Chapter 4: Season End Tournament (Part 2)
"BLAMM!!"
ADAM fell to the edge of the area, after taking a blow from the huge axe. Its right limb fell off clanking some distance away. It was probably pure luck that ADAM got a chance to swerve quickly to the right, avoiding the massive blow and only have its right limb cut off.
Lily cringe at the sight, "oh man, it doesn't look like ADAM will have a chance to win this time.."
Instead of watching the battle arena, Helen's attention focused on Reid. The handsome young guy puts up a serious face standing at the corner, busy pressing his joystick to control ADAM. He was her childhood friend. They have always been good friends, however recently Helen felt some kind of affection for him, more than the other guys she knew. Now both has reached puberty, despite the occasional flirting, nothing really happened between them. Helen got busy with studies, which eventually landed her on this prestige job of being the first few batch of software developer, while Reid decided to chase after his childhood passion of winning tournaments and fights, following older tradition from the local people of the oasis.
The bald muscular guy with thick beard next to him shouted angrily at the podium "Hey! that's cheating! rule says if the enemy has no weapon, player must abandon his weapon!!". That is Reid's step father, who is obviously as engrossed in the battle as Reid.
Helen never knew his actual name. She usually only call him "uncle". Reid told her that once in his youth, his step father was actually a member of the kingdom's third Army, under direct supervision of sir Brian of the first army. It has always been a prestige in Neverwinter to be able to join the army, she never really understand why uncle decided to leave.
"Clank!!"
This time ADAM makes a sharp roll towards the rear end of the stage, where rows of weapons are lined up for grabs. Despite only having one limb left, ADAM took an axe with ease, and started dashing towards the enemy, again a gush of jet wind bursting from its backpack. Anticipating the incoming attack, the giant uses two of its four limbs to lift its great axe, and ram it down towards ADAM.
Having a much smaller build, ADAM's movement is much more nimble. The vertical swing of the giant axe missed another time from splitting him in half. ADAM then dashed quickly and jumped directly towards the enemy while swinging his great axe horizontally, swiftly splitting both of the giant bots arm from its torso. Using gained momentum, ADAM then smashed directly towards the giant bot, sending it hurling back to the edge of the podium. The circular saw and chain flew off both its hands away from the arena. Instantly the crowd stood up cheering loudly.
Admittedly Helen also started to get excited with the sudden turn of events.
At a blink of an eye, ADAM got the upper hand. Should Reid control ADAM to swing the giant axe towards the enemy, the tournament would've ended with victory. Instead ADAM threw the axe out, and take a boxing stance. Cheering suddenly changed into jeering.
"Come on ADAM! that giant wont be giving you mercy. Dont waste your chances!"
ADAM didn't move a metallic muscle. It simply stood there waiting for the enemy to regain strength, and started getting back up to its two feet. It then also puts up a boxing stance, ready for another round. The two bot didn't waste much time before they both dash towards each other, nearly at the same time.
"Look, Terminator's oil is leaking!"
Turns out the defending champion bot is called Terminator, an appropriate name. Despite its large build, its still using older technology with hydraulic pipes and piston valves. It looks like one of the pipes got cut off along with the limb, thus hydraulic fluid gushed out and splattered all over the arena, making them slippery.
"BLAM!"
The two huge robot seems to merge into one huge metallic chunk when they collide, making sparks flew and a loud clanking noise. Terminator clearly outweigh ADAM, making it more difficult to keep balance. Having only one limb, ADAM's central of gravity tilted to the right from Terminator's push, causing Terminator to loose balance and slipped to the left.
It appears Terminator's hydraulic fluid reserve doesn't contain much. With the hydraulic fluid splattered on the floor, Terminator now lies helpless on the ground trying to move, but only ends up in desperate squirm instead.
Suddenly the chaotic shouting stopped, and turned into one unanimous cheer..
"Finish him !!! Finish him !!! Finish him !!!"
Helen caught sight of Terminator's operator slamming his joystick while shouting out loud, walks away pushing people in his path roughly out of fury. Admittedly she also felt excited with the result, that feeling of remorse was swept away.
ADAM stood nonchalant looking at the chanting crowd, slowly turning around walking towards Terminator. Having placed each legs at its shoulder, ADAM bowed down. With that single limb, it grasped hold of Terminator's head, and pull it out with strength from its body. It then stood upright, showing all the audience a piece of metalic head with its back bone dangling with wires and sparks flying here and there.
The crowd suddenly gone wild. Everyone shouting like crazy, when Helen finds it totally disgusting. Although its just a lifeless piece of metal, yet she still cant imagine having to see such brutality being celebrated so cheerfully.
She doesn't have too much chance to feel bad though, since Lilly who sat next to her suddenly pounced at her, hugging her tightly.
"ADAM won another difficult battle!!"
In the arena, Reid, uncle and the referee walks up to the platform to announce the result of the fight.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, the winner of tonights match.. Battle Star Galacticaaa!!"
All five figures on stage raises their hands. Once again everyone cheered in one voice.
"We would like to thank you for your participation, support and presence in our bot battle matches, however sadly we must part. We would appreciate your presence on our next tournament, which we will invite personally on the next announcements. Good evening, until our next fight"
Lilly didn't waste a second, she immediately grabbed Helen's hand and pull her away from the crowd.
"Come quick, before Reid goes away!"
Helen felt a slight blush on her cheek, as she imagine what will happen next. It was almost midnight, so technically it will be her birthday soon. Will she gets that special gift for her birthday?
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