, while benches are placed strategically along it. A large circle fountain sits in the eastern end of the park, inhabited by a few goldfish and the loose change of those making a wish. In the middle of the park sits a large memorial, cube in shape. Engraved on it are all the names of the people that died in the Robot Master seige of Hong Kong in 2213.

 

Milan [Milan] [NA]                     Job [Normal] [C]                      

Quick Man [Ansi] [RM]                  Mimos [RF]                            

Javelin Whitetail [Obstacle] [C]       Data Raccoon [Raccoon] [M]            

Gale Sorcerer [Mage] [I]               Sage Harpuia [Sage] [NA]              

Retro Packrat [I]                      Elec Man [Normal] [RM]                

Barrage Raptor [Pilot] [RF]            Rock [Ultimate] [MH]                  

Spica's Camera                         Battle and Chase Stands - Obstacle Course

Race Track                             Libra [Libra] [SD]                    

Zephyr Gryphon [MH]                    Flare Feline [Feral] [RF]             

Blizzard Man [Snowball] [RM]          

 

 East <E> leads to Hong Kong - Commercial District.

 North <N> leads to Hong Kong - Southern Downtown.

 

        THUD.

                THUD.

        THUD.

                THUD.

        Not a trumpet fanfare. Not a bass drum. Not an arriving tank of DEATH, although that may or may not happen in the car race on Thursday. No, this is nothing more or less than Javelin Whitetail arriving--clad head-to-hoof in protective gear. She's about to clomp her way to where the other participants are when a judge frantically pulls her over. "Hold it! We need to check your gear, ma'am, make sure everything meets the rule guidelines--"

        Javelin scowls, but obediently waits as a judge checks for anything that might indicate cheating or tampering. At the end, he nods not unkindly. "Everything seems to check out, Ms. Whitetail; any questions before the competition begins?"

        Javelin nods, and gestures to her gear. "I prepared meself as much as I could, sir, 'cause seein' as some of these obstacles are a bit harmful, I wanted t'be careful. I got all I could find--" she pauses, digs around on her person, and holds up a codpiece for inspection. "--but I couldn't ever figure out what kind of bizarre thing this is, I mean, where does it ever GO? It's such an odd shape and--"

        She blinks in confusion as the judge suffers some kind of rampant coughing fit before heading back to the judges' table.

 

Nothing is impossible, they say. Just highly improbable. Should this be true, Gale would actually have some chances of winning the race today. Of course the odds are very small too, but that doesn't seem to have discouraged him from entering today. Dressed in his dark cloak and pointy hat, the sorcerer is concentrated, ready to start. He also checks on the other Interpol participants to see how they are doing.

 

        There's Blizzard Man. All prepped and ready, only mildly nervous that he wasn't where he was supposed to be - in the Skull Monument's parkgage, working on the Wilysaucer. Well, that wasn't of too much concern now. Wily originally placed great priority on winning the games, and darn it, he wasn't going to crap out on his last remaining event outside of the car races!

        He leaned back and forth in anticipation, ski poles on hand, skis firmly placed on his feet. He was ready, in short. Maybe, /too/ ready. If that was even possible.

 

The Run. .. Junior! That's how Zephyr was thinking of the event, in all honesty. Her old sport did this for each and every race they had! They thought just crashing was bad in those other events, bah. Despite it, this was the event Zephyr was looking forward too. Swooping in to join the other contestants, the gryphoness gives a wave to the stand, likely a number of fans up in the stands. That done, she heads toward the track and its starting line, "Now for some real fun.."

 

Storm Owl is once again ready for a race. The last time he entered one of these, it was the water race. Storm Owl's plan of winning quickly turned into his plan of annihilating all foes of Repliforce in order to see Jet Stingray to the finish line. That and avoiding Daryn. One for two isn't bad. The war bird is at the starting line, and is peering over at the various competitors, judging them to see who looks like they might be a danger for winning. Well, Quick Man is naturally at the head of this list, having won the foot race. Four Repliforcers in the race. Four chances for a medal.

 

"Good evening folks! We're here for the Battle and Chase obstacle course competition! I'm your host, Vic Greco!"

"And I'm Kenny Sablechunk!"

"(Not *now* Kenny, I'm doing my intro.) We've got the extreeeeeeeeme obstacles all ready now, as the competitors enter the arena!"

The camera pans down across the field - which is composed of a long forcefielded 'tunnel', stretching thirty-foot square around the oval track. It doesn't look all that.. Wait, is that a sawblade?

"This should be an exciting competition!"

 

Barrage Raptor is standing on the starting line, hopping up and down to egt herself stretched. Yeah, she's not going to win this. But who cares. She's here to cause havoc and make sure a Hunter or Repliforcer takes the medals. Heh heh.

 

The Guardian, Sage Harpuia, had already had his own gear checked out -- as much as he did. Despite suffering from an untimely amount of frostbite from 16+ hours in space, the Neo-Arcadian Guardian looked otherwise fairly healthy for himself. He didn't like his chances, comparitively, if the Air and Land races were any sign of things. His wing boosters adjust slightly, moving like arms all their own.

 

Ok...so he has a medal from a face before. But what makes Retro think he even has a chance of surviving a race like this? Easy. He doesn't. Why did he join then? Well...we all gotta die someday, right? "You know...I think this was a bad idea..." he mutters to himself, looking across to his fellow Interpolers in the line up. Too late to back out now though. "At least I have my skates on."

 

        Striding out onto the race track, Quick Man smiles his most winning smile and turns to wave to the crowd in the stands.. once more seeming to think they are teeming with his fans, whether or not anyone there gives a damn about him or not. Approaching the starting position, he spots Blizzard Man and walks on over to him, giving him a hearty slap on the shoulder. "Hi there, Blizz. Good luck, eh? Eh?" He winks, then steps up to the line. "Time to win me another gold."

 

Mimos is right at the beginning of the track, with a whole bunch of other contestants. She's just sort of standing around, apparently completely at ease and not at all stressed about the race. She isn't warming up, either - just sort of milling around.

Stretching abit near all the other Repliforce attendants (all.. 3 of them?) Flare seems ready to go. Still a bit sour over missing the footrace (injuring his knee like that was TOTALLY unfair) he seems determind to make up for it in this race. "Ok, so I gotta run AND dodge, ok, no problem." No problem... he hopes.

 

Elec Man, usually not a racer, is really just here for the fun of it, and to help clear the path for the not-very-slow at all Quick Man. He bounces from one foot to another as he looks about at the other competitors. He smirks when he sees the likes of Sage Harpuia. Ah, those zany Neo Arcadians.

 

        Resonance stumbles in, looking like she just woke up as she stumbles to the starting line. She glances on over to Quick Man, and then over to some of the other competitors as she walks, stifling a yawn and quickly hiding the bunny slippers she wore to the competition.

 

Sure Job didn't enter many events but this run seemed to be good for kicks, he's waiting in line for this new event. He's at the starting line and doesn't have his shield of doom with him this time. So he gets ready to race like everyone else!

        Milan is up at the start of the track, right next to Mimos, in full uniform and poking at the tiny Repliforcer with a long, thin stick which he has procured from somewhere. It's like a travel-sized abuse doll!

 

        Blizzard Man just waved back to Quick Man with his right hand, somewhat nervously. He nearly slipped as one pole came off the ground from Quick Man's shoulder slap, as he was wearing his extra-slippery no-stick skis for the event. Just another one of those really bad ideas that Blizzard Man believed wasn't.

Data Raccoon doesn't have any fanfare or anything, she just scurries on down to the starting line, muttering something about lack of competative effort on the part of her comrades in arms. She'll just have to handle things for herself and maybe come out in one piece. It -is- just simu-damage, after all. Hopefully. Just ignore the ancious twitching of her tail.

 

And amusingly enough, Mega Man is here as well. The navy blue and gold of the Ultimate Armor seems almost overkill in the field, but since he's not here to shoot things but rather to test his own reaction times... well, there's nothing to worry about, right? He looks around the field, curiously - quite the rogue's gallery. The wings on his back flex and snap experimentally, then lock down flat to prepare for the upcoming race.

 

Simian Monk arrives from the Southern Downtown.

Simian Monk has arrived.

 

Mimos, further, seems completely oblivious to being poked for the first bit. Eventually, though she reaches up and rather unceremoniously breaks off the tip of the stick with her thumb, dropping it to the ground. "Please don't do that. I don't like it." And then she goes back to ignoring him, finally settling in for racing.

 

The track sits there, looking all shiny and fresh an... that was a *flamethrower* on the track!

 

"The racers are lining up into their positions, as our starter, Detonation Wombat, is giving the signal for everyone to set up in their positions."

"Oooooh, they'd better be careful, Vic, because the track is looking spiteful."

"Shhh, Kenny. Don't tell the racers that. They don't know yet what the obstacles awaiting them are. Half the fun of the race is them finding out... the hard way!"

 

Simian Monk has been at the starting race the enitre time. In fact, he was just so quiet and calm that he could have just blended in with the crowd. He's been stretching within the last few minutes and he finally stops stretching. He looks for anyone that he recognizes.

 

Sage moves himself into his own starting position, getting ready. He knows Quick Man's going to be a challenge, if nothing else.

 

Guts Man has arrived.

 

Zephyr's gaze drifts from one competitor, to the next, and to the next, simply sizing the competition up, it appears. As the starter motions for the racers, Zee scurries up to the line, wings half spread as she waits for the race to start. "Go time..."

 

Guts Man changes into his Hardhat armor.

 

Javelin Whitetail is one of...two people representing the common civilian here. Perhaps one of the only ones in the Battle and Chase games at all. It's something that rubs raw at the Deer; outside the games she's shoved around by those in power, then during mandated peace time they come and take /more/... definitely a sore spot for the tiny musician. She's underpowered and underarmoured; and a good runner, but hardly a threat for the race. But there's still the faint hope that maybe--MAYBE--she might place for a medal. Just once.

 

        She braces herself on all fours, then; on her hands are curious contraptions, much like brass knuckles but hoof-shaped; protecting her wrists and allowing her to run like a natural deer. Her tail flips impatiently as the announcers babble on incessantly.

 

Rock blinks. A /flamethrower/? Oh crap. Rock blinks at the track, and rubs at his face briefly before bending slightly to get into a vague 'ready' stance. .oO(Remember, Rock, don't shoot back at the obstacles. This isn't real.)

 

Gale also gets into his position, focused on the signal to begin, ready to start moving the very moment it is heard. He checks the positions of Resonance and Retro, trying to memorize the tracks they should follow.

 

        Blizzard Man saw the flamethrower thingy. Blizzard Man did not like seeing the flamethrower thingy, but just the sight of it wasn't going to scare him off!

 

Data Raccoon flicks her tail again, and settles down on all fours in typical runner's stance. Although it's perfectly natural for her, since she runs better on all fours after all. It's one of the reasons she doesn't have all the sleek stylish designing of most femmes, as that would make the posture horribly uncomfortable without a quadropedic capable chassis.

 

Retro Packrat swallows hard as he looks down the track. "...ok, now I really do not like the look of this," he says, trying his best not to shiver. Good thing he's not capable of wetting himself. "If I don't live through this, I bequeath my stereosystem to Cassidla, Kurt to Miss Ayla..." he babbles, continuing his verbal will as the wait for the start continues.

 

On the starter's platform, Detonation Wombat nervously looks around. "R... racers! On your mark!" He holds a hand high in the air. "Geeeeeeet set...." And then the wombat explodes.

 "...I think that's the 'gun', Kenny."

"Woo! Kaboomies! Hahahahahaha!"

"You need to get out more, Kenny."

 

The racers speed around the track....                  

 

Current track positions:

13) Sage Harpuia (lap 1)

12) Quick Man (lap 1)

11) Rock (lap 1)

10) Gabriel (lap 1)

9) Blizzard Man (lap 1) Storm Owl (lap 1)

8) Flare Feline (lap 1) Zephyr Gryphon (lap 1)

7) Javelin Whitetail (lap 1) Gale Sorcerer (lap 1) Simian Monk (lap 1)

6) Barrage Raptor (lap 1) Job (lap 1) Milan (lap 1) Guts Man (lap 1) Data Raccoon (lap 1)

5) Cut Man (lap 1) Retro Packrat (lap 1)

4) Mimos (lap 1) Elec Man (lap 1)

 

        Just as Blizzard Man sped off to the start signal, he /already/ made his first goof of the race. He leaned forward a bit too much as he started, and quickly tumbled himself into a spherical mess of white, blue, and orange after what would have been a decent head start otherwise.

        One could say he was on a roll to start with, but no mistakes can be made about him - he'd be running the entire race as one big ol' rollin' skiing accident, in spite of the terrain and laws of physics otherwise.

        This, coupled with the advertised hazards, would likely prove to be comically fatal for his chances, but money well spent for the spectators who were looking out for bloopers like this!

 

Sage kicks off /running/. Or shall we say, running and propelled by his speed booster verniers as he becomes unlike a green and white blur that Quick makes hith his red and black blur. It's insane in it's own way, but he's running all the same. Though after long, he'll let his feet stop making ground contact and just plain /fly/.

 

Barrage Raptor runs! Run run run! Go Barrage go! She's the biggest person out here, so she's gotta get going.

 

        Quick Man jogs in place for a moment at the starter line, then drops down into a crouch, grinning and full of confidence. As the signal is given to start the race, he takes off in a blast of wind and a blurr of red and gold.. heading down the track and accelerating rapidly to try and outpace the other racers.. even the ones who think they can win by flying!

 

"And Sage Harpuia jumps into an early lead, with Quick Man and Mega Man close behind. The pack is starting to separate a little bit, as the massive difference in everybody's speed strings them out! But any second now the obstacles are going to kick in, and then things are going to get... interesting."

"You're scary when you say that, Vic."

 

        Despite his image, Simian Monk may have been in the neutral postion, but he was as ready as any other racer on this track. The Monk LEAPS from his position, and he leaps into the air with power. He's one of the smallest reploids there considering the rest of them (not including Javelin). Having the agility of a cat, this should be easy.

Gunshot, explosion, whistles, heck it could be a pin dropping but when it happens,

Zephyr lunges off the line and takes to the air, boosters flairing to life as she goes. Even her weapon systems power up... but then power done. "Meh.. that's one thing I like better about The Run," she says. Its shrugged off though as she focuses on the dangers ahead.

 

Storm Owl primes up his wind generators as the huge, huge mass of other competitors line up for the race. Goodness gracious, this is disgusting compared to the other races. How can people NOT wind up crashing into each other? Storm Owl has to veer violently out of the way of a certain big honkin' white ball of snow bounding around him. This probably costs Storm Owl some speed, but better that then being crushed by Blizzard Man and the laws of physics. Storm, thankfully, is in front of the huge teaming disgusting mass that is the majority of the racers. But he's pretty far behind the leaders, too.

 

Elec Man is off with... a jog. He whistles as he runs, apparently either pacing himself or just not really caring about the race. He /does,/ however, cheerily wave at Mimos.

 

Javelin Whitetail sets off with a bound--not a run, but a true deer's leap, bouncing several feet high in the air with each jump. They're surprisingly fast and long--and before long she's jumping over the heads of some of the racers. Hopefully her tenuous contact between land and air will mean she encounters a minimum amount of obstacles.

 

And Cut Man, who was at the starting line(Honest!), begins to DASH OFF! Maybe he'll have about just as much success than he did in the foot race.

 

As soon as the signal to begin is heard, a huge gust of wind is originated behind Gale, propelling the sorcerer forward as he begins to fly and advance positions into the race. His eyes begin to run around the track, trying not only to analyze the positions of other contestants, but also the possible source of the obstacles.

        At the Starting Wombat, Milan bursts out of the starting position he had taken up after Mimos broke his stick (D:) and runs his little heart out, speeding down the course. Of course, 'speeding' is sort of relative.

 

        Resonance cheerfully starts running, bouncing along the track behind three other people, in fourth place, as such is destiny. She pays more attention to these new 'hazards' as it were, for she is delicate lady, and death traps tend to hurt her. Well, she more 'looks out' for these hazards, since she's not entirely sure what she should be looking for.

 

Data Raccoon takes off as the 'gun' is fired, indeed staying on all fours to do so, the fluffiness of her tail fluttering in the air behind her as she goes. At least for once she's not the smallest person on the field, and the race is going to rely on more than speed alone.

 

Mimos immediately takes off like a shot. Run, Mimos! Run! Unfortunately, here we see the downside of being as small as she is; her legs are short, too. She has to work twice as hard just to keep up with the six-foot people around her. For now, she's just running, not making any of her trademark leaps.

 

Guts Man is off! Running with all the speed that his little legs will permit him! He actually manages to pass a few of the other robots. Sweet!

 

Unlike the Air Race, Rock isn't as interested in a sudden blast of speed. His thruster pack kicks in, wings snapping out authoritatively. He's a bit surprised to find himself so far ahead already, but that'll change when the hazards start firing, of that he's certain.

 

Retro Packrat simply skates along, meekly looking about at the track. He's back in the rear of the pack, so he doesn't have to worry about collisions or gaining anyone's ire yet. But he still doesn't want to be on the brunt end of those hazards. "I sure hope the others are having more fun than I am..."

 

Like everyone else, Flare takes off running... on all fours. Yep, he's using a four-footed advantage in this race, he's hoping the extra agility and speed from his Feral armor will give him the edge he needs. He's gonna need it though, this race will be something else entirely. But there's nothing to be scared of, right? .....RIGHT?

 

The racers speed around the track....                           

 

Current track positions:

20) Storm Owl (lap 1) Rock (lap 1)

17) Blizzard Man (lap 1) Flare Feline (lap 1)

16) Zephyr Gryphon (lap 1) Gale Sorcerer (lap 1)

14) Simian Monk (lap 1)

13) Barrage Raptor (lap 1) Javelin Whitetail (lap 1) Milan (lap 1)

11) Job (lap 1) Guts Man (lap 1) Data Raccoon (lap 1)

10) Cut Man (lap 1) Retro Packrat (lap 1) Elec Man (lap 1)

9) Mimos (lap 1)

4) Sage Harpuia (lap 2)

2) Quick Man (lap 2)

1) Gabriel (lap 2)

 

        Blizzard Man continued his tumbling about the track, actually making decent time despite the fact that he had little to no control of what he was doing. He was just rolling along, rolling along... rolling along with the punches! Well, no, not really. Just rolling. Him rolling around is dangerous enough, but at least right now he wasn't bounding around dangerously enough to put anybody near him at peril. This would probably change.

 

 

"Aaaand already Harpuia, Quick and Resonance are around the turn and into lap 2! But.. HERE COME THE OBSTACLES!"

            On the track below, suddenly hundreds of impliments of death spring to life. Walls of high-density water, cutting laser beams, rocket launchers, giant sawblades, SPIKES ON EVERYTHING..

 

Continuing forward, Zephyr's eyes dart all around for any competitors. Spotting just a trio of others, the gryphoness decides against any conflict and simply keeps her eyes on all sides of the track, waiting for the truly interesting part to begin.

 

Job is getting ready to move out for this race as the go is given, the green wonder takes off. This is going to get messy very very messy

 

The Sky Guardian just kept puttin' on the speed. He could've ran this out, his body, his legs could've taken it. But frankly, he didn't care, because he was going to use his flying to possibly, y'know, try and evade the obstacles that were coming his, among other people's ways. None of them looked pleasent, simulated-damage or not.

 

With a mighty burst of speed (and the thought of being smooshed by Blizzard Man and his ball of... himness), Storm Owl pushes ahead and catches up to the mighty Maverick Hunter, who we shall refer to as 'That Loser Who Retired'. Thankfully, nobody behind him is able to interfere with him, and Storm Owl doubts anyone in front is going to slow down in order to get in his way. Storm gives Rock a wide berth as the obstacles open up. Evasive maneuvers! Storm zig-zags down the track, trying not to be spiked. The lasers, water, and rockets are all cool. But no damn spikes.

 

Gale deciedes to simply keep on flying, his systems shooting a huge burst of wind while he tries to use the proper air currents to gain speed. And he still needs to keep an eye open for the hazards as well. Oh, dear, he'd better watch out or this is really going to HURT. Even if it is simulated.

 

Retro Packrat leaps up as the spikes suddenly burst out of everything, not to mention the other obstacles. "GAH!! I AM SO SCREWED!" he shouts, losing just a little bit of speed after his panicked jump. Of course, now that he's on the ground again, he's skating his little heart out. The threat of such things catching up to him does well to motivate the poor mechanic into action.

 

        Resonance continues running along like a happy bunn-OH GOD THERE ARE SPIKES-y. Her eyes widen as she tries to keep away from the SPIKES ON THE SPIKES and the LASERS and the ROCKETS and the DEATH and the so forth. She also swears a lot, but she isn't being very imaginative. OH GOD THEY EVEN HAVE EVIL WATER. The thought of being obliterated is possibly what gets Resonance to run ahead that much faster. It's always easier to run when things are trying to tear you (or Rock) apart.

Oh great.

 

            Not only Cut Man is waaaaay behind in the running, but the TRAPS now activate! And to add insulte to injury, /GUTS MAN/ in head mode is ahead of them! Him and Elec! How hulmiating is /that/? Nonetheless, the Alpha Cutter keep dashin' on, evading the stuff the best of his capacities!

 

...And maybe give a subtle, bastardly smack at the Repliforce Jumping Rodent.

 

Cut Man crashes forcefully into Retro Packrat!

 

Javelin Whitetail continues to make her giant bounds--but now they are AIMED bounds. Over lasers, under slow-moving rockets--and the whole time, her little central valve is pumping furiously. It's all virtual. Not gonna kill. Nope. Not killing things. Completely virtual damage. But sometimes--it's very, very hard to believe. It feels all too much like being hunted, and she scrabbles to keep behind some of the larger runners--after all, every good prey animal knows how to use cover.

 

        Pinchat-Silat. That is the name of Simian Monk's key martial art. It means: 'The Meaning of Movement', and that is precisely what Simian does. He moves like no other. With the appearing spikes, the monk leaps into a spinning aerial flip. While in the air he soars over many different spikes, and he attempts to hop in the space in between spikes. He needs to move into lap 2

 

        Blasting around the track once, Quick Man starts his second lap still behind Sage. Grimacing, he pours on the speed in an attempt to catch up to the flying fleshbag, sure that he can do it if he puts his mind to it. However, the track suddenly becomes a lot mroe dangerous as the traps all spring to life, and the Beta now has to keep his mind on where he's going as well as how fast he's going.

 

Mimos runs mightily, indeed. After a while, though...she starts jumping. Each of her leaps is a good fifteen or twenty feet long, and she bounces right from one to the next like some sort of super kangaroo tiny person thing. Maybe a jumping bean. Regardless, she's not aiming at anyone - just bouncing.

 

Elec Man continues to jog along, yawning to himself. When the obstacles spring about all over? He doesn't seem to care much, hopping over whatever that was in his way.

 

Guts Man keeps running to the best of his capabilities. His natural nerpium hat will offer excellent protection against most of these obstacles, but his underbelly is weak, should he step on a spike he's screwed just like everyone else. For now he manages to avoid the spikes while a laser hits him in the head, but thankfully bounces right off. Phew!

 

Position 2: The floor suddenly heats up to several hundred degrees centigrade - and bursts into flames.

Position 5: A massive half-ton sledgehammer starts to swing from above, whipping back and forth across the track.

Position 9: A massive whirling tornado picks up from a hidden fan that kicks up a brutal, giant-sized whirlwind.

Position 10: This would be the fan that's causing the giant whirlwind at position 9.

Position 13: The entire section of track is filled with a bright green corrosive poison gas. That's corrosively poisonous.

Position 15: The walls of the track slam together repeatedly, like a giant trash compactor.

Position 17: A massive tesla coil rises out of the floor and tazers EVERYTHING nearby.

 

Libra misses Quick Man with her Burning Floor attack.

Libra strikes Mimos with her Tornado attack.

Libra strikes Cut Man with her Fan Blades attack.

Libra misses Retro Packrat with her Fan Blades attack.

Libra strikes Elec Man with her Fan Blades attack.

Libra strikes Barrage Raptor with her Gas Corridor attack.

Libra strikes Javelin Whitetail with her Gas Corridor attack.

Libra misses Milan with her Gas Corridor attack.

Libra strikes Blizzard Man with her Tesla Shock attack.

Libra strikes Flare Feline with her Tesla Shock attack.

 

Spikes.

Why did it have to be /spikes/.

Rock gulps as he spots the obstacles activate, and briefly closes his eyes as he draws up alongside Storm Owl. He really has no desire to crash into Repliforce's Butterball - because Thanksgiving is coming up and bruised meat doesn't cook as well. So on he goes!

 

Flare continues to just run, no crashing attempts for him. He'll have his hands full as it is with just the obstacles. Keeping an eye on Blizzard Man as he runs alongside the frosty master, Flare tries to ignore the cold coming from him and just focus on the race. Just run Flare, just run.... is what he'd LIKE to think about. But the giant tazer that comes out of the floor below him occupies his mind for a moment! No avoiding that, it comes from below, no fair!! Cheating race! Getting shocked, Flare still focuses on moving forward, despite being electrocuted.

 

        "MADRE DE DIOS!" Milan shrieks, as the track he's running through is abruptly filled with horrible burning gas. In a stroke of ingenuity, however, he tears his beret off and fans it wildly, managing to, through a combination of luck and fanning strength, keep the gas around him thin enough that he does little more than itch.

Barrage Raptor gets caught in the gas. That's uncool. It starts to melt her armor in places, but she quickly powers through it in order to move on ahead. Gotta watch out for those..

 

"... Looks like they spent all the special effects budget on the obsticals," chitters the raccoon as she keeps scrambling alone, hoping her reflexes are going to be enough to just get through this gauntlent still functional. Fortunatlly, she manages to duck past that big fan and into the next 'section' before it starts spinning. "Somebodyreallylikesoverkill!" But no one is trying to crash her, either. So far. She's not holding her breath.

 

        ZZZZZAAAAAAAAPPP!!!

        Blizzard Man couldn't tell what was going on around him at all, but the electrocution bit likely would've clued him in. Fortunately, it didn't whip him around the track like some may have feared (or hoped for). Nope, he actually managed to slow down a bit in light of the painful surges going through him, but a small decline had him going again before he could regain control.

 

Mimos keeps on jumping.

 

Into the tornado.

 

Does this strike anyone else as a bad idea? Mimos is buffeted into the wall, slamming hard, before managing to get to her feet; forcing through the tornado takes time, but she makes it, eventually, and goes back to running.

 

        Resonance manages to not explode in round three, so she keeps on running, though sometimes she leaps and flies to get around particular troublesomeness.

 

Gale was apparently lucky enough not to get in the way of any of the spikes. Or the gas clouds. Or the water. The sorcerer sighs in relief, trying to concentrate so it doesn't happen to him what has already happened to many of the participats. His wind systems kick in once again as he continues trying to gain speed.

 

        Quick Man notices the floor beginning to heat up.. and his special android brain, able to process thoughts at much higher speeds than a normal human in order to help him move so fast, enables him to react in time. He leaps up and actually starts running on the wall of the track, his blurred form carrying enough momentum to shoot him along sideways over the burning floor, until he can drop back down to a safe part of the track and keep running..

 

That beat being smushed by an large hammer. Cut Man is cut(hahah!) by the fanblades, but...He still keep running one, laughing loud at the rodent he just smushed. He has to be carefull...He /GOT/ to evade thoses obstacles, or else he wont last very long in this thing.

 

Job is lucky at the moment as the speedy Gumby keeps on running like a Mofo avoiding the various traps, while the less than lucky racers. So onward he goes! "LETS KEEP A MOVE ON! YEEHAW!"

 

        It's possible to dodge things like rockets, missiles--and the Deer's bounds easily carry her across and over spikes. But gas--that's impossible to dodge, and something Javelin hadn't accounted for. Running on all fours, she carries into it facefirst, and only the helmet, turned down at the last minute, keeps her from being blinded with damage. It eats away at her armour, equipment, deepens the etched grooves in her metal skin. She continues running, finally outdistancing the cloud, with 'tears' of oil streaming out of her eyes at the pain--even if it is temporary, it still HURTS.

 

        A quick glance down shows her that it's a good thing she put on a breastplate over her tank-top.

 

Retro Packrat grunts, falling to the side as Cut Man rams into him and sends him to the ground. "OW! Dammit, you freakin' hedge head! I oughta..." Then the fanblades pop up, chopping at the two RMs nearby and sending a tunnel of wind to those in front of them. "...ok, maybe that's a good thing then..."

 

The racers speed around the track....                            

 

Current track positions:

20) Barrage Raptor (lap 1)

18) Javelin Whitetail (lap 1) Milan (lap 1)

17) Guts Man (lap 1)

16) Job (lap 1) Data Raccoon (lap 1)

15) Sage Harpuia (lap 2) Elec Man (lap 1)

14) Mimos (lap 1)

12) Gabriel (lap 2) Cut Man (lap 1) Quick Man (lap 2)

11) Storm Owl (lap 2) Rock (lap 2)

10) Retro Packrat (lap 1)

6) Blizzard Man (lap 2)

5) Gale Sorcerer (lap 2)

4) Flare Feline (lap 2)

3) Zephyr Gryphon (lap 2)

1) Simian Monk (lap 2)

 

Storm Owl, who is not stupid enough to wear his underwear on the outside like a fruitcake just because 'daddy says I have to', watches as others get maimed in various ways from the obstacles. He is fortunate enough not to suffer from any assaults, and even manages to pull up a few notches on the ol' velocity marker. It's so handy when the obstacles are lighting up the other competitors, thus letting Storm Owl see exactly what to avoid. Ahhh, there's the silver lining, no?

 

Being lucky enough to not be near a single trap, Zephyr speeds forward through many of their after affects. "Heh.. rookies," she snickers to herself as she wings away from a few blades, spikes, and such. "S'gotta get harder then this..."

 

        Blizzard Man continued rolling about the track, mentally /screaming/ on the inside that if he didn't correct himself, he wouldn't be going anywhere. He can't tell /where/ he's going, but fortunately it was in the right direction. Somehow. Once again, nothing had him dangerously rebound off of things just yet, but that was likely soon to change.

 

The Guardian starts cruising upwards -- he has no intention of being anywhere need the people on the ground.

 

"And Harpuia is lengthening his lead, as he enters the back of the pack, becoming a target! Resonance is tied with Quick Man for second, followed by Mega Man and Storm Owl..."

"Hey, do you think I could get that deer's phone number after we're done? She's kinda cute."

"I dunno Kenny, I think she's out of your league. Why don't you try asking the flying chick in the green?"

"I think that's a guy, Vic. And he'd beat me up if I tried."

"Exactly, more like what you're used to."

 

Gale grins to himself upon noticing that he has already passed some of the other contestants. He won't let his guard down, though, in a race like this one the mind must be always ready to face the dangers ahead and behind of you.

 

Elec Man disapproves of fan blades, especially when they bang his poor armor up! Nevertheless, our brave and mostly uncaring racer continues to jog, with nobody of note coming near him. I mean, sure, there's Harpuia, but who cares about him? Elec Man, clearly, as he recovers enough to propel his body in the NA-er's general direction. Have at thee! Sure, he has to jump, but he can jump pretty damn high.

 

Elec Man tries to ram into Sage Harpuia, without much success.

 

Happily, Rock manages to evade the obstacles that crop up in his way, gritting his teeth slightly as he darts and weaves around obstacles - only to end up in the same general area as Storm Owl. Ah, Storm Owl. The only Reploid in the world whose air ship is as big as their belly.

 

        Resonance continues running, keeping an eye on Quick Man and Cut Man. A very wary eye. She gives a small silent nod before returning (most of) her attention to the race.

 

Mimos keeps jumping mightily! Okay, she doesn't learn after all. Jumping continuously to make distance, she sees people in front of her. Hey, she never passed him - he's gone around already! She quite carefully angles her jumps to bring her closer to Harpuia, attempting to use him as a convenient platform to gain some extra height with.

 

Mimos crashes forcefully into Sage Harpuia!

 

Guts Man keeps running, he's approaching the part of the race track with those tesla coils, this could be bad.

 

The Alpha keep running, still laughing loudly at the poor rodent. Man, people are blurring around all over the dang place! He jumps over an pit and...give a sudden glare at Resonance after a few radio switch. So, he don't hit her, right? And she don't hit Quick.

            Sure. Let's hit someone else! Like Underloo Blue Boy is coming right from behind! The Red and white android stop /DEAD/ and strech out an arm to the side, searching to clothline the one FIGHTING FOR EVERLASTING PEACE! Then, he dashes off again!

 

Cut Man crashes forcefully into Rock!

 

Despite being, y'know, evading the jumping Elec Man, Sage's path unfortunately takes him along Mimos. When she comes up? The Guardian attempts to rise upwards -- grabbing her by the leg and just throwing her downwards. Harpuia has no intention of being messed with this race, as it were.

 

Sage Harpuia tries to ram into Mimos, without much success.

 

Flying, flying, flyyyyying... life is goo--

*WHAM*

What the?

 

Rock yelps in surprise as Cut's arm whaps into his face - except that the momentum might just be too much for Cut to keep running - and might end up on the ground with the Hunter if Cut's centre of gravity isn't, well, centered.

 

Rock crashes forcefully into Cut Man!

 

        Quick Man keeps on truckin', laughing as he watches Sage starting to come under fire.. he turns up the speed, gritting his teeth as he tries to take advantage of the oppurtunity tot ake the lead.. glancing over at Resonance and frowning.. he remembers her from last time. But he doesn't try to crash into her.. yet anyway.

 

Position 4: A shower of high-molar hydrocloric acid starts spurting into the air, in pretty but really unfriendly fountains.

Position 5: There's that hammer again! Do *you* wanna be my sledgehammer?

Position 7: Lights under the track light up, signalling the fact that the sonic generators have activated, putting up a giant foot-thick wall of pure sound. Right in the middle of the pathway.

Position 8: LANDMINES. Everybody loves landmines! Enough for the whole family!

Position 14: On the ceiling, a series of wheels start turning, spiralling a number of cutting lasers around, randomly whipping them across the floor, walls and ceiling like some kind of demented spirograph.

Position 18: This area has no guns. It *does*, however, have spikes. Spikes on the floor. Spikes on the ceiling. Spikes on the walls. SPIKES ON THE SPIKES. Oh, and all of them are suddenly magnetized to pull all the passing competitors into them.

Position 19: In a scene out of Indiana Jones, a gigantic, track-filling boulder of ice falls down from above and rolls down the track, trying to crush EVERYONE IN THE PATH.

 

Libra strikes Flare Feline with her Acid Drip attack.

Libra strikes Gale Sorcerer with her Swinging Hammer attack.

 

Barrage Raptor is running. And running. And running. And running running running, she's running. She's running. She's running running..

 

Mimos deflects Laser Wheel from Libra.

Libra strikes Milan with her Spiked Everything attack.

Libra misses Javelin Whitetail with her Spiked Everything attack.

 

        Happy days! The Monk is unbothered once again and Simian continues to leap through the second lap easily. The jumping monkey, Simian Monk, is as happy as can be. And hey! The Robot Masters are giving him freeway! Sweet.

 

Guts Man manages to run through the area that was previously charged with Tesla coils without harm, it seems they're recharging before they can strike again. Praise the Lord Bass!

 

Data Raccoon is once again untouched, and able to mauneuver away from any obsticals before they start up. Or she's just been that darn lucky. We're not going to complain about it, nope. Not going to complain, and just keep right on running.

 

        Blizzard Man is still totally oblivious of what lied in his path. He's lucky that he was about to blaze right on past the sonic wall before it could start up, and that giant hammer didn't sound too pleasant. Yes, he could guess that was a hammer from the sound of the giant *WHUMP* noise.

 

Retro Packrat thankfully is either too fast, or two slow to be caught by a hazard this time. Doesn't change the fact that he's now in definite last place. However, that doesn't mean he's too slow to react to the people lapping him. He spots Res out of the line up as they speed by, as well as a certain Blue Bomber and a Repliforce Turk...er..Owl. He should help his fellow Interpoler...but he doesn't want to have to choose to attack one of his idols either! Of course, that is eliminated quickly as Rock is crashed by someone else. "Ok then....time for a little trickery and...oh, I can't even say it. The pun is too bad!" he laments. The last part of that would have been 'de-sheet'. Which is what he does to himself by removing his shirt and tossing it toward Storm Owl, hoping to slow the flyboy down a bit.

 

Retro Packrat tries to ram into Storm Owl, without much success.

 

        OMG SPIKE RUSH KEKEKE ^_^

        Magnetized spikes, at that. These spikes obviously did not count on Javelin Whitetail. She jumps both high and long--and her small size and weight mean that her forward jump is actually propelled by the magnetic forces. She slides through the area and lands on the other side, hooves skidding a bit; then continues on her path.

 

Perfect! Gale seems to have dodged all the traps with no further incidents and - oh, no wait! He didn't get to see the swinging sledgehammer coming, and the massive hazard hits the sorcerer in his back, sending him flying in a twisted trajectory for some seconds before he tries to move back into the proper track once again. He curses over the pain he's feeling now. It's simulated, yes, but it still hurts.

 

Job luck holds out again as he somes hoe doesn't get caught in the various traps once more! Of Job goes running as he watches others fall prey to the havards on the track!

 

        Milan twists, just barely, around a spike that suddenly juts out of the ground as he nears. Panting, he looks back, worriedly, at the spike, and turns to look in front of him just in time for a large piece of wall with spikes on it to swing out and clobber him. "OHGOD!"

 

Unfortunately, Cut man's center of gravity was, indeed, messed up. DOWN HE GOES! Good thing there were no obstacles worthy of the name on his position.

 

        Resonance manages to avoid the hazards again with ease since they activate way before she reaches those prospective areas. Of course, so does the person she's tied with, but Resonance is fully expecting Quicky to move at least one spot in front of her. He's probably conserving fuel or something, or she's really lucky.

Ohcrapacid! Flare isn't particularly weak against acid, but it's still ACID, afterall. After the burning shower, though, Flare still pushes forward without hitting anyone else. He's not in those to crash, he's in to run... and not die.

<O-Repliforce> Shield Shellfish says, "OMG SPIKE RUSH KEKEKE ^_^"

The racers speed around the track....                               

[OOC] Javelin Whitetail waits.

Current track positions:

19) Elec Man (lap 1)

16) Mimos (lap 1)

15) Blizzard Man (lap 2) Sage Harpuia (lap 2)

13) Flare Feline (lap 2) Gale Sorcerer (lap 2)

12) Zephyr Gryphon (lap 2) Cut Man (lap 1) Retro Packrat (lap 1)

11) Rock (lap 2)

8) Simian Monk (lap 2)

7) Barrage Raptor (lap 2)

5) Milan (lap 2)

4) Javelin Whitetail (lap 2)

3) Job (lap 2) Quick Man (lap 3)

2) Gabriel (lap 3) Data Raccoon (lap 2)

1) Storm Owl (lap 3) Guts Man (lap 2)

 

Mimos bounds up, up and away from Sage Harpuia, leaving him with a whole handful of nothing, and for free at that. She nearly bounces up into the lasers; some of them /do/ strike her, but are rebounded away by a series of forcefields covering her hands in flat planes, and her simply being so shiny that the light bounds right off.

 

This, ladies gentlemen, is why you should polish. You can get SO SHINY that you can bounce lasers. It's totally awesome and makes you look like a living disco ball.

 

Also, Mimos keeps running and bouncing like a deranged superball, fast and then slow, ricocheting. Where does she ricochet? ALL OVER. Including at her last target, who apparently she is going to try to jump off again in some parody of Mario Brothers. Let's hope for the 1-Up.

Mimos tries to ram into Sage Harpuia, without much success.

Storm Owl peers over at the saviour of the planet who, lets all remember, is the one who's relationship with his sister was so unclear in the games that, really, it's kinda creepy in a disgusting sort of way. Alas, one of his many inbred hick brothers in the form of Cut Man winds up smashing into Rock, thus leaving Storm Owl free to blast past the blue bomber. Storm streaks into the area with the cutting lasers, doing his best to avoid them. Nobody can stop him now! Oh but wait, somebody gives it his best shot: Storm Owl peers behind him at Retro Packrat. The shirt flies towards Storm, but the wind catches it and it flutters away harmlessly. Not a coincidence, I can assure you.

        And so, Storm Owl continues valiantly. Say, is that a hardhat he sees?

[OOC] Job waits

 

 

"And Quick Man takes the lead, just barely ahead of Resonance, with Storm Owl in third!"

"..."

"What is it, Kenny? You look perplexed."

"Vic?"

"Yes Kenny?"

"Were you just implying that I like physical pain?"

"Kenny, it's called 'banter'. You see when.."

"Well, it all started when Mommy left the riding crop out from when she and her 'special friend' were playing and..."

"...Kenny. Stop talking."

[OOC] Javelin Whitetail says, ".........."

Elec Man lands, frowning as he misses Harpuia. Well, time to just run on again, then! Hey, he's almost in the second lap!

[OOC] Rock spittake

Gale eyes behind him once, eyes towards the area in front of him once again. He may get unlucky if someone attempts to strike him from behind if he isn't lucky, but he will try to avoid this from happening. Too many things to take care of at once while flying at full speed.

[OOC] Simian Monk laughs!

        Blizzard Man's big ball o' accidents continued to go on without being called such, although it came awful wide and short of striking Sage Harpuia just as he was about to recover. This time, he was lucky.

        Blizzard Man? Well, he wasn't in particularly bad shape himself. Given the fact he had no control of what he was doing at all, he was making really good time. Not that he'd know, of course.

[OOC] Barrage Raptor says, "TMI."

[OOC] Cut Man says, "...o_o"

Seeing the obstacle just a little way ahead of her, Zee had a lot of time to adjust her flight path to avoid the deadly fountains of acidic DOOM. Weaving around the lot, and passing, boosters flare up once again as she surges forward along the track. In all honesty, she isn't paying much attention to the other racers, instead focusing on the track.

[OOC] Data Raccoon says, "..."

[OOC] Data Raccoon says, "That is so Kenny"

[OOC] Retro Packrat says, "That is just wrong..."

[OOC] Zephyr Gryphon mwahahahahahs. X)

Cut Man flip himself up and away from Megaman, grunting at his own stupidity of the thing called 'gravity' and 'centrifuge force' and begins to dashes off again. This time, he leave people alone...for no.

Disengaging himself from Cut Man, Rock leaps back into the air to chase down after the Duck Hunt reject-- uh, I mean, Storm Owl. He mutters a little, one of the wings slightly bent from the tumble to the ground, but hey, if the Owl can actually propel that huge tail through the air without a tractor beam from the Fortress V giving him a hand, the Hunter can fly with a bent wing.

[OOC] Mimos says, "Question. Who is Zee?"

[OOC] Rock says, "Zephyr."

[OOC] Mimos says, "THank you."

[OOC] Zephyr Gryphon is. Sorry.

Guts Man makes it to the second lap. He's ahead of a lot of people right now, that's very good for him. He's been lucky enough to dodge any of the traps that have plagued the other racers so far.

[OOC] Sage Harpuia is airborne a bit -- would like people to think about that, even if he's stopped in-place.

 

        Resonance runs along, falling into second place. Soon Harpuia and Rock will be overtaking her, but for now she struggles not to embarrass herself like she did at the air race (though fourth is 'okay', she feels she was really more of a sixth or fifth, keeping in mind nonexplosions).

[OOC] Mimos would like to note, in return, that she has Flight, and is quite capable of jumping off an airborne forcefield. :)

 

 

Position 4: The acid fountains continue to spray, and start to leave pools of acid scattered across the track. Improper drainage! The B&C committee is getting such a letter from the EPA this year.

Position 5: It's that dang hammer still! Maybe it should have stopped by now, but the centrifigual force keeps on going!

Position 6: The walls on both sides suddenly sprout spikes - as does a wall directly ahead that pops out of the ground!

Position 9: The tornado whirls to life once more, spinning madly.

Position 10: Aaaaand there's the giant fan blades!

Position 15: The walls slam together again, trying to crush any unlucky enough to be nearby into paper-thin ribbons.

Position 17: The tesla coil cycles up once more, wafting the stink of ozone around as it prepares... then discharges a massive storm of thunderbolts around itself.

[OOC] Javelin Whitetail says, "ARgh. Acid"

Libra misses Javelin Whitetail with her Acid Drip attack.

[OOC] Milan says, "oh god"

[OOC] Javelin Whitetail says, "WOO"

Libra misses Milan with her Swinging Hammer attack.

[OOC] Milan says, "THANK YOU JEBUS"

<O-Repliforce> Shield Shellfish says, "WOO YEAH"

<O-Repliforce> Shield Shellfish dodged spikes. And acid!

Libra misses Blizzard Man with her Crushing Walls attack.

[OOC] Javelin Whitetail hugs Milan.

[OOC] Gabriel says, "<Jebus> Not a problem, littly buddy!"

Libra strikes Sage Harpuia with her Crushing Walls attack.

<O-Repliforce> Storm Owl says, "Pfft. Nobody can dodge spikes. Spikes either decide to hit you, or decide to spare you."

[OOC] Javelin Whitetail says, "The walls...THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN! O_O"

 

        Weee~! Simian Monk continues on his merry way. No problems on his side, in fact, there is not a pesky master to bother him.

 

 

        Shooting into the lead, Quick Man grins to himself.. so far, the obstacles have proven less than a challenge for the speedy Master, and with his brothers watching his back, he can just feel that gold medal around his neck.. of course, he never has been very attached to reality. Still! He motors on, and motors well.

 

Finding himself facing no traps this time (whew) Flare pushes onward. It's going to take awhile to get all that acid out of his fur anyway. Where's a fire-trap when you need one? He could put up with one of THOSE. He quickly runs past Gale Sorcerer, and recognizing an Interpoler, nods quickly and keeps his pace. He's not about to crash into an ally.

[OOC] Mimos says, "Further, it's, uh, indoors, so. :)"

Job onces again evades all harm on the track, and he keeps on running, He winces at some of the traps on this track but he's making pretty good time here.

        Blizzard Man just managed to roll on past the crushing walls. Nothing really special about it, except he was coming down the next turn at an awful sharp angle. Uh oh?

Barrage Raptor continues to run, once more unaffected by traps.

 

"@#$@!" Ow. The incoming walls certainly hurt. And the Guardian, despite the pangs of pain from the walls slamming him around, starts his engines up again. He's got to get moving again!

 

[OOC] Sage Harpuia tacks on something.

Cut Man is going totaly underanged! He keep running! And, of course, spouting an very well placed insulte at the Guardian ahead that got squished. "AAAAAAAHAHAHA! LIKE A BIRD HITTING A WINDOW!" ...That din't made senses, but consider who it is.

 

Sage, for the record, just pulling away from Mimos in time. Phew!

 

Retro Packrat thankfull misses some of the hazards again. Unfortunately, he is now sans shirt. Too bad. "Dammit. I liked that shirt, too," he mutters, before skating on and on and on...oh look, there's that hedgehead again. "Hey, better not run too fast. You know what they say about running with scissors!" he shouts to Cut, putting a thumb to his nose and waggling his fingers at the RM.

        Milan, arms pumping, dives past the big swinging hammer and rolls back into a run. He reaches up and adjusts his beret, tilting it in a decidedly nonuniform way to the side. And he's... humming something.

        "Hm-hmhm-hmmm... hm-hmhm..."

Gale appears to have managed to not be in the way of any of the traps once again, so he proceeds to accelerate once again. As he notices Flare Feline below looking at him for a second, he grins at him not saying a word and then goes back to minding his own business.

 

        JUMP. JUMP. JUMP. SPLASH.

 

        Wait. Splash? Javelin Whitetail looks down--and only THEN notices the streams of acid that have crept over from the spurting fountains. She frantically scrabbles out of the way; wiping it off of her hooves as she continues bounding away, and avoiding the repaining puddles. She does catch a whiff of acid, though. It makes her optics burn, at least until the forcefield walls start melting.

 

        "WhoaAAaaaAAAhh...."

 

Cut Man flip off a finger at Retro! HOW RUDE!

 

Data Raccoon is once -again- nowhere near the traps that trigger. Yay! So she just keeps right on running and running, scrambling along as fast as her all fours can carry her. Like she has a chance of actually winning, she just wants to make it through this crazy death trap alive and in one relative piece, because sooner or later her luck is going to go sour...

 

Unless of course she can stay FAR away from Cut Man, maybe.

The racers speed around the track....                              

Current track positions:

20) Zephyr Gryphon (lap 2) Mimos (lap 1)

19) Cut Man (lap 1)

17) Retro Packrat (lap 1)

16) Simian Monk (lap 2)

15) Barrage Raptor (lap 2)

14) Quick Man (lap 3)

13) Gabriel (lap 3)

10) Storm Owl (lap 3) Job (lap 2) Javelin Whitetail (lap 2) Milan (lap 2)

6) Sage Harpuia (lap 3) Data Raccoon (lap 2)

5) Guts Man (lap 2)

4) Blizzard Man (lap 3)

3) Elec Man (lap 2)

2) Gale Sorcerer (lap 3)

1) Rock (lap 3) Flare Feline (lap 3)

 

Storm Owl is once again free of traps. Call it luck, call it strategy, or call it paying Libra five bucks before the match... whatever you like. Storm Owl is now able to pull nice and far ahead of Rock. Speaking of Rock, his mama so fat, she... OH, WAIT, ROCK DOESN'T HAVE A MAMA. HE HAS THREE DADDIES INSTEAD. Annnyhow, Storm Owl, with the added velocity that can only be gained by having the wind always in your favour, flies onward for freedom, passing the hardhat along the way. Storm Owl has now reached the big ol' mess of people. He plans to leave them alone, unless they go looking for him.

 

Suddenly, Sage is gone from where he was in his position. WTF?

 

...Oh, there he is. /already on the third lap/. Wow. That's fast.

 

Mimos has given up on jumping, with her impressive miss of Harpuia. She's running now.

 

But she's running in THIN AIR. A shimmering glow hazes around her legs as Mimos runs, suspended ten feet above the track and making pretty good time. With every step, a brighter flicker appears at the base of her foot, her forcefield systems activating themselves and pushing her up. It looks weird.

Luck is on her side! Horray! Another round that Zephyr crusises along the course without an incident to cause her harm. This is a good thing! Looking toward the position board as she rushes for the line to get onto the third lap, she hrns quietly. 9th wasn't bad, but she really wanted to do a lot better then -that-.

 

 

"Quick Man's still in the lead, but he just can't manage to shake Gabriel! Storm Owl is narrowly in front of Sage Harpuia, who's gaining, followed by.. Blizzard Man?"

"I made my own Blizzard Man, once."

"Out of snow?"

"Nah, out of men. I had it snowing and snowing and dropping guys for *hours*."

"Talk about it raining men!"

"Nah, it was a blizzard. Rain would have flowed away into the gutters. They just all stacked up."

 

Elec Man is running, yo. Sorta.

 

Barrage Raptor is still running along, until she hears someone running up behind her. She glances over her shoulder and spots Quick Man trying to make his move to get around her. Well, he can get by, if he can get through her. She stops running and turns around, throwing her arm out in an attempt to catch Quick Man in the throat and clothesline him to the ground.

 

Barrage Raptor tries to ram into Quick Man, without much success.

 

        Blizzard Man, currently holding fifth at the last update of the news ticker for those who were watching at home, continued rolling haplessly across the obstacle course. He was just coming up from behind Guts Man, once again in an angle that would've proven dangerous, but as it stood he wouldn't collide - as long as he nor anybody else tried to force one.

 

Third lap already, he's already got half of the race done. Gale, however, blinks suprised for a second when he notices that... wait, did he really fly past Mega Man? The sorcerer looks lost for a second, as if he was dreaming, before he recalls he is in the middle of a race full of dangers, so he focuses once again.

 

Cut 'Quincy' Man keep running. What kind of lousy name is Quincy? Blame Dr. Light for that one. It's better than 'Michochivan', though. Like, totaly. So, yeah. Cut Man keep running. And when he see...that big bird-gryphon of a reploid ahead, he can only have ONE reaction: take a sudden burst of speed and PUNT.

 

Cut Man crashes forcefully into Zephyr Gryphon!

 

        Lucky 13! Resonance runs along, internally praying her luck with the hazards continues, because she'll need it. She keeps in mind position #13 is the one with the ACIDIC DEATH but it could be worse, she could be crunched by two very large walls, for example. Hopefully they just won't activate at all. She is content to let Quick Man take the lead, though she does try to outdistance him if she spots a chance.

 

Guts Man will likely reach the third lap once someone completes the fifth lap, that is if they're not destroyed by the traps. For now his little legs keep moving him forward through the trap infested track.

 

Three daddies that put a cannon more powerful than any wee little weapon Storm Owl could ever handle! Besides, it's not like Butterball can talk. Storm couldn't find his feet if someone gave him a map and a compass to get over Mount Belly. Rock continues to dart along, weaving as best as he can through the madness which currently clutters the obstacle course.

 

Position 3: A series of small guns pop up along the floor, and rapidly fill the area with small but rather irritating plasma shots.

Position 6: The spiked walls are still there, being all spikey and wally... and then the magnets turn on again, pulling anyone nearby into them.

Position 9: The blades stop, but the tornado is still hanging around, whirling on it's own.

Position 11: A rocket launcher pops up out of the ground and begins firing at anyone nearby.

Position 18: SPIKES EVERYWHERE. The spikes on the spikes sprout spikes! The *air* starts growing spikes!

Position 19: The giant ice boulder appears again, slamming down onto the track.

Position 20: There it is. The big one. Just before the finish line pops out... A DEATH LASER. It takes a moment to warm up, humming ominously, before firing a ten foot wide beam of pure annihilation across the track.

 

Libra misses Elec Man with her Scatterblast attack.

 

"Oh no." Goes Cut Man quickly at the boulder.

 

Libra misses Sage Harpuia with her Spiked Wall attack.

Libra strikes Data Raccoon with her Spiked Wall attack.

Libra strikes Cut Man with her Ice Boulder attack.

 

Ocrapmagnets! AND Spikes! Thankfully, Harp MAKES IT GO FASTER. Take that, Interpol. *ZIP-PING!*

 

Libra strikes Zephyr Gryphon with her Death Laser attack.

Mimos deflects Death Laser from Libra.

 

Retro Packrat simply skates on as Cut passes by him. "DANGIT!" he curses. Until he sees what happens to Cut AND what is before him. "...ok, slow and steady...slow and steady..." he mutters to himself, blessing his luck that he has avoided such pain so far. Slow has it's advantages it seems.

 

Job manages some how, once again to avoid all harm! Prehaps he'll get lucky and some big names will be taken out by the various traps. He also keeps in mind he might fall prey to them as well.

 

        Keeping the lead, Quick screams along the track, leaping, ducking, dodging, and jinking as he makes his way.. glancing over his shoulder and seeing some people gaining, he grits his teeth with a little grinding of metal sound and keeps it going.. gotta win!

 

Finding no traps headed his way again, Flare keeps running forward. Turning to his side for a moment he is suprirsed to see the most famous Maverick Hunter there. "Hiya Rock!" Flare says for the moment while they're neck and neck. It might even take the hunter a moment to recognize the Repliforcer while he's running on all fours.

 

        Nothing special to report on Blizzard Man's end, no siree. Except if the camera hovered close enough, you could hear him yell "WILY!! STOP THIS CRAZY THING, EH?!"

 

Simian Monk furrows his brow, "Well, this is pleasent," and he leaps into some complex manuevers to avoid any straggling obstacles. He may not be the fastest, but these obstacles really do like him.

 

Elec Man suddenly leaps into a daring show of agility, hopping and spinning about and quite frankly not being shot like a punk.

 

Gale smirks proudly as he once again finds himself out of the way of the hazards. But he doesn't plan to take it easy yet. He has been doing far better than he expected and he wont give up the race today.

 

*SCRUNCH* Goes the poor Red and white alpha under the ice Boulder. And despite the pain, he keep going. all frozy.

 

Javelin Whitetail bounds along, managing to avoid the majority of traps this time around--by bounding immediately behind Storm Owl. Bouncing along in his wake, not only does she get the benefit of a bit more airspeed, but he's directly in front of her, potentially blocking things like that DEATH LASER. Should he look back, all he'd get is a friendly wink.

 

Data Raccoon is still getting no one in one piece. But just surviving this is going to be victory enough, so we're not going to stop, either. Just run, and run, and run and run and...

 

Geez. Even from back here Storm Owl's aft looks huge!

 

And back to running and running and running and hey look there's one of those reploid hating Arcadia poeple and running and running some more. Hey you try coming up with something better to put in here!

 

Ack, spoke too soon! Data Squeals at the spikes, as she abruptly ends up getting yanked to the ceiling spikes. "Ahpoopielemmego!" The femme wiggles around a bit, and finally manages to cancel out the magnetics with her own current, and drops. Oh look, there's that Arcadia person still and right below her too as she falls, covering her eyes with her front paws

 

Data Raccoon crashes forcefully into Sage Harpuia!

 

*THUMP*

 

Sage whips around, however, and just BACKHANDS DATA into the walls, really. Nothing more than that. Hi.

 

Sage Harpuia crashes forcefully into Data Raccoon!

 

        Milan takes this moment where he's NOT being swung at with hammers or stabbed by missiles or submerged in acid gas to catch his breath. While stikll running. He can do that!

 

        Resonance thankfully doesn't have to deal with a hazard yet because she is rather distracted by the DEATH LASER THAT IS TEN FEET WIDE, "Bloody Bloody Bloody Bloody!" Resonance says in horror as she spoons forward.

 

The racers speed around the track....                               

 

Current track positions:

20) Barrage Raptor (lap 2) Zephyr Gryphon (lap 2)

19) Storm Owl (lap 3)

17) Job (lap 2) Milan (lap 2)

16) Javelin Whitetail (lap 2)

12) Rock (lap 3)

11) Blizzard Man (lap 3)

10) Gale Sorcerer (lap 3)

9) Guts Man (lap 2) Elec Man (lap 2)

8) Flare Feline (lap 3)

6) Sage Harpuia (lap 3) Data Raccoon (lap 2)

4) Mimos (lap 2) Gabriel (lap 4) Simian Monk (lap 3) Quick Man (lap 4)

3) Retro Packrat (lap 2)

2) Cut Man (lap 2)

 

Mimos is both tiny and mighty. Running in midair, her eyes go wide as the DEATH LASER pops out in front of her, humming ominously; dropping to the ground, she immediately shields her face with both arms, shimmering planes of force interlocking to make an almost full-body shield, still moving forward.

 

And it works. When the energy clears, Mimos is standing there, still with her arms thrown up, having actually run through the force of the blast completely unharmed. Hoping that it can't fire again so soon, she goes back to running like a maniac, although on the ground this time.

 

Sage peers back down as he sends Data down. "Damn. Sorry about that!" Sage yells. "Thought you were a boulder or somethin'!

 

Hello? Wee little weapon Storm Owl could ever handle? Hello Fortress II, III, and V? See folks, Rock's just upset that, due to one of his daddies being a psycho, and the others being Cain and Wily, he got all messed up in the head like all the other Light twits out there. That's why he talked like an idiot in that old television show.

        Regardless, Storm Owl continues on his merry way, noting how different this race has been compared to the water race. Here he has a chance! The owl does indeed look back to ensure nobody is going to beat him righteously from behind, and indeed he gets the friendly wink from Ms. Whitetail. He ignores it, however, and focuses on more speed. Hopefully Javelin's advantage won't last too long, as Storm's hoping to pull ahead even further. And indeed, he does. Storm's hoping Barrage will be able to clear a path for him here.

 

Death laser. Bad. Wide beam. Worse. Getting hit by it? Priceless .. wait. Whatever the pricetag is on that weapon, the blast makes Zephyr screech out in agony. She was just about to dodge it, flying low, before fsking Cut Man punted her right into its path. "Nggh..." After a quick crash and burn, she's back into the air again, trying to catch up with everyone else. "Tenth? Grah..."

 

Gale raises a brow when he watches Rock go pass him once again. Well, he should have expected that, but it can be solved later, somehow. For now he must concentrate on dodging, flying and trying to come up with a way to go past Blizzard Man in front of him.

 

"And Resonance catches up to Quick Man as they enter the fourth lap, screaming along! Storm Owl's just out of reach of them, followed by Mega Man, who finally manages to pass Blizzard Man."

 

"Hey Vic, did you know that one of our competitors is Swahili?"

"Really, Kenny? I didn't know that."

"That's right. Everyone at home say hello to and wave out our African friend, Retro Packrat!"

"Uh, Kenny?"

"It's something very few people know, Vic. 'Retro Packrat' is actually Lower Swahili for 'your goat had intercourse with the mother of your uncle'."

"I think you have the wrong dictonary, Kenny."

"No, I'm sure it's right! See, right here. Lower Swahili phrase for asking where the bathroom is: 'My Hovercraft Is Full Of Eels'."

"I wonder about you sometimes, Kenny."

"Well, that's very sweet of you, Vic."

 

Rock doesn't need /lackeys/ to help him win a race, unlike certain very large avians which are currently waddling their way around the track. And unlike the Fortress II, III and V, there is still only one Rock - often imitated, never duplicated, no matter how many times he gets blown up. Shoddy Repliforce engineering, tch. The Hunter continues to streak along, trying to claw his way back up into the head of the pack. At least things are now interesting, and he's got to work at placing well.

 

Data Raccoon eeps as she realizes she landed ON him, and uuuuhs, waving her little fingers. "Uh.. excuse me." WHAP! And gets smacked, dropping to the floor again. "Guesshedoesn'tlikehitchhikers." Well, she wasn't winning anyways, and she made a bunch of people pass him! Hah!... even if it wasn't intentional. Oops.

 

Anyways, she gets back up and starts running again, And winces a bit at the commentators. And people think the mavericks are nucking futs.

 

        Resonance runs, Resonance runs quickly! She catches up with Quick Man (again) and is somewhat startled by this because by all rights she -knows- Quick Man is faster, not by -much-, granted, but it's surprising it's this close. She facepalms in mid-run.

 

"NYAAAAAAAHAHAHAH!" Comes this annoying laugh from Cutty, blurring past the Gryphon. "Why don't you go back in the poultry farms to be made into drumsticks! HUH? NYAHAHA!" That was one of the most awefull insultes ever. But, oh! Lookie at that! Look who is ahead! It's that mister little RAT again! Grinning maniacly, the Alpha gives anoter burst of speed to catch up, attemp to pick him up and *SLAMDOWN*

 

Cut Man crashes forcefully into Retro Packrat!

 

        Blizzard Man? Just rollin' along, rollin' along. As he hasn't been crashed into nor have the hazards really messed with him, he hasn't really done anything chaotic as of yet. It wasn't too late for any of that, mind you, and hey, it could change this very instant.

        OK, not this one. Maybe the next one.

 

Elec Man jogs along, continuing to not really put his all into this. He's just here for the cool explosions, like that laser.

 

        A nearby Quick Man? YAYYY! The Monk, being aware of his opponents position, suddenly leaps high into the air, and Simian Monk attempts to slam Quick Man with a flying roundhouse kick. It may slow him down, but he is still moving forward.

 

Simian Monk tries to ram into Quick Man, without much success.

 

Job is still on is second lap and making pretty darn good time to boot, as he speeds by all the others hopefully not falling prey to any other traps. He looks over to Milan and says "Good luck." With that the Joepolid keeps on running!

 

Guts Man slows down slightly, having short legs can be taxing at times. He's down to a jog now compared to his previous sprint. Maybe he should have joined the race in his regular armor instead.

 

Position 4: There goes the acid fountains again! The entire area is filling with icky, drippy, smokey acid now. Ohnos!1

Position 7: The wall of sonic energy rises again, invisibly filling the track for a few moments - just enough for people to slam into.

Position 8: All across the floor, little lights blink on as the landmines re-activate underfoot.

Position 9: The tornado continues to whirl, picking up chunks of.. things along the floor and bouncing them around as well.

Position 11: More rockets fly, as the missile launcher finishes reloading and opens up again.

Position 17: The tesla coil explodes again, sending off a massive wave of electricity across the area.

Position 18: Oh for crap's sake, it can't get any spikier. Gate is probably drooling at it, the freak. Look out, Alia! After all those years of sending others to their doom in them, THE SPIKES ARE COMING FOR YOU.

 

Libra misses Mimos with her Acid Drip attack.

Libra strikes Gabriel with her Acid Drip attack.

Libra strikes Simian Monk with her Acid Drip attack.

Libra misses Quick Man with her Acid Drip attack.

Libra strikes Flare Feline with her Mines attack.

Libra misses Guts Man with her Tornado attack.

Libra strikes Elec Man with her Tornado attack.

Libra strikes Blizzard Man with her Missile Launcher attack.

Libra misses Job with her Tesla Shock attack.

Libra misses Milan with her Tesla Shock attack.

 

        Running along, Quick Man glances over as Resonance pulls equal to him.. scowling! No one's allowed to catch up to him! He ducks his head down, his boomerang-shaped protrustions giving him really good streamlining! As Simian tries to ram into him, he leaps up and does a cool flip in the air.. avoiding the attack, and moving on... narrowly avoiding the acid trap with a quick dodge to the side.

 

Unfortunately, Simian was a bit distracted in trying to ram into Quick Man, but alas, the acid gets on him as he lands, and he winces, painedly.

        BABOOM!! As the missiles struck, Blizzard Man's sphere of snowy chaos took flight into the air. /NOW/ things would be interesting as he landed against a wall at an odd enough angle to seriously threaten the next few people that would come near him.

 

*CRUNCH!* The sudden hit from behind sends Retro flying JUST as he passes by the hedgehead. No fair! "WHAAAAAAA!!" Oh well, it looks like he's flying off into good position to trip up Quick as he passes by. Just like he planned, without the faceplant. "MOVE ON, RES!" he shouts, moving dangerously toward the pits as he tries to use his misfortune to the greater advantage.

 

Retro Packrat tries to ram into Quick Man, without much success.

 

The sorcerer finds himself once again outside the dangerous part of the race, but Gale has got too many details to take care of to start celebrating this yet.

 

Javelin Whitetail bounds away from Storm Owl--no sense running along behind him for TOO long, even if he makes a nice shield. After all, the bigger they are, the harder they fall. And there's enough obstacles in this race.

 

        And there's some of them now! Javelin Whitetail carefully skirts the edges of the tesla coil--the electricity sparks along one side of her. But there's one thing I bet you DIDN'T know. Besides alcohol, Javelin also runs off an electrically-charged battery. So with a little *FZZZT*, her fiberoptic hair lights up--and VOOM, away jumps the deer, at twice the speed!

 

        Resonance, however, -doesn't- dodge the acid, "Oh fu-", SPLOOSH! "ARGH !@#$ !@#$ !@#$ !@#$ !@#$ !@#$! Freaking Chemicals in my FACE!!", she continues running though. If that's the worst the hazards have to offer, which it isn't, she might just survive.

wind o noz!! Elec gets picked up by one of the tornados, whirled around and battered before he lands banged up, but still jogging. "Man... that hurt." He frowns.

 

Sage, for his efforts, attempts to gun his flight engines. He desperately wanted to get into lap 4, just to stand a bloody /chance/ at things.

 

Ohcrapexplosions. No wait, Flare's armor is explosion resistant. Finally a break. Though he takes damage nevertheless, it mostly does little to him, save slow him down. "I miss the good ol' Foot Race..." He mumbles. Stupid injured knee, making him miss his favorite event, he has to settle for this more violent version.

 

Cut Man actualy slow down as he see his mistake: He nearly hit Quick Man because of that! Thanksfull, he missed!

 

        Milan's eyes widen as a wave of electricity sparks towards him, and he, in a panic, shoves one hand into his pocket and digs around for something.

        When the hand emerges, it's full of... a chocolate bar wrapper, made of tinfoil. He balls it up, leans back, and throws it violently at the wall of energy.

        When metal contacts WALL OF ELECTRIC DEATH, a large hole abruptly opens up from (almost) the bottom to the top of the wall, and Milan has just enough time to leap through it, arms flailing, before the tinfoil is incinerated and the wall becomes whole again. "HmhmHMhmmm... hmhmHMHMHM!"

 

The racers speed around the track....                              

 

Current track positions:

19) Sage Harpuia (lap 3)

18) Blizzard Man (lap 3)

17) Gale Sorcerer (lap 3)

15) Flare Feline (lap 3) Guts Man (lap 2) Quick Man (lap 4)

14) Elec Man (lap 2)

13) Gabriel (lap 4)

12) Data Raccoon (lap 2)

9) Storm Owl (lap 4) Zephyr Gryphon (lap 3)

8) Barrage Raptor (lap 3)

7) Mimos (lap 2) Simian Monk (lap 3)

6) Cut Man (lap 2)

4) Job (lap 3) Milan (lap 3)

3) Javelin Whitetail (lap 3) Retro Packrat (lap 2)

2) Rock (lap 4)

 

"And Quick Man regains his lead, as he heads into the last quarter of the fourth lap! He's got the little head of Guts Man watching his back, too, so it's gonna be hard-pressed for anybody to stop him right now!"

"Say Vic, speaking of heads and hard presses.."

"Kenny, this is a public broadcast."

"Oh, sorry. I'll save my tips for pressing your own lettuce cider later then."

 

Since Sage is partly unopposed, he blurs ahead -- kipping himself upwards even as Quick threatens to gain. He sees Rock ahead of him -- and come hell or high water, he's going to do /something/ to just try and get within medal positions.

 

        Just as Blizzard Man came down from his short flight, he bounced off the wall and rolled - dangerously - towards Sage Harpuia! Oh no!

 

        Fortunately, as Sage was airborne, he was spared of the wrath of the boulder of innocent mistakes once again. While all this was going on, Blizzard Man still had very little idea of what was going on around him because he just couldn't come to a full enough stop to get his bearings.

 

Mimos just motors along. So what if she's in second last? She's not dead yet, and that's all that matters, right? She attacks nobody this time, instead just running as fast as she can along the ground, head down and stubby arms and legs pumping.

 

Elec Man yawns, putting an arm to his right shoulder and stretching it out. What then? Why, he pauses for a moment, trying to slam himself into Resonance! Aah, someone's getting a bit too close to Quick, it seems.

 

Elec Man crashes forcefully into Gabriel!

 

Gale continues flying forward. There is apparently not much else he intends to do, but to keep on trying to do as well as he has been doing up until now. He doesn't get to feel this that often.

 

Guts Man keeps on running even as the strong winds pick up! Strong winds? That's no problem for him even as he's tossed around like a rag doll, he crashes against a wall and bounces off harmlessly thanks to his nerpium hat. Landing back on his feet Guts Man keeps running as if nothing had happened.

 

        Resonance goes CRUNCHTHUD and hits the ground unpleasantly. She doesn't retaliate. She knew it was coming. She just picks herself up, lights a cigarette, and tries not to get into Minus 100th place as a result.

 

Flare hmms, as he looks back for a moment he sees Qucik Man quickly gaining on him, an entire lap ahead. Time to make a hard decision. As much as he'd like to win another racing medal like his very first year, he can tell now he has no chance to actually get one this time. So what's the best thing to do? The greater good. Waiting for JUST the right moment, Flare stops in his tracks and leaps backwards to try and use his old momentum stop Quick Man dead in his tracks, if only for a moment. "DEATH FROM ABOVE!"

 

Flare Feline tries to ram into Quick Man, without much success.

 

Storm Owl continues to waddle - faster than a certain spoiled brat in blue - around the track at a breakneck speed, doing an impressive job of staying the heck away from anybody who would be likely to smash into him. His fine, loyal fellow Repliforcers wouldn't backstab him... not like Rock's 'best friend' Zero every week or so... some choice in buddies there, ya idiot. Regardless, Storm Owl passes by Barrage and meets up with another Repliforcer in the form of Zee. Storm offers his fellow Forcer a nod as he tries to pull past. Gabriel and Quick are still ahead of him, but anything can happen in B&C!

 

Position 2: The floor heats up again, like some kind of insane waffle griddle, before it reaches the point of spontanious combustion and the air bursts into flames.

Position 8: More landmines! Take one home! Love it! Use it as a pet! Draw a smiley face on it and it will love you forever!

Position 10: As the tornado dies down, the fan blade start up again, revving to life.

Position 14: The lasers on the ceiling zap to life again, spiralling wildly across everything nearby, slashing things up with gleeful abandon.

Position 15: The walls are closing in! AAH! AAH! AAAH!

Position 17: That darn tesla coil fires again, though this zap is a bit weaker as it hasn't had time to fully recharge yet.

Position 18: The spikes... start to move in together. It wasn't bad enough that everything is spikey, and that they're magnetically pulling everyone into them, but now they're moving closer together to make it nigh-impossible to maneuver through them.

 

Libra misses Rock with her Burning Floor attack.

Libra strikes Barrage Raptor with her Mines attack.

Libra strikes Elec Man with her Laser Wheel attack.

Libra misses Flare Feline with her Crushing Walls attack.

Libra misses Guts Man with her Crushing Walls attack.

Libra misses Quick Man with her Crushing Walls attack.

Libra strikes Gale Sorcerer with her Tesla Shock attack.

 

Retro Packrat rolls along the ground as he fails to catch Quick in his fall...oh well, at least he didn't get acid bathed. Muttering, he picks himself up from the ground and tries to skate off again, hoping he can at least keep from behing hopelessly last.

 

Ohohos! Cut Man is going not too badly now! Sure, he's along the last folks, but he's having TONS of fun kicking random people around! He, himself, wont win. But he can help HIS brothers to win! He look around to see who he could, indeed, hit! Milan...is a bit too far, as much he'd like to SMACK DOWN.

            ...Heeeeeey. Look! It's a Monkey Reploid ahead, with a MONKEY TAIL! Cut Man, being the pain he is in this race, rush over, attempt to grab the tail and...PULL. That might hurt a bit.

 

Libra strikes Blizzard Man with her Spiked Everything attack.

 

Sage remains blissfully ignorant. And gunnin' his engines to MAKE IT GO FIRST KTHX.

 

What else do you want? He FLIES! (and stays out of a Blizzardball down there)

 

.. faster, not first.

 

Barrage Raptor steps on a mine. Normally she's not one to do something like that. She grumbles, and just about picks one up to toss at Quick Man, but that would violate the rules.

 

Data Raccoon is again spared the wrath of the traps, and of random crashers. Sure, she's losing, but she's SURVIVING. And she's not LAST. Whee.

 

        Still going, Quick Man feels invincible.. pouring on the speed as he tries to secure another Gold for himself.. smirking and dodging to the side as he tries to get rammed.. laughing out loud. "BEtter luck next time!" He shouts to hsi assailaing, before leaping up over the crushing walls, doing a handspring on the top and landing on the other side, still running..

 

Elec Man is cut so bad, he wishes the lasers not cut him so bad!

 

        Resonance smokes. She gives a halfhearted, "Yay." as Elec Man gets hit by lasers. That's KARMA, you know, Elec Man. KARMA.

 

Cut Man tries to ram into Simian Monk, without much success.

 

        Milan runrunruns. And also hums. "Hm-hmhm-hmmm.... hmm-hmhmmm! Hmhm-HMMMhm-hmHMhm-hmHM-hmhmhmhm-hmhmmm..."

 

        CRUNCHSTAB!!

        Blizzard Man just hung against the spiky walls, impaled, and took a good, long view of the area around him. Huh. OK, now all he had to do was get back on his feet and ski...

        But nope, it immediately dropped him. The /whoosh/ effect of nearby Sage Harpuia knocked him onto his back again, being on his extra-slippery skis. As he was once again on a slight decline, he began to roll forward once more.

        To him, it really wasn't his day. He didn't even know if he was winning or losing, but all things considered, he was doing good for an accident.

Javelin Whitetail clops her way forward; her leaps are turning into a ground-eating pace instead, hooves clopping against the bottom tunnel. She peers over at Rock as she bolts along; he's already lapped her, but still gets a friendly grin from under her protective helmet. "Oy, Rock Light--goin' for another race win, eh?"

 

        Then--the Deer leaps at Rock suddenly, shoving her head squarely in the middle of his back and propelling him through the air away from his chosen tunnel. It's not a ram--but the reason becomes evident when the ground beneath heats up, and then the air bursts into flames. Upon landing, she flips him a quick grin and toss of her hair before clopping on her way again.

 

"WAAAAAH!" Gale can't help but to scream in frustration when he's violently hit by the electric discharge. "You miserable altern current circuit! You shall pay for that!" He shouts to the coil as he tries to regain his common sense and accelerate properly once again.

 

Job is still neck and neck with Milan amd some how evades the traps again! In that respect his luck is doing quite well tonight!

 

        Oh, let's not forget that the leaking virtual mechfluids from Blizzard Man, in addition to his innate coldness, made the mechfluids he left behind awful slippery. Just something to think about!

 

        Luckily, Cut Man did NOT pull Simian's tail. A single GLARE EYE is sent towards Cut Man, and Simi zooms off.

 

Missing Quick compeltely, Flare tumbles for a moment, but scrambles to his feet and resumes running again. "Stupid speedy robot master..." Flare grumbles, having blown his only real chance to make a difference in this race.

 

Said spoiled brat in blue has a /Silver/ from the Air Race, Butterball. Where's your medal from the Air Race, Turkey McStuffing? Besides, Zero doesn't backstab Rock. He knows better because Rock will hide all of his conditioner and make Zero cry. Said Hunter continues on his mad dash through the pack, looking down as Jav calls out to him. "Well, not a win, but I'm at least going to try and represent for the Hunters, y--ACK!"

The Hunter lets out a brief 'eep' as the floor suddenly explodes into flames right in front of him... and is then /shoved/ out of the way by the deer. Jav just ... saved him from being blasted? Rock blinks, adjusting his helmet as he slows his speed briefly. A wide, charming grin is the deer's reward as he takes off again in a blaze of thruster-wash.

 

He'll remember that.

 

The racers speed around the track....                               

 

Current track positions:

20) Flare Feline (lap 3)

19) Storm Owl (lap 4) Guts Man (lap 2)

18) Data Raccoon (lap 2)

17) Elec Man (lap 2)

16) Barrage Raptor (lap 3) Zephyr Gryphon (lap 3)

13) Rock (lap 4) Gabriel (lap 4) Simian Monk (lap 3)

12) Mimos (lap 2)

11) Sage Harpuia (lap 4)

10) Job (lap 3) Cut Man (lap 2)

9) Retro Packrat (lap 2) Milan (lap 3)

8) Javelin Whitetail (lap 3)

6) Blizzard Man (lap 4) Quick Man (lap 5)

5) Gale Sorcerer (lap 4)

 

"Quick Man rounds the turn into the last lap, pushing far ahead of Resonance as she's taken out by a smashing hit! Storm Owl moves up into second, with Mega Man getting into third!"

"Vic, I.."

"Not *now*, Kenny."

"But I just want to..."

"Shut up, Kenny."

"I.."

"<sigh> Fine. What is it, Kenny?"

"I just wanted to let you know you just sat on my poutine."

 

Mimos begins to ramp up in the air again as she runs over what she knows perfectly well is occasionally hot floor and land mines. She stays up there, where it's safe and not explosive or very hot.

 

Other people who are up where it is not explosive or very hot are green, possibly male and flying. Seeing as Harpuia is /so/ far ahead of her, Mimos doesn't see anything wrong at all with getting up as high as she can - and then diving, arms shimmering with llong planes of force as she hang-glides towards the Guardian.

 

Mimos crashes forcefully into Sage Harpuia!

 

        There went Blizzard Man again. Now, let's have an instant replay from the battle for Theta Sphere.

        Kreiger Wolf sniped Blizzard Man down a hill. He then blew him back /over/ the hill. Remember who he collided into then? It wasn't anybody here.

        By all means, Quick Man knew what he was doing with his speed. However, Blizzard Man did not. As he had no idea of what the surroundings around him were like, he dangerously crossed Quick Man's path during his roll.

        (OOC: Time for hate!)

 

Blizzard Man tries to ram into Quick Man, without much success.

 

Elec Man, despite the fact that he's jogging, now somehow looks like he might want to kill Kenny! How do you know this? You just do!

 

        Resonance recovers, and starts running again, and smoking at the same time! It's absolute madness! "Hey Rock," she says to the Blue Bomber, "You caught up, good show, I think I figured out how the hazards work, I think the ones in this area are worse than the ones in the other areas, y'know?", she activates her thrusters and tries to pull ahead.

 

That last electrical discharge apparently turned Gale's mood to worse, and we all know what happens when a wizard gets angry, don't we? Upon spotting Quick Man right in front of him, the sorcerer's mind associates strategical value with urge to destruction. He carefully approaches the Master after Blizzard Man's failed attempt and then *BAMPF* the world around Quick Man goes all fuzzy! As if he was on drugs.

 

Gale Sorcerer tries to ram into Quick Man, without much success.

 

Guts Man looks from side to side as the walls come crashing towards him, uh oh he's gonna be flatter than a pancake if he doesn't do something about it, he could try to fly out of the way but instead has his thruster rockets give him an extra burst of speed to avoid the impending doom. These things are good to navigate in space and to help him out of tight spots like this. It's too bad they're only good for short periods of time.

 

Sage is unceremoniously crashed into. And he just spins around. Because he is f'ing sick of being crashed around like this. There's /just/ a tinge there, of something just /waiting/ to snap at Mimos.

 

Job has managed to get ahead of Milan some how and he keeps on running fast as he can, he sees no on he'd like to side track, sure the Neo Arcadians were as bad as the mavs but no need to feed the hate no? Onward runs M3's answer to the Junkions!

 

Cut man keep running, and running...He missed the Monkey's glare, but he instead has his optics set behind himself. A familiar figure is running for his life. A familiar figure that must see the floor for the eniem time for the last week. A figure where HE NEED TO TAKE REVENGE ON!

            Milan!

            Cut Man purposely slow down to a jog to reach Milan, grinning wide and meanly.

            As the Alpha leaps for a tackle, the time/space contium distort around them for a moment. Slow down to a crawl...If this hit, maybe,...something that God has not concived to happen will cause the CRASH OF ALL THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE!?

 

Cut Man crashes forcefully into Milan!

 

Position 5: The hammer's back again! Swinging hard, it swishes into the field, ready to unleash the beats!

Position 6: *Another* wall springs up out of the ground, sprouting spikes. And the walls start moving.

Position 13: The track fills with gas once more, with is now *glowing* corrosive poison gas.

Position 14: The lasers continue to spin and slice and rip and tear and GLEE.

Position 15: Okay, so they jammed last time. The walls slam together again, trying to paste *somebody*.

Position 16: *Now*, finally, the flamethrowers start up. And not just a *few* flamethrowers. A massive bank of them that stretches all the way across the track, spouting towering bursts of flame THAT BURN THINGS.

 

Libra strikes Gale Sorcerer with her Swinging Hammer attack.

Libra strikes Blizzard Man with her Spiked Wall attack.

Libra strikes Rock with her Gas Corridor attack.

Libra misses Gabriel with her Gas Corridor attack.

Libra strikes Simian Monk with her Gas Corridor attack.

Libra strikes Barrage Raptor with her Volcanic Blast attack.

Libra strikes Zephyr Gryphon with her Volcanic Blast attack.

Libra strikes Quick Man with her Spiked Wall attack.

 

Not having to put up with any traps THIS time, Flare tries to make up for some lost ground on his crashing attempt and resumes running like a madman. There's always next year for medals, afterall...

 

Storm Owl continues on his way. So peaceful. Which is amazing since this is the course where people are meant to DIE. But no matter, Storm Owl once again rockets past Guts Man, pleased that the hardhat hasn't tried to take a bite out of him or anything. Aside from that, Storm Owl keeps on flying as his alt helps out elsewhere.

 

Simian Monk coughs repeatedly, and the gas eats away at his insides, "Ugh! I guess this is what humans call hearburn."

 

        As Cut Man slams into Milan, his headscissors catch on the soldier's belt and tear his pants off. And, thankfully, ONLY his pants. The soldier staggers to the side, slows briefly, and then slows to a halt, turning and staring horrifiedly at the Robot Master with his pants on his head.

        "I... I need an adult!" he chokes out, after a moment, and then turns and runs again, arms pumping. "I NEED AN ADULT!"

 

        Blizzard Man veered away from Quick Man in a near-miss, only to get crushed by the spikes walls. Once again, a /painful/ standstill, but a standstill sure welcomed. Even with his make-believe mechfluid spraying everything around him in an exaggerated manner.

        Once again, as the walls parted and Blizzard Man got back to his feet, he began to slowly ski forward normally. Of course, this was slower than his rolling escapades, but people /knew/ he'd be back to being an external emulation of a spin cycle soon enough.

 

Cut man looooooook up at the pants on his head. He stays like that, optics slowly widening in horror. Finnaly, he let out an high pitched scream, rip them off and DASH OFF in terror.

 

"Are they really? Crap, I'll keep an eye out for that. Thanks for the warning," he calls back to Resonance. He's not as high up in the air as he could be, sticking fairly low to the ground as he scoots along.

 

Maybe a little too low. Corrosive poison gas? This is going to suck. Ducking his head, he tries to power through the mess - but it burns at his exposed synthskin and makes him grimace in pain. He clears it in a blast of green, the cloud curling behind him as he gasps and pants. "Ow! That's worse than Toad Man's..." He cuts himself off, spotting the GNN cameras. There are some things that should not be said on television.

And so on he flies.

 

Data Raccoon keeps running, and running, and running, and running. And sees flamethrowers. A LOT of flamethowers. "ACK!" She RUNS EVEN HARDER to get past that section before they fire! Yes! She's clear!

 

The femme-coon keeps running a bit, clearing another placement before she finally stops, and sits up a moment to sniff at the air. "I smell something burning..." She turns and looks back. She didn't get hit by the fire shooting off nearby, but it did catch the fluffy of her tail on fire. "AAAAAACKMYTAILSONFIREMYTAILSONFIRE!", she squeals as she leaps in shock. And leaps high. And leaps far.

 

And leaps right for the big fat butterball's big fat butt without meaning to.

 

        Resonance grabs for Rock, trying to haul him out of the GAS COORIDOR OF DEATH as she moves ahead, also to avoid the GAS COORIDOR of death. But unfortunately, Resonance totally misses the grab, but she consoles herself by reminding herself that Rock is indestructable. Still, acid totally sucks.

 

Data Raccoon tries to ram into Storm Owl, without much success.

 

Retro Packrat simply runs, skates, scampers, etc. What else can he do this far back? I mean, really!

 

        Running at full tilt, Quick is doing his best to maintain his speed. Suddenly, he spots Blizzard Man heading his way in all his uncouth glory! Leaping to the side, Quick frowns. "Hey,w atch it, you idi-OW!" Not looking where he was going, Quick rams right into a spiked wall. The camera following him keeps moving, until it realizes he's no longer there.. then it pans back to show him picking himself up, scowling, and taking off again!

 

Sage Harpuia keeps on trying to fly away, even as he's targeted.

 

Javelin Whitetail bounds away when she's finished pushing Rock around. She barely catches the fringes of the cloud--and is smart enough to blast not forwards, but straight sideways, this time avoiding the worst of the blast. Then she curves around again, bounding away, although her hooves miss a step right at the exact moment Cut Man rams into Milan. Some kind of horrible sensation!

 

Gale does not only fail to hit Quick Man, but is also hit by the "Miserable Hammer! You shall pay for that once this is over!" He shakes a fist angrily as he focuses on accelerating once again.

 

The racers speed around the track....                              

 

Current track positions:

19) Simian Monk (lap 3)

17) Job (lap 3)

16) Quick Man (lap 5)

15) Mimos (lap 2) Retro Packrat (lap 2)

14) Cut Man (lap 2)

13) Javelin Whitetail (lap 3)

11) Blizzard Man (lap 4) Sage Harpuia (lap 4)

10) Gale Sorcerer (lap 4)

9) Flare Feline (lap 4) Milan (lap 3)

8) Storm Owl (lap 5)

5) Zephyr Gryphon (lap 4) Guts Man (lap 3)

4) Barrage Raptor (lap 4)

3) Rock (lap 5) Elec Man (lap 3)

2) Gabriel (lap 5)

1) Data Raccoon (lap 3)

 

Storm Owl... so peaceful... absolutely nothing getting in his way... except for a suddenly SQUEAL behind him. Is it Rock, squealin' like a piggy every time he gets sent to bed without his dinner? No, it's Data Raccoon! Storm's well toned, muscular, perhaps slightly large yet firm butt, however, proves to be too fast for the femme, and Storm Owl's emergency evasive maneuvers manage to save him from getting a burning raccoon where the sun doesn't shine. Storm Owl can see the finish line barely up ahead with his ultra keen senses. Quick's up there, but there'll be no stopping him now.

 

Sage remains delightfully airborne.

 

Mimos smacked Harpuia and got away with it. Score. You'd think the anti-Reploid insane person would be more likely to smack her back. She's not going to complain, though. Still hang-gliding, she flies mightily into what was just the CORRIDOR OF DEATH, Positions 13 through 16, full speed ahead, gliding towards victory! And who is that in front of her? Quick Man, on his approach for a medal! She can't help but angle at him, trying to plant her feet on his shoulders and rocket up higher so she can glide some more.

 

Mimos tries to ram into Quick Man, without much success.

 

Gale is flying, apparently getting angrier as keeps on getting hit by the race's traps.

 

"And Quick Man's nearly got this one sewn up - but he's moved away from all his protection, and he's at the mercy of a lotta people who probably don't like him! Storm Owl seems to have his feathery butt covered and.."

"You mean he has a down jacket, Vic?"

"I mean he's a *bird*, Kenny."

"Oh, like my Aunt Margaret."

"You don't have an Aunt Margaret."

"No, but my Uncle Mark likes to wear evening gowns. He says they make him feel sexy."

 

        Sage Harpuia's act of breezing past Blizzard Man knocked him back into a tumbling mess once more. That, and all the simulated mechfluids that proved slippery against the floor. But it was mostly Sage Harpuia's fault!

        Nonetheless, Blizzard Man was faster while he was rolling, so Sage Harpuia actually did him a favor. And so, he continued his bowling ball impression down the center. He wasn't going at any particularly funny angles, so nobody was in immediate danger... again. For someone of his reputation, things were sure peaceful on his end.

        There's /still/ time left for that to change.

 

Elec Man, jogging uncaringly, looks over to Rock at his right and waves cordially. "Fancy seeing you here!" He then lunges in his direction, but not actually ramming at him. Just punking at him, is all. Furthermore, he sticks his tongue out at him.

 

Barrage Raptor just keeps on running. She's actually ahead of people. This is a new feeling for her.

 

And so it goes, Zee comes out a bit charred, but still in the running! Turning her boosters up all the way, she starts surging along the track, trying her best to just get a few more places ahead...

 

        Resonance runs! It looks like the race is closing up, but she keeps a wary eye for deathlasers, ignorant that this isn't the deathlaser spot. Rock gets ahead, but that's okay, because he's Rock.

 

Rock, at least, is confident enough in his butt that he doesn't need a tail to hide it. Also, it's not as if Storm couldn't afford to miss a meal or two HUH HUH HUH. The Hunter continues along on his mad dash, blinking at Elec as he sticks his tongue out. "Fancy seeing you here, all right. And now you see me, soon you won't," he calls back, feinting back from the lunge, then opening up his dash jets and thrusters to full.

 

Cut Man is still running ahead, screaming! Not caring of anyone who get in his WAY! Alright, it's more of 'surprise' than terror now, but still.

 

Position 1: There's a rumbling, just before a huge cascade of water falls from above - half waterfall, half Flashdance reference. Of course, having several tens of thousands of gallons of water fall on your head kinda hurts, too.

Position 4: More acid fountains around, cascading in a way that would be really pretty if it didn't hurt so much.

Position 6: Geez, those spikes aren't looking *quite* as scary as they used to. I mean, it's just a spikey wall. Not like the stuff at position 18.

Position 7: The wall of sound is still there, occasionally flashing out of existence for a moment so that people have *any* chance* to get by.

Position 12: Unexpectedly, the floor opens up to reveal... MORE SPIKES. Somebody's really got a fetish for pointy things here.

Position 16: The flamethrowers burn again, sending up a massive wave of fire.

Position 18: Did I mention the spikes here? I think I did. Guess what - it's still spikey.

 

Libra misses Data Raccoon with her Waterfall attack.

Libra strikes Barrage Raptor with her Acid Drip attack.

Libra strikes Quick Man with her Volcanic Blast attack.

 

Javelin Whitetail scrabbles along, hooves starting to slip--where did that ice come from? The Deer is starting to get tired; she's built for quick sprints, not races as long as this one. And certainly not as strenuous. With ones like Quick Man and Rock in here, she knows she stands little to no chance of placing anymore. It's frustrating, and she grits her teeth--but she really doesn't have the energy for an extra burst of speed. No dash jets or rockets for her--it's all pure leg speed. She bolts to one side as though avoiding a gunshot--and narrowly avoids an opening pit of spikes.

 

Guts Man finally makes it to the third lap! As he predicted he would make it this far by the time someone would be in place to cross the finish line. He's still hasn't had any problems in this race so far, were he any faster he might actually be a contender to place.

        Milan, still pantsless and panicking, abruptly turns around and runs the other way. Why?

        Because he was running the wrong way down the track. :(

 

Retro Packrat simply skates, skates, skates, ska-...hey, there's that Quick Man passing by again! Here's his big chance to influence the course of the race! "...HEY! SPEED JUNKIE! WATCH YOUR FEET!" he shouts, turning about until he's going backwards on his skates. Why? Well, lets just say that tails make for good tripping impliments....at least in theory....

 

Retro Packrat tries to ram into Quick Man, without much success.

 

Flare continues going, having not faced any obstacles again this time around. Well at the very least he should get an honorable mention in the race? He's not in last place, at least.

 

Data Raccoon hits the ground and tumbles as she fortunately misses getting her face in the bird's bottom. Whoo. And it puts out the fire too, so she can get back up and run some more, even though she has no chance in heck of getting anywhere. Never really did. She was just here to dodge stuff, and considering she's only been trap attacked once, that part has gone pretty well...

            Okay, make that twice. REsisting the cliche urge to look up at the rumbling, Data just gets down on her paws and RUNS. Because she knows the sound of water when she hears it, and she doesn'tw ant to be anywhere NEAR it. "GahnotwaternotgoodrunrunrunWATERBAD!"

            She's cleared it by a pretty safe margin actually, but that doesn't stop her from STILL RUNNING like hell.

 

Gale continues flying as fast as he can as the next set of traps are triggered around him. Fortunately for him, none of them catch him along the way this time, so he keeps on running.

 

Job is so tempted to run into Quick Man over every thing the Masters have done to him over the year cause his maker. Then again that time that Punk ripped him apart as he calls out "NO GOLD FOR YOU QUICK MAN!" With that Job moves to try and slam into the speedster.

 

Job tries to ram into Quick Man, without much success.

 

        Quick Man continues to tear along the track at breakneck speed.. seeing the finish line in sight and bearing down on it with all his might.. although he does get stopped for a moment by a burning barrage of volcanic hot stuff that makes his armor smoke! Ow! But it doesn't matter.. he powers right through it, throwing his arms wide to hurl the burning stuff off of him.. and leaping, twisting, and turning around three attrempts to crash him in the same round. Oh, he can taste that gold medal now..

 

Storm Owl IS JUST BIG BONED ROCK I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW ROCK. And he can stop eating if he wants to... he just doesn't so he'll be able to keep up his strength in order to KICK YOUR SORRY ASS IN THIS RACE. Regardless, Storm Owl continues to speed along, bravely avoiding all the hazards that thankfully aren't coming his way. Better part of valour, right? The war bird glances to all sides and then glares straight ahead. His objective gets closer and closer...

 

The racers speed around the track....                                

 

Current track positions:

20) Cut Man (lap 2)

19) Blizzard Man (lap 4) Storm Owl (lap 5) Gale Sorcerer (lap 4) Retro Packrat (lap 2)

18) Flare Feline (lap 4) Javelin Whitetail (lap 3)

17) Mimos (lap 2)

16) Milan (lap 3)

14) Rock (lap 5)

12) Zephyr Gryphon (lap 4)

11) Barrage Raptor (lap 4) Gabriel (lap 5)

9) Guts Man (lap 3)

8) Quick Man (lap 6)

7) Simian Monk (lap 4) Data Raccoon (lap 3) Elec Man (lap 3)

3) Sage Harpuia (lap 5)

1) Job (lap 4)

 

Rock doesn't get to pose. So you win this round, STORM.

Storm Owl wins every round, baby.

[OOC] Blizzard Man is gonna do it!

[OOC] Quick Man says, "Nooooes."

Sage Harpuia is so alone. <3

 

AND HE GOES FASTER, DAGNABBIT.

 

Rock has a Mega Buster that says otherwise, Storm.

HE CAN'T GO ANY FASTER!

[OOC] Rock says, "THAT'S INTERPOL'S SCHTICK"

[OOC] Rock says, "QUIT STEALING IT."

[OOC] Sage Harpuia can, to simply defy those filthy Interpollers.

[OOC] Sage Harpuia FLEE.

[OOC] Sage Harpuia gigglefits. X)

[OOC] Rock will murder you later, flyboy!

[OOC] Data Raccoon says, "At least they're not doing the EAT PUSSY bit."

[OOC] Sage Harpuia says, "you're not on the l35en"

Mimos, safely up high, glides. She dives, every so often, to pick up speed, snapping upwards shortly thereafter in a weird sine-wave pattern. It seems to be moderately effective, though.

[OOC] Sage Harpuia says, "Data, into the box."

[OOC] Rock beams at Data. :D

 

        Crossing the finish line, a little smoking, a little dented, but still triumphant, Quick Man grins wide as he leaps into the air, turns a fancy somersault, and lands off of the track.. facing towards the stands and performing a fancy bow. "Ha ha! THank you, ladies and gentlemen." He kisses his fingers, then does the V-sign to the crowd, shouting, "Hail Wily!" before jogging off towards the stands to wait for the rest of the race to be over.

 

        Blizzard Man continued the rolling, still none too happy about the fact he just couldn't ski along like normal! Someone's luck was on the line today, too. Namely, Storm Owl's.

        Blizzard Man didn't quite manage to roll past one tricky corner correctly. Couple that with a minor speed bump, and, do the math.

        Airborne Blizzard Man.

        Airborne Butterball.

        In your grocery's freezer.

With no visible threats nearby, Zephyr continues to surge ahead. From what she can tell, she's in 7th, but that can change for the better or the worser so quickly...

Blizzard Man tries to ram into Storm Owl, without much success.

Elec Man leaps as Quick crosses the finish line, pumping a hand into the air. "BOOYEAH! Another gold for Wily!"

 

 

"And Quick Man rounds the corner and crosses the finish line to take the Gold! Storm Owl's almost assured the Silver now, and Mega Man is in prime position for the Bronze, with Resonance close behind!"

 

"Kenny? Aren't you going to say something witty?"

"Huh? I'm sorry Vic, did you say something?"

"You're not paying attention?"

"Well, no, Vic. You see, I'm busy. I've got this neat comic book with.."

"Kenny, that's not a comic book. That's an airline saftey pamphlet."

"That would explain why they're so worried about my health. I just thought they were very kind-hearted."

Cut Man goes "WOOOOHOOO!" too!

 

        Resonance falls horribly behind Rock. Sighing a bit, she leaps into the air and FLIES the rest of the way, trying to catch up with MegaMan even though he's three positions ahead!

 

Barrage Raptor continues to run along. Happy as can be. But of course, when people are already starting to take medals, she decides that she's bored with just running. So she tries to elbow Resonance in the head. That should liven things up a bit.

Barrage Raptor tries to ram into Gabriel, without much success.

 

Rock zips along. That's all he really can do at this point. He's not particularly aware of what position he's in - he's keeping an eye out for those dang spikes. Brrrr.

 

Gale bites his lower lip in frustration as he watches Quick Man get the gold medal. Oh, well, at least he earned it fairly, so he cannot complain about it. Still, his eyes begin to glow maliciously as he spots Storm Owl about to pass below him. The sorcerer grins. He may be still able to allow Resonance to get a silver medal after all. He waits until it's the proper time and then *BAMF* an intense flash of light fills the area where the Repliforcer should be. If he's done it well, the owl should be blind by now.

 

Gale Sorcerer tries to ram into Storm Owl, without much success.

 

Simian Monk continues his dash. He is not going to win anything this time. He knows it.

 

Sage Harpuia zips too. His medal hopes were dashed early. By Mimos, specifically.

 

Flare continues to run, even though Quick takes the gold. Who cares? Flare could still get the coveted... uh... 7th place?

Job runs on for the best ranking he can get now, so speedyly Job runs on in this race.

 

Position 1: More water! Consider it a shower. You kinda smell after that last whiff.

Position 4: Merrily - perhaps festively - the acid fountains continue to spurt.

Position 5: The hammer swings back and forth, just *looking* for someone to hit.

Position 9: The tornado whirls, spinning around and twirling.

Position 14: Cutting lasers continue to slice and slash, hoping they'll hit *somebody* this time.

Position 15: SLAM. The walls snap together once more, trying to catch anyone they can.

Position 19: Just like Indy, the racers now suddenly have to outrun the massive crushing boulder of ice.

 

Libra strikes Job with her Waterfall attack.

Libra strikes Guts Man with her Tornado attack.

Libra strikes Rock with her Laser Wheel attack.

Libra strikes Blizzard Man with her Ice Boulder attack.

Libra strikes you with a solid hit from her Ice Boulder attack for 18 units of damage.

Libra strikes Gale Sorcerer with her Ice Boulder attack.

Libra strikes Retro Packrat with her Ice Boulder attack.

 

Javelin Whitetail grits her teeth--Wily's goons taking the gold /again/. It's frustrating beyond all words. She digs her hooves into the ground, neatly dodging spikes, random surface-to-air missiles, and other comptetitors--all in an effort to magically be two or three laps ahead and claim the bronze. A giant, crushing boulder of ice rolls up behind--and Javelin swivels to the side yet again, running in its wake after it passes. It's a useless race now, but like many other times, she doesn't know when to stop.

 

Milan runrunrun.

 

        Big ball of ice, meet little ball of ice.

        They put aside their few differences and gestalt into SUPER MEGA BOULDER OF IIIIICE!! ...If you count the fact that Blizzard Man's now plastered /against/ the boulder. He rolled along with it now, being crushed into the ground along every full loop of the boulder.

        Yep, this was Blizzard Man in his natural element, even if his yelling said otherwise.

 

Data Raccoon is so lost. But at least she's still in one piece. Just a few spike wounds. And her cheek still stings from that slap.

 

*CRUNCH!* Not only does Retro fail to stop Quick's march to the gold...but he also gets smooshed by an Ice Boulder! NO FAIR!! "Owwwww.......pain," he groans, trying to pull himself up again. Then he sees the Owl. He's managed to keep track of the rankings somehow, and knows Storm is one of the last few in the running. For Interpol's sake...HE MUST SUFFER!! "BANZAIII!!" Leaping from his skates, he tries to pounce the Repli-Turkey, hoping to once again influence the rankings in a way other than running.

 

Retro Packrat tries to ram into Storm Owl, without much success.

 

Gale wishes Dr. Barrel was here: he would teach that miserable ball a lesson! The sorcerer is squished by the rotating boulder, but somehow he manages to stand the damage. But it still hurts a whole lot! Muttering angrily, the mage gets up and jumping into the air he proceeds to continue.

 

Cut Man keep running.Yes, yes... Quick Man got gold. But there is...still tons of mischeif that he could do now! Like...preventing some large flying poultry to win this early. And allow someone else to! The Alpha finaly stop scremaing and running like an headless chicken, look back at the incoming Owl, waaaaaaaaaait for it...THEN KICKS UPWARD!

 

Cut Man crashes forcefully into Storm Owl!

 

Storm Owl watches as Quick Man crosses the finish line in style. Now it's all a race for the silver, and Storm Owlis in a decent position to get something there. The war bird is wary of any competitors that might like to ruin this for Repliforce, Storm Owl looks left and right, trying to spot any incoming attacks before they reach him, but in a chaotic mess of a race like this, there's no way that he'd be assured even half a chance to spot someone. But lo, this time he manages to see someone careening at him. "Ah, and so loyalties between Repliforce and Interpol show themselves," he notes as the owl takes an emergency dive away from Gale. He doesn't say this accusingly or anything - he knows it's just a race and we're all here to... ugh... have fun. Storm Owl then, suddenly, has not one, but TWO huge balls of ice coming towards him! Storm Owl climbs up desperately, getting out of reach of the flying Blizzard Man, but winds up running right into the SECOND ball, this one from the hazards, which smashes into Butterball like a huge snowball hitting that real fat kid in class. The result is Storm Owl sprawling through the air out of control, blasting past Retro "Banzai!' Packrat, but alas, he cannot avoid Cut Man, and all of Storm Owl's progress comes to a screeching halt.

 

Simian Monk continues to run, leap, and do cool stunts.

 

Job is still running here folks as fast as he can!

 

The racers speed around the track....                              

 

Current track positions:

20) Zephyr Gryphon (lap 4) Gabriel (lap 5)

19) Storm Owl (lap 5)

18) Quick Man (lap 6)

14) Barrage Raptor (lap 4) Simian Monk (lap 4) Sage Harpuia (lap 5)

13) Guts Man (lap 3)

11) Data Raccoon (lap 3) Elec Man (lap 3)

6) Flare Feline (lap 5) Job (lap 4)

5) Rock (lap 6) Gale Sorcerer (lap 5)

4) Javelin Whitetail (lap 4)

3) Blizzard Man (lap 5) Cut Man (lap 3) Retro Packrat (lap 3)

2) Mimos (lap 3)

1) Milan (lap 4)

 

Elec Man jogs, which looks exactly like he roasting a pig except instead of roasting a pig he's jogging.

 

Storm Owl winds up splattered across the ground in a pile of ice. He slowly picks himself up, shivers, and tries to crawl across the finish line. Well... waddle, as the case may be.

 

Data Raccoon is running. And running. And still running some more. And at least she's not last or something. Now if she can just stay away from any more traps or such.

Mimos continues to glide through the air, looking straight ahead and maintaining a more or less constant height. She wants to at least come in not last!

 

"And Cut Man takes out Storm Owl, letting Mega Man *breeze* into the Silver! The fight for the Bronze is on, though, as Resonance might not be able to take this one!"

"She's kinda cute, too, Vic."

"Kenny, don't you start with me."

"Think I could get her and the deer into a threesome with me?"

"Kenny, we're *on the air*."

"Nah, Vic, don't be so paranoid. We're in the booth, and that's on nice, solid ground! See? I can stomp my feet as hard as I can and we don't faAAAAAAAAAH!"

"Kenny! Kenny, are you okay?!"

"Hey, I found a Tic-Tac!"

 

Gale is flying in the air, trying not to get himself killed in the race. Metaphorically speaking, of course.

 

        Blizzard Man and his new giant boulder friend continued rolling down the track like nobody's business. Rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin'... theoretically he should have been mowing down multiple racers at this rate, but for now all seemed safe.

        Save for Blizzard Man, who was getting crushed at random intervals. Any obscenities he could have said were muffled as he was repeatedly rolled over.

 

FWOOSH!

He /is/ Mega Man!

On wings of navy and gold, the Hunter sneaks out through the chaos that is the rest of the pack, and breezes over the finish line easily.

And he's got your silver, Storm. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

 

        Resonance flies full speed ahead, but apparently it's not enough to keep her from sucking with randomization! She positively soars forward, remembering a particular incident in another particular race.

 

        Cartoon Harpuia says 'Let's be friends and not hit each other!'

        Cartoon Resonance says, 'Okay, but I still don't like you.'

        Cartoon Harpuia says, 'Pffh, whatever, I have 15 more points in velocity than you, suckah!'

 

        Of course, with -her- luck she'll be hit by Death lasers before she has a chance to cross the inal line. Of doom. She decides to play the same game she did with Harpuia, however, by playing it fair as she flies along.

 

Retro Packrat would say something. He probably would crash Cut just for the sake of sticking it to him. He probably should do many things. But alas, the Announcers catch his ear, and that means one thing. *POP!* Yep, there goes his nose. "GAAAHHHH!!!"

 

Cut Man keeps running! Oooooohoho.

 

Zephyr Gryphon keeps flying! WHEE! She notes Storm and Resonance, but eh, she's a racer not a wrecker, so... onto the fifth lap!

 

Storm Owl has his shiny sharpshooting gold resting in a beautiful viewing case on the Fortress V, thankyewveddymuch Rocky! Don't you have to go get beaten up Apollo Creed or something? Annnnyway, Storm Owl is still trying to crawl towards the finish line. Go Storm Owl go! Gooooo Storm Owl! The owl spots a certain opposing racer blast off past him, and, trying to salvage his only chance for a bronze, Storm Owl attempts to take flight with his iced wings and cut off Gabriel at the last second!

 

You crash forcefully into Gabriel.

 

Position 6: It's that spiked wall. I think it has spike envy for position 18.

Position 8: The mines activate again with a beep-beep-beep-boom. Just out of spite, a few go off even if nobody's near them at the time.

Position 10: The fan blades whirl, and make juillene fries. YOU HEAR THAT GATE? Your battlebot has competition!

Position 12: The spike-filled pit continues to wait there, gaping open, hoping somebody walks into it.

Position 14: WHEE! SHINY LASERS!

Position 18: Now *that* is some serious spikeage.

Position 20: You called it, Gabby. DEATH LASERS AHOY.

 

        Oh that's it, Resonance is totally crashed into, but she reaches for the beak and says, "Sorry," as she gives a SMOOCH on the beak all of a sudden!

 

Gabriel crashes forcefully into Storm Owl!

 

Libra strikes Flare Feline with her Spiked Wall attack.

Libra strikes Job with her Spiked Wall attack.

Libra strikes Barrage Raptor with her Laser Wheel attack.

Libra strikes Simian Monk with her Laser Wheel attack.

Sage Harpuia deflects Laser Wheel from Libra.

Libra strikes Zephyr Gryphon with her Death Laser attack.

Libra strikes Gabriel with her Death Laser attack.

 

Barrage Raptor gets blasted yet again. But she's just going anyway. Whatever. She'll finish this race even if she's last..

 

The laser wheel hurts. A lot. Pain. Simian winces.

 

Ohcrapspikedwall. "I miss... the foot race..." Flare says as he peels himself off the spikey death trap. Shaking it off, he resumes running once more.

 

        Tears of frustration start pouring from the Deer's eyes as she bounds along on all fours, burning up the little extra energy she gained from the electrical charge several laps ago. She endeavours to smile encouragingly at Rock, passing him by in the next lane--and then pulling away again, because /she/ still has two more laps to finish. The temptation is there to simply drop out of the race at this point--but that indignity might be too much to bear. So she pushes on, blindly pushing her way forward with nary an effort to avoid the numerous traps still laying about.

 

Guts Man goes flying around the track as the tornado sweeps him up and send him flying out of control! He bounces off of the walls several times before landing on his feet with a nasty headache. He's left stunned for a moment before he resumes running.

 

"<Oh, that's a nice laser..>" Sage muses to himself, before whipping out a saber and otherwise just /deflecting/ it off, before sliding his saber back in it's holding position as he flies onwards.

 

Data Raccoon leaps over the spike pit. Hah! Take that spikes! Take tha... Oh crap! She hits the brake, skidding on the floor again and just barely managing to stop before she runs into the blades to, waiting for them to stop before jumping through and continuing onward. ONWARD

 

The race is not going well! This cannot end like that! As Gale sees he's not getting hit by any of the hazards this run, he once again proceeds to fly forward at full speed.

 

        Nothing special here. Blizzard Man kept rolling along in pain with the giant boulder from before, with laughs all around. Except for him.

 

The racers speed around the track....                           

 

Current track positions:

20) Gabriel (lap 5)

19) Storm Owl (lap 5)

18) Guts Man (lap 3)

16) Data Raccoon (lap 3) Elec Man (lap 3)

15) Flare Feline (lap 5)

12) Job (lap 4) Gale Sorcerer (lap 5)

10) Blizzard Man (lap 5) Javelin Whitetail (lap 4)

9) Zephyr Gryphon (lap 5) Cut Man (lap 3)

8) Retro Packrat (lap 3)

7) Milan (lap 4)

5) Mimos (lap 3) Sage Harpuia (lap 6)

2) Simian Monk (lap 5)

1) Barrage Raptor (lap 5)

 

Storm Owl and Gabriel are now locked in mess as they grapple and roll aorund in mid-air, desperately trying to... ah... fight?... God I hope so. At any rate, it doesn't look like Gabriel or Storm Owl is going to be going anywhere anytime soon. Will Sage be able to win due to this little development? Will the tabloids be filled tomorrow with pictures of this... uh... fight? Yes on all counts, baby!

 

OMG SPIKE! EEK! Job falls in getting stuck but he scrambles out quickly enough and and keeps on running. "... Spikes? Why is it always spikes?! Did Wily desgin this track?!"

 

You crash forcefully into Gabriel.

 

        Resonance sighs as Harpuia moves into bronze. Again. She throws a punch for Storm Owl's face undelicately.

 

Gabriel crashes forcefully into Storm Owl!

 

"And while Resonance and Storm Owl fight it out, Sage Harpuia sliiiides across the finish line for the Bronze!"

"Hey, that's totally not fair!"

"It's part of the game, Kenny."

"No, I mean - darn it, I so totally called that chick! The turkey can't have her!"

 

Barrage Raptor is on the final lap! Yay! She would turn around to stop Gab, but, well,

Storm does it for her, so she runs.

 

Blissfully, through the people choosing him to be the target of their 'affections', Sage inwardly /cheers/. He overcame adversity, hell, /THE ODDS/ to medal again. Yeah, it was bronze. But he didn't give up -- and that's what counts in the end.

 

Gale is totally flying, shaking a gloved fist into the air angrily. Yay, get him a knife.

 

A blaze of light and heat buffets your face as Rock levels his Buster at you, whining to be fired. But instead of the expected hail of plasma and hot fiery death, a tray pops out with fresh cookies on it. "Take one," the Blue Bomber coaxes with a broad grin. "You've obviously earned it."

 

Data Raccoon is just NOT LAST, that's all she cares. Wheeeee!

 

Cut Man is not LAST either! WHEEEEEEE

 

Mimos is. We hate you.

 

Simian Monk continues to run. Weeeeeeee.

 

Barrage Raptor should probably be last, all things considered.

 

        Blizzard Man and his unholy boulder marriage continued running along, and once again it hit a nice little speed bump to take it airborne. Oh Gaaaaale~

 

Job isn't last woot!

 

Zephyr Gryphon continues to surge forward, wings beating, boosters blazing, death lasers gleaming. ... Ow. She winces as she's nailed rather forcefully by the beam but continues onward regardless..

 

Guts Man isn't last either but could have been.

 

Flare Feline is probably 6th place? Aluminum medal!

 

Javelin Whitetail isn't last. But she wasn't first either, and THAT'S what ticks her off so much. The little Deer continues to tear up in frustration--but keeps bounding along.

 

        Gale should be happy the giant boulder landed /right/ behind him, but with plenty of space to spare. Both the ice boulder and Blizzard Man survived the harsh impact and did what boulders did best - they rolled on and on and on.

 

Elec Man continues to proceed to not stop to still be jogging.

 

Position 2: The floor.. BURNINATES.

Position 7: The sound barrier... BARRIERNATES.

Position 14: The lasers.. LASERNATE.

Position 16: The flamethrowers... ALSO BURNINATE.

Position 17: The telsa coil.. SHOCKINATES.

Position 18: The spikes... remain spikey, and ignore the overdone cliche.

Position 19: Boy, Storm needs to watch out. It's another giant ice boulder! BOULDERNATE.

Position 18's spikes shun position 19 forever for being so slavish to trends.

 

Libra strikes Simian Monk with her Burning Floor attack.

Libra misses Milan with her Sound Barrier attack.

Libra strikes Data Raccoon with her Laser Wheel attack.

Libra misses Elec Man with her Laser Wheel attack.

Libra misses Guts Man with her Spiked Everything attack.

Libra misses you with her Ice Boulder attack.

Elec Man does the Dixie Twist and the lasers explode. Or not. It sounds cool, though.

 

        Resonance tries to grab ahold of Storm Owl and carry him into position #20. Why? So she can use him to block the death lasers.

 

Gabriel strikes you with a glancing hit from her Grasp attack for 0 units of damage.

 

Gale is lucky once again, as he isn't in the way of the hazards. So he keeps on flying. And stuff.

 

The racers speed around the track....                           

 

Cut Man keep running! Hah, foolish stardroid! He has only been hit ONCE!

 

Current track positions:

20) Gabriel (lap 5) Elec Man (lap 3)

19) Blizzard Man (lap 5) Storm Owl (lap 5) Gale Sorcerer (lap 5)

17) Job (lap 4)

16) Zephyr Gryphon (lap 5) Javelin Whitetail (lap 4) Cut Man (lap 3)

14) Retro Packrat (lap 3)

13) Milan (lap 4)

10) Simian Monk (lap 5)

9) Mimos (lap 3)

7) Barrage Raptor (lap 5)

4) Flare Feline (lap 6)

3) Guts Man (lap 4)

1) Data Raccoon (lap 4)

 

I DARE YOU TO HIT HIM AGAIN. AHAHAHHAHA. Loser.

 

The action between Gabriel and Storm Owl is apparently just too hot for ice, as the boulder narrowly misses the pair of them. Storm receives a punch in the face form Resonance, and suddenly she's grabbed by him and thrown madly in front! Sure, it was to block potential death lasers, but hey.

 

Simian Monk jogs.

 

"And Flare Feline takes fourth as the brawl just *will not end*! Resonance and Storm Owl are both being overtaken by Gale Sorcerer and Blizzard Man, with Zephy Gryphon just behind!"

 

Data Raccoon apparently spoke too soon, as she gets pelted with laser. Owie! But she keeps running. Running running running.... and more running.

 

Guts Man being small and pretty agile in this mode manages to evade all of the spikes as if there was nothing in his way at all. He continues on despite what other booby traps might await him.

 

Zephyr Gryphon blinks, thinking to herself. She may just get a really GOOD position! At that she kicks her boosters into overdrive, just trying to squeeeeeze past the finish line. Gotta go faster, faster, FASTER!

 

Job runs!

 

Retro Packrat simply keeps going on, sniffing at his lack of nose and looking quite sheepish at his sudden outburst.

 

And then, there is a cry... "HEY! FATTY!" An electromagnetic line shoots up, connecting to something above and lifting Elec Man up on a direct collision course with Storm Owl. "This is for Single Combat, turkeyboy!"

 

Javelin Whitetail scrabbles on the floor--closing up quick behind Zephyr Gryphon, who is a lap ahead. Out of sheer frustration, she nearly leaps forward to do a little hoof-dance on the Gryphon's head--

 

        And then notes that she's twice the size of a Deer. Javelin opts to continue bounding along, mildly insulted instead of blindly frustrated.

 

Elec Man crashes forcefully into Storm Owl!

 

        Blizzard Man came up to the home stretch, the twin boulders embracing... well, nothing in particular. By now, Blizzard Man's probably deactivated from all the boulder rolling abuse, but this being virtual it was nothing serious.

        But it's a huge boulder, and so many people are close to it...

 

Blizzard Man crashes forcefully into Gabriel!

 

Flare Feline crosses the finish line... in fourth place? He really wasn't expecting to pass Resonance and Storm Owl, but that's what happens when you focus on brawling rather than racing.

 

        One crash isn't good enough for Resonance, as Elec Man crashes into Storm Owl, she too grabs for the Owl and ... IS CRASHED INTO! But she really doesn't care, she grabs for Storm Owl anyway, whips out an...

 

        Interpol Regulation Nightstick!

 

        AND SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH!

 

        And then she scribbles something on a notepad midair, tears the piece out, and stuffs it in Storm Owl's beak.

 

        TICKET: Interfering with Interpol Ownzing, 5,000 zenny fine.

 

Gabriel tries to ram into Storm Owl, without much success.

 

Flare Feline removes himself from the race roster.

 

The sorcerer finally passes over the owl, with a big and nasty smirk all over his face. Dodging Elec Man's attack to him, he doesn't mind the fact that the Repliforcer is probably out of his track now. He simply approaches him and says cheerfully. "This is not a R rated program." An his boot tries to meet his feathers.

 

Gale Sorcerer tries to ram into Storm Owl, without much success.

 

*HEY! FATTY!* Storm Owl immediately looks down. With him with Resonance the way he is, he's in no position to dodge the Alpha's electrical line, and with a loud *ZZZAAAAPPP!!* Storm Owl gets burned... and then he falls away from Gabriel too quickly for her to catch him... oh, how fleeting the moment was... but we'll always have the memories, Resonance. We'll always have the memories...

 

        Resonance shouts, "I'll get you soon enough!", she shakes her nightstick in the air.

 

Mimos flies. Flies for victory. Or not.

 

Position 7: Geez, pretty big wall.

Position 8: The mines again activate, looking for victims.

Position 9: The tornado spins around and around and..

Position 10: The fans spin happily.

Position 11: Missiles fire rabidly from the missile launcher, which has been sadly underused.

Position 13: The long corridor fills with gas again - somebody had the chili, obviously.

Position 14: Spinny spinny spinny spinny

 

Libra strikes Barrage Raptor with her Sound Barrier attack.

Libra misses Mimos with her Tornado attack.

Libra misses Simian Monk with her Fan Blades attack.

Libra misses Milan with her Gas Corridor attack.

Libra misses Retro Packrat with her Laser Wheel attack.

 

The wall! Oh no! Barrage doesn't seem phased, however, and keeps on trucking.

 

Storm Owl, as he falls, passes by a certain sorcerer. Goodness, it's beat on Storm Owl day, isn't it? Regardless, the owl hits the ground without being booted by Gale Sorcerer. Neener!

 

Fans are inferior to Monks. Thus, they fall to the ground helplessly.

 

Did Gale just miss his target? Oh, well, nevermind. At least he is not hit by the hazards, so he will be able to cross the goal.

Retro Packrat eeps, scattering as the laser wheel shoots at him. He skitters about, and BARELY managed to evade the shots...but the shots are making him wonder something. Why the heck is he still in this race?!

 

Data Raccoon runs MORE! And yet again manages to stay away from all hazards. Whoohah. Run raccoon run, like your bushy little tail depends on it.

 

        The dual frozen spheres rolled on ahead to the finish. Resonance held the honor of being Blizzard Man's (and the boulder's) only true victim.

        Milan, this time, just runs through the gas, arms flailing violently to keep gas away from him. He itches a little worse this time, but is still unharmed.

        Obviously just to spite Libra! :O

 

Cut Man is running more. What is there is to say?

 

Javelin Whitetail grits her teeth and LUNGES--and in midair, actually lands on TOP of a soaring missile in midair; knocking it off course and sending it exploding into the forcefield wall, even as she lands on the ground again, scrabbling for purchase away from the remaining acid pools. Her helmet topples off somewhere along the way; she runs along anyways, without the protective headgear.

 

Well. Besides the Alpha being again an annoying pain and dash foward to SMASH down the Joe Reploid ahead with a mighty WILY FU TACKLE!

 

Cut Man tries to ram into Job, without much success.

 

Simian Monk runrunrunrun.

 

The racers speed around the track....                         

 

Current track positions:

20) Gabriel (lap 5)

19) Storm Owl (lap 5) Milan (lap 4)

18) Cut Man (lap 3)

16) Simian Monk (lap 5)

14) Barrage Raptor (lap 5)

12) Mimos (lap 3)

7) Guts Man (lap 4)

6) Data Raccoon (lap 4)

5) Gale Sorcerer (lap 6)

4) Zephyr Gryphon (lap )

3) Blizzard Man (lap ) Job (lap 5) Javelin Whitetail (lap 5)

2) Elec Man (lap 4)

1) Retro Packrat (lap 4)

 

        Resonance lunges for Storm Owl as he falls, "YOU AREN'T GETTING AWAY!" She screams as she draws her nightstick and tries to crash into him while he's STILL ON THE GROUND, her nightstick outreached for MAXIMUM DAMAGE! ROAR!

Gabriel crashes forcefully into Storm Owl!

        Blizzard Man's husk of a bulbous body finally parted from the giant ice boulder and made its last imprint onto the ground, having crossed the finish line in 7th place. He wouldn't know of this immediately until he pulled himself out of the ground and received the instructions to part off the track, mind you.

        The giant ice boulder, now lonely, bravely set sphere (for lack of a foot) for a brave new world as a single, divorced ball of ice. Would it take its marriage woes and pile them on top of the remainign racers? Who knows...

 

Storm Owl totally feels the love tonight. He feels it with a nightstick as it's beaten all about his face, arms, and chest. Storm Owl tries to cover himself with his heavily armoured wings, but there's clearly no escaping this. Whoever coined the phrase 'love hurts' was probably refering to Gabriel. Regardless, Storm Owl, down and being beaten savagely, finally springs up and tries to tackle the femme to the ground. Er... so she'll stop hitting him.

 

You crash forcefully into Gabriel.

 

"And finishing fifth, sixth and seventh... Gale Sorcerer, Zephyr Gryphon, and Blizzard Man! And those two are *still* fighting! ..Kenny, why are you sharpening that knife?"

"I'm gonna cut that foo' turkey for touchin' my woman."

"Kenny, it's just a game. And she's not your woman."

"Darn it, Vic, if stalking someone, sorting through their garbage for bits of clothing and using them to build a life-sized facsimile of them isn't love, THEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS."

"It's called 'stalking', Kenny."

"I prefer the term 'ninja love, Vic."

 

Gale is the fifth. Wait a moment, the FIFTH? The mage blinks astonished as he crosses the goal. HE IS THE FIFTH!

 

Zephyr Gryphon just barely squeaks past Blizzard, putting the boosters into overdrive must have really done it! "Alright!" she cheers as she rushes past the line.

 

Elec Man is runninanrunninanrunnin like a constipated wiener dog! How many more references will I get in, y'think?

 

Guts Man simply keeps running like a good little hardhat.

 

Data Raccoon is still running. And running. And. Still. Running. But thankfully not like anything constepated, that's just more visual aid than one needs.

 

Job nearly gets crashed into by Cut Man and he says "Sorry Cutty! You'll have to try later!" Comments the Joeploid as he runs.

 

Simian Monk keeps on leaping, jumping, and running. Oh, well. He tried.

 

Retro Packrat sighs. The race continues, but he's not really in the mood to keep going. Especially with the sound of Res and Storm fighting continuing, AND the annoying Kenny starting to grate on his nerves. "Remind me never to try this race again.

 

Cut Man runsrunsruns. :(

 

        And yet another three finish. Javelin Whitetail stands at least a little ahead of the rest of the pack--but naturally, up front, are all the war machines. Her hooves cut into the ground with increasing ferocity. One thing is certain; the Deer is bitter about this loss. And you know what that means.

 

        REVENGE IN THE CAR RACE.

 

Y'know what? Whoever's manning the controls for the obstacles? Just hits the 'FIRE EVERY FOOKING THING' button.

 

Libra strikes Elec Man with her Burning Floor attack.

Libra strikes Job with her Scatterblast attack.

Libra strikes Javelin Whitetail with her Scatterblast attack.

Libra misses Data Raccoon with her Spiked Wall attack.

Libra strikes Guts Man with her Sound Barrier attack.

Libra strikes Mimos with her Spiked Pit attack.

Libra strikes Barrage Raptor with her Laser Wheel attack.

Libra misses Simian Monk with her Volcanic Blast attack.

Libra strikes Cut Man with her Spiked Everything attack.

Libra strikes you with a solid hit from her Ice Boulder attack for 18 units of damage.

Libra misses Milan with her Ice Boulder attack.

Libra misses Gabriel with her Death Laser attack.

 

Elec Man's feet burn! HE DEMANDS FROZEN TREATS!

 

Simian Monk is teh_monkey monk, thus all attacks are futile. HOOAH!

 

Barrage Raptor needs to hurry up and finish, or she might just get knocked out by these damn traps.

 

Mimos continues to fly. She has to land sometime, though. And when she does?

 

PIT.

 

She leaps back out of the pit, feet in pain from her landing, although her forcefield took the worst of it; she goes back to running.

 

Data Raccoon is ready this time, she lets off an electromagnetic charge as she runs through the magnetic spikes, repelling their attraction. No spikey for you this time!

 

        Milan glances behind him, as he runs, an-OH MY GOD IT'S A GIANT ICE BOULDER. His eyes bulge out and he turns his head to face the right way before picking up the pace, panting heavily.

        Just as he escapes the Danger Zone of the boulder, his hat falls off- he skids to a halt, dives to the ground, and snatches it up just before the rolling boulder crushes it. JUST LIKE INDY LOLZ

 

Javelin Whitetail tumbles under a laser blast--it's disconcertingly like a real deer being shot, as her hooves go out from under her and she makes an odd-sounding cry of pain. After a moment, she gets back up and runs on--but the indignity is unbearable. To not even get near placing--and then still being damaged, even after the race is over!

 

The racers speed around the track....                      

 

Current track positions:

20) Barrage Raptor (lap 5) Gabriel (lap 5)

19) Storm Owl (lap 5)

17) Mimos (lap 3)

13) Guts Man (lap 4)

10) Job (lap 5) Data Raccoon (lap 4)

8) Javelin Whitetail (lap 5)

6) Elec Man (lap 4)

5) Cut Man (lap 4)

4) Milan (lap 5)

3) Simian Monk (lap 6)

 

Blizzard Man has left.

 

        Resonance is tackled to the ground, but that's not going to stop the war between the Owl and the Resonance! She throws a kick at Storm Owl's stomach! She doesn't need her FISTS to do that!

 

Gabriel crashes forcefully into Storm Owl!

 

Guts Man can dodge many things, but the sound barrier is something different altogether. He's caught in the soundness of the sound barrier which shakes a few of his parts loose but it's not enough to destroy him or force him to stop running.

 

Elec Man jogs harder than your mom.

 

Javelin Whitetail jogs harder than Elec Man.

 

She does, it's true.

 

Arent we're glad?

 

Barrage Raptor can see the finish line. She has a chance of passing it! But she's not there yet.

 

Cut Man is also totaly running harder than EACH OF YOU.

 

No you're not!

 

"Aaaand the monkey crosses the finish line for eighth!"

"I had a monkey once."

"You had a monkey, Kenny?"

"Yeah, he was really cool. I trained him to steal peanuts for me from the guy at the corner with the music box.

"I thought the guy with the music box was supposed to have the monkey?"

"That's who I got the monkey from. He sold it to me for fifty bucks. But I got him in the end! I got his peanuts."

 

Storm Owl is in a rather messy situation with a girl which has halted all of his other progress. Who can he go to for advice? Colonel'll just chop off his face and claim he's hitting on Iris. Jet Stingray'll just tell Storm Owl some 'new moves', but it wouldn't really help the problem. General's advice would be something idiotic along the lines of 'doing the right thing' to keep her honour. So what can Storm do about this problem? Well, as he's getting kicked in his large gut, Storm Owl staggers back, and does the typical manly thing: he tries to push her down and get the hell out of here!

 

You attempt to crash into Gabriel, but miss.

 

        Resonance avoids Storm Owl's crash on reflex. She swears again.

 

        And repeatedly, until she spots Barrage Raptor.

 

        "HEY YOU!" She swears, "CRASH INTO ME NOW!!!!" She orders of Barrage Raptor.

 

Barrage Raptor blinks at Resonance, "Er, okay." She says, as she tries to whack Res with her tail.

 

Barrage Raptor crashes forcefully into Gabriel!

 

Unfortunately (or not?), now that everything's fired, it's out of juice and needs to recharge. Yes, even the spikes.

 

The racers speed around the track....                  

 

Mimos runs. FOR FREEDOM AND REPLIFORCE and also a vague hope of finishing second last.

 

Current track positions:

 

20) Gabriel (lap 5)

19) Storm Owl (lap 5)

17) Guts Man (lap 4)

16) Job (lap 5)

15) Javelin Whitetail (lap 5)

14) Data Raccoon (lap 4)

11) Cut Man (lap 4) Milan (lap 5) Elec Man (lap 4)

5) Barrage Raptor (lap 6)

1) Mimos (lap 4)

 

Job runs for himself and his honor!

 

        Resonance is crashed into, thanks to Barrage, "Thanks!", she says before lunging for Storm Owl again, trying to pin him to the ground on his FAT BELLY and punch him in the back of the head a lot.

 

Gabriel tries to ram into Storm Owl, without much success.

 

"Now *Barrage Raptor* breezes past them! Job and Javelin Whitetail are closing in now, as Resonance and Storm Owl just keep fighting it out!"

 

Javelin Whitetail looks at Job.

 

Elec Man jogs... jogs... jogs... looks to his left. Cut Man. Looks to his right. Milan. Looks directly forward, the color draining from his face. "I DO NOT WANT TO BE IN THIS POSITION! GRREAAAAAAAAAGHH!" He begins to /RUN,/ for the first time in this race.

 

Data Raccoon runs. Like LIGHTNING! But slower and stuff. Yeah.

 

Simian Monk has left.

 

Guts Man can see the starting line in sight! He's going to make it to lap 5 before a bunch of other people, oh happy day!

 

Storm Owl gasps, wheezes, and pants as he staggers pathetically, trying in vain to escape the awful clutches that is Resonance. Storm Owl rarely shows emotion, but you could swear he's just desperate to get over that finish line. And so, he leaves Gabriel behind! Mwahahahaha!!

 

        Resonance chases after Storm Owl! She withdraws a trumpet from somewhere, and readies to blow it. Which isn't a good thing, will Resonance's superior speed let her stay head to head with Storm Owl anyway!?

 

The racers speed around the track....                

 

Current track positions:

20) Data Raccoon (lap 4)

18) Milan (lap 5)

17) Elec Man (lap 4)

16) Cut Man (lap 4)

8) Storm Owl (lap 6)

7) Gabriel (lap 6)

5) Mimos (lap 4)

3) Job (lap 6)

2) Javelin Whitetail (lap 6)

1) Guts Man (lap 5)

 

Javelin Whitetail bounds along. Suddenly looking a bit happier about the whole mess. Yay!

 

Cut Man is running s'more. But there is something that fate just...temp the world with.

 

 Cut Man. And Milan. In the same position. Again! Is the universe a gloutton for punishment or what!?

 

        Resonance lunges at Storm Owl one last time, even though Storm Owl made it pas after her. After all, he's still in range!

Gabriel tries to ram into Storm Owl, without much success.

 

Job finally finishes the race and he's not in last place! WOOT!

 

"And now the pack crosses the line - Storm Owl finally edging out Resonance for tenth, then Job and Javelin Whitetail in the lucky 13th position!"

 

        Resonance hits the dirt. But let that be a lesson to you, buddy!

 

If you want to tango with Interpol, they'll finish the dance for you.

 

Cut Man is running still. ::(

 

Javelin Whitetail bounds along--and she finally makes it across the finish line, last of the tears wiped from her eyes. She looks, if not happy, at least not in a frothing rage about her position anymore.

 

        SHE RAN FASTER THAN CUT MAN.

 

Storm Owl crosses the finish line in a blur, and the holographic damage done by the ice ball and the nightstick vanish. "An interesting end to an interesting race," he says to her. Nevertheless, Storm Owl is still backing up, just in case she's going to come at him again with another weapon.

 

Elec Man is still between Milan and Cut Man, if a bit more distant. But he can't take it any more, and just runs screaming off the side of the track. This may put him disqualified, or in automatic last place, but would _YOU_ stay between those two?

Milan runs, too! :( Hopefully he won't die before he crosses the finish line.

 

Stuff explodes. Things fire. And.. well, none of it really hits anybody. It seems someone jammed a tic-tac into the control console.

 

Guts Man makes it to the fifth lap! He's going to be the first Alpha Master to complete the race and doing so with short little legs.

 

Data Raccoon made it through in one piece and not last, that's all she cares. Once she's past the finish line finally she slinks off somewhere to catch her proverbial breath.

 

The racers speed around the track....             

 

Current track positions:

10) Job (lap 6)

8) Mimos (lap 4)

5) Milan (lap 6) Guts Man (lap 5) Data Raccoon (lap 5)

2) Cut Man (lap 5)

 

        One last hazard sprouted from the track. There were many dangerous ones, there were many interesting ones, and yet there were some that went unseen. None, however, held the same majesty as what would soon show before the crowds.

        A pole speared up /straight/ from the finish line, which sent debris from the former track everywhere. What could this be? A malfunction? The last resort of the unimpressed AI that handled the hazards on the track?

 

        ...............

 

        A strange black object climbed the pole as the tornado hazard breezed by, and made the true identity of the surprise hazard known.

        The Wilyskull flag danced in the artifical winds to remind everybody just /who/ won the race tonight, and it was none other than the Robot Masters!

        A General-sized mecha squid climbed out of the rubble the flagpole made and tugged at it, which left quite an impression on the track itself.

        A giant hammer made sure it wouldn't go too far. Nor would those spikes at position 18, no siree. Nor would... the bacon.

 

END OF FILE.

 

The Camera turns off.