Posted at 12:39 am on Apr 20, 2015 by:
Deadblood (Absolute & Mortal Champion)
I expected you to use a buzz saw on me. Tease.
Deadblood grabbed at his throat, coughing, as Sheri shakily climbed to her feet after being thrown. Climbing to his feet as well, Deadblood looked around. The balcony window was shattered and the hotel room door was missing. He assumed it had gone over the balcony with the masked man. He quickly realized the cause of the door flying off its hinges as the figure stepped into the room, ripping off the hooded trench coat it had been wearing to help disguise itself: CP-ZERO.
It looked a little different from when Deadblood and Sheri had last encountered it. Its once sleek, metal armor was now severely dented and scratched, a few cracks also visible. The glass over its enhanced vision also had a couple cracks and its right arm had been removed. The way the metal was twisted made it look like it was possibly torn off. Deadblood wondered if the masked man had anything to do with that. To make up for its missing arm and the gun that had been attached to it though, it now had a mini-gun fused to its arm, some wiring visible that apparently connected the mini-gun to the exoskeleton's circuitry. With its remaining hand, it removed a weapon slung over its back, one that had Deadblood was unsure if they should be less or more afraid of it than the mini-gun: a six-shot grenade launcher.
Seeing it begin to raise its mini-gun, Deadblood quickly ran over to Sheri and pushed her down, covering her just in time as bullets began to rip through the room!!!!!!!! And for what felt like several minutes but was probably only actually about thirty seconds, there was only the sound of the rapidly fired bullets slamming into the walls, shattering more windows, breaking lamps, and shredding up the beds!!!!!!!!!!!!
When the bullets finally stopped destroying the room, the clinking of the last several casings hitting the tile floor near the door quite audible in the now otherwise dead silent room, Sheri asked, "What the fuck was that?! Don't tell me that fucking cyborg's back!"
"Of course you finally get it correct now of all times," Deadblood said, rolling off of her and cautiously peering over the mattress.
"Oh shut the fuck up and tell me how we're going to get out of this shit we're in!" Sheri shouted, peering over the mattress with him.
"Calm your tits, woman," Deadblood replied, wondering why CP-ZERO hadn't stepped further into the room.
"Calm my tits?!" Sheri suddenly slugged Deadblood in the arm, but left it at that, knowing they needed to work together if either of them wanted out of that room alive.
"Get into the next room! Now!" Deadblood commanded just as CP-ZERO slowly stepped into view, its footsteps as heavy as ever.
Spotting Deadblood peering over the mattress and raising the grenade launcher, it fired just as Deadblood and Sheri dove into the next room!!!!! The grenade landed just behind the mattress, shaking the entire floor of the hotel as the bed and part of the wall were destroyed, a small crater left behind in the thick concrete underneath the carpet!!!!!!!!!!
"I hate those fucking missiles!" she screamed, following Deadblood as he motioned her towards the balcony doors of that room.
"Oh it's got new toys now. I don't know what happened to its other weapon, but I suspect our other stalker knows something about it." Deadblood opened the balcony doors and looked down, seeing the pool and the heavy hotel room door at the bottom of it, blood coming out from underneath. "Jump."
"What? No. I'd rather take my chance with the robot!" She crossed her arms, looking at him as he'd just landed in a UFO.
"Cyborg. Aim for the pool and you'll live. Probably." He looked back into the room, knowing CP-ZERO would be in there at any moment.
"Probably?! Oh that's very reassuring!" She still had her arms crossed, still making no move to jump.
"I'm going to jump too. I just have to get my weapons and the titles. Now go!" he said, not wanting to leave her up there by herself but starting to wonder if that was what it was going to take to get her to jump.
It was then however that CP-ZERO appeared, mini-gun ready and Sheri argued no more, leaping over the balcony just as it opened fire, its bullets shattering those windows as well and disappearing into the open air beyond!!!!! Deadblood quickly jumped onto the railing closest to the balcony of his room and dove forward, rolling to his feet. Seeing the title belts as well as his weapons, he used his weaker form of borrowed telekinesis to bring all of them to him. He holstered the Desert Eagle and put the katana in its sheath before strapping both on both titles.
It was perfect timing as CP-ZERO stepped out onto the other balcony, launching another grenade!!!!! Deadblood jumped off the balcony as it exploded behind him, trying his best to aim for the pool as the wind rushed past him!!!!!!!! If he missed, the titles could save him, but in the time it could take for that to occur, it might end up getting Sheri killed by one of the two assholes.
Fortunately, he did land in the pool, causing a big splash of water in the process. Sheri was already sitting on the edge of the pool, trying to get water out of her ear. Hotel guests were standing around, looking on in shock and disbelief.
"I hope you're happy about this," Sheri said as he swam to the edge himself. "I mean, because I'm just so happy that I got to jump into a pool from the top floor of a hotel! Can we do it again?!"
"Hey, it got us away from the robot, didn't it?" She raised an eyebrow at him and he quickly realized why, prompting to add, "Shit, now you've got me saying it!"
"Are you so sure about that?" she asked, pointing up as she stood up.
He looked and could see CP-ZERO looking down, trying to figure out what to do next. To Deadblood's surprise, it didn't start firing more bullets or grenades, but instead jumped off the balcony itself!!!!!!!!
"Everyone run!" Deadblood shouted as he dragged himself up out of the water, not wanting CP-ZERO to land on him, but also not knowing exactly where CP-ZERO might land, whether it was in the pool or elsewhere.
People were already scattering though and it was a good thing they did as just a few seconds later, it came crashing down on the patio area around the pool, landing on one knee, the impact crushing the concrete underneath it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Deadblood and Sheri had started to move to get out of there, but stopped as they weren't sure CP-ZERO was going to get back up. It stayed in the kneeling position and Deadblood noticed several fresh cracks in its armor and fluids from its exoskeleton leaking through those cracks.
"Think it's dead?" Deadblood asked Sheri, looking at her.
"Haven't we wondered this before?" she asked, sounding slightly annoyed. "Besides, it's not exactly fallen over."
"Maybe we should push it over," Deadblood suggested, taking a step closer to CP-ZERO.
Shrugging, Sheri stepped forward with him and they both focused their telekinesis on it. This turned out to be a mistake though as it suddenly began to slowly rise to its feet. The extent of its damage was further revealed as it stood, whole plates of its armor falling from its body to the concrete with a thud. Almost all of the armor on its legs was gone when it was fully upright, as well as areas from its chest, back, and left arm. It gave them a good look at its battered exoskeleton and as it stepped forward, away from them, its movement was stiffer than before. The flesh underneath the exoskeleton was beginning to rot. They could both smell it and see that its skin was very pale, almost waxy, looking as though it might tear off if tugged at hard enough. If it was human, they weren't sure how it was able to function at all anymore.
Looking down, it picked up its grenade launcher and that was when Deadblood raised his Desert Eagle, shooting CP-ZERO in the back several times!!!!!!!!!!!! All of the shots hit their mark, embedding themselves in its pale back. Deadblood might as well have hit its armor though as it simply turned around and fired its mini-gun again, forcing Deadblood and Sheri to quickly get behind a row of bushes and flatten themselves on the ground as much as they could, the bullets cutting down a few hotel guests who had stuck around!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When he quit firing again, Deadblood and Sheri made a run to get back into the hotel, another grenade going off behind them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
