"Here They come! "Buzz yelled full of excitement as two ran along side each other. One waiting for the other to make some kind of mistakes, some motion that the other could use to his advantage.  one leaped up and threw a spinning heel kick out but the there was no one there his foe had already evaded going below his opponent in a dive. They landed and paused.  

They stood their for an eternity one black as night had a devilish look to it, its head was formed by a sort of helmet had two horns that curved  back and up, however the most distinctive feature of this one was the two long blades that came out of its forearms. This was Yoshimoto, it sat in a crouch its glowing-white unfeeling eyes were locked on the form of its opponent. The opposing mecha, which sat in a praying mantis stance, was not nearly a dark as its rival as it was mainly silver in color. Its fore arms were like shields  that had been melded into to the 16 meter tall robot during construction; its face  had several shades of silver and gray in it and while it had the same unnerving eyes its features were friendlier though by no means did it look like it was incapable of destroying anything that lay in its path. 

The fans cheered loudly chant the names of both machines, alternating between 'Kagemusha" and  "Yoshimoto" showing that these gladiatorial mecha were both equally loved by the spectators. They sat their still for their battle to this point had shown neither gain a foot hold over the other. the truth was neither had landed blow  yet, despite  that fact that this airing of the galaxy's highest rated television show had been  on for the past thirty minutes. Up in the commentator's box Merv Dexter and Buzz Lobo who had both appeared on the latest edition of time magazine watched with anticipation. Merv broke the silence that had befell twenty trillion television sets in the galaxy, " These two are really great fighters, folks. I think their measuring each othe..." 

He was unceremonially cut off as the sound of Kagemusha's feet echoed in the stadium. The silver mecha was charging down his foe a shiny three-fingered claw posed  to strike a deadly blow, his opponent stayed its ground. At the last second is sprang back narrowly evading the claw as it shot past its face. The crowd was going wild as Yoshimoto's blade swiveled  backwards and extended out along the elbows. The demonic mecha spun during a second jump back, which it used to dodge a kick from his enemy. The blade found hone as it pierced through Kagemusha's left shoulder.  

"That's going to leave a mark," Buzz exclaimed  as he remembered his days in the cockpit of one of these powerful mecha. 

Then something unexpected happened the wounded mecha flipped over his foe forcing the tempered blade to tear through the remainder of the shoulder, separating it from the rest of the robot.  Kagemusha shot its clawed hand out again this time tearing into his opponent's own shoulder and unmercifully tore it from the body, before spinning about to swing the dismembered arm as a club as he had one in battles before. Yoshimoto was a step ahead and leaped back out of range of the attack. 

Once again they stood there and waited, undoubtedly the next action they would take would be the last of this match.

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